Chapter 161 Raining
She felt that people around her didn't seem to like eating fish. There were so many fish in the rivers and reservoirs that were almost dried up and no one was catching them. She wanted to let them know how delicious fish was.

In the future, purely wild fish like this will not only be expensive, but you won’t be able to buy them whenever you want. Even if you find them in the market, there’s a good chance they’re farmed fish.

At noon, when the three of them sat down to eat, Hua Xiali picked up a braised crucian carp for Hua's mother and Zhang Yongfeng respectively, and said, "Try it, this fish tastes really good."

Mother Hua peeled a little fish meat with chopsticks and tasted it. She found that the meat was not only tender but also had a faint sweetness. "Did you add sugar?"

"No, I made braised food, not sweet and sour. If you like sweet and sour food, I'll make it for you next time."

Hua Xiali is quite good at eating fish. He just picked up a whole fish and started to eat it. In his previous life, he went out and saw that eating fish was popular outside, so he caught fish and cooked them himself. The main reason was that he didn't have that much money, so he thought he should save money wherever he could. Since fish can also supplement nutrition, why bother buying meat?

Later, they were able to save some money, and their living standards gradually improved. However, she still tried not to spend money if possible, for example, when it came to food. Since the children would have holidays on weekends anyway, she would take the children back to the village to grow vegetables, and then bring the vegetables back to the city to eat.

But she will not be stingy when it comes to what the children want to eat, and will buy it for them in most cases.

Because she always kept in mind the saying 'No matter how poor you are, you must not neglect education; no matter how hard your life is, you must not make your children suffer', and after living a lifetime she finally understood one truth, which is 'No matter how hard your life is, you must not make yourself suffer', because yourself is the most important.

A girl is herself first, and other identities come second.

"Delicious, delicious." Zhang Yongfeng exclaimed after tasting the fish, "I didn't expect the fish to be so delicious. When we were farming before, we wouldn't even look at the fish in the fields."

Hua Xiali felt helpless. Alas, how many delicious foods had people in the past missed out on!

But that’s not the case. In the past, there was a lack of oil and salt, and fish was not tasty at all if it was boiled in water without any seasoning. Maybe this is why people don’t want to eat fish!
After all, there were so many fish in the fields in the past that you could catch a basket full of them in a short time. With so many fish, there must be reasons why people didn't eat them.

People in later generations love to eat it because conditions have improved and they have all kinds of seasonings.

"There isn't much else in the countryside, but there's plenty of fish. If you like to eat it, I'll teach you how to cook it. You can also cook it yourself when I'm not at home in the future." She was often not at home, and they couldn't wait for her to come back and do everything.

"Okay! Then you teach me, and I'll cook it for Hua Chunli when she comes back from vacation." Zhang Yongfeng said with a smile. Such delicious fish, he couldn't wait to let Hua Chunli taste it right now, but it was not the weekend yet and Hua Chunli would not come back.

The three of them ate up all the fish of the two flavors. Looking at the fish bones piled up like a small hill on the table, Hua Xiali reminded them, "Remember, you must not feed the fish bones to the dog. Just feed the dog with fish soup and rice."

In the previous life, a young man in the village brought back a pet dog. The dog ran to the garbage dump and ate bones, fish bones and other things thrown away by people at weddings, and the dog choked to death.

No matter if it was the wolfdog or the native dog, she didn't want her dogs to have such a thing happen. Hua nodded, "I understand. I won't feed them these things in the future. I'll just let them eat sweet potatoes and leftovers."

The dogs in the countryside are all roughly raised, but they are very healthy. In addition, there is spiritual spring water in Hua Xiali's well, which is also very good for dogs. Therefore, the two wolfhounds in her family are tall and strong, with shiny hair. They look very imposing and majestic. They are also very smart and will not bark to scare people casually.

The two little dogs that Hua Qiuli picked up for Hua Xiali have grown up now and can guard the house. When Hua Xiali is in the village, she feeds them herself. When she is not there, she asks her mother to help her feed them.

In the evening, Hua Xiali went to find Huo Beixi and brought two fish to him. "One is for braised, and the other is for stewed soup. But I didn't give you the soup. I only caught one fish for you. Try it."

"Thank you, you've worked hard." Huo Beixi took the bowl from Hua Xiali's hand, closed the gate, and pulled Hua Xiali inside.

Arriving at the kitchen, Huo Beixi placed the bowl on the dining table, then took out chopsticks from the cupboard, picked up a piece of fish, and was about to feed it to Hua Xiali. Hua Xiali quickly waved his hand to refuse, "I ate a lot at night, and I only have these two pieces. You should eat them yourself!"

Huo Beixi nodded and started eating, saying with emotion, "It's really delicious."

Hua Xiali smiled and said, "It tastes good because spiritual spring water is added to it. No one else can make this taste."

"By the way, how is Mu'er?" Hua Xiali held his chin with one hand and watched Huo Beixi eat fish with a smile.

"We harvested a crop of wood ear mushrooms before. Although the selling process was quite long, fortunately they were all sold out. By the end of the year, after deducting costs and employee salaries, the profit will be divided equally among each household." Huo Beixi said seriously.

Previously, Hua Xiali bought wasteland in the village, and the income belonged to the village and was used to build the village. The profit from Mu'er can be divided equally among everyone, so that everyone can have a minimum living security, and the poorest families will not have to be as poor as before.

Hua Xiali nodded. This was the village's business and she didn't worry about it. After all, there were so many people in the brigade and it was not her turn to worry about it.

"It's raining every day now, which will affect the growth, harvesting and drying of fungus. This is our first year of growing fungus, so we can't let it start off badly!" Hua Xiali tilted his head to look at the dark night outside the window and said, "But let the fungus grow a few more days and grow bigger. After all, few people are willing to buy top-grade fungus, so for now, we'll just have to get ordinary and mid-grade ones."

"You're right." Huo Beixi nodded, "The first batch of fungus picked wasn't very big, it would be a pity to pick them."

"It can be a little bigger, as big as a pig's ear." Hua Xiali bought large fungus in his previous life, and one or two were enough for a meal.

The so-called special-grade ones that are particularly small cost hundreds of yuan per pound, which is simply not affordable for ordinary people. Most of the people in towns and villages nowadays are ordinary people, so they just produce ordinary wood ear mushrooms.

When people’s demands for life become higher in the future, we can classify wood ear mushrooms into different grades and sell them to people with different needs.