Chapter 162 Eating Snails

Moreover, the wood ear mushrooms they grow have spiritual spring water, which makes them smoother and more tender in taste. Therefore, it doesn’t matter whether they are of different grades. As they are delicious and good for the body, there will definitely be many people willing to buy them, especially those old customers who have already tasted their flavor.

After Huo Beixi finished eating the fish, Hua Xiali went back with the clean empty bowl. She walked through the alley next to her third uncle's house, and came to her own rice field after exiting the alley. She poured half a bowl of spiritual spring water directly into the rice field, and then squatted there and waited quietly.

After a while, I saw a shocking scene.

Fish, loaches, eels and even snails were seen flocking here, and even water fish. Eels are not valuable now, but in a few years the price will directly rise to ten yuan per catty. Hua Xiali relied on the money earned from selling eels to successfully send his two children to middle school in the city!

Hua Xiali took it without any hesitation. If it didn't make any money now, she could keep it in the space for a few years before taking it out!

Hua Xiali didn't want the snails at first, but they were all crowded together, so she just accepted them. She was too lazy to deal with them as it was too troublesome, but she could sell them to others later.

In the future, vegetable markets will sell everything, and people will eat everything, and they will insist on having everything be purely wild.

With the spiritual spring water added to the rice fields, the rice will surely grow well and the yield will be higher than before. Hua Xiali was afraid that his yield would be much higher than everyone else's and would arouse everyone's suspicion, so he turned around and added half a bowl of spiritual spring water to the rice field next door. As everyone's yield increased, naturally no one would be suspicious.

The most important thing is that she received a lot of aquatic products, so in a sense she made a profit because these aquatic products are more profitable than rice.

In front of the first row of houses in Huazhuang are rice fields, but Hua Xiali didn't have that much time, so she only did the same tonight on the six rice fields near her home and went home with a great harvest.

Now that it has rained, there is water in the rice fields and ditches. We can take our time with the remaining rice fields, as the water will not dry up in just a few days anyway.

After returning home, Hua Xiali went to the kitchen, took out a wooden basin, poured a basin of snails into it, and then added water to keep them for a few more days so that they could vomit out all the dirt in their bodies. He would cook them when Hua Chunli and Hua Qiuli came back on the weekend.

Since they wanted to come of their own accord, she would not be polite.

Hua Xiali went to the bathroom to wash up briefly, then went back to his room upstairs to rest.

The next morning, Hua Xiali had just come down from upstairs when he heard his mother complaining in the kitchen, "Why did you bring back so many snails? They don't taste good."

"Mom, why do you think everything tastes bad? Have you forgotten the crucian carp seeds from yesterday? Is there anything I made that doesn't taste good?" Hua Xiali yawned as he walked over. "In a few days, when big sister and little sister come back, I'll make it for you to try. I guarantee you'll want to eat more."

Even though snails are worthless now because no one eats them, in the future they will become something that most people will not be willing to eat. A plastic takeaway box will cost you 20 yuan, which is less than one pound.

In her previous life, when the children wanted to eat, Hua Xiali would take them back to the village during holidays, go to the river and the ditch to fish, and then cook for them. It was free and satisfying. However, snails were difficult to handle, so when she first started her business, she chose to make stewed food instead of snails. Snails do not require capital, which means that you can make as much as you make, but it is too time-consuming. You have to keep them in clean water for a few days to let them spit out the mud and sand in their bodies, and then cut their tails one by one. You can't make much in a day.

If it was just a part-time job and she could earn a few dollars a day, it would be fine, but she needed the money urgently, and this pace was too slow for her.

If the snail hadn't come over for the spiritual spring water last night, she would never have thought of the snail at all!

After breakfast, it started to drizzle again, but this did not affect everyone's making of braised food, because there was a shed over the stove at the back, so even the rain would not affect the inside.

After having breakfast, Hua Xiali went back to her room upstairs and sat by the window reading seriously. Her good life in her previous life was ruined by the scumbag Hua Tiefeng, so she wanted to fight hard in this life.

The weekend soon arrived and Hua Qiuli came back, but she didn't expect that Gao Shuaiquan also came shortly after she arrived home.

Gao Shuaiquan is Hua Qiuli's savior, so Hua Xiali and the others can't say anything when he comes. Anyway, there is an empty room at home, so they let him stay. At most, they can just consider it as him coming to improve his food before the exam.

After all, Hua Chunli was studying at a university in the city, which was quite far away. By the time she got home after class in the evening, it would be dark. But she came back by train, and when she arrived at the train station in the town, Zhang Yongfeng would pick her up, so she didn't have to worry too much.

In the past few nights, Hua Xiali has already run through the two rows of rice fields in front of the house and the ditches in front of the rice fields. Next, she plans to run through other rice fields in the village, as if to quietly add some fertilizer to everyone's crops, so that everyone's crops can increase production this year!
The next morning, after breakfast, Hua Xiali asked Gao Shuaiquan to help her carry the snails raised in the kitchen to the backyard. He often came to her house for dinner, so it wasn't too much to ask him to do such a small thing, right?
Hua Xiali first washed the snails several times to clean them, then found a few pairs of pliers and everyone worked together to cut off the snails' tails, so that they would be more flavorful and taste better.

There is strength in numbers. It didn't take long to finish a large pot of snails. Then we carried the snails to the kitchen together. There were too many snails to finish in one pot, so they had to be cooked separately.

Hua Xiali filled an enamel basin as big as a washbasin with snails. After Gao Shuaiquan heated the oil in the pot, Hua Xiali fried the scallions, ginger and garlic until fragrant, then poured the snails directly into the pot. He then handed the spatula to Zhang Yongfeng, asking him to take charge of the subsequent stir-frying.

When it's almost done, he adds various seasonings, then adds water and simmers for a while. One pot is ready in about half an hour.

A large bowl of snails was made, and five bowls in total were made. One bowl was given to my third uncle and one to my fourth uncle's family, and the remaining three bowls were eaten by themselves.

Afterwards, Zhang Yongfeng also cooked crucian carp. He had said before that he would learn how to cook it and make it for Hua Chunli. Now that Hua Chunli is back, he can finally cook it for her.

Then I fried some vegetables and lunch was ready.

In June and July, all kinds of vegetables have grown, and this is the time when there is no shortage of vegetables to eat.