In the afternoon Xu Wei took Qin Hao to the carpenter's uncle's house to order furniture. After looking at several types of wood, Qin Hao chose elm.

Determine the type, style and construction period of the furniture with Uncle Carpenter, and pay [-] Wen in advance. It will be finished in about ten days. Uncle Carpenter will send it over in a bullock cart after ten days, and then the balance will be settled.

When I got home, I saw that Uncle Wang and Xu Yi had already started making quilts. Ever since Qin Hao entered the courtyard, Xu Yi's eyes were wandering, and his fingers had been pricked several times.In order to prevent Xu Yi from exploding on the spot, Qin Hao decided to take the two Xu family brothers to catch fish by the river.

Bringing basins, buckets and fishing nets, the three happily jumped into the creek.

As soon as Xu Shan got into the water, his trouser legs were wet, and Qin Hao pulled him up and put him on the bank.

"Your second brother and I catch fish, and you are in charge of watching the fish."

Although Xu Shan was not very happy, but he was also reluctant to let his new gown get wet, so he used a small basin to fish for small fish and shrimps from the shore.

Qin Hao gave the fishing net to Xu Wei and asked him to catch fish on the sidelines. He broke a slender water bamboo by himself, walked to a still water area a little further away, and started spearing fish.

Spearfishing requires persistent patience, super fast hand speed and sufficient strength. When he was young, Lao Lu often took him and Lu Ting to practice spearfishing.

The family has a lot of fish and often gives them away, and Lu's mother has also honed her superb fish cooking skills.

Qin Hao stood quietly in the water, waiting for the fish to come to his door. A fat-headed fish approached slowly, picked up the bamboo in his hand, and the bamboo passed through the fish in an instant.

Qin Hao held up the fish to show to the two brothers of the Xu family. When Xu Wei saw the fish on the bamboo, he threw the fishing net to the shore and ran towards Qin Hao excitedly, regardless of the wetness of his trouser legs.

Xu Shan is also eager to try to get into the water.

Qin Hao stopped Xu Shan, rolled the fish and put it into Xu You's bucket, and asked him to take the bucket to the shore to show Xu Shan, Xu Shan shouted eagerly to Xu Shan: "Second brother, hurry up, hurry up!" Carry me over there, I want to see brother Hao spearing fish."

Xu Er glanced at Qin Hao, saw him nodding, and went back to the bank to carry Xu Shan on his back. Xu Shan was carrying a bucket, and there was already a fish in the bucket.

Qin Hao hissed at them, and the two of them immediately shut their mouths tightly and looked into the water without blinking.

A grass carp, weighing two or three catties, swam over, and Qin Hao quickly speared the harpoon again. "It's on, it's on, Brother Hao, you are awesome."

Qin Hao directly brought the bucket over, put the fish into the bucket, and went back to the shore with the two brothers, and said to Xu Shan, "I've seen it too, now it's time to watch the fish here."

"Brother Hao, can I learn? I also want to spear fish."

"Go to the shore to find a bamboo, go over there and fork it yourself, if you fork too much, it will be fine."

Xu Wei went to pull up a bamboo by himself, imitating Qin Hao, standing in the water with a bow and arrow, holding the bamboo in his right hand, his left hand hanging down naturally, bending over a little, and quickly forked down when he saw a fish.

It seemed very easy, but he didn't get a fork for a long time. His eyes were blurred, his arms were sore, and his waist was about to break. He was more tired than a day of farm work.

What was even more irritating was that Xu Shan was on the shore, with a small mouth that kept babbling.

"Brother Hao speared another fish, how are you doing second brother?"

"Brother Hao forked a bucket of fish, why don't you have any, second brother?"

"Brother Hao, don't finish catching the fish, save some for the second brother to catch."

Qin Hao saw that he had caught more than a dozen fish, big and small, and even filled the basin, and shouted at Xu You: "Xu You, I'm going back, there are too many fish to eat."

"Brother Hao, wait for me to fork one and leave, you wait for me."

"Xiaoshan and I will go to the village chief's house and call you when we come back. If we don't catch any fish then we have to go home and come back next time."

"Oh." Xu You desperately wanted to die, without even looking at the two people on the shore, he poured all his blood into the flowing water.

Carrying the bucket in one hand and the basin in the other, Qin Hao walked towards the village chief's house with Xu Shan behind him. When he met many villagers on the road, Qin Hao nodded his head.

Because I don't know Qin Hao very well, seeing so many fish, even if I was very envious, I just asked Xu Shan where to go, and Xu Shan answered all the way, going to the village chief's grandfather's house.

Before entering the gate of the village chief's house, Xu Shan shouted into the yard: "Grandpa village chief, village chief, Xiao Shan is here."

The village chief, Fu Lang, was trying on new shoes for Dazhu in the courtyard. Hearing Xu Shan's voice, Dazhu ran out barefoot.

Seeing Qin Hao paused for a moment, and seeing the fish in Qin Hao's hand, he refused to admit it was alive, and said happily, "Big brother, there are so many fish."

"That's right, Brother Hao caught them all." Xu Shan showed off happily beside him.

The village chief, Fu Lang, followed him out, and when he saw Qin Hao turned his head, he shouted into the inner room: "Master, Qin Hao is here, come out quickly." After shouting, he led Qin Hao into the yard.

"Uncle, I won't sit down. I caught a lot of fish just now, and I can't finish eating so many fish. I'll bring two here."

After picking two grass carp weighing about three catties, Qin Hao sent them to the kitchen.

"Youngest son, hurry up and find a basin to hold the fish in." The village head came out with a pipe in hand, seeing that Qin Hao had a lot of fish in the bucket, he was not very polite.

"I went to your house yesterday to deliver rice and vegetables. I met Xu Hua who was doing the cooking for you, so I came back. How is it? Are you still used to it?" The village chief worried that he would not get used to it when he first came.

"It's pretty good, Uncle Wang. Xu Yi has helped a lot, so there's nothing I'm not used to."

"That's good. Let's go to the county seat tomorrow to complete the registration procedures and house transfer."

"Today I went to the county to buy a lot of things, and I rented a carriage. I'll just drive over to pick you up at Mao tomorrow."

After Qin Hao made an agreement with the village chief, he carried the fish and took Xu Shanyuan back to the river to call Xu Wei home.

Xu Wei was still in the same posture as before, with a frustrated look on his face, and looked at Qin Hao dissatisfied: "Brother Hao, is it because this bamboo is not good, why can't I catch any of it."

Qin Hao went into the water without hesitation, took his thin bamboo, plunged it into the water, and took a fish weighing about two catties. He looked at Xu Wei with disdain: "You can't do it."

Xu You wanted to cry but didn't have any tears, so he climbed ashore in desperation, embarrassed to say any nonsense.

After returning home, Uncle Wang was very puzzled seeing so many fish: "Qin Hao, how did you catch so many fish? This kind of fish can only be found in deep water areas. It is not easy to use fishing nets in deep water areas."

"Use a thin bamboo fork. Brother Hao is accurate with every fork, and the second brother can't even fork it." Xu Shan betrayed her second brother without even thinking about it. Brother accounted for firmly.

Xu Yi took the fish over and cleaned it up. There were so many fish that he couldn't finish them all at night. The rest had to be salted and hung under the eaves to dry.

"Brother Hao, tell me how you want to eat fish at night, and I'll do it." Xu Yi tied up his sleeves with string, and sharpened his knife at the fish.

"You help me. I'll cook it tonight. I want to eat fish from my hometown. My aunt's specialty. You probably don't know how to do it." Qin Hao also took out a saber from his backpack and cleaned the fish with Xu Yi .

"Uncle Wang, you and Xu Hua will try my craft later."

"Then uncle, you're welcome." Uncle Wang was used to Qin Hao's sincerity, and he didn't talk about politeness anymore.

After tidying up more than a dozen large and small fish, the pot was full of fish offal, and picked two fathead fish. Qin Hao was going to make three fish dishes.

Xu Yi's cold dishes are delicious, just ask him to make up two cold dishes and that's all.

The fish head should be marinated with rice wine, salt, ginger and garlic for 10 to [-] minutes. Special attention should be paid to the fact that the salt should be spread evenly, so that the taste will be delicious.

After marinating the fish head, Qin Hao began to soak the rice. Today’s rice is the polished rice he just bought. The rice grains are large and white. The rice needs to be soaked twice, each time for 10 minutes. Only half-boiled rice is the best porridge. drink.

Take out the casserole and boil the water. After the water boils, put the fish offal, add rice wine, and ginger slices to remove the fishy smell. After boiling, pick it up and put it in cold water to rinse.

Pour oil in a cold pan, put some miso, fry red oil, add green onion, ginger and dried chili, stir fry evenly, pour in fish offal, add rice wine, soy sauce, salt, pickled pepper, add water to cover fish offal, simmer for 10 minutes It's ready.

I took a pot from home, put some cucumbers on the bottom of the pot, put some white buds on the bottom, poured the prepared fish offal into the pot, sprinkled with coriander, and finished the job.

Qin Hao took a sip by himself, it was the taste of his mother.

Take out two casserole pots, one starts to cook the fish bones, hangs out the broth, removes the fish bones after the soup turns milky white, and pours the half-boiled rice into the casserole.

Another casserole is made with vegetables, and then dried chilies are added. The marinated fish head is covered with raw powder, and the oil is heated in the pot to fry the fish head until it is crispy and golden.

Put the fried fish head into a casserole with a bottom, put some sugar and soy sauce on it, pour two tablespoons of fried hot oil on it, pour rice wine sauce on it, cover the pot and boil on high heat, and simmer for another 10 minutes.

When the rice in the casserole has blossomed, put the fish fillets and simmer for 10 minutes on a low heat. The fish fillet porridge and dry pot fish head can be out of the pot, sprinkle with coriander, it is perfect.

When Qin Hao was cooking, Xu Yi also mixed two cold dishes, and a sumptuous fish feast was prepared.

Xu Yi watched Qin Hao indulge in cooking, and was still intoxicated after cooking, as if the whole world didn't exist, and asked gently: "Brother Hao, do you miss your family?"

Qin Hao seemed to have just woken up from a big dream, and there was something shining in his eyes. The two looked at each other quietly for a long time across the stove, and they both saw love in each other's eyes.

"I am willing to be your brother, don't be too sad."

After a long time, Qin Hao could still clearly remember this moment. At this moment, he could clearly see Xu Yi's soft eyebrows, his face flushed by the fire, and the emotion flowing in his clear eyes.

At this moment, Qin Hao's heart was moved.

The other four people had already sat at the dining table, waiting for their meals without distraction. When the food was served, they couldn't wait to move their chopsticks. All of a sudden, the chopsticks and spoons flew together, and everyone ate happily.

Seeing everyone's joy, Qin Hao thought that although he left Lao Lu and his teacher's wife, their affection for him was integrated into his flesh and blood. If they were not around, he would become Lao Lu and his teacher's wife.

Like the two of them treating themselves, Qin Hao is also willing to respond to people who treat him well with full emotion.

After a meal, Qin Hao bid farewell to his previous life and began to accept his new family.

The smoke was light, the moon was hanging on the treetops, everyone was asleep, and Qin Hao sat alone in the yard, thinking about the way out in the future.

Although I can't spend the property of the space in a few lifetimes, but a manly man always has the idea of ​​making contributions.

It is impossible to conduct science, Qin Hao doesn't want to be an official, and he doesn't know how to do business.

Farming and hunting can be regarded as hobbies and careers. In such an era, the only fate is to be exploited.

The only advantage is that he has a strong body and good skills. He studied hard when he was studying and knows a few foreign languages.

I heard that there is a big port in Fucheng, maybe I should find time to visit it. If I have the opportunity, I can go to sea for a short time, and find as many opportunities as possible to learn about the world.

Since people here speak standard Chinese, maybe there are people in this world who speak English, Japanese, and Spanish.

Thinking of Xu Yi again, since he moved his heart that had been exhausted for 25 years, Qin Hao thought Xu Yi could only marry him.

Xu Yi is handsome, has a good personality, and is good at farm and housework. If the men in the village are not blind, there is no reason to dislike him.

It seemed that he was going to torture Xu You in the future, and Qin Hao couldn't help but feel a sense of crisis.

After thinking about it, there are only two things, earning money and marrying a wife.

Qin Hao stood up, stretched himself refreshed, and went back to his room full of ambition to sleep. He kicked away Xu You, who was sleeping like a piglet, and occupied most of the bed without any sympathy.

He didn't know that on the bed in the other room, from the moment he walked to the yard and sat down, Xu Yi opened his eyes and quietly accompanied him in the dark.

For the first time in my life, I will read a person's name in my heart. For the first time in my life, I have troubles other than livelihood.

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