Breeding Mermaid Cubs

Xiacheng is not a small county town. Although Wang Qingye also lives in Xiacheng, he does not completely live in the city. To be more precise, he lives in the urban-village junction area on the edge of the small town. The city takes a quarter of an hour to walk.

Wang Qingye got up early in the morning and went to Zhang Yaner's house to get some fresh kelp, chopped it and put it in the back room. He moved a stool by the tub, and the little mermaid could get it with just a stretch of his hand.

It was only dawn at this time, and the little guy was still lying quietly in the water, his silver-white hair spread out in the water, soft as strands of seaweed, gently rippling with his transparent tail fin.

Wang Qingye plunged his hand into the water by mistake, wanting to stroke the boy's hair to see what its texture was, but just as his hand touched the water, the silver-white hair slipped away from his fingertips.

Mian Shu suddenly opened her eyes and sat up, leaning her back against the edge of the bathtub, far away from him, her ice blue eyes were full of guard.

"Woke you up? Don't be afraid. I'm going to go out and put the kelp here with you. Eat it when you're hungry."

Mian Shu glanced at it, and found that there were indeed kelp, and it was all fresh and tender kelp.

Seeing that the little mermaid didn't speak, Wang Qingye asked again: "Do you want to change the water in the tub?"

The water in the bathtub is not like the water in the sea. The seawater is running water, while the water in the bathtub is stagnant water. To raise fish, you have to change the water from time to time. Since mermaids live in the sea, the reason should be the same.

Mian Shu never thought that Wang Qingye would want to exchange water with him, if he hadn't seen him secretly sharpening his knife, he would have believed that Wang Qingye was a good person.

He whispered: "It can still be used, I don't need to change it now."

"Okay, then I'll come back and change it with you later."

Wang Qingye packed up his things, locked the gate of the courtyard, and walked into the city with the morning dew. Mian Shu watched the people leave completely before lying back in the bathtub in relaxation.

It was early in the day, and the shops that were open in the city were mostly breakfast shops, steaming from the steamer, and three or five men were sitting on the noodle stalls on the street, sucking and pulling noodles.

Wang Qingye bought three steamed buns stuffed with pork for five renminbi. Pork steamed buns in Xiacheng are more expensive than seafood steamed stuffed buns. This month, he almost eats seafood stuffed stuffed buns, and he is a little bored.

He bit the steamed stuffed bun with thick skin and little stuffing, and looked for the seasoning shop as he walked. The shops like this opened late. He searched for two streets but found no one opened. Finally, he was in Xiaodong. On the street, I saw a family preparing to open the door.

There are not many specialized seasoning shops in the city. In fact, most of them are grocery stores, selling some seasonings, pots and pans and other items. Of course, there are also larger seasoning shops that don’t sell those groceries, but only sell seasonings, and they also squeeze oil. , such as sesame oil, rapeseed oil, etc., the common people can either provide food to the shop to help extract oil, collect some hard money, or buy ready-made directly.

Wang Qingye walked into the shop with a basket on his back. The shop owner was cleaning the counter. When he saw a customer coming in, he quickly greeted him, "What do you want, Mr. Xiaolang?"

"There is freshly squeezed sesame oil in the shop."

"How did you sell it?"

"The guest officer is early, how about sixty Wen for you." The owner of the store removed the lid of a large jar, and immediately a smell of sesame and sesame oil overflowed: "Put two drops in the cooking soup to keep an incense. "

Wang Qingye went over to smell it, and it was indeed good, but he didn't intend to buy it, he was just testing the price.

"Do you have vinegar and soy sauce in your shop?"

"Xiao Lang-jun has a good eye. There are good old vinegar and soy sauce in the shop. The things are good, and there are not many left. You want to charge you eighty yuan."

And these [-] Wen can only buy a small jar, about half a catty.

Wang Qingye's eyebrows twitched, he knew that the seasoning was expensive, but he didn't expect the price to be so high, but it made sense, the vinegar sauce is made of grain, the raw materials are expensive, and the procedures are cumbersome and complicated. The precious ones from the jar are the same as anything. In the past, sauce and vinegar were only the condiments that royal dignitaries could eat. Now they enter the private market, and their value will naturally be different.

"Then you can collect seasonings in this shop?"

As soon as the shop owner heard this, he knew that he had been walked for a while, and lost the enthusiasm just now, but he still said: "Xiao Langjun, do you have seasoning for sale?"

"Exactly."

Wang Qingye put down the pannier: "Please also ask the shop owner to see if there is anything he can accept."

"Our shop is also one of the best in Xiacheng. Several restaurants and restaurants in the city are here to buy goods. If the goods are not good, I will not accept them here."

Although the shop owner said so, he stretched his neck and looked into the basket. Seeing Wang Qingye taking out a clay pot with a long neck, he immediately became interested: "What is this?"

"This is the pressed pepper oil, let's see how it goes."

The owner of the shop opened the mouth of the can, and he could smell the numb aroma of pepper oil without even leaning his nose forward.

"It smells good."

Wang Qingye poured out a little for the boss to taste. There was prickly ash powder at the bottom of the clay pot, which was numb and fragrant, more flavorful than fresh and dried prickly ash. The shop boss tasted it and said it was good.

"Accept, accept this, but what other good products are there?"

Wang Qingye brought out the soy sauce and vinegar together next to each other. This time he brought some regular seasonings. Firstly, these seasonings received a lot of rewards. Second, when he found a stable shop, It's much easier to sell something else.

The shop owner was very satisfied after tasting them one by one. The price of soy sauce and vinegar is [-] renminbi, and the market price is [-] renminbi. That's fine. As for pepper oil, the shop didn't sell it before, so it was charged at the market price of ordinary sesame oil. As for the price at which the shop owner sold it to others, that was someone else's business.

After selling a bunch of seasonings, Wang Qingye got one or two or eighty cash. By the way, he pretended that he wanted to return the jars, but the shop owner refused, so he bought a jar for five cash, and got another fifteen cash.

After accepting the good goods, the owner of the store changed his face again. The businessman is the most refined person: "I don't know what to call you, Mr. Xiaolang? Sit down for a while, have a sip of tea before leaving."

"Miangui's surname is Wang, thank you boss for your kindness, and I'm still in a hurry to buy something and go back."

"Okay, you go slowly, next time if there are still goods, you can go here." The boss sent Wang Qingye all the way out, and whispered at the door: "I see that your goods are good. If the price goes up, you The price will definitely be higher next time.”

These words are still very useful to Wang Qingye: "Then wait for the good news from the shopkeeper, and come to trouble you when there is stock."

After leaving the shop, all the shops in the city were open, and Wang Qingye hurried to the medical center.

There are more and more people hawking along the way. The fishing boats that went out to sea in the early morning have not yet returned, so there are not many seafood sellers, but there are many crab sellers at this time.

"Doctor, maybe give me some trauma medicine."

The old doctor in the medical center twirled his beard: "A bruise or a knife wound? Is the wound serious?"

Wang Qingye pondered for a while: "Most of them are scratches, and there are relatively serious big wounds."

The old doctor nodded: "It's still hot now, so we have to treat the wound well, otherwise it will cause trouble if it causes tetanus. Not long ago, a butcher was injured while hunting and he couldn't take care of it. Today, he is already doing things at the coffin shop."

"I'll prescribe you some safflower notoginseng, take it home, crush it and apply it evenly on the wound, and I can also prescribe some medicine for oral administration? Take both, and the recovery will be faster."

Wang Qingye is not very proficient in medical treatment, not to mention that the medicine is still prescribed to treat a fish, so he can only echo the doctor: "I will listen to you."

"to make."

The old doctor got up and opened this drawer and fumbled for a while, opened the drawer and fumbled for a while, and it took an incense stick of time to prescribe the medicine.

The ones for external application were directly tied with hemp rope, and the ones for internal use were wrapped in paper bags.

"Internal medicine is taken three times a day, after meals." After the old doctor explained how to use the medicine: "120 Wen."

Wang Qingye raised his eyebrows, no wonder the butcher had already bought things in the coffin shop, poor people would have to spend two months of their family money to see a disease and prescribe medicine, how many people can afford it.

The things that should be done when he came out were almost done, so Wang Qingye walked back with his things.

Mian Shu turned over in the water a few times, thinking that Wang Qingye was going out, he took a chance to escape, but seeing the high wall as high as several bathtubs outside the yard, he was discouraged again, and now he even took a bath. He couldn't get out of the bucket, let alone the high wall. He tried to get out of the tub a few times and scraped off the scales on the tail. He gasped for several breaths in pain.

Now his body hurts and his stomach is hungry. If this continues, he may die before Wang Qingye eats him. A full meal.

Mianshu drooped her ear fins, and Yan'er pawed at the edge of the tub, biting the last piece of kelp in the bowl. The kelp, which she didn't like at first, tasted better when she was hungry. After eating the last piece of kelp, her stomach was still flat Flat, he was thinking where he could find something to eat when he heard a click.

He looked for the sound, and there was a small round stone tank outside the window, and there was a grouper in the tank, which was swimming happily back and forth in the tank at the moment.He couldn't help but licked his lips, what a delicious fresh fish.

Grouper seemed to feel the oppressive sight above his head, subconsciously wanted to swim to the bottom of the tank, suddenly a torrent from the bottom of the water hit him, and waves surged from the bottom of the tank, and he jumped out of the water uncontrollably, feeling comfortable. Leaning on the edge of the window, he reached out and grabbed the grouper.

He held the grouper happily and retracted into the bathtub, and the grouper went into his stomach after a while.Mian Shu licked his teeth, the grouper was a bit skinny and could only fill his stomach, but fortunately the thin grouper was not fat and tasted good, he was very satisfied.

The stomach is filled now, but there is another worry. What if Wang Qingye comes back later and sees that the fish in the tank are gone? With the sound of the lock being unlocked, Wang Qingye came back with a pannier on his back!

Mian Shu quickly jumped back into the tub and hid under it.

When Wang Qingye entered the room, he was expecting a lot of water. Not only that, but there were also a few small silvery-white fan-shaped scales beside the tub, which shone with colorful light under the refraction of the sun, like gems left on the sand.

He hurried over, and the kelp in the bowl was empty, and the missing boy was squatting motionless in the water. Wang Qingye heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that the boy fell out of the tub.

Unexpectedly, after hearing his voice, the cub suddenly jumped out of the water, with silvery white hair sticking to his collarbone, frowned and pursed his lips, looked at him aggrievedly, and said with a twitch, "I jumped in from the yard just now. What a big orange cat."