latelenovela Chapter 215 Pigeon Flooding
Chapter 215 Pigeon Flooding
After some struggle, Guo Qingran finally decided to return to the Cai family.
Guo Qingran has already revealed some things about her and Cai Junyi to Mrs. Huai, and Mr. and Mrs. Guo both agree.
Cai Junyi was once Master Guo's favorite student. Master Guo highly recognized his character and talent, and he and his wife were relieved to marry their daughter to him.
If the two families were planning to get married, it would be inappropriate for Guo Qingran to live in the Cai family all the time since she was an unmarried girl.
Li Yuer suggested, "Master, we are building a house. It is almost finished except for the beams. When the house is finished, why not let Sister Qingran live in our house and tell the villagers that she is a distant cousin.
When the time comes, we will invite you to come to our village to teach. We will reserve a room for you and your wife to live there, and then you and your family can be reunited."
"Good! That's great!" Master Guo stroked his beard and said happily, "In that case, thank you very much."
They had been out for quite some time. After things were settled, Li Yuer found some soda ash to help Guo Qingran touch up her makeup, and then they returned to the village.
The next day, the sunshine in late April was warm and gentle, it was a rare sunny day, and they went to Fuzhou Bay to catch seafood again.
Now that spring has arrived and the flowers have bloomed, the beaches have thawed and they no longer have to climb over the eastern slope of the mountain to get to Laobie Bay.
Along with the new green after the rain, migratory seagulls have flown back from across the ocean, preying on the sea surface, instantly restoring the sea to life.
A bird flew to a nearby reef and started cooing.
"That doesn't seem to be a seagull?" From a distance, Li Yuer couldn't see clearly what kind of bird it was.
There are many water birds in the nearby waters, including pelicans with big beaks and kingfishers that are smaller than a fist. They like to fly and build nests in the reed marshes.
There is also a group of wild ducks in Laobie Bay. The ducks are the first to know when the river water warms in spring. The wild ducks quack and swim in groups on the water, sliding their webbed feet and swimming quickly on the water.
There was a mother duck leading a group of ducklings. She was foraging for food and teaching the ducklings to swim. When the ducklings were tired of swimming, they climbed onto their mother's back and took a ride on the wind.
The sea is a rich treasure trove, with endless resources waiting for humans to develop.
Li Laosan placed his hand across his forehead to block the sunlight and looked in the direction of Li Yuer's finger.
A pigeon was squatting on a high reef, cooing, as if calling its friends.
"It's a wild pigeon."
Li Yuer stopped what he was doing, became interested, and asked, "Where do they live?"
Li Laosan said: "I heard from the villagers that there is a place called Getang on the west coast. There are cliffs everywhere. Pigeons live in the caves between the cliffs. There are many pigeons."
An idea suddenly popped up in Li Yuer's mind. She wanted a carrier pigeon.
There were no mobile phones in this dynasty, so it was extremely difficult to transmit information.
In ancient times, the fastest way to transmit information was carrier pigeons, which were much faster than people riding horses.
Li Yuer's eyes turned into crescents as he smiled, and he said, "Uncle San, how about we go get some pigeon eggs?"
Li Laosan's eyes suddenly widened, "Yu Baoer, aren't there enough eggs at home for you to eat? Do you want to eat pigeon eggs?"
"No, I want a carrier pigeon. I don't want to eat pigeon eggs. They are so small, how can they taste good?"
Speaking of carrier pigeons, Li Laosan also wanted one in his heart. Men even like things like carriages, horses and carrier pigeons more than women.
"Yes, but we don't know how to hatch pigeon eggs."
Li Yuer said, "Doesn't my cousin have an old hen at home? Let her hatch the eggs."
Li Laosan said uncertainly: "The hen is stupid, but can she be so stupid that she can't even recognize her own eggs? The difference between chicken eggs and pigeon eggs is too big."
"Let's try it."
Li Laosan was a little hesitant and nodded in agreement.
At this time, Li Erlang ran over. He ran quite fast and the mud splashed under his feet splashed several spots on the faces of Li Yuer and the others.
Li Laosan scolded, "Erlang, what are you doing? You are so clumsy."
Li Erlang showed the two men the bucket and said, "Sand stingrays, they are all claws, mix them up and eat them at noon."
Thinking of the cold jellyfish he had eaten before, Li Laosan couldn't help but saliva began to form in his mouth.
"Well done, Jiro."
Li Yuer ignored the two people who were sometimes friendly and sometimes cross-eyed, and continued to go fishing.
In spring, the first crop of sea vegetables is sea flax and red seaweed.
It’s cold in the north, so these sea vegetables were relatively short a few days ago, but today you can eat them just by looking at them.
Li Yuer started picking sea flax and red cabbage.
The scientific name of sea hemp thread is rope grass, and it is called sea gazi in some coastal areas. It is gray-brown in color, relatively long, and looks like a thin rope. It tastes fresh and soft, making it suitable for making dumplings.
Beef curry also has string-like leaves, but they grow in clusters, are shorter, and are bright red. They grow in clusters in offshore reef areas and look very beautiful. Beef curry has a crispy texture and is suitable for making frozen dishes.
Both kinds of seaweed are very delicious. Li Yuer especially likes seaweed buns. The best pork belly is refined into meat paste, chopped up, and wrapped into buns with seaweed. It tastes best with double-crop flour made of bean flour and white flour. A large iron pot in the countryside is placed on an iron steaming curtain, with leaves used as a steaming pad, and the buns are put in. When the buns are out of the pot, the fragrance can spread two miles away.
Take a bite, the pork belly juice mixed with the unique flavor of seafood is so delicious.
Li Yuer worked even harder because she had to eat seaweed buns today.
Li Erlang liked to stare at Li Yuer's every move. "Yu Baoer, why are you picking these useless seaweeds? Are you going to feed them to the chickens? Don't pick these seaweeds when feeding chickens. They are not easy to pick and troublesome. There are plenty of seaweeds on the beach. You can easily pick up a basketful of them."
Li Yuer answered without even looking up: "I eat it myself, not feeding the chickens. It's true that feeding chickens doesn't require the effort of plucking this kind of vegetable."
In this era, seaweed is everywhere. In the past, seaweed could cost more than ten yuan for a small bag, but here it can only be used to feed chickens.
The villagers also eat seaweed, but it is not tasty, it is fishy and woody, and is not as tasty as vegetables on land.
"Yu Bao'er, this is not delicious. It tastes fishy and woody. It's not that there's nothing to eat in winter, but no one eats this."
Li Yuer said, "Stop talking nonsense. Help me pick them up. I'll make you something delicious when I get home. Don't you trust me?"
"How dare I!" Thinking of those seafood that no one wanted before, as long as they passed through Li Yuer's hands, they would become delicacies that everyone would rush to buy, Li Erlang joined the ranks of picking seaweed without hesitation.
Li Yuer warned: "Try not to pull it up by the roots. It won't grow back after you pull it up. There's also mud and sand on the roots, which makes it hard to clean."
Li Erlang thought about it, took out a fish knife from the bucket, grabbed the front end of the seaweed with one hand, and cut along the root with the other hand. A bunch of seaweed line without damaging the roots and without mud was cut off.
Li Yuer's eyes lit up and he said, "That's a good idea."
The beach was covered with seaweed, and the two of them quickly filled a bucket with it.