He used to live stream and fish, and his income was about 100 yuan a day, which was barely enough to make ends meet.
How could he not be happy if he could earn someone else's month's salary in one day?
When we came to the vegetable market in the town, there was also seafood for sale.
Five kilograms of abalone and five kilograms of oysters were sold in the market. The abalone and oysters bought in the market are basically farmed by coastal fishermen. The prices are favorable and very close to the people.
I bought some ingredients, a barbecue grill, and pear charcoal.
Chen Xiaoyun and Chen Xiaohu returned to the village.
On the way back, I met a man from Chenjia Village, who was Chen Xiaoyun and his uncle.
"Uncle Min Fu, where are you going?" Chen Xiaohu greeted.
Hearing Chen Xiaohu call someone, Chen Xiaoyun had some memories.
Chen Minfu, their uncle, five generations back, is still very close to them.
In fact, the entire Chenjia Village has one ancestor, and everyone is considered a descendant of the clan.
"Xiaohu, where are you going?" Chen Minfu asked.
"We came back from town and bought some seafood to eat." Chen Xiaohu replied.
"Oh, is this your friend?" Chen Minfu looked at Chen Xiaoyun and asked.
"He is my cousin Xiaoyun!" Chen Xiaohu said.
"Xiao Yun?! I haven't seen him for several years and I don't recognize him anymore." Chen Minfu said with some surprise.
"Uncle Min Fu!" Chen Xiaoyun said hello.
"Hey, I haven't seen you for seven or eight years, and you are already so old!" Chen Minfu sighed.
"Let's go back first, Uncle Min Fu!" Chen Xiaohu waved his hand and said goodbye.
"Okay, remember to come to my house when you have time." Chen Minfu nodded and said.
When he got home, it was almost five o'clock, and Chen Xiaohu cleaned out the groupers and black eagles.
Chen Xiaoyun sent abalone, oysters, and red eels to his refrigerator.
This was for a barbecue in the evening, and his second grandfather and second grandmother didn't eat these.
As you get older, you will easily get wind pain after eating it.
For dinner, we had steamed grouper, braised black snapper, water spinach, and a fish head and tofu soup.
The food is well presented and looks delicious.
Especially steamed grouper and braised black sea bream, these two dishes are completely unaffordable for less than five or six hundred yuan in a seafood restaurant.
Grouper and black snapper, with tender and delicious meat, are very good species of sea fish and are very popular among people.
"Xiaoyun, Xiaohu, eat more!" Second Grandma looked at the two of them kindly.
As we get older and have our children and grandchildren by our side, both of us will be happier.
"Second Grandpa, the fish pond and litchi garden behind my house belong to Uncle Minhua's family, right?" Chen Xiaoyun asked while he was eating.
"Yes, they all belong to your Uncle Minhua's family. What, you want to take over?" Second Grandpa Chen Jianwen looked at Chen Xiaoyun.
"Well, I want to rent it here first, raise some chickens, ducks and geese, eat some for myself and sell some. I plan to stay at home for a while and find something to do." Chen Xiaoyun nodded and said.
"That's okay. If you rent it, it probably won't cost much a year. I'll call your Uncle Minhua for you tomorrow and ask." The second grandfather, Chen Jianwen, nodded.
"In recent years, the village has been relocated and young people have gone out to work. In addition, it is difficult to make money fishing, so many families in the village have changed their careers." Chen Jianwen, the second grandfather, lamented.
In the past, most of the family members in the village were fishermen and went out to sea to catch fish.
As offshore fishery resources become increasingly scarce, in many cases, a trip to the sea barely pays for gas.
This has led many fishermen to choose to change their profession. Now, out of fifty or sixty households in Chenjia Village, only about forty households are left.
Therefore, the seafood aquaculture industry has emerged, and many fishermen have gone to farm it.
With the development of economy, the tourism industry is also rising rapidly.
It's a pity that coastal towns are not tourist towns. The tourism industry in the following seaside fishing villages is not very developed.
This has led many people in Chenjia Village to choose to go out to work and stay away from home all year round. Nowadays, most of the people in the village are old, young, women and children.
Chen Xiaoyun also saw that many fields in the village had been left uncultivated.
The fields and land behind his house were a large wasteland, overgrown with weeds.
While chatting, Chen Xiaoyun accompanied the old man to eat. After dinner, Chen Xiaoyun went back.
After returning home, Chen Xiaoyun took a shower, put the remaining beer in the refrigerator to freeze, and then went to sit under the lychee tree in a lounge chair to enjoy the coolness.
April is approaching May, and the weather is already getting very hot.
But now around six o'clock, the sea breeze is blowing, and there is a salty smell of the sea, which is very refreshing.
When he turned on his mobile phone, he saw Chen Xiaohu showing off his catch in a coastal fishing group, which aroused the envy and jealousy of all the fishermen.
After peeking at the screen for a while, Chen Xiaoyun went to click on the quick message.
The young ladies above are fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged, have sweet voices, and are very lovable.
Before he knew it, Chen Xiaoyun had been browsing for more than two hours.
Around eight o'clock, Chen Xiaohu came over.
"Brother Xiaoyun!"
"Come here? Go and wash out the abalone and oysters." Chen Xiaoyun directly assigned Chen Xiaohu to do the work.
"Oh well!"
Chen Xiaohu glanced at Chen Xiaoyun, who was sitting on the recliner and watching a beautiful woman's live broadcast.
Not to mention those long legs and slender waist, they are so exciting when they dance.
After checking his phone for a while, Chen Xiaoyun also started to help.
As soon as I entered the room, I heard Chen Xiaohu playing a live broadcast.
"Family, look at this big abalone, is it fat?" Chen Xiaohu held an abalone to the camera and touched it with his hand.
"Digging grass, photographer, I suspect you are driving, but I have no proof."
"Family, is this content you can watch without paying?"
"Okay, photographer, you are crazy, you dare to do a color live broadcast."
"Family, let's do a live broadcast of grilled abalone, grilled oysters, and grilled red eels tonight. Let's do a live broadcast of gourmet food tonight!" Chen Xiaohu put the abalone down and stopped trying to show off his wits.
If the chatter continues, his live broadcast room will have to be blocked by the happy friends.
Chen Xiaoyun took out the more than four kilogram red eel, removed the internal organs, washed it, chopped it into sections of seven or eight centimeters, cut them into sections, put them into a basin, and marinated them with seasonings.
Then scrape a piece of ginger, peel a lot of garlic, mix them into a paste, add a little red pepper, mild vegetable pepper, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, salt, and stir-fry together.
Chen Xiaoyun also put a drop of Lingquan water in and stir-fried the minced garlic until fragrant and set aside.
Grilled oysters and abalone must be paired with these to make them delicious.
Otherwise, the baked oysters will have a fishy smell and not be very delicious.
An hour later, Chen Xiaohu washed out the abalone and oysters.
"Ah...family members, I feel like my waist is no longer my own." Chen Xiaohu stretched his waist and twisted it.
“The photographer is so vain!”
"The photographer has kidney failure!!"
"The photographer has kidney failure!!"
…
There were barrages in the live broadcast room. Although there was no live fishing, there were still quite a lot of people online in Chen Xiaohu's live broadcast room, with more than a thousand people watching.
Compared with the previous live broadcast room with three or two big cats and kittens, it is completely different.
Chen Xiaohu carried the washed abalone and oysters to the yard.
Chen Xiaoyun has already lit the charcoal fire, added a barbecue rack, put on the barbecue mat, and brushed it with oil to prevent it from sticking when the red eel is grilled.
Put more than ten oysters and abalone on top, and put a spoonful of stir-fried garlic paste on top of the oysters and abalone.
Four or five pieces of red eel were also put on top and brushed with a layer of oil.
Soon the red eel segments were grilled until they were golden and oily, and the abalone and oysters were also fragrant.
The water friends in the live broadcast room were able to swallow their saliva.
Taking out the cold beer, Chen Xiaohu took one abalone and one oyster in each mouthful. They were fresh and delicious, better than all the grilled oysters and abalones he had eaten at the food stalls in town.
"Tender, delicious and juicy, so delicious." Chen Xiaohu wolfed it down and praised it endlessly.
"Photographer, are the abalones visible..."
"That's right, this abalone has so much juice, I guess it must be salty."
"Brothers, don't be too outrageous." Chen Xiaohu glanced at the barrage and shouted hurriedly.
These happy water friends are so capable of causing trouble.
Chen Xiaoyun also drank while eating barbecue, and felt very comfortable with a sip of cold beer.
When I used to work, I was so busy and stressed that I rarely had time to enjoy barbecue like this.
This is the life he wants.
"These two are so good at enjoying themselves!"
"What kind of poison are you using this late at night to prevent people from sleeping well!?"
"I really want to join them. Eating oysters, eating abalone, and drinking beer. This kind of life is so comfortable."
"Yes, I'm so envious. It's a pity that I have to go to work tomorrow."
"That little brother looks very handsome!" A female water friend's eyes lit up when she saw Chen Xiaoyun's appearance.
"People upstairs, don't be a nymphomaniac, I'm more handsome than him!"
"Bah, showing off!"
"They lived the life I wanted to live, but they were frustrated by life. Alas..."
"Blowing the sea breeze, listening to the sound of the waves, drinking beer and eating barbecue, anchors, you are going too far!"
…
Five kilograms of oysters, five kilograms of abalone, and four kilograms of large red eels were all eaten by Chen Xiaoyun.
His appetite, somehow, was much greater than before.
Chen Xiaohu felt full after eating some. Even if he really wanted to eat, he had to eat it.
Chen Xiaohu also ended the live broadcast. After the two cleaned up, Chen Xiaohu went back.
After playing with his mobile phone for a while, watching side videos, and digesting his thoughts, Chen Xiaoyun fell asleep listening to the sound of the waves.
