Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

Chapter 376 Big Yellow Croaker

Soon, He Lai and the other man were brought into the kitchen by the manager. After some communication, the chef here had no objection to Sha Zhu coming, after all, he could also learn how to cook other dishes. Then the manager left.

"Brother Zhuzi, then you can study here. Do you know the way back? If not, I will come back and wait for you later."

He Lai said with a smile.

"You have to come back, otherwise I won't stay here!" Sha Zhu said immediately after hearing it.

"Okay then, I'll go out for a walk and be back soon. Brother Zhuzi, why do I feel like you can't leave me alone?"

"I... I've been here before." Sha Zhu looked embarrassed.

"Okay, I'll be back soon."

He Lai didn't say much to Sha Zhu and had to go around Guangcheng quickly.

However, He Lai quickly realized that he needed fish tickets to buy seafood, so he hurried back to Taotao Ju and exchanged the national food coupons for more than a dozen fish tickets from the manager.

The fish ticket in Guangcheng is light green in color, with the Chinese characters "Fish Ticket" and a number written on it, which probably represents the number.

The manager told He Lai that each ticket could buy half a catty of fish. It was the peak fishing season, so there should be a lot of fish in the seafood market.

People in Guangcheng needed fish tickets to buy fish and seafood, and each person was limited to 20 cents per month. The price of fish per catty in the market was around 40 or 50 cents, which meant that each person was only allowed to buy half a catty of fish per month. It was almost impossible to eat live fish, and housewives would go to the market to queue up before dawn. It was considered lucky if they could bring home half a dead fish; those who were unlucky could not even spend their fish tickets.

He Lai asked as he walked, and finally came to the seafood market in this area. There were indeed dense crowds of people inside, and they were obviously all here to buy fish. After all, pork is too expensive these days, and sea fish is very popular in coastal cities because it can be eaten directly by cooking!

He Lai also walked in happily! Soon He Lai came to a place with the most people, and everyone rushed to take out money and tickets to buy fish.

He Lai took a look and saw that it was actually a yellow croaker! Yellow croaker was still very abundant in this era, and you could catch tens of thousands of kilograms of it just by going out to sea.

In this era, people invented the method of using bamboo nets to catch large yellow croakers. This method takes advantage of the large yellow croaker's sensitivity to sound and uses the sound of beating bamboo sticks to stun the large yellow croaker, and then catch them all in one net.

Humans relied on this method, and within a few years, they caught the yellow croaker to the point of near extinction.

Therefore, modern yellow croaker will be sold at a sky-high price, basically three to four thousand yuan per catty.

If you are lucky enough to catch a school of large yellow croaker when you go out to sea, congratulations, you can rest easy for the rest of your life.

However, yellow croaker is quite cheap in Helai these days, you can buy a pound for only 1.4 cents!

The seafood market specially approved a fish ticket that could buy one kilogram of yellow croaker.

There are also yellow croakers in Sijiu City, but they are rare. They are basically only found in restaurants and are not seen in the market at all.

The main reason is that yellow croaker is so delicious. Its meat is tender and delicious, it is low in fat, high in protein, and rich in iodine and other nutrients.

It is very suitable for stewing, steaming and other cooking methods. It is a healthy and nutritious seafood species, and is loved by wealthy people in the city.

He Lai didn't care about the crowds and quickly squeezed to the edge of the pool where the yellow croaker was kept. He began to secretly use his spatial ability to get some sea water and the yellow croaker into the space.

He Lai was afraid of being discovered, so he stayed there for a long time. Because there were so many people buying fish, no one noticed that the water level in the pond had dropped. After all, the water level would naturally drop if the yellow croaker was taken out of the pond.

He Lai walked back and forth around several pools like this, and finally made a small sea water pool in the space. Of course, he also secretly put twenty large yellow croakers in it.

After finishing it, He Lai pretended to buy a seven-pound yellow croaker.

After that, He Lai started walking around again and found someone selling coconut snails, so he quickly squatted down.

There is a chance that coconut snails will produce the so-called Flame Pearl - Melo Pearl. Although the probability is only one in a few thousand, I still want to try it.

There are at least a few hundred coconut snails in this pond, maybe you can find one!

He Lai quickly put his hand into the pool, pretending to look at the coconut snails, but in fact he used his special ability to quickly check all the coconut snails.

Soon, a Melo Pearl appeared in He Lai's space. What good luck!

"Hey, handsome boy, do you want to buy some?" The waiter selling coconut snails saw He Lai just looking at them without buying anything, so he spoke directly.

"Buy! Buy! Give me one." He Lai came to his senses and immediately gave him a coconut snail.

After that, He Lai started to move to places where there were more people. After all, if there were people buying things, no one would notice him, which was a good opportunity for him to use his spatial ability.

After using his abilities continuously, He Lai finally found a lot of seafood! He almost filled up the small seawater pool in the space.

For example, when it comes to blue crabs and swimming crabs, He Lai only catches those that are pregnant! After all, in this era, no one cares whether the crab is pregnant or not, they will still catch it and sell it!

He Lai didn't even let go of the big lobster! Although he couldn't take it into the space, after all, there were too few of them. If a few were missing, they would probably be discovered. However, He Lai could bring the eggs from the pregnant lobster's abdomen into the space.

Because He Lai bought two items, his fish ticket was instantly reduced by half. He did not buy any fish after that and finally left the seafood market reluctantly.

He Lai’s second target was the fruit market. After all, in Guangcheng in 59, you didn’t need a fruit ticket to buy fruit as it was produced in abundance.

Soon He Lai arrived at the fruit market. Looking at the densely packed fruits there, He Lai was immediately excited.

He Lai quickly came to the durian stall. In those days, there was no such thing as a sky-high price for durian. On the contrary, because it smelled bad, was big in size, and didn't have much flesh, it was very cheap, only five cents a pound. He Lai directly bought two big ones!

Afterwards, He Lai bought some lychees, papayas, pineapples, mangoes and longans. After all, these are considered Guangzhou specialties.

Soon He Lai's hands were full of fruits.

He Lai quickly found a deserted place and put all his things into the space. Now He Lai had everything he needed and could just enjoy himself!

After doing all this, He Lai took the yellow croaker he bought and went to Taotaoju to find Sha Zhu.

"Hey, little comrade, you bought a big yellow croaker. This fish is delicious and should be rare in your city."

A chef in the kitchen said with a smile.

"Well, in the old city, only restaurants sell big yellow croaker. Ordinary people like us can't eat it, so when we saw it, we bought one."

He Lai also admitted it directly, there was nothing to hide.

"Master He, how do you like to cook this big yellow croaker in Sijiu City?"

asked the old master.

"Over here, yellow croaker is usually braised dry, but steaming is also good!"

Sha Zhu thought about it and replied.

"Okay, then let's make one each. I'll make a Longyou large yellow croaker, and you'll make a dry-fried large yellow croaker. Let's let everyone taste it. What do you think?"

The old master laughed.

"Okay, I'll do as you say, Master Huang." Sha Zhu didn't have any objection. He was very serious about cooking.

Soon the two of them got ready and started to process the yellow croaker.