Chapter 256: All 1985 lobsters sold out, the green refrigerator in

"Sister Xiu Lian, Brother Chen Hui wouldn't be like this!" An Wenjing said anxiously.

"How dare I? Sister Xiulian, you are more than qualified to be a judge in a food competition."

"Last time when we were having dinner at my house, there was a piece of roasted meat on the edge. It got burned by the fire when it was being smoked, and you ate it out."

"Seafood is even more amazing. You can tell whether it's good or not once you put it in your mouth."

Chen Hui looked calm, comforted An Wenjing, and said with a smile.

"I guess so, and you don't seem unhappy?" Huang Xiu Lian said.

"After all, there are so many of them. It's rare to catch so many lobsters in one trip. I might think the same if I were in their place."

After hearing what Chen Hui said, Huang Xiu Lian felt a little embarrassed.

He smiled and explained to Chen Hui.

In the past, she had found two people who could go to the sea to catch fish and send them fish and shrimps.

The goods delivered at the beginning were all good, but they arrived relatively slowly, taking at least three to five days, and at most ten days.

Later, the goods arrived more and more frequently, and the taste gradually started to become off.

She went to Dasa Village and found out that when they couldn't catch fish or shrimp, they would go to the dock to collect those that were still alive and relatively fresh and sell them to her.

"Then, they lost you as a big and easy-going customer, right?"

"What's more regrettable than losing a good customer is losing a kind-hearted sister!"

"I would never do such a stupid thing." Chen Hui said with a smile.

"Ouch! What's wrong with you today? Is there honey on your little mouth?"

Huang Xiulian felt embarrassed by Chen Hui's praise and squatted on the ground and opened a net bag to look.

He was surprised and asked, "It's so big? It must be more than three pounds, right?"

"The pocket you opened contains more than three pounds. The smallest is three pounds and a half, and the largest is three pounds and a half."

"Sister Xiulian, what size do you want? I'll find it for you."

Chen Hui pulled up his pants, squatted down and asked.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I really like these big ones!"

"But this one should be left for Juanjuan. It's so big and fresh. She will be so happy to see it."

Huang Xiu Lian said this and asked Chen Hui to find her one weighing about two kilograms.

Chen Hui took out two net bags with different drawstring colors and placed them on the ground, introducing them: "This bag is over two and a half kilograms, and this bag is over two kilograms."

Huang Xiulian opened the drawstring and took a look, hesitating which one to choose.

After hesitating for a while, he said, "Leave the big one to Juanjuan. She will need it!"

"Sister Xiu Lian, what does Sister Juan Juan need so many lobsters for?" Chen Hui asked curiously.

She wants as much as she can, and she wants big ones. If she wants to eat them all by herself, she must love lobsters very much.

"It's for building relationships!"

"The people she has to deal with love lobsters. The bigger and rarer they are, the happier they are to collect them!"

“She had gone to Dasha Village to look for a few people before, but it didn’t work out!”

Huang Xiu Lian finished speaking rapidly, then realized that she seemed to have said too much.

Pulling Chen Hui aside, he whispered, "Let's talk about this in private. Don't tell anyone else, okay?"

Chen Hui nodded and said seriously: "I understand!"

Huang Xiulian picked out two lobsters from the two-jin net bag and pointed at one of them and said:
"I heard from Wenjing that the porridge you cook with lobster is delicious. I happen to have some cooked porridge today. Why don't you show it off?"

"Ah?!" Chen Hui was a little embarrassed.

"What do I know about you? You cook the porridge here and I'll bring the lobster over for you!"

"I guess she won't want one that weighs more than a pound. Just keep it at her house for now. You can go get it after breakfast." Huang Xiu Lian said as she stood up.

"She keeps him at her home? Does Sister Juanjuan have the equipment at home?"

"The equipment she has at home was specially bought from the province. It's much more advanced than those purchasing points in Dasha Village!"

Huang Xiulian was so enthusiastic that she didn't leave any room for others. She called the little nanny in the room to come out and arranged the work for them:
"Take this young man to the kitchen and see how he does it. Then learn from him and get him anything he can't find."

"Wen Jing! Let's go, each of us will grab one side!"

Huang Xiulian's home is only a few minutes' walk from He Juanjuan's home through the alley.

Chen Hui had no choice but to let them go and went into Huang Xiu Lian’s kitchen with the nanny.

Huang Xiulian's family also uses the same kind of brick-built stove, but it is covered with porcelain, making it look more refined.

Chen Hui opened the lid of the pot and found it was empty.

"Didn't you say there was porridge?" Chen Hui asked.

"Here!" The little nanny pointed to the large aluminum pot beside her and couldn't help saying, "Today's porridge was cooked by Auntie, and it's cooked like this!"

Chen Hui looked over and immediately understood why her child refused to eat.

This porridge is watery and the rice grains are not even crispy.

It looks like leftover rice from the day before, and is simply cooked with plenty of water to loosen it up.

This kind of porridge doesn't taste good when eaten directly, but it can be used to cook seafood porridge which is quick and delicious.

"It's okay, it will taste good soon."

Chen Hui covered the pot and asked the nanny to put the other lobster in the refrigerator first.

Caught the bigger one and prepared to deal with it.

When I turned around, I saw the babysitter holding the lobster and opening the door of the lower refrigerator. I quickly stopped her and said, "You don't have to freeze it, just keep it fresh."

"I know! I just want to keep it fresh."

"Then how do you put it down?"

"Keep it fresh below!"

"What about up there?"

The little nanny chuckled, "You've only heard of it, but never really used a refrigerator, right? The top of this refrigerator is frozen, frozen hard! The bottom is where things are kept fresh!"

Chen Hui has seen and used various high-end refrigerators.

But to be honest, I have never really used the little green refrigerator from 1985.

He couldn't refute this, so he could only grin and turn around to deal with the lobster.

The nanny put the lobster away and stood next to Chen Hui, waiting to help him.

“Do you have shallots and cilantro at home?”

Chen Hui was not used to other girls besides An Wenjing, so he stood so close to her and looked around to find some work for her.

"There are some planted on the roof. I'll pull as many as you want!"

"Just a small handful will do!"

The nanny nodded, changed her shoes at the stairs and went upstairs.

Chen Hui processed the lobster and cut it into pieces, then put it in a bowl for himself, and also put the lobster brain in a separate small bowl.

Then start processing the meat in the shrimp legs and claws.

Outside at the entrance of the alley, there seemed to be laughter coming from afar.

Chen Hui was still thinking that the mixed voices sounded quite familiar.

An Wenjing had already trotted in.

Holding a thick paper bag in his hand, he said happily, "Brother Chen Hui! All the lobsters are sold! Even the two that my uncle and his family had are sold!"

"Ah?! All eighteen are sold?"

"Why does Sister Juanjuan need so many lobsters? And doesn't she want more than a pound?"

This is unexpected.

Chen Hui originally expected that He Juanjuan would take the two bags weighing more than two and a half kilograms and more than three kilograms, and the rest would be sold to Chen Yaozu.

(End of this chapter)