60s: I have a store

Chapter 301: The glorious teacher Wang
After the meal, everyone enjoyed it very much, especially Teacher Wang, who hadn't eaten so well for a while.

Although his income is not low, he has to support a large family with four children and an elderly parent, and his wife does not work.

That's why he never refuses a "gift".

He would not take the initiative to ask for gifts from students' parents, but if they gave him gifts, he would not be polite and would accept them openly. Of course, as long as he accepted a gift from someone, he would do his best to do it and live up to the gift.

"No need to see me off, no need to see me off. It's no problem to have a little bit of wine. It's no problem!" Teacher Wang waved his hand and politely declined Cheng Siguang's offer to see him off.

After he and Zhou Yimin left Cheng's house, they walked out side by side.

When they arrived at the door, Zhou Yimin said, "Teacher Wang, please wait a moment. I went to Tianjin some time ago and brought back some seafood. I'll bring some back for you."

"Oh? That's great. I won't be polite with you. You know I have a bunch of children to raise." Teacher Wang said in surprise.

There are two or three brats in the family who are the kind of people who feed their father to death, forcing him to bow down for a few dollars.

In fact, people from two or three courtyards around them knew that Zhou Yimin had gone to Tianjin. People from Courtyard 56 were not low-key and boasted to the courtyards on the left and right about how good the dried fish Zhou Yimin had sent them was.

The people in the left and right courtyards were also envious, but since Zhou Yimin was not from their courtyard, they were embarrassed to ask for it.

"Why be polite to students?" Zhou Yimin smiled and walked straight into his home.

After a while, he came out with a bag. In it was a large dried fish that could not fit in the bag at all, and a small part of it was still outside the bag.

Seeing this, Teacher Wang was shocked.

Such a big dried fish?
How big was the fish before it died?

"Oh my! Such a big piece of dried fish, Yimin, don't you want to keep it for yourself?" Teacher Wang said, feeling so happy. This piece of dried fish can be eaten by his family for several months.

It would be great to save it for the New Year!

"Teacher Wang, this is pollack. I heard that the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province especially like to eat it. They tear off the skin of the dried fish, wrap special rice with the whole fish skin, and steam it in a pot. After it is cooked, dip it in sauce and it tastes endless. This is the legendary fish skin wrapped rice, which is a specialty of Yanbian." Zhou Yimin said.

In the Yanbian area of ​​Jilin, many families wash the pollack, remove the internal organs, and then hang it outside to freeze-dry in winter. The moisture in the fish meat is sublimated and dried, and the fish meat becomes strips. You tear off a strip and put it in your mouth to chew. The more you chew, the more delicious it becomes.

It is said that every Qingming Festival, every Korean household eats pollack.

Zhou Yimin added: "Although this fish is not expensive, it is said that its entire body is full of treasures. The internal organs and fish roe can be used to make sauce; the fish head is extremely delicious after being soaked in soy sauce; the eyes and fish skin are suitable for drinking; and the fins and tail can be used to make soup.

Unfortunately, now only the fish body is left. "

The more Teacher Wang listened, the more he liked it.

In fact, the most important thing is that the fish is big enough. Even after being dried, it weighs about seven or eight kilograms.

"Not a pity, not a pity!" Teacher Wang smiled so hard that his mouth almost crooked.

He took Zhou Yimin's bag and found some other seafood in it. As soon as he touched it, he knew that the seafood weighed more than ten kilograms.

"Yimin, thank you, teacher!"

After a few polite words, he happily carried the bag of seafood out of Courtyard 56 and returned to their courtyard.

When I got home, my wife, children and mother had already eaten.

The smell of salted fish hit me.

"Boss, Cheng Siguang gave you such a big dried fish?" Teacher Wang's wife was surprised and happy. The children at home were also very happy.

Teacher Wang rolled his eyes and said, "What are you thinking? It's good enough that they treat me to a drink and a meal, but you want them to give me gifts? I'm too embarrassed to accept them!

This is Yimin’s way of showing respect to me, the people’s teacher.”

Was it given by Yimin?

That's not surprising. Everyone in their courtyard knew that Zhou Yimin had gone to Tianjin and brought back a lot of dried fish. Almost every family in Courtyard 56 got some.

"Yimin is really promising!" Teacher Wang's wife sighed.

"Isn't it? He has invented many things and is now a section chief. I heard that he will be promoted to department chief soon." He was very happy that someone he had taught could achieve such an achievement.

Then, he took out the pollack from the bag, which was nearly one meter long, which made the whole family very happy.

The third brother was greedy and reached out to tear off some fish meat to eat, but was immediately slapped away by his mother.

"You can't eat it now, save it for Chinese New Year and other festivals."

This is the simple way most Chinese people do things. They want to keep good things and use them wisely.

Teacher Wang told his family that it was pollack, and brought up what Zhou Yimin had just said, saying that it was a treasure all over.

Inside the bag, there were two dried hairtail fish, a handful of dried kelp, a few dried cuttlefish, and some unnamed seafood. Anyway, Teacher Wang was stunned. He didn't even know what some of the things were.

In fact, if you didn’t grow up by the sea, it’s normal not to know each other.

"This is abalone, don't touch it, I'll put it in a jar." He had to keep this high-quality ingredient so that he could give it as a gift in the future.

Teacher Wang found a small jar and wiped the inside clean several times. Then he put the dozen or so dried abalones in it, covered it with a lid, sealed it, and finally hid it carefully.

His wife and mother discussed where to put the dried pollack.

If you hang it in the kitchen, you're afraid that mice or something will come and eat it. In fact, you're not only afraid of mice, but also afraid that your own children can't help but reach out and tear the meat.

Teacher Wang did not comment. Seeing how envious the children were, he picked out four dried shrimps and shared them with them in a bad mood.

Nowadays, there is no such thing as peeling the shell before eating. People just chew it directly, leaving no part and not wasting anything.

Shrimp heads, which were not eaten in later generations, are now a delicacy.

In some places, people buy shrimp heads to eat. They will first peel off the shells, remove the shrimp legs, pick out the "sandbag" and throw it away. Then, use a small spoon to carefully pick out the shrimp brain and put it aside.

The shrimp heads and shells are used to make soup, which can be eaten for several meals to stew cabbage and cook noodles; the shrimp legs are used to grind shrimp paste, which is then added with salt and placed in a jar. When it is fermented, it can be steamed or stewed with tofu. The shrimp brains are cooked and put into lunch boxes and placed outside the windowsill. These treasures are to be saved until the Chinese New Year.

"Delicious, the shrimps are so fragrant." Teacher Wang's little daughter said with satisfaction.

Her mother rolled her eyes and said, "There's no more delicious food. If you have homework to do, do it. If you don't have homework, go to bed."

Just now, when the head of the family gave shrimps to the children, she wanted to say something. Whose family is so extravagant as to eat shrimps as snacks?

But thinking that the children hadn't eaten meat for a while, I didn't say it.

(End of this chapter)