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Even Red Falcon, who had been puzzled by the secret medicine of the body-building technique, has figured out a clue or two.
“This time it’s really done.”
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Two days later, Chen Mu came to the Bailang River outside Qingshan County, carrying a large bamboo basket and holding a jar of wine.
We arrived at a deep water bend area with familiarity.
He has already put special bait here in the past two days.
The purpose is to attract more fish to come here for food.
Open the jar of wine that you had been holding in your arms.
Pour the secret drunken bait mixed with alcohol, medicine and cooked white wheat into the river.
This intoxicating bait is the secret medicine he made using the second-level pharmaceutical technique.
It can quickly make fish drunk without killing them.
There will be no toxic side effects if eaten by humans.
A quarter of an hour later, a layer of fish with their white bellies turned up floated on the deep river bay.
"Haha, go ahead and fish it out!"
Chen Mu picked up the long pole and scoop net that he had prepared long ago and started working.
They didn't stop until the big bamboo basket could no longer hold it.
There are still quite a few fish on the water surface at this moment, and they are constantly flipping and flopping as if they are drunk.
"If I had known earlier, I would have brought an extra bamboo basket." Chen Mu thought with regret.
Fortunately, these fish will not die.
After a while, you will recover and be full of energy again.
Chen Mu packed up his things, sealed the bamboo basket tightly, put the basket on his back and excitedly returned to the city.
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Ping'anfang, Chen family.
It was not until this moment that Chen Mu realized that he had forgotten something.
How is he supposed to store so many fish?
Even if I want to keep him, I don’t have a fish tank.
Moreover, the journey back from the river was not short, and half of the fish in the basket were dead.
If it is not dealt with quickly, it will soon become smelly and rotten!
"It was a bad decision, not well thought out."
Without thinking too much, Chen Mu immediately cleared out the rice jar.
Put the living fish back into water and keep them.
The dead ones were quickly gutted, scaled, cleaned, salted, and smoked. He wanted to make these fish into smoked dried fish to extend their shelf life.
After a lot of hard work, it was finally completely dealt with.
“I don’t know if it will work.”
It was also his first time making smoked fish, so he was very unsure.
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The next day, Chen Mu smelled the strong stench of salted fish and looked depressed.
"It failed."
He has tried his best.
Unfortunately, my cooking skills are only at the first level, so I can’t help with the smoked fish.
"Fortunately, there are still a few live fish."
There is a water jar next to the rice jar.
There are many fish swimming in the two tanks that are filled with water.
"We need to buy a few more water tanks."
Smoked fish doesn't seem to be very reliable at the moment.
The best storage method is to keep it first.
"What should we do with these fish? Throw them away?" Chen Mu looked at the semi-finished smoked fish hanging on the wooden rack.
"I wonder if anyone in the East City wants it?"
Although it has a fishy smell, it has not completely deteriorated after all it has been pickled with spices and coarse salt.
It is even said that if placed in a place with strong wind, it will be dried quickly and become real salted fish.
Unfortunately, Chen Mu’s family’s environment is obviously not among them.
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A street of vendors in East Market.
Chen Mu wore a conical hat and old brown clothes.
The face was also covered with a towel.
He also used chemicals to paint the skin on the back of his hands and neck reddish-brown.
He was dressed like a fisherman who was exposed to the wind and sun.
He found a cool corner, opened the fish basket, and let out a loud howl.
"Smoked salted fish, thirty coppers each, first come first served!"
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 30 Bone Change
As soon as Chen Mu finished shouting, a group of people immediately gathered around him.
"can it be cheaper?"
"Yes, yes, yes, your fish smells bad..."
"Twenty copper coins is the most!"
"If you want to buy it, buy it. If you don't want to buy it, get out!" Chen Mu deliberately shouted in a rough voice.
"Give me one!"
"Three! This is money!"
"Line up, line up, buy one by one! Otherwise get out of here!" Chen Mu waved his hands and shouted loudly.
Thirty copper coins can only buy three pounds of white wheat now.
This is meat that has been pickled with salt, and one piece weighs nearly two pounds.
Thirty copper coins is very cheap.
No matter how he shouted, the crowd still surrounded him and made a lot of noise.
"How dare you steal!" Chen Mu reached out and grabbed a hand. With a snap, he dislocated his wrist.
Hey!
The screams scared the people around him so much that they trembled!
"Everyone line up! If you make trouble again, don't blame me for being rude!" Chen Mu roared fiercely.
The man with a dislocated wrist was a thin, dark-skinned middle-aged man with a greasy face.
At this moment, he was holding his wrist and howling, staring at Chen Mu, but he didn't run? !
"What? You still want to blackmail me?" Chen Mu would not tolerate him.
He grabbed his arm and with a snap, his arm was dislocated.
The dark and thin middle-aged man's face turned pale with pain. Meeting Chen Mu's fierce eyes, he quickly shrank his head, bent over, turned around and ran away.
Now the people around were afraid to make a noise.
Everyone lined up to buy fish.
The small half basket of smoked salted fish was sold out quickly.
"Will it still be sold tomorrow?" someone couldn't help but ask.
"It depends on my mood." Chen Mu replied nonchalantly.
He ignored everyone's questions, picked up the bamboo basket and strode away.
He went into the alley and started running immediately.
After making many detours to make sure no one was following him, he quickly returned home.
"A small half basket, more than thirty fish, more than nine hundred copper coins."
"Hey, it's almost one or two taels of silver." Chen Mu counted the copper coins happily.
This is also due to the soaring prices in Qingshan County.
Normally fish meat cannot be sold at this price.
"Next time we catch fish, we should only keep the alive ones. The dead ones can be sold in the East Market." Chen Mu pondered.
With the drunken bait and medicated fish, he will never lack fish to eat for a long time to come.
"We need to buy two more water tanks. To store more live ones."
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With food and meat, there is no need to worry.