Chapter 77: Watching Fourth Uncle Collecting Fish

  Originally not very hungry Osmanthus fragrans as soon as she entered the yard, suddenly felt her belly was unbearable rumbling.

  But she didn't have the heart to think about eating now, what was most important for her now was to hurry up and cook the fish.

  Making fish is a slow process, even if it's the simplest method, it takes more time than stir-frying vegetables.

  "Third brother, you go split the wood! I'll remove the fish scales." Chu Lixian wiped the sweat dripping down his face and called out to Chu Lishou to split the wood.

  Chu Lishou didn't object, nodded and walked to the side to chop firewood, while Chu Lixin sat on a wooden bench in the courtyard, starting to scrape fish scales with a wooden stick.

  Waiting for the osmanthus to come out of the kitchen to check if the fish scales have been scraped off, I found my father doing manual labor and my fourth uncle doing technical work, and I felt a bit unhappy in my heart.

  But it wasn't until she noticed Chu Lixian's awkward expression when he was scraping off the fish scales that she realized the arrangement had actually been made to take advantage of her own father.

  "Fourth uncle, what are you doing?!" Guihua couldn't help but walk to Chu Lixian's side, laughing as she looked at Chu Lixian's flustered response to the slippery live fish.

  "Get rid of the fish scales!" Chu Lixin, despite his serious expression, patiently explained to Guihua: "These fish scales are not only slippery, but also taste bad when thrown into a pot. I really don't understand why those rich families' old masters and young masters like to eat such strange things."

  Osmanthus couldn't help but laugh out loud at the sight of her fourth uncle looking so serious, which was actually quite adorable.

  In order not to delay the overall progress of cooking due to Fourth Uncle's slow scaling, Guihua decided to take matters into her own hands and deal with these seven or eight difficult-to-handle live fish.

  She got up and walked back to her own house, Guihua took out the scissors that Moshi used for daily chores, and sat down beside Chulixing with a small stool. Before Chulixing could shoo her away, she reached out and grabbed a fish first.

  The fish at this time are not very big, the largest is only as long as the diameter of a Osmanthus fragrans flower's small arm, in this way, Guihua can hold it.

  "Osmanthus, what are you doing? Don't get your clothes dirty!" Chu Lixing thought Osmanthus had picked up the fish to play with and hastily opened his mouth to stop her.

  Ke Guihua didn't react at all, but instead pressed the fish to the ground and used scissors to knock on its head a few times.

  The originally lively fish was knocked unconscious by the osmanthus.

  In Chu Lixing's astonished expression, Guihua calmly pulled the water basin placed aside to her feet, held the fish with her left hand and opened the scissors with her right hand, and started scraping off the fish scales with a whoosh.

  Looking at the fish scales falling off the fish's body like snowflakes, Chu Lixian almost didn't dare to believe his eyes.

  Until Guihua went to fetch the second fish and was about to knock it unconscious, Chu Lixin finally reacted and asked foolishly: "Guihua, who did you learn this skill from?"

  Handicraft?

  Chu Lixin's words made Guihua, who was working diligently, pause in surprise. She looked up at her fourth uncle, whose face was filled with admiration, and finally couldn't help but laugh again. "Fourth uncle, I didn't learn from anyone either. It's just that when I was by the water before, I saw others fishing and after watching for a while, I also learned how to do it. Don't believe me? Try it yourself, it's very easy."

  As she spoke, Guihua handed the scissors to Chuli Xinn, indicating that Chuli Xinn should learn from her.

  "No, you, you deal with it, I'll go get another one from the house." Chu Lixing said, throwing the fish back into the water and running towards his own house.