Chapter 331: Why Not?
As these fry entered the water, they all started to swim excitedly. They were very lively, and there were only four or five that turned white and swam back.
Mother Lin looked at him and asked, "You haven't had breakfast yet. I just made potato pancakes. Do you want to eat some?"
"No, I have to get there quickly. Go ahead and pull it a few more times."
Lin Heng shook his head and walked quickly down the mountain with the bag. He is now racing against time. When the weather gets hot at noon, the fish will not be able to be transported back.
What Qinling fine salmon fear most is heat.
Mother Lin shouted loudly from behind: "Then what time will I make breakfast for you?"
"Let's talk about it when we come back."
Lin Heng's voice It came from the foot of the mountain that he himself had already ridden a three-wheeler.
While driving, he stopped in front of his house, opened the door and walked in. Xiulan, Caiyun and Xiaoxia were having breakfast.
"Dad~~"
Xiaoxia saw Lin Heng and rushed over very squeamishly.
“You came back so early, where are dad and the others?” Xiulan asked doubtfully.
"I went to Hongfeng Mountain to deliver some fish fry, and dad and the others were still catching fish in the Heihe River." Lin Heng said, then he held Xiaoxia in a circle and put her down.
Then he handed the killed soft-shell turtle and plum blossom fish in his hand to Xiulan: "These were caught last night. Once you kill them, you can take care of them. There is your favorite soft-shell turtle liver. .”
Although Xiulan doesn't like to eat pork liver, she particularly likes the liver of soft-shell turtles, which is also called turtle livers. She thinks it tastes very good, and Lin Heng will keep it for her every time.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and handed her milk powder to Lin Heng, "You drink it and I will make some later. When Caiyun finishes eating, you can send her to town."
Caiyun shook her head repeatedly and said: "No, no, I've made an appointment with a friend, so it's not good to leave like this."
Lin Heng knew who she had made an appointment with, drank the milk powder in one gulp, and then comforted her After looking at Xiaoxia for a moment, she drove away.
It was almost a wild ride all the way, and the rural dirt roads were very bumpy, but he was used to it.
It was only 6:40 when we arrived at my father's side. The sun had just reached the top of the mountain, and the golden morning sun was particularly dazzling.
"Dad, how was your harvest?"
Lin Heng shouted from afar.
Chen Changxia shouted: "I'm not lucky this morning. I just got a big silver carp weighing twenty or thirty pounds and ran away."
Father Lin also said: "I'm really angry. Damn it, the silver carp ran away with a piece of fishing net.”
"Why did it just run away?" Lin Heng felt like he wanted to slap his thighs to death after hearing this. Such a big fish actually ran away.
"There is no way, it's bad luck, but the fish can't survive either, it's still wrapped in a fishing net." Chen Changxia shook his head.
"The harvest from the second net was not bad. One net caught twenty or thirty plum blossoms weighing half a catty. I came here to help pick them." Father Lin squatted by the river and raised his head and said.
"That's really good. These fish can be taken back as seed fish." Lin Heng nodded and said.
Even though it only weighs half a catty, this fish is definitely sexually mature. It will be no problem to take it back as a brood fish for reproduction next year.
"The previous net had five plum blossoms weighing one to two pounds, and that one was better." Chen Changxia said.
Lin Heng nodded and asked again: "Where are the fishing traps? How about the harvest of the remaining ten traps?"
Father Lin shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, those ten traps The traps didn’t work either. They were all white stripes, creek groupers and catfish, and the total number of plum blossoms was less than 200.”
“The only big harvest was a snakehead caught in one of the traps. It weighs about a pound," Chen Changxia said.
Lin Heng was slightly disappointed, and then said: "That doesn't matter, let's throw some more bait in today, and get up early tomorrow morning and come back to have a look."
This is normal. Even if you have good resources, you cannot always make big gains. Moreover, Heihe's current resources have also been declining year after year, and they are getting worse and worse.
“That’s okay.” Father Lin and Chen Changxia nodded repeatedly.
With Lin Heng joining in, the three of them quickly picked the fish, and then sorted out the harvest. What they caught the most this time were all kinds of small fish. They mentioned the fourteen-five It looks like a pound.
There are too many white stripes, makou, stream grouper, catfish, and ground tiger.
The rest are plum blossoms, 200 fry, 28 about half a catty, 6 over one catty, one black fish, and two catties of eels caught in ground cages.
After packing up, Lin Heng put all the plum fish in plastic bags and rushed them in for oxygen. The rest were drained and taken back to death.
"What else do we need to do? I've also taken down the tarp." Father Lin asked, holding the folded tarp.
“Let’s cut down some mugwort leaves and throw them into the fishing traps, otherwise the fish that go in will not be enough for the birds to eat.” Lin Heng came back after carrying the things into the car.
“This is indeed necessary. Fish are willing to go in even if there is something to cover it.” Chen Changxia nodded.
Immediately the three of them took knives and chopped down a large bundle of fresh branches to cover the fishing trap.
After finishing these things and loading up the things, they called Xiong Ba over and got in the car. The three of them and the dog headed back to the house.
Lin Heng was afraid that the fish would be overheated, so he walked very fast. It was 8:30 in the morning when he got home, and the sun was already quite hot.
Looking at the plum blossom in the plastic bag, Lin Heng breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, the fish is not dead."
"This will tire out your father-in-law." Father Lin smiled road.
Chen Changxia waved his hands and said: "What does this mean? Don't say those nonsense."
Lin Heng was too lazy to be polite and said with a smile: "Hurry up and let the fish go up the mountain. Let's take a good rest for a while and eat turtles at noon to replenish our energy."
Up to the mountain, the fish are still kept in cages for the time being. , the fry were divided into two cages, and the adult plum blossoms were divided into one cage.
Lin Heng is not afraid that the fish will escape if they are kept in cages. There are barbed wires blocking the water entrance, so the fish cannot escape.
The main reason is that Lin Heng wants to study the habits of these plum blossoms, accumulate breeding experience, and prepare for the reproduction of plum blossoms.
Only by fully mastering this technology can it be possible to make money from it.
As the plum blossoms were put into the water, Lin Heng breathed a sigh of relief. These guys were really difficult to raise. Their oxygen requirements were similar to Bai Tiao's, and their water temperature requirements were also very high.
Chen Changxia took a look at the plum blossom fish and said: "There are a little few fish in the water surface of 156 square meters."
"It is a little little, but this is enough for the time being. Yes." Lin Heng nodded.
Father Lin washed his hands and said, "Let's go, wash up and have breakfast."
"Eat, eat." Lin Heng stopped looking at the fish, turned around and walked down. I was so hungry yesterday that my intestines are thin now.
The three of them went down the mountain and took a bath by the water. After returning to the house, Mother Lin also prepared the noodles. They didn't make anything in the morning, just a simple pickled cabbage noodles.
But this seems good to Chen Changxia. They often eat cornmeal pancakes in the morning, which are much worse than noodles.
"Son, when are you going to keep those river mussels? They are still in the basin." Mother Lin looked at Lin Heng and asked.
"I forgot about it, so I'll deal with it in the afternoon. I'm too tired in the morning." Lin Heng took a look and said.
After eating, he helped feed the shrimps, cattle and sheep, and then went back home directly, leaving the small fish to his mother and his mother-in-law.
As soon as Lin Heng opened the door, Xiaoxia came over and hugged him: "Dad, you are finally back!"
"Back." Lin Heng picked her up and spun her around twice, even though she was very tired. .
In the room, Xiulan stopped cleaning the table, turned around and asked, "Have you eaten?" "Mom made the pickled cabbage noodles and eaten them." Lin Heng nodded.
"That's good." Xiulan nodded.
Lin Heng put Xiaoxia down and said, "I'm going to take a nap. If there's anything left there, I'll do it when I wake up."
"Go ahead." Xiulan agreed.
Lin Heng went into the house and lay on the bed to rest. He really didn't sleep well last night. His father-in-law snored too loudly, but he was embarrassed to say it.
Taking off his clothes, Lin Heng lay on his back on the bed. The scent of Xiulan entered his nose and nose, and he gradually fell asleep.
When she woke up again, the light outside the window was already very dazzling, and it was obviously noon.
When he turned around, he saw Xiulan lying next to him. Just as he remembered, she turned over and hugged him with her arms.
"It's only twelve o'clock, so let's sleep a little longer." Looking at his watch, Lin Heng lay down to rest. Xiulan's long hair would touch his face from time to time, making him feel itchy. Can't sleep anymore.
After thinking about it, he reached out and scratched Xiulan's itch. After a while, she woke up and stared at him with a pair of big eyes: "What are you doing."
"You Do you want me to wash your hair?" Lin Heng pinched her face and asked.
Xiulan opened her eyes wide: "How did you guess that?"
Lin Heng pointed to his cheek, Xiulan blinked and kissed him directly on the lips.
"Say it now." Xiulan looked at him.
"Secret." Lin Heng grinned and got up.
"I hate you." Xiulan bit her lip and stared at him.
Lin Heng stretched out his hand and said: "Let's go."
Xiulan was pulled out of bed and followed Lin Heng out, still curious about how he guessed it.
“Tell me, please.”
Lin Heng turned around and smiled: “Because you wash your hair once every three days on average, today is the third day.”
"It's that simple." Xiulan pouted.
"Yes, it's that simple." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Putting the washbasin on the shelf and getting some water, Lin Heng helped Xiulan sit down and slowly washed her hair.
I am now familiar with this job, and it will basically not hurt her.
After washing, Lin Heng was about to change the water and rinse, but Xiulan said: "Press it again, it feels so comfortable."
"I will become your slave." Lin Heng squeezed her face.
“Oh, your hands are wet.” Xiulan rolled her eyes and said coquettishly, “Hurry up and press your hands, brother, it’s so comfortable.”
Coquettish women are the best. Lin Heng couldn't refuse at all, so he pressed her hair for a while, rinsed it, applied conditioner, and then cleaned it.
"Thank you, husband, you are so kind." Xiulan dried her hair and smiled, with deep love in her big eyes.
Lin Heng smiled and asked again: "How did you deal with the turtle in the morning?"
Xiulan looked at him and said: "Chop the big ones into pieces and use onion and ginger water." Marinate the small ones even if they are not chopped. I think you will prepare one for stir-frying and one for stewing.”
“That’s what I thought. Unfortunately, we didn’t catch the mandarin fish this time. Otherwise, make another stinky mandarin fish and eat it." Lin Heng said, Xiulan had already eaten the stinky mandarin fish she cooked last time.
"Let's wait until next time to catch them. Plum fish are also delicious." Xiulan said.
Lin Heng nodded, and after entering the room, he asked Xiulan to take out the pearl and look at it.
Now they have been completely processed. One is fluorescent white and the other is light gold. These two are the most beautiful, both about two centimeters in diameter.
Lin Heng took away the three small ones and said, "Put the remaining two big ones away. I'll take the smaller ones and try growing pearls."
Xiulan showed them off. He looked up from the jade pendant around his neck and said, "I have this. Do you want to use it to make a necklace for mom?"
This was Lin Heng's birthday gift to her, and she would always carry it with her except when sleeping.
Lin Heng shook his head: "I will give Mom something else for her birthday. You can take this and I will get you a pair of pearl earrings later."
"Then I'm welcome. "Yes." Xiulan smiled softly, picked up the things and put them into her small box.
Lin Heng first smashed a few pearls into small pieces with a small hammer, then cut off a two-centimeter-wide piece of bamboo, and took it to Hongfeng Mountain.
His mother and mother-in-law have already cleaned these small fish, tied them into strings and hung them in the sun.
"Mom, where are my dad and the others?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
"I went out for a walk, I don't know." Mother Lin shook her head.
"Okay, let them come over to have dinner when they come back." Lin Heng said.
"I know." Mother Lin nodded.
After saying that, Lin Heng went into the house and started artificially planting pearls. He used bamboo pieces to pry open the shells by two centimeters, then cut the skirt with a knife, and finally threw the broken pearls in.
He wasn't very good at growing pearls, but he had seen others do it in his previous life, and he didn't know if they could succeed, so he simply threw a few more sand in.
It took him nearly an hour to plant the pearls. The effect will not be known until this time next year. He took all these shells and temporarily kept them in the hatching pond. When they recovered, he would create a special place to keep them.
After finishing this, Lin Heng looked at the plum blossoms on the mountain and found another dead one. Fortunately, the others were alive and well.
"Mom, I'll go back when this is done." Lin Heng said as he walked down the mountain.
"Okay." Mother Lin waved her hand without raising her head.
Lin Heng returned to the house, first stewed the turtle soup in a casserole, and then prepared other meals with Xiulan.
After it’s done, I asked someone to come over for dinner. Today I also called his eldest brother over.
“You guys are really eating and drinking every day.” Chen Changxia shook his head.
“Just some of the fish caught today will spoil if you don’t eat it.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
Everyone was seated. After the banquet began, Lin Heng first put the soft-shell turtle liver into a Xiulan bowl, and then started eating it while talking and laughing with everyone.
Wild soft-shelled turtle is delicious no matter how you eat it. When stir-fried, the meat is firm and juicy, and the flavor is rich.
There is also steamed plum blossom fish, which is very popular among children. Lin Heng steamed three fish at once, which was enough for a big family.
After finishing the meal quickly, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. They had nothing to do today and took their parents-in-law around the village.
Unconsciously, it was already night. After dinner, the parents-in-law were arranged to live in the Lin family's old house. After Lin Heng returned to the house, the three of them chilled for a while.
At 9:30, after telling the story and coaxing Xiaoxia to sleep, Lin Heng turned around and went to bed. As soon as he lay down, he found Xiulan's little hand stretched out.
"What?" Lin Heng turned to look at her.
"Why not." Xiulan said softly, approaching him and climbing up his strong chest with her little hands.
(End of this chapter)