Chapter 41 41. Ice fishing
The New Year is approaching, and every household in Shenjia Village starts to get busy.
Although there was a snowstorm this year and most of the money at home was exchanged for food, the villagers still prepared things for the New Year according to tradition.
This family steamed steamed buns, and that family steamed a pot of rice cakes. If the conditions were good, they used salt to marinate bacon.
As the New Year’s Eve approaches, the flavor of the New Year becomes more and more intense.
Smoke from cooking fires lingered in farmyards everywhere.
In the Shen family, Cheng Xi and Shen Xingqi worked hard for a few days, and finally put away all the game that contained special energy in the house.
“Okay, hang these up to dry.”
“Sister-in-law, can we finish eating?”
“It’s okay if we can’t finish eating. The weather is also bad Don’t worry about it breaking.”
If only the leftovers were made into bacon.
Cheng Xi was thinking about the food at home. He always felt that something was missing during the New Year. What exactly was it?
"By the way, there are no fish this year!"
As the saying goes, the New Year is missing. When the New Year is over, fish is an essential meat for the New Year’s Eve dinner.
Good meat quality means better meaning.
However, now that the city is closed and the people in other villages are living in precarious conditions, who has the time to worry about whether there are fish?
It would be nice to have a full meal!
"Fish? There are fish in the small river in our village."
Shen Xingqi answered casually, "But it can't be done now. The weather is so cold that the whole river is frozen. This year You shouldn’t be able to eat it.”
“Who said you can’t eat it?”
Cheng Xi's eyes suddenly lit up.
She remembers the river!
When she first came to Shenjia Village, she went to see it. The river was clear, and the water in the middle was three to four meters deep, running through seven or eight nearby villages.
Although it is not a flowing river, it is enough for people in the village to use water.
“But the weather is so cold now, the ice in the river is probably several feet deep.”
How to fish in such thick ice?
“Don’t worry, I have a way.”
It’s easy to fish because of the depth of the ice. As long as you open an opening, the fish that have been suffocating for a long time under the ice will come up and breathe immediately. Fresh air.
When the time comes, there is no need for her to fish, the fish will pop out on its own.
Cheng Xi suddenly became interested. She had done fishing in winter in her previous life, but someone had prepared the tools at that time, and now she had to do everything by herself.
She went to the west room to find a few handy tools, then walked out with the bucket.
“Let’s go, I’ll take you fishing.”
“Ah? Do you really want to fish?”
Shen Xingqi stood there for a moment, thinking of her home My sister-in-law's previous teachings decisively dispelled my doubts and followed.
What my sister-in-law says is whatever she says. My sister-in-law is always right.
That's it!
Snowflakes have been falling in the sky again in the past few days. The sun has not been working for a few days and I don’t know where it has gone. The villagers can deal with this situation calmly for the second time, and can even be said to be happy. .
Without him, it would be better to walk on the snowy road.
The road that was originally frozen due to the low temperature was covered with a thick layer of snow. The increased friction made it easier to move forward.
Cheng Xi was running towards the river carrying the barrel, surprising passers-by.
"Xingluo family, what are you doing?"
"Catch fish."
Catch fish?
So fresh!
Everything is frozen in the winter, how do you catch fish?
Is it possible that a person with skill can really do whatever he wants?
The villagers don’t understand, the villagers don’t understand.
Seeing the little girl from the Shen family happily running behind, everyone's curiosity was immediately raised to the top.
“Let me take a look!”
As the saying goes, if there is one, there are two. The villagers who occasionally passed by walked towards the river one after another. Before long, seven people gathered on this road. Eight people. Watch the fish catch!
Ice cutting is a laborious job and not something ordinary people can do.
However, Cheng Xi is not an ordinary person, she is born with supernatural powers!
The sharp chisel head went down and a small hole was carved out in the ice. She waved the tool and continued to smash it without thinking. After repeating this for a long time, a hole about twenty centimeters in diameter gradually became deeper. .
The ice cubes dug out from the ice slowly turned into a pile.
Shen Xingqi squatted aside holding the barrel, quietly, and made a faint gesture of cheering with her little fists.
"Okay."
Cheng Xi put down his tools, took out the last bit of ice and kept it aside, and saw the water in the hole slowly floating up.
Okay?
“Then what are we going to do?”
"You don't have to do anything, just wait."
Cheng Xi chuckled lightly, took a step back and squatted down to rest, making Shen Xingqi look stunned.
Even the villagers who followed behind her were stunned, wondering what she was doing.
“Isn’t this Xingluo family catching fish?”
To be honest, this is the first time Lin’an Prefecture has encountered such a big snowstorm and low temperature. A thin layer of ice breaks when poked with a stick.
They never fished in the winter either.
Before Cheng Xi had time to explain, he heard a "puff" sound in his ears.
She looked sideways and saw a carp weighing more than three pounds flipped up and landed smoothly on the thick ice.
Shen Xingqi was confused.
The villagers were confused.
The carp was also confused!
“This, this, this, this is a fish?!”
“Ah, it’s really a fish!”
“Why did it jump up on its own?”
"That's right, it came up by itself in the blink of an eye. What's going on?"
How can there be any reason for the captured prey to be delivered to the door on its own? Damn it!
Before everyone had time to slow down, the second fish jumped out of the hole again. It hit the ice with too much force and made a "slapping" sound.
“Another one?!”
“What’s going on? Are all the fish in the river drunk?”
Cheng Xi smiled and was really right. Yes, they are indeed drunk, drunk by the carbon dioxide at the bottom of the river.
But I couldn't say this.
She patted her stunned sister-in-law and said, "It's work."
"Huh? Oh, it's work!"
Shen Xing Qi suddenly realized what she was doing and brought the bucket over. After a while, she put three fish in, and the smile on her face became bigger and bigger.
“Sister-in-law, there are really fish!”
"Why are you lying to me? I'll cook fish for you when I get home."
Three to two kilograms of fish, neither too big nor too small, is most suitable for grilled fish. Well, it's grilled fish!
Cheng Xi happily threw the fish into the barrel one by one, and then squatted by the hole to wait for the next one. The barrel was quickly filled.
After weighing it, it weighed thirty-four kilograms, and the person involved was satisfied.
“These are enough, let’s go home.”
She looked at the people around her - the villagers were stunned by her successive operations, or perhaps by the fish she came up with.
Tsk, I still don’t know enough.
If this was left in the north where the cold lasts for half a year, and the people have nothing to eat in winter and have to find ways to cut through the ice to fish, everything will not be a problem.
“Sure enough, the soil and water support a person.”
“Sister-in-law, what did you say?”
"Nothing."
Cheng Xi picked up the barrel and planned to go home. However, the next second he paused and looked straight at a wall on the west side.
(End of this chapter)