Chapter 10 There is nothing happier than a good meal
Seven or eight fish were fished out from this net, including crucian carp, carp, pike and a five-foot fish that Li Long liked very much. Tao black fish.
It weighs almost three or four kilograms.
Li Long threw the fish on the ice, then turned around and caught another net.
There are only four fish in this net, the heaviest one is less than one kilogram of carp.
"I'll come, I'll catch you!" Tao Daqiang begged.
"Okay, you can do it!" Li Long handed him the net and got on the ice.
The fish just thrown out is now frozen.
Tao Daqiang took the net with excitement, then went to the other ice cave and stepped on it.
"Da Qiang, step on your feet. The water is very deep, at least two or three meters. You won't be able to save you if you go down." Li Long reminded, "Be sure to step on it!"
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"I got it." Tao Daqiang was about to lower the net. After hearing what Li Long said, he stepped hard on his feet and then bent down and stretched the net into the water.
Li Long stretched out his hand and leaned towards the fire to warm himself, staring at the situation on Tao Daqiang's side.
My chest is warm when the fire burns, and my back is cold when the wind blows.
Fortunately, most of his thoughts were elsewhere, so Li Long didn't feel uncomfortable for a while. He only felt that his hands were warm, and then he drew a reed and began to lift the cover of the almost frozen fish gills. Open it, then use a reed as a rope to thread it in, and then thread it out from the mouth. A dozen fish are threaded into a string and put together.
“Crash!”
Tao Da lifted the net forcefully and threw the contents on the ice.
There were five or six fish in the broken ice of various sizes. The fish jumped desperately as soon as they landed, but after a few jumps they lost their strength - the temperature on the ice was much lower than the temperature under the water. , and soon froze.
Li Long followed suit and took another reed to thread the fish through.
These fishes are also a lot of miscellaneous fish, and the largest one is actually a five-striped black fish. This fish’s scientific name is Red Bass, a carnivorous fish, and it is very fierce. The one in front of me weighs nearly three kilograms and looks quite fat.
Wudaohei is stewed with garlic clove meat, which is very chewy. Li Long remembered that in another seven or eight years, the five blacks in this sea would disappear, and the small fish would disappear as well. They did not reappear until a day or two before his death, when the water quality improved.
The fish jumped up happily, and Li Long said to Tao Daqiang:
"Daqiang is good! This five-striped black one can be sold for at least two yuan in the county!"
" Really?" Tao Daqiang just put the net into the water and was shocked when he heard what Li Long said. "Can it really sell so much?"
At this time, one kilogram of pork only costs 67 yuan. , one kilogram of mutton, one piece and two pieces. In summer, some people go to sell fish, but it only costs two or three cents per kilogram. There are not many people who want it. After all, the population of this county is not large, and there are even fewer people who can afford to eat these river fresh food.
"Of course." Li Long said with a smile, "Do you think that it is winter and the Chinese New Year is about to come, so those city people who want to eat fish have to pay a higher price?"
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"Brother Long, what do you think about us catching fish and selling them in the county? We can make a lot of money!"
"That's a shame." Li Long shook his head, "Now it's more than 30 degrees below zero, and we can make a lot of money." If you don’t have a car, the fish will be frozen solid by the time you get to the county. Unless you meet someone who wants a lot of fish and can buy it all at once, otherwise it may take an hour or several hours just to wait for someone to come and buy it. "I'm not afraid!" Tao Daqiang looked determined, "I'm just afraid of not having enough money!"
Look at Tao Daqiang's determination. Looking at his eyes, Li Long thought for a while and said:
"I'm going to the mountains to pull wood tomorrow. Let's talk about it when I come back."
Tao Daqiang has to rely on himself if he wants to catch and sell fish. After all, not everyone can have a fishing net nowadays.
The people in the production team come from all over the world, and some of them have never eaten fish before. Even if a fish jumps to their feet when the fields are watered in summer, they don’t know how to pick it up because they don’t know how to cook it when they take it back.
The story in Lu Yao's "The Ordinary World" that some people on the Loess Plateau do not and cannot eat fish is true.
As far as Li Long knew, among the forty or fifty households in the team, no more than five had net copying. The net that Li Long took was a piece of broken fishing net that Li Jianguo had remodeled in the summer when he went to the reservoir fishery to do odd jobs during the off-season. There is a shortage of everything these days, and things that were trashed in later generations are treasures in this era.
"Going to the mountains to pull wood? Are you alone?" Tao Daqiang asked.
"Well, I'm alone."
"Then I'll go with you!" Tao Daqiang's eyes lit up, "I haven't been out of our village yet. In the summer, people from the sideline business team in the village came If Shan doesn't take me with him, he thinks I'm stupid..."
"Then you have to wear thicker clothes." Li Long thought it would be okay to take Tao Daqiang with him. He didn't let Li Jianguo go simply because he wanted to do other things, and it would be difficult for his elder brother to make the decision if he followed him.
But if you take Tao Daqiang with you, you will naturally be the main one.
As for bringing one person to haul dozens of kilograms less wood - the worst is to make more trips. Tonight, when I deliver the fish to the captain's house, can he still use the carriage?
The abacus was done well, Li Long was in a happy mood, and Tao Daqiang was also happy. The two of them guarded different ice holes and fished a few nets, and caught a total of more than ten kilograms of fish. Li Long felt tired. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he said to Tao Daqiang:
"Daqiang, I quit, let's go and go back to eat."
"Brother Long, catch a few more Internet cafes." Tao Daqiang was still not satisfied, "I see there are fish in every net, maybe there will be big ones later."
No wonder The old man said that fish have fire in them. As long as the fish is caught, people will not be tired or cold. Just look at Tao Daqiang and you will know. This is definitely true.
"We can't wait any longer." Li Long flatly refused, "Look at you, your clothes are soaked. If you stay here any longer, you will get seriously ill!"
Li Long's voice was unquestionable, Tao Daqiang Then he put away the net and climbed onto the ice.
“My ears are almost frozen!” Tao Daqiang stepped onto the ice and felt the coldness in the air. He covered his ears and jumped in place, “I almost can’t feel my feet.”
“Then you don’t want to come up yet. "Li Long said while packing up the tools and fish, "Come on, come to my house and warm yourself by the fire. By the way, rub your ears with snow on the way to avoid freezing."
Many people in later generations said. Rubbing your ears with snow is bad and wrong. But this is the only way to do it in the wild at this time. If you put it over a fire, the ears will blister and pus will flow, and then it will really be bad.
"It's okay, just cover it and it'll be fine." Tao Daqiang covered it again, then picked up two skewers of fish and strode back.
Tao Daqiang was wading through the snow in front with a fish weighing more than ten kilograms, and Li Long was behind with tools, so it would be easier to walk.
Li Long knew that this was Tao Daqiang's own way of expressing gratitude - and he accepted it.
The sun has risen to its highest point. Halfway to the south, the sunshine is a little warm, but more of it comes from the chill in the air.
When the two of them rushed back to Li's house, panting, it was already forty minutes later.
"Come in quickly!" Li Jianguo opened the door when he heard the footsteps and came out. He saw two people covered in ice shells and immediately greeted, "Throw your things on the ground and go to the fire to change clothes! There is a fire in the east room, you go over and change!" ”
Li Long and Tao Daqiang hurriedly entered the east room, took off their coats, leaned against the fire wall to bake, and then took off their shoes.
The skin was stiff from the cold. When I took it off, there was still a layer of snow inside, and my feet were already a little numb.
There was a basin of water on the stove in the house. Li Long tried it and felt that the temperature was a little hot. He ran out in a hurry, shoveled some snow back and threw it into the basin. After the snow melted, he reached out and tried it. When he felt that the water was warm, he brought the basin down and said to Tao Daqiang:
"Come, soak your feet, otherwise you will get frostbite tomorrow!"
It's a bit strange to say that two grown men are soaking their feet in a basin, but at this time, it doesn't matter so much.
After soaking for a few minutes, he felt much better. Li Long wiped his feet and changed into cloth shoes. He stretched and said to Tao Daqiang:
"You can have lunch at my house later. Eat Let’s take a break and go fishing again. There will probably be more fish by then.”
“Okay.” Tao Daqiang nodded vigorously.
He has no tools, no means, only a handful of strength. Now that Li Long is willing to take him, he is naturally very willing.
(End of this chapter)