In the next period of time, the people in the team became very busy. Even Meng Zhiqiang, who had always insisted on catching fish, stopped setting the net and went to work in the fields.
Not only do you have to earn work points, but you also have to harvest crops from your own land.
Although Li Long said he was going to catch fish after finishing the corn and sunflower oil, he continued to work for a while. After all, the beets from the five acres of feed land still have to be harvested. Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei had to be busy with the team's work, so the beets were handed over to him. Tao Daqiang also came over to help. It was quite tiring after a day of digging.
After all, digging beets is different from breaking corn. These things are very big and very physically demanding to dig. Two people cannot dig an acre of land in a day.
Tao Daqiang is better than Li Long in this respect. After all, he does more farm work than Li Long.
After digging for a day, Li Long looked at the blisters at the base of his fingers and smiled bitterly.
Why bother.
But there is nothing we can do. If before, he would have spent ten dollars, hired ten people from the team, and done it in one day.
But now everyone is participating in the team's rush to collect, and he is too embarrassed to tear down the team's stage now.
Using a carriage to pull a cart of beets back, Li Long was so tired that he really didn’t want to move.
When Li Long returned home and unloaded the beets, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei came back. Dinner is Li Juan’s cornstarch batter and fried potato shreds. Although the shredded potato was relatively thick, Li Long still praised it, which made Li Juan very happy and a little embarrassed.
“Brother, we’ll dig these beets in a few days. When the team finishes harvesting, I’ll find some young men to dig them. I got blisters from working on them in just one day. I still haven’t done enough work.”< br>
"Hahahaha." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "That's okay. Everyone in the team is busy now, and no one has time to do this."
Li Long can't do heavy work. This has long been a problem for Li Jianguo. Liang Yuemei and his wife expected it.
Human beings can change, and Li Long's change was beyond their expectation. But body instincts cannot mutate, and physical work cannot be done in one fell swoop.
Li Long didn't find a reason for himself. People are not omnipotent, and if they can’t do it, they can’t do it. He didn't plan to exercise. There were many ways to live a more nourishing life in this life, so there was no need to struggle with physical work.
After dinner, Li Long went to Lao Mahao. It was getting dark, and Lao Luo was sitting in the yard. He didn't sit on a stool, but on a brick and concrete block that was moved from who knows where. Li Long guessed that it was from the old team headquarters.
"Uncle Luo, why aren't you sleeping yet?"
"How can you go to bed so early?" Old Uncle Luo said with a smile, "It's uncomfortable to go to bed early and wake up early."
“Don’t even turn on the light, how bright this light is.”
"You can't turn it on, it will attract mosquitoes." Old Uncle Luo said, "Why use that electricity? It's not invisible."
The older generation is used to it, even in the 1920s. , the elderly are still used to turning off the lights when watching TV, for fear of wasting electricity.
How much does electricity cost? But old people are used to saving.
"Xiaolong, what are you going to do next? Will all these wild boars be sold by then? What about the roe deer?"
"The wild boars will be sold, but I plan to keep the roe deer. Look. Can winter I can raise a few females. After selling the fawns, I will see if I can raise some smaller ones." Li Long said, "It's so good to keep these things in captivity. They can't be left empty all the time. ”
"Okay, okay." Old Uncle Luo smiled happily, "I'm afraid that if you don't support me later, I'll have nothing to do."
"Then don't worry, I want this old man The horse number is just for raising things. If you don't keep it, the team will take it back, so I won't do it."
Old Uncle Luo was happy and started to smoke.
Li Long chatted for a few words, washed up and went to bed. He was exhausted today.
The next day Li Long and Tao Daqiang started fishing again. But this time he changed the place where he set the net to Dahaizi.
Dahaizi is surrounded by many villages. There are many people catching fish with nets, but most of them catch it for themselves. There are not many people like Li Long who sell fish seriously.
Although the fish in Dahaizi are also wild fish, they are obviously not as delicious as the fish in Xiaohaizi, and they are not as beautiful as the fish in Xiaohaizi. The reason why Li Long came here was firstly to let the fish in Xiaohaizi recuperate for a while, and secondly to feel the condition of Dahaizi.
Entering Dahaizi from the southeast, there is a shoal at the beginning. Unlike Xiaohaizi, which is like a lake surrounded on all sides, Dahaizi is like a pool of water blocked from the north. If you go from the south, the water starts to get deeper from ten centimeters.
It takes more than a kilometer to walk from the village to Dahaizi, which is much further than Xiaohaizi.
After arriving at the place, Tao Daqiang looked at the situation and asked:
"Can there be fish in here?"
There are patches of reeds growing in Xiaohaizi. Most of the fish growing in it like to eat grass. The meat-eating fish also have other herbivorous fish to eat, so the fish are fatter. .
Before a major flood washed away the bottom dam, there was a relatively complete and healthy aquatic ecosystem.
Where is Dahaizi?
There is only water as far as the eye can see. Although Li Long knew that as long as there was an oxygen-rich environment in the water, plankton could satisfy the belly of herbivorous fish, but the fish in it were not as beautiful as in Xiaohaizi. The crucian carp and silver carp looked gray and dull.
No wonder Tao Daqiang expressed such doubts. "There are quite a few fish." Li Long pointed to the distance and said, "Look, the water mark is at least a big white stripe."
There are a lot of white stripes here. Draw a line on the water.
There are also some water birds on the water. In the words of the team members, they are collectively called ospreys. The bigger ones are called big ospreys, and the smaller ones are called little ospreys. At this time, larger egrets, cranes and even swans have not yet appeared. After a few years, these large birds will become frequent visitors here.
"I'd better go down on the tire," Li Long said, "The fish here are not as dense as those in Xiaohaizi. I'll try to lower ten nets here."
Dahaizi set off the net for the first time in his life and felt that the more the better.
"Okay." Tao Daqiang felt that there were not many fish here. If he lowered ten nets, even if there were as many fish as there were in Xiaohaizi, he would still be able to carry them.
Li Long pushed the tire into the water, sat on it and slid in, and then felt a hot wind blowing with a fishy smell.
There must be fish.
There is some garbage floating on the water, which must have been washed down from Mohe Canal. Mohe Qu is led from Ma County and will pass through the north of the county. There are some people living along the river, and some domestic garbage will be thrown in.
Not only that, Li Long also remembered that when Li Juan was in junior high school in his previous life, the school teacher fished a skull from the canal.
The middle school is also next to Mohe Canal. When Li Qiang and the others were in middle school, someone from the school construction team used wires to electrocute fish in the canal. They were all big crucian carp bigger than a palm. It is said that the construction team The boss brought back several barrels. Li Qiang and his Chinese teacher also picked up some.
With these memories, Li Long pushed aside the garbage and rowed deeper. Different from Xiaohaizi, when you paddle into Dahaizi with a tire, you feel smaller the further in you go - the water surface of Dahaizi is too big, and it feels like a lake.
While paddling, he felt that the water was deep enough. When it was two or three meters deep, Li Long started to lower the net.
When he came over, he brought a stick with him, and now he stuck the stick into the bottom of the water - after searching for a while, he found a shallower place, at least 1.56 meters deep.
It is safe here offline and will not be stolen by others.
When the net is set in Xiaohaizi, usually only the people in the team will pay attention to it. When the net is set here, there are so many villages around. It would be troublesome to lose it. You will definitely not be able to find it back.
After tying the net rope, Li Long started to place the net along the trough, paddling while placing the net. This large sea is generally deep in the north and shallow in the south, but the bottom is not flat. It is composed of pits and water troughs. The water trough where Li Long is currently located is in the southeast, which is relatively deep and long.
After nearly an hour, Li Long finished lowering the net and saw that Tao Daqiang on the shore had turned into a small black dot.
The ten nets are almost one kilometer long. Even if the troughs under Li Long's pine trees are not very straight, they go very far into Dahaizi and are already leaning towards the north shore.
It won't be easy to paddle back tomorrow.
After Li Long came up with this idea, he began to row back with all his strength.
It took more than twenty minutes for Li Long to row back to the south bank. Tao Daqiang walked into the water and pulled him up. Li Long was already covered in sweat.
Tao Daqiang picked up the tire and said:
“Brother Long, come back. Let’s walk slowly.”
"Okay." Li Long said as he walked, "I saw a school of fish when I lowered the net. I might catch a lot of fish tomorrow, but we won't be able to carry them back."
"How is that possible? "Tao Daqiang didn't believe it. How many fish can be caught with ten nets? He was confident that he had seen big scenes. Li Long used twelve nets to catch 780 kilograms of fish, which was enough.
It is true that there are many fish in Xiaohaizi. If Dahaizi is such a large water surface, there must be not as many fish as Xiaohaizi. At least with such a large water surface, there is no chance of catching fish with a net?
He didn't take Li Long's words seriously. He felt that even if he caught fifty or sixty kilograms with ten nets, he would be able to carry it on his back. The distance is just a little further than Xiaohaizi, but not much further.
It’s just that it’s not convenient to cast a net here, which is a problem.
With this thought in mind, the two of them walked back.
Two hundred meters south from Dahaizi, we arrived at the team’s field. The corn in the field had been harvested, and the corn stalks were cut and piled together. When harvesting the corn, the carriage was pressed out of the field. It's easier to walk through the fields.
Although Li Qingxia and his wife returned to their hometown, Li Long still lives in Laomahao. Li Long didn't move the things in the east room. What he told Li Jianguo was that his father and mother might come back later, so it was better to just leave them and talk about it later. I am used to living in Mahao, so it would be troublesome to move around again.
Walking back and forth after eating every day is considered as exercise.
Li Jianguo didn't force it. After all, Li Long was old and it was normal to have his own ideas.
The next day, Li Long and Tao Daqiang went to pick up the net half an hour earlier than usual - the road was long and they had to get up early.
It was Li Long who went to get the net. He was afraid that Tao Daqiang would not be able to find the net.
When he closed the first net, Li Long felt bad - this time, he might not be able to get it back! (End of this chapter)