The first net was almost densely packed with fish - at least ten kilograms!
The mesh of this net is not small, it is four-fingered, and what is hung on it are large crucian carp, grass carp sticks and carp. There are very few five-color black carp and some silver carp.
Basically, it was more than one kilogram, and there were also a few small fish hanging on it. When Li Long took the net, the small fish couldn't stick to it firmly and jumped away.
Even so, after collecting the net and putting it into the bag, Li Long clearly felt that the tire had gone down a bit.
Originally I thought it was a good start and there might not be so many fish in the back, but who would have thought that there would be just as many fish in the second net.
When Li Long closed the net, he looked forward along the net line. He could clearly see that in the trough, where the net was, there were splashes of water from time to time - obviously, these were alive fish still struggling on the net.
The two nets were stuffed into the urea bag. Li Long felt that more than half of the tire was already submerged under the water - it felt like there was at least 278 kilograms in these two nets.
Li Long did not dare to close another net, so he turned around and rowed back. Even if he closed half of the ten nets, Li Long felt that he might overturn the tire.
Tao Daqiang looked a little confused on the shore. Why did he come back?
"Daqiang, run home now and ask my brother to hitch the carriage over. There are too many fish and we can't get them back!"
"What?" Tao Daqiang didn't believe it, "Why can't I get it back?"
"Look at these three nets, one and a half bags, almost two bags." Li Long Tire was almost at the shore. At that time, he had already hit the bottom. He stood up and jumped into the water, dragging the two bags to the shore. Go up, "There are more than thirty kilograms of fish in these two bags. If you think about it, there are seven nets, how much is that?"
Tao Daqiang came over, took the bags and lifted them to the shore. He felt the weight. , didn’t say much, put the heavy bag on his back and strode back.
Li Long placed the other bag on the shore, then rowed the tire and continued into the water to collect the net.
Not far into the water, he turned around and shouted to Tao Daqiang who had walked out more than a hundred meters:
"Daqiang, bring some more bags!"
I originally prepared four bags, but I thought they were enough, but now it seems that they may not be enough.
"I got it, Brother Long!" Tao Daqiang replied and continued to stride forward.
Li Long collected three more nets. There were more than ten kilograms of fish in each net. Going inside, there were more silver carps.
But Li Long has no time to complain at this time. No matter what, more fish is always a good thing.
He put the three nets and two bags on the shore. Seeing that the carriage hadn't come yet, Li Long had to pour two and a half bags to the water's edge. Anyway, the fish was entangled in the nets and the fish couldn't escape. If he could free up two bags, he could go in and collect them. net.
This time it was good, the two bags were almost full with only two nets. The mesh of these two nets was smaller, and they were densely packed with palm-sized crucian carp.
This crucian carp is obviously thinner than the fish in Xiaohaizi, and the color is not so beautiful, but there are many!
They are all still alive!
When they brought the two bags of fish to the shore, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang had already arrived and were loading fish into the carriage.
"Why so many?" Li Jianguo was also surprised.
“Maybe no one catches fish here. This big sea has not been drained for many years. There are not many fish in it?” Li Long said.
"Hurry up and get in the car and go back to choose fish." Li Jianguo felt that this was indeed the case and nodded.
“There is a net inside.” Li Long said, “I have to collect it again.”
“Brother Long, shall I collect it?” Tao Daqiang said, “You I’ve been there several times.”
"Then you have to be able to find a place?" Li Long smiled, "It's okay, just a net, it's very fast."
Li Long paddled into the water again, this time it was really fast. But he couldn't get up soon after he got back. Firstly, Li Long was really tired, and secondly, the last fish on the net must have weighed at least 17 or 18 kilograms!
By the time he reached the shore, Li Long felt that he had almost no energy left.
It was Tao Daqiang who helped him get into the carriage in the end. What Li Long was most fortunate about now was that when he felt that there were too many fish, he immediately asked Tao Daqiang to catch the carriage. Although there is no road from the southeast coast of Dahaizi to the end of the field, the large rubber tires of the carriage will not sink.
"Brother Long, these fish...must weigh one hundred kilograms, right?" Tao Daqiang was also very excited, it was the first time he caught so many fish.
"Yes." Before Li Long could say anything, Li Jianguo interjected, "It should be more than that. We have to choose fish quickly when we go back."
"There are two places to sell it today." Li Long said, "The county If you want to go, Shicheng must go too, otherwise we won’t be able to sell out all the fish.” Li Jianguo said and asked again. : "Daqiang, can you sell it in the county?"
"No." Tao Daqiang is very self-aware, "I can't do it myself-"
"Then I'll go to the county "Li Jianguo said, "The sunflowers in the team have been harvested today. I will not go to the wheat field to dry the sunflowers."
Li Long thinks this is okay.
The three residential areas in the village are arranged in a triangle from south to north. Li Long's residential area is at the southernmost, Laomahao is in the middle of the three residential areas, and Dahaizi is at the northernmost.
So if the carriage wants to return to Li's house from Dahaizi, it has to pass through the residential area in the northeast corner, where Gu Boyuan's house is.
When the carriage passed through the residential area, there were dogs barking and activities in the yard. When they saw Li Jianguo leading the carriage, they all asked.
Li Jianguo didn’t hide it either, and said with a smile:
"No, yesterday Xiaolong went to Dahaizi to set the net, and this morning he went to get the net."
"There were a lot of fish, and they had to be pulled by a horse-drawn carriage..." someone exclaimed.
"It's quite a lot, it must be seventy or eighty kilograms." Li Jianguo said less.
“Oh, there are so many!”
I just sighed in admiration and then passed.
After all, everyone knows that Li Long is a big fisherman in the team and a first-generation fishermen. Now Meng Zhiqiang and the others are still catching fish after Li Long. And the Li family can live better than other families now, thanks to the fish in this small sea. Now they are heading towards the big sea, and they are really eating this bowl of rice.
Envy is definitely there, but jealousy is hard to say. After all, the big and small seas are open there, and they don’t say not to let others catch fish. It all depends on their ability.
When passing by Gu Boyuan's house, Lao Gu was brushing his teeth in the yard. When he saw Li Jianguo, he raised his teeth and asked:
"What's going on?"
"Xiaolong and the others Casting the net in Dahaizi, there are a lot of fish today..."
"How much? How many? Can you pull it in a carriage? Your little dragon is really famous this time." "That's nearly a hundred kilograms!" Li Jianguo was very proud. "Do you want fish? Is there a net left for you?"
“You can pull me down!” Gu When Boyuan and Li Jianguo talked, you would stab me and I would stab you. "It would be better to sell the fish if you leave it for me to eat. I will eat one fish for two days by myself... Let's go quickly. The fish will be stored for a long time." It’s not new anymore.”
Li Jianguo walked back with a smile.
When she got home, Liang Yuemei was choosing fish in front of the plastic sheet. Li Juan and Li Qiang had already eaten and carried their schoolbags. Li Jianguo said to them:
"You guys go to school first. There are so many fish today that I can't finish them all in a while. I don't know when your uncle will go to sell fish."
Li Qiang was a little unhappy, so Li Juan pulled him. Gone.
The next few people quickly selected the fish, took the big fish off the net one by one, and threw them into the basin. In order to distinguish the areas, Lijiaguang has three large basins, which are fully functioning at this time.
“This fish is not as beautiful as Xiao Haizi.” Liang Yuemei said.
"No, not as fat as Xiao Haizi." Li Long said, "Brother, I will sell the fish later, and the fish will have to be sold cheaper."
"Then I know." Li Jianguo said, "We have a large quantity. Dad said before that if there are many fish, you can't care too much. It's okay for us to be 10 or 20 cents lower than the market price. It's business to sell out as soon as possible. ”
Seeing that Li Jianguo knew clearly, Li Long was relieved.
After selecting the fish, Tao Daqiang wanted to go back, but Li Long refused and had breakfast directly at Li's house. At this time, Liang Yuemei went to work on the wheat field, Tao Daqiang was collecting nets in the yard, and Li Long and Li Jianguo went to sell fish.
Meng Zhiqiang was quite happy at Ma County Market. He didn’t see Li Long when he got off the net yesterday, and he didn’t see it when he picked up the net this morning.
With Li Long and the others away, the competition in the fish selling market here in Ma County is not so fierce. They are in peace and can sell fish leisurely.
That's what I thought, but I didn't expect that not long after, Li Long didn't come, but Li Jianguo came.
Two large basins were placed, and the big and small fish were poured out separately. Li Jianguo showed off the energy he had gained in his early years and shouted loudly:
"Sell fish, sell fish! Fresh wild fish from Dahaizi!" Sell fish, fish is cheap! Dahaizi wild fish is cheap!”
Some people squeezed in to take a look. Although there were not many people, the business opened quickly - otherwise, it is cheap.
Small crucian carp has seven hairs, large crucian carp has eight hairs, carp has eight hairs, silver carp has seven hairs...
Although Li Jianguo and Li Long didn't weigh much, the ten fish on the net definitely contained four and a half bags of urea, which was definitely hundreds of kilograms.
Li Long went to the big yard to get a basin and a scale, and quickly rushed to Shicheng.
By the time we arrived in Shicheng, the sun had already risen. It was already past ten o'clock and there were still a lot of people, but obviously the flow of people selling vegetables and cooking in the morning was not that big.
Li Long didn’t mind either. It was a miscalculation and there was nothing we could do about it. He found an empty seat, parked his bicycle, poured fish into the basin and started shouting.
“Young man, your fish is not as good as before.” An old customer saw Li Long and came over to look at the fish and said.
"In Dahaizi Reservoir," Li Long explained, "there are not so many aquatic plants in the water, so the fish are thin. But the fish are also cheap, one or two cents cheaper than the original one kilogram - crucian carp seven cents, carp five black eight cents , how about it?"
"The price is not bad..." Now when the price of supplies is slowly rising, the price of Li Long's fish has dropped a little. The customer felt that Li Long was honest when he heard this:
"Okay, I'll weigh one kilogram of crucian carp and try it to see the difference."
"Okay. Come on, one kilogram of crucian carp, Take an extra one - this one is a little thinner than the original one.”
The time is not good, so there are people buying fish, but not as many as before. Some regular customers also said that some people came to ask before and did not see Li Long. Some people bought other people's fish, and some people simply went back.
The fish Li Long brought this time was actually not bad, but it was just not as good as Xiao Haizi's before. But in fact, the quality is about the same as the fish sold by others, or even better.
Because he missed the best time, Li Long didn't sell out the two bags of fish weighing more than 60 kilograms until a little later.
Fortunately, these fish have strong vitality. Until the last old man bought the remaining two kilograms of crucian carp, the crucian carp in the basin was still swimming feebly.
The vitality of crucian carp is evident.
More than 60 kilograms of fish were sold for more than 40 yuan, and Li Long was quite content. Because he had breakfast at home, Li Long stopped drinking milk tea. He poured the remaining sewage in the basin into the ditch on the roadside, packed up his things, and pushed the cart through the crowd.
Most of the people still walking around the old street are people from the counties on both sides. The locals either haven't gotten off work yet, or have gone home to cook.
There are stalls selling various things. There are mostly tools, and there are quite a few people who know some craftsmanship at this time. There were not many Han people in Northern Xinjiang, but now it is open to all rivers and there are people from all over the world. As long as you are diligent, even if you don't have any skills, you won't starve to death - just like now, you can pick up enough food for the whole winter when you go to the Corps to pick up autumn food.
After all, there are fewer people and more land. In order to harvest the harvest, the work is very rough. There is no time or time for anyone to do it so carefully. Even ten years ago, there were mothers and daughters who came from the mouth to scavenge. They picked up several tons of corn in the autumn, and spent the winter in abandoned winter houses, eating corn.
Nowadays, anyone with a little craftsmanship and a flexible mind can live a good life. With the household responsibility system, various tools are definitely in short supply. Not only are the collectives short, but farmers are also short. If they have some extra money from work, they naturally want to do a better job.
Li Long walked from the street to the end of the street and found a seller selling wild mushrooms, and they were very cheap, costing 60 cents per kilogram. They were also very fresh, but it was a pity that not many people bought them.
Mushrooms are very ordinary, the kind of straw mushrooms that are found in patches on the mountain next to Li Long's cabin.
There is one more restaurant selling food. In addition to the previous one selling sesame cakes, there is also another one selling soup and rice. The smell is very fragrant and spreads far away. The two families are on the street and the other is at the end of the street, so they don't affect each other, which is actually quite good.
Li Long was a little hungry, so he went over to look at the soup and rice vendor.
In the small pot, the soup noodle slices are very thick, with a layer of chopped green onion floating on them. There were bowls on the trolley, and there was a bucket next to it. The stall owner was a woman in her thirties. When Li Long passed by, she was rinsing the bowls that the customers had eaten with water from the bucket.
Then Li Long saw a finger mark on the washed bowl, and he immediately lost interest.
Although there were a lot of tomatoes and green vegetable leaves in the soup and rice, which smelled good, Li Long had lost his appetite.
He turned and left.
Let’s go back and do it ourselves. Maybe after two lifetimes, I became a bit pretentious. He didn't eat, but some people didn't mind it. A bowl of hot rice was only 2 cents, so what's the point?
The noodles are so thick, I’m still very hungry.
Li Long got on the bike and walked back. He might as well go home and do it himself.
Anyway, onions and turnips are readily available in the yard, chili peppers, celery, and roasted meat are also available in the kitchen, and there is no shortage of noodles.
Don’t wrong yourself, go back and do it yourself! (End of this chapter)