Chapter 228: Dividing the Fish
Xia Chan drove the tractor and kept searching, and finally found a river. Due to drought and lack of rain, the water level of the river was not high, but it did not affect the daily water supply of urban residents. When they arrived, there were still a lot of people skating on the ice. !
The brothers and sisters discussed it and decided to wait until dark before digging into the ice to catch fish. Now we will go to the ice to play with everyone, and we will also have the most basic understanding of this place.
After dark, there was no one on the riverside, and there was no sound except the howling cold wind.
The brothers took big hammers, went to the riverside, and smashed the ice directly on the edge. Xia Chan brought the bamboo basket and flour. The flour had been mixed in advance. Just grab a handful in a frame later.
The big hammer they used today was taken by the captain. Because they reported this matter to the captain, the captain didn't know if they could catch the fish. If they could really catch it, everyone would have fish to eat. If you can't catch it, forget it, don't force it.
And there is no water everywhere. There must be many smart people who come to the river to catch fish. There may have been many people who have caught fish before, so it is really unknown whether they can catch fish.
After a big hole was made in the ice, Xia Bin lowered the bamboo basket tied with a rope. Xia Chan immediately grabbed a handful of flour and put it in. The fish didn't have enough oxygen under the ice. Sufficient oxygen was injected into it, and the fish swam here in groups. In addition, there was food in the bamboo basket, so the fish quickly started to stir in the bamboo basket.
The three brothers all used the fishing nets in their hands to quickly catch the fish and throw it to the shore. As soon as it came out of the water, the fish was frozen, which shows how low the temperature was at night.
Xia Chan wore thick gloves and grabbed the fish one by one into the barrel, and then sent them to the tractor. Each time she sent them, she collected one into the space. Anyway, her brothers didn't know how many they caught.
They work so hard to catch fish for the village, why should they get some hard work money for themselves?
Whenever the dough was eaten, Xia Chan grabbed another handful of dough and put it in. They kept catching it for several hours. Xia Chan and the others caught a load of fish. Xia Chan had already divided the fish into pieces according to their sizes. The biggest fish goes to your own family, and the rest is divided among everyone. Each family gets five fish, and the total weight is about ten to twenty kilograms, which is not too light.
They got so many fish for free, so they don't have the right to say that Xia Chan and the others are greedy. After all, if Xia Chan and the others don't find a way to catch fish, everyone will have no fish this year if they want to have "more than enough every year."
In the night, Xia Chan drove a tractor carrying her brothers and fish, speeding through the cold and dark night. Several people were very cold, and the tips of their noses were red from the cold. Although they were all wearing scarves, they could not stop the cold night. .
The brothers took a detour and carried their own fish back, and Xia Chan drove the tractor to the brigade leader's house. The next task of dividing the fish was left to the brigade. They were only responsible for catching the fish and not for after-sales service.
After returning home, the brothers immediately reheated the kang, opened the ventilation cover on the stove, quickly boiled water, made brown sugar and ginger tea, and quickly drank it to cool down the cold. After all, after staying outside for most of the day, it is easy to get sick. .
It was too late to cook at this point, so I just boiled the dumplings under water. Each person had a bowl of hot dumplings. After eating, he felt comfortable all over.
Everyone was very tired today. After washing, we didn’t do anything and just lay down to rest.
The next morning, the announcement of a meeting came over the production team's radio, asking everyone to rush to the grain drying field within an hour. They didn't explicitly say how to divide the fish because they were afraid that other production team members would hear it and have a bad impact.
If you really want to eat fish, you can just go out and catch it yourself. There is no need to worry about the fish in their village. After all, Xia Chan and her brothers and sisters worked hard to catch the fish in their village despite the cold wind.
Xia Chan and the others had breakfast and went down the mountain. They met Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing at the foot of the mountain, and then they all went to the grain drying field together. "Xia Chan, what meeting is the team holding today?" Yuan Bingbing asked, "Is the winter hunting team back?"
"When the winter hunting team comes back, they will go back to rest first instead of having a meeting first. After all, the people in the winter hunting team must be very tired after staying outside for so many days, so today is definitely not about the winter hunting team. As for the specifics You’ll know what happens when it arrives.”
Xia Chan didn't talk about her own affairs. She also asked the captain not to tell everyone about their fishing, otherwise everyone would be upset and wonder why it was their brother and sister who went to catch fish again. Why not if there was a chance to catch fish? What about everyone? Can’t others catch fish?
When Xia Chan and the others arrived at the grain drying field, it was almost time for the meeting, so they found a place to stand and waited for the meeting.
When everyone heard that the captain said that fish would be distributed to everyone today, everyone cheered excitedly. As for where the fish came from and who caught it, they didn't care at all. They only cared about whether there would be fish to eat during the Chinese New Year this year.
Now not only do we have fish to eat, but our family can also share five fish. Who can be unhappy?
Even one fish only weighs two kilograms, and five fish weighs ten kilograms. How can the family eat several good meals?
But in fact, each family had two fish weighing three kilograms, two weighing four kilograms, and one weighing five kilograms. The five fish weighed at least twenty kilograms. Xia Chan kept all the big fish weighing more than five kilograms.
The male educated youths are still hunting and have not returned, so the fish belonging to the male educated youths are kept at the brigade leader's house and will be handed over to them when they come back. Now the outdoors is a natural large refrigerator, and the fish will not spoil if they are frozen in the yard. .
Xiao Fengfeng lived alone, so his fish didn't have to be shared equally with others, so Xiao Tiantian brought his fish over and planned to take them to Xia Chan's house to process them together. They would eat some fresh ones first and smoke the rest. Cut the fish into bacon and send it home.
Zhou Ji lived in a two-person room, and the fish in their dormitory had to be divided equally between the two people. Now that neither of them were here, Yuan Bingbing couldn't make a decision for them, so the fish was sent to the captain's house until they came back from winter hunting.
"Tiantian, Sister Bingbing, can I put everyone's fish heads together to make fish head stewed with tofu and fish offal hot pot?" Xia Chan asked.
Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing have five fish, Xiao Fengfeng has five fish, and the five Xia Chan brothers and sisters have three households with fifteen fish, which means that there will be fifteen fish heads and fifteen fish offal today. If you make it together, you can definitely make several pots.
Xiao Tiantian nodded excitedly, "Okay, okay."
"Then you go home first and get a lunch box, or a pot, and I'll put some in for you so you can eat for a few more days," Xia Chan reminded.
Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing handed the fish to Xia Chan and others and asked them to take it home to process it first, while the two of them ran to the educated youth point and went to the dormitory to get the pot, so that they would not have to work hard to cook in the next two days. , just heat up the dishes and cook some staple food.