Two strong men and a wild boar who had been hung on the plough by sorrow were busy around the old house until the middle of the moon.

hastily ate two drawers of meat buns specially sent by Aunt Liu Shu, and went to sleep tiredly.

Of the more than 20 meat buns, Liu Shu ate three, and the rest were contracted by Dahan and the tired pig's ears that did not flicker.

I have to say that the body is not bad for Dahan, one person has contracted most of the heavy tasks of excavating earthwork, and professional things have to be done by professional talents, 'pork belly' is not only a set of arched ground, pulling the plow to walk around according to the map planned by Liu Shu, and there is no deviation.

Of course, ploughing is not for farming, the old lady's old house is built on the hill, surrounded by woodland, which is not suitable for growing crops except for planting trees.

Liu Shu was inspired by the villagers' houses on the way back.

The reason why Jiuxi Village got its name is not that there are nine streams, but the most important stream that runs through the village meanders and twists and turns, turning back nine times from left to right between the villages.

The villagers of Jiuxi Village also live by the water, and the whole village is actually unfolded according to the direction of the stream, looking from the top of Huaguo Mountain, the white walls and black tiles are surrounded by green plants, and a clear jade belt winds in the meantime, just like a landscape painting.

If the sun sets, the smoke curls from every house, and the mist rises in the mountains, which is like a fairyland on earth.

The stream that has provided water for generations in Jiuxi Village has made a great contribution.

Of course, for life, the beauty created by a mountain stream is only secondary, and the presence of water is the most important.

It is very convenient for every household to wash vegetables and draft water, and a canal is directly drawn from the mountain stream to the door of each house, and then it flows into the public water canal in the village to be used as irrigation water or then flows back to the mountain stream to flow into the big lake.

The laundry and toilet washing are basically to the downstream of another mountain stream outside the village with more abundant water, which is almost the consensus of the villagers of Jiuxi Village for hundreds of years, basically no one violates it, and naturally avoids some health diseases.

It is convenient, beautiful and hygienic, which is also the crystallization of the wisdom of the predecessors of Jiuxi Village.

However, Liu Shu did not want to introduce stream water into the old house, the mountain stream originally flowed dozens of meters in front of the old house, and it was not a matter of much trouble to walk over.

Liu Shu fell in love with another idea of the ancestors of Jiuxi Village.

Don't look at the abundance of water in Jiuxi Village, especially after the new big lake is built next to it, there is no shortage of aquatic resources at all, but every household in Jiuxi Village has a tradition of raising fish.

It is said that as early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of Jiuxi Village took advantage of the natural ecological environment to build houses along the stream, and then built a square pond with stones around the house, introduced the stream and mountain spring into the pond, and then put grass carp and herring in the pond for breeding.

Just like pigs, cattle and sheep, fish has also become a very alternative domestic animal in Jiuxi Village compared to other villages.

During the New Year's holidays, when distinguished guests come, the villagers will pick up the big fish from the pond in front of their doors or even in their own yards to entertain the guests.

This ancient fish farming is not just made with water, but has strict standards.

First of all, the fish pond must be close to the stream that passes through the village, and the bottom of the pond must be connected with the stream; secondly, the area of the fish pond should not be too large, the small one is five or six square meters, and the large one is at most 30 square meters, the pond water depth is not more than one meter, and the bottom of the pond is better to use small stones or sand removal, and there can be no silt.

The third is that the fish pond must be designed with water inlets and outlets, so that the pond keeps flowing water all year round, and the water quality is clear and free of impurities.

Maintaining good water quality and fish living environment is only the foundation, the reason why the self-raised fish in Jiuxi Village can become a high-quality hospitality, or because the feed for the fish is not to use grain or ordinary grass, and the yellow essence leaves in Qinglongjian Mountain are used to work hard, and a little bit more often have to use 'road yellow', which is the more common desmodium in the countryside.

Although the cost of feeding with herbs instead of pasture grass has increased significantly, it can improve the immunity of fish, enhance disease resistance, and over time, fish meat will naturally have certain medicinal properties.

For example, Polygonatum polygonatum vulgaris, commonly known as chicken head ginseng, is a precious Chinese medicinal material buried in the ground, which has the function of replenishing qi and nourishing yin, strengthening the spleen, moistening the lungs, and benefiting the kidneys.

To put it bluntly, that thing is good for men.

And if the man is good, the woman will naturally be good. People with a little common sense of life understand it.

Raising fish in this way is naturally the same as raising a baby, but no one who is a noble guest wants to eat the pond fish of the villagers of Jiuxi Village.

Don't look at Liu Shu's hope for the whole village, when he came back, the uncle was very happy, but he didn't see him bring one of the pond fish at home to eat.

You must know that the fish pond in the old man's yard can raise a fish king for more than 30 years, with a body length of more than one meter and a weight of thirty-six catties.

Whether it's pan-fried fish pieces, sauerkraut fish, or pickled fish, that big herring is definitely delicious enough.

Liu Qingshan also reluctantly promised once, as long as Liu Shu was admitted to 985, he would contribute the herring that was not so big at that time and invited the whole village to eat it.

It's a pity that Liu Shu, the unlucky guy, took the second exam, and because he didn't want to increase the burden on his family, he refused to repeat it, and the king of fish has survived to this day.

Although Uncle Liu Shu was depressed for several days after the notice came down, according to Uncle Liu Shu, the old man sat by the fish pond at night and drank two glasses happily.

It is sad that his nephew did not do well in the exam, but the fish king he raised since he was young escaped, which is also a joyful thing!

However, this is also understandable, not to mention raising a fish, it is a stone in the pocket for decades, and it is also round, isn't it? And the fish is also quite spiritual, as long as the old man goes to the pond to stop, the guy will take the initiative to swim to the shore, even if the old man strokes its head with his hand, it will not swim away, and the people who see it are amazed.

It can also be regarded as a scene of Jiuxi Village.

Under the baptism of the economic tide, it cannot be said that Jiuxi Village has not done publicity, this kind of mountain spring water and herbs raised by the healthy clear water fish is indeed very eye-catching, but it just stops at attracting attention.

The reason is simple, although the fish is good, the price is too expensive.

The price of a pound is as high as 200 yuan, and a grass carp or herring that has been raised for several years can cost seven or eight catties, but it is two thousand yuan smaller.

For ordinary tourists, they can't taste it, and they will easily place an order just by listening to stories and legends? For upstream restaurants, the more valuable mandarin fish, sturgeon, and catfish are more well-known, and the purchase price is cheaper than this.

For the villagers, it is naturally impossible to reduce the price, not to mention the time it takes to raise a fish, and the cost of harvesting herbs and feeding fish in the mountains is not low.

Besides, Jiuxi Village is rich in resources, although it is not rich, it is definitely not poor, and the villagers' pursuit of money does not reach the level of hunger and thirst of people in big cities.

It is difficult to reach an agreement on the views of supply and demand, which led to the fire of 'healthy clear water fish' in Jiuxi Village ten years ago, and now it is also calm. The villagers raise their own fish, and some of them sell them, and if they don't sell them, they keep them.

And Mrs. Liu Shu may be because Jiang Han, who grew up in the province of a thousand lakes, has no hobby for fish farming, wants to eat fish, and picks up nets to go to mountain streams or big lakes to catch.

For him, eating fish may be far less fun than fishing.

Naturally, the old house does not have this traditional fish pond in Jiuxi Village.

Liu Shu plans to renovate a fish pond similar to this one around the old house, but it is slightly different from the traditional one.

He didn't plan to build the traditional boxy fish pond, but a canal no more than a meter wide, zigzag around the entire old house.

The water of the mountain stream flows in from the inlet, flows out of the outlet, and then joins the stream, and the inlet and outlet are blocked with nets to prevent the fish in the canal from escaping.

In other words, the artificial ditch planned by Liu Shu is actually a tributary of the mountain stream.

Moreover, Liu Shu has already planned that he will not use any cement and green bricks, and use the natural environment for everything, at most put some river sand and pebbles into the artificially dug ditches.

Even, in order to imitate the original natural environment of the stream, Liu Shu according to the terrain around the old house, the entire artificially dug canal meanders down from high to low, and the water is also shallow and deep with the change of terrain, the shallow water depth is not more than half a meter, and the deep position may be more than two meters.

Everything is in its most natural form, and it does not affect the inherent habits of fish and shrimp at all.

The length of the entire canal is more than 800 meters, and a large part of it winds through the forest according to the topography, and only a small part is planned by Liu Shu to pass through the side of the old house.

As for what kind of fish to put into the canal, Liu Shu also thought about it, not to raise the big fish raised by the villagers of Jiuxi Village, but to use the original biological population in the mountain stream.