"Look! There is a big carp!" Liu Wen and their luck was not bad, and after walking to the rice field area for a while, Liu Wen was the first to see a big carp with its tail splashing in a rice field.

Liu Wen and a few people immediately came to the spirit, went into the water to prepare to catch fish, Xue Fang and Xiao Haohao stayed on the shore, the water in the rice field was twenty centimeters deep, the weather in early spring was still a little cold, Xiao Haohao was not good in case of a cold after entering the water, so it was strictly forbidden to go into the water, and Xue Fang's task was to take care of Xiao Haohao.

The big carp noticed that someone was approaching, and immediately instinctively fled forward, Liu Wen held his own zither with the bamboo pole removed, Yang Yong held a homemade small zither, and Professor Lin held a large net in his hand.

Several people gathered around and blocked for a while, but the big carp still hadn't been caught, and Xue Fang and Xiao Haohao on the ridge were anxious when they saw it, but they seemed more excited than a few in the water. Although I didn't catch the big carp, it wasn't for nothing, and I caught several unlucky small fish.

In the end, the big carp was forced to the edge of the field, and when there was no way out, he was caught by Liu Wen, who was quick and quick-eyed. A large carp weighing five or six catties was jumping around in Liu Wen's zither.

"The fish in this reservoir are no different from the wild ones, this vitality is really too much!" Professor Lin stretched out his hand to grab the big carp in the kite, but he couldn't help but sigh after catching it several times.

After catching the big carp, Liu Wen's luck suddenly improved, and they caught a big catfish and a big black fish one after another. Among them, the big black fish was inadvertently fished out by Professor Lin, who originally planned to catch a small crucian carp in the aquatic plants by the ditch, but who knew that the small crucian carp was not caught, but instead picked up a big black fish weighing four or five catties, which made Professor Lin happy like a child.

Seeing that it was almost noon, and the bucket he brought was also full of fish, Liu Wen proposed to go home. "Uncle Liu, are we going to arrest it in the afternoon?" asked Xiao Haohao a little unwillingly.

"Not in the afternoon! In the morning, our clothes were wet when we caught fish, so we had to take a shower and drink ginger soup immediately after that, otherwise it would be bad to catch a cold and get sick." Liu Wen explained, seeing that Xiao Haohao was a little sullen, so he spoke again: "Uncle Liu will take you to the basket in the afternoon to catch fish." ”

"Okay, good!" Xiao Haohao said happily. After the group went back, Liu Wen and the others took a bath first, and then drank a bowl of hot ginger soup, and the dead small fish were left for a big meal, except for the big black fish and catfish, the other fish were thrown into the pool and stocked.

The main dishes at noon were boiled tofu with black fish and boiled catfish, and Professor Lin was especially happy to eat them. In the afternoon, Liu Wen carried a large basket and led everyone to a ditch with a suitable width of the water flow, and after putting the basket away, Liu Wen explained: "There are two layers of partitions in this leak, one large and one small, it is easy for fish to enter, but it is difficult to come out." ”

After a while, Xiao Haohao begged Liu Wen to lift the basket to take a look, but he couldn't stand Xiao Haohao's urging, Liu Wen lifted the basket out of the water, and there were only a few poor little fish in it.

Liu Wen explained with a wry smile: "The longer this basket is placed, the more fish there will be. Let's go back first, and we'll have a look back in the evening. Liu Wen and Professor Lin went home, but Yang Yong's family was reluctant to go back, so they said that it was fun to pour this basket here, so Liu Wen had to let them go.

After going back, Liu Wen and Professor Lin made a cup of tea and chatted for a while, touching Laifu and Wangcai, teasing Honghong and Huohuo, and then went to see Dahua and their family, and the time passed quickly.

In the evening, Liu Wen came to the ditch again, and saw that Yang Yong's family was still collecting fish with great interest, and they were going to collect it once in ten minutes, and they actually collected most of the buckets in an afternoon, although they were all small fish and shrimp, but these harvests were enough to make them satisfied and happy.

Seeing that most of the small fish died due to lack of oxygen, Liu Wen proposed that they go to the old sister-in-law of the Liu family, who had an extra-large barbed wire fence. These dead fish and shrimp are actually very fresh, and it would be a pity to throw them away like this, after removing the internal organs, washing them, and then cooking and drying, they can become a very delicious little delicacy.

Yang Yong was a little embarrassed to take it, thinking that he was just helping to collect the fish. Liu Wenwen waved his hand and said, "Are we still short of fish to eat in Liu Jiachong? Besides, these are all harvests that you have earned through your labor, so what can't you take?"

Xue Fang agreed instead of Yang Yong, and the family happily walked towards Liu Chuanxiang's house with a bucket. This fishing carnival lasted for three days, Liu Wen did not go to rest at home for the next two days, Liu Wen decided to put a batch of fish from the space to replenish the reservoir in the next two days, not afraid that you would catch more, but afraid that you would not come. The big basket was also borrowed by Yang Yong's family, and Liu Wen didn't bother to take care of it, so he used it if he wanted to.

The spring rain soaked the soil and woke up the frogs that had been hibernating in the soil, and one by one crawled out of the wet soil. Throughout the night, the croaking of frogs can be heard in the rice fields along the ditch and even wherever there is water.

There are a lot of frogs in this area of Liujiachong, which should be because the villagers of Liujiachong never eat frogs and forbid the little babies to hurt frogs. Because pesticides are basically not used, the pests of the crops are controlled by frogs. The villagers of Liujiachong want to eat only stone babies, a kind of frog that lives in the stone crevices with good water quality, this kind of frog is dark in color, and the main food is small fish and shrimp, the largest one is more than a catty, which is much larger than a frog. There are stone babies in various streams on the mountain, in pools and in the rocky beach of Changgan Reservoir.

This morning Liu Wen went to his cousin Liu Quanwu's house to borrow a buffalo to plow the field, a few years ago Liu Wen persuaded his cousin not to go out to work for the time being, and his cousin listened to Liu Wen's suggestion and promised to stay. Later, the first group of tourists came to play, and Liu Wen suggested that his cousin open a small restaurant such as a farmhouse.

My cousin and sister-in-law used to work in a restaurant in the province, and I also learned a few private jobs from those chefs. When Liu Wen came, he saw his cousin and sister-in-law busy cooking sweet potato noodles, and more than a dozen tourists, including some local villagers, were waiting in line.

Liu Wen explained his intention to his cousin, and the cousin nodded, motioned for Liu Wen to go and pam the cow by himself, and asked Liu Wen if he wanted to have a bowl of sweet potato noodles as well? Liu Wen shook his head and said that he had already eaten it.

Liu Jiachong's principle of dividing the fields is one acre of paddy field or two acres of mountain field per person, and Liu Wen's family of three people, so there are two acres of paddy field and two acres of mountain field at home. After Liu Wen brought the cattle back, he still had to rely on his father to plow the field, Liu Wen had never ploughed the field since he was a child, and he couldn't do it at all.

Liu Wen followed his father to lead the oxen and carry the plough to the paddy field area, where several villagers were already plowing the fields. Liu Quanwang and Liu Quanyou, a few old bachelors who did not have paddy fields, were watching the ploughing fields while waiting to pick up yellow eels. Because the ploughed mud will be deeper, some frightened eels will suddenly burst out of the soil. Now the village chief's family buys more than two taels of yellow eel, five yuan a catty, four or five have a catty, one is almost worth a dollar, pick up dozens a day, then there are dozens of yuan, anyway, there is nothing to do, you can earn a little is a little.

In the past, the villagers of Liujiachong didn't eat yellow eels very much, because it looked like a snake, which would make people instinctively afraid, so there were fewer people who caught them, and there were still more yellow eels in the rice fields. The yellow eel slides up and down all over the body, and it is not easy to catch. After grabbing, the middle finger, ring finger and index finger should form a pincer shape to clamp the eel firmly, so that the eel can be grasped.

After all, Liu Wen's father is a little old, and it took two days to plow two acres of paddy fields, which was done by Liu Wen's father in one day when he was a child. Liu Wen felt sorry for his father and couldn't help much, so he had to serve tea and cigarettes on the side, and walk with his father to talk and relieve his boredom.

After ploughing, the fermented manure is carried to the field by oxen, and the soil in the paddy field is soaked and soft, and then the oxen are driven to hang a rake to crush the soil, and in this process, the manure is evenly mixed with the soil in the field.

Today, Liu Wenjia is going to cultivate early rice seedlings, and in Liu Jiachong, he generally chooses dry land to cultivate, first turns over the land and breaks it, flattens it and compacts it slightly, and then evenly stirs the silt and some fermented farmhouse fertilizer into a paste and pours it on the flat soil. The process of cultivating is completed by sweeping the mud with wooden planks, then sprinkling dense rice in the mud and covering it with plastic film. After that, you also need to pay attention to observe that when the soil is dry, you should water a little, when the temperature is high, you should open the film at noon, otherwise the seedlings will be burned to death, and you can go to the field to plant seedlings after the Qingming Festival.

In addition to paddy fields, Liu Wen's family also has two acres of mountain fields, one of which is planted with spring wheat, and one acre of field, ready to plant some soybeans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, mung beans and other crops.

Liu Wen's father also drove the oxen to plow this acre of mountain field, and after the Qingming Festival, he drove the oxen to rake the soil and crush it, so that the seeds could be sown.

The Qingming Festival has arrived, and on this afternoon, the sky is beautiful and the sun is shining, Liu Wen accompanied his father to the ancestral mountain of the Liu family to go to the grave of Liu Wen's ancestors. The public bamboo forest in the village is a section to the east to the ancestral mountain of the Liu family, where the ancestors of the Liu family have been densely buried for thousands of years.

Liu Wen respectfully kowtowed to the ancestors, incense, burned paper money and then inserted a small wreath, Liu Wen's father carefully pulled out the weeds on the grave one by one, and then dug the soil to fill in the grave, and when leaving, the father and son also lit a string of short firecrackers.

The next day, after Liu Wen's father drove the oxen to rake and crush all the soil of the mountain field, the family began to sow seeds. Liu Wen's father used a hoe to hook a row of small ditches in a straight line in front, and his mother put down the seeds, and Liu Wen used a hoe to cover the seeds with soil from behind.

Peanuts should be shelled in advance, in order to leave the fullest seeds, sweet potatoes are cut rattan cuttings, a total of two kinds of sweet potatoes are planted, the yellow one is used to beat the sweet potato powder, the white sweet potato is used to make potatoes, the family is busy all day, only to sow all the acres of mountain fields.