Zhang Jiangke was playing with a big fish, and laughed when he heard Xu Manli's cheerful shout: "Hahaha,...... If these three nets were all full, they would be able to hold more than 200 kilograms of fish. Not only did we explode today, but we also exploded. ”

"Dad, if Brother Jing Tao doesn't come, you will almost become an Air Force today. Zhang Wenhu smiled and uncovered his father's old bottom, and took off the red-tailed carp he had just caught weighing eleven or two kilograms.

"I can't fit it, I really can't fit it. Su Min couldn't understand the fishing terms of the Zhang family's father and son, looked at the three net pockets that had been stuffed to the brim, and looked at the red-tailed big carp struggling in Zhang Wenhu's hands with a look of pity.

"Sister-in-law, if you can't fit in the net, you can use hemp rope, there are many ways. Zhang Wenhu said, skillfully turned out a hemp rope from the toolkit, stuffed one end of the rope into the gills of the big carp with one hand, threaded it out of the fish's mouth, tied it in a knot and tied it to the ground.

Su Min saw the blood flowing from the gills of the big carp, and he struggled in pain, and shouted loudly in reluctantly: "Don't wear it, it's too cruel." ”

Xu Manli, who was watching the excitement, also couldn't bear it, and said timidly: "Wearing it like this, it must be very painful." Looks like it's still a female fish, so let's let it go!"

Qi Jingtao and the father and son of the Zhang family looked at each other, and the movements of their hands couldn't help stopping.

Lao Zhang felt a loosening of his hand, and knew that the big fish on the hook had slipped away. However, Lao Zhang did not feel the slightest annoyance, but smiled and said to his son: "Let it go, let it go." What do you think of catching a fish and making it bloody?"

Zhang Wenhu frowned slightly, glanced at his father, who was gesturing to him, and suddenly realized that he carried the red-tailed big carp wearing hemp rope to the lake, untied the rope and prepared to let the red-tailed big carp go.

"Wait. Qi Jingtao shouted.

"Brother Tao!"

"Ah Tao!"

Xu Manli and Su Min shouted in unison, turning their heads and glaring at Qi Jingtao dissatisfied.

"What's wrong? After a long time of tossing, this fish is injured. If you want to let it go, you have to heal its wounds. You see, it's already hurt to the cheek, and it's not a dead end to put it back in the lake. ”

Qi Jingtao said with a smile, took out a bottle of concentrated fruit juice drink from his pocket, and came to squat next to Zhang Wenhu. While gently pulling out the hemp rope along the gills of the fish, the concentrated juice drink is poured on the gills and mouth of the large carp, and most of it is poured directly into the stomach of the large carp.

Xu Manli and Su Min squatted on the shore and watched, and said with a smile: "Oh, I thought you didn't want to let it go." Brother Tao, I'm sorry, it's your fault. It turns out that you are treating its wounds!"

"Hehe, this is called doing good deeds to the end, sending the Buddha to the west. Qi Jingtao said, as soon as his hand was loosened, the big carp slipped into the lake, and quickly returned to the deep water area with its tail swing.

"Is there any effect?" asked Su Minhu suspiciously.

"I don't know, the responsibility for validity and invalidity is fulfilled. Qi Jingtao smiled awkwardly.

He wasn't sure, he knew that concentrated fruit juice drinks could enhance people's physique, and they must also enhance the physique of fish, right? He didn't have other anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving drugs in his hands, and it was better to bottle juice drinks for that big carp than nothing. Su Min and Xu Manli also knew the efficacy of fruit juice drinks, their purpose had been achieved, and they looked at each other and smiled, and didn't say anything more.

"Alright, it's not too early. It's time for us to call it a day and go home. Wenhu, you are watching the fish here, I will go back and call your uncle and them to come and help carry the fish, and your eldest brother and I will go home first. Xiao Tao, take that basket of crucian carp, and go back first and ask your aunt to make crucian carp for you. Lao Zhang said as he put away his fishing rod and sorted out his fishing tools contentedly.

Qi Jingtao picked up the big fish basket from the lake, which was filled with palm-sized crucian carp, which were all caught and separated just now. These crucian carp that love to make trouble and compete for food are the easiest to catch every day.

Crucian carp is used to cook the secret fish called the fish by the lake, and it takes a long time to cook the fish, at least two hours to reach the best taste of crispy meat and bones.

"Let's go, let's go back and watch my aunt make a desecrated fish first, and you can also learn a hand, this is Uncle Zhang's trick." Qi Jingtao carried the big fish basket and beckoned Su Min and Xu Manli to go back to Lao Zhang's house to prepare lunch.

Back in Laohezui fishing village, it was time for families to start cooking. Smoke rises from hundreds of fishing villages, and the light of the adjacent lake is peaceful and dynamic.

Lao Zhang has never been so happy since he was laid off. Along the way, he took the initiative to greet the villagers he met, and introduced them to the sons, daughters-in-law and friends of his old friends in the tower area of central Yunnan.

Lao Zhang knew that his house was going to run in time. His eldest brother has not forgotten himself, although Lao Qi was busy with his family's orchard and did not come over in person, his son and daughter-in-law came to visit him. The fate of the two families continues to extend and is developing towards the good of the family.

When he returned home, he told his second son to call his three brothers to the lake to carry the fish, and began to process the basket of live crucian carp. Qi Jingtao was afraid that Xu Manli and Su Min would be kind again, so he asked the two of them to go to the kitchen to help Aunt Zhang's aunt prepare meals, and he accompanied Lao Zhang to kill fish in the yard.

The people at the lake have their own unique way of handling this palm-sized fish, they don't need to use any tools, they just grasp the crucian carp with their right hand, the back of the fish facing inward, the belly facing outward, and the head of the fish in the mouth of the tiger held by the thumb and forefinger. After holding the fish steadily, wash it in a basin of water, and then buckle the thumb on the lower edge of the pectoral fin under the gills of the fish, break the upper edge of the fish's belly from this weak position, and press and pick it up, and the bitter gallbladder internal organs in the fish's belly are removed. Then the gills are removed, and the whole fresh fish retains the blood and is placed in a clean basin for later use. According to Lao Zhang, the fish produced in this way tastes the most delicious and nutritious.

Lao Zhang's processing time for a crucian carp will not exceed 20 seconds, like a cloud of water flowing in the same industry, which makes Qi Jingtao, who is watching from the side, pleasing to the eye and breathtaking. Qi Jingtao couldn't intervene, lit a cigarette and smoked, and asked with a smile: "Uncle Zhang, how many kinds of fish does Auntie make?"

"She will do what people by the lake will do, at least 60 kinds of methods. ”

"There are so many recipes! The only things I've eaten when I come to the lake are boiled fish in a copper pot or a stone pot, and there are several different ways to cook fish with different ingredients. There are more than a dozen kinds of salted fish, desolate fish, clear soup fish, sauerkraut fish, sour soup fish, braised fish, sweet and sour fish, fried fish, fried fish, and fried pickled fish. ”

"Hehe, what you said is just a common practice, and there are many secret practices in the fishing village. Even if it is the same method, the seasoning and dipping ingredients are different, and the taste is different. In particular, the source of the fish itself, the wild fish in the lake and the fish in the fish pond are definitely not the same taste, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as different. When Lao Zhang talked about fish, he gushed endlessly, and what he said was the Tao.