Junjie also smiled, he used his bitten finger to point at Wang Ba, who was held down by Taotao, and said, "See if you still bite or not, I'll eat you later!"

Li Liang asked Junjie to hold down the Wang Ba, and then continued to fish with Taotao.

"Junjie, why did you get ashore?" Suddenly, Chenchen's voice sounded from a distance, and she saw Junjie squatting on the shore and shouted.

"Eldest sister, third sister, we caught a big king!" Junjie raised his head and saw his eldest sister Zhang Xin and third sister Chenchen coming over with two buckets in the distance.

It turned out that Zhang Xin was washing vegetables and cooking with her grandmother at home, and when she heard Chenchen say that she had caught a lot of fish and shrimp here, she also carried a bucket and came with Chenchen.

When Zhang Xin was in the countryside as a educated youth, she went down to the river to catch fish and shrimp, and with her joining, the three of them soon touched the fish and shrimp in the pond. Everyone put all the fish and shrimp that had been placed in the puddle on the shore into buckets, and filled three buckets.

Zhang Xin, Li Liang, and Chen Tao each carried a bucket, originally Chenchen wanted to help Chen Tao carry it, but Chen Tao said: "Sister Chenchen, don't look at me thin, I have a lot of strength, you and Junjie go ahead, I'll carry this bucket!"

Zhang Xinle said happily: "There are so many fish, Taotao, when our restaurant opens in a few days, you can go and catch more fish, and let my mother buy it at the market price!"

"How can you collect money from this, Sister Zhang Xin, there are a lot of wild ponds in our countryside, and when your restaurant opens, I will definitely send you fish often!" Chen Tao responded.

Li Liang took over the conversation on the side and said: "No, no, no, how can you do it without collecting money, Taotao, the restaurant is open, you must ask for fresh fish every day, who buys it is not to buy it, you must collect money for this! If you can catch fresh fish often, it will be a great help to your aunt's family, and by the way, you can also earn some pocket money!"

Li Liang knows that in the countryside in this era, not to mention children, even adults don't necessarily have a few cents in their pockets. People who are in difficulty may have to pay credit when they buy a bottle of soy sauce.

Hearing that he could earn pocket money, Taotao scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Okay then!"

Several people carried the fish back to the Chen family's compound, and it was almost noon at this time. Chen Chunhua and Chenchen's uncle Chen Huahan, as well as Chen Huahan's wife Lu Xiulan, have already returned from the construction site with the masters who drilled the well, and the big guys are sitting under the persimmon tree in the yard to enjoy the shade.

Seeing Li Liang and several people coming back with three buckets full of fish and shrimp, Chen Chunhua and Lu Xiulan stood up, took the bucket from Li Liang's three hands, and poured it into the big basin by the well, which is the basin usually used to wash clothes at home, with a diameter of about 1 meter. Three buckets of fish were poured into it, and most of the basins were filled.

By the time Chenchen's second uncle Chen Huatang and second aunt Zhang Lan, that is, Chen Tao's parents came back from the production team, two tables had already been set up in the yard, and the tables were full of sumptuous dishes.

Chen Tao has many cousins, sisters and siblings, Chen Huahan has three children, the eldest son Chen Bin is 17 years old, the second daughter Chen Li is 15 years old, and the third daughter Chen Yun is 13 years old; Chen Huatang also has three children, the eldest daughter Chen Run is 16 years old, the eldest son Chen Ze is 14 years old, and the youngest son is Chen Tao 12 years old. During this time, the production team harvested rice, and several half-grown teenagers were picking up rice ears in the field with bags, and they had all come back to eat at this time. When everyone went home, more or less, they picked up more than a dozen catties of rice ears.

There were two tables, and the adults and the masters who were doing things sat around a table, and nine people, including Li Liang, Chenchen, Junjie and Chen Tao, sat around a table. Looking at the dishes on the table, the children couldn't help but secretly leave their saliva. Today's dishes are really a bit rich, including braised pork, braised soft-shelled turtle, braised crucian carp, stewed small trash fish, black fish soup, and the rest of the fried meat with chili, stir-fried pork with white sauce, stir-fried meat with dried bamboo shoots and so on. It can only be regarded as ordinary daily food in the future life, but at this time, even the Chinese New Year will not be more abundant than this.

Under Chen Tao's introduction, Li Liang and several of his brothers and sisters got to know each other.

The two brothers, Chen Huahan and Chen Huatang, are now separated, but they still live in the same courtyard. The eldest of the Chen family's generation is Chen Bin, the eldest son of Chen Huahan, Chenchen's uncle, who is two years older than Li Liang. The other boy is Chen Tao's brother, 14-year-old Chen Ze, they are all from Chen Huatang's family.

Among the girls, 16-year-old Chen Run and 15-year-old Chen Li both graduated from junior high school this year and just took the high school entrance examination a few days ago. According to the memories of Li Liang's later generations, these two girls were not admitted to high school later, and they participated in labor at home early.

The Chen family has a more generous personality, and after Li Liang and Chenchen got married, they often had contact with them and understood their personalities. While eating, Li Liang was thinking that after Zhang Meng's restaurant was on the right track, he could help Chen Bin and a few of them were also next to Zhang Luo's family. With the gradual deepening of reform and opening up, the demand of the market is getting bigger and bigger day by day, and there is money to earn together, and there is no fear of being divided into business.

After eating, Chenchen's grandmother took a few straw mats from the house and spread them under the persimmon tree, beckoning the masters to rest;

The boys couldn't stay idle, Chen Tao was probably familiar with Li Liang when he was fishing in the morning, he put his arm on Li Liang's shoulder and said: "Brother Liang, should we go to dig bamboo rats in the bamboo forest in the mountains?

Chen Bin still has such a hand, Li Liangzhen doesn't know. In his previous life, he still saw bamboo rats raised by others on the Internet, and as for digging wild bamboo rats with his own hands, he really had never experienced such an interesting thing.

Chen Bin was a little hesitant, he had to go to work in the afternoon, if he didn't go, the team would deduct work points. However, looking at Li Liang, Chen Ze, Chen Tao and Zhang Junjie's small eyes looking at him eagerly, he was not disappointed, so he said: "That's it, I have to work in the afternoon, I'll take you up the mountain first, find you a few holes, you will dig your own later, and I'll come back first!"

"Okay, okay!" Zhang Junjie shouted.

So the boys took hoes and shovels, took two snakeskin bags, and set out into the mountains. Chen's house is at the foot of the mountain, not very far from the mountain, and there are large bamboo forests on the other side of the mountain, all of which belong to the village collective. But usually the villagers go to the mountains to dig a bamboo shoot, catch a few bamboo rats or something, and the village doesn't care.

However, the bamboo forest near the village can no longer catch bamboo rats, and if you want to catch them, you must walk more and go to the mountains and forests in the distance. The boys hurried into the mountains, and their steps were extremely relaxed.

Walking into the bamboo forest, the bamboo waves are rippling with waves, walking on the path between the forests, the shade of the trees calms the afternoon sun, and occasionally passes through the breeze between the forests, bringing everyone a little coolness.

Along the way, Chen Bin was explaining to everyone the habits of bamboo rats, which he learned from his father Chen Huahan when he was a child and went into the mountains to dig bamboo rats.