Chapter Seventy-Seven: Fishing
When it was time to give a New Year's gift, Erya made last year's tiger skin into a coat and gave it to his grandfather.
Grandpa was wearing a heavy tiger fur coat, and while smiling, he couldn't close his mouth, and politely had to take it off and give it back to Erya: "Such a good coat, you can't spoil it for me." I don't have many years to live, old man, and when the time comes, I will burn it, how distressed I am! β
Er Ya didn't let Grandpa Tai take off his coat, and blamed him: "Grandpa, what are you talking about!" Your old body is very healthy, and it is absolutely no problem to live to be one hundred and twenty or thirty years old! β
The big milk and the uncle also blamed the grandfather for talking nonsense.
"Dad, you are really, how can you talk nonsense about this big New Year!"
Grandpa smiled wryly, touched the slippery tiger fur with his hand, and said to Erya with a smile: "Then I won't talk nonsense, I will accept the filial piety given to me by the eldest great-grandson's daughter-in-law." β
Erya smiled while helping to sort out her clothes: "Hey! Grandpa That's right, how can you shirk the filial piety that your children and grandchildren give you! β
Er Ya took out a coat made of wolf skin for the uncle, and a coat made of rabbit skin for the big milk.
"Grandpa and grandma, I will make one for your grandfather and the two of you, and the others will not have one.
If they like it, they can take the leather from my house, and I will cut it and let them make it themselves, I really don't have time.
Trouble the big to talk to a few aunts! Otherwise, the aunts will blame me for treating me differently. β
The big were so shocked that they covered their mouths with their hands and whimpered, "What! And mine! This, this is all worn by the girls, how can you give it to me! I don't want to! This has to be worn out, and no one will be scolded for the old witch! In the end, he shook his head firmly and added: "I really don't!" β
The grandfather glared at him and shouted at his eldest daughter-in-law, "Why can't you wear this?" I see you're wearing this color just right! Liu Yatou has worked hard for you, and you are still not satisfied? β
The big grandmother hurriedly took the coat and explained to her grandfather: "Dad! I'm not dissatisfied, this is too expensive, let me wear this, I'm uncomfortable! β
The uncle smiled and quipped: "Then you put the bottom of the box to make an heirloom!" β
The big twisted the uncle's arm in disgust, and then picked up the wolf skin coat to help the uncle put it on.
After putting it on, the big looked up and down, and joked to the uncle with a taste of revenge: "Tsk! It's shaken, it's different! It's more like a master than someone else! β
The uncle shot back unceremoniously: "Your husband and I are originally masters!" β
Erya smiled and watched the old couple fighting, and the grandfather pulled Erya aside and asked her about the situation of her family's field.
"The newly bought field of your family is suffering from a shortage of water every year, can you really cure it?"
Erya nodded: "Yes!" In fact, there is a drainage place in that field, but none of them took the lead in repairing drainage ditches and reservoirs, otherwise they would not be flooded every year! β
Grandpa shook his head and said, "It's not that no one is leading, it's that you said that the reservoir and drainage ditch are not easy to repair!" Not to mention that it costs money to spread the field, and no matter whose field the drainage ditch is built, no one will do it.
Therefore, they discussed for several years without a result, and this year it was really unbearable, so they sold it. β
Erya suddenly: "Oh! So that's what happened! I'll just say, Natian is not so bad, will there be any traps! I'm relieved when you say that.
My uncle has already led people to dig drainage canals and repair the dams along the way, and by the rainy season next summer, almost even a few reservoirs should be repaired. β
Er Ya asked Grandpa again: "Grandpa, if we raise fish, can we buy fish fry here?" β
Grandpa Tai tilted his head and thought about it, and said: "We don't have it here, you have to go further south to check, I remember one year, someone came to sell fish fry with fish fry, because we Zhuangzi no one raised fish, and we haven't come here since." I listened to his accent at the time, a bit like the accent of Zhangdian in the south. β
"Zhangdian! It doesn't seem to be far away! Then I'll look for it, my family's three big reservoirs, so empty for a year without raising fish, I feel distressed. β
Grandpa asked with a smile, "None of you are thinking about going online to take a look?" How could the yellow landlord's family not raise fish for nothing.
Otherwise, the fish fry seller that year would not have been transferred to our Zhuangzi, and you don't know how biased we are here! β
Er Ya was stunned, yes! I didn't even think to see if there were any fish!
"Yes! Then we'll find the one who specializes in fishing tomorrow and go over to catch it. β
Grandpa Tai praised: "Yes! You should find someone who specializes in fishing, such a big reservoir, you people can't do anything without boats and nets. β
Erya excitedly ran home to tell Uncle SΓΉ that he would find someone to go fishing in the reservoir tomorrow.
The people who went to look for the uncle in the morning, because the people who needed to fish had already caught fish, and there was no such late as theirs.
Therefore, people promised to go directly to the big reservoir after eating. The Huangjia Reservoir, in previous years, also invited them to fish, very familiar.
It's already twenty-seven, the school and workshop have been released, and the family is complete.
All the old and young ran over and waited there after eating.
Even grandpa is as old as a child, and he has to run over to watch the excitement.
At the second girl's house, the grandfather took the second and the eldest family, the grandmother took the eldest and the eldest family, and the third uncle and three aunts came with the children.
The second aunt's family also came.
Because their Zhuangzi is so close to here!
Erya saw that there were too many children, so she was not at ease, put her hands to her mouth, and shouted at the crowd: "You all take care of your own children, the reservoir here is very deep, don't accidentally squeeze into the water." β
Xiaohu, Xiangzi, and Dahong also followed the example of Erya, shouting at the crowd, and asked each of them to take care of their children.
On the way, there were also people who watched the excitement and rushed over, and the fisherman also came with boats, fishing nets, and waterproof fish skin jackets.
The crowd was in a commotion, and Erya was busy shouting, telling the children not to crowd, and the adults to take care of the children.
Fishing boats and nets were launched and headed for the opposite shore, and the crowd moved along the shore and in that direction.
Occasionally, a big fish jumps up, and a scream erupts from both sides of the river.
The closer you get to the opposite shore, the more the big fish jump out, and the screams get louder and louder.
The uncle's and second uncle's mouths are open, and they are about to make up for the knots of Harazi.
Grandpa smiled proudly and said to Erya: "How is it?" I'll just say he has fish! In previous years, the Huang family also fished every year, and when I was young, I came over every year to see the excitement. Sometimes you can pick up some small fish, prawns, and kings.
The Huang family is benevolent and righteous, and some of them don't slip fish or throw them into the water, and they are all left for us children to pick up and take home to beat their teeth. β
Grandpa Tai's expression of bitterness and sweetness made the second girl have a headache.
Come on! I'm so busy now, I don't have time to reminisce about the past!
Another louder scream came, and Er Ya hurriedly ran over, and it turned out that the net had been raised.
Good boy! The net was full of fish, and it was so big. Some fish kept jumping out of the nets and escaping into the water.
There were more than a dozen fishermen, but there was no way to drag the net up, and the uncle was in a hurry and couldn't help.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Quick! First pass the rope at both ends to the shore, and we will help pull the rope, and you will carry the net down there. Don't let that fish run out. β
Someone answered next to him: "Uncle! You can rest assured, it is full of fish, and you can't run it all! β
There was a burst of laughter from the crowd.
Then someone passed the ropes at both ends, and the people on both sides of the rope walked back step by step, like a tug-of-war competition.
Someone shouted, "Look behind the people, and don't retreat into the fields." β
Then someone shouted, "Okay, okay! I couldn't go back, and I went to the field. β
"It's up! It's coming up! Wow! That's a lot of fish! β
"Good boy! This old Huang family, how many years has not fished, this fish has grown so big! β
"Ouch! Oh my good, isn't that a turtle? What's the fun it is here for?! β
"Hahaha!"
Erya looked at the fishing nets that were gradually dragging up from the reservoir, and listened to the amusement of everyone's laughter.
That's how life is a farm!
The shore where the fish are harvested is the widest place specially chosen, and the back is the dry mud field after the rice has been cut. Even if someone accidentally falls down, nothing else will hurt except to get covered in mud!
The fish in the fish pocket were flipped to the ground in an uproar, jumping and jubilant one by one.
The fisherman asked Uncle Xiaohu: "What about the fish box in your house!" I'll put the fish in for you! β
At this time, the whole family remembered that they didn't bring anything with them!
The laughter that erupted in the crowd was even more enthusiastic and lasting, and although it was all good-natured, the uncle was still flushed.
The second father hurriedly said: "My house is close, I'll go back and get it!" But I don't have so many frames in my house, I'm afraid it's not enough. β
Uncle Er was also busy saying, "I'll go back and get it too!" β
The second aunt's brother is also going back to get it!
The fisher said loudly: "Then you go back and get it, I will pick out the big fish first, and put them next to each other." β
The fisherman dragged out a big fish and exclaimed, "Good boy! This black fish is at least thirty pounds, and this is almost fine. β
Then he asked Uncle Xiaohu: "Brother Wang, do you keep this fish for yourself, or do you sell it?" β
Uncle rubbed his hands and said, "Let's put it aside!" I didn't expect there to be so many fish, so I didn't have any plans! β
Grandpa said: "Keep the biggest one at home, and let me sell the rest or not!" β
The uncle hurriedly responded: "Hey! Then do as Grandpa Six said! β
Then there are more than ten catties of big fish, seven or eight catties of big fish, and very small ones as long as they are not yellow toothfish, warped white mouths and other miscellaneous fish, all thrown into the water.
All the more than two catties were kept, and when Erya heard Grandpa recall the Huang family's original actions, she didn't dare not follow it. Otherwise, it would be heinous.
Erya asked the fishermen to put all the fish above five or six catties aside, and kept the trash fish, shrimp, and turtles for themselves, because Erya loved to eat trash fish, shrimp, and turtles.
As a result, the uncle resolutely refused to let the turtle be eaten, and threw the turtle into the water with Erya on his back.
Erya had no choice but to shrug her shoulders and forget it.
For more than two catties of fish, everyone present has a share.
In addition to the second girl's family and the second aunt's mother's family, they will also give.
Others who come to see the excitement will be given by the family, and the big fish will be given one by the family, and if the small fish is given by the family, the family will give two, and if there is a child, the adults in the family will not follow, and they will also get it.
It's all the fishermen who help to share, and they don't need to do it at all!
After fishing this net, the uncle said that he would not fish it. Give fifty cents to one fisherman, plus a fish weighing five or six pounds.
When the frame comes, I will pick it up and go home. actually picked six picks, and didn't bring the miscellaneous fish and shrimp that Erya wanted.
Many people left, and some children squatted there reluctant to leave, turning over and over the mud piles left on the shore.
I was able to find a few crucian carp the size of a palm and a black fish like a black stick, and I happily wore it with straw, and ran all the way home with the big fish I had shared.