What do you do during the summer vacation?

After recruiting assistants, after returning to his hometown, Zhang Tan was thinking.

According to his memories back then, most of his summer vacation was spent catching fish and shrimp to make extra money. Children in rural towns and villages, especially those with fields at home, basically catch fish and shrimp. Moreover, the big food country in 2002 has not yet gained momentum, and many places have abundant game resources.

Hunt pheasants and hares in winter, and fish for shrimp, loaches and eels in summer...... When I was a child, I used the fishing method to catch crayfish, that is, I took a small wooden stick, tied a thin line, and tied a thin line to the chicken legs, shrimp and other bait, and waited for the crayfish to take the bait. It's primitive and backward, and it's just fun.

The older boys have long since given up fishing and switched to playing in the ground cage.

The ground cage is a circle of long nets, every fifty centimeters or so in the middle, supported by a rigid wire, because the structure is a little more complicated, especially the inverted whiskers at the entrance, it is difficult for small fish and shrimp to come out again.

There are two ways to use the ground cage, one is to put it into a relatively large river or use it directly in the shallow sea, drag it by a boat, and directly pocket the small fish and shrimp. The other is a smaller ground cage, which is generally placed in a small pond or ditch in the field, so that the small fish and shrimp can run into it by themselves, and wait for a day and a half to collect it.

The mesh of the ground cage is relatively small, and the fry are also caught, and the use of fish has been banned in many places. However, Anwei is located in a hilly area, and the river channels in many places are more complicated, twisting and turning, and it is more convenient to catch fish and shrimp with a land cage. And now the resources are still abundant, and there is no ban on their use.

At that time, Zhang Tan, during the summer vacation of high school, was in an area behind his hometown, and he went to collect it once a day in various ditches and ponds. Crayfish, hairy crabs, river shrimp, yellow eels, loaches, and all kinds of small fish can be found from the ground cage.

In the future, as foodies become more interested in wild game in the countryside, it is rare to find these wild meat in rural ditches and ponds, and they have become artificial breeding.

All in all, Zhang Tan, who was worried about how to spend the summer vacation, immediately followed after seeing that Brother Lobby was equipped with tools such as pushing nets, fish baskets, and buckets.

"Big brother, where are you going to catch fish?"

Brother Lobby said angrily: "Let's go, big brother will take you to the three stations, today the three stations will open the gates to pump water, and the river bay is guaranteed to be full of fish!" ”

The third station is a hydropower station in Gangji Town, which is not used to generate electricity, but to pump water with electricity.

The terrain of Anwei is very complex, there are many mountains and hills, and most of the entire Heqi area is in the hilly area, but it is not a typical hill, it belongs to the kind of undulating mound. Because the terrain is relatively undulating, many places need to be manually fetched for irrigation, so there are so many small hydropower stations.

In fact, this can barely be regarded as a part of the Weishi Hangzhou Irrigation District, probably a branch project of the Chuhe River Trunk Canal. The Hangzhou Irrigation District is the largest irrigation area in the country built after the founding of New China, when Zhang Tan's parents were in the period of large-scale construction, they all crossed the river to lift the soil, basically the river channel in Gangji Town is dug out little by little in that year.

The upstream of the irrigation area is the Dabie Mountains, where many reservoirs have been built to regulate the amount of water in the downstream rivers at all times. The most famous is the Foziling Reservoir, the first cigarette that Zhang Tan once smoked was the Foziling Tobacco produced by the Heqi Cigarette Factory and named after this reservoir.

The construction of the Hangzhou Irrigation Area has greatly benefited the Jianghuai region, which continues to this day.

It's not.

Riding a bicycle, Brother Lobby took Zhang Tan to enjoy the benefits and catch fish.

The sluices at the three stations will not open until 9:30 a.m. to pump water.

And before nine o'clock, the bay at the end of the sluice outlet was full of men, women and children, all of whom came to catch fish and shrimp.

"Qiangzi, you're also here to catch fish?" There were a few young people, and when they saw Brother Lobby, Li immediately shouted.

Zhang Qiang, the lobby brother, walked over with a bicycle, caught the cigarettes scattered by the other party, and said, "Well, come and catch a few fish to improve your life." ”

"You still have to improve your life, your second child opens an Internet café to make more money."

"The second one opened it, and I didn't open it."

"Come on, you'll cry poor. Hey, the heroes in the back are Zhang Tan, your family's great writers. "Someone with sharp eyes found Zhang Tan.

They were all people with familiar faces but couldn't name them, so Zhang Tan nodded politely: "Are the big brothers all here to catch fish?" ”

"Yes, catch fish, do your great writers come to catch fish too?"

"I'm not a great writer." Zhang Tan waved his hand modestly, "I'll come over with my brother to have a look, and by the way, see if there are any better fish and shrimp, I'm going to buy some." ”

Zhang Tan is also a foodie, if he doesn't take advantage of the fact that there has been enough game in the past few years, it will not be easy to eat such original game in the future.

"What to buy, when I catch a big crab, I will give it to you directly, crabs are highly nutritious, you big writers should use your brains to write books and make up for more." The other party laughed and said that although there was an element of joking, the three words "great writer" were obviously 80% sincere.

Zhang Tan is now near the door of his house, and he is considered a celebrity, and when the women in the neighborhood visit the door, they like to talk about strange people and strange things the most, and the writer is of course also planned in strange things. This is how Zhang Tan was spread and became a role model for women to educate their children.

Such as "Ah, look at you, it's not a good thing at all, you look at Zhang Tan of the old Zhang family, he was already a writer when he first entered high school, you are still messing around, you can blush" and so on.

Just kidding, talking about everything, it was soon half past nine.

The machines of the hydropower station began to roar, and three pumping machines clattered and pumped water. With the huge suction power of the pumping machine and the rotational force of the turbine agitation, all kinds of fish and shrimp will be pumped by the pumping machine to the river bay at the outlet, and then washed ashore in a daze. So those who had been in ambush for a long time danced their push nets and began to fish.

Zhang Tan walked around with a sense of curiosity, to see who had caught something good, so he went over to take a look, and asked the price if he was interested.

However, with the pumping machine, there are some ordinary carp, grass carp, bastards and the like, and even there are very few crabs.

These ordinary things, nothing is rare.

"Hey, great writer, come and see!"

Suddenly, a young man who was chatting with him just now called Zhang Tan over.

When Zhang Tan arrived, the young man took out a golden fish from the net: "Yellow carp, do you see it?" ”

This is a yellow carp weighing about three or four pounds, and its whole body is really as shining yellow as gold, and it is jumping around in the net, and it is strangely beautiful.

Zhang Tan suddenly said happily: "Is this a koi?" ”

"I don't know, it's a yellow carp anyway."

"It's a beautiful color, it's a good sign, it must taste good." A middle-aged uncle next to him stretched out his head and praised.

Zhang Tan felt that it was a pity to eat it, so he asked, "Can you sell it to me?" ”

"You want? It's for you. The young man knew Zhang Qiang and had a good relationship, so he generously stuffed the yellow carp into Zhang Tan's net pocket.

"I'm so sorry, how much does it cost me to buy it?"

The young man waved his hand: "No money, no money." ”

Zhang Tan was still about to pay for it, Zhang Qiang came over and patted him on the shoulder: "Take it, a fish still needs money." ”

Zhang Qiang spoke, Zhang Tan didn't insist on paying any longer, and after thanking him, he carried the yellow carp and put it in Zhang Qiang's bucket happily: "This carp, I'll go back and raise it." ”