Yu went over and grabbed this big carp, good guy, it had already fluttered to the edge of the pond in a while, if it was going to jump back into the pond after a while, how could Li Yu let the fruits of his labor slip away under his nose, and directly strangled the big carp's survival **, and put it into the fishing net he brought.

With such a big harvest, Li Yu didn't bother to fish again, so he went straight to comb the pond, and caught all the big guys who had been hiding in it for many years, and went back with three big carps humming a little song.

The monkey invited the bricklayer and craftsman who repaired the house, not only to pay the wages, but also to take care of other people's food, the monkey's family could not cook, so he arranged to eat at Li Yu's house, and he was embarrassed to trouble his grandmother to cook the food for so many people alone, so he invited his sister-in-law behind the house to come over to help.

When Li Yu came back, his grandfather was treating people in the wing, and his grandmother and sister-in-law in the back room were choosing vegetables on the steps in front of the door, this sister-in-law was the daughter-in-law of Li Gang, the grandson of Li Yu's second grandfather, Li Gang was six or seven years older than him, but the children were all in elementary school, and the two stayed in the village.

Li Gang was invited by the monkey to go to the town to buy meat and wine, fresh pork is only sold in the town, it takes two or three days to repair the house, and the ingredients must be prepared in advance.

"Grandma, look at this big fish I caught." Li Yu carried the fish to show off to his grandmother, turned around and called Wang Yan, and Wang Yan responded with a smile.

"I didn't expect that there were such a big carp in our pond, your grandfather saw that you liked to eat carp, so he put all the carp fry, which has not been caught in the past few years, and they have grown so big! Last time, I asked Brother Gang to come and eat it, but he didn't bother to come. ”

"I'm afraid this fish doesn't weigh twenty pounds, right?" Wang Yan looked at the big carp and said.

"Almost, I'll weigh it." Li Yu went back to the house and took the rod scale, hooked it at one end, kept his balance, and moved to his grandmother's side with the scale and looked at his grandmother with a smirk.

He said that he could weigh but would not recognize it, and there were dots on it, and he couldn't tell where it was. Grandma understood at a glance, put down the food in her hand and stood up, and complained with a smile, "Such an adult, I can't even recognize it." ”

No more, no less, exactly twenty catties, the big carp is not dead at this time, and it is pumped and smoked.

"Grandma, shall we eat sauerkraut fish at noon?" Li Yu has missed his grandmother's skills in making sauerkraut fish for a long time, and now he has another chance.

"Okay, good, as long as Xiao Yu wants to eat, grandma will make it for you." Grandma said with a smile.

"Then I'll kill the fish!" Li Yu volunteered, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to kill the fish, there were so many people at noon, this fish could just make a dish.

"Big nephew, where did you get this fish?" At this time, a middle-aged man came out of the wing, short and fat, pointing to the big carp and asking curiously.

Li Yu knew this person, it turned out to be Zhang Wenhua, a fisherman who was fishing and running boats in the Qingshui River, and after earning some money in the sun and rain on the Qingjiang River, he began to try to raise fish by himself, and opened a large fish farm in Zhangjiawan, and heard that the business was good.

"I caught it from my own fishpond." Li Yu shouted Uncle Zhang, Zhang Wenhua is a frequent visitor to Li Yu's house, Li Yu liked him very much when he was a child, because Zhang Wenhua sent fish to them to eat every once in a while, speaking of which Zhang Wenhua was still half of his grandfather's apprentice, and his grandfather learned what he saw when he was young, driving a boat, repairing machines, pulling erhu, making pottery, and later met Zhang Wenhua when he ran a boat and took him for a few years.

"This fish is good! How can you grow so big! Big nephew, is there such a big fish in the pond? ”

"There should be! I'm not sure, after all, I haven't fished it for many years, what's the matter, Uncle Zhang is interested? Li Yu brought a knife and a basin, Zhang Wenhua reached out to lift the fish, and the two talked as they walked.

"Well, someone asked me to get him a few big carp a few days ago, and the fish in my farm just sold a batch, and I'm thinking about where to get it, don't you see this one you caught!"

The two of them came to the water tank at the edge of the courtyard, this water was pulled from the dragon well behind with a pipe, usually used to wash hands or something, when it was full, it flowed out along the ditch, next to the ditch grew a fist-thick water willow tree, the long willow branches swayed in the wind, and seemed to be very satisfied with the days when they were moistened by water every day.

didn't wait for Li Yu to make a move, Zhang Wenhua had already taken a knife to replace him, and Li Yu knew that killing fish himself was definitely an axe in front of him, so he was ready to fight.

"Uncle Zhang, I'm going to clean up the pond tomorrow, I should catch a few big ones, and I'll call you then."

"So be it! I brought people and nets to fish in the afternoon, and the man was in a hurry, saying that the sooner the better, I thought about fishing this afternoon, and I sent it to him early tomorrow morning, what do you think? ”

"That's a good dare! I'm still worried about where to find someone! Uncle Zhang, you will send it to the door! Uncle Zhang, you are the timely rain! Li Yu said in an exaggerated tone.

"You kid." Zhang Wenhua scolded with a smile.

Zhang Wenhua skillfully buckled the gills of the fish, scraped the fish scales with the back of the knife, and the scales danced with a knife, which dazzled Li Yu, and in the blink of an eye, he scraped it and changed to the other side.

"Uncle Zhang, your craftsmanship is amazing!" Li Yu was convinced, if he came by himself, he would not be able to scrape until the sun went down.

"That is, Uncle Zhang doesn't dare to boast about anything else, this fish killing is the master of the Yufu Restaurant, so he has to write a word of service to me." Zhang Wenhua said proudly, don't look at him fat, his hands are fast, and the fish scales are shaved clean by him when he speaks.

Li Yu took a basin of water and took a splash bath for the big carp without scales, the big carp was not dead, its tail was cocked, and its mouth was open, as if it understood that it was someone else's dish, and he didn't do a boring fight of dead fish.

Then pick the cheeks, break the belly, clean the contents of the carp's belly, in Uncle Zhang's hands in one go, in a total of only a few minutes, a fish was cleaned up, even the fish bubbles were cleaned up, some people like to eat fish bubbles, but Li Yu doesn't like to eat them, but it's a pity to throw them away.

"It's such a big one, it's a bit of a waste just to make sauerkraut fish, it's better to make half of it braised and half of it to make sauerkraut fish!" Uncle Zhang suggested.

"Okay!" Li Yu, a fish veteran's suggestion, felt that it was still necessary to listen to it, and the most important thing was that the braised carp was also something he had wanted to eat for a long time.

Uncle Zhang first chopped off the head of the fish, then broke the big carp in half along the back line, and then put it in a pot, and left the rest for cooking before chopping and slicing.

Li Yu brought the big carp to the kitchen, and his grandmother and sister-in-law were ready to start cooking, telling her grandmother that half of the braised fish and the other half would be sauerkraut fish, and then Li Yu went out to discuss with Uncle Zhang about catching fish in the afternoon.

Uncle Zhang originally came to Xiaohe Village to see the fish, and there are also people in Xiaohe Village who raise fish, but most of them are used for their own food like Li Yu's family, and Uncle Zhang also came with the mentality of trying his luck, and came to Li Yu's house to sit and sit without going to a few houses, but he accidentally found that Li Yu fished a big carp.

Now that it's getting hot, Uncle Zhang doesn't bother to go back, so he calls his family to come over in the afternoon with a big fishing net and a water tank car.

When Li Yu came out, as soon as Uncle Zhang finished calling, Li Yu went to talk to him in his grandfather's wing, and now the patient in the wing room has left, and his grandfather is packing up his instruments, and when he saw Li Yu coming in, he asked him, "What kind of fish did you just catch?" How big? ”

"A twenty-pound carp!"

Grandpa was treating people first, and he didn't know exactly what was going on.

"I didn't expect the fish in this pond to be so big!" Grandpa sighed and said that Li Yu understood that the old man actually wanted to say, "So many years have passed in a flash!" He suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and hurriedly told his grandfather that he planned to clean the fish pond in the afternoon and sell the big carp to Uncle Zhang.

"You can just watch it, grandpa doesn't care."

Grandpa's words surprised Uncle Zhang, he understands his master's temper and character, a mouthful of spit and a nail, since he said this, he let this kid toss, he didn't care.

As he was talking, the monkey came back with two bricklayers and three craftsmen, all of whom were from the village, the two bricklayers were two fathers and sons, the old one was Li Guomin, the younger one was Li Shan, Li Yu knew each other, and Li Guomin was a bricklayer in the village, so he basically contracted the work of repairing the roof and picking up tiles in the village.

Li Shan is as old as Li Yu's brother, twenty-three or four years old, after graduating from junior high school, he went out to wander for a few years, and he didn't make any money, so he came back to follow him to pick up tiles, Li Yu saw him yesterday at Li Dinggui, and the two fathers and sons are honest and honest people.

The three craftsmen Li Yu was not impressed, they were all in their thirties, Li Yu only remembered that one of them was surnamed Zheng and lived in the former village, and the other two completely forgot about it, but he knew that the three of them often went out together to find work.

After saying hello, Li Yu hurriedly went to get a cigarette, and the monkey was called by him to pour tea.

In the village, ten yuan a pack of Hongta Mountain is very good for entertaining people, Li Yu's grandfather has quit smoking in recent years, there are a lot of cigarettes sent by others at home, a little better Chaotianmen, there are several bad Hongta Mountain, usually hospitality does not need to buy, grandma often jokingly said, "After the old man doesn't smoke, the family can open a store that sells cigarettes." ”