Chapter 21: An Unexpected Harvest

As his relatives returned to the pond to prepare buckets of fish, Wu Dao found that several of his ponds were full of villagers who had come to see the excitement. When these villagers saw the schools of fish jumping and playing in the pond from time to time, they showed that envious look, and even Wu Dao could hear some women start to say that this fish should have belonged to the village, and now it is really an extra treasure to let Wu Daoyi contract it.

Wu Dao didn't explain much when he heard this kind of words, after all, these women were right, if they hadn't contracted it themselves and were going to clean up the pond. No one would have known that this pond, which used to catch only a few small fish, would have such a bumper harvest this year. If you want to say that it is not enviable, Wu Dao feels a little unreasonable.

Seeing that the water in the pond was finally pumped almost completely, the small nest near the pump was also crowded with schools of fish pumped, which meant that there was no way to pump it anymore. In order to catch as much fish as possible from the pond, Wu Dao decided that the pond would not be pumped for the time being, and pulled the pump back to a nearby pond to continue pumping. The relatives called by their father began to go down to the pond to catch fish with a bucket one by one.

As a contractor, Wu Dao inevitably went down to enjoy the fun of catching fish, this kind of collective fishing scene, Wu Dao did not experience it a few times when he was a child, but every time he didn't play, he refused to get up. As for the edge of the pond, there is Wu Dao's mother, and his uncle Wu Tian, who rushed over to help watch the field after hearing the news.

In order to catch as many fish as possible in the pond, Wu Dao and a group of relatives wanted to go over and dig the head into the muddy water nest, but they exposed a large piece of the back of the big grass carp to catch up. But if you walk directly in this way, the sockets of the feet that people step on can easily become a hiding place for some caught fish, and it will be a bit troublesome to catch them up next. For this reason, after everyone goes down to the pond, they move closer to the center in a circle, and fish all the fish they see along the way into the bucket.

As buckets of various lake fish of different sizes were salvaged, in the end, several elderly relatives seemed to guess that Wu Dao wanted to fish the big grass carp. For this reason, they left the right to fish this big fish to Wu Dao very interestingly, after all, they were not too interested in this kind of fishing at their age.

After Wu Dao smiled at a few relatives standing beside him, and after handing the bucket to the third uncle beside him to take care of, Wu Dao stretched out his hand and prepared to poke under the big fish's head. At this moment, the big ostrich-like fish seemed to know that the end was coming, and its tail flicked very reluctantly.

Although Wu Dao reacted quickly and flicked the tail of the big fish on the side, he did not dodge the muddy water raised by the tail, and the whole person was lifted into the muddy water, which looked extremely embarrassed.

The relatives standing in the pond and the villagers on the shore were all amused by the sudden flick of this big fish, especially when they saw Wu Dao being drenched in muddy water. But Wu Dao, the master, felt depressed, and he even let a fish tease him!

After finally cleaning up the muddy water on his face and holding his eyes, Wu Dao seemed to be a big fish whose tail was still gently flicking from side to side, and the second hand suddenly buckled down the body of the fish. After touching the head of a fish the size of a volleyball, I lifted the whole fish up with both hands.

Wu Dao, who had already suffered a loss, naturally would not let the big fish have a chance to tease him again, considering that this fish could not be loaded in an ordinary bucket. Wu Dao walked to the shore empty-handed, carrying the big fish that seemed to have consumed a lot of physical strength just now, and was no longer moving much at this time.

The onlookers could clearly see the size of the big fish in Wu Daoshui at this time, but judging from the naked eye, the weight of this big grass carp should be more than twenty or thirty catties. Such a large grass carp has been very rare in the Liusha River over the years, but I didn't want to pick one up in such a small pond.

Just such a wild grass carp, if it is sold in the outside market, it is estimated that it can be worth hundreds of yuan, not to mention several buckets of mixed wild fish of different sizes. In other words, if all the fish obtained from this smallest pond were sold to fishmongers, Wu Dao would be able to earn no less than several thousand yuan.

This is the first mouthful, if the other ponds have such a big harvest. These ponds alone can recoup several years of contract costs. Seeing this rare harvest scene, the villagers who originally thought that Wu Dao was like a fool and spent 5,000 years to contract these ponds and that rotten land, but suddenly felt that the real fool seemed to be himself.

After putting this large grass carp into a rectangular bucket, this grass carp, which was originally a little weak, began to spit bubbles leisurely in this bucket that could not turn around at all, after enjoying a clean water source. It seems that he knows that there is no way to escape the gaze of the humans around him, so it is better to take this opportunity to enjoy the free air!

When the larger fish in the pond were cleaned, Wu Dong seemed to know that he could not completely catch them, and he had to leave a little small fish for the onlookers to pick up. For this reason, he called all the relatives who were still salvaged to rest, and as for some miscellaneous fish that could still be seen in the pond with the size of two fingers, Wu Dong had completely ignored them.

This is also the tradition of Qingtang in previous years, although the villagers who go down to the pond to catch fish can not pick up any big fish, but if you are lucky, it is no problem to catch a small trash fish of one or two catties.

Considering that it is easy to cause damage to the fish by using buckets, Wu Dong then beckoned several relatives to carry two buckets of fish to the small pond in front of the yard of his second brother Wu Ming's house. With so many fish caught together, my family will definitely not be able to digest them, which also means that they have to be sold to the outside world.

If it is sold to the outside world, it is naturally more valuable to live fish. Therefore, Wu Dong was worried that these fish would die quickly in the bucket, so he decided to temporarily put these fish in a small mud pond dug by his second brother not far from the gate of the courtyard. Although the pond is not large, in previous years, it was used to grow lotus seeds and did not release fish, and the water was relatively not deep, but it was not a problem to keep these fish in it for two days.

Although Wu Dong rarely goes to places like the county seat, it is still known that the price of wild fish is higher than that of raised fish. These days, I see Wu Dao throwing money out, and now that he finally has an income, he naturally doesn't want to waste it.

Because the area of the second pond is larger than the first, the water level of this pond has only dropped to a certain extent after Wu Dong and others picked all the fish back into the pond and poured them into it. To Wu Dong's delight and the envy of the villagers, after the water level in the pond dropped, schools of fish could be faintly seen scurrying in the pond.

Even the sharp-eyed villagers saw that there were also a few big fish the size of the big grass carp in this fish pond, and from time to time there was a chaotic splash under the pond.

Looking at the smiles of their relatives, and the envious eyes of the villagers who had just completely cleaned the pond of miscellaneous fish for themselves. Wu Dao couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, if in the future, they would be even more surprised if they saw dragon trout in their fish pond that they had never seen before. The cleaning of the fish pond in front of me is just a small amount of money, so why be so surprised and excited?

These days, it seems that I have also heard the villagers say that Wu Dao spent money to contract this pond and sand and gravel beach is Wu Tian, who is a loser, saw the scene in the pond that began to become turbid, patted Wu Dao on the shoulder and said: "Stinky boy, good luck!" ”

The triumphant face and loud voice made Wu Dao a little laughing and laughing at the uncle's childish temper. However, he is also aware of this unexpected fishing feast, and I believe that the villagers will no longer have that kind of disdain and ridicule for his idea of starting a business at home!

It's just that what is even more surprising is that the next feast of Qingtang, which lasted for two days, gave each pond a bumper harvest that has never been seen since the opening of the pond. Just the rare big grass carp and big-headed fish in the first pond have harvested dozens of them in Wudao. In the end, after Wu Dao roughly counted it, he felt that the income of this batch of big fish alone was estimated to exceed 10,000, not to mention the countless large and small fish.

In a word, Wu Dao in Qingtang this time made a lot of money, and several village cadres in the village were secretly distressed, after all, just the fish in these ponds were cleaned up, which could almost offset Wu Dao's contracting costs. Who told them to think that they still stuck on the experience of previous years, and thought that there would be no fish in this pond at all. For this reason, they didn't fish, and they all gave it to Wu Dao for free.

Fortunately, to their relief, Wu Dao did not completely enjoy the rich returns brought by these ponds, but gave each family about ten catties of fish. Coupled with the zero fish that these villagers picked up in the back, this time the pond also gave families a lot of benefits.

Looking at the empty pond, Wu Dao knew that it must not be a small project to clean up the silt accumulated in the water for many years. Fortunately, the cleared silt is also very fertile, and can be directly piled up on the wasteland of the sandy beach to accumulate fertilizer as organic fertilizer for the next planting of vegetables. All in all, the windfall obtained this time was almost enough for Wu Dao to repair the pond. It can be regarded as taking it from the pond and using it for the pond!

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