Chapter 4: The Third Sister-in-law
In this era, food is scarce, but nature is abundant, and the mountains and water are full of delicious food, which has to be said to be a helpless contradiction. The wild beasts on the mountain are rampant, but they are full of danger, and there are flocks of fish and shrimp in the water, so they have to look at the water and sigh.
To put it bluntly, productivity is still constrained by production tools, if there is a shotgun, if there is a battery, or even if there is a low-end nylon fishing net, a group of fishing rods, is this still a thing? Maybe there is also a conceptual problem, the concept of people in this era, well, I don't understand, why do you look at the mountains and rivers swaying in front of your eyes when you are hungry?
Liu Tong muttered while compiling.
A fish cage is essentially a trap, and you can also set traps on the mountain! Forget it, whether it's for yourself or the red carp, Luo Tie, or the unknown deep forest, it's still too dangerous.
Proficient in compilation, the fish cage is not difficult for Liu Tong. Considering the primitiveness of the material, which is not as good as the nylon rope and iron frame, Liu Tong sharpened the bamboo strips used in the fish cage to make it thicker.
Then I tied a wooden stick to the frame, but I couldn't fall apart when I got out of the water! All the places where the hemp rope is used are also a few more rounds.
Liu Tong looked at his work with satisfaction, no matter how he looked at it, it looked a bit like a chicken coop in later generations, about one meter and a half long, and seventy or eighty centimeters in diameter. The biggest difference is that the entrance to the "chicken coop" is a big horn!
"Iron Head, you dead ghost, why haven't you gone fishing yet!"
Just as Liu Tong and the red carp were admiring the masterpiece, the third sister-in-law carried her youngest son on her back and chased after Luo Tie, Luo Tie held a ball of blood-soaked things in her hand, jumped into the yard, braked, and supported one leg on the ground, "Son, is this okay?" ”
Liu Tong pushed Luo Tie's wrist and removed the fishy thing away from his face, "That's it!" ”
The red carp patted the dust on Luo Tie's head, opened the hairline on his forehead, stared at the red and swollen place on his right forehead, and asked, "Tietou, who beat you again?" ”
The third sister-in-law came over and kicked Luo Tie, "You are a dead ghost, what are you waves, don't go fishing!" Seeing that Liu Tong didn't have a smile on his face, his voice became lower and lower.
Liu Tong saw that the third sister-in-law didn't care about the injury on her son's forehead, and he was a little unhappy.
Yu Guang looked at this woman, tall, estimated to be only in her thirties, but she was very vicissitudes of life, her clothes were shabby, her pants seemed to be picked up by others, the length was not enough, and her feet and neck were exposed.
Hey, just thinking about food! Liu Tong couldn't bear to say anything about the third sister-in-law, and reached out to touch Luo Tie's forehead.
"Don't get in the way, the little guy of the Chen family chased me and stumbled." Luo Tie turned his head, afraid that blood would stain Liu Tong's hand.
Liu informed that Luo Tie should have stolen these two chickens from Chen's kitchen somewhere.
The third sister-in-law saw that a son like Liu Tong was there, and it was not good to scold Luo Tie loudly, so she kicked Luo Tie silently.
"Third sister-in-law, we will go fishing immediately, and we will definitely fight more than before." Liu Tong patted the fish cage and was relieved, and Liu informed that the woman had four children, and the man was serving in forced labor, and the family was estimated to be out of food.
"Hey, what is this? What is this fishing? The third sister-in-law's eyes lit up.
"Yes, let's go, Luo Tie, uncle will take you fishing!" Liu Tong walked into the house, grabbed a handful of rice from the rice tank, carried the fish cage and left.
"Uncle, this way!" Luo Tie saw that Liu Tong was in the wrong direction after going out, so he hurriedly pulled the fish cage to the other side. The red carp also followed with a smile.
The Zhaofu Canal is not far away, and the cage is simple, but the location is still exquisite. Liu Tonglao went fishing with Liu Zhen, of course he knew the truth of Spring Beach, Summer Yin, Autumn Pond, and Winter Sun.
The middle of the Zhaofu Canal is very deep, this is early spring, Liu Tong found a place where the water is shallow by the reeds, and put the fish cage sinking stone.
Luo Tieguang was busy working below, and Liu Tong instructed him to sprinkle corn in the middle of the fish cage, and the chicken had already been tied to the middle of the bottom of the fish cage when it went into the water.
By the reeds, the water depth is less than two meters, at this time, whether the fish lay eggs or not, it is very suitable, Liu Tong looked very satisfied, and beckoned Luo Tie to go ashore and go home.
"Uncle, don't you keep it?"
The red carp also seemed to have the same question, and Luo Tie both looked at Liu Tong.
"No, just get up tomorrow morning and collect the fish. Hurry up and get dressed, don't catch a cold. ”
Luo Tie wiped his bone-chilling chest with his clothes, "How can I go into the water in winter!" As he spoke, he turned around and followed Liu Tong step by step.
Before he got home, Liu Tong watched the third sister-in-law waiting at the door, and when he saw the three of them returning empty-handed, Liu Tong clearly saw that her eyes changed from expectation to disappointment.
"Red carp, what about the fish? If you don't catch it, I'll just say, what is the fisherman's thing! The third sister-in-law glanced at Liu Tong cautiously.
"Mother, it's going to be tomorrow morning!" Luo Tie saw Liu Tong go to get the reeds in the yard, so he ran over, hugged a large handful, and walked into the house.
"Soldering iron, don't be so much, don't make a mess, go home quickly, roast your body!"
As if he had made a mistake, Luo Tie put down the reeds and chased the third sister-in-law home.
In the afternoon, the red carp helped Liu Tong wash his clothes again, and to his depression, Liu Tong only had one set of clothes.
Liu Tong draped in a quilt and weaved small animals on the bed. Seeing that Liu Tong was so skillful and the small animals that were compiled were so vivid, they were a hundred times better than those on the market, and they were very happy.
After the red carp dried his clothes, he helped Liu Tong change his medicine, seeing that Liu Tong's wound had healed, and seeing that the life of the two had settled, looking at Liu Tong's handsome and busy appearance, he was a little dizzy with happiness.
Liu Tong just made up a pair of butterflies, and found that the red carp was in a daze, so he stretched out in front of her and shook it, "Red carp, do you think this pair of butterflies doesn't look like the two of us flying?" The red carp seemed to be seen through by Liu Tong, and turned around and ran back to the room.
The next day, Liu Tong was still sleeping lazily and was woken up by the red carp, which was the first time that the red carp woke up Liu Tong, who slept lazily every day.
"Childe, get up and eat, didn't you say that you were going to collect fish early this morning?"
Liu Tong opened his eyes and was startled, only to see a pair of big eyes staring at him almost close to him.
"Soldering iron tip, start point." Liu Tong pushed Luo Tie's thin face away.
"Uncle, I've been here for half an hour!"
Liu Tong had a chill, this kid won't stare at me for an hour.
"Hmm." Liu Tong turned over and found that the range of movements was large, and his abdomen was no longer painful.
In fact, what Liu Tong didn't know was that he used to get up very early every day, and he often didn't get up until he finished practicing, and he slept very comfortably lately.
After a simple breakfast, that is, drinking a bowl of porridge and a bowl of decoction, Liu Tong took the two of them to hum a harvest tune and came to Zhaofuqu.
Luo Tie was still so violent, crackling, stripped off his clothes and pants, and jumped off with a plop.
"Fish, fish!" Luo Tie shouted, and he didn't need to remind him, the two people on the shore had already seen the splash in the underwater fish cage, and heard the sound of fish colliding with the fish cage.
"Don't use brute force!" Liu Tong saw Luo Tie lifting the fish cage vigorously, and hurriedly stopped it, "Don't break up." ”
With another plop, Liu Tong was shocked, and the red carp here took off his shoes and jumped off his clothes!
What is this, crazy girl. Liu Tong hurriedly lay on the shore and commanded the two of them to one on each side, and slowly lifted the fish cage.
The two of them underwater are happy and full of energy. The moment the fish cage came out of the water, I saw some small fish scurrying out of the cracks in the bamboo strips. Some of the fish two fingers wide got stuck in the gaps.
The fish jumped hard, and it was very laborious when it came out of the water, and Liu Tong grabbed the wooden stick next to him and pulled it to the shore.
Fish, a lot of fish, Liu Tong visually inspected, it is estimated that there are more than 30 catties, carp, saury, meal strips, black fish, different sizes, the largest several have three or four catties, what is particularly conspicuous is that there are three catfish with whiskers, black and yellow, there are more than two catties, such a big catfish Liu Tong has never seen before.
"Load the fish, hurry home, don't catch a cold." Liu informed that Luo Tie was not afraid of catching a cold, but it was difficult to say about the red carp.
At this time, the red carp looked at Luo Tie, and Luo Tie looked at the red carp. Liu Tong wondered, why didn't he move, oh, what about your fish basket?
Well, I didn't even bring a fish basket!
When the three of them appeared in the village carrying the fish cage, they attracted bees and butterflies, and kept attracting people to watch.
"Hit? Hit! The third sister-in-law carried the fourth child on her back, shook off the crowd with a smile, and took Liu Tong's side, "Son, let me come", and then pushed the red carp and Luo Tie carried in front of her to go home.
"Iron head, carry you to your house." Seeing that Luo Tie was about to enter his house, the red carp said.
"Okay," the third sister-in-law replied happily.
"Third sister-in-law, let's go out for a while, and we can send half of it to my house later." The red carp put down the fish cage in the courtyard of Luo Tie's house and said.
"Red carp, I'll help you put it away, don't worry." The third sister-in-law smiled very happily.