Chapter Seventy-One: I Want to Fish
After Grandma Fang left, Fang Xiaocui sat on the kang and was stunned for a long time, then she opened the kang cabinet and took out the key, opened the locked box, and pulled out a letter from the bottom. She didn't open it, just gently stroked the envelope with her hand.
Besides, Fang Yichen's side, in the end, she exchanged a new song for her afternoon vacation. Then followed He Yongzhi and the two went fishing with ice digging tools.
In order to avoid people, the two did not choose this section of the river outside Tunzi, but walked a little farther, and seeing that there was no one around, He Yongzhi cautiously tried to walk to the middle of the river.
After making sure that the ice in the river was thick enough, Fang Yichen ran over, handed the pickaxe in his hand to Grandpa He, and took an axe to chop firewood, and began to chisel against the ice.
"You start first, grandpa first planing out a shape, you are chiseling." He Yongzhi pushed the dogskin hat on his head up, raised the pickaxe with both hands and began to shave the ice surface one at a time.
The two of them worked for about half an hour before the ice was broken, and the river below couldn't wait to rush out of the hole.
"It's open, it's open." Fang Yichen was excited.
"You get out of the way and back off." He Yongzhi quickly dragged the apprentice who was about to plunge into the ice cave.
Then he took turns using pickaxes and axes, and it took more than ten minutes to open an ice hole the size of a basin in the ice.
"Alright, you can take some fish food and sprinkle it in." He Yongzhi greeted.
"Hey." Fang Yichen grabbed a handful of rice soaked in medicinal wine from the back basket and sprinkled it into the ice cave. This is the bait prepared in advance.
"Hey, here, here, it's quite big, girl, be careful, just watch from the side for a while, don't stretch out your hand to know, if you are taken to the water by a fish, grandpa can't save you." He Yongzhi's eyes were good, and he had already seen a black shadow swimming towards him under the ice.
If you look at the size of the black shadow, you can tell that it must be a big fish.
"Got it." Of course, Fang Yichen knew that because this fish was summoned by her, this time she had learned her lesson, and she thought of one directly when she thought about it, so now there was only a black shadow under the ice.
In the blink of an eye, the black shadow was already under the ice cave, and then a surprising scene happened, the fish actually jumped out of the ice cave by itself, and landed on the ice next to it at once, probably regretting it after jumping up, it swayed from side to side, wanting to go back to the water.
"Grandpa He, quick, grab it." Fang Yichen's exclamation broke the momentary silence, He Yongzhi quickly handed the pickaxe in his hand forward, and then the big fish that struggled forward was hooked away from the ice cave.
"Hey, I didn't expect there to be such a big fish in this river." The two of them circled around the big fish on the ground who was still struggling, He Yongzhi was surprised, "This is also strange, this fish is not in the water, I have to jump out, since it has jumped out, then appoint." ”
Fang Yichen happily followed him, "Trust me now, I've really seen big fish, and there is more than one." Why don't we go ahead and see if we can pop up another one. ”
"You think these fish are so stupid, it's amazing to jump out of one, and you still want them to line up and jump up." He Yongzhi had already picked up the big fish on the ground when he spoke.
Because the fish is not dead yet, it is struggling very much.
"Gee, it's pretty energetic. This one is estimated to be forty or fifty pounds. He Yongzhi put the fish in the back basket.
The basket is a little too small to fit all the fish, so the fish is head-down, and the small half of the tail is still swinging outside the basket.
He looked at the back basket, pulled Yaya and began to discuss: "Yaya, grandpa has something to discuss with you." ”
"What's the matter?" Fang Yichen's face was excited, this was her first winter fishing, she just watched the big fish jump out by itself, and she was so excited to see it, thinking that she would definitely call another big fish for a while, and she would have another good time.
"You see this fish is quite big, and grandpa's back basket can't fit it......"
Fang Yichen immediately distanced himself from him, and the excitement on his face turned into defensiveness, "You don't want to go home now, we've been busy for nearly an hour, and it's not been ten minutes since we stood here fishing." ”
He Yongzhi thought that what the child said was really right, but who would have thought that the big fish in the River Kwai would be so unbearable, and they would jump out when they saw a hole, stupid and breathable.
"We can't take it again, why don't we go back today, and when we have time in two days, grandpa will bring you over to play, okay?" He tried to talk to her anyway.
Fang Yichen stood there and didn't speak, the expression on his face turned sad and sad, and a pair of big eyes blinked, looking at He Yongzhi.
He Yongzhi didn't hold on for a minute before raising his hand in surrender, "Okay, okay, if you don't go home, don't you go home, you can play hard, grandpa is with you, don't drop the golden beans, this cold day, your eyelashes will be frozen for you in a while." ”
"Hmph, I didn't drop the golden beans." Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Fang Yichen immediately turned around and ran towards the freezer.
And the tears that couldn't fall from her eyes just now were still there!
"Don't get too close! Slip around the ice, and you carefully slip out into the hole. He Yongzhi hurriedly shouted in the back.
"Got it." Fang Yichen is very sorry for her life, she wants to eat the fish, but she doesn't want the fish to eat her.
"Why don't we catch a grass carp and eat sauerkraut fish at night?" She said suddenly after walking around the freeze several times.
"Well, I'll eat whatever you do, but you're thinking too well, is that thing something you can catch whatever you want?" He Yongzhi also walked over.
"Then why not, yesterday my great-grandfather gave me an ideological education lesson. He taught me that the human mind needs to be motivated to guide, and that is the goal. With the goal, our efforts will not be put into the river, with the goal, our inner potential will bloom, with the goal, our life journey will be shining, with the goal, we have the hope of success.
In order to achieve the goal, we must not be afraid of floating clouds to cover our eyes, not afraid of 'wanting to cross the Yellow River and ice and Sichuan, and will climb the mountains full of snow in Taihang', not afraid of 'the difficulty of the Shu Road, difficult to go to the blue sky', and not afraid of ......"
"Oh, okay, okay, don't learn from your great-grandfather, I don't know why he has been studying abroad for so many years, why he still talks about these poems every day." He Yongzhi hurriedly stopped Yaya's next tirade, he was a big old man, and he couldn't listen to this, "Isn't it just to eat grass carp, then fish, what's the use of talking about those who don't care." ”
Fang Yichen nodded behind him with an approving expression, she could understand what her great-grandfather said, but she couldn't say it herself, because she didn't have that literary literacy.
So she decided that the next step was to learn Chinese hard, and strive to be a temperamental beauty who scolded people without dirty words when she grew up.