Chapter 31: Catching a Fish
Her name is Yufang, and she is from a neighboring village. Brother Qingjun fell in love with her before marriage, but her father and mother didn't fall in love with Brother Qingjun, and later they both got married, and this matter seems to have passed.
However, Qingjun's brother-in-law left a son and left, and her man left a son and left, so the two of them can rebuild the old good. But that Yufen refused to remarry.
Qingjun is also dead-eyed, his daughter-in-law has been dead for two years, and no one said that the matchmaker is gone, and he wants to marry her.
In the last life, Brother Qingjun failed to marry her after all, and she married a divorced girl in middle age, and the woman was very strong, and she managed Brother Qingjun to death, but Brother Qingjun was not happy.
And Yufang served her in-laws alone until she was old, and raised her son alone, but her son married his daughter-in-law but listened to his daughter-in-law and didn't support her, and she died alone.
In this life, Qinglian wants to try to change their fate.
Saying that, when she got to the edge of the ditch, Qingjun used an earthen gun under Qinglian's command to steal a hole in the thick ice, and then made the hole bigger, and put her next hand on it, and then she used a flashlight to shine on the hole.
Sure enough, soon, a fish swam over, Qingjun screamed excitedly, and the monkey was anxious to reach out to fish, but Qinglian slapped the back of his hand, asking him to be patient, don't startle the fish away, and wait for the fish to jump up in groups before starting to fish.
Qingjun was simply impressed by this cousin: when did she learn this skill?
Qinglian shouted in surprise: "Brother Qingjun, catch fish, catch fish!" ”
The two of them hurriedly scooped up the fish. The fish were stupid by the cold, and they were still squeezing into the hole......
"Hahaha, it's been a bucket so soon, and it's all alive......" Qingjun shouted excitedly like a child.
The brother and sister put away their belongings and went home with the bucket full of fish in joy. When she arrived at the door, Qinglian asked Brother Qingjun to take a big one and make it for her little nephew to eat, and she took the rest home.
Qingjun was not polite, so he picked a big one, Qinglian bit his ear and said: "Brother, this is a secret between the two of us, we can't let others know about our fish-catching skills, otherwise we will soon catch all the fish in this ditch." ”
Qingjun hugged the lively fish and said, "Don't worry, your brother is not stupid, I will bring the fish bucket to your home." ”
The fish must be alive in order to sell for a good price, and on a cold day, the fish will definitely freeze to death as soon as it comes out of the water, and you have to find a way to "keep the fish" warm.
Qinglian thought about carrying the bucket of fish home, but she was afraid that the neighbors would hear the movement, so she carried the big bucket full of fish into the house.
"What?" Wang Xiuli, who was making shoes under the lamp, looked up and asked.
Then he smelled the fishy smell and covered his mouth with a frown.
"Ah, eldest sister, fish, still alive......" The second and third sisters exclaimed.
The little sister panicked when she heard the "fish", and jumped down from the bed with her bare feet and wearing a small close-fitting jacket. was lifted and stuffed into the quilt by Wang Xiuli angrily.
Qinglian looked at her little sister who was about to cry, and didn't dare to touch her because of her cold hands, so she had to tell her softly not to move in the bed, and she would make her a fish to eat in a while.
He Hongshan, who was in the livestock house, had already heard the movement of the house, and ran over without waiting for his daughter to call him, and when he saw the bucket full of fish, his eyes were about to pop out, and he shouted in surprise: "Qinglian, where did you get a bucket of fish, it's still alive, it's winter!" ”
"Yes, eldest sister, why did you get so many fish?" My sister also screamed in surprise.
Wang Xiuli also looked at her daughter with a puzzled expression.
Qinglian looked at the surprised expressions of the family, she was very proud, so she asked her sister to wash her hands with some warm water, and then shrugged her shoulders and said, "I was caught in the ditch behind our village with Brother Qingjun, but don't tell others." ”
Then she told her the trick of catching fish with Qingjun, and the whole family was stunned when they heard it. He Hongshan exclaimed ashamedly: "I have lived for more than forty years, and I don't know as much as my daughter, and I can catch fish in a very simple way in winter......
Qinglian knew that several of her younger sisters were hungry to death, anyway, there were a lot of fish, so she made one for them to eat first, no, make two more, and the whole family would be satisfied.
She killed the fish with her father, washed it and began to make it. When it was cold, she boiled a pot of fish soup, sprinkled with some chopped green onions, and poured some vinegar......
On a winter night, Qinglian scooped the snow-white fish and the thick white fish soup into a bowl, and the family ate hot and sweaty around the pot.
The third sister Mulian drank a bowl of fish soup, smacked her lips and said with a happy face: "Eldest sister, you have caught so many fish enough for us to eat for several days." ”
Without waiting for Qinglian to speak, Wang Xiuli said, "I'll send a few to your grandmother's house tomorrow, so that they can all try it." ”
Qinglian said unceremoniously: "No one will give it, I will sell it in the market tomorrow, and sell it to my second sister to buy sneakers." ”
Wang Xiuli heard her daughter's words like a slap, and her face turned red all of a sudden. But she couldn't say what her daughter was from, her daughter was to make up the money for her second sister to buy shoes!
He Hongshan knew his daughter's intention to catch fish late at night, and was very ashamed, thinking that he was a big man and couldn't make up money in case of trouble, but the eldest daughter found a way to make money by herself.
But he still cared about his daughter-in-law's face, so he discussed with his daughter in a whisper: "In winter, fish is fresh, let your mother send two to your grandmother to taste." ”
Qinglian thought about it and said: "It's okay to give my grandmother to eat, but I can't give it to her, the eldest uncle and the second uncle have more than ten children alone, and two or three are not enough to stuff the teeth, bring my grandmother tomorrow, let's eat whatever your grandmother wants." ”
Wang Xiuli really gave her mother a fish, she just wanted to please the two brothers, and by the way, she met her "bamboo horse" again, and penetrated his tone. Hearing Qinglian's words, she got up and said, "No need, your grandmother doesn't like to eat fish." ”
With that, he walked out of the kitchen.
Although He Hongshan protects his daughter-in-law, it is not easy for his daughter-in-law to catch fish at night in the cold, if he really asks his daughter-in-law to take a few from her mother's house, he is really reluctant. Besides, his family is also in a hurry to use money to buy sneakers for his second daughter!
Qinglian directly ignored Wang Xiuli. When she saw that she had finished eating, there was no soup in the pot, so she quickly brushed the pot and washed the dishes, so that she could boil water to soak her feet and sleep.
While brushing the dishes, she asked her father how to keep the fish warm, so that no one would die when he sold the fish tomorrow.
Dad said, "Hehe, isn't this easy, don't you know, this well water is warm in winter and cool in summer, let's pour the hot well water into a jar and put the lid on it, and put it in the house where I sleep, the livestock house is warm, and the fish will not freeze this night." ”
Qinglian breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, so she hurriedly brushed the pot, poured the foot soaking water into the pot, plugged wood into the stove to boil the water, and she went to get the water tank with her father.