When Zhang Li saw his little daughter like this, he was moved and wanted to laugh a little.

Zhang Li hugged Zhang Dandan with relief. Zhang Dandan took advantage of the situation to hug her mother's neck, rested her chin on her shoulder, and rubbed it gently.

"Our Dandan has really grown up, and now we can comfort our mother." Zhang Li patted his daughter's back lightly and smiled.

"My sister-in-law said that it is not easy for my mother to pull us up, so we must be very filial to our mother."

Children's words are always straightforward, and they can instantly poke the softest point in people's hearts.

Zhang Li sighed and hugged Zhang Dandan tighter. After a while, she put Zhang Dandan down, "Go, follow my sister-in-law up the mountain." Be obedient. ”

"I know!" Zhang Dandan bent his eyes and said crisply.

The orchard on the mountain has not yet begun to be operated, and Liu Meiniang has not yet fully figured out the terrain on the mountain, so there is no specific plan for the place where an orchard should be drawn. So they're going up the hill today.

I don't know if I don't see it, but it really scared Liu Meiniang when I saw it.

But a surprise, not a fright.

It turned out that there was a small pond about the size of an acre on the back side of the mountain.

The pond is not very far from the foot of the mountain, but the way up is not very easy. Inaccessible.

This small pond is slightly lower than the surrounding area and is surrounded by trees.

I don't know what kind of tree has small white flowers on it, and when the wind blows, it falls on the surface of the pond. And then gently fluttering. Occasionally, a fish or two would jump up from the water and swallow the white flowers.

All three of them lamented the beautiful view.

There's nothing more than this, right? Liu Meiniang thought to herself.

Although the scenery is beautiful, Liu Meiniang's next thought is how to make use of this pond.

Fish farming.

That was her first reaction.

After careful observation, Liu Meiniang found that the small stream at the foot of the mountain flowed down from this small pond. But the pond has not dried up, which means that this is not a pool of stagnant water, but a living spring!

Zhang Jihan found that there was a small spring in the center of the pond, from which water would gurgle out and fill the pond.

This really made Liu Meiniang very happy, and the water with the spring has solved the problem of insufficient oxygen supply in the pond.

All you need to do is put some fry in the pond and then use a fine-mesh net to block the entrance to the stream and prevent the fish from escaping.

"Let's develop and use this place." Liu Meiniang said, "This pond is our fish pond." ”

"Hah! Will we be able to eat fish every day from now on? Zhang Dandan clapped his hands happily.

Zhang Jihan is not as optimistic as her, "Sister-in-law, we can choke enough to catch fish, and we have no experience in fish farming." ”

These words are Zhang Jihan's heartfelt words. His knowledge of fish was limited to carp, crucian carp, catfish, skullcap and grass carp. I don't know anything else. It took him so many years to distinguish between these five types of fish, not to mention the other fish that had no characteristics—they all looked the same, after all.

Liu Meiniang laughed, "It's true that I don't have any experience, but we can give it a try." ”

"No, we're not profitable yet...... "Why do you have to do this loss-making business?"

The second half of the sentence was swallowed back by Zhang Jihan, he was afraid that he would be beaten by Liu Meiniang if he said it.

Liu Meiniang waved her hand, "Don't worry, I'm definitely not going to do anything I'm not sure about." This fish pond doesn't mean that it can be done well, we have to fix the road up the mountain first. ”

Zhang Jihan thought that Liu Meiniang was going to give up, but not only did she not give up, but she also added a sum of expenses. This fish farming business is inevitable.

"Build roads? What are you doing with this? Zhang Jihan obviously disagreed, "Don't we come up if we have no way?" Why do you do that? ”

They had less than twenty taels of silver in their hands, and they were making orchards and fish fry. I can't keep a cent of the money in my hand, not to mention it, it's a good thing that it's not upside down.

Now Zhang Jihan thinks that if he can reduce the cost, he will try to reduce the cost. It's really the master who knows that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and he is getting more and more picky now, especially in these irrelevant things. Resolutely resist extravagance and waste.

Even if it's just a penny, try to save as much as you can.

I'm afraid that these plans will fail at that time, and there will be no pants left.

Liu Meiniang's vision is obviously more long-term than Zhang Jihan's, "This road repair is not just for our own family." It's also for someone else. ”

"What?" Zhang Jihan was confused, "This mountain belongs to our family, what is it for others?" ”

Liu Meiniang smiled mysteriously, "You just don't have a long-term vision enough." Our fish pond is not entirely for our own farming. The water here is clear, and the fish raised are bound to be fresh and fat. For fishing enthusiasts, this is bound to be a great place to go fishing. ”

"If our fish pond isn't doing as well, then we can change our strategy and turn it into a fishing destination." Liu Meiniang narrowed her eyes and said.

Liu Meiniang's plan is good, but Zhang Jihan is not very optimistic about this plan.

The villagers of Liuhe Village had not thought about fish farming before, but it basically ended in failure.

First, fish farming is not so simple.

Second, the cost of its upfront investment is relatively high, not to say that it is enough to find a pond and throw the fish into it. Ordinary people can't do such a large amount of capital output, not to mention that the income is also uncertain. In contrast, more people will choose to farm honestly.

There is a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and the rich families enclose the land, so that the peasants become tenant farmers, waiting for the harvest all day long, and do not worry about eating and drinking, so they do not think of raising fish.

"Aunt Li and her man in our village have tried to raise fish before." Zhang Jihan said, "Uncle Li has lost a lot of money. At that time, Aunt Li didn't say hello when she saw anyone, most of them had no light on her face. ”

Liu Meiniang could almost imagine the expression on Aunt Li's face. She searched her mind for the memories of the original owner, and found that such an event did happen a few years ago.

When Uncle Li found a pond, he didn't know which tendon was pumped, so he went back and yelled with Aunt Li to raise fish.

Aunt Li originally disagreed, but her repeated dissuasion didn't work. In the end, Uncle Li said, "When the fish grows up, they will be sold, and the money earned will be several times more than farming." "Convincing.

The pond is not far to the south of Liuhe Village, the area of the pond is not small, the water quality is very good, and the pond is quite deep. It's quite suitable for fish farming.

The original owner would sometimes go to the pond and sit on the edge of the pond and blow the wind.

So Uncle Li bought a batch of fish fry and threw them in, and it looked like that. It was also since Uncle Li built the fish pond that Aunt Li fenced off the land, and a wooden sign was hung on it, which said "No Fishing".

Aunt Li and Uncle Li are both coarse people and can't read at all, and these four words are still specially written by others.

There are neighbors all around, and when I see such a sign, I don't really want to deal with this couple. Always think of people so badly.

There is nothing left in the memory of the original owner of the breeding process in the middle.

It's just that one day later, the original owner just left the village and asked about a fishy smell. When she frowned and searched for the source of the smell, she saw Aunt Li squatting on the ground crying in the dark next to the fish pond, and the dead fish floating in the pond.

The original owner was stunned by the scene in front of him, and the smell of rotten fish meat drilled into Liu Meiniang's nose one by one. She looked at it a few times, then turned and ran away. I'm afraid I'm going to throw up if I stay there any longer.

The fishy smell wafted through the air in Liuhe Village for nearly three days before it was cleaned up by a torrential rain.

If something like this happens, the pond with excellent water quality is completely abandoned. No one goes there anymore to cool off, waiting for the water to purify itself.

For a long time, I could still smell a little bad smell when I walked to the fish pond, and the land seemed to be pickled by the smell of fish.

The Li family and his wife lost a lot of money because of this incident and lost a lot of money. Whenever the original owner passed by their house, he could always hear shouts from inside, and the words were very vulgar, and the original owner couldn't hear them at all.

Since then, the original owner has been used to walking around the Li family.

Aunt Li is a person who likes to be careful, and when the original owner appeared in the pond that day, she felt that the other party came to see her jokes.

So I have always been unaccustomed to Liu Meiniang and the Zhang family. This is still the case.

Liu Meiniang thought carefully about the reason for Uncle Li's failure to raise fish, and soon became clear.

That pond has a little ecosystem of its own. Uncle Li has no problem putting the fish in, but the number of fry is really not small, and they are all fry of one species.

The fry period is not very obvious, and when the fish grows up, the problem is exposed.

The pond is very deep, and the fish fry that Uncle Li bought live close to the surface of the water, and the space below is not fully utilized. So much so that the fish were all piled up together, and the jam was almost like the subway in the capital.

And the pond is not a reasonable rectangle, but a circle. Although the sun is shining and there are aquatic plants that can provide oxygen, it is still not enough compared to the oxygen needed by the fish.

Uncle Li has always been concerned about his fish, but he doesn't care about the condition of the pond itself. Aquatic weeds grow wildly in the pond, causing an overabundance of aquatic weeds that absorb a lot of oxygen in the water. Aquatic plants grow in an unfavorable environment and die one after another. But the dead aquatic weeds have polluted the water body.