As time went on, from time to time, fish jumped out of the water and landed on the ice, and the heads of the fish could be seen under the exposed water.

Huang Laosi wanted to smash it bigger, but Huang Dou hurriedly shouted: "Fourth uncle, don't smash it." It's not good to catch fish if you smash too much, and it's not good if it collapses. ”

Huang Laosi stopped smashing the ice and looked at the soybeans, and Huang Laoda hurriedly said: "Doudou is right, this small piece, the fish are here, and when it is smashed, the ice collapses, and the fish are scattered, which is not easy to catch." ”

Huang Lao Er called out to his son: "Deming, you go and bring the net for fishing at grandpa's house, the big net, and bring two more buckets by the way." Let your mother help your milk clear out a few large tanks in the utility room, fill half a tank of well water, and wait for the fish to be raised in the tank. ”

"Hey." Huang Deming agreed loudly and ran away, and Huang Delei also ran home: "I'll also go back and get two buckets, and let my mother help me fetch water and raise fish." ”

Boss Huang hurriedly instructed: "By the way, call your eldest aunt and your fourth aunt to help open the tank, the fish can't be raised too much, and it is easy to die." Be silent, don't shout for a village to hear. ”

The two little brothers hurriedly agreed and ran home, but the snow was thick, and the running was not much different from usual.

Huang Laohan's house, there are four cylinders piled up in the utility room of the front house, all of which were used by the Huang family to store grain in the past, and later there are reeds made of Weizi Tun grain, and the jar is too big and not suitable for pickles, so it is idle.

Soybeans stood on the shore and stamped their feet excitedly, not even feeling cold when the cold wind blew on their faces.

Huang Guigui was so anxious that he turned around, but his brothers didn't let him go down the embankment, for fear that he would fall into the water.

Don't talk about him, even Huang Deguang's sons were only on the shore and didn't let him go.

You must know that this channel river, but artificially dug along the tributaries of the East Lake, the embankment is high and steep, accidentally slide down, and you can also fall on the ice with a blue nose and swollen face, not to mention falling into the water, then you must not freeze to death!

Huang Deguang was big, and he took a few little brothers to run back and forth to deliver fish to the house.

In the end, even Huang Laohan was alarmed and ran to help, the four daughters-in-law of the Huang family, and Grandma Huang were busy raising fish at home.

The winter night came very early, and it didn't seem to feel anything, and it was already dark.

A few small ones were taken home to roast the fire, and the four brothers of the Huang family and Huang Laohan were busy until dark before coming back.

At this moment, the snow is falling, but several men are steaming hot on their heads, but their faces are smiling.

Everyone went back to their respective homes, changed their sweaty underwear, and went to Huang Laohan's house again.

Tonight, because they were busy fishing and raising fish, and they didn't cook their own meals, Grandma Huang directly told several daughters-in-law that they were all eating in a big pot of rice in the old house tonight.

Multigrain rice, stewed fish in a large pot, put pickled cabbage, and don't use a large bowl, just use a basin.

The old man of the hall took several sons and a few eldest grandsons to a table and served a pot of fish. On the small kitchen table, Grandma Huang took a few daughters-in-law plus granddaughters and small grandchildren to a table, which was also full of sauerkraut stewed fish.

The soybeans were mixed with fish soup, and a few pieces of fish were sandwiched, and after eating quickly, they ran to the hall house, and she wanted to hear how their grandfather was going to sell the fish.

Huang Laohan was in a very good mood today, and his family caught so many fish in the wind and snow in one afternoon, and at least 180 catties at first glance. Selling at the current market price is equivalent to the whole family earning more than one or two silver today.

You must know that the whole family of more than 20 people, just by farming, there are no two taels of silver left a year. This is still the surplus point of his family's land, and the less land has paid taxes, and it is not enough to have food and clothing.

The extra income of the family basically depends on the strong labor to help the rich families, or go to the town dock to carry the work.

When Huang Laohan returned to the village to build a house, he bought an entire piece of wasteland in the east of the village.

Out of the village, to the east was a wilderness, for the land was barren, uncultivated, overgrown with trees and weeds.

The channel river for watering farmland in the village is in the east, however, this field near the village is the Huang family, which was a large landlord back then, but unfortunately the son lost the family, and when he sold the land, more than 30 acres of land under the channel were bought by Huang Laohan.

Huang Laohan also built four large houses in one go, all of which were three small houses in the front and three large houses in the back.

The front three rooms, the east room is a stove room, and the middle one has a door before and after, and the family usually eats, and goes in and out from the middle. Put sundries and farm tools in the west, and you can live with more children.

There are three rooms in the back, and the middle is the hall room, with a cabinet for the incense burner, a large square table and four benches, which are usually used to entertain guests for dinner and deliberations. There are two rooms in the east and west, and a courtyard in the middle.

The courtyard is large, the place is also wide, and there is a stone path in the middle of the courtyard, which leads from the front house to the back hall. On both sides of the road, there are livestock sheds on one side, raising chickens, ducks and geese, and fruit trees on the other.

There is a big road at the door, so Huang Lao Han took a few sons to the mountains to cut stones, and paved the roads in the yards and at the door of several houses smoothly, and did not fall into the rain on cloudy days.

There is a small door on the courtyard wall, and the four families are easy to move around.

The house where Huang Laohan lived was more than 50 meters away from the Wang family next door.

The more than 50 meters of open space separated by a fence was fenced, sorted out and planted vegetables, and made a vegetable garden.

From the junction of the two land boundaries, a drainage ditch was also opened on the west side, which was only one meter wide.

The drainage ditch is in the shape of a "匚", and the current four houses and a large vegetable garden are located in this drainage ditch.

At the beginning, it was built like this, one: it was to make it clean, that is, to facilitate the movement of the village, and to have children and grandchildren in the future to build a house in the vacant place.

Two: It is easy to drain, and it can also be watered in the back of the house and the large vegetable patch in the west.

Usually, if the nearest neighbor wants to visit the door, he has to walk through the road in front of the vegetable garden to reach the courtyard wall of the old man and his wife.

At that time, Huang Laohan already had four sons, and these four houses were built by Huang Laohan for his four sons, that is, he would have another son in the future, and there was still room for him.

Huang Laoda lived in the first house in the easternmost place, and the three brothers were arranged in order, and Huang Laohan lived in the fourth house.

There are rules for building houses in rural areas, the eldest son lives first, the east is the first, and the children will become a family in the future, and the old man will live with the eldest son.

Don't underestimate the distance of more than 50 meters, the usual neighborhood exchanges do not affect it, and there are many fewer contradictions.

For example: What did your pig arch my family's dish, and my chicken ran to your house to lay eggs, this kind of trivial matter, because it is not next to each other, there is a lot less right and wrong.

Today they took advantage of the wind and snow to make a profit, and did not alarm the villagers. Tomorrow, as soon as the wind and snow stop, it may alarm the neighbors if you go fishing again. Even if the wind and snow don't stop, sooner or later it will be discovered, and it will not be his turn to take advantage of this all the time.

Huang Laohan thought for a while and instructed his sons: "Tomorrow morning, the eldest and the fourth, you two brothers will take Deguang Deming to the town to sell fish." If there is a large account to order the best, it is estimated that after everyone starts fishing, the price will fall. ”

"Second and third, you brothers are at home, smash that ice again tomorrow and continue fishing. While everyone still doesn't know, how much can be fished, this time is to take the lead. ”

Huang Guigui had just finished eating a bowl of rice, and hurriedly said, "Dad, tomorrow I will go to the town with Leizi and the eldest brother and the fourth brother." We can't do anything at home, let Deguang Deming help the second brother and the third brother deliver fish, they are energetic, running back and forth on the road, and do not delay things. ”

Huang Laohan thought about it, felt that the old son was right, and nodded: "Okay, don't go to the river to mix, it's okay if you freeze and fall, big girl, the three of you sisters will be at home tomorrow to watch your younger brothers and sisters." ”

Now that she has been able to catch fish, Huang Dou doesn't want to go out in the snow and ice, she still prefers to stay at home and bake the brazier.

Early the next morning, before dawn, the Huang family rose up to cook smoke, Huang Boss and Huang Laosi had an early meal, and launched two trolleys, on each side of which two wooden barrels were placed, and the barrels were full of water and fish.

Huang Laohan stuffed straw around the barrel, and carefully covered it with a straw curtain to prevent freezing, but fortunately, Nanshan Town is not far away, even if it snows, it can be walked in an hour.

Huang Guigui and Huang Delei also got up early to have a good meal, and their task today is to help Huang Laosi send the fish to the town and sell it back.

This way, it is not far to say, and it is not easy to walk, but fortunately, the village is close to the main road, and the river embankment is on the east side of the village, and it is the main road to turn down. This road is uphill and downhill, not very smooth, not farming, basically only Huang Laohan's family walks

The people in the village basically walk from the west of the village, the small road in the west of the village has been walking, the road is flat, and it is the main road to walk more than 200 meters.

Huang Lao Da and Huang Lao Si walked in the east of the village, close to home, and the rest of the Huang family had already eaten and were ready to go to the river embankment, just by the way, they just pushed the big road to them.

When we got to the main road, there was a lot less snow on the road because of the pedestrians and ox carts from the villages to the town, but it was not particularly easy to walk, after all, the snow was solid, but the road was more slippery.

The remaining labor force of the Huang family went up to the river embankment and began to smash the ice to catch fish, and today the ice was easily smashed open, and the most tired was not to smash the ice to catch fish, but to send fish to the family.

In the end, Huang Laohan found two ropes, one end was tied to Huang Laoer's waist, and the other end was tied to Deguang Deming's waist, and Deguang Deming could finally stand under the river embankment to catch fish.

And the third child went back and forth to send fish to home, and when he was tired of running, he tied the rope to the waist of the third child, and replaced the second child to send fish.

Huang Laosan carried two buckets of fish at a time, and when he sent fish home for the first time, Huang Dou couldn't help but feel distressed when he looked at his father sweaty.

When I pat myself on the head, I really got more and more stupid.

When Huang Laosan poured the fish out of the tank, he saw that his little girl was struggling to push a board out of the utility room.

"Bean, what are you doing with the board, Dad will help you get it." Saying that, Huang Laosan put down the bucket in his hand and went to help his daughter move the board.

"Dad, you drag the board with a rope, put the bucket on the board, and drag it in the snow to save effort, so that you can put two more buckets at a time, and you won't be tired."

Huang Laosan looked at his daughter, and then at the board, hey, he is not as good as a child.

This board was used by the soybean brothers and sisters for skating some time ago, and two holes for tying ropes have been carved out in two corners.

Huang Laosan put the bucket on the wooden board and asked Huang Dou: "Dou, do you want to go to play with your father, and wait for your father to drag you back." ”

When Huang Dou heard this, he hurriedly climbed up to the board and sat in the middle, and laughed when he opened his mouth: "Dad, run, come on"

As soon as Huang Laosan dragged his daughter out of the house, he met the eldest daughter-in-law of the Wang family next door, who was walking over here: "Huang Laosan, what are you doing in your house, in and out." ”

Huang Laosan scratched his head, not knowing how to answer, but Huang Dou replied crisply: "Aunt Wang, my father pulled me to catch fish, and Doudou wants to eat fish." ”