Chapter 62: Fishing
"Bang". With a bang, the hoe smashed on the ice, and the broken ice splashed everywhere, and Liu Yiyu's hand holding the hoe shook it.
This ice surface is so strong that it doesn't take a little effort, I'm afraid I won't be able to smash this ice surface.
"Bang bang". The sound reverberated across the empty ice.
The two sisters took turns to dig the ice cave, and it took half an hour to dig an ice cave with a radius of half a meter in width.
After the ice cave was just opened, the river below the ice cave did not stir, and soon formed a thin layer of ice, which is enough to show that the weather is cold now.
Liu Yiyu gently brushed away the thin ice under the ice cave, and the tentacles were piercing and cold, and Liu Yiyu shivered.
Then, Liu Yiyu took out the black flour cake from the bamboo house from his arms.
Crush the black flour cake little by little and throw it into the ice cave.
"Eldest sister, can't this method succeed, after so long, the fish haven't seen it yet?" At this time, half an hour passed, Liu Yishuang shrunk his hand into his sleeve, shrunk his neck, and walked back and forth towards Liu Yiyu.
"It should be". In his previous life, Liu Yiyu had seen a new article on ice fishing in the north on TV.
It seems that in winter, due to the low temperature, coupled with the ice and snow cover, the aquatic plants are dead, the algae do not grow, and the fish have not eaten, and Liu Yiyu crushed the black flour cake into the water, there should be fish surfacing from the water.
In addition, because the oxygen in the general water is dissolved in the air, when it freezes, this dissolution cannot occur, and the oxygen in the water will be reduced, but because the metabolism of the fish is lower in winter, the oxygen consumption is less, and it can still meet the requirements, but it is in a low oxygen state. When the ice hole comes into contact with the air, oxygen dissolves into the water, resulting in a high local oxygen concentration. Animals have an instinct to tend to oxygen in a state of hypoxia, so they concentrate on the ice hole.
As soon as Liu Yiyu's words fell, the surface of the ice hole in the river rippled in circles.
"Here it is". As soon as Liu Yiyu's words fell, at the ice hole on the lake surface, an adult crucian carp the size of a palm surfaced on the surface, bubbling and swallowing the lake water.
"Really". After Liu Yishuang saw a fish surfaced, he didn't care about the cold, so he walked directly to Liu Yiyu and grabbed the fish in the river directly.
"Eldest sister, this fish is really stupid, I don't know how to jump, and I didn't resist?" After catching the fish, Liu Yishuang said with some excitement.
This fish doesn't know how to resist, but these fish have been starved of oxygen under the ice for a long time, and like people, after the brain is deprived of oxygen, they are naturally sluggish.
"Hurry up and fill a basin of water and raise these fish first, otherwise they will freeze and die directly, and our family still expects these fish to buy some silver?"
"Oh, yes, yes". After Liu Yishuang heard his eldest sister's words, he nodded inappropriately, hurriedly carried the wooden basin next to him, scooped up half a basin of water, and then put the fish he caught in the wooden basin.
The fish I just caught were kept in the wooden basin for a while, and after I was afraid that after absorbing enough oxygen, I became lively and jumped up again, and in the wooden basin, I jumped up and down a little restlessly.
After catching a fish, there are one and two, and every other tea or a quarter of an hour, you can catch a crucian carp the size of an adult's palm, or a grass carp weighing two or three catties.
If it weren't for today's drought, the water level on the river has dropped, and the children of the farmers have been in charge of the family early, and the family has no food, they would go around the river to fish and catch shrimp, resulting in a lot fewer fish in the river than before, otherwise Liu Yiyu could have caught more fish.
An hour.
Every indirect time is too long, there are fewer and fewer fish surfacing the surface, and now it is raining snow flakes the size of an adult's finger, always squatting aside, no activity, Liu Yiyu's hands and feet are a little frozen.
"Third sister, it's not too early, let's go back today, tomorrow we will find another place, dig ice fishing, the fish in this place, I'm afraid we will catch almost it." Liu Yiyu took a breath of hot air on his cold hands, rubbed it, and said to Liu Yishuang.
"CD listens to the eldest sister". Although Liu Yishuang still wants to wait, catch more fish, and let the family sell some silver, but what his eldest sister said is right, the time for the fish to surface has been getting longer and longer, I am afraid that the fish near this ice hole have been almost caught, and in addition, since I and my eldest sister have been here for so long, their limbs are frozen and stiff, and it is almost time to go back.
Liu Yishuang nodded in response, and the two sisters carried the wooden basin to the bamboo house of the Liu family.
In just two or three hours, the two sisters Liu Yiyu caught three grass carp weighing two or three catties, and as for the crucian carp the size of an adult's palm, there were six.
Now that the price of fish in winter is comparable to that of meat, I am afraid that if these fish are bought, at least they will be able to buy a penny.
Inside the bamboo house of the Liu family.
"Mother, where did the eldest sister and the third sister go, why haven't they returned?" Liu Yihao went out with the sixth sister Liu Yimeng and a few of them today, and when he came back, after Liu Yihao didn't see his eldest sister and third sister, Liu Yihao looked at the door and asked Liu Li, who was cooking in the kitchen.
"This mother doesn't know, your eldest sister and third sister took a wooden basin and needle and thread at home and went out, and my mother doesn't know what they did." Liu Li fried vegetables in his hands, and said without looking back.
"Fifth brother, look, the eldest sister and the third sister are back." Liu Yiyang, who was waiting for Liu Yiyu outside the bamboo house with Liu Yihao, saw Liu Yiyu and Liu Yishuang coming back, and Liu Yiyang shouted without looking back.
spread his legs and ran in the direction of Liu Yiyu.
"Seventh brother, you slow down, be careful not to fall."
"Eldest sister, I know, eldest sister, what are you carrying in your hands." Liu Yiyang ran to Liu Yiyu, tilted his head, looked at Liu Yiyu with dark eyes, and asked in a blink.
"Seventh brother, is it a fish?"
"Fish, why are there fish at this time?" Although Liu Yiyang is young, he also knows that at this time, the fish are all under the ice, and they can't catch fish.
Suddenly, Liu Yiyang looked at Liu Yiyu with some confusion in his eyes.
"See for yourself." Liu Yiyu motioned to Liu Yishuang to lower the wooden basin a little, so that Liu Yiyang could see the fish in the wooden basin.
"Is it really fish? Eldest sister, how did you catch this fish, is this fish still alive? ”。 After Liu Yiyang saw that there were really fish in the wooden basin, he poked these fish, and when he saw the fish jumping around, Liu Yiyang's face showed surprise.
"Eldest sister, how did you catch the fish, why didn't you take me there." Liu Yihao came over at this time, and after hearing his eldest sister's words, Liu Yihao said a little unhappily.