Chapter 64: Sell the Fish
Early the next morning, just after dawn, the Liu family brothers and sisters got up and went to the river on the border between the Goryeo Kingdom and the Celestial Empire to dig ice and fish.
However, Liu Yiyu told Liu Yishuang to try to go to a remote place to chisel ice fishing, and I am afraid that some people will be looked at after seeing their own fishing like this.
Second, after there are more fish in winter, they will be worthless, and Liu Yiyu plans to catch some fish and sell them for money, so naturally he doesn't want this method to be known.
If you come to the third place, you will chisel the ice in a remote place, and no one will pass by, and you will not be afraid that someone will step on the ice hole you have chiseled and fall into the water.
The Liu family was divided into two teams to dig ice fishing, and in one morning, Liu Yiyu's sister and brother's team caught three or four two or three pound fish, two four or five pound grass carp, and palm-sized crucian carp, and caught as many as eight or nine, which was more than one-third compared to yesterday.
With so many achievements in one morning, everyone in the happy Liu family smiled happily and became even more enthusiastic about the next fishing thing.
It was more than half of the morning, about ten o'clock in the morning, after the Liu family had breakfast and lunch, and the Liu family sisters and brothers did not rest, they went out to dig ice and fish in pairs, one big one and a small one.
Liu Yiyu took Liu Yimeng and Liu Yiyang, Liu Yisa took Xun'er, Liu Yishuang took Liu Yiya, Liu Li took Liu Yihao, and Liu Yiyu smashed the ice on the river one by one for them, lest they be small and have little strength, otherwise it would take a lot of effort to just smash the ice.
Shoot a shot to change places, the fish caught by a pair of centaurs in the afternoon are obviously one-third less than the fish caught by a team of centaurs in the morning, but they can't bear it, the Liu family is divided into four pairs of centaurs to fish, and the fish caught by the four teams add up, compared to the fish caught by the two teams in the morning, this is much more.
When it was time to eat at night, Liu Yiyu counted that there were six fish weighing four or five kilograms, thirteen fish weighing three or four kilograms, fifteen fish weighing two or three kilograms, and more than 20 fish such as adult palm-sized crucian carp.
Liu Yiyu plans to take all the fish weighing more than two or three catties to the Xiangmanlou in the town and sell them for silver, and return the money sold to the medicine money she used to find the old last time.
These fish, Liu Yiyu packed them in three wooden barrels, divided into three grades, four or five pounds of six fish into a barrel, three or four pounds of fish into a barrel, two or three pounds of fish into a barrel, as for the adult palm-sized crucian carp, Liu Yiyu did not plan to sell, kept for his own food, such a small fish, even if it is sold to Xiangmanlou, I am afraid that the price is not high, like this, it is better to leave it to his own family to make up for the body.
Liu Yiyu lifted three wooden barrels, these three wooden barrels plus the water containing the fish, I am afraid that each wooden barrel has a weight of forty or fifty catties, if it is on weekdays, carrying forty or fifty catties of things to the town, it is enough to choke, not to mention, now that the snow is heavier, the snow is thicker, the road is more difficult to walk, and there is water in the barrel, which aggravates the difficulty.
Liu Yiyu thought for a while and said, "Ming'er went to the town to sell fish, the barrel was filled with fish, and it was also filled with water, I was afraid that it was a little heavy, and it was snowing, and this wooden barrel could not be carried, for fear that the water would be spilled, and when the time came, the clothes would be wet, and I was afraid that I would get the wind and cold, and tomorrow, I would carry it to the town."
At home, there are grandma, eight sisters and seven brothers, mother, tomorrow, I'm afraid we won't come back too early, maybe we will come back in the afternoon, in the morning we will make grandma their morning food ready, warm to the stove, when they eat, just take it out.
As for us to go to the town, also make some food to bring, when the time comes, the daughter is also afraid that we will come back late, there are also something to eat to cushion the stomach, tomorrow, the mother and the daughter will carry a bucket of fish, the second sister and the fifth brother and the sixth sister will carry a bucket of fish, the third sister, the fourth sister and Xun'er will carry a bucket of fish, tomorrow, we will all get up early, we will not hurry, the road must be steady, don't splash the water, wet your clothes, when the time comes, the cold will outweigh the loss."
"Well, what the eldest sister said is that my mother is now going to weave three lids and cover them to three wooden barrels, which is also a bit useful and can block the water." After Liu Li heard the eldest sister's words, he walked out of the cave without saying a word, and he didn't know that Liu Li found a bundle of hemp rope from there, and his hands flew up and down dexterously, weaving a hemp rope cover.
"Eldest sister, I'll go find some sticks so that I can carry them to town tomorrow." Liu Yihao said.
"Hmm".
In the northern winter, the day is short, the night time is long, the next day is just after the beginning of the day, the Liu family is going to the town to sell fish today, one by one get up early, after Liu Li got up, first cooked a pot of fish soup, put it on the stove to warm, and then, then baked thirty cakes, thirty cakes, Liu Li took away twenty, leaving ten cakes in the pot to warm together.
After that, Liu Li took out half of the fish soup and four fish, and said to the Liu family sisters and brothers, "I got up early today, the weather is cold, let's drink some fish soup and set off again, warm up first."
Liu Li said, and one of them served a bowl of fish soup to the Liu family's sisters and brothers.
The fish soup is sweet and fresh cooked by Liu Li, the entrance is fresh and fragrant, and a bowl of fish soup goes down, not only the body is warmed a lot, but also the stomach is full.
"Let's go, it's not too early, it's time for us to go."
"Big sister, be careful, grandma is waiting for you to come back at home." Liu Zhang leaned against the door of the cave, looking at the children of the Liu family with a loving look in his eyes.
"Mother, eldest sister, the seventh brother is also waiting for you at home, you come back quickly, and then take the seventh brother to catch fish."
"Mother, the eighth sister is also obedient, waiting for you to come back."
"Grandma, you go in quickly, be careful of getting cold, we'll be back soon, the fifth brother is not at home, the first seventh brother in the family is a man, you have to take care of grandma and the eighth sister, and, seventh brother, remember to add firewood to the end of the kang, Mo Yan put out the fire on the kang, and the grandmother is cold, and when the fifth brother comes back, I will buy you candy to eat." Liu Yihao touched the head of the eighth sister, urged the Liu Zhang family to go in, and instructed Liu Yiyang.
"Fifth brother, I will". As soon as Liu Yiyang heard Liu Yihao say that he was a man, Liu Yiyang straightened his little chest, and his immature face showed a serious look, which made Liu Yiyu look at Ren Jun.
"Shichiro, after my mother leaves, remember to lock the door." Before Liu Li left, he was a little uneasy.
Subsequently, Liu Li took the Liu family sisters and brothers, carrying the wooden barrel, and walked to the town.