Chapter Eighty-Six: Tempting the Fish
That's right! She also knows a bad fish recipe that can be made with just ordinary small trash fish. Behind their house is a pond with abundant resources that can be put to good use!
She remembered that last time Qian Wu and Xiaoshi caught a lot of palm-sized small crucian carp and white strips, and brought them back to stew soup and drink. There are many small crucian carp and small white spines, but if you make a bad fish, all the spines are crispy, and you can eat it with the meat and thorns...... Right! That's it!!
"But...... Is there any way to catch a lot of small fish? Yu Xiaocao couldn't help but feel sad again......
Suddenly, the joyful exclamation of the little stone sounded in his ears: "Look, there are wild birds coming to our water tank to steal water to drink!" β
Xiaocao looked up and saw a snow-white bird with slender legs, stepping on the edge of the water tank, leaning in to drink water! In early spring, the weather tends to warm up, and these days there are always unknown birds visiting their homes and borrowing water from the water tank.
Xiao Tianshi once triumphantly said that these wild birds were attracted by the aura in its bath water in the water tank. Whether it is an animal or a plant, Reiki is a good nourishment for them, but if the concentration of Reiki is too large and the creature is too young, it will explode the aura......
Yu Xiaocao's eyes lit up when she thought of thisβdid that mean that if she used the small mending stone as bait, she would be able to attract schools of small fish?
[Stinky master, bad master! ] You're going to use me as bait again, I'm not done with you!! A little golden milk cat, out of nowhere, jumped on her shoulder, bared its teeth and barked at her.
After recognizing the master, Xiaocao and the Mending Heaven Stone have the same mind, so what she thinks, the little guy can sense it immediately.
"Good, good! I don't need you to be the bait," Xiaocao hurriedly comforted the fried little milk cat, "But, Xiao Tangyuan, then you can help me think of a way to lure the little fish to take the bait." β
Xiao Mending Heaven Stone snorted arrogantly and said, "Why bother with this Divine Stone himself? Isn't my bathwater the best bait? As for how to operate, such a low-level problem, still use this god stone to use your brain? γ
Yu Xiaocao didn't say a word when he heard this, stuffed the two hundred wen into his purse, and asked the Liu family to put it away, and the remaining dozens of wen were left for spare use. She pulled the small stone, entered the house and held a jar filled with spirit stone water, came to Yu Hai's side, and asked, "Dad, do we have a net for fishing?" β
"A net for fishing? No! What do you want to do that? Yu Hai soaked the pig's head in the water tank. The water in the water tank is soaked in the mending stone with aura, so that the taste of the pig's head is better after the marinade.
Xiaocao smiled mysteriously and said, "Of course it's useful!" I've thought of another way to make money, and you're good to go! β
Yu Hai stretched out his hand that touched the pig's head, and was about to pinch her nose, but Xiaocao quickly dodged it. He smiled and said, "What kind of net do you want, I'll help you make it!" β
When he has nothing to do, Yu Hai will also help the villagers weave some fishing nets at home, and there is naturally no shortage of nets at home. Xiaocao asked him to heat the shape of the circle with bamboo strips, and fixed it on a bamboo pole, and fixed the fishing net to the round bamboo circle, forming a net pocket - a simple net was formed.
"You sisters and brothers are going to fish nets? It's hard to catch big fish in the pond behind the house, so be careful not to fall down...... Do you want your dad to follow? Yu Hai saw the children going out of the backyard and told him uneasily.
"No need, let's try it first, and then ask Daddy for help when it succeeds......" Xiaocao's voice came from behind the house, and Xiaoshi also let out a happy cry.
When the sisters and brothers came to the pond, Qian Wu, who was putting ducks by the river, saw the two of them, and hurriedly came over and said, "Xiaocao, Xiaocao!" How do you have time to go to the river today? β
The little stone was like a little adult, and said, "Go, go, go!" You know how to play when we are just like you! We're here to get down to business, let's go! Don't delay us catching fish! β
"Catching fish? I'm good at this! I'll help you! Qian Wu suddenly forgot his mission of releasing ducks, licked his face and came over to help.
Xiaocao was worried that the secret in her jar would be discovered, so she refused with a smile: "Xiao Wu, if Aunt Qian sees you throw the duck aside and run to play by yourself, your ears will be offended." You'd better put your ducks in stock! β
Qian Wu touched his ears, flattened his mouth, sat aggrievedly on the shore, and the bamboo pole in his hand slapped the water surface as if angry, so frightened that the ducks scattered and fled. Seeing this scene, Mao screamed: "Stinky boy, let you release the ducks, not let you chase the ducks!" If you are so scared that the grass duck does not lay eggs, you wait for the butt to bloom!! β
Qian Wu touched his buttocks, reluctantly looked at the Xiaocao sisters and brothers who had walked away, sighed heavily, and resigned himself to putting the duck away.
Xiaocao chose a hidden place, put the jar in the water, and stared at the surface of the water with anxiety. This jar is the place where the small mending stone often "bathes", and over time, a large amount of aura has been stored in it.
The jar was put into the water, and the aura inside gradually overflowed, and after a while, there were circles of ripples on the surface of the water......
"Second sister, look! A lot of small fish swam over! It's amazing, what kind of bait do you put in this jar, it works so well! Little Stone tried his best to suppress the joy in his heart, and whispered.
His voice did not startle the gathered fish. On the contrary, as the aura overflowed, more and more small fish gathered and swam towards the mouth of the can.
When Xiaocao placed the jar, he only put the mouth of the jar under the surface of the water a little bit, and although the little fish followed the aura, they could not swim into the jar, so they were so anxious that they swam around the jar wagging their tails.
The schools of fish gathered more and more, and they were densely packed around the jars. Xiaocao picked up the net bag in his hand and gently scooped it towards the place where there were the most fish. If it had been before, the fish had already deftly scattered and fled, but they were attracted by the aura, directly ignoring the danger in front of them, and opened their mouths one by one, as if they wanted to absorb more pure aura.
The net pocket in Xiaocao's hand was slowly lifted up from the bottom of the water, and in the net with a diameter of 30 centimeters, more than a dozen small fish were caught at once, including grass carp, crucian carp, and white stripes...... The most common ones are grass carp and crucian carp. The large one weighed half a catty, and the small one was only the size of a small stone palm.
"Wow! That's what a catch! It's too easy!! Second sister, second sister! Let me try it too!! Little Stone handed the bucket over, caught the little fish caught by the grass, and was eager to try it.
Xiaocao stuffed the net into the little guy's hand, and said with a smile: "You move slower when you net fish, I'll go and bring another bucket over, catch more fish and go back, we will have something to sell tomorrow afternoon!" β
Xiao Shi picked up the net with great interest, cautiously stretched out towards the fish, and asked in a low voice: "Sister, these little fish have a lot of spines, but I am afraid that people will be troublesome to eat, and they will not be easy to sell!" β
"Don't worry, I have my own way!" Xiaocao gave him a "believe me" look and left with a smile.
When she returned again, most of the bucket had been fished. The water in the bucket is brought from the tank, and it also has aura, so the small fish are still very energetic in the small space.
In less than an hour, the siblings caught two buckets of small fish, during which there were also half a meter long big fish, but unfortunately their net pocket was too small, and they originally caught the tail of the fish, but the big fish flicked their tails and escaped. The siblings felt very sorry, if they caught that big fish, they could have a meal in the evening.
When the sisters and brothers returned home, Yu Hai and Xiaolian had already packed up the pig's head and intestines. Liu pointed to the remaining jar of pig blood and asked, "We don't know how to get this, so we didn't dare to touch it......"
Yu Hai looked at the sister and brother jokingly and said, "Yo! The bucket took a lot! How many fish can you catch? Let me see, is it enough to eat at night? β
Xiao Shi said excitedly: "These fish are not eaten by themselves, they are to be sold!" The second sister said that the problem of small thorns can be solved! Look, Dad, we've caught a lot! β
Yu Hai leaned over to take a look, isn't it! Originally, the children asked him to make a net, saying that he was going to catch fish, but he also held the idea that the children were just going to play. Unexpectedly, the two children went for an hour and came back with two buckets of fish. Looking at the black pressed fish heads in the bucket, there must be a lot of them.
"Drink! That's a lot! How did you catch it? Yu Hai was very surprised, even if he cast a fishing net, he couldn't catch so many fish in such a short time, how did the children do it?
Xiao Shi scrambled to speak again: "It's the second sister!" The second sister made a new type of bait and attracted all the small fish. All we have to do is catch fish with nets on the shore! β
Yu Hai looked at his second daughter with complicated eyes, this daughter is becoming more and more capable, making him a father who is proud and ashamed.
Xiaocao looked at the sky and said, "Otherwise, let's pack up the fish first, maybe we can rush to the dock to sell it before dinner!" Pork head meat and large intestine, you can wait until the evening to get it! β
The family worked together to scrape the gills and scales of the small fish they caught, dig out the fish intestines in their stomachs, and clean them. The small stone can't do this work, so he uses a small wooden basin to fetch water from one basin to help wash the cleaned up fish.
Hey! There are really a lot of small fish caught this time, and it is full of a big pot! Xiaocao couldn't care about this, so he salted the small fish that had been packed up.
"And then?" Xiaolian was finally able to catch her breath, and asked with a happy smile on her face.
"It's about a quarter of an hour to marinate, and then it's ready to be fried!" Xiaocao smelled the fishy smell on his hands and hurriedly rinsed it with water. After being busy for a long time, and a little hungry, she turned out a hot roasted sweet potato from the stove, which was specially prepared for her every day.
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In the afternoon, my cousin came over with the child, and my eldest nephew, and it was very noisy! Fortunately, I got this chapter out before ten o'clock!!