As his words landed, three hairy boys of sixteen or seventeen came out of the bushes with brows of faces, all of them were leather children from the same village.

The five bags of fish jumping around are really nothing from a distance, but when they get closer, they have a very big shocking power.

The servants' eyes were round, full of envy and reverence, and they snorted and asked questions without saying a word.

"Brother Xiaobing, hehe, there are so many fish!"

"How did you get it, can you teach me?"

Zhang Xuebing squatted in place and waved his hand impatiently, "Don't ask, help me carry it home, five catties of fish per person, do you want to do it?" ”

",,!"

Five catties of fish is a good meal for families who often don't have enough to eat, and if you can't eat it, you can make dried fish and eat it for the New Year.

"I filled my water tank and sink, don't let the fish die, tell my sister-in-law to boil the water and stew the fish!"

"Please. Rest assured, the task will be absolutely accomplished! "A thin and tall boy like a hemp pole, I don't know where he learned his poor mouth, and he gave Zhang Xuebing a salute.

They were not afraid of the smell of fish, and each of them carried a bag of live fish and left happily.

Zhang Xuebing squatted where he still didn't move!

The little girl knew his temper, and she didn't urge, but just stood by boredly, throwing leaves into the pool, and gouging him with her white eyes.

A leaf stirred up a circle of ripples on the water surface, Zhang Xuebing frowned suddenly, picked up the net on the ground, and stirred along the floating dead leaves and aquatic plants by the waterhole. Get it up.

"Can there be gold ingots in this water?" The little girl was curious and leaned forward.

With a bang, Zhang Xuebing suddenly lifted the net, only to see a large dead leaf-like thing in the net, which was so heavy that the pole was bent.

"I'll just say, it's not scientific without this thing, hehe!"

Bang, Zhang Xuebing shook the net, and the thing fell on the muddy ground.

"Ouch, soft-shelled turtle!" The little girl exclaimed after seeing it clearly.

This thing likes to inhabit the silt of mountain streams, pools, and rivers, and its body color is on the heavy side, similar to the local mud, and they are hidden among those deciduous aquatic plants after they float up, so they have never been found!

That's right, it's a soft-shelled turtle, the scientific name is soft-shelled turtle, and in some places it is also called Wang Ba.

But the one that Zhang Xuebing caught was a local specialty, the mountain turtle, which is very different from ordinary soft-shelled turtles.

It is more nutritious, has a thick skirt and better taste, and is said to have strong anti-cancer effects, making it a rare treasure.

In a few decades, this thing can be sold for thousands of yuan a catty, and even now, it can be sold for dozens of yuan a catty.

This is Zhang Xuebing's main purpose, and those miscellaneous fish are just adding to the head at most.

Carefully look in the three waterholes, and fish up three, five, small and eight mountain turtles.

The big ones are three or four pounds, and the small ones are also one pound.

The fact that these things are scarce and slow to grow, and that they can have so many harvests has a lot to do with the fact that these pools are not caught all year round.

After a while in the stream, these mountain turtles also woke up slowly, and their fierce faces were revealed one by one in the fishing nets, so frightened that the little girl didn't dare to come forward.

"Let's go home and eat fish tonight!"

Zhang Xuebing picked up two pockets of miscellaneous fish, and asked Su Xin'er to carry those soft-shelled turtles and go home.

"It's so ugly, I don't dare to eat it!" The appearance of those soft-shelled turtles stretching out their heads made her very frightened, and she stretched out her arms and held the net bag high, not daring to approach her for fear of being bitten.

This posture was very physically demanding, and after not going far, the little girl's thin body was sweating, but she still gritted her teeth and persisted.

Zhang Xuebing couldn't help but want to laugh, "Bring it, I can carry it all!" ”

"I can take it, and save people as if they were eating white food, hum!"

While the two were talking, the boy just now ran back and took the catch from Zhang Xuebing's hand.

The hemp pole wanted to pick up the mountain turtle in Su Xin'er's hand, and Zhang Xuebing took it in his hand first, "Those fish have been arranged?" ”

"Don't worry, it's guaranteed to be alive, Brother Xiaobing, what kind of treasure did you use just now, can you teach me?"

The other two boys also had shy faces, and their eyes flashed with anticipation.

The method of fishing with calcium carbide is not a secret, but Zhang Xuebing does not plan to leak it now, at least after he earns the first pot of gold.

"Trade secrets, no comment!" Zhang Xuebing grinned and showed a wicked smile.

The three children all went to junior high school, and although they didn't understand what a trade secret was, they understood it and had no comment, so they all drooped their heads and looked like they were lacking interest.

"However, I will come to catch fish in the future, if you have time, you can come to help, and you will have to share a share at that time!"

The family background is not very good, and they can't ask for fresh fish to eat, so they all laugh at once.

"No problem, I'll see you tomorrow!"

"Not tomorrow, the day after tomorrow at the earliest!"

After these fish are successfully sold, Zhang Xuebing can only catch them a second time, otherwise he will not even have the money to make calcium carbide.

After going back, he gave each of the three boys seven or eight catties of trash fish that was not in good condition, and they would eat it when they went home anyway, and they would not be too bad.

Zhang Xuebing pondered that the current fish alone was a bit monotonous, and suddenly remembered those wild vegetables in the mountains, which are also rare in the city.

So he instructed the servants to dig up some wild vegetables tomorrow and come back, mainly bitter vegetables, camellia, dandelions, horse lettuce, and noodle vegetables.

After graduating from junior high school, the three boys were usually idle except for helping the family with farming, and when they heard about such a good thing, their excited eyes lit up.

After they left with a thousand thanks, Zhang Xuebing relied on the memory of later generations to cook and cook a hard dish.

That night, the Zhang family ate the iron pot boiled trash fish that they were reluctant to eat during the New Year, and made cakes with soft-shelled turtles.

My sister-in-law heard that these fish were caught from the back mountain pool, and at first she couldn't get out of her mouth, and kept nagging about the haunting ghosts there, and these fish were all water ghosts.

Zhang Xuebing said, don't eat and waste food, so my sister-in-law moved her chopsticks, but she didn't dare to touch the fish, she kept eating those sticky cakes, and she nagged while eating, and she was not allowed to go again in the future.

Su Xin'er didn't have any scruples, picked up a stewed crucian carp, sucked it from beginning to end, and didn't see her spit out the thorns, the whole fish was left with a skeleton, and what she ate was a mouth full of soup.

The Zhang family has had a hard time in the past few years, and at most they buy some meat dumplings to eat during the New Year, and they usually hardly see fish and meat, and the little girl is when she is greedy, but her director has never complained, and today she has completely exposed her gluttonous nature.

Zhang Xuebing clipped her a soft-shelled turtle head, "I'm going to take the college entrance examination next year, make up for my brain!" ”

"I don't eat that, disgusting!" The little girl glanced at it, still bowing her head and fighting those miscellaneous fish.

Zhang Xuebing's conspiracy failed, so he had to pick up a piece of soft-shelled turtle skirt and eat it.

Even when he was rich in later generations, he had never eaten this serious and wild mountain turtle, and he was immediately impressed by this pure deliciousness.

A soft-shelled turtle that was more than two catties heavy was almost wrapped by Zhang Xuebing in the end, but unfortunately there was no wine.

Those soft-shelled turtle soup is the essence, and it is very replenished, and he forced his sister-in-law and the little girl to drink them all before he would stop.

The two hard dishes were all wiped out, and the whole family was able to eat it!

The sister-in-law was about to turn off the lights according to the custom, but Zhang Xuebing was afraid that they would have indigestion, so he pushed them out for a long time.

And he ran to the neighbor's house with a few catties of trash fish, borrowed a Phoenix 28 bicycle, oiled and cheered up, completely cleaned up, and looked at the fish were still alive, which was relieved.

He picked out the big carp, grass carp, and silver carp, which he was going to sell tomorrow.

As for the crucian carp, gaya, and loach small miscellaneous fish, they were kept for their own food, and the ones that were too small were kept in the water tank for the time being, and when they went to the mountains next time, they were put back into the stream to continue to reproduce.

Sleep is all set!

Lying on the bed and feeling the quiet night in the dark, Zhang Xuebing was a little insomnia.

It's not that you're full, but you're thinking about where to start after the first pot of gold arrives, and do you still start from wholesale of small commodities like in your previous life?

In this era, most industries are still blank, there are too many opportunities, and he can't pay attention to it for a while, tossing and turning for a long time, and he falls asleep.

The next day, Zhang Xuebing got up before dawn, didn't even eat breakfast, took half of the big fish and those mountain turtles, and went straight to the Baliqiao Farmers' Market in the county seat.