41. Ice fishing

The New Year is approaching, and every household in Shenjia Village is starting to get busy.

Although most of the money in the family was exchanged for food due to the snowstorm this year, the villagers still prepared their New Year's things according to tradition.

This steamed buns, that steamed a pot of rice cakes, and marinated bacon with salt when the conditions were good.

As the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve approaches, the taste of the year becomes more and more intense.

Smoke wafted from the small courtyards of the farmhouses everywhere, and it lasted for a long time.

In the Shen family, Cheng Xi dragged Shen Xingqi to be busy for a few days, and finally cleaned up all the game with special energy in the house.

"Alright, hang these up and hang."

"Sister-in-law, can we finish eating?"

"It's okay if you can't finish eating, and you don't have to worry about bad weather."

If only the rest were made into bacon.

Cheng Xi was thinking about the food at home, and he always felt that there was something missing for the New Year, what was it......

"By the way, there are no fish this year!"

As the saying goes, fish is an indispensable meat for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

The meat quality is good, and the meaning is better.

However, now that the city is closed, and the people of other villages are living in a precarious situation, who still has the leisure to care whether there are fish or not?

It's nice to have a full meal!

"Fish? There are fish in the small river in our village. ”

Shen Xingqi answered inadvertently, "But not now, the weather is so cold, the whole river is frozen, and I shouldn't be able to eat this year." ”

"Who said you can't eat it?"

Cheng Xi's eyes suddenly lit up.

She remembers the river!

When she first came to Shenjia Village, she went out of her way to see that the river was clear, and the water in the middle was three or four meters deep, running through seven or eight nearby villages.

Although it is not a flowing river, it is enough water for the people of the village on a regular basis.

"But now that it's so cold, the ice in the river is probably several feet deep."

How can you fish with such thick ice?

"Don't worry, I have a way."

It is easy to fish because of the depth of ice, but when you open an opening, the fish that have been held by oxygen under the ice for a long time will be the first to come out and breathe fresh air.

When the time comes, she doesn't need to catch it, and the fish will pop out on its own.

Cheng Xi was suddenly interested, she had done fishing in the winter in her previous life, but someone had prepared tools at that time, and now she had to come by herself.

She went to the Westinghouse to find a few tools to take advantage of, and walked out with the bucket in hand.

"Let's go, I'll take you fishing."

"Huh? Do you really want to fish? ”

Shen Xingqi stood in place and was stunned, remembering his sister-in-law's previous teaching, and decisively dispelled the doubts in his heart and followed.

Whatever the sister-in-law says, the sister-in-law is always right.

That's it!

In the past few days, the sky has fallen with snowflakes again, and the sun has not been on work for a few days and does not know where to run.

Without him, the road is better off in the snow.

The road, which was frozen due to the low temperature, was paved with a thick layer of snow, which made it easier to take steps by increasing the friction.

Cheng Xi carried the barrel and walked towards the river, which made passers-by stunned.

"Xingluo's family, what are you doing here?"

"Catch the fish."

Catch a fish?

It's so fresh!

Everything in the winter is frozen, why catch fish?

Could it be that people with kung fu can really do whatever they want?

The villagers don't understand, the villagers don't understand.

Seeing that the little girl of the Shen family also happily ran behind, everyone's curiosity was suddenly brought to the top.

"I'll take a look!"

As the saying goes, there are two of them, and the occasional villagers who pass by walk towards the river one after another, and in a short time there are seven or eight people gathered on this road.

Watch the fish!

Ice chiseling is a hard job, not something that ordinary people can do.

However, Cheng Xi is not an ordinary person, she is born with divine power!

A small pit was carved out of the ice under the sharp chisel, and she waved her tool and smashed it again, and after chiseling for a long time, a freeze about twenty centimeters in diameter gradually deepened.

And the ice edges that were dug out of the ice surface slowly turned into a pile.

Shen Xingqi squatted aside holding the wooden barrel, quietly, and his small fists faintly made a cheering motion.

"Alright."

Cheng Xi put down his tools and took out the last bit of ice to the side, and saw that the water in the hole slowly floated up.

All right?

"So what are we going to do?"

"Don't do anything, just wait."

Cheng Xi chuckled, took a step back and squatted down to rest, seeing Shen Xingqi stunned.

Even the villagers who followed behind were stunned, unsure of what she was doing.

"This ...... Xingluo's family, isn't it catching fish? ”

To be honest, it was the first time that Lin'an Mansion encountered such a big snowstorm and low temperature, and at this time in previous years, the small river had a thin layer of ice at most, which broke with a stick.

They also never fished in the winter.

Before Cheng Xi could explain, he heard a "poof" sound in his ears.

She looked sideways, and a carp weighing three pounds flipped up one by one and landed smoothly on the thick ice.

Shen Xingqi was stunned.

The villagers were stunned.

The carp was also confused!

"This, this, this...... Is this a fish?! ”

"Ah, it's really a fish!"

"How did it jump up on its own?"

"That's right, it came up on its own in the blink of an eye, what's going on?"

How can there be any reason for the captured prey to be sent to the door by itself? Hell yes!

Before the crowd could slow down, a second fish jumped out of the hole again, and fell too the ice with a "snapping" sound.

"Another one?!"

"What's the matter, the fish in the river are drunk?"

Cheng Xi smiled, and he was really right, they were indeed drunk, drunk by the carbon dioxide at the bottom of the river.

But you can't say that......

She patted her stunned sister-in-law, "It's done." ”

"Huh? Oh, work! ”

Shen Xingqi suddenly brought the wooden bucket over, and within a while, three fish were put in, and the smile on his face became bigger and bigger.

"Sister-in-law, there are really fish!"

"Lie to you to do something, I'll make you fish to eat when I get home."

Three or two catties of fish, neither big nor small, is the most suitable for grilled fish, huh...... It's grilled fish!

Cheng Xi threw the fish into the wooden bucket one by one, and squatted on the edge of the cave to wait for the next one, and the wooden bucket was quickly filled.

After weighing it, it weighed thirty-four pounds, and the party was satisfied.

"That's enough to eat, let's go home."

She looked around at the people around herβ€”the villagers had been stunned by her successive actions, or perhaps by the fish that had come up on her own.

Tsk, I still don't know much.

If this is left in the cold north for half a year, the people have to find ways to dig ice and fish without food in winter, and everything is fine.

"Sure enough, one side of the water and soil raises one side."

"Sister-in-law, what did you say?"

"Nothing."

Cheng Xi picked up the barrel and planned to go home, but the next second he paused slightly, and a pair of eyes looked straight at a wall on the west side.