Chapter 122, Catch
An autumn rain and a cold.
The people in Tianjiazhuang did not rain much at home, and they were busy in their clothes.
The autumn harvest has long been over, and the grain has been put into storage after paying taxes.
It's just that now the world is in turmoil, the taxes are already extremely high, and there is not much food that can really go into their own pockets, so it's really hard to say whether they can survive this winter.
If the tenant is even worse, although he does not have to pay taxes, but if he meets a black-hearted owner, he may not even be able to keep the seeds for the next spring, and if he wants to survive the winter, he can only borrow the grain from the owner with a high interest rate.
Originally, Tianjiazhuang would also be worried because of the lack of food, and even at this time of year, some villagers would organize some young and strong laborers to go to the mountains to hunt some game to subsidize their families in the future.
But not this year.
Since the day of the autumn harvest, I don't know why, in previous years, there were only some catches in the Jingshui River, as if the fish in it were fried.
The big fish of ten catties is simply a drop.
At this time, not only the people of Tianjia Village and other people close to the Jingshui River are crazy fishing after the autumn harvest, but even the people who are far away from the Jingshui River will work hard to catch fish.
It's just a pity that they don't make a living from fishing, so they don't have big nets.
Fortunately, these fish seem to have not eaten for hundreds of years, and they can fall off immediately after a fishing rod.
It is also by relying on these fat big fish that the villagers can be full every day during the autumn harvest, and their strength is as if they can't finish it.
In order to store the fish for a longer period of time, the villagers dried, smoked and concocted them in various ways.
But soon, they found that there were too many fish to deal with.
Naturally, the fish entered Hongcheng.
From the first plate of fish from the Jingshui River to the table by the restaurant, the mandarin fish and crucian carp of the Jingshui River instantly beat the reputation.
Because these fish are so delicious.
Soon, all the restaurants and the people in the city only recognized the fish of the Jingshui River, and even let the catch of several other rivers and the Lujiang River reach the extent that no one cares.
There was no way, and the fishermen who usually relied on the Lujiang River and other rivers to survive began to switch to the Jingshui River.
Therefore, because of the dispute with the people next to the Jingshui River, there were several armed fights. If it weren't for the government, it would have been impossible to say that many people would have died.
Tian Xiao'e is the daughter of Tian's honest family in Tianjia Village, nineteen years old, and she is a famous big girl in Tianjiazhuang.
She was supposed to be a wife a long time ago, but because her family was too poor, no one wanted to marry. This has not only become Tian Laoshi's heart disease, but also Tian Xiao'e's heart disease.
But now, the disease has been cured.
The river god of Jingshui River showed mercy and let the catch blow out, just for half a month's effort, Tian Xiao'e's home had long been filled with smoked fish and meat.
She made a lot of money in Hongcheng with fresh fish, and with this money, she was finally able to get married.
I heard that Li Jiatun in the neighboring village has a reading seed, handsome, but his family background is not good, and he can't rely on these dowries to marry him, if he is in high school in the future, then he will not be the wife of the champion!
Therefore, Tian Xiao'e worked harder.
For the sake of the future, the net should be woven stronger and more fish should be caught.
Tian Xiao'e is fantasizing about the future, even if the clothes on her body have been soaked by the rain, wetting her clothes and making her shiver with cold, she is still hot in her heart.
"Oh no! Oh no! A hurried cry came from outside the village to the village.
Tian Xiao'e looked up suspiciously, and saw Tian Ergou in the village running over from the Jingshui River in a hurry, with no clothes on, and his body was covered with mud, which should have fallen into a mud puddle on the road.
Tian Xiao'e looked at Tian Ergou like this, frowned and shouted, "Ergou, what's your name!" It's only been a few good days, don't call our good luck gone! ”
Tian Ergou ran in a hurry, and finally ran to the village, unable to support it anymore, and knelt on the ground with a pop, splashing a large amount of muddy water.
attracted the attention of most of the people in Tianjiazhuang, and they gathered around.
"Ergou, what's wrong, is someone overboard or what's wrong?"
After all, it is shaved and eaten in the water, which is already the biggest misfortune that the villagers think of.
The second dog cried and howled, and only after a long time did he shout: "The catch is gone, the master of Jingshui River is angry, not a single fish has been caught today, the catch is gone!" ”
"Huh!" The whole village fell silent in an instant.
Only the sound of a drizzle falling on the eaves, on the ground, in puddles, ticking.
"Impossible, impossible!"
"Ergou, don't be joking!"
"There were still endless fish yesterday, and it was only a night, how could you not catch a single fish, two dogs, you have to lie to people, and make up some of them!"
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The villagers were gossiping, with stiff and twisted smiles on their faces, smiling dryly and jokingly.
Tian Xiao'e felt that the whole sky was dark, without the catch, there would be no silver, and without silver, wouldn't there be no more of her Ruyi Langjun.
She threw away her coat and ran frantically towards the Jingshui River.
With her taking the lead, the villagers of Tianjiazhuang seemed to wake up from a dream, and a group of people abandoned their work and rushed to the Jingshui River.
Far away, Tian Xiao'e saw that the Jingshui River was full of people, and they just stood dumbfounded, motionless, letting the rain wash over their bodies.
Tian Xiao'e felt as if she had swallowed an ice cube, and her heart was cold.
She pushed away the crowd, and at a glance saw that the net was still being cast and pulled in the water, and the father who was repeating the cycle, Tian Laoshi.
But in the past, the scene where you could catch a big net with a casual net can no longer be seen.
You can only see the empty net under the empty net, and the empty net out.
Tian Xiao'e also saw that the water was excellent, and the fishermen from the Lujiang River kept diving into the water, and after a long time, they floated up without finding anything, and their faces were full of disappointment.
"No, really no!" Tian Xiao'e finally muttered, just like everyone else on the shore, standing there dumbfoundedly, looking at the water stupidly, as if her soul had been lost.
"What about the fish, what about the fish? Where did the fish go? Tian Xiao'e kept repeating, no one saw it, her face slowly cracked a bloody mouth, and then turned into a pair of gills, and scales were growing rapidly on her body, just like the mandarin fish she ate.
"Smack!" A burst of breaking water sounded.
Tian Xiao'e looked up suddenly, and saw a mandarin fish about ten catties large jumping out of the water in front of her.
"There are fish, and the fish are again!" The villagers on the shore shouted in surprise, crazy and hysterical.
Tian Xiao'e almost cried with joy, she jumped out almost without thinking, hugged the mandarin fish in the air, and did not let go, and then fell into the water with the mandarin fish.
"You can't throw it away, and you can't let go when you die!" Tian Xiao'e said to herself, but she didn't notice that the mandarin fish in her arms had long since disappeared, and instead a palm-sized hook hung on her lips at some point, and was pulled deeper into the water.
"Hah! What a big fish! ”
In the Jingshui River Water Shrine, a man wearing a river bo's official robe, holding a fishing rod, looked at Tian Xiao'e who fell in front of him and shouted in surprise.
"Give me food first."
"Give it to me!"
Two immature voices sounded at the same time, and they all came from the man.
Chieftain lay on his side shivering, and in his pupils, the man had three heads.