Tian Miaoxiu rolled up her sleeves and aimed at a fish to catch it.

The fish is so fat, it weighs about three catties.

The fish jumped alive and raised its tail and shook the water in her face.

She couldn't hold it anymore.

"Dad, Mom, Big Brother, Big Sister, Second Brother, come and see, what did I catch?" Tian Miaoxiu grabbed the big fat carp with both hands and ran towards home with a smile.

The family was in distress, and when they heard her laughter, the gloom in their hearts swept away a little, and they ran out of the back door together.

"Miao Xiu, what's the matter? Ah......h Fish? Liu Lamei was worried about her little daughter, she ran the fastest, and when she saw the big carp in Tian Miaoxiu's hand, she was surprised and delighted, "Where did it come from?" ”

Liu Lamei took the carp in her youngest daughter's hand, and shouted to her man Tian Changfa to find something to put it on.

"Mom, I'll go get the bucket." Tian Guoliang happily ran back to the house, found an old wooden barrel from the old house, and put the fish in it.

Everyone looked at the fish and asked Tian Miaoxiu where he caught it.

Tian Miaoxiu pointed to the shallow pond of two or three acres behind her house and said, "Right there, I saw it when I washed my hands, I caught it, what a fat fish, let's eat fish for dinner." ”

Liu Lamei was worried about what to eat for dinner just now.

They brought some rice, but there was no food.

When she went to the village to buy it, she didn't know how people would interrogate her about how she lost her job, and why the whole family lost her job.

How should she answer?

Someone on top found trouble for their whole family and expelled them all, what can she do if she is weak?

Fortunately, the youngest daughter caught a fat fish, and the dishes for dinner were available, so there was no need to go to the village to see people's faces and buy vegetables.

"I'll go kill and wash the fish, and let's eat braised carp at night." Liu Lamei's face showed a long-lost smile.

She went into the house and found a kitchen knife from the luggage pile, took her youngest son's bucket, and went to the shallow pond to kill fish.

Others, excitedly, gathered around the shallow pond to see if there were any fish.

"Ah, there's a fish here." Tian Guoliang was excited, "Dad, big brother, big sister, look, there's a big carp there!" ”

"Guoliang, I also saw one, it's a black fish." Tian Guodong's eyes also brightened.

"Ah, there's a grass carp here!" Tian Guoliang also said.

The two brothers rolled up their sleeves excitedly, eager to try to catch fish in the water, but were stopped by Tian Changfa.

"There are so many fish in this pond, could it be that someone else raised them?" The honest and honest Tian Changfa frowned.

Tian Xiuying didn't understand the fish pond, and she panicked, "My little sister caught a fish, and my mother has already gone to kill and wash it, will we be asked to pay if it is known?" ”

Tian Miaoxiu smiled slightly, "Dad, sister, this is a wild pond, no one cares, whoever catches the fish counts." ”

Han County, located on the Yangtze River, is full of ponds, and ponds can also be seen everywhere in front of and behind the houses in various villages.

Almost every village team has five, six, or seven or eight ponds.

There are three or four acres of small ponds, and there are also ten acres of large ponds.

After the reopening, the hard-working villagers contracted the fields and deep ponds, but the shallow ponds, especially those overgrown with reeds and artemisia, were not cared for.

This kind of shallow pond is dug deep to remove reeds and other wild grasses, which is suitable for fish farming or lotus root planting.

But the cost is significant.

Anyway, the village is full of ponds, so why bother with this wild pond?

Besides, it's so shallow, and after working for a few months, the bottom of the pond is exposed, and the contract is too risky.

Tian Guodong and Tian Guoliang wanted to catch fish, and they also said that it was a wild pond.

"Don't catch it, I'll ask the captain in a while to see whose house this fish pond is, so as not to be gossiped about." Tian Changfa looked at his children and told everyone not to catch fish again.

"Got it, Dad."

After rain, the water in the shallow pond was too muddy, and the deepest depth of the water in the pond was only one foot, and it was impossible to wash the fish.

After Liu Lamei cleaned up the fish scales and fish intestines, she carried the old bucket and walked to a farther place to wash it.

At this time, it was more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and many housewives went to the pond to wash the peeled vegetables.

In order to save electricity bills, most of the people in the village cook early, eat well before dark, and go to bed early.

When they saw Liu Lamei, they immediately surrounded her.

"Isn't this Tian Wu's father's eldest daughter-in-law, Lamei? Come and live in the village. ”

"What's your food?"

"People from the county seat, how can they eat radish and cabbage like us? Fish and meat, of course. ”

A few people said sour things.

When I got closer, I found that Liu Lamei was really washing fish.

It's still a big carp weighing more than three pounds!

Together, they opened their eyes wide, "Ah, what a fat fish!" ”

The women became jealous of her.

Liu Lamei's face was scornful and her expression was unnatural, "Ah, yes, yes." ”

She hurriedly washed the fish, carried the bucket, and left the dock by the pond to walk home.

Behind them, the women were still talking, their voices raised as if they were afraid she wouldn't hear them.

"The whole family was fired from the factory, this is offending people, right?"

"Maybe I've done something good!"

"What kind of work can you do when you return to the village? In three or five years, I'm afraid I'll starve to death! ”

"That's it! I didn't know how to save when I was expelled, but I actually ate such a fatty fish! The fish can be exchanged for several catties of rice if it is sold! ”

"A woman who doesn't know how to be a house, the family suffers with her."

"Pity the four unmarried children who suffer with her!"

Liu Lamei listened to those words and trembled with anger.

She is not a person who can quarrel, and besides, there are four people on the other side, she is afraid that she can't quarrel alone, besides, she will quarrel with people when she returns to the village, how will the family live in the village in the future?

Liu Lamei endured her anger and stepped on the muddy village road in the village to return home.

Seeing the family sitting on the old chairs in the hall talking and laughing, Liu Lamei exhaled, suppressed the unhappiness in her heart, and entered the kitchen.

Tian Miaoxiu saw it and ran into the kitchen, "Mom, I'll help." ”

The youngest daughter is so sensible, Liu Lamei said in her heart that she will not starve her children if she starves to death, "Okay, Miao Xiu will come and make a fire." ”

Liu Lamei smiled.

The eldest daughter, Tian Xiuying, also followed into the kitchen.

Although the stove in the kitchen is old, it is not damaged in the slightest, and the iron pot they brought from the county seat on the shelf is a good kitchen.

In addition, there is an old table in the kitchen, which has long been cleaned by Liu Lamei and can be used as a dining table.

Tian Miaoxiu burned the stove, and Tian Xiuying took out the old rice cooker to wash rice and steam rice.

Liu Lamei is in charge.

Just when the mother and daughter were cooking together, Tian Changfa, who went to the team leader to ask the fish pond, came back.

Tian Miaoxiu immediately ran forward, "Dad, what did the team leader say?" The pond behind our house is a wild pond, right? ”

Tian Changfa nodded, "Well, the captain said that this place is not a pond, it is a depression, and there is water only when it rains heavily. ”

Tian Miaoxiu had already guessed that it would be a wild pond, and she said with a smile, "That's great, let's dig this place and contract to raise fish and sell it." ”