Chapter 54: A Bumper Harvest
"Uncle Chen, okay."
"It's coming, it's coming."
In the courtyard, Chen Qingjiang sorted out the fishing nets and followed Liang Qu to the port together.
Chen Qingjiang didn't forget what Liang Qu said that he would take him to a fish gathering place to fish, and he had stayed at home since yesterday and never left the door.
"Uncle Chen, do you catch fish and sell them in the town?"
"I went there two days ago, but the weather is getting colder and colder, and the fish are thinner than me, so I don't plan to go, it's not cost-effective."
Liang Qu said: "Then don't go from today onwards." ”
The senior brother said that the mountain ghost can kill the martial artists of the second level, and he is strong, and he prefers the martial artists with strong qi and blood, and even the martial artists like him who do not enter the customs are not taken into account, but the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, so don't go if you don't take risks.
Yixing City is fifteen or sixteen miles away from Pingyang Town, the road is there, it is quite wide, and there are many people coming and going, but there are forests on both sides, maybe the mountain ghosts are hiding in it, waiting to attack the travelers passing by, especially Uncle Chen is catching fish in the early morning, and rushing before dawn in the morning, which is more dangerous.
Liang Qu came with the horse team this morning, and he didn't dare to march alone.
"What's wrong? Does it have anything to do with what is Lu Shaohui? ”
Chen Qingjiang was honest but not stupid, and when he heard this, he immediately remembered the dead warrior.
Warriors are a rarity.
As a town, Pingyang Town can have so many warriors, and it is all Yang Dongxiong who takes the lead.
The martial arts hall has been open for more than 20 years, and many people in the county have made a special trip to worship under the door of the Yang martial arts hall.
Over time, there will be more warriors, more warriors, more hospitals, and more people who need to be served by officials, all of whom will eat and live.
Pingyang Town has developed a population of tens of thousands over the years, which is almost the same as the county seat, and it is more or less inseparable from this reason.
The large population, in turn, promotes the increase of people who learn martial arts, and complements each other.
Therefore, in other places, the number of warriors is cut by at least half, and it is definitely not a trivial matter to suddenly die one.
"Well, one of my senior brothers went to see it, and said that he was killed by a demon beast, and he hasn't caught a demon beast yet, so be careful."
Chen Qingjiang nodded yes, anyway, he didn't plan to go to the town to sell fish, and if he didn't go, he wouldn't go.
When he came to the port, Liang Qu jumped several times and jumped onto a canopy boat, which was no longer the original small sampan.
He slept in the martial arts hall last night, and came to the port in the morning to find Lin Songbao to return to his boat, and the tattered sampan was left for the fishing pen.
The sampan sampan is the "three plates", with two partitions in the middle, separating the two waterproof compartments at the bow and stern, divided into three parts, and the rest is nothing.
This canopy boat is much larger than the broken sampan, the total length of the sampan is only more than three meters, and the width is less than one meter, but the awning boat is five meters smaller and more than one meter wide.
The rim is higher so that it is not easy to be swept in by waves, and the cabin is covered with a layer of red lacquered boats, mats, and pillows made of bamboo and wood.
The canopy is one meter two high, there are eight on both sides, four of which are fixed, four can be opened and closed to move, it is woven with bamboo stalks, and there is a bamboo hoop in the middle, it is not a problem to shade the sun and protect from the rain, and it is also very firm, because it is painted black with bituminous coal and tung coal, so it is called a black canopy.
The sampan becomes a canopy, which can be described as a major upgrade of equipment, and the shotgun is replaced.
There is a canopy to protect from the wind and rain, and if it is inconvenient for Liang Qu to go home in the future, he can directly live on the boat.
"Hey, Ah Shui, did you get your own canopy boat back?" Chen Qingjiang was surprised, and then reacted, "Oh, you're different now, and the leper Zhang doesn't dare to do anything to you, I haven't seen the leper Zhang for a long time, he didn't pay the autumn tax a while ago, and he didn't catch anyone at home, and he was sentenced to be a homeless by the government, do you know this?" ”
"I don't know, this boat was given to me by Lin Di from the fishing pen, he said that Leper Zhang sold the boat to him, and Lin Di wanted to please me, so he returned it to me."
"Oh, that's a good thing, too." Chen Qingjiang pondered, "This leper Zhang, the boats have been sold, I'm afraid that I won't really take the money and run away, and I don't know what to do, won't I be a bandit?" ”
Liang Qu's expression remained unchanged, and he urged: "Whatever, a ruffian, let's leave quickly." ”
Hearing this, Chen Qingjiang untied the hull of the boat and followed closely behind the Liangqu boat.
The awning boat is much larger than the sampan, so it should be more difficult to row, but due to the unique long oar structure of the awning, hitting the water left and right is not only faster and more stable, but also more labor-saving.
Liang Qu has been practicing martial arts for more than a month, and he is about to break through, and his strength is much greater than that of an adult, so he feels more relaxed and comfortable when rowing, and even the boat does not shake.
I heard that a skilled fisherman could put a plate of fennel beans on the edge of the awning boat and paddle it without spilling a single bean.
Two awning boats quickly crossed the water, one after the other.
Liang Qu was immersed in the pleasure of galloping on the water, and Chen Qingjiang behind him couldn't keep up, shouting and waiting for him.
But there is no need to shout that Liang Qu will stop, they have arrived.
"Ah Shui... You've got a lot of strength. Chen Qingjiang was a little breathless, "Have you arrived?" ”
"Yes, that's it, there are a lot of fish in these waters."
"Then I'll try it online."
"Wait, I'll sprinkle something."
Liang Qu pretended to take out a small box, dug out a lump of mud from it, pinched it tightly, and threw it into the water.
"What is this?"
"I asked Master for bait, and it was very attractive to the fish."
"And this kind of goodie?"
It is an ordinary yellow mud, which Liang Qu used to cover people's ears in order to reduce the possibility of exposure, and also to make a signal action in order to give the two beasts time to catch fish.
Sprinkled the "bait", Liang Qu immediately notified the two beasts under the surface of the water through the spiritual link, and drove the gathered schools of fish to come.
After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Liang Qu asked Chen Qingjiang to catch fish.
Chen Qingjiang caught the fishing net, and threw himself away, and the fishing net was perfectly spread out on the water.
......
"Hahaha, a lot of fish, really a lot of fish!"
Chen Qingjiang struggled to drag the fishing net up, and there were more than 20 big fish in it, and the visual inspection was about 40 wen.
In winter, the amount of a net!
Liang Qu compared it in his heart, it was faster than the fat catfish fishing alone.
In a quarter of an hour, more than 20 big fish, Ah Fei had to go back and forth seven or eight times by himself to vomit, and it would take an hour shorter.
"Ah Shui, quick, that bait, let's get some more."
"Okay."
Clusters of yellow mud, big fish after nets.
Chen Qingjiang was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, and he was so tired that he was sweating profusely and was reluctant to rest for a moment.
What kind of fish is caught here, it is clearly silver, silver with white flowers!
"Uncle Chen, it's almost okay."
"No, there are still so many fish," Chen Qingjiang was so tired that his hands and feet were numb, and he still wanted to continue fishing.
"We didn't bring a fish basket, the compartment was so full that we couldn't fit it."
"Stuffed?"
Chen Qingjiang was in a trance, and the two boats were crammed in just three or four hours?
He came back to his senses and said, "So many fish, you have to get five or six hundred wen." ”
"I just saw that there are two small trouts, almost, Uncle Chen wipes his sweat, beware of the cold." Liang Qu threw over a cloth towel, "It's the same tomorrow, there is a lot of bait, and it's not enough to match it, so let's go back first." ”
Five or six hundred wen, divided equally between one person and three hundred wen, and seven taels of silver in a month.
The most important thing is that Liang Qu can free up more time to do other things in the future, fishing to make money, and no longer have to go out of the boat to disguise.
In the future, there is a chance to bring in more people to form a "fleet", and the income can be doubled, that is, the selection should be more cautious.
Liang Qu thought of last night's meal and sighed with emotion.
Unconsciously, he was out of labor and became a rentier class, and he could get money every day without doing anything, and the source was stable, and many people who did business were inferior to him.
Living in a mansion and raising a beautiful maid is really not a dream, it is just around the corner.
Chen Qingjiang looked at the cabin, his eyes full of regret.
He had lived empty for thirty years, and he had never caught a fish so happily, and the fish took the initiative to burrow into the net as if it were crazy, and he had to use it to mend the net several times.
Two awning boats docked one after another and anchored.
As soon as he tied the rope of the boat, Liang Qu heard someone shouting at him on the port.
"Ah Shui, you're back, go back and take a look, someone is looking for something at your doorstep!"