The whole mountain is my hunting ground

This afternoon, after Zhao Jun left home, Zhao Chun, Jin Xiaomei, and Xu Chunyan began to squeeze the fish.

During this season, fish do not eat underwater and there is no dirt in their intestines, but eating them with their internal organs will definitely taste bitter.

Therefore, it is important to take care of others even if they eat small fish.

However, small loaches and wheat ears whose little fingers are even thinner than the little finger cannot disembowel the fish, so they pinch the gills of the fish with their thumb and index finger, pinch and push towards the tail, and the internal organs in the fish's belly are removed. The anus is out.

After emptying the fish's belly, you still have to pick out its scales. The little fish couldn't use a knife to pick out its scales, so I held the little fish and pushed my thumbs up from the fish's tail against the scales with my fingernails. By pushing it from tail to head, the scales on one side of the small fish will fall off.

After pushing one side in this way, push the other side. After everything is cleaned up, wash the small fish with clean water, and finally take them out and drain them.

After dividing it among the Han family and the Ma family, the Zhao Jun family still had seven or eight kilograms of small fish, half of which was battered and fried, and the other half was fried in fish sauce.

When Jiechen came back dragging the big sack and bumping all the way, the fish sauce was already out of the pot.

Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei were in front of the big pot, constantly adding small fish wrapped in bread into the oil.

In the west room of the Zhao family, the old lady, Xie Sunshi and Liu Lanying watched a group of children playing with the little lynx.

"Mimi, Mimi!" Zhao Na picked up a dead wheat ear fish and stuffed it directly into the little lynx's mouth.

When her fingers touched the little lynx's teeth, the little lynx opened its mouth, but then a fishy smell rushed into the little lynx's mouth.

The little lynx turned its head back, and the little fish fell on the kang. Wang Xue stretched out her chubby little hand, picked up the wheat ear, stuffed it into the little lynx's mouth, and called out at the same time: "Mimi."

"Cat...cat!" Followed by Zhao Na. She didn't call Mimi, but called the little lynx's name, but she really fed the lynx as a cat.

Hearing the dog barking outside, Wang Meilan subconsciously looked out the window. But at this time, all he could see was darkness outside the house.

After a while, the door of Zhao's house was pulled open from the outside. Jie Chen stretched out his hand to bring the sack into the house and said, "Auntie, here it is for you!"

"What is this?" Wang Meilan asked as she took the sack.

"Fish!" Jie Chen said nothing and hurried out. He also wanted to go to Dongdagou to look at the net.

"This child..." Wang Meilan hurriedly opened the sack before she could finish her words. As soon as she got her hands on it, she felt that the sack was quite heavy.

With just one look, Wang Meilan's eyes widened and she shouted inside: "Come here, everyone!"

Wang Meilan's shouting voice is a bit like the empress and mistress shouting "Here comes someone" in a palace drama.

Hearing her shout, Yang Yufeng, Zhao Ling, and Xu Chunyan all came over.

Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei are frying fish here, and others are also busy. Zhao Jun said he wanted a meal package, so Yang Yufeng and the others went down to the cellar and brought out all the cabbage from Daye.

After being stored for such a long time, the cabbage leaves will definitely become wilted, and this is cabbage for the heart, not the material for making rice bags.

But if you want to eat this bite, choose the one that is relatively large and tender. If you can’t eat it by wrapping it with rice, you can simply wrap it.

At this time, the women gathered around and looked at the fish in the sack that was still moving its mouth. They were all surprised by such a big fish.

Wang Meilan didn't have a big pot at home, so Wang Meilan gave the big carp to Jin Xiaomei and asked her to take it to her house and pack it and stew it.

Afraid that Jin Xiaomei would be too busy to work on her own, Wang Meilan sent Zhao Ling and Xu Chunyan to help her, leaving only Yang Yufeng to fry fish beside her.

After all the small fish wrapped in bread were put into the pot, Wang Meilan gave Yang Yufeng the strainer. She walked to the back room, looked at her watch, and muttered to Zhao Chun who was holding the child, "Why isn't your dad back yet?" ?”

Yes, the dog I took out came back at noon, and the person hasn’t arrived home yet.

"Then there's no need to ask, Mom." Seeing that there were no outsiders around, Zhao Chun whispered: "I must have caught the pig and secretly sold the pork in the arena."

Hearing what Zhao Chun said, Wang Meilan felt that what the eldest daughter said was reasonable, but she really didn't think about how much business Zhao Youcai could make, so she didn't take it to heart.

At this time, Jie Chen, who was running outside the village, met Zhao Youcai and three others who had returned.

Jie Chen recognized his car, and when he saw it approaching, he stopped and waved.

The car stopped in front of Jie Chen. In the passenger seat, Zhao Youcai nervously held the strap of his triangle pocket and said to Lin Xiangshun beside him: "Shunzi, ask him what he wants to do."

As soon as he entered the village, before he had time to go to Lin Xiangshun's house to settle the money, he met Jie Chen who blocked the way.

"My dear minister." Lin Xiangshun stuck his head out of the cab and shouted, "What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to Dongdagou. My brother Jun, we are catching fish there." Jie Chen walked to the cab, greeted the three people in the car, and then asked: "Uncle Zhao, Uncle Li, Brother Shunzi , can’t you go? Where are a bunch of us?”

"No!" Zhao Youcai was holding so much money, feeling uneasy. Where would he go?

"Xiaochen, we are not going." Lin Xiangshun smiled and said to Jiechen: "We are tired from the whole day on the mountain, so we are going home to rest."

"Ah, that's okay." Jie Chen nodded, and then said: "What about...Uncle Zhao, Uncle Li, Brother Shunzi, come down and let me drive."

With that said, Jie Chen pointed to the east end of the village and said, "We are digging about a hundred kilograms of fish over there, so we might as well go back and collect them."

As soon as Jie Chen said this, the three people in the car were stunned.

But what Jiechen said was reasonable. He had to walk twenty minutes from the village to Dongdagou, and there were so many people and fish there that he needed a car.

As for Zhao Youcai and the others, they were home in just a few steps.

"This..." Zhao Youcai held the pocket strap with both hands. After thinking for a moment, he tapped Li Dayong next to him with his elbow, then turned to look at Jie Chen in the cab and said, "Okay, little minister, let's go down then. .”

"Hey!" Seeing Lin Xiang get out of the car, Jie Chen didn't rush to get into the passenger seat. Instead, he walked to the front of the car, bowed to Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong and said, "Uncle Zhao, Uncle Li, I'm leaving then."

"Let's go, let's go." Zhao Youcai raised his chin, Jie Chen nodded, turned around and passed Lin Xiangshun.

After getting in the car, Jie Chen, who was sitting in the car, used the light of the car lights to see the triangular bag in Zhao Youcai's hand.

But Jiechen didn't think much and drove directly out of the village and headed straight to Dongdagou.

Seeing Jie Chen driving away, Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, and Lin Xiangshun all turned their heads and hurried towards Lin's house.

When he arrived at Lin's house, Zhao Youcai arrived at the back of the house first. He held his triangular bag and got into the kennel.

This is said to be a doghouse, but in fact it is almost as big as a shed. It is no exaggeration to say that the threshold is almost as high as Zhao Youcai's knees.

Zhao Youcai went into the kennel, took the butter paper that Lin Xiangshun took out from the house, and first wrapped more than fifteen large bundles, wrapping them three times in a row before putting them back into the triangular pocket.

At this time, Li Dayong brought two more bundles of bean poles (gāi). Zhao Youcai first placed the wrapped money on the ground, then took the bean poles and covered them.

Taking the flashlight from Lin Xiangshun, Zhao Youcai looked at it carefully and felt that it was a good place, so he got out of the kennel and went home with Li Dayong and Lin Xiangshun.

Before I even entered the house, the dogs in both houses started barking.

But after Zhao Youcai entered the hospital, he raised his hand and pointed at Erhei, shouting: "Run back by yourself, you can just scream!"

After saying that, Zhao Youcai didn't care about the rare dog and walked quickly into the house.

As soon as Zhao Youcai opened the door, a puff of oil smoke hit his face. Zhao Youcai frowned, then straightened his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Lan, what are you doing?"

"Ah, let's simmer some rice." Wang Meilan wiped the pot lid with a rag. After frying the fish, Wang Meilan began to simmer the rice.

Seeing Li Dayong and Lin Xiangshun entering the room at this time, Wang Meilan smiled and asked the three of them: "It's a good day today. Did you make a lot of money?"

As soon as Wang Meilan said this, Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, and Lin Xiangshun were all stunned.

Wang Meilan blinked when she saw this, and asked again: "You came back from a long time?"

Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, and Lin Xiangshun stared at Wang Meilan, with panic and disbelief in their eyes.

Seeing the expressions of the three of them, Wang Meilan thought she had guessed correctly. She immediately smiled and asked, "How many pigs should we catch?"

"What?" Zhao Youcai looked at Wang Meilan in surprise and asked, "Lan, what did you say?"

"I asked you how many pigs you caught." Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Youcai and said, "You let the dogs go home by themselves, and you three went to sell pork?"

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, and Lin Xiangshun were like drowning people who suddenly put their heads out of the water and were able to breathe freely.

"Ah? Haha..." Zhao Youcai covered up the remaining panic in his heart with laughter, forced a smile, and asked Wang Meilan: "Lan Na, how did you know?"

"How do I know that?" Wang Meilan smiled, raised her hand and pointed out the window, and said, "The dogs are all well fed. It's not like I can't see them."

"Ah." At this moment, Zhao Youcai finally figured out the cause and effect, and immediately said to Wang Meilan: "Today we knelt three pigs, and after feeding the dogs, the remaining meat was sent to the canteen."

"Look at what you've done." Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Youcai when she heard this and said, "What will Baoyu do with the daughter of the old Liu family next week? Why don't you leave a pig for Baoyu?"

"No need, sister-in-law." Li Dayong said with a smile: "We have meat and other things at home, and you usually don't have time to get those for me."

What Li Dayong said is true. His family now has a lot of frozen meat. His family usually eats at Zhao's house in the evening, and at most they make some steamed buns and dumplings in the morning.

After hearing what Li Dayong said, Wang Meilan didn't say anything else, and she didn't care about the money from the three wild boars.

"Oops." At this time, Lin Xiangshun changed the subject. He sniffed slightly, and then asked Wang Meilan, "Is my brother catching fish?"

"It's picked." Wang Meilan pointed to the west with a smile and said, "It's a big one. I think that carp weighs more than ten kilograms."

Here, carp is called carp, and crucian carp is called crucian carp seed.

"So big?" Wang Meilan's words shocked the three of them again.

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"So big?"

"What the hell is this?"

On Dongdagou, when everyone looked at the fish coming from the net, they no longer thought, "Oh, fuck," but fell into deep suspicion.

Zhou Jianjun spent a long time struggling with the fish under the water, but when he pulled it up, it was only a crucian carp of about a pound.

This kind of big crucian carp is stewed very fresh, but with the red-mouthed carp in front, everyone is full of expectations when they see a fish pulling the net.

"I heard from one of them that the big fish don't flutter, but the small fish can toss hard." Wang Qiang said with a smile next to him.

"That's not right!" At this time, Zhao Jun reminded Zhou Jianjun, "Brother-in-law, look carefully! There might be something big down there."

Zhou Jianjun nodded to Zhao Jun and continued to raise the net. As the two and a half meter net was pulled up by Zhou Jianjun, the float side of the fishing net shook violently.

Zhou Jianjun pulled it up again. Under the light of the fire, it seemed that something was stirring under the water.

In an instant, a circle of ripples appeared on the water.

"Uncle!" Zhao Jun called Ma Dafu. Ma Dafu glanced at Zhao Jun and said nothing, but his hand holding the net moved.

Ma Dafu stretched the net and lifted the net pocket on the water. At this time, Zhou Jianjun pulled the net upwards. As the net moved, a big fish turned over under the water with the net.

Under the firelight and under the water, I saw a large piece of fish belly. This big fish was turning over and trying to run away.