At the gate of Yong'an Forest Farm, the Jiefang cars drove away, leaving behind the Zheng family, each pushing a bicycle and standing there looking at each other.
"Who are these people!" Looking at the car taillights flashing in the dark night, Zheng Donghai said: "I started by saying that we would be arranged to eat in the cafeteria, and then we would be sent to Yongfu after that. This..."
"Shut up!" Zheng Xuekun turned the front of the car and scolded Zheng Donghai angrily: "If you weren't talking nonsense, would you?"
"Dad, what did I say?" Zheng Donghai said with an aggrieved look on his face: "Isn't it just a joke? Besides, the man surnamed Li has put in good words for us, so Zhao Erdong also agreed to add five hundred yuan.
Who is this person who gave us his skin, but later regretted it and said he had to add a thousand?"
Zheng Donghai didn't say a word correctly before, which angered Zhao Youcai. Zhao, who has always loved money, didn't even want a huge sum of fifteen thousand.
Zheng Xuekun didn't know why his son's casual words made Zhao Youcai lose his temper so much, and he quickly stood up and apologized to Zhao Youcai.
At that time, Zhao Youcai was very angry, which made Zheng Xuekun guess whether Master Zhao's son had an accident. Zheng Donghai only mentioned Zhao Youcai's pain point.
After much deliberation, there was only one possibility. Zheng Xuekun hurriedly took his son to apologize to Zhao Youcai. At this time, Li Dayong quietly scolded Zhao Youcai under the table, and then stood up to be the peacemaker.
The two brothers had been working together for many years. With just one small move from Li Dayong, Zhao Youcai could guess what Li Dayong was thinking.
At this time, Zhao Youcai's anger had subsided a lot. There was nothing he could do. He was facing a famine outside. How could he deal with it if he didn't sell the leopard skin?
So Zhao Youcai acted in a play with Li Dayong and asked Zheng Xuekun to pay 500 yuan more, otherwise Zhao Youcai would not sell the leopard skin.
Zheng Xuekun reluctantly agreed, but one second he agreed, and the next second Zhao Youcai regretted it.
Remembering that Zheng Xuekun said that his wife was a widow, Zhao Youcai got angry again and asked Zheng Xuekun to add another five hundred.
After an argument between the two parties, Zheng Xuekun bought the leopard skin for sixteen thousand yuan. It was originally a deal for fifteen thousand yuan, but because of Zheng Donghai's words, he spent another thousand yuan, so Zheng Xuekun was not angry.
Strange.
But at the moment, Zheng Xuekun can't take care of Zheng Donghai because they were abandoned in the mountains by Zhao Youcai.
Just like what Zheng Donghai said, Zhao Youcai was very good at the beginning. He said that after the transaction was completed, he asked Niu Junsheng to prepare some food. After eating and drinking, Zheng Xuekun and Zheng Donghai went down the mountain together in a car. Zhao Youcai was going to send them to Yongfutun.
go.
At that time, Zhao Youcai said that the roads in the village were not easy to navigate, so he sent them outside the village. Then the Zheng family and his son went into the village to inquire and found Xu Baoshan's family.
But now, the Zheng family and his son were left hungry outside the forest farm gate. It was already dark in the mountains, and the cold wind was blowing. The Zheng family and his son felt desolate.
On the mountain road, because it was dark, the car was not going very fast, but at this time Zhao Youcai's heart seemed to fly out of his body.
Excited, excited, still excited.
Seeing Zhao Youcai's shoulders shaking slightly, Li Dayong hurriedly advised him: "Brother, please take it easy."
"Uncle Li." Lin Xiangshun, who was driving, glanced this way and said with a smile, "My second uncle is so happy."
"That won't work either." Li Dayong said: "There used to be a man who passed the exam to become an official and suddenly became crazy about it."
"Oh my god, what's going on?" Lin Xiangshun was startled by Li Dayong's words, and turned to look at Zhao Youcai. Seeing that Zhao Youcai's body was shaking with excitement, Lin Xiangshun said hurriedly: "Second uncle, please pay attention."
"Brother!" At this time, Li Dayong grabbed Zhao Youcai's hand holding the belt of his pocket and said, "You can't just take this money back, right?"
Li Dayong's words were like a basin of cold water poured over Zhao Youcai's head. Zhao Youcai suddenly woke up, took out a wad of money from his pocket, and said to Li Dayong: "Dayong, I will let you take the money these two times..."
"Okay, brother." Li Dayong held Zhao Youcai's hand that was holding the money and said, "Both of us are easy to talk to. Don't give it to me now. If you give it to me, I don't have anywhere to put it."
After saying this, Li Dayong pointed to the triangular bag placed on Zhao Youcai's lap and said: "Such a big bag, you can't afford it, right?"
"Shunzi." Zhao Youcai turned to look at Lin Xiangshun and said, "How about I leave it at your house first?"
"It's okay to leave it at my house." Lin Xiangshun said with a wry smile: "But if my Yan'er wants to know about it, she has to tell my second aunt."
"Then what should we do?" Zhao Youcai frowned, wondering where to hide the money.
"Second uncle." Lin Xiangshun said to Zhao Youcai while driving: "Why don't you just tell the truth to my second aunt."
"That won't work." Zhao Youcai put the money bag into his arms and said, "Then it would be great if she can leave me eight hundred thousand."
In fact, one thousand yuan or eight hundred yuan is not a small amount these days, but Zhao Youcai has spent a lot this year, and he feels that it is inappropriate for him to have less.
"Shunzi." Li Dayong asked Lin Xiangshun across Zhao Youcai: "If you have room at home, just put the money there so that your wife can't come and take a look?"
"Oh..." Lin Xiangshun was thinking, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said: "The stove in the west room of my house is not burning, so why don't you give me money and stuff it in there, and hide it in the kang hole?"
In the Northeast, you can always see such a scene. People are sleeping on the kang, and there is a hole on the ground at the end of the kang, and a fire is roaring in the hole.
This is the Northeast Fire Kang.
The pit of the fire kang is called Nang (nǎng) stove in the local dialect.
It is called a kang hole when the stove goes inside and exhausts the smoke and heat.
Lin Xiangshun's family has young children, so the three members of the family sleep on the kang in the east room. The kang in the west room is usually not burned.
Lin Xiangshun suggested that the Qianshun bag stove should be stuffed into the stove pit. No one in that place would go and look at it.
"You can pull me down." As soon as Lin Xiangshun finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Dayong, who only heard Li Dayong say: "If you don't stay home, Chun Yan'er will stay home and burn the kang, and the fire will be lit."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hearing what Li Dayong said, Zhao Youcai shook his head repeatedly.
"This much money can't be put in the pile of zhezi." When Li Dayong muttered, Lin Xiangshun suddenly remembered another place and hurriedly said to Zhao Youcai: "Second uncle, please remember to put the flowers in front of my house when I was a child. Give it to me."
Can’t we clean up that doghouse?”
Hua Xiao was originally raised by Lin Xiangshun, but later Zhao Jun said he liked it, so Lin Xiangshun took the dog to Zhao's house.
When he mentioned this, Zhao Youcai's mind instantly flashed to the northeast corner of Lin Xiangshun's backyard.
Lin Xiangshun is a forest farm driver and has no shortage of building materials at home. The kennel is made of red bricks and yellow mud. Because the terrain in front of the kennel is low, Lin Xiangshun deliberately raised the door of the kennel.
In this way, the door is high and the inside is low. If you don't go inside the kennel, you can't see what's going on in the kennel.
Since giving Hua Xiao to Zhao Jun, Lin Xiangshun has stopped raising dogs, and the kennel has been idle for so many years. In the winter, Xu Chunyan rarely goes to the backyard, let alone the kennel.
"Huh?" Zhao Youcai's eyes lit up and he said, "Don't tell me, that kennel is really good. Let's leave it there for two days. I'll find a place later."
After discussing the place to hide the money, the three of them were very happy. At this time, in Dongdagou outside Yong'an Tun, Zhao Jun and others were lowering the cage into the water on the river.
The ground cage was spread out on the ice next to it. When Jie Chen picked up the end of the ground cage and sent it into the water, Li Baoyu on the opposite side of the ice used a shovel to pick up half a shovel of snow and spread it on the net between the two sections of the ground cage.
When the snow meets water, it turns into a slushy state, pressing down on the ground cage and sinking into the water, bringing the next section of the ground cage on the ice into the water.
Li Baoyu on the other side continued to repeat the previous actions, and soon a 20-meter underground cage descended into the river.
There was a long fishing net line at the mouth of the ground cage, and Zhao Jun tied it to a wooden stick three or four meters long.
Then, Zhao Jun inserted the wooden stick into the water with one end exposed on the water.
This is a mark, so you know where to start when raising the ground cage.
After setting up the ground cage, everyone ran to the place where the net was lowered before. Raising the net was also a technical job. Zhou Jianjun volunteered to squat on the ice to raise the net.
He is one meter away from the water, and there is a sack on the ice in front of his feet. This is to prevent the fish from coming ashore if it escapes from the net. If it is on the ice, it will run away with a flick. There is a sack that can increase friction and prevent the fish from flopping.
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Zhou Jianjun pulled the network cable, alternating his hands back and forth without any haste.
At this time, the people nearby could not see Zhou Jianjun's exertion. Zhou Jianjun's hands were gentle and he gradually pulled the net out of the water.
When lowering the net, a float is paired with a sinker, and when raising the net, a float is paired with a sinker. The float and sinker come together, and the fishing net rolls up and sticks the fish.
This sticky net was about 278 meters long. When Zhou Jianjun pulled it up three to four meters, a carp appeared in front of everyone.
Before dark, a group of people lit pine oil torches on the river.
Under the light of the fire, everyone gathered behind Zhou Jianjun, shouting in all directions.
"fish!"
"fish!"
"Ouch, fuck me!"
The carp is not big, weighing only a pound, and is two feet long from head to tail. It is hunched over the sticky net, with its dorsal fin, pectoral fin and tail scraping against the net, making it unable to break free.
As the fish was wrapped in the fishing net and brought ashore, Jie Chen and Ma Yang, who were on the left side of Zhou Jianjun, stretched out their hands and picked the carp from the net.
At this time, Ma Yang held the fish tail with one hand, and inserted the thumb and index finger of the other hand into the gills of the fish on both sides, holding the carp firmly in his hand.
Before setting up the net, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu filled the big basin with water. At this time, Li Baoyu was holding a nylon net bag. After Ma Yang put the fish into the net bag, Li Baoyu threw the net bag and the fish into the water basin.
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Just as the two were loading the fish, another fish came ashore, another carp, about the same size as the one just now. Han Daming started to pick the fish off the net.
"Hey? Jianjun." Standing on the shore, Ma Dafu saw the fish caught and couldn't help but exchange experiences with Zhou Jianjun and said: "There are so many fish here."
The net has only been lowered for an hour and a half, and we have seen fish continuously, which means there are a lot of fish in the river. If the net had been sunk in the water for two days, the fish catch would have been even more amazing.
Just as Zhou Jianjun was about to answer Ma Dafu's words, his hands suddenly sank and he felt something struggling with him under the water.
Zhou Jianjun's eyes widened and he hurriedly called Ma Dafu and said, "Uncle Ma, look!"
Zhou Jianjun was greeting Ma Dafu, but when he shouted, everyone looked in the water.
But at this time, the net was slowly pulled out of the water by Zhou Jianjun, but no fish was seen.
"Oh my god!" Ma Dafu exclaimed, reaching out and picking something from the fishing net that Zhou Jianjun had just pulled ashore.
When everyone saw it, they all exclaimed: "Oh, fuck me!"
"Such big scales!" Jie Chen exclaimed and saw a piece of fish scale held in Ma Dafu's hand. The fish scale was about the same size as the nail of Ma Dafu's thumb.
How big must the fish be to have such big scales?
Zhou Jianjun continued to pull the net. At this time, everyone could see that the float on the sticky net was shaking constantly. There must be fish competing with Zhou Jianjun in the water.
Zhou Jianjun's hands were steady and his movements were gentle. As the net gradually emerged from the water, everyone saw the shadow of the fish underwater.
Soon, the fish's head came out of the water. When everyone saw this, they couldn't help but exclaimed.
It's still a carp, not to mention how big the fish's head is, just looking at the fish's mouth, the chin is red.
"Jianjun, do you want to use a dip net?" Ma Dafu shouted from the side. He kept holding the dip net in his hand, which was a preparation made to prevent the big fish from falling out of the net when he was waiting for the big fish.
"No need, Uncle Ma." Zhou Jianjun smiled confidently: "It can't run away."
When Zhou Jianjun spoke, most of the fish had already landed.
This carp has yellow scales on both sides of its body from the pectoral fin back.
This, like its red mouth, is a characteristic of wild carp.
These days, this kind of fish is not valuable, but it will be very valuable in twenty or thirty years.
At this time, no one dared to breathe. Even though Zhou Jianjun said there was no need to help, Ma Dafu still dipped the net into the water.
The fish was wrapped in a sticky net and could not be caught with a dip net, but Ma Dafu blocked the mouth of the net under the fish's tail to prevent the big carp from escaping.
When the big carp came ashore, Li Baoyu, Jie Chen and Ma Yang all rushed towards it. They held down the body of the fish while Ma Yang started to pick off the net covering the fish's head.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After picking out the fish head, Ma Dafu's net arrived and put the fish head down into the net. Then Li Yubao and the others picked off the sticky net on the fish.
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This big carp must be ninety centimeters long, nearly one meter. Ma Dafu weighed it and estimated that it weighed ten kilograms.
Just as Ma Dafu was walking toward the water basin with the net in hand, Zhao Jun suddenly stopped Ma Dafu.
"Uncle," Zhao Jun said, "Would you like to come to my house to eat at night?"
"Coming to your house... is a big deal." Ma Dafu said with a slight hesitation, "Your aunt has already prepared food at home."
"My aunt will cook and let her and Ling'er eat." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "You and my little brother go to my house, and then let my mother stew this big fish."
"Uncle Ma!" At this time, Zhou Jianjun shouted over there: "Let's go, we caught such a big fish today, why don't we have a drink?"
"Okay!" After hearing this, Ma Dafu looked down at the fish in the net, raised his head and said with a smile, "Then drink."
"Uncle Dachun, uncle Ming." Zhao Jun greeted Han Dachun, and Han Mingming said: "Let's all go."
The Han brothers are not polite to the Zhao family. They are not here to stutter, but to have fun together.
Seeing that everyone agreed, Zhao Jun put the more than ten kilograms of large carp in a sack and gave it to Jie Chen to send him home and hand it over to Wang Meilan.
After Jie Chen left, everyone gathered around Zhou Jianjun.
Zhou Jianjun continued to set up the net, and as two crucian carp, three catfish and two carp came ashore, no one was calm anymore.
"Brother." Li Baoyu pulled Zhao Jun and said, "There are too many fish here, right?"
"Well, it's not good..." Before Zhao Jun could finish his words, he saw Zhou Jianjun, who had been squatting on the shore, stood up.
Zhou Jianjun was poking there, his hands obviously tightening up.
But at this time, the underwater net was motionless.
"Jianjun, slow down!" Ma Dafu reminded from the side: "This is a big guy!"