Hearing Yang Fu's question, Huo Xi swallowed the food in her mouth and said, "Today we are going fishing with dad. We will catch more. We will take some to Gao Butcher in the afternoon."
Huo Erhuai had already heard about the pig trotters they bought yesterday. After hearing this, he nodded: "Yes, dad will buy more. Even if we don't sell it, we will send it to you."
Yang Fu nodded while cooking the rice, and shouted to Qian Xiaoxia: "We are going fishing at the mouth of the Yangtze River today!"
Qian Xiaoxia wilted as soon as he heard this.
I have been fishing for so many years and I never get tired of it. Now I have no chance to go to the city. I want to sneak into the city quietly, but I am afraid that his father will cut him. The rice in the bowl suddenly loses its flavor.
Huo Xi had already finished her meal. She ate the rice porridge in the bowl cleanly. The bowl looked as if it had been washed with water. She put the bowl in front of her and put the chopsticks on the table, with the chopstick tips next to the bowl.
, rush towards yourself.
Yang looked at it with amazement, Xi'er's every move, a poor family would not be able to cultivate such a temperament. Look at Yang Fu, after finishing the meal, he pushed the bowl, the chopsticks were crooked, and there were still rice grains on them. It's better not to compare, the better.
The comparison is even worse.
Yang Fu didn't understand why, so early in the morning, his sister's eyes looked like she wanted to eat someone.
He lowered his head and quickly stacked Huo Xi's bowl with his own, then grabbed two pairs of chopsticks in his hand, "Xi'er, let's go, let's wash the dishes."
After finishing breakfast, the nearby fishing boats left one after another.
Huo Erhuai has already finished exchanging news with everyone, asked about the water area everyone is going to, and has also decided where he wants to go. This will prevent a bunch of people from crowding in one place and not being able to catch many fish and shrimps.
Yang went into the cabin to take care of things, and Huo Xi and Yang Fu followed Huo Erhuai to the stern. Huo Erhuai raised the oar and began to rock the oar plank.
The boat slowly left the water where it was docked.
Huo Xi stared at it with interest.
Their boat is a oar boat with a single oar. It is said that "one oar is worth three oars, and one oar is worth three oars." This oar boat is more labor-saving and more flexible than a paddle boat. Both the elderly and children can row the oar.
The oar head is tied to the oar rope, and the oar rope is fixed to the iron ring at the stern to prevent the oar board from falling into the water. The oar rope can also control the depth of the oar board entering the water.
Looking at the middle of the oar board, there is a round hole, which is placed on the paddle fork at the stern of the boat to support the oar board to form a lever. In this way, the person rocking the oar can operate it with one hand, holding the front end of the oar and rocking it back and forth.
The oar board will move the water left and right, and the boat will move.
Just like the fish swinging its tail left and right to drive its body forward.
Seeing her careful observation, Huo Erhuai smiled and said, "Xi'er, do you want to try it?"
Huo Xi's eyes lit up and she nodded vigorously. She ran to Huo Erhuai and stretched out her hand... Well, she's not tall enough.
He stood on tiptoe, but it wasn't enough, so he became very angry.
Huo Erhuai saw it funny, pressed the oar head down, let her hold it, and patiently taught her: "Xi'er grabs the oar rope with one hand, and uses both hands together... use skill, not brute force, otherwise
My arms, waist, abdomen, and feet all hurt, yes, that’s it…”
Huo Xi listened to his guidance and got started quickly.
Because the oar is not carried in the hand, but placed at the stern of the boat, and is fixed by the oar rope and oar fork, it is not strenuous. If you don't grab the oar rope, one hand can be free for other things.
Yang Fu couldn't help but come closer, "Xi'er, do you know why the oar board is made like that?"
"Do you know why our oar board is so long?"
Huo Xi saw him looking like a teacher, and smiled and shook his head.
As expected, Yang Fu opened his mouth, "Xi'er, have you ever seen a fish tail? The fish's tail moves the water left and right, and the oar board at the end of the water is made of imitation of the fish tail... The bigger the boat, the longer the oar. I heard that some big boats
There are also dozens of oars being built..."
The two of them were chattering all the way. Huo Erhuai saw that the two of them could control it, so he started to sort out the fishing nets.
It wasn't until Huo Nian howled twice and woke up that Huo Xi and Yang Fu put aside their hands and went into the cabin to see Huo Nian.
Huo Nian woke up and after finishing her milk, she felt very energetic. She listened to the sound of the oar paddling and kept pointing her hands outward, wondering if she wanted to look outside.
Huo Xi sat cross-legged in the cabin, holding him under his armpits, while Yang Fu sat aside to protect him. The two teased Huo Nian and played with him.
Huo Nian is already a hundred days old. Yang feeds him seven or eight times a day. Although his little face is a little darkened by the river wind, he is very strong. He keeps jumping on Huo Xi's legs and has great strength.
Huo Xi almost couldn't hold her.
Yang Fu was teasing him with a rattle. Huo Nian looked at Huo Xi for a while, then turned to look at Yang Fu, and reached out to grab the rattle.
Yang Fu refused to give it to him. He hung him up and stepped back. He did this several times, and finally made Huo Nian angry. He puffed at Yang Fu twice, but the saliva did not spurt out. Instead, it flowed down the corner of his mouth and dripped on it.
On the scarf.
Huo Xi released her hand and patted his butt, glaring at him. He was babbling at him, as if complaining.
Yang Fu was slapped hard by Yang, which made Huo Nian grin, and his two short legs jumped more and more happily.
"Mom, will you turn over in a hundred days?"
Yang wiped Huo Nian's saliva, and became more and more happy as he looked at it. She replied: "Some strong children can turn over in two or three months, and some won't turn over until they are over half a year old. Your uncle can't turn over until he is over half a year old."
He will turn over."
Yang Fu is not convinced, is he so weak?
Yang glanced at him, feeling a little distressed.
It wasn't that he was weak, it was because he didn't have anything to eat at that time. My mother suffered from dystocia and severe bleeding during confinement. She and Erhuai had just gotten married at that time. Neither of them had ever been parents. They were in a panic and didn't do anything.
Know how to take care of him.
He had no milk to eat, so the couple held him in their arms and begged people to give him a bite to eat, leaving no trace of their dignity behind.
He was fed rice cereal when he was only four months old, and he would not turn over until he was six or seven months old. He was still unable to walk at the age of two, which made Mr. Yang cry with anxiety. He was afraid that he would not be able to feed his posthumous brother and let Mr. Yang's
The blood was cut off in her hands.
"Sister, why do you look at me like that?" I was scared.
"Are you prettier than Nian'er? Let me see you?" Yang said and reached out to grab the rattle from his hand and handed it to Huo Nian.
It made Yang Fu depressed.
He used to be his sister's treasure, but now his sister doesn't care about him anymore.
Huo Nian grabbed the rattle in his hand, but he didn't know how to shake it. He fiddled with it up and down a few times, but it didn't make any sound. He raised his innocent, watery eyes and looked at Yang.
It transformed Yang's motherly heart.
"Nian'er doesn't know how to shake, right? Can you please let me shake it for Nian'er, look, dong dong, dong dong..."
Huo Nian grinned and jumped happily, reaching out to grab it again.
When he got tired of playing, Huo Xi laid him down on the board of the boat and asked him to turn over. Huo Nian fluttered his limbs but refused to turn over. Yang Fu was so anxious that he lay down next to him and demonstrated himself.
Yang Fu showed off his weird looks for a few times, and Huo Nian stared at him. In the end, he was very flattered and learned to turn over.
Everyone was so happy that they clapped their hands and praised him. He made him laugh so hard that Huo Erhuai dropped the oar board and ran into the cabin to tease him for a long time.
Finally, Huo Nian ran out of strength and fell asleep again.
Yang took Yang Fu to the stern of the boat to sort out the fishing nets.
Huo Xi picked up all the clothes washed last night, folded them and put them in the bilge of the boat, and turned over the dried fish and shrimps that were drying in the bow of the boat.
The sun is sunny today, and it will be fully sun-dried until noon, so it can be put away. It can also be used as food for the family for half a month.
Just after turning it over, Huo Erhuai had already cast the first net.
After the net was collected, the four people squatted at the stern of the boat to remove the fish and shrimp from the net and put them into the water tank at the stern of the boat. This way, when they were picked up to be sold in the city in the afternoon, they could still ensure that most of them were alive.
Sell more money.
Maybe I was lucky today. I only netted three nets and the water tank was almost full. There were too many fish and they were jumping up.
Yang also caught some small ones that could not be sold at a high price. She squatted on the bow of the boat and looked at the river water, scaled and removed the belly, cut them in half and dried them in the sun.
There was no room for drying at the bow and stern of the boat, so I took the dustpan to the top of the boat to dry it and fixed it with boat ropes.
"Xi'er, I'll teach you how to use a scale. Later, your father and we will go to the city to sell fish!"
Yang Fu was very happy when she saw that today's harvest was not small. She found the fish scale at home and wanted to teach her.
"I can read the scale now. I can do everything my father taught me before."
"Are you really good at it?"
"Um."
Huo Xi nodded and pointed at the weighing stars on the weighing pole and told him one by one. He then took the fishing basket and hung it up with a weighing hook. He hung the weight on the weighing pole and rowed the scale while holding the weighing pole.
Weight, let the weighing rod be horizontal.
"Look, it's four pounds and two taels. Chenghui is one tael of silver."
One tael of silver for a broken fishing basket? What about robbery?
Yang Fu glared at her, and Huo Xi pursed her lips and smiled. She handed him the weighing rod and turned to ask Huo Erhuai: "Dad, will my uncle and I come to sell it later?"
Huo Erhuai's dark face smiled: "Okay. Come and sell it."