Wang Fang sewed the pocket in her hand and looked at the fish in the basin.
"Let's save this fish until the market and sell it on the street. It's not a holiday season and there's no work to do. It would be a waste to kill it and eat it. If you sell it, you can still get a few kilograms of lard."
"You have to ask your son about this. He caught the fish. You can't ask the owner what to do with it. Besides, Anzi is eighteen years old and is an adult. We need to respect his opinion."
Zhang Jianguo looked at Zhang An, who had changed his appearance and was full of energy, and thought that his son had recovered from the failure in the college entrance examination.
In fact, Zhang Jianguo did not have much hope for his son's college entrance examination. It is difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son.
Especially in this big mountain, the education level is not as good as other places.
Zhang An's grades are only average. In this era of thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge, it is really not easy to go to university with such conditions.
I don’t know about other places, but as far as this village in Wumeng Mountain is concerned, none of the villages that I know of have had college students for a long time.
"Then let's sell it when we go to the market." Zhang An looked at the calendar hanging next to the niche and saw that it was already Friday.
Zhang An looked at the calendar on the wall. Today is Friday, and the day after tomorrow, Sunday, is the time to catch the big market.
I also know that my mother has a thrifty character. She usually lives a better life, that is, during festivals and busy farming seasons, she usually doesn’t bring extra oil even for cooking.
"Then listen to my mother's words and sell them at the market. I won't go to the big market until the day after tomorrow. I will look for a ground cage later and go to the river to try two nets to see if I can get some more. We will get them together then.
Go sell it."
On the top of the mountain in the west, the sky was dyed red by the setting sun. In the blue sky, the white clouds that were originally floating seemed to be on fire.
Zhang An spent a while to find the unused ground cage at home, and then dug up earthworms on the ground at the door, preparing to use them as bait.
I have to say that the current environment is much better than that of later generations.
If you dig with a hoe, you can dig out a few earthworms.
Later, when Zhang An went fishing in the reservoir, he wanted to dig up some earthworms, but in the end he dug a large area but couldn't catch a few.
The earthworms were almost done digging, and the sound of shouting for food came from the house.
Since time travel, although the food he has eaten has not been very good, Zhang An's food has tasted delicious.
Except for potatoes, which are a regular fixture all year round, everything else on the table is home-grown seasonal vegetables.
In the hearts of people in the southwest, potatoes are never tired of eating them no matter how many times they eat them. It is said that some people can make potatoes in more than ten or twenty ways.
A bowl of shredded green peppers and potatoes, and a pickled bean and rice soup taste great with rice.
Especially the sauerkraut cooked in lard, Zhang An found it particularly appetizing, not to mention the roasted peppers and eggplants.
The cost of a meal is probably only the lard, and everything else is self-sufficient.
This kind of dish is also a common dish used by most people in the village, and there is nothing to choose from.
These are all fresh organic vegetables, not high-tech products with advanced technology years later.
By the time we finished dinner, it was getting dark and the temperature had dropped.
Zhang An took the ground cage and went to the river to find a place to lower the net.
In the vast fields, there are frogs croaking everywhere, as if they are competing to see which side cries loudest.
On summer evenings, the adults at home like to sit in the yard, but Zhang An can't sit still.
There are too many mosquitoes in the yard. I don’t know why, but Zhang An always feels like these mosquitoes keep biting him.
Zhang An, who had been chatting with his parents for a while, couldn't stand it any longer. His fair and tender arms had already been bitten several times, so Zhang An simply went back to the room, lit a handful of mosquito repellent and fumigated the room, then put down the mosquito net on the bed.
, got into bed.
In Changqing Village at this time, almost no one had a TV set at home.
One is because most people's conditions are too poor and they don't have the spare money to buy this thing.
The second reason is that even if you buy it, you won’t be able to find many programs on the antenna in this big mountain.
So everyone was sitting and chatting about home affairs and killing time.
By the time it was around nine o'clock in the evening, everyone was basically asleep.
When the farming season is busy, I might not come back from the fields until eight or nine o'clock to finish my meal.
Zhang An was lying on the bed leaning against the pillow. He didn't know what he was thinking about, and he didn't know when he fell asleep.
It was already dawn when he woke up again. Zhang An, who turned around to get up, was no longer sleepy and did not stay in bed.
Since I lost my mobile phone and other electronic products, I no longer stay up until one or two o'clock at night.
Zhang An's sleep quality has become very good, he falls asleep naturally and wakes up naturally.
Breathing the fresh air makes me feel much better.
After Zhang An got up, he found that his parents had already gotten up.
My mother, Wang Fang, was busy cooking breakfast in the kitchen. My father went out at some point and came back after cutting a large basket of pigweed.
Zhang An raises two piglets at home, both of which were piglets bought in March and April.
After feeding it for several months, it only weighed about a hundred pounds.
This is not surprising. Nowadays, pigs are basically raised with pig grass and mixed with cornmeal boiled pig food. They have not yet started to buy feed for feeding, so the slow growth rate is normal.
Generally, it takes a year for piglets raised at the beginning of the year to reach about 200 pounds, and they need to be raised well.
However, the meat produced by pigs raised in this way is delicious, unlike later generations where feed was rampant and the price of pork was high, but the meat was also unpalatable.
Noodles are still boiled for breakfast. Alkaline noodles that look a little gray are a must-have food for most people.
When we came to the river, the morning sun shone on the river, and the sparkling waves looked really beautiful.
I don't know who owns a big white goose swimming around on the water. From time to time, it puts its head into the water to prey on small fish and shrimps in the water.
After walking for about twenty minutes, we arrived at the place where the net was dropped off last night.
Pull the covering water plants aside and raise the first net.
Take a closer look, oh, it’s in stock.
I saw two grass carps, each weighing more than a kilogram, locked in a net. After Zhang An moved the cage, the two grass carps flapped their tails.
There are also some finger-sized fry, including common grass carp, carp, and crucian carp, but what makes Zhang An most happy is that there are two small eel fry and several thumb-sized fish with fine scales.
The eel seedlings can understand why this thin-scaled fish got into the big river.
In the Wumeng Mountains, the fine-scaled fish is not a rare fish, but they are all found in the streams in the mountains.
Maybe it was washed down by the current during the previous rainy season.
This was much more important than the two grass carps he caught. Zhang An directly threw all the small fish in the net into the space.
But the fine-scaled fish must be kept alone. This thing eats meat like the snake fish, so put them in a pool.
According to the speed of growth in the space, it will be eaten by other small fry within a few days.
So I put them in a net and put them in the pond. I will give them a hoe later and give them a new home.
Then he pulled out a second net, and there was a lot of movement before it even came out of the water. Did he really catch something big today?
As a result, when they pulled it to the shore, Zhang An was dumbfounded. There were no fish in it, only a big eel with a tattoo.
He was holding the letter in front of Zhang An. Zhang An estimated that it weighed several kilograms.
Zhang An's claws are numb now. This thing is not as poisonous as the cauliflower snake. It's a pity to let it go. If I don't let it go home, my mother will tell me.
Wang Fang is very afraid of snakes, let alone eating snake meat.
So I definitely can't take this thing back with me.
Forget it, God is kind enough to let you live. Be careful next time. If you are caught by others, it will really enter the digestive tract.