Chapter 31 Fishing by the River (Please recommend and collect)
Author: Han Ming
Chapter 31 Fishing by the River (Please recommend and collect)
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Li Hongbin and his family came to Zhang An's house as guests.
I came here to pay New Year's greetings to Zhang An and Zhang An's parents, and I also brought the elderly at home with me.
In order to accompany the guests, Zhang An invited his second grandfather, second grandmother, and fourth grandfather. After all, there were no old people in his family, so he couldn't lose his courtesy. Only old people could talk to old people.
It must have been taught by Zhou Lan. Li Yao kowtowed to Zhang An and Zhang An's parents as soon as he arrived.
Zhang An took out the red envelope he had prepared and handed it to Li Yao, but he knew in his heart that based on how Zhou Lan was able to treat his father obediently, Li Yao would probably fill the red envelope for today and then lose it when he gets home.
When Li Yao was four or five years old, he was at the stage where people disliked dogs and abandoned them. As soon as he came, he headed towards the three tigers lying in the yard.
In fact, his favorite is the big tiger, because among the three tigers, the big tiger is docile and obedient, the second tiger is a bit naughty, and the little tiger is a bit demonic.
Every time he played with the three dogs, the two tigers would run far away when they saw him.
No matter how much trouble he made, Xiaohu would ignore him, and Xiaohu would also act very scary, so the little guy didn't bother Xiaohu at all.
Only the big tiger worked hard and never complained. Every time he played wildly with him, he even carried him around on his back.
No pain means no gain, and because of this, the little guy will bring some delicious things to the big tiger every time he comes.
The ducks at home don't like this little guy either. Every time he is caught, his feathers are plucked. Fortunately, the ducks went out early today and have already gone to play on the river.
Li Hongbin's parents were also from the mountains, so he chatted with his second grandfather and fourth grandfather very quickly.
The fourth grandfather took out the leaf tobacco he grew and shared it with a few people, and he was indeed praised by Father Li.
The fourth grandfather was very attentive to growing tobacco leaves. Not only would he visit them frequently, but he would also go to the street to buy oil residues for fertilization.
Therefore, we can harvest a lot of tobacco leaves every year and sell them in the town.
The old people have their own circle. After Zhang An greeted the two old people, Zhang An was not allowed to accompany a group of old men and women.
On the contrary, it was Li Hongbin who took Zhang An to play in the river.
"Zhang An, let's go fishing. I've been craving for this river in your village for a long time. I brought all the fishing rods today."
Li Hongbin was a little excited. He didn't stay long the last few times he came here. This time he was going to stay at Zhang An's house for a whole day. It would be a must-have experience. They said fishing is a romance for middle-aged men.
After the guy finished speaking, he went out and came back with a square box in his hand.
Zhang An opened it and took a look. There were a lot of things, including fishing rods, line groups, floats, bait, fish guards, and nets. Zhang An was not that enthusiastic about fishing, so he was not that familiar with it, but one look at the material
Knowing that these things are not cheap, I silently cursed the big dog in my heart.
Zhang An took a look and realized that there was nothing he needed help with now, so he might as well accompany Li Hongbin to the river to play and kill some time.
"Okay, I'll go over and watch you fish. I don't have a fishing rod here, so I usually lower the net."
Zhang An does not have a fishing rod at home. In the past, Zhang An used bamboo poles tied with fishing lines to fish in the river.
My family's conditions do not allow me to spend money to buy these things.
"I have several here, just take them over and use them."
That's right, Li Hongbin brought several fishing rods, "Wait for me then, I'll go dig some bait."
"Oh, what kind of bait are you digging? Didn't I bring any bait?"
"Hey, I'm still used to using earthworms."
Ignoring Li Hongbin, he took a hoe and dug in the vegetable field for a while, and got dozens of earthworms.
Zhang An also put earthworms into the space and soaked them in spring water. He didn't have any skills, so he couldn't be looked down upon by Li Hongbin later. As the saying goes, the rich rely on technology, and the poor rely on mutation.
The two of them carried their equipment and walked out of the courtyard. After seeing this, Li Yao stopped playing with the dog and wanted to follow him to the river to play. This was a place he had always wanted to go.
So Zhang An called Zhang Tie up and asked Zhang Tie to look at this little guy later.
No reason, just because Li Yao listened to Zhang Tie's words, and what Zhang Tie said was more effective than what Zhou Lan said.
The two of them walked down the river bank and finally found a satisfactory fishing spot.
After putting down his things, Li Hongbin took out a small basin and started mixing bait. Zhang An thought he was a professional fisherman.
But during the subsequent throwing process, Zhang An even laughed.
This guy has learned everything, but his throwing ability is not very good. He has thrown the hook on the reeds several times.
"You should just laugh out loud. I'm afraid you're holding it in. I don't go out fishing often. I haven't been out for a long time. My hands are raw."
Li Hongbin looked at Zhang An's red face, which was suppressing laughter, and looked a little dark.
"Okay, okay, I actually don't know how to fish, but I saw that you were so well prepared, and I thought you were very professional."
"That's right. We don't have the technology, so we don't want to miss out on equipment."
Both of them are novices, and they don’t have much experience in making nests. They just throw the rod directly after hanging the bait.
Zhang An saw that Li Hongbin had already thrown two rods out, so he took out his own earthworms, adjusted the weight casually, picked one out, hung it up, and threw it out.
"Are you really not considering using my bait? I spent a lot of money to buy this bait. I heard others say that this bait is very powerful in a place like this."
Li Hongbin saw Zhang An hanging earthworms and still asked.
"It's okay. We use earthworms a lot. We use them when we lower the net. They can also be used when fishing."
The two chatted while looking at the floats in the water.
After a while, Zhang An saw the float on his pole swinging up and down. When he came to his senses, the tail of the float had been pulled under the water.
Then the fish took the bait...
Zhang An lifted the pole and saw that the fish in the water was struggling quite fiercely. It was not a small fish, but it was not very big either.
He raised the pole and slowly reeled in the line. After a while, he pulled the fish in the water to the shore.
The fish is not big, grass carp weighing more than a pound.
Two little guys, Zhang Tie and Li Yao, quickly came over with buckets to load it.
Li Hongbin watched Zhang An catch the fish in a short while, his eyes widened. After a while, he looked back at his rod, but there was no movement at all.
"You got a fish biting so quickly?"
Zhang An chuckled and said something about luck.
Then after hanging another earthworm, I threw the rod out, and it still landed at the original spot.
But not even a few minutes passed before the fish bobber began to fall again.
This time the force coming from the fishing rod was stronger than before, and as soon as I reeled in the line and lifted the rod, I caught the fish.
Crucian carp weighing more than two kilograms is not bad. Crucian carp has more spines, so many people don't like it and they usually use it to make soup.
Wild crucian carp of this size is rare to see, because crucian carp grows very slowly, and can only grow to a maximum of about three kilograms.
Of course, if Zhang An takes the space to raise it, that would be a different story.
As soon as he arrived at the river, Zhang An connected his two rods, but Li Hongbin still had no fish to show his interest.
But he didn't expect that the fun would begin next.
Every time Zhang An just throws out, a fish will take the bait after a while. Do the fish in this place also accept fish?
Do you bite like crazy when you see an acquaintance’s hook?
In half an hour, Zhang An had already caught seven or eight fish, each one bigger than the last.
Li Yao was still standing by and asked, "Dad, why are there no fish on your fishing rod?"
Li Hongbin was embarrassed. Are earthworms really so magical?
Fortunately, it started to open, and as soon as Li Yao finished asking, there were fish biting his hook.
The operation was as fierce as a tiger, and when I saw two, two, and five on the hook, it was a small crucian carp.
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