Chapter 20 If you believe it, you will have it; if you don’t believe it, you will have nothing.
Early the next morning, after Zhang Peng had breakfast, he saw Zhao Chunming opening the door and walking in. He saw Wang Xiufen and her two sisters smiling and saying hello, and took out two candy balls from his pocket and handed them to Zhang.
Xiaoqiao and Zhang Xiaolan coaxed the two sisters into laughing.
Zhang Peng got dressed and was about to go out with Zhao Chunming. Before leaving, he told Wang Xiufen that he was going to the river to walk fish today. Wang Xiufen told him to be careful. Then Zhao Chunming went out and picked up the nest and hanging net placed by the door and walked out of the courtyard.
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Soon the two of them reached the mouth of the old river. The water surface here is relatively wide and the current is not fast, so it is easy to catch fish.
Next, we can only watch Zhao Chunming's performance. Zhang Peng is really not familiar with fishing and shrimping. He usually only goes to the cage occasionally. If a professional does professional things, then he will be a hands-off shopkeeper.
Leave it to Zhao Chunming.
When it comes to how to fish, Zhao Chunming really knows how to catch fish. He first walked around the reeds on the shore, and then he saw a place where he thought the water flow was good. He first put bait in the nest.
In fact, it is very simple. Just dig the earthworms in advance, mash them and mix them with the leftover rice. Leave them for a few days. After the flavor has fermented, form them into balls and put them in. This is a crude method, but the effect is very good.
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The ground cage is called WoZi or WoZi in the Northeast, while the ground cage is also called XiawoZi. It is usually made of cold cloth (nylon cloth). There are single round cages and long strip cages with leaves on them.
An opening that is wide on the outside and narrow on the inside is filled with bait that small fish like to eat, such as fishy fish.
Pigs with a strong smell, small pieces of meat, etc. are used to lure fish into the cage. The advantage of this fishing method is that it is very effective. The disadvantage is that it can only be launched from the shore. It needs the current not to be very fast and to have a fixed point.
It can tie the nest to prevent it from being washed away by the current.
Then Zhao Chunming took off his pants, carried the nest down to the reed swamp, placed the nest in the water along the current, tied the rope at one end to the reeds, then broke a few reeds to mark a mark, and then went ashore.
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On the shore, Zhang Peng also took off his pants at this time, and then joined Zhao Chunming with his hanging bag. The water in late autumn was still very cold, but Zhao Chunming had long been accustomed to the temperature of the water.
Hanging net is also called blocking net, commonly known as "hanging son". The net is at least ten meters long, with floats on top and lead pendants on the bottom, similar to a long fence. The hanging net made of transparent nylon silk is very soft and is usually placed on the
In a gentle river or a calm water body, collect the net every other day. In fact, it is best to collect it at night and in the morning, so as not to delay the next day's work.
Zhang Peng pulled one end of the hanging rope and stood on the edge of the reed pond. Zhao Chunming tied the other end with a heavy object and swam to the center of the river. He threw the stone into the water and then looked to see if the float floating on the water was a horizontal bar.
On the river, he plunged more than ten meters with a sudden force, and then returned to the bank to meet Zhang Peng.
Zhang Peng admired Zhao Chunming's operation when he saw it. The water resistance was really good. He stretched out his hand and gave a thumbs up and said: "Chunming, you really have good skills."
Zhao Chunming scratched his head when he heard this, and then said with a naive smile: "Second brother, even if you become more proficient over time, you were not willing to come to the river before."
"Ahem, you still don't know, don't I have a reason for that?" Zhang Peng said with an embarrassed smile
What happened was that when Zhang Peng was eight years old, he and his friends from the village once went to play in the nearby Moon Pagoda. The Moon Pagoda was actually a puddle formed by rainwater. The water was not deep, and the deepest point was only more than two meters, so
It became a paradise when I was a child. I was playing in the water on the shore when Zhang Peng looked up without realizing it.
Suddenly, he saw that there seemed to be a fish in the center of the paozi. It was quite big. Zhang Peng stopped immediately. He was brave at the time and swam over. Before he could reach the center of the paozi, a friend from the same village saw Zhang Peng going towards it.
When swimming in deep water, I immediately called Zhang Peng back, saying that people had been drowned in deep water before.
After hearing that someone had been drowned, Zhang Peng remembered that a little boy from the village had been drowned here before. He immediately became frightened and swam back quickly. As soon as he turned around, he felt something touch Zhang Peng's foot, which immediately gave him a cramp.
At this time, Zhang Peng was also anxious and kept flopping in the water.
Friends on the shore saw Zhang Peng struggling in the water and swam over quickly. Several people pulled Zhang Peng and swam to the shore. By this time, Zhang Peng had choked on several saliva and started coughing violently when he reached the shore.
, I was still young at the time. I rested for a while and my feet felt better. I said hello to my friends and went home. When I got home, I didn’t take it seriously and didn’t mention what happened before.
As a result, he started to have a high fever that night, and the fever persisted. Even cold compresses and medicines were not effective. Wang Xiufen was so anxious that she was wandering around on the ground. Until the next morning, a friend who came to play with Zhang Peng saw that Zhang Peng was sick.
I just told Zhang Tiejun and Wang Xiufen what happened yesterday. Zhang Tiejun didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
, but Wang Xiufen took it seriously and thought it might be an external disease, so she quickly asked the old golden man from the same village to come over and have a look. The old golden man's original name was Jin Mancang. Because he was old, he could order witchy things in this era.
People in the same village call him Lao Jintou. It is said that he is a descendant of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and his roots can be traced back to the orthodox royal family of the Qing Dynasty.
Wang Xiufen hurried to the door of Lao Jintou's yard and shouted: "Second uncle, are you at home?"
Then the door of the house was opened by someone, and it was Jin Mancang. When he saw it was Wang Xiufen, he said: "Here, it's Xiufen, why are you here? Come in and tell me something."
"Second uncle, I won't go in. My second son has been having a fever and I don't know what's going on. I want to ask you to help me go over and have a look." Wang Xiufen said anxiously
"Okay, Xiufen, wait a minute, I'll tell my family and we'll go there," Jin Mancang said hurriedly after hearing this
Then Jin Mancang went back to the house and said something, and followed Wang Xiufen back home. When he entered the house, Zhang Tiejun saw Jin Mancang coming, and he quickly got up and said, "Second uncle is here, I really want to trouble you." "It's okay, it's important to take care of the child. Let me take a look first." After Jin Mancang finished speaking, he sat on the kang, looked at Zhang Peng and then asked: "What happened in the past two days?"
"It's nothing. I just went to Yueyue Paozi yesterday and said I choked on a mouthful of water. Then I came back in the evening and it was like this." Wang Xiufen said hurriedly
Jin Mancang thought for a while, then took out a piece of yellow paper from his pocket, and wrote Zhang Peng's birth date on it. He asked Wang Xiufen to burn the yellow paper at the gate of the courtyard at night, and then walked to Yueyue Paozi and called Zhang Peng three times.
Peng’s name, just go home later.
As a result, Wang Xiufen did as Jin Mancang said in the evening, and Zhang Peng's fever subsided the next day. Then Jin Mancang told Zhang Peng to play as little as possible by the river before he turned 18, so when Zhao Chunming was floating on the river,
Zhang Peng could only watch silently by the river, and then waited to go home together.
However, in the past two years, there are no taboos anymore. It’s just that the water quality is not very good. In fact, in the Northeast, these things are believed or not, but there are always some taboos that people in the mountains abide by.
Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming were chatting, and it was noon before they knew it. Zhao Chunming got up and went back to the reed swamp to check the fish. Not to mention that the environment was still very good at this time, and the aquatic resources were also very rich. There were already fish in the nest.
The harvest is mostly palm-sized crucian carp. The most common nests are crucian carp and the like. Fish that are too big will basically not wander in the reeds.
Zhao Chunming took some of the nests to the shore and dumped some. He harvested many species, including crucian carp, loach, gizzards, small white strips, two large toads and black water turtles. Then he put some bait in
In the nest, turn back to the reed swamp and continue to play.
Zhang Peng selected a few crucian carp and two toads from the fish dumped on the shore, and put the rest into the net bag he brought with him, and kept them in the water first, and then took them back together at night.