Claude was busy grilling, while Vericro was eating grilled beef skewers while staring at the three small fish skin lanterns floating on the water. He has always liked fishing, and Erikson said he could have a barbecue.
During the activity, I put the bait on three fishing rods and threw them into the water, and then caught four sizable lake fish in just over half an hour. No wonder the fishermen in Bailu Town think that fishing at night is
The harvest is comparable to a day's fishing with a cast net...
Ericson was helping Claude thread the meat skewers next to the barbecue grill, and he was looking at the six chicken wings on the shelf that were grilling sizzling and fragrant, and he was eagerly urging them to see if they were ready.
Bockard, on the other hand, was sitting comfortably on the deck leaning against the high-curving bow of the ship, holding a bottle of blueberry fruit wine in one hand and a fork in the other. On the fork was a large piece of tender grilled steak.
Use a brush to spread the sauce evenly on the six chicken wings. After turning them over, Claude finally freed up a hand and said to Erikson: "Don't worry, it will be ready soon..." while starting from
He picked up a piece of roasted mutton from the wooden plate next to him and stuffed it into his mouth. After working for a long time, he was starving...
One of the three small fish-skin lanterns floating gently with the waves on the lake suddenly sank, and the candle flame went out. Viricero was quick to pick up the fishing rod and lifted it up.
He couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Bring the net bag quickly, it's a big one!"
It was indeed a big fish that was caught by the fishhook. It was struggling desperately. Ericson stood on the side of the boat with a net bag and stared at the lake. Just as Viricero used a fishing rod to pull the big fish close to the lake.
, Erikson made a lightning-fast move and caught the lake fish in the net.
"It's a red-backed blue-scaled fish, one and a half feet long, and weighs about five or six kilograms..." Ericson estimated the weight of this lake fish that was still jumping after being pulled to the deck with confidence.
This kind of red-backed green-scaled fish is also one of the specialties of Lake Beringa. It is a freshwater fish. However, if it is not cooked well, it will have an earthy smell. Generally, this fish is made into fish floss for long-term preservation.
"Throw it in the cabin, your chicken wings are ready." Claude placed the six roasted chicken wings on a wooden plate next to him, and then placed a cut long-tailed swordfish on the grill.
This is what he prepared to eat by himself.
Verricro stepped on the red-backed blue-scaled fish in the net bag, took the hook out of the fish's mouth, and then poured the fish into the live water tank. Then he did not continue to bait the fish, but went into the lake water
After washing his hands, he came over and took a chicken wing from the wooden plate held by Erikson and started to nibble on it.
Grilling long-tail saury is very simple, just turn it over two or three times, and it only takes three minutes in total. Put the fish on a wooden plate, brush both sides with salt water, and it's ready to eat. Claude likes this
This way of eating is believed to maintain the delicious taste of long-tail saury. However, Vericero has a strong taste and likes to smear various sauces on the fish.
Seeing Claude eating long-tail saury, Viricolo finished eating the chicken wings and took one and grilled it on the barbecue rack.
Claude asked: "Don't you look at those two little lanterns?"
The biggest problem of night fishing is that the buoys floating on the water cannot be clearly seen, so fishermen invented this small fish skin lantern the size of a fist. The bottom is a small round piece of driftwood, and the top is a lantern made of fish skin.
There is a small, slender candle inserted inside. Connect the fish skin lantern to the buoy, light the candle, and put down the fishhook in the bait. You can know whether the fish underwater has bitten the hook.
As long as the fish bites the hook, just like the red-backed green-scaled fish, it will pull the small fish skin lantern under the water. As soon as the candle goes out, the fishermen will know that the fish has taken the bait. The small candle is waterproof and can be used repeatedly.
Until it burns out.
"Don't look at it. The red-backed green-scaled fish I caught just now is so big that any fish below it have been scared away long ago. We have to wait and see." Verricro said as he smeared the sauce on the long tail.
On the swordfish.
Claude shook his head. The sauce covered up the deliciousness of the long-tail saury. It was really a waste. It would be better to grill it with just any fish. He took a sip of the blueberry fruit wine and heard Viricero say: "Here."
I’ll have some too.”
So he poured him a glass and handed it over. Viricero drank it all in one gulp and replied with a slurp: "It's too sweet and boring. This is a wine for women. Ike, bring up the barrel of rye I bought."
Quench your thirst.”
Claude smiled helplessly, this blueberry fruit wine was what Bock Alfei wanted to buy. After drinking the kale wine in Bailuzhou last time and giving him a headache for half a night, Bock Al finally learned his lesson and did not dare to buy those spirits again, but
He said that his father's friend came to the house some time ago, and what his father served was blueberry fruit wine. He drank half a cup secretly, and it tasted very good, a little sweet, and the wine was not overpowering, so he had to buy this blueberry this time.
You can't drink enough fruit wine.
Among the four friends, Bockal is the most addicted to alcohol. They are all only sixteen years old. At this age, they dare not drink openly at home. The most they can do is drink a glass of ale. However, all four of them have also stolen wine at home.
The more their family forbids drinking, the more they want to try it. This may be the rebellious psychology of teenagers growing up.
Claude is a time traveler and now has the ability to control himself. Vericro and Erikson can drink a little, but they are still not very interested in wine. The only exception is Bockar, who has the least amount of alcohol, but he is the worst.
He likes to drink, and he gets drunk as soon as he drinks. He has drunk more than half of the bottle of blueberry fruit wine, but his eyes are already blurry, and it seems that he will fall asleep again after staying for a while.
Erikson chewed five chicken wings in one go, finally satisfying his appetite. He brought up the barrel of rye in the cabin, opened the lid, and poured a large glass for all three of them.
The rye wine has a bit of a bitter taste, but it is very refreshing in the mouth. It is indeed a good drink to quench your thirst. Viricero drank two glasses in one breath. And Erikson took out another one from the compartment where things were stored.
Xiaobao said: "I almost forgot this good thing."
"Claude, come and try it."
Claude took a look and saw that in the paper bag in front of him like a treasure presented by Erikson were round balls the size of fingers.
"What's this?"
"Try it and see." Erikson just didn't say anything.
Picking one up and putting it in his mouth, Claude was startled. Isn't this the maltose candy from his previous life? In his mind, those vendors dressed as farmers were hanging out at the school gate carrying bamboo baskets. On top of the bamboo baskets was a large piece of maltose candy. You want to buy it?
He will knock it down for you as much as you like. I loved eating it when I was a kid, but I didn’t like it much as I grew up. This thing is a bit sticky...
"This, this is maltose..." Claude said hesitantly. He couldn't remember whether this thing was still called this name in this world, but it seemed that Erikson mentioned it last time, but he didn't pay attention.
"Well, Julian's ancestral maltose." Seeing that Claude recognized Ericson, he didn't mind. He handed the paper bag to Viricolo and asked him to take a piece and try it: "Last time, didn't Julian come back to buy groceries?
Is it shopped? I went over to check it out after school this afternoon, and they happened to be selling these maltose candies, so I bought these. One pfennig for one dollar, and the twenty yuan here cost me two sunars. But it’s good to have Julian back.
He went to the royal capital before and we didn't even have any maltose to eat."
Claude was a little curious: "What is the identity of the Julian you are talking about?"
Erikson understood the meaning of his question and nodded: "He is a civilian, but he is lame, and he is in his fifties this year."
It turns out he is a lame man, and he is over fifty years old. No wonder he can go to the royal capital. Ordinary civilians cannot leave their place of origin without justifiable reasons. For men between the ages of eighteen and forty, the kingdom's interrogation is
The most severe thing is that more and more poor people are coming to live in Bailu Town. Most of them are landless farmers and bankrupt handicraftsmen from the three southwest counties.
Bailu Town also belongs to the three southwest counties. When they go to Bailu Town to make a living, it is the farthest area they can reach. If they go further east, they will be outside the jurisdiction of the three southwest counties, which is not allowed. Claude used to
He didn't understand it, but after listening to his father's arrangements for his future, he realized that the kingdom had a quota for the recruitment of various regions during the war. These civilian men were cannon fodder candidates, so they could not be allowed to live elsewhere.
place to prevent them from evading military service.
"Julian's feet were still good when he was young. I heard that it was thirty years ago. Our kingdom invaded the Nasseri Kingdom for the first time, and Julian also received a conscription order. At that time, he was riding on a donkey, and he was frightened.
He jumped and fell off the donkey, and his foot was broken on the spot when a bullock cart ran over him. After he was cured, he became a lame."
Erikson said with a smile: "Although he escaped military service, he still couldn't avoid the second war between the kingdom and the Nasseri Kingdom after his feet healed. That was our kingdom's annihilation war against the Duke of Berkeley.
He was lame, so he didn't have to be a soldier, but he was drafted as a coachman, driving the carriage to deliver supplies to the Principality of Berkeley. He came back a year later to continue working as a merchant.
About four years ago, he said he wanted to visit the royal capital and maybe settle there, so he went to the town office to get directions and identification. However, when he came back this time, he didn't see much change, and he probably didn't make much money in the royal capital.
I had no choice but to come back. As I got older, I couldn’t run around as a businessman anymore, so I decided to open a grocery store at home. I took a look and found that many of the gadgets he put on display were said to have come from the royal capital.
If you want to buy things for your brother and sister in the future, you can go to his place and have a look..."
"Well, I will go and see it when I have time." Claude agreed casually: "Do you want anything else?"
"No need... burp..." Vericro burped and shook his head and said, "I'm already very full, let's leave it for now. Maybe we'll have some midnight snack later when we get hungry."
Erikson picked up the fishing rod that Viricero had just placed on the side of the boat and said, "I don't want to eat it either. Let's get serious about fishing now."
As expected, Bockar got drunk from a bottle of blueberry fruit wine. He lay on the bow of the boat with his mouth open and snored. Claude went over to collect the plates and wine bottles around him, and covered them with
Put a blanket on him and let him sleep.
The three of them started fishing at night. I have to say that the place Ericson found was very good. There were many fish and he could catch them quickly. There were no other night fishing boats around. In just over two hours, he caught fifty fish with four fishing rods.
A few lake fish of different sizes kept the three of us busy.
Finally we rested, and the fish were not so easy to take the bait. It took about ten minutes for one to bite the hook. Ericson said to take a rest, it should be almost done here, and he would change places later, but now he had better get some heat first.
Something to pad your belly.
Claude was too lazy to cook the barbecue anymore, so he took an iron pot and started cooking gnocchi soup. After drinking a large pot of gnocchi soup, not only his stomach felt comfortable, but his whole body felt warm.
Verricro lazily lifted up the last fishing rod that was still fishing. On the hook was a big palm-sized lake fish that was struggling: "Let's go to the seine bar. It's been a long time since we set up the seine net. We can do it after we finish it."
We can put out another net and pull it out tomorrow morning. Now we are almost using up the candles in the small fish skin lanterns. There are only four or five left. We will save them to get a fishing rod to play with during the night watch. If we fish at night again, four
The fishing rod was used up in less than half an hour."
Erikson thought about it and nodded in agreement: "Okay, I'll do as you say. I've been busy fishing for a long time at night and I'm a little tired. I'll take a nap after setting up the net."
So Claude packed up the barbecue utensils on the deck and put the ingredients back into the cabin. The three of them set off to set up the seine.
However, the harvest in the seine was not much, and there were only a dozen lake fish this time. Claude thought it was not as busy as the night fishing.
Raising and lowering the net was very tiring. After the work was done, Erikson lay on the deck leaning against the side of the ship and looked at Bokoal who was snoring on the bow of the ship. He said bitterly, "I really want to kick this guy off the ship. What?"