What happened next was even simpler. Zhang Chi took off two round search nets from the wall and threw them into his car. Then he took a large plastic box containing fish from his uncle's storehouse.
The box is more than one meter long, 70 to 80 centimeters wide, and 70 centimeters deep.
"Is this good?"
Lao Xu asked.
After hearing this, Zhang Chi asked: "You have never caught fish in the river?"
Zhang Chi didn't know how to answer this question. Are these things not enough?
Lao Xu shook his head: "I've never caught a fish before. As soon as I got here, I was busy with the whole family. How could I have this time?"
"It's easy to catch fish here, you'll know when the time comes," Zhang Chi said.
After getting the things, Zhang Chi took Lao Xu to catch fish.
After leaving the small farm of Zhang Youliang's family, Lao Xu was still a little unsatisfied. He had always wanted to buy a farm. When he saw the small farm of Zhang Youliang's family, he felt that it really suited his own liking.
The farms he looks at now are all American-style and are managed by Americans. Although they are all farms, Zhang Youliang's farm has a more Chinese flavor. It is not entirely Chinese flavor, but a combination of China.
A taste.
There are American-style lawns and Chinese-style ridges, which are intertwined into a unique style.
Let’s put it this way, this small farm satisfied almost all of Lao Xu’s fantasies about farms.
Listening to Lao Xu talking about the problem of the farm, Zhang Chi was a little speechless.
"Old Xu, I really don't know much about this. My uncle and aunt have always taken care of the farm. By the time they took over the farm, I had already moved out."
"I think your uncle treats you quite well. Why did you move out?" Lao Xu asked.
Zhang Chi heard this and said: "He is my uncle and aunt, not my parents. I can't always rely on their family. Originally they didn't agree, but I insisted and in the end they had to leave it to me."
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Zhang Chi's father has always told Zhang Chi that he shouldn't always think about troublesome others. His uncle and aunt were kind to him, but Zhang Chi also had to know what's appropriate.
Knowing propriety is very important in society. Being grateful and knowing propriety is a good quality that stands out in Zhang Chi’s character.
"My dad said, don't rely on your uncle for everything. Although my uncle and aunt are very good to me, you have to have a sense of proportion between people. Only with sense of proportion can we get along better...".
After hearing this, Lao Xu looked at Zhang Chi, patted his thigh and said in agreement: "Your dad is right, if you keep relying on others, they will be annoyed, and even a small contradiction may magnify the contradiction."
Lao Xu agreed and could no longer agree.
"This is a bit long to say. My nephew, my nephew, comes here to go to school. I don't know what my sister thinks. What can a 13- or 14-year-old kid learn when he comes here to go to school? All he does is play all day long.
Just play.
The child was very expressionless and didn't do any work. Although I didn't expect him to do any work, my children all work to earn pocket money. This child just pretended not to notice, finished his bowl and went to play games.
This is not the most excessive thing. The most excessive thing is to wear famous brands. It’s not that you don’t wear famous brands. You spend money lavishly. If you don’t have money, you ask me for it. I can accept it once or twice, but this kid always wants to buy it.
Shoes worth hundreds of dollars, T-shirts worth hundreds of dollars... How can an ordinary family raise such a child?"
Hearing what Zhang Chi said, Lao Xu began to complain and talked about the situation of his nephew coming to the United States.
Hearing what Lao Xu said, Zhang Chi could only smile. Such things were not uncommon.
"In the end, before my money and efforts fell behind, my nephew came back to my sister and told me that he was not provided with food or clothing at my place, as if I, the uncle, were mistreating him.
My sister was not happy after hearing this, and my brother-in-law was even more irritated, as if he were an enemy when we met. Finally, I just broke my heart and asked him to find a host family to live with."
When Lao Xu said this, he sighed: "After arriving at the boarding house, I was kicked out by three families within half a year. Finally, my sister and brother-in-law said they wanted to come to our house. I went back directly: Don't come, I can't afford it.
!The two families are still not talking to each other now.”
"Just do things with a clear conscience, thinking too much will only increase your worries," Zhang Chi advised.
"What else can we do?" Lao Xu sighed again in despair: "Children today are not like our time, with life in their eyes. Children today, hey!".
"I have to say that people like you and your uncle are really rare nowadays. Anyway, I know a few relatives and their children live there. Even if they don't turn against each other, they won't be left behind," Old Xu said.
Following Lao Xu, he started to praise Zhang Chi.
That guy praised him. Originally, Zhang Chi thought that he could have a heart as calm as water and a chest as calm as an ancient well. Who knew that after being praised by Lao Xu, Zhang Chi felt that if he had the chance, he would add a big chicken drumstick to Lao Xu.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to live with my heart, and Zhang Chi’s praise was so helpful.
The two chatted and chatted, and soon came to the side of the river.
There are no people by the river, and there are no pastures or farms. This area belongs to the federal government. It is actually a large wasteland. In addition to weeds, there are all kinds of wild animals. Of course, there are also abandoned horses, mules, and donkeys.
of.
Zhang Chi didn't find these things today, but when he came here before, he didn't see these things in groups drinking water and eating grass by the river.
When we got to the river, we found a flat land along the river, backed the car into the river beach, and slowly pushed the trailer into the river.
Once the bed on the trailer can be floated, the task of releasing the boat will be completed.
After parking the car on the shore, Zhang Chi took the fishing net and the plastic boxes containing fish onto the boat.
After getting on the boat, Lao Xu lowered his head and said to Zhang Chi: "There are so many fish here, they are quite big. Look, they weigh almost two or three kilograms!"
"These fish are a bit small. Let's go to the open area above the river. The fish there are bigger," Zhang Chi said.
As soon as the motor started, fish jumped on the water before it reached the middle of the river.
One by one, the fish were startled by the sound of the motor, jumped out of the water, and then slammed onto the water again, causing a splash of water.
"I'll go, I'll go, there are so many fish."
Lao Xu grinned happily and shouted with a smile at Zhang Chi who was sailing the boat.
"Silly old lady, she doesn't want to eat. Of course there are a lot of fish. Be careful not to let the small fish jump on the boat. It is stipulated here that you cannot throw back the fish that jumps on the boat. Throwing it back will result in a fine. Who knows if there are any fish squatting on these two sides?
He was caught and recorded by the stupid police, and the fine was enough to buy a boat of fish," Zhang Chi said.
You can break the law where you can't see it. It would be hard to say if you were caught in this place now. Zhang Chi didn't dare because he was afraid of being fined. The fine here is not twenty or thirty yuan, it can easily be several hundred. Press
For a real average salary, half of your income can be wiped out in one go.
Too cruel.
Old Xu smiled and said: "I know, I know."
There is a river where Lao Xu lives, but it is not big. The fish cannot grow like this. For example, the river is almost twenty meters wide now. Although the depth of the water is unknown, judging from the jumping fish, the water must not be shallow.
All the way to the flatter river surface upstream, there was a burst of fish and flowers beside the boat.
As the river became wider and wider, the size of the fish in the middle also grew bigger and bigger. Even though Lao Xu was using the fishing pole to fish, some fish still fell into the cabin.
"Okay, this is it!"
Zhang Chi stopped the boat without turning off the motor and allowed the motor to spin.
After picking up the fishing net, Zhang Chi looked at the schools of fish leaping around the boat. When he found a fish he was satisfied with, he took the fishing net and covered it.
The chance of success is not high, but there are so many fish that I can’t stand it. Everywhere I look is fish jumping out of the water, and almost all of them weigh four or five pounds. Even if I scan the net from a distance, there are seven or eight fish out of ten.
Can catch a fish.
At this moment, Lao Xu also imitated Zhang Chi and started sweeping the fish with the fishing net in his hand. The more he swept, the happier he became, and finally he started shouting while sweeping the fish.
Hey ha! Hey ha!
Lao Xu kept sweeping the fish.
Zhang Chi scanned a few items and then said to Lao Xu: "Stop scanning, that's enough, that's enough!"
"Is this enough? I haven't swept enough yet. I'll sweep some more. When I get back, I'll ask Sister Lu to pickle a smelly fish for you. Let me tell you this, the taste is guaranteed to make you unable to stop after one bite.
We get fish to pickle almost every year, but we always buy it from Chinese supermarkets. I didn’t expect that we can get fish like this here, so we won’t spend such wasted money in the future..."
As Lao Xu spoke, he continued to wave the exploration net in his hand.
Hearing what Lao Xu said, Zhang Chi stopped persuading him. Instead, he filled the plastic box with water, connected the oxygenation equipment, and put the fish caught in the cabin into the plastic box.
These fish will not die so easily, and fish that die when they get out of the water are unlikely to overrun here. Even if you leave them in the cabin for ten or twenty minutes, these fish will regain their vitality as soon as they touch the water.
After sweeping all the fish in the cabin into the box, Zhang Chi saw that Lao Xu hadn't stopped yet. The man in his thirties or forties was playing like a child weighing more than 200 pounds.
have to!
Wait, then.
Looking at Lao Xu, Zhang Chi felt that he usually wouldn't have much time to be as happy as he was today, so he sat on a chair and watched Lao Xu sweep the fish.
One net after another, finally the box could no longer be loaded, and the fish in the box were so packed that they looked like canned sardines.
"Hey, there are so many guys, no fight, no fight, good guy, I haven't felt anything yet, but I have swept away such a big pile."
Lao Xu finally put down the fishing net in his hand and moved closer to the box to look at the fish inside.
"No more sweeping?"
Seeing Lao Xu nodded, Zhang Chi turned the car and drove towards the uncle's house.
When passing by the gas station, he helped his uncle fill up the fuel tank in the boat. After entering the farm again, Zhang Chi moved the fish box to his pickup truck, took out the uncle's water gun, and filled up the water inside and outside the boat.
Washed it again.
It was too late to send it to the warehouse, so Zhang Chi had no choice but to leave the undried boat at the door of the warehouse.
Taking Lao Xu back to the restaurant, the uncle had already returned and there were people in the restaurant. The couple was so busy that they barely had time to talk to Zhang Chi.
Because Lao Xu was there, Zhang Chi couldn't stay to help, so he had to return the key to his uncle and help look after him for ten minutes before taking Lao Xu back to his ranch.