newbobooks Chapter 240 Great Harvest
Chapter 240 Great Harvest
As Liu Jingxue led the group up the mountain, she asked the villagers around her, "If we don't wait for the others, they won't know where to go."
"Don't worry about that, we can just leave marks along the way.
In the village at the foot of the mountain, people often go into the mountains to look for people, and they have agreed on a set of marks long ago." A villager replied.
Liu Jingxue became even more curious, "If there were marks left before, wouldn't that mislead the people behind?"
The villagers immediately laughed, "Liu Zhiqing, there is a clear difference between the old mark and the new mark, you can tell at a glance.
And after the event is over, someone will usually destroy the mark to avoid misunderstandings as you said."
When Liu Jingxue heard this, she immediately felt relieved and no longer had to worry about other people not being able to find the place.
By the time she and the villagers arrived at the fish pond, the fish had not left yet.
When the villagers saw the small pond filled with fish, they all smiled happily.
"I didn't expect that we wouldn't have to wait until the winter fishing season to eat fish."
Liu Jingxue had only seen the grand scene of winter fishing in Chagan Lake on TV before. When she heard the villagers talking about winter fishing, she immediately became curious, "Does our village also have winter fishing? Where is it?"
Isn't that the only river in our village for irrigation? Can we also do winter fishing there?"
“The river in our village is small, but there are fish.
Besides, there is a big river not far from our village.
That river connects to a big lake, and it is full of running water with lots of fish in it.
But that big river doesn’t belong to any one village, it’s shared by several villages, and winter fishing can be carried out there, but the villages have to discuss and schedule it.”
"Moreover, half of the winter fishing harvest in that river must be handed over to the commune, and the remaining half belongs to our team," a villager added.
"Liu Zhiqing, wait for about ten days, our village will start winter fishing."
A villager reminded, "Let's not talk about winter fishing yet, let's catch the fish quickly, otherwise we will lose a lot if we let them run away."
The villagers worked together. Some used baskets to scoop fish, some passed the baskets to others, some were responsible for pouring the fish onto the ground, and others were responsible for circled the fish with branches.
The most important thing now is to catch as many fish as possible, but there is no time to transport them to the village.
There is strength in numbers, and soon the ground was covered with fish.
After they fished for a while, other people from the village arrived one after another.
These people later were responsible for transporting the fish.
Liu Jingxue also joined the villagers in transporting the fish, carrying the loads and transporting the fish to the canteen.
When she came to the cafeteria with the fish on her back, she found that not only were there people, tools and water prepared to kill the fish, but even the big iron pot that had been taken away after the pig-killing dishes were distributed last time had been put back.
After pouring the fish into a basin and asking the person in charge of killing the fish to deal with it, Liu Jingxue ran up the mountain again with her load on her shoulder.
When she got there again, she heard someone shouting, "Hurry up, there are fewer and fewer fish. It seems that the fish will soon swim away."
The few people gathered around the pond seized the time and took advantage of the last chance to catch fish.
Finally, the fish gradually dispersed and the small pond returned to tranquility.
Looking at the fish piled on the ground nearby, the person in charge of catching the fish rubbed his sore arm and said, "I didn't feel it when I was catching them, but now that I've stopped, my hands don't even belong to me anymore."
"My clothes are all wet. I didn't feel cold before, but now that I stopped and was blown by the wind, I feel really cold."
When the people nearby heard this, they hurriedly said, "Those of you whose clothes are wet, hurry down the mountain and change your wet clothes.
Drink some ginger soup to avoid catching a cold."
"Then we can't go down the mountain empty-handed. We can carry the fish back with us. We will use our strength and won't feel cold."
The villagers worked together to transport all the fish caught back to the village.
Although she had already dried her clothes with spiritual power, after transporting all the fish back to the village, Liu Jingxue still went home, entered the space, took a shower, and changed her clothes.
Throw your taken-off clothes into the washing machine.
After finishing all this, Liu Jingxue took the only remaining basket in the house back to the cafeteria, where the fish would be distributed soon.
None of the aunts, aunties, young girls and young wives in the village were idle today. Some were killing fish or stewing fish.
According to the rules of the village, whenever there is prey, winter hunting, or pig slaughtering, a big pot of food must be eaten.
Although today is not winter fishing, it is still a great joy to catch so many fish at once.
It’s difficult to distribute so much fish offal to the villagers, so it’s better to cook them and give some to everyone.
When she arrived, the captain had already arranged for someone to weigh the killed fish.
Because it was not the output of the village's crops, it was the same as the harvest from hunting, not divided according to work points, but according to the number of people.
After counting the weight, each person can get 20 kilograms of fish.
As the discoverer of fish bubbles, Liu Jingxue was rewarded with 30 kilograms of fish by the village, and she got a total of 50 kilograms of fish.
A rough calculation shows that the village got more than 10,000 kilograms of fish this time, which is a great harvest.
After distributing the fish, the captain said, "Everyone, send the fish you received back and then line up to get food."
A villager below shouted, "Captain, when will we fish in the river in our team?
Also, our village should be the first to go fishing in winter this time. When will it start?"
"Bangzi, your family got more than 100 kilograms of fish, but it's still not enough for you to eat.
I'm thinking about winter fishing."
“This is meat, who would complain about having too much meat?
Big Dog, if you think you have enough fish to eat, why not give me your share of the winter catch."
"Go away, you're the one who complains about having too many fish."
The other villagers burst out laughing.
The captain said, "We just had a brief discussion. Since each of us has obtained so many fish this time, we will not plan to fish in the village river this winter.
The fish in it are caught every year and new fish are thrown in every year, but it is not running water, so there are no big fish and not many fish are caught every year.
Otherwise, let them grow some more so that we can share more fish next year."
After hearing what the team leader said, the villagers had no objection to catching so many fish today.
"Captain, we all listen to you. Just make the arrangements."
When the captain heard this, he immediately laughed and said, "Okay, that's settled then."
"As for the winter fishing in the big river outside, I will go to the leaders of the other two production teams in the next two days and arrange the time with them.
While the weather is good these two days, everyone should take out our team's large fishing nets and check them. Repair any areas that need repairing, and don't wait until winter fishing to do it temporarily."
"Captain, we got it."
Liu Jingxue sent the fish home, put it in the space warehouse, then went out again with the basin.
Since the first two times she had eaten the pig-killing dishes, both times she had to borrow basins from the team leader's house, Liu Jingxue specially prepared two basins, one large and one small, to use for serving the dishes in the future.
This time she took the small one.
This afternoon, Liu Jingxue ate two bowls of rice with the pickled fish she brought back.
She didn’t know if it was an illusion, but she felt that today’s fish was particularly delicious, without any fishy smell, and was comparable to the fish produced in the space.
You have to know that the fish sold outside will always have a fishy smell, no matter how skilled the chef is.
Today, fish is cooked in a big pot, and there are not as many seasonings to remove the fishy smell as in later generations. The fact that there is no fishy smell at all can only be due to the fish itself, and has little to do with the chef's skills.