Riding the wind of rebirth

"Can you catch it?" Liang Guangping was very curious.

"We've caught quite a few!" Erjia said as he held the line.

"Really? Let me see!" Liang Guangping ran over and picked up the fish basket. When he got the last section out of the water, he shouted in surprise: "Hey, there are several schizothorax! Is this... a schizothorax with a head and a stomach?"

"Put it back for me quickly. Fishermen hate people like you who carry and protect fish the most. If you want to study it for a while, put it in the basin of water. You can dissect it if you want." Zhou Zhi said angrily.

"Let me play with it. Let me play with it." Liang Guangping threw the fish basket back into the water and came over to grab the rod from Zhou Zhi's hand.

Zhou Zhi was really excited about this. This thing was quite heavy. In order to ensure its strength, the poles were made of thick and hard-headed yellow bamboo. The holes were very small and it was almost solid. In addition, there were two large wheels and a small pulley, the fasteners to fix them, and such a long fishing line. It was really tiring to operate it.

In fact, this fishing gear can be inserted into the ground, and the lower line can be shaken by hand to achieve the effect of luring fish. However, now is the beginning of fishing, and it is still in the stage of finding the fish layer. Therefore, you still have to hold the rod up and down to tease the fish to determine how high the rod will be from the water surface.

Since someone volunteered to be a laborer, Zhou Zhi quickly handed over the pole and took on the role of an instructor.

This fishing method is indeed novel, and the fish in the Meigu River are also very strong. After a while, Liang Guangping felt the vibration coming from the line and shouted: "Quick! Something seems to have taken the bait! Something really has taken the bait, what should we do now?!"

Before he could finish his words, there was another layer of feeling coming from the line: "Ah, here it comes again! There must be another one! Elbow, come quickly!"

"Don't worry, you can put the tip of the pole on the ground to rest for a while, let them do the line-pulling for you." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "It seems that the fish layer is here, let's loosen the line, tighten it, and move back... Move back a little more... OK! Right here, hang the line again and stick the pole into the mud."

At this time, everyone could see that several fishing lines in the water were visibly stretched straight, and even the main line tied to them was pulled down a bit. "There's a fish! There's really a fish!" Even Li Lu shouted.

"Turn the wheel, slowly turn it back, oh, slowly... Okay, just like that... Stop, wait for Erjia to get the fish card... Okay, continue, stop! Get the second one..."

Soon, the first fish was shaken to Erjia's side. This time it was a crucian carp weighing about 300 grams, with golden and white scales. Wild crucian carp looked many times better than the ones in the fish pond.

After a while, another Ya fish was shaken out. Liu Hongtao held up his glasses and said, "It's another schizothorax. Why are there so many of them in this river? Is this fish delicious?"

"I'll sell you this fish for 81 kilograms under the Jiazhou Buddha without negotiation! Do you think it tastes good?"

"Oh, so this fish must be worth more than a hundred dollars?" Li Lu was shocked.

"What a pity, we can't ship it to Jiazhou, so we have to eat it ourselves." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "You are lucky to have come here today."

"We came here just to enjoy the food." Li Lu said, "Uncle Tu notified us to come here and said it was a festival, but we didn't really understand what festival it was."

"Translated into Chinese, it's called the New Rice Festival. Every year when the new rice comes down, we celebrate by making glutinous rice cakes and rice dumplings to celebrate the harvest." Zhou Zhi was learning on the job and showing off while helping Liang Guangping turn the wheel.

"What kind of fish are you going to make for us later?" Li Lu was drooling. "It seems that I rarely eat fish since I came here. I'm missing it."

"This fish is best eaten in its original flavor, steamed or cooked with tofu." Zhou Zhi showed his true foodie nature: "But if you want to eat something stronger, boiled fish is also fine. Anyway, we are lucky today and have a lot of fish."

While they were talking, Erjia caught a Ya fish and a two-jin carp. "Let's get both." Li Lu was not picky: "This is such a high efficiency in catching fish! I want to play now!"

"This is too heavy, you may not be able to play it." Zhou Zhi did not disappoint and said, "But if you want to play, there is a fun one that everyone of us can play."

“Fishing too?”

"Yes, follow me!" Seeing that Liang Guangping already understood how to operate it, Zhou Zhi handed the job to him and took Li Lu and the children to a eucalyptus tree.

There are many small seedlings growing at the bottom of the eucalyptus tree, and the branches are easy to pick.

The kids knew what Zhou Zhi wanted to do, and they all rushed forward and each pulled off a few branches.

Li Lu also curiously broke off two sticks. Zhou Zhi handed the one in her hand to A Guo and said with a smile, "You are a novice, so just one stick is enough. You will be too busy later."

"What are they doing again?" Li Lu held the eucalyptus branch in her hand and saw the kids starting to damage the Alpinia galanga leaves nearby. They folded the leaves and tied them up with branches to make small winnowing baskets.

"Let's prepare to catch fish. It's fun." Zhou Zhi said with great interest, "We can add another dish later."

After completing the preparations, the kids dug some earthworms, left the bay together, and came to the main channel of the Meigu River.

The riverbank of the main river was made up of many pebbles. When they got here, the kids started making fishing gear. They tied a small piece of fishing line to the end of a branch and a piece of earthworm to the fishing line. Li Lu and Liu Hongtao were very curious: "Where is the hook?"

"You don't need a hook to catch this kind of fish," Zhou Zhi said. "It all depends on your quick eyes and hands."

"Really?" The two were skeptical.

"Watch the operation." Zhou Zhi squatted by the water, holding a branch in his right hand, placing the earthworms in the cracks of the rocks, and holding a small winnowing basket made of galangal leaves in his left hand, ready.

After a while, there was nothing unusual about the branch, and Zhou Zhi suddenly lifted the branch out of the water. Then he quickly passed a small winnowing basket made of ginger leaves under the branch. A small object on the fishing line fell into the winnowing basket. It turned out to be a small loach-like fish with beautiful stripes on its body.

"Wow! I actually caught it!" Li Lu and Liu Hongtao applauded: "This is amazing!"

At this time, the children also started to catch fish. They cooperated very well and would pour all the fish in the small dustpans into one child's dustpan. That child would then bring the fish over and put them in the bucket next to Zhou Zhi, so as not to delay the operation of others.

Some clever kids, like the Muxialaha brothers, can even use their fingers to pinch three branches to fish at the same time. They are so clever.

"These should be... well, red-tailed loach, plateau loach, and a flat-fin loach. But I don't know which kind of plateau loach and which kind of flat-fin loach it is." Liu Hongtao has been squatting beside the bucket and starting to study it.

"Don't just do research and not work. Take it back and study the atlas. I have a book called 'The Composition of Fish Communities and the Current Status of Resources in the Anning River'. Your task now is to increase production."

“Hahaha, it’s quite fun! There are such stupid fish in the world, it goes against the law of evolution!” This simple and direct fishing method made Li Lu feel very confident, and she joined the battlefield: “Aguo, Lili, come and teach me how to play!” (End of this chapter)