pasture leisure

Chapter 36
The next thing was even simpler. Zhang Chi took off two round detection nets from the wall, threw them into his car, and then took a large plastic box containing fish from his uncle's storage. The box is more than one meter long, seventy or eighty centimeters wide, and seventy centimeters deep.

"Is that all right?"

Old Xu asked.

After hearing this, Zhang Chi asked back: "Have you ever caught fish in the river?"

Zhang Chi didn't know how to answer this question. Are these things not enough?

Old Xu shook his head: "I really haven't caught any fish. Once I get here, I'm busy with my family. I don't have the time."

"It's easy to catch fish here, and you'll know when the time comes," Zhang Chi said.

After taking 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 bit unsatisfied. He had always wanted to buy a farm, and when he saw Zhang Youliang's small farm, he felt that it really suited his heart.

Now the farms he sees are all American-style, and they are also managed by Americans. Although they are all farms, Zhang Youliang’s farms have a more Chinese flavor, not all Chinese flavors, but the combination of China. taste.

There are American-style lawns and Chinese-style field ridges, intertwined into a different style.

Let's put it this way, this small farm almost satisfies all of Xu's fantasies about the farm.

Listening to Lao Xu's rambling all the way, asking 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. When they took over the farm, I had already moved out."

"I think your uncle treats you pretty well, why did you move out?" Old Xu asked.

Zhang Chi heard this and said: "He is my uncle and aunt, not my parents. I can't just stay in their house forever. They didn't agree with it at first, but I insisted on it and finally I had to let me go." .

Zhang Chi's father has always told Zhang Chi, don't always think about troublesome others, the uncle and aunt are good to him, but Zhang Chi also has to know how to measure.

Knowing how to measure is very important in society.Remembering kindness and knowing how to measure is a good quality that stands out in Zhang Chi's character

"My dad said, don't rely on my uncle for everything. Although my uncle and auntie are very kind to me, there must be a sense of proportion between people. Only with a sense of proportion can we get along better,...".

Lao Xu looked at Zhang Chi, patted his thigh in agreement and said: "Your father is right, if you keep relying on others, they will be annoying, and even a small conflict may magnify the conflict."

Old Xu agreed and couldn't agree anymore.

"It's a bit long to say. My nephew, my nephew come here to go to school. I don't know what my sister thinks. What can a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child learn when he comes to school? Just play.

The child is also particularly ignorant and does not 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 see it, and went to play games as soon as he finished his bowl.

This is not the most excessive thing, the most excessive thing is to wear famous brands, not to wear famous brands, spend a lot of money, ask me if I don’t have money, I can accept it once or twice, but this child will buy it every now and then Hundreds of dollars worth of shoes, hundreds of dollars worth of T-shirts... How can an ordinary family raise such a child."

Hearing what Zhang Chi said, Lao Xu began to complain about his suffering, talking about the situation of his nephew coming to the United States.

Hearing what Lao Xu said, Zhang Chi could only smile. Such things are not uncommon.

"In the end, I didn't pay for my efforts, my nephew went back and told my sister that he would not be given food or clothing, as if my uncle abused him.

My sister was not happy when she heard that, and my brother-in-law was even more embarrassing, and he looked like an enemy when we met. In the end, I simply gave up and asked him to find a host family to live in."

When Lao Xu said this, he sighed: "When I arrived at the host family, I was kicked out by the three families in less than half a year. In the end, my sister and brother-in-law said they would come to our house, so I went back directly: Don't come, I can't afford it." ! Now the two have not spoken yet.”

"Just do things with a clear conscience, overthinking will only increase troubles," Zhang Chi opened his mouth to persuade.

"What else can I do?" Lao Xu sighed again in frustration: "The children nowadays are not like ours, they see life in their eyes, the children now, hey!".

"I have to say that people like you and your uncle are really uncommon now. Anyway, the children of a few relatives I know live here, so even if they don't turn against each other, they won't fall behind." Old Xu said.

Following Lao Xu, he began to praise Zhang Chi.

That guy praised it. Originally, Zhang Chi thought that he could already have a heart like calm water and a chest like an ancient well. Who knew that when Lao Xu praised him, Zhang Chi felt that he must add a big chicken leg to Lao Xu if he had the opportunity. Otherwise, there's no way to get along with it. Zhang Chi's praise is too useful.

The two of them 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 Federation. In fact, it is a big wasteland. Apart from weeds, there are all kinds of wild animals on it. 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, it was not uncommon to see these things drinking water and grazing in groups by the river.

When we got to the river, we found a flat place along the river, backed the car into the river beach, and slowly pushed the trailer into the river.

Waiting for the bed on the trailer to float up, the task of launching the boat is considered complete.

After parking the car on the shore, Zhang Chi took the detection net and the plastic box for the fish onto the boat.

As soon as Lao Xu got on the boat, he lowered his head and said to Zhang Chi: "There are so many fish here, and they are not small. Look, they can weigh two or three catties!"

"These fish are a bit small, let's go to the open place above the river, the fish over there are big," Zhang Chi said.

As soon as the motor started, fish jumped out of the water before reaching the middle of the river.

Startled by the sound of the motor, the fish jumped out of the water, and then slammed into the water again, splashing a cloud of water.

"I'll go, I'll go, there are so many fish."

Old Xu grinned happily, and shouted to Zhang Chi who was driving the boat.

"Silly old beauty doesn't eat it. Of course there are too many fish. Be careful, don't let the small fish jump into the boat. It is stipulated here that you can't throw the fish that jumped into the boat. You will be fined if you throw it back. Who knows if there are squats on these two sides?" The stupid police, caught and recorded by them, the fine is enough to buy a boatload of fish," Zhang Chi said.

You can break the law where you can’t see it. Now it’s hard to say if you get caught in this place. Zhang Chi dare not, for fear of being fined. The fine here is not twenty or thirty yuan, but hundreds at every turn. As far as the real average salary is concerned, half of your income can be killed at one time.

It's too cruel.

Old Xu smiled and said, "I know, I know."

There is a river where Lao Xu lives, but the river is not big, and the fish cannot grow like this. It seems that the river is nearly [-] 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 upriver to the smoother river surface, there was a burst of fish flowers beside the boat.

As the river surface got wider and wider, the fish in the middle also got bigger and bigger. Even though Lao Xu was pulling the fish with a fishing rod, some fish still fell into the cabin.

"Okay, here it is!"

Zhang Chi stopped the boat, but did not turn off the motor, and let the motor rotate on its own.

Picking up the detection net, Zhang Chi looked at the school of fish leaping around the boat, and found that there were satisfactory fish, so he copied the detection net and covered it.

The chance of success is not high, but there are so many fish, the eyes are full of fish jumping out of the water, and almost all of them go up by four or five catties. Even if you sweep a net from the air, there are seven or eight out of ten To catch a fish.

At this moment, Lao Xu also imitated Zhang Chi, and started to sweep the fish with the detection net in his hand. The more he swept, the happier he was, and finally he roared while sweeping the fish.

hehe!hehe!
Old Xu kept sweeping the fish.

Zhang Chi scanned a few, and then said to Lao Xu: "Stop scanning, enough, enough!"

"Is that enough? I haven't cleaned enough yet. I'll sweep some more. When I get back, I'll ask Sister Lu to pickle a stinky fish for you. Let me tell you this. The taste guarantees that you won't be able to stop after taking a bite. We get fish to pickle almost every year, but we buy them from Chinese supermarkets. I didn’t expect that this kind of fish can be produced here, so we won’t spend such a waste of money in the future... ".

As Lao Xu spoke, he continued to wave the probe net in his hand.

Hearing what Lao Xu said, Zhang Chi stopped persuading him, but 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 it is impossible for fish to die when they come out of the water to flood here.Even if you throw it in the cabin for ten or twenty minutes, these fish can rejuvenate as soon as they touch the water.

Sweeping all the fish in the cabin into the box, Zhang Chi saw that Lao Xu hadn't stopped yet. A man in his thirties or forties was playing like a child weighing two hundred catties.

Got it!
just wait.

Looking at Lao Xu, Zhang Chi felt that he would not have much time to be as happy as today, so he sat on a chair and watched Lao Xu sweep the fish.

One after another, the box finally couldn't hold it, and the fish in the box were crowded like canned sardines.

"Hey, there are so many of you guys, stop beating and stop beating, good guy, I don't think it's a big deal yet, I actually swept such a big pile."

Old Xu finally put down the detection net in his hand, moved to the side of the box and looked at the fish inside.

"Stop scanning?"

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 and entered the farm again. Zhang Chi moved the fish box to his pickup, pulled out the uncle’s water gun, and turned the boat inside and out. Wash it again.

There was no rush to send Curry, so Zhang Chi had to put the undried boat at the warehouse door.

Taking Lao Xu back to the restaurant, the uncle has already returned, and the restaurant is full of people. The couple are so busy that they hardly have time to talk to Zhang Chi.

Because Lao Xu was here, Zhang Chi couldn't stay to help, so he had to return the key to his uncle and auntie, and then took care of him for ten minutes before taking Lao Xu back to his ranch.

(End of this chapter)