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Chapter 41 41. Ice Slicing Fishing
As the end of the year approaches, every household in Shenjia Village begins to get busy.

Although there was a snowstorm this year and most of the money in the family was exchanged for food, the villagers still prepared things for the New Year according to the tradition.

This one steamed buns, that one steamed a pot of rice cakes, and cured bacon with salt if conditions were good.

As the day of New Year's Eve approaches, the taste of the year becomes more intense.

Cooking smoke rose from the small courtyards of various farmhouses and lingered for a long time.

In the Shen family, Cheng Xi dragged Shen Xingqi to work for a few days, and finally cleaned up all the wild game that contained special energy in the house.

"Okay, hang these up to dry."

"Sister-in-law, can we finish eating?"

"It's okay if you can't finish eating, and you don't have to worry about bad weather."

If only the leftovers were made into bacon.

Cheng Xi thought about the food at home, and always felt that something was missing during the Chinese New Year. What exactly is it?
"By the way, there are no fish this year!"

As the saying goes, there is more than enough every year, and fish is an indispensable meat for the New Year's Eve dinner.

The better the meat, the better the meaning.

However, now that the prefectural city is closed, the lives of the people in other villages are precarious. Who cares if there are any fish?
It’s good to have a full meal!

"Fish? There are fish in that small river in our village."

Shen Xingqi answered inadvertently, "But it can't be done now, the whole river has been frozen in such cold weather, so I probably won't be able to eat it this year."

"Who says you can't eat it?"

Cheng Xi's eyes lit up immediately.

She remembered the river!

When she first came to Shenjia Village, she went to see it. The water in the river was clear, and the water in the middle was three to four meters deep, running through seven or eight nearby villages.

Although it is not a flowing river, it is enough for the people in the village to use water.

"But the weather is so cold now, the ice in the river may be several feet deep."

How to catch fish with such thick ice?

"Don't worry, I have a way."

Fishing is easy because of the depth of the ice, but if you open an opening, the fish that have been suffocated by oxygen under the ice for a long time will take a breath of fresh air immediately.

At that time, the fish will pop out by itself without her fishing.

Cheng Xi suddenly became interested. She used to do fishing in winter in her previous life, but someone prepared the tools at that time, and now she has to do it all by herself.

She went to the Westinghouse to find some handy tools, and walked out with the bucket in hand.

"Go, I'll take you fishing."

"Huh? Do you really want to fish?"

Shen Xingqi stood there in a daze, recalling her sister-in-law's previous teachings, she resolutely dispelled her doubts and followed.

Sister-in-law is what she says, and sister-in-law is always right.

That's it!

In the past few days, snowflakes have been falling in the sky again, and the sun has not gone to work for a few days, and he doesn't know where he has gone. The villagers can deal with this situation calmly, and it can even be said to be happy.

Without him, it's easier to walk on the snowy road.

The road that was originally frozen due to the low temperature was paved with a thick layer of snow. Increasing the friction made it easier to walk.

Cheng Xi carried the wooden barrel and walked towards the river at a high speed, which surprised the passers-by.

"Xing Luo's family, what are you doing here?"

"Catch fish."

catch fish?

So fresh!

Everything in the winter is frozen, so why catch fish?

Is it possible that people with kung fu can really do whatever they want?

The villagers don't understand, the villagers don't understand.

Seeing the little girl from the Shen family happily running behind, everyone's curiosity was immediately brought to the top.

"I'll take a look!"

As the saying goes, if there is one, there are two. The villagers passing by occasionally walked towards the small river one after another. After a while, seven or eight people gathered on this road.

Watch Catch Fish!

Cutting ice is a laborious job, not something ordinary people can do.

However, Cheng Xi is not an ordinary person, she is born with supernatural powers!

When the sharp chisel head went down to the ice, a small hole was dug out. She waved the tool and smashed it indifferently. After repeated chiseling for a while, a hole with a diameter of about [-] centimeters gradually deepened.

And the ice edges dug out from the ice gradually turned into a pile.

Shen Xingqi squatted aside holding the wooden barrel, quietly, making faint cheering movements with her small fists.

"All right."

Cheng Xi put down the tools, took out the last bit of ice and kept it aside, and saw the water in the hole slowly floating up.

All right?

"Then what are we going to do?"

"No need to do anything, just wait."

Cheng Xi chuckled, took a step back and squatted down to rest, making Shen Xingqi stunned.

Even the villagers who followed behind were stunned, unable to figure out what she was doing.

"Isn't this Xingluo's family catching fish?"

To tell the truth, it was the first time that Lin'an Mansion encountered such a severe snow disaster and low temperature. At this time in previous years, the small river would at most have a thin layer of ice, which would shatter when poked with a stick.

They never fished in winter either.

Before Cheng Xi had time to explain, he heard a "puchi" in his ear.

Looking sideways, she saw a carp weighing three catties flipped upright one by one, and landed smoothly on the thick ice.

Shen Xingqi was dumbfounded.

The villagers were dumbfounded.

The carp is also confused!
"This, this, this is a fish?!"

"Ah, it's really a fish!"

"How did it jump up by itself?"

"That's right, it came up by itself in the blink of an eye, what's going on?"

How can there be any reason for the captured prey to be delivered to the door by itself?What the hell!
Before everyone had time to slow down, the second fish jumped out of the hole again, and made a "slapping" sound because it fell too hard on the ice.

"Another one?!"

"What's the matter, are the fish in the river drunk?"

Cheng Xi laughed, and he was right, they were indeed drunk, drunk by the carbon dioxide at the bottom of the river.

But this cannot be said.
She patted the stunned sister-in-law, "Work."

"Huh? Oh, work!"

Shen Xingqi suddenly realized that she carried the wooden bucket over, and within a short while put three fish in it, the smile on her face was getting bigger and bigger.

"Sister-in-law, there are really fish!"

"What are you lying to, I'll cook fish for you when I get home."

Three or two catties of fish, neither big nor small, are most suitable for grilled fish, um, grilled fish!
Cheng Xi happily threw the fish into the barrel one by one, and squatted by the hole to wait for the next one. The barrel was filled up soon.

After weighing it, it weighed 34 jin, and the person concerned was satisfied.

"That's enough, let's go home."

She looked at the people around her—the villagers were already stunned by her operations one after another, or by the fish she brought up.

Tsk, I still don't know much.

If it is placed in the cold north for half a year, the people have nothing to eat in winter and have to find ways to dig ice to fish, and everything will be fine.

"Sure enough, one side's water and soil support one side's people."

"Sister-in-law, what did you say?"

"It's nothing."

Cheng Xi picked up the barrel and was about to go home, but he paused for a second, and looked straight at a wall on the west side.

(End of this chapter)