My village can't be like this

Chapter 2 Catching Fish
Wang Fang was sewing the pocket in her hand, looking at the fish in the basin.

"Let's save this fish and sell it on the street when it's time to go to the market. It's not a festival, and there's no work to do. It's a waste to kill and eat. If you sell it, you can get a few catties of lard."

"You have to ask your son about it. He caught the fish. You can't ask the master how to deal with it. Besides, Anzi is already a grown-up. We need to respect his opinion."

Zhang Jianguo looked at Zhang An, who had changed his appearance and was full of energy, thinking that his son had already walked out of the failure of the college entrance examination.

In fact, Zhang Jianguo did not have much hope for his son's college entrance examination, because it is difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son.

Especially in this big mountain, the level of education is not as good as other places.

Zhang An's grades are only average. In this era when thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge, it is really not easy to go to university under such conditions.

I don't know about other places, but in this Wumeng Mountain, the villages that can be known have not had college students for a long time.

"Then sell it when you go to the market." Zhang An looked at the calendar hanging next to the alcove, and it was already Friday.

Zhang An glanced at the calendar on the wall. Today is Friday and the day after tomorrow is Sunday.

I also know that my mother has a frugal character. Generally, life is better during the holidays and busy farming seasons, and I usually don’t bring extra oil for cooking.

"Then listen to my mother and sell it at the fair. I will go to the big fair the day after tomorrow. I will look for a ground cage later, and try to use two nets by the river to see if I can get some more. I will take them together at that time." Go sell it."

On the top of the mountain in the west, the sky was dyed red by the setting sun. In the blue sky, the white clouds that were originally floating seemed to be on fire at this moment.

It took Zhang An a while to find out the unused ground cage from home, and then dug up earthworms on the ground at the door, planning to use them as bait.

I have to say that the current environment is much better than the future generations.

Digging with a hoe, no matter how much you drop, you can dig out a few earthworms.

Zhang An, a later generation, once went fishing in the reservoir and wanted to dig some earthworms, but in the end he dug a large piece of land but failed to catch a few.

The earthworms were almost done digging, and the sound of shouting for food came from the house.

Since time travelling, although the meals he ate were not very good, Zhang An's food was delicious.

Except for potatoes, which are frequent visitors all year round, all the vegetables on the table are seasonal vegetables grown by ourselves.

In the hearts of people in the southwest region, no matter how many times they eat potatoes, they will never get tired of eating them. It is said that some people can make potatoes in more than ten or twenty ways.

A bowl of green pepper and potato shreds, a pickled cabbage, bean and rice soup, it tastes especially good with rice.

Especially the sauerkraut boiled in lard, Zhang An found it very appetizing, not to mention the roasted peppers and eggplants.

The cost of a meal is probably the same as lard, and the rest is self-sufficient.

This kind of dish is also a common dish for most people in the village, and there is nothing to choose.

These are all fresh organic vegetables, not high-tech products that have been technologyed and worked hard for many years.

By the time dinner was over, it was already dark and the temperature had dropped.

Zhang An took the cage and went to the river to find a place to put the net down.

In the vast field, there are frogs screaming everywhere, as if they are in a competition to see which one is louder.

On summer nights, the adults at home like to sit in the yard, but Zhang An can't sit still.

There were too many mosquitoes in the yard. For some reason, Zhang An always felt that these mosquitoes kept biting him.

Zhang An, who had not been chatting with his parents for a long time, couldn't stay any longer. Bai Nen's arm had already been bitten several times, so Zhang An simply went back to the room, lit a handful of mosquito repellent to fumigate the room, and put down the mosquito net on the bed. , got into bed.

In Changqing Village in this era, almost no one bought a TV at home.

One is because most people's conditions are too poor and they don't have spare money to buy this thing.

The second is because even if you buy it, in this mountain, the antenna can't find a few programs.

So everyone is sitting and chatting about household chores, killing time.

By the time it was past nine o'clock in the evening, I was basically asleep.

When the farming season is busy, you may not come back from the field until eight or nine o'clock to finish your meal.

Zhang An was lying on the bed with his pillows, not knowing what he was thinking, and falling asleep at some point.

After waking up again, it was already dawn, and Zhang An, who turned around and got up, was no longer sleepy, and did not stay in bed.

Since I didn't have mobile phones and other electronic products, I didn't stay up until one or two o'clock at night.

Zhang An's sleep quality became very good, and he fell asleep and woke up naturally.

Breathing the fresh air made me feel much better.

After Zhang An got up, he found that his parents had already woken up.

His mother, Wang Fang, was busy cooking breakfast in the kitchen, and his father, who didn't know when he left, also came back with a large basket of pigweed.

Zhang An's family raised two piglets, both of which were bought in March and April.

After several months of feeding, it was only about a hundred catties in size.

This is not surprising. Now, pigs are basically raised from pigweed and fed with pig food cooked with cornmeal. They have not started to buy feed for feeding, so the slow growth rate is normal.

Generally, the piglets raised at the beginning of the year can only be raised to about [-] catties in a year, and they have to be raised well.

But the meat produced by pigs raised in this way is delicious, unlike the flood of feed in later generations, not to mention the high price of pork, the meat is still unpalatable.

Breakfast is still boiled noodles, and the alkaline water noodles that look a little gray are a must-have food for most people.

When we came to the edge of the big river, the morning sun shone on the river surface, and the sparkling light looked really beautiful.

I don't know who has a big white goose swimming up and down the water, sticking its head into the water from time to time to prey on small fish and shrimp in the water.

After walking for about twenty minutes, I arrived at the place where I got off the net last night.

Pull the covered weeds aside and raise the first net.

Take a closer look, yo, it's in stock.

I saw two grass carp weighing more than one catty locked in the net. After Zhang An moved the cage, the two grass carp flapped their tails. ,

There are also some finger-sized seedlings, common grass carp, carp, and crucian carp, but what makes Zhang An most happy is that there are two small eel seedlings and a few thumb-sized fine scale fish in it.

The eel seedlings could understand how the fine scale fish got into the big river.

In the Wumeng Mountains, the fine scale fish is not a rare fish, but they are all in the streams in the mountains.

Maybe it was washed down by the current during the rainy season.

This is much more important than the two grass carp caught, Zhang An directly threw all the small fish in the net into the space.

But the fine scale fish has to be put aside alone, this thing eats meat like snake fish, put them in a pond.

According to the growth rate in the space, it was eaten up by other small fry within a few days.

So I still put them in the net and put them in the pool, waiting for them to take a hoe and give them a whole new home.

Then he pulled out the second net, and there was a lot of movement before it came out of the water. Did it really catch something big today?

As a result, when it was pulled to the shore, Zhang An was dumbfounded. There were no fish in it, only a big eel with a tattoo.

Stretching out the letter to Zhang An, Zhang An reckoned it weighed several kilograms.

Zhang An's claws are numb now. This thing is as non-toxic as the cauliflower snake. It's a pity if you let it go. If you don't let it go home, your mother will say it again.

Wang Fang is very afraid of snakes, let alone eat snake meat.

So this thing must not be taken back.

Forget it, God has the virtue of good life, let you live, be careful next time, if someone catches you, it will really enter the digestive tract.

(End of this chapter)