My village can't be like this

Chapter 437 Night Fishing

Let’s say that Zhang An bought this river dumpling from a fishing friend today, and he felt very beautiful.

When Zhang An got home, he weighed himself and found that it was nine pounds and eight taels, which was not much different from the estimated ten pounds.

This big guy is still alive and kicking even though it has been out of the water for a while.

Zhang An put it on the scale, and as soon as he let go, it tried to struggle.

The growth rate of wild Jiangtuan is relatively slow in the wild. This big guy of about ten pounds has obviously lived for many years.

After opening the belly of the fish and inspecting it carefully, it was easy to tell from the physical appearance that it was a male jiangtuan.

No wonder it grew so big. It turned out to be a male fish, because in the river group, male fish grow faster than female fish and are larger.

After weighing it, Zhang An put it into the big bucket that originally contained Jin Jia and Xiao Hong.

Now that the couple has moved to the pond in the backyard, the small house is vacant.

But they certainly didn't expect that Zhang An would quickly find a tenant.

The bucket was half filled with space spring water. Jiang Tuan, who had been restless just now, instantly became quiet and tasted the space spring water in the bucket.

Seeing this, Zhang An fished out some small grass carp from the space and put them into the bucket to feed Jiang Tuan.

Although this frogfish looks cute and naive on the outside, it is not a docile kitten. It has a very ferocious temperament.

As soon as Zhang An put the small grass carp in, he was chased by this guy and bit two of them.

The three-finger-wide grass carp fry looked a bit weak in front of its wide mouth. It swallowed half of its body in just one bite.

Seeing its fierce look, Zhang An was very satisfied as it stirred water in the bucket.

After placing it, Zhang An came to the river again, but did not go directly to Chen Ze.

Instead, I chatted with fellow fishermen along the river and took the opportunity to look at everyone’s fish guards.

Because he wanted to see if there were so many people catching Jiang Tuan.

After all, Jiang Tuan is a gregarious fish species, and the population may not be too large, but usually several of them move together.

Since there is a group of rivers in the river, it means there is more than one in it.

However, the weather did not go as expected. Zhang An walked along the river from the upper reaches to the lower reaches, but did not see another trace of the river.

So Zhang An could only place his hopes on the old man just now, hoping that he could get another one.

It's best if it's a female fish, then Zhang An will be perfect. It's okay if it's a female fish. You can prepare grilled fish tonight.

"How about it, brother, have you gained anything?"

Back at the fishing spot, Zhang An approached them and asked.

"The fish catch was pretty good. After you left, I adjusted the floating fishing bottom and caught some yellow pepper, but I didn't have the anchovy you wanted, brother."

It's a pity for me. He also wants to catch a few more river balls.

After all, if Zhang An is willing to give him money, a river gang can basically support him in fishing for several days.

"It's okay. There are still many days to come. Maybe we will meet him in the future."

Zhang An was also a little disappointed, but when he thought about the habits of this thing, he didn't feel so entangled.

Because they basically hide under the water during the day, night is the peak time for them to come out to hunt.

The guy who just caught it may have been lucky. He happened to meet the big guy and he was hungry and the bait was near his mouth, so he couldn't help but bite it.

"By the way, brother, I have a lot of yellow peppercorns here, and they are quite big. Do you want to collect them together?"

The old man showed Zhang An the fish guard and wanted to sell the fish caught today to Zhang An.

Because he thought about the way Zhang An just spent a huge sum of money to buy Jiang Tuan without saying a word, he thought Zhang An was a rich man who loved to eat.

"No need, brother, I already have this yellow hot pepper at home."

Zhang An smiled and rejected his brother's kindness. He had too many at home.

"But if you want to sell it, I recommend you to ask at Jincun Qiaotou. I think there will be many people there who will like it."

For the sake of his brother selling Jiang Tuan to him, Zhang An pointed to the Dongli courtyard.

Don't think about it in the village. Although there are people in the village who like to eat fish, it is simply unrealistic to want them to spend a lot of money to buy it.

There are a lot of rich people in Dongli Courtyard, and Huang Lading is a good thing, and some people should like it.

"Okay, I'll close the pole earlier and go over to take a look. Thank you brother."

My brother also wants to sell the fish while it is still alive. After all, live fish are easy to sell.

Otherwise, when he gets it to the city, he will lose a lot if it dies. After all, the price difference between dead fish and live fish is quite big.

Until the sun was about to set, Brother and the others had already closed their poles and were ready to leave.

It was still the same here, not even a shadow of Jiang Tuan was seen, which made Zhang An very disappointed.

However, the people by the river have almost left, so there is no point in continuing to stay there, since they won't be able to catch fish anyway.

So Zhang An planned to go home, eat the food, and come over to try again in the evening.

Since this fish likes to come out at night, come and fish for it at night and see if you can get it.

"Dad, don't kill this fish. I'll keep it for use. How did you find it?"

Just when Zhang An returned home, he saw his father Zhang Jianguo had found the Jiang Tuan he had brought back and was holding a knife and preparing to make it.

This frightened Zhang An. When he went out, he found a dustpan to cover the bucket, just to avoid being discovered by Mimi.

As a result, Mimi didn't notice it, but her father found the fish.

Fortunately, Zhang Jianguo hadn't used the knife yet, and Zhang An still had time to run to his father and save the fish.

Of course, if Zhang Jianguo killed the fish, Zhang An couldn't say anything, after all, it was his biological father.

Therefore, this fish is really blessed with great fortune. If Zhang An arrives half a minute late, it will become the dead soul of Zhang Jianguo.

"Your mother saw it when she was looking for a dustpan just now. This rat fish tastes good. I thought about killing it and giving it to Xiaoying to try."

Hearing Zhang An say that it would be useful to keep it, Zhang Jianguo had no intention of killing it and put down his butcher knife.

"Dad, where have you eaten this fish before?"

Since my father knows that this fish is delicious, he must have eaten it before.

"Yes, I have eaten it, but only once. It was many years ago. When your mother and I first got married, something was to be built on the upper reaches of the river that year, so the river was blocked. This river After the water dried up, people in the village would go to the river to catch fish after work. I was lucky enough to catch the biggest one, which was this rat fish. It was just not as big as this one. It took me three days to finish it. Moreover, this rat fish It’s fatter, and I remember your mother didn’t bother to add oil that night, but the fish was very fragrant when cooked, and I still remember the taste to this day.”

When Zhang Jianguo talked about the past, his eyes were filled with memories and his tone was full of sighs.

There was no Zhang An at that time. In the blink of an eye, Zhang An was already married. They were about to become grandparents and have children and grandchildren. At the same time, they were getting older.

"It turns out there are some in our river. I always thought there weren't any."

This is the first time Zhang An has heard of Jiang Tuan's activities in the river, because he has never heard of it before or even in later generations, let alone seen it.

But since it existed before, it’s not surprising that it can be caught today.

"Dad, since you and my mother haven't eaten it in so many years, let's just kill the fish."

Zhang An could feel that his father liked eating Jiangtuan very much, so he didn't plan to keep it and was determined to kill it. “Forget it, our fish are all delicious, let’s keep this for now and talk about it later.”

Zhang Jianguo was about to kill the fish just now, but he didn't know that Zhang An would keep it useful.

Now that he knew it, he naturally gave up the idea. He didn't have such a strong appetite.

Now even if Zhang An is ready to take action, he still has to persuade him.

After dinner, Zhang An looked inside the bucket. All the small fish he put in in the afternoon had been eaten by the river.

After all, with his body shape there, he must have a large appetite.

So Zhang An caught some small live fish and put them into the bucket. As expected, this guy didn't have the temptation of hell and started chasing the small fish to bite them.

After feeding Jiang Tuan, Zhang An went to see the carp fry at home.

The carp fry, which are almost two months old, are almost five centimeters tall.

Zhang An thought they would grow very slowly like when they were first hatched, but he didn't expect them to grow so fast.

This is the growth rate they should have. After all, they are raised with space spring water every day.

"Mom, I went to the river to fish."

After feeding the fish, Zhang An packed up his equipment and prepared to go out.

While eating just now, he had already told his family that he was going to go fishing tonight.

Su Ying had to prepare lessons and correct homework. Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo thought they would have nothing to do tomorrow, so they let him go.

Wang Fang handed Zhang An the newly charged flashlight and mosquito coils while explaining.

She was not worried about anything else, but she was worried that Zhang An would encounter a snake, because snakes were what she was most afraid of.

"Take the flashlight and follow Xiaohu. There are more snakes at night. When the time is almost up, we will come back by ourselves. It is colder at night."

Although it is summer now, the temperature difference at night in the mountains is relatively large, and it is even colder when the wind is strong at night.

"I understand. I'll be back after a few hours of fishing. You can leave the door open for me. You don't have to wait for me."

When Zhang An goes out, he doesn't even need to call Xiaohu, this guy just follows behind.

There is a saying, now the tiger cubs are so big, even if they go into the mountains, they can still squeeze in with them at night to keep warm.

When he arrived at the river, Zhang An found a section of the river with very slow water flow and started fishing.

The bait he used this time was live shrimp fished out of space, which was Jiang Tuan's favorite.

Just now at home, I chased the river dumplings and ate a lot.

Zhang An plans to try this thing first, and if it doesn't work, switch to small live fish.

After throwing the bait down, Zhang An stared at it with a flashlight.

These days, floating is still impossible without luminous light, and night fishing is always inconvenient.

I just didn't expect that just after throwing the live shrimp down, the pole started to move.

I didn't expect this live shrimp to have such a great effect.

Zhang An was overjoyed and expected to hit a river with the first shot.

Seeing the black drift, he immediately struck the pole, but the feeling coming from the pole made Zhang An feel something was wrong, so he took no effort at all to reel in the line.

Could it be that it was decoupled? Otherwise, there would be no relief at all.

Zhang An closed the line suspiciously, wanting to see what was going on.

But when I finally finished reeling in the line, I discovered that the naughty guy, Da Laoqing, had appeared in the river.

Zhang An said that there was no unloading force when reeling in the line. It turned out that the bait was eaten by Da Laoqing. When Zhang An reeled in the line, it swam to the shore.

The feeling is that this guy recognized Zhang An and was playing with Zhang An in the water.

"Why are you biting the hook randomly? Didn't I teach you not to eat this thing randomly? Be careful of others catching you and killing you."

Zhang An was dumbfounded as he took the fishhook out of Da Laoqing's mouth.

Fortunately, he was happily looking forward to going to Jiangtuan just now.

Da Laoqing didn't know whether he understood Zhang An's words, his tail kept swaying in the water, and he buried his head in the water and kept blowing bubbles.

Seeing it collecting treasures like this, Zhang An directly fed it a lot of live shrimps.

"Okay, let's go quickly. How can I fish while you are here?"

After feeding the live shrimp, Zhang An wanted to drive Da Laoqing away.

This guy is the overlord in this river. If he is here, other fish will dare to come over.

However, no matter how hard Zhang An rushed, this guy refused to leave and stayed on the shore in front of Zhang An.

In other words, this is a steep bank. If we talk about it briefly, its size would have been stranded long ago.

"You guy, can you stop being so naughty?"

Zhang An was very happy that Da Laoqing was getting close to him, but he still wanted to fish.

Seeing that this guy had no intention of running away, Zhang An immediately made a decision and received it into the space without saying a word.

But even so, Zhang An could only find another place.

Because Da Laoqing had just made such a big noise, other fish would definitely not come.

After changing places, Zhang An fished for more than an hour, but the fishing was very poor, and a few small miscellaneous fish occasionally came up.

"How come there isn't one? Is there no more Jiangtuan in the river? Or maybe I didn't find the right place."

Zhang An was very depressed. He had spent so long here and gained nothing.

So he stopped going fishing, took off all his clothes except his shorts, and jumped directly into the water.

Today he just wanted to go to the bottom of the river to see if there was still Jiang Tuan here.

Sinking to the bottom of the river, Zhang An's legs kept pushing back like a frog, moving freely in the water.

Although there was no light in the river, his vision had long been strengthened by space. Although his vision was not as clear as during the day, he could only see a rough outline.

But Zhang An just came to find fish, and it was enough to just be able to roughly see the outline.

As long as there was space, he didn't even need to surface for air, he just kept swimming and swimming in the river, searching and searching.

After swimming for a long time, he saw a lot of big and small fish, but they were not Jiangtuan because the body shape and outline were wrong. They were all resident fish such as grass carp and herring.

Zhang An was very disappointed, so he surfaced to see where he had swam.

He didn't know it, but he was startled when he saw it. He almost swam to the boundary of Xiahe Bend.

Further down the river, the water flow became a bit turbulent, which was obviously not suitable for the river group to stay, so Zhang An could only swim back.

(End of this chapter)