Salted Fish Dad, Passive Farming

Chapter 54 Two Ancient Ways of Fishing
There is no dog-type mushroom hunter, and the harvest of picking mushrooms today is naturally common.

The two elders and the beancurds only picked up a little more than two kilograms.

Wu Lanting was not puzzled by the huge difference between this harvest and Ji Ran's last harvest. Douhua had already told her what was going on.

Meng Kai looked like he had picked up a pound. He didn't really care about ordinary mushrooms anymore, he was mainly thinking about Hericium.

Seeing that Ji Ran didn't come back from picking up Hericium mushrooms, he was a little disappointed.

He misses the taste of Hericium erinaceus, the rarest and most precious mountain mushroom.

After eating Hericium mushrooms and then eating ordinary mushrooms, I feel that the meaning is far different.

"Go Douhua, Dad will take you to catch fish."

The rain had completely stopped, Ji Ran changed into a pair of shorts and greeted her daughter.

Now the daytime temperature can stay above 25 degrees, and this time it has reached [-] degrees. It is a very comfortable temperature. As long as you are not a person with kidney deficiency, wearing shorts is not a problem, and swimming in the water is not a big problem.

"Okay, let's go catch fish."

Douhua jumped for joy, put on her rain boots, and brought along her small net, which was specially used to catch small fish and shrimps.

Then she brought her own small bucket, ready to hold the fish.

"I'll go as well."

How can we do something like fish without Meng Kai? We didn't get any mushrooms this morning, so let's see if we can find some supplements in the fish department.

Driving Meng Kai's V7, we went straight to the house.

Ji Ran found a dusty bamboo strip from the utility room at home.

The bamboo pole is a very common and ancient fishing tool with a long history.

Ji Ran didn't know the specific scientific name.

Anyway, this thing is woven with bamboo strips, and its main body is somewhat similar to a dustpan.

It is wide in front, gradually narrows in the back, and forms an upward-turned cone at the tail.

There is a bamboo pole in the middle of it, which is used for carrying and binding.

Although this thing is inconspicuous, it is still very useful for catching fish, especially when the pond is dry during the Chinese New Year, and when there is a flood.

Ji Ran's family only had one bamboo pole, so he threw Meng Kai a dustpan.

A dustpan can also be used as a bamboo stick, but the effect is not so good.

Another person carried a bucket, and the three of them went to the river embankment.

……

The river in Jiangbian Village is narrow, but becomes much wider downstream.

Since there are no villages in the downstream area, there is no protective embankment.

The river rose sharply, flooding the wasteland on both sides, forming a huge inlet.

The water near the shore in the bay is not very deep, and you can even see the tips of the grass.

The water is very turbid, but the current is very slow.

When Ji Ran and the others arrived, there were already many old men from the village fishing here.

Nowadays, the national fishing ban is severe, and sticky nets, ground cages, etc. are all banned.

But there is an ancient fishing gear that has been passed down for thousands of years, and the local people almost turn a blind eye to it.

This is the kind of fishing gear that old men use now.

This stuff is called 罾 (pronounced zeng, one sound), and it has the same effect as lifting the net.

A large bamboo pole is used as a support, and two small bamboo poles are staggered to form a cross to hold up the net...

Another thick rope is tied to the tip of the bamboo pole.

The support pole is placed on the water bank. People stand on the bank and pull up or put down the rope to put the net into the water or pull it out of the water.

This method of fishing is called moving the boat.

The principle of fishing with a fishing reel is very simple: sink the fishing net to the bottom of the water, then pull it up after a while to see if there are any fish in the net.

A kind of waiting-and-waiting way of fishing that purely depends on fate.

Although this method seems stupid, the actual effect is not bad.

When there is a flood, because the water in the middle section of the river is too strong, fish big and small will move to the sides. In addition, the water is turbid, and the fish get into the net in a daze.

……

"Uncle Fuyuan, how many fish have you caught?"

The first thing Ji Ran saw when he passed by was the old village chief Liu Fuyuan, who smiled and said hello.

"It's just a few kilograms. It's all fine linen skin. I haven't gotten anything bigger."

Responding, Liu Fuyuan struggled to pull back the hemp rope in his hand step by step, pulling the net out of the water.

There were only two small white stripes in this net, a catch that was not worth mentioning. Liu Fuyuan was too lazy to pull the net to catch it, so he let go of the rope and put the net back into the water.

While Ji Ran was chatting with the old village chief, suddenly an old man in front of him shouted, "Come on, old man, the goods are here."

An old man in the front ran back quickly when he heard the sound, it was Liu Hanshan.

Ji Ran looked over and saw a long worm on the water over there struggling to swim toward the shore.

The water level rose sharply, and the long worms living in the caves on both sides of the river were forced out...

When the water rises, it is easy to catch fish and catch snakes.

Uncle Liu Hanshan is here soon.

The snake sensed that there was someone on the shore and dived decisively into the water... However, in the face of the experienced Eighth Uncle, it failed to escape.

It's a gold bar weighing more than a pound.

The eighth uncle cheerfully invited the snakes into the bag. Today he has caught many snakes, including king snakes, gold bars, and cobras.

"Cumin, why don't you catch snakes, snakes are better than fish."

Seeing Uncle Eight easily win a tough dish, Meng Kai made a strong suggestion.

The taste of ginger and spicy snake is still good.

Ji Ran said, "If you want to eat it, you can catch it yourself. I won't take away Uncle Ba's business."

Meng Kai smiled bitterly, "It's not like you don't know, I'm afraid of snakes."

Ji Ran ignored him and walked forward.

Not far ahead, a small stream of water flows down from the mountain and merges into the river.

This kind of small water entry is the most attractive place to attract various aquatic products such as loaches and eels.

The reason for this is mainly because the food at this water inlet is more abundant, and the water flow will bring in grass seeds, insects floating on the water or insect corpses, etc.

Furthermore, most fish have the habit of swimming upward against the current.

"Wow..."

Ji Ran pierced the hole created by the water flow with a strip of bamboo, then dragged it back and lifted it up. He gained a lot.

In the bamboo strips, there were several loaches of various sizes, as well as a yellow eel, a three-fingered crucian carp, and more small fish such as wheat-eared catfish, plus a few small tadpoles.

"Wow, so many... Dad, put the loaches and eels in your big bucket, and the tadpoles in my little bucket. I want to raise them in my aquatic animal home."

Douhua cheered happily when she saw that she had harvested a lot, but she was more concerned about the tadpoles.

Ji Ran did as his daughter said.

Then look for this kind of water inlet to prick, basically one prick is accurate, and pricking is rewarding.

Douhua also followed his example. He fished all over the water with his small net, but couldn't catch anything decent. There were often tadpoles, small fish and shrimps.

This was enough for Douhua to be happy, and he carefully grabbed everything into the small bucket.

At the same time, Meng Kai was also looking for a water inlet and used a dustpan as a bamboo pole. The effect was not much different from that of a bamboo pole.

After pricking and pricking, the man suddenly screamed and threw the dustpan in his hand far away like a convulsion.

Douhua looked at him in confusion and asked, "Uncle Kaizi, why did you throw away the dustpan?"

"Your uncle Kaizi won the lottery." Ji Ran explained for Meng Kai with some gloating.

Without looking or asking, he knew why Meng Kai had an inexplicable convulsion. It was because he had stung a water snake.

The places where fish and shrimps gather are naturally also places where water snakes like to come to hunt for food.

When Jiran and his friends were fishing in floods when they were young, they caught too many water snakes.

Those who are brave enough can either beat the water snake to death or let it swim away.

Those who are timid will be like Meng Kai, who is so frightened that the strips are thrown into outer space, and they dare not do it again for a while.

"Uncle Kaizi won the lottery?"

Douhua didn't understand what her father meant until she saw a water snake about half a meter long escaping from under the overturned dustpan.

His face suddenly turned pale.

……

Meng Kai was frightened when he won the lottery, and he didn't dare to dip the dustpan in the water anymore.

Not to mention the bean curd, if you catch a fish, you will catch a snake, so how dare you catch it again?
The small fishing team was immediately reduced from three people to one person.

Ji Ran was certainly not afraid of snakes, let alone a small water snake.

The local water snakes are basically non-venomous, even if they are poisonous, they are not very poisonous, and a bite will cause redness and swelling.Besides, there's no chance they could bite Ji Ran.

Only Ji Ran eats them.

Ji Ran continued to attack.

Meng Kai took the Douhua Exchange project and looked for targets in the grass near the shore where running water flows.

Fish have the habit of going against the current, and so do loaches and eels.

Going against the current, they will come up, go to the wet grass near the water, play and stay in it.

"I'm waiting for you every day, waiting for you to catch loaches. Big brother, okay, let's go catch loaches..."

There are not many eels in this place, but there are many loaches. Douhua used her little net to catch them vigorously, and sang cheerful children's songs again.

……

The three of them continued their hunting fun, and suddenly there was a big movement from the old village chief Liu Fuyuan over there.

It turned out that a big carp more than one meter long had entered his net.

The giant antoinette dashed left and right in the net, creating huge resistance.

Liu Fuyuan pulled the rope tightly to fight against it.

However, the anchovy has a pointed head and a strong impact, and finally broke through the net and escaped...

Suddenly there was a sigh on the river bank.

Ji Ran also felt sorry, but was not surprised. He had seen too many cases of huge floods in the river and large objects being moved away...

Just like fishing and running giants.

(End of this chapter)