Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 366 Scooping Fish

Feng Cheng and his men were seen holding axes and walking to a small tree not far away. After a few blows with the axes, the small tree was chopped off at the roots.

Then all the branches on the trunk were cut off, leaving only the two large branches at the top. Each branch was only about 40 centimeters long, and the tips were also cut off.

In this way, the tree branch in Feng Chengmin's hand became an extra-large slingshot fork, but the handle of this slingshot fork was relatively long, almost as tall as a person.

Finally, Feng Chengmin took out a pile of used rabbit traps from the sled and began to wrap them back and forth around the two forks on the top.

Soon, a large triangular colander was made by Feng Chengmin.

To be honest, this colander looks decent and seems to be quite useful.

Just as Feng Chengmin finished making the strainer, eight simple torches were also made by everyone.

I have to say that most people in the mountains are dexterous.

There is no way you can say you are not dexterous. In an era when you have to make most tools yourself, you are forced to be dexterous.

Wang Li, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Old uncle, you are too evil. Whatever you get, I think it's just a toy."

Feng Chengmin smiled and said, "Of course, let's go and fish."

As Feng Chengmin spoke, he walked towards the east, holding a torch in his left hand and carrying a large sieve in his right hand.

Behind Feng Chengmin were five people: Wang Shun, Wang Gan, Wang An, Wang Li and Mu Xueli.

Of course, these people's hands were not empty. They were holding unlit torches, ice picks, sharp picks and shovels, as well as sacks for fish.

After walking less than two miles, they arrived at a small river about three or four meters wide.

This small river is the one that passes by the forbidden area.

However, everyone was in the upper reaches, while the forbidden area was in the lower reaches of the stream.

In fact, even in the downstream of the forbidden area, the river water is not dirty, because the river passes by the forbidden area, not over the bones in the forbidden area.

Although there are many fish in Heilongjiang Province, there are some tricks to catching them.

First of all, you need to find a depression where the river flows, with water at least 2 meters deep, because the ice surface in Heilongjiang Province is at least one meter thick.

In shallow areas, the water is basically frozen from top to bottom and there are no fish.

Secondly, it is best to find a place with water plants to dig a hole in the ice, because the winter in Heilongjiang Province is extremely long, and there is a severe lack of oxygen under the ice in winter.

Water plants are hollow, so the oxygen under the water plants is richer than elsewhere. This causes most fish and frogs to gather under the ice where the water plants are.

In this way, as long as you dig a hole in the ice next to the water plants, you will basically have a good harvest.

Again, just use the ice pick to hit the ice surface.

Finally, wait for the fish to jump out for a while, then use a scoop net or a large colander to stick it into the ice hole and shake it left and right.
After they arrived at the river, they followed the stream upstream to look for the whereabouts.

It's called looking for it, but in fact it's just walking directly, because several people were walking along the hill. Basically, they just had to go down the hill sideways and walk to the valley.

Soon, they reached the depression, which was the bottom of the col.

After finding a spot with the most lush aquatic plants, the brothers Wang Gan and Wang Shun started picking up their two pickaxes.

To be honest, the job of chiseling ice is extremely tiring. Not only is it tiring, but your hands will also become numb from the vibration.

Ten minutes later, brothers Wang Gan and Wang Shun dug a round hole with a diameter of about 70 centimeters on the ice.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Li and Mu Xueli started to pick ice into the ice pit with ice picks.

In fact, drilling a hole in ice does not require any technical skills, you just need strength to do it.

But it must be said that the ice, which was more than a meter thick, was quite solid. Mu Xueli and Wang Li, perhaps because they had not eaten enough, could no longer push forward in less than 20 minutes.

At this time, the depth of the ice pit was just over half a meter.

When Feng Chengmin saw this situation, he said ruthlessly:

"Fuck, you two are so young and you are nothing."

When Wang Gan, Wang Shun and Wang An heard this, they laughed subconsciously.

As Feng Chengmin spoke, he took the ice pick from Wang Li, and Wang An also took the ice pick from Mu Xueli.

At this time, Feng Chengmin said to Wang An: "We two must be strong, their nonsense is useless."

Wang An laughed but didn't answer.

Because Wang An knew Feng Chengmin's mouth, he was very good at exposing other people's shortcomings, and his mouth would be itchy unless he said something bad about others.

Then the father and son started to cooperate again.

It has to be said that Feng Chengmin's thirties are the peak of a man's physical fitness in his life.

Therefore, Feng Chengmin is indeed much more capable than Wang Li and Mu Xueli.

Although Wang An is not as good as Feng Chengmin in this regard, Wang An is strong and has explosive power.

With the cooperation of the two, after about ten minutes, the ice surface was basically chiseled through.

After clearing out all the broken ice in the ice pit, Wang An and Feng Chengmin began to move quickly towards the bottom of the pit.

In this way, the ice pit was perfectly transformed into an ice hole, and the most difficult step of catching fish was finally completed.

Then, the water surged up quickly, and after a while, a large number of small fish began to jump out impatiently.

However, Feng Chengmin, Wang An and six others saw this scene but ignored it. Instead, they took out cigarettes and started smoking.

Because it is like this when you chisel holes in the ice to catch fish, the first fish to come out are always small fish.

The main reason is that there is less oxygen underwater, and big fish have adapted to this low-oxygen environment, so they have greater endurance.

But the little fish had poor stamina and had long been unable to bear the suffocation, so it ran up first.

After finishing a cigarette, he lit two torches to increase the brightness of the light.

Feng Chengmin then picked up a large colander, inserted it directly into the ice hole, and began to stir it.

After stirring it a few times, Feng Chengmin began to scoop out the fish, just like scooping water, but at a very fast speed.

In Heilongjiang Province, the so-called "beating roe deer with a stick and scooping fish with a ladle" means scooping fish with a ladle in this way, but instead of using a "ladle", a strainer or a scoop net is used.

But it must be said that apart from the fact that it is quite laborious to drill a hole in the ice, the job of "scooping fish" can be said to be very simple.

As Feng Chengmin's big sieve left the water one after another, more and more fish began to appear on the ice. At the same time, many forest frogs also came to the ice along with the fish.

In addition to the common grass carp, carp and crucian carp, there are also rare mountain catfish (burbot), pike, croaker and mandarin fish, etc.

It’s true that although the water surface of this depression is not large, there are many kinds of fish.

Finally, Feng Chengmin gave everyone a surprise. He used a large colander to pick out a sturgeon.

Of course, these fish are not particularly big. The largest sturgeon looks to be only about seven or eight kilograms.

Only after all the fish were "scooped" out did Feng Chengmin throw the large colander in his hand aside and watch Wang Gan and the other three pick up the fish into the sack.

At this time, Wang An held a torch in each hand, providing light for everyone.

　Thanks to my good brother "Anlan" for the reward, thank you very much, I bow to you!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)