Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 228 Divide the fish
Xia Chan drove a tractor and kept searching, and finally found a river. Due to the drought and little rain, the water level of the river was not high, but it did not affect the living water of city residents. When they arrived, there were still a lot of people skating on the ice!
The brothers and sisters discussed it and decided to wait until dark to break ice and catch fish. Now they went to play on the ice with everyone, which was a good opportunity to get a basic understanding of this place.

After dark, there was no one by the river, and there was no sound except the whistling cold wind.

The brothers took sledgehammers, went to the riverside and smashed the ice directly on the side. Xia Chan brought over the bamboo baskets and flour. The flour had been mixed in advance, so they just had to grab a handful from each frame.

The sledgehammer they used today was brought by the team leader, because they had reported this matter to the team leader. The team leader didn't know whether they could catch the fish. If they could really catch it, everyone would have fish to eat. If they couldn't, then forget it and they wouldn't force it.

Moreover, there is no water anywhere. There must be a lot of smart people who want to catch fish in the river. Many people may have caught fish before, so it is really unknown whether they can catch fish.

After a big hole was smashed in the ice, Xia Bin lowered the bamboo basket tied with a rope into the ice. Xia Chan immediately grabbed a handful of flour and put it in. The fish did not have enough oxygen under the ice, but now enough oxygen was injected in. The fish swam here in groups. In addition, there was food in the bamboo basket, so the fish in the basket soon began to stir.

The three brothers used the fishing nets in their hands to quickly scoop up the fish and threw them to the shore. As soon as they came out of the water, the fish were frozen stiff, which shows how low the temperature was at night.

Xia Chan wore thick gloves and caught the fish one by one and put them into the wooden barrel. Then he sent them onto the tractor. He collected one fish into the space every time he sent it. Anyway, his brothers had no idea how many fish he had caught.

They work so hard to catch fish for the village, they should at least get some hard work pay, right?
Whenever the dough was eaten up, Xia Chan would grab another handful of dough and put it in. They did this for several hours. Xia Chan and his friends caught a tractor full of fish. Xia Chan had already divided the fish according to size. The biggest fish went to his family, and the rest were distributed to everyone. Each family got five fish, and the total weight was about ten to twenty kilograms, which was not light.

They got so many fish for free, so they have no right to accuse Xia Chan and his friends of being greedy. After all, if Xia Chan and his friends didn't find a way to catch fish, there would be no fish for everyone's wish of "abundance every year" this year.

In the night, Xia Chan drove a tractor carrying his brothers and the fish, speeding through the cold and dark night. Several people were very cold, and the tips of their noses were frozen red. Although they were wearing scarves, they could not block the cold at night.

The brothers took a detour to carry the fish that belonged to them back, and Xia Chan drove the tractor into the team leader's house. The subsequent distribution of the fish was handed over to the team. They were only responsible for catching the fish and not for after-sales service.

After returning home, the brothers immediately reheated the kang, opened the ventilation cover on the stove, boiled water, made brown sugar ginger tea, and drank it quickly to get rid of the cold. After all, they had been outside for most of the day and it was easy to get sick.

It was too late to cook at this time, so we just boiled water and cooked the dumplings. Each person had a bowl of hot dumplings, and after eating them, we felt refreshed all over.

Everyone was very tired today. After washing up, they didn't do anything and just lay down to rest.

The next morning, a meeting notice came over the production team's radio, asking everyone to rush to the threshing ground within an hour. They did not explicitly mention the distribution of the fish because they were afraid that people from other production teams would hear it and cause a bad influence.

If you really want to eat fish, just go out and catch it yourself. There's no need to worry about the fish in their village. After all, the fish in their village were caught by Xia Chan and his siblings in the cold wind.

Xia Chan and his friends had breakfast and went down the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, they met Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing, and then they all went to the grain drying field together. "Xia Chan, what kind of meeting is the team having today?" Yuan Bingbing asked, "Is the winter hunting team back?"

"When the Winter Hunting Team comes back, we will let them go back and rest first instead of having a meeting first. After all, the members of the Winter Hunting Team have been outside for so many days and must be exhausted. So today is definitely not about the Winter Hunting Team. As for what exactly happened, we will know when we get there."

Xia Chan didn't talk about her own affairs. She also asked the captain not to tell everyone about their fishing. Otherwise, everyone would be upset and ask why they were the brothers and sisters fishing again. Why didn't they give everyone the chance to catch fish? Couldn't others catch fish?

When Xia Chan and the others arrived at the threshing ground, it was almost time for the meeting, so they just found a place to stand and wait for the meeting.

When everyone heard the team leader say that they would distribute fish today, they all cheered excitedly. As for where the fish came from or who caught it, they didn't care at all. They only cared about whether they would have fish to eat during the New Year this year.

Now not only do we have fish to eat, but each family can get five. Who wouldn't be happy?

Even if one fish only weighs two kilograms, five of them would weigh ten kilograms, which is enough to provide the family with a few good meals.

But in reality, each family had two fish weighing three pounds, two fish weighing four pounds, and one fish weighing five pounds. The five fish weighed at least twenty pounds. Xia Chan kept the big fish weighing more than five pounds for himself.

The male educated youth were still hunting and had not returned yet, so the fish belonging to them were kept at the captain's house and would be given to them when they returned. Now the outdoors is a natural refrigerator, and the fish will not go bad if they are frozen in the yard.

Xiao Fengfeng lived alone, so he didn't have to share his fish with others, so Xiao Tiantian took his fish over and planned to take it to Xia Chan's house to process it together. They would eat some fresh fish first, and smoke the rest into cured fish and then send it back home.

Zhou Ji lived in a double room, so the fish in their dormitory had to be divided equally between the two of them. Now that both of them were not here, Yuan Bingbing couldn't make a decision for them, so the fish was left at the captain's house until they returned from winter hunting.

"Tiantian, Sister Bingbing, can I put everyone's fish heads together to make fish head stewed with tofu and fish hotpot?" Xia Chan asked.

Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing got five fish, Xiao Fengfeng got five fish, and the three households of Xia Chan's brothers and sisters got fifteen fish, which means there will be fifteen fish heads and fifteen fish offal today. If we put them together, we can definitely make several pots.

Xiao Tiantian nodded excitedly, "Yes, yes."

"Then go home and get a lunch box, or bring a pot, and then I'll serve you some food so you can eat it for a few more days." Xia Chan reminded.

Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing handed the fish to Xia Chan and the others, asking them to take it home to process it first, while the two of them ran to the educated youth point and got a pot from the dormitory. This way, they wouldn't have to work hard cooking for the next two days. They just had to heat up the dishes and cook some staple foods.