Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Chapter 51 Zhixiang's News

The Wenhan brothers over there are also playing dock there.There are a lot of fish at this time, and there will be a lot of fish in each dock.The big ones are the size of a palm, and the small ones are about three inches long. They are usually crucian carp, willow root fish, noodle fish, big head carp and so on.Wen Han and the others brought a wooden bucket, and the wooden bucket was full at this moment.

"Brother, we're back home, we caught a lot of crickets." Jinghan shouted. "I'll go back later and make cricket tofu."

Wenxuan heard Jinghan's shout, and also shouted towards Jinghan, "Second sister, we caught a lot of fish, and now there are fish to eat." The voice was very excited and excited.

When Wen Han and the others came over with the wooden bucket, everyone looked into the bucket and all laughed.This mountain is really good. If it were in the village, there would not be so many fish.Jinghan took a look, "Brother, someday you go to town again, buy a hanging net and come back. Look at this, there should be big fish in the river, wouldn't it be better if you could get some big fish to eat?"

Wen Han nodded. He also estimated that there would be big fish in the river, but Jing Han said the same thing, "Okay, if you have time these few days, go there. When the time comes, we will catch some fish. Besides eating, we can also sell some." Wen Han Those who were trained by Jing Han now know that they have to sell something good.

Xue Shi and Zhu Shi packed up the clothes to dry, and then they all walked back together.For them, the three or four miles are like playing, and they returned to the venue after a while. "Grandma, we're back. Look, we caught crayfish, and there are a lot of fish." Jinghan said.

Sitting at the door, Mrs. Chen looked up, but didn't smile.

Jinghan felt that something was wrong when she saw it. If grandma heard it before, she would rush to get a big basin and squeeze fish together. What happened today? "Grandma, what's wrong with you?"

"Hey, your fifth uncle has been away for so long, even if he is admitted to Jinshi, he should have come back long ago? Why hasn't there been a letter yet?" Sitting there, Mrs. Chen sighed.

When Mrs. Chen said that, everyone remembered.But no, Zhixiang left in the first month, and now it's the end of April, so there should have been some movement a long time ago. "Mother, don't worry, Zhixiang is old, it's fine. Maybe he really won the Jinshi, maybe he just stayed in the capital." Xue comforted the old lady like this.In fact, she also knew in her heart that this was impossible, even if she was really hit, she still had to come back to worship her ancestors, right?
"You don't have to forgive me there. Even if I don't understand these things, I still know that I have to go back to my hometown after passing the exam. Besides, someone has to come back to report the letter. I guess I didn't pass the exam and want to stay. In the capital, I will take the exam after three years. Then I have to send a letter to my family? Alas, it is really memorable." Chen sighed again, "Forget it, don't think about it, there will be a letter sooner or later. Come on, let's squeeze the fish first, and then cook the crickets to eat, there is no grinder on this mountain, so we can't make cricket tofu." Chen started to squeeze the fish with everyone.

"Mother, some are a little bit bigger, let's keep them for stewing at night, and the smaller ones are squeezed and dried, is it okay?" Jing Han asked while looking at those fish.

"Sure, what's wrong with this? Big fish don't want to dry it, and it's hard to eat, so it's not as good as the small ones. Let's stew the fish tonight. I'm a little greedy these days, so stew it at night. Fish, cook crayfish, okay?" Xue said while working.

When the children heard it, they all became happy. After all, it was considered meat, so it could satisfy their cravings, right? "Great, there are fish to eat." The children cheered.

In the evening, as expected, the fish was stewed, and the cricket was also cooked. The cricket actually didn't have too much meat, only the two front claws and the tail had meat, and it tasted very delicious.However, this food is quite time-consuming to eat, so Chen asked the children to eat it as a snack after eating.So, everyone ate the fish first, and when they were full, they played with the crayfish one by one.

On the third day of May, someone from the village happened to come, and unexpectedly brought a letter from Zhixiang.It turned out that he didn't pass the exam, and after failing the exam, he wanted to come back.Later, one of his classmates, the son of the master Zhizhou, passed the exam and insisted that Zhixiang stay with him in the capital.When the palace examination was over, Zhixiang's classmate won the Jinshi, and with the help of his family, he was appointed a county magistrate.Now, he didn't let Zhixiang go, he insisted on letting Zhixiang go with him to that county and help him.Zhixiang also thought it was feasible, so he went directly to the post with that person. Before leaving, he had someone send a letter home.

"Uncle, Auntie, the person who sent the letter said that they had something to do on the way, so they took a while to come back, and this letter came too late. At that time, the address Zhixiang gave to them was still the address of your old house in the village, so the village head accepted it. Download the letter, let me bring it here." The person who came here happened to be the Wu family, the family where Jing Han saved his son.

"Jia Jun, thank you for coming from such a long distance." The old man felt at ease when he received his son's letter, and hurriedly thanked him.

"Uncle, what is this? I have been with brother Zhixin for so many years, how can I be polite? Okay, Uncle, I have delivered this letter too, so I have to go back quickly, because tomorrow is the holiday and the family is very busy. "After Wu Jiajun finished speaking, he went out.

Of course Zhixin sent it out, "Jia Jun, walk slowly, and I'll trouble you to make a trip."

Wu Jiajun waved his hand and drove the ox cart away.

Now that Zhixiang had sent a letter, the family felt relieved, and Mrs. Chen finally felt relieved now, and stopped moaning. "Meilin, the day after tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. Didn't the family buy glutinous rice? Zhixin, hurry up to the town to buy some rice and come back. Let's make some zongzi as soon as possible. Why don't we prepare some for the festival? That’s all for the adults, and there are still so many children, don’t the children look forward to the festival?” Mrs. Chen took out the money and asked Zhixin to buy rice quickly.

Zhixin took the money, turned around and walked out. Jinghan stabbed Wenhan, "Brother, you go with our father and see if there are fishing nets by the way." They have been thinking about this for the past few days. Opportunity, don't rush to follow.

Wenhan ran out and went to town with Zhixin.

In the afternoon, Zhixin and Wenhan came back from the town and bought not only glutinous rice dumpling leaves, but also hanging nets.Jinghan and the others were all so happy that they had to get off the net.There was no other way, two brothers Zhixin and Zhiming took a large group of children to the river to get off the net.Fortunately, they have also got this thing before, and at least they have set the net down, and we will see if they can catch fish tomorrow.

Naturally, Mrs. Xue soaked all the rice, soaked it today, and made zongzi tomorrow morning.

Early the next morning, Zhixin led the children to the riverside and pulled out the nets that had been set off yesterday.When the net left the tree on the surface of the water, Jinghan's heart also lifted up.In the net, there are actually a lot of fish jumping around. The silver scales of the fish dazzle everyone's eyes in the morning sun.The children all shouted happily, they never expected that there were really fish, and there were so many of them.Everyone hurriedly fished the fish into the bucket, but one bucket was not enough, so Wen Cheng ran back to get another bucket, and it was considered enough.

Everyone happily returned to the venue. Mrs. Chen and the old man were also surprised when they saw it, "Oh, I really didn't expect that there would be so many fish in one night. We are so old, we can't eat it?" Chen Shi looked at the two buckets of fish and didn't know what to do with them.

"Grandma, we have all discussed it. Tomorrow is the holiday. There must be a lot of people in the town today. We will save a few for the holiday and we will eat the rest. We will take the rest to the town and give some to my aunt's house to make up for my aunt. , sell the rest. It happens to be able to earn some money, so why do you have to earn the money you bought online?" Jing Han just made plans on the way back.

"Okay, Jinghan's idea is good, little girl, how do I feel, since you went up the mountain, you have some good ideas in your little head?" Chen patted Jinghan's head and said with a smile with.

Jinghan smiled, "Mom, is the meal ready? We have to eat quickly, and then go to the town to sell fish." It's early in the morning, and I'm really hungry right now.

"The meal is ready, let's eat quickly." Shi Xue led Jingya to bring all the food to the table, and then everyone began to eat.After breakfast, Zhiming was still driving the cart, and Wen Han, Wen Cheng, and Jing Han got into the bullock cart together, and they were going to town with them.Recently, Zhiming led the children to dig up some medicinal materials and sold them all in the town today.

A group of people sat in an ox cart and walked for more than an hour before arriving at the town.First, they went to send four carps to Huixin. The Tao family saw the four carps, each of which weighed three catties, which was a big fish.The old man of the Tao family said quickly, "Look, I have to trouble you. If you buy such a big fish in the town, at least one fish will cost forty yuan. Now there are four fish, and you can't sell them for a hundred yuan. Fifty or sixty Wen? You don’t need to send it here anymore, it’s not easy for you on the mountain, so it’s good to keep some money for selling.”

"Uncle, it's okay. We're close to the river, and it doesn't take much effort to get it back. Now that Huixin has it, our family doesn't have anything good to send over. It's just a few fish, and I'll save it for Huixin to replenish." That's fine." Seeing the disapproving expression on the old lady's face, Zhiming felt displeased, so he said that the fish was given to Huixin to nourish her body.

As soon as the old lady heard this, her complexion immediately turned ugly, "His third brother Huixin, why do you sound like we have abused Huixin? Huixin has never come to my house. She can't do much work and always makes troubles." What's wrong, we didn't say anything, didn't we? Since she is the daughter-in-law of our Tao family, how can we not care about her?"

(End of this chapter)