Happy Farm Ranch

Chapter 159 Fishing Winter Fish

After discovering a new way to repair the space, Su Mu was in a happy mood.

It's just that the premise is to be careful with that little girl Xia Jin, otherwise, if she finds out that the things she just sent are gone, she might lose her temper.

Fortunately, the village is getting busier every day near the end of the new year, and Xia Jin is busy running around all day, but she quickly put this matter behind her.

Entering the twelfth lunar month, the weather is getting colder and colder.

Heavy snow comes from time to time, and the north wind cuts my face like a knife.

But the more this is the case, the more frozen the lake is, and the children run to the ice to skate on the ice every now and then, having a great time.And Boss Che, a veteran fisherman, has already started thinking about getting some new year's goods.

It was still dark this morning, when Su Mu heard his alarm go off, he jumped up from the kang.

After washing and getting dressed, he didn't even eat breakfast, he rushed out excitedly and asked Liang Fei and Xia Jin to go out, because the owner of the car promised to take them to fish for winter fish!
"It's so early, there are still stars blinking in the sky!" Xia Jin was also ready, but looking at her sleepy eyes, it was obvious that she still missed the hot bed very much.

Clutching his dog fur hat, Liang Fei looked up at the dark blue sky like a curtain. The sky was full of stars, and the village was quiet at this time, with occasional barking of dogs.

"Boss Che said that we can just go directly to the lake. They probably started working long ago." Su Mu walked in the front and led the way, and the three of them creaked and creaked on the snow, which was very pleasant to hear.

"Brother Su Mu, don't all the fish hibernate in winter? Then how do you catch them?" Xia Jin, who was following him, yawned and asked.

Naturally, Su Mu was not very clear about this question, but Liang Fei interrupted him when he was about to speak: "Under normal circumstances, fish don't hibernate, but it's cold, and they all stay at the bottom, if the weather is fine It will come up. But there are also fish that hibernate and don't bubble up until spring."

"Then... let's fish for winter fish now, but how do we fish? The fish are all at the bottom!" Xia Jin felt the coolness, and pulled down the fox fur hat twice.

Su Mu smiled and said: "It depends on the boss, we are all laymen watching the fun. As for how to catch fish, you can go to the lake to see."

Go around the back mountain, and walk a little further to get close to the lake.

At this time, the lakeside is no longer as lush as it was in summer, but the reed poles are all in their original state, looking like a big forest from a distance.

Boss Che and the others camped in the middle of the lake. At this time, the lake was frozen several feet thick, and it was safe to step on it.

Walking all the way along the traces of the sledge, the three of them finally came to the place where they fished for winter fish when the sky was slightly bright.

Che Boss, Lao Hei and others had already been busy, first shoveling away the snow layer until it reached the ice surface; then drilling holes on the smooth ice surface with iron drills.

When this thing is smashed, the ice shards will fly everywhere. Fortunately, the owner of the car has a lot of helpers.

Su Mu and Liang Fei also went up to try it out. After all, they were not people who did farm work. They only smashed it seven or eight times because they were strong young men, and they began to sweat and pant.

"Hehe, you two calm down for a while, this is hard work and we will do it." The owner of the car took it happily, and joined hands for a while, and finally made a big ice hole with a diameter of more than one meter on the spot.

Liang Fei looked down with great interest, and said with a smile, "I've heard of fishing in the Northeast in the winter. It seems that there is an ice cave five or six meters away, and then the fishing net is thrown down. Come up, at least you can catch hundreds of catties of fish. It’s a pity I’ve heard of it but never seen it, how do we catch fish here?”

"We can't get that much. Fishing for winter fish means eating fresh fish next year, and using fishing nets is also this small." The owner of the car waved his hands after listening.

It may be because it is close to the river. Anyway, the villagers here in Huatanao are not very interested in eating fish.

As he was talking, he took out the fishing nets from the sack at his feet, and then cast them into the ice cave with Lao Hei and the others.

The fishing net was four to five meters long, and it didn't take long for several people to cast it down.

"It's almost there. Let's sit down and drink some wine to fight the cold. When we're done drinking, it's time to pull up the fishing net." Looking for a place with a leeward wind, the owner of the car called a group of them to come and sit down, and took out the net from the bag. Some dried meat and grain wine, each person gnawed a piece of dried meat and sipped small sips of grain wine, it had a special flavor in the ice and snow.

After taking a few sips of wine, Su Mu felt his body warmed up; then he looked at Xia Jin, who was following along to join in the fun, her face was flushed, and she could drink well. It seemed that this was because of her father Xia Hongliang.Her mother doesn't drink very much, so she seldom drinks.

"Little girl, how about our Huatanao?" Boss Che asked with a smile to tease her.

Xia Jin replied crisply: "Of course it's fine, otherwise why would I come here as soon as I'm on vacation?"

"You came here as soon as you were on vacation. You seem to be looking for Muzi, right? What does it have to do with Huatanao!" Boss Che pointed to the net cast not far away, "Later, you help pull the first net. There are a lot of fish, I will let you pick the biggest one first, okay?"

"Okay! I want to pick the biggest one, take it back and ask Brother Fei to make boiled fish for me!" Xia Jin nodded vigorously, obviously enjoying this job very much.

After waiting for another half an hour, the fishing net outside the ice cave seemed to be falling.

Seeing this, the owner of the car hurried forward and slowly closed the fishing net on the side that was opened.

"It's almost done, everyone pulls the net together!" He weighed the weight a little, feeling that the harvest in the fishing net should be not small, so he arranged for everyone to stand up, grab the fishing net and slowly pull it up together.

The closed fishing net was slowly pulled up from the ice hole, and dragged forward on the ice floor little by little.

Xia Jin stood at the back, she was weak enough to make up for it, she pulled forward vigorously with both hands, but her big eyes were fixed on the ice hole, eagerly looking forward to a big fish being caught.

"There are fish, there are fish! What a big fish!" She yelled joyfully, let go and ran towards the entrance of the ice cave.

Su Mu also hurriedly let go and went to watch the fun, only to see big fish rolling in the net and tossing hard to get back into the water, but they were caught and dragged up by the fishing net, but no matter how much they flopped, it was useless.

"This year's harvest is really not small. It seems that not only Muzi's farms and pastures have a good harvest, but even the fish in the lake are eating fat!" The owner of the car was so happy that he dragged the fishing net ashore together. I saw fish everywhere on the three to four meter long ice!
Liang Fei was also happy to pick up one and said with a smile: "Such a big wild fish must be delicious! Let's freeze it tonight and eat sashimi tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)