Golden Fishing Village

After the two fishing boats were hung with red flags, Ao Muyang added colorful flags below. The sea breeze blew and whistled, which at least looked very majestic.

He erected a bamboo on the boat with small red envelopes and copper coins hanging on it. This is called a fortune tree. During the New Year, it attracts past fortunes at sea and brings good luck to the fishing boats in the coming year.

There is no need to clean the fishing boats, so it is very simple to clean up. Ao Muyang took Zhu Zhu and Liu Mei to finish the work, and the sun was still high.

Zhu Zhu looked at him eagerly, and he said, "I have nothing to do either. Why don't you go find Xiao Niu and the others? They can't play with computers and mobile phones at home now. I guess they are either by the lake or in the mountains."

The little girl's heart has been wild. She endured a semester in school and finally got to the holiday. As a result, because of Lu Wuyi, Yan Qingcheng didn't bring her to the village. She stayed in the city with heavy traffic and steel and concrete, which made her feel suffocated.

After hearing what Ao Muyang said, she cheered and ran to the village with Zhu Zhu. The general and Wolf Da and Wolf Er chased around, but she was not worried that anything would happen to them.

Besides, the sixth sister practiced free fighting with Zhong Cang. With her current strength and skills, ordinary men could not do anything to her.

It was already the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and the day after tomorrow was the 30th of the twelfth lunar month. Most of the tourists who had booked New Year's Eve dinner had arrived. This year's village was much more lively than in previous years.

In winter, the mountains were dry and the wind was cold. Longxiang Lake was lonely and the scenery was not good. This made the village a bit boring for tourists.

The owners of several fishing houses in the village discussed it and simply took the tourists from their families to the lake to fish, saying that they would use the old-fashioned method to catch New Year fish.

When Ao Muyang got the news when he returned home, he put on his rain boots and took his water jacket to go and have a look. As a result, he saw that Lu Zhizi looked unhappy, so he quickly asked, "What happened?"

Lu Zhizi smiled indifferently and said, "It's nothing. It's just that the young lady of the Cao family called me and forced us to go back for the New Year."

Ao Muyang asked, "How did you respond?"

"I listened to her quietly and then hung up the phone."

Lu Zhizi said this easily, but Ao Muyang knew that it was definitely not easy for her to make such a decision.

As a result, Lu Zhizi saw through his thoughts and smiled bitterly: "I don't want to have anything to do with her and her family, but Xiaoxiao has lived with them for twenty years after all. They have been together for the past twenty Spring Festivals. I don't know if it's appropriate for me to help him make this decision."

Ao Muyang said: "It's appropriate. What do you think Xiaoxiao has feelings for the Cao family? Besides, Sister Yan is here. For Xiaoxiao, wherever Sister Yan is, home is there."

"To you..."

"What does this have to do with me? For me, home is definitely where you are."

"The desire to survive is very strong, but what I mean is that Brother Feng's words are for you." Lu Zhizi raised his chin forward, and Ao Muyang turned his head in surprise to see Ao Mufeng waving at him outside the door.

Ao Mufeng waved his hand and said, "Village chief, please help me borrow a bamboo fish basket from Grandpa Man's house. I plan to take a few tourists to the lake to catch fish in a fish basket."

Ao Muyang said, "You can borrow it yourself."

Ao Mufeng grinned and said, "Grandpa Man doesn't let anyone into his house. I guess I will be beaten out with a big broom before I can even open my mouth if I knock on the door."

This is the truth. Ao Muyang said to Lu Zhizi, "Don't think about those unpleasant things. Let's go. I'll take you to the lake to watch them catch fish."

Lu Zhizi Sun Ran smiled and said, "What's so interesting about fishing in the lake?"

Ao Muyang said, "You haven't seen the way to catch fish this time, and watching tourists catch fish, they are amateurs, which can always create a lot of jokes. Sister Yan, are you going?"

Yan Qingcheng changed into a red swallowtail windbreaker and said, "Go, relax."

Like mudskiing, Longtou Village still retains some very ancient fishing tools and methods, such as net bags, blocking nets, ospreys, and the bamboo fish basket that Ao Mufeng wanted.

Mudskiing appeared at the latest in the Tang Dynasty, while bamboo fish baskets have a longer history and may have appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

This fish basket is similar to an ordinary basket, with a big belly and a small mouth. There is nothing strange about its opening from the front, but it is different if you can see it from the inside. The opening is intricately inserted with some sharp bamboo sticks, and fish can swim in freely, but they can't swim out.

The efficiency of fishing with bamboo tube fish baskets is not high. In the past, it was used by fishermen who could not afford fishing nets. Now fishermen can at least afford fishing nets, so the bamboo tube fish basket fishing method has been eliminated, because it can catch fish with this thing, but it is too slow.

Once some things are eliminated, it means the demise of a culture.

This is the case with bamboo tube fish baskets. The weaving of this kind of fish basket requires a lot of skills. First, its bottom is inlaid. After lifting it up, you can pour out the fish by opening the bottom of the basket. This is easier. The difficult part is the position of the bamboo sticks at the opening. This requires that the fish can swim in easily, but they cannot swim out. Just relying on the bamboo tip is not enough.

The only person in Longtou Village who can weave fish baskets is old man Ao Zhiman. The fish baskets of other people's homes have been thrown away because this thing has been useless for many years.

Ao Muyang and Lu Zhizi knocked on the old man's door. The old man was watching his grandson polishing a stone, which was just ordinary sandstone. When he saw someone coming in, he quickly put the stone away, as if it was a treasure.

After hearing the purpose of the visit, he went to the wing room and found two bamboo fish baskets, saying, "Alas, the heavy snow the year before last crushed my house, and the previous fish baskets were all inside, and they were crushed together. I repaired these two later. After the New Year and the beginning of spring, when the willow trees sprout, I will make a few more. You can use these two for now."

Ao Muyang said, "Okay, Master Man, you can make some next year. A few are not enough. I guess many people in the village will need to buy this thing."

He gave the fish basket to Ao Mufeng, who thanked him and ran away.

There are few bamboo fish baskets, and some families have restarted another fishing method with tourists, that is, the lake maze.

The lake maze is also called the trap method sealing array, which is also a traditional fishing method. It is not only a method, but also a facility. It takes a large area of ​​water to set a trap for passing fish. The scale is quite large, and large nets, large pull nets, and rack nets are used. Use multiple nets to cooperate to chase and intercept the fish school.

This method is quite cruel. As long as the mesh is narrowed and a dead fish net is used, once a school of fish is trapped in it, no fish will escape. In the past few years, the Fisheries Bureau strictly prohibited the use of this fishing method in public waters, and those caught were severely punished.

Now that Longxiang Lake is contracted by Ao Muyang, it is not considered a public water area, so it is okay to restart this method to open the eyes of tourists.

Ao Muyang came to the lake to supervise the use of this fishing method. He can't let the villagers catch fish recklessly just to entertain tourists.