Nongmen eldest sister: Farming and opening shops

Chapter 84
Usually no one fishes in this river, but there are quite a few half-grown children who catch one or two by the river from time to time, and they can be caught right on the bank, which shows that there are not many fish in this river.

When the three of them walked to the river, Lin Qinghe avoided the place where women usually wash their clothes.

But Lin Qingsong pointed to that side and said: "Sister, there are steps over there, the closest to the water surface, why not go there and cast a fishing net."

In other places, the banks are full of mud, far away from the river, and it is not convenient to cast nets.

But Lin Qinghe shook his head: "There are people washing clothes there every day, and the noise can scare the fish away. Those fish are also very smart. They know that there are many people there, so they won't go there."

"Eldest sister is right, second brother, you seem a little stupid."

"Why do you just say I'm stupid, didn't you think of it?" Lin Qingsong bared her teeth.

"Don't quarrel, you two, loud noises will startle the fish away." Lin Qinghe hissed softly, then looked at a river bank, walked a few steps forward, and then stopped.

Seeing this, Lin Qingsong's brother and sister understood, they were silent, and only showed their eyes.

Lin Qinghe didn't pay attention to their small movements, just shook the fishing net in his hand, and after finishing the fishing net, he threw it towards the river suddenly.

There was only a splash, and the fishing net fell into the water, splashing a splash.

The fishing net seemed a bit overweight. When she carried it all the way, she really felt that the weight was not light, but there was no way to do it. Apart from using hemp thread to weave the fishing net, she couldn't think of other better materials.

The fishing net entered the water, and after a while, she began to draw the net.

Brother and sister Lin Qingsong kept their mouths tightly shut and kept staring at each other, their expressions were quite nervous, and they didn't blink when they looked at the fishnet.

Lin Qinghe didn't care about them, and just slowly closed the fishing net. Feeling that there seemed to be movement in the fishing net, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but slightly raised. Obviously, the net didn't fail, and more or less there must be something to gain.

With a crash, she pulled the whole fishing net out of the water. The original fishing net had some weight, but now the wet fishing net felt even more heavy. Fortunately, she has been practicing martial arts and has a lot of strength, so the weight is still heavy. A piece of cake.

"Yuyu, I caught a fish in the net." Lin Qingmiao jumped up and cheered.

Lin Qingsong was also very excited, and squatted down to lift the fishing net, trying to catch the fish inside. Lin Qinghe shook the fishing net, and found that when the net went down, he caught three half-jin-sized ones, and the rest were about ten finger-sized. The small fish is not bad.

"This one is good, much bigger than the one we ate before." Lin Qingsong said excitedly, holding the fish with both hands.

"It's great to have fish." Lin Qingmiao called out cheerfully.

Lin Qingsong raised his eyes and stared at her: "Stop yelling, quickly put some water in the bucket, let's raise these fish, they can't live without water, and they won't be fresh when we take them home."

Lin Qingmiao was walking on short legs, and was about to do as she said, but was stopped by Lin Qinghe: "Don't go, I'll come." He reached out and took the wooden bucket from her hand, and filled a small bucket of water in the river to carry it. come over.

All the fish, big and small, were put into the bucket. At a glance, most of the bucket was full of fish. Lin Qingmiao just stared at the fish in the bucket and turned around, not caring about anything else.

"I really don't know much. A few fish will make her unable to walk."

Hearing this, Lin Qinghe turned her head to look at it, and smiled slightly. She didn't say anything, but put away the fishing net, and signaled Lin Qingsong to pick up the bucket, and continued to walk forward.

"Aren't you fishing here?" Lin Qingmiao realized and hurriedly followed her steps.

"I just caught a net, and some fish were scared away, so I changed the place."

He didn't go far, so he stopped, and then cast a net again.

When closing the net after a while, Lin Qinghe felt that the fishing net was getting heavier. When the fishing net was pulled out of the water, several fish in the net were jumping non-stop. Looking at the head, it was more than double the size of the previous one.

Lin Qingmiao cheered again: "A lot of fish, a lot of fish."

The woman who was washing clothes over there had noticed their side earlier, but now she heard Lin Qingmiao's cheers, she looked up again, and just in time saw Lin Qinghe throwing a large bag of fish on the shore , and couldn't help but exclaimed.

Several women threw down the clothes in their hands and trotted towards them.

Lin Qingsong frantically took the fish out of the net and put them into the wooden bucket. He just threw in three big fish, but the wooden bucket couldn't hold it anymore.

The two brothers and sisters looked at each other, and Lin Qingmiao shook her head and said, "I made a mistake, I really should have brought two wooden barrels."

Lin Qingsong glanced at her and said, "I really don't know how to count. Even if I take two wooden barrels, I can't hold these fish." He was holding one in his hand, and there were four or five fishes in the net. Small fish can be ignored.

Just when they didn't know what to do, several women trotted over, looked down, and all of them exclaimed: "This net is really powerful, it can catch so many fish in one net."

"Oh, this fish is really fat. I've never seen such a big fish. The child's father caught a fish that weighed two catties before. I think this fish must weigh three or four catties. "

The woman stared at the fish for a while, then turned her head and asked, "Qinghe, do you sell this fish? My children like to eat fish from this river, but they can catch them very often."

Lin Qinghe didn't respond immediately, but turned to look at Lin Qingmiao. Lin Qingmiao understood and nodded vigorously: "For sale, for sale, do you want this one, auntie?" She pointed to the fish in Lin Qingsong's hand .

"One is enough, this one weighs several catties." The woman said with a smile on her face.

Lin Qinghe folded some grass from the side, twisted it into a rope, passed it through the fish's mouth, then tied a knot, and carried the rope to think about the weight of the fish.

"This fish should weigh about four catties and three taels. Let's say my aunt is four catties. The price of fish in the county is twelve yuan a catty. We are all from the village. Even if my aunt is ten yuan a catty, the fish will be forty yuan in total. .”

The woman took the fish and wondered about the weight, then smiled: "It really looks like a little over four catties, then Auntie is taking advantage of you!"

Holding the fish, the woman took out a purse from her bosom, counted out forty Wen and handed it over.

Lin Qinghe accepted it casually without counting it, and sent the woman away with a smile. After she turned around and left, she handed the money to Lin Qingmiao: "You keep the money, and keep an account carefully later."

Holding the heavy copper coins in his hands, Lin Qingmiao kept staring at them, almost staring at a hole. The previous bookkeeping was just an amount, and this was the first time that money was collected and bookkeeping.

With the previous woman at the head, the rest of the women saw that the fish was good and the price was two cents cheaper, so they thought it was a good deal, and immediately wanted one for this one, and one for that one. Everyone carried a fish back.

But in an instant, he had received more than a hundred pennies. Lin Qingmiao clutched the purse containing the copper coins, not daring to look away, for fear that the copper coins in the purse would fall out if he missed it.

(End of this chapter)