I became popular in the 1970s by disguising myself as a man

Chapter 57 Ice cave, fishing
Zhong Zhiran and Tian Zeyu are both planning to leave ten days before the Chinese New Year, so they can just wait until then to issue letters of introduction.

After free time, almost everyone would not get up early in the morning, but today most of the villagers, including Zhong Zhiran, got up early because today the villagers were going to fish and catch toads.

Crescent Pao is a branch of the living river here. In previous winters, before the New Year, the team would organize people to catch fish, and they could catch some more or less, so that there would be an extra dish for the New Year's Eve dinner.

In order to save time, Zhong Zhiran brought some steamed buns back in the morning and made radish soup under the steamer, which was simple and trouble-free.

Zhong Zhiran and Feng Fang got together to make the buns a few days ago. There are various fillings. Everyone is responsible for preparing their own noodles and fillings for making buns. Zhong Zhiran is responsible for seasoning the fillings for everyone. Waiting for the buns to be made. Once it's done, just take it back and steam it.

Knowing that Zhong Zhiran was leaving before the Chinese New Year, basically everyone was full of desire for survival. Everyone had frozen a lot of food like steamed buns and frozen dumplings, so that they would not have to make their own food during the Chinese New Year. Those dark dishes.

Zhong Zhiran didn't care and ate it as soon as it was steamed. The remaining people, except Tian Zeyu, all ate sparingly to save their lives.

Zhong Zhiran ate two steamed buns and a bowl of soup, packed four more steamed buns in a lunch box, and put on a military coat, hat and gloves.

The military coat, gloves and hat were mailed by Tian Bowen. They were brand new and fit perfectly. In addition to the set on his body, there was another set in Zhong Zhiran's space that was mailed by Tian's father.

When he went out, he called Jiang Heng, and the two of them walked towards the brigade headquarters.

In previous years, because there were no tractors, the only way to go fishing was to drive a horse-drawn carriage. In winter, the horse-drawn carriage was not hung with boards, but with a snow sledge without wheels.

Because the size of the snow sledge is limited, it not only has to pull people, but also pulls back the caught fish, so the number of people who can go fishing every year is limited. In previous years, two horse-drawn sledges could barely carry seven or eight people, but in total Will go there about three times.

This year, because of the tractor, more people can go. In addition, the two horses from previous years will still be hitched to the sledge and go together.

When Zhong Zhiran arrived at the brigade headquarters, there were already a lot of people there.

The snow fell relatively late this year. The first snow fell on the day after Feng Fang treated the guests, and the snow was quite heavy.

It was really cold. Zhong Zhiran removed the straw curtain covering the tractor and placed a charcoal basin under the engine. When he saw that it was almost done, he poured the freshly boiled water into the tractor's water tank and looked at the water tank. When the float comes up, it proves that there is enough water.

This time, there were a total of 30 people who went fishing in Hulala, most of whom were strong laborers in the village. In addition to Zhong Zhiran and Jiang Heng, there was also Yu Xiangdong, whom Feng Fang had mentioned, but he was not very familiar with. That’s it.

As for Zhang Yu, who has always been a devil, he didn't come out this time, maybe because he was afraid that he would freeze to death. Since he and Meng Yun registered, they said that they asked their family to send him money to build a house and hold a wedding banquet.

But the Chinese New Year is coming in a blink of an eye, and the money Zhang Yu mentioned is still gone. Mengyun is still wearing the old shabby cotton-padded jacket. As for Zhang Yu, he doesn’t even have a thicker coat, so after the weather gets really cold, it’s really cool. I didn't see him leaving the house.

Mengyun and Zhang Yu could only separate a small single room in the male educated youth dormitory with mud bricks, opened another door, and then the two of them moved in.
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Zhong Zhiran took off her military coat and asked Jiang Heng to hold it for her, because there were three belts on the car, and it was no joke if her clothes got caught in it if she was not careful.

She took the crank handle and started to start the tractor. Because of the extremely cold weather, it was very difficult to crank the tractor.

Just when Zhong Zhiran was about to stop and try again, there was suddenly a person behind Zhong Zhiran, and his hand was on the rocker. "I'm with you."

Zhong Zhiran didn't look back, she could tell from the voice that it was Yu Xiangdong.

After the tractor started, it made a "chugging" sound. Zhong Zhiran nodded to Yu Xiangdong to express his gratitude. Yu Xiangdong nodded in response, and then got on the truck with everyone.

Zhong Zhiran also took the military coat from Jiang Heng's hand and put it on. After he and Jiang Heng got in the car, they headed for the Moon Pavilion. This time the team leader was the captain, Zhang Yougen did not go.

In Zhang Yougen's words, go for a young, strong guy, and an old guy like him won't join in the fun.

A large group of people led the way with Zhong Zhiran driving a tractor, followed by two horses pulling snow sledges, which looked quite spectacular.

Fishing in the village is not as professional as in later generations. To catch fish with a dragnet, you use a tool to drill a hole in the ice. The hole-drilling tool is called an ice piercer here. The head is made of iron, and the top is It is connected with wood and has a small cross arm as a handle.

It is up to experienced people to choose a good spot in the middle of the river. Because the ice surface has been frozen with a thick layer, the task of walking through the ice hole is not an arduous one.

Several ice caves were being dug at the same time, and Crescent Moon Bubble, which was originally silent, was also bustling with activity.

Zhong Zhiran had never seen this kind of fishing method before, and it looked really lively. While watching the excitement, Zhong Zhiran released his space power to create a space field, and he could clearly see the situation under the ice.

The locations of these ice caves are well chosen, and there are many large and small fish below. In order to survive the winter safely, these fish gather in the deeper parts of the river, because the water temperature is too low and the oxygen content is too low. Little, no matter how big the movement was on the ice, there was no reaction. He just stayed there under the ice without moving.

"It's open! The fish is on!"

A shouting sound made Zhong Zhiran withdraw his powers. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw several large fish mixed with water emerging from the hole in the ice.

The fish kept jumping as soon as it jumped out of the water, but because the temperature was too low, the fish was quickly frozen. The Northeast, which was nearly minus [-] degrees, was like a large natural icehouse. It was really cold.

"Now stir up Luozi, here are some people ready to pick up fish!"

The captain shouted, and one person took a long tool with a net bag on the head and reached into the water, stirring vigorously in one direction.

Soon there were many large and small fish and toads floating on the mouth of this small ice cave, and then they used this tool called a stirrup to carry these fish and toads to the ice.

After doing this several times, the number of fish that floated up became less and less, but the holes in the ice couldn't hold it up. After a while, there were a lot of frozen fish and toads on the tractor bucket and sledge.

After coming all the way, everyone wanted to get more. When it was almost noon, everyone took out the dry food they had brought, took a bite, and planned to make another batch of ice holes before returning to the group.

The harvest in the afternoon was basically the same as that in the morning. Before everyone left, they did not forget to build a small snowdrift at the hole in the ice to remind those who would come to fish in the future that the ice in the snowdrift was not that thick and they must stay away.

(End of this chapter)