Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 160 Unprecedented Fish Catch

"Oh my God, this fish is too big. There are such big catfish in this river!"

Several people were shocked. A one-meter-long earth catfish was turned out of the river. Its tail was still swinging, and it seemed that it was not completely dead.

"This must weigh thirty or forty pounds!" This was also the first time Lin Heng saw such a big native catfish in the river.

"This is indeed a good place. Look, another big grass carp has turned out. It weighs more than ten kilograms." Lin Yue grabbed Lin Heng's shoulder and pointed forward.

"Too much, too much." Li Shiwei also said excitedly.

I saw a lot of big grass carp and carp weighing more than ten kilograms, and there seemed to be some other strange things that I couldn't see.

"Brother, you and Li Shiwei go in to fish. I'll guard here. The water here is not strong. I can guard it by myself." The eldest brother Lin Yue said with a smile.

"it is good."

Lin Heng didn't refuse, he really wanted to catch fish.

He and Li Shiwei climbed over the steep slope, took the net and started copying.

Lin Heng grabbed the big catfish's head and pulled it directly to the shore. His uncle Li Baiquan came over, grabbed the fish's head and pulled it to the shore.

He laughed while pulling it: "Hey, this big catfish must weigh forty pounds. The effect of explosives is so good."

"I wouldn't have known there were so many big fish here if I hadn't blown one. If I couldn't catch them, I thought there weren't any big fish. It seems like they just didn't bite the hook." Uncle Gao also felt a little emotional,

"It's just a fish." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Facts have proved that no matter where the fish comes from, they are all cheap bones. I will feed you nothing but delicious food, and I will have to resort to various means.

Well, now, the whole army has been wiped out, and there are almost no fish left in these two places.

Lin Heng and others brought back the big fish first, the biggest one being the big catfish, then four large grass carp weighing more than ten kilograms, and five carp weighing more than ten kilograms.

The other fish are not very big. There are so many fish weighing less than ten kilograms that I can’t even count them.

"Hey, this turtle is so miserable. Its stomach is smashed." Lin Heng found an old turtle weighing five or six pounds on the water's edge. It was already dead.

"I'm lucky, I wasn't blown up." Uncle Gao also chimed in.

There are many fried fish in the river, many of them are broken into pieces, and only the fish head can be seen.

Several people had no time to pick, so the nets, big and small, went to the shore first.

After working for more than an hour, except for the fried fish and some fish that flowed downstream, most of them have been landed.

All the fish caught piled up four hills on the shore.

"It's too much, it's more than three hundred kilograms." Uncle Gao shook his head and sighed, it was too cruel this time.

"I didn't expect there to be so many fish in two places. I estimate it could weigh 400 kilograms." Lin Heng was also shocked.

This detonator is too powerful to fry fish, and it has a simple and crude beauty. No wonder foreign countries often use grenade to fry fish, and Lin Heng understands a lot about those who copy fish.

"We'd better scatter the fish quickly and take them back. It's not too early," Lin Yue said.

"it is good."

Everyone sorted the fish first, and there was no need to separate small fish such as white strips of wheat, ears of horse, etc., they were all thrown into a pile.

Mainly to classify other fish. Except for the very large individuals, which are stored separately, the rest are piles of crucian carp and carp... classified in this way.

After they were separated, they found that the most common fish were crucian carp, followed by small fish such as white-striped wheat ears, then carp, catfish and yellow pepper, and finally grass carp.

There were five black fish, four soft-shelled turtles, one perch, and the rest were gone.

"Put it in a bag and take it away." Li Baiquan smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Well, pretend to go back." Lin Heng and others nodded.

He took out the snakeskin bag and packed the fish and the four of them carried it separately. Uncle Gao helped with the fishing rod, net and fish guard, and carried the red carp that Lin Heng had raised with water.

Back in town, someone soon discovered that they had caught so many big fish, and curiously asked: "Where did you catch this?"

"I fished in the Huangtan River, do you want to buy it?" Lin Heng responded with a smile.

"Haha, I don't buy it."

Even in the town, most people will not just buy meat and fish to eat.

I didn’t buy it, but there were a lot of people watching. When I asked them, they said they fished it.

But of course everyone didn't believe it, thinking that they were probably from the Internet, and no one would have thought that they were bombed.

Lin Heng and others took the fish directly to the backyard. Wang Zhou was shocked when he saw everyone's catch.

"This is too much." He sighed.

"You can take whatever fish you want to eat." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Yes, take whatever you want." Li Shiwei also agreed.

"I'll just take one crucian carp to eat, and I don't want anything else." Wang Zhou said with a smile.

Lin Heng said again: "Uncle Gao, you can take some to eat too."

"Then I'll get a piece of black fish to eat." Uncle Gao thought for a while and said, but he didn't refuse.

Lin Heng thought it was too little, so he took out the old turtle with its internal organs exploded: "This old turtle is also rotten. You can use it to make soup to replenish your body. It's good for your health in winter."

"No, no, you can eat it yourself." Uncle Gao shook his head. After all, it was not his explosives and he couldn't take such expensive ones.

"It's okay." Li Baiquan also said with a smile.

But Uncle Gao insisted not to do it, and Lin Heng was too lazy to talk nonsense. He took the old turtle directly, chopped it into pieces, blanched it and stewed it in Uncle Gao's pot. He also added some Gastrodia elata and Codonopsis pilosula bought in the store.

"Hey, you are so polite." Uncle Gao was helpless, but also very happy. It was really rare for a young man to treat himself so sincerely.

Lin Heng waved his hand and said with a smile: "You are getting old, so you need to eat one to replenish your body. We often catch them, so there is no shortage of them."

He did this out of his heart's admiration for these heroes who defended the country, not because of his background or anything else.

Although this era is poor, it is at least peaceful and has its own sovereignty. This was achieved by these heroes. Naturally, we should not let them suffer when they encounter it.

"Then I accept the favor. Let's go hunting in a few days." Uncle Gao patted his shoulder and said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll come down to pick you up personally then." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.

"We have already weighed the fish here. How many pounds do you think it is?" Li Shiwei said with a smile when Lin Heng walked out of the hall.

"Four hundred pounds?" Lin Heng asked curiously.

"Not only that, the fish weighed 15 kilograms, the largest catfish weighed kilograms, and the three grass carps also exceeded kilograms." Li Shiwei said.

"That's okay." Lin Heng said in shock.

"Small fish such as white strips weigh 53 kilograms, crucian carp weighs more than 100 kilograms, and most of the rest are carp and grass carp." Lin Yue said happily.

"Not bad, not bad. Uncle, you have become rich. Hurry up and load the carriage, take it back and kill it to make dried fish." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He mainly came here to play. There were a lot of fish at home. Except for those two to eat, he let them take the rest home.

"It's us who have developed." Li Baiquan said with a smile.

"Okay." Everyone packed the fish, dragged them onto the carriage and pulled them back. Several big fish were thrown directly onto the carriage without covering them, and they didn't want to cover them.

It was now 5:30 in the afternoon, and it took an hour to bring the fish home.

I met a lot of people along the way, and after some discussion, they decided that what they were doing was fishing, and they bluffed a group of people into not giving up their money.

Lin Heng was smiling from ear to ear along the way. No wonder the fisherman always gets lost when he catches a big fish.

"It's a pity I didn't catch it, otherwise it would be so cool!"

Lin Heng looked at the mountain scenery and sighed.

"You're not bad, and that black fish is not small either." Lin Yue patted his shoulder and said.

Li Shiwei also smiled and said: "Besides, let's just say that fishing is fine. If you are good at pulling it up from the river, doesn't it count as fishing?"

Lin Heng nodded and smiled: "You're right, it's just fishing. Each of us caught one."

Several people returned to Hongfeng Village chatting and laughing, and walking with high spirits.

Mother Lin and Father Lin were digging sweet potatoes today, and their jaws dropped when they saw so many fish.

"Two cannons blew up so many?" Father Lin couldn't believe it.

"I said I caught it, Dad, do you believe it?" Lin Heng said with a smile.

Mother Lin was the first to say, "Unless the sun comes out in the west."

Lin Heng: "...Mom, if you keep doing this, you will lose your son."

Mother Lin sneered: "I don't believe it."

Lin Heng spread his hands: "Okay, it was indeed fried. The main reason is that the place was chosen well this time. The water flow in the backwater bay is slow, and it is a place where big fish are hidden."

Li Baiquan looked at everyone and said: "Stop talking, get a mat out quickly, let's kill the fish, salt it and hang it up."

"And we have divided the fish. We have 70% and you have 30%." He said with a smile again.

Father Lin shook his head and said, "What's the point? We just need a few to eat. You brought the explosives."

Li Shiwei shook his head: "Uncle, please don't say anything. This is all agreed upon by us. We take 70% is enough."

"Yes dad, let's start doing it, don't worry so much." Lin Heng waved his hand and said.

This allocation is still reasonable. Although he and his eldest brother did not provide explosives, they also helped a lot. It is impossible not to take any.

"Yes, hurry up and dry it before we take it back, otherwise these hundreds of kilograms of fish will kill people if they are carried uphill." Li Shiwei also said with a smile.

"That's okay." Mother Lin turned around and went into the house to get the mat.

Lin Heng took home all the black fish, carp, and crucian carp that he and the others had caught that were still alive and threw them into the fish pond. These kinds of fish have very long lives. As long as there is water, they will not die in an hour or two.

These live fish are kept in fish ponds and you can eat them fresh if you want, but they are much more delicious than dried fish.

"I'm really exhausted. Come and press my buttons." Lin Heng sat in the pavilion and looked at his wife and said.

Xiulan looked at him, blinked, and said with a smile: "It stinks so bad, I won't press it for you."

"If I hadn't smelled so fishy, ​​I would have made you dirty too." Lin Heng said deliberately.

But he really couldn't bear to part with his wife who smelled so good.

"Come in, I've prepared delicious food for you." Xiulan said with a smile. Xiaoxia was taken away by Caiyun, and she and Lin Heng were the only two people at home.

After entering the room, Xiulan heated up the fried pork with sour beans, brought it out together with the soft pancake, rolled it up and handed it to Lin Heng.

"How about you feed me? My hands smell like fish." Lin Heng chuckled.

"Then I'll try my best to satisfy you." Xiulan looked at him and sat next to him to feed him.

"It's really good. It tastes so much better." Lin Heng said with satisfaction. It's great that his wife still feeds him when he comes back from playing for a day.

Xiulan puffed up her cheeks, took a bite immediately, and hummed: "Eat the rest." Lin Heng laughed: "Thank you, wife, for the reward."

Started eating with big mouthfuls.

Xiulan: "..."

She really admired this person.

After filling their stomachs, the two went to the old house. Lin Heng pointed at the big catfish on the bamboo mat and said with a smile: "Xiulan, do you believe I caught this?"

"Don't lie to me." Xiulan blinked, looking unbelieving.

Lin Heng: "..."

"Xiulan, you have changed, you don't even believe me." Lin Heng cried.

Xiulan spread her hands and said innocently: "The main reason is that you can't catch the grouper fishing in the stream without air force."

Lin Heng was silenced.

"Hahaha, let me tell you, no one will believe it." Mother Lin laughed.

Lin Heng looked at his mother and said decisively: "Mom, I have broken up with you. Don't recognize me as your son."

Mother Lin didn't care at all: "Hey, I'm so scared. Then you can herd the horses and sheep by yourself?"

"The breakup has nothing to do with this." Lin Heng suddenly lost his temper.

Suddenly the whole yard laughed, and the room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

"Mom, just wait. Next time I will definitely catch a big fish weighing fifty or sixty pounds." Lin Heng looked at his mother and said.

"Yes, I believe it." Mother Lin patted his shoulder to express her belief.

Lin Heng didn't want to talk to his mother anymore. It was really boring, so she just knew how to bully him.

Everyone poured all the fish on top, and Lin Heng said: "We divide the work. Some people remove the scales, some people cut open the fish's belly, and some people are responsible for removing the internal organs and gills."

The work was divided, and the family joined together to start processing the fish. Lin Heng gave his dagger to his wife and asked her to cut the fish.

Cutting off the guts and gills of fish hurts his hands, and removing fish scales can easily get all over his body. It's also hard to wear gloves. He doesn't want his wife to do this.

After the division of labor was completed, Lin Heng and Li Shiwei were responsible for removing the fish scales, and the work of removing the internal organs was left to Lin's father, uncle, eldest brother, and others. Their hands had calluses and could not be hurt.

"Frying fish is great for a while, but killing fish is really tiring."

After working for a while, Lin Heng missed the electric scale remover. That thing was so fast.

"I have a sore back." Li Shiwei also shook his head. This job of scraping fish scales is really not fun.

When everyone was killing fish, many villagers came to watch and were shocked to see so many fish.

Someone curiously asked where the fish came from. Lin Heng and others naturally said that it was caught in a net, and it was impossible to say that it was fried.

Everyone didn't eat anything and worked from half past six to nine o'clock before all the fish were cleaned.

Everyone smelled fishy, ​​and there were two big basins filled with fish offal. Xiongba had a round belly after eating, and lay on the ground motionless.

Except for some fish and white strips that were prepared to be eaten in the past two days, all other fish were split in half to make it easier to dry.

The two large wooden basins are filled with marinated fish and can be hung up to dry in the morning.

In the evening, everyone just ate pickled cabbage noodles and rested.

Lin Heng took several baths to get rid of the fishy smell from his body.

Fortunately, there are various cleaning supplies he bought from the city at home now, otherwise it would really be impossible to wash them off.

Early the next morning, Lin Heng opened his eyes and saw that his wife was not asleep next to him. He immediately pulled her over and hugged her.

"Are you feeling unwell?" He touched his wife's head, but she didn't have a fever.

"No, I'm in a daze." Xiulan shook her head and smiled, tied her hair with a rubber band, and returned to Lin Heng's arms.

In the past six months, Lin Heng went up mountains and down rivers, and exercised regularly with bows and arrows. The muscles on his body became more and more obvious, and Xiulan became more comfortable leaning on them. She was deeply attracted by Lin Heng's strong male hormones.

And because Xiulan is not as tired as before and does not have to do heavy farm work, coupled with Lin Heng's use of moisturizing and skin care products, her skin becomes whiter and more beautiful than before, as if she were made of water.

"It's raining lightly outside, do you want to continue today's barbecue?" Xiulan asked against Lin Heng's chest.

Lin Heng inhaled the fragrance of his wife's hair: "If it's just this kind of drizzle, then go ahead. If you don't want to go, then go."

"I want to go. Everything is ready." Xiulan nodded. This kind of small life is what she has been looking forward to.

"But I want to rest for a while and don't move around." She changed her position and lay on Lin Heng's chest like a kitten.

Although Xiao Linheng inevitably goes online every morning, he can still control it and it's good to stay quietly.

After lying in bed for half an hour, Xiulan said: "Get up, I have to take a fish ball in the morning."

"it is good."

The two got up and washed up. Lin Heng took Xiulan to do Tai Chi to exercise. After that, he also did fifty push-ups and dozens of sets of abdominal muscle training exercises.

Archery is naturally indispensable, and the ability to eat cannot be lost.

Xiulan went to cook, and Lin Heng woke Xiaoxia up.

Xiaoxia had a runny nose recently, so Lin Heng put on an extra piece of clothing for her and took out a small stove to make some ginger juice and brown sugar water for her to drink.

After drinking tea, Xiulan also made breakfast. Since she was going to have a barbecue at noon, she just made a simple soup in the morning.

"Look, the sun is shining." After dinner, Lin Heng pointed to the sky and said.

Xiulan shook her head and said, "The weather is really weird, but the sun is good and we can dry the fish."

Looking at the sky, Xiulan went to take out half of the catfish and said, "Let's make this little catfish into fish balls."

This is the 42-pound catfish. After they were separated last night, Xiulan took back half of it.

"Okay, I'll help." Lin Heng nodded. The fish balls he made were delicious and suitable for Xiaoxia to eat.

"I'll hold it down while you scrape it." Xiulan handed the kitchen knife to Lin Heng.

When they make fish balls, they don't just chop the fish meat directly, but use a knife to scrape it bit by bit, which makes it more delicate.

From half past seven to nine o'clock, the two people took turns to scrape off all the fish meat. The snow-white fish meat was scraped into a big basin.

After the fish balls were hung, Xiulan handed them to Lin Heng: "You stir it in one direction, and I'll get some onion and ginger water."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.

After stirring the fish for a while, Xiulan got a large bowl of green onion and ginger water and added it to it, then added two egg whites, some salt and lard, and stirred them together.

Keep stirring until the fish sticks to your hands and stops coming up and down. At this time, you can make the fish balls. After the fish balls are put into the water, they will be white and smooth, and full of the fragrance of the fish.

Authentic fish balls do not require starch. After making them, Lin Heng felt that his hands were almost useless. It was really not easy.

Xiulan took the fish balls into the house and cooked them over low heat until they were completely set.

Lin Heng couldn't help but taste one directly. It was smooth and smooth, with the aroma of fish meat, and almost no fishy smell left.

"Come on, Xiaoxia, try one." Lin Heng fed his daughter half.

Xiaoxia was instantly captured by the delicious fish balls. She hugged Lin Heng's legs and said coquettishly: "Great time! I want more, dad."

"I'll make some for her, just in case she wants to eat barbecue later." Xiulan said, the fish balls are easy to digest, so she made them just for Xiaoxia.

I stewed a soup with fish bones and winter melon, and soon a bowl of fish soup with milky white color and full of fragrant winter melon fish balls was ready.

"It smells so good~" Xiaoxia followed Xiulan like a puppy. The winter melon and fish balls were added with a little coriander. Lin Heng couldn't resist the deliciousness.

"Sit on the bench and feed you." Xiulan looked at her and said.

Xiaoxia immediately sat down obediently, Xiulan divided the fish balls into two halves and fed her slowly.

Not only did Xiaoxia finish the bowl of fish balls and winter melon, but she also didn't leave any soup behind, which showed that the taste was indeed good enough.

Lin Heng also prepared and packed up everything he needed for the barbecue.

"Let's go directly." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.

"Okay." Xiulan pulled Xiaoxia away.

The eldest brother and sister-in-law are also ready, and their three sons can't wait to have a picnic.

For children in rural areas, it is incredible for their parents to take them on a picnic together.

"Brother, why did you bring a chicken? Fish and beef are enough." Lin Heng looked at his eldest brother and said helplessly.

"There are many people, and when we finish eating, the roast chicken is so fragrant that I want to eat it myself." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Sister-in-law Liu Juan is also very kind now, and said with a smile: "There are five of us, it would be outrageous if we didn't take anything."

"That's okay." Lin Heng was helpless.

In the old house, Li Shiwei had also gotten up, carrying a ten kilogram large grass carp and two kilograms of small white strips, and they went directly to Hongfeng Mountain.

Mother Lin also prepared a lot of dishes and planned to call Lin Heng and his third father over for dinner at noon.

Today is already November 1st. As autumn arrives in the north of the Qinling Mountains, it gets cold very quickly. It has been chilly in the mornings these days.

"I want to play on the swing!"

When they got to Hongfeng Mountain, Lin Wei and Lin Tao took the lead and ran to fight for the swings. Fortunately, there were two swings and they could both play.

Xiaoxia looked at Lin Yong, who was about the same age as herself, and wanted to speak but didn't dare.

"This place is so beautiful." Liu Juan said with emotion, it was her first time here.

Lin Heng laughed, looked at everyone and said, "Let's start first. Let's raise the charcoal fire, skewer the beef and pork, and marinate the fish."

"Okay!" Several people were very motivated and started to work.

After a while, Caiyun came with Lin Hai and Tian Yan.

Tian Yan attended the Lin family's party for the first time. Although they were all young people, she was a little shy.

Lin Hai's face was full of joy, and he took her hand and introduced to everyone: "This is my partner Tian Yan, everyone must know her."

"Hello everyone." Tian Yan greeted with a smile, let go of Lin Hai's hand, and pulled Caiyun.

"Of course we know each other. Brother Lin Hai, you must treat my teacher well." Caiyun said with a smile.

After Tian Yan finished greeting everyone, Caiyun took her to play here.

Tian Yan was a little shocked by the scenery of Hongfeng Mountain, and the cabin in the forest made her look at Lin Heng with admiration. She didn't know that this man actually had such a sentiment.

But she knew that all this was caused by Lin Lian's daughter-in-law Xiulan. She heard Caiyun talk a lot about Lin Heng and Xiulan, so she instinctively went to play with Xiulan with Caiyun. I want to see what kind of woman Xiulan is.

　If it's too late tomorrow, I'll slap myself live

　　

　

(End of this chapter)