Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 215 Dividing the Fish
After a lively day, Cheng He sent Jiang Qian away.

To be honest, for the Chinese New Year, Mr. Jiang didn't stay at home for a peaceful New Year, but he wanted to come to Peach Blossom Village. He was really grateful.

This is an old man who has truly dedicated himself to art and is worthy of respect.

After the TV program team went back together, they naturally wanted to make today's interview work into news.However, the ratings of this kind of news are generally not high, and it does not play much of a publicity role.

But it’s okay, talk is better than nothing.Something is better than nothing.

Moreover, Cheng He himself can edit the video and put it in the learning center as a promotional video.

At least, the program group of the provincial TV station is not small, and it can still scare people.

Having accomplished such a major event years ago, Cheng He still felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Perhaps, these things have not seen the benefits for the time being, but we must look at the long-term.

It is always beneficial for a village to build up such a cultural and artistic atmosphere.

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The New Year is getting closer and closer, and the atmosphere of the New Year is getting heavier.

The migrant workers in the village are now at the peak of their return, and the village is getting busier day by day, and everyone is starting to prepare their new year's goods.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, celebrate the new year; on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, clean up and remove the dust. On this day, the village divides the fish.

Fish distribution in the twelfth lunar month is a tradition in this area, which has been going on for decades.

Taohua Village has a large pond, which belongs to the property of the village.The property in the village is not idle either. Usually each family takes turns cutting some fish and weeds and throwing them into the pond to raise the fish inside.

When it comes to the New Year, the village will organize people to drain the pond and fish up the fish, and the whole village will share the New Year.

The fish in the pond are all wild, and soft-shelled turtles could be caught in the early years, but now there are no more, only some ordinary fish.

But even ordinary fish have never eaten fish feed, and they are all naturally grown fish.

Early in the morning, all the strong laborers in the village went to wait by the pond, arranged according to old habits.

The water pump has been pumping all night, and now the pond is almost dry, and the pond has become shallow water, where densely packed fish are jumping.

After a while, you can almost go down and fish.

In the cold weather, the people around the fish pond were all smiling and full of energy.

If you get the fish, you can save a lot of money during the New Year. How can you not like it?
The children have nothing to do, and they are happy to walk around among the adults.

When the pond was almost pumped, the young and strong laborers went out of the pond wearing waterproof pants, picked up the lively fish into the basket, and weighed them.

The water in the pond was almost pumped out, but the silt was almost thigh deep, and it was very slow to get up.But there were so many people, and they were busy with their own affairs, everyone was working very hard and full of enthusiasm.

Most of the women in the village also came. They didn't need to go into the water, but they also came to watch the fun and see what kind of fish they could get in the pond.

Cheng Xinxin had never seen such a lively scene, with so many people going to fish in the pond, laughing along with her.

Cheng He also put on a pair of water pants, then led Cheng Xinxin, walked to Cheng Shi's mother, and said, "Honey, just stay with grandma for a while, okay?"

Cheng Shi's mother was waiting by the pond, quickly took Cheng Xinxin's hand, and said with a smile: "Come on, Xinxin, play with grandma for a while."

Cheng Xinxin looked at her father's strange pants and asked, "Dad, are you going down too?"

"That's right, Dad will also go down to catch fish. Let's eat fish at night, okay?"

"it is good."

"Then you wait here and listen to grandma obediently. Dad will come up soon." Cheng He gently rubbed his daughter's head.

Cheng He also wore water pants and went down the pond.In winter, the water almost freezes, but people are young, as long as they move more, they will sweat soon.

The water was drained, and the remaining water was very shallow, densely packed with fish jumping in it, and he only needed to pick it up in the basket.

When you pick up a lot, you carry it on your back and take it to weigh it.

Weighing is to see how many catties have been obtained in total this year, and then apportioned to each household, and roughly how many catties.

Therefore, the shore is also lively.Those who haven't entered the water stay here, some help to carry the fish, some help to weigh the fish, and all of them are talking and laughing.

After the fish is weighed, it is carried over and dumped on a prepared empty field, which is wide enough to hold as many fish as possible.

Many children stood around the outer circle of the venue, pointing at the fish inside.

"Wow, look at that red barracuda, it's so big! It's too big!"

"What kind of fish is that over there? It's round, like a moon, so interesting!"

"I haven't seen it. I saw that kind of fish last year. You should be surprised. Cut it!"

"Bragging! I came here last year too, why haven't I seen it?"

"You're stupid, what else can I say?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The laughter of a group of children.

People have already been arranged in the field. When there are more fish, they are responsible for sorting the fish and then dividing them into piles.

After all, there is not only one kind of fish, it must be separated.

For example, a certain type of fish is big and good, but the quantity is small, and there is no way to average one fish per household; while some fish are small, if it comes to quantity points, it must be a loss.

Therefore, all the fish here are divided into piles, with big fish paired with small fish, good fish paired with bad fish, and if the fish are average, the number will prevail.

According to these principles, the fish are divided into piles, and the total number of piles is calculated according to the account.

This kind of pile division can basically achieve fairness, because it is a lottery, no one knows which pile is divided, and it is useless to fake it.

Besides, the fish is only distributed once a year, and it is the New Year's Eve, and some small tricks are done, which is too irritating, and no one does that.

Eat more and you won't get rich.

Therefore, dividing the fish has also become a small-scale flow operation. Those who catch fish catch fish, weigh those who weigh them, and divide them into piles without delaying time.

After several hours of hard work, almost all the fish in the pond can be brought up, and the rest of the small ones are kept to continue to grow.

After the fish came up, the pile was almost divided, and they began to call the number and draw lots for the fish.

When they heard their own number being read, they took their baskets and went to get back their own pile of fish.

This year's harvest is mediocre, neither good nor bad. On average, each family can get five or six crops, and everyone is very happy.

Those who had already been allocated fish all made an appointment to go home, and looked at each other's baskets enviously, but they were not dissatisfied, anyway, they were all drawn by themselves.

It's just that there are few fish this year, and everyone says that we need to get more fish and grass in the coming year, so that the fish can grow bigger.

Now, each family gets an average of five or six strips, the big ones can weigh seventeen or eight catties, and the small ones can weigh one or two catties.

No matter how small the fish are, they are divided into small piles, and each family can share two or three catties. When they go home, they can be wrapped in flour and fried, or dried in the sun to eat small fish in the next year.

Everyone was smiling and went home with their baskets on their backs.

Cheng He only came back this year, and he didn't contribute much to the fish pond, but now he's getting fish according to his account, which is good.

He can marinate some for cured fish.

It is definitely not enough to rely on these fish for the New Year.Some people have a large family and like to eat fish very much. They can dry dozens of salted fish alone, so they must buy it by themselves.

It is impossible for the fish that is allocated to be eaten for a whole year, anyway, as long as there is any.

It was the first time Cheng Xinxin saw Fenyu in such a big scene, and she was grinning.

Cheng He lifted the basket very low, so the little girl kept lying on the mouth of the basket and looked at it. It was very strange to see a few lively fish inside.

Well, I am still very happy.

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(End of this chapter)