At first, Yang and Su Guangfu did not understand what Su Qingluan meant, but they soon understood.
After scouting out an ideal spot for ice fishing, Su Qingluan set off after breakfast the next day with her younger brothers and sisters who hadn't had enough fun.
Because Su Guangfu and Yang already knew the place where Su Qingluan and her three children played the day before, and indeed everyone played there for a long time without any problems, so when Su Qingluan suggested taking her younger siblings there, Yang and Su Guangfu only told them to be careful, but did not follow them.
Su Qingluan asked Su Guangfu for tools such as a chisel needed to dig a hole in the ice, and asked her brother to carry it on his back, while she walked beside him while holding her sister's hand.
"It's so heavy!" Su Xiaoer was very dissatisfied. "Why do you want me to carry the tools?"
Su Qingluan looked at her brother's angry face and said, "If you want to gain something, isn't it normal to put in the work in advance?" Su Qingluan said with a smile.
"Why don't you do anything, little girl?" Su Xuanhe pointed at Su Xueyan, who was standing beside him with an innocent look, unconvinced.
Su Qingluan was speechless: "How tall is she? If you ask her to carry the bag of tools on your back, can she do it?"
Obviously, the little girl was very unhappy about being looked down upon by her elder sister. She quickly ran to Su Qingluan and volunteered: "Sister, I can carry things too! I'm very strong!"
"Hmph, since you are so strong, why don't you give it a try?" Su Xuanhe had an expression of enjoying the show.
Seeing her sister eager to try, Su Qingluan felt a headache: Who do these two people with such unyielding personalities resemble?
Although she thought so, Su Qingluan also understood that if she didn't let her sister try it herself, she would not give up.
Besides, maybe my sister’s strength is not as weak as I thought?
So Su Qingluan inexplicably felt a little hope in her heart.
The little girl made a gesture of rolling up her sleeves and took a deep breath. She looked quite impressive, which made Su Xuanhe look a little expectant.
Then, little Su Xueyan picked up the tool bag that Su Xuanhe had just been carrying! And then... there was nothing else.
But just as she picked it up, the little girl was bent over by the weight of more than ten kilograms. She squatted on the spot and complained: "This cloth bag is so small, why is it so heavy! I can't lift it!"
"Tsk!" This was Su Xuanhe's face full of disappointment.
Su Qingluan also looked puzzled: What on earth was she expecting...
The three of them came to the ice surface they had arrived at yesterday, and Su Qingluan began to look for a suitable place to start digging an ice hole.
Because the temperature dropped sharply in just half a month, the ice here is not very thick, only about the thickness of three adult fingers placed side by side.
However, Su Qingluan observed carefully again and found that the thickness of the ice layer was relatively uniform. She dug three small ice holes at three nearby locations and measured the thickness of the ice layer with dead branches she had broken on the road before. The results were almost the same, which once again proved that there was a clear ditch underneath and the flow of the river water under the ice layer was relatively slow.
So Su Qingluan slowly broke up the ice between the three ice caves, revealing an ice cave that was about the size of a bowl.
Su Xuanhe and Su Xueyan came over curiously and lay down beside the ice cave: "Sister, are there really fish in here?"
Su Qingluan smiled and pulled the two of them back: "Be careful, the ice is wet and very slippery. If you accidentally step on it and slide down, you will be frozen into ice cubes!"
This is not an exaggeration at all. In such a cold day, clothes hung outside can turn into "ice bricks" in an instant, and they can be used as large-scale damage-dealing weapons. If someone falls into the ice hole, the consequences can be imagined.
Su Xuanhe curled his lips in disdain: "It's such a small ice cave, I can't even fit a leg in it... Sister, why did you hit me?"
"You naughty boy, you're going to have to confront me, aren't you?" Su Qingluan glared at him unhappily. "What did I say before? If you keep disobeying me, I'll only bring my sister with me tomorrow and won't let you come over at all!"
After hearing this, Su Xuanhe quickly put on a flattering smile: "Sister, good sister, I won't make you angry, please don't come without me!"
Su Qingluan glared at Su Xuanhe again, and took out a fishing net with a lead sinker from the cloth bag.
The fishing net wasn't big, not the kind of drag net professional fishermen used, nicknamed the "destroying net." This type of net was smaller and easier to operate, not requiring a large opening. Su Qingluan simply wanted to catch a few fish to improve her diet, not to make a living from it, and she didn't have the strength to pull a net.
As the net slowly descended into the water, only the end remained. Su Qingluan secured the net to several large rocks on the ice to prevent it from drifting away. She clapped her hands and looked at her younger siblings: "Let's start yesterday's game!"
So the three of them played like this while watching the fishing net. They played like this for more than half an hour. Not to mention the two children, even Su Qingluan herself was a little tired.
Seeing that the sun was already setting in the west from noon, Su Qingluan said, "Let's see if we can gain anything today!"
Although she spoke with great confidence, Su Qingluan herself was not a professional fisherman, so she didn't have much confidence. Fortunately, the results were not too bad. Leaving aside the tiny shrimps and fish that were too small to be seen, she finally managed to catch two palm-sized carp and a crucian carp the length of her forearm.
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