Chapter 780 796: The water is rising
Zhou Jiakang rubbed his ears, "Grandma, I won't go. Uncle Erchun asked me to call Dad to go fishing. They said someone caught a fish this long by the river." As he spoke, he opened his arms and gestured.
"Who caught such a big fish?" Zhou Huaian went out and asked.
Zhou Jiakang carefully walked around Zhou's mother and looked at him excitedly, "I don't know, the river is flooded, they are all fishing in the river, there are a lot of big fish."
"You wait at home, I'll be there soon." Zhou Huaian turned and walked towards the corner house in the west wing. After a while, he came out with a fishing net and a scoop net.
Zhou Jiakang looked at him with envy, "Dad, when did you buy a fishing net again?"
"I earned my own money, I can buy it whenever I want." Zhou Huaian knocked him proudly, "I'm warning you, kid, don't sneak to the river, wait for me to come back with fish at home."
Zhou Jiakang looked at him dissatisfiedly, "My brother and the others are gone."
"I'll bring them back when I get there." Zhou Huaian looked at him seriously and said, "If you want to be beaten, go quietly!"
"Oh!" Zhou Jiakang sat down on the rattan chair dejectedly. Seeing him running away on his bicycle, he felt that he should not have called him and should have run with Brother Liang and the others.
Zhou Huaian put on a raincoat and rode his bicycle to Zhou Yiding's house, where he happened to meet him coming out carrying a bucket of water.
"Let's go fishing." The two said at the same time.
"Hehe!" Wan Xuejiao laughed as she looked at the two of them. "You two must have been born into the wrong wombs. You must have been twin brothers in your previous life. Otherwise, how could you want to do everything together?"
"I didn't think of it at first. It was Ieyasu who came home to call me that made me think of looking for him." Zhou Huaian shook his head at Zhou Yiding, "Why are you carrying a bucket? Go get a urea bag and spread it!"
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding put down the bucket and went into the house to get two urea bags. "Hurry up. Erchun said Da Naike caught a silver carp weighing more than 20 kilograms, and the yellow croaker was more than a foot long."
Zhou Huaian pedaled his bicycle, and Zhou Yiding grabbed the back seat and jumped on. "There must be a lot of people going to the winter paddy fields tonight to catch eels. Are you going?"
"My husband and my eldest brother have gone to water the rice paddies. We may have to plant rice tomorrow. Chunyan and my eldest sister-in-law will go to pick mushrooms tomorrow. It's better to go to bed early tonight."
Zhou Huaian thought about it and turned his head, "Your son doesn't plant rice seedlings? Why don't you go and water the rice fields?"
"Hehe!" Zhou Yiding laughed proudly, "Second Dad and Big Brother told me when they passed by my house that they would help me water the rice fields."
"Damn it!" Zhou Huaian cursed with a smile, "And there's more. When you come back later, talk to Xuejiao about when you can go to Sancha Road to collect mushrooms."
"We're going to collect mushrooms?" Zhou Yiding didn't understand. "What do you mean?"
"It's like this... Uncle Datian and Uncle Xu are out there buying them and bringing them back. The price we give them is the same as the price we get in the village."
Zhou Huai paused for a moment, "There are many varieties this year, morels, chanterelles... all of these need to be collected. Your sister-in-law collected them last year. When we go back and decide on the price, we will give you the list tomorrow, and you can collect them as you see fit."
Zhou Yiding patted him gratefully after hearing this and said, "Thanks a lot, buddy!"
"Fuck you, you're still talking about this."
The two discussed the transportation again, and when the bicycle reached the ramp at the entrance of the village, Zhou Huaian stepped on the brake and went to the river, only to see that the muddy flood had already reached the shore.
The river water from upstream had already submerged the ravine where they had previously cast their traps, and the groves and wasteland on both sides of the river were also flooded.
Xu Erchun and Lin Wu were fishing in the wasteland with shrimp baskets, and the Zhou Jiaming brothers were also joining in.
Others hold fishing nets and stand by the river to cast the nets. Once the nets are cast, they pull the nets to the shore and open them, and white fish jump everywhere.
"Fuck! It's at least 40 to 50 kilograms." Zhou Yiding turned his head and said, "What are you still standing for? Hurry up and poop!"
"You can go to the bridgehead and cast the net." Zhou Huaian handed him the fishing net. "I'll put the bike away and go over there to catch Jiaming and Jialiang."
"Hurry up!" Zhou Yiding ran towards the river with a fishing net.
Zhou Huaian picked up the bicycle and put it in the field beside the road. After locking it, he followed with a bucket and a scoop net, put the bucket down, and said, "You fetch water yourself. I'll go over there and take a look."
"Go to hell, don't bother me here."
Zhou Huaian ran over and saw that the pants of Zhou Jiaming and his brother were completely wet. They were holding a willow branch with a string of fish on it.
He walked up to Zhou Jiaming and grabbed his ear, "You are so brave! You dare to bring your brother to the river in such a heavy flood."
"Dad, Dad, my ear fell off!" Zhou Jiaming hurriedly held his hand, "We are here, we didn't go to the river."
Zhou Jialiang looked at him with a guilty look on his face, "Dad, we didn't go to the river."
"You think the riverside is safe!" Zhou Huaian pointed to the high slope in front, "See? It's the easiest place to slide down like that. If it collapses, where will you run to?"
Zhou Jiaming and his brother didn't quite believe what he said, so they turned their heads to look over there, and just then they saw two stones rolling down from above. The brothers blinked and didn't dare to say a word.
Zhou Huaian was also stunned for a moment. He just wanted to scare the two guys, but he didn't expect that God would help him and said to the other boys: "See? Don't stand on the side. Be careful of the landslide above. It will bury you alive."
The two men who were idling around laughed and said, "Zhou Laoyao, your kid has been thinking up all day long to scare the little kid's family!"
"It's better to be careful than to hold on to it. Life is just right. If you die, you can't row it anymore!" Zhou Huaian said with a smile.
"Youngest," Xu Erchun ran over with a shrimp basket in his hand, "Why are you here to catch fish with empty hands?"
"I'll catch these two guys." Zhou Huaian looked at his shrimp basket with a smile, "Why are we still using homemade cannons in this day and age? Come with me, Ding Ding Cat is casting a net at the bridgehead!"
"Old Lin, go watch Tinker Cat cast his net." Xu Erchun shouted to Lin Wu who was slacking off over there.
"Here we come!" Lin Wu ran over holding a steel loach, put it in his bucket, and the group walked towards the bridgehead.
Seeing this, the few children who had been playing with Zhou Jiaming and his brothers also followed.
Xu Erchun teased Zhou Huaian, "I told you that you have a fishing net, but Jiaming said no."
Zhou Jialiang glanced at Zhou Huaian with a guilty look, "Last time, the saliva washed it away, and we don't know when my father bought it."
"I bought this a few days ago." Zhou Huaian smiled and looked at the buckets they were carrying. "Did you two catch any big fish?"
Lin Wu laughed and said, "We didn't dare to go to the river, so we caught a few small ones near the wasteland, and two grass carps that weighed a few kilograms each."
Zhou Huaian took a look and said with a smile: "Not bad."
A few people went over and saw that there were already more than a dozen fish in the bucket. Zhou Jiaming also took the fish that he had skewered on the willow branches and put them in the bucket.
Zhou Yiding stood at the bridge head, slowly pulling the net up, and felt that it was very heavy. "Fuck, I can hardly lift it up."
Xu Erchun laughed and said, "I told your child to go to bed early at night, but he just wouldn't listen. Your body is the capital of revolution, it's not good to drain it!"
Zhou Yiding: "Your eyes are all dark. I think you are the one who has been drained!"
Zhou Huaian: "Brothers, please speak politely in front of so many little kids!"
Lin Wu laughed and said, "That's right, you're already an old man, but you still don't have any manners at all."
"We are civilized people, that guy is from the old mountains!"
Zhou Yiding kicked Xu Erchun, then walked over with a fishing net in his hand and smiled. He pulled the net open and the fish fell to the ground.
For a moment, the ground was full of silver carp, crucian carp, carp, yellow croaker, and several large black fish over a foot long, jumping around on the ground, trying to jump back into the river.
Everyone started to catch them, and several children also helped in a hurry.
"Fuck~ It's still more fun to cast a net. I'll go buy one tomorrow." Xu Erchun hurried forward, grabbed a big black fish and put it in the bucket.
Zhou Yiding: "The rainy season has just arrived. It's still in time to buy it tomorrow."
Lin Wu: "The sky is gray and it looks like it's going to rain."
Zhou Huaian looked at the water that had covered the stone bridge and said, "If it continues to rain, we won't even be able to see the edge of the bridge. My sister has to come back in the afternoon!"
Zhou Jiaming hurriedly said, "Dad, let's wait for the eldest lady here."
"You don't have to wait." Zhou Huaian said to the others, "With such heavy water, if you get washed away by the river, you won't be able to retrieve it. Be good, and I'll give each of you two big ones later."
The kids nodded happily, "Thank you, youngest uncle."
Zhou Huaian and others threw the small fish back into the river, and Zhou Yiding went to the river with the fishing net.
"Jia Ming, did your father buy another fishing net?"
"Yeah! Last time I dropped it into the water and it was washed away, and my dad didn't even ask me to pay for it."
"Your dad is so nice."
"Of course my father is nice, he even took pictures of us. The baby books in my house were bought for us by my aunt."
"Your family is still the best. My mom and my aunt don't talk to each other."
"Here it comes! Here it comes!" Zhou Yiding came over with a fishing net, which contained quite a few fish.
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Over there, Yang Chunyan came out of Zhao Huifang's house and heard Zhou Jiakang say that the Xinhe River was flooded. Zhou Huaian took the fishing net to go fishing. Suddenly, something flashed through his mind, "Is the water high?"
Zhou Jiakang nodded repeatedly, "It's very big. I heard that the stone bridge is gone, and the wasteland and groves on both sides of the river are gone."
Yang Chunyan didn't remember it very clearly, she only remembered that there was a flood one year and the slope above the wasteland collapsed, burying three boys and two men who were fishing in the wasteland.
When the villagers dug the people out with hoes and crowbars, two of them were missing and one had his leg broken by a rock.
Thinking of this, she felt a little worried and put little Jiuer down. "Be good, Jiuer, stay at home with your brother. Mom will go help grandma wash the herbal roots."
"Aunt, I'll look after my brother." Zhou Jiakang hurriedly tightened the spring of the little frog, "Xiao Jiuer, come and see, the little frog is jumping around!"
Yang Chunyan walked out of the main hall and went to the backyard. She said to Zhou's mother, "Mom, I'm going to the river to take a look."
Zhou's mother nodded and said, "Go and tell the youngest child to get some small fish and throw them into the fish pond."
"Okay." Yang Chunyan took the hat, put it on, and walked out from the backyard.
(End of this chapter)
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