Chapter 394 Chapter 395: This is a round
Zhou Huaian slowly untied the fishing net, and the two of them took out the fish stuck on the fishing net line. "A river catfish."
"Let me see!" Zhou Yiding took it. "Not bad, it weighs at least four or five kilograms. I'll go back and soak some beans and cook tofu fish in the evening."
"Yeah! Haha!" Zhou Huaian proudly picked up one, "Two thin turtles."
Zhou Yiding threw the river catfish into the bucket and happily moved the bucket forward a little. "This is great! It's still more comfortable to catch fish with a fishing net. You can't catch big fish with a ground trap."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "That's right, we can't finish eating it all at once."
Next, they took out a grass carp weighing about two or three pounds, two carps weighing more than one pound, and some smaller ones and threw them back into the river to release them.
"It's my turn!" Zhou Yiding straightened the fishing net, changed his position and slowly went down to the river, "1, 2, 3——" the fishing net was thrown out in a semicircle, "No, the feeling just now was not good, pull it back and throw it again!"
Zhou Huaian clapped his hands and laughed, "Haha, damn it, it seems that this knife is not sharpened, it won't work!"
"Get out of the way! Wait for me to prepare myself!" Zhou Yiding glared at him, turned around to put away the fishing net, stood firm, and swung the fishing net far away. The net was thrown into a beautiful circle. "Haha, this one is a perfect circle!"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "My hand feels better, one stroke will do."
"Get away from me, don't interfere with my net collection. What if the big fish escapes?" Zhou Yiding slowly reeled the fishing net in. "Heaven and earth, please bless the net to be full of big fish!"
Zhou Huaian looked at him smugly, "Dude, the small fish are fine. The ones in the bucket are enough for today."
"The food you're eating doesn't taste good!"
Zhou Yiding didn't even bother to look at him, and concentrated on collecting the net. Slowly, he lifted up the net, and several big fish were caught in it. "Haha, my net is not bad."
Zhou Huaian nodded repeatedly, "Yeah! It's enough for a full fish feast today."
After the two men went ashore, they took the fish off the fishing net. This net caught four carps, one grass carp and two river catfish. The small fish were released as well.
Zhou Yiding looked at the fish in the bucket happily and said, "Okay, I'll go wash the fishing net and go back to cook the fish."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian took the bucket and put it in his backpack, waited for him to come back, and they rode back together.
When I arrived at the brigade's drying yard, I was stopped by Ye Laoyao and Li Chuntao, "Zhou Laoyao, can you go to the cement factory this afternoon and help me bring back two tons of cement?"
Zhou Huaian braked to the stop and glanced at him. "What time do you leave this afternoon?"
Before Ye Laoyao could say anything, Li Chuntao rushed to say, "We'll go whenever you have time!"
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment and said, "Go at half past one."
Ye Laoyao nodded, "Yes!"
After the agreement, Zhou Huaian and his friend rode their bikes back. When they passed by Zhou Huairong's house, he shouted that Zhou Huairong had given him two carps, and then Zhou Huaijun's family gave him two, and Zhou Huaishan's family gave him two.
"Third brother, at 1:30 pm, you drive the tractor to the brigade to pick up Ye Laoyao and go to the cement factory to bring back two tons of cement."
"Yes." Zhou Huaishan ran back happily carrying the two fish.
When Zhou Huaian and his friend got home, Yang Chunyan and her mother had already cooked the pig intestines, stewed pheasant in the pot, and the porcelain basin on the stove was filled with yam.
"Mom, they haven't come yet?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Grandpa is weaving a bamboo fence in the backyard, and the old man and mom went to the vegetable garden to help us build a fence."
"I'll hang the fishing net upstairs and go watch my second grandfather weave a fence." Zhou Yiding walked towards the backyard carrying the fishing net.
Zhou Huaian pointed at the bucket ostentatiously, "There are grass carp, soft-shelled turtle... Yiding said that river catfish is used to cook tofu fish, what kind of fish should be cooked with pig intestines?"
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment, "I'll cook the grass carp with fish intestines, and I'll kill the soft-shelled turtle and steam it! I'll also need to soak some beans to cook tofu fish in the afternoon."
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian went to the backyard with a bucket, said hello to the old man, plugged the pond, poured the fish into the pond, filled half of the pond with water, and killed the fish with a knife.
Yang Chunyan scooped two bowls of soybeans and soaked them in warm water. "There is no stone mill here. We have to go to the old house to grind the soybeans. Let Huai'an go to Guanyin to buy a stone mill when he has time."
After hearing this, Yang's mother felt that the young man did not treat money as money. "The old house is not far away, why spend that money to buy a stone mill?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "The stone mill in the old house is too big for me to push by myself. I'll buy a smaller one so that it will be more convenient to grind rice noodles for the children in the future."
Old people are like this, they would rather suffer than spend more money, and they save as much as possible!
"Alas!" Yang's mother nodded at her a few times, "Luckily you still have ways to make money now. If you were like this and spent money lavishly, you would be scolded to death by your mother-in-law!"
Yang Chunyan: "Mom, I'm not extravagant. I bought this stone mill because we'll need it in the future!"
Zhou Huaian came in and heard it and said, "Mom, Chunyan is not extravagant. She didn't agree to buy a tape recorder the other day when I wanted to. The stone mill will be useful after I buy it. I will go to Guanyin to buy it now, so I don't have to go to the old house again in the afternoon."
Seeing her son-in-law speak up, Yang's mother couldn't object any more, "It's the same if we go buy it after dinner."
"Chunyan said she wanted to go to the mountains to pick wild cotton this afternoon. I'll go there on my tractor and will be back soon." Zhou Huaian said, looking at Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, give me some money."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan hurried back to the house and took the money to give him, "Don't buy the big stone mill like the one in the old house, buy a smaller one."
"I got it. Go and see where to install the stone mill after you buy it!" Zhou Huaian took the money and went to the backyard to call Zhou Yiding.
Yang Chunyan thought about it and decided to install the stone mill next to the sink outside the kitchen so that it would be convenient for cleaning and would not be exposed to rain.
As soon as the dishes were ready, Zhou Huaian drove the tractor and took the stonemason out to the yard.
The stonemason said, "Take the pillars down first, and I'll take them in and install them."
"Yes." Zhou Huaian stepped forward to open the carriage board, and he and Zhou Yiding lifted down a stone pillar less than one meter high.
When Zhou's father and the old man saw this, they went up to help. After working for half a morning, they finally finished weaving the fence for the vegetable garden and the fence for the chickens.
When Zhou's mother saw the stone mill being unloaded from the tractor, her face darkened. Thinking of her mother-in-law, she endured it and said nothing.
But I was complaining in my heart that I was spending money lavishly after earning a little money. I bought fishing nets in the morning, stone mills at noon, and even drove a tractor to buy them. The machines burned oil and cost money...
Luo Haili glanced at her and advised, "Aunt, buy a stone mill. It will be useful for grinding corn flour, soybeans, wheat flour, etc. in the future. Don't talk about your youngest cousin."
"You're such a spendthrift. You spent over 20 yuan on a fishing net to catch fish this morning." Zhou's mother looked at her angrily and said, "Just think about it. You can buy over 200 kilograms of millet with over 20 yuan."
Luo Haili smiled and said, "My cousin's wife is not feeling well, and they are short of manpower, so we still have to buy one."
After hearing this, Zhou's mother thought about it and said, "Okay, I know what you mean. I won't say anything more to avoid annoying others."
Luo Haili smiled and held her arm, "Don't worry, auntie. I think my cousin and Chunyan are both sensible."
Mother Zhou smiled and nodded, "Yes! My Chunyan is the most stable."
(End of this chapter)
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