Chapter 276 Going Shrimp Catching with My Wife
Lin Heng drove the car onto the road, Xiulan put the things on the truck bed, and then sat behind Lin Heng and hugged him.
Since she was going to the river to catch shrimps, she naturally changed into long pants and couldn't wear a skirt anymore.
Her hair was tied into a braid. She leaned against Lin Heng, feeling the wind and looking at the scenery. The strands of hair on her forehead swayed slightly in the wind.
After a while, the two drove to the place where Lin Heng set the trap yesterday. They stopped the car and went to the river with fishing rods and other tools.
"This is a good place, suitable for catching shrimps." Xiulan looked around and nodded.
"We don't know the exact situation yet, let's put away the traps and see." Lin Heng replied with a smile. Maybe there are people catching shrimps here frequently, so they may have nothing to do.
He took Xiulan to the first place where the net was set, found the rope and pulled the trap back.
"Wow, that's a lot."
Xiulan said excitedly that as soon as the trap was taken out of the water, she could hear the sounds of shrimps and small fish jumping around.
After pulling them out and taking a closer look, Lin Hengxi was a little worried: "Indeed, there are quite a few, but they are too small. They are not suitable for hatching shrimps, but they taste good."
"Let's pour it out and have a look first." Xiulan squatted down and untied the rope at the head of the cage, then took the white plastic bucket over.
Lin Heng shook it a few times, and a bunch of shrimps and small fish poured into it. These shrimps out of water began to jump wildly. There were only a dozen or so big shrimps of four or five centimeters, and the others were mostly half-grown shrimps of two or three centimeters.
Xiulan lifted it up and said with a smile, "Not bad, not bad. This cage weighs nearly two kilograms."
Lin Heng picked up a large prawn and took a look. The quality was good, with well-developed gonads and full of vitality, but the quantity was a little small.
It is only May now, and it will take about ten days for the shrimp to lay eggs. If you want to breed them artificially, it is best to catch the shrimp now.
"Let's take a look at the other cage." Xiulan filled the bucket with some water and said with a smile.
"Well, I'll go check it out."
Lin Heng nodded, and took his wife to pull up another trap, and the familiar clicking sound rang out again.
"This cage is pretty good." Lin Heng said with a smile. Since this cage is close to the water plants, there are more prawns than the previous cage, and the total weight is also larger, about three pounds.
"This cage is very beautiful." Xiulan nodded, and then asked: "Then shall we continue to catch shrimps here?"
"Go down a little and go back if the situation doesn't work." Lin Heng shook his head. This place was still not very good. There were too few prawns.
"Okay, then let's put the shrimps in the net bag first." Xiulan nodded and took out the fish guard she made for Lin Heng. It was made of a mosquito net, so the shrimps couldn't escape.
Shrimps have a huge demand for oxygen and if they are placed in a bucket they will die in ten minutes.
While pouring the shrimps, Lin Heng said, "It's mainly because the pond was not dug well last year. I should have caught a batch to feed last year. Now I don't have to worry about the shrimp seedlings."
Xiulan said softly, "It's just that the shrimps here are small. The shrimps in the Heihe River downstream of the Huangtan River must be big. If not, we can just go over there and catch them when the time comes."
"I'm not worried about this, I just feel that I haven't planned it well." Lin Heng said with a laugh.
Going down, the two found a fairly good section of the river, put peanut cakes in the trap and threw it into the river. They also took out five nets, installed them, put peanut cake bait wrapped in gauze on them, and placed them about one meter away from the water.
Then all they had to do was wait quietly. The two of them took out the fishing line, tied it to the purple bamboo fishing rod, and sat by the river to fish.
The water here is not deep, only about 1.2 meters. I just threw some peanut cakes to make a nest, hung a worm and started fishing.
As soon as Lin Heng threw the bait down, there was a bite, but he couldn't pull it up. He guessed that they were just some stream grouper, whitebait and other small fish making a fuss, which was very annoying.
“I caught a fish!”
Xiulan suddenly cheered and threw a small crucian carp directly onto the shore.
"Great." Lin Heng smiled and gave a thumbs up.
"It's a bit small, not as big as the ones I caught before." Xiulan took a look and threw it into the bucket. This crucian carp weighed at most two taels.
"Be content. It's good enough to have such a big house near the village." Lin Heng said with a smile.
As he was talking, he suddenly pulled hard and a white fish was pulled up, which was caught by the fishhook. After taking it down, Lin Heng smashed it to death and threw it aside.
After fishing for about ten minutes, he finally caught a small crucian carp weighing two taels.
"It's not easy." Lin Heng took it and threw it into the bucket. Xiulan had already caught three fish and was luckier than him.
"Try your best." Xiulan said with a smile.
"I don't want to fish anymore. I'll just go fishing for catfish and yellowtail catfish when it gets dark." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head. He threw the fishing rod there and sat next to his wife.
"Then watch me perform."
Xiulan blinked and her eyes were focused on the Seven Star Float.
Lin Heng watched for a while before he understood his wife's fishing method. She would not lift the rod until the fishing line was pulled away. However, the earthworms would be easily eaten. Now that he sat next to her, he became the one who specialized in catching earthworms.
Before they knew it, the sky gradually darkened and a yellow figure appeared, Xiulan holding a pole.
"The yellow thorn is here." Lin Heng said in surprise and reached out to take the ditch.
Seeing his wife caught the yellow thorn fish, Lin Heng also went to get the rod and started fishing again.
After a while, Xiulan caught another yellowtail fish weighing more than 200 grams. She looked at the fish and smiled, "We have fish to eat when we plant rice tomorrow."
“Oh my god!!”
Lin Heng was getting the fish for her when he suddenly found that his fishing rod was about to be dragged away, so he quickly threw the fish down and pulled it out.
"Big fish, big fish!!"
Lin Heng was excited by this pull, and clearly felt a very strong pulling sensation, and the purple bamboo fishing rod was bent instantly.
"What should I do if I don't have the scoop net?" Xiulan excitedly looked around for something to hold the fish.
While controlling the fish, Lin Heng said, "It's okay, it's okay. My line is thick enough to pull it up."
"That's good." Xiulan nodded, put her fishing rod aside and watched Lin Heng's actions.
After pulling for a while, the fish was finally pulled to the water's edge. Although it was already dark, the big fish was still clearly visible.
"It's indeed a catfish, it's so big!" Xiulan said in shock that there was such a big catfish in this place.
Lin Heng did not give it a chance to struggle, and directly pulled it to the shore. He grabbed the fish in his hand and couldn't help but burst into laughter: "This catfish must be three pounds. It's unexpected that there is such a heavy rain in this place."
"This time you've surpassed me in one line." Xiulan said with a smile.
"Xiaoxia is lucky." Lin Heng laughed. Xiaoxia could eat this boneless fish without any worries. The taste of the four-whiskered river catfish was no worse than that of the mullet.
"Go on, go on. I want a big one too." Xiulan pierced the earthworm herself and threw it into the river impatiently.
Lin Heng threw the fish into the bucket and quickly went fishing again. There were no luminous floats in this era, and the floats would be completely invisible in half an hour at most.
“I caught fish again!!”
After a while, Xiulan caught another fish, but it was just a small catfish weighing half a pound.
There was no movement from Lin Heng's side. Soon it became completely dark and they could not see the float clearly, so they had to put away their poles.
But both of them had smiles on their faces, especially Lin Heng. He never expected to catch such a big catfish here. He was so lucky.
After putting away the fishing rod, Lin Heng said, "Let's go collect the net and see what's going on."
Xiulan nodded, and walked up with Lin Heng to the place where the net was lowered. It was very simple to collect the net, just slowly lift up the bamboo head.
As the net emerges from the water, you can see the shrimps resting on it to eat. Because the net has edges, most of these shrimps cannot escape.
"Not bad. There are more than a dozen shrimps in this net, and they are all big ones." Xiulan nodded.
"Indeed, this method seems to be better than ground traps." Lin Heng said with a smile. It seemed that there were a lot more prawns in this place.
After catching the shrimps and putting them into the fish basket, the two men moved the net to another place and lowered it again, and then went to lift the other four nets.
Except for one of the nets which had unsatisfactory results, the other three nets were pretty good. We caught about fifteen large shrimps and some small shrimps.
After collecting the shrimps and putting the net back, the two men climbed up onto a large white rock to rest and wait for the shrimps to take the bait again.
Even though the sky was cloudy and the stars were not visible, the two still enjoyed this time. Xiulan leaned on Lin Heng, and the two of them felt the cool river breeze with a slight fishy smell, and listened to the increasingly dense chirping of insects and frogs around them.
“It’s time to collect.”
Half a quarter of an hour later, the two men lifted the net again. The number of prawns was higher than the first time. There were nearly thirty large prawns in one net. This was normal. After all, shrimps attract light and are most active at night.
Then the two of them collected the traps once every half an hour, and they collected four nets in succession. In the blink of an eye, it was already nine o'clock. The two of them collected the traps and prepared to go home.
There were only a few small shrimps in the ground trap, and there was almost no harvest. Compared with the open platform like the lifting net, the entrance to the ground trap is difficult to find, and it takes longer for the shrimps to enter.
“Crash!!”
Along with Daoshui peanuts, the familiar snapping sound rang out again. Lin Heng picked up the fish basket, weighed it, and said with a smile: "Today's harvest is not bad. There are about 7 or 8 kilograms of shrimp."
The main reason for this is that the traps they set yesterday caught a lot, about four to five kilograms, and they only caught about two kilograms with the nets in the evening.
"It's really good." Xiulan said with a smile, and took another white paint bucket, filled it with half water, poured the shrimps in, screwed the lid on and handed it to Lin Heng.
After getting on the road, the two of them got into the car and drove back quickly.
After returning, I didn’t go home, but went directly to the Hongfengshan Breeding Base and stopped the car at the door of the indoor hatchery.
"You guys are back, how many shrimps did you get?"
Lin's father and mother came out of the house and asked.
"There are seven or eight kilograms of fish and six or seven kilograms of shrimps." Xiulan said with a smile.
"Dad, bring two basins over here." Lin Heng said again.
"Okay." Father Lin agreed and came to the incubation room with two iron basins.
There is already 30 centimeters of water in the hatching pond, but Lin Heng cannot just throw the shrimps in; he has to pick them out.
"So many!" Father Lin exclaimed in surprise when he saw the shrimps in the bucket.
"It's a pity that most of them are small." Lin Heng said as he filled two iron basins with water and then picked out the big prawns and separated the male and female ones.
The male and female shrimps are very easy to identify. The males have long claws, while the females have very short claws, about the same length as their other legs.
After spending some time, Lin Heng picked out all the larger males and females and then screened them again, leaving only the best ones.
Then we found a net and surrounded a two-square-meter hatchery pool and threw them in in pairs.
"One hundred and eighty-two pairs, three hundred and sixty-four pieces, more than three pounds of prawns, not bad."
Lin Heng looked at the breeding shrimps he had selected from the net and nodded. The largest of these wild shrimps weighed only five or six grams, and there were nearly a hundred of them in a pound.
Although the resources in the river are not good, they are much better than those in later generations.
"You don't want the rest?" Lin's mother asked curiously.
"Yes, save it for tomorrow." Lin Heng nodded.
"That's great." Father Lin nodded with a smile.
Then Father Lin looked at the fish that Lin Heng had caught and couldn't help but exclaimed in shock: "This catfish you have is not small, it's amazing."
"It's mainly because Lin Heng is lucky." Xiulan said with a smile.
After chatting for a while, Lin Heng left two kilograms of fish for his parents and took the rest home.
“Mom and Dad!!”
As soon as they returned home, Xiaoxia broke free from Caiyun's arms and rushed over, hugging them both tenderly.
"Where have you been? Don't you want me anymore?"
"Xiaoxia and her grandfather told stories to the children in the afternoon, and many children cheered."
Xiaoxia hugged the two of them and said a lot of words in a sweet voice.
"It's not that we don't want you. Mom and dad also have to work." Xiulan picked her up and said.
Lin Hengze went to the back to release the fish and shrimp to raise them, as they would not taste good if they died.
“All the fish were dumped into the second sister reservoir, and the shrimp were placed in fish guards in the secondary reservoir.
"So many!" Caiyun, who was watching along, said in shock.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Of course, tomorrow is Saturday and you will have a good time to enjoy it."
Planting rice is something that definitely requires a lot of people, and Father Lin chose a day when Caiyu was just finishing school so she could help.
"That's great. I like eating shrimps." Caiyun said with a smile.
Lin Heng thought about it, caught a few small fish and threw them to the turtle, then went back to the front with Caiyun.
After Xiulan coaxed Xiaoxia into cooking, she simply made a cold dish consisting mainly of braised meat and offal, and the staple food was noodles.
After drinking some wine and eating some noodles, he washed up and went to bed. In the evening, Lin Heng inevitably had a technical exchange with Xiulan about making a baby.
He was in his youth, when men have the best physical strength. He exercised every day, ate venison, and had fun every night.
The next morning, after getting up, sister-in-law Xiulan Caiyun prepared dinner, followed by elder brother Lin Heng, father Haiyu, and eldest uncle, third uncle, third father and cousin Lin Hai who came to help with the rice planting.
His eldest uncle and third uncle wanted some rice seedlings bought by Lin Heng's family, while his third uncle's family came to help and then they could go over to help them in a few days.
Early in the morning, everyone went straight to the fields after arriving. Third uncle Lu Honggang put his arm around Lin Heng's shoulder and said, "Take us to see your breeding base at noon. I heard it's very beautiful now."
"That's no problem, Third Uncle. I'll introduce them to you slowly when the time comes." Lin Heng said with a smile, patting his chest.
"Okay then." Lu Honggang nodded honestly. He had always been proud of Lin Heng and would tell everyone about his amazing nephew.
Arriving at the field, Lin Heng's third father, Lin Xutao, and his father were pulling up seedlings. Seeing Lin Heng, Lin Xutao shouted curiously, "Lin Heng, the seeds you bought look no different from those grown at home."
(End of this chapter)
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