Chapter 331 What Not to Do
As these fish fry entered the water, they all swam excitedly, looking very lively, with only four or five of them swimming on their backs.
Mother Lin looked at him and asked, "You haven't had breakfast yet, right? I just made some potato pancakes. Would you like some?"
"No, I want to hurry over there and poop a few more times."
Lin Heng shook his head and walked down the mountain quickly with the bag. He was racing against time. If the weather got hot by noon, he would not be able to transport the fish back.
What Qinling salmon fear most is heat.
Lin's mother shouted from behind: "What time should I make breakfast for you?"
"We'll talk about it when we get back."
Lin Heng's voice came from the foot of the mountain, and he himself was already riding on a sidecar.
He drove and stopped in front of his house, opened the door and walked in. Xiulan, Caiyun and Xiaoxia were having breakfast.
"Dad~~"
Xiaoxia saw Lin Heng rushing towards her in a very coquettish manner.
"You're back so early, where are Dad and the others?" Xiulan asked puzzledly.
"I went to Hongfeng Mountain to deliver some fish fry. Dad and the others are still fishing in Heihe River." Lin Heng said, then he carried Xiaoxia around and put her down.
Then he handed the turtle and mullet he had killed to Xiulan: "We caught them last night. Now that they're killed, you can prepare them. There's the turtle liver, which is your favorite."
Although Xiulan doesn't like eating pork liver, she particularly likes the liver of soft-shell turtle. She thinks it tastes very good, and Lin Heng always leaves some for her.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and handed her milk powder to Lin Heng, "You drink it. I'll make some more later. When Caiyun has finished eating, you can send her to town."
Caiyun shook her head repeatedly and said, "No, no, I have an appointment with my friends, it would not be good to leave like this."
Lin Heng knew who she was meeting. He drank the milk powder in one gulp, then comforted Xiaoxia and drove away.
They drove at full speed almost all the way, and the rural dirt road was very bumpy, but he was used to it.
It was only six forty when I arrived at my father's place. The sun had just reached the top of the mountain, and the golden morning sun was particularly dazzling.
"Dad, how did you guys harvest?"
Lin Heng shouted from a distance.
Chen Changxia shouted, "I had bad luck this morning. I just caught a big silver carp weighing 20 to 30 kilograms, but it ran away."
Father Lin also said: "It's really infuriating. The silver carp got tangled in a piece of fishing net and ran away."
"How could it get away?" Lin Heng felt like slapping his thigh after hearing this. Such a big fish actually got away.
"There's nothing I can do, it's just bad luck. But the fish can't survive either, with the fishing net tangled on it." Chen Changxia shook his head.
"The harvest from the second net is pretty good. We caught twenty or thirty half-pound plum carps. Come over and help pick them." Father Lin said as he squatted by the river and looked up.
"That's great. We can take these fish back as breeding fish." Lin Heng nodded.
Even though it weighs only half a pound, this fish is definitely sexually mature. There will be no problem taking it back and using it as breeding fish for reproduction next year.
"The previous net had five carps weighing one or two kilograms. That one is better," said Chen Changxia.
Lin Heng nodded and asked, "What about the fishing traps? How did the remaining ten traps yield?"
Father Lin shook his head and sighed, "Don't mention it. Those ten traps are no good either. They only caught some whitebait, brook grouper, and minnows. The total number of plum fish fry is less than 200."
"The only big gain was a black fish that crawled into one of the traps. It weighed about one kilogram," said Chen Changxia.
Lin Heng was slightly disappointed, then said: "It doesn't matter, let's throw some more bait in today and come back tomorrow morning to take a look."
This is normal. Even if the resources are good, it is impossible to always have a big harvest. Moreover, the resources in Heihe are declining year by year and are getting worse and worse.
"That's fine." Father Lin and Chen Changxia nodded repeatedly.
With Lin Heng's participation, the three of them quickly picked the fish off and then sorted out their harvest. This time they caught the most small fish of various kinds, weighing about 14 or 15 kilograms.
There are too many whitebait, black carp, brook grouper, minnow and ground tiger.
The rest were plum fish, 200 fish fry, 28 weighing about half a catty, 6 weighing more than a catty, one black carp, and two catties of eels caught in ground traps.
After cleaning up, Lin Heng put all the plum fish into plastic bags and pumped oxygen into them. He drained the water from the rest and took the dead ones back.
"What else do we need to do? I have taken down the tarpaulin." Father Lin asked while holding the folded tarpaulin.
"Let's cut some leaves and mugwort and throw them into the fish traps, otherwise there won't be enough fish for the birds to eat." Lin Heng said after loading the things into the car.
"This is indeed necessary. Fish will be willing to go in even if there is something to block them." Chen Changxia nodded.
The three of them immediately took knives and cut a large bundle of fresh branches to cover the fishing trap.
After finishing all these and packing the things, they called Xiongba over to get in the car, and the three of them and the dog went back to the house.
Lin Heng was afraid that the fish would die from the heat, so he walked very fast. He got home at 8:30 in the morning, and the sun was already quite hot.
After taking a look at the plum fish in the plastic bag, Lin Heng breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, the fish is not dead."
"This will tire your father-in-law out." Father Lin said with a smile.
Chen Changxia waved his hand and said, "That's nothing. Don't say those polite words."
Lin Heng was too lazy to be polite and said with a smile: "Let's go up the mountain and release the fish quickly. We can have a good rest for a while and eat turtle for lunch to replenish our body."
After going up the mountain, the fish are still kept in cages for the time being. The fry are divided into two cages, and the adult mullets are divided into one cage.
Lin Heng doesn't keep the fish in fish cages because he's afraid that the fish will run away. There are wire meshes blocking the water outlets, so the fish can't escape.
The main reason is that Lin Heng wants to study the habits of these smelt fish, accumulate breeding experience, and prepare for the breeding of smelt fish.
Only when you fully master this technology can you make money from it.
Lin Heng breathed a sigh of relief as the plum fish was put into the water. These guys are really difficult to raise. Their oxygen requirements are similar to those of whitebait, and they also have high requirements for water temperature.
Chen Changxia took a look at the plum fish and said, "This is a little too few fish for a 150-160 square meter water surface."
"It's a bit little, but it's enough for now." Lin Heng nodded.
Father Lin washed his hands and said, "Let's go, wash up and have breakfast."
"Eat, eat." Lin Heng stopped looking at the fish and turned to walk down. He was so hungry yesterday that his intestines were thin.
After going down the mountain, the three of them took a bath by the water. After returning to the house, Lin's mother had prepared the noodles. They didn't cook any vegetables in the morning, just a simple sauerkraut noodles.
But Chen Changxia thought this was not bad. They often ate cornmeal pancakes in the morning, which were much more unpalatable than noodles.
"Son, how long do you plan to keep those clams? They are still in the pots." Mother Lin looked at Lin Heng and asked.
"I forgot about it. I'll deal with it in the afternoon. I'm too tired this morning." Lin Heng said after taking a look.
After dinner, he helped feed the shrimps, cattle and sheep, and then went straight home, leaving the small fish to his mother and mother-in-law.
As soon as Lin Heng opened the door, Xiaoxia came over and hugged him: "Dad, you're finally back!"
"I'm back." Lin Heng picked her up and turned her around twice, even though he was very tired.
Inside the room, Xiulan stopped wiping the table and turned to ask, "Have you eaten?"
"Mom made sauerkraut noodles and we've eaten it." Lin Heng nodded.
"That's good." Xiulan nodded.
Lin Heng put Xiaoxia down and said, "I'm going to take a nap. If you have anything to do, leave it there and I'll deal with it after I wake up."
"Go ahead." Xiulan agreed.
Lin Heng went into the house and lay on the bed to rest. He didn't sleep well last night because his father-in-law snored too loudly, but he was too embarrassed to say it.
After taking off his clothes, Lin Hengyang lay on the bed. The scent of Xiulan permeated his heart and nose, and he gradually fell asleep.
When she woke up again, the light outside the window was already very dazzling, and it was obviously noon.
When he turned around, he saw Xiulan lying next to him. Just as he remembered, she turned over and hugged his arms.
"It's only twelve o'clock. Let's sleep a little longer." After looking at the watch, Lin Heng lay down to rest. Xiulan's long hair fell on his face from time to time, making him itchy and unable to sleep.
After thinking for a while, he reached out and tickled Xiulan. After a long while, she woke up and stared at him with a pair of big eyes: "What are you doing?"
"Do you want me to wash your hair?" Lin Heng asked, pinching her face.
Xiulan opened her eyes wide: "How did you guess that?"
Lin Heng pointed to his cheek, and Xiulan blinked and kissed him directly on the lips.
"Speak now." Xiulan looked at him.
"Secret." Lin Heng grinned and got up.
"You're so annoying." Xiulan bit her lip and stared at him.
Lin Heng stretched out his hand and said, "Let's go."
Xiulan was pulled out of bed and followed Lin Heng out. She was still curious about how he guessed it.
"Tell me, please."
Lin Heng turned his head and smiled: "Because you wash your hair once every three days on average, and today is the third day."
"It's that simple." Xiulan pouted.
"Yes, it's that simple." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Putting the washbasin on the shelf and preparing water, Lin Heng helped Xiulan sit down and slowly washed her hair.
I am now very familiar with this job and it basically won't hurt her.
After washing, Lin Heng was about to change the water for rinsing, but Xiulan said, "Press it again, it feels so good."
"I've become your slave." Lin Heng pinched her face.
"Oh, your hands are wet." Xiulan rolled her eyes and said in a tender voice, "Quickly massage my brother, it feels so good."
Women who act coquettishly have the best life. Lin Heng couldn't refuse her at all. He massaged her hair for a long time, rinsed it, applied conditioner, and then washed it clean.
"Thank you, husband. You are so nice." After drying her hair, Xiulan smiled, with deep love in her big eyes.
Lin Heng smiled and asked, "How did you deal with the turtle this morning?"
Xiulan looked at him and said, "Chop the big ones into pieces and marinate them with scallion and ginger water. The small ones are also marinated without being chopped. I guess you are going to prepare one for stir-frying and the other for stewing."
"That's what I thought. It's a pity that we didn't catch the mandarin fish this time, otherwise we could make some stinky mandarin fish." Lin Heng said. The stinky mandarin fish that Xiulan made last time had already been eaten.
"Let's catch it next time. Smelt fish is also delicious." said Xiulan.
Lin Heng nodded, and after entering the house he asked Xiulan to take out the pearl and look at it.
Now they have all been completely processed. One is fluorescent white, and the other is light gold. These two are the most beautiful, with a diameter of about two centimeters.
Lin Heng took away three small ones and said, "Keep the remaining two big ones, and I'll use the small one to try to grow pearls."
Xiulan showed the jade pendant on her neck and looked up and said, "I have this. Do you want to use it to make a necklace for mom?"
This was the birthday gift Lin Heng gave her, and she always wore it except when she slept.
Lin Heng shook his head: "I will give Mom something else on her birthday. You take this. I will buy you a pair of pearl earrings later."
"Then I won't be polite." Xiulan smiled gently, picked up the things and put them into her small box.
Lin Heng first used a small hammer to smash a few pearls into small pieces, then cut a two-centimeter-wide bamboo piece and took it to Hongfeng Mountain.
Here, his mother and mother-in-law had already cleaned the small fish, strung them into strings and hung them in the sun to dry.
"Mom, where are my dad and the others?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
"He went out for a walk. I don't know either." Lin's mother shook her head.
"Okay, now they're back, let them come over for dinner." Lin Heng said.
"I know." Lin's mother nodded.
After saying that, Lin Heng went into the house and started to artificially plant pearls. He used a bamboo stick to pry open the shell by two centimeters, then used a knife to cut the edge of the skirt, and finally threw the broken pearls in.
He was not very good at growing pearls, but he had seen others grow them in his previous life, and he didn't know if he would be successful, so he simply threw a few grains of sand into the mix.
It took him nearly an hour to plant the pearls, but the effect would not be known until next year. He took all the shells and temporarily kept them in the incubator. When they recovered, he would find a special place to keep them.
After finishing all this, Lin Heng went up the mountain to look at the plum fish again and found another dead one. Fortunately, the others were all alive and well.
"Mom, I'm going back now that I'm done here." Lin Heng said as he walked down the mountain.
"Okay." Lin's mother waved her hand without looking up.
Lin Heng returned to the house and first used a casserole to stew the turtle soup, and then prepared other dishes with Xiulan.
After it was done, he invited people over for dinner, and today he also invited his eldest brother to come along.
"You guys really eat meat and fish every day." Chen Changxia shook his head.
"These are just some fish we caught today. They will go bad if we don't eat them." Lin Heng said with a smile.
After everyone was seated, the banquet began. Lin Heng first put the turtle liver into Xiulan's bowl, and then he started eating with everyone, chatting and laughing.
Wild soft-shelled turtles are delicious in any way. When stir-fried, the meat is firm and chewy, with a rich aroma.
In addition, there is steamed plum fish, which is very popular among children. Lin Heng steamed three at one time, which is enough for the whole family to share.
The meal was quickly finished and it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. They didn't have anything to do that day, so they took their parents-in-law for a walk around the village.
Before they knew it, it was already evening. After dinner, his parents-in-law were arranged to live in the old house of the Lin family. After Lin Heng returned to the house, the three of them were silent for a while.
At half past nine, after telling a story and coaxing Xiaoxia to sleep, Lin Heng turned over and got on the bed. As soon as he lay down, he found Xiulan's little hand reaching out to him.
"What?" Lin Heng turned his head and looked at her.
"Nothing." Xiulan said softly, moving closer to him and climbing up her small hands onto his strong and sturdy chest.
(End of this chapter)
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