Chapter 383 Unexpected
"I made a profit this morning. I've only been here for a dozen minutes and I've already made such a big profit."
Father Lin came up and said happily.
"It's still unclear whether we can pull it up. This fish is not simple."
Lin Heng was playing with the fish as he spoke, exhausting its energy by constantly wrestling with it.
"I don't know what kind of fish it is." Lin Yue asked curiously.
"What we use corn to catch should be grass carp or carp." Xiulan said after thinking for a while.
"I think it's a carp!" said Father Lin.
"I guess it's grass carp." Lin Heng said with a smile.
He really enjoyed the process of fishing. The feeling of fighting was so great that he felt like trembling all over.
I kept letting go of the hand rope and then pulling it back in. Fortunately, there were no obstacles in this section of the river, so I could fish easily.
More than ten minutes later, Lin Heng finally pulled the fish out of the water, and everyone was a little surprised when they saw its face.
Xiulan's eyes widened: "It's actually a black carp! It's so big!"
"This is probably more than thirty kilograms!" Father Lin shouted softly while setting up the scoop net.
"You made a lot of money this time. It's like killing a badger."
Lin Yue was extremely envious. He thought how good it would feel to pull up such a big fish.
"Hahaha, I didn't expect it to be a black carp. Xiulan is really lucky."
Lin Heng couldn't stop smiling. Fortunately, he used big hooks and big lines, otherwise he would have to run away today.
The black carp in the water flicked its tail and then dived back into the water. But it didn't matter. The fact that it could be pulled out of the water showed that it had no more strength left.
It took another ten minutes to flip it over completely and pull it to the riverside. Father Lin could only catch half of its body with a scoop net and barely pulled it ashore.
"It's definitely 40 kilograms. It's a good deal today!" Father Lin smiled so hard that wrinkles appeared on his face as he looked at the big fish in the scoop net.
Lin Heng took out the hook, held the fish by its gills and lifted it up, saying, "It must be about thirty or forty kilograms. The fur is quite beautiful."
If a grass carp weighs thirty or forty kilograms, it is actually very old, but if it is replaced with black carp, it can even be called a small fish because it can grow to weigh one or two hundred kilograms.
"I have already figured out how to eat it!" Xiulan said with a smile.
After letting everyone take a look, Lin Heng tied the fish up with a rope through its gills and put it in the water.
The material of the fish guard made by Xiulan is relatively thin, and Lin Heng was afraid that the fish would be too big and break the guard.
"Keep going, maybe you can catch two more!"
Seeing Lin Heng put the fish away, Lin Yue smiled and picked up the fishing rod and exchanged it for a tender corn.
"I guess there's not much hope. There was too much noise just now."
Lin Heng said this, but he still threw out a new club.
Fishermen are like this. If they can't catch any fish, they will keep fishing, and they won't believe there are no fish. If they catch any fish, they will keep fishing, thinking there must be other fish in the nest.
"You're still in the Air Force, so you need to work harder." Xiulan fed him a grape and said with a smile.
"It turns out that you were the one who caught the blue carp just now." Lin Heng widened his eyes.
Xiulan raised her chin and snorted, "Of course, it's my fishing rod, I pulled it up, so of course it's my fish."
"That's right, son, you have to work hard." Father Lin also said with a smile.
"Okay, okay, then I'll catch another one for you." Lin Heng said with a smile.
The sun has come out and it is already half past six.
However, the fishing rod remained motionless and there was no more movement.
In a blink of an eye, it was seven o'clock. Father and elder brother had moved to another place, and Xiulan leaned beside him to eat fruit.
"There's no hope. Let's go catch snails." Lin Heng turned his head and looked at his wife.
"Then you're in luck!" Xiulan laughed and patted his shoulder.
Lin Heng nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I am an air force man, and my wife is a fishing expert!"
"Okay, let's go catch snails." Xiulan said with a smile as she stood up.
They walked upstream and soon found an area with particularly shallow water. The two rolled up their pants, took off their shoes and went in to pick up the trash.
Snails are everywhere. You can find a lot of them in a river with good water quality.
In just ten minutes, the two of them caught four or five kilograms of snails, most of which were relatively large.
"Okay, enough for a meal." Xiulan said, looking at the snails in the bucket.
"Then don't pick it up."
Lin Heng nodded, and the two of them reached the shore and found a place where the river bottom was all sandy to catch river snails.
Xiulan sat on a stone that floated out of the water, stepping on the sand in the water and looking at Lin Heng.
Lin Heng added a lot of sand into the bucket and kept rubbing and stirring it. Within two minutes, the moss on the snail shells was removed cleanly.
At this time, Xiulan came over to help pick out the snails from the sand.
"Just take it back now and let them spit out the sand."
Looking at the clean snails, Lin Heng smiled and said that he still liked to eat this thing.
Xiulan also said, "It's about time to go back. Luming and Duheng are probably hungry, and it's not easy to take care of Caiyun alone."
Lin Heng nodded: "Let's go down and see what's going on with Dad and Big Brother."
The two put on their socks and shoes and walked downstairs. When they saw people, Lin Heng asked loudly: "Did you catch any fish?"
Father Lin shook his head: "Go back. There are bites but we can't pull them up. I don't want to fish anymore."
"I just caught a crucian carp, but it didn't work." Lin Yue also said.
"Then let's go home." Lin Heng said with a smile.
After packing up their things, they carried the big bluefish back.
Because we didn't come to the center of Huangtan Town, only a few people saw it early in the morning, but they were still shocked.
Driving home, passing by Baima Village, many people were shocked again, especially when they learned that they had caught the fish by fishing.
When they returned to Hongfeng Village, they didn't show off and drove the car directly into the yard.
"Wow, what a big fish!!"
Xiaoxia, who was playing in the yard, widened her eyes in shock when she saw a fish bigger than herself.
"Oh my God, who caught this fish?" Lin Tao next to him opened his mouth wide.
Xiaoxia’s playmate Yang Qing was also so surprised that he was speechless.
"I caught it. Isn't it awesome?" Xiulan said with a smile.
"Really?" Lin Tao didn't believe it.
"Mom is so awesome!" Xiaoxia hugged her mother's legs.
"That's what your second mother caught. Let's go weigh it."
Lin Heng said with a smile, and went to get the scale to weigh the weight.
"Forty-three kilograms, it really breaks the record!" Lin Heng said in surprise.
"It's like killing a muntjac!" said Lin's father with a smile.
"Second sister-in-law, you are so awesome!" Caiyun said in disbelief.
"Your second brother pulled it up. I just lifted the pole." Xiulan said with a smile.
"My turtle weighs seven kilograms. Not bad." Lin Yue said with a smile as he weighed his turtle.
"I'm really more than five kilograms."
Father Lin weighed his fish and quickly put it into the basin. His catfish was not dead yet.
"Let's make some pickled cabbage soup in the morning and then kill the fish."
Xiulan first poured hot milk for everyone.
"It's okay, go cook, the fish will be killed soon." After Lin Heng said that, he picked up the milk and took a big sip. He had been hungry for a long time.
Father Lin also said, "Yes, it doesn't take much effort to kill the fish."
After drinking the milk and pressing his stomach, Lin Heng found a piece of plastic paper, spread it on the ground and started killing the fish, scraping off the scales and removing the gills. When he was done, he would open the fish's stomach and intestines.
All the internal organs were discarded, including the fish bladder. They were directly divided and fed to the three dogs.
Then he cut the fish into pieces and after taking off the head, Lin Heng began to look for the herring stone. He soon found a flesh-colored, slightly orange-red flake structure at the throat and carefully took it out.
"This green fish stone is okay. It can be made into a pendant." Lin Heng smiled as he looked at the three-centimeter-diameter green fish stone in his hand.
This thing is only one centimeter thick and looks fleshy. It is a tool used by black carp to crush snails.
"Take it and make a talisman for Xiaoxia. It is said to have the effect of warding off evil spirits." Father Lin nodded.
Lin Heng took it in and found a well-ventilated place to dry it in the shade. The moisture on this thing must evaporate before it can be polished. He hoped that his would be in good condition.
After coming out, he cut the fish meat and gave ten pounds to his eldest brother's family, left five pounds for his parents, and kept five pounds for his own family. He also kept the fish head to make soup.
The black carp has large bones and tender meat, and tastes very good. It tastes better than carp.
They killed the fish and Xiulan prepared the sauerkraut soup, which is a unique dish in Shaanxi, also called sauerkraut dumpling soup. It tastes sour and is very appetizing.
After finishing a bowl of mixed soup, Xiulan was full, so she took the fish to process it. She prepared to fry part of it into fish fillets and make the other part into pickled fish, adding some vermicelli to it. Xiaoxia and she both liked to eat vermicelli cooked in pickled fish.
Lin Heng was just about to give his eldest brother a fish, but his eldest brother gave him more than two kilograms of turtle meat first. Lin Heng took the turtle meat and gave him the fish, saying, "Come over for lunch at noon, and let's have a drink."
"Let's do it in the evening. I'm going to ask my father-in-law to come over for lunch at noon." Lin Yue said.
"That's fine." Lin Heng nodded.
Since the eldest brother was not coming, Lin Heng and his family had lunch together by themselves. They made some pickled fish, fried some other seasonal vegetables, and drank a little wine.
In the evening, we fried cicada monkeys and scorpions, made spicy fish fillets, and snails with basil leaves. Everyone ate snails and drank wine while chatting.
The snails with basil leaves taste so good that you can’t stop eating them.
"When do you think it would be best for us to go to Birch Bluff?"
They were almost done eating, Lin Yue asked.
Father Lin glanced at the two and smiled, "I can do anything, but I don't have much hope of finding ginseng there. It's best to go after the rain, so that you can pick some mushrooms."
"Then let's wait until it rains heavily in August." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while, ginseng is indeed not that easy to find, otherwise it wouldn't be so expensive.
It was already nine o'clock in the evening when they finished their meal while chatting, and it was exactly ten o'clock when they finished cleaning up and resting.
There wasn't much to do in the next few days. July was relatively quiet, so Lin Heng would bring some fruits and milk to his parents every day, and would also go to check on the fish, shrimps and livestock.
In the afternoon, I took my wife and children to play in Hongfeng Mountain. They cut grass and the children played there. In the evening, if I was not tired, I would go to the mountain with my eldest brother to walk around and hunt.
After two months of growth, the alfalfa is ready for harvest. They cut part of it to make silage, and the rest is dried into hay and stored.
In addition to these, they also picked a few days with suitable weather to drive the cattle and sheep up the mountain to run and get exposed to the outside environment.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. Lin Heng hadn't caught any prey that day, but he got a golden rooster. However, he had a lot of fun playing at home.
On the 16th, after breakfast in the morning, Lin Heng was preparing to go with Xiulan to find some magic leaves to make magic tofu. Just as they had packed up, the door was pushed open.
Lu Honghai and Zhang Gaolian walked in together. Lu Honghai was carrying a backpack, while Zhang Gaolian smiled and said hello: "Lin Heng, did we disturb you by coming here?"
"No, no, uncle and aunt, please come in and sit down." Lin Heng greeted the two with a smile.
He was a little confused as to why they came here suddenly, but his uncle now seemed to be a lot younger than before.
"Have some water!" Xiulan put down her things and poured water for the two of them.
"I recently shot a wild boar and gave one each to you and your brother's family." Lu Honghai sat down and took out a piece of cured wild boar meat.
"Uncle, you are too polite." Lin Heng said with a smile, but he was not polite to his uncle.
After chatting for a while, Lin Heng found out that his uncle and his aunt had returned to her mother's home, and that his aunt had recently suffered from morning sickness and was going to the hospital.
After getting this news, Lin Heng immediately understood why his uncle seemed younger. This was because he was happy to have descendants.
"Uncle and aunt, you can eat here at noon today. I caught a fish weighing more than 40 kilograms a few days ago and I still have it. I also caught a bucket of snails yesterday and I didn't eat them either."
Lin Heng looked at the two of them and tried to keep them with a smile.
"Yes, uncle, let's eat here at noon." Xiulan also tried to persuade him to stay.
Lu Honghai looked at his wife Zhang Gaolian, who smiled and nodded: "Okay, we'll eat at your house."
Naturally, she wanted to get closer to the Lin Heng family. This was the reason why she married Lu Honghai.
"Then I'll go tell my parents and ask them to come over and chat with you."
Lin Heng looked at the two of them again and said that they didn't have that many topics to talk about with his uncle and aunt.
The two men nodded in agreement, saying that they would go to his eldest brother's house first to deliver a piece of meat.
At the same time, Lu Honghai froze the meat for his father-in-law in the freezer.
These are all bacon. Things cannot be stored in the summer, so they are salted and smoked into bacon on the day they are brought back.
After the two of them left, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and smiled, “Now we can only go pick the fairy leaves in the afternoon.”
"Just don't let anyone pick them." Xiulan spread her hands and started preparing food.
"It's okay. If they are picked, we can just kill the white sheep at home and have a barbecue. We haven't eaten mutton for a long time." Lin Heng looked at her and said.
"That's fine. I haven't eaten mutton for a long time." Xiulan said with a smile.
Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain and called his parents over. They were very happy to hear that his aunt was pregnant.
With the help of my mother and Caiyun, we prepared two large tables of food for lunch and invited my eldest brother and his family to come over for dinner.
At the dinner table, his uncle once again expressed his wish to go hunting black bears together. Knowing that he was about to have a child, he wanted to make money.
Lin Heng naturally did not refuse this, as he also needed money.
After a happy lunch, Uncle Lin Heng and Aunt Lin Heng went back to her parents’ home together.
Lin Hengze and Xiulan went to pick the fairy leaves that they had not picked in the morning, and Caiyun came to help take care of the children for a while.
Just as they were on the mountain, Xiulan accidentally noticed something strange. She pulled Lin Heng's shoulder and whispered, "Honey, look over there, is that a pheasant moving?"
(End of this chapter)
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