Chapter 160 Unprecedented Fish Catch
"Oh my god, this fish is so big! There are catfish this big in this river!"
Everyone was stunned. A catfish more than one meter long emerged from the river. Its tail was still wagging, and it seemed that it was not completely dead yet.
"This must be about thirty or forty kilograms!" It was also the first time that Lin Heng saw such a big catfish in the river.
"This is indeed a good place. Look, another big grass carp has turned out. It must weigh more than ten kilograms." Lin Yue grabbed Lin Heng's shoulders and pointed forward.
"Too many, too many." Li Shiwei said excitedly.
We saw many grass carps and carps weighing more than ten kilograms, and there seemed to be some other strange things that we couldn't see.
"Brother, you and Li Shiwei go in and catch the fish. I'll stay here. The water flow is not fast here and I can guard it by myself." The eldest brother Lin Yue said with a smile.
"good."
Lin Heng did not refuse, he really wanted to catch fish.
Li Shiwei and I climbed up the steep slope and started scooping with a scoop net.
Lin Heng grabbed the catfish's head and pulled it directly to the shore. His uncle-in-law Li Baiquan came over and grabbed the fish's head and pulled it to the shore.
He laughed as he pulled the catfish: "Hey, this catfish must be 40 kilograms. The effect of explosives is really good."
“If I hadn’t fired a shot, I wouldn’t have known there were so many big fish here. When I couldn’t catch any, I thought there were no big fish. It seems they just won’t bite .” Grandpa Gao also sighed, “It’s just that the fish are cheap.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
Facts have proven that no matter where the fish come from, they are all cheap bones. Even if you are fed delicious food and drinks, you won't catch any of them. You have to resort to trickery to get them.
Now the whole army was wiped out, and there are almost no fish left in these two places.
Lin Heng and his companions first caught the big fish, the largest of which was the big catfish, followed by four large grass carps weighing more than ten kilograms, and five carps weighing more than ten kilograms.
The other fish were not very big, but there were so many fish weighing over ten kilograms that they were impossible to count.
"Hey, this turtle is in such a miserable state, its stomach is broken." Lin Heng found an old turtle weighing five or six kilograms by the water, it was dead as hell.
"Mine is okay, it wasn't blown to pieces." Grandpa Gao also came up with one.
There were many fish that had been blown to pieces in the river, many of them were shattered into pieces, with only the fish heads visible.
Several people were too busy to pick them up, so they just threw the scoop nets, big or small, onto the shore.
After working for more than an hour, most of the fish had been caught, except for those that were fried to pieces and some that had flowed downstream.
All the fish caught were piled up into four small hills on the shore.
"It's too much. It must be more than 300 kilograms." Grandpa Gao shook his head and sighed. This time it was too cruel.
"I didn't expect there to be so many fish in two places. I estimate there may be more than 400 kilograms." Lin Heng was also shocked.
This detonator is extremely powerful when used to blow up fish. It has a kind of simple and crude beauty. No wonder foreigners often use grenades to blow up fish and AKs to catch fish. Lin Heng now understands this.
"Let's quickly sort out the fish and take them back. It's getting late." Lin Yue said.
"good."
Everyone sorted the fish first. There was no need to sort the small fish like whitebait, wheatear, and horsemouth, so they were all thrown into a pile.
The main thing is to classify other fish. Except for the super large ones which are stored separately, the rest are classified in a pile of crucian carp, a pile of carp, etc.
After sorting them out, they found that the most numerous were crucian carp, followed by small fish such as whitebait, then carp, catfish and yellow croaker, and finally grass carp.
There were five black carps, four soft-shelled turtles, one sea bass, and no others.
"Put it in a bag and take it away." Li Baiquan couldn't stop smiling.
"Well, put it back." Lin Heng and others nodded.
They took out a snakeskin bag, put the fish in it and four people shared the responsibility of carrying it. Grandpa Gao helped with the fishing rod, scoop net and fish basket, and carried the red carp that Lin Heng had raised in water.
When they returned to town, someone soon noticed that they had caught so many big fish and asked curiously, "Where did you catch them?"
"I caught it in the Huangtan River. Do you want to buy it?" Lin Heng responded with a smile.
“Haha, I don’t buy it.”
Even in town, most people wouldn't buy meat and fish casually.
There were quite a few people watching although they didn't buy it. When asked, they said they caught it by fishing.
But naturally no one believed it, thinking that they were most likely attacked from the Internet, and no one would have thought that it was bombed.
Lin Heng and the others took the fish directly to the backyard. Wang Zhou was shocked when he saw the catch of the crowd.
"This is too much." He sighed.
"Whatever fish you want to eat, just take it." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Yes, take whatever you want." Li Shiwei also echoed.
"I just want to eat the crucian carp. I don't want anything else." Wang Zhou said with a smile.
Lin Heng added: "Uncle Gao, you can take some to eat as well."
"Then I'll get a black fish to eat." Grandpa Gao thought for a moment and said, without refusing.
Lin Heng felt that it was too little, so he took out the old turtle with its internal organs fried out: "This old turtle is also rotten, you can use it to stew a soup to nourish your body, it is good for your health in winter."
"No, no, eat it yourselves." Grandpa Gao shook his head. After all, it was not his explosives, and he couldn't take such expensive things.
"It's okay." Li Baiquan also said with a smile.
But Grandpa Gao insisted not to have it, and Lin Heng was too lazy to talk nonsense. He just took the old turtle to process it, chopped it into pieces, blanched it and stewed it in Grandpa Gao's pot, and also added some Gastrodia elata and Codonopsis pilosula purchased in the store.
"Hey, you're too polite." Grandpa Gao was helpless, but also very happy. It was rare to have a young man treat him so sincerely.
Lin Heng waved his hand and said with a smile: "You are old, eat one to replenish your body. We catch them often, so we don't need this one."
He did this out of his heartfelt admiration for these heroes who defended their country, not because of his background or anything else.
Although this era is poor, it is peaceful and has its own sovereignty. This was all conquered by these heroes, so if we encounter them, we naturally cannot let them suffer.
"I appreciate your kindness. Let's go hunting in a few days." Grandpa Gao patted his shoulder and said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll come down to pick you up in person then." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
"We have already weighed the fish. Guess how many kilograms it is?" Li Shiwei said with a smile when Lin Heng walked out of the hall.
"Four hundred kilograms?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
"More than that, 420 kilograms of fish, the largest catfish weighs 42 kilograms, and the three grass carps weigh more than 15 kilograms each." said Li Shiwei.
"That's possible." Lin Heng said in shock.
"There are 53 kilograms of small fish like whitebait and more than 100 kilograms of crucian carp, and most of the rest are carp and grass carp." Lin Yue said happily.
"Very good, very good, uncle and I. You have become rich. Quickly load the fish into the carriage and take them back to kill them and make them into dried fish." Lin Heng said with a smile.
He came mainly for fun, and since there were many fish at home, he only needed to take two fresh ones to eat. He let them take the rest home.
"We are rich now." Li Baiquan said with a smile.
"Okay." Everyone packed the fish and dragged them onto the carriage and pulled it back. Several big fish were thrown directly onto the carriage without covering it, nor did they want to cover it.
It was now 5:30 in the afternoon and it took an hour to bring the fish home.
We met a lot of people along the way. After a few of them discussed it, they said that what they caught was caught by fishing, which scared the whole group of people.
Lin Heng couldn't stop smiling all the way. No wonder fishermen always get lost after catching big fish.
"It's a pity that I didn't catch it, otherwise it would have been so cool!"
Lin Heng sighed as he looked at the scenery all over the mountain.
"You're not bad either, and that black fish is not small either." Lin Yue said, patting his shoulder.
Li Shiwei also laughed and said, "Besides, we can say that it's okay to fish. Doesn't pulling it up from the river by hand count as fishing?"
Lin Heng nodded and chuckled: "You are right, we fished, and we each caught one."
The few of them returned to Hongfeng Village talking and laughing, walking with high spirits.
Lin's mother and father were digging sweet potatoes today. When they saw so many fish, their jaws dropped.
"Two artillery shells caused so many explosions?" Father Lin couldn't believe it.
"I told you I caught it, Dad, do you believe it?" Lin Heng said with a smile.
Mother Lin said first: "Unless the sun rises from the west."
Lin Heng: "...Mom, you will lose your son if you continue like this."
Mother Lin sneered: "I don't believe it."
Lin Heng spread his hands and said, "Well, it was indeed fried. Mainly because we chose a good place this time. The water in that backwater is slow, and it is obvious that there are big fish hiding there."
Li Baiquan looked at everyone and said, "Stop talking. Hurry up and get a mat. Let's kill the fish, salt it and hang it up."
"And we have divided the fish. We get 70% and you get 30%. " He said with a smile again.
Father Lin shook his head and said, "What's there to share? We can just take a few to eat. You brought the explosives."
Li Shiwei shook his head: "Uncle, please don't say anything. This is all what we have discussed. 70% is enough for us."
"Yes, Dad, let's get started and don't worry about it." Lin Heng waved his hand and said.
This distribution is still reasonable. Although he and his eldest brother did not provide the explosives, they also helped a lot. It is impossible for them to take nothing.
"Yes, let's do it quickly. We will take them back after they are dried. Otherwise, it will be fatal to carry these hundreds of kilograms of fish up the mountain." Li Shiwei also said with a smile.
"Okay then." Lin's mother turned around and went into the house to get a mat.
Lin Heng took all the still alive black fish, carp and crucian carp that he and his friends had caught home and threw them into the fish pond. These kinds of fish have a long lifespan and will not die for an hour or two as long as there is water.
These live fish are raised in the fish pond and you can eat them fresh when you want to. They taste much better than dried fish.
"I'm so tired, come and give me a massage." Lin Heng said to his wife while sitting in the pavilion.
Xiulan looked at him, blinked, and said with a smile, "It stinks. I won't give it to you."
"If I didn't smell so fishy, I'd make you dirty too." Lin Heng said deliberately.
But his wife is so sweet, he really can't bear to leave her.
"Come in, I have prepared some delicious food for you." Xiulan said with a smile. Xiaoxia was taken away by Caiyun, and only she and Lin Heng were left at home.
After entering the house, Xiulan heated up the stir-fried pork with sour beans, brought it out together with the soft pancake, rolled it up and handed it to Lin Heng.
"Or you can just feed me. My hands smell like fish." Lin Heng laughed.
"Then I'll satisfy you reluctantly." Xiulan looked at him, then sat next to him and fed him.
"It's great. The food tastes much better." Lin Heng said with satisfaction. It was great that his wife fed him after a day of playing outside.
Xiulan puffed up her cheeks, took a bite herself, and snorted, "Eat what I left."
Lin Heng laughed: "Thank you, wife, for the reward."
He started eating with big mouthfuls.
Xiulan: “…”
I really admire this person.
After filling their stomachs, the two went to the old house. Lin Heng pointed at the big catfish on the bamboo mat and said with a smile, "Xiu Lan, I caught this, do you believe it?"
"Don't lie to me." Xiulan blinked, looking unconvinced.
Lin Heng: “…”
"Xiulan, you have changed. You don't even believe me." Lin Heng cried.
Xiulan spread her hands and said innocently, "It's mainly because you always come up empty-handed when fishing for creek grouper."
Lin Heng was silenced.
"Hahaha, I told you, no one will believe it." Lin's mother laughed.
Lin Heng looked at his mother and said resolutely: "Mom, I have broken up with you. Don't acknowledge me as your son anymore."
Mother Lin didn't care at all: "Oh, I'm so scared, then are you going to herd the horses and sheep by yourself?"
"The breakup has nothing to do with this." Lin Heng suddenly lost his tough attitude.
Suddenly the whole yard burst into laughter, and the house was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
"Just wait, Mom. Next time I will definitely catch a big fish weighing fifty or sixty kilograms by myself." Lin Heng said to his mother.
"Yes, I believe it." Lin's mother patted his shoulder to show her belief.
Lin Heng didn't want to talk to his mother anymore. It was so boring. She only knew how to bully him.
Everyone poured all the fish on top. Lin Heng said, "Let's divide the work. Some people will remove the scales, some will cut open the fish's belly, and some will be responsible for removing the internal organs and gills."
After dividing the work, the whole family started to process the fish. Lin Heng gave his dagger to his wife and asked her to cut the fish.
Removing the internal organs and gills of fish hurts your hands, and removing the scales will easily get you all over yourself, and it is not easy to wear gloves, so he doesn't want his wife to do these things.
After the division of labor was completed, Lin Heng and Li Shiwei were responsible for removing the fish scales, while the job of removing the internal organs was given to Lin's father, uncle, eldest brother and others, as they all had calluses on their hands and could not be hurt.
"Frying fish is fun, but killing it is exhausting."
After working for a while, Lin Heng missed the electric descaler because it was so fast.
"My back and waist ache." Li Shiwei also shook his head. Scraping fish scales is really not fun.
When everyone was killing the fish, many villagers came to watch, and they were amazed at the sight of so many fish.
Someone curiously asked where the fish came from. Lin Heng and others naturally said that they caught it with a net and it was impossible to say that they fried it.
The group didn't even have time to eat, and worked from 6:30 to 9:00 before they finally processed all the fish.
Everyone reeked of fish, and the fish entrails filled two large basins. Xiongba’s belly was so full of food that he lay on the ground, not wanting to move.
Except for some fish and whitebait prepared to be eaten in the next two days, all other fish were split in half so that they would be easier to dry.
The two large wooden basins are filled with pickled fish and will be hung up to dry tomorrow morning.
In the evening, everyone just ate some sauerkraut noodles and went to rest.
Lin Heng took several baths before he finally got rid of the fishy smell on his body.
Fortunately, we have various cleaning supplies at home that he bought from the city, otherwise it would be impossible to wash it off.
The next morning, Lin Heng opened his eyes and saw that his wife was not sleeping next to him. He immediately pulled her over and hugged her.
"Are you feeling unwell?" He touched his wife's head and found that she didn't have a fever.
"No, I was just daydreaming." Xiulan shook her head and smiled, tied her hair with a rubber band, and returned to Lin Heng's arms.
In the past six months, Lin Heng has been going up mountains and down rivers, practicing archery regularly. The muscles on his body have become more and more obvious. Xiulan feels more comfortable leaning on him and is deeply attracted by Lin Heng's strong male hormones.
Xiulan was no longer as tired as before and did not have to do heavy farm work. In addition, with Lin Heng's moisturizing and skin care products, her skin became whiter and more beautiful than before, as if she were made of water.
"It's drizzling outside. Do you want to continue with today's barbecue?" Xiulan asked Lin Heng while leaning against his chest.
Lin Heng inhaled the scent of his wife's hair: "If it's just this kind of drizzle, then go ahead. You don't want to go."
"I want to go. Everything is ready." Xiulan nodded. This kind of little life is what she has always been looking forward to.
"But I still want to rest for a while, don't move." She changed her position and lay on Lin Heng's chest like a kitten.
Although Kobayashi Heng inevitably goes online every morning, he can still control himself and it is also good to stay quiet.
After lying in bed for half an hour, Xiulan said, "Get up. We have to make fish balls in the morning."
"good."
They got up and washed up. Lin Heng took Xiulan to practice Tai Chi to exercise their bodies. After that, he did fifty push-ups and dozens of sets of abdominal muscle training exercises.
Archery is naturally indispensable, and the ability to eat cannot be lost.
Xiulan went to cook and Lin Heng woke Xiaoxia up.
Xiaoxia had a runny nose recently, so Lin Heng made her put on an extra piece of clothing and took out a small stove to make some ginger and brown sugar water for her to drink.
After drinking tea, Xiulan prepared breakfast. Because she was going to have a barbecue at noon, she made a simple soup in the morning.
"Look, the sun is out." After dinner, Lin Heng said, pointing to the sky.
Xiulan shook her head and said, "This weather is really strange, but the sun is good, we can dry the fish."
Looking at the sky, Xiulan took out half of the catfish and said, "Let's make fish balls with this catfish."
This is the 42-pound catfish. After they were separated last night, Xiulan took half back.
"Okay, I'll help." Lin Heng nodded. The fish balls he made were delicious and suitable for Xiaoxia to eat.
"I'll hold it and you scrape it." Xiulan handed the kitchen knife to Lin Heng.
When making fish balls, they don’t chop the fish meat directly, but scrape it bit by bit with a knife, which makes it more delicate.
It took two people taking turns to scrape all the fish meat off from 7:30 to 9 o'clock. A large basin of snow-white fish meat was scraped off.
After the fish balls were hung, Xiulan handed them to Lin Heng: "You stir them in one direction, and I'll get some scallion and ginger water."
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.
After stirring the fish for a while, Xiulan got a large bowl of onion and ginger water and added it to it, then added two egg whites, some salt and lard, and stirred together.
Keep stirring until the fish meat sticks to your hands and you can't get it off. Now you can make fish balls. Put the fish balls in water, and they will be snow-white, smooth and full of the aroma of fish.
Authentic fish balls do not require starch. After making them, Lin Heng felt like his hands were about to break. It was really not easy.
Xiulan brought the fish balls into the house and cooked them over low heat until they were completely set.
Lin Heng couldn't help but taste one. It was chewy and smooth, with the fresh aroma of fish, and almost no fishy smell left.
"Come, Xiaoxia, try one." Lin Heng fed his daughter half.
Xiaoxia was instantly captivated by the delicious fish balls and hugged Lin Heng's legs and acted coquettishly: "Good! Daddy, I want more."
"I'll make something for her to eat, so she won't have to ask for it when we have barbecue." Xiulan said. Fish balls are easy to digest and are made for Xiaoxia.
A soup was stewed with fish bones and winter melon. Soon a bowl of milky white fish soup and delicious winter melon fish balls were ready.
"It smells so good~" Xiaoxia followed Xiulan like a puppy. The winter melon fish balls were added with a little coriander, and even Lin Heng couldn't resist the deliciousness.
"Sit on the bench and I'll feed you." Xiulan looked at her and said.
Xiaoxia immediately sat down obediently. Xiulan blew the fish balls cool, divided them into two halves and fed them to her slowly.
Xiaoxia not only finished the whole bowl of fish balls and winter melon, but also did not leave any soup, which shows that the taste was indeed good enough.
Lin Heng also prepared and packed up everything needed for the barbecue.
"Let's just go." Lin Heng said to Xiulan.
"Okay." Xiulan pulled Xiaoxia out.
My eldest brother and his wife were already prepared, and their three sons couldn't wait to go on the picnic.
For rural children, it is an incredible thing to be taken on a picnic by their parents.
"Brother, why did you take a chicken? Fish and beef are enough." Lin Heng said helplessly to his brother.
"There are a lot of people, we can finish it. The roast chicken smells delicious and I want to eat it myself." Lin Yue said with a smile.
The eldest sister-in-law Liu Juan is also very kind now. She smiled and said, "It would be unreasonable for the five of us not to take anything."
"Okay then." Lin Heng was helpless.
Li Shiwei in the old house had also gotten up. He brought a ten-jin big grass carp and two-jin small whitebait, and the few of them went directly to Hongfeng Mountain.
Lin's mother also prepared a lot of dishes and planned to invite Lin Heng's third father to come over for lunch at noon.
Today is November 1st. When autumn comes, the weather gets colder very quickly in areas north of the Qinling Mountains. It has been chilly in the mornings these past few days.
"I want to play on the swing!"
Once they reached Red Maple Mountain, Lin Wei and Lin Tao were the first to rush to grab the swings. Fortunately, there were two, so they could both play.
Xiaoxia looked at Lin Yong, who was about the same age as her, and wanted to speak but didn't dare to.
"This place is so beautiful." Liu Juan exclaimed. It was her first time here.
Lin Heng laughed, looked at everyone and said, "Let's get started. Light up the charcoal fire, skewer the beef and pork, and marinate the fish."
"Okay!" Everyone was full of energy and started to work.
After a while, Caiyun came with Lin Hai and Tian Yan.
It was Tian Yan's first time attending a gathering at the Lin family. Even though they were all young people there, she was a little shy.
Lin Hai was beaming with joy, and took her hand to introduce her to everyone: "This is my girlfriend Tian Yan, I'm sure you all know her."
"Hello everyone." Tian Yan greeted with a smile, let go of Lin Hai's hand and held Caiyun.
"Of course I know him. Brother Lin Hai, you have to be nice to my teacher." Caiyun said with a smile.
After Tian Yan finished greeting everyone, Caiyun took her here to play.
Tian Yan was somewhat shocked by the scenery of Red Maple Mountain, and this cabin in the woods made her look at Lin Heng with new eyes. She didn't know that this man actually had such a sentiment.
But she knew that all this was caused by Lin Lian's wife Xiulan. She heard Caiyun talk a lot about Lin Heng and Xiulan, so she instinctively went to find Xiulan with Caiyun to play. She wanted to see what kind of woman Xiulan was.
If it's late tomorrow, I'll slap myself live (End of this chapter)
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