Chapter 76 Fishing
Before long, the story of Wang Zhiqing's noble character spread throughout the village, and was extended to countless versions.
Having a good relationship with the aunt is a good thing. You will have people in the village to help you and speak well of you. Being lazy is considered noble in the village.
By the time the rice planting work was completed, it was already early June.
Early in the morning, seeing that everyone's assigned task was weeding, Wang Yuanchao, in order to avoid having an impression of going back on his word in the village, waited until everyone had started working before he went to the brigade headquarters alone. He took a pack of cigarettes and passed around cigarettes to several village cadres. Then he said to the brigade leader with a smile: "Captain, the work in the fields will be easier from now on. The villagers will have fewer opportunities to earn work points. Even though I'm in the countryside now, I don't rely entirely on work points to make a living.
I also don't want to compete with the aunties, grandmas, and young wives in the village for work, space, or food.
After the spring ploughing is over, I plan to visit our Hongqi Brigade and our commune. Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. I just have the opportunity to experience the northern scenery of our country.
Do you think this will work?"
The captain was smoking a cigarette, and when he heard Wang Yuanchao's words, he nodded silently and said:
“There really isn’t much work to do in the fields to maintain grain production, so it won’t be a big problem if you don’t go.
However, the approval document for our Hongqi Brigade poultry breeding base should be issued in the next two days. Once the approval document is issued, you will not be able to escape this matter, and you will have to contribute more. "
As for the poultry breeding base, as long as he didn't step forward and take the lead, Wang Yuanchao was naturally willing to contribute, so he nodded and said, "Don't worry, captain, I'll be there whenever you call, just give me instructions when the time comes."
"Well, that's good. As for the slack season, if you want to be dignified and not go to work, that's up to you. All you need is enough food to eat."
"Don't worry, Captain. I'll be full every day during this period, so I won't be short of food. If the food is really not enough, I will spend money to buy some food from the team, and I will definitely have enough to eat."
"Okay, that's good. Once our brigade's poultry breeding base is completed, good days will come for the villagers in our brigade."
"Yes, that's true. Captain, you go ahead and do your work. Let's just make it clear. I'll be going back first."
"Okay, you go back first. I'll come find you after the poultry breeding base is settled."
"Okay, Captain."
In June in Northeast China, although it has become hot during the day, the temperature is still very cool at night, not as hot and humid as in Hunan Province.
After Wang Yuanchao returned to his home, he first took out a wooden basin, put a basin of chili peppers in it, and started chopping them with a kitchen knife. Yes, Wang Yuanchao washed a jar of pickled vegetables and prepared to make a jar of chopped chili peppers.
Chop the peppers, cook them, stuff them into a jar, seal it with a piece of plastic, and place it in a cool corner of the kitchen to pickle.
I started making jar peppers, fried pork and fried pork ribs with jar peppers. It is a home-cooked dish in Hunan Province. The taste is very unique and very delicious. If you are not from Hunan, you probably have never eaten it.
After washing the peppers with water, boil them in a large iron pot for two minutes and then take them out.
After adding salt and stirring evenly, Wang Yuanchao made a door panel, put the peppers in the yard to dry for a day, then put them in a jar, sealed it, and put it in a cool place in the kitchen to marinate for a few days before eating.
It took Wang Yuanchao two days to pickle the chopped peppers and jar peppers. Then he went to the commune to buy some lime powder, baking soda, salt and loose liquor.
He took out two jars of chicken eggs and duck eggs from the space and started making preserved eggs and salted duck eggs.
After the preserved eggs and salted duck eggs were ready, they began to clean up the chickens, ducks and geese in the space.
Now the chickens, ducks, geese, pheasants, wild ducks, wild boars and wild sheep in Wang Yuanchao's air force have become a disaster in the space because they have no natural enemies.
Wang Yuanchao had no choice but to store the fattest parts of the live poultry in the static space. After all, once they were in the static space, they would come out the same way they went in.
Wang Yuanchao did not kill the live poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese that were placed in the static space, so they would not die when they came out, making it convenient for Wang Yuanchao to sell them later.
June is summer, and this season is when poisonous snakes and insects are most active in the mountains.
Therefore, Wang Yuanchao did not plan to go up the mountain to look for mountain products, supplies and game at this time.
Because it is too dangerous to go up the mountain in this season, compared to the large prey in the mountains, Wang Yuanchao is more afraid of invisible venomous snakes and insects. These things hide in the dark, and if you are not paying attention, they will bite you and you will be dead. That would be very funny.
After some of the pickled vegetables that Wang Yuanchao wanted to eat were prepared, the team leader still didn't come.
Wang Yuanchao simply went fishing in the Qingyu River in front of his front door every day after getting up.
Wang Yuanchao was willing to make a nest when fishing. He threw a few handfuls of corn kernels into the water, and also threw some rice soaked in white wine. Then he hung red earthworms on the water and started fishing.
Wang Yuanchao has no shortage of fish to eat. There are probably more than 100,000 kilograms of fish in his space.
Sitting under the shade of the tree in front of the door and fishing is just to kill time.
Eating the cut melon, staring at the float in the water, and feeling the summer breeze coming from the wilderness, these days are so leisurely.
"Wang Zhiqing, are you fishing?"
Wang Yuan looked up at Aunt Li on the embankment across the river and said with a smile, "Yes, Aunt Li, yes, I'm fishing. Are you off work today?"
"How can I get off work so early? My youngest son is studying in the county. He came back today. The team leader and I asked for leave to go back and see him.
Have you caught any fish yet?"
"Hey, I just got here, how can I catch fish so quickly? I haven't started catching fish yet."
"Hey, the fish in our Qingyu River are very smart, so they are not that easy to catch. Wang Zhiqing, take your time fishing. I'll go back first."
"Okay, Aunt Li, you go ahead and do your work first. Walk slowly."
As he spoke, Wang Yuanchao saw the float turn black. Wang Yuanchao decisively lifted the fishing rod. The rod sank, and the tip of the rod instantly bent into a half bow. The fishing line was pulled in the water with a "crunching" sound. Wang Yuanchao took a look and saw that there was a big fish in the water. For a moment, Wang Yuanchao followed the fish and started to move forward and backward, and the surface of the Qingyu River was covered with waves.
After wandering for more than ten minutes, a bighead carp weighing more than ten pounds was slowly dragged to the shore by Wang Yuanchao. Wang Yuanchao had no fishing net, so he could only pull the fishing line while walking to the fish, then grab the fish's gills and lift it up hard to bring the bighead carp ashore. In the stunned expression of Aunt Li, he smiled and put away the fishing rod, and went back to make chopped pepper fish head for dinner.
(End of this chapter)
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