It's overcast!
I was picking up firewood with a chainsaw when my phone rang. I pulled my phone out of my overalls pocket, took off a gauze glove, and answered the call.
"Red girl, come back tomorrow to help me catch fish......" said my father on the other end of the phone.
I looked through the weather forecast on my phone desktop and replied loudly: "Lao Tzu, tomorrow will be cloudy, and there will be light to moderate rain!"
"Probably catching fish after lunch. I listened to the weather forecast, and there was no good weather for the year, only the two days when the temperature was the highest. If you don't catch it again, it's too late! The fish that has been raised for two years is too big to taste!" didn't listen to me again, and hung up the phone!
In the past two years, my father has suffered severe hearing loss, and he sometimes hears and sometimes does not hear when he talks to people. As a result, he spoke louder and louder, as if he was afraid that others would not hear him. As for making phone calls, he simply hung up after a while. He also knows that there is a problem with his ears, and when he speaks, he finishes the meaning he wants to express in a while, and he doesn't care about anything else!
Early the next morning, I got up to look at the sky. It was still overcast and it wasn't raining. I'm going to do what I didn't finish yesterday. There are only a few days left for the New Year, and it is refreshing to celebrate the New Year after doing things.
After working for three hours straight, I drove my wife and little daughter back to my hometown. My wife is very busy, I haven't been back for a long time, and I definitely don't have time anymore a year ago, so I just went to take a spin today. The little sister is tired of playing at home during the winter vacation, so she goes out for a ride, changes her taste, and also goes to nature to see and understand.
I drove straight to the fish pond more than a mile from home. The fish pond is not large, only more than one acre of water surface, and it was dug by my brother-in-law from rice fields. In the early years, it was always my brother-in-law who put some fish by himself. Due to his busy schedule, my brother-in-law raises angelfish and does not eat them regularly at all. When you want to eat fish, you go to catch one, and everyone goes to eat it in the dry pond at the end of the year, and there is no economic benefit. Later, I simply ignored it and gave it to my father. My father is very attentive to his work, and every day he will ride a small electric donkey to at least go around and put some grass or vegetable leaves.
The electric pump is pumping water, and the amount of water is not coming out. Two of the fish have shown their backs, which seem to be not small, and the other fish have not moved for the time being, and it seems that there are not many fish. I asked my father, "Lao Tzu, there is a fish?"
"Whatever! Drain the water anyway, there will always be food! Go home and eat first." ”
Mother cooks at home and prepares ten dishes, which are served. The little sister Langzi drove his van, which was fully equipped with water tanks, rain pants, fish nets, etc. I ate at the table first, hurriedly made two bowls, and when they started eating, I handed over the keys to my wife for safekeeping, and drove away with my brother-in-law in a van. Usually, there is heavy farm work at home, and my father usually does not arrange for me to do it. In the past few days, my younger brother is in a sports car, my brother-in-law is too busy, my eldest brother-in-law has not returned from work in the factory, and my younger sister has a cold again. In desperation, my father told me to go back.
I put on my rain pants and went down to the pond with the net. The mud in the pond is very deep, and the lower pond is knee-deep. I had to pull the rain pants with my hands to move slowly. When you get to a place where there is water, the silt is shallow, and it is easy to move. I use the net to go from the direction of the fish's head, one net at a time. The big fish weighs more than ten pounds and has a lot of strength. Before lifting the net and leaving the water, the fish struggled desperately. After a few twists and swings, my head was covered in mud. The nets have to be put in the water so that the fish can be a little quieter. When I had stood on my stake, I lifted the fish out of the water again and stretched the net to the shore. The girl had a lot of strength, grabbed the net and threw it away, and the fish was thrown into the grass where some water was specially stored, and pushed the net handle to me with her backhand.
I've helped catch fish before, but I've never had fish at home. Therefore, in the past, catching fish was a trick, running errands, or taking a hand, and never being the main force, except today. I counted them, and the two largest fish in the pond were the brain-shelled carp, about 14 or 5 catties each. The second is grass carp, with an average of about ten catties, and the smallest ones are estimated to weigh four catties. The carp are small and mostly have bulging bellies. It took more than an hour to catch all the big fish. In addition to leaving more than ten catties of roasted fish, the rest were simply not caught. The carp left the two largest and put them back. Six small grass carp also returned to the pond.
My sister came to tell me that she had put some small mussels in the pond, and that they should be grown up and could be picked up for stew for the children. I groped in the mud and touched three big ones, only the two largest. Although it was cloudy, the temperature was not low. I was busy for a while, and I was sweating. Originally, I wanted to pick up some snails and crucian carp stew to drink, or try to dig a few big loaches, but I gave up after thinking about it.
I washed the fish and sent it to the van in a fiber bag. It took a short time to bring the pump to shore and wash it, and then put some of the small fish back into the pond. It's getting cloudier and it's going to rain. Because I had been soaked in the water for a long time, my sleeves were a little wet, so I had to go back and deal with the fish quickly.
The total amount of fish was about 200 catties, and a few acquaintances bought four or five, and the rest of my father asked us sisters to share them. This has become my business again! I can't help it, so I throw the fish in the cement lawn in front of my sister's house, and then pump the well water to rinse it for a while. Not only the body of the fish and the bag containing the fish are cleaned, but also the gills of the fish. My sister brought me a kitchen knife and a bucket of wooden planks, and I had to do the work of killing fish again. More than a dozen fish hit the scales, cut them open, removed the belly and gills, and scraped the black inner membrane with the strongest fishy smell in the fish belly, which was really troublesome. My brother and daughter-in-law helped to beat the scales, and my wife beat the back of the kitchen knife with a stick when I cut the fish's skull. Because the lumbar spine is not good, after cutting more than a dozen fish, I feel that my body can't stand upright. It's raining, and my sleeves are getting weter!
The big and small fish were all sorted out, and my sister hooked three with an iron hook. She said to dry it first, and then everyone should get it when they want to eat. My brother and daughter-in-law only need one to eat fresh. The eldest sister is not at home, and the younger sister does not want anything. Anyway, there are a lot of refrigerators, so I asked for more, and the rest was sent home to be handled by my parents, which was enough for them to be busy for a while.
After doing this, I took someone to bring the fish back to my house. Thinking about the dozens of catties of fish in the car, I am a little anxious. The fish brain shell is cut down and frozen, the fish meat is partly salted and smoked, and the part is packed in a fresh-keeping bag, which is tiring enough. It's a little exciting to think about being able to eat for a long time.
"It's just a few fish that are still so energetic, it's really useless. The wife replied in the back seat of the car, "Drive well, go back to take a shower and change clothes early, don't catch a cold! This time Lao Tzu shouted, otherwise I wouldn't have allowed you to go." Spend more than 1,000 yuan to buy fish, eat stupid!"
For more than 1,000 yuan, you can buy a lot of fish, and you can also ask someone to send it to your home, and even someone can do it if you want to cut it up. I've never thought of it that way. It's just my old father, who worked hard for two years to raise fish. And my old mother, who worked hard to get a table of dishes. But what is about masturbation is that the daughter-in-law and grandson who rarely go home on weekdays have returned. Maybe my son will still say when he eats fish, "This fish is raised by my father!"