Fight the Giants

  Chapter 6 Fishing

  Hearing Yang Fu's question, Huo Xi swallowed the food in his mouth, and then said: "Today we will go fishing with Dad, catch more, and we will take some to send to Butcher Gao in the afternoon."

  Huo Erhuai has already heard about the two of them buying pig's trotters yesterday, and nodded after listening: "It should be, Dad buys more, even if we don't sell them, we will send them away."

  Yang Fu nodded while grilling the rice, and shouted at Qian Xiaoxia: "We are going to go fishing in the Yangtze Estuary today!"

  Qian Xiaoxia wilted as soon as he heard it.

   Fishing and fishing, after so many years of fishing, I am not tired of it. No chance to enter the city now. He wanted to sneak into the city quietly, but he was afraid that his father would cut him down. The rice in the bowl suddenly tasted bad.

  Huo Xi has finished eating here. She ate up the rice porridge in the bowl, as if the bowl had been washed with water. Put the bowl in front of you, put the chopsticks on the table, put the chopsticks next to the bowl, and rush towards yourself.

   Yang watched in amazement, Xi'er's every move, poor people can't raise such a temperament. Look at Yang Fu, after eating, when the bowl is pushed away, the chopsticks are crooked, with rice grains still on them. It's okay not to compare, but the more you compare, the worse it is.

  Yang Fu didn't know why, so early in the morning, his sister's eyes seemed to eat people.

  He lowered his head and quickly stacked Huo Xi's bowl with his own, and held two pairs of chopsticks in his hand, "Xi'er, let's go, let's wash the dishes."

   After breakfast, the nearby fishing boats leave one after another.

  Huo Erhuai has finished exchanging news with the big guys, asked about the water area everyone is going to, and has decided where his family is going. Avoid a bunch of people crowding in one place, and not much fish and shrimp can be caught.

   Yang went into the cabin to clean up his affairs, Huo Xi and Yang Fu followed Huo Erhuai to the stern. Huo Erhuai set up the scull and started to shake the scull board.

  The boat slowly left the docked water.

  Huo Xi stared at it with great interest.

  The boat in their house is a scull boat with a single scull. It is said that "one scull is worth three oars, and one oar is worth three oars." This scull boat is more labor-saving and flexible than a paddle boat, and it can be used by both the elderly and children.

  The scull head is tied to the scull rope, and the scull rope is fixed to the iron ring at the stern to prevent the scull board from falling into the water, and the scull rope can control the depth of the scull board entering the water.

  Looking at the middle of the scull board, there is a round hole, which is placed on the oar fork at the stern to support the scull board to form a lever. In this way, the oar operator can operate with one hand, hold the front end of the oar and shake it back and forth, and the oar board in the water will move water left and right, and the boat will move.

  It’s like the fish flicking its tail left and right to drive its body forward.

  Huo Erhuai saw that she was watching carefully, and said with a smile, "Xi'er, do you want to try?"

  Huo Xi's eyes lit up, and he nodded vigorously. He ran to Huo Erhuai's side and stretched out his hand... Well, he's not tall enough.

  Standing up on tiptoes, it wasn’t enough, so I got very angry.

Huo Erhuai saw it funny, pressed the head of the scull, let her hold it, and patiently taught her: "Xi'er grabs the scull rope with one hand, and comes with both hands...Use skillful force, not brute force, or your arm will , waist, abdomen, and feet will hurt, yes, that's it..."

  Huo Xi listened to his guidance, and quickly got started.

  Because the oar is not carried in the hand, but rested on the stern of the boat, and it is fixed by the oar rope and oar fork, so it does not take much effort. If you don't grab the oar rope, you can use one hand to do other things.

  Yang Fu couldn't help leaning over, "Xi'er, do you know why the scull board is made like that?"

   "Do you know why our scull boards are so long?"

  Huo Xi smiled and shook his head seeing that he looked like a good teacher.

Sure enough, Yang Fu started blah, "Xi'er, have you seen the tail of a fish? The tail of the fish moves the water from side to side, and the scull board at the end of the water is made of the tail of the fish... The bigger the boat, the longer the scull. There are dozens of sculls..."

  The two chattered all the way, and seeing that the two of them could control it, Huo Erhuai began to straighten the fishing nets.

  It wasn't until Huo Nian howled twice and woke up that Huo Xi and Yang Fu walked into the cabin to see Huo Nian.

  Huo Nian woke up. After eating the milk, he was very energetic. Hearing the sound of the scull paddle, he was still pointing his hands outward. I don’t know if he wanted to look outside.

  Huo Xi sat cross-legged in the cabin, supporting him from his armpits, and Yang Fu sat on the side to protect him. The two teased Huo Nian and played with him.

Huo Nian has been around for a hundred days, and Yang Shi feeds him seven or eight times a day. Although his little face was a little darkened by the river wind, he is very strong, and he keeps jumping on Huo Xi's lap with great strength. Huo Xi almost couldn't hold her.

  Yang Fu teased him with the rattle, Huo Nian looked at Huo Xi for a while, then turned to look at Yang Fu, reaching out to grab the rattle.

  Yang Fu refused to give it to him, and while hanging him, he backed away. After doing this several times, Huo Nian finally got annoyed. Two puffs to Yang Fu, the saliva didn't come out, but flowed down the corner of his mouth and dripped on the scarf.

  Huo Xi let go of his hand to pat his buttocks, and glared at him. He just yelled at Huo Xi, as if suing.

  Yang Fu was slapped hard by Yang Shi, causing Huo Nian to grin, and his short legs jumped more and more joyfully.

   "Mother, will you turn over after a hundred days?"

Yang wiped Huo Nian's saliva, and the more she looked at it, the happier she was, and replied: "Some strong children can turn over in two or three months, and some don't turn over until they are half a year old. Your uncle is only half a year old. Will roll over."

  Yang Fu is not convinced, is he so weak?

   Yang glanced at him, feeling a little distressed.

   It's not that he's weak, it's just that he didn't eat. The mother had dystocia and was bleeding profusely, and she passed away during confinement. She and Erhuai were newly married at that time, neither of them had ever been parents, so they panicked and didn't know how to take care of him.

  He had no milk to eat, the husband and wife hugged him and begged people to give him a bite to eat, and all the shamelessness was thrown away.

  I fed him rice cereal when he was only four months old, and he won't turn over until six or seven months old. She couldn't walk at the age of two, which made Yang cry in anxiety. She was afraid that this posthumous brother would not be able to support her, so that Yang's blood would be cut off in her hands.

   "Sister, why do you look at me like that?"

   "Are you more handsome than Nian Er? I see you?" After speaking, Yang reached out and grabbed the rattle in his hand, and handed it to Huo Nian.

  Give Yang Fu to the depressed one.

  In the past, he was his sister's treasure, but now his sister doesn't see him in her heart.

  Huo Nian held the rattle in his hand, didn't know how to shake it, and fiddled with it up and down a few times, but it didn't make any sound. He raised a pair of innocent, big watery eyes and looked at Yang Shi.

   It melted Yang's motherly heart.

   "Nian'er doesn't know how to shake, does he? Mother shake for Nianer, please, look, boom boom, boom boom..."

   Huo Nian grinned happily, jumping up and down, and wanted to reach out to grab it again.

   When he got tired of playing, Huo Xi put him on the board of the boat and asked him to turn over. Huo Nian thrashed his limbs, but he didn't turn over. Yang Fu was so anxious that he lay beside him and demonstrated it himself.

  Yang Fu demonstrated a few times in a strange manner, Huo Nian stared at him, and in the end he was very pleased, and learned to turn over.

   He made everyone so happy that he clapped his hands and praised him. It made him giggle, causing Huo Erhuai to drop the scull, and ran into the cabin to tease him for a while.

  Finally, Huo Nian exhausted all his strength and fell asleep again.

   Yang took Yang Fu to the stern of the boat to adjust the fishing nets.

  Huo Xi picked up all the clothes washed last night, folded them and put them in the bilge of the boat, and turned over the dried fish and shrimps that were drying on the bow.

  The sun is fine today, and after a while, it will be thoroughly tanned and can be put away. It can also serve as food for a family for half a month.

  Just after turning over, Huo Erhuai has cast the first net.

  After the net was collected, the four of them squatted at the stern of the boat and removed the fish and shrimp from the net and put them into the water tank at the stern. In this way, when they are picked to be sold in the city in the next afternoon, it can be guaranteed that most of them are alive, and they can be sold for more money.

  Maybe I was lucky today, I only connected to the three nets, and the water tank was almost full. Too many fish, jump straight up.

  Yang also caught some small ones that couldn’t be sold at a high price. He squatted on the bow of the boat facing the river, removed the scales and belly, cut them in half, and dried them in the sun.

  The bow and stern of the boat could not be dried, so the dustpan was carried to the top of the boat to dry, and fixed with boat ropes.

   "Xi'er, I'll teach you how to use a scale. We'll go to the city with your father to sell fish later!"

  Yang Fu was very happy to see that today's harvest was not small. Find out the scale that sells fish at home, and teach her.

   "I know how to read the scale, I know what my father taught me before."

   "Really know it?"

"Um."

Huo Xi nodded, pointing to the weighing stars on the weighing pole and telling him one by one, then took the fishing basket and hung it up with the weighing hook, hung the weighing weight on the weighing pole, and moved the scale while lifting the weighing pole. mound, so that the bar is horizontal.

   "Look, it's four catties and two taels. I promise you a tael of silver."

  A tael of silver for a broken fishing basket? What about robbery?

  Yang Fu glared at her, while Huo Xi pursed his lips and smiled. Handing him the weighing pole, he turned to Huo Erhuai and asked, "Father, will my uncle and I come to sell it later?"

  Huo Erhuai smiled on his dark face: "Okay. Come and sell."

   Yan.Yu.Fu ended last night. Has anyone watched it? I have a little bit of regret. But overall it's okay, the actors are very eye-catching, aren't they? I changed the ending of the novel, and I like the happy ending, haha, it’s selfish~

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