Chapter 89 Lobster fishing

Chapter 89 Lobster fishing

Chapter 89 Lobster fishing

"Yes, how could I have forgotten all this." Li Changle sat on the bamboo chair, leaned comfortably against the back of the chair, stretched out his legs, picked up the palm leaf fan and started fanning himself, "Anan, our family will get better and better."

"Yes!" Zhou Ruonan responded in a low voice and handed him the money. "Now there is no place to spend the money, you should return the money to your mother!"

"We still need 120 yuan to pay for the tricycle! Let's take it first and pay it back when we have more money at home."

"I would have forgotten if you hadn't told me." Zhou Ruonan walked towards the room with the money and account book.

Li Changle thought of going fishing for crayfish, so he stood up and took out a thick hemp rope from the cupboard, and found a bamboo pole. The tools for fishing lobsters are very simple, just a bamboo pole, a thick rope tied with a frog, and you can catch a bucket of fish.

After tying the hemp rope, I found that the back door was much cooler than the front door.

Thinking that the two would arrive in a while, he simply pulled up a chair, sat in the aisle and took a nap.

As soon as I closed my eyes, Chen Yongwei and Afa came with fishing hooks, buckets and scoop nets.

As soon as Ge Changfa saw him, he said, "Ah Le, there's nothing to be afraid of under the blazing sun. It's not like a grown man needs to look good."

"Don't men need to look good? Then why did you drag me to buy vanishing cream before?"

"I didn't have a wife before, but now I have one. I have money to buy cold cream, but I might as well buy a pack of cigarettes instead." Ge Changfa said as he handed him a cigarette.

"Go away, don't stay in the chair."

Li Changle crossed his legs and looked at the two of them, "When you guys catch frogs later, I'll go with you. If you let me catch them, I'll stay at home and rest!"

"You're raising a jerk!" Ge Changfa grabbed him and said, "There are frogs everywhere in the ditches beside the rice fields. I'm going to catch them without you having to use force, okay?"

"Fuck! You're so enthusiastic, where do you think you're going to fish?"

"Go to Shaji Village. I came back from there today and saw a lot of crayfish in the ditch. After fishing for crayfish, I will lower the eel hook and go get it tomorrow morning. It won't waste any time at all."

"Okay!" Seeing that he brought the fishing hook, Li Changle stood up to get his straw hat, said hello to Zhou Ruonan, and the three of them left through the back door.

Chen Yongwei thought of something, "Brother Afa, I saw you made a loach pounder, how did you think of making that thing?"

"My brother-in-law has nothing to do at home. His place is not near the sea but there are many rivers and ponds. He can only go out to pound loaches and catch eels to sell."

Li Changle became interested when he heard it, "Let's go to your house and see who's pounding loaches."

"I also learned it from them when I was in the mountains." Ge Changfa excitedly took the two of them home.

His family lived in the row of houses beside Changtang, two two-story stone houses. The yard was kept clean and tidy. In the middle of the dam stood something that looked like a shrimp basket, but was several times larger.

Ah Fa said, "This is it. When you're pounding loaches, grab the top pole and step on it. The bamboo tubes in front will slide down and the loaches in the bushes will go into the net bag."

Li Changle looked around and said, "This thing is great. If you can invent a sand pounder, you'll be rich."

"Yes, it would be even better if we could invent a device to catch jumping fish."

"I don't have that ability!" Ge Changfa pulled Li Changle and said, "Let's go. If you keep talking, it will be dark."

The three of them went straight out of the village. They first caught a few frogs from the ditch beside the rice field and put them in a net bag. Then they crossed the road and saw a large pond. These were all the fields and ponds of Shaki Village.

The sun was scorching, making people's scalps numb. In the distance, there were a few villagers standing on a small wooden boat in the river pond, using bamboo rakes to pick up water hyacinths that were competing with water chestnuts for nutrients and bring them to the shore.

Li Changle looked around and saw a patch of reeds in front of him. "Let's go sit there."

"okay!"

The three of them walked over and found that it was a ditch leading to a pond, full of aquatic plants and water peanuts.

Li Changle poked it with a bamboo pole. The water in the ditch was not deep. It would only cover his calves.
Ge Changfa grabbed a frog from the net, threw it on a rock, and crushed it. "I haven't fished for lobsters for a long time. I'm a little rusty now."

Chen Yongwei: "We haven't been here to fish for lobsters for many years."

"How come it's been seven or eight years?" Li Changle took the crushed frog, "My son will be in the first grade of elementary school in a blink of an eye."

Chen Yongwei: "You two have sons, but I am still single."

Ge Changfa looked at him and said, "You are not still a virgin, are you?"

"I don't have a wife, so of course I'm a virgin."

"You pig brain, this kind of thing isn't something only your wife can do!"

Ge Changfa said, looking at Li Changle with a lewd expression, "Have you ever been to the hair salon in Jilong Lane in town?"

"I never take the bus. It's too dirty!" Li Changle suddenly remembered something and pointed at him and asked, "Where did you go?"

In my previous life, there was a murder in Jilong Lane, and the hairdresser who was killed was found to have an infectious disease. Pan Zhen, who had been there to have fun, was scared to death. "Where do I get the money to do that?" Ge Changfa whispered, "Last time when I was playing mahjong at Wang Mazi's house, I heard him and A Biao say that there was a captain of a foreign steamship in the village who went there to have fun."

"I'm telling you, that kind of place is very dirty, you must never go there."

"I'm more honest than you. If you don't go, why should I go?"

Chen Yongwei looked at the two of them in confusion, "Brother, what do you mean? There is a bus in the hair salon. Why don't I understand?"

"You don't need to understand!" Li Changle patted Ah Fa, "Anan's parents' home is far away, but your mother-in-law is next door. Hurry up and ask someone to help Ah Wei find a suitable girl. Is there any?"

"Okay! I'll tell Ah Xiu when I get home and ask her to go back to her parents' home to ask for Ah Wei."

"Look how hard it is for me to be your brother. Whenever I have the chance, I'll ask people to help you find a wife!"

"Brother, when I hold my wedding, I will toast you two more times!"

"That's pretty much it!"

Li Changle and Chen Yongwei hung frog meat on fish hooks and used bamboo poles to dig out the water peanuts inside. This thing looks somewhat similar to water spinach. As long as there is one, it won't take long for the entire ditch to fill up.

As soon as a patch of grass was pulled apart, the crayfish, small fish and shrimps hiding inside fled in all directions.

Ge Changfa exclaimed, "Oh my, there are so many small fish and shrimps in this ditch. I should have brought two traps with me earlier."

Chen Yongwei laughed and said, "No one comes to release the cages, so of course there are a lot!"

The environment these days was really good. The water in the ditches was crystal clear and there was no odor. It was unlike later times, when the sewers of each village all discharged into rivers, ponds and ditches. When you walked to the ditch, the stinking smell was so nauseating.

The three of them sat down by the reeds, put the baited hooks into the water, and waited for the lobsters to take the bait.

There were mosquitoes even in broad daylight by the reed marsh, and it was too hot to sit under the sun. Li Changle pulled his straw hat down and watched the small fish swimming back and forth in the ditch.

Lobsters are greedy and especially like frogs. When the curved fishing line floating on the water is slowly straightened, it means that it has clamped the frog meat with its two large claws.

Since it uses pliers to eat bait, it is more likely to fall off and escape when you pull it out of the water, so you have to pull the rod lightly and quickly.

After just a few breaths, the line floating on the water surface began to move. Li Changle quickly lifted the fishing rod, and a fat and big crayfish with bait in its two big claws and a bright red body was brought to the shore.

"This is what happens when you are greedy."

He grabbed the lobster and threw it into the bucket, then turned around and saw Chen Yongwei and Ge Changfa also picked up bamboo poles.

Ge Changfa held the crayfish in his hand and said, "Damn, if only the big flower dragonfish were this easy to catch."

"Then we will be rich." Chen Yongwei said with a smile.

"Why don't you think about this? If there are as many big flower lobsters as crayfish, would they still be waiting for us to catch them?" Before Li Changle finished speaking, another lobster took the bait, and he pulled up another one.

"What Ah Le said makes sense. The fewer there are, the more valuable they are! In fact, crayfish tastes pretty good, so why doesn't anyone buy them?"

As Ge Changfa spoke, he pointed again. The crayfish in the ditch seemed to be queuing up below, waiting for people to bait and fish them ashore.

"What's so delicious about a bunch of crayfish that smells like dirt? Are you having morning sickness?" Looking at his expression, Li Changle almost suspected that he was also reborn.

Because these days, crayfish are so popular that no one wants them even if you give them away, because unlike seafood, they taste delicious when blanched and dipped in vinegar.

Ge Changfa laughed and said, "My mother bought dozens of half-grown ducks and asked me to help her catch snails. Then I remembered that I haven't eaten crayfish for a long time. Let's catch them and roast the big ones, and feed the small ones to my mother's ducks."

"Let me tell you something. Last time I was working for a family in the mountains, their fried crayfish was delicious, but it was too spicy. After eating it, I felt really uncomfortable when I went to the toilet."

Li Changle nodded at him a few times, "After all this time, you asked us to come and fish for eels and crayfish so that we could do voluntary work for you!"

"He said he hadn't eaten eels for a long time. After all this time, fishing for eels was just a side job!" Chen Yongwei also joined in the fun.

"I find that you are so eloquent now that you are almost as good at bragging." Ge Changfa said as he raised his arm to clamp Chen Yongwei's neck, but he was a head shorter than him and could not reach it, so he could only grab his arm.

"Fuck!" Chen Yongwei jumped out and looked at him with a cold face. "A man is holding my arm. I'm so scared that my hair stands on end."

Ge Changfa picked up a piece of mud and threw it over, "Get lost, why didn't you say your pores stood up when you were running after us with your bare bottom and your little bird dangling?"

"You are the same, half of your butt is exposed, and there is a black mole on your white butt!"

"Hurry up, the crayfish have taken the bait." Li Changle picked up a bamboo pole with one hand, and saw two crayfish holding the bait and reluctant to let go.

“Here they come, here they come!” The two people who were chasing and fighting like children also hurried back.

The two put the bait on, and Ge Changfa sat next to him, "Ah Le, everyone says that you and A Wei are very good at ocean shipping, how have you been able to harvest so far?"

　Thanks to all my friends for their support. The daily fishing and hunting game has reached 1,000 points. Thank you! Thank you!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)