Chapter 186 Jimmy, Aga

Chapter 186 Jimmy, Aga

Chapter 186 Jimmy, Aga

After Li Changle hung all the baits and put them into the water, he stretched his legs over the small stool and sat down, watching the fishing line slowly sinking. The three brothers didn't say a word, just waited quietly for the fish to take the bait.

I sat there waiting for more than ten minutes before I saw the float on the fishing line budge. The hand holding the rod felt the underwater hook and bait trembling.

This was a fish testing him. He held the fishing rod firmly without moving. When he felt the fish biting the bait and the pulling force, he pressed the hand holding the rod upward with force and lifted the rod quickly.

After the eel is hooked, you have to lift the rod and drag the fish out of the water immediately, otherwise the eel will feel pain and will run around, get entangled in water plants or drill into obstacles, and then escape after the line breaks and the hook breaks.

When Brother Li saw the eel curled up in pain, he pulled it out of the water. He quickly caught the eel with a scoop net, put it in a bucket, held its head with his fingers, and took out the fishhook.

Li Changle looked at the river eels in the bucket that were not much thicker than a small tree branch, "Haha, we're open, let's keep working!"

Brother Li also caught a fish and pulled up a river eel weighing six or seven taels. Only Brother Li II has not yet pulled up any fish.

"This position is not good, we need to find another place to hook."

"Brother, can I switch with you?"

"No need, I'll try it in front." Brother Li said as he changed his position and continued to cast the hook.

Half an hour later, Li Changle and Brother Li caught two river eels and a mandarin fish respectively, but there was still no movement on his fishing rod.

"I was hoping to catch a few big fish, but I didn't catch even one."

Fishing requires patience, but after waiting for an hour, Ale caught two river eels.

The eldest brother caught two river eels and a mandarin fish weighing more than one kilogram, but before he even started fishing, his hands stank as if he had touched feces.

Brother Li couldn't sit still anymore, so he put away the three fishing rods. When he pulled up some of them, only a shrimp head was left, and on others, only a loach head was left hanging.

"I'm not going to fish anymore. I haven't caught a single fish in half a day. It's better to go to the drainage outlet in front with a landing net to catch fish faster!"

Just now when he and Li Changle went to the grove to check the water, they saw a water gap that drained water into Changtang. On rainy days, there were a lot of fish in this water gap.

"Brother, I'll go with you!"

Li Changle couldn't bear to guard the fishing rod here, so he picked up the big scoop net and said to Brother Li: "Brother, you stay here, let's go over there and try to catch a few fish."

"You two are both monkeys who can't sit still!" Brother Li scolded them with a smile and waved at them. "Go and get two nets back. When the rain stops, we should go back to work."

"Yeah!" Li Changle ran towards the water hole in front with a scoop net and a bucket.

As soon as I reached the first water gap, I heard white foam at the water inlet and the sound of splashing water.

"There's stock!" Li Changle excitedly inserted the scoop net diagonally into the water, grasped the handle and pushed the scoop net towards the gap in the water, and quickly scooped it up, only to see loaches, crucian carp, and river shrimps inside.

Most of them are small ones as thick as toothpicks, and some big ones are about the size of little fingers. They are as white as jade and snow, and transparent.

The silverfish is slender and about an inch long. It has only one spinal cartilage running from head to tail. The cartilage is tender, transparent, and as white as silver. It has dense meat without scales or thorns, bones or intestines. Its meat is delicate and has no fishy smell.

"A Le, I caught a lot of silverfish. Do you have any?" Brother Li asked excitedly.

"Yes, I have quite a few here." Li Changle went over with the scoop net. "Look, this net should weigh about 70 to 80 taels, right?"

"Not bad, it can be sold for seven or eight cents a pound!"

"It's more profitable than fishing for eels!" Li Changle poured the fish into the bucket, put the scoop net into the water again, slowly moved it along the edge of the pond, and lifted the scoop net when the water broke.

There were also quite a few silverfish in the net, as well as a grass carp weighing about one kilogram, some wheatear fish and loaches.

"A Le, look, there's a rainbow over there!" Brother Li shouted, pointing to the top of the mountain in the south.

Li Changle turned his head and saw a beautiful rainbow across the sky, flashing colorful light. After a long pause, he said, "The storm is over!"

"It's over. We can go out to sea to fish tomorrow." Brother Li responded and went to the shore with a scoop net to start fishing.

The cheers of the two men caused Brother Li, who was fishing, to lose interest and ran over with a landing net, "Let me see how many there are?"

"The silver fish we caught at one time weighed several taels." Li Changle looked at him with a smile, "You didn't catch any fish?"

"No, the fish won't come after you left." Brother Li picked up the scoop net and started to scoop up fish at the edge of the pond. Suddenly, water splashed in the net bag and the handle almost slipped into the long pond.

"Fuck! That's a great kill!" He quickly gripped the handle and lifted the net out of the water. When he saw a big fish weighing five or six kilograms in it, he shouted excitedly, "A big mandarin fish."

The mandarin fish has a pointed head, a laterally flattened body, a raised back, and a relatively thick body.

Because of its abundant meat and few bones, its garlic-shaped flesh is white, tender and delicious. It is as famous as the Yellow River carp, Songjiang four-gilled perch and Xingkai Lake big whitefish, and is known as one of my country's "Four Famous Freshwater Fishes".

"Let me see!" Brother Li and Li Changle both ran over with their landing nets. "My goodness, big brother is so lucky today. We will definitely be able to catch a big catch tomorrow."

Brother Li nodded happily, "It was not in vain. With the eel and the small one, we can sell it for seven or eight yuan."

Brother Li was also very happy. “The rain has stopped for a while, and the buckets are almost full. Each of us will cast two more nets and then go back to work.” The next two nets caught two mullets, a carp, countless small silver fish, and some loaches. Only then did the three brothers finish their work and go back.

"Brother, now that the typhoon has passed, should we go out to sea tomorrow morning or tonight?"

Brother Li looked at the sky and said, "We can go out to sea at three o'clock tonight. The day we chose is still two days away. We will go with you, Awei, tomorrow morning."

Li Changle nodded, "Then let's get up at two o'clock and go to the waterway to open the boat."

Li Erge took over and said, "Tonight, my eldest brother and I will go to Shuilu Zhang to start the boat. We will fill up the gas there. You can stay at home for a while longer. Then, you and Awei will pull the things to the dock and we will leave the tricycle at Adong's house."

"okay!"

When they got home, only Father Li and the children were at home. Zhou Ruonan and her mother-in-law had already gone to Nanshan to work.

"Dad, let's go to work. You and Xiaoyang take the mandarin fish and eels to sell for money. Keep the whitebait and mullet for drying, and roast the rest."

"You guys go do your things, I'll clean up." Father Li's injured leg was able to use some strength recently, and he could even walk a few steps without the crutches.

Li Changle and the other two put away their fishing rods, picked up their baskets and carried their hoes and shovels to the new foundation, where they saw Chen Yongwei pushing a dump truck down the mountain.

After saying hello, Brother Li and Brother Li II walked up the mountain.

Li Changle looked at the dump truck he was pushing and asked with a smile, "The moviegoers are back!"

"Hehe!" Chen Yongwei smiled innocently, "I've been back for a while. We watched a foreign movie with disco. The songs were nice and the dances were beautiful and exciting."

"I know, Jimmy, Aga! Jimmy, Aga! Let's hold hands and dance disco, love you in our hearts, and forget the worries and sorrows..."

Li Changle twisted her body a few times while singing.

"Yes, yes, that's how it's sung." Chen Yongwei looked at him in admiration, "Brother, your dancing is quite similar."

"That's right. If I can't even dance to disco, no one will say that I'm just a street idiot." Li Changle kicked the dump truck. "Where did you get the new weapon?"

"Achan's!" Chen Yongwei responded happily.

"How's it going? Do you have anything else to say to Ah Chan?"

"Yes, she told me how she fished when her family was on the island. She also said that she only read two books and now she can only write her own name. If she could immigrate here earlier, she would have read more books."

"I'll let her learn from my sister-in-law..."

"Silly, you don't need to teach her any knowledge, just teach her her name, the educated people call this 'a red sleeve adding fragrance'!"

"Where did we get Xiang Tian!"

Chen Yongwei dumped the yellow mud into the straw shed and pushed the dump truck up the mountain. "I'm sending Ah Chan home. Uncle Jin said the sea water hasn't receded yet and may not recede until tomorrow morning."

"We're going out to sea tomorrow morning. Come over at 2:30 and we'll go to the dock to wait for my brother."

"Great, we can finally go fishing!"

"Yes, if there is no money coming in for two days, Brother Qian will send the wood over when the weather clears up." Li Changle said this and suddenly remembered something, "I will go to my brother-in-law's house after work and ask him to take some time to look at the wood."

"Wood also costs a lot, right?"

"Yes, once construction starts, money will flow out like water."

When they got to the mountain, the yellow mud dug out by Li's mother and the others had already piled up into a mountain. The soil was loose after the rain and much easier to dig than when the soil was compacted on a sunny day.

With the help of three people, the pile of loess shrank visibly. Grandma Chen and Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quickened their hands, and the loess they dug up was barely enough to meet the demand.

After work, Li Changle took some whitebait and crucian carp and rode his bicycle to Li'ao. When he arrived at the bridge, he saw Li Changxi washing vegetables on the bank of the pond. "Sister, I brought you some whitebait and crucian carp."

"Why are you here at this time?" Li Changxi saw him coming home when it was almost dark, and thought something had happened at home. He didn't even bother to wash the vegetables and hurried to the shore.

"It's okay! The wood that Ah Fa took me to buy from his friend in Liyushan should be delivered tomorrow. Let my brother-in-law take the carpenter to take a look when he is free."

"Oh! You scared me." Li Changxi breathed a sigh of relief, "Your brother-in-law has already called the carpenter. His eldest brother will go with his fellow apprentices."

"Of course it would be best if Brother Zhang took the carpenter with him." Li Changle told her about selling pickled jellyfish.

"Tell your brother-in-law that we plan to renovate the row of dilapidated houses in the back and move there first. It will be more convenient for us to see the construction site and so on."

"Not bad. Once it's pickled, we'll have some income."

Li Changxi looked at him happily, "The house where your brother-in-law works was supposed to be finished tomorrow, but the typhoon delayed it for a few days. Your brother-in-law is still working overtime there!"

"It's okay. There have been many typhoons in the past two months. You can tell your brother-in-law that we are not waiting for a house to live in. Safety is the most important thing!"

(End of this chapter)