Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

They had breakfast before daybreak the next day. When Li Jianguo came over with the carriage, Li Long and his team were already prepared. Li Long even went to the warehouse to check and found that the fish were indeed frozen. It hadn't snowed in the past two days, otherwise he would have covered the fish with snow. If there was no snow, he could only pour cold water on the fish, which was equivalent to covering the surface with a thin layer of ice to preserve the quality and freshness.

The six of them rode north in a carriage and soon joined Tao Daqiang and his son, and Yang Yongqiang and his son. They didn't talk much, but formed a convoy tacitly.

Li Long didn't ride a bicycle. At this time, he needed to go deep into the sea to catch fish. The bicycle could only be placed on the south bank, where it was easy to lose.

When we arrived at Dahaizi, it was already dawn, and what appeared before us was a huge pit.

Li Long had said a few words before, and he was mentally prepared after watching the waterline go down every day.

Li Jianguo and the other five came here last night and I’ve seen them before, so I didn’t feel anything.

However, Tao Daqiang and his son and Yang Yongqiang and his son were both shocked - was the sea just gone like that?

Because the bottom of the lake is uneven, even when the water is almost drained, there are still some potholes with a small amount of water, and several troughs with water flowing to the north gate. The rest is just mud.

At this moment, the mud had frozen hard, and several people were holding bags and picking up fish.

That's right, picking up fish.

There were fish in almost every hole that still had water. At a glance, you could see that most of it was frozen over, and the fish were underneath. Some big fish could even break through the thin ice and flutter around.

The place with the most fish is in the water tank. Because of the flowing water, what you can see in these tanks is not water flow, but "fish flow"! Some fish swim upstream with the water, and when they can't swim anymore, they gather together and flap their tails from time to time. Some swim downwards, and when they reach the shallow water, they collide with the fish swimming upwards, forming a "traffic jam", and then a large group of fish gathers together.

Those who picked up fish specifically picked up the big, good, alive and valuable ones. Li Long and his friends just took a look and then immediately joined in.

"There are fewer people now, so let's pick up the fish first. Remember, carp and five-striped black carp are about two kilograms. Try to pick up the big crucian carp. Ask them if they want to sell it to you. It's only one cent, and you have to be selective. If they don't want to sell it to you, don't worry about it. Ask them again later. They only keep a few hundred kilograms of fish at home, and the rest will be sold - don't worry, there are not many fish that can be collected now, so don't raise the price blindly..."

Li Long spoke quickly, then rushed down with a bag and a scoop net.

This is a sea of ​​fish!

If faced with a scene like this, I guess more than 99% of people in the country would not be able to remain calm and turn a blind eye, right?

The first thing he saw was a group of crucian carps in a puddle. A thin layer of ice on the surface had been broken by the fish themselves, and there were some broken ice cubes on the edge. Among the group of fish, the largest one was a large crucian carp weighing nearly one kilogram. Li Long picked up the large crucian carp and scooped up a scoop net, which also brought in two other crucian carps. Li Long did not even pour the fish into the scoop net, but directly picked it up and rushed into the sink.

This tank is full of fresh, alive, beautiful-looking big fish. This is the target!
The others were a step slower than Li Long, but they all moved quickly and ran in with scoop nets and bags. Those who didn't have scoop nets ran in directly with bags.

The last ones left were Li Jianguo, who was preparing to unload the carriage, Tao Jianshe, who was untying the donkey harness, and Yang Hua, Yang Yongqiang's father, who was putting down the cart.

The three of them worked together to get the car ready before heading inside.

No matter they were in the front or the back, these people were thinking of one question while they were fishing: This Li Long is too amazing, he can even predict such things in advance?

Of course it was not what he had predicted. When Li Long was fishing in a trough, he felt his memory coming back to him.

In his previous life, he was fun-loving. He was indeed the first person in the village to discover that the water in this sea had been drained and he could pick up the fish in it at will.

But he was rather stupid at that time. He could not even walk while holding the scoop net and looking at the fish in the trough. He caught the big fish one after another. The excitement at that time overwhelmed everything else. It was all a harvest.

However, as he was fishing, he felt something was wrong. He turned around and found that while he was fishing in front, there were women and children behind him who directly picked up the fish he had caught. He ran over and said that these were the fish he had caught, but they ignored him.

At that time, the area was full of people from the villages below Dahaizi. He knew that he couldn't win even if he tried to fight, so he had to scoop the fish into the scoop net. He continued to scoop the fish with the scoop net. The fish he scooped was no more than a dozen kilograms. At this time, people from the villages below heard the news and there were more and more people here. Li Long had no choice but to go back.

It was already afternoon when he got home. After hearing about this, Li Jianguo said to him that if he had gone home and told his family when he saw the fish, the whole family would have come together, and the previous situation where the fish was taken away by others would never have happened.

I can only say that at that time I was blinded by lard, not fish oil.

Li Long would never make such a stupid and low-level mistake again. He only picked up the big carps, crucians, and black carps, and of course the plateau loaches. He put them directly into the bag after picking them up. In less than fifteen minutes, the bag was full of fish. Li Long carried the bag and ran to the shore.

There were too many fish. Not only him, but Li Anguo and others also caught a bag in a short time. When Li Long came back, he said to Li Jianguo:
"Brother, you can just stand by the shore and watch in front of the car. We can leave the fish here. Otherwise, what if someone steals them from behind?"

"Okay." Although Li Jianguo also wanted to satisfy his craving for fish, the overall situation was more important. He returned to the carriage with the bag, sat on the carriage handle, took out the Mohe cigarette box from his pocket, took out some paper, and started rolling a cigarette.

This is the first time I’ve seen so many fish in my life!
There will be no shortage of fish to eat this winter.

The sky gradually brightened, and more and more fish were piled next to the carriage. Soon there were more than ten bags of fish, and the speed at which they delivered the fish slowed down.

Because they had already gone deep into the sea, close to the north.

When Li Long came over with a bag of fish on his back, he was panting. The sun had risen and the sunlight shone on his face, feeling a little dazzling.

"Brother, look, have you ever seen such a big clam?" Li Long was holding a black thing in his hand. "It's too big, I don't know if there are pearls inside..."

"Is this river clam so big?" Li Jianguo calls river clams river clams in his hometown. "It may not have pearls, but this guy must be at least 20 or 30 years old, and it's really big!"

"It might have parasites." Li Long threw the clam to the side of the carriage and planned to take a break to catch his breath. "Brother, there are about a ton of fish here now, right?"

"The three families combined should have about the same amount. We should have about 600 to 700 kilograms on our side alone." Li Jianguo had estimated it before. "Once we get a few more, we can use a horse-drawn carriage to carry them away."

"Then take it away later, unload it at the stable and home, and then come back to take it."

"Then everyone on the team will know."

"The news can't be concealed. Let's get it out now. Anyway, there are a lot of fish in this ocean. If we come early, we can get more. If we come late, we can get less. We've already got the lion's share. We have the upper hand."

"That's true. But there won't be many fish in the sea next year or the year after," Li Jianguo said with a sigh.

"That won't happen." Li Long pointed at the gate and said with a smile, "Brother, there is no net at the gate. When the water is released from the reservoir below, the fish will come up with the water. Fish will also rush down from the Mohe Canal above. There will definitely not be as many fish here next year as this year, but there won't be fewer either." Li Jianguo thought about it and agreed.

Then they continued to fish. After the sun rose, more people from the northern villages came to fish. Li Jianguo asked Tao Jianshe to watch over the fish while he drove the horse-drawn carriage back to the village. When he arrived, many people saw him.

"Brother Li, where do all these fish come from? Are they Dahaizi?" If you have good connections, just ask directly.

"The water in the sea has dried up, and it's full of fish." Li Jianguo did not hide it and said directly, "A lot of people are fishing now?"

"Is it true?" Everyone who heard it was immediately shocked. This was no small matter.

"Really? Look at the fish in this car. We caught all of them."

"Thank you then, we'll get some fish too!"

Fish can be sold for money, this is the experience that the villagers learned from Li Long. Although fish consumes a lot of oil, it tastes good, this is the experience passed down over the years. Now there are fish that can be picked up for free, who wouldn't want it?
So he called his friends and soon many people in the village knew about it.

When Li Jianguo unloaded the cart of fish into the warehouse of Laomahao and pulled the carriage to Dahaizi, many people in the village were walking towards that place.

When he arrived at Dahaizi, Li Jianguo found that there were not many people in the lake before, only 20 or 30 years ago. Now there are nearly a hundred people, and the number of people entering here from the north shore is still increasing.

Li Long came over carrying a bag of fish and said to Li Jianguo:

"Brother, we are starting to collect fish instead of catching them. Some people are thinking about selling the fish now. Look at this bag of mine, I picked them from his pile. They are all evenly distributed, all carp with five black stripes."

"How can you buy it without a scale?" Li Jianguo was a little confused.

"Two cents a piece," Li Long said with a smile, "Two cents for the big ones, one cent for the small ones. The man and his family of three were all picking up fish. They had picked up about 200 kilograms, and they were looking worried about the pile of fish. When I said I wanted to buy, he immediately agreed."

It was a good feeling to be open to receiving. It reminded Li Long of when he was traveling in Yili. When he passed by Provincial Highway 315, he met two Kazakh herdsmen selling mushrooms. A woven bag of large white reed mushrooms, estimated to weigh kilograms, was sold for yuan. He bargained for yuan, and finally sold it for yuan... It was a big bargain he had picked up in his previous life.

When I went there again later, ordinary Bachu mushrooms were sold for one hundred yuan per kilogram - it can only be said that with more people, prices are also rising.

Now is the time to pick up big bargains, or a win-win situation.

Li Long would occasionally catch a big fish while swimming among the crowd, but more often he was looking for target persons.

Those who came earlier mostly came in groups of several people, with one person guarding a pile of fish while the others picked up the fish and put them here.

Li Long walked up to a woman in her twenties and asked:

"Big sister, what are you asking? Are you selling this fish? If you are, I will pick it up now and pay for it now."

The woman said awkwardly:

"My husband said that if we want to sell them, we should sell them all at once, and I won't be able to choose..."

"If you're not picky, I'll only give you three dollars for this pile of fish." Li Long shook his head. "There are too many small crucian carps..."

"This crucian carp is not small!" The woman felt that what Li Long said was wrong and said, "It's this big. We didn't pick up the smaller ones."

"But compared to those big fish, your fish is small. You have about 40 to 50 kilograms of fish, and half of them are crucian carp. It's not worth it for me to buy them."

"That's too cheap, less than 10 cents per kilogram... Fish in the market costs 70 or 80 cents per kilogram."

"That's different. Now the sea is full of fish. In the past, we had to use nets to catch fish, but now we can just bend over and pick them up..." Li Long waved his hand and said, "I'm going to go somewhere else to collect fish first. You guys wait and see."

Then he went to the others.

After a while, another deal was completed. He received a bag of big fish and walked towards the south bank carrying it on his back.

At this time, most of the people he brought with him also started to collect fish.

Unlike Li Long, these people don't care about the number of fish, they will buy ten or eight, or one or two. Especially Chen Xingbang, he mainly greets young people and boys, especially teenagers in their teens, and then goes up to buy from them when he sees them catch big fish.

These teenagers basically have no money, so when they first catch the fish they want to take back home to eat, but if there are more, they will be happy to exchange them for money, even if it is only ten cents per fish.

One cent can be exchanged for several candies in the store and two chicken intestines (the tube for the valve core and rubber band) to make a slingshot.

Therefore, Chen Xingbang always carried the most fish every time.

"Xingbang, let Xiaolong give you more bonuses later. You bought a lot of fish!" Li Jianguo could see clearly that Chen Xingbang could carry a bag of fish in a short while, and they were all big ones, which showed his business acumen.

"Xiaolong's method is still the best. If we catch fish ourselves, we can only catch a quarter at most. It's really fast to buy fish!" Chen Xingbang sincerely admired Li Long's idea. "With these fish, we can get a lot of fish in the market. I asked at the market that day, and the fish in the market are 70 or 80 cents per kilogram. We can make a lot of money this way."

"Haha, it only happens once a year, otherwise why would Xiaolong dare to say that he would get a bicycle for each of you?" Li Jianguo said with a smile.

"For this bicycle, I have to hurry and collect some more. Now is the time to catch fish."

Bags of fish were transported here, and Li Jianguo pulled a horse-drawn carriage back. When he came back, he brought the food directly here.

A large basket of steamed buns, two thermoses of boiling water, two pots of food, fried shredded potatoes and fried meat with pickles.

Li Jianguo saw Li Junshan coming over with a bag of fish, so he asked him to put the fish down and called others to come and eat.

Working and having hot meals to eat really made the other people envious. (End of this chapter)