Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The sticky net is made of very strong nylon rope, so Li Long confidently pulled the net line back.

The fish was struggling so hard that Li Long had a feeling that it might be a big fish.

The net was stretched straight, but it was more difficult to pull it up now because the rocket head of the trawler was stuck in the ice and snow and might have frozen.

Li Long didn't dare to use brute force to pull, he could only pull and loosen it. He had good eyesight and could see that there was ice and snow where the rocket head was stuck. When he pulled, the snow fell into the water, so he should be able to pull it over.

If you really try to pull it hard, you should be able to pull it over, but there is a possibility that the net will break or the trawl net will be damaged.

No need.

After pulling hard for five or six minutes, he finally pulled the trawl out of the ice and snow. Li Long felt his hands loosen, and even the fish in the net seemed to be quieter.

But he still didn't dare to relax. This single-sided net was different from the three-layer sticky net of later generations. Although it could catch fish, if the fish was caught for a short time or was big enough, it might break free from the net.

Whether in the previous life or this life, Li Long has experienced more than one incident where big fish broke free and ran away when he was fishing. In his opinion, this is very normal.

The net was finally pulled up, and Li Long saw the big fish hanging on the net - a large silver carp weighing four or five kilograms was struggling in the net and had escaped from the water. The cold outside made it very uncomfortable, and it struggled desperately, but its struggling movements became weaker and weaker - and soon it was frozen to death.

Although silver carp is worse than bighead carp, in Li Long's eyes, it is not as good as carp and black carp.

He also thought that there must be better fish in the Ma River, such as the high mountain cold-water fish he had eaten in Yili, or others.

Silver carp is a bit too common.

But any gain is better than nothing.

The four-finger net is too tight to catch small fish, so there is nothing else on the net except the silver carp and a few cast iron rods.

Li Long's hands were wet and very cold, so he quickly put the net and the fish into the urea bag, ran to the jeep with it, and then drove back.

After returning to the yard, Li Long got out of the car and went into the kitchen carrying the bag.

Sister Yang had already prepared breakfast. Seeing Li Long coming in, she asked:

"Uncle, are you taking the net?"

"Well, let's get a big silver carp and stew the fish head in soup for lunch." It is better to eat fish fresh. The taste will be different if you freeze it.

"Okay." Sister Yang smiled. She opened the bag and saw the big fish. She was surprised: "It's so big? I can't finish it."

"It's okay. I'll chop off a piece and give it to Xiao Sun later." Li Long said, "We mainly eat the fish head."

The matter was settled like that.

After breakfast, Li Long waited for Sister Yang to take over Mingming and Haohao, then went to the purchasing station carrying half of the fish.

Gu Boyuan was looking at a bag of pumpkin seeds that was brought by a vendor. Sun Jiaqiang was standing by with a round sieve pouring all the pumpkin seeds on the bag and letting Gu Boyuan sift through it to check.

Seeing Li Long coming over, Gu Boyuan checked and asked: "The net has been retrieved. How is it? Did you catch anything?"

"A big silver carp, about five or six kilograms. We can't finish it, so this part is for Xiao Sun, and you can take it back and eat it." Li Long said to Sun Jiaqiang, "It's best to cook it today, and don't freeze the fresh fish."

It was early now, so there were only two people selling things. Sun Jiaqiang took the fish from Li Long and thanked him with a smile.

"Take a rest tomorrow," Li Long said to Gu Boyuan, "Take a rest for two days. Old customers should know about this, right?"

"I know everything." Gu Boyuan nodded. "I've said it all. It's also written on the blackboard."

"That's good."

There was nothing to do here, so Li Long went back to the big yard. He was going to the team tomorrow and he planned to buy some things.

The New Year is coming soon, and Li Long plans to buy warm clothes and hats for his parents. There are ready-made clothes for sale in department stores, and there are also some in Shicheng. Li Juan and Li Qiang are about to have a holiday, and I think their grades this semester should be good, so I have to buy them some toys as a reward.

As for my elder brother and his wife, buy them two pairs of cotton-leather shoes. They wore cotton-padded shoes made by themselves in the team, and the cotton-rubber shoes bought from the village, which were not wet, and snow would soak through them as soon as they melted, which was uncomfortable and blocked the feet.

There is no need for that at home, just give a year-end bonus to Sister Yang and Sun Jiaqiang.

It was the weekend, so I took the children to Team 4 and gave Sister Yang some rest.

Li Long went to the department store to shop. In addition to buying the things he had planned, he also bought some snacks such as egg cakes, noodles, and other things such as milk candies. These miscellaneous things filled a bag.

When he was shopping, he saw a familiar face, but he couldn't remember his name. Maybe he had seen him often when he was shopping before? But later he went to Shicheng and Wucheng more often, and rarely to the county department store, so he didn't see him often, and didn't know his name.

She was a woman in her twenties.

Li Long walked out of the department store carrying a lot of bags. The woman stared at his back for a long time.

After driving back to the yard, Li Long put his things in order and took out the net. This new net was easier to pick up because there was not so much garbage in the Ma River. After the fish were taken away, he only needed to take down the langshang.

By the time all these were cleaned up, it was almost time for lunch. The smell of fresh fish soup filled the yard, and Mingming and Haohao had already started drinking it - Sister Yang specially served some for the two children and set it out to dry, and the two children couldn't wait to drink it when it was still warm.

"Hey, this tastes really good!" Gu Boyuan sighed as he drank the soup, "I wouldn't trade this for a bowl of fresh fish soup in the middle of winter."

Li Long wanted to laugh after hearing this. In fact, with Gu Boyuan's diploma and level, if he really wanted to start working at the beginning of the reform and opening up, he would have no problem becoming a section-level cadre.

But to be honest, maybe it’s because it’s winter, or maybe it’s because I haven’t eaten fresh fish for a while, the fish soup today tastes really fresh.

I thought that after all, they were fish from the Ma River, so they were different.

Since I can catch fish today, if I want to eat fish later, can I just go to the river and catch two? It is hard to say whether this trawl can work under the ice of Xiaohaizi, but at least it can work in the Ma River.

The next day, Gu Boyuan had breakfast in the big yard. After breakfast, Li Long drove a jeep and took him, Gu Xiaoxia, Mingming and Haohao to Team 4.

Sister Yang and Han Fang just stayed in the big yard, which was a way of relaxing.

When he arrived at the village, Li Long first went to the blacksmith shop to pick up the four custom-made "convenient shovels".

Seeing that this thing was polished to a very sharp edge, made of good materials, and the position of the wooden handle was also very delicate, Li Long was very satisfied and paid the remaining ten yuan.

"What is it?" Gu Boyuan asked as he looked at the string of things that Li Long was holding with wire and putting behind him.

"A shovel for breaking ice holes is better than a pickaxe or a steel chisel."

"Hey, it's true that if you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools." Gu Boyuan sighed.

After arriving at Team 4, Gu Boyuan insisted on going to his own yard to take a look, but Li Long would not let him. Together with Gu Xiaoxia, he persuaded him to go to Li's house first and then come over after dropping Mingming and Haohao off.

Li Qingxia had been waiting for Li Long to come. This morning, he even went out to the yard to check on him every few minutes. Du Chunfang said that he was so impatient at such an old age.

When he heard the jeep's sound, Li Qingxia ran out excitedly like a young man, and then watched Li Long drive the jeep into the yard.

When Li Long stopped, he was about to ask when he saw Gu Boyuan and Gu Xiaoxia got out of the car with Mingming and Haohao. The question he asked turned into "Mingming and Haohao, be good, come here for a hug from grandpa..."

When Du Chunfang heard the child's voice, she immediately came out of the house, and Li Jianguo's family of four all came out from the west room.

Li Jianguo was a little surprised to see Gu Boyuan. He smiled and asked, "Old Gu, why are you back? How long has it been since we last met?"

"I want to go back to my yard, Xiaolong insisted that I come over. Look, you look down on me even though I came over..." Gu Boyuan pretended to be dissatisfied, "Haohao is obviously staying in the house, I'll let Xiaolong take me over now." "Just go, the snow in your yard has been swept away, but there's no stove, so I guess the house won't be warm. If you don't want to stay here, why don't you go to the front yard? There's a stove in the front yard, and my dad will definitely ask Xiaolong to go to the small lake to catch fish later, don't you want to go?"

"Go, go, go. I have to set up the stove and heat it first." Gu Boyuan made a decision immediately. "Xiaolong said that the purchasing station will take a break for two days. I plan to stay in the team for these two days. Then my yard will have to be heated, right?"

"Then let's put it on first, but you should know that even if the stove is on, the room won't be warm for a while."

"Let's bake it first." Gu Boyuan knew it clearly, but that was his own yard, he couldn't just not light a fire. He was also planning to come back for the New Year.

Let's bake it first. Li Long thought that instead of asking Gu Boyuan to go over, he could just drive over and set up the stove at Gu's house. Why should Gu Boyuan go again? Isn't it good for him to chat with Li Jianguo here?
Gu Boyuan thought about it and it made sense, so he gave the key to Li Long.

Li Long took out the four "convenient shovels" and gave them to his elder brother Li Jianguo, asking him to find four wooden handles to install them.

As soon as Li Jianguo saw this thing, he realized that it was indeed very useful for chopping ice.

Gu Xiaoxia wanted to go with Li Long - once Mingming Haohao arrived here, he no longer belonged to her. Liang Yuemei wanted to take Mingming Haohao to eat something delicious, but Mingming Haohao ended up going out to play with Li Juan and Li Qiang.

Li Juan takes care of Mingming and Haohao like a little adult, which makes Gu Xiaoxia feel relieved.

So she went to her yard with Li Long. The snow in the yard was indeed swept cleanly, with only some snowflakes falling from the trees when the sun rose in the early morning on the ground.

There is a very strange phenomenon in northern Xinjiang in winter. When the weather is too cold, there is hoarfrost on the trees. When the sun rises, the ice crystals and snowflakes hanging on the trees will fall down.

But sometimes, even though there are no trees or fog around the yard, snowflakes like this will still fall, even though it is a sunny day.

Put the stove on the stove and open the door - because there has been no fire for a long time, the chimney is full of cold air, and the smoke will not rise at this time, but will come out of the stove door and spread throughout the room.

That's not all. Sometimes, if the air above the chimney swirls, the smoke may be blown down by the stove. It's like an air cannon. If people are not careful, when they squat at the stove door, they may be hit on the butt by the blown-back smoke and have a face full of dust.

But eventually, the heat in the stove gradually drove away the cold air in the chimney, the smoke rose smoothly from the chimney into the air, and the stove began to burn with a rumble.

It couldn't be too strong, so Li Long shoveled a shovel of coal foam to suppress the fire. In this way, the heat would be released slowly, slowly heating up the room.

Gu Xiaoxia took the quilt from the bed in the bedroom and hung it on the fire wall, so that at least the quilt would be warm when Gu Boyuan fell asleep at night.

Everything was almost done, and Li Long took a big broom to clear the thin layer of snow in the yard that almost couldn't cover the ground. While he was sweeping, Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong and Liang Dacheng came over on bicycles.

"You three are quite well-matched." Li Long stopped what he was doing and said with a smile, "Why, do you have any ideas?"

"I heard from Brother Li that you are going to Xiaohaizi to catch fish later?" Xie Yundong asked.

"The day before, the three of us brothers dug a hole in the ice, but we didn't catch a single big fish. The biggest one was a large crucian carp weighing less than half a kilogram." Liang Dacheng was a little depressed. "The big fish in the small lake have all gone wild. They've become spirits."

"My dad also said that it's not worthwhile to break ice holes now. Why don't you..." Tao Daqiang said, "Brother Long, why don't you take us to hunt yellow sheep?"

Li Long didn't expect that the three of them thought this way.

He continued to sweep the floor while saying, "Didn't they say that the yellow sheep couldn't be caught?"

"That's Xu Haijun, not you. If he can't hit us, that's his problem. With you leading us, we will definitely be able to hit him!" Tao Daqiang's tone was very firm, and it was obvious that he was very sure about this.

Li Long didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't expect that his follower, who hadn't followed him for a long time, was still so superstitious about him.

"No, we'll talk about whether to hunt the yellow sheep later. We must catch fish this time." Li Long swept the yard clean and said, "I got a trawl and plan to put it under the ice. Since I can't catch any fish by breaking a hole in the ice, I'll put the net down. I don't believe that I won't be able to catch any fish even if I put the net down."

"Lower the net?" After he said that, Xie Yundong and the other two were confused. Tao Daqiang asked, "What is a trawler?"

"It's something that breaks a hole in the ice, puts the things down, and drags the net to other places." Li Long knew that it would be difficult to explain it in a few words, so he said, "We'll go and lower the net later. Do you want to come and see it together?"

"it is good!"

"Of course I want to go!"

"Okay!"

The three of them answered together.

Then I went to Li's house first.

Li Qingxia had already packed up the nets and tools, including the shovel, the shovel, and the trawlers in Li Long's car.

Li Jianguo and Gu Boyuan were also ready, and even Li Juan and Li Qiang were dressed neatly.

Li Jianguo was pulling a sled, and it was clear that Haohao was sitting on the sled and laughing happily.

What a huge team!

The group marched into the small lake in a mighty manner, which immediately attracted the attention of many people in the team.

Soon, the gossip spread - Li Long's family was going to Xiaohaizi to break holes in the ice and catch fish!

"Li Jia Xiaolong has made a lot of money in the past two years, so he has no idea how high the sky is and how deep the earth is, right?" Ma Jinbao, who was drinking some wine in the store, blurted out, "Does he think that he made his fortune by catching fish, so he thinks that the fish in the small lake can be easily caught?"

The fact that no big fish can be caught in the small lake has spread, but Li Long still wants to go fishing. In the eyes of the villagers, does he really think he is the reincarnation of a lucky star?
The Li family should also know about this matter, why don’t they stop Li Long?
"Is it that people just want to catch two kilograms of crucian carp to make soup, so it doesn't matter how much they catch?" someone asked.

"How could the Li family kid be so willing? He didn't go alone. The whole family, including Gu Boyuan's father-in-law and the little kid, went."

"I heard that Xie Yundong, Tao Daqiang and the others followed him up. Are these people just here to watch the fun or do they think that Li Long is really different from others and that he can be caught if others can't?"

Soon new news came. Someone had just come down from Xiaohaizi and met the Li family. He brought new news: "Li Long brought a new tool for breaking holes in the ice this time. He said it can catch fish."

"Even if he peels off all the ice on the lake, he probably won't be able to catch any fish." Ma Jinbao was sure that Li Long would make a fool of himself, so he spoke again, "I'll just wait and see what kind of fish he can catch this time."

Some people were different from him. When they heard that Li Long had brought something new, they were very curious and some people simply went to Xiaohaizi.

Li Long and his friends were breaking ice on the small lake. Mingming Haohao looked at it but lost interest, so Li Juan and Li Qiang took them on a sled to play.

The place Li Long chose was one where there were no reeds within a radius of seventy or eighty meters. This way, when the trawl net was cast in all directions, there was no need to worry about the net getting caught in the reeds and unable to come out.

"We'll make a hole in the ice in the middle, and then we'll lower the net." Li Long said, "After lowering the net, we'll see what happens. If the net is all pulled down, then there's no need to make a second hole in the ice. If the net is less than half pulled down, then we'll pull it back. If it still doesn't work after two or three tries, then we'll make another hole in the ice on this line, and then we'll get the trawler going and send it out again."

This was his plan. After seeing the structure and strength of the trawl, Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo naturally had no objection.

"Yesterday, Xiaolong used this trawl net to catch a big silver carp on the Ma River, weighing five or six kilograms!" Gu Boyuan couldn't help bragging, "There will definitely be no problem today!"

Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong, Liang Dacheng, and Jia Weidong who came later were all very curious about the trawl. After breaking the hole in the ice, they took the trawl and began to study it.

It's so simple that any one of them can do it.

The problem is that I never thought of it before!
At this moment, Tao Daqiang admired Li Long even more. He believed that this trawler with the net put into the water would definitely be able to catch fish!
If those in the team who want to catch fish and sell them learn this, they won’t have to worry about not being able to catch fish all year round.

He was hesitating whether to remind Li Long not to tell this technique to others.

At this time, Li Long had already put the trawl net on. After tying the net line, he went down to the halfway point of the ice hole, bent down and stuffed the trawl net under the ice. Seeing that Li Qingxia had grabbed the other end of the net, he let go.

The net line was quickly dragged into the water by the trawlers, and soon, the 40-meter-long net was reached.

It worked!
The first one was successful, which shows that this trawler is indeed useful! (End of this chapter)