Zhan Zhumen

Chapter 121
Huo Xi followed Yang Fu's gaze, untied the small satchel on his chest, and handed it to Huo Erhuai: "Father, you take it."

Huo Erhuai happily caught it, but almost missed it, it was heavy, especially heavy.

Putting it into my bosom, it was bulging, like a woman who was pregnant for several months, and the three couldn't help but laugh.

"We catch more fish today, and we will be able to sell more fish tomorrow."

"But we have no place to pretend."

Huo Erhuai was also a little distressed, his family's boat could hold a hundred stones of grain, but couldn't hold a few loads of fish?

But his fishing box is only that big.Do you want to buy more fishing baskets?Seeing that there is money to be made, but not being able to make it, he is a little scratching his head.

The two uncles looked at Huo Xi together.

Huo Xi thought for a while, then said: "Buying a few fishing baskets would take up too much space, let's buy a few fishing bags, put the caught fish into the fishing bags, keep them in the water, and open them up tomorrow when they are going to sell. "

The fishing bag is the same as the shrimp pot and crab pot. It is folded and placed, and it does not take up much space.

"Okay, then let's buy a fish bag."

"Buy a few more, in case fishermen want to buy them, we can make a difference." Yang Fu said happily.

Huo Xi stared at him blankly.

"What's wrong?" Yang Fu didn't know why.

Huo Xi burst out laughing, and Huo Erhuai laughed too.

Yang Fu looked at Huo Xi, then looked up at Huo Erhuai.

Huo Erhuai patted his head with emotion, his family's Fu'er, now all he was thinking about was getting money home.

"Uncle, you can always think about earning money for the family, dad is happy."

Yang Fu raised his neck proudly, Xi'er always thought about earning money, and he also wanted to earn money to support his family.

He happily walked ahead and ran to the shop selling fishing gear.

When the three returned to the boat, Mrs. Yang had mended the fishing net.

After receiving the money, I counted it several times, and saw that I got one, two or six dollars from selling fish today, and I was so happy that I couldn't close the corners of my mouth.

Urging Huo Erhuai to row the boat to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

"Today I counted the remaining goods in our house, and there is still a lot of tung oil."

"Why only count the tung oil?" Yang Fu was taken aback after finishing speaking, "Sister, do you want us to play Yewang tonight?"

Yang Shi nodded: "Let's strike while the iron is hot. Taking advantage of the high fishing prices these days, let's catch more fish. You and Xi'er can go to sleep at night, and your brother-in-law and I can just keep busy."

"Mom, I want to help you too."

"Sister, I will help you too."

Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai looked at each other, smiled and nodded.

Huo Xi felt a little emotional, since she and Nian'er arrived on the boat, Huo Erhuai and Yang Shi have rarely hunted at night.

One is hard work, and the other is that the visibility is low at night and the risk is greater.

But if the catch is big, it has to be at night.In addition to night, there are two periods of morning and evening.At noon, when the sun is shining, there are almost no catches.

Fishing is very different from farming.

Farmers look forward to sunny weather, but fishers prefer cloudy and cloudy weather with drizzle, before and after thunderstorms, or weather after long rain and early sunshine.

Morning or dusk is also the best time for fishing.

Working from sunrise to sunset is not suitable for most fishermen.

Most people will be upside down day and night.Because the catches of nets at night are often more than those during the day.

Because many fish are attracted to light, just like the moth likes to jump into the fire, fish also float up when there is light.

For example, the whitebait likes light.There are also squid and light fish, which are very phototaxis, so most of the fishermen on the seaside go to sea at night.

But this kind of light is different from the strong sunlight.Fish do not like strong sunlight during the day, and most of them sink to the bottom of the water.So it's not easy to catch.

But Huo Erhuai and Yang's did not arrest at night.Apart from the fact that there were two children, Huo Xi and Huo Nian, on board, the price of tung oil was not low.

The lighting at this time was not that good, visibility at night was not high, and tung oil was expensive.A catty of tung oil costs more than ten or twenty Wen.Many catties of tung oil are burned in one night.

If there are not so many catches, it is not enough to burn tung oil.

It is different from the modern fishing boats for night fishing, where dozens or even hundreds of kilowatt fish-collecting lamps are hung on the hull, bow and stern of the boat. They are built with great effort, and the gasoline for the generator is only a few dollars.

But the fishermen at this meeting don't have the conditions, knowing that they catch a lot at night, they can't do it on a large scale.

At this time, the family agreed to catch at night, so they rowed the boat towards the mouth of the Yangtze River, and met Yu Jiang and Zou's boat on the way.

The two came together somehow.

"Father, let's call the two of them together? There are many people at night, so light more torches, and maybe catch more fish."

Huo Xi needed manpower, she already knew it now, it would be very difficult to break through alone.It is necessary to unite all forces, contacts and resources that can be united.

"Okay. Let's call the two of them." Yang made a decision.

It's not that I have the confidence to have silver at home now.It is Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai who have always had a heart to pity the poor and the weak.Otherwise, he wouldn't have rescued Huo Xi and Huo Nian at the Qinhuai River at the risk of being killed.

After hearing this, Yu Jiang and Uncle Zou's family hurriedly declined.Afraid of stealing their business.

"No, we went to the fish market street to sell fish today, and saw the purchase of Huibin Building in the inner city, let us provide fish and shrimp for three days. Our family can't provide much, otherwise we have to find some big fish all the way Collect more prawns, and it will delay things.”

After Huo Erhuai finished speaking, Yang Shi also interjected: "Yes, I don't have to worry about selling. Besides, my family wants to hunt at night. I'm afraid I need to light a lot of torches at night, and I need people to set up nets, pull nets, and pick up fish. My family cherishes Fuer's strength." Xiao, I am worried that Nian'er will wake up and I have to take care of him. The three of us happen to have a caretaker when we are together."

There are too many night catch situations. If the net is full, a careless person and boat can be dragged and sunk when the net is pulled.Wu Qi was surrounded by darkness, and no one even called for help.

He knew that the Huo family was taking care of them, but after hearing such words, he felt comfortable.

"That's fine, the three of us will be together at night." Uncle Zou made a decision, and Yu Jiang nodded in response.

So the three families rowed the boat to the mouth of the Yangtze River together.

Before dark, they each occupied a water area and lowered their nets.They all got a lot of catches.

When it was dark, Yang Shi and Huo Xi made a simple but hearty dinner and invited the two families to eat together.

When it was dark, they made torches together, dipped them in tung oil, put a lot of torches on the three boats, rowed the boats apart, formed a circle, and began to lower the nets.

The men of the three families were busy lowering the net, pulling the line, and collecting the net, while the women and half-grown children gathered on the Huo family's boat, busy with unpacking, picking up fish, and removing weeds and debris from the fishing net.

The lively fish are thrown into the fishing box quickly. Some of them are struggling with the net, seriously injured, half-dead, or not good in appearance. They are fresh, scaled and visceral, cut in half, smeared with salt, and dried salted fish without stopping for a moment.

The torches on the three boats burned extremely brightly, illuminating the nearby water as if it were day.

Huo Xi was very excited, it was the first time he followed the night catcher, he was in good spirits, he was so busy running around that he didn't feel tired at all.

Seeing the fish at the bottom of the water swimming towards the light, they hurriedly grabbed the side of the boat to watch.

　Morning~The residents of the seaside, most of them will wait at the seaside in the early morning or dusk, when the fishing boat goes ashore, they can often buy fresh catches

　　
　
(End of this chapter)