60s: I have a store

Chapter 363 Winter Hunting
After Zhou Daming and Zhou Darong returned to the village, they told the old branch secretary what had just happened.

After listening to this, the old branch secretary thought for a while and said: "Daming, take me to have a look."

He has to go and see it in person before he can make a decision. After all, seeing is believing.

Zhou Daming nodded to show that he understood, then led the way, and Zhou Darong followed.

In order to get there before dark, the three of them jogged all the way.

I can only say that people nowadays are in really good health. They can run from the village to the back mountain without blushing or feeling nervous, as if they had not run that distance at all.

If it were placed in later generations, such physical fitness would be better than that of most people. For example, some college students would almost die after running 400 meters.

You can imagine how poor their physical fitness is.

Arriving at the Houshan Reservoir, the old Party Secretary asked directly: "Where did you see the school of fish just now?"

"Old Party Secretary, I saw it a little ahead."

Zhou Darong said this while pointing to the other side.

The old branch secretary came to the place Zhou Darong mentioned, and then looked around carefully to see if he could find any fish.

After a while, we discovered the presence of a school of fish.

The old branch secretary was very happy. If they could catch all the fish in one net, there would definitely be a lot. They couldn't eat so many. Zhou Yimin could also make purchases and it would create income for the village, killing two birds with one stone.

Then the villagers were notified that they would go winter fishing tomorrow.

When the third aunt came to Zhou Yimin's house, she found that Zhou Yimin was already busy preparing food, so she hurried forward to help.

"Aunt San, you don't need to help. Just go out and sit down. I'll take care of this."

Third Aunt said quickly, "That won't do. It's embarrassing to come and eat for free, how can you not help at all?"

Zhou Yimin couldn't resist, so he asked his third aunt to help prepare the dishes.

Third Aunt took over Zhou Yimin's hand and started washing the vegetables. She didn't expect that it was so luxurious to use hot water to wash the vegetables. In her home, she would never even think of such a thing.

Hot water still needs to be boiled, it's not a waste, you can use cold water to wash, at most it will be a little painful and a little cold when washing, just bear with it and it will pass.

But these things cannot be said out loud. Zhou Yimin is the only family in the village that is willing to "waste money" like this. Other families would definitely not be willing to do so.

Zhou Yimin started cooking. It would be nice to have someone help him prepare the food, wash the vegetables, and cut the meat.

Then Auntie San started to wash the dishes. Zhou Yimin saw that the water was cold, so he said, "Auntie San, the water is cold, add some hot water!"

"No, cold water will do." Aunt San was a little reluctant.

Even if she wasn't using the firewood from her house, she would still be reluctant to do so. Moreover, she was even more reluctant because the firewood was chopped by her husband in the mountains.

Zhou Yimin also knew that it would be difficult to ask them to change their decades-long habits all at once, so he didn't say much and began to concentrate on cooking.

While Zhou Yimin was still cooking, Zhou Xuqiang came to Zhou Yimin's house with Qianqian in his arms and three children.

"uncle!"

The old man nodded, but did not get up. Instead, he continued to sit in the rocking chair.

Zhou Xuqiang did not find this scene strange. He was already used to the old man's attitude.

When Zhou Yimin’s grandmother saw Zhou Xuqiang being clumsy, she snatched Qianqian away and held her in her arms.

"Qianqian, grandma, can you hold me?" Seeing Qianqian giggling, Grandma Zhou Yimin was very happy.

Soon, Third Aunt came out with the delicious meal.

When Lai Fu and the other two smelled the fragrance, they immediately sat at the dining table, ready to eat at any time, as if they were afraid that if they were a little slow, the food would have been finished by others.

"What are you doing sitting here? Go wash your hands."

When the three heard what Aunt San said, they hurried to wash their hands.

Zhou Yimin quickly finished copying the last dish and took it out.

After everyone was seated, the old man said, "Let's eat!"

After the old man finished speaking, he slowly took out a bottle of wine from the ground and poured half a cup. There was no other way, he could only drink this much every day.

Zhou Xuqiang kept looking at the wine in the old man's hand, but the old man pretended not to see it. He was reluctant to share it because it was not enough for him to drink.

After seeing this scene, Zhou Yimin took the wine from the old man's hand and poured a full glass for Zhou Xuqiang.

When the old man saw this, he quickly said, "Yimin, that's enough. Don't pour so much!"

Seeing the old man feeling sorry for the wine, everyone tried to hold back their laughter. Usually the old man was very serious, which formed a sharp contrast with now, which led to such a reaction among everyone.

Zhou Yimin got up early the next morning because he had winter fishing to do. Otherwise, he would not have gotten up so early. How could he usually still be sleeping at this time?

Then, without hesitation, he opened the store and saw 100 kilograms of fish bait, 100 kilograms of boiled chicken, 100 kilograms of beef, and 100 kilograms of feed. He bought all four items in seconds.

Are the baits out?
Zhou Yimin was speechless.

Besides, boiled chicken is not popular in the north, so I guess most people are not used to eating it, right?

As for feed, it’s okay, it can be used to raise pigs, chickens, etc.

Zhou Yimin sometimes wondered whether he should prepare the feed.

At this time, the domestic feed industry was almost blank. Even in the 1978s, feed was basically made by farmers. There were only a few state-owned enterprises in the country engaged in simple feed processing. In , the national feed production was only more than one million tons. At this stage, the feed industry was just starting out, with very few enterprises, low production, and slow development.

Feed is very important for breeding.

In order not to miss this "grand" event, I rushed to the reservoir behind the mountain without even having breakfast.

If you were not afraid of being discovered, you could just buy a few big meat buns from the store and eat them while walking.

After more than ten minutes, we finally arrived at the reservoir. I thought we had arrived early, but unexpectedly, we were still late.

There were already many people standing on the ice surface of the reservoir. They had gathered here before dawn. Because there were no clocks, they all came early in order not to miss the gathering time.

Some people are already preparing and checking the nets that have not been used for a long time to see if there are any holes. If there are any holes, they must be repaired immediately, otherwise the fish will escape through the holes when they are used to fish.

It will be difficult to catch it again then.

However, these delicate tasks are basically done by women, while men do not just sit there and wait, but go to check the location of the fish schools.

Otherwise, if you want to cover the entire reservoir with a net, it would be a bit impractical, after all, there are no nets that are that large.

Another thing is to cover the entire reservoir with a net. Without so many people to pull it, it is probably impossible to do so. You can imagine the strength required to pull such a large net.

(End of this chapter)