60s: I have a store

Chapter 365 Great Harvest

Seeing that everyone seemed to be still watching the fun, the old secretary hurriedly said, "Why are you still standing here, why don't you pull the donkey over?"

The cow is quite valuable, so the old branch secretary was reluctant to give it away.

When everyone heard what the old branch secretary said, they hurried to bring the donkey over.

If the donkey could speak, it would curse its mother.

People always say work like cows and horses, but no one says work like donkeys. Yet donkeys work harder than cows and horses.

Can the production team’s donkey be used like this?

"Xumin, you have to keep pace with the times so that you can better pass on your skills." said the old branch secretary.

Many times now are not the same as in ancient times, so things that were applicable in ancient times may not necessarily work now.

Zhou Xumin thought it made sense and couldn't help but sigh that young people are indeed quick-witted.

"Yimin, are you interested in learning from me? I believe that with your intelligence and talent, you will be able to learn quickly and even surpass me."

Zhou Daping immediately became unhappy: "You just told me the same thing."

"I won't learn it. Let's leave this kind of thing to those who are interested!" Zhou Yimin refused.

Zhou Xumin was a little disappointed. He didn't expect that others didn't appreciate his unique skills. However, when he thought about his own abilities, compared with Zhou Yimin, they were nothing but a dwarf. There was no way they could be compared.

"Okay! Then I won't force it."

Zhou Yimin secretly poured a bag of bait into the ice hole where he was going to cast the net.

Zhou Xumin was a little curious: "Yimin, what is this thing that is pouring?"

"This is bait, specially used for fishing. I thought that if I pour it here, it can attract more fish." Zhou Yimin explained.

Zhou Xumin understood as soon as he heard it. Normally, one should put some corn kernels here to attract fish, but now that food is so scarce, no one did that.

The idea of ​​making a nest is not something that was invented later in life, it has existed for a long time.

I never thought that technology has developed to such an extent that even fish have special feed.

Soon Zhou Daming and his companions came over with three donkeys.

Tie the hemp rope to the cow's rack, and then drive the donkey forward from behind.

As expected, with the addition of the donkey, the progress of pulling the rope was much faster.

The villagers of Zhoujiazhuang did not slack off and helped to pull the cart.

It originally took about an hour to pull the net, but with the addition of the donkey, it became much faster and now it takes less than half an hour.

Many villagers also realized through this experience the importance of using their brains. Even farming in the countryside requires using one's brains.

As Zhou Yimin often told them, only by farming scientifically can we produce more food.

The fish are now pulled together by the net. Since there is ice above, the fish cannot be picked up and can only be captured.

The villagers of Zhoujiazhuang were very happy to see this scene. At a glance, they saw at least a thousand kilograms of fish, and they would be able to eat fish again.

Everyone immediately felt as if their bodies were filled with energy, as if they had endless strength, and the progress of pulling the net was greatly accelerated.

No one expected that there were fish in the underground river, and there were schools of fish.

It has to be said that digging out the underground river is extremely important to their Zhoujiazhuang.

With this underground river, we can not only store water for power generation, but also store water for irrigation, and even engage in aquaculture in the future.

In this way, more and more fish were pulled ashore.

The fish was still jumping in the water, but once it came ashore and was blown by the cold wind, it started jumping less and less, and finally stopped moving. Zhou Daping was a little surprised: "Uncle Sixteen, why did the fish die so quickly?"

If it were any other time, it would definitely still be alive and kicking. It would not have died shortly after coming ashore.

"After ice is formed, it can protect the underwater temperature to a certain extent. However, when fish are brought into the cold air, they will quickly die." Zhou Yimin explained to everyone why fish die so easily.

Zhou Daping couldn't help but exclaimed: "So that's how it is. I've learned something new."

Zhou Xumin rolled his eyes.

You just know how to flatter and polish shoes, don't you know why? Are you a fool?

Others pretend to know when they don't, and you pretend not to know when you know.

Soon all the fish in the net were pulled ashore, and only then did everyone stop.

Now everyone's hands were red from the cold, but they did not feel cold. Instead, they felt excited. There were so many fish in front of them, and if they were to share them among the whole village, they didn't know how much fish they would get.

Thinking of this, I felt even more excited and felt even less cold.

The old Party secretary shouted immediately: "Why are you still standing there? Get on the scale!"

He wanted to know quickly how many fish he could catch with this net!

At a glance, there are so many of them, so there must be some.

Everyone then reacted and started working quickly, with a clear division of labor. Some people were responsible for carrying the fish, while others were responsible for putting the fish into sacks.

Zhou Zhiming was in front of the scale, responsible for recording the weight of a bag of fish.

With the villagers of Zhoujiazhuang, the division of labor is clear and the progress is very fast.

In less than half an hour, all the fish were weighed.

Zhou Zhiming also put the last bag of fish on the scale and began to calculate the total weight of the fish.

Since there were no computers at the time, we had to rely on humans to do the calculations. Although we didn’t have computers, we did have abacus.

Zhou Zhiming's hands kept fiddling with the abacus, and finally he calculated the weight of the fish.

"A total of 2153 kilograms of fish were caught."

This statement shocked everyone present. No one expected that so many fish could be caught.

Zhou Xumin was also shocked by the weight. He originally thought that 1,700 to 1,800 kilograms should be the limit, but he didn't expect it to be 300 to 400 kilograms more than the limit.

It seems that it was the effect of the fish feed Zhou Yimin poured. I didn't expect that the effect of this fish feed was so good.

The others reacted and the entire ice surface erupted in amazing cheers.

"Great! I didn't expect to catch so many fish! Suddenly I feel like this little bit of cold is nothing."

"That's not what you said just now, why are you going back on your word now?"

When the old branch secretary saw the harvest, his excitement was already revealed on his face, and he had been smiling since he heard about the catch.

"Why are you still laughing like an idiot? Why don't you transport the fish back quickly?"

After everyone realized what was happening, they didn't even use the donkey carts. They all rushed to carry the fish back, as if they wanted to feel the fragrance of the fish for themselves. Some people who were slow to react were not able to grab the fish.

More than a hundred people returned towards the village in a mighty procession. Many of them were carrying sacks of fish on their shoulders. The scene was very spectacular.

In fact, there must still be fish in the reservoir, and because it is connected to the underground river, even if all the fish are caught, there may still be fish coming out of the underground river.

Isn’t this a gift from God to Zhoujiazhuang?
(End of this chapter)