Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 167 Hunting
The braised pork on the dinner table in the evening was so greasy that everyone in the family was eating it. It was so delicious.

This kind of pure meat cooking method is rarely done in rural areas. At the very least, it has to be cooked with some pickles.

Because a glutton specially bought four pounds of soft pork belly, everyone in the family ate it with abandon.

It would be a waste to save such delicious food for one meal.

"Mom, your cooking is so delicious." The little girl coaxed her mother with a smile.

"If you like it, ask Dahe to buy it for you next time." She didn't say she would buy it tomorrow. Even a rich family couldn't afford to eat four pounds of meat every day.

"Uh-huh."

After the couple entered the attic, Qin's mother quickly asked the man what happened during the day.

Father Qin explained the whole cause and effect. In fact, many of them had heard a lot of things before, but just didn't say it out loud.

"That woman is not a good person either. She was planning to seduce Zhang Dazhu just to get some meat for her children." The old man said disdainfully.

Nowadays, if rural people have a large family, life will definitely be hard. If it is not hard, they will not be able to save money.

"It's because the man is incompetent. If she could get the money, she would never be willing to roll around with the old man." Qin's mother said proudly.

Both men in the family are capable, and even during the difficult times in the 80s, they never lacked money.

As for the issue of morality, if you can sacrifice your own flesh and blood to earn meat for your children, you can't be that bad.

"Haha, they're not good people anyway. This big pig is pretty good, he's kind-hearted."

"Get out of here! What nonsense are you talking about?" Mother Qin felt like she had no ears to listen to this, so she just drove the man away.

The old man curled his lips. He was indeed filial. He spent so much money on women without saying a word. If it happened in an ordinary family, the family would have been furious.

Zhang Dazhu's mother died early, and the old man raised several children from childhood to adulthood, even going hungry himself. It was already a rare achievement.

At this time, if she wanted to play with a woman, how could he, as a son, care about morality? It was just a little cockscomb oil. There wasn't much else in the house, just a lot of pigs.

With a genetically good breeding pig in hand, the last thing you need is pigs.

Moreover, he was a strong man, and if he showed his knife for such a small matter, the people in the town hall would not dare to get close to arrest him.

When he got up the next day, he didn't even drive the car. There were fewer and fewer people on the road now, and one trip only cost about 20 yuan. After deducting the cost of gas, there was really not much money left. He had to wait until the busy farming season was over before he could make a profit.

Early in the morning, he loaded the transfer box, electric pump, scoop net and other things onto the motorcycle tricycle, and also took two crossbows. There was a large area of shrubs at the east end of the village, so he caught rabbits wherever he could.

"elder brother."

When we got here, the goods in Hanwaer's trap had been collected and were being sorted in the yard.

"Do you want to go to town to sell goods?"

"Go, there are a lot of crucian carp." The kid pointed to the bucket in the yard.

Qin Dahe went over to take a look. There were always four or five kilograms. There were a lot of crucian carp roe at this time, which smelled very good when roasted. There were also some angji and catfish.

"Ride my bike to town. I'll wait for you to pump water. Today, we'll start by pumping water from the pond next to your house."

"Ah."

Since he had his brother's bike to ride, he didn't rush to the county road to catch a ride. He spread out the trap to dry it in the sun first.

Because the frequency of netting is high, the ground traps must be dried and repaired more often, otherwise the nets will be broken soon.

After the kid had finished the work, the two of them put the motor in the small pond and directly pulled the power supply from the kid's house.

Today he went out with a socket with a wire set of more than 80 meters, and he just needed to pull the wire directly.

"Brother, I'm going to town."

"Ah."

Qin Dahe was very happy to hear that the child spoke less haltingly.

After selling fish so many times, it finally helped a little.

After the electric pump was placed, he started digging a ditch. He dug a deep ditch directly on the edge of the pond, and then made a pocket formation with nylon net.

This is a method developed in the countryside specifically for catching loaches. Loaches like to drill into gaps when they lack water. This method works even if the weather is still a little cold now.

After digging the ditch and lighting a cigarette, he pulled a bench and sat down on the side.

"Whose family is this? Why are you pumping out this pond? This is Hanzi's family's river. Be careful, someone will come back and get angry with you."

An old man passed by and kindly talked to him.

"Grandpa, I am the kid's elder brother. He rode my bike to sell fish and will be back soon." Qin Dahe said with a smile.

"The boy from the Qin family?"

"Ah."

"You took care of grandma's funeral, you are such a good man." Grandpa gave a thumbs up.

"Brother, how can I just ignore it?"

After chatting for a while, Grandpa knew that he was going to catch loaches but didn't say much. This small pond belonged to the silly kid by default, and no one said anything when his elder brother came to pump water.

The kid sold a lot of fish, and he also had to help people clean up the miscellaneous fish. He was busy until 8:30 before he came back.

At this time, the water was drained, and Qin Dahe went into the water wearing leather pants and started catching fish.

Seeing this, he followed in too. The pond was very small, so there was a transfer box in the middle. When he caught fish, he would just throw it in.

"Should we shovel the mud from the vegetable patch next door?" This pond of mud is good stuff.

"No, it's enough to eat." The silly kid said with a smile.

He lived alone and didn't have to cook every meal. It turned out that he couldn't eat all the vegetables in the vegetable garden that his grandmother took care of. It was enough to plant some more vegetables without having to apply fertilizer.

There are quite a lot of fish in the small pond, but they are all small. The two of them caught for a long time, but all they caught were small crucian carp, small bream, and onion.

The valuables would probably only weigh about eight or nine kilograms, or forty or fifty yuan at most.

But my kid likes to sell miscellaneous fish, so he can make more money than most people, but it's hard work.

"Oh, there's also a small grass carp." Qin Dahe looked at the grass carp in his hand in surprise. It weighed more than one kilogram.

"I put it there. I caught the little ones in the trap and put them in."

He set traps every day and caught all kinds of seedlings. His elder brother's fish pond was full, so he had to cast his fish in the small pond next to his house.

There are so few loaches that you can't catch them with your hands. They are all buried in the mud, and you have to be lucky to catch one.

It took a long time to get only about 70 or 80 grams, but the big one was in the deep ditch on the side.

Seeing that there was no more movement around them, the two brothers were too lazy to waste time and went up directly.

Qin Dahe took out the net bag from the deep ditch next to him. There were already a lot of loaches gathered in it, at least one and a half kilograms.

"Not bad, I got two pounds, I even made back the electricity bill and made a good profit."

The kid smiled and nodded, saying that an electric pump wouldn't cost much electricity per hour.

"Wash your leather pants, and let's go to the east end of the village and clean out the two ponds."

Erhu and the others are still busy with the tricycle. It won't be available until at least tomorrow, so there's no need to call them now.

The two brothers packed up their catch, got on a three-wheeled motorcycle and headed towards the county road, then went down from his house and headed straight to the east end of the village.

Few people live there because the transportation is too inconvenient. The further you go, the shorter the road becomes. After passing a large area of graves, bushes and woods, you will arrive at Xiaoguowei, where Qin Dahe's grandfather lives.

There are two ponds here, one inside and one outside. The outside one is close to the outer river, and the pond will be directly flooded when the water rises.

Qin Dahe started by pumping water from this side; there was definitely more water from the outer river. After the electric pump was put into operation, they began digging ditches as usual. This side of the pond was larger, so they dug three ditches and surrounded it with nets.

The electric wires are connected directly from the second master's house at the end of the village. Just pay him the money according to the electricity meter.

However, the wire was still a little short, so he went back and dragged another 150 meters of wire before he could connect it.

In fact, the normal operation here is to connect electricity directly from the transformer, and then pay some money to the brigade headquarters. Although it is against the rules, it is reasonable.

Those who are not particular will just connect the electricity themselves without even paying any money. This is considered stealing electricity and can be done as long as the town's power supply station doesn't find out.

Qin Dahe was afraid of being electrocuted, so he picked up the phone directly from Erye's house.

After finishing their work, the two men prepared to hunt rabbits nearby. They loaded their crossbows and began searching for traces, one in the east and one in the west.

They had originally planned to hunt rabbits in the spring, but after the Lantern Festival this year, the couple worked day and night to make a baby at home. They would break out in a sweat after walking a mile, so how could they have the energy to go out and hunt rabbits?

It wasn't until today that I had time to play with the crossbow. Usually I lent it to Tiedan or Hanwaer to play with.

He didn't dare pull the trigger when he was at the grave, as it would be disrespectful to shoot at the tombstone of someone's ancestors.

I started searching in the woods after passing the shade of the grave, thinking about some novels and videos I had read in my previous life, and tried to move as lightly as possible.

When passing by a big pine tree, I saw something moving at the roots.

"Hedgehog? Not bad." It looked quite big and was walking carefully.

In the plains, the hedgehog's natural enemy is the weasel, and there are still a few of them here.

Sometimes he would even go to farmers' homes in the middle of the night to steal chickens, and if he saw a weasel, he wouldn't mind shooting an arrow at it.

After taking slight aim, "whoosh", the shot went astray.

Just stride forward and grab it, this thing can't run away with its short legs.

After being caught, the hedgehog curled up into a ball, and Qin Dahe tied the rope around his waist.

Then he started looking down the slope. There were bushes all over the place, which made a lot of noise when he walked, so he stood on them and searched along the way.

I was almost at my grandfather's house when I saw a big, gray lump moving by the river.

He was secretly excited in his heart, this rabbit is so fat, haha.

When he was shooting the hedgehog, he knew that the crossbow had been adjusted by his grandfather and was very accurate.

The rabbit was drinking water at this time and he did not act rashly.

The distance is a bit far now, he has to wait until he is closer before he dares to shoot, but wild animals are very alert when drinking water, the rabbit will definitely run away if he goes over, so he just waits there.

The rabbit below took a sip of water, looked around, then took another sip. After finishing two sips of water, it started to run upwards, pooping while running. It was really uncivilized.

"Whoosh!"

Another arrow went straight through the rabbit's back and into the ground, pinning the rabbit down.

He quickly stepped forward and grabbed the rabbit's ears. Now he had a big fat rabbit. It was enough for him to call Erhu and the others to stew a pot and drink some wine in the evening.

The rabbit seemed to have a broken spine and was no longer moving. He picked up a stick and put it on his shoulder to prevent the rabbit's blood from staining his clothes.

He wasn't going to go any further, and he didn't want to go to his grandfather's house for dinner anyway.

I turned around and went back. When I got to the discharge pump, I saw the silly kid holding two weasels in his hands.

This thing is a bad species. It is very good at stealing chickens. Any farmer who sees it will kill it.

"Brother, that's awesome." The silly kid pointed at his rabbit. It was rare to see such a big rabbit.

"Hey, let's stew a pot tonight. We just killed some of them."

"You need to bleed it." The boy took the rabbit, stabbed its throat with a knife, and then hung it upside down from a tree. He turned around and added, "If you don't bleed it, it will smell fishy."

"Okay, I'll leave it to you. You can soak it in advance this afternoon."

He was too lazy to take the hedgehog back, so he just threw it on the side of the road. Anyway, he had already got something.

No one buys hedgehogs now, and he himself doesn't want to eat them, so this is the only way.

More than half of the water in the outer river pond has been drained. The two brothers tied up the weasel because its skin can be sold for money.

Then the two of them put on leather pants, each lit a cigarette and waited by the side.

Xiaotang could already see the sound of big fish jumping out of the water at this time, and the two of them were delighted, thinking that there was a big catch here.

Normally, at most people come here to set traps, but the big catches left over are hard to come by.

Taking a deep drag on his cigarette, he asked, "Black carp or grass carp?"

"Black carp." The child nodded heavily.

He has good eyesight and he saw at first glance that it was a black carp weighing about six or seven kilograms.

There was still a little sunshine today, and it made their leather pants feel a little hot. The two of them sat for a while, and when they saw that the water was almost pumped out, they went downstairs.

The downhill slope here was covered with weeds. It was spring, and the grass was green and slippery. He almost slipped down without noticing. Fortunately, the silly kid was quick to catch him.

Pulling the transfer box, Qin Dahe ran straight to the middle of the pond, searched around for a while, and actually caught a big fish.

"Grass carp." He threw the fish into the transfer box in disappointment.

"Not this one." The silly kid shook his head. He started searching from the edge, trying to catch both big and small fish.

Qin Dahe immediately became excited. If it wasn't this one, then there would be more than one big fish.

This pond is indeed quite fertile, and I even caught a bream weighing one and a half kilograms. Hanwaer's fish have also started to be replenished.

"Brother, look." The silly kid raised a bamboo pole in his hand.

"It's so big, Ce." The price of half a pound is simply outrageous.

They rarely see such a big fish here, because this thing is stupid and has a fierce appetite for earthworms, so people often use hooks to catch it.

It is probably because this pond is not used by anyone that it has survived.

When setting up the ground trap or the eel trap, there are always dozens or even hundreds of eels at a time. It is very tiring to run far and you can't carry it at all.

This is a remote pond, and I guess no one would come here to cast a net except for children who come here to fish for lobsters in the summer.

I can throw some crucian carp seeds in later, raise it for a year and then smoke it again.

At this moment, the mud around him moved, and he stretched his hand into it and was almost bitten.

"I'm rich! I got a soft-shelled turtle, haha." A two-jin soft-shelled turtle is not small.

The silly kid also looked happy, because soft-shelled turtles are more valuable than black carp.

The two of them happily began to catch fish left and right, pulling up all sizes.

The last black carp was finally caught, and it actually ran to the corner to hide.

By the time they delivered the goods, they were still struggling.

It was such a small pond, but the amount of fish caught was estimated to be more than 40 kilograms, which was incomparable to the small pond next to his house.

I also caught more than three pounds of loaches and put them in a small bucket.

After a short rest, the two began to pack up. It was almost twelve o'clock, so they had to go back to eat. There was still a pond to work in the afternoon.

Don't worry about the wires. Erye is right next to you. Even if we are not close, he won't let anyone drag the wires away.

(End of this chapter)