Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 63 Ginseng (Please read)

After going to Erhu's house, the two of them took the nesting materials and went to Hanwaer's place to get grasshoppers.

"Kid, what are you doing?" The two pushed open the gate of the yard and went in, and saw the silly kid rolling up wire under the eaves.

The silly kid looked up when he heard that and smiled innocently when he saw the two of them.

"I'm making rabbit traps. There are a lot of wild rabbits on both sides of the road recently. I'm going to see if I can catch some and sell them for money." Rabbit traps are special wire traps that will tighten when an animal is caught.

The poor people here don't eat rabbits. They get hungry easily without oil and water.

"I'll make some crossbows later, and we'll go hunting rabbits and birds together in winter." Qin Dahe immediately thought of it when he heard it. He couldn't afford an air rifle, but he could make a crossbow.

Two steel springs and a piece of wood will do. The power of the springs is enough to shoot through a rabbit.

"it is good."

Then Qin Dahe took out the line set and a bag of hooks he bought. Today he had to ask the kid to help him tie the line.

"Kid, help me tie more of this line. Just 40 centimeters of folded line will do."

"Yeah." Silly kid went in again and brought out two stools: "Brother, sit down!"

The two of them were not in a hurry to build a nest, and sat down to help the silly kid make rabbit bows.

They have been doing this since they were young. Now they don’t do it because they don’t have the time to remember to collect it. It’s too tiring.

It is not something that ordinary people can do to carry hundreds of traps spread over several kilometers.

And you have to stop and go along the road and play it up and down the slope. Even if you have a car, it is useless. Even an old man like Qin's father has no interest in playing with the rabbit bow.

The most important thing is that the only wild animal resources here are rabbits, hedgehogs, weasels and the like. The others are almost extinct, so you can't make money from them.

Unlike them who make shrimp cages, if they are lucky they can make a few hundred yuan in one night in Yuxi River.

However, he didn't see grandma today. Qin Dahe asked about it, and Hanwaer said worriedly that grandma was not feeling well today and had been lying in bed.

Qin Dahe sighed in his heart, but he was not particularly sad, because his grandmother was already over eighty years old.

Before leaving, he asked Hanwaer for ten grasshoppers so that the old man could try them later.

On the way, Qin Dahe told Erhu about his grandmother. He felt that his grandmother had become very weak when he spoke to her last time.

"My dad noticed it the last time he saw grandma selling crucian carp. He told me that we might not be able to survive this winter, and even asked me to send some ginseng roots over." Although Erhu is young, there is some sadness on his face.

The boys had often come here to play since they were young, and they were still a little depressed about their grandma leaving.

"How much ginseng do you have left at home?" Erhu's father had bought two ginseng seeds from a guy from Northeast China, and Erhu had eaten them when he was a child.

After so many years, Erhu rarely catches a cold. Those ginseng seeds are really good stuff.

"No more. My father asked me to eat them all, saying it would be a waste to give them to an old woman." In their place, grandfathers are called fathers and uncles are called grandfathers.

In the eyes of the elderly, if a young person is sick, it is okay to give him ginseng, because the life of a young man is more precious than theirs.

But for the elderly, eating such good food would shorten their lives, and they would not even eat it if they were sick.

I sent the grasshopper to my dad first, and Erhu came down with him. Two hours had passed by now, and the old man glared at him, saying that he had taken so long to come; the grasshopper had already given birth.

"How is it? Is the bite of 7+5 better?" Qin Dahe squatted down and checked the fish basket again.

Erhu walked up and said hello. He was envious of the old man's way of fishing, and there was even a lounge chair.

"Not bad, three bites, two grass carp caught."

In the fish basket, in addition to the black carp, there are also two grass carps weighing less than five kilograms, which are also worth some money.

The old man took the grasshopper, re-baited his rod, and cast his line. He then continued to lie on the lounge chair, even covering his stomach with a blanket. The two young men watched in amazement. Could fishing be done this way?
"What? Haven't you seen it before? As long as you can catch fish, it's fine." The old man was very arrogant.

The two shook their heads and didn't dare to say more.

The good thing about fishing for big fish is that it doesn't attract small fish, which makes you feel comfortable. It's not like fishing for crucian carp with earthworms, where you get nervous when you're bitten by ground tigers and shrimp.

There are so many shrimps and ground tigers on this side of the Yuxi River that it is impossible to play with the fishy bait.

"Dad, I'm going to Uncle Wu's this afternoon to ask about the crucian carp fry." The crucian carp pond is almost full, and with the rain, the water quality has stabilized, so we have to start buying crucian carp fry.

"Remember to bring a pack of cigarettes and two bottles of Fenjiu."

"Okay, let's retreat."

The two of them hurried to set up a nest. It was already two o'clock and the rain began to lighten up, but the wind was still quite cold.

When they arrived at the place, the two of them worked tirelessly to throw the bait in again and again. A grass nest contained ten pounds of bait, which had to be thrown in at least five or six times, and stones had to be tied inside.

I worked for an hour at four o'clock and was soaked by the water. Fortunately, I was wearing leather jackets when I went out today.

"Do you want to go to town to play?"

"No, I want to go back and change clothes." Erhu didn't want to go with them. It was the most uncomfortable thing to go out today. It would be much better to go back and lie down.

Qin Dahe became anxious when he saw that he was unwilling to go out.

"Come with me and I'll buy you a pack of Double Happiness cigarettes." As he said that, he took out a Double Happiness cigarette from his pocket and gave it to him.

Erhu squinted his eyes, lit a cigarette, and took a puff happily. The seven-dollar cigarette tasted so good, hey!

"No, I want to go back and watch The Return of the Condor Heroes."

"My aunt has been fucked by Yin Zhiping, why are you looking at it?"

"Get out!" Erhu glared at him irritably, bringing up something that was irrelevant to the topic.

"Come with me, just relax with me."

Without waiting for Erhu to object, he stepped on the accelerator and headed for town.

I bought a pack of Double Happiness and two bottles of wine. As for Erhu's cigarettes, I can just give him the remaining half pack later. There is no need to buy cigarettes specifically for brothers.

Wu Ye's house is on the edge of the town, and the water area he contracts is also large. You can see it as soon as you leave the town and head west.

The car roared to the side of the small shack where Uncle Wu watched the fish. The fish farmers all built shacks by the lake, and they had to have someone watching over them, otherwise someone would steal the fish.

"Fifth Master!" He shouted loudly after getting out of the car.

When Uncle Wu came out, he didn't see Auntie. She was probably at home taking care of her grandson.

"Daha, it's a good thing that you're here. If you hadn't come, I would have called you." Wu Ye took the cigarette with a smile, and Erhu also took the initiative to say hello.

It turned out that he was going to buy seedlings soon. The last time he saw Qin Dahe building a crucian carp pond, he also had the idea and isolated two small ponds to raise crucian carp.

Moreover, the pond bottom here is good, so there is no need to soak lime specifically, and it can be done very quickly.

“So how many fish fry should I order?”

"You can get 2000 fish in the early stage, and then put some ground traps at home. After the New Year, you can catch them while adding wild seedlings to ensure the density of 2000 fish." It is really fast to get crucian carp seeds. The ground traps are full of this worthless stuff.

　My teeth have been hurting for a long time, my son is sick too, and there are so many things to do that I am so busy. Fortunately, I have a lot of manuscripts saved, hey!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)