Reborn Leisurely Landlord

Chapter 48
At the end of May, summer officially entered. Summer is the favorite time for children. Not only can you go shirtless to catch crabs in Qinghe, catch light rain and catch loaches, you can also catch frogs, eels, and small fish. Of course, the most lively thing is the national cover fish. .

Fish dive, rain comes.On this Saturday, the weather was cloudy in the morning, not windy and muggy. Cicada was screaming desperately, and soon it began to rain heavily.

The summer rain comes suddenly, and it comes and goes quickly. When the rain is over and the sky clears, the fish in the Qinghe River start to be restless.Fish leaping over the dragon's gate, they all scrambled to jump out of the water.

This is a good season for covering fish. At noon, someone in the village yelled "Fish covering", and everyone tacitly went to their own warehouses to get fish coverings.

Su's father also hurriedly walked out of the house in his shorts, picked up the fish cover, rushed to meet under the banyan tree at the head of the village, and then rushed to the lower reaches of the Qinghe River together.

Su Qingcheng and Su Qingye couldn't stay at home anymore, they looked at Su Qingdai anxiously.Su Qingdai nodded, and they threw away the pens in their hands and ran towards the door with bare feet, not even putting on their shoes.

Almost all the young and middle-aged people in Qinghe Village were dispatched, and those women and children folded a few strong wicker sticks and followed behind. The scene was very spectacular, just like people on the beach going to catch the sea.When they reached the lower reaches of the Qinghe River, the men rushed to jump into the water.

This does not require organization, it is tacitly understood.Start the water from the lower reaches of the Qinghe River, and drive the fish to the upper reaches along the river.Once the men went into the water with the fish cover, the children began to cheer, and the women scolded them lightly, so the children stopped making trouble and stared wide-eyed at where their father was in the river.

"Hood" is a very ancient fishing gear, usually made of reed or bamboo. The bamboo hood has a big bottom and a small mouth. The upper and lower mouths are round and flat.

Just after it rains, the water in the Qinghe River will be very turbid, and it is impossible to see the fish in the water clearly, so the only way to catch the fish is to rely on a large number of people.Everyone shouted back and forth, raised their voices and shouted one after another, let go of their hands and feet and raised and lowered the cover. The sound of water splashed, and the water splashed, and the terrified fish fled around, and they were often caught in the cover. There were grass carp, some There are eels and carp, most of which weigh a few kilograms, and some even weigh more than ten kilograms.

Standing in the river, people judge the movement of the water according to the waves on the water surface. If there are fish, the fish cover on their hands is plunged down to cover it, and then they hold the gills of the fish with their hands to touch it.

Catfishing is only suitable for shoals, just like hunting. It usually requires a group of more than a dozen people to act together. The distance between each other should not hinder the movement. The closer the better, the fishhunters are lined up without leaving any gaps. , In this way, the fish can't avoid it, so they have to run around blindly, revealing their whereabouts when they stir up water splashes, and finally they are caught by lucky people.

Covering fish is a technical job, which requires both strength and eyesight.Su's father is a master of fish trapping. He has excellent eyesight and can tell which is a wave and which is a wave caused by a fish in the water.

Whenever this happened, Su Qingye and Su Qingcheng would cheer and wait on the river for Father Su to throw the fish up, then use the folded wicker to penetrate the gills of the fish, stick it out from the mouth of the fish, and pour the fish upside down. Carrying the fish, he ran with the school of fish, following Father Su's back, staring closely at Father Su's movements, not even caring about the scorching sun in the sky.

Fishing is usually at noon, and the children stare at the venomous sun and stand in the sun waiting for their father to throw the fish to the shore. It is a kind of expectation.The children carrying the fish compared each other, who caught more and bigger fish, and finally looked at each other proudly, implying that their father was better than the other.

Su Qingdai never went to watch this kind of excitement, the weather was too hot, she would rather stay at home.At about three o'clock in the afternoon, all the people who covered the fish came back.Su Qingdai prepared a wooden basin of clear water and a sharp kitchen knife, sat under the shade of a tree, and waited for the two brothers and sisters who returned with a full load.

Sure enough, after three o'clock, I heard Su Qingye laughing and running in: "Sister! Sister! Our dad is amazing, he covered a herring weighing more than ten catties! That fish is so big, it's still alive and kicking! "

Seeing that her face was flushed from the sun, Su Qingdai hurriedly took a bunch of small crucian carp in her hand, and told her to go to the house to drink some mung bean soup to dispel the heat, and Su Qingye entered the house as she said.

Not long after, Father Su and Su Qingcheng came back.Sure enough, Su's father tied a big herring with a willow branch in his hand, which was two feet long. The fish was jumping around with its mouth open, and it was very difficult for Su's father to lift it.

Looking at Su Qingcheng's hands again, good guy, there are several fish, all of which are grass carp and carp, the big one weighs four or five catties, and the small one weighs one or two catties.Su Qingdai hurriedly asked them to throw the fish into the wooden basin, and told her father to take a bath, the hot water was already prepared in the basin.

Naturally, the next step was to disembowel them. Father Su cleaned up and came out. Su Qingdai had already cut open those small fish one by one. She couldn't kill those big fish, and it took strength to cut open the fish.

The rest of the work was handed over to Father Su, who skillfully cut open the fish with the handle of the knife.He was about to take out the fish viscera and throw it away, but was stopped by Su Qingdai.

People at this time only like fish meat when they eat fish, but Su Qingdai only likes fish heads, maw, fish roe and fish intestines, so she put those in a bowl separately.

Su's father had a good harvest this time, so Su Qingdai distributed a few fish to his uncle's house.My uncle's illness has almost recovered, and he has been able to work in the fields these days, looking rosy and energetic.

Uncle Lian had left for a long drive, and Su Qingdai asked Aunt Lian and Lian Juan to come to her home for dinner at night.

It is natural to eat fish at night, so Su Qingdai showed her skills and took out all her wealth.Homemade boiled fish head, hibiscus lotus fish, braised crucian carp, braised fish maw, plus perilla fish intestines and caviar sauce, full of a large table.

When the whole fish feast was served, everyone applauded how delicious it was, even the usually taciturn Wang Xinqiang gave a few words of praise.

Since Wang Xinqiang lived in the Su family, he has been staying in the mountains.Father Su felt a little sorry for taking care of the fruit trees and medicinal materials in the mountains every day, but Wang Xinqiang took pleasure in it.Su Qingdai sometimes thinks that maybe that is the charm of Wang Xinqiang, who makes a living from farming. People like him don’t care about the eyes of the world, and only take their own interests as their career. Like the father of rice, he lives in the yellow land all his life. The cat is in love, and he doesn't want to leave.

When the food came to the table, without waiting for Su Qingdai to greet, everyone shook their cheeks and started eating.

Su's father went to Uncle Li's house to fetch a few catties of high-quality rice wine, and he and Wang Xinqiang had a great time drinking it. In the end, they didn't know how much they drank, only that Wang Xinqiang went back to the wing room after dinner and fell asleep.

The brothers and sisters of the Su family naturally refused to give in to each other, and even Lian Juan, who had always been introverted, had a good time.

It's just that Su's father forbade Su Qingcheng to eat caviar. The villagers were superstitious and believed that caviar was something that hadn't been born. Boys who ate it would be unable to see the world and do great things in the future.Therefore, Su Qingcheng could only stare at Su Qingye eating caviar.

A whole fish feast, everyone ate comfortably, only Su Qingcheng was a little depressed because he didn't eat caviar.

(End of this chapter)