Chapter 185 Just go on a date if you have nothing to do
When we arrived at the paddy fields, we saw people hunched over and busy inside each rice field, busy lifting up the fallen rice and tying it up with straw.
Reduced production is inevitable, so make up for it if you can. Even if you can't harvest full grains, you can harvest some locusts and feed them to chickens and ducks.
After reading this, Li Changle thought that when he came, there were at most two or three households in a village growing rice, and the rest had to buy grain to eat, because the cost of growing grain was higher than buying grain.
When they arrived at the rice field, Chen Yongwei came with a bundle of straw. The three brothers joked with him a few times and then got busy.
There was a piece of fallen rice on the bank of the pond. The three of them worked for more than an hour before tying up the fallen rice. They helped Chen Yongwei tie it up for a while, then went to the ditch to wash their feet and walked towards the cornfield at the foot of the mountain.
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"Alekuai, there is a crab in front of you."
Before Li Changle, who was thinking wildly, could react, Brother Li quickly squeezed him away, stepped on the back of the fleeing crab, and reached out to catch it.
"Hey, it's still only the cream."
"There must be crabs hiding in the grass." Chen Yongwei stepped forward and pulled it away. He picked up a hairless plate on a large turtle, threw it back into the grass in disgust, and continued to pull it away.
There are two types of field crabs here, one is the one caught by Brother Li, which looks similar to a hairy crab, with a thick body and hair on the big claws, and the other is a flat body with no hair on the big claws.
The hairless crabs are not caught by anyone even if they crawl in front of them. They think they are not fat enough and the crab meat is not fresh and sweet enough. Everyone only eats the crabs with hairs on the big claws, thinking that these are the authentic crabs.
The three of them scraped in the grass for a while, caught three field crabs, tied them with grass and threw them into a backpack. They went to the corn field to break off the corn cobs and cut down the fallen corn stalks and tied them up.
Li Changle suddenly remembered the crucian carp he saw in the ravine, "Brother, Ah Wei, if the tide doesn't go out in the afternoon, how about we go fishing for river eels at the gate of Changtang Gate?"
"To catch eels, you have to catch some loaches."
"It's easy. We go back and take a rolling cage net and lower it into the stream. By the time we come down from the mountain, there will be enough loaches in the net to catch eels."
Li Changle thought this was a good idea, "Lower the net to the entrance of the bridge!"
"Um!"
The four of them agreed to speed up, tie up the corn stalks, load them into the load and carry them back.
When we got home, Mother Li had returned, and Grandma Chen was also there helping to weave a trawl net.
"Auntie, do the Jin family agree?" Looking at their expressions, Li Changle felt that there was something going on between Ah Wei and Jin Chan.
"Yes!" Mother Li looked at Chen Yongwei with a smile, "Ms. Jin Chan asked her, and Jin Chan agreed to watch everything with you."
After hearing this, Chen Yongwei's face turned red again. He could only laugh innocently and didn't know what to do with his hands and feet.
Brother Li smiled and said: "Look, as I said, Awei is tall and tall, and his family is in good condition. If the Jin family is discerning, they will definitely see this."
Grandma Chen was so happy that the folds on her face were squeezed together, "Awei, Jin Chan's girl is pretty good. You should take a good look at her everywhere. Or take her to the town while it's raining today and you have nothing to do."
Going to watch a movie?”
Li Changle patted him and said, "Listen to your grandma, go back and take a shower, tidy up properly, and ride a bicycle to Jin's house to ask her."
Chen Yongwei looked at the people with a blushing face, "It's still raining, why don't we wait until the rain stops before going?"
"Idiot, you take an umbrella. She can sit behind you and hold the umbrella for you."
Li Changle took the pole in his hand and said, "Hurry up and go to a restaurant in town after watching the movie. Once the new house is built, you can get your new wife into the house."
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei was pushed out of the door by him. He turned to look at the people. Grandma Chen waved to him, "Hurry up, there is nothing embarrassing about watching a movie."
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei took a deep breath and strode away. It didn't look like going on a date, but a bit like going to a battlefield.
Grandma Chen watched him go and patted her mother Li happily, "Finally, a decent family has taken a liking to that idiot Awei. If he can find a good marriage, I will go down and have an explanation with his father."
Mother Li smiled and persuaded: "Grandma, don't think like that, you still have to help raise your great-grandson!"
Grandma Chen sighed, "I also want to help him all the time, but who can help him for the rest of his life?"
Li Changle remembered that in his previous life, Grandma Chen did not wait for Ah Wei to get married and left suddenly. She thought that when Chen Yongwei came back, he would find time to take Grandma to the hospital to check whether there was any problem with her heart or brain.
Brother Li went home and brought out a two- to three-meter-long rolled cage net. When Li Xiaoyang and others heard that they were going to net loaches to catch eels, they all clamored to go with them.
"Abba, we also want to go fishing for eels!" Li Xiaobo pulled him and said.
"Second uncle, take us with you, we can also fish for field crabs!"
"It's still raining, and the water in the Chang Pond is full. What are you doing?" Brother Li glanced at Li Xiaotao, "Fishing for eels, I think you're pretty good at fishing for eels."
"...I know it's useless to tell you." Li Xiaotao muttered in a low voice.
Li Xiaoyang turned to look at Li Changle, "Uncle Third, when the tide recedes, you have to take us with you to go fishing together. You agreed last time!"
"I have never spoken without my words." Li Changle glared at him, "The tide has not receded yet, and the waves are as high as the hills. None of you are allowed to go to the beach. If you are swept into the water by the waves, no one can save you.
I can’t help you.”
Father Li looked at the others seriously and said, "Have you remembered what the third uncle said?"
"Remember, grandma said every time, we won't go." Several children responded seriously.
Father Li looked at his eldest grandson and rubbed his head, "Good boy! Help Grandma and the others with the shuttle thread at home. I will take you with me when the tide goes out tomorrow morning."
Li Changle stroked him, and suddenly he missed his son a little. He thought about picking up his son when he returned from the sea tomorrow.
The three brothers took the rolled cage net to the entrance of the creek bridge, lowered the net into the water, fixed it with bamboo poles, and then carried the bamboo poles up the mountain with the baskets on their backs.
Many branches of the bayberry and orange trees were blown off, and the ground was covered with oranges blown off by the wind.
The melon stand that had been strengthened last time was tilted by the wind and was about to collapse. Several winter melons on the vine were also blown down.
The three brothers lifted up the fallen bean frame and picked out edible cucumbers, cowpeas, green beans, winter melons, and pumpkins and put them into baskets.
Brother Li used a machete to cut off the broken branches, tied them with hemp ropes and sent them down the mountain, dried them in the sun and made firewood.
The three of them worked all morning to lift up the melon racks in the mountains and vegetable fields. They also cut down all the fallen corns and brought them home. Zhou Ruonan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also weaved two trawl nets at home.
Li Changle put down his backpack and followed Brother Li, carrying the bucket and walking towards the stream. He went into the water and pulled up the bamboo pole. When he lifted up the cage net, he heard the sound of fish fetching water.
"Abba, Third Uncle, there are fish in there!" Li Xiaoyang and the others shouted excitedly. Fishing and shrimping are two of the most primitive hunting activities that men of all ages love.
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Li Changle also nodded happily, "Brother, please be careful and don't let the rocks at the bottom of the ditch damage the net."
"Don't worry, I'm holding it." Brother Li lifted the cage net to the shore, and several children gathered around it.
Li Xiaotao gathered the fish bag and shouted excitedly, "Wow! There are also two big grass carps, thicker than my arms."
Li Xiaoyang rolled his eyes at him, "Idiot, that's not grass carp but snakehead."
Brother Li picked up the fishing net and poured the fish in the fish collection bag into the bucket, including crayfish, river shrimp, loach, two large snakeheads weighing two to three kilograms each, small crucian carp, small miscellaneous fish, and several palm-sized crucian carps.
, eight or nine eels.
"Not bad, it weighs more than ten kilograms in total. Keep the small loaches and crayfish as bait, discard the small crucian carp and small miscellaneous fish, and take the rest back and kill them for braise."
Although Li Changle doesn't like to eat river fish, he likes to catch fish, especially big fish. He was a little excited to be able to catch so many fish in the creek in front of his home.
Li Xiaoyang said hurriedly: "Uncle Third, don't throw it away. Take the small fish and shrimp back to feed the chickens and ducks."
Brother Li smiled and said: "It's still our Xiaoyang Gu family, your third uncle is not sensible at all."
Li Changle quibbled, "I am pursuing sustainable development. All the small fish have been eaten up. Where can I catch the big fish in the future?"
"There are many. Today and the next day, at least thirty or forty kilograms can be netted." Brother Li folded up the fishing net.
When Li Xiaoyang saw that they were about to close the net, he quickly pulled him and said, "Second uncle, set another net and we will help close it in the afternoon."
"Okay, younger brothers and sisters are not allowed to go into the water." Brother Li went into the water, lowered the net to the entrance of the bridge, and returned home with a group of children.
Mother Li was very happy when she saw so many fish caught in the net, and said to Grandma Chen: "Awei and Achan may have had dinner in the town, and you should also eat here."
"Okay, I'm not welcome."
Chen Yongwei hasn't come back yet. It seems that he has successfully dated Jin Chan. The smile on Grandma Chen's face has never disappeared.
Li Changle and Brother Li helped kill the fish, Zhou Ruonan and Sister-in-law Li put it on the stove, and killed the eel and loach and braised it with black snakehead with pickled cabbage.
Fry the crucian carp until both sides are browned, add water, add scallions, shredded ginger, and dried prunes, cook the crucian carp dried vegetable soup, stir-fry cowpeas, cold jellyfish skin, and a pot of sweet potato stewed rice are all consumed.
After the meal, everyone thought it would be nice to have river seafood once in a while.
After resting for a while, the three brothers Li Changle went out carrying buckets, small benches, and a few homemade fishing rods to the Changtang gate.
Li Changle walked through the gate and took a look, only to see that the highest beach beside the trench was also submerged by sea water, and the short shrubs in the grove were completely submerged in the water.
"Alas, the tide has not receded at all."
"It looks like we can only come and see it tomorrow morning." Brother Li hugged him and walked back, "If you're lucky, it would be good to catch a few more big river eels."
Li Changle smiled and nodded, "I'm lucky, I caught a big snow eel and made a fortune immediately."
"I don't want big snow eels. It would be good to catch a few river eels weighing three to four pounds."
When the brothers returned to Changtang, Brother Li had already untied the hemp rope tied to the fishing rod. The hooks they used to catch river eels were all big hooks.
In this way, the eel will not easily swallow the hook into its stomach and cannot easily take it out. The eel will die quickly if the hook is in its stomach.
With three fishing rods per person, Li Changle caught a small loach, knocked it out, put it on the bait and hung it, and then cast the first rod.
Chapter completed!