Rebirth: Good Farming in the 90s

After hanging the clam shells and filling up the bamboo baskets they brought, several people ran to catch eels in several rotten mud ponds around them.

The water in the mud pond was very shallow and only covered the surface of the soil. Qin Yang asked Jiang Yu to wait on the bank. They rolled their trousers up to their thighs, hung the small bamboo basket specially made to hold eels on their bodies, and walked carefully with their bare feet. When I got out of the mud pond, I stood by the pond and looked carefully to see if there were any holes in the mud around me.

Field eels like to make holes in the mud, and there are two holes, one in and one out. When catching the field eel, go through one of the holes with one hand, and pay attention to the other hole at the same time. When the field eel is driven out, it will be caught immediately, but not Not every hole will have eels, it may be empty, or there may be a water snake living there. In short, catching eels is a careful job with a certain degree of risk.

Moreover, eels can bite people, so you have to be skillful when catching them.

Qin Yang and the others bent over to catch eels in the pond with their backs facing the mud, while Jiang Yu guarded things for them.

The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and Jiang Yu was sleepy from sitting, so he lay down on the grass by the mud pond, covered his face with a straw hat and fell asleep, Qin Yang and the others were so sunburned that the back of their head hurt, it took more than an hour, One person caught six or seven eels, and Yang Yue was so unlucky that he even stabbed a snake out. He was so frightened that he flung the snake away and ran to the bank. In the mud pond, I got covered in mud.

Fortunately, he is afraid of snakes, and snakes are even more afraid of him. After being thrown away, the water snake immediately got into the water. Qin Yang and Ma Tao laughed at Yang Yue without sympathy, and went ashore quickly, fearing that they would be bitten by the water snakes running around. a mouthful.

The three of them threw the bamboo baskets containing the eels on the bank. Unsurprisingly, when they saw the leeches sticking to their calves, they couldn't help feeling chills. They hurried to the river not far away to wash off the mud on their feet, and then carefully cleaned their legs. Yang Yue plunged into the river with his clothes on, washing himself from head to toe.

Several people slapped and slapped the river for a long time, and slapped off all the leeches before going ashore and walking back.

"These few eels are not enough to stuff my teeth, but they are sucked so much blood by leeches, it's not worth it." Yang Yue raised his legs and walked forward, looking left and right, for fear that the leeches that fell in other places would not be cleaned.

Qin Yang looked at Jiang Yu who was curled up in front of him and was sleeping, and said calmly: "If you think it's too little, you can take it home to eat, or just sell mussels."

Yang Yue readily accepted the proposal, "It's a good idea, I haven't eaten meat for a long time, what should we do now, go sieve fish?"

Qin Yang looked up at the sky, guessing what it would be like at two or three o'clock, "Go, it's still early, and there's nothing to do when we go home."

"Where to sieve."

Ma Tao patted him with disgust, "Downstream, are you here as a guest? I don't know where to catch fish."

Yang Yue teased with a half-smile: "I haven't been here a few times. You think it looks like you. You like to run here when planting rice seedlings. Isn't the little girl from Shangling very pretty, haha?"

Ma Tao smacked his mouth, and said longingly: "It looks good, it will look even better if I can get it home."

A few people chatted and laughed and went to the place where they put their things, and began to tidy up their things. Qin Yang walked up to Jiang Yu and took off the straw hat he covered his head. Covering his eyes with his hands, he hummed twice and woke up.

"Qin Yang..." Jiang Yu dazedly opened his eyes and glanced at Qin Yang. The next moment he closed his eyes uncomfortably because of the light, shrank into a ball and moved to Qin Yang's feet, hiding under the light. And let Qin Yang continue to sleep peacefully under the reflection of Xingcheng's body.

Qin Yang looked at Jiang Yu who fell asleep in an instant and couldn't help laughing out loud. He stretched out his hand to rub Jiang Yu's head, and was about to wake him up, but Yang Yue, who had put away his things, came over and suddenly clicked his tongue twice, jokingly said : "Qin Yang, I think you are a good father. It has only been a few months to raise this yellow and skinny little fool to be white and tender. It's a pity that you are not a girl. Otherwise, you can marry back home and become a wife." .”

Qin Yang didn't take it seriously, thinking that raising this little fool is the same as raising a son. He woke up Jiang Yu, picked up his things, and the group walked back.

The downstream is a shallow water beach, the water depth can only be submerged to knees, the terrain here is low and flat, because there is no restriction of the river bank, the river spreads out in a large area, forming countless ditches and river beaches of different sizes on the grass beach.

There are lush aquatic plants and slow water flow, and countless small fish and shrimp can be hidden in the roots of aquatic plants under every ditch and grass beach.

Both Ma Tao and Yang Yue were a little excited. After all, it had been a long time since they had done fish screening, and it belonged to their childhood memories.

The two put the bamboo baskets containing clam shells into a shallow water beach to soak in water to prevent the shells from being sunburned to death, then took out the prepared small wooden bucket and filled it with half a bucket of water, took off their tattered Jiefang shoes, stroked The pants took the dustpan and went into the water.

Screening fish is very simple, just hold the dustpan and place it under the grass roots, stir vigorously with your hand a few times in the aquatic plants within the range of the dustpan, and then pick up the dustpan, there will be a lot of fish, shrimp, grass roots and other aquatic organisms in it .

"Qin Yang, I, I want to play too." Jiang Yu looked at the two having fun in the water and said yearningly.

Qin Yang soaked the bamboo basket containing clam shells into the water, walked over and handed the small wooden barrel to Jiang Yu, coaxing him very naturally: "Sifting fish is not fun, but picking fish is interesting. I sieve fish, you help me pick them up." ?”

Jiang Yu immediately took over the barrel happily, and said with a smile, "Okay."

Qin Yang smiled at Jiang Yu, who was easy to dismiss, and slowly stepped into the ditch with the dustpan in hand. Seeing that Jiang Yu was going to follow him, he stopped Jiang Yu who was going to follow him into the water, "Don't go into the water, the water is full of stones , Be careful of slipping and wrestling, just wait in the shallow water."

Jiang Yu immediately put on a bitter face, frowned slightly, and anxiously assured: "I, I won't wrestle, Qin Yang, I want to go into the water too."

Qin Yang couldn't resist the cuteness of the other party's eager assurance, so he finally had to let go.

Jiang Yu, who was wearing sandals, didn't need to take off his shoes, he just pulled up his trouser legs, revealing two white, straight and thin legs. He carried a small wooden bucket, grabbed Qin Yang's clothes, and went into the water with him.

As soon as Qin Yang sifted fish, he would put the dustpan on the grass dam and let Jiang Yu pick up the fish and shrimp that couldn't stop jumping in the dustpan.

The sun at two or three o'clock is the time for people to bask in the sun. It is undoubtedly a pleasure to sieve fish walking around in the clear river. Ma Tao and Yang Yue are hot all over. Throw the dustpan on the grass, and sit down in the water to soak, with a look of contentment on his face.

This scene happened to be seen by Jiang Yu who was looking around with a small wooden barrel. The actions of the two were naturally full of attraction to Jiang Yu, who was curious about everything and wanted to play. He pursed his lips and glanced at Qin Qin secretly. With his busy back, Yang carefully placed the wooden bucket containing a lot of fish and shrimps on the grass beside him, and imitated Ma Tao's behavior just now and sat down in the water.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yu used too much force, and his single head did not estimate the height well. After sitting down, he fell into the water on his back in an instant, and the water suddenly flooded the top of his head. He patted the water and tried to sit up.

Qin Yang turned around when he heard the movement, and immediately frowned, the little fool was completely submerged by the not-so-deep water, his heart tightened, and he quickly lifted Jiang Yu, who couldn't live in the water, out of the water .

As soon as Jiang Yu came out of the water, he bent over and coughed violently. Qin Yang looked cold, but gently patted Jiang Yu's back with his hands.

The two people who were enjoying themselves in the water over there heard Jiang Yu's uncomfortable coughing, and looked this way one after another. Seeing that Jiang Yu was soaked like a drowned chicken, they asked with concern, "What's wrong, little fool, did you drown?"

Qin Yang didn't answer with a dark face, Yang Yue teased: "You are stupid, why are you drowning in such a shallow river... Oh, forget that he is a little fool, impossible things are possible with him."

Ma Tao glared at Yang Yue and motioned him to shut up.

Jiang Yu coughed for a long time, coughed until his eyes were full of tears, and retched for a long time before gradually turning off the fire. He raised his head and looked at the dark-faced Qin Yang helplessly. His eyes wandered, and he began to snap his fingers nervously, "Qin Yang, I, I accidentally stepped on it, and it slipped..."

Qin Yang said coldly: "Oh, don't you want to imitate the two of them and play in the water?"

Jiang Yu began to pull his fingers, and whispered: "No, not at all, it's not fun..."

This idiot will find excuses!Qin Yang stared at Qin Yang's head with a bad complexion, but Jiang Yu seemed to know that he was angry, so he just didn't look up to look at him, so as not to change, Qin Yang looked at him for a long time, losing his temper, so he had to turn him away Take him to the shore to find a hidden place, take off his clothes and pants and wring out the water before putting them on for him, so that he can dry faster.

And Jiang Yu was also ordered by Qin Yang not to go into the water again, so he had to pick up pebbles on the river beach to play.

There are a lot of small finger-sized fish and shrimps in this area. After playing and sifting for two hours, they filled the small wooden barrels they brought with them to the full.

A group of people harvested a lot and returned to the village contentedly.

The three made an appointment to go to the city to sell clam shells together tomorrow, and they dispersed by the well.

As soon as he got home, Qin Yang soaked all the clam shells in a wooden basin, and began to worry about the bucket of fish and shrimp.

Although I told Yang Yue and others that fish can be made into dried fish, Qin Yang was a half-baked fish maker. After hesitating again and again, Qin Yang decided to try his hand before the fish and shrimp died of hypoxia. Making small dried fish is nothing more than marinating and roasting , Sun, Qin Yang thinks that it should not be a problem to do it according to his own understanding, but the most important thing now is to slaughter the rice field eel first and give it to Qin Feng for cooking.

Qin Yang is no stranger to killing rice field eels. He found a board, nailed a nail on it, and moved all the things outside the yard to avoid making the house dirty. When he wanted to catch rice field eels and kill them, he did not forget to squat aside Jiang Yu said: "Go and play, don't look, it's scary."

"Yes, to see."

Qin Yang didn't care about him anymore, picked up a rice field eel and pressed its head on a nail, and the donated blood immediately flowed out. Jiang Yu, who was squatting on the sidelines watching, suddenly closed his eyes in fright, and continued to look through his fingers curiously. .

Qin Yang held down the eel and quickly opened it up with a knife, scraped off the viscera in the eel's stomach, cut off the head, and it was done.

In the same way, half an hour later, the seven eels were all processed, and the muddy ground was full of blood.

Qin Yang handed the slaughtered eel to Qin Feng and started to fish.

The largest fish in a bucket is about the size of a little finger. Qin Yang squatted on the ground to pick up the small fish one by one. He had to make a small opening under the belly of the fish, squeeze out the internal organs and then clean it. .

Not long after, Qin Feng came to call the two of them to eat. Today's food was very good, because there was an extra meat dish, and several of them ate an extra bowl of corn rice. Qin's father was also satisfied with the meal alone in the room. Qin Yang couldn't help but start Thinking about making a recliner for Qin's father, so that he can come out to breathe, otherwise lying in bed all day in this weather is easy to get bed sores.

After eating, Qin Yang continued to work under the courtyard wall with an oil lamp on. Jiang Yu was bored watching, so he ran to the side to look at the clam shells in the wooden basin under the bright moonlight.

Many clam shells in the basin were half-opened with scallops, the most eye-catching one was the huge clam shell hung by Jiang Yu, at this time, it was also followed by half a scallop, and the white and tender clam meat could not stop wriggling from the shell.

Jiang Yu gave a curious snort, and reached out to grab it, and the clam immediately shrank back into its shell.

Jiang Yu held up the huge clam shell and looked around in confusion, then ran to Qin Yang holding the clam shell, "Qin YangQin Yang, here, what's inside, just now, there is a white thing running, running out oh."

Qin Yang didn't raise his head, "The white thing... probably is clam meat."

"Clam meat is, what is it, why is it missing?"

"Into the shell."

"Can I, can I call it out, come out to play?"

Qin Yang looked up at Jiang Yu, and said with a smile: "It probably doesn't want to play with you, so go find Xiao Hei."

Jiang Yu let out an oh, and walked away holding the clam shell.

It took a long time to make a bucket of small fish. Qin Yang salted the fish and the shrimps that were dying due to lack of water at the same time, and then went back to sleep.

Early the next morning, while eating, Qin Yang told Qin Feng to wash the marinated small fish, brush some oil in the iron pan after washing, and then take it to dry and other matters. Before he woke up, he went to put the clam shells in a bamboo basket, but Qin Yang found that the largest clam shell was missing after filling it halfway. It was probably because Jiang Yu held him and didn’t know where to put it. Qin Yang simply didn’t care about the clam shell. After hastily packing up, I found a small plastic bucket and filled it with water, and went out of the yard to meet the two of them.

The three of them drove to the city, walked around the market, and then found a place where there were many vendors selling melon seeds and peanuts. They put the bamboo baskets on the ground, picked out a few good-looking clam shells and placed them on the market. On the ground, it is convenient for others to see what they are selling at a glance.

Qin Yang took out a cigarette and handed it to the peddler at the side, chatted casually and began to call each other brothers, in order to lend them a scale when someone came to buy clam shells later.

There are more people in the market, and there are many people who come to see the strange things, but there are not many people who want to buy. It is not common to eat clam shells in this era, so you have to be patient enough to wait. In contrast, there are hawkers who sell small vegetables and melon seeds around. , business is pretty good.

After all, it was the first time for Yang Yue to set up a stall to sell his own things. He was unavoidably anxious when he saw that no one was interested, and he began to doubt Qin Yang's idea in his heart.

Qin Yang and Ma Tao were not in a hurry, as long as the city management didn't come after them, they could afford to wait.

Several people watered the shells from time to time, and when it was almost noon, someone finally came forward to ask the price!

Ma Tao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and looked at Yang Yue with confidence.

The person who asked for the price was a fat man in a shirt and trousers. He could tell from his crappy mouth that he was an old Cantonese, commonly known as Cantonese, and Cantonese are really good at handling seafood. No wonder they would treat them of clam shells.

During the conversation with him, Qin Yang learned that the other party was actually a restaurant manager, and what was even more surprising was that he was willing to buy clam shells from several people for a long time, but the bargaining price was very fierce. Conditions repeatedly lowered the price, and finally the price was [-] yuan per catty.

One must know that the price Qin Yang yelled was five yuan and five yuan, but this price was the only one he dared to yell, but Ma Tao, Yang Yue, and both of them were terrified when they heard it, for fear that Qin Yang would scare the customers away.

Fortunately, there is no need to worry about the market for good things, and Qin Yang also understands the need for small profits but quick turnover, so the business was negotiated like this.

The clam shells hung by several people weighed at least 160 catties. They were sold for a total of more than 50 yuan, an average of 50 yuan per person. This made Yang Yue very happy. Excluding the fare, the net profit was nearly [-] yuan. , [-] yuan is not a small amount!How can he be unhappy.

It was already around two o'clock in the afternoon when the three of them happily returned to the village. Yang Yue and Ma Tao had tasted the sweetness, and encouraged them to hang clam shells. Qin Yang still had something to do, so he casually mentioned that he wanted to go back. Make small dried fish, and hang them tomorrow, Yang Yue immediately disdainfully said: "What small dried fish! We have taken such a big business now, so we can concentrate on hanging clam shells, why waste time on small dried fish, the family's I will fry all those fish tonight!"

Qin Yang said indifferently: "You can't always give up halfway when you do things. Go hang out, I won't go today."

"That's fine, let's go first!" The two of them said together and ran home, intending to continue hanging after dinner.

Qin Yang walked home slowly with the bamboo basket, and couldn't help but wonder what Jiang Yu's expression would be when he went back, and probably would cling to him in and out again without making a sound.

Qin Yang smiled unconsciously, and speeded up to go home.

However, when he got home, what he saw was Jiang Yu sitting on the threshold in front of the main room with his mouth pursed and sullen.

"Qin Yang, Qin Yang..." Jiang Yu saw Qin Yang trot over immediately and bumped into Qin Yang's arms, with his head lowered on Qin Yang's chest, but he didn't speak.

Qin Yang knew something was wrong when he saw his appearance, so he patted Jiang Yu's head and asked, "What's the matter."

"The clam shell is dead...it's dead..." Jiang Yu said in a low voice and aggrieved: "Its mouth is wide open, its stomach is good, there are a lot of stones..."

"What about clam shells?"

"Here...you follow, come with me." Jiang Yu raised his head from Qin Yang's arms, and pulled Qin Yang to the place where he was sitting just now. There was the huge clam shell under the threshold.

Qin Yang put the things in his hands aside, and squatted down to look at the clam shells with scallops. As soon as he took a look at Qin Yang, he was shocked by what he saw.

He picked up the clam shell and looked in front of him, there were actually dense pearls the size of peas sandwiched between the two shells of the clam shell!

And that little fool Jiang Yu was still distressed and said: "Clam shells are good, so stupid, to eat stones..."

Qin Yang was pleasantly surprised, but he didn't forget to think that Jiang Yu is really a treasure, and he can meet all good things.