Chapter 174: Springlight
They stood in the ground for half an hour, and did not leave until the red sun rose. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
For these young people, it was the first time in their lives that they had really observed how farmers farmed the land, and the first time they had seriously thought about why they farmed the way they did. Xu Ping didn't know what kind of bad things this would bring to them, but it wasn't a bad thing.
The breeze blows, the water is rippling, and the sun shines on it a golden yellow.
Sun Qilang hummed an unknown tune, leisurely netting with a few bankers, basking in the sun.
Seeing Xu Ping bringing people over, Sun Qilang and the others hurriedly got up and saluted.
Xu Ping took someone to sit on the chair that had already been prepared next to him, and asked Sun Qilang: "There was enough rain last year, I don't know if there are many fish in the pond?" It's rare for a few officials to arrive, so you use your means to catch more suitable ones and cook a whole fish feast at night. ”
"Officials rest assured, there hasn't been much fishing in the village in the past few years, and the fish in the pond have grown big and fat. Today is a good day, and I will not be disappointed. ”
Sun Qilang said as he led people into the boat and rowed towards the pond.
It's spring now, and people can't go into the water yet, so they can only drag nets on boats to catch fish. For convenience, the nets used in this way are all big nets, and the catch is also big fish, and some fish with delicate flesh and small growth cannot be caught.
A few bankers rowed a small boat and slowly entered the huge pond. When several people on the shore saw this scene, their depressed mood just now was swept away, and they pointed their fingers one after another.
This is the picture that literati like to see, the peasant fisherman, the poetic scene, the joy of harvest. They don't care how people actually work, they just enjoy the picture.
Xu Ping always likes to think about how people work, and whether there is a better way to improve efficiency and save manpower, so there is no poetry in his eyes, and he can't write poems that make people chant and admire.
The people around me are different, some people have already crossed beautiful sentences in their hearts, and are trying to grasp the fleeting inspiration. It may not be long before a beautiful psalm can be written.
The people here are all young people, and the embarrassment of not knowing anything in the field just now has long since disappeared, and they are all happily discussing the scenery in front of them. This scene of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River hooked the nostalgia of Ouyang Xiu and Mei Yaochen.
Wang Gongchen sat bored on the side, found a Zhuang guest to take with him, got up and walked along the pond, and came back after a while, with two big flowers on his head, and he didn't know where he found them.
Xu Ping just shook his head and smiled bitterly when he saw it, he didn't understand why men like to wear flowers in this era, and the bigger the bloom, the more gorgeous the color, the more they like it. After coming to this world for so many years, Xu Ping has never worn it, and he really can't get over the hurdle in his heart.
Wang Gongchen started, and the others also stood up and walked casually to enjoy the surrounding scenery.
It's spring, when flowers bloom everywhere, and scenery is everywhere. On the roadside, the ridges are full of well-known and unknown flowers, colorful. From time to time, there are still a few fruits standing in the sun, and the trees are full of flowers.
A few people thought they had gone out of the city to enjoy the flowers, and walked along the road in the fields. While talking, I picked a small flower from time to time and played with it in my hand.
Men love flowers, but women are more reserved, when visiting the garden in the spring, this habit makes Xu Ping very unaccustomed, almost the opposite of his previous life, and I don't know what the truth is.
Sun Qilang, who was on the boat in Pitang, gasped and said loudly: "Are there really so many fish in the water? The boat is a little rowing, so let's go to shore and see how much catch there is in the net. ”
The dealer next to him whispered: "Qilang, I haven't fished much seriously in the village over the years, but occasionally someone takes a bamboo pole to catch a few, of course there are too many fish." ”
The pond and river are the property of the village, and no one said anything when the villagers and tenants came to fish, and they couldn't say anything about catching them with nets. Besides, you can't take it out and sell it, and it's useless to catch too much.
After years of remediation, except for a swamp deliberately left by Xu Ping, the water in other places has receded, forming many rivers and ponds, and there are many aquatic products such as fish and shrimp. Usually people in a few small rivers fishing is enough to make a tooth sacrifice, this kind of big pond no one to disturb, the fish in it have long since grown to how many catties.
The boat turned its head and dragged its net slowly towards the shore. I don't know how many catches I caught in the net, but I feel very heavy.
Pressing the reeds and wild grass on the shore, the boat approached the shore.
Sun Qilang stepped down from the boat and beckoned to the Zhuang guest next to him: "Come over quickly, help pull the net!" If this net is all fish, not a stone, it will be enough for our village! ”
A few bankers on the shore ran over quickly and helped to set up the net.
Sun Qilang jumped into the water, fished from the middle of the net, and shouted, and a large herring weighing nearly ten catties was thrown to the shore and jumped desperately in the grass.
"Sure enough, it's a fish! This net is enough for the dealer to eat! ”
Sun Qilang shouted while directing Zhuang Ke in the water to hold the net to death.
Xu Ping, Fang Kai, and Uncle Cao Ying stood up and walked to the shore to watch.
At this time, the northerners did not eat much fish, and they did not know how to do it, so they let the fish in the pond grow to such a big size. There are still 10 or 20 rice growers from the south of the Yangtze River in Xuping Zhuangzi, who have taught the villagers a lot of fish practices, but they still haven't changed their customs.
Hearing the shouts here, Wang Gongchen and the others hurried back, looked at the big fish jumping on the grass, and said together: "What a big fish, I didn't expect this pond to look inconspicuous, and it would raise such a big fish!" ”
Xu stood quietly under the big willow tree on the shore, did not step forward, and did not say anything. Fishery technology has little practical value in this era, and there are still people fishing wild fish fry near the big cities in the south of the Yangtze River, but no one is doing it north of the Yangtze River. The population is still small, and due to the large number of Pitang rivers formed by the flooding of the Yellow River, there are enough wild fish for people to eat.
And because of their living habits, northerners rarely eat fish and can't eat fish. Nowadays, even in Kaifeng City, it is rare to find a restaurant that can cook a fish dish in a similar way, let alone a small place.
However, as more and more Jiangnan people came to the capital as officials, the demand for fish also increased. Maybe wait for something, you can consider opening a small restaurant in the capital, and making fish is also a specialty.
Looking at Wang Gongchen, who was standing elated in front of people, Xu Ping nodded secretly. Wang Gongchen is not a way to do this now, there is only a widowed mother in the family, and there are many brothers, relying on him alone, how can he not be rich. After waiting for a while, I am not so busy, you can consider opening a store with his family to help him.
In two years, Wang Gongchen will also get married, and he will go out to work, and he will ask for money everywhere. It is not difficult for Zhuang Yuanlang to find a wife from a large family, and he can also bring a rich dowry, but relying on a woman is not always the way.
(I've been sick for the past two days, and the update is not powerful, readers forgive me.) (To be continued.) )