Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 239 Fishing

After dinner, we went out for a walk to digest the food. The night in the mountains was particularly quiet, so the chirping of insects in the fields was particularly clear.

The bright moon was hanging high in the sky, illuminating the earth. No one needed to carry lanterns.

On the rice fields, beside the ridges, on the green lake, on the paths, it can be said that the entire valley of Wuyou Village is dotted with fluorescent lights.

Those are the fireflies flying. They are like elves, flapping their wings, as if they want to show off their beauty before winter comes.

Song Xiaodi exclaimed, and then he tried his best to run with his two short legs to chase the flying fireflies. Si Niang and Wu Niang also chased the fireflies mischievously.

Master Hu was reciting, "The stars are scattered, circling the earth without anyone to take care of them. Although a little cold light is shining, it cannot fly to the west bank of the river."

Song Sanniang was looking at the night scene of fireflies flying around and children catching them with a smile on her face.

Qin Haoxi, Xiao Hulu, and Song Laoer and his wife were chatting with Aunt Niu and the others who were sitting in the threshing ground.

Because they had agreed to catch fish, if they didn't catch fish in a few days, Uncle Huang and his men would be busy with the autumn harvest, so everyone in the village went out early the next morning.

Some people took buckets, some took fishing nets, and some helped to move the two small boats on the shore to the lake and tied them up for later use.

Although they were casting fishing nets on the boat to catch fish, in order to prevent people from falling into the water, everyone let people who could swim to catch the fish. Uncle Huang was one of them.

Then there was Aunt Niu's husband, Aunt Zhang's husband, and Old Man Liu who was in charge of herding cattle, four people in total, two people on each boat.

Song Sanniang was still sleeping in, but Song Xiaodi, a kid with a regular schedule, woke up early.

Knowing that the uncles in the village were going fishing, he was extremely excited. He ran to Song Sanniang's room and knocked on the door, waking her up.

Song Sanniang had no choice but to get up. When Song Xiaodi knocked on the bed, he woke up Mr. Hu, Si Niang and Wu Niang on the third floor. Since everyone was awake, they had to get up together.

Aunt Gan had already prepared breakfast and was heating it up in the kitchen. After they washed up, Song Laoer and his wife, Qin Haoxi and others had breakfast in the dining room.

Today's breakfast includes white porridge with dried radish. The dried radish from yesterday was not eaten up. Song Laoer's family is not wasteful, so they told Aunt Gan to save it for the white porridge the next day.

Aunt Gan also made steamed dumplings. Every day, the aunts in the village would take turns to go to the village at the foot of the mountain to buy some ingredients that were not available in the village, such as pork.

There is a pork seller in the village. His family divides the work. Some go to collect pigs every day, some are responsible for slaughtering the pigs. They slaughter the pigs in the early morning of the next day, and then sell them in the village and then go to other villages.

In addition to the steamed dumplings, there are also boiled eggs and sweet potatoes, which is a simple farm breakfast. This is why Song Sanniang and her friends made so much.

Normally they would just cook some sweet potatoes and taro to get by, then go back to work. Their meals at noon and at night were also very simple.

Song Sanniang allowed them to have the chickens, ducks, geese and fish in the farm as snacks every now and then. She also told them not to keep the eggs they laid, but to pick them up and cook them for everyone.

But they often couldn't bear to eat them themselves, so they gave one or two to their children, and saved the rest and sent them to Tian Mi Mi from time to time, which made Song Sanniang very helpless.

She simply brought back some salt and asked them to pickle the leftovers with salt to make salted eggs.

Now they felt sorry for the salt, so they had to eat less eggs before pickling them.

"Big sister, please eat quickly, please eat quickly, Uncle Huang and the others have started to catch fish."

Song Xiaodi had finished eating a long time ago. Seeing that Song Sanniang was eating slowly, he pulled her sleeve and kept shaking her, urging her to eat.

Before Song Sanniang could say anything, Song Laoer spoke first, "What's wrong with you? Why don't you let go of your sister's sleeve?

Let your sister finish her breakfast. If you want to watch it, go and watch it yourself. Aunt Niu and the others are here and they will watch you."

Song Xiaodi pouted in grievance, put down Song Sanniang's sleeves, and sat aside unhappily waiting for Song Sanniang.

When Little Gourd saw him like this, he felt sorry for him and went over to accompany him. When he saw someone paying attention to him, he was no longer angry and happily started playing with Little Gourd.

Because of Song Xiaodi's urging, Song Sanniang and the others ate breakfast faster and finished it quickly.

Aunt Gan came up to clear the table, and Song Sanniang and the others went to watch the fishing.

Today is a really cool autumn day, with clear blue skies and high clouds. Uncle Huang and his friends have already caught a net of fish, about ten of them.

"Hey, I caught the koi. Let it go, let it go." Niu Zhuang threw a fat koi with red and white in the fishing net back into the water.

"Hey, there are so many shrimps, do you want to put them back?" Uncle Huang put the big fish weighing more than two kilograms into the bucket, and threw the small ones back into the lake.

He just didn't know what to do with the shrimps inside, because the lady only said to catch the fish and dry them.

"The young lady and the others are here, go ask them." Niu Zhuang motioned Uncle Huang to look in the direction where Song Sanniang and the others were coming from.

Song Sanniang and her friends walked to where Uncle Huang and his friends had parked their boats. Seeing the fish crowded together in the buckets, Song Sanniang nodded with satisfaction and said, "These fish must be delicious when dried."

Song rolled up his sleeves happily and stretched out his chubby hands to scoop up the fish in the bucket, shouting excitedly as he scooped, "They are bumping into my hands, they are trying to run away."

Song Ersao was originally worried that he would get his clothes wet and catch a cold, but Song Laoer felt that boys should not be treated so pampered.

When they were young, they used to catch fish, shrimp and climb trees in the village. When Song Ersao heard him say this,

Thinking about how she used to follow him around when she was a kid, picking fruits for him to share with her, she couldn't help but find it funny, so she followed Song Xiaodi and played:

Old Liu also caught a net of fish. Master Hu noticed that in addition to the fish, there were two snakes in their net.

This frightened her so much that she turned pale and pointed at the snake in the net and shouted, "There's a snake, there's a snake."

When everyone looked over, they saw two green-brown snakes covered with web-like patterns twisting their long bodies in the net bag, trying to break free.

Old man Liu laughed and said loudly, "Master, don't be afraid. This is a water snake, not a poisonous snake. It's okay if it bites you."

As he spoke, he leaned over, grabbed a snake by the tail, lifted the whole snake, and swung it hard, killing it directly on the boat. He also killed the other one in the same way.

He chuckled. Water snakes are delicious. Rural people usually don't want to buy meat, but catching a water snake can make you have a good meal. Fried snake slices, water snake porridge, water snake soup, it's delicious no matter how you cook it.

If Mrs. Hu knew that Old Man Liu was thinking about eating the water snake, she would probably go crazy and vomit all her breakfast on the spot.