After Liang Chuan and Zhaodi returned home, He Baozheng couldn't wait to come to the door. He Baozheng couldn't hide the joy on his face, but there was a hint of concern.
"He Baozheng, why don't you look right?"
"Today I told everyone in the village about your school. Everyone is very grateful for your kindness and very happy, but..." He Bao was half-way through what he said and couldn't say it out.
"Tell me, why have you become as smelly and long as an old woman? If you have any trouble, you have to tell me!"
"There are a lot of kids..."
"How many?" Liang Chuan thought someone was causing trouble or blocking the school, but he didn't expect this to be the problem.
"More than twenty kids..."
Hehe, Liang Chuan was startled. He thought they were many children. He recalled the scene when he was in elementary school. There were more than seventy students in a class, and he was always in the back because he was tall, and his back could be pressed against the wall at the back of the classroom. There are four classes in one grade, all of which are children from the village. That’s a huge crowd. These two dozen children can’t even make a small change.
"Hey, so many?" Liang Chuan laughed.
He Baozheng's heart tightened. Did even Liang Chuan think there were too many people? There were more than twenty children, pens, paper, inkstones, tables and chairs. They looked inconspicuous, but after all, they cost a lot of money. No wonder this young man also felt that there were too many people. I think it's a lot.
He Baozheng gritted his teeth and said: "In this case, I will let those children who are still wearing snot lanterns and wearing open crotch pants go back first, and come back to the school next year, no less than one or two years later!"
Liang Chuan hurriedly stopped He Baozheng's words and said: "No, I mean the whole village is quiet on weekdays. I didn't expect there to be so many children. Twenty or so children are not too many. They all want to study and become literate. Then Make arrangements for them to come over."
He Baozheng didn't know what to say. He didn't expect that Liang Chuan didn't feel sorry for the money at all. He had worried about it for a long time in vain, but he still couldn't let it go. No one can have too much money, and no one can throw it away in vain without feeling distressed.
"By the way, have you agreed with the villagers about the requirements I mentioned? Since you want to study, you must follow my rules. Don't blame me for not agreeing in advance."
He Baozheng patted his chest and said, "This is natural. I have made it clear to the villagers."
"I've asked the master to help make a sand table. It requires more than twenty people. It seems that Master Zhao will have to suffer."
Liang Chuan calculated the quantity, and the sand table still needed to be decorated with some tricks. He designed a cover and inserted it in the middle of the compartment. When the time came, he would pull it out and cover it on the sand, turning it into a table.
"Oh, by the way, are there many fish in Nanxi River?" Liang Chuan suddenly asked He Baozheng.
He Baozheng had no time, let alone the thought of playing with the fish in the Nanxi River. Why did this boy ask this? Did he want to take advantage of the fish in the stream? Nanxi River is famous for its large number of fish, but the water in the stream is very fast, and no one knows how to fish, so I just watched the fish in the stream jumping around, but it was not easy to catch them.
"There are so many, so many and fat, but it's a pity that I can't catch them." He Baozheng sighed, "There are so many flat crucian carp, pond slide, black green, grass shrimp and old turtle in the stream. It's easy to catch them and drink them." They are delicious, but just take a look, if you want to catch one accidentally you may have to go to the river to feed the fish and shrimp."
He Baozheng estimated that Liang Chuan had already made up his mind about the fresh water in the river, and advised: "Sanlang, I know you have a bright mind, but you can't risk your life to test the power of the river water. Many people do it every day." I thought about going to the river to get some river fresh food, so that I can eat river fresh food when I come back, but when I come back, the whole village has to go to his house to eat!"
Liang Chuan recollected the pot of fish soup just now. The delicious taste kept lingering in his mind, and his mind was spinning rapidly. "He Baozheng, please wait. Please eat fresh fish."
Oh my god, you really want to catch fish in the river! He Baozheng struggled to hold on to Liang Chuan and persuaded: "Sanlang, I am not too talkative, please listen to my advice. The water in Nanxi River is deep and fast. Don't go. If you don't agree today, I won't let go!"
Liang Chuan felt warm in his heart, and He Baozheng's big hand was tightened tightly, really afraid that he would go to the river to catch fish for fun and lose his life.
"He Baozheng, I promise you, I haven't lived enough yet. How dare you make fun of my own life? Although I am also a good swimmer, I don't have the guts to swim outdoors." Liang Chuan's face was full of laughter, as if To lie to parents, I will not fish for eggs today.
Liang Chuan excitedly went to find Li Erhua, who always had a tepid temperament. There are more and more finished bamboo woven products and semi-finished products in the yard, one on top of another, almost half the height of the wall.
Li Erhua looked at Liang Chuan's hurried appearance, slowly fiddled with the bamboo strips in his hand, and asked calmly: "Is there something wrong with my boss?"
Liang Chuan said: "Erhua, can you make fish bean sprouts?"
"What kind of fish bean can be made into a simple basket, or should it be made into a bamboo bean sprout with a narrow neck?" Li Erhua said while drawing out a rough shape with his fingers on the ground.
Liang Chuan was overjoyed when he saw the shape Li Erhua made. Li Erhua could really do it. "That's right, it's this narrow-necked and fat-bellied bamboo bean sprout. Can you make it bigger? It's almost as big as an arm. Then you can change it a little bit, remove the neck, and make it into a waist drum. shape, leave a plug."
Li Erhua said softly: "Let me give it a try. Very few people buy this kind of bamboo basket, so we have made very few in the past. The arm-length one may be a little looser, but that's okay."
Liang Chuan smiled and said: "Of course it doesn't matter. You work slowly and make a finished product first for me to see."
"Master, what weird idea have you come up with again? Let's learn bamboo weaving from Erhua. Don't come and cause trouble!" Yang Xiuyi protested to Liang Chuan sternly.
Liang Chuan said mysteriously: "Don't dare, I will take up a little of your time. Erhua will help me make some bamboo shoots. Then I will treat you to fish!"
Zhaodi's ears perked up when he heard that he was eating, and he said, "Third brother, what kind of fish is that? Where did the fish come from?"
"If you want to eat the fresh, lively and dancing fish in Nanxi, let me tell you, after the fish is scaled and belly removed, it is placed on a bamboo pole, sprinkled with a few grains of coarse salt, and allowed to simmer over the charcoal fire for a while. The taste is incredible. .Tsk!”
Liang Chuan deliberately teased Zhaodi, which made Zhaodi get angry and swallowed a lot of saliva. Everyone was sitting in the yard weaving bamboo, looking at Zhaodi's unpromising look, everyone burst into laughter. Zhaodi didn't feel ashamed either. After all, eating, that's not what people live for.
The principle of trout is very simple. It is shaped like a waist drum with a plug. The plug is like a funnel, except that the thin end of the funnel is the tip of a bamboo slice, which is shaped like a barb. Sprinkle bait into the fish clams. When the fish clams are placed in the water, they will attract a lot of fish.
It is easy for a fish to get in through the plug, because the funnel wall of the plug is relatively smooth, but once the fish gets in, it is not that easy to get out again, because the upside-down funnel and plug are covered with water. The fish cannot get out of the thorns and can only stay in the fish thorns.
This kind of thing was taught by adults when I was a child. At that time, the creek on the mountain was still very clear, and the fish and shrimp in the water could be seen with the naked eye. Using this bamboo basket, I can get a lot of fish and shrimp every day to stir-fry for my parents. When I was a child, eating was not my main pursuit, the main thing was to have fun!
Li Erhua's hands are quite skillful. Nowadays, Li Chuyi usually splits and scrapes the bamboo strips into small pieces and prepares them for the women. If you want to make something up, just take it and use it.
There are ready-made raw materials, and the rest is craft work. Li Erhua does not need to make up or teach, the progress is very fast, and a fish clam is taking shape in a while. Liang Chuan stood aside and watched carefully, giving Erhua some advice from time to time, such as cutting the thin end of the plug into bamboo slices and so on.
If it were anyone else, if there was someone buzzing in my ears while I was doing things, I would have been unable to bear it for a long time. But this person is Li Erhua. When you are in a hurry with her, she is also smiling. You are in a hurry. If you're anxious, she'll do the work at hand.
In just half a day's work, Li Erhua made this fish clam.
According to Liang Chuan's requirements, the plug of Yulu is made into a movable funnel. Liang Chuan took the fish clam and looked carefully inside and outside, and then pressed it with his hands. The quality of this bamboo basket was really excellent. It was only slightly deformed after being squeezed hard with two palms, and the nesting of the plug was also very compact. , there will be no sign of loosening at all.
Liang Chuan went into the house and took a hemp rope and tied it to the bamboo eye of Yulu. This fish will be put into the river later. There is no rope to tie it up. I don’t know where to look for it.
There were poultry offal left over from Yi Niang's kitchen in the kitchen. Liang Chuan took them out from the bucket of water, and then asked Zhao Di to dig some earthworms in the ground. These are the best for fishing. The fish in the river like earthworms the most.
Brother Zhao ran out of the gate with a hoe and came back not long after. There was a big pile of earthworms in the door, and the earthworms were still squirming in his hands. Women hate these long, wriggling creatures, but fish catchers don't. Whether fishing or catching fish, they are indispensable.
With the bait in hand, Liang Chuan picked up the fish clam and ran to Nanxi with Zhaodi.
The river water under the Shima Bridge is the most stable, but this place is too far away. If we continue to run such a distance, it will be dark before we catch the fish. Liang Chuan found a flat river beach near Zheng Ruoying's sugarcane field, carefully waded into the water, dug a small ditch in the mud at the bottom of the river, and then placed the fish in the ditch.
All the bait has been put into the fish clams. After placing the fish clams, we returned to the shore and carefully fixed the rope tied with the fish clams to the branches by the river.
The next thing is to wait. Nanxi is the mother river of Xinghua, but people actually guarded such a big river without asking for it, which really puzzled Liang Chuan. Looking at the fish jumping in the river, Liang Chuan couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
