While eating, Chen Xiaoyun asked if anyone in the village knew the fish seller.
"Second Grandpa, do any of you know the fishmongers in town who collect fish?"
"Fishmonger, your uncle Minhuai also raises fish at home, he knows." Second grandfather Chen Jianwen said.
"Is Xiaoyun going to sell the fish in the pond?" Chen Minhuai asked.
Chen Xiaoyun looked at Chen Minhuai, a man in his forties with dark skin.
"Uncle Minhuai, there are some tilapia and silver carp and bighead carp in the fish pond. I want to sell these fish. After the fish pond is cleared of mud, the water will be released again to raise fish."
"Well, then I'll call the boss who collects the fish. By the way, if you need a fishing net, you can get it from my house." Chen Minhuai said.
"Okay, thank you Uncle Minhuai!"
After lunch, Grandpa Er and the villagers made tea and enjoyed the cool air under the trees.
Chen Xiaoyun and Chen Xiaohu came to Uncle Minhuai's house and carried the fishing net to the fish pond.
Because there is less water and the weather is hot, many fish have begun to float.
If the sun continues like this, many fish will die.
Fortunately, not long after, the fishmonger came to collect the fish.
"Boss, you want to sell fish, right?" The fishmonger drove the car to the fish pond.
"Yes, boss, clear the pond and dig the fish pond again." Chen Xiaoyun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the fish harvesting boss coming.
The sun is so hot that if I don't come back, the fish in the fish pond will turn inside out.
"The fish harvesting boss is here. My family can finally put down the net." Chen Xiaohu said while holding up his mobile phone.
"Xiaohu, prepare to drag the net." Chen Xiaoyun shouted.
"coming!"
"Family, live trawling has officially begun."
Soon, Uncle Minhuai and several other uncles also came to help pull the net.
I pulled the fishing net, and the water was not deep. I dragged the net to the end, and all the fish in it, except small miscellaneous fish and fish that had got into the mud, were caught in one net.
Most of them were palm-sized tilapia, with more than 20 silver carp and bighead carp, each weighing more than ten kilograms.
"I didn't expect that the fish pond that had been abandoned for so many years could still have so many fish. It's not bad." Uncle Minhuai exclaimed.
The tilapias in there are two to three pounds in size, and they are all wild and have not been fed with feed.
"Yes, this tilapia has a very strong reproductive capacity."
"I also saw a few big black ones, they are estimated to be seven, eight or ten pounds."
"Family members, look, this fish pond that has been abandoned for four or five years still has a lot of fish in it." Chen Xiaohu held up his mobile phone to broadcast live.
The next step is to catch the fish into a fish bucket, separate the fish into different sizes, weigh them, carry them to the fish collector’s car, and pour them into the oxygenated water tank.
"Wow, look at this snakehead fish, it's so big!" Chen Xiaohu lifted a snakehead fish.
"Such a big snakehead fish makes me want to hit two shots."
"Isn't there anyone in your village who plays with lures?"
"The one upstairs is at the beach. You won't go to the sea to play with lures!"
"Boss, do you sell black fish?" the fishmonger boss asked.
This kind of pure wild black fish is still very popular in the market.
"The black fish is not for sale, I want to keep it for myself!" Chen Xiaoyun shook his head and did not sell the black fish.
Seven or eight big black fish, each weighing more than six pounds.
Why would he sell such a beautiful snakehead fish? He didn't lack a little money.
Chen Xiaoyun went to his house, brought a big bucket, caught all the snakehead fish and put them in the bucket.
I also caught two big silver carp and bighead carp and will be making fish head soup tonight.
I also kept some tilapia and planned to give them to the villagers.
Because tilapia has few bones, the elderly and children can also eat it with ease.
“People, look, there are so many snails, I’m going to catch some and sell them in the town.
As everyone knows, I am from Nanguang, and people here like to eat stir-fried snails. "Chen Xiaohu held up his mobile phone and said through the lens to the densely packed snails in the water.
After catching all the fish, there were more than 20 silver carp and bighead carp, one weighing more than 30 kilograms, and tilapia weighing more than 900 kilograms.
"Boss, tilapia is five yuan per catty, and silver carp and bighead carp are six yuan per catty. The total is 6,150 yuan." The fishmonger transferred the money to Chen Xiaoyun.
After the fish are caught, there are only some miscellaneous fish, river shrimps, and field snails left in the fish pond.
Chen Xiaoyun also called the excavator master to dig out the fish pond dam, drain all the water, and let it sit in the sun for about ten days, then the mud could be cleaned.
Chen Xiaohu held a big bucket and his mobile phone, fishing for snails while live broadcasting.
Chen Xiaoyun also took a bucket and started fishing for river shrimp.
If these river shrimps are not fished out, they will all die in the sun when the water dries up.
"Zhou Cao, I seem to have stepped on something!" Suddenly, Chen Xiaohu shouted.
"What's wrong?" Chen Xiaoyun asked upon seeing this.
"I seem to have stepped on a turtle!" Chen Xiaohu shouted.
"Be careful, don't get bitten."
Wild soft-shelled turtles are very ferocious, and it is difficult for people to let go of their bites.
Chen Xiaohu groped in the muddy water and caught a big turtle.
"Brother Xiaoyun, big turtle!" Chen Xiaohu shouted, holding up the turtle in his hand.
Chen Xiaoyun looked over and saw that it was a very big turtle. It looked like it might weigh about three kilograms.
"Wow, such a big turtle, stewed chicken, mutton kidney, and beef gun are a great supplement." The unscrupulous netizen immediately said in the live broadcast room.
"Be careful photographers, don't get bitten on such a long neck..."
"A wild turtle this big can be sold for hundreds of dollars."
Chen Xiaoyun went back and got a big bucket and put the turtle in it.
The turtle is almost as big as the bottom of a barrel.
"That's right, turtle stewed with chicken is a great supplement!" Chen Xiaoyun also said with a smile at this moment.
"There should be more turtles in there, definitely not just this one." Chen Xiaohu said.
"Let's wait and see after the water dries up. The turtles hide in the mud and are not easy to find." Chen Xiaoyun did not deliberately look for the turtles.
Unless you happen to step on it, you won't be able to find the turtle hiding in the mud.
However, after a while, Chen Xiaoyun stepped on something that looked like a turtle.
"I seem to have stepped on a turtle too," Chen Xiaoyun said.
"Really?" Chen Xiaohu asked.
Chen Xiaoyun reached into the mud and touched carefully for a while, then pulled out a large turtle from behind.
"So big!!"
Chen Xiaohu exclaimed, that turtle was much bigger than the one just now.
The water friends in the live broadcast room were all surprised when they looked at the turtle in Chen Xiaoyun's hand.
"666, what a harvest!"
"With such a big turtle, the anchor is so lucky."
"Sell it to me for ten thousand yuan. If you sell it, just pretend that I didn't say..."
Such a big turtle couldn't fit in the bucket, so Chen Xiaoyun could only put it in the big basin.
"I stepped on another turtle." After a while, Chen Xiaohu caught a turtle, which made him very happy.
It's not big, just a little bigger than a fist. It's probably less than a pound, about half a pound.
Two hours later, Chen Xiaohu picked up several buckets of snails, and Chen Xiaoyun also caught two or three buckets of river shrimp.
Almost all the snails and river shrimps in the fish pond were caught by the two of them.
I also caught some miscellaneous fish and fried them for dinner at night.
The two of them were too tired to catch the remaining ones, so they just let them flow with the water to the ditch outside.
"Let's go, I can't hold on anymore." Chen Xiaohu gasped.
On such a hot day, I caught fish, shrimps and snails for two or three hours under the bright sun.
I almost gave him heat stroke!
"There are so many snails, I can't finish them all, I can't finish them at all!" Chen Xiaohu showed off to his water friends as he looked at the four or five barrels of snails and the full harvest.
"I'll take these shrimps to the village and give some to each family. I can't keep them alive and can't eat so many." Chen Xiaoyun said.
"Okay, I'll go send it off with you!"
