Chapter 682: Winter Fishing
The weather is gradually warming up, and many places of the thin ice on the artificial lake have broken. The place where Jin Er lowered his shot was a cracked ice hole, and the dark blue lake was calm, with almost no ups and downs.
After eating the meat, the rice bucket was chewing on the chicken bones again, his eyes kept rolling, as if he was thinking about how to cheat the next chicken leg...
Seeing Xiaoxue staring at the lake in a daze, Jin Er asked, "Why, Xiaoxue, are you interested in fishing? Do you want to learn? If you want to learn, I can teach you."
Xiaoxue has no interest in fishing at all, and letting her sit by the water for a few hours would kill her.
"Uncle Jin, is there any fish in this lake? Did it freeze to death in winter?" she asked.
"Of course there is." Jin Er replied affirmatively, "How can fish freeze to death? It's not a tropical fish."
"Then why doesn't the hook move?" she asked again.
"Because I haven't baited yet." Jin Er pulled up the fishing rod to show her that there was no bait on the hook.
Xiaoxue was a little suspicious, whether there was no bait on the string, or if the bait was on the string and the fish ran away...
"What kind of fish are there in this lake?" she asked, "Is there any crucian carp?"
"Crucian carp? Yes, crucian carp is the most abundant in the lake." Jin Er explained, "Especially in winter, because many fish hibernate in winter, and there are fewer fish species that can be caught. Even fish that do not hibernate will lose their appetite. If the fish is sluggish and does not open its mouth to eat, there is no way to catch it... Among the fish that can be caught in winter, crucian carp is one of the strange ones. Even in the low temperature of minus 30 to 40 degrees in the three eastern provinces, crucian carp can still be caught from ice holes. You know, low temperature does not mean low water temperature, as long as the water temperature is higher than 4 degrees, crucian carp will open their mouths to eat. There is a saying that fishing is good in spring and autumn in all seasons, and crucian carp is the main fishing in winter!"
"Oh." Xiaoxue nodded, she felt that Jin Er was saying the same thing, he seemed to have a lot of fishing experience, at least he had a theory.
If we sum it up, crucian carp is greedy and cold-resistant, isn't it the second in the fish world?
She became interested, and asked again: "Isn't it easy to catch? As long as you put the bait, you can catch whatever you want?"
Jin Er chuckled, "That's not true. You think fishing in winter is too easy. Crucian carp still eat in winter, but their range of activities has dropped a lot. Basically, they only stay in a certain area under the ice for a long time, and they don't go back and forth. For location, we aquarists have a special word called 'fish nest'. If you choose the wrong location, it is impossible to catch crucian carp anyway. The most important thing to catch crucian carp in winter is to find a fish nest."
Hearing this, Xiaoxue looked at the place where Jin Er lowered the shot, which was the area where a piece of thin ice was broken. With her eyesight, she couldn't see any difference from other positions.
"Is this the fish nest?" She pointed there.
"No." Jin Er shook his head, "Because I didn't plan to put bait in the first place, so I just found a place to put my rod down. What, Xiaoxue, do you want to eat crucian carp? This fish has more spines, so be careful when eating it."
"Uh...not for me. Uncle Jin, do you know the pet store where I bought the cat? The owner's cat gave birth to kittens last night and needed fresh crucian carp stew for milk, but there is no one in the market today. I couldn’t buy crucian carp, so I asked for help everywhere, and I saw it, so I asked him about it.” Xiaoxue answered truthfully.
Jin Er knew the pet store, and his driver's license was revoked by the traffic police after helping them deliver medicine last time... But the driving was quite enjoyable that time, and he felt like a car god.
"Oh, okay, so Xiaoxue, you want to help find fresh crucian carp?" Jin Er understood the reason.
"Yes, the little milk cat has no milk to eat, so pitiful." She said.
"Haha, that's no problem, let's see mine!" Jin Er said confidently, "In this villa area, in terms of wealth, I am the last one, but in terms of fishing skills, I, Jin Er, rank second." , no one dares to be number one!"
Xiaoxue: "..." These words sound a bit awkward.
Although what he said was full of pride, she still had reservations, because he was the only one in this villa area who knew how to fish. How could others compare with his skills?
Seeing Xiaoxue's expression, Jin Er couldn't believe it.
Immediately anxious, it's fine if her dog loses to her cat. If she despises even the skill of fishing, how can Jin Er continue to hang around in the villa area?
So, he stood up from the fishing chair, "Come on, I'll catch two big crucian carp for you today! If you can't catch them, I'll be your surname!"
"That...my surname is Jiang..." Xiaoxue reminded hesitantly.
"I don't have the same surname as your workaholic father!" Jin Er waved his hand disdainfully, "I tell you, crucian carp is not easy to catch in winter, but all the crucian carp that catches are big ones, no small ones, and each one is about the same size. There are seven or eight weights!"
"Seven or eight taels?" Xiaoxue frowned, "Is this considered big?"
This really overturned her perception of "big".
Jin Er was speechless. The little princess of the Jiang family didn't seem to know what a crucian carp looked like. Maybe she took carp and cod for crucian carp.
"The average crucian carp weighs only two or three taels, and seven to eight taels is considered very big." He defended himself while gesturing.
"Oh, so that's the case." Xiaoxue stuck out her tongue, feeling ashamed of her ignorance, but she looked at the artificial lake worriedly and asked, "Are the fish in this lake edible? Is it not?" clean or something?"
If Zhang Zi'an's cat ate the crucian carp here and got sick, then she had done something bad with good intentions. If the big cat is sick, the little milk cats will have nothing to eat.
"It's definitely edible." Jin Er said firmly, "People can eat it, let alone cats. Let me tell you, the water in this artificial lake is isolated from the outside world, and the fish raised here are cleaner than those sold outside. There are too many, I have never been fed artificial feed and hormones, and I have not been contaminated with industrial wastewater or domestic sewage. I find food for myself. I eat live insects in winter and aquatic plants in summer. Even those so-called wild crucian carp are not so clean. This If fish cannot be eaten, there will be no edible fish."
Xiaoxue thought about it, and it seemed that this was indeed the case. The fish in this artificial lake are left alone after being sprinkled with fry by the management. They are completely stocked and can be regarded as pure natural and pollution-free. The domestic sewage in the villa area is not discharged into the artificial lake. Except for the tap water that was initially poured into the lake, the water level of the lake will be supplemented by rainwater and snow water in the future.
Jin Er knew that Yu Xiaoxue could not be trusted by talking alone. After all, his Erha’s performance was too embarrassing, so he packed up the aluminum alloy folding fishing chair and carried it on his back. Picking up the plastic bucket with his right hand, he greeted, "Come on, Xiaoxue, I'll take you to find a fish nest, and I promise to catch crucian carp!"
I said it in the author's testimonial yesterday, and I will talk about it today. The timeline of this book is fictitious, not 2018. The Berlin Film Festival is in late February, which coincides with the Spring Festival of 2018. However, the Spring Festival in the book is around the end of January and early February, which does not conflict with the Berlin Film Festival.
Someone asked if there will be no updates during the Spring Festival...Of course I will try not to. Didn’t you see that my pseudonym is Wugengjiepo?