Chapter 1286 Saving People by the River 1

When everyone heard that they were allowed to catch fish in the river, everyone was very enthusiastic.

It was not a festival, even if you caught a basin of plain fish and pickled salted fish, it would be enough to eat for a whole summer.

Not every family was like Lu Jiang's family and Wang Zheng's family, who took advantage of Zhang Yuejin's convenience to buy some free meat skin and bones from time to time to enjoy their food. Most families could only eat meat during festivals.

So, before the heavy rain stopped, men, women, old and young all went out.

The big rivers, small ditches, canals and water beaches were crowded with people.

Guan Cheng was smarter. He took advantage of his home being closest to the reservoir and took Lu Tianzhi and Guan Yu to the upper reaches of the river to go fishing. It was closest to the reservoir gate, but the water flow was also more turbulent.

They came early, so there was no one else.

Xibao, Fubao and the twins all like to watch the fun. The older ones are better, so they ran to the river by themselves, one foot deep and one foot shallow. The younger ones babbled for a long time and couldn't speak clearly. They were very anxious. The four elders and Lu's father in the cowshed helped to take care of them. They also brought Ding Hailan with them. He followed behind Xibao and kept calling him brother.

Ding Hailan looked only six or seven years old, but in fact he was two months older than Xibao. He was born in March. May was Xibao's seventh birthday. When eating longevity noodles, Ding Guofeng suddenly realized that his grandson had called Xibao brother for several months in vain.

The old man wore a straw raincoat, held an umbrella for the children, and stood on the shore to look into the river.

The river water rose sharply and was waist-deep.

The three brothers of Guancheng carried large stones in the turbulent river to block the river. The gap in the middle was filled with a nylon net with a rattan ring. Feng Qingxue wove it with nylon rope. The mesh was not big.

Lu Tianzhi and Guan Yu each held down one side of the rattan circle to prevent the nylon net from being washed away by the water.

Not long after, the two brothers worked together to lift the net, and a bag of lively fish was lifted onto the shore, which made a group of children clap their hands and shout with joy.

"Fish! Fish!" Xiongxiong was talkative, pointing at the fish in the net bag and shouting, and Dundun followed suit.

Fubao held his little face, "There are so many fish, I want to eat the fish meatballs made by my mother!"

Several children immediately surrounded the bucket and looked at the fish put in, and their smiling faces bloomed like flowers.

Carp, crucian carp, grass carp, white water fish, black fish, catfish, large and small filled the three wooden barrels they brought, and the brothers quickly collected the net and carried the bucket home, letting the river water carry the large and small fish down through the gap in the stone.

They couldn't be greedy, they had to leave some for the downstream, so they didn't block the gap in the stone when they collected the net in the middle.

When leaving, Guan Cheng was about to dig up the rocks, but Xi Bao shook his head fiercely, "Don't dig up, don't dig up!"

"Why?" Guan Cheng asked.

Xi Bao didn't say, "Just don't dig up, just don't dig up!"

It wasn't a big deal, so Guan Cheng and the others didn't dig up the rocks on both sides.

When they got home, the brothers sorted the fish by type and put them in buckets and basins. The largest black fish weighed more than four pounds, and the smallest white water fish was smaller than a finger. Most of them were alive and kicking.

Except for the head and spine, the meat of black fish and catfish has no bones, and the meat is delicious. When cooking for children, adults don't worry about them getting stuck by fish bones. White water fish and small crucian carp are more troublesome to handle, so Feng Qingxue separated two large carps and three relatively large grass carps and asked Guan Cheng to send them to the old people who were sent down to the countryside as snacks. The black fish, catfish and the remaining live fish were kept in water tanks and buckets, and the dead fish and white water fish were handled first.