Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

The current corn stalks cannot be harvested for silage, so we have to wait.

She counted the time and after harvesting the corn stalks, she would be able to collect the red mung beans and sesame seeds.

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It took Mu Xi half a month to burn all the charcoal. The burned charcoal was also piled in the hay house. The newly built hay house is very stable and there will definitely be no more worries about rain and water leakage like last year. Case.

There is only half a month left before the corn harvest, and this period of time is a rare agricultural slack.

The last time Zhao Yeqing went to the lake to take back the cage, there were only a few small shrimps in it, which was not enough to fit between teeth.

I immediately decided to weave a fishing net, and I must take advantage of the season to enjoy it!

The two of them twisted ramie into rope and weaved a large net. They were unskilled and had to weave and disassemble it. Fortunately, they were both very clumsy. It took them a week to finally figure out the method. .

The mesh of the fishing net is very fine, so as long as the shrimps are not particularly small, they should be able to catch them.

The net was a bit heavy, so the two of them worked together to carry it to the shore. Mu Xi checked the safety of the previously built bamboo raft.

The previously green bamboo raft had now turned light yellow due to the sun, but fortunately there was no cracking or insect infestation. He pushed the bamboo raft into the water, tried it on himself, and only pulled Zhao Yeqing up after making sure it was safe.

The two rowed to a stop about ten meters away from the shore, ready to launch the net from here.

There are two types of fishing nets they have seen since childhood. One is a round fishing net. After throwing it out, you can pull the net back by pulling the rope, and the fish will be wrapped in the net.

There is also a kind of fishing net that is arranged in a row. A thread on the top of the fishing net is tied with a floating object. The net sinks into the water and forms a long 'wall'. As long as a fish passes by, it will be caught in the net. stuck.

The long rows are usually put into the water and collected after a day or half a day.

The two of them made round ones and thought it was easier to catch shrimps this way.

But spreading the fishing net is not that simple. Zhao Yeqing thinks that her strength is much stronger than that of ordinary adult men, but after all, this fishing net is made of hemp rope and is very big.

It is different from lightweight nylon, and there are small stones tied under the net to speed up the sinking of the net and quickly wrap up the fish.

Therefore, when casting the net, you need to be quick with your hands and feet. You can pick up the fishing net and spin it in place once or twice, and then use your hands, shoulders, and waist at the same time to throw it out at once and the fishing net will be released at the same time.

Zhao Yeqing tried several times, almost throwing himself out, before barely succeeding once.

The lake was very deep, and the length of the rope they left was relatively long. Zhao Yeqing slowly lowered the rope into the water little by little, and tied the end of the rope in his hand to the top of the bamboo raft to prevent it from falling.

When the rope in her hand was almost finished, she hurriedly called Mu Xi, "It's time to put it away!"

When collecting the fishing net, it was obvious that the weight in the net was relatively heavy. The two of them stood one behind the other to prevent the uneven weight from causing the raft to overturn.

Pick up the fishing net bit by bit.

Zhao Yeqing made a bad plan, thinking that catching a few small fish would be considered a harvest, and he could accept it as long as he didn't have an air force.

The fishing net gradually approached the water. The moment it came out of the water, Zhao Yeqing's eyes were dazzled by the sparkling silver scales in the fishing net.

There was half a bag of fish in it! .

"Quick, quick, put the net bag into the big basin!"

When they came out this time, they brought a large stainless steel basin and a small plastic bucket from home. The basin was the size of three or four ordinary wash basins. The two of them put the mesh bag in it and shook it vigorously.

Small and big fish all fluttered and landed in the big silver basin. In addition to the common fish in the past, there were also some species that Zhao Yeqing had never seen before. They were probably hidden in the lower water layer of the lake.

The fry were thrown back into the water, and the largest fish weighed nearly five or six pounds.

Zhao Yeqing laughed so hard that his eyes went out, "This is such a sense of accomplishment."

With a good start and a harvest, she picked out all the fish stuck in the fishing net and put them into the basin, then handed the fishing net to Mu Xi.

"You go and try."

You couldn't fish in one place all the time, so Mu Xi paddled a bamboo raft and changed places.

As expected, casting a fishing net is not easy. It took Mu Xi several attempts before he gradually mastered the trick. After casting the fishing net out, the harvest was not as good as Zhao Yeqing's.

There are some small fish inside, but there are no lake shrimps that the two of them want.

Is it the wrong location? Or is the time wrong?

Zhao Yeqing recalled the time when her grandfather took her to fish for shrimps in a small pool. It seemed that she would pick wild vegetables first, and when she was about to return home, she would take the shrimp cages back when it was getting dark.

"Shrimps seem to feed at night, right?"

And it seems to like shady waters, places with aquatic plants and cracks between rocks.

It is difficult to find cracks in rocks in this large lake, but you can still find them on the shady side near aquatic plants.

The two rowed the bamboo raft over there. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon. The two were chatting on the bamboo raft. After waiting for an hour, Zhao Yeqing killed a small fish, chopped the fish meat into pieces and scattered it on the lake.

The fish meat was neither big nor small, and it slowly sank to the bottom of the water. After another ten minutes, Mu Xi took the fishing net and walked to the front of the bamboo raft and threw out the net in his hand.

It was only five or six meters away from the shore. The fishing net that was thrown out could almost touch the reeds on the shore. He controlled his strength and saw that the fishing net entered the water smoothly. After waiting for a few minutes, the rope in his hand was finished.

Whether it succeeds or not depends on this wave.

The two slowly pulled the rope back, feeling that the weight was obviously not as heavy as the two previous nets.

But after pulling onto the bamboo raft, Zhao Yeqing took a closer look and saw that it was full of lake shrimps. They probably had caught all the shrimp groups at the bottom.

"This! It must be a few dozen pounds smaller, right?"

Mu Xi held up the fishing net and nodded, saying that it was indeed there. Now he did not dare to put the shrimps together with the fish for fear that they would all be eaten when he returned home.

I can only put all the shrimps in a small plastic bucket first.

The mouth of the bucket is not big, so when you put the shrimps in, some will inevitably fall out. One person is shaking the fishing net on top, and the other is picking up shrimps in the bucket on the ground.

Finally, we harvested a bucket full of lake shrimps.

Mu Xi caught the largest one and looked at it in his hand, "As expected of the season, these shrimps are plentiful and fat."

This one is nearly six or seven centimeters long, which is considered extra large among wild lake shrimps.

It was not easy to take back so many things. The two of them pulled open the fish steak in the middle of the large stainless steel basin, placed the plastic bucket in the middle of the basin, and carried the basin back home together at half past seven.

It's time to make dinner.

After getting fresh fish and shrimp, the mutton soup I originally planned to eat was put back in the refrigerator.

Large strips of seabass are used for steaming. You can still catch seabass in this season. After a while, the weather will get colder and there will be fewer warm water fish. It is the time to eat less.

The large carp that cannot be eaten are put into the fish pond.

Now that the fish inside were very saturated, Zhao Yeqing shook off the water drops on his hands and planned to deal with them all tomorrow.