Apocalyptic Tundra Age

When Xu Zhonglei's family came back from inspecting the location of the hunter's lodge, the first thing they did was to fish.

The waterwheel has been silent in the cave all winter, and now that the ice has melted, it's time to play.

Facing the temptation of the fish, villagers, living and dead, moved the parts of the waterwheel to the embankment of the town like ants moving house.

Xu Zhonglei squatted on the side of the road and moved these things to the water buoy.

The bridge piers and boats cleverly locked the floating buoys. Seeing that the safety was guaranteed, Xu Zhonglei simply leaned the waterwheel as far as possible into the river, so that the water level was deeper and the chance of catching fish was greater.

Xu Zhonglei worked on the boat for a few days with his small hammer, and a waterwheel stood up by the river.

On the day of launching, the whole village came and stood on the bank waiting eagerly. The shaft of the waterwheel was slowly rotated by the flow of the river, and eight huge fish baskets plunged into the river clockwise.

Crunch, crunch.

Whoa, whoa.

Everyone remained silent, quietly waiting for the prey to enter the pit.

The launch was very successful. In less than a quarter of an hour, the first fish was taken up by the fish basket, and after turning to the highest point, it slid down along the predetermined wooden slide rail and landed safely in a large hollow wooden basket.

The way into the basket was clearly arranged, and the snow-white belly of the fish threw a beautiful arc.

Xu Zhonglei reached into the wooden frame, picked up the first fish, and showed the size of this big fish a little.

Then he handed it to the nearest Xu Zhiping, "Let's cook a big pot later, let's have a taste—"

Xu Zhiping looked at the fish carefully, smiling so hard that he couldn't see his teeth:

"Good herring! It's very strong, weighing five or six catties!"

"Let me see! Let me see! It's been a long time since I saw meat—"

"I'll cut - the stone, when will you catch fish and teach me how to do it? It's much faster than me fishing with a net..."

Xu Zhonglei replied casually: "You helped out, this thing is not easy to make! When the time comes, everyone in our village will be free, let's make more together!"

He really didn't have the idea of ​​hiding anything. Now only Xu's old house village is fishing on this river. Even if there are more than ten or twenty waterwheels, it won't affect anything.

But taking advantage of the enthusiasm of the crowd, Xu Zhonglei mentioned:

"Everyone, the water truck will not stop at the beginning of catching fish. The harvest must be not small. I am afraid that we will be too busy to kill and dry the fish. We will build a shed and house in the past two days. When the time comes, we will collect the fish and deal with it directly. Alright, take it back to our house."

"What's the matter? Let's listen to your stone!" Xu Zhiping blushed, "Folks, let's start working today! Go home after finishing!"

I don’t know whether it’s because of the extraordinary power of the waterwheel, or if the fish in this river have not been caught for more than a year. The sun goes down, and the hollow wooden frame is already full of fish.

Xu Zhonglei put on a new wooden frame, and Xiao Cheng helped carry all the fish to the town under the embankment.

With a "crash", silvery white fish belly was poured all over the floor.

People in the village looked at these fat fish over and over again, their eyebrows bristling and their mouths drooling.

into the night.

Grilled fish, steamed fish, fried fish, fish soup, fish viscera hot pot, boiled fish blood, this large basket of fish, weighing more than 100 kilograms, is clearly arranged, even the scraped fish scales are washed clean, Chunjuan My sister said to use them to make fish scale jelly.

Dai Sheng, who was full-time scale scraper, was so tired that he couldn't lift his hands. When he saw Xu Zhonglei, he shook his hands and laughed.

Brother is amazing!I love my brother!Brother hug me!

Dai Sheng wanted to hug Shitou's thigh.

In the whole fish feast in the evening, Xu Zhonglei was regarded as the head of the table, and the whole village came to respect his fish soup.

Bowl after bowl of dry soup, he couldn't walk.

The adults, children, and the elderly all ate their stomachs round, and the sound of being caught by the fishbone was endless. At the end of the banquet, more than 100 catties of fish were made clean, and fish bones were all over the floor.

Fairy days!

The wooden baskets filled with fish in the waterwheel can be filled every twelve hours, and more than 100 catties can be harvested at one time. These fish must be disposed of in time, otherwise they will rot and stink.

So after the fish shed and smoker room were built, Dai Sheng and Xu Jinpeng voluntarily stayed to kill and dry the fish.

The husband and wife Xu Chuang and Wang Jiating in the village came to pull the fish guts every other day, so the table of the villagers was visibly enriched by the naked eye.

A few skinny big-headed dolls in the village quickly became strong, and even showed signs of growing taller a little bit.

Everything is getting better.

Xu Minmin felt it too.

Especially one day, Xu Hui's family made a big fanfare, called the whole village, and said angrily that the family must be separated, and they would not be able to live without separation.

It turns out that Xu Minmin has not been idle at home for the past few months. She followed Fan Yu to exercise and practice running. She ran around the village for an hour in the morning and another hour in the afternoon. She became dark and thin, but her spirit improved a lot. .

Fan Yu disliked Xu Minmin's long hair, which was rough and difficult to wash, so he chopped off Xu Minmin's hair with a kitchen knife.

After exercising and eating better, Xu Minmin started to suffer from twitching, and his back straightened. He looked like a young bald head full of energy, jumping up and down like a monkey.

When she has energy, the family will have a hard time.

Since tearing her face apart last time, Xu Minmin has permeated the thought of "violence and non-cooperation" into her behavior and practice.

Her grandfather, her grandma, and her dad can't call her anymore, so she just hangs out at home every day, breaks a few bowls, throws away some sprouted sweet potatoes, potatoes, fish skin and fish meat, and her grandma is about to pick up the broom, Xu Minmin He ran away, and brought a few potatoes along the way, took the chopstick box upside down, and threw the washed clothes on the muddy floor...

While walking, he rolled his eyes and made a face, "Come and hit me!"

Zhu Yu was so angry that she had high blood pressure, so she picked up a broom and beat her indiscriminately.

The Xu family has to perform martial arts five or six times a day.

Every time Xu Minmin finished her work at home, she would either go to Fan Yu or go to the town to kill fish and eat food. When the momentum at home was not so big, she would rush back at the meal time, and repeat the old trick after the meal.

When her father couldn't take it anymore, he blocked the door and held a big stick, aggressively trying to kill her, Xu Minmin made a grimace, like a slippery fish, stepped on a chair and stool, and jumped out from the wall, howling loudly cry:

"My dad is going to beat me to death!!! I can't live without a family!!!"

Howl in front of every house, make sure everyone can hear it.

Xu Hui's house was full of turmoil, no one did housework, all farm work was put on hold, and others started to build new houses, and his family had only finished planting Chinese cabbage.

The old man of the Xu family is worried all day long, so worried!For a family of five, it would be fatal to delay the busy farming time so much. If the heavy snow comes again, what will the family eat?

He was carrying his cigarette bag, listening to Xu Minmin's commotion in the room, the sun was overcast, and a cool wind was blowing, he thought tremblingly:

Isn't it about to snow?

What does a farmer look like if he doesn't plant all his crops, doesn't fix his barn, and spends his days arguing with a little girl?

It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married.

Let her go.

The old man of the Xu family made up his mind and went to Xu Hui in the middle of the night to make a decision. It is possible to divide the division, but Xu Minmin must not be allowed to do so.

It just so happened that Xu Zhonglei and Cheng Yuming went to town that day, and by the time they got home, the matter had already been settled.

Zeng Cheng, as a qualified "dog leg", came to tell stories to Xu Zhonglei vividly while taking advantage of the house repairs.

Xu Minmin and the Xu family have indeed separated. She and her father agreed that if they want three hundred catties of potatoes, they will leave the house without asking for anything. Now she has already moved to Fan Yu's house, and the two little girls live together .

"What about Xu Minmin's mother? I remember the two of them broke up together."

Zeng Cheng said mysteriously: "Brother Shitou, don't tell me about it. I only know about it because I have a good relationship with Fan Yu. When she found out, I told others that I would have to be chopped up by her with a kitchen knife."

"Say it quickly! You're so stupid." Xu Zhonglei rewarded him with a forehead bow and urged him to continue.

It turned out that Xu Minmin's mother, Tan Huan, didn't want to separate. She had a husband and a son. Her father-in-law and mother-in-law had been together for more than ten years, and she felt that she had a deep relationship. How could she be willing to abandon everything?

As for the fact that she is always suffering at home, as a deeply rooted rural woman, that is not suffering.Tan Huan always feels that in a family, there are always people who have to do housework, and there are always people who eat less, which is not considered suffering.

"Family and everything prosper", she has always played this role. After Xu Hui lost money playing mahjong, she borrowed money; her mother-in-law asked her to work, she went to play; asked her to do housework and take good care of several members of the family , she is also willing;

In Tan Huan's view, these are nothing, a good family is really good, and family harmony is the meaning of her existence, so she didn't want to separate.

But Xu Minmin wanted to separate, and she didn't stop her. After all, the daughter she gave birth to would have to get married sooner or later.

So in the beginning, there was only Xu Minmin who wanted to separate from the family and leave the house without wanting anything.

Fan Yu gave her an idea: If Xu Minmin was the only one talking about the separation, it would be a child making a fuss, playing house, no one would pay attention, and it would fail.Xu Minmin had to make the team larger, so Tan Huan had to be recruited;

What's more, it's not okay to go out without leaving the house. If you don't want anything, you just run out. Is this running away from home or breaking up?At that time, people will casually drag Xu Minmin home, there is no place to cry, so things have to be divided, it is best to ask the lions at the beginning, the more the better, let them hurt!

A great man once said: "Chinese people always like to be harmonious and compromise. For example, if you say that this room is too dark and you need to open a window here, everyone will definitely not allow it. But if you advocate tearing down the roof, they will Will come to mediate, willing to open the window."

You have to raise the tone before you can negotiate terms with people.

After Fan Yu made these two instructions, Xu Minmin spent more than half a month, day and night, brainwashing her mother. In the end, half of the brainwashing was successful. Although her mother herself was still unwilling to separate, she was willing to help. My daughter is busy.

"That's the thing. But I heard from Minmin that her mother regretted helping her, and she kept saying things like "I wouldn't help you if I knew it earlier". , Serve that room full of idiots/forces like treasures, and don’t know what to do..."

As the saying goes: I am not stupid/forced.Zeng Cheng didn't bother to talk about Tan Huan anymore.

Cheng Yuming listened to this battle of wits and courage, and looked at Fan Yu with admiration, this little girl has a good brain, she is a good seed.