Chapter 51: Zhixiang's News
The Wenhan brothers over there were also in the Wuzi. At this time, there were many fish, and there were many fish in each Wuzi. The big ones were the size of a palm, and the small ones were about three inches long. They were usually crucian carp, willow roots, noodles, bighead fish, etc. Wenhan and others brought a wooden barrel, and the wooden barrel was actually full at this time.
"Brother, we've got home. We've caught a lot of citrusses." Jinghan shouted. "Go back to make citrusses tofu later."
Wenxuan heard Jinghan's shouting and shouted at Jinghan, "Second sister, we have caught a lot of fish, and now there are fish to eat." His voice was very excited and very excited.
When Wen Han and the others came over with wooden barrels, everyone looked into the barrels and laughed. The mountain was really good. If it were in the village, there would be no such many fish at all. Jinghan looked at it, "Brother, you go to the town one day and buy a hangnet to come back. Look at this, there should be big fish in the river. If you can get some big fish to eat, wouldn't it be better?"
Wenhan nodded, and he also estimated that there would be big fish in the river. Unexpectedly, Jinghan also said, "Okay, go there if you have time these days. When the fish is netted, we can also sell some of them." Wenhan was trained by Jinghan, and now he knows that he has gotten good things and wants to sell them.
Xue and Zhu packed up the dried clothes, and then walked back together. For them, three or four miles, it was just like playing, and they returned to the venue shortly after a while. "Grandma, we are back. Look, we caught citrus and a lot of fish." Jinghan said.
Chen sat at the door, looked up, but didn't smile.
Jinghan felt something was wrong at first sight. If grandma heard it before, she would hurry up to get the big basin and everyone squeezed fish together. What's wrong today? "Grandma, what's wrong with you?"
"Oh, your fifth uncle has been away for so long. Even if he passed the Jinshi exam, he should have come back long ago. Why don't he have a letter yet?" Chen sat there and sighed.
Everyone remembered this after Chen said this. It’s not that Zhixiang left in the first lunar month, and now it’s the end of April, so there should be some movement. "Mom, don’t worry, Zhixiang is so old, it’s okay. Maybe he really won the Jinshi, maybe he stayed in the capital directly." Xue comforted the old lady like this. In fact, she also understood in her heart that this was impossible. Even if she really won, she would come back to worship her ancestors, right?
"You don't have to be so generous to me. Even if I don't understand these things, I know that if I pass the exam, I have to go back to my hometown. Besides, someone has to come back to report the letter. I guess I didn't pass the exam and wanted to stay in the capital and wait three years before taking the exam. Then I have to send a letter to my family? Oh, it's really worrying." Chen sighed again, "Forget it, I don't want to, there will be a letter sooner or later. Let's squeeze the fish first, and cook the cicadas later. There is no grinding on the mountain, so I can't make cicadas tofu." Chen began to squeeze the fish with everyone.
"Mom, some of them are a little bigger. Let's keep them for stewing at night. The smaller ones are squeezed and dried. Is it done?" Jinghan asked at the fish.
"Sure, what else can't be done? I don't want to dry the big fish when it's dry. It's hard to eat it, so it's better to eat it. Let's stew fish tonight. I'm a little greedy these days. I'm stewed fish and cook citrus at night. Is it okay?" Xue said while working.
When the children heard this, they all became happy. After all, they were considered meat. How could they satisfy their cravings? "It's great, there's fish to eat." The children cheered.
In the evening, the fish was stewed and the cicada was cooked. The cicada did not have too much meat, but only had meat on the two front ox and tail, which tasted very delicious. However, this thing took a lot of time to eat, so Chen asked the children to eat as snacks after they finished their meal. So everyone ate the fish first, and when they were full, they took the cicada and played with it.
On the third day of the fifth month, someone in the village came and actually sent a letter, which was written by Zhixiang. It turned out that he had not passed the exam. After failing the exam, he wanted to come back. Later, one of his classmates, the son of the governor of the prefect, passed the exam and insisted that Zhixiang stay in the capital to accompany him. When the palace examination was over, Zhixiang's classmate passed the exam and passed the exam, he was sent to a county magistrate. Now, he refused to let Zhixiang leave, and insisted that Zhixiang go with him to go to that county and help him. Zhixiang also thought it was feasible, so he followed the man directly to take up his post. Before leaving, someone sent a letter home.
"Uncle, aunt, the sender said that they had something to do on the road, so they delayed a while before they came back, so the letter came late. At that time, Zhixiang gave him the address of your old house in the village, so the village chief accepted the letter and asked me to bring it here." The person who came here happened to be the Wu family, the family where Jinghan saved his son.
"Jia Jun, thank you, you came here from such a distance." The old man felt at ease after receiving his son's letter and quickly thanked others.
"Uncle, what's this? I've been with Brother Zhixin for so many years, so how can I be polite? Okay, I've sent this letter to you too. I have to go back quickly. The family is very busy tomorrow." After Wu Jiajun said that, he walked out.
Of course, Zhixin sent it out, "Jiajun, go slowly, please let me go."
Wu Jiajun waved his hand and drove away in the ox cart.
Since Zhixiang sent the letter, his family was relieved. Chen finally felt relieved and stopped sighing. "Meerlin, the day after tomorrow is Dragon Boat Festival. Didn't the family buy rice? Zhixin, hurry up and buy some rice in the town. Let's make some rice dumplings quickly. Why should we prepare some for the holiday? It's fine for us adults, but there are so many children. Isn't the children looking forward to just celebrate the holiday?" Chen took out the money and asked Zhixin to buy rice quickly.
Zhixin took the money, turned around and walked out. Jinghan poked Wenhan, "Brother, go with our father and see if there is any fishing net." They have been thinking about this these days, and they just happened to have the chance, so they quickly followed.
Wenhan ran out and went to town with Zhixin.
In the afternoon, Zhixin and Wenhan came back from the town. Not only did they buy jiangmi rice dumplings, but they also bought hang-on. Jinghan and the others were all so happy that they had to go down the net. There was no way, Zhixin and Zhiming took a large group of children to the riverside to get down the net. Fortunately, they had made this thing before, and at least they had finished the net, and it depends on whether the fish could be raised tomorrow.
Xue naturally soaked all the rice, soaked it today, and made rice dumplings tomorrow morning.
The next morning, Zhixin led the children to the riverside and raised the net yesterday. When the net left the water, Jinghan's heart also raised. There were many fish in the net jumping and silver scales, which were shaking in the morning sun. The children all shouted happily. They didn't expect that there were actually fish, and there were so many. Everyone caught the fish in the bucket. One bucket was not enough. Wencheng ran back and got a bucket, which was considered to be loading.
Everyone returned to the venue happily. When Chen and the old man saw it, they were also surprised, "Oh, I really didn't expect that there were so many fish in one night. We can't eat it even if we are so old?" Chen looked at the two buckets of fish and didn't know what to do.
"Grandma, we have agreed. Tomorrow's holiday, there will definitely be a lot of people in the town today. We will leave a few items for the holidays later. We will take the rest to the town and give it to my aunt's house to nourish my aunt's body, and sell the rest. It's just right that I can earn some money, so why do I have to earn the money from buying the Internet?" Jinghan had made plans on the way back just now.
"Okay, Jinghan's idea is good. Little girl, why do I feel that since you went up the mountain, you have just some good ideas in your little head?" Chen touched Jinghan's head and said with a smile.
Jinghan smiled and said, "Mom, is the meal ready? We have to eat quickly and then go to the town to sell fish." In the morning, I was really hungry now.
"The meal is ready, hurry up." Xue led Jingya to bring all the food to the table, and then everyone started to eat. After breakfast, Zhiming drove the cart. Wenhan, Wencheng and Jinghan got on the ox cart together, and they wanted to follow him to the town. Zhiming led the children to dig some medicinal materials, and today they all took them to the town for sale.
The group of people sat in the ox cart and walked for about an hour before they arrived in the town. They first went to send four carp to Huixin. When the Tao family saw that the four carp had to sink three pounds, they were big fish. The old man from the Tao family hurriedly said, "Look, you have to worry about it. If you buy such a big fish in the town, at least one would cost forty cents. There were four at once, and it would be impossible for them to be sold for one hundred, fifty and sixty cents? You don't have to send them here again in the future. It's not easy for you to be on the mountain, so it's good to keep it for some money."
"Uncle, it's okay. We are close to the riverside and we can get it back in a short while. With Huixin, we don't have any good things to send to our family. Just a few fish, so it's better to keep it for Huixin to replenish it." Zhiming saw the old lady's face that seemed a little dissatisfied, and he was displeased, so he said that this fish was given to Huixin to replenish her body.
When the old lady heard this, her face immediately looked ugly, "Brother Huixin, why do you sound like we abuse Huixin? Huixin has never come to my house. She can't do much work and always makes trouble. We didn't say anything, right? Since we are the wife of our Tao family, how can we ignore her?"
Chapter completed!