Dreaming of Lion Rock: Recipe in Hand

Chapter 196 Leisurely Life 1

After returning home, Yunshu and his wife settled down in Lion Mountain. They helped take care of Chuchu and Cici, wandered around the village, picked mushrooms, and lived a leisurely life.

On that day, Yang Anzhang convened a team meeting, the central idea of ​​which was to contract the large pond at the east end of the village.

The land in Dayantang was barren and it was impossible to grow crops. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, a landlord named Yang in the village bought the land and dug a large pond to raise fish. Later, the pond was nationalized and managed by the production team. Every year during the Spring Festival, the team would catch the fish in the pond and give them to the team members to eat during the Spring Festival.

In recent years, the land has been contracted to farmers, but no one is taking care of the pond. Yang Anzhang thought about it again and again, went to the commune to ask, and decided to contract out the pond.

Of course, most people contract ponds for fish farming. But where do the fish fry come from? Does fish farming require any skills? Where do you sell the fish after you raise them? How many fish do you need to raise to justify the contract fee? These are all problems.

The villagers were whispering and discussing among themselves, but no one dared to make an offer.

Chunni thought about it carefully and finally contracted the pond for 100 years at a price of yuan per year.

Chunni is not a person who acts impulsively. She has a plan in mind. The scenery of Lion Rock is well-known far and wide. She will open a farmhouse in the future to provide one-stop services for food, drink and entertainment. Fishing is one of the entertainment activities!

As for the glorious task of feeding the fish, it should of course be handed over to the fishing enthusiast, Old Master Chu.

Old Master Chu said, "Chun Ni! Grandpa is good at raising fish! I will raise your fish until they are fat and strong, so that they can't even swim!"

I can’t even swim…

I can’t even swim…

I can’t even swim…

That's not a sure thing for catching thieves!

Chunni felt that her grandfather was a little unreliable, but she was a layman in fish farming and was even worse than him. She could only make do with handing the fish pond over to Old Master Chu.

Forget it, can fish be killed?!

Since the pond had changed hands, Yang Anzhang called on the young and old men in the village to clean the pond. As the name suggests, cleaning the pond means to fish out all the fish in the pond. Yang Anzhang was very thoughtful. The pond was originally public, and there were still many fish left in the pond. If Chunni took over at this time, what if some villagers wanted to fish and claimed that they were public fish? Would she let them go or not? It was impossible to tell!

When it comes to fishing, villagers, regardless of gender, age or status, are very enthusiastic.

Nonsense, doesn’t this free fish taste delicious?

As soon as Yang Anzhang called out, the area around the pond quickly became crowded with people. Most of the remaining young and strong men in the village came, and the old men and women also brought their children to join in the fun.

The sound of talking and laughing was so loud that the fish in the pond jumped out of the water to watch the fun, but they didn't know that they were already fish on the chopping board!

Chunni was holding Cici, Yunshu was holding Chuchu, and behind them, the old couple of the Chu family also came to the pond.

There is no way, there are few entertainment activities in the countryside, and it is not easy to see the liveliness of Qingtang!

As for Xia Zhi, he is the only strong laborer in the family who wants to go into the water, and he is wearing a full set of waterproof clothing!

Since Chunni contracted the pond, Mr. Chu went to the county supply and marketing cooperative to buy fishing nets and waterproof clothing. The supply and marketing cooperative did have fishing nets, but they were only two or three meters long, and Mr. Chu didn't like them! He remotely controlled Chu Xiong, who was far away in the imperial capital, and asked him to buy a large fishing net at least ten meters long and two sets of waterproof clothing.

Chu Xiong traveled all over the capital to find a place to order a large fishing net for his father, and asked many friends to help him buy two sets of plastic waterproof clothing. Chu Xiong mailed the clothes to his father as soon as he got them, and the old man put them to great use!

There are two sets of waterproof clothing, one for Xia Zhi. You must give priority to your own family when it comes to your own things! As for the other set, it was given to Yang Anzhang.

Yang Anzhang was arranging people on the shore, carrying his little daughter Xiaofeng on his back.

"Xiazhi, Dazhuang, Qianjin, Sun Ping... the six of you go to the pond and pull the fishing net! Baishu, Sun Dazhui, Gouwazi, Xiaoliang... the rest of you pull the net ropes on the shore!" Xiao Chunmei twisted and turned uneasily on her father's back. Yang Anzhang comforted his little girl while asking people to tidy up the fishing nets!

Seeing this, Chunni handed Cici in her arms to her grandmother and took the initiative to tease Xiao Chunmei.

Although Xiao Chunmei is two or three months older than the twins, she is about the same size as Cici. When Cici saw her mother hugging someone else, she cried out "oh oh" and pouted her lips, looking very angry.

Chunni kissed the older boy in a funny way, and then the little guy smiled. When Chuchu saw that a little sister had come, she had completely forgotten about her brother. The two little girls were humming and seemed to be chatting.

Old Master Chu, who was standing by, had been eager to try and wanted to do it himself, but Chunni repeatedly told him not to pull the fishing net, so he gave up. But since he couldn't do it himself, he could just be the commander-in-chief, because he was good at commanding people!

Yang Anzhang... If you were the commander, I would be nothing more than a decoration! If it weren't for your age and seniority, I would have had you dragged away long ago!

However, Yang Anzhang was not a petty person. He decided to leave the fishing to old man Chu's command, and he would just be responsible for dividing the fish!

Old man Chu was fully prepared and even brought a loudspeaker. He just shouted, "Comrades, let's go to the pond to fish!" Several people who had been arranged went into the water!

It was late autumn and the water was very cold. The young men in the water spread out the big net and divided into two teams, moving step by step towards the depths of the pond.

The two people in the lead pulled the fishing net with all their strength, but it was difficult to move forward. The net was particularly heavy under the influence of water. You think that only the two people in the lead had a hard time, but the people following them also had a hard time. They not only had to pull the net, but also stepped on the net into the mud to ensure that the net was tight and no fish could get through. This job requires strength and eyesight!

"Xiazhi, walk slower and wait for the ones behind you!"

"Da Zhuang, you idiot, why is the net next to you still floating on the water? Hurry up and step on it into the mud!" The people watching the fun on the shore gave their opinions from time to time and they wished they could join in the action themselves!

When Da Zhuang got the net ready, Old Master Chu shouted again: "Okay, okay, those on the shore pull quickly, and those in the water keep up!"

It took almost half an hour to walk from one end of the seven or eight mu pond to the other! By then, countless fish were already jumping in the net.

"Oh my, oh my, I didn't expect there would be so many fish in the pond!" Old Master Chu shouted with a loudspeaker. The villagers who were watching the fun were also very happy.

"Oh, there are so many fish, how long will it take to finish them?"

"When we were in the agricultural cooperative, we raised fish in the rice fields and had a good harvest. Since the land was distributed to each household, my family has not eaten fish! There are more than ten people in our family, and we want to eat all-you-can-eat fish tonight!"

"I have a small family and I get a lot of fish, so I pickle it and eat it slowly!"

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