bookrebus Chapter 792 A lot of fish
Chapter 792 A lot of fish
When the villagers heard that there must be at least one or two thousand kilograms of fish under the ice, they jumped for joy.
A group of children followed suit, lying on the ice and looking down like the village chief. Whenever they saw a big fish, they shouted, "It's a big fish, there are so many fish."
The village chief immediately directed the villagers to start piercing the ice with steel chisels. The steel chisel weighed about 20 pounds, with the upper part made of wood and the lower part made of steel. There was a point at the bottom, and there were horizontal sticks on both sides of the upper part for easy grip.
Raise the steel chisel above your head and poke it down hard. A hole will appear on the smooth ice surface. After a while, a pile of broken ice will appear, and then someone will shovel away the broken ice with a shovel.
After about ten minutes, a hole one meter square was formed.
Use a scoop net to scoop away all the broken ice in the hole. Soon, several fish swam to the hole. These fish were seriously short of oxygen under the ice, and now that there was a hole, they swam over and exposed their heads above the water to get the oxygen they urgently wanted.
The villagers on the shore were standing by the hole with a scoop net ready at any time. When they saw the fish head, they would sink the scoop net under the fish in the water, and then pull it up suddenly, and several fish would be scooped up.
Then he poured it onto the ice, and several fish jumped back and forth on the ice, including carp and crucian carp.
A few meters away, someone was digging another hole. At this time, there was a loud noise and the sound of iron pipes and wooden barrels knocking against each other in the distance.
It turned out to be another group of villagers who had returned home to get their buckets. When they reached the shore, they saw the fish jumping on the ice and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, so many fish!"
Then they slid down. More and more people came down, and the ice surface could not bear their weight, making a crackling sound.
Li Moer was afraid that the ice would collapse and she would fall into the water, so she quickly walked to the shore and asked several women who had not yet gone down to pull her out.
After finally getting ashore, I turned my head to look down. Wow, there were already fifty or sixty people busy working on the ice surface as big as a basketball court.
The sound of the ice was getting louder and louder. The village chief shouted, "Children and old women, get on top! There are too many people. The ice can't bear it. It will collapse soon and everyone will fall into the water!"
The women immediately grabbed the children by the ears and ran to the shore. Those who hadn't gotten out were pulled up one by one. The scene was extremely lively.
After a while, the fish were transported to the shore in buckets. The fish that were jumping around at first turned into hard frozen fish in a few minutes.
The pile of fish grew larger and larger, and Li Moer thought it must weigh at least two thousand kilograms. He probed underwater and found only a quarter of the fish remained, mostly small.
The weather was getting colder, and some children were sneezing. The village chief gave an order: "Okay, stop fishing. There's nothing left. Come up and share the fish. We'll share it soon."
Li Moer moved his mind and covered everyone. He did not notice Li Zhihai and his family, so he asked a woman next to him, "Auntie, where are Li Zhihai and his family? Why didn't they come to catch fish?"
The woman in her thirties curled her lips and said, "The whole family went to the next village and went to her eldest daughter's house to find that filthy-mouthed second aunt. They said they were going to beat her until she became incontinent and unable to take care of herself for the rest of her life!"
Li Moer couldn't help laughing. The women beside her also laughed.
After a while, all the villagers in the pit came ashore. Li Moer looked into the pit again and saw more than ten holes on the ice.
With a thought, she collected all the fish in the pit into the space. They would not be able to survive if the ice layer froze to the bottom in a few days, so it was better to collect them into the space.
Someone brought a hook scale and started to divide the fish. The total weight was over 2,700 kilograms. There were about 50 households in the village, and except for Li Zhihai's family, each household could get more than 50 kilograms.
Li Moer's share was delivered to Mrs. Li's home by the zoo staff. When she heard that it was Li Moer who found the fish, Mrs. Li's head was almost raised to her head.
When Li Moer returned home, Mrs. Li was making braised carp and crucian carp soup.
Half an hour later, Li Moer ate two bowls of rice while eating the braised crucian carp and drinking a sip of the milky and fragrant fish soup.