Fight the Giants

  Chapter 121 Encirclement

  Huo Xi followed Yang Fu's gaze, untied the small satchel on his chest, and handed it to Huo Erhuai: "Father, you take it."

  Huo Erhuai happily caught it, but almost missed it, it was heavy, especially heavy.

  Put it into my bosom, it is bulging, like a woman who has been pregnant for several months, the three of them couldn't help but laugh.

   "We catch more fish today, and we will be able to sell more fish tomorrow."

   "But we have no place to install it."

  Huo Erhuai is also a little distressed, his family's boat can hold a hundred stones of grain, but can't hold a few loads of fish?

   But his fishing box is only that big. Do you want to buy more fishing baskets? Seeing that there is money to be made, but not being able to make it, he is a little scratching his head.

  Both Uncles Qiqi looked at Huo Xi.

Huo Xi thought for a while, then said: "Buying a few fishing baskets would take up too much space, let's buy a few fishing bags, put the caught fish into the fishing bags, keep them in the water, and open them up tomorrow when they are going to sell. "

  The fishing bag is the same as the shrimp pot and crab pot. It can be folded and placed, and it doesn’t take up much space.

   "Okay, then let's buy a fish bag."

   "Buy a few more, in case fishermen want to buy them, we can make a difference." Yang Fu said happily.

  Huo Xi looked at him blankly.

   "What's wrong?" Yang Fu didn't know why.

  Huo Xi burst out laughing, and Huo Erhuai laughed too.

  Yang Fu looked at Huo Xi, then looked up at Huo Erhuai.

  Huo Erhuai patted his head with emotion, his family's Fu'er, now all he could think about was getting money home.

   "Uncle, you can always think about earning money for the family, dad is happy."

  Yang Fu raised his neck proudly, Xi'er always thought about earning money, and he also wanted to earn money to support his family.

   happily walked ahead, and ran to the shop selling fishing gear.

  When the three returned to the boat, Mrs. Yang had mended the fishing net.

  After receiving the money, I counted it several times, and saw that I got one, two, or six dollars from selling fish today, so happy that I couldn't close the corners of my mouth.

  Urging Huo Erhuai to row the boat to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

   "Today I counted the remaining goods in our house, and there is still a lot of tung oil."

   "Why only count tung oil?" Yang Fu was taken aback after speaking, "Sister, do you want us to go to Yewang tonight?"

  Mr. Yang nodded: "Let's strike while the iron is hot. Taking advantage of the high fishing prices these days, let's catch more fish. You and Xi'er can go to bed at night, and your brother-in-law and I can just keep busy."

   "Mom, I want to help you too."

   "Sister, I will help you too."

  Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai looked at each other, smiled and nodded.

  Huo Xi felt a little emotional. Ever since she and Nian'er arrived on the boat, Huo Erhuai and Yang Shi have rarely hunted at night.

   One is hard work, and the other is that the visibility is low at night and the risk is greater.

   But if the catch is big, it must be at night. In addition to night, there are two periods of morning and evening. At noon, when the sun is shining, there are almost no catches.

  Fishing is very different from farming.

   Farmers look forward to sunny weather, but fishers like cloudy and cloudy weather with drizzle, before and after thunderstorms, or weather after long rain and early sunshine.

   Morning or dusk are also the most suitable for fishing.

  Sunrise and sunset is not suitable for most fishermen.

  Most people will turn day and night upside down. Because the catches of nets at night are often more than those during the day.

  Because many fish are attracted to light, just like the moth likes to jump into the fire, fish also float up when there is light.

  For example, the whitebait likes light. There are also squid and light fish, which are very phototaxis, so most of the fishermen on the seaside go to sea at night.

   But this kind of light is different from strong sunlight. Fish do not like strong sunlight during the day, and most of them sink to the bottom of the water. So it's not easy to catch.

  But Huo Erhuai and Yang are not arrested at night. Apart from the fact that there were two children, Huo Xi and Huo Nian, on board, the price of tung oil was not low.

  The lighting at this time is not so good, the visibility at night is not high, and the tung oil is also expensive. A catty of tung oil costs more than ten or twenty Wen. Many catties of tung oil are burned in one night.

  If there are not so many catches, it is not enough to burn tung oil.

  Different from modern fishing boats for night fishing, dozens of hundreds of kilowatt fish-collecting lamps are hung on the hull, bow and stern of the boat. They are built with great effort, and the gasoline for the generator is only a few dollars.

  But the fishermen in this meeting don't have the conditions. They know that they catch a lot at night, but they can't do it on a large scale.

   At this time, the family agreed to catch at night, so they rowed the boat towards the mouth of the Yangtze River, and met Yu Jiang and Zou's boat on the way.

  The two families somehow came together.

   "Father, let's call the two of them together? There are many people at night, so light more torches, and maybe catch more fish."

  Huo Xi needs manpower, she already knows it now, it is very difficult to break out a way alone. It is necessary to unite all forces, contacts and resources that can be united.

   "Okay. Let's call the two of them." Yang made a decision.

   It's not that I have the confidence to have silver at home now. It is Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai who have always had a heart to pity the poor and the weak. Otherwise, he wouldn't have rescued Huo Xi and Huo Nian at the Qinhuai River at the risk of being killed.

  After hearing this, Yu Jiang and Uncle Zou's family hurriedly declined. Afraid of stealing their business.

"No, we went to the fish market street to sell fish today, and saw the purchase of the Huibin Building in the inner city. Let us provide fish and shrimp for three days. Our family can't provide much, otherwise we have to find some big fish all the way Collect more prawns, and it will delay things.”

After Huo Erhuai finished speaking, Yang's also interjected: "Yes, I don't have to worry about selling. Besides, my family wants to catch at night. I'm afraid I need to light a lot of torches at night, and I also need people to set up nets, pull nets, and pick up fish. My family is full of strength. Xiao, I am worried that Nian'er will wake up and I have to take care of him. The three of us happen to have a caretaker when we are together."

  There are too many situations of night fishing. If the net is full, a careless person and boat can be dragged and sunk when the net is pulled. Wu Qi was surrounded by darkness, and no one even called for help.

  Clearly know that the Huo family is taking care of them, but after hearing such words, I feel comfortable.

   "Okay, the three of us will be together at night." Uncle Zou made a decision, and Yu Jiang nodded in response.

  So the three families rowed the boat to the mouth of the Yangtze River together.

  Before dark, each occupied a water area and got off the net. They all got a lot of catches.

   When it was dark, Yang Shi and Huo Xi made a simple but hearty dinner, and invited the two families to eat together.

  When it was dark, they made torches together, soaked in tung oil, and put a lot of torches on the three boats, rowed the boats apart, formed a siege, and began to lower the nets.

  The men of the three families were busy lowering the net, pulling the line, and collecting the net, while the women and half-grown children gathered on the Huo family's boat, busy removing fish, picking up fish, and removing weeds and debris from the fishing net.

  The alive and kicking fish are thrown into the fishing box quickly. Some of them are struggling with the net, seriously injured, half-dead, or not good in appearance. They remove the scales and viscera while they are fresh, cut them in half, apply salt, and dry the salted fish without stopping for a moment.

  The torches on the three boats burned extremely brightly, illuminating the nearby water surface like daytime.

  Huo Xi was very excited, it was the first time he followed the night catcher, he was in good spirits, he was so busy running around that he didn't feel tired at all.

  Seeing the fish at the bottom of the water swimming towards the light, they hurriedly grabbed the side of the boat to watch.

   Morning~The residents of the seaside, most of them will wait at the seaside in the early morning or dusk, when fishing boats go ashore, they can often buy fresh catches

  (end of this chapter)