Little Life on An American Ranch

  Chapter 260 Jumping fish

  The two sisters, Barley and Wheat, arrived at the lake and found that Jian Heng was not there. They knew He Ye, so they greeted He Ye first.

  Although he didn't know Sun Siwei, he also guessed that the Asian-looking man in front of him was Jian Heng's classmate, so he was quite enthusiastic.

   "You are Sun Siwei, I'm glad to meet you." Damai and Mai Mai had already dismounted at this time, and extended their hands enthusiastically to shake Sun Siwei.

  Sun Siwei doesn’t know much English, but Haozhuo also went to college, so I’m glad to meet you and you still understand.

   "Nice to meet you." Sun Siwei's English was a bit out of tune, but anyway, he understood the meaning.

The two stood together and chatted for a while, and the two sisters, Damai and Wheat, said goodbye and left. The four of them had nothing to talk about. For Damai and Mai, He Ye was the second meeting, and Sun Siwei was the first time. The living habits and so on are completely different, and we can't talk together.

  Sun Siwei looked at the backs of the two sisters and said, "This kid is so beautiful!"

"Who says it's not? This kind of blessing is not only about money. It's just about seeing the right things when you have an opportunity. Let me tell you that these two families are not ordinary, although they are not considered in the United States. What kind of outstanding political family is not as good as the Bush, Kennedy and other families, but the families of the two of them are also considered prominent families in the local area," He Ye said.

Regarding the background of barley and wheat, He Ye knows more than Jian Heng. Jian Heng only knows that their family is quite rich and runs a farm, but they don't know the political influence of McAvoy's family in Iowa. how. Because Jian Heng doesn't care about these things, he just wants to concentrate on living his own life now.

  The two were chatting here, and the two sisters, Barley and Wheat, met Jian Heng who was carrying an ice drill and an ice chisel.

   "Do you want to stop fishing?" Jian Heng asked the two sisters.

  When Barley and Wheat heard about fishing, they understood why the two guests who had just arrived stood on the lake in such a cold weather. The two sisters also love to be lively. When they heard about fishing, they were naturally happy: "Then wait for us, let's tie the horse!"

   On Jian Heng's side, he immediately threw the things on his shoulders onto the snow, took the reins from the two sisters, and tied them to the horse stakes at the door of the house. The two sisters, Barley and Wheat, went to the storage room to get some silage in a basket and placed it in front of the two horses.

  Ma's affairs were running out, so Jian Heng took the two sisters back to the ice lake.

  Seeing Jian Heng's equipment, He Ye said: "Good guy, this is still manual, isn't it too outdated?"

   "What do you think, electric insurance will never be as good as manual insurance in the wild?" While talking, Jian Heng looked around to find a suitable place to drill a hole.

  Mait saw the place Jian Heng was looking for, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Can you do it?"

   "No! This is my first time doing this job" Jian Heng replied directly.

  While hearing this, Xiaomai took two steps back, raised his head and covered his eyes with his hands, judged the direction of Dayang, and then moved it again, before pointing to the position under his feet: "Come on, drill here!"

   "Do you understand?" Although he was a little skeptical, Jian Heng walked over honestly and stood in the place where Mai Mai stepped aside, ready to punch a hole.

At this time, Damai explained: "I heard that you are right. We have been ice fishing with my father when we were young. We know where to drill holes. We should choose the place where the sun shines, because the place where the sun shines is warm. Naturally, they will gather at this place, and there are some rules for picking ice fishing holes, which are not used now, because there is no way to judge the underwater situation... ".

  While listening to Damai's explanation, Jian Heng began to drill into the ice.

Jian Heng's ice drill is old-fashioned. Just by looking at it, you can tell that this thing has a bit of history. It looks a bit like the handle of a walking tractor in the past. It is more than 20 centimeters long, and there is a spiral pattern with a width of 5 or 6 centimeters standing on the pole.

  It was very easy to hit at the beginning. After a while, Jian Heng drilled about ten centimeters below the ice surface, but when the whole pole was driven in, it was a bit difficult to turn it by hand.

  Everyone understands the principle of leverage. The longer the rod, the less effort it takes. With the rod that comes with the ice drill alone, which is 30 centimeters in the rod, once the drill bit is submerged in the ice, it will be difficult to drill down.

   Just as Jian Heng was out of breath and clamoring for a replacement, Xiaomai ran back to fetch a stick about two meters thick at the hip.

   "Use this, put it in the iron sheath of that..." Mai Mai put the wooden pole on his shoulders on the ground, then held the other end with his hand, and stretched it out in front of Jian Heng.

   "So there's this thing!"

Jian Heng saw that there was something he didn't understand, so he took the wooden rod and inserted it into the collar of the ice drill. Good guy, the seam is not bad at all. At a glance, he knew that this was the ice drill of old Anders. matching pole.

  With the pole, Jian Heng supported one end, and He Ye supported the other end, so the two men turned around like two donkeys pulling a mill.

  With the long lever, the hole-punching speed was naturally faster. After three or four minutes, Jian Heng and He Ye felt their hands loosen, and immediately realized that they had pierced through the ice.

  Bring out the ice drill, and Jian Heng is ready to use a chisel to start digging a hole of about ten centimeters.

   "Why don't you drill a few more eyes on the side" Facing Jian Heng's 'stupidity', Mai Mai was a little speechless.

  Leave the labor-saving tools and don’t use them. If you have to use an ice chisel to chisel them, if you start to chisel them at such a small point, it would be wishful thinking if you want to catch lunch.

  Jian Heng understood what Mai Mai meant in seconds, and immediately prepared to make another eye next to this eye.

  Sun Siwei took over the wooden pole of the ice drill at this time: "You take a break, I will continue to work."

   After speaking, Sun Siwei expanded his chest and posed a few poses. He had been a little hot-eyed from the sidelines, and finally couldn't help it. Seeing that Jian Heng had been working here for so long, he asked himself to take a second look.

   "You should take He Ye's place, it doesn't matter if I'm strong." Jian Heng indicated that Sun Siwei would still help He Ye, and he could continue here.

  So, the three of them continued to open their eyes. With the experience of the first eye, the second eye will be healed soon, and the third eye will follow.

  Three eyes were punched into a character shape, and then a chisel was used to pierce through the connected ice with a width of four or five centimeters, and an irregular ice hole with a diameter of about 30 centimeters was formed.

   "Okay, who will come first?" Jian Heng saw that the first ice fishing hole had been made, so he asked everyone.

  He Ye said: "Give it to the two ladies, let's catch two more, and then we will see who catches the biggest fish! Hey, hey, hey!"

  He Ye hadn't finished speaking when he saw a fish jump out of the ice hole he had just dug out.

  As soon as the fish jumped out, several people standing at the entrance of the hole subconsciously grabbed it. The hole was so big that it was a bit difficult for the fish to jump up and then fall back, not to mention that there were people stretching out their hands to catch it.

  Catched or missed, but because someone touched the body of the fish with his hand, he directly pushed the fish out in the air. Because of too much force, the fish finally fell to the snow about three meters away from everyone.

   "Sorry, sorry, I dialed a little far!"

   The fastest shot is naturally Jian Heng. There is no one here whose speed can compare with him.

It wasn't that he couldn't catch the fish, but when Jian Heng was about to touch the fish, he found that Barley and Wheat had also stretched out his hands to catch it, so his hand was a bit sluggish, and the fish he had already got was holed out Well, as a good man, he would naturally give this kind of fun to his daughter-in-law. Even if the daughter-in-law couldn't catch it, the sister-in-law would be fine if she caught it.

Unexpectedly, both of them failed to catch the fish because they were in a hurry. It was a bit late for Jian Heng to take another shot, and the fish had already started to fall to the ground, so Jian Heng just swiped the body of the fish and slapped it away from the ice cave to prevent it from catching the fish. The fish fell back into the ice hole.

Jian Heng's side is faster, there is something faster than Jian Heng, as soon as the fish landed on the ice, the lazy guy immediately jumped out like lightning, and everyone moved quickly before they came, this guy had already He took the fish in his mouth, and held the fish tightly with his two little black claws.

   Naturally, the instant noodles were the ones who did it. The silly Pooh is stretching his neck and looking at the entrance of the ice cave, looking in curiously.

   "Forget it, this fish is not good to eat anymore, two more holes will be drilled, I will cook first, and you will fish here."

  Seeing that the fish has been caught by the instant noodles, Jian Heng has no intention of snatching the fish from the mouth of the instant noodles and putting it in the pot. Anyway, the hole has been drilled, so let’s continue to catch two or three fish slowly.

  Before Jian Heng finished speaking, another fish jumped out of the hole, and this one was obviously bigger than the previous one.

   "I'm coming!" Mai Mai yelled, then reached out and patted the fish with his hand, and immediately dropped the jumping fish to the snow.

   This is a carp weighing more than four catties, with neat scales, a jet-black back, and a touch of golden color on its belly. It looks very beautiful.

  Jian Heng quickly walked to the side of the carp, lifted the fish and shook it at everyone: "Yes, we have braised fish today!"

  Bringing the fish back to everyone, Jian Heng was about to show everyone the results when another fish jumped out of the hole.

   "Hey! This is too easy." He Ye saw that if he made a hole in the lake, he didn't need to go fishing. The fish would just jump up from the ice hole. The fish in this lake were too abundant.

Sun Siwei didn't understand it very well, but he still knew the word easy, so he echoed it in Chinese: "I have heard that roe deer are beaten with sticks, fish are scooped with ladles, and pheasants fly into rice pots. I didn't expect to see them here. Make a hole in the ice, and the fish will jump up!"

  (end of this chapter)