I have been farming since I crossed over.

There were five or six fish jumping on the river bank, one after another, it was dazzling to watch!

Yang Mingxi handed the backpack to Yang Mingyu and said, "Third brother, use the backpack to fish in the river."

Yang Mingyu took the basket, looked for fish, put it down, and started to drag it along. In the river water that barely reached his knees, Yang Mingyu ran very fast, and the fish were caught in the basket before they could react. Yang Mingxi was delighted to see this.

After half a circle, there were more than ten fish in the backpack, each of them was not small. Yang Mingyu lifted the backpack and poured it onto the river bank, and a cloud of fish was formed in an instant, which was very beautiful.

Yang Mingyu continued to catch fish. Listening to what his sister said, he felt that the fish were delicious. There were so many people in the Yang family, and these were not enough!

Yang Mingxi immediately squatted down and sorted the fish. They looked like silver carp, carp, and a relatively large crucian carp. She threw the carp and crucian carp further away, picked up the silver carp, hit its head hard with the back of a kitchen knife, and then threw it to the riverside, deftly removing its scales with the knife.

When Yang Mingyu came back with the basket, all the silver carp Yang Mingxi had picked out had been scaled and piled up by the river. Yang Mingyu looked at it with his mouth wide open and said, "Xi'er, what are you doing? Can't you just wait until the fish is cooked, peel it, and eat it directly?"

Yang Mingxi shook his head and said, "If the scales aren't removed properly, the fish will smell fishy." Then he took Yang Mingyu's basket and leaned over. This time, there were more fish. Yang Mingxi picked out the silver carp and looked at them. There were about twenty of them, each weighing four or five pounds. It should be enough for the Yang family to eat. Then he said to Yang Mingyu, "Third brother, can you make me a bamboo brush? I'll use it to clean the fish later."

While Yang Mingxi was sorting the fish, Yang Mingyu took his kitchen knife and went to the nearby vegetable garden of the old Yang family to cut bamboo to make brushes. When he returned, he brought Yang Minghao and Yang Mingchao with him, each carrying a backpack.

Yang Mingxi looked at the two excited boys and briefly explained how to catch fish. The two boys eagerly went down to the river, put down their baskets, and ran in the water! On the shore, Yang Mingyu watched Yang Mingxi scrape the scales off a fish, then took the kitchen knife and began scraping! Yang Mingxi lowered the basket Yang Ming had used to catch fish into the river, tied it with water plants, and picked up the crucian carp and carp that had been sorted out and placed them in the basket. She would keep them in the river first, otherwise they would die soon.

After picking up the fish, Yang Mingxi took the scaled fish to the river to wash it while removing its gills. The river water suddenly turned crimson, and the gills began to flow away with the current! Looking at everything before her, Yang Mingxi thought for a moment, put the fish down, and dug a hole in the river with her feet, intending to bury the gills and entrails in this hole to avoid polluting the water source.

After Yang Mingyu finished scaling the fish, and Yang Mingxi finished gills, Yang Mingxi took the knife from Yang Mingyu and gutted the fish. Then, she shoveled all the fish's innards into the pit and vigorously scrubbed the black film from the fish's belly with a bamboo brush. Yang Mingyu took the knife and gutted the fish. Working together, the brother and sister quickly finished a basketful of fish.

In the distance, the laughter of Yang Minghao and Yang Mingchao could be heard from the river; they were having a blast playing in the river. Yang Mingxi shook his head and said to Yang Mingyu, "Third brother, help me get the fish back, and then come pick up Fourth Brother and the others."

When they got home, they went straight to the kitchen. Seeing so many fish, Yang Mingxi's aunt came over to help and asked her what to do next. Yang Mingxi knew how to do it, and the best way was to fillet the fish, but she didn't know how to do it. So she picked up the kitchen knife, hesitated for a moment, and gestured. She first chopped off the fish head, and then chopped the fish body into two-finger-wide pieces. Seeing this, her aunt took the kitchen knife and started chopping.

Yang Mingxi found two large basins for washing vegetables and asked her aunt to put the fish in them while she dealt with it later. Then she went to the vegetable garden. She wanted to see if she had any ginger and green onions to mix with the fish to remove the fishy smell!

After a round, she found some green onions and cilantro. She picked a bunch of them, picked them as she went, came back to the well to wash them, and took them back to the kitchen! The aunt had already chopped two basins of fish meat and said with a smile, "Xier, what should we do with the rest? There are too many!"

Yang Mingxi gave the green onions to her aunt, asking her to chop them into pieces and throw them into the basin. Then she sprinkled some salt on the fish and marinated them. Then she said, "It's not much, aunt. I'm worried it won't be enough to eat later. Let's cook it in two pots. After these are put into the pot, we can chop the others and do the same!"