Reborn in the Great Northern Wilderness in 1982, I farmed and hunted to support my whole family.

The old foreman smiled and took the cigarette from Li Mu, then turned around and took out a net specifically for catching big fish from the sled behind him.

"Don't underestimate this small net. You might get lucky today and catch ten or so big fish."

Seeing the large-mesh net handed to him, Li Mu took it with a happy face. "Thank you for your kind words. If I can really catch a fish weighing more than ten kilograms, I'll treat you to a drink."

"Alright, I'll be waiting." The old foreman replied with a beaming smile.

With the ice picks and fishing nets, Li Mu and Tian Xiaohu found their work much easier and less time-consuming.

However, compared to fishing, netting fish requires a longer wait and more patience.

Taking advantage of this break, Li Mu decided to ask the old man about something else.

"Grandpa, Grandpa, Grandma fell down and is bleeding a lot."

Before Li Mu could speak, he saw a child running towards him, crying and stumbling along the way.

The old foreman's face instantly darkened. He stubbed out his pipe and turned to look at Li Mu.

"Young man, I don't have time to take in the fishing net today. Could you please take it to Gao Ga Zi's house in Xicun later?"

Gao Ga Zi, that's not Brother Gao's nickname.

A familiar figure flashed through Li Mu's mind, but now was not the time to ask questions.

"Don't worry, sir, leave this to me, I can't go wrong."

"Okay! I trust you, sir."

As the old foreman spoke, he strode towards the child who was running up to him.

"Tiger Head, what happened? How did your grandma fall?" The old man held the child's hand, his eyes full of anxiety.

"I don't know either. I went to Shi Tou's house to play, and when I came home, I saw my grandma lying in the yard. Grandpa, let's go home quickly!"

The child cried so hard that his face was covered in snot and tears, and his eyes were full of anxiety and fear.

After hearing what he said, the old foreman didn't ask any more questions. He picked up the child, got on a horse-drawn sled tied to the roadside, and disappeared without a trace.

Seeing this, Tian Xiaohu quickly said to Li Mu, "Brother Mu, let's help the old man take in the fishing nets!"

Li Mu shook his head, looked around at the people still on the ice, and said, "No rush, we'll bring them in with our fishing nets around noon."

"If we close the net now, it will have been a waste of time."

Tian Xiaohu now listens to Li Mu in everything.

It's still early, but we'll have to wait at least three hours until noon. In this freezing weather, you'll be frozen stiff, if not killed.

Fortunately, the old man's sled had everything he needed; the ice was so thick that even if a campfire were set up on it, it wouldn't melt.

So the two of them simply waited patiently around the fire.

In between, Tian Xiaohu also went to the mountains.

Seeing that the trap hadn't caught any rabbits, he ran home and got four cornbread buns and a piece of pickled vegetable.

The two of them made do like this until noon, when most of the other fishermen on the ice had gone home, and then they started to haul in the old fisherman's nets.

"Brother Mu, this net is quite heavy. There must be a lot of fish." Tian Xiaohu said with a grin as he struggled to pull the net.

Li Mu's face was full of smiles at this moment, "If this net catches a lot of fish, we won't be too bad when we catch fish in the future."

"That makes sense!" Tian Xiaohu smiled and put even more force into his hands.

The two of them worked together, and in no time, a whole net full of fish was scooped up.

There were about fifty fish in total, the smallest of which weighed about a pound.

It looks so delightful.

After the two of them sorted the fish by type, they turned around and went to pull up their own nets.

Unexpectedly, pulling up this net was no less strenuous than pulling up the old foreman's big net.

"Hey bro, you guys didn't catch a rock in the net, did you?"

"If all else fails, why not just let the net go? Otherwise, you might end up ruining it instead of catching any fish. That net may look small, but it's not cheap!"

People walking home together nearby shouted at the two of them, their words seemingly concerned but their faces full of schadenfreude.

Upon hearing this, Tian Xiaohu, who was engrossed in his work, immediately froze and looked at Li Mu with a hesitant expression.

"Brother Mu, what do we do now?!"

"Don't listen to his nonsense! I think we're the big fish on the internet."

Li Mu's legs were trembling, but he absolutely refused to believe that he would be so unlucky as to catch a rock on his first try.

Upon hearing Li Mu's words, Tian Xiaohu's eyes lit up, and he felt as if he had been injected with chicken blood, and his energy returned.

After about ten minutes, the two finally managed to pull the net up.

Unexpectedly, besides the dozen or so large fish weighing at least ten pounds that were pulled up, there was also a dark, stone-like thing.

Just as they were waiting to see what would happen, someone spotted it from afar and immediately burst into laughter: "Haha! I told you you'd caught a rock. With this kind of bad luck, you probably won't be able to catch any fish in the future."

As he spoke, the man chuckled and pushed his sled away.

To his surprise, as soon as he turned around, two people wearing green military overcoats and Lei Feng hats walked towards him.

"Brother, do you have a fish that weighs three pounds? If not, a fish that weighs a little over two pounds will also do."

The person in front shouted before even reaching the fishing spot.

"Yes, yes! We just caught three, each weighing three jin. The remaining two weigh a little over one jin. If you want them all, just give me three yuan."

The fisherman chuckled as he spoke, genuinely surprised by his good fortune despite not catching many fish that day.

Before the person even stepped out of the river, they attracted people eager to buy fish.

But to everyone's surprise, the person opposite him immediately looked worried.

"Only three? That's far too few. We need at least thirty."

Thirty fish!

This is a big spender!

Li Mu's ears perked up like antennas the moment the two of them opened their mouths.

Upon hearing that the two wanted so many fish, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Brothers, we do have about fifty large fish, but they are a mixed breed."

"Take whatever you want, and the prices are absolutely fair."

As soon as Li Mu said this, the expressions on the two men's faces instantly softened.

"Okay, let's take a look."

As they spoke, the two began to walk in the direction Li Mu had pointed.

This made the fisherman furious. "Hey! You don't want my fish anymore!"

"No, three is too few," the person walking behind replied, shaking their head.

Seeing that the two men really didn't want to look at him any longer, the fisherman's expression also darkened.

I thought something good had come my way, but it turns out the good thing came to someone else.

However, just as he was about to continue pushing the sled away, Li Mu, who hadn't left yet, suddenly spoke up: "Brother, sell all your fish to me! It'll be perfect, and if I combine them with my fish, maybe I can get someone else enough of the same kind."

But to everyone's surprise, Li Mu's words not only failed to please the other party, but instead made the man's face even more gloomy.

Without even replying to Li Mu, he turned and pushed the sled away.

Li Mu shook his head as he watched his departing figure.

Indeed, people in this world are all different. This person, like Li Jianjun, can't stand seeing others do even the slightest bit well.