Fisherman

Once New Year's Eve is over, it is the first day of the second year.

Snow fell on the mountain for several days, and the open area was covered with thick snow. For the sake of safety, everyone did not go out to work these days.

Taking advantage of the cold wind outside the cave, before everyone got up, Zhao Qian called Brother Zhou to go out together early.

The two went to the river together. There was already a thin layer of ice on the surface of the river. He knocked a hole with a sickle, and the water underneath was still flowing.

"Do you want to catch fish?" Brother Zhou stretched his neck to watch him smash the ice into pieces.

Zhao Qian threw a bucket to him: "Put the river water in the bucket."

Brother Zhou filled it up according to his words. He brought a half-filled bucket of water ashore. It was cold in winter, and if he filled the water up overnight, it would turn into big ice cubes the next day. He wanted to take advantage of the winter Store more ice cubes. When the time comes, smash the ice cubes into pieces to store the sea fish for a longer period of time and keep the fish fresh.

In fact, he has been preparing for it since it was snowing. At this time, there are already more than [-] large ice cubes in the space.

When he put the sea fish in the space before, the sea fish was still alive and kicking after more than a month. He vaguely guessed that the space can not only store things, but also keep the original shape of the stored things. For the experiment, he put ice cubes in After going in, as expected, so many days have passed, and the ice cubes have not changed in any way, and now I let Brother Zhou together, just to save my busy life.

Brother Zhou hurriedly got up after listening to it. In fact, it didn’t take much effort. After all, he only fetched water for a while, and then put the bucket in a hidden place so that no one could see it.

"I just took three buckets out, I can't store much ice." Brother Zhou said after the water was finished.

"At night, I take out all the barrels after everyone is asleep, and put the barrels back before everyone gets up the next day. If they take them out during the day, they will be suspicious."

Brother Zhou sighed, and knew that there was no way to let others know about the space.

The two stood on the bank of the river, it was fine to be idle, Brother Zhou took out a slingshot from his waist, which he made when he was idle in the cave a few days ago.

Zhao Qian saw that the slingshot was still exquisitely made, and beckoned: "Come on, let Brother Zhao show you his hands."

Brother Zhou glanced at him and saw that he was full of confidence, so he picked up a few stones from the ground and handed him the slingshot and stones together.

Zhao Qian pressed the stone on the slingshot, pointed up at a sparrow squatting on the dead tree, narrowed his eyes slightly, let go suddenly, and the stone flew out.

The sparrow chirped and chirped, stood firmly on the spot, looked down at Zhao Qian who jumped up, the bird didn't hit it, but knocked off the snow accumulated on the branches, covering both of them. neck.

Zhao Qian shook the snowflakes on her body, and coughed dryly: "Just now I made a move too fast, I made a mistake, brother Zhao is very powerful."

Brother Zhou grabbed the snowflakes that had fallen from his neck, smiled bitterly, and passed another stone over. Brother Zhao hit the snow impartially again, the two of them exclaimed and ran away quickly.

Afterwards, Brother Zhou passed another stone over...

Passed another stone over...

"Brother Zhao, forget it, you have knocked down all the snow on the tree." But the bird was still standing there.

He didn't say anything later, for fear of hurting Brother Zhao's self-esteem.

Zhao Qian exhaled, without blushing and heartbeat: "Give me another pebble at the end."

Brother Zhou spread out his palm, it was empty, and a handful of stones were gone. At this moment, the sparrow, whose eyelids had been drooping, suddenly flew out from the branch, flew straight to Zhao Qian, and stayed on top of his head for a while.

Zhao Qian looked up at the flight path of the bird, and caught off guard a lump of bird feces landed on his forehead. He touched it with shaking hands, and it was still warm!

"Damn sparrow!"

The sparrow chirped a few times, flapped its wings happily and continued to fly forward. Brother Zhou took the slingshot from Zhao Qian's hand, picked up a stone casually, and stretched out his hand to flick it. The kite landed in a straight line.

Brother Zhou hurried over, picked up the bird he hit and handed it to Zhao Qian.

Zhao Qian was holding a sparrow that wasn't half the size of a palm, and his mood was a little complicated. In order to restore the dignity that no longer existed, he said righteously: "Shao Yu, you are too naughty."

"what?"

"If you don't often use a slingshot to shoot birds, how can you hit them all at once?"

Brother Zhou put away the slingshot and shook his head: "Probably that sparrow is too stupid."

Zhao Qian's eyebrows twitched, it's stupid to shit on my head?This brat clearly wanted to call him stupid.

Angrily, he went to the river to wash his face, and then said to Brother Zhou: "Give me the slingshot."

Brother Zhou opened his eyes wide: "Do you still want to fight?"

He didn't speak, and when the suspicious boy gave him the slingshot, he put it in his pocket seriously: "Confiscate it, don't play with such a dangerous thing in the future."

Brother Zhou didn't expect Zhao Qian to be such a rascal, he said dissatisfied: "Brother Zhao!"

Zhao Qian raised her eyebrows: "Yes."

"gone back."

……

After winter, when the wind blows in early spring, what is surprising is that the seawater on the mountainside receded all the way to the former village. The land that had been soaked for several months was very soft. After the seawater went away, it was all thin. mud son.

The sea water receded overnight, so the fish, shrimp and seafood in this water area had not had time to run back into the deep sea. At this time, many seafood were stranded on the shore at low tide.

The villagers cheered and took all the guys in the cave, and all men, women and children went out to pick up seafood.

Zhao Qian carried the wooden barrel, first picked up some crabs, and then found a lot of oysters, which looked like grayish white stones, not a lot of meat, but the shells were big, and he hadn't picked up a few yet. , the small wooden barrel is almost full.

"Brother Zhao, why are you picking it up? The meat is scarce and it takes up a lot of land. Not many people eat it, so it's not easy to sell." Brother Zhou rolled up his trousers, and he picked up half a bucket of sea prawns.

Zhao Qian picked up another oyster. The meat was a bit lacking, but it was rich in protein and delicious. There were so many ways to eat it, it was simply ignorant.

He didn't explain too much, and said: "We have to pick them up, otherwise it would be a pity to be stranded here without water for a long time."

Zhou Geer nodded, and went ashore to get a fishing net: "Then you can use a fishing net, anyway, you can't die without water for the time being."

He quickly took it over, poured the oysters in the bucket into the fishing net, gave the empty bucket to Brother Zhou, and continued to bend over to pick up the oysters.

I heard from Brother Zhou that the fishing village doesn’t sell oysters very much, so the products are quite rich. Some of the oysters were quite old and big. He opened one along the crack of the shell, and it was tender and white. It was a big piece of meat, fatter than expected, raw, he ate one, it tasted very fresh, but most people may not be able to eat this taste.

After eating one, he picked up oysters faster. If he opened a small shop in the future, grilled oysters would sell well.

There is still a large area from the mountainside to the village. I am afraid that the seafood on the coast will die if there is no water for a long time. Everyone almost forgets to sleep and eat to pick up seafood. Looking around, only Zhao Qian is picking oysters. Busy with work, no one cares about him after a few words of persuasion.

The end of no one's care is that everyone collects work at dusk, and when Zhao Qian is carrying seafood to the mountain, Zhao Qian is dragging a large fishing net of oysters, no one is willing to help, and only Brother Zhou is willing to help. Brother Zhao, who is like a donkey, carries an astonishing amount of oysters.

Zhao Qian put his waist down, wiped his sweat, and seeing that Brother Zhou was also tired, he said, "Why don't we just put the oysters into the space."

Brother Zhou looked around, and everyone went to the front. Zhao Qian picked up more than one oyster in a fishing net, and there were several more at the foot of the mountain.

"Put the one at the foot of the mountain in, let's carry this one back." Anyway, everyone didn't care much about the oysters Zhao Ge picked up, so they carried one back and dangled it in front of everyone, just pretending to be good.

Zhao Qian patted Brother Zhou on the head: "It's really smart."

After the two carried the oysters back, they rested for a while, and Hu San'er rolled up his sleeves and was about to go down the mountain, but seeing the two of them did not go down the mountain again: "Have you brought all your oysters up?"

Zhao Qian pretended to be very tired: "After running a few times, I finally finished taking it."

Hu San'er smiled and said: "It's really fast, I'll go ahead and get one for you!"

He pointed to the sea goods piled up in the cave: "Look, what everyone picked up, you just want to pick up some stones and bring them back."

Zhao Qian waved his hand: "Everyone has his own love for radishes and vegetables."

Hu Saner shook his head helplessly.

Early the next morning, Tian Tianmengmeng and everyone went out again. It had been a long time since they got up early and went out late.

Zhao Qian walked farther than everyone else today, and found a place with few people to pick up seafood. He hid in the corner and threw the oysters directly into the space, which was much more convenient. A small amount of oysters will be ready to go back.

After working so hard for three or four days, everyone finally collected all the seafood, big and small. When ordering the goods, Zhao Qian found that the things stranded on the shore were all small things, and the larger sea fish only looked like four or five. Most of them are shrimps and crabs. Even so, everyone is very happy. After all, this is a good thing like a pie in the sky. They didn’t go to sea and picked up seafood directly.

The village head sighed: "This is God's compensation after the shipwreck."

He asked Zhao Qian, "When will these seafood be sold in the market?"

"No hurry, we can raise these seafood first, we have food and drink now, the top priority should be to choose a place to build a house."

The village chief nodded after thinking about it. It is already spring. It is very humid at the moment, and the cave is also a little wet. After all, the cave cannot be lived for a long time. The longer you live together, the more inconvenience you will find. .

So Zhao Qian called on the men in the village to go to the top of the mountain to build a small fish pond with seawater, and then put all the seafood in it, but crabs can make holes, so they cannot be kept under the simple conditions. Zhao Qian asked everyone to eat it by steaming or boiling it.