Chapter 136 Everyone has a bright future It would take an ordinary person at least two hours to put out six nets by paddling a tire like this. However, it only took Li Long about half an hour to put out all the nets, and then he paddled back to the shore by paddling the tire. My body wasn't wet, just some water on my shoes. Compared with yesterday, this process was so much more beautiful! "Brother Long, you are amazing!" Tao Daqiang gave a thumbs up and praised sincerely, "Just the skill of casting the net - I don't think I will be able to learn it in my lifetime..." This is the truth. After ten or twenty years, the villagers had some spare money, and many families of Li Long's age bought nets. They caught fish not to sell them, but just to have a harvest and to change the taste of their dishes. After all, they were just sitting around doing nothing. But there are no more than five people in the village who can use their hands to paddle the tire and use their mouths to cast the net. Of course, Li Long has seen even more amazing ones, casting nets directly from a wooden boat in the sea. Many people can cast nets on the shore, but on a boat, you have to use the momentum of the boat's movement, use your waist and feet together, and not only cast the net but also stand firm to avoid being shaken. That is not ordinary. After all, this is the northern border, not a place where fishermen are prevalent. Listening to Tao Daqiang's praise, Li Long was also a little proud and said with a smile: "Just practice more. When the water isn't so cold, you can practice more while sitting on the tire and you'll be able to do it. Come on, let's find a place to cast the net." With yesterday's lesson, Li Long and his team walked around the lake to find a suitable place to cast the net. After all, if there are many reed roots underwater, it is really difficult to catch fish with the net hanging.

It’s not that it’s impossible to get it, but there’s no need to cause that trouble. They found a pit that was pushed out by a bulldozer during the dry season to reinforce the dam. Li Long shook the casting net, tied the rope around his wrist, grabbed the lower line, and then spread the upper line about one meter from the bottom of the net. He held the net with both hands, looked at the position and estimated it silently, then used his waist to exert force and cast the net out in a wave-like shape with his hands. When casting the net, the nets in your hand should be released one by one. You cannot let go of all the nets at once, otherwise they will be spread out in a line. Li Long felt good, but he still felt a little regretful when he saw the net spreading out in the air and finally falling into the water in the shape of the moon on the tenth day of the first lunar month. But it’s not bad, at least it’s a good start. "Brother Long, you cast a great net. The best I cast yesterday was only half as good as yours." Tao Daqiang said. Li Long suddenly discovered that Tao Daqiang was actually quite good at flattering people. I turned my head and saw that he looked sincere. Oh, it turned out that he was telling the truth. After the net was completely in the water, Li Long slowly began to pull the rope, and then he felt the net shaking. There are fish. The mesh of the net was relatively small, so no matter how big or small the fish was, they could not escape. When Li Long lifted the net up, he saw all kinds of fish in it. The big ones were silver carp weighing more than one kilogram, the medium-sized ones included two large crucian carps weighing nearly 500 grams, a dozen crucian carps the size of a palm, and a dozen ditch fish, which is the kind of plateau loach. Not a bad harvest! Li Long was very satisfied. Tao Daqiang came over quickly, picked up the fish with a bag, and said with a smile: "This ditch fish is really good. The big ones are as long as chopsticks. It takes two or three years for them to grow, right?" "It won't take two or three years to grow. It'll take at least five years." Li Long said as he arranged the net. "There will be fewer and fewer fish like this in the ditch." "Why are they getting fewer and fewer? Shouldn't they be getting more and more?" Tao Daqiang picked up all the fish, poured some water into the bag, and asked in confusion. "If there are floods from time to time, the lake might collapse one day, and the fish won't be able to grow so big in the future." "That's unlikely, isn't it? This lake is flooded every year, and I've never seen a flood collapse the dam." Even Tao Daqiang doesn't believe it, so it seems that other people don't believe it either. But the fact is that the big flood happened two years later, which not only broke the dam of Xiaohaizi, but also directly flooded the nearby farmland, and finally rushed into the residential area. If most of the houses in the residential area had not been padded with a lot of soil when laying the foundation, raising the homestead, I am afraid that many houses would have been flooded.

During that period, Li Juan and Li Qiang were carried out of the village by Li Jianguo to go to school. Looking up through the reeds, I saw to the west of the small lake that the village laborers were digging earth between the dry ditch and the main canal. Perhaps they could really avoid the disaster caused by the great flood. After adjusting the net, Li Long changed the direction and cast another net. Perhaps because he had cast the last net better, Li Long was somewhat conceited. This time the net only formed a semicircle, and he felt somewhat embarrassed after it fell into the water. God really favors novices. Once you claim to be a master, you will suffer a blow. There were still more than a dozen ditch fish in the net, seven or eight crucian carp slices, and only one big fish, a grass carp stick weighing about one kilogram. Fish of this size were not popular in the village because they were round and difficult to taste, so they were not as popular as crucian carp. Next, Li Long adjusted the position of each net. The number of fish cast out varied, but the shape of the nets cast out was the best, which was the first one. Tao Daqiang also tried it, and the result was that the best was half a net, no matter how hard he tried, it couldn't be stretched, and one line was more. But even with one line, there were fish in the net that was finally pulled up. Li Long couldn't help but sigh that now when there are fewer people and more land, resources are really abundant. When the sun was about to set, two people, one carrying a net and the other carrying a tire, were planning to go back. At this time, the workers who were cleaning the canal had also finished their afternoon work and were returning to the village. Li Long met several people of the same age - Tian Siping, Qin Hongyan and others. Xu Haijun, who often took them out to play, went to the army, Wu Shufen taught first grade in the village primary school, Gu Xiaoxia went to a middle school to be a teacher and finally had commercial grain as she wished, Gu Ermao was still an apprentice to a truck driver, while Qin Hongyan and Tian Siping stayed in the village and became real farmers. Everyone has a bright future. Li Long remembers that more than 30 years later, a cooperative emerged in the village, and Tian Siping and his friends received more than 100,000 yuan in dividends each year, which was considered a decent "retirement." At that time, their circle of friends often posted photos of barbecues, travels, and flowers and plants in the yard. At present, only Li Long, who is secretly called a "second-rate guy" who does not work properly by the parents of his peers, does not earn work points, and spends all day fishing and hunting, is the one who lives the most carefree life in the eyes of Tian Siping and others. Even in their eyes, Tao Daqiang was better off than them. Li Long and Tao Daqiang stood on the dam of Xiaohaizi, watching the people working in the village walk past them one by one like a general inspecting his soldiers, and occasionally greeted people they knew. Until Li Jianguo and Gu Boyuan came over side by side, looked at Li Long and Tao Daqiang standing there, and shouted: "What are you doing? Standing there like an idiot? Why don't you go home?" When Li Long and Tao Daqiang heard this, they obediently joined the team and walked towards the team chatting and laughing with everyone. Excuse me, does anyone still have monthly tickets?   (End of this chapter)