The Siheyuan of the Young Educated Youth

Chapter 406 Winter Hunting

The two walked along the foot of the mountain instead of climbing up. With such heavy snow, they thought that the animals would also want to find a place to shelter from the wind and walk easily.

But there was no prey along the way.

The two of them wandered for half a day before they finally got out of the hilltop. In front of them was a vast expanse that stretched as far as the eye could see... It should be a meadow or a lake or something like that, because there were reed tips sticking out from the snow here and there, shivering in the cold wind.

Qi Feifei's eyes lit up and she looked at Huo Sheng.

“We found a great spot!”

There must be a lot of fish here, so there’s no need to search the whole mountain for prey.

Huo Sheng was a little hesitant. The last time he fell into an ice hole, he was severely frozen.

"Just help me shovel the snow, and I'll take care of the fishing!" Qi Feifei expressed his feelings with great passion and righteousness.

The two men, each holding a large wooden stick, walked tentatively towards the middle.

Qi Feifei walked in front so that if there was any danger, he could enter the courtyard in an instant.

As he was walking, his foot slipped and he slid down. He disappeared in an instant. Huo Sheng reached out to grab it, but he couldn't find it.

It seemed that there was a pit ahead, so he didn't dare to move forward. If he didn't dig away the snow, Qi Feifei would be buried in the snow once he left the courtyard.

Huo Sheng used both hands to frantically scrape the snow and push it to the back. He did not try to go down the snow pit until he had scraped all the snow he could reach.

Fortunately, Qi Feifei reached his chest and continued digging the snow until a large round snow pit was dug out. Only then did he come out of the courtyard.

The snow still came up to her waist.

Qi Feifei took out a dustpan and gave one to each person. He walked forward while testing with a wooden stick and rubbing the snow.

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The two people crawled and struggled in the snow and finally reached the middle.

It's flat here, so the snow isn't that thick. I can already feel the smooth ice under my feet.

Qi Feifei, "Let's get started right here."

The two men didn't rest either, and shoveled snow frantically, quickly clearing an area of ​​more than ten square meters.

In order to make the road less slippery, Qi Feifei sprinkled a large circle of wood ash around.

Then they took out a sledgehammer and an ice pier and started working.

Huo Sheng held onto the ice and moved vertically onto it again and again. Qi Feifei watched him move slowly.

"You hold it steady, I'll smash it."

Qi Feifei swung a big hammer and smashed it hard on the ice. Ice chips flew everywhere. Huo Sheng didn't dare to look down and turned his head to the side.

Qi Feifei's strength was so great that Huo Sheng's hands went numb. But the progress was also fast. With the crackling sound of ice cubes breaking, the ice hole below became larger and larger.

When they were about to get out of the water, Qi Feifei and Huo Sheng switched places.

Huo Sheng took the sledgehammer and with just a few hits, the ice layer more than one meter thick was broken through.

Qi Feifei moved the ice pick a few times, and soon the hole below was about thirty to forty centimeters wide.

"Okay, that's enough. Go back and warm up."

Qi Feifei didn't wait for Huo Sheng to speak and threw him and his tools back into the courtyard.

By the time I finished all this, the sun was about to set.

Huo Sheng stood in the courtyard and sighed. She was freezing outside alone, and he was worried that she would fall into the water.

She took off her clothes and went to the kitchen to cook. She made a pot of sauerkraut and pork, cut a plate of braised venison, and steamed a pot of hot rice so that Qi Feifei could eat it as soon as she came back.

Qi Feifei threw Huo Sheng back, took out a wooden barrel and a stirring basket, and squatted at the entrance of the ice cave.

Soon, some small fish came up. Qi Feifei didn't mind the smallness of the fish at all, and didn't care what kind of fish it was. He just kept catching them.

After fishing for a while, there were fewer fish, so Qi Feifei put the stirring basket into the ice hole, reached under the ice, stood firmly with his legs, and stirred it vigorously.

Soon some fish were stirred over, and Qi Feifei scooped up the fish and poured them into the bucket.

Soon the bucket was full, and Qi Feifei returned the fish bucket to the courtyard. He turned around and wanted to go out again.

Huo Sheng grabbed his hand and said, "Eat first. I'll get it after you finish eating."

Qi Feifei looked at him, as if asking, Are you sure?

Huo Sheng: "Okay, I'll go get it, you take a break." A man shouldn't be scared off by a little difficulty.

Qi Feifei was indeed hungry, so the two of them sat down and finished their meal peacefully, then rested for a while.

I went to check the fish barrel. It was dark outside and I was busy catching fish, so I didn't see what kind of fish were inside.

There are many kinds of fish, the most common one is crucian carp. There are small fish about one or two inches in size, and there are also large crucian carp weighing seven or eight taels. They are silvery white all over, look quite clean, and have thick meat.

There are also some small carp, small silver carp, and small bighead carp. These fish are not tasty until they grow up.

There are also a lot of fathead fish (old man fish, also called resurrection fish). This kind of fish does not grow big and can be eaten when it is an inch long. There are big and small ones in the bucket, and the big ones are three or four inches.

There were also some small fish, and the first fish that came up were not very big.

Qi Feifei looked through the bucket and picked out five or six big crucian carps and a dozen big bighead carps and put them in a bucket, and poured the rest into the small river in front of the door.

The two of them got dressed and left the courtyard. Qi Feifei was afraid that Huo Sheng might fall into the water, so she scattered some wood ash beside the cave.

By the time they were eating, a thick layer of ice had formed at the entrance of the cave, so Qi Feifei had no choice but to take out the ice piercer and smash it again, scooping out the ice chips and dumping them aside.

Qi Feifei also found a lantern, lit a candle in it, and asked Huo Sheng to hold it and shine it at the entrance of the cave to attract the fish.

Qi Feifei took a stirring basket and stirred the water vigorously. Fish kept coming up. At first, there were mostly crucian carp and old man fish. Later, there were slightly larger carp, silver carp and bighead carp. Qi Feifei became addicted to catching them and was reluctant to exchange them with Huo Sheng.

As he was fishing, he saw a particularly bright white figure flashing by. Qi Feifei had excellent eyesight and knew there was a new species. He stirred the water more vigorously and took a closer look at the fish he had scooped up. It was a fish weighing more than a pound, also known as a big white fish. It was white in color, with a slightly upturned mouth and a slender body.

Huo Sheng also smiled when he saw it, "This fish is delicious, the meat is tender and fresh." He had eaten it before when he was in the army and was on duty outside.

Qi Feifei was reluctant to eat it, so he threw it directly into the small river in front of the courtyard to leave seeds.

Qi Feifei stirred the water harder and harder, and the fish that came up became bigger and bigger. There were crucian carp weighing more than one kilogram, carp weighing two or three kilograms, silver carp, bighead carp, and island carp weighing about two kilograms.

The fish was getting bigger and bigger, and Qi Feifei's stirring basket was no longer enough. If it got any bigger, she wouldn't be able to catch it. Looking at the big fish below, she felt very anxious.

Seeing that she stopped and stood still, Huo Sheng asked her, "Are you tired? Take a rest. I'll do the scoop." As he said that, he took the mixing basket in her hand.

Qi Feifei now regretted not preparing some fishing nets! She didn't know how to swim in the river.

"Go back first."

Huo Sheng didn't understand why she did that. He saw fish swimming below, so why didn't she catch them?

Qi Feifei didn't give him a chance to ask questions and directly pulled him back to the courtyard.

"You should take a shower and go to bed first."

Huo Sheng, "I'm not tired, I can do it myself..."

Qi Feifei said hurriedly, "You take a rest first, and you can fish again tomorrow. We can take turns. I don't think we can catch all the fish in a short time."

Huo Sheng obediently went to wash and sleep, "Then be careful and sleep when you are tired."

Qi Feifei went to the tool room to look for it, and she actually found the fish hooks. In a small wooden box, there were six fish hooks of different sizes, and a roll of fishing line. Qi Feifei fiddled with it for a while, tied the fishing line to the two largest fish hooks, and put the other fish hooks away.

He went to find a round wooden stick and tied it to the other end of the fishing line. He wrapped the fishing line around the round wooden stick and put a small fish on the hook. Qi Feifei was afraid that the two lines would get tangled together, so he only put one fishing line under the ice hole.

It was really fast, the fish took the bait as soon as it went down, Qi Feifei saw the fishing line being pulled out with a whoosh, and the round wooden stick was rolling in the hole with a clang. Fortunately, the line was long enough and it was not completely pulled out.

Qi Feifei pulled the fishing line, felt the pulling force, and then slowly reeled it in. The line was sometimes straight and sometimes loose. When Qi Feifei pulled hard, he loosened it, and when the line became loose, he quickly reeled it in. When the big fish was pulled to the entrance of the cave, Qi Feifei saw clearly that it was a big fish weighing more than ten pounds. Qi Feifei ignored the cold and reached into the water, grabbed the fish's gills and entered the courtyard.

Fortunately, this fish is long and thin, otherwise it would not be able to get through the ice cave. Qi Feifei likes it very much.

"Don't move, don't move, I'll help you remove the hook and then I'll let you go."

Qi Feifei was talking to it while taking off the fishing hook, smiling from ear to ear.

The lynx family, the leopard, the big tiger, and even the fire fox family came to watch the fun, surrounding the place in three layers. Even on the other side of the river there was a row of lambs and roe deer standing.

Qi Feifei looked at them staring at him and gave them instructions worriedly.

"You are not allowed to eat this, this is for seed."

Bai Zhi, an old man with a white beard, suddenly appeared beside her, smiling.

"You are such a loser, look at how silly you are!"

Qi Feifei squinted at him and said, "You said you were my master, why don't I believe you?"

How can there be such a rude master?

The old man with white beard, Bai Zhi, was not annoyed and continued to smile.

"You've been so stupid all day and you don't let anyone say anything! You're so happy with a fish that weighs only ten kilograms. Don't you think you have no future?"

Qi Feifei glared at him and said, "You don't understand the joy of catching fish at all!"

What do you, a fox, know? I'm too lazy to tell you.

He gently put the big island in his hand into the water. The big fish swung its tail, straightened its body, and disappeared.

The white-bearded old man Bai Zhi smiled and looked at the direction where the big fish swam.

"Don't you still want to go to Hong Kong? There's an ocean over there, and there are big fish for you to catch!"

Don't laugh too much then!

Bai Zhi imagined that she would dance and scream with joy if she caught a big fish. She couldn't help but laugh even more brightly, and even her snow-white eyebrows trembled.

Qi Feifei, "How do you know there is a sea in Hong Kong? Have you been there?"

The white-bearded old man Bai Zhi turned around and walked upstream, leaving behind a sentence,

"I know a lot more!"

Qi Feifei didn't ask any more questions and turned to leave the courtyard. She was still busy fishing!

Most of the fish caught at night are from the islands. Qi Feifei uses a big hook, so most of the fish caught are big fish, and the smallest one weighs three or four pounds.

I caught a big fish weighing three or four hundred kilograms in one night.

Qi Feifei picked out a dozen fish weighing three or four pounds and threw them in the snow to freeze, and put the rest into the creek in the courtyard.

Huo Sheng got up early in the morning to cook. He made braised old man fish with sauce, in which he put green peppers, steamed eggplant, washed green onions and cucumbers, and stewed rice.

Qi Feifei stopped fishing when she smelled the fragrance. She had been busy all night and was tired and hungry, but she was still energetic and excited.

"Huo Sheng, guess how big a fish I caught? Ha~ha~ha~"

Huo Sheng blinked and pretended to think, "Hmm~ six pounds?"

Qi Feifei danced with joy, "No, no, guess again."

Huo Sheng, "Hmm, that's ten kilograms? If it's more than ten kilograms, how big a fish can there be in this bubble?"

Qi Feifei laughed like a child, "Hahaha, you can't guess, right? One of them is estimated to be about 14 or 15 pounds."