Chapter 379

Actually, whether it's humans, the mountain animals in the mountains, or the fish in the water, they are all the same.

To express it in the world of fish, it's big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, and when there's nothing left for the shrimp to eat, they can only eat mud.

Anyway, it's mainly about the survival of the fittest.

Harvesting two big fish, Wang An was completely satisfied today.

And at this time, in the ice hole, a group of small fish had gathered again, and the swimming speed of this group of fish was very fast; the whole school of fish looked like they had eaten stimulants.

Wang An knew that this was mainly because the blood of the two big fish had attracted the school of fish.

Actually, the appearance of the Amur catfish in the ice hole was entirely because it was attracted by the blood of the kaluga.

Because this kind of fish, the Amur catfish, has a relatively slow swimming speed, but is very sensitive to the smell of blood; saying it is a killer among freshwater fish is actually not an exaggeration at all.

Wang An looked at the small fish in the ice hole and found that there were green fish inside, so he picked up the large strainer and inserted it into the water again.

After a few scoops, the fish in the ice hole were cleared again; although the harvest was still not much, with less than 20 fish in total including big and small, this time there were 3 mandarin fish, and 5 yellow catfish weighing about two jin.

Yellow catfish,

Scientific name Pelteobagrus fulvidraco, also called yellow wax fish, yellow ding fish, yellow jar fish; locals sometimes call it "ga fish" for short.

This thing is one of the few fish that can call; the sound of calling is "ga ya," "ga ya," so it's called yellow catfish.

Actually, in Heilongjiang province, besides this yellow-green yellow catfish, there is also a white-colored white catfish.

However, these two kinds of catfish are actually the same thing; the white catfish is a variant of the yellow catfish, or it's just a different color.

But what must be said is that this thing is damn delicious, and the meat is very tender and tasty.

But in Wang An's heart, if you rank the deliciousness of local fish meat now, kaluga is definitely ranked first.

The second is the mandarin fish, and as for the third, Wang An feels that the yellow catfish can be compared with the chum salmon.

As for other fish, besides those ordinary fish, they are all about the same, but there are really too many types of fish in the Northeast.

So what must be said is that although Wang An is a local, he hasn't eaten many kinds of fish at all.

Just talking about the three flowers, five roes, and eighteen sons, these 26 kinds of precious fish, Wang An hasn't eaten them all yet, not to mention there are seventy-two miscellaneous fish.

After scooping this wave of fish, Wang An planned to finish work and go home; the main reason was that it took too long and took too much effort to deal with the big kaluga, and at this time, Wang An's two arms were trembling.

Besides, Wang An felt that the possibility of this ice hole yielding big fish again was not great, so Wang An said to Wang Li and Niu Dazhuang:

"Hurry up and pack up, load the fish, and let's go home."

Unexpectedly, Wang Li was addicted to scooping fish and said with a bit of unfinished business:

"Fourth Brother, this ice hole is still yielding fish; shouldn't we scoop for a while longer?"

Actually, Wang An also felt that scooping fish was quite addictive; although chiseling the ice hole was truly quite exhausting, this pleasure of harvesting big fish was not at all inferior to the feeling of hunting prey in the mountains.

So hearing Wang Li say this, Wang An said to Wang Li with a smile:

"This place is so close to home; if we want to scoop fish, we can come whenever we have time; anyway, I'm thinking we won't go into the mountains for the next few days."

When Wang Li heard that they weren't going into the mountains, he asked suspiciously:

"Fourth Brother, that grain cellar, aren't we going to dig it out?"

Wang An asked with a smile: "Grain cellar? A grain cellar from decades ago, what's there to dig out? Even if you dig out grain, that grain is for feeding livestock; aren't you afraid of poisoning the livestock?"

Wang Li nodded and asked again: "Then why aren't we going into the mountains, Fourth Brother? Are we not hunting?"

Wang An sighed and said: "Old uncle-in-law said that a big tiger has come into the mountains; a few days ago, over at Yushu Settlement, people and big livestock were harmed by the big tiger; I'm thinking before the document to kill the big tiger comes down from above, we should avoid the limelight first."

Regarding the various stories of tigers eating people, children in the settlement basically hear them from childhood, so when they heard that there was a tiger in the mountains, Wang Li's face changed.

However, Wang Li's expression only became grave; as for fear, it didn't exist at all.

Since ancient times, it has been "the skilled are bold," and 17-year-old Wang Li is now not only awesome in marksmanship but has also killed more than one person, which can be said to have practiced his entire courage to a realm of fearlessness.

Of course, you can't say completely fearless; at least his parents and Wang An, Wang Li is afraid of.

The key is that Wang Li is only 17 years old now, just at the age of "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers," and also the age when a person is most impulsive and hot-blooded.

So, although Wang Li's face was grave, the gravity also contained a feeling of eagerness to try.

Because for every mountain-goer, hunting a tiger is his highest pursuit and dream.

After Wang An finished speaking, Wang Li was probably thinking about the tiger in his head, so he just gave a simple "oh" and didn't ask any further.

Then the three of them started working together; regardless of big fish or small fish, they were all packed up by the three of them.

Although small fish are useless, Wang An discovered that his mother using this thing to feed the wild boars at home was truly quite good, and the key is that it can save quite a lot of grain.

After loading the fish packed in sacks onto the sled, the three of them drove the sled toward the settlement.

On the way, Wang An looked at his watch and found that it was still early, not even ten-thirty, so he said to the two:

"You two go to my house first; let's clean up the fish and then divide it."

Wang Li agreed: "Yeah, Fourth Brother."

And Niu Dazhuang cheered excitedly: "Hahaha, divide the fish, divide the fish, hahaha..."

Wang An and Wang Li looked at Niu Dazhuang, who was shouting and gesturing on the sled, looked at each other subconsciously, and then turned their heads and couldn't help but shake their heads and laugh.

In Niu Dazhuang's world, happiness is just that simple.

A few minutes later, the three of them returned to Wang An's home.

Wang Dazhu, who was working in the courtyard, saw Wang An and the other two enter the courtyard and hurriedly greeted them.

When Wang Dazhu saw the two big fish on the sled, he couldn't help but gasp, and then said in surprise:

"These big fish were all scooped out by you guys?"

Before Wang An could speak, Wang Li said with a smile:

"Yeah, Uncle, look at these two fish; how are they? Are they awesome?"

Wang Dazhu looked at the big fish and said subconsciously: "Awesome, truly awesome."

As the few were talking, they dragged the big kaluga and the Amur catfish off the sled.

Just when the few were gutting and butchering the fish, Liu Guilan came back from outside in a panic.

I saw Liu Guilan say as soon as she entered the courtyard:

"It's not good, there's a big tiger in the mountains near the settlement."

(End of chapter)