Chapter 399

However, to prevent the taimen's intestines from being washed away by the water, one end of the intestines was left on the surface of the ice.

It was clear that Wang An wanted to use the fish intestines to lure fish, so everyone watched and waited with great interest.

Actually, Wang An using fish intestines to lure fish on the inner side of the river bend had scientific reasoning behind it.

As the saying goes, "The plan for the year is made in spring," because in spring the frozen river begins to thaw and all things begin to recover, so spring symbolizes hope.

But for the vast number of peasant comrades, spring is the most difficult and most damn frustrating season of the year.

Although there is the saying, "Plant one grain in spring, harvest ten thousand seeds in autumn," one must know that in folk terms, spring is also called the season of "the green not meeting the yellow."

In this season, every household's stored grain has already been sixty or seventy percent depleted, and in the mountains, things that can satisfy hunger, like mushrooms and wild vegetables, have not yet grown out.

So, going hungry is an extremely common occurrence.

When a person is starving, they will feel weak and listless, and they won't have the slightest interest in doing anything at all.

And just as people are like this, the animals in the mountains and the fish in the water are the same.

Without the growth of plants, there is no large-scale reproduction of herbivores, and if herbivores don't reproduce, what the hell are carnivores supposed to eat?

The fish in the water are even worse off; having been stifled under the ice for more than half a year, not only is there a lack of oxygen, but food is also severely scarce.

Because there are many fish that, although they risk being eaten by other big fish, have very poor strength themselves.

The food in the water simply cannot satisfy them, so as long as there is something edible, they will definitely not let it go, including many relatively fierce fish; they are starving to death and will eat anything they see.

Sure enough, after waiting for about ten minutes, one could clearly feel fish tearing at the intestines in the ice hole.

Consequently, while Wang An pulled the intestines upward to lure the fish up, he hurriedly said to Wang Shuai:

"Brother Wang, get ready, fish are coming right up."

"Got it, little brother." Wang Shuai replied, then half-squatted there, gripping the large landing net with both hands, watching the ice hole nervously.

Anyone who has fished knows that fish are very easily startled, and in the eyes of anglers, when a school of fish is startled, it's called "blowing the nest."

However, fish have another "advantage," which is that they have a poor memory, or one could say they are "heartless."

Many times, even after they have clearly unhooked themselves, it won't be long before this same fish bites the hook again.

One doesn't know if it's because they can't resist the temptation of the bait, or if they are very confident in their own strength.

Anyway, no matter what kind of fish it is, even if it can unhook itself over and over again, it will still go to bite the hook over and over again, and then it will walk closer and closer on the road to self-destruction.

After waiting for less than half a minute, the fish tearing at the intestines was finally lured into the ice hole.

Following Wang An's urgent shout of "Scoop!", Wang Shuai quickly thrust the landing net in his hands into the water.

Immediately after, one taimen weighing four or five jin and another weighing seven or eight jin were thrown onto the ice by Wang Shuai.

"Hahaha!"

Perhaps because it was his first time scooping fish, Wang Shuai instantly let out an excited and enthusiastic laugh.

After Wang Shuai finished laughing, he immediately said to Wang An:

"Haha, that's really thrilling. Come on, Xiao An, let's continue."

Wang An heard this, smiled, and threw the fish intestines back into the ice hole.

It must be said that the thrill of luring fish out and then immediately scooping them up is much more satisfying than just guarding the ice hole.

After another ten minutes or so, a large air bubble appeared on the surface of the water in the ice hole, and Wang An felt that this fish didn't seem small either.

Consequently, Wang An said: "Quick, get the ice chisel."

No sooner had Wang An finished speaking than the intestines in his hand were snapped; it was clear that although the fish hadn't shown its head, there was a fish eating the intestines.

At this moment, Wang Shuai and Wang Li both picked up their ice chisels.

Seeing this, Wang An lowered the remaining piece of intestines back into the water.

However, this fish might have known there was danger above the water, so even after biting the intestines and snapping them several times, it never showed its head.

But there was only a small piece of intestines left in Wang An's hand.

Wang An thought for a moment, untied the rope from his waist, cut a small piece of taimen liver, tied it to the rope, and then put the liver into the water.

Fearing the big fish wouldn't show its head, Wang An only lowered the liver about 10 centimeters into the water, and kept shaking the rope to lure the big fish.

The bloody smell of the fish liver was much stronger than that of the intestines, and perhaps this big fish was truly very hungry; it was seen that the big fish finally couldn't resist the temptation and swam up.

Wang Shuai and Wang Li, who had been waiting for a long time, didn't need Wang An's signal and shot their ice chisels out at almost the same time.

It must be said that Wang Shuai was worthy of having practiced; his aim with the ice chisel was not bad at all.

After being pinned, the big fish thrashed quite violently, even more violently than the previous large taimen.

So, the two of them soon became red in the face from holding their breath and exerting too much force.

Although Wang Shuai was red in the face from the strain, he was still full of excitement, gritting his teeth and saying:

"Damn it, this fish is fucking heavy, come and help!"

Seeing this, Wang An hurriedly picked up the rod from the side and stabbed it toward the position under the fish's head.

Immediately after, Zhang Shuya also threw down the large strainer in her hand and swung the pointed pick from the side.

With one strike of the pick, there was a 'crack' sound, and a certain part of the fish's head was pierced through by the pick.

At this time, Wang An shouted: "Come on, I'll count to two, let's pull together."

Immediately after, Wang An continued to shout: "One, two, pull!"

Finally, with the combined effort of the four, they managed to pull this big fish out of the water by force.

It must be said that this fish was truly fucking huge; counting Wang An's past life, this was the largest freshwater fish Wang An had ever seen.

Of course, this was another large kaluga sturgeon.

Among all the fish species in the entire Northeast, the one with the largest body size is probably the kaluga sturgeon.

Seeing this large kaluga sturgeon, everyone was stunned for a moment, followed by the sound of gasping and exclamations:

"Oh my god! This fish is really big!"

"Yeah, I've lived this long and it's my first time seeing such a big fish."

"Fourth Brother, this fish is even bigger than the one we got earlier, right?"

"Yeah, at least forty or fifty jin heavier. This ice hole was made too small; it was a close call getting it out."

Finally, Wang Shuai looked at Zhang Shuya and said smugly: "I was wondering why it was so difficult even with my strength; this is just too big."

Zhang Shuya curled her lips and said: "And you call yourself a man? You're nothing."

Hearing this, Wang Shuai, who had been full of excitement waiting for praise, was left speechless.

"Hahaha!" Everyone saw Wang Shuai's constipated expression and burst into loud laughter.

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