Chapter 635: Easy to Learn, Easy to Forget

After Wang An finished speaking, he took the lead and walked toward the bank, and Wang Dazhu agreed and followed Wang An's footsteps.

It could be seen that whether it was contracting land or buying agricultural machinery like four-wheeled vehicles, for Wang Dazhu, a genuine farmer, they were all serious happy events.

So after the grandfather and grandson finished talking about these things, Wang Dazhu's face was full of smiles.

After arriving at the bank, the grandfather and grandson discovered that at this time, the water surface above the place where the bait was thrown had completely boiled.

Various kinds of fish were jumping out of the water one after another and then smashing heavily into the water, causing water splashes to splash out one after another around the bait.

With this situation, it was obvious that quite a few big fish had entered the bait.

Wang Dazhu looked at the situation in the bait and was stunned, subconsciously saying: "Xiao An, you said you are a bit of a bastard, but your head is truly good. There are quite a lot of fish in this bait."

Wang An, who was fiddling with the fishing net and preparing to cast a net immediately, said with a smile: "That's a must. Didn't people say, if you want fish to come ashore, you have to exchange it with grain. Without grain, how can there be fish?"

Wang An was just saying it casually, but Wang Dazhu was stunned for a moment, then frowned and pondered and asked:

"'If you want fish to come ashore, you have to exchange it with grain'... and exchanging grain for fish, that's damn too stupid? And 'people say,' I haven't heard of it? In my opinion, this sentence was said by you, a bastard."

After Wang Dazhu finished speaking, Wang An was also a bit confused. He pondered for a long time before remembering that this sentence was said by a fellow prisoner who loved fishing when he was in the fence in his past life.

It was just a sentence, and it wasn't a big problem. Thus, Wang An took the opportunity to say with a smile: "Whether I'm a bastard or not, let's not talk about it first. I was just thinking of asking you, is my doggerel awesome?"

Wang Dazhu looked at Wang An's posture of fiddling with the fishing net and said disdainfully: "I don't know if the doggerel is awesome or not, I just know that your method of casting the net is not awesome at all. I think if you cast this net out, you will definitely be dragged into the river by the fish net."

This was damn embarrassing! The main thing was that in the past, Wang An truly had no interest in fish, neither willing to eat nor willing to catch, and had never learned to cast a net.

It was just that when Wang Dazhu and the others were casting nets to catch fish, and Wang An and other children were following to pick up fish, he had seen it several times.

So before this, Wang An also thought he knew how to cast a net!

Unfortunately, casting a net was seemingly simple, and the movements and postures of others casting nets were clearly in his mind.

But at this time, when it was his turn to do it himself, Wang An immediately felt that no matter how he threw it, it felt very wrong.

Wang An only then knew that he truly didn't know how to cast a net.

One has to admit that many things were like this, which was "easy to learn, easy to forget."

Hearing his old man's words, and seeing his old man standing there watching his fun, Wang An subconsciously said anxiously:

"You, as a father, are you happy that your son is losing face? Don't stand there watching, come over and give me a demonstration."

Still, Wang An's words, although sounding quite raw and having a tone of reprimand, were something Wang Dazhu was genuinely quite willing to listen to, as if being able to be asked by his son made him very honored.

Wang Dazhu took the fishing net with a smile and scolded Wang An: "Aren't you quite capable? You can even make awesome doggerel, then why can't you cast a net?"

Wang An was always immune to words attacking himself, so after Wang Dazhu finished speaking, Wang An had no reaction at all and didn't pick up the conversation, but urged Wang Dazhu:

"Dad, cast the net quickly, the big fish will run away in a while."

Wang Dazhu folded the fishing net and said with a smile: "You brat, you've been like this since you were little. As soon as I talk about you, you pretend to be deaf."

Wang An laughed upon hearing this, but still didn't pick up the conversation.

Wang Dazhu looked at his son's appearance of not being able to be moved by anything, smiled helplessly, and then looked at the water surface.

Then Wang Dazhu estimated the distance, stepped back a few steps, suddenly accelerated and ran four or five steps forward, and suddenly came to a sudden stop.

Just as Wang Dazhu stopped, the fishing net in his hand was thrown out along the momentum.

And the thrown fishing net rotated rapidly in the air, and at the same time, the area of the entire fishing net gradually became larger and larger.

At a height of about thirty or forty centimeters from the water surface, the entire fishing net was completely unfolded.

One has to admit that this fishing net was truly very large, and the diameter after unfolding was seven or eight meters.

Immediately after, the completely spread fishing net took the bait as the center and completely covered the area near the bait.

Watching the fishing net gradually sink, the grandfather and grandson, Wang Dazhu and Wang An, started waiting quietly, because the net couldn't be retrieved until it fell to the bottom of the water.

From the moment Wang Dazhu took the net, Wang An had been carefully observing every detail of Wang Dazhu's casting movements.

One has to admit that his old man's net was truly perfect; not only was the posture very standard, but it was also very accurate.

Most importantly, the effect of the entire fishing net was not wasted at all, basically netting all the fish in the bait.

After Wang An saw this scene, he suddenly felt that he could do it again.

After a while, feeling that it was about time, Wang Dazhu started tightening the rope in his hand. After pulling a few times, Wang Dazhu greeted Wang An:

"Xiao An, go and unhitch one of the horse harnesses. This net of fish is truly quite a lot, and the two of us will be struggling to pull it out."

Wang An agreed upon hearing this and turned to run toward the horse cart.

Unhitching the reins of one of the horses, and then taking the thousand-catty hook on the harness off the lower beam of the horse cart, Wang An held the reins in his left hand and the shaft in his right hand, and walked toward the riverbank.

A horse harness, actually, was a rope connected to the left and right splints, and the other end of these two ropes was tied to a tree trunk as thick as an arm and about half a meter long.

And this half-meter-long tree trunk was called the "shaft," and the iron hook used to connect the "shaft" and the lower beam of the horse cart was called the "thousand-catty hook."

This hook was different from a normal hook; it was shaped like a long mouth and a long belly, a bit like an opened paperclip.

After Wang An led the horse to the position, Wang Dazhu had already tied the knot on the rope of the fishing net, and after the thousand-catty hook was hooked onto this knot, Wang An shouted "giddy-up" to this horse several times.

The horse exerted force, and the people couldn't idle either. Wang Dazhu and Wang An, one on the left and one on the right, carried the shaft and together pulled the fishing net out of the river.

After pulling away from the bank, the panting two people and one horse stopped.

Looking at this behemoth pulled out of the water, the grandfather and grandson both revealed satisfied smiles.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 636 =====