Chapter 184： fish king

“Okay, you can try it if you want!” Anyway, no matter what the result is, he will protect his little sister.

Xu Jinning took the bucket handed over by Xu Xiangdong and without much hesitation, he fished it into the river.

Can you catch fish this time?

Xu Jinning's heart was beating rapidly.

As soon as the thought came to his mind, Xu Jinning clearly felt movement under his feet.

That movement was louder than the previous two times.

Even through her rain boots, Xu Jinning could feel it.

Not only Xu Jinning, but also Xu Xiangdong and Xu Xiangbei next to her felt it.

Xu Jinning didn’t know how to describe that feeling.

It was as if when she moved her bucket, her bucket seemed to be attractive, and the fish swam towards her bucket from all directions.

When this idea appeared in his mind, Xu Jinning was stunned.

No, it’s impossible!

That can’t really be the case.

“I don’t believe you can get a full bucket this time…”

Aunt Hua on the side was a little impatient, and she didn't know if she was afraid that Xu Jinning would catch fish again.

So, not long after Xu Jinning's bucket went down, she came up with a quick stride, bent down, and while talking, she lifted Xu Jinning's bucket up.

Don't mention it, Aunt Hua earns work points in public. She still earns 8 work points every day. Her strength is still not small.

No, she picked up the bucket with all her strength.

When she picked it up, Aunt Hua felt the weight, but she felt that it was just a bucket of water.

"…fish."

As soon as she finished speaking the last word, the bucket came out of the water.

Not only Xu Jinning, but also Xu Xiangdong and the others, everyone around them looked over.

That is, when they saw what was in the bucket, everyone was stunned.

Under the sun, the fish in the bucket are so crowded that they are about to squeeze out of the bucket one by one.

But the strange thing is that they are very good, and they can jump out of the bucket with a slight jump, but they just don't jump, not a single one of them jumps.

“Is it really a bucket of fish?”

In fact, Xu Xiangdong and Xu Xiangbei were also very confused. Are all the fish inside?

It looks similar, but it’s probably unlikely.

So, Xu Xiangbei came over with a bucket, and Xu Xiangdong caught the fish one by one and threw them into another bucket.

One item.

Two items.

Three items.

…

“…fifteen items!”

As people read aloud together, the fish in the bucket were also counted. It was full, that is, 15 fish!

The last one among them is very big, three times the size of other fish, and it is still a black fish!

That’s right, it’s a snakehead fish weighing about six pounds.

If the six-pound black fish hadn't taken up a large area of ​​the bucket, the bucket might have been able to hold more than the 15 fish.

Of course, the other fish are not small either, at least more than one catty, or more than two catties.

“This fish must be our fish king.”

“Captain, the Fish King has appeared, the Fish King has appeared.”

…”

Everyone called for the captain.

Fish King? !

 Xu Jinning had not yet realized that he had caught so many and such big fish from his bucket, when he heard the people around him talking about the fish king and calling for the captain.

Xu Jinning was a little panicked.     This, what's going on.

“Ning Ning, it’s okay, don’t be afraid.”

Xu Xiangdong quickly explained to Xu Jinning what the King of Fish is.

It turns out that in previous years’ fishing activities, although everyone caught large and small fish within three days, the team leader would select the largest fish among them and call it the king of fish.

The captain will exchange this fish king with certain supplies.

Then at noon the day after the fish market ends, fish soup is boiled and distributed to every household.

In the past, when the Qinghe production team’s fishing activity first started every spring, there was a saying.

That is the family that can catch the King Fish, and it is a blessed family.

This big fish is called the King of Fishes and is also called the lucky fish.

What the captain did was to bless everyone. Everyone who drinks the fish soup will be healthy, safe, and everything will go well this year.

The family that catches the King Fish also means that they will have meat to eat, clothing to wear, health, safety, and blessings this year!

Of course, this is a saying that has been passed down from the past.

Belongs to some feudal superstitions.

It is definitely not allowed to be stated openly now.

Some people even say that as long as anyone who is sick takes a sip of this blessed fish soup at this time, the illness will be cured immediately.

This statement is not only circulated in the Qinghe production team, but also in other nearby production teams.

So, there used to be people who secretly brought all kinds of things in order to exchange for some fish soup with the captain, even just a mouthful.

I don’t know if anyone has successfully changed it.

But this statement is known to both the older and younger generations.

Although it cannot be explained clearly, the method of selecting the king of fish, making fish soup, and dividing the fish soup has been passed down and is done every year.

There was one last year too, but the king fish selected last year only weighed more than four kilograms.

So, now that everyone saw the snakehead fish that Xu Xiangdong took out from Xu Jinning’s bucket, which weighed about six kilograms, they decided after just one bite that this fish must be the king of fish this year.

Xu Jinning only understood what was going on when he heard his elder brother's explanation, and his heart calmed down.

At this time, the captain also came over.

When I saw this black fish, my eyes lit up.

He even reached out to grab it.

The bucket that was originally in Xu Jinning and the black fish that was very good in Xu Xiangdong's arms began to struggle as soon as they came into the hands of the captain. They were very clever. If the captain hadn't been experienced, the slippery black fish might have jumped. gone.

Everyone looked at it in amazement.

This is treated differently.

This is so obvious.

“Okay, this fish is good!” The captain didn’t care much. On the contrary, the more clever and active the fish was, the more he liked it.

“If there is no bigger fish next, then this one will be the king of fish this year.”

The captain also didn’t expect that someone would catch the Fish King so soon not long after he gave the order.

That's right, although the captain said that, he was actually determined in his heart that there should be no bigger black fish than this one.

“Xiangdong, you caught this black fish, it’s amazing.” Because he just took it from Xu Xiangdong’s arms, the captain should think that it was Xu Xiangdong who caught it.

“Captain, you are wrong, that was captured by Ning Yatou, the sister of Mr. Xiangdong.”

Before Xu Xiangdong came back, people around him were all talking to help answer.

“What’s caught? It’s fished out, it’s fished out with a bucket.”

“Captain, you didn’t see it just now. This little patriotic girl is so amazing and powerful. When you fish out the basket, it’s a basket full of fish. When you fish out the bucket, it’s also a bucket full of fish!”

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