CH 35.2

The slippery loach was twisting in his hand, Lu Gu almost missed it, and quickly threw it into the bamboo basket. In a short time, the two of them had caught eight loaches, and they were all fat and big. 

"I'll make some soup tomorrow. It's easy to feed. It's not like fish. It turns over after being put in a bucket for a long time. It could survive for a while with mud and water. I used to raise it in a wooden bucket." Shen Xuanqing searched again. Talking to Lu Gu, stewing loach was indeed delicious and nourishing, so he had to make it for his fulang.

While talking, the fish in the river gradually became drunk, no longer hiding at the bottom of the water, and swam to the surface to wag their tails, as if drunk, so this method of catching fish was called drunk fish, and some even turned white, it looked like a dead fish.

Maybe there was no one to catch here, so there were quite a lot of fish. Lu Gu's eyes widened when he looked at the surface of the water. Surprise made his eyes brightened.

This year's weather was so good and beautiful, even the aquatic plants were luxuriant, and the autumn fish ate and became fatter. This net was heavy to drag up, and even Shen Xuanqing had to put in a lot of effort.

In the fishing net on the shore, the undrunk fish writhed and slapped their tails on the ground, but the drunk one didn’t respond, because the water area where the drug was poured was long, and catching fishes with the net was not finished yet, Shen Xuanqing asked Lu Gu to go back to take wooden barrels, bamboo baskets and deep bamboo baskets, he jumped into the river and caught fish and threw them on the bank.

Today's harvest was beyond Shen Xuanqing's expectation. Hundreds of fish were thrown on the shore. Besides grass carp, there were also many more the expensive crucian carp and river eel, especially river eel, which was fattened in autumn, it could be stewed together with tofu, many people in the town liked to make this.

He had never catched fishes this way in the mountains before. The journey was long, and the fishes were easy to die. On the way back, they had to be kept in water, which would only sink more. Besides, the Qingxi River flowed all the way down the mountain, and fish could be caught anywhere. He didn't expect to work hard to get a cart of fishes back to sell.

Just now too many fishes appeared in front of him, he was still young after all, he got excited and jumped into the river and threw the fish on the bank.

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Note: In reality, it’s illegal to use hickory tree leaves to drug the fish, so don't do it.