Li Yu had been thinking about finding a branch to hook it up with.
But the little girl couldn’t wait, and she directly grabbed its gill cover and pulled it out.
“Hee hee hee, this guy is so big!”
“Go go go.”
Li Yu quickly reached out and patted her.
He said sternly,
“It’s so cold, you dare to grab it with your hands. If you freeze your fingers, you won’t regret it. Hurry up and wipe them with snow and go to the fire to dry them.”
This thing really couldn’t be taken lightly.
The little girl had no experience and her perception of temperature was poor.
He couldn’t let her have her way.
This was the first time Li Yu had been harsh on her.
The smile on the little girl’s face instantly disappeared.
It seemed that she also realized she had done something wrong, and she quickly threw the fish in her hand.
She said weakly,
“Brother-in-law, I didn’t know, don’t be angry.”
Xiuxiu was also worried about her younger sister, so she quickly grabbed some snow and rubbed her hands, then pulled her to the fire.
“I’m not angry, it’s just that you’re too reckless. If you do this again, I’ll spank you.”
Being held down by her elder sister by the fire and having her hands rubbed.
The little girl’s face flushed, and her worried heart finally settled.
She smiled,
“As long as brother-in-law isn’t angry, you can hit me however you want.”
Li Yu was almost amused by this girl.
He said speechlessly,
“You think I’m a domestic abuser who likes to beat people up!”
“Hee hee...”
She was about to say something when she saw another head emerge from the ice hole behind Li Yu.
So she quickly shouted,
“Brother-in-law, hurry hurry hurry, another fish has come out!”
Li Yu looked back, and sure enough.
This head was bigger than the one the little girl had caught earlier.
He raised the wooden stick in his hand and aimed it at its forehead, Duang! It hit.
The fish didn’t even have a chance to struggle before it flipped over and floated.
“Xiuxiu, quickly find a tree hook.”
Today’s preparation was a bit lacking, and all the key items were missing.
If they had brought a chain hook used to kill pigs at home, wouldn’t it have been easy to hook it up?
Hearing the noise.
Xiuxiu also quickly ran to the shore and chopped off a branch to use as a hook.
“Sister sister, let me do it, let me do it.....”
Just as she was about to pull up the big guy.
The little girl rushed over excitedly again.
Xiuxiu was really speechless.
“Here, if you let this guy run away, not only your brother-in-law, but I’ll also spank your butt.”
“Sister, just watch, I won’t.”
Xiao Min took the tree hook her sister handed her.
She hooked it towards its closed mouth and pulled it out of the ice hole.
“Hahaha, this is a carp, even bigger than the fathead fish earlier, it’s so big, I’m afraid we can’t finish it all in one meal.”
Looking at the big fish gradually stiffening on the ground, the little girl’s face was beaming with joy.
She was laughing there.
Li Yu saw another fish circling beneath the ice hole.
This one was quite alert. It waited for a while before slowly surfacing for air.
But suddenly, it was Duang-ed on the forehead.
The whole fish went silent.
“Wow, another fish, let me do it, let me do it. Hey, why does this guy look so strange?”
But when it was pulled up.
The little girl looked at the slightly odd-looking fish, and seemed rather surprised.
“This guy is called a pike. It’s not common in small streams. It’s rare to catch one today.”
Actually, there used to be quite a few fish in the river in their village.
Unfortunately, they encountered a famine.
For food, even the small fry were caught and eaten clean.
It’s just that this pond is far from the village. Otherwise, it might have been fished out long ago.
“Oh, this guy is a pike, it looks so strange, it’s got a mouthful of teeth, scary.”
“Brother-in-law, quickly see if there are any more, let’s keep going.”
Next.
The three of them gathered around the ice hole, and every now and then, a fish would surface.
Li Yu even let Xiuxiu and the little girl, who were watching the novelty, try.
They caught two fatheads and a carp in succession.
Finally, a big one surfaced. Li Yu hadn’t even figured out what kind of fish it was.
Unfortunately, the little girl swung her stick and missed, letting it escape.
“Ouch, this guy is so quick, it ran away when it saw me swing my stick. It’s so big, it’s infuriating.”
Seeing the little girl still grumbling.
Li Yu smiled,
“Okay, let’s pack up and go back, it’s getting late.”
“Ah, are we going back already?”
The little girl clearly wasn’t done having fun yet.
This ice hole was a treasure, with a fish surfacing every now and then.
If they stayed a little longer, who knows how many they could catch.
“Alright, this stuff can’t be sold for money, it’s enough to eat. Otherwise, if you catch them all at once, next time you want to eat fish, you’ll have nowhere to catch them.”
“That’s true!”
These words made the little girl put down her wooden stick.
She understood the principle of fishing without destroying the lake.
So this time, it would be like this.
Hopefully, next time she comes here, the big fish will surface again, and she won’t hold back.
The several fish were already lying stiffly on the ice, frozen solid.
This was the result of Xiuxiu deliberately pushing them closer to the fire.
Otherwise, they might have frozen to the ice by now.
After putting the three fatheads, two carps, and one pike on the sled.
The family packed up their things and prepared to go home.
“Brother-in-law, you were pulling us before, now do you want me to pull you and try?”
“Forget it.”
Li Yu laughed and waved his hand.
“You’re just a little thing, don’t tire yourself out. You’ll need your elder sister to take care of you later.”
“Hmph, I’m not as weak as you say.”
The little girl was clearly unconvinced.
She continued,
“I’ve been eating well these past few days, I feel like I’ve gotten much stronger. Pulling you alone is definitely no problem.”
This remark made Xiuxiu chime in as well.
“I also feel like I’ve gotten a lot stronger recently. This morning, when I was feeding the chickens, I could even lift up Big Black.”
Big Black had been eating well and sleeping well lately, and it was clear he was growing.
He was at least eighty pounds, and she could lift him up with one hand. It was strange.
Could it be as her younger sister said, eating well makes you stronger?
These words made Li Yu feel a little guilty.
After all, this kind of golden finger is obviously something that no one can be told about.
Even his wife Xiuxiu couldn’t know.
He casually explained,
“That must be because you were hungry for too long, your bodies were weak and had no strength. Now that you’re full, your strength naturally comes back.”
“Really?”
Xiuxiu turned her head doubtfully.
“But I don’t remember having this much strength before?”
“Then that means I’m your sisters’ lucky star, everything will get better around me.”
“Hee hee hee, brother-in-law, you really are shameless, you take credit for all the good things.”