fish?

Du Shaoqing was helped by Wu Zhao and sat up and took a look. Hey, it was just a fish, it was still a big fish worth about ten pounds.

"Is this the head fish this time?" Du Shaoqing murmured.

"Headfish? Husband, what are you talking about? What is a headfish?" Wu Zhao said inexplicably.

Before Du Shaoqing could answer, the two heard movements under the water. The next scene shocked them, and even the audience on the shore were shocked.

In the square ice hole, fish rushed out like a small fountain. They were not in a row, but in clusters like small fireworks. Soon, a small pile of fresh fish fell on the ice surface at the entrance of the net.

But then, because of the closing of the big net, the fish could no longer run away by themselves. The outlet of the net was blocked by the fish wrapped in the big net, densely packed.

"This, is this what my husband calls winter catch? Oh my god, I have never seen so many fish in my life." Wu Zhao was so shocked that she couldn't speak smoothly.

Du Shaoqing laughed and said, "It's not just you, but I guess everyone present has never seen me before. Help me get up quickly. It's very cold to sit on the ice."

The shore was already boiling at this time. Not only the onlookers, but also the civil servants, but even the emperor Li Er had a urge to cheer.

"Hurry, stop them quickly, don't let everyone come to the ice surface. The ice layer is not as thick as the Northeast. So many people coming up are probably going to fall in." Du Shaoqing shouted loudly at the crowd rushing over.

The hundreds of laborers from the Du Family Chamber of Commerce hurriedly blocked the shore and built a wall of humans. Of course, the people didn't say that they would come to grab the fish when they saw it. They just wanted to get closer and watch the fun, but they were quickly persuaded to stop.

Not everyone could be persuaded. A huge shadow flashed by. When the guards turned their heads, they found that a tiger had already rushed to the seat of the fish's mouth with Xiao Xuanxuan.

"Dad, I knew you would definitely catch fish!" Xiao Xuanxuan looked excited, and she admired her father to the extreme. This time she won a lot.

Du Shaoqing frowned and said, "You kid, you want you to stay on the shore all the time. What are you doing? It's very dangerous on the ice."

"There is no danger. People want to come and see Dad fishing. Sister Xiaowu can come. Why can't I?" Xiao Xuanxuan retorted with a pout.

"you……

OK, you two are here to stay. Leave it to me to clean up here."

Wu Zhao was stunned for a moment, then gave her husband helplessly, thinking to herself, "What are you doing to teach your daughter to take me with you?" Du Shaoqing went over and found the head fish that hit him. Because of the cold on the ice, the head fish was already frozen and lost its vitality, so it was easily picked up by Du Shaoqing.

"This is the first fish to jump out of the water this time. It is called a head fish. It is said that the head fish caught in winter is the most noble and auspicious. If you take this fish to your grandfather, you will say that you will have good luck next year after eating this fish." Du Shaoqing handed the head fish to his daughter and advised him.

"Ah? Really Daddy? Then take it home and let's eat it." Xiao Xuanxuan said jealously.

"You kid, you are just for greed. Can you finish eating so many fish on the ground? Do you have to understand this for your grandfather?" Du Shaoqing scolded.

Xiao Xuanxuan said with disgust: "Aren't they all fish? They are all for food, what's the difference?

Humph, bad daddy!

If I don't hold it, the fish is too ugly and dirty, I can't hold it either."

Ugly? Dirty? Can't hold it? Du Shaoqing almost fell and said to himself that you could even carry the wine jar. Now you are weak? You can't take this kid anymore.

"Xuanxuan, don't mess around. If you don't give it to me, I'll go and give it to you. Your Majesty may give me a gift." Wu Zhao said from the side.

"Who? Who said he wouldn't give it? I'm going to deliver things to my grandfather.

Little Meow, hold the fish for me and let us give it to my grandfather.”

Xiao Xuanxuan took a photo of the big cat under her seat. The big cat wisely raised her head and took the big fish away from Du Shaoqing's hand. When Wu Zhao and the other two were not aware of it, each person and a tiger jumped away.

Du Shaoqing: "Can you still eat this fish that has been picked up? It's not hygienic."

Wu Zhao: "Husband, you shouldn't consider whether it's clean or not. That's a big cat. It's said that cats love to eat fish. What you should worry about is whether the fish can be in the mouth of His Majesty."

...

Forget it, no matter what, we are not purebred cats, we are just tigers at heart. His Majesty also named the God Tiger. The God Tiger presents auspiciousness in his own mouth. I think it would be better to have a sign of the omen. Anyway, it is not our food, and it is not our business to do it cleanly.

"Hurry up and ask someone to get the prepared carriage and baskets. It's a great harvest. After all the fishing nets are dragged out, put them on and weigh them to see how much they can harvest."

Du Shaoqing and Wu Zhao were in full swing.

The big cat on Xiao Xuanxuan performed very well, and did not make any noise on the head fish. Even the tooth marks were a shallow mark. The fish was so unreasonable in his mouth. I wonder if it was scared to faint.

I'm afraid this fish never dreamed that one day, an aquarium, would one day be caught by the King of the Forest Beasts. Does it really mean that the person who killed you may not be his peers, but may be cross-border.

Xiao Xuanxuan was very smart and said to Li Er as her father said. Li Er laughed happily, thinking that her son-in-law could do things, so she went up to take the fish in person, and she was quite heavy when she got it.

"Yes, it's still a big carp. It's a good sign. Come on, take it down and prepare it. When you finish your work, let Shaoqing help me get it out. The fresh big carp is definitely a good dish." Li Er said happily.

After a long time, everyone finally pulled the entire fishing net out of the water. Soon, under the command of the manager, the clerk of the Chamber of Commerce began to load fish and weigh the fish.

Although many fish were squeezed by fishing nets, these guys worked quickly and still meticulously recorded them.

"How is it? Are there any results?" Wu Zhao asked nervously.

"Except for a small part of it being crushed and cannot be counted due to squeeze, our total fishing harvest was 25,000..." The accountant reported rigorously.

Wu Zhao was scared, more than 20,000 pieces? Oh my god.

Du Shaoqing smiled and said, "It can't be calculated like this. There are also small fish below the size of a palm. Those are too small, but they occupy a number. You can just report the weight."

"After returning to the big shopkeeper, after the brothers carefully weighed it, it was concluded that the net weight of this fishing was about 120,000 kilograms, which was only a lot." After reporting this number, the accountant felt a little dreamy, and asked Du Shaoqing tentatively: "Big shopkeeper, is this true?"

Du Shaoqing laughed and said, "The account book is in your hands, and the fish is in front of you. Are you talking about it true or false? Look at your promising prospects, don't let people laugh at it."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the emperor and others.

When the historian heard that there were more than 20,000 fish and as many as 120,000 pounds, he almost fainted. Not to mention recording, the pen in his hand fell to the ground. If this was not seen with his own eyes, no one would believe it.

"Mr. Du, how did you catch fish? More than 100,000 kilograms at a time, this is a magical method." A young official worshipped.

Du Shaoqing smiled and said, "What kind of magic method is there? It's actually very simple. Didn't I draw the drawings and send them here?"

Forehead……

I don’t know who muttered in a low voice, and the drawings were treasured by His Majesty.

Everyone looked at the emperor, but Li Er felt embarrassed and unhappy at all. Instead, he burst into laughter. It turns out that people are not as happy as they are. Isn’t it just to see the officials’ jealousy?

He took out the drawings and passed them to all officials. After seeing the few strokes, everyone was silent.

Fang Xuanling sighed: "I remember that the last time the method to control locusts was proposed by Shaoqing. At that time, you explained that you understood the habits of locusts. Now it seems that you still understand the habits of fish, otherwise it would be impossible to catch fish here accurately.

What a genius. You can use these things that we don’t care about on weekdays. You are so terrifying."

"It seems that someone said something strange and lewd?

I think such a good method can be promoted in suitable places in the north. Nowadays, people are having a difficult life and many places are short of food for winter. If there is a pot of fresh fish soup in winter for the New Year, how good it would be, and it would be a blessing for the people." Wei Zheng suggested.

Li Er immediately agreed that this good solution was to pass it on to the people to benefit the world?

Du Shaoqing was not sure. He took out this method of winter fishing by himself. In fact, he thought that if the people who were affected by Henan Province could catch a net of fish in the winter, it would be helpful.

Everyone was having fun, and there were only two people in the field. One was Changsun Wuji. He and Du Shaoqing were not in the way. This is well known. There is no need to praise his opponent and be frustrated.

Another one is Old Li Jing. He seemed to be in deep thought. After a long time, he gave up and said, "Shaoqing, I have something to do. If you want to say that this is the river water. Even if the surface is covered by ice, the water below is still flowing. The fish are all in batches. How can you gather here for you to catch?

How do you know there are fish here? And if there are so many fish in this place under the ice of Wei River, what food is there? If you have big fish every day along the Wei River, I am afraid that the people in Chang'an will eat fish every meal this year for the New Year, so how can they still eat food?"

hiss……

When everyone heard this, they were really worthy of being the old coach. They hit the nail on the head and looked at the problem with profoundness.

Du Shaoqing couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Old Li Jing, "Actually, it's nothing difficult. Last night, I had someone come over to arrange it. Have you seen the two ice caves in the center of the Wei River?

Last night, I had already invested in two carriages of refined fish food. If I hadn't made a nest, how could it attract these 20,000 fish to gather here?"

Old Li Jing slapped his thigh, "Wonderful! I just knew that it was you who did it. Such a simple truth is just like fighting a war, luring the enemy into one net to capture it!

You kid are such a genius, it would be a loss if you don’t learn to fight.”

"Ahem, we agreed that if I catch fish, I will sell it to you." Du Shaoqing's eyes rolled and opened the topic.

A sentence made the people who participated in the betting that night raise their heads and look at the piles of fish. The officials of the court wanted to retreat. They thought to themselves that there were more than 100,000 kilograms of fish. Du Shaoqing also said that it would cost to slaughter people.

And even if we buy it, will we finish eating?

Everyone's faces, including Emperor Li Er, turned dark at this time, as if they wanted to speak but stopped, but they were embarrassed to take the lead in breaking the contract. After all, the Tang Dynasty likes gambling and will be looked down upon without gambling.

Du Shaoqing didn't really want to kill these people. After all, he is not short of money. Compared to making money, it seems more interesting to see a group of imperial officials being defeated.

So he smiled and said, "Originally, the fish in winter are a rare thing, I want to make a price of one tael of silver..."

Before he finished speaking, Emperor Li Er cursed: "Boy, don't be too cruel. Are you short of money?"

"Ahem, father-in-law, don't be excited. Isn't this the original plan? Just kidding.

The uncles and uncles present at the fishing scene actively participated. Why do I have the nerve to collect money? This fish was caught by everyone, so I have an idea. Everyone present will give you ten big fish as rewards for each family, and the guards involved in the fishing will reward one fish."

Well... this method is justified, Li Er nodded.

Cheng Yaojin grinned and said, "Boy, this is not right. How many of us are there? You only gave ten? I'm afraid there are still many left for each person to give a basket. So stingy?

Your uncle, I have contributed to your kid for nothing.”

Du Shaoqing waved his hand and explained: "Don't be anxious, because the Tang Dynasty may not eat much fish, so I will give you a secret recipe for stewing fish."

"Hey, this is good, you are generous, you are the secret recipe given by the chef god in Chang'an. Tsk, you will have a good taste when eating fish at home in the future." Cheng Yaojin praised.

Everyone said that Du Shaoqing was generous. Compared with Ten Fish, this secret recipe is much more valuable.

"The reason why I have given you such a small part is not that I am stingy. Everyone has seen it. Today, there are crowds of people coming to be the audience. As the saying goes, we have a share of the people, so why should we also get some points to the people." Du Shaoqing continued.

Fang Xuanling asked, "Shaoqing, there are tens of thousands of people here, you have more than 20,000 fish..."
To be continued...