Back home, Li Long and the others handed the big fish to his sister-in-law, hurried through their meal, then rushed back to East Big Ditch.
"These fish really are big-we can't eat them all." Looking at all those big fish, Du Chunfang was rather worried. "It'd be fine in winter. We could freeze them. But in the middle of summer like this, even with a refrigerator, we can't freeze very much."
Yes, both Li Jianguo's and Li Long's households had bought refrigerators now. But their freezers were packed with meat, with no room left for fish.
Mainly, whenever they slaughtered a sheep, they froze whatever meat they brought home that they couldn't finish. There was no shortage of meat at home, so the refrigerators came in handy-the refrigerators of this period weren't very big, and their freezers really couldn't hold much.
"Scale and clean them first," Liang Yuemei said. "When Xiao Long and the others come back this afternoon, they can take some to the county seat. That should leave us enough room. If they still won't fit, we'll air-dry them."
"We should pick out a couple to send to your parents," Du Chunfang said. "There's no fish in the water over there. Fish this big aren't easy to find."
As she spoke, Du Chunfang sighed again. "Isn't it strange? There's just one canal between the two sides, but there's no fish upstream, while downstream, even a puddle has fish in it."
Liang Yuemei smiled without saying anything. Everyone naturally knew why the canals in her family's village had no fish. Du Chunfang was merely showing off her sense of superiority over the better conditions here.
On their way to East Big Ditch, Li Long and the others noticed that some people had already moved from there to the branch