Rebirth in 1981: Hunting and Fishing in the Northwest
Chapter 167

Taking Xiaoxia into the mountains

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After hauling the manure back to the team, Li Long went to the Stable first and unloaded half of it. He also left the fawn there, gave Lao Luo some instructions, and left some vegetable seeds before returning home.

As he passed Reed Gully, he noticed that the water had dropped a little. He did not know whether something had blocked it upstream at Little Haizi or the floodwater had simply subsided.

Neither Li Jianguo nor Liang Yuemei was home. Li Long unloaded the manure into the yard and spread it evenly over the vegetable patch. The rest was not his responsibility.

This time, he had also brought back some wild scallions, wild garlic, wild chives, and pepper mugwort from the mountains. The last was an excellent ingredient for cooking fish.

For the sake of that fresh pepper mugwort alone, Li Long felt he ought to catch some fish at Little Haizi and bring them back to stew.

He had never eaten his fill of fish in his entire previous life. After eating it two days in a row, he would stop craving it and think he might not want any for a month.

But after just three days without it, he would feel that another fish meal sounded quite nice. If he did not want stewed fish, he could always deep-fry some little crucian carp. Coat them in batter, drop them into hot oil, take them out and drain them, then let them cool and eat them as snacks. That flavor-

No, no, I can't take it. Grab the casting net and head for Little Haizi!

When Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei returned from the fields, they found Li Juan and Li Qiang gathered around Li Long, who was stewing fish at the stove.

The distinctive aroma of crucian

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