It took half an hour to stand in the field until the red sun rose and everyone left here.

For these young people, this is the first time in their lives that they have truly observed how farmers farm and the first time they have seriously thought about why they grow like this. Xu Ping didn't know what kind of bad things this would bring to them, but it was not a bad thing.

When the breeze blows, the water surface is filled with swelling waves, and the sun shines on it and reflects golden yellow.

Sun Qilang hummed an unknown tune and leisurely geography with several shopkeepers, basking in the sun.

Seeing Xu Ping bringing people over, Sun Qilang and others hurriedly got up and saluted.

Xu Ping took the people to the chair that had been prepared long ago and asked Sun Qilang: "Last year, the rain was abundant, I wonder if there were too many fish in the pond? It is rare for a few officials to come. You can use your means to catch more common things and cook a whole fish banquet at night."

"Officials are at ease. I haven't caught many fish in the farm in the past few years. The fish in the pond are big and fat. Today is the good weather, and I won't be disappointed."

As Sun Qilang said, he took people on the boat and rowed into the pond.

It is spring now, and people cannot go into the water yet, so they can only drag nets on the boat to catch fish. For convenience, the nets used in this way are all large nets, and the fish that are caught are also big fish. Some fish with tender flesh and not big flesh cannot be caught.

Several farmers rowed a small boat and slowly entered the huge pond. When a few people on the shore saw this scene, their depressed mood just now was wiped out and pointed at them.

This is the picture that literati like to see, the peasant and fisherman, poetic scene, and the joy of harvest. They do not care about how people work, they just appreciate such pictures.

Xu Ping always likes to think about how people work, whether there are better ways to improve efficiency and save manpower, so he has no poetic and picturesque ideas in his eyes, so he cannot write poems that make people chant and praise.

The people around you are different. Some people have already passed beautiful sentences in their hearts and are trying to grasp the fleeting inspiration. Perhaps it will take a while to write beautiful poems.

The people here are all young people. The embarrassment of not knowing nothing in the field just now has already disappeared, and they are all talking about the scenery in front of them happily. The scene of this Jiangnan water town further aroused the homesickness of Ouyang Xiu and Mei Yaochen.

Wang Gongchen was sitting there bored, so he found a villager to take him, got up and walked forward along the pond. After a while, he came back, and two big flowers were inserted on his head, and he didn't know where he found it.

When Xu Ping saw that he just shook his head and smiled bitterly, he didn't understand why men liked to wear flowers in this era, and the bigger the flowers bloomed, the more colorful the more they were. Xu Ping had never worn them in this world for so many years, and he really couldn't overcome the hurdle in his heart.

Wang Gongchen opened his head, and the others stood up and walked casually to enjoy the surrounding scenery.

It is spring, and the flowers are blooming everywhere, and scenery is everywhere. The roadside and the fields are full of famous and unknown flowers, colorful. From time to time, there are a few fruit trees standing in the sunshine, and the trees are full of flowers.

A few people thought it was going out of the city to enjoy the flowers and go out, and walked forward along the road in the fields. They were talking a lot, picking a small flower from time to time and holding it in their hands to play with it.

Men love flowers, but women are more reserved. When they were traveling to the garden in spring, Xu Ping was not used to it. It was almost the opposite of his previous life. I don’t know what it means.

Sun Qilang on the boat in the pond gasped and said loudly: "There are so many fish in the water? The boat can't move any more. Let's go to the dock first and see how many fishing catches there are in the net."

The shopkeeper next to him whispered: "Qilang, I haven't caught fish seriously in the shop these years. I just occasionally have someone to catch a few bamboo poles, so of course there are too many fish."

The ponds and rivers are the property of the farm. No one said anything about the merchants and tenants who came to fish when they came to fish, and it would be unreasonable to catch them by taking the net. Besides, they could not be sold for sale. It would be useless to catch too much.

After years of rectification, except for a swamp that Xu Ping deliberately left behind, the water from other places has retreated, forming many rivers and ponds, and there are many aquatic products such as fish and shrimps. Usually, people can fish in several small rivers and eat tooth sacrifices. No one can disturb such large ponds, and I don’t know how many kilograms of fish inside have grown.

The boat turned its head and dragged the net slowly toward the shore. I don’t know how many fishing catches the net had occupied, but I just felt extremely heavy.

With the reeds and weeds on the shore, the boat approached the shore.

Sun Qilang strode down from the boat and greeted the shopkeeper next to him: "Come here quickly and help pull the net! This net is full of fish, not a net that can be trapped in stone, it's enough for our farm to use!"

Several shopkeepers on the shore ran over quickly and helped to start the net together.

Sun Qilang jumped into the water, snatched it from the middle of the net, shouting, a big bluefish weighing nearly ten kilograms was thrown to the shore and jumped around desperately in the grass.

"It's really a fish! This net is enough to eat on the farm!"

Sun Qilang shouted while directing the shopkeeper in the water to hold the net tightly.

Xu Ping, Fang Xie, and Uncle Cao Ying stood up and walked to the shore to watch.

At this time, people in the north did not eat much fish and did not know how to cook it. They let the fish in the pond grow so big. There were still 10 or 20 rice-growing families in Xuping Village who came from the south of the Yangtze River. They taught the farmers how to cook fish, but they still did not change their customs.

Hearing the shouts here, Wang Gongchen and others rushed back in a hurry, looking at the big fish jumping around the grass, and they all said together: "What a big fish, I didn't expect that this pond was inconspicuous and had such a big fish!"

Xu Ping stood quietly under the big willow tree on the shore, without going forward, and without saying anything. Fishery technology had basically no practical value in this era. There were still people fishing wild fish fry near big cities in the south of the Yangtze River, and no one was doing it north of the Yangtze River. The population was still small, and due to the overflow of the Yellow River, there were many ponds and rivers, wild fish were enough for people to eat.

Moreover, due to their living habits, northerners rarely eat fish and cannot eat fish. Nowadays, even in Kaifeng City, it is rare to make fish dishes in a similar way, let alone small places.

However, as more and more people from Jiangnan came to the capital to serve as officials, the demand for fish increased. Perhaps if you wait, you can consider opening a small restaurant in the capital, making fish is also a specialty.

After looking at Wang Gongchen who was standing in front of the people, Xu Ping nodded secretly. Wang Gongchen's current situation is not a solution. He only has a widowed mother and many brothers. He can't get enough money by relying on his own salary. After a while, he is not so busy. You can consider opening a store with his family and helping him.

In less than two years, Wang Gongchen should get married and go out to work outside, and he will have to pay money everywhere. It is not difficult for the top scholar to find a wife from a wealthy family, and it can also bring a generous dowry, but relying on women is not a solution.

(I have been sick these two days and the update is not good, please forgive me.)
Chapter completed!