Chapter 119 The Angry Tao Daqiang
Li Long went to the captain Xu Chengjun's house again and told him about renting a horse carriage the next day. Xu Chengjun waved his hand:
"No problem." When he got home, he found that Li Jianguo had already put the scoop net, pickaxe, crowbar, shovel and urea bag on the sled, waiting for him to come back. Li Juan and Li Qiang also sat on the sled, looking at him with a smile.
"Are you all going?" Li Long asked.
"Well, let's go together," Li Jianguo said. "More people can take turns and catch more fish. In less than ten days, once the snow melts, we won't be able to catch fish anymore."
The four of them walked towards the small lake together. Before they were halfway there, Tao Daqiang caught up with them.
He took the sled rope from Li Jianguo and walked forward with big strides. Li Juan and Li Qiang were sitting on the sled, laughing and joking happily.
The snow on the sunny side of the north bank of Xiaohaizi has melted a little, revealing the black soil underneath. Li Long and his team came to the ice and found the ice hole they had dug. They discovered that the snow covering it had been cleared, and it was obviously used by someone. The person who used the ice hole left without covering it with snow, causing the water underneath to freeze layer by layer. Now the ice surface of the ice hole is higher than the other ice surfaces, and it is useless.
"Let's start over." Li Long said, "The ice should not be as thick as before."
Tao Daqiang took the pickaxe from the sled, moved to another place and started smashing it.
Li Long also took a shovel and a crowbar and cleared a piece of snow forty or fifty meters away, then began to break the ice. Li Juan and Li Qiang went to find Mao Weizi, while Li Jianguo prepared to take turns with Tao Daqiang.
Li Long clearly felt that the ice had become much thinner. He made a hole of more than 30 centimeters in the ice, thus breaking through the ice surface and the water below rushed up.
I don't know if it was because of the increased strength or the thin ice, but this time it took both sides more than half an hour to make a hole in the ice. The next step was to take turns using scoop nets to catch the fish.
As Li Long expected, he could only catch some miscellaneous fish, small crucian carp, small dog fish and half-grown silver carp at first. Although he could clearly feel that the net had hit a big fish, he could not catch it.
By noon, less than ten kilograms of fish were fished out of the two ice holes.
Tao Daqiang was a little discouraged, and Li Jianguo couldn't help but curse: "What a bunch of cowards! They dug the ice hole and didn't fill it up. How selfish!"
"Brother, Daqiang, it's okay, let's go back. After lunch, rest at home for a while. Come back in two hours, and the fish should be here. Let's work later today, so we should be able to catch more fish."
When they returned to Li's house, Tao Daqiang was anxious to go back to cook for his father. Liang Yuemei heard the noise and came out. Seeing Tao Daqiang was about to leave, she hurriedly called him back and went back to the house to bring him an enamel basin with a lid.
"There are freshly steamed buns in here, and stir-fried vegetables underneath. You can just heat them up when you get home and eat them. You've been tired for quite some time, and it would be troublesome to cook again."
Tao Daqiang moved his mouth, not knowing what to say.
"Go back quickly." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Go back and have dinner with your dad and take a rest. If your dad has nothing else to do, you can come back."
Tao Daqiang nodded heavily, holding the enamel basin and strode home.
Halfway through the journey, Tao Daqiang saw Ermao staggering towards him, but he ignored him as he was in a hurry to go back and heat up food for his father.
"Da Qiang, where are you doing? What are you carrying? It smells strange. Let me take a look." Gu Ermao has been very arrogant in the team recently. He relies on the fact that he is a driver apprentice and boasts a lot.
Many people really fell for his tricks and were quite enthusiastic towards him, which gave Gu Ermao the illusion that his identity had really changed and was no longer the same as before.
Of course, Gu Ermao used to order Tao Daqiang around. He always looked down on Tao Daqiang, thinking that this guy was so big for nothing, so stupid, and could do nothing.
"Don't move." Tao Daqiang stretched out his hands and lifted up the enamel basin, explaining as he lifted it:
"This is the food I brought back for my father. Don't grab it or spill it." Gu Ermao said with a smile:
"What's that delicious food? I smell meat. Come on, don't be stingy, let me have a taste!"
Although Gu Ermao became a driver's apprentice, he volunteered to be an apprentice and did not receive any salary, so it was still difficult for him to eat meat.
He also heard that Tao Daqiang had made some money with Li Long, and that he could eat fish regularly, regardless of whether he could eat meat. Gu Ermao was also greedy, so he wanted to rob.
Tao Daqiang was nearly meters tall, and Gu Ermao was less than meters tall, so there was no way they could grab the item. So he jumped over and hit the enamel basin with his hand.
Tao Daqiang was disturbed by this and lost his grip on the basin, so the lid fell off and landed on the snow, and a steamed bun was also knocked off.
"Da Qiang, you are so good, you still eat white steamed buns!" Gu Ermao swallowed his saliva. He did not pick up the steamed bun on the snow. He fixed his eyes on the enamel basin and said with a grin:
"Give me two. I haven't tasted them for a few days..."
"Get out!" Tao Daqiang's eyes turned red when he saw the steamed bun fall to the ground. He yelled at Gu Ermao, then bent down to pick up the steamed bun.
Gu Ermao was stunned by Tao Daqiang's yelling, and then a feeling of shame surged up over him.
I was actually yelled at by Tao Daqiang, a half-idiot!
He looked around and found that someone in the distance had seen what was happening here and was looking around.
Unable to save face, Gu Ermao stepped forward and pushed Tao Daqiang, saying arrogantly and angrily:
"Who are you yelling at? Did I give you the courage? Huh?"
Although Tao Daqiang had held the enamel basin tightly, Gu Ermao's force was so great that two more steamed buns were shaken out of the basin.
Tao Daqiang is famous!
He stood up, protected the enamel basin with both hands, and glared at Gu Ermao with anger.
Gu Ermao was frightened by Tao Daqiang's glare, and before he could react, Tao Daqiang kicked him directly!
Gu Ermao was only good at talking, and was far from being good at fighting. Tao Daqiang kicked him so hard that he rolled on the ground!
Tao Daqiang chased after him and kicked Gu Ermao twice in the stomach, cursing as he kicked:
"Don't you understand what I'm saying? Didn't you hear me telling you to get lost? This is my dad's food! Give it to my dad! Don't you understand what I'm saying? Get away from here, or I'll kick you to death!"
Gu Ermao screamed, and Tao Daqiang's anger slowly subsided. He ignored Gu Ermao and turned around, picked up the two steamed buns, wiped the snow powder off them on his body, picked up the lid of the enamel basin, covered it, and carefully carried it home.
Several people saw Tao Daqiang beating Gu Ermao, and they all had complicated feelings.
I didn't expect that Tao Daqiang, who is usually as soft as noodles and never says anything excessive, would be so powerful today!
Gu Ermao lay on the ground screaming for a long time but no one paid any attention to him. Finally, he slowly got up and walked home dejectedly.
While lying on the ground, Gu Ermao was thinking about how to retaliate. However, what discouraged him was that he had no way to deal with Tao Daqiang at all!
(End of this chapter)
