Chapter 64 Liu’s ridicule
The first tube is held in the hand, the weight is very light, and there should not be much gain.
Yang Ruoqing neatly removed the small bamboo cover that sealed the tube, turned the entire tube upside down and shook it down vigorously.
“Ding ding dong dong…”
After a few crisp sounds, two loaches and a crab fell into the wooden barrel in front of them.
"Well, not bad, these two loaches are fat. I will pick them up later and raise them together with the loaches you dug that day!"
Sun said quickly.
Yang Ruoqing smiled. She knew that her mother was afraid that she would be discouraged, so she encouraged her!
Then I opened the second tube. This time, there were three small crabs and a soft-legged lobster.
The crab fell into the wooden barrel and was still staring at Yang Ruoqing with its big eyes. However, the soft-legged lobster was already dead. He probably lost the fight with the crab!
Hey, winners and losers, wherever there are living things, there is indispensable fighting for the living space!
The harvest of the third and fourth tubes was not very good. When it came to the fifth tube, Yang Ruoqing clearly felt that the weight in her hand had become much heavier.
"Mom, there seems to be something in here!"
"Be careful of snakes, so be careful!" Ms. Sun warned.
“Well, it’s okay!”
Yang Ruoqing skillfully opened the tube and poured it over with her backhand -
"Crash, la la la..."
Like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, the contents fell into the wood in front of her. in the barrel.
"Ah, there really are eels! There are more than one. They are so entangled that they can't be counted. Qing'er, come and count..."
Yang Ruoqing raised her hand towards the barrel. After a few fiddles with the entangled eels, they separated from each other and swam around in the barrel, making a hissing sound.
"Four." Yang Ruoqing said.
The sixth tube is just one eel, but the weight of this eel is enough to equal the previous four.
Yang Ruoqing visually inspected it and found that it was nearly five centimeters in diameter and stretched straight from beginning to end, not much shorter than Yang Ruoqing's arm.
"Mom, just this one can make a big bowl of braise!"
Yang Ruoqing said with a smile, ready to get the last tube.
Mrs. Sun smiled happily and nodded repeatedly.
With the last tube in her hand, Yang Ruoqing shook it slightly, feeling something was wrong.
“What’s wrong, Qing’er?”
“Maybe there’s a snake mixed in.”
“Ah, you have to be careful!” Sun immediately made progress. He tightened the hoe in his hand.
Yang Ruoqing began to untie the tube. When she poured the contents into the barrel, she clearly saw a black shadow flashing in front of her eyes.
Immediately afterwards, there was a big movement inside the barrel. A flat-headed snake about the thickness of a little finger, with a body half gray and half dark brown, slid out along the edge of the barrel.
The moment it fell to the ground, its body immediately twisted and tried to get into the hole in the corner of the kitchen room.
"Boom!"
Sun picked up the hoe and smashed it down, causing the snake's body to sink into the dirt.
"Ouch, I'm so scared that I'm sweating all over!" said Sun.
Yang Ruoqing giggled, picked up the wooden bucket in her hand and stretched it in front of Mrs. Sun, "Mom, get a scale, let's weigh it!"
"I don't have that thing at home, I'll go Can I borrow it from you earlier? But I’m afraid you haven’t gotten up yet!”
“Don’t borrow it from me, so they won’t ask questions!” Yang Ruoqing said. She is not afraid of asking questions. She neither steals nor robs, and relies on her own wisdom and hard-working hands to make a living.
I'm just afraid of provoking those scoundrels like Yang Huaming and Liu who like to fight against the autumn wind!
"Your Aunt Osmanthus has a scale at home. She must have gotten up by now. I'll borrow it." Mrs. Sun said again.
"That's it!"
Sun quickly brought a steelyard, and Yang Ruoqing happened to have picked out crabs, lobsters, loaches and some small fish. All that rained were eels.
The mother and daughter weighed it enthusiastically. Excluding the weight of the barrel, the eels harvested that night weighed three kilograms and they were still nodding!
Among them, the thickest eel weighed one and a half kilograms!
"Mom, I will keep this thickest eel for dad to replenish my body. I will take the other eels to the town and sell them together."
"This thick eel is the most valuable. You take all the loaches you dug in the first two days and make soup to replenish your father's health!" said Sun.
"That's okay. Let's go back to my house and pick up the eels again to help dad recuperate!"
Soon, Yang Huazhou came to look for Yang Ruoqing.
Yang Huazhou also held a pole and hemp rope in his hand.
As soon as Yang Ruoqing and Sun saw the thing in Yang Huazhou's hand, they knew that Tan would not lend them woven goods such as ox carts and bamboo baskets.
Because Yang Huazhou saw so many knitted products piled up in the house last night, he patted his chest and said that he would get a bullock cart from the Tan family to go to town.
"Fifth Uncle, let's start tying things up!" Yang Ruoqing didn't ask any questions and greeted Yang Huazhou with a smile.
Yang Huazhou looked a little unnatural, said eh, and buried himself in his work.
All the knitting items were moved outside to the yard and began to be bundled.
In the front yard, Ms. Liu came to the hut because she had a stomachache, and happened to see the lively scene here.
“Hey, last night I heard that Lao Wu went to borrow a bullock cart and said that Fatty was going to the town to do business. I still don’t believe it. Do you really want to go?”
Yang Ruoqing Working hard with Yang Huazhou, they had a tacit understanding to ignore Mrs. Liu and treat her as if she were just air!
Due to her sister-in-law's kindness, Ms. Sun smiled at Ms. Liu and said, "It's not a valuable deal, it's just some utensils for drying things that Qing'er's father made up when he had nothing to do... ”
"Ha, third sister-in-law, you are really right. These things made of thatch are really worthless. There are too many mountains behind our village. Third brother is really too idle to mess with these things. Who will buy it?"
Ms. Liu curled her lips in a sinister manner. She originally wanted to laugh a few more words, but her stomach became upset and she hurriedly rushed to the latrine with her pants in hand.
Here, Yang Huazhou comforted Yang Ruoqing: "Don't listen to her nonsense, she is a country woman, what does she know!"
Yang Ruoqing raised her head and smiled: "Fifth uncle, don't worry, fourth aunt If so, I will treat her as a floating cloud that will disperse as soon as the wind blows!"
"Hahaha, that's how it should be!" Yang Huazhou laughed, and at this time, Yang Huazhong in the room also woke up.
"My third brother seems to have something to tell me. I'll go in and take a look."
In the room, Yang Huazhong repeatedly told Yang Huazhou to take good care of Yang Ruoqing.
"...It doesn't matter if you can't sell the things. My daughter must be brought back to me in good health. You must remember this, fifth brother..."
"Third brother, don't worry. Yes, Qing’er is my biological niece. If I don’t protect her, who will?”
“That’s good!”
"Okay, it's getting late, so you should set off. Go early and come back early. Qing'er, when you get to the town, you must listen to your fifth uncle and don't run around!"
Sun's delivery On the road at the door, there were still constant reminders.
"Mom, please go back. I'm not worried about leaving my father alone at home." Yang Ruoqing advised Sun.
Ms. Sun nodded, and then returned home three times at a time.
Here, Yang Ruoqing is like a bird out of a cage, carrying a small wooden bucket with eels in one hand, and a bamboo basket in the other hand, which contains matsutake mushrooms picked some time ago. There was also the big gray rabbit with its limbs tied that Luo Fengtang sent.
Yang Huazhou walked in front. The man was carrying a pole with various thatched products hanging on both ends. The uncle and nephew were talking and laughing as they walked towards Qingshui Town, which was thirty miles away.
(End of this chapter)