Haha!

Before they reached the river, they heard the quacking of a group of ducks. Jiang Yan quickly interrupted Yuan Sufeng's complaints.

"Sister-in-law, listen! There are wild ducks in the river."

These days, every household keeps their poultry in pens, and all you see outside are wild animals.

And judging from the sound, there are quite a few ducks.

Jiang Yan was a little excited.

Spring and autumn are the peak egg-laying seasons for ducks. If you are lucky, you might be able to pick up duck eggs.

Yuan Sufeng was used to it. Seeing Jiang Yan eager to try, she smiled and reminded her, "Sister, these wild ducks are very smart. They fly away before you get close to them. They are not easy to catch."

"What about duck eggs? We can pick them up on the shore."

Yuan Sufeng shook her head again.

"If it were so easy to pick up, the villagers nearby would have already picked them up, so it wouldn't be our turn. Besides, the grass cages by the river are deep, and there might be poisonous snakes in them. We can just cut some grass outside."

When she heard about the poisonous snake, Jiang Yan's enthusiasm suddenly died down. She nodded and followed Yuan Sufeng.

The two walked slowly towards the river.

Jiang Yan looked around and found that construction had already begun on the vacant land by the river at the factory site that had been selected previously.

Many soldiers were busy building brick houses. Bricks, cement and river sand had already been piled up.

Look at the location.

The first thing to start construction was the feed factory. If you want to raise pigs on a large scale, you have to stockpile enough feed first.

"Girl, if you really want to go we can go in, but we can't go deep."

Not hearing any footsteps behind her, Yuan Sufeng stopped and looked back at Jiang Yan. Seeing that she was looking somewhere, she followed her line of sight and looked over there.

Yuan Sufeng was surprised to find the construction site by the river in the distance: "Is it started already? The speed is quite fast."

Then she looked at Jiang Yan and said, "Our Lao Wu said that your fermentation technology is amazing. The piglets will grow faster after eating it. Maybe it can also generate income for the group in the future."

Retracting her gaze from the distant construction site, Jiang Yan smiled modestly, "I hope everyone can eat meat every meal."

Yuan Sufeng looked longing, "It would be great if that were true."

"That day will come." Pulling the rope of the backpack on her shoulder, Jiang Yan continued to walk towards the river, and Yuan Sufeng hurried to follow her.

Come to the river.

This place is overgrown with all kinds of weeds, so dense that there is nowhere to step.

Yuan Sufeng picked up a wooden stick that she had picked up from somewhere and hit the grass in front of her hard.

Rustle!

The grass kept shaking, making a sound of leaves rubbing against each other. The small insects hiding in it were disturbed and quickly fled around. Those with wings flew up directly, making a constant buzzing sound.

Jiang Yan hurriedly pulled Yuan Sufeng back a few steps to avoid the startled swarm of insects.

The insects fled quickly and the grass ahead became quiet.

Yuan Sufeng used the same trick again, picked up a wooden stick and hit the grass. Seeing that no more insects came out, she took the sickle from the backpack and said, "Sister, let's go here. The grass looks pretty tender."

Jiang Yan also took off her backpack, took out the sickle inside and started cutting grass.

Yuan Sufeng was experienced and cut the grass very quickly. In a short while, she had cut half a basket of grass.

Jiang Yan's speed slowed down.

Some grasses had barbs and serrated teeth, and the calluses on her palms were not thick enough, so some of them were prickly. She could only pick the weeds nearby that were not prickly.

The weeds grew in a disorderly manner, with many kinds mixed together.

After cutting a few handfuls of tender grass, Jiang Yan would move to another place and start cutting again.

She put the grass in her hand into the backpack, said something to Yuan Sufeng, picked up the wooden stick and walked forward for a distance.

Following Yuan Sufeng's example, I first scared away the insects in the grass, used a wooden stick to separate the easy-to-cut grass from the difficult-to-cut grass, and then started working.

This pile of grass is pretty good, growing in quite a few clumps.

Cut and cut.

Suddenly, a pile of blue-gray eggs appeared in front of her. Jiang Yan took a closer look and estimated that there were about twenty of them.

She glanced at Yuan Sufeng next to her and put most of them into the space. Then she looked at Yuan Sufeng and shouted, "Sister-in-law, come quickly. There are duck eggs here."

"What?"

Yuan Sufeng was mowing the grass seriously. When she heard Jiang Yan's words, she was stunned for a moment and hurried over with a backpack.

She opened her mouth wide when she saw the nest of duck eggs on the ground.

"Oh my goodness, sister, you are so lucky. You picked up a nest of duck eggs so easily. Let me see... Wow, there are six."

"Sister-in-law, how about we each take half?"

Jiang Yan called Yuan Sufeng just to make sure that the duck egg would pass through safely, as taking it out rashly would arouse suspicion.

Nowadays, when someone eats meat, people around them can smell it.

It’s better to be cautious.

"This is the egg you found. How can I give you half of it?"

Yuan Sufeng is not a greedy person, although she really wants it, but the egg was found by Jiang Yan. She is taking advantage of someone for no reason and will be criticized by others.

"Sister-in-law, you brought me to this river, you can share some, and there are only a few in total."

Seeing that Yuan Sufeng was so sensible, Jiang Yan wanted to give it to her even more. People like her are worth making friends with, and if you give it to her, she will remember it.

Unlike some people, who take advantage of you out of greed and think it is their due. Not only are they not grateful at all, they even blame you for not getting enough.

"No, no."

Yuan Sufeng was determined. She looked around and continued, "Sister, quickly pick up the eggs and put them in the basket. Let's look around here. No one is coming here. Since we can find a nest of duck eggs, there may be other nests."

"Let's look carefully. It would be great if we can find another nest."

"OK."

Jiang Yan nodded, returned the stick to Yuan Sufeng, followed her, and searched nearby.

But after walking around, the two of them didn't find any new duck egg nests.

Yuan Sufeng was discouraged.

"Forget it. We are not so lucky. Let's just cut some grass and go back."

Jiang Yan nodded. "Let's go back from that side. We haven't been on that road before. Let's take a look along the way."

The two continued walking forward and went back to the family compound from another direction. Yuan Sufeng was leading the way with a wooden stick.

“Ga ga ga ga!”

A white-bellied wild duck suddenly flew out from the grass, followed by several more wild ducks flying up from different places.

Jiang Yan hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, there are wild ducks flying out. There must be a wild duck nest nearby. Let's look for it."

So the two of them moved closer to where the wild duck flew.

Push aside the grass and take a look.

Wow!

There really was a nest of duck eggs, but not many, only 5.

Yuan Sufeng was so happy that she quickly picked up the duck eggs, kept two for herself and gave the other three to Jiang Yan.

It was Jiang Yan who suggested taking this route, and it was she who said that we should search for the duck after we found it. I just took action, so my contribution is not as great as Jiang Yan's.

Jiang Yan smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, I'll take two, and you take the remaining three."

Yuan Sufeng hesitated, but thinking about the situation at home, she said embarrassedly: "Okay, sister-in-law will take advantage of you and take one more."