Chapter 93 He is

Even if it is not a holiday, there are still some netizens coming to Yanggou Village every day. The weather is neither too cold nor too hot now, which is the best time to go out and play.

You can experience picking on Yantou Mountain, take a boat trip, fish and take beautiful photos in Haotang Village. It is the first choice for young couples to go on a date.

There is no such thing as overtime in the countryside. People work from sunrise to sunset.

Around five in the evening, the construction site was finishing up. Yang Shuhua was packing up and getting ready to go off work when a young couple passed by. Seeing the construction going on, they curiously looked into the yard.

"Are you planning to build a house?"

"Nonsense, isn't this obvious?"

Before Yang Shuhua could reply, the young couple started talking to each other.

"I mean, what's the purpose of building a house? Is it for you to live in?"

Yang Shuhua quickly followed up, "Change it into a B&B. When you come to visit, you can stay at our B&B."

The girl's eyes lit up. "Really? That's great! We wanted to stay for a few more days, but unfortunately we have nowhere to stay. If we have a B&B, we can stay a few more days. Brother, are you a local?"

Yang Shuhua put away his tools and went to the sink to wash his hands. "I'm a local. Where are you from? It's really not easy for you to find your way here."

The girl smiles a lot and seems to have a good temper.

"I saw a blogger recommend it on Xiaofanshu. We happened to live not too far away, so I decided to check it out. I thought it looked so good because of a filter, but I didn't expect it to be so beautiful!"

Yang Shuhua was flattered to hear his hometown praised, and said proudly, "This is just the beginning. In a month, when the lotus flowers bloom, the scenery will be even better. Remember to come then."

"Come, definitely come. When will the B&B be completed?"

Yang Shuhua didn't know when the homestay would be completed. The young couple encouraged him before leaving, which made him feel proud that the cement was not brought in vain.

It only takes about 10 to 20 minutes to walk from Haotang Village to Yanggou Village. Since there was no electric scooter at home, Yang Shuhua took off his dirty clothes and put them away to wear when he worked tomorrow. He said goodbye to his coworkers and set off on his way home.

"Old Wang and the others shouldn't have finished get off work by this time, right?" Looking at the scenery before him, Yang Shuhua was in high spirits. He took out his phone and took a few photos, continuing to post to his Moments. "Who knows how it feels to get off work early? It feels so refreshing, both physically and mentally. Are there any more people who want to work overtime? No way, no way?"

Completely disregarding the life and death of others.

There were very few cars on the country roads. It was just the time when students were leaving school. Occasionally, I saw a few students returning late playing and fighting on the road. The sunset in the sky was leisurely and disappeared slower than the sunset in the city.

"Oh my god, there's more here, come and touch it, my pockets are almost full!"

"I have a lot here too! Look! This one is huge!"

The noise of children on the roadside attracted Yang Shuhua's attention. He walked over and saw several children from the village bending over to pick snails in a small ditch.

"You guys, why don't you go home after school? What are you doing here?"

"Hello, Brother Hua!"

"We are looking for snails, lots of them!"

Yang Shuhua squatted by the ditch, as if he was a child who often picked snails by the ditch after school.

Oncomelania snails are a type of snail unique to this area and have very high requirements for water quality. Shallow ditches like this one on the side of the road were originally used to drain water from rice fields. After a rain, a very shallow layer of water accumulated, just above a child's ankles.

Don't be fooled by the shallow water, there are a lot of good things in it, including snails, small fish, and blind boxes taken out from the mud holes in the ditch. Sometimes they are crayfish, sometimes they are toads, and you might even get spicy strips.

It’s full of childhood memories.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, he has grown from a child into a bored adult, but the children still like these little games.

Yang Mingyuan and his friends caught more and more snails, and it seemed that they could make a dish. Yang Shuhua was itching to try it, so he simply took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and jumped into the shallow ditch.

"You are all younger brothers, watch me!"

Xia Wu drove from far to near and saw several swaying figures in the ditch. He recognized Yang Mingyuan at a glance.

Yang Mingyuan was so tired of finding snails that he had no place to put them, so he took off his clothes and used them to wrap the snails. It was a cool evening breeze, but he was not afraid of the cold.

Xia Wu parked the car, leaned against the window and asked, "What are you guys doing, Yang Mingyuan? Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

"Sister Xia Xia! We are touching snails. Do you want to touch them?"

"Snail?"

Isn't that thing for feeding ducks? Why are you touching it?

"Can I eat it?"

"Yes, it's edible! It's delicious when stir-fried with perilla. My mom grows some perilla. I'll pick some and have her stir-fry it and send it to you."

Yang Mingyuan lowered his head to touch the snail while talking to Xia Wu.

"Let me take a look."

Xia Wu took down a few small baskets of raspberries from the back seat of the car and distributed them to the children. "Yang Shuhua... why are you touching them too?"

Yang Shuhua smiled awkwardly, "I saw them touching each other on the way back. I was worried that they might be in danger, so I kept an eye on them."

Xia Wu looked at him suspiciously, expressing his disbelief.

This guy lifted up his clothes to put on snails!

She threw the basket down, and the children were overjoyed and touched the basket even more vigorously.

Xia Wu squatted by the roadside, watching and watching. Why was it so interesting? She had originally just squatted there, but that wasn't enough, so she found a slope that was easy to climb up and down, got very close, and asked, "Where are the snails?"

"Sister, put your hand in the water and see, there are snails stuck on the rocks and on the grass as well."

Xia Wu followed Yang Mingyuan's instructions and put her hand into the water. She saw a small black dot that seemed to be moving. She touched it and indeed felt a hard little object.

"Hey, it really exists!"

"It's delicious, sister, please touch it more!"

Then there was another figure in the long ditch.

Until it was dark, Xia Wu only found a few snails that were not even at the bottom of the small basket. She was still not satisfied and wondered why she hadn't discovered these earlier.

"Yang Mingyuan, can you still touch it tomorrow?"

"Sister, do you still want to touch it? I know a place with a lot of snails. You can touch them at night. Do you want to go?"

Xia Wu wanted to refuse, but she was in a state of excitement. "Where?"

"By the stream from Yantou Mountain toward Haotang Village, I tell you, there are tons of snails and small yellow croakers!"

"Have you ever been there to catch snails?" Yang Shuhua asked.

"Yes, I go there often in the summer. There are lots of snails there, and they are big. It's so satisfying to touch them!"

Xia Wu immediately made a decision when he heard this. "Okay, let's go tomorrow. Isn't your school over tomorrow?"

The children were very happy to be able to go out and play with adults, and their parents would not stop them. They made an appointment to go catch snails the next day, and the children were no longer attached to this piece of land.

Xia Wu asked them to get in the car and took them back to the village. Before getting off the car, Yang Mingyuan and the other children gave all the snails they had found to Xia Wu.

"Sister, don't forget tomorrow, let's go find snails!"

Xia Wu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This was bribery. "Okay, I won't forget. Go back and do your homework."

Yang Shuhua lived close to the Yang family. When they were almost home, he got out of the car and scratched his head. "How about I give you mine too? It's just this little, not even enough for a whole dish. Tomorrow you go snail hunting, can I come with you?"

Xia Wu: "There's no roof over the river, so go ahead if you want to. I'll call Zhao Jing to come with you tomorrow."

Yang Shuhua: “?” Although he didn’t understand why Xia Wu specifically asked Zhao Jing to come along, he nodded and said, “Okay, the more people the better.”

All the snails that everyone touched were given to Xia Wu. She took them back and poured them into a basin. There were at least two or three pounds of them.

Liu Guizhen said that the snails were edible, so she asked Xia Wu to spit out the mud and sand for a while and then fry them for him to eat tomorrow.

The next morning, Liu Guizhen went to the backyard vegetable garden to pick a bunch of perilla, cut off the butts of the snails, and stir-fried a large pot of snails.

The taste was extremely delicious and won Xia Wu's heart.

Eating snails is very time-consuming. Liu Guizhen and others can suck out the snail meat directly, but Xia Wu can't. She has to pick them out one by one with a toothpick. This kind of clear water snail is a bit bitter, but after being stir-fried with perilla, the bitterness is reduced and there is no mud or sand in the taste. All in all, it is really worth going to Mo in the middle of the night.

Not only is it delicious, but the process of touching it is also fun.

Then Xia Wu cannot be missed.

She sent a photo of the snails to Ji Yunzhou. "I'm going to the river to catch snails tonight. Do you want to go and see? I've already explored the route and it's passable."

Ji Yunzhou quickly replied, "Okay, what is a snail?"

“It’s super delicious to eat, trust me, you’ll love it!”

For the whole day, Yang Mingyuan and his friends were on pins and needles in the school. When the school bell rang, they rushed out with their schoolbags on their backs and ran all the way back.

The children's foreheads were covered with sweat as they ran, shining golden in the setting sun.

"Why are you running so fast?" The adults in the village noticed these children and asked questions.

"Go back and do your homework!"

"The sun is really rising from the west, and you're in such a hurry to do your homework."

"After finishing our homework, we're going to go catch snails!"

So almost everyone in the village knew that Xia Wu was going to take them to the stream to catch snails.

After dinner, we gathered at the door of Xia Wu's house. There were quite a lot of people, including seven children and even more adults, carrying buckets and flashlights. There were so many people and they were by the stream, so the adults were worried and insisted on going along.

Xia Wu called Zhao Jing over, and Yang Shuhua also came. Qi Wei was staying at Fourth Master Yang's house, so it would be a shame not to join in the fun.

Ji Yunzhou drove here and thought he was the only one coming, but Ma Fangzhou and Xia Zhi also got out of the car.

Xia Wu looked around and saw that there were so many people that it looked like a market, and he didn't know if there were enough snails for them to catch.

A group of people rushed to the stream. There was no moon tonight, but there were many stars twinkling, which was a rare sight in the city.

Xia Wu asked Ji Yunzhou to carry the bucket and hold the flashlight, while she pushed Ji Yunzhou herself.

The mountain path should have been difficult to walk on, but there were so many people, and the flashlights were so bright that they illuminated the foot of the mountain.

The stream that Yang Mingyuan mentioned was not far away, and the group arrived there quickly. The stream was about four or five meters wide, and the water was not too deep, the deepest only reaching Xia Wu's thighs. There were stones everywhere, and when they shone the flashlight, they could see a patch of black snails stuck to the stones.

Xia Wu announced that this was the new paradise.

Some villagers rolled up their trouser legs, picked up small buckets, and began to go down to the river to catch snails. The children were ordered not to go into deep places.

Xia Wu found a Feng Shui treasured spot where there were few people. Ji Yunzhou could shine a flashlight for her by the river and they could talk to each other, which at least gave him a sense of participation.

She had specially worn short shorts today, and her straight, slender legs were dazzled by the light. However, she herself was unconscious, and when she touched the snails, she stood up and showed them to Ji Yunzhou, "There are so many, I grabbed a handful, look!"

Ji Yunzhou was immersed in her satisfied smile and laughed along with her, looking carefully at which rock under the water contained the big stuff.

Unfortunately, Xia Wu was so attractive that for some unknown reason, the others moved closer to her while touching her.

"Xiao Wu, how much have you touched?" Zhao Jing came over first, and the two of them put the buckets together. "Hey, you touched quite a lot!"

"That's right. I'm already very skilled at it, and I specifically look for big ones to touch."

Yang Shuhua also came over. He didn't seem very interested in finding snails today, and kept staring at the stream. When he got closer, he said to them mysteriously, "Do you know why the village elders wanted to follow us?"

Xia Wu didn't understand why. "We're worried about the child being in danger, so we're not careful enough."

"No, no, no, that's only one aspect. The real reason is..."

"So you guys are hiding here," Xia Zhi's voice suddenly rang out, startling Yang Shuhua. "Oh my god, why did you come down from here?"

Ma Fangzhou pointed at his feet and said, "Take off your shoes. You didn't tell me we were going into the water to look for snails today. Next time if you want something fun like this, please let me know sooner."

Xia Wu looked and saw that Xia Zhi had also taken off his shoes and rolled up his pants. His exposed legs and feet were whiter than hers, but a little hairier.

She held her forehead helplessly. Who would have thought that they would also join in the fun?

She just wanted to touch it with the little kids!

"So what's the real reason?" Among the crowd, only Zhao Jing remembered that Ma Fangzhou hadn't finished speaking.

Ma Fangzhou coughed and said, "Forget it, I won't say it anymore. I'm afraid it will scare you if I tell you."

"There are so many people here, what's there to be afraid of? Just tell me."

Once Ma Fangzhou instigated it, Yang Shuhua took it seriously.

"Then I'll tell you something," Ma Fangzhou looked at the children from a distance, deliberately lowered his voice, and said mysteriously, "It is said that this place is very troublesome."

The wind rustled the reeds, and the chirping of insects was also noticeable. Xia Wu felt a sudden numbness in her cerebral cortex. She had a vague idea of ​​what Ma Fangzhou meant, but she didn't quite understand. This vague feeling only intensified her fear.

Reason and emotion were at war. Zhao Jing patted Yang Shuhua and scolded him, "You! You love playing tricks!"

After saying that, she bent down and splashed some water towards Yang Shuhua, and the atmosphere instantly became lively.

Ma Fangzhou looked like he had seen a lot of the world, and Xia Zhi didn't take it seriously. One word wouldn't have that much power.

Only Xia Wu, looking at the snails on the rocks at the bottom of the stream, suddenly felt that they were not fragrant anymore.

Damn Yang Shuhua! Damn it!

Not wanting others to see that he was afraid, Xia Wu forced himself to continue touching the snails.

Ji Yunzhou stared at her closely, as if he had discovered something, and suddenly called out, "Xiao Wu."

Xia Wu was frightened by him and trembled. Her voice was trembling and she dared not move: "What's wrong?"

Could it be that he saw something?

"Come here for a moment."

Xia Wu walked ashore as if on thin ice, and after coming ashore he obviously felt less panicked.

"What's the matter?"

Ji Yunzhou took off the Buddhist beads wrapped around his wrist, pulled her hand over, and carefully wrapped it around her.

With the light behind him, no one could see him, so Xia Wu didn't have to worry about anyone seeing through his disguise.

Ji Yunzhou said softly: "There's nothing to be afraid of, I'm here."