Chapter 13: Interception

When Lin Qi went down to the river, the water had already become turbid. She avoided the area where San Ya had walked and walked towards a deeper place.

In fact, the deeper the water, the better. If the water is too deep, the shrimps will jump out of the dustpan before it comes out of the water. So these experienced children did not blindly go to the deep water area, even if the so-called deep water area did not cover their heads.

When Lin Qi fished for the first time, she clearly saw several shrimps run out of the basket before the basket came out of the water, and in the end only two were left.

Two very small ones! She had just asked Sanya, and Sanya said that these shrimps would not grow big, and there would be no change if they were kept.

So small! Lin Qi put them into her sleeves in front of her chest while looking at them with disdain. This won't work, not only is it too slow, but it also takes a lot of effort to fish them out once. Her current physical strength can only support her to fish them out 10 to 20 times.

We have to think of other ways.

Lin Qi did not clean the water plants in the dustpan, but directly immersed the dustpan together with the water plants into the water. After the dustpan was completely submerged in water, she injected a thin strand of wood-based supernatural power into the water plants.

On the shore, exhausted San Ya lay on a big rock, exposing herself to the sun and letting the sun dry her clothes.

"Saya, why don't you go down?" Hongmei also went ashore.

"Tired." San Ya replied weakly, "Catching shrimps is more tiring than cutting grass for pigs."

Hongmei looked at her thin body and said, "Go home if you are tired. Go home and rest."

"I still have to wait for Lin Qi. She is holding my dustpan." San Ya turned her head to look at Lin Qi in the river. Seeing that Lin Qi did not move, she said helplessly, "She must be tired too."

"I see you get along pretty well with her. Don't you dislike her?" Hongmei asked curiously.

"I don't dislike her. She's not stupid. She's no different from normal people except that she speaks and walks a little slower. Besides, she's pretty." San Ya didn't hide the envy in her tone. "We were tanned together in the sun, and I got even darker the next day, but she was back to her original color the next day, as white and tender as tofu. How can there be someone like her who doesn't get tanned?"

"It doesn't look good if it's too white." Hongmei frowned, suppressing the jealousy in her heart, "The elders said that rosy skin means good fortune, and dark skin means health."

Lin Qi didn't pay attention to the conversation on the shore. Her mind was focused on the dustpan. Less than two minutes after her ability entered the water plants, the surrounding herbivorous creatures came over one after another. There were not only shrimps, but also fish, crabs, snails, and some creatures she didn't recognize.

When the time was almost up, she quickly lifted the dustpan out of the water. With a splash, countless fish and shrimp jumped in the dustpan, about a bowl's worth.

Lin Qi curved her eyebrows, held the winnowing basket in one hand, and picked up the fish and shrimps into her sleeves with the other hand.

There was a drought in the past few years, and not only the shrimps, but also the fish here were not big, the largest was no more than two or three fingers in size.

After scooping up a basket of fish, Lin Qi moved to another place and tried the same trick again.

The second harvest was similar to the first. After two attempts, one of her sleeves was already full. She followed San Ya's method and used another sleeve as a container. After two more attempts, she should be able to fill up this sleeve as well.

The third time, Lin Qi went to a place with fewer people, and this time she gained more than the previous two times.

The fourth time, Lin Qi changed her location. At this time, there was no one within 50 meters of her. After waiting for about ten minutes, just as Lin Qi was about to take out the dustpan, a water snake swam over.

The water snake was plump and as thick as two fingers. When Lin Qi saw it for the first time, she was not afraid, but her eyes lit up. This was food!

After the water snake entered the dustpan, she quickly picked up the dustpan and used her supernatural power to freeze the water snake when it was about to swim out of the dustpan. But just as she was about to free her hand to catch the snake, another hand moved faster than hers, grabbed the snake's head, and took it away.

"Don't be afraid, it's not poisonous," said the owner of the hand.

Lin Qi was stunned. What should she say? Should she say that she was not afraid and wanted to eat the snake? But was this a normal reaction for a city girl to see a snake?

At this moment, Lin Qi felt a little angry towards Xu Hexiao.

Xu Hexiao knew nothing about it. Instead, he thought she was scared and continued to comfort her, "It's really not poisonous and you can eat it."

"I'm not afraid." Lin Qi lowered her head to pick up the fish and shrimp in the dustpan. She was afraid that if she looked at it for too long, she would not be able to help but snatch the snake from the other person's hand.

Xu Hexiao hid the hand holding the snake behind his back. After making sure that Lin Qi couldn't see the snake, he looked at her dustpan. When he saw it, he was shocked. There were so many!

Are there so many fish and shrimp in the river now? No, he had just been here the night before yesterday and although he had some catches, it was not unusual for him to catch so many at once.

Xu Hexiao looked at Lin Qi with a complicated expression. This little fool was really lucky.

"There may be other snakes here, you should go to another place." Xu Hexiao reminded.

Lin Qi hummed but didn't say she was going back. She was still angry and didn't want to talk to him.

After Lin Qi left, Xu Hexiao also left. He came ashore from another place and took the snake with him.

"Are there shrimps in your sleeves?" San Ya looked at Lin Qi's bulging sleeves and asked uncertainly.

Lin Qi nodded, and poured some fish and shrimp from her sleeves into the dustpan, about a bowl's worth, "Give it to you."

Sanya was surprised, "Give it to me?"

"Here you go." After borrowing San Ya's dustpan, Lin Qi didn't think there was anything wrong with giving her some.

"You are quite generous." Hongmei had a complicated expression. At this moment, she was extremely envious of San Ya. This was a bowl full of fish and shrimp.

Lin Qi didn't respond to Hongmei's words. She looked up at the sky. The sun was about to set. She should go back, otherwise she would be late for dinner.

Lin Qi caught about four pounds of fish and shrimp, not a lot, but not a small amount either. Lin Qi planned to eat half tonight and dry the other half for storage.

Dinner was whole grain shrimp cakes and wild vegetable soup. After Lin Qi made the cakes and cooked the soup, she still served her portion. She was not in a hurry to eat, but fetched two buckets of water to take a shower in the bathroom.

The smell of fish and shrimp on my body is too strong.

So, when Ming Kangjian and the others entered the room, they heard the sound of water before they saw Lin Qi. When they heard that the sound of water came from the bathroom, the faces of the four boys instantly sank. The reason was that they were the ones carrying the water.

"What's going on? Didn't we agree that everyone should go to the river to wash?" Zhao Yi suppressed his anger.

The others didn't respond, but all looked unhappy.

At this time, Lin Qi walked out while wiping her hair.

"Lin Qi, we said we would go to the river to take a bath." Ma Guizhi spoke first.

Lin Qi didn't look at them. After hanging the towel on the clothesline, she walked towards the kitchen.

"I'm tired." She said, sounding righteous.

"You've only been cutting grass for pigs for half a day, and you're still tired!" Ma Guizhi was so angry that her chest was about to explode. "We've worked all day, bent over all day, and we're not more tired than you! You come back from a tiring day and still have to fetch water. Do you have a conscience?"

Lin Qi had already sat down at the dining table. She took a sip of the soup, which had already cooled down, and said after putting down the bowl, "Catching shrimps is tiring."

She was telling the truth. Even though she had only fished for it a few times, she had overused her powers and now her whole body ached. She was so tired that she didn't want to talk.

"Catching shrimps?" Ming Kangjian repeated Lin Qi's words and also noticed the pancakes on the table. The thin pancakes contained not only shrimps, but also fish.

"No wonder I smelled a faint aroma of fish and shrimp as soon as I entered the door. I thought I was starving and my sense of smell was malfunctioning, but it turns out there really are fish and shrimp." Jian Yitong swallowed his saliva and went to wash his hands. "There are fish and shrimp. I can go get some water."

"You should have told me earlier that there were fish and shrimp. If there were fish and shrimp every day, it wouldn't be a problem to fetch water every day." Zhao Yi also changed his words.

The others didn't say anything, which was considered as their agreement.

Lin Qi spread out eighteen pancakes, two for each of the women and three for each of the men, just enough to share.

However, it was just enough to share, not enough to eat. After eating the cake, each of them drank two bowls of wild vegetable soup. After their stomachs were full, they felt a little satisfied.

"Are there many fish and shrimp in the water?" Jian Yitong asked.

Lin Qi thought about it and shook her head, "Not really, it's a lot."

"But I see there are quite a lot of fish and shrimp in this cake." Jian Tong kept looking into Lin Qi's eyes, as if he wanted to see through her.

Lin Qi stopped talking.

"She, who is slow in movement, can catch so many. If we go instead, we will definitely get more." Zhao Yi was eager to try.

"Yes, let's go. These shrimps are delicious when used to make pancakes! Let's get some more, dry them, and store them to eat slowly." Mo Mingyang rubbed his hands together.

Ming Kangjian couldn't help but be tempted, "Then let's go, let's go on our day off."

Lin Qi silently got up and went to wash the dishes.

The remaining fish and shrimp were still being roasted on the iron plate, and Lin Qi was waiting quietly on the side.

"Save these for tomorrow?" Gan Tian also sat over.

Lin Qi: “….”

She wanted to save more and send it back to her parents and brother to try.

"Why don't you say anything? Are you unhappy?" Gan Tian frowned.

"I won't eat this. I'll send it home." Lin Qi said.

"They abandoned you in the countryside, and you still send things back to them?" Gan Tian was surprised.

"It's not lost." Lin Qi couldn't explain what happened, but she didn't want others to misunderstand her parents and brother.

"How can it not be lost? Sending a fool who can't be supported to the countryside is a loss." Gan Tian wanted to scold Lin Qi to wake her up and make her face the reality.

However, Lin Qi still said those two words, "Not lost."

Gan Tian rolled her eyes, "You are such a stubborn person."

"Why are you talking to her so much? She's a fool and won't understand." Ma Guizhi came out of the room with toiletries in her hand, "Go take a shower, it's getting dark."