"Do you know anyone who has wire mesh frames?" Su Tian asked.

“There’s one at our educated youth settlement, I’ll go get it.”

"Here, have a White Rabbit candy to sweeten your mouth." Su Tian stuffed a candy into Ma Chunling's hand.

"Haha, thank you. I really like this candy; it has a rich and fragrant milky flavor."

The two girls, eating candy and carrying a net basket and a wooden bucket, walked to the riverbank. When they arrived, there were already quite a few children watching from the shore.

Some of the braver ones have already gone into the water to catch fish, and some children are also catching snails.

Su Tian frowned: "Isn't anyone taking care of the children who went into the river? The river has just rained, and it's flowing quite fast."

When they reached the shore, some school children recognized them and, knowing they were their teachers, quickly ran away.

Some families didn't send them to school, treating them only as educated youth from the village.

"Come on, Chunling, let's go upstream and take a look." Su Tian called to Ma Chunling and walked upstream.

They reached upstream, and Su Tian rolled up her trousers and instructed, "I'll go down and fish them out. You stay here and pick the big ones."

After saying that, Su Tian, ​​barefoot, rolled up her trouser legs a little higher and stepped into the river.

The river water was a bit cool, but it didn't bother Su Tian at all. Holding the net frame, she carefully lowered the net into the water and then slowly dragged it, feeling the slight weight coming from the bottom of the net.

When Su Tian lifted the net frame out of the water, she mentally gave it a big thumbs up: This snail is quite big.

Wow, we've struck it rich! Such huge clams!

"That's right, let's continue."

Su Tian stuffed the net basket back into the riverbed and continued scooping things up.

Ma Chunling threw away the open, small, and some other trash on the shore.

After Su Tian scooped up three baskets, she saw that idiot Lu Xiao coming over with a wooden bucket.

"Su Tian, ​​you're so boring! You came to collect snails and didn't even call me? Luckily, I had to ask someone else to find out you were here."

"There are snails in the river too? I thought they were only in the sea. Are these snails tasty?"

Su Tian listened to Lu Xiao's nagging but didn't say anything and continued to scoop it up.

"Su Tian, ​​you come up here, I'll go down and retrieve it. It's too tiring for a girl like you to do this." He said as he rolled up his trouser legs.

Seeing Lu Xiao's enthusiasm, Su Tian handed him a net basket and came up from the river to let him go down and fish.

"Wow, is it that difficult? It's quite heavy to pull it out of the water."

He poured the snails he had scooped up onto the shore for Su Tian and the others to pick through.

Lu Xiao scooped out six baskets before he could fill their two buckets.

By this time, they had been working for three hours.

"Ugh, I'm so tired, I need to rest for a while before going back."

“Okay, I’ll wait for you. Once we’ve rested, we can each carry one bucket back,” Su Tian replied.

Suddenly, they heard cries for help.