Chapter 327 Humanoid Tool Shield
With doubts in her heart, Ning Xiyue followed everyone out of the cafeteria and walked towards the Youth League Home.
When they were almost at the Youth House, Liu Yao pointed at the people squatting in the ditch in front and asked curiously, "Are those four people new Youths?"
"Where is it? Let me see."
Wang Mengmeng stood next to Liu Yao and looked in the direction she pointed, and saw four people in the drainage ditches on both sides of the road not far away.
Two boys were in a ditch, one was upstream and the other was downstream.
The two girls were together, one was moving in the ditch, and the other was standing on the side of the road looking down.
The people in the water were half bent or half squatting in the ditch, with their heads down looking intently into the water. From time to time they were running in the water, with their hands pointing vertically downwards as if they were in the water.
However, due to visual obstruction, we cannot see the part below the elbows, and therefore cannot see what they are doing. We can only see people half-squatting inside.
But looking at them walking around in the water, they seemed to be having a lot of fun.
Ning Xiyue looked and saw that the person standing on the side of the road was Sun Meimei. Together with the three people in the ditch, they were indeed the four people she brought back to the Youth League Home this morning.
These four people didn't go to the cafeteria to eat but stayed in this ditch. Don't they feel hungry at all?
"He's a new educated youth."
Ning Xiyue, the only person who had seen the new educated youth, nodded and affirmed Liu Yao's words.
“It’s true!”
Liu Yao looked over there in surprise. She didn't expect that the first time she would meet the new educated youth would be here.
"So what are they doing in there, playing in the water?"
Wang Mengmeng smiled with a puzzled look on her face and asked why these new educated youth seemed so silly. It was the first time she saw some educated youth playing in the ditch on their first day in the countryside.
"They shouldn't be playing in the water. Let's go over and take a look."
Ning Xiyue shook her head in disbelief. They really couldn't be playing in the water. The movements of those people didn't seem like they were playing in the water. The four of them wouldn't give up their meals just to play in the water.
The ditch here reminded her of the news she heard when she was chatting with her aunts yesterday. Maybe these people were sharp-eyed and saw it in the ditch, otherwise she couldn't understand what could be more important than eating.
Just wait and see what happens.
"Are they catching fish?" Ning Qingyuan muttered while looking into the distance. He thought of something and pulled Yu Zhiyu and Wang Jiandong beside him to the fork in the road.
Only three female comrades, Ning Xiyue, Wang Mengmeng and Liu Yao, were walking in front. Ning Xiyue noticed the movements of her second brother and his companions, but did not care what they did.
Her attention was mainly focused on the new educated youth. The team leader handed them over to her in the morning. Before Wu Guifang and Zhao Jianshe returned, she had more or less some responsibility on her.
She, Wang Mengmeng and Liu Yao walked quickly forward. The closer they got, the more they could feel the happiness of the four people. It was impossible not to hear their joyful smiles.
Ning Xiyue heard Tang Xiaohu's cheerful voice: "Ah, I caught another one. My god, this one is so big."
Are you really catching fish?
As far as she knew, this ditch passed through a reservoir. It rained a few days ago, causing the water in the reservoir to be higher than the connected ditch, and the water flowed down through the gap.
This ditch is the main ditch of the brigade. It passes through many places, and many branch ditches are connected to it. It is well-connected and even connected to the big river outside the brigade.
This ditch can be said to connect most of the land of the entire brigade and reach most parts of the brigade.
Recently it is an important time for spring plowing and sowing. The water in the ditch is used for irrigation of the land along the way, which can greatly facilitate the members to irrigate the land after sowing.
In order to ensure that there was enough water in the ditch, the team leader dug the gap in the reservoir and deepened it to ensure that the land was adequately irrigated.
Just yesterday she heard an aunt say that she had scooped up a big crucian carp while diverting water for irrigation.
Many people who knew about this put fish baskets or nets in the ditches outside their homes to catch fish.
I heard from them that they had managed to get some fish and shrimp, so they could add a bowl of meat to the table.
Liu Yao walked over and suddenly asked, "What are you catching in the ditch?"
The few people who were concentrating were frightened, but they calmed down when they saw Ning Xiyue's figure.
"Xiyue, look." Tang Xiaohu was holding a freshly caught eel in his hand and waving it happily.
"Ah, a snake." Wang Mengmeng was so scared that she took a few steps back and hid behind Ning Xiyue.
Liu Yao had been bitten by a snake before, so she was scared when she saw the long object in Tang Xiaohu's hand. She and Wang Mengmeng hid behind Ning Xiyue on both sides.
"......"
Who isn’t afraid of eels? Oh, she is really not afraid of eels.
Ning Xiyue looked at the two people grabbing her shoulders and smiled helplessly: "It's not a snake, it's an eel."
"Yes, yes, it's an eel. You can see it's yellow in color."
Tang Xiaohu knew that what he had in his hand scared others, so he quickly explained and lowered the eel in his hand to show everyone that what he had in his hand was really an eel before putting it into the snakeskin bag hanging by the ditch.
Sun Meimei, who was standing nearby, picked up the sack by the water, ran to Ning Xiyue, and opened the bag to show her.
The two people lying on Ning Xiyue's shoulders curiously stretched their heads to look into their pockets: "Oh, my god, this is too scary."
Seeing this, the two were frightened again. They quickly retracted their heads and tried their best to hide behind Ning Xiyue, resting their heads on Ning Xiyue's back, covering their eyes with their clothes, not daring to look at her again.
At this moment, Ning Xiyue only felt like she was a safety shield. The people on her left and right were huddled behind her human-shaped tool shield and shivering.
Ning Xiyue looked down alone.
There were a lot of eels and loaches huddled together in the bag, and many crucian carps of different sizes entangled together, which was a bit scary visually.
I didn’t realize that these two new female comrades were not afraid of these slippery things at all. They were quite brave and caught so many.
"Don't be afraid, they can't come out, and they won't bite people if they come out." Sun Meimei spoke in a soft voice.
"No, I'm still scared." Liu Yao's hands were shaking as she grabbed the corner of Ning Xiyue's clothes. She moved her feet and took a step back.
"We can fry these tonight and eat together." Tang Xiaohu stood in the water holding a torn net bag and said to Ning Xiyue and others with a smile.
Wang Mengmeng's face was full of rejection, her face wrinkled into a ball, and she waved her hands vigorously: "Thank you, I'll eat in the cafeteria today."
"You are still thinking about the evening. Have you had lunch? If you don't go to the cafeteria, there may be no food." Ning Xiyue reminded kindly.
"Oh, I forgot. I was so excited about catching fish and eels in the ditch. I'll go eat it now. I'm already hungry."
Tang Xiaohu threw the net bag onto the road and picked up a piece of grass from the ditch to wash his hands and feet.
Ning Xiyue walked to the other side where two male educated youth were having a great time catching people and gave the same reminder.
Everyone had the same reaction. In order to catch fish and eels, they had forgotten about eating.
Ning Xiyue was really impressed by these four people. Others were so absorbed in reading that they forgot to eat and sleep, but they were so absorbed in fishing that they forgot to eat and sleep.
It was really amazing, she thought she couldn't do it.
Checking the time on the watch, Ning Xiyue looked at the four new educated youths in front of her, who were holding shoes and fish, with their trouser legs rolled up high and smiling shyly, and said:
"Hurry up, take your things back and pack up. I'll take you to the cafeteria. Don't get lost on the way and miss your meal. If you miss it, you'll be hungry."
"Thank you Sister Xiyue." Li Dabing smiled the most foolishly, with a smear of black mud on his face.
"Go now, don't dawdle."
The four of them quickly ran towards the Youth Courtyard carrying their things. Ning Xiyue stood there waiting for them. She turned around and looked at Liu Yao and Wang Mengmeng who were still hiding behind her and holding her clothes and asked, "Are you two not going back?"
I never realized that these two were afraid of eels before.
"No, we'll follow you." Liu Yao and Wang Mengmeng shook their heads like rattles.
"As an old educated youth, I also want to do something for the new educated youth." Wang Mengmeng raised her voice and said with sincerity.
Whenever she thought about the things those people were carrying and leaving them in the Youth League Home, with no one watching, she and Liu Yao would be the only ones left in the home once they left. They were both scared, wondering what would happen if the things crawled out.
Wang Mengmeng instantly imagined the scene of all the eels and loaches crawling all over the ground in the Youth League Courtyard.
This image occupied my mind and gave me goosebumps all over my body, which I couldn't get rid of even if I hugged my arms.
Liu Yao also thought of this, and shook off the image of the snake crawling on the back of her foot and the icy touch when she was bitten before. She raised her hand and said, "We are just going to pick up Ye Chu. We should walk more to help digest the food."
But I was wondering why the two new female educated youth were not afraid. This thing looks so much like a snake! A pointed head, a long body, and slippery slime. Hey, only the color is different, everything else is alike.
The more Liu Yao thought about it, the more frightened she became, and her whole body shuddered.
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