Cui retorted irritably, "Why do you say that?"
Before Guo Xuantong could answer, she continued, "I'd like to ask you, why are you always hostile towards Madam Lu? Is it because of her husband? Have you forgotten what your mother taught you? You've disappointed me greatly."
Meeting her mother's gaze, Guo Xuantong felt a sudden panic and quickly explained, "I have no hostility towards her. I just feel that it is too unfair for you, Mother, to be so humble towards a village woman."
Cui stared at her intently for a while before saying, "Don't talk about her like a country bumpkin anymore. She is the wife of our benefactor, who is also our savior."
Guo Xuantong agreed verbally, but she didn't take her mother's words seriously.
In her opinion, it was Lu Shiyan who saved them, what did it have to do with Jiang Tangtang?
Moreover, she was just a beautiful village woman.
There are plenty of beauties like that in that brothel. My benefactor is certainly not such a shallow person as to be bewitched by her appearance.
He might divorce her at any time.
*
Jiang Tangtang and Lu Chenyan spent a whole day working on it before they finally managed to weave the fishing net.
After the fishing net was woven, she couldn't wait to try it out.
It was getting dark, and everyone was getting ready to wrap up work. Lu Shiyan also had some free time.
Jiang Tangtang, holding a fishing net, happily approached Lu Shiyan and said, "Husband, let's go catch some fish!"
"No need for fishing nets to catch fish." Lu Shiyan grabbed a knife and was about to go into the river.
Jiang Tangtang grabbed him and said, "Husband, I'll take you to a place where the fish are huge."
She painstakingly wove the fishing net, not just to catch fish, but also because she was eyeing the wild duck eggs in the lake.
Wild duck eggs are hard to retrieve from the bottom of the lake, but she had heard an old man say that when he was raising fish in the countryside in the 1980s, he could scoop up a lot of duck eggs from the bottom of the lake with his fishing net every time he went fishing.
So she wanted to give it a try.
Thinking about the large number of wild duck eggs that were found at the bottom of the lake when the scanning system was used that day, Jiang Tangtang happily picked up a large basket.
"Mother." Lu Chenyan blinked and looked at Jiang Tangtang, asking, "Where are we going?"
Jiang Tangtang found her son increasingly adorable and couldn't resist pinching his cheek. "Go try out the fishing net we made today."
Seeing the little one's eyes sparkling, she asked again, "Does Yan Yan want to go?"
Lu Chenyan nodded happily.
"Let's go then! Yan Yan will come along too."
Thinking that her son was too young to walk properly, Jiang Tangtang decided to bring the pony over for him to ride.
Lu Shiyan picked up the little guy and put him on his shoulders.
Lu Chenyan was initially a little scared and nervously clung to his father. But soon, he was captivated by the unique view and started giggling.
Jiang Tangtang followed beside him, watching the interaction between the father and son, and felt a strange warmth in her heart.
That seems like a good idea.
Halfway there, Lu Shiyan put Lu Chenyan down and asked the two of them to wait for him by the river.
He leaped to the opposite cliff, quickly picked a bunch of wild fruit, and handed it to the two of them, saying, "Try it."
This fruit looks a bit like a banana, but unlike a banana, it grows on a tree.
The ripe fruit has a slightly sweet taste like sugarcane and is very delicious and juicy.
After taking a bite, Jiang Tangtang exclaimed with delight, "Husband, you eat some too! It's delicious!"
The group sat together on a large rock by the river and enjoyed wild fruits. After a hearty meal, they continued on their way.
By the time we reached the lake, it was completely dark. Fortunately, the moon was exceptionally bright that night, and its light helped us see the path.
Looking at the waist-high weeds, Jiang Tangtang felt a chill. Although she had already scanned the area with the system and knew there were no snakes, she still had a strange fear of these kinds of grasses at night.
But she felt embarrassed to ask Lu Shiyan to hug her in front of her son.
Lu Shiyan handed her a wooden stick, saying, "When you walk alone on a mountain path in the future, tap the grass on both sides with this stick first, and the snakes will be scared away."
Seeing that she still had a frown on her face, Lu Shiyan said again, "Don't worry, I've checked, there are no snakes around here."
Jiang Tangtang glanced at her son, who was looking at her with his head tilted to the side, took a deep breath, picked up a stick, and walked with the two of them through the grass to the lake where they had previously collected wild duck eggs.
As soon as the two reached the lakeside, they startled a flock of wild ducks.
Jiang Tangtang exclaimed excitedly, "Husband, there are so many wild ducks! Quickly, catch a few!"
The moment she shouted, Lu Shiyan had already acted. In just a few moments, he had caught three wild ducks.
He twisted the ducks' necks, and they all died instantly. Lu Shiyan handed her a few ducks, "Want more?"
Jiang Tangtang was craving duck meat, but looking at the wild duck's unseeing eyes when it died, she felt inexplicably scared.
She shook her head and said, "This is enough."
Seeing Lu Shiyan looking at him, he added, "After the house is repaired, we'll catch some and tame them."
"I'll come back to catch them then," Lu Shiyan said, starting to straighten his clothes and preparing to go into the water to catch fish.
Jiang Tangtang stopped him and said, "Let's use the net first."
After instructing Lu Chenyan to stay put, the two found a spot without lotus roots and began to cast their net.
The net was pulled up, but not many fish were caught. However, most of the wild duck eggs at the bottom of the lake were pulled up.
Looking at the many light green duck eggs in the fishing net, Jiang Tangtang almost flew with joy.
Even the usually quiet little one ran over and exclaimed happily, "Wow, so many duck eggs!"
Looking at her son's adorable smiling face, Jiang Tangtang said, "I'll make you steamed egg custard later."
Lu Shiyan carefully placed the fishing net on the soft grass, then took his knife and went back into the lake to catch fish.
Jiang Tangtang took Lu Chenyan and taught him how to identify duck eggs. "When you hold them, smell them and shake them. If they smell bad and make a splashing sound, they're bad, okay? Don't put the bad ones in the basket."
As she spoke, she took a duck egg and showed it to him as an example.
Lu Chenyan followed her example, holding the duck egg in his little hand, smelling it, shaking it, and finally putting it in the basket.
Perhaps because the area was shady and the water temperature was low, the two of them only found three bad duck eggs in the end.
The basket was full of duck eggs, with a dozen or so still overflowing. Jiang Tangtang thought for a moment and asked the little one, "Are you hungry? Do you want some roasted duck eggs?"
Although Lu Chenyan didn't say he wanted to eat it, the way he licked his lips while looking at the round duck eggs clearly showed that the little guy was really craving them.
Jiang Tangtang looked at the duck eggs on the ground and thought for a moment, then said, "Wait a moment, I'll go pick some lotus leaves."
She picked some lotus leaves and dug some mud by the lake. First, she wrapped the duck eggs in lotus leaves, then covered them with mud.
Jiang Tangtang was quite pleased with her cleverness. "This way it shouldn't explode!"
Only after all the duck eggs were wrapped did she realize that she didn't have any tools to start a fire.
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