"Grandma, you're talking about this again. I've already made an agreement with him to do business together."
"What kind of business is this? Don't be silly, kid. Doing business is illegal now. Erdan from the village secretly raised chickens and wanted to sell eggs. He was almost arrested. Grandma told him to go. Our family doesn't need a bite of food for you."
"Grandma is not like what you said. She said that catching some fish and shrimp and selling them to the established unit is not against the law."
"Not against the law? Go ahead and do whatever you want. Grandma is old and doesn't understand a lot of things in the city. Things change every day."
As she spoke, grandma leaned back in the bamboo lounge chair and slowly closed her eyes, as if she had fallen asleep.
Zhang Xiuzhi fanned her grandmother with a palm-leaf fan for a while and found that her grandmother's breathing was steady under the starlight and she seemed to be really asleep.
She got up, took a piece of cloth to cover her grandmother, went back to the room and closed the door. After a while, she came out having changed into clean clothes and walked out with a bamboo basket slung around her waist.
When they reached the gate, Zeng Wangcai called her: "Where are you going so late at night?"
"Catch the toad!"
Zhang Xiuzhi couldn't stay idle day or night. She thought that toad was such a delicious thing and city people would definitely like it.
Zeng Wangcai hurried back to the house, carried his tool bag and came out, grabbed a bamboo basket, and followed Zhang Xiuzhi.
The brothers, Little Tiger and Little Leopard, wanted to follow them immediately, but were stopped by their shrewd grandmother: "You two are everywhere, take a rest, I'm telling you, your big brother and Xiuzhi are going out alone, unless you are asked, you two should not follow them..."
If you catch frogs late at night, won't you be able to catch them all together?
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