Soon Ye Qingshui got a strong net.
In the dead of night, she was carrying a flashlight and a wooden bucket, groping in the dark to catch crabs by the pond. She walked quietly, and the fields were completely silent, with only the occasional barking of the dogs in the village. The barking stopped when they smelled her scent.
Ye Qingshui touched the edge of the pond. Crabs would come out to look for food at night. She calmed down and listened carefully. She heard a faint gurgling sound, which was the sound of crabs blowing bubbles. She could catch one with her bare hands by shining a flashlight. She weighed it in her hand. It was of moderate size, not too big but not too small. It was too laborious to catch it with bare hands, so she prepared to cast a net.
Ye Qingshui's eyes swept back and forth looking for bait. As long as it was meat, it would be fine. Putting it in the net would attract crabs to peck at it.
She searched for a long time before she caught three frogs.
"Oh my god, there's a snake—"
Ye Qingshui, who was squatting by the pond setting a net, hesitated for a moment when he heard the sound.
She shone the flashlight and saw two young men in the field not far away. One of them was Shen Weimin, and the other one turned pale. He saw the light and ran over, panting.
Shen Weimin met Ye Qingshui in the middle of the night with a strange expression. But Ye Qingshui could see that he was forcing himself to be calm.
She saw a very fat snake hovering nearby, staring at Shen Weimin quietly.
Shen Weimin said: “Why are you running? What if the snake chases you?”
Ye Qingshui held up the lantern and couldn't help laughing, "I'll shine the light for you, just run. Snakes get blinded by the light."
Shen Weimin glared at Ye Qingshui unhappily.
After hearing this, the young man quickly ran to Ye Qingshui's side. He stammered, "I was so hungry in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep... so I came..."
Before he could finish his stammering and fearful words, he met Ye Qingshui's eyes, which suddenly flashed with brilliance.
Ye Qingshui looked at the snake beside Shen Weimin's legs and felt suddenly very hungry.
Seventeen or eighteen years old is the age when people grow up. Their stomachs are not full of fat and water. After eating one meal, they are still thinking about the next meal. What's more, she came from an era when people had no worries about food and clothing. She was used to enjoying delicious food and meat. Now that she was back to the time before liberation, she was really hungry.
In Ye Qingshui's eyes, this snake was no different from a few pounds of meat.
The young man's calves were weak and he stuttered, "Brother Chen...don't move."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Qingshui skillfully and with lightning speed grabbed the snake's head and body, pinching it hard.
“Come and lend a hand.” Ye Qingshui handed the snake to Shen Weimin and said in a low voice.
Shen Weimin pinched the snake hesitantly, even though his face turned pale. She took out a knife and killed and skinned the snake in three or five seconds.
Shen Weimin and the young man were completely relieved, and the clothes on their backs were already wet with sweat. In contrast, Ye Qingshui bent his lips and handled the snake meat as if he had picked up a bargain, which was very inappropriate.
Shen Weimin’s opinion went a step further: This woman is indeed tough.
The young man stammered, "Do we... still eat frogs?"
His stomach made a deafening, embarrassing growl.
Ye Qingshui couldn't help but smile. Not all the educated youth from the capital were as wealthy as Xie Tingyu. It was not uncommon for them to catch frogs to eat in the middle of the night when they were so hungry that they were dizzy.
She weighed the snake, which weighed almost two kilograms, and in keeping with her custom of sharing with everyone, Ye Qingshui asked generously, "Do you want to eat snake meat?"
“It’s delicious.”
The young man trembled and shook his head, but in the end he was forced to nod by Shen Weimin.
"eat!"
Before Ye Qingshui left, she picked up the net she had set up. Crabs love meat, so she used the fragrant frog meat as bait. When she lifted up the fishing net, it was heavy, with seven or eight huge blue crabs inside.
The young man praised Ye Qingshui sincerely along the way, and his good words flowed like water, as if they were free:
"I didn't know you were so powerful. You look so weak, but you dared to catch such a big snake with your bare hands."
"Not afraid of danger, great skills!"
"How did you develop such courage? Even a man like me admires you."
Others were polite to her, so Ye Qingshui also curved her eyes and smiled cheerfully: "Country people are not afraid of snakes. Rape snakes are not poisonous, so you can catch them without worry. Do you like to roast or stew them?"
The moonlight shone on her peaceful face. Although her face was covered with thick sunburn marks and looked red, her voice was soft and sweet like sugarcane juice. The young man touched his nose and felt that the rumor was not true.
It’s obviously very cute!
When he realized the second half of Ye Qingshui's sentence, he suddenly shuddered again.
Ye Qingshui had already made up her mind. She decided not to eat such a heavy-tasting food as barbecue in the middle of the night. Besides, her face was injured now, so she couldn't eat greasy or spicy food. She returned home and asked everyone to sit down. She used a knife to carefully cut the snake meat in the woodshed.
Two kilograms of meat was undoubtedly a huge fortune in Ye Qingshui's eyes.
She used mushrooms to make the soup base, scooped out a spoonful of lard, stir-fried the snake meat with pepper, ginger, garlic and rice until the aroma came out, and stewed it in the clear mushroom soup. The firewood under the pot occasionally "popped" and small sparks popped, the soup gurgled slightly, and the light aroma became more tempting in the quiet night.
The tranquility at this moment was very distant and inexplicably peaceful. Cicadas rustled in the night, and the two men felt a sense of exhaustion after surviving a disaster, as well as a sense of happiness waiting for food. When the aroma had raised their expectations, the soup was ready.
The young man trembled as he picked up the bowl. He only drank the soup and didn't dare to eat the meat. He picked some mushrooms to eat. The snake oil melted in the snake meat was fragrant. After drinking the light soup, the tip of the tongue was filled with endless freshness that could not be suppressed. It tasted better than chicken soup.
Since Shen Weimin had eaten the braised pork at Ye’s house last time, the less he cared, the more he missed it.
But he couldn't bring himself to come to the Ye family for dinner, even though Xie Tingyu had guessed his thoughts and "kindly" invited him a few times. How could he bow down to the desire for food?
But the braised pork couldn't make him bow down, a bowl of snake soup seemed to be enough.
He picked at the snake meat in the bowl and ate it. The meat was lean and smooth, more fragrant and tender than frog meat, but with fewer bones. The soup was so delicious that it warmed your stomach. After drinking all the soup, the delicious taste was still on your tongue. The bowl was empty, but Ye Qingshui didn't ask him to eat it. The unsatisfied stomach prompted him to shamelessly serve another bowl.
It’s simply delicious.
Shen Weimin's family was not short of money, and they were given enough food coupons and meat coupons every month. He used to occasionally go to state-owned restaurants with Xie Tingyu to eat. He was not as picky about food as Xie Tingyu, so he enjoyed eating more.
The young man saw two people eating snake meat vigorously and enjoying it. The honest child who was drinking soup and eating vegetables obediently also saw something wrong. He picked up the last piece of snake meat in the pot and ate it, and almost cried.
He trembled and said, “Brother Shen, you are not kind enough.”
Shen Weimin pushed back, “Did you run faster than me just now?”
The young man looked at the half of the snake left in the basin and looked at Ye Qingshui with expectant eyes.
Ye Qingshui was still thinking about making snake soup to nourish her mother and grandmother tomorrow. She covered the basin of snake meat with a wave of her hand:
"Don't look at it, you can't eat it anyway. It's wishful thinking to eat from the bowl and look at the pot!"
Young man and Shen Weimin: "..."
They couldn't help but cast their eyes on the crabs that were ready to move in the fishing nets.
Ye Qingshui put away the crabs and chased the two people out. "That's enough for tonight. Eat and drink your fill and go home to sleep."
The young man looked at the remaining soup in the pot unwillingly, took out two taels of food coupons and put them down, and left reluctantly. Shen Weimin, however, stared at the black creature in the net, lost in thought.
After Shen Weimin and the young man left, Ye Qingshui pickled the remaining snake meat and placed the river crabs in a bucket with a thin layer of water. After brushing her teeth, washing her face and taking a bath, she returned to the house and saw Xie Tingyu rubbing his sleepy eyes, frowning and staring at her with an unhappy look.
"It's so late, what are you doing?"
His unhappy tone was a bit like that of a husband caught cheating on his wife.
However, Ye Qingshui knew that he didn't mean that. He was in a very bad mood when he woke up, and he was just upset because he was woken up.
Shen Weimin and he, the children of the big courtyard, have similar temperaments and morals, and have a little sense of superiority. However, Xie Tingyu reads a lot of books and hides it better. In fact, his temper is worse! When Ye Qingshui had a very unhappy time with him in her previous life, he used the excuse of teaching her to read to discipline her every now and then, with a smile on his face, and he was very happy to discipline her.
At that time, Ye Qingshui saw that he was happy, so she was happy too. He was a person who had to be stroked in the right way, not against him. The more he was treated against her, the more he would hold a grudge.
It was late at night, and people's defenses were weakened. Ye Qingshui had been busy all day and felt sleepy. She habitually tried to please Xie Tingyu as she did in her previous life:
"Don't be angry, it's all my fault. I won't do this again next time."
After she finished speaking, she looked confused???
Xie Tingyu felt comfortable listening to her soft words. He lay down, turned over and fell asleep quickly.
The author has something to say:
Pingshengjun: Brother Yu, don't get used to it too quickly
Easy to get swollen face
Yuge: Oh :)
Pingshengjun: "..."
Small theater:
So when Yu Ge woke up the next day
He was very unhappy to find that the snake meat that belonged to him had been eaten by other wild men.
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