"Ah Wan, are you alright?!"
Chen Guifang hurriedly threw the bucket in her hand aside and ran over to pull Fu Wan away.
When Fu Ming and Ye Lin saw Fu Wan fall, they immediately panicked.
Fu Wan quickly waved her hand, "I'm fine, don't worry about me, you guys pull the fishing net up first."
Even so, Fu Ming and Ye Lin had lost their earlier excitement and didn't even want to pull the fishing net anymore. They wanted to go and see what was going on with Fu Wan.
Chen Guifang reached out to pull Fu Wan, but Fu Wan didn't reach out. Instead, she put her hand into the river with a strange expression.
"Ah Wan, what's wrong?"
That's all old mud down there, so you can't pull your feet out, right?
While Chen Guifen was lost in thought, Fu Wan touched the large rock under her feet and pulled it out with force.
This thing attracted everyone's attention as soon as it appeared.
Fu Ming was about to ask why they picked up a big rock when he watched as a long head slowly emerged from in front of the rock.
Holy crap!
"Ah Wan, this...this is a soft-shelled turtle!"
It's a soft-shelled turtle!
No wonder I thought I stepped on a stone, but the stone was actually moving.
Ye Lin looked at the turtle, which was about the size of his face, with a complicated expression, and muttered to himself.
"My goodness, Ah Wan's luck is truly amazing!"
"A thousand-year-old tortoise and a ten-thousand-year-old turtle," the turtle in Fu Wan's hand was clearly quite old, probably older than Ye Jianguo.
Chen Guifang was the first to come to her senses and quickly handed over the empty bucket she had with her.
"Ah Wan, put it here quickly!"
Fu Wan threw the turtle in and was about to climb back to shore when she felt a familiar sensation under her other foot.
That can't be right, can it?
She wondered if she was hallucinating, but she still put her hand into the water.
Fu Ming and Ye Lin had just managed to untangle the bighead carp they had caught from the fishing net, thinking that Fu Wan had already come ashore.
To their surprise, when the two turned their heads, they saw the man carrying a large turtle covered in mud out of the river.
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Has this river turned into a wishing well today? Turtle after turtle are offering wishes!
Ye Lin was even more disillusioned with life. Putting aside others, he had at least grown up in this river.
Ye Jianguo taught his two sons to swim in this river, and Ye Lin didn't know how many mouthfuls of river water he had swallowed.
In the past twenty years, all I've caught are some worthless fish and shrimp. As for soft-shelled turtles that can fetch a good price, I haven't even seen a baby soft-shelled turtle, let alone a big one!
But now, can someone tell him why Fu Wan casually stepped on two such large turtles?
River, you feel so unfamiliar to me!
No one knew what Ye Lin was thinking. Chen Guifang put two turtles in the bucket, filling it halfway up in no time.
She grinned from ear to ear, "No wonder Brother Ye Lin told Dad that following A Wan meant we'd have meat to eat. These two turtles can fetch a lot of money!"
Fu Wan raised her eyebrows triumphantly and groped around under her feet again, but this time she didn't find a turtle. She simply washed the mud off her hands and then climbed ashore from the river.
"Cousin, why don't we both go down and try? Maybe we can catch a turtle too. Let's not worry about it being this big, let's get a smaller one so Auntie can braise it!"
Perhaps the braised turtle was too tempting, because Ye Lin's fish were so engrossed that they rolled up their sleeves and headed into the river.
The deep parts of the river were difficult to touch, but the water was shallow on both sides, so when they went down and stood up, the water only reached their thighs.
The two brothers, their heads close to the river, bent over and groped in the mud beneath their feet. Fu Wan and Chen Guifang, on the bank, didn't just watch the spectacle; they quickly rescued the fish still hanging in the fishing net.
"Sister-in-law, this bighead carp looks really big. Let Auntie stew one for us tonight."
The bighead carp, also known as silver carp or chubby-headed fish, has the head that makes up the head of the fish in the chopped chili fish head dish. As the name suggests, the bighead carp has a particularly large and fat head. It is a common freshwater fish, inexpensive, and has far fewer bones than the crucian carp.
Fu Ming and his team caught three bighead carp in this net. One of them was estimated to weigh more than ten pounds, while the other two were much smaller, estimated to weigh at most five or six pounds.
Of course, there were also many small fish, no bigger than the palm of a hand, in the fishing net. Fu Wan threw the grass carp that were still alive back into the river, while the crucian carp and whitebait that didn't grow big were naturally picked up and stewed together.
After Fu Wan and Chen Guifang had sorted out all the fish, Ye Lin and Fu Ming dejectedly prepared to go ashore.
It's obvious we didn't get anything!
"If we didn't get any, so be it. Let's hurry up and get these fish back, or they'll all die of sunburn later."
Chen Guifang picked a few sturdy blades of grass from the nearby bushes and twisted them into a rope. Since the bighead carp couldn't fit in the bucket, she had to thread the rope through the gills and tie it into a knot to carry it back.
As for the turtle, it was so conspicuous that they poured all the small fish in and scooped up some river water, so that the turtle hidden at the bottom of the bucket would not be noticed unless you looked closely.
The task of carrying the fish buckets naturally fell to Ye Lin, while Fu Ming, Fu Wan, and Chen Guifen each carried a bighead carp and a fishing net as they headed home.
They encountered many villagers from Qingshan Village on the way. When they saw Fu Wan and Fu Ming, they didn't react for a moment and thought that people from other villages had come to steal fish. Just as they were about to argue with them, they saw Ye Lin next to them.
"Ah Lin, who are these two people?"
"Auntie, these are my daughters, Wan and Ming. They used to play at my house when they were little. They are my aunt's children."
"Oh, it's Xiao Cui's baby, she's grown so big!"
Knowing that they were Ye Xiaocui's two children, the villagers didn't hold it against them, but instead envied the fish in their hands.
"Ah Lin, these fish were caught in the river in the village. Judging by their weight, they must weigh about ten pounds!"
Ye Lin nodded, "It's in that river network in the village. It rained a few days ago, so the current is strong. If we go now, we might be able to catch a few more. Perfect for having extra food when we get back!"
Upon hearing this, some villagers, too lazy to even change their clothes, prepared to go to the riverbank. Liang Cuifen, among the crowd, gazed greedily at this side, her eyes fixed on nothing but the fish.
Li Chunhua was cooking when she heard the noise outside and knew they had returned. She ran out and was startled.
"My goodness, what a lucky day! These three fish are huge!"
Chen Guifang emptied all the small fish from the bucket, then handed the turtle in the bucket to Li Chunhua.
"Mother, take a look at this first!"
Li Chunhua was puzzled, but when she took a look, her eyes widened instantly.
"Oh my God, this...this..."
She covered her mouth and whispered, "Why are there two turtles this big?!"
Chen Guifang pointed at Fu Wan, "Ah Wan caught her!"
Before Li Chunhua's excitement had subsided, Fu Wan went inside to change her muddy pants, and Ye Lin excitedly ran over and called to her from the doorway.
"Ah Wan, shall we go up the mountain this afternoon? Those chestnut trees there should be ripe by now!"
Go up the mountain? Of course we'll go!
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