Chapter 13 A familiar scene
After the old doctor entered the room, he came out again soon.
He was holding a small box in his hand.
"Take this."
The old doctor handed the box to Lu Qing.
"What's this?"
Lu Qing opened the box and saw a small bundle of almost transparent white silk threads inside.
"This thread was given to me by a wounded knight when I was traveling abroad in my early years. I saved him."
"I don't know exactly what it is, but this thread is extremely tough and can't be easily broken. It should meet your requirements for making fishing lines."
"Grandpa Chen, this is too precious. I can't accept it." Upon hearing this, Lu Qing quickly pushed the thing back.
Anything that someone gives as a reward for saving their life must be extraordinary, so Lu Qing really doesn't dare to take it casually.
However, when he heard the word "knight", his heart was moved.
There really are such extraordinary people in this world.
But Doctor Chen didn't answer.
He waved his hand and said, "Just take it. This thing is useless to me. I have had it for more than ten years and I have never used it. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten that I had such a thing in my hand."
"Since you need strong silk thread to make fishing line, you might as well use it. This is also a good use of it. Otherwise, it will just keep gathering dust here."
"If you really feel unworthy of this, you can give me a portion when you catch something good. The small fish I caught yesterday was quite delicious and perfect for drinking."
Lu Qing held the box, feeling both grateful and ashamed.
The old doctor treated him and his sister so well, he had previously wanted to secretly learn other people's skills, which he felt really ashamed of.
Looking at the box in his hand, Lu Qing made a silent decision in his heart.
In the following days, unless Dr. Chen takes the initiative to teach.
Otherwise, he would never try to imitate the old doctor's skills.
"Don't worry, Grandpa Chen, I will definitely send it to you as soon as I catch something good in the future!"
Lu Qing held the small box tightly and said seriously.
The old doctor laughed heartily: "Haha, then I'll look forward to it!"
Coming out of the old doctor's house, Lu Qing was excited.
Today’s harvest is really huge.
Not only did he gain the favor of Dr. Chen and regulate his health, but he also got the opportunity to be taught by him to identify medicinal materials.
I even got a box of silk threads of mysterious origin.
Lu Qing's intuition told him that the box of silk thread given to him by the old doctor was not ordinary.
But before at the old doctor's place, he couldn't keep staring at the silk thread, otherwise he could use his supernatural powers to find out what was going on.
When Lu Qing came down from the mountain with Xiaoyan and returned to the village, he happened to see several villagers coming back from the village entrance, carrying bamboo poles and buckets, talking and laughing.
As soon as he saw Lu Qing, he started shouting from afar: "Lu Qing!"
"Uncle Shi, did you just come back from fishing?"
Lu Qing asked when he saw the poles on the villagers’ shoulders.
"Yeah." The villager whom Lu Qing called Uncle Shi said excitedly, "Didn't we hear about your method of fishing with earthworms yesterday? This morning, Dashan and I dug some earthworms and went to the river to try it out. You know what, Lu Qing, your method is really effective. Look, this is what we got today!"
After saying that, he showed the bucket in his hand to Lu Qing.
Lu Qing took a look and found that there were quite a few fish in the bucket, about one or two kilograms.
Some of them were bigger than the ones he caught yesterday.
He looked at the buckets of several other villagers, and surprisingly, they all had a good harvest. The least he could get was half a pound of small fish.
One villager was lucky enough to catch a big fish weighing more than one kilogram.
But the villager was also upset: "I had caught a bigger one, but the fish was so strong that it broke my line and I couldn't even find the hook!"
"I told you not to pull so hard and to slow it down a bit, but you insisted on struggling with it. It would be strange if the line didn't break!" a villager accused.
"I never thought that the fish would be so strong. I think the fish must weigh more than five kilograms!"
"Come on, it's only two kilograms at most. If it's five kilograms, you won't be able to pull it back the first time!"
"Definitely five pounds!"
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Listening to the villagers arguing about how big the big fish that had not been pulled up was, Lu Qing couldn't help laughing.
He was very familiar with this scene.
It was the same when he went fishing with his fishing friends in his previous life.
If someone's line is cut, no matter how it is cut, they must always exaggerate the size of the fish.
Anything less than ten kilograms is disrespectful to your fishing skills!
I didn't expect that even after being reborn into another world, I could still see this scene.
Sure enough, no matter which world they are in, the temperaments of fishermen are so similar.
Lu Qing's laughter made Uncle Shi and the others feel a little embarrassed.
Especially Xiaoyan's eyes widened as she watched them quarrel, which made them feel even more ashamed.
A group of adults arguing like this in front of two children really undermines the dignity of the elders.
"Lu Qing, where are you coming from?"
In order to ease the embarrassment, Uncle Shi could only change the subject.
Lu Qing replied: "Xiaoyan and I just came back from Grandpa Chen."
Uncle Shi nodded: "Doctor Chen, that's right. He cured your illness. You should go to his house to thank him."
But he mistakenly thought that Lu Qing was going to thank the old doctor.
"Well, if it weren't for Grandpa Chen, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to stand here." Lu Qing did not deny it.
"By the way, Lu Qing, the way we fish is all provided by you. You can pick a few of the fish here to take back and eat." Uncle Shi said.
"Yes, if it weren't for your idea, we wouldn't have known that earthworms could be used for fishing!"
"Pick mine, pick mine, my fish is bigger!"
"Bullshit, yours is not as big as mine, I caught the biggest fish, pick mine!"
Several other villagers also said this.
"Uncles, no thanks. I haven't finished eating the fish I caught yesterday." Lu Qing declined.
"If you can't finish it, just eat more. You and Xiaoyan are both so thin. Fish is more nutritious, so you should eat more fish!"
In the end, Lu Qing still couldn't convince the villagers, so he symbolically picked a few fish from each villager's bucket and strung them on some grass pulled from the roadside.
In this way, we caught more than half a pound of fish in one go.
"Take a little more!" Uncle Shi continued to persuade.
"I really can't take any more. If I take more, there won't be enough oil and salt to cook fish at home."
This time, Lu Qing refused to take it no matter what.
When Uncle Shi and others heard him say this, they finally stopped trying to persuade him.
Indeed, if fish is cooked without oil and salt, the fishy smell cannot be suppressed and it really does not taste good.
In this way, Lu Qing took a string of fish, said goodbye to Uncle Shi and others with Xiaoyan, and returned to his own courtyard.
When he got home, he put the fish into the kitchen first.
Then he took out the small box that Doctor Chen had given him.
Open the box and look quietly at the silk thread inside.
(End of this chapter)
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