After they left, Bai Nuo breathed a sigh of relief. "Brother Long, please don't come again." She didn't really want to lie to the Long brothers, but she really couldn't tell them. If she did, she would be finished.
Let the Zhang family go find that old man. It would be best if such an old man didn't exist in this world. After searching for a while, the Zhang family gave up.
After the Long brothers left, Bai Nuo observed for a few more days and asked A Yu. A Yu also said that he had not seen any strange people appearing nearby or following her. Bai Nuo was relieved. Then, every day after setting up her stall, she and A Yu would fetch water from the river and pour it into the fishpond. Later, a heavy rain came and filled the fishpond to about eight-tenths full. Bai Nuo breathed a sigh of relief and was also a little glad that God was indeed taking pity on her. Then she caught a lot of big, fat fish, shrimp, clams and other creatures from the river and threw them into the pond before she stopped.
In the following years, whenever she had time, Bai Nuo would go to the riverbanks she had never been to before to look for old river mussels. After several years of hard work, her river mussel farming had reached a certain scale, but that's another story.
After digging the fishpond, Bai Nuo planted some seasonal greens, ginger, garlic, and scallions in the vegetable garden next to the fishpond. Seeing the vegetables all around the pond, Bai Nuo felt very satisfied. From now on, she would have vegetables to eat and wouldn't have to look for wild vegetables or go to town to buy vegetables every day.
Moreover, it's farm-style cooking, which is healthy, green, and environmentally friendly.
Later, I'll build a chicken coop or duck coop at home and raise a few chickens or ducks. The chickens can be let to eat insects by the fishpond, and the ducks can swim in the fishpond. We can also eat their meat.
We also need to raise a few pigs.
Bai Nuo was at home, looking at the direction of the fishpond and planning what to do, when she suddenly saw a child slip into the fishpond. After struggling for a few moments, the child disappeared. Startled, she quickly called for A Yu, grabbed a long stick, and ran over.
Oh no! The fishpond isn't very deep, but it's not shallow either. That little kid is only a little over a meter tall. If he goes into the fishpond, he might only have his neck left. If he can't swim or gets a leg cramp, he could drown in no time.
"Ayu, go over there..." Sure enough, when Bai Nuo and Bai Yu went to the edge of the fishpond, they saw a little boy splashing around in the middle of the pond, with only his head above the water. Huge waves were splashing all around him.
"If you can't swim, don't go down there..." Bai Nuo frowned, quickly told A Yu to go to the other side, and then stretched out the bamboo pole herself. She shouted loudly, "Grab either of the bamboo poles on either side of you!" The reason for finding two bamboo poles was that Bai Nuo was afraid that the child would drift further and further away from the poles as he struggled. It was better to have two people than one.
Upon hearing this, the child opened his eyes and glanced at Bai Nuo, then began to thrash about even more violently. Even Bai Nuo, who was on the shore, felt his clothes getting wet. The more the child thrashed about, the less he could hold onto the pole that Bai Nuo or Bai Yu were extending. Instead, he thrashed about where there was no pole, and eventually his entire head was about to disappear below the surface of the water.
If this continued, he would surely drown in the fishpond. In a panic, Bai Nuo didn't have time to think and jumped into the water. When he swam to the child's side, the child suddenly hugged Bai Nuo tightly, closed his eyes, and acted entirely on instinct. It looked like Bai Nuo was about to be dragged down with him.
"Sister!" Bai Yu shouted anxiously from the shore, but he didn't dare to come down to help. He knew that staying on the shore was the best option at this time, and going into the water would only cause trouble for his sister.
At this moment, Bai Nuo was shocked. This child was probably only driven by instinct, grabbing whatever came near. If this continued, she would be dragged down and drown.
That's a truly sad story. A duck drowned in shallow water, and the person who tried to save it ended up getting themselves killed.
Bai Nuo quickly pulled the child's hand off his neck, then went behind the child, supporting his neck as they swam towards the shore.
Seeing Bai Nuo gradually making his way ashore, Bai Yu quickly handed him the bamboo pole. Bai Nuo grabbed the pole and walked towards the shore. When he reached the shore, he discovered that the little boy had already fainted.
After the first aid was administered, the child vomited a few mouthfuls of water and then started crying loudly. Bai Nuo was annoyed by his crying and yelled, "Stop crying! Whose child are you? If you can't swim, why did you go into the water?"
Isn't he just asking for trouble? If you can't swim, you should just stand on the shore. The water in this fishpond is so deep you can't see the bottom. Isn't a landlubber scared? He still had to go in. What a brat!
"I want to eat fish!" the child cried, sobbing and wiping away tears.
Bai Nuo was so angry she almost laughed. "If you want fish, come here to catch them? For the past two weeks, everyone in the sugarcane field has known that I, Bai Nuo, have been digging a fishpond! Don't you know that's stealing?"
"Don't you know that's stealing? If you want fish, why don't you go catch some in the river? Why do you come here?" A thief came to her shop to steal something and then unfortunately drowned, but she couldn't just watch him die; she had to save him. This feeling was really... infuriating!
"Wah..." The child burst into tears and started another round of crying, wiping away tears as he shouted, "I want to go home, I want to go home!"
What to do when you encounter a brat? Beat him up? Squeeze him to death? As Bai Nuo was thinking about how to deal with the brat in front of him, the brat's crying became even louder and more demonic, with the effect of a magical attack. The wailing went on and on, drilling into Bai Nuo's ears, enough to pierce Bai Nuo's eardrums and make Bai Nuo's scalp tingle.
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