Bai Yu nodded repeatedly. His sister was right. He would listen to her and do what she said she would do when she said she would, and he would not pick up the items when she said she would stop.
The two siblings arrived at the riverbank. Bai Nuo asked Bai Yu to go into the river to catch fish, while she stayed on the bank, looking for tender and delicious wild vegetables.
They caught two big, fat fish, dug up a basket of wild vegetables, and since it was still early, Bai Nuo and Bai Yu went to the depths of the reeds by the river, where they collected half a nest of wild duck eggs and picked a lot of small bamboo shoots.
Now we have fish, duck eggs, and vegetables.
Back home, Bai Yu was in charge of cooking and cleaning the wild vegetables, while Bai Nuo took charge of processing the two fat fish. With a few quick strokes, she removed the scales from the fish, cut open their bellies, and found fish eggs. Bai Nuo kept the swim bladders and eggs, cleaned the fish, marinated them with salt for a while, and then found a lot of large banana leaves. She put the fish on them, poured on soy sauce, sliced ginger, added bamboo shoots, and then quickly wrapped them up before putting them on the stove to roast.
We're having grilled fish today.
After grilling the fish, Bai Nuo kept them warm on the charcoal fire. He then stir-fried a wild duck egg and some wild vegetables before the three of them ate dinner.
The fish was tender and the duck eggs were incredibly flavorful, much better than anything you could buy. Bai Nuo gradually began to have the idea of raising a fishpond.
The next morning, Bai Nuo thought about it more and more and felt that raising a fishpond was a good idea. Although she couldn't openly raise river mussels now, she could raise fish, river shrimp, and snails. Tsk tsk tsk, spicy shrimp, grilled fish, spicy snails—each one was incredibly delicious. If she added a little wine, tsk tsk, it would be even more wonderful.
Bai Nuo felt like her saliva was dripping onto the ground. In order to stop herself from drooling, she decided to make herself a fish pond today!
Pulling Ah Yu along, Bai Nuo headed towards the village chief's house. Since it was morning, everyone was making breakfast, and the entire Zhe Di Village was shrouded in smoke. With the thin mist swirling around, the whole village looked beautiful and like a fairyland.
After saying hello, ignoring Chen Xiufang's attempts to stop them, Bai Nuo and Bai Yu grabbed the hoes they had borrowed and quickly headed towards the wasteland in Zhedi Village.
Zhedi Village is quite large. Apart from houses and owned farmland, there is a lot of wasteland left. Bai Nuo doesn't have much farming skill. She can grow vegetables, but she really can't manage to grow grains. So Bai Nuo has never considered using the wasteland. But now, she never thought that this day would come.
With a hoe in hand, Bai Nuo searched everywhere for damp land, which would be easier to dig and might contain groundwater, saving him the trouble of carrying water.
After searching for a long time, they finally found a place not far from their home, where the soil was relatively moist and the light was good.
"Here it is, little one, let's get started!" Bai Nuo dug hard with the hoe, and the entire hoe went into the soil. She stepped on the part of the hoe that was sticking out and looked around at the surrounding environment. Her home was not far away, and the river was to the left. Very good, she was very satisfied.
Watching over and catching fish is no longer a problem.
"How big should we dig?" Bai Yu stared blankly at his older sister, completely at a loss. He didn't know how big to dig, but he felt that it would be difficult for the two of them to dig the whole plot of land.
"It doesn't need to be very big!" Bai Nuo took out a hoe, then walked three or four meters forward and drew a circle. "Dig this much here, and that over there too, just dig a circle, you understand?" Bai Nuo didn't plan to raise livestock, so a diameter of about five or six meters and a height of about one and a half meters would be enough.
"This is huge!" Bai Yu thought to himself. Hearing his sister say that digging from here to there was already quite a lot, but the height was also much greater than theirs, so Bai Yu felt it would be very difficult.
"Stop complaining! It'll get dark before you know it!" Bai Nuo urged, and then got to work.
"Dig in here, understand?" Bai Nuo first dug out the outline of the fishpond, and then stood inside and started working. Bai Yu saw that Bai Nuo hadn't stopped, and felt embarrassed to just stand there and let his sister do the work while he watched without doing anything.
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"Where have you been? Why are you only coming back now?" While Bai Nuo was digging the fishpond, Bai Dalin was also busy at home.
Busy preparing medicine to calm Chen Qiuling and help with pregnancy.
After a day of rest and taking two doses of medicine, Chen Qiuling finally stopped saying there were ghosts in the world whenever she saw him, and she stopped saying that the King of Hell was coming to take her child. However, she was still very timid, and the slightest noise could scare her to tears. Then she would just hold her stomach and stare blankly. Bai Dalin had no choice but to stay home with her all day yesterday. This morning, he came to brew medicine for Chen Qiuling.
After taking the medicine, Chen Qiuling was able to sleep well and wasn't so paranoid, which relieved him.
Busy in the kitchen, Chen Zhi, who had disappeared for two days, finally returned. As soon as Bai Dalin saw him, he immediately ran out to question him.
"Went off to fool around again?" Bai Dalin looked at Chen Zhi and saw that Chen Zhi was covered in the smell of rouge and powder, his face was pale and his steps were unsteady. It was obvious that he had been spending several days and nights in a brothel.
"You're such a grown man, can you please stop going to those kinds of places? You should be settling down and be more mindful of your image." Who would recommend a wife to someone who frequents brothels? If Chen Zhi can't find a wife, Chen Qiuling will worry again. When Chen Qiuling worries, she likes to nag, and when she nags, she likes to bother him.
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