After all the big fish were picked up by the men, the village chief gave an order: "You can go into the water to pick up the small fish now. Remember to go to the ancestral hall at noon to divide the big fish."
The old men, women and children who were not working jumped into the pond with buckets in their hands.
Su Yan saw Lu Yu and Lu Chen each holding a bucket and following Hua Xiangnan, while Lu Jin was standing by the pond, looking at them with longing.
Lu Yu followed Hua Xiangnan and competed with a group of people for small fish in the middle of the pond. Lu Chen did not go over. He stepped on the mud at the edge of the pond and suddenly said to Lu Ting at the edge of the pond.
"Brother, come down quickly, there are a lot of clam shells here."
"I want to accompany your sister-in-law, you can pick it up yourself!"
Lu Chen was a little anxious. He stepped on a big guy. How could his brother be so ignorant?
He called out to Lu Jin again, "Second brother, come down, I have something to tell you."
Lu Jin hesitated for a moment, took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs to his thighs, turned to Lu Ting and said, "Brother, I'm going downstairs to pick up river clams."
"Go ahead, I'll watch you."
Lu Jin got out of the pond and walked to Lu Chen's side, stepping through the mud.
Seeing his second brother finally arrive, Lu Chen whispered, "Second brother, I feel like there's a big turtle under my feet. You mustn't make a sound, or else they'll find out and ask us to hand it over, which will be troublesome."
"I will cooperate with you in whatever you want me to do."
"Bend down, and we'll dig it out of the mud together."
Lu Ting saw his second and third brothers whispering to each other, and Lu Jin looked around with excitement on his face. Could it be that there was something good under Lu Chen's feet?
"Yan Yan, you watch here, I'll go down and take a look."
"Okay, they're picking up fish and clams, so you can pick up more snails this afternoon!"
Lu Jin took great effort to dig the turtle out of the mud under Lu Chen's feet, and then Lu Ting came over.
Looking at the big thing in his brother's bucket, Lu Ting smiled and said, "I'll take this bucket back first. You guys continue to pick up clams. Your sister-in-law said she wants some snails too, so pick up some more while you can."
Lu Jin tactfully handed the bucket to Lu Ting. Lu Ting carried the bucket ashore. Su Yan glanced at him and said, "You go back first. I'll watch them here."
"Okay, I'll be back soon."
The three brothers brought back a big turtle weighing four or five kilograms without making a sound. They were amazing. If any one of them had shouted, the big turtle would probably have been lost.
After all, this pond is public property, and the Lu family is an outsider. The only reason they are allowed to go into the pond to pick up small fish is because of Hua Zhang's face.
Hua Xiangnan and Lu Yu didn't know that their brothers had quietly done something big, so they followed the big group and worked extra hard to grab the small fish.
After Lu Chen stepped on a big turtle with his foot, he continued to step on other places. He didn't step on any turtles, but he stepped on a lot of clam shells.
Lu Jin bent down to pick up snails as his elder brother told him to. He grabbed a handful and suddenly felt something slip under his feet. He screamed in fright, "Ah, there's a snake."
"Brother, where is the snake? Water snakes usually live in water, and this is all mud. Could it be an eel?
Lu Chen looked at the hole on the edge of the pond, bent down and touched Lu Jin's footsteps, grabbed the slippery thing, and threw it into the bucket. It was indeed an eel.
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