"Fish eyes?" Ye Xiaoxin frowned and pursed her lips. "City girls are so particular. The old folks say that eating fish eyes can make you smarter, with sharp eyes and ears. Su Xinyi just happens to like eating fish eyes. She's such a picky person."
Upon hearing this, Ye Beiping rolled his eyes at Ye Xiaoxin and went back to his room to change his clothes.
"Where are you going?" Ye Xiaoxin suddenly asked.
After changing his clothes, Ye Beiping came out and said, "I'm not slacking off, so I can't exactly wear those clothes, can I? I'm not allowed to take my clothes off completely, so I can only wear shorts."
In those days, there was still a crime of hooliganism. If you were only wearing your underwear, you might get arrested and labeled a hooligan.
He hadn't avenged his great grudge, hadn't won Su Xinyi's heart, and hadn't made any money. He didn't want to end up in jail on the third day after his rebirth.
His reputation would be even worse then, and Su Xinyi was already on guard against him.
Hearing this, Ye Xiaoxin pushed Ye Beiping out the door, waving her fan and saying, "Go on, go on, Mom will be back tomorrow, grab some more to nourish her."
"Okay, I got it."
Ye Beiping lowered his head, pondering how to catch fish. He knew he couldn't do it empty-handed; he would have to go find Wu Di and Hou Baolin.
Watching her younger brother's departing figure, Ye Xiaoxin comfortably lay back in her chair, fanning herself as she remarked, "It's good that you're thinking of making something to eat. The soup last night was really delicious. I didn't eat much of the fish at noon. If you bring it back sooner, I can eat fish sooner."
She added smugly, "At worst, I'll leave the fish eyes to Su Xinyi, and I'll eat the meat."
Ye Beiping went to his two brothers' houses and dragged them out.
"No, why did you drag us out here in the middle of the day in Beiping? We're not going to catch anything fishing now." Wu Di said with a bitter face, looking at the scorching sun, "Even fish know to hide away to avoid the heat."
"Yes," Hou Baolin, who looked worried, echoed from behind.
Ignoring everything else, Ye Beiping pulled the two of them to the lakeside and pointed to the waterway: "Besides fish, what else is in the lake? Do you know?"
We can't eat fish every day, and we can't go into the mountains empty-handed, so we have to find something with some oil and fat, right?
Upon hearing this, the two exchanged a glance, somewhat puzzled.
"What could be in here? Just fish, right?"
"Yeah, besides fish, it's just shrimp and turtles."
turtle?
Ye Beiping immediately looked at the two of them and asked, "Are there turtles here? Can we catch them?"
"Huh?" Hou Baolin opened his mouth wide in surprise, and then burst into laughter: "Beiping, you yourself are from Pingba Village. Don't you know there are turtles in this lake? It's rare to see more than a few people catch them in a year. It's all based on luck."
By luck?
Ye Beiping sighed, put down the bucket in his hand, took off his shoes, and plunged into the lake.
"Hey, Beiping?"
Hou Baolin glanced at Wu Di, who was still shouting, and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "Stop shouting. You won't catch any fish anyway, but you can play around with it this afternoon."
After saying that, he plunged into the lake himself.
Wu Di, who couldn't swim, was left in an awkward situation, unable to move forward or backward.
Only after Ye Beiping and Hou Baolin surfaced in the water did Wu Di say, "You can both swim, but I can't. Do you think I'd watch you swim in this blazing sun?"
At this moment, Wu Di looked like a wronged little baby.
Unexpectedly, the next second, Ye Beiping raised his hands directly from the water, and a crucian carp of moderate size appeared in his hands.
“Fish…fish!” Wu Di exclaimed excitedly, pointing at Ye Beiping.
Hou Baolin also looked over, his eyes wide, and asked, "You caught it with your bare hands?"
"Yes." Ye Beiping swam back to the shore, threw the crucian carp into the bucket and laughed, "I dove in and I don't know if I hit it or not, but it burrowed right into my palm. How could I not catch it? That would be too unfair to God's gift of food."
"Haha." Wu Di poked the fish in the bucket a couple of times and laughed, "They're still alive."
He also gave Ye Beiping a thumbs up and praised him, saying, "You're really amazing, you're so lucky, you managed to catch this."
Before he could reply, Ye Beiping plunged into the lake again.
Hou Baolin, out of curiosity, also dived into the lake to see what Ye Beiping was up to.
Wu Di was left on the shore to look after the fish in the bucket, feeling confident that today would be a great day, since he could catch fish with his bare hands.
Ye Beiping and Hou Baolin played around for a little over an hour, but then they didn't catch any more fish.
The three could only sigh and begin fishing with their rods.
"By the way, Monkey, your dad is the militia company commander, so he should have a gun, right?"
This was the thought that flashed through Ye Beiping's mind the instant he plunged into the lake.
Going into the mountains barehanded won't work, but if you get two guns, that'll do the trick, right?
Hou Baolin was unusually cautious about this topic: "Beiping, what do you want to do? You don't want me to steal my father's gun, do you?"
"No, no, my dad keeps a record of all the guns. If any are missing, he'll definitely call the police, and he'll be in big trouble."
"If they knew I was stealing a gun, they'd definitely kick me out of the house."
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