Chapter 53 Picking Wild Duck Eggs
Lin Zhi ignored him, dug the ground twice with a gloomy face, and threw the hoe in anger, "No, I want to ask my eldest brother, why did Lin Qin not ask us to help build the house but asked Lin Qingxiang, an outsider!"
"Yes! Let's go now!" Li Lian said, and then hurriedly asked, "Where does Lin Qin's man live?"
Lin Zhi was stunned.
The couple looked at Huang Yuzhen at the same time and asked shamelessly, "Where does Lin Qin's husband live?"
Huang Yuzhen rolled her eyes. "I haven't been there! How could I know?"
"Your husband and son work for them, how could you not know?" Li Lian insisted.
Huang Yuzhen was too lazy to pay attention to them.
Lin Zhi and his wife were so angry that they went to the team leader to seek justice, but they were kicked out.
The two wanted to follow Lin Qingxiang and Lin Shaojun, but the father and son went out before dawn and walked very fast, so it was impossible for a lazy man like Lin Zhi to follow them.
The couple came up empty-handed for three consecutive days and became completely obedient.
At the same time, Lin Qingxiang and his son, who had just arrived in Nanyu to work for Lin Qin, were telling Lin Yi and Lin Qin about this as a joke.
"I see that Lin Zhi and his wife are so funny!"
Lin Yi shook his head and sighed, "My brother is really hopeless. You said they want my land, how much is my land?"
At the beginning of this year, the brigade notified of land distribution. According to the household registration book, he was the only one in his family and he only got two or three acres in total, which was not even as much as Nanyu's. I don't know why they were so obsessed with his land!
Lin Qingxiang sneered, "To that lazy guy, two or three acres of land is a fortune he can't earn in his entire life. How can he not keep an eye on it? Not everyone is as hardworking as you!"
Lin Qin, who was standing by, also shook her head as she listened. Not wanting to continue talking about the pair of extremely bad relatives, she changed the subject, "Uncle Qingxiang, take a look at the cement I mixed this time. Is it usable?"
She has been learning how to mix cement these past two days. At the beginning, it was either too thin or too dry. As long as one of the ingredients was added in excess, she would not be able to mix it.
Fortunately, Lin Qingxiang was an old master who taught her patiently, and she gradually mastered some tricks.
Lin Qingxiang came over and stirred the mixture back and forth with a shovel. He nodded uncontrollably, "It's almost done this time, but it's still a little watery. Just add some more cement."
Once the cement was mixed, everyone started working immediately.
In three days, the foundation of the pit had been built, and the next step was to raise it.
As the foundation was built, money began to flow like water.
Lin Qin could only come to help for a while, and she also had to go fishing on the fishing boat, or pick up snails by the Nanxi River, which could all be sold.
When Chen Wenjun came back, Lin Qin was picking snails by the stream. He put the things on the boat, immediately took his fishing net and bucket and ran over to work with Lin Qin.
Lin Qin glanced at him and immediately pointed at the pile of apple snails on the shore. "I just picked them up and crushed them to make a nest for you."
Chen Wenjun was delighted when he saw them. "So many! Where did you pick them up?"
Lin Qin grinned, "I'm also surprised. It seems that when I really want to catch something, that thing is everywhere. Look, I wanted to pick up two more baskets of snails this morning to sell, but when I got here, I found that they were packed with snails, as if no one wanted them! They are particularly big, so they must be easy to sell."
Chen Wenjun laughed, "Isn't it because no one is competing with you for this spot?"
Lin Qin nodded thoughtfully, "That's not wrong! But if my wish can come true, I want to pick up some gold! Then we won't have to worry about building a house! Hahaha."
"That's a nice thought! I work in Nanxi every day, but I've never encountered such a good thing!" Chen Wenjun looked at the whimsical Lin Qin lovingly, put down the bucket, turned around to find a suitable place, smashed the apple snails and sprinkled them over.
This operation lured out all the wild ducks hiding in the water grass ten meters away.
Lin Qin's eyes lit up, "Oh my goodness! It's a wild duck! There must be duck eggs in the grass!"
There have always been wild ducks by the Nanxi River, but like wild birds, they are extremely sensitive and stay in tricky places, so most people can't catch them.
As the weather gets warmer, ducks will surely lay eggs more diligently.
Chen Wenjun felt that the water grass was unsafe, so he pointed to the cracks in the rocks on the shore and said, "You can go over there and have a look. Wild ducks may be laying eggs there. Don't go into the grass. I'll get the fishing net and you can use the bamboo pole to hit the water grass and see if you can catch some fish."
Those large piles of rocks were the waste left over from the construction of the dam. They were piled up for dozens of meters along the Nanxi River. Over time, some of them were covered with weeds.
The stones are stacked in an irregular pattern, resulting in many gaps of varying sizes inside, especially the underwater part, which is a natural shelter for crabs, small fish and shrimps.
Lin Qin excitedly brought two large baskets of snails onto the boat and ran to the pile of rocks with a bucket.
She didn't hold much hope at first, but as soon as she climbed onto the pile of rocks, she found white things in several cracks. When she took a closer look, she saw that they were really wild duck eggs!
Some gaps have three or five, some have seven or eight, and the least has two.
It looks like the wild ducks use this place as their nest.
She was so excited that she forgot to inform Chen Wenjun and squatted down to concentrate on taking out the duck eggs.
After Chen Wenjun went into the water, he didn't even bother to stare at Lin Qin.
When he had caught a net of bamboo fish, he looked back and saw Lin Qin coming down, so he asked casually, "Did you catch anything?"
Lin Qin carefully got down from the pile of rocks and ran over to show off his achievements. "How was it?"
Chen Wenjun stretched his neck to take a look and was immediately shocked, "More than half a bucket! How can there be so much?"
Lin Qin shrugged, "I don't know either. What did you get?"
As she spoke, she walked to the bucket and found at least a dozen bamboo fish in it. She was immediately happy, "It looks like I can go to Guoxing Hotel this afternoon!"
Chen Wenjun grinned and waded closer to the water grass. "Come on! Let's see if there is anything this time and decide whether to make another trip this afternoon."
Lin Qin immediately put down the bucket, picked up the bamboo pole he brought off the boat, and rushed up to the embankment with great momentum.
I saw that Chen Wenjun had already opened the fishing net to block a piece of water plants.
She put down a bamboo pole and hit the water grass wildly, startling a group of wild ducks hiding in the grass. Fish also jumped out of the grass, and the water surface seemed to boil in an instant.
Lin Qin exclaimed, "What a big fish! It's a grass carp, right?"
Chen Wenjun rushed to that direction and soon he noticed some unusual movement in the fishing net, as if something large had rushed into the net. The water under his feet was already turbid, but he could still see dark shadows rushing into the fishing net.
Chen Wenjun waited patiently for a while, and only lifted up the bamboo pole when it was almost done.
Standing on a high place, Lin Qin could just see the white belly of the fish occasionally turning up in the fishing net. She was shocked and realized that Chen Wenjun couldn't handle it alone. She hurriedly shouted, "Don't move. I'll get a bucket to help!"
(End of this chapter)
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