Seeing Ye Cheng and the others enter, Widow Zhang stood up in surprise and whispered, "Oh, sister-in-law, second brother, Xiao Hu, what brings you here?"
Jiang Yunxiang pulled Dou Dou and walked quickly over, then took Zhang the widow's hand and said, "Xiao Liang had surgery, and you didn't even tell me. How could you take care of him all by yourself? If you had told us, we could have helped out."
Widow Zhang looked at Jiang Yunxiang gratefully, "I don't want to trouble you at all, everyone is busy."
"What are you saying? How is the child?"
Speaking of her child, Widow Zhang turned to look at Xiao Liang, a happy smile on her face. "The doctor said the surgery was very successful. Xiao Liang will be just like a normal person from now on. I also want to thank my second son for lending me the money. Otherwise, I don't know how long it would have taken."
As she spoke, Widow Zhang thanked Ye Cheng twice.
Ye Cheng told Xiao Hu to put down the milk in his hand, and then took out a red envelope. "Auntie, this is 1,000 yuan. Take it and use it to help Xiao Liang recover."
"No, no, that won't do. You've already lent me money, how can I take it back?" Widow Zhang repeatedly declined.
Ye Cheng pushed the money over and pointed to the boxed lunch by the bed, saying, "Auntie, you're taking care of Xiao Liang all by yourself, so you need to eat well too. Don't just eat vegetables without any meat."
Jiang Yunxiang then noticed the food on the table, which was indeed just white rice with some pickled vegetables.
This sparked her sense of justice again, and she pulled the widow Zhang aside and began to speak, "You need to take care of yourself too. Here's what we'll do: I'll talk to a few of the women in the village these next few days, and we'll come and watch over things for you during the day, and you can come and keep watch at night, so we can take turns."
"Okay, I'll pay for the fare," Ye Cheng interjected.
Hearing how kind the two were, Widow Zhang couldn't hold back her tears. She pulled Jiang Yunxiang aside and expressed her gratitude, while Dou Dou looked curiously at her little friend on the bed.
Xiao Liang had a bandage wrapped around his chest. In about ten years, minimally invasive surgery will be the norm, and he won't need to suffer so much anymore.
In order not to disturb Xiao Liang's rest, they didn't stay long, chatting for half an hour before leaving.
It's agreed that someone will come to replace Widow Zhang tomorrow during the day.
After leaving the hospital, the four of them took a taxi home. Ye Cheng didn't go to his older brother's house that night, guessing that Jiang Yunxiang still needed to give Ye Guowei a proper report, so he stayed in his room playing games.
I went online and added Zhao Zhiming on QQ.
The beeping sound brought back so many memories.
Brother Zhao's QQ name is "Wandering Swordsman," which is quite a wild name, while Ye Cheng also adopted the nickname "Little Prince of Beachcombing."
He had only added him casually, but unexpectedly, Zhao Zhiming needed to talk to him about something.
"Ah Cheng, I'm treating everyone to lunch the day after tomorrow. Come to town and we can have lunch together."
Is this all so formal because something's up?
"Yes, I need your help with something. Could you come over the day after tomorrow?"
Okay, I'll come over the day after tomorrow at noon.
Ye Cheng agreed without hesitation. Zhao Zhiming had helped him a lot, and it was rare for him to be asked for help, so he couldn't refuse.
......
The next day, Ye Cheng got up and checked the system.
Luck value: 70+20
Points: 2150
Deposits: 52,000; Foreign debt: 40,000; Mortgage: 300,000 (including interest).
With this much luck, it's another day of work.
Ye Cheng hadn't expected that he would go beachcombing or setting traps today; he exchanged for 6 traps first.
After finishing breakfast, Ye Cheng was about to go out to call Xiao Hu when he saw the Chen brothers standing at the door.
"Brother Cheng." Chen Zhangfu and Chen Zhanglong greeted Ye Cheng respectfully.
Ye Cheng looked at them curiously, making sure they weren't there to fight. "You're looking for me?"
Chen Zhangfu nodded. "Brother Cheng, we'd like to invite you to go beachcombing with us."
"You want me to go beachcombing?" Ye Cheng was a little confused. He wasn't that familiar with them.
Seeing that Ye Cheng was about to refuse, Chen Zhangfu quickly said, "Brother Cheng, we know of a place with earth dragons, and we'd like to see if you'd be interested in going together."
The "earth dragon" that Chen Zhangfu mentioned is a type of conger eel that burrows in the mud and sand of tidal flats. It looks very much like a freshwater eel. Its scientific name is "Polygonus porcupineus," belonging to the anther family, and it is commonly known as "earth dragon."
Besides its delicious meat, the earthworm has amazing therapeutic effects on the waist bones and can also be used to make medicinal wine, which is said to have the effects of nourishing yin and strengthening yang.
Therefore, the price was relatively high, and in later generations it was several hundred yuan per kilogram.
Now that Chen Zhangfu is saying he's going to dig up a dragon, Ye Cheng is starting to get interested.
Are you sure?
"Brother Cheng, don't worry, a friend of mine found one there. It just happened to be peeking out, but that's all he got."
"My best friend, he wouldn't lie to me."
Seeing Chen Zhangfu's confident determination, Ye Cheng decided to give it a try.
"Okay, do you have a car? I'll call Xiaohu, my motorcycle can only fit him."
Upon hearing Ye Cheng's agreement, the Chen brothers were overjoyed and hurriedly replied, "Brother Cheng, we don't have motorcycles, we'll ride bicycles, it'll be a little slower, but it won't be far."
"Okay, then see you at the village entrance in half an hour."
The Chen brothers went back to prepare their things, and Ye Cheng also called Xiao Hu over. Upon hearing that they were going to dig for earthworms, Xiao Hu's face immediately scrunched up like an old tree bark.
"Brother, those things are hard to dig. They burrow deep and run fast. They're even harder to dig than goby fish."
Speaking of this, Ye Cheng suddenly remembered this point. One reason why earth dragons are so expensive is that they are difficult to catch. There are so many holes in the mudflats, and you can't tell which one has an earth dragon from the outside. Only experienced old people can tell.
Generally speaking, there are several methods:
The first method is using a hook. Earth dragons don't stay in their burrows for long; they come out to breathe. When they do, you can quietly approach them, hook your hook around their chin, and then suddenly flick them upwards, throwing them out.
However, this is quite difficult because it's hard to happen just in time for the earth dragon to come out for fresh air. So another method has emerged: blocking the entrance to the earth dragon's cave with tobacco. The tobacco is too pungent, so the guy can't help but crawl out.
The second type is a fork. First, you need a clay dragon fork made using traditional methods. It looks a bit like a halberd, except that the head of the halberd is welded horizontally to an iron rod a little over a meter long.
Then find the entrance to the Earth Dragon Cave, first surround the entrance and fill it with water (or insert a plastic water pipe into the entrance), then take a fork and stick it into the mud nearby. If you manage to stick the fork into the Earth Dragon Cave, the water level at the entrance will change.
After you've forked it in, pull it out, move it forward five or six centimeters, and fork it again, following the hole to find the earth dragon.
If you hit the earth dragon with the fork, you'll feel it moving uncontrollably. At that point, press down hard, then rotate the fork to the two hooks on top, and then pull it out.
The third method is fishing, which I won't go into detail about.
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