Meng Tao: "Didn't you say to go to the commune clinic?"

"Really? Is it painful?"

"What do you think?" Meng Tao glared at him, thinking he was a guy with no self-control.

Shen Yu reached out and touched his wife's head apologetically: "This health center doesn't seem to work. Let's go directly to Mengzhou Hospital."

"No, you don't need to."

"What should I do if it hurts?"

"Just don't touch me, that's all."

Shen Yu: “…”

This is terrible. I finally waited until I got married, and just when I got a taste of the sweetness, I’m not allowed to touch it anymore.

"Well, take a good rest first. But I just heard from Jinniu that you are going to climb the mountain and pick bamboo shoots with someone tomorrow? You can't go!"

"I've already promised them."

"Find an excuse to turn it down."

"All right."

"We're going back to the provincial capital the day after tomorrow?"

"If you go back, I won't go."

"Taotao, my dear wife, we are going to live together after marriage. After a while, your household registration will be transferred to my household registration book."

"That will take some time. Brother Jinniu hasn't recovered yet. I've been running around these days, either pushing him to the educated youth and Wang Tiegen, or leaving him at Zhang Fuji's house. I haven't taken good care of him."

"Let's take Brother Taurus with us."

"I don't know if he's willing. Go back and ask him."

"Okay. I have six days off. I'll leave the day after tomorrow. We can stay in Mengzhou City for two nights. It's time to take care of that small courtyard. There are flowers and plants, and the ground is covered with fallen leaves."

"It's time to go check it out. I left a lot of valuables there."

"What valuables?"

"I found a few antiques from a junk warehouse, as well as tiger bone wine, peach blossom wine, chrysanthemum wine, pickled vegetable jars, and some dried goods."

"Oh, I forgot about those old flower pots. There are also rare orchids. People take care of them every day, but we just leave them there and don't check them for ten days or half a month. We don't even know if they are dead or not."

"They won't die. I watered them with pine needles and dew before I left last time. This time the space has expanded and there's more room, so I have to put all of these away."

"Yes, you can take care of it at any time."

Arriving at the commune, Shen Yu drove the car directly to the door of the non-staple food store and stopped, saying, "Taotao is waiting in the car, I will be back soon."

Meng Tao asked: "Where are you going?"

"When you first came out, didn't you tell Brother Jinniu that you wanted to buy fish and meat? I'll go buy them."

"How can we fish it out? We don't have a fishing net."

"I bought a fishing net when I was shopping in the provincial capital. This will do."

Shen Yu started the car again and Meng Tao led the way. The two went to Fenghe Commune. A few months ago, Meng Tao came to the orchard here to buy fruit and found a big river at the foot of the mountain. The river was twice as big as Linshui River and the water was very deep blue. No one knew what it was called.

There were farmlands all around, but people were not working here today. There were only three or two children watching over some cows. Shen Yu parked the car beside the tractor road and carried Meng Tao out of the car. The two of them strolled along the path along the river bank as if they were sightseeing. They came to a secluded and deserted area, followed the path down to the river, and began to prepare to catch fish.

No bait is needed. Just soak a few biscuits in half a bowl of pine needle dew, stir them up, and sprinkle them directly on the river. After a while, big and small fish will show their heads to grab food, and the river surface will be full of splashes. Meng Tao took out a long-handled scoop net from the space. Shen Yu held the scoop net and placed it on a large rock on the shore. He specifically picked big fish and Meng Tao put them into the space as soon as they were scooped up.

The lively fish can only be kept in water tanks after entering the space, and cannot be put directly into the spring pool. They are afraid that these big fish will enter the lotus pond along the canal and eat the lotus stems and leaves, which will not be worth the loss. Those lotuses can continue to grow in the space, so they must be very precious. They should be the legendary fairy plants. At present, the two can only stay on the first floor of the space book pavilion. They have to go to the second and third floors and find the records about the space to understand the origin and use of these lotuses.

After playing by the river for more than half an hour, I caught more than 20 fish. The largest one weighed more than 10 kilograms, and the smallest one was 3 or 4 kilograms. We didn't take any grass carp or carp weighing less than 2 kilograms, but we didn't care about any crucian carp. We took any that weighed 70 or 80 grams or half a kilogram. Crucian carp soup is super delicious, fresh and nutritious.

By the way, a lot of river shrimps were caught. If you collect them together, they would fill a washbasin. They are a bit small, so you can raise them before eating them. River shrimps are also very delicious.

The couple was addicted to fishing. They were having so much fun that they didn't want to leave. But if people saw them catching big fish so easily standing on the shore, while others might not get any fish even if they rowed a boat and cast a net, what would they think? So they decided to quit while they were ahead and left quickly.

It was noon and the sun was bright, and it was late spring when people tend to feel sleepy. In addition, Meng Tao did not get enough rest last night. She sat in the passenger seat with the warm air on, unable to open her eyes. She dozed off and her head hit the window glass with a bang. Shen Yu felt distressed. After noticing that there was no one around, he drove the car into a small forest by the roadside. With the help of the dense branches and leaves, he put Meng Tao and the car into the space and went back to the bedroom in the wooden building to catch up on some sleep.

It was six o'clock in the evening when the jeep reappeared on the road. The two people who had just caught their sleep were in high spirits. Meng Tao was holding a bowl of homemade strawberry milkshake, drinking it with relish, and giving it to Shen Yu from time to time. Shen Yu refused this "shoddy" milkshake, but he was driving and could not avoid it.

He saw Meng Tao tinkering with milk powder and wild strawberries to make this weird thing with pink bubbles, and he didn't understand, wouldn't it be better to just eat the strawberries directly? Why did she have to do it this way?

But after all, they are strawberries grown in space, so they taste pretty good.

Meng Tao had no choice. She didn't have all the tools. It was great that she could make it. How could such good ingredients not taste good? Anyway, she felt that it tasted great, but, well, it was a little difficult to eat it cold.

After enough rest and a bowl of strawberry milkshake, my voice miraculously returned to normal and was no longer hoarse.

When I got home, there were two side-by-side courtyards and smoke coming out of both chimneys. It was obvious that someone was cooking at the same time.

Shen Yu wanted to take the two fish that he had released in advance. Meng Tao hurried back to the kitchen in the old yard and saw Jinniu walking around with a cane, trying to light a fire and cut vegetables with one hand.

Meng Tao hurriedly said, "Brother Jinniu, take a rest. I told you to come back to cook in the evening, but you did it yourself again. Are you hungry? Didn't you have lunch?"

Jinniu put down the kitchen knife, turned around, and said happily: "Sister, you are back, are you feeling better?"

"Okay, you see my voice is no longer hoarse."

"That's good."

Jinniu pointed in the direction of the main hall and said softly, "Sister, great grandfather is here."

"Ah? Why is he here? I see the main room is dark and there is no light."

"They won't let me order, saying it's a waste of lamp oil."

"What are you doing here?"

"I don't know. He said he was hungry when he arrived and asked me to cook first and then talk about other things after we finished eating."

(End of this chapter)