Chapter 63
The sea water was rolling in the sky, and what was before my eyes was not a light golden beach, but a mudflat full of gray and black mud. Once I stepped into it, it was like being stuck in a quagmire, deeply sunken.
Sister Zaohua warned: "Don't go too deep, be careful."
This stretch of mudflat was full of living jumping fish. From a distance, they looked like tumbling mud shrimps. When you got closer, you could see that they were fish. They had two big eyes like black pearls and their mouths were open into a round shape. When they jumped up, they were even taller than humans.
Chen Baozhen's eyes widened: "This...this is too much!"
There are fish everywhere!
This large stretch of mudflats is full of living jumping fish, rising and falling and swinging back and forth in the mud. It seems that you can catch five or six of them with just a casual grab.
Qin Yao silently complained: "This fish is so ugly."
Sister Zaohua said that everyone in the family loved to eat it, and Qin Yao thought it was some kind of delicacy. But when she saw this pile of ugly fish "eating mud", they looked as good as toads.
Can something like this be delicious? Instead of trying to catch fish, she might as well pick oysters.
Sister Zaohua smiled and said, "It's delicious. Even though it's made of mud, it doesn't smell fishy at all."
Chen Baozhen said excitedly: "Yaoyao, there are so many, let's just catch a few."
"You think it's easy to catch? This fish is very powerful." Sister Zaohua pounced forward with the bamboo pole and net bag, and the jumping fish fled in all directions, and not a single one was caught in the net.
Sister Zaohua was a little embarrassed.
Chen Baozhen: “…”
Qin Yao: “…”
Sister Zaohua said, "This fish can dig holes. Look, I'm an old hand. There are fish in this hole. Put the bait here and fish."
Sister Zaohua's skill in catching jumping fish is very poor. If Qin Yao and the other person were not there, she would have grabbed them randomly in the mud without caring about her image. But today, in order to save her face, Sister Zaohua became civilized and used shrimp meat as bait and a fishing rod to catch jumping fish.
She gave Qin Yao and Chen Baozhen each a simple bamboo fishing rod and said, "I'll teach you how to fish."
While they were talking, the girls on the other side exclaimed, "Awesome! Awesome! Xiao Pan, you are awesome!"
Qin Yao and Chen Baozhen turned around and saw Xiao Pan "anchoring fish". He was using another special fishing rod that did not use any bait, only a hook.
He just threw the fish casually, and the hook quickly stuck to the jumping fish, catching every time.
"Xiao Pan, good job." Gao Yingzi's face turned red with excitement. In her eyes at this moment, Xiao Pan was both literary and martial, and was an excellent young man of marriageable age.
Not only her, but even Jiang Xiaomiao and Deputy Director Liu couldn't help but turn their eyes to Xiao Pan.
"Watch me, it's easy." Xiao Pan thought he was looking very handsome and charming as he swung the rod and cast the hook out. However, this time, he didn't catch any fish.
He was a little embarrassed, "Do it again."
The others watched intently.
Xiao Pan can't say he always hits the target when casting the hook, but he can at least hit the target six or seven times out of ten, which makes him a very good anchor fisherman.
Several young girls lined up to learn from him.
Qin Yao frowned when she saw this, but she didn't say anything. She took care of Chen Baozhen: "Zhenzhen, come here, I'll help you get the bait."
Chen Baozhen was in a playful mood at this time and didn't care about her sister-in-law anymore, and concentrated on fishing.
Under the guidance of Sister Zaohua, she and Qin Yao finally caught one.
Sister Zaohua praised: "Not bad, not bad, very good."
Sister Zaohua couldn't help but look at the two city-grown girls in front of her differently. Among so many people today, only Qin Yao and Chen Baozhen came from the capital. Chen Baozhen was usually arrogant and picky, but she didn't mind the dirtiness of the mudflats, nor did she mind the fishy smell of shrimps used as bait.
Sister Zaohua was worried that Chen Baozhen would lose her temper, or that she would not come to the mudflats at all.
At this moment, she was seen playing in the mud in her rain boots, no different from an ordinary young girl.
In the eyes of Sister Zaohua and others, Chen Baozhen and Qin Yao have undoubtedly become closer.
"Teacher Chen, come here, put it here, there are fish underneath." Another sister-in-law gave Chen Baozhen a kind smile.
Chen Baozhen nodded: "Okay, thank you."
Chen Baozhen was wearing a straw hat. She found that the military wives in the compound who usually didn't talk to her were now talking to her in all sorts of ways, treating her as an "accomplice."
Realizing this, she was delighted.
Chen Baozhen was holding a fishing rod and saw other sisters-in-law holding bamboo poles and net bags to catch fish. Some of them even jumped forward with the net bags, and didn't care even if they fell into the mud and water. They just caught the muddy jumping fish and put them into the bamboo basket.
Compared to fishing with bait, fishing with a net and anchor is undoubtedly much faster.
So Chen Baozhen threw away the fishing rod in her hand and said, "I don't want to fish anymore."
Sister Zaohua was stunned, thinking why was she so impatient?
But three seconds later, Chen Baozhen asked a sister-in-law for a bamboo pole net bag, "Let me try this, sister-in-law, lend it to me."
"This doesn't work well. It will fall."
"I don't mind!"
Chen Baozhen walked forward with the bamboo pole and shouted to Qin Yao: "Yaoyao, I want to give you all the fish I caught!"
Qin Yao couldn't help laughing. Please, sister, you have to catch it first.
"Zhenzhen, wait until you fall flat on your face, and I'll help you wash your face."
"Hey, Yaoyao, let's take a bath together."
After saying that, Chen Baozhen casually stretched out her net and the jumping fish that just jumped into the air fell into the net. "Ah! I got it!"
After putting the fish into the bamboo basket, Chen Baozhen cast another net and said, "Another hit!"
"here we go again!"
“These fish are so stupid!”
"Yaoyao, I caught it again!"
…
In just a few moments, Chen Baozhen caught seven or eight. Looking back, she saw Sister Zaohua and the others staring in amazement.
Qin Yao: "!!!!!!"
Qin Yao was extremely shocked. She also borrowed a net bag and waved it forward, but she couldn't catch any fish.
These jumping fish are very agile. Just when you are about to catch them, they will jump away.
But the jumping fish that Chen Baozhen caught seemed to be some stupid fish, and she could catch one with every net.
Chen Baozhen caught hundreds of them by himself.
Later, this mudflat became her one-man show.
She has been practicing musical instruments since she was young. When she was young, she was used to practicing for a long time every day. Now she doesn't feel tired at all when she swings the fishing rod to catch fish again and again.
"Yingzi, is there any more room over there?" Chen Baozhen's own bamboo basket had long been full, so she filled it up for Qin Yao, and then for her sister-in-law, and also gave a lot of fish to other sisters-in-law.
Qin Yao and Gao Yingzi watched the whole show and caught three or four small fish. The rest was all done by Chen Baozhen.
Gao Yingzi's eyes lit up: "Sister-in-law, you are awesome!"
Gao Yingzi used to think that her sister-in-law was lazy and didn't know how to grow crops. She was just a pretty girl who grew up in the city and couldn't do anything. If it weren't for the farmers working hard to raise her, she would definitely starve to death.
But her sister-in-law actually has a secret skill in catching fish, so she will never starve to death by the water.
"Sister-in-law, you are so capable!"
Gao Yingzi had already abandoned Xiao Pan and returned the fish that Xiao Pan had helped her catch. "My basket is filled with fish caught by my sister-in-law!"
No matter how much Yingzi likes Xiao Pan, she likes to take advantage more. The fish caught by her sister-in-law are all whole live fish and very fresh.
Xiao Pan was anchoring fish. Many jumping fish were injured by hooks. They were either broken or had holes in them, which looked disgusting.
"I'm awesome, right? I think I'm awesome too!" Chen Baozhen was very proud. "Next time you come fishing, be sure to call me!"
Sister Zaohua and the others nodded.
A group of people returned with a full load, and this time the harvest was astonishingly large. In the returning team, Chen Baozhen was the most excited, while Xiao Pan was in a bad mood and felt extremely lonely.
Compared with Chen Baozhen, Xiao Pan lost all his limelight.
Xiao Pan said goodbye with a dark face and left, and He Tengfei also left.
Deputy Director Liu was invited by several sisters-in-law to the family compound. Qin Yao said, "Deputy Director Liu, please come to my house for dinner."
"Okay." Deputy Director Liu responded. Her heartbeat stopped for a moment and then eased.
She moved her mouth, wanting to ask if Qin Yao's husband was at home, but in the end she didn't ask.
In the eyes of most people in the hospital, Qin Yao marrying Gu Cheng was definitely marrying up, and marrying up was bound to cause grievances.
Director Huang also said that although Qin Yao seems to be smiling and glamorous on the surface, her life at home may not be easy. When choosing a man, you have to choose one with a good temper. Deputy Director Liu deeply agrees with this.
Be it the leaders in hospitals or in various military units, most of the ones who are good at handling things and get promoted quickly have bad tempers and are used to being autocratic at home.
There is one such case in their hospital. The man is very outstanding, and his wife is also a military doctor. She has studied in a military academy and is an alumnus of the same school as her husband. However, she is a perfect wife and mother, and has no ambition. Her mother has taught her since she was a child that "the husband is the heaven" and "obey the father at home and the husband after marriage." Even when she was beaten by her husband at home, she didn't say much and thought that this was a sign of her husband's "manliness."
Talking about the beating, her face was full of happiness, and she said that the man often fought in school, and he even fought for her and was punished. Logically, he was a troublemaker, but this man was a good person, loyal, had a lot of brothers, was good at scheming, was liked by the leaders, and his career development was very smooth after graduation.
In the past few years after graduation, Deputy Director Liu had to admit that honest people who abide by the rules are always ignored by their leaders, while those who are good at dealing with people and have good luck are more likely to be promoted.
Marrying a powerful man is naturally a good thing, but she cannot accept letting Deputy Director Liu get beaten.
Deputy Director Liu is friends with the female doctor Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan always likes to complain to her that her husband does not respect her, beats her, and uses her as a punching bag. But she will also praise her husband sweetly and boastfully, saying that she admires him and that this is manly, and that she was wrong and deserved to be beaten.
"Beating is love, scolding is care. The more he beats me and scolds me, the more he cares about me."
"As a man, it's normal to hit and scold."
Xiao Yan's words made her shudder.
Deputy Director Liu was afraid that Qin Yao was also such a woman. She didn't dare to have much contact with her before, for fear that Qin Yao would come to her and complain that her husband beat her and disrespected her, yet she couldn't help but show off her husband's excellence in a sweet way.
Deputy Director Liu went to Xiao Yan's home for dinner. Xiao Yan did not lie. Her husband really did not respect her. Even when there were guests around, he would scold her whenever he wanted and was very rude to her. Xiao Yan acted humble and petty in front of her husband, which made people feel uncomfortable.
Her husband is in this position at his age and is valued by his leaders. He is truly outstanding.
Deputy Director Liu had an extremely awkward meal.
Qin Yao is similar to Xiao Yan. I'm afraid she doesn't have much of a place at home. It won't be long before she becomes another Xiao Yan.
However, considering the nature of the work, Captain Gu might not be at home at the moment, and Deputy Director Liu was really afraid of having another extremely embarrassing meal.
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