Chapter 309 Give it a try - The sickly young lady's daily life of eating melons in the courtyard

Father Lin tried it himself and poked the stick into the lake. "It's shallow here. How about I go down a little further and give it a try?" Although he was just saying it, his expression showed his intention.

As Lin's mother, who has lived with him for decades, how could she not notice it?

"Roll up your trouser legs so your clothes don't get wet. Walk down and try to see how deep it is."

"good!"

Cen Xi looked at it and wondered, why not let him come?

"Dad, Mom, how about letting me come?"

"Can you swim?" Lin Qing asked.

"Of course I can do that."

Lin Qing immediately exclaimed, "Wow! You are so awesome!" She couldn't do it. She probably couldn't do any exercise that required strenuous movements.

Even when she was in school, the teachers wouldn't let her do the farm work, and no one dared to say that she was special.

In fact, her pale little face has clearly told everyone that she is not suitable for doing this.

The teachers and students at school could not bear this responsibility, so Lin Qing would usually ask for leave on the day of the agricultural study so as not to make things difficult for the teachers, who would approve her request readily. Otherwise, she would have to stand there alone in the sun.

"Dad, Mom, why don't we let Brother Nan come!"

"No, no, I can handle this small matter. I'm not that useless." Father Lin refused directly.

Although he is a little older, he still feels that he is quite strong.

Lin Qing saw that he had already taken off his shoes and walked down barefoot, and knew that he couldn't stop him, "Brother Nan, go to Dad and support him!"

Lin's mother also agreed, "Yes, let your son-in-law support you." She looked at the old man striding towards the lake and felt a little scared.

"Dad, I'll hold you." Cen Xi hurried forward and held Lin's father's hand.

"Okay! Just hold me here, and I'll try the depth of the area in front." Father Lin tried it step by step.

The slope inside the lake was quite shallow. When he stepped down, he felt soft grass underneath. However, if he stepped harder, he would find that there was solid ground underneath.

He reached down little by little, and by the time he got there his trouser legs were wet and the water had reached his knees.

"Xiao Cen, you come down too." After Lin's father came out, he found that the water here was not deep, so he wanted to try the middle. He guessed that the water there was less than one and a half meters deep at most.

Cen Xi looked at Lin's father's side and found that the water was indeed not that deep, so he rolled up his trousers and walked down.

Lin Qing and his mother watched them from the shore as they measured the depth of the lake.

Neither the mother nor the daughter could swim, so they thought it was quite scary watching it. But in fact, the two people who went into the water to measure it thought it was not so deep. The lake was really not deep. Just as Lin's father guessed, the water in the middle was only about one and a half meters deep at most. If they walked across steadily, they could still be seen from the shore.

Father Lin and Cen Xi walked slowly to the middle of the lake. When they came out, their bodies were also wet.

“The water isn’t very deep and there are a lot of fish in it. When I went down just now, I walked all the way to the middle of the lake and felt a lot of fish swimming under the water,” Lin’s father concluded.

When Lin's mother heard him say this, she was so excited, "There are so many fish. If we catch them all, we will have enough fish to eat this year and next year."

"Well, I guess not many people go this way, so they survived." Father Lin said while twisting his wet clothes.

Lin Qing asked a crucial question, "The fish is right there, how do we catch it?"

Several people looked at each other in bewilderment. They didn't know how to do it! They couldn't catch fish with bare hands.

The lake doesn't look big, but it's not small either, large enough for the fishes inside to roam freely.

"It would be nice to have a fishing rod and a fish basket." Father Lin muttered softly.

"Fish basket? Can this back basket be used?" Lin Qing saw that this cup could also be used to drain water, so it should be about the same, right?

Father Lin and Cen Xi looked at the backpack. The backpack they brought was half a meter high, so maybe they could give it a try.

"Dad, how about we try this backpack? Later, we both go into the water, one of us fixes the backpack, and the other one rushes the fish over?" Cen Xi suggested.

"Okay! Let's give it a try."

Cen Xi and Lin's father quickly went into the water again with the backpack.

After the two of them went into the water, Lin's mother was not idle either, "Nannan, come with me to find some vines over there!"

"Rattan? Rattan?"

"Yeah." Lin's mother knew how to weave a backpack, and she wanted to try to weave a small fish basket with rattan.

"My dear, our daughter and I are going to find something and will be back later." Mother Lin called to the two people in the water.

"good!"

Mother Lin took Lin Qing back.

"Mother, what do you want the cane for?"

"I tried. Can I weave out the fish basket?"

"Mom? You can do this?"

Mother Lin waved her hands and said, "Didn't our family used to be poor? We can make these consumables by ourselves, why should we ask others for money?"

Lin Qing fell silent when she heard this. She said that their family was poor because of her. It was because they had to pay for her medical treatment that the family became so poor.

"Nannan, don't think too much. We have gotten through those hard times, and our life is so good now that others can't even envy us!" Lin's mother comforted.

"Yeah." Lin Qing put aside the unhappiness just now.

Yes, the hard times are over and they are living a good life now.

"Let's go, let's find more."

The mother and daughter worked downstairs for more than half an hour and came back with a large pile of rattan.

"What did you and your daughter bring back?" Father Lin and Cen Xigang had just returned to the shore.

“Look—” Mother Lin held the pile in her hand in front of them.

"Rattan? What's this for?" Father Lin didn't react for a moment.

"Weaving fish baskets!" Lin's mother said directly.

"Can you?"

"Tsk~ Who are you looking down on? I can weave a fish basket. This fish basket can just look like this one." Mother Lin expressed her thoughts.

"Yes, very much so. Give it a try. If you can really make it up, then we will definitely gain a lot today."

"Mom, you're the best. I believe you can do it."

"I'll try." Lin's mother blushed a little, but she also became more confident in herself.

Mother Lin cleared the branches and leaves on the vines and quickly started weaving. Lin Qing and the others watched her movements intently, and even the few fish they had just caught were placed aside.

Lin's mother had experience in weaving fish baskets, so she was very quick at weaving the fish basket, and soon a base was ready.

Halfway through the story, Lin's mother suddenly asked, "What does a fish basket look like?"

"Uh..." That's a really good question.