Chapter 117 You Deserve Better
Lin Qi didn't want to move, so she moved the chair under the sun. The winter sun was warm and made people feel very comfortable.
"Lin Qi, come catch fish with us." Luo Wei rushed into the yard and shouted.
"No." Lin Qi refused very straightforwardly.
"Go, everyone is waiting for you." There was a hint of pleading in Lowe's tone.
"Why are you waiting for me?" Lin Qi was puzzled.
"I want to see how you catch fish." Luo Wei was also curious. He originally wanted to go fishing with Lin Qi this year, but Lin Qi was too busy and he could not find her.
"I caught it with my hands." Lin Qi said lazily.
Lowe: “….”
This answer is so perfunctory.
Lin Qi couldn't resist Lowe's constant nagging and went to the pond with him.
The pond had been drained yesterday, and now, on the morning of the second day, the water had almost dried up. Everyone was waiting on the shore, holding buckets and rolling up their trousers.
As soon as Lin Qi appeared, their eyes all turned over, and each of them had a fiery look on their face.
"Lin Qi, you are the first one to go into the pond, and you will catch the first fish!" said the team leader Luo Feng.
"Why?" Lin Qi was puzzled. She didn't feed the fish, so what did it matter whether she was the first one to catch it?
"Hehe, since you've set a good example, everyone will be more confident." Captain Luo Feng grinned.
The others also smiled, and no one objected.
Everyone agreed, and Lin Qi had nothing to say, so she followed the others and rolled up her trouser legs, revealing a pair of white and delicate legs, and walked towards the pond with deep silt.
Lin Qi had just entered the pond when a fish ran into her. She grabbed the fish's head with lightning speed and pulled it up.
This is a grass carp that is about the same length as her arm and weighs about seven kilograms.
"Wow--"
There was a cry of surprise on the shore.
Lin Qi looked indifferent and accurately threw the fish into Lowe's bucket on the shore.
Lin Qi caught the first fish, and others also went into the water. For a moment, exclamations and laughter rang out one after another.
Among all the people, Lin Qi was the fastest at catching fish. She could catch one every time, no matter how big or small. Wherever she went, not even a single shrimp was left.
When she pulled out another loach from the mud, Luo Qingbai, who was following behind her, couldn't help but ask, "How did you find loaches in the mud?"
"By feeling." Lin Qi said, without looking at the mud, she reached into the mud with one hand and pulled out a yellow eel the size of a bamboo pole, and asked Luo Qingbai, "Did you see it? By feeling."
Luo Qingbai: “……..I saw it.”
After watching it, I became even more confused.
The buckets behind Lin Qi were changed one after another because the water had to be drained out, and some small fish and shrimps would not survive if left behind. So everyone did not pick the big fish, but caught all of them, filling eighteen buckets with fish and shrimps.
Everyone scanned back and forth several times, and only went ashore after confirming that nothing was missed.
In the end, only Lin Qi and Luo Qingbai, who was carrying a bucket behind her, were left in the pond.
"Wow, so many eels and loaches, who caught them?" The team members who came ashore went to see the fish, and when they saw the full bucket of eels and loaches, they were a little confused.
They didn’t catch any eels or loaches!
"Lin Qi caught it. Look in the pond, she is still catching it." The person on the shore said, pointing at Lin Qi in the pond.
The fishing team members all turned their heads to look into the pond, and just in time saw Lin Qi picking up a yellow eel from the mud.
The fishing team members: “….”
Are there eels in the mud?
In less than five seconds, Lin Qi caught another loach.
The fishing team members: “………”
The team members who had already reached the shore looked at each other and then walked down into the pond one after another.
They also want to catch eels and loaches.
"Captain uncle, the fish has been caught, can we go down?" Lowe and other half-grown children were eager to try. Seeing how easily Lin Qi caught it, there must be a lot of loaches and eels in the mud.
Captain Luo Feng waved his hand and said, "Go ahead."
"yeah--"
The children grabbed the buckets and ran to the pond.
Everyone was very excited, but after searching in the mud for ten minutes, they calmed down.
Are there really loaches and eels?
They found nothing!
"I touched it!" a team member shouted in surprise.
The next second, the team member fished out a loach from the mud.
"I caught—"
Before he could finish his words, the loach returned to the mud.
"Uh, it's too slippery." The team member smiled a little shyly.
Gradually, some team members started to catch loaches and eels, but no one was as good as Lin Qi in catching one in just a few seconds.
"Go upstairs." Lin Qi said.
"Not catching anymore?" Luo Qingbai was puzzled. Isn't it still there?
"No more catching them. Leave some for them to catch and play with." Lin Qi said lightly.
Luo Qingbai looked at the others who were having fun in the mud, and inexplicably felt moved. He handed the bucket to Lin Qi and said, "You go up first. I want to play for a while, too."
After Lin Qi got ashore, she went straight home. In the afternoon, Luo Wei brought her half a bucket of fish.
"The captain said that you made an outstanding contribution to fishing today, so we will give you two more fish," Lowe said seriously.
Lin Qi took a look at the fish in the bucket, picked out the big fish and the eels and loaches, and left some small fish in the bucket, "Your errand fee."
"No need. I'm just delivering something to you, no need to pay for the errand." Lowe refused.
"Take it away, I'm too lazy to deal with these little fish." Lin Qi really didn't want it.
Lowe swallowed and said, "There's a whole plate of it. You really don't want it."
Lin Qi shook her head, "I don't need it."
"That's true." Lowe said bluntly, "Then I'll take it."
Lin Qi waved her hand, "Let's go."
When Xu Hexiao came back and saw the fish, he raised his eyelids lazily and said, "They are raised in the brigade's pond."
Lin Qi hummed, "Hey, you don't have it?"
"I don't deserve it." Xu Hexiao said calmly.
"You deserve better." Lin Qi coaxed.
Xu Hexiao raised the corner of his mouth, "What is the best?"
"These are the fish I raise. I'll take you to catch them tomorrow." Lin Qi said, kicking the fish in the bucket, "So we won't eat these fish that are not worthy of you?"
"Eat. Thanks to you, I can finally taste the fish raised in the brigade's pond." Xu Hexiao said seriously.
Lin Qi rubbed his head and said, "Be good, you can taste the fish every time you catch it in the future."
Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao cooked dinner together. There was a lot of fish, which was cooked in various ways, such as fried, boiled, deep-fried and poached.
Xu Hexiao tasted each one and gave a sincere evaluation, "None of them are as delicious as the fish you raise."
"Thank you for your affirmation." Lin Qi said.
Although they said it didn't taste good, they still finished all the fish.
The next evening, Lin Qi waited for Xu Hexiao to come back from herding cattle, and then the two went to the mountains together.
Lin Qi was still with Xu Hexiao, and in less than ten minutes, they arrived at the planting area.
"How do you plan to catch fish?" Lin Qi asked. It was impossible to release the water because the terrain here was low and the water could not be released.
"Then how do you catch it?" Xu Hexiao asked back.
"Like this." Lin Qi controlled the vines, and the vines quickly formed a large net in the water, which flexibly caught the fish in the pond.
Xu Hexiao's cognition was refreshed again. He thought she was powerful enough when he saw her catching fish in the water before, but he didn't expect she could be even more powerful.
"I will be responsible for catching the fish in the net and putting them into the basket." Xu Hexiao found a job for himself.
It's fun to catch a lively fish, he consoled himself.
Lin Qi suspected that all the fish in the mountains had come to her place. The two-acre pond was packed with fish. She had to clean out a batch every once in a while, otherwise the fish would lack oxygen and suffocate to death.
"There are already ten baskets. That's all for now." Xu Hexiao said. In addition to the fish, there were also ten baskets of fruits and vegetables, so the whole car was full.
Lin Qi immediately stopped catching fish. "If we catch a batch now, we can catch another batch before the New Year."
"When was it before the New Year? Before you returned to Zhoucheng?" Xu Hexiao asked.
"I won't go back this year." Lin Qi had thought about it a long time ago. After Li Min married into their family, the current situation at home was that her parents and Lin Miaomiao shared a room. The original room was divided into two, separated by a wooden board and a curtain as a door. Her eldest brother and Li Min shared a room. If she went back, she could only sleep with Lin Miaomiao.
But she didn't want to.
Maintaining superficial politeness was already difficult enough for her. If they shared the same bed, she would probably not be able to resist kicking Lin Miaomiao off the bed in the middle of the night.
"Not going back?" Xu Hexiao couldn't suppress the upward curve of his lips and confirmed with Lin Qi again.
"No." Lin Qi said firmly.
Xu Hexiao could no longer control the joy in his heart. A huge smile spread across his face, and his white teeth made Lin Qi feel a little dizzy.
Are you so happy?
Maybe I can stay longer and spend the New Year with him in the future.
Having decided not to go home for the New Year, Lin Qi began to make various smoked meats, including smoked pork, smoked chicken and rabbit, smoked duck, and even smoked cooked meat.
After the smoking was completed, Lin Qi mailed it back home in two batches.
When Lin Qi went to mail the bacon home, she caught two ducks and gave them to Yu Mingbo. Only then did Yu Mingbo know that Lin Qi's ducks were alive.
"I have sold a batch. Now the mother ducks from the original batch are laying eggs and hatching ducklings, which are growing into adult ducks." Lin Qi said. She sold a total of 200 ducks from the first batch. Each duck weighed more than ten kilograms. She earned 2,000 yuan from those ducks.
Yu Mingbo was stunned, looking hurt. “I thought you would at least consider me as the one who provided the ducklings.”
"Uh..." Lin Qi touched her nose guiltily, "I'm giving you these two ducks for free, as a thank you for providing the ducklings."
As the weather became colder, the time Xu Hexiao spent herding cattle became shorter and shorter. It was getting closer to the end of the year, and the prices of grain, vegetables and meat were all rising.
Brother Tan would come to Lin Qi from time to time to take away a batch of goods. He never asked about the origins of these vegetables, fruits and meats, even if he knew that the origins of these things were questionable. Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao would not take the initiative to explain to him, and they were too lazy to even lie.
The two sides maintained a strange tacit understanding with each other.
In addition to Brother Tan, Boss Mo also ordered a lot of goods from Xu Hexiao. In order to make Xu Hexiao deliver the goods diligently, they took great risks and got a lot of good things from several nearby counties and cities.
Xu Hexiao worked until the day before New Year's Eve. The temperature in Yao County dropped sharply. Although it did not snow, it was frosty. The grass and trees were frozen, and some roads were also frozen. It was difficult for people to walk, let alone ride a bike.
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