Chapter 14: Snatch
After drying the fish and shrimp, Lin Qi encountered a problem: she didn't have a cloth bag to put the fish and shrimp in. Lin Qi once again deeply realized her lack of supplies. For example, now, she still sleeps on a wooden board, without a bed or even a straw mat.
She not only lacked food, but also money and tickets. When the food she bought this time was finished, she would have no money to buy food and would probably starve!
She is in urgent need of making money!
Lin Qi's eyes fell on the fish and shrimp on the iron plate. Perhaps, this was her chance.
Without a cloth bag, Lin Qi could only use the same method as during the day and use a clean piece of clothing to pack the fish and shrimp.
On the third day, while cutting grass for the pigs, San Ya took Lin Qi to another place.
"We have to take turns. We can't just pull up one place. By the time we finish a round, new pig grass will have grown in the places ahead. This is the only way it can last long." San Ya explained.
The two of them still separated, and went back together when it was time to go back.
There are not many wild fruits and vegetables at the foot of the mountain. San Ya only picked a few wild vegetables today, while Lin Qi still picked thirty or forty kilograms.
"Where did you pick them? Do you have any more?" San Ya asked.
Lin Qi shook her head. "No more. I'll give you some."
“No need.” San Ya refused. “I have a vegetable garden at home, so I don’t have to eat wild vegetables every day. I’ll pick them if I see any, and forget it if there aren’t any.”
There was no vegetable garden at the educated youth site, and Lin Qi only earned two centimeters a day, so San Ya couldn't bear to share her wild vegetables.
She didn't want to, and Lin Qi didn't try to persuade her. She changed the subject and asked, "Are you still going shrimp fishing today?"
"No. My mother asked me to hoe the vegetable garden. She will plant vegetables when she comes back from work in the evening, so she asked me to plow the land and wait for her to come back." San Ya said.
"I'd like to borrow a winnowing basket, can I?" There wasn't even a single winnowing basket at the educated youth site. Ming Kangjian said last night that he would buy a few from the villagers, but he hasn't gone to buy them yet. Now she can only borrow one from San Ya.
"Sure. After you've handed in the pig feed, come home with me to get it." It was just a winnowing basket, not a valuable thing, and her grandfather knew how to weave it.
After delivering the pig feed, Lin Qi and San Ya returned home.
"I am the youngest in my family. I have three older brothers and two older sisters. My eldest brother is 19 years old. My mother is looking for someone to marry my eldest brother." Before Lin Qi asked, San Ya took the initiative to talk about her family. "I mentioned a girl before, but she thought my house was small and had few rooms, so it didn't work out. To save face, my parents now pick up stones at home every day, and plan to build a house before winter for my brother to use as his new home."
It turns out that people in the village also look at houses when getting married.
Lin Qi thought of her eldest brother and wondered if his marriage would be easier after she was no longer at home.
"You can bring the dustpan to the pigpen tomorrow, and I will bring it home after I come back from cutting grass for the pigs." San Ya instructed Lin Qi.
Lin Qi nodded, but in her heart she planned to return it after use, and gave out some fish and shrimp as payment for borrowing the winnowing basket.
The river half surrounds Anliang Brigade. In addition to a large main stream, there are more than a dozen small tributaries. The main stream passes through Anliang Brigade and continues to flow far away. The end points of more than a dozen tributaries are the fish ponds, lotus ponds and farmlands of Anliang Brigade.
That section had already been explored by a group of people yesterday, so Lin Qi changed the location today. She didn't know where there were more fish and shrimps, so she simply walked along the section of the river with the strongest scent of grass and trees.
It was past three in the afternoon, and the adults had to go to work. The children were either helping or playing around in the village. The section of the tributary that Lin Qi chose was not crowded. She thought it was good that there was no one there, so that if something strange happened later, she wouldn't have to worry about being seen.
But when she got closer to the water, she vaguely understood why there was no one there.
The mud here is too deep.
The river water was still clear, but under the water was soft, rotten black mud. She could smell the strong smell of mud even across the water.
Lin Qi saw a bamboo pole stuck in the river bank. She walked over and slowly pulled the pole up. She was shocked to find that the pole was nearly two meters deep in the mud.
No wonder there are no children in this section of the river. The mud is so deep that even adults dare not go down to the river, let alone children.
Lin Qi also gave up the idea of going to the river, but even though she didn't go to the river, it didn't stop her from continuing to catch fish and shrimp using the method she used yesterday. She placed the dustpan along the river, threw some water plants into it, letting the water plants completely cover the dustpan, and then injected wood-type supernatural powers into the water plants. After the input was completed, she found a cool place to sit and quietly wait for the fish and shrimp to enter the dustpan.
The sun was scorching hot. Lin Qi was drowsy under a tree. When she was about to fall asleep, the sound of splashing water woke her up.
There is a large shipment!
Lin Qi stood up quickly, took two or three steps to the river, and without any hesitation, bent down and picked up the dustpan from the water.
The winnowing basket fell to the ground, and the fish and shrimps left the water and jumped high in the basket. The one struggling the most violently was a carp. The fish weighed at least three or four pounds, and its body was as long as the winnowing basket, with its golden scales sparkling in the sun.
At this moment, Lin Qi's mind flashed through several ways to cook carp: pan-frying, braising, steaming, stewing...
Gulu——
Lin Qi swallowed her saliva. She was not in a hurry to pick up the fish. Instead, she took a bucket to the river to fill it with some water, and then put the big carp into the bucket, followed by the small fish and shrimp.
It seems that there are more fish here than in other places.
It’s not hard to understand if you think about it, because few people come here.
Lin Qi couldn't help getting excited when she thought about the other big fish in the river. She found another place, put down the dustpan and water plants again, and input her supernatural powers into the water plants.
This time, she didn't dare to sleep, so she squatted not far from the winnowing basket, calmed her mind and waited quietly for the fish to swim over.
There was silence all around, a gentle breeze blew, the water rippled, Lin Qi pricked up her ears and stared straight at the water.
About five minutes later, she saw the first shrimp enter the dustpan, followed by the second, the third, the fourth... Until her eyes became sore and she couldn't help blinking, then the big guy appeared, this time it was a black fish.
This black fish is as big as a baby's wrist.
Lin Qi was so nervous that she held her breath. She slowly circulated her supernatural powers in her body. After Hei Yu entered the dustpan, she moved and jumped out like a nimble rabbit.
With another splash, Lin Qi lifted the dustpan out of the water as quickly as possible.
So heavy!
This time the harvest was twice as much as last time.
After picking up the fish and shrimp in the dustpan, the bucket was almost full of water and fish.
Just one more catch and then go back, Lin Qi said to herself.
The third harvest was even better than the previous two times. This time there were two big fish, two small fish as big as a baby's wrist.
Now, there was only a few drops of water left in the bucket, which was full of fish. In order to conceal her tracks, Lin Qi stuffed a lot of water plants on top of the bucket.
The weather was hot, and apart from those who were working, there were not many people walking around in the village. Lin Qi was lucky enough that she did not meet many people on her way back from the river to the educated youth site.
The fish was still alive when it returned to the youth education center. Lin Qi filled the four buckets at the youth education center with water and kept the fish in the buckets. Then she took a wooden basin used for washing vegetables, filled it with half a basin of water, put more than a bowl of small fish and shrimp in the basin, covered the basin with a dustpan, and carried the basin to Sanya's house.
It’s not that she was reluctant to share the big fish with San Ya, but she couldn’t explain how she caught these big fish.
Sanya's home was quite far from the educated youth point, and Lin Qi's luck was not so good this time. She met someone halfway. He was a sloppy man with pockmarks on his face.
"Little fool!"
The man stood in front of Lin Qi, looking her up and down with his sticky and dirty eyes. "I didn't expect that you, a little fool, are not bad looking."
Lin Qi frowned and her face turned cold. She didn't even glance at the man, but walked around him and continued forward.
"Hey, you little fool, why are you ignoring me?" The man caught up with Lin Qi in two or three steps and blocked her in front of her again. If Lin Qi went left, he would go left. If Lin Qi went right, he would go right...
Lin Qi simply stopped, a hint of murderous intent leaking out silently, "What's the matter?"
The man didn't sense Lin Qi's murderous intent at all, and asked nonchalantly, "Where are you going? What's in this basin?"
As he spoke, he used his hand to lift the dustpan on the basin. His action was too fast, and Lin Qi was holding the basin with both hands, so she had no space to stop him.
"Oh, they are fish and shrimp!" The man said greedily, "Where did they come from? Your behavior is damaging the collective interests and is stealing. Do you know that?"
A big hat was put on him. If it were an ordinary person, he would be scared and sweating. But this person was Lin Qi. She was calm and said, "Arrest others too."
"Others are others, and no one reported them. Now, I'm going to report you!" the man threatened.
Lin Qi frowned. If the people don't report it, the officials won't investigate it. If she was reported, whether she would be punished or not would not be a matter of time, but she would be in a lot of trouble.
"If you give me these fish and shrimp, I won't report you." The man offered a solution.
So this was his purpose.
Lin Qi had no shortage of these little tricks, but she was not willing to give them to the man in front of her, especially in a threatening way.
Lin Qi looked at the man, estimating the probability of her using force to subdue him. The man was about 1.7 meters tall, very thin, thinner than most of the people in the Anliang Brigade, with a sallow complexion... He looked quite weak. If it was her in her previous life, she would only need one finger to subdue such a man, but now she -
When Lin Qi hesitated, the man lost his patience and said, "Give it to me!"
The man threw the dustpan aside and reached out to grab the basin from Lin Qi's hand.
The basin didn't move!
"Hey, you looked like you fell down because of the wind, but I didn't expect you to be so powerful." The man was surprised.
Lin Qi bit her lip. This was the maximum strength she could exert at the moment.
The next second, the man increased his strength and the wooden basin moved closer to him. Lin Qi's fingers holding the wooden basin turned pale, and she couldn't stop the wooden basin from leaving her even with all her strength.
"Luo Laizi, what are you doing!"
Just as the wooden basin was about to break free from her hand, a powerful voice came from in front of Lin Qi. Lin Qi looked up and saw a white-haired old man walking briskly towards her.
"Uncle Zhuzi, she stole my things and I'm trying to get them back." Luo Laizi was confusing right and wrong.
The old man didn't believe it, and hit Luo Laizi on the back with a bamboo stick, cursing as he hit him, "What do you mean your stuff? This is my San Ya's. Look at the dustpan on the ground, I made it, and I won't make a mistake with my stuff."
Luo Laizi was beaten so hard that he cried out in pain. He immediately put down the wooden basin and ran away in the blink of an eye.
Is the problem solved like this?
Lin Qi was a little dumbfounded.
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