After planting for half a year, the harvest was pitifully small. Jiang Yanxu was not disappointed. "It's good enough to have some. I only come here occasionally to take care of it, and watering it is just a matter of luck..."
After brushing off the dead leaves on his body, he stood in the middle of the field and looked around at the desolation. He was moved to recite a sentence, "Who can be rewarded without giving, and who can be rewarded without working hard?"
He Ruixue picked up a piece of foxtail grass and hit him with it. "It's just farming, and you think you've attained enlightenment? If everyone is like you, then we'll all starve to death."
"Everyone has their strengths. When I lived in the mountains, the harvest from my vegetable garden was meager. How do you think I trained myself to be a hunter?"
"So during that time, all the food you ate depended on your master?"
Jiang Yanxu blinked, not wanting to expose his weaknesses in front of her, and forced himself to change the subject.
"Oh, no one would dislike their partner just because he's not good at farming, right?"
"Stop being so sarcastic. Who dislikes you? I don't know how to farm either. If we have to starve, we'll be together."
In her previous life, she had killed two pots of cacti and four pots of succulents. Her lucky bamboo could not last more than three months, and her neighbor's green basket had all its leaves turn yellow after just a few days of her care. It was a real plant killer.
She naturally took his hand, pointed to the stream beside them and said, "I just saw some fish in the water. Let's catch a few and take them back."
Feeling the warmth of her palm, Jiang Yanxu's face heated up and he said excitedly, "Sure, I tell you, I'm an expert at spearing and fishing."
The food in the university cafeteria was not tasty and had few varieties. It consisted of potatoes and sausages. If he wanted to have a snack, he would catch some fish for himself.
"They have a lot of sea and lake fish, but I don't know how to eat them. The most common fish they eat is trout. It has few bones, and they fry it whole in a pan without scraping the scales. I eat it with the skin on. I really can't get used to it."
Jiang Yanxu complained to her that foreigners like to pretend, and because of religious reasons, they need to fast and not eat meat on Fridays.
In their eyes, fish is not considered meat, so Friday becomes the day for everyone to eat fish. In his opinion, isn't this just covering one's ears and stealing the bell?
"One time, when I was making fish soup, my classmates asked me why I didn't put butter in it. Later, they used it to dip bread in, saying that the sauce wasn't strong enough and asked me to add more. I was really..."
The present is not like the information-rich future. Without leaving the country, one can get a general understanding of foreign customs and tastes through the huge group of overseas Chinese.
Jiang Yanxu went through it in a daze. When he first went abroad to study, he was really shocked by the cultural differences between the East and the West.
However, He Ruixue was more surprised that he could fish so easily. "You really came at the right time."
A friend once complained to her that Germany’s regulations were weird, requiring a license to fish, just like driving.
Topics covered include ichthyology, watershed protection, and environmental conservation.
They were so meticulous about how to kill fish to minimize their pain, how to remove their internal organs with a single cut, how to examine fish for deformities or diseases through biopsies, and how to report any infectious diseases they discovered.
After completing the course, you can become a half-veterinarian.
You can't try to fish secretly with a fluke mentality, thanks to the unique strictness of this country. Once someone is found fishing in the wild, regardless of whether they have a license or not, someone will immediately choose to call the police.
Specially designed to treat fishermen.
After listening to this, she had only one thought: even in this state, he still had to take the exam and go fishing, how addicted must he be.
Jiang Yanxu didn't understand her feelings and looked puzzled.
He Ruixue didn't explain, but put on a bright smile and pulled him into the water when he wasn't paying attention.
In the stream, Jiang Yanxu rolled up his trouser legs, picked up a long branch from the shore, and sharpened one end with a sickle.
The ecology is good, with many aquatic plants and fish in the water.
He spotted a carp and cast his spear slightly downwards.
In the middle of the fish's belly, mud and sand rolled, and a few red lines rippled out in the water and quickly merged into it.
After a while, the stream water became clear again.
In less than half an hour he had caught three fish, the largest of which was as long as his arm.
He made a rope with reeds from the river bank, strung them together and carried them back. He Ruixue followed closely behind him with half a basin of soybeans.
When they arrived at the funeral home, the fish was already dead. He handed it to the aunt in the kitchen to marinate it, and then soaked the soybeans in water, planning to make tofu later.
The lunch dish was the chicken and rabbit they caught, which were stewed for a long time until they were soft and boneless.
The employees of the funeral home ate so much that they didn't want to look up. It was the first time they had eaten meat to their heart's content.
This was also the first time that He Ruixue recognized all of Jiang Yanxu's employees. Except for Cai Weimin, the remaining four men and two women were between 30 and 40 years old.
Their attire is quite distinctive. Some wear small bells on their wrists, and some wear amulets around their necks.
It can be seen that after being in contact with the dead for a long time, everyone will more or less believe in some metaphysics in order to get spiritual comfort.
As the great contributors who allowed everyone to eat meat, Chenchen and Brother Wolf were quite popular among them.
They have become familiar with these people and do not consider themselves outsiders at all. They run around in the crowd, their dirty paws stepping on clean shoe surfaces.
They didn't get angry and would occasionally throw a piece of bone with meat on it and a half-eaten rabbit head under the table.
The dogs could hardly fit the bone in their mouths, so they brought it to He Ruixue and put it on the ground.
It stretched out its two paws forward and wagged its tail, signaling her to eat too.
He Ruixue patted everyone's head as a reward, "Thank you, I don't want to eat."
An employee with more seniority and a good relationship with Jiang Yanxu joked with him, "Brother Jiang, this is your sister-in-law, right? She's a perfect match for you. You, an old bachelor, have finally found your next partner."
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