Chapter 53
Huo Rui took his clothes and went into the water. He asked Huo Yu to stand at a distance from him. He first tied the sleeves of the clothes into a knot, and then handed one end of the clothes to Huo Yu.
"We used our clothes as fishing nets and blocked the middle of the stream. When fish swam over, we would swoop in and catch them."
Huo Yu nodded. He was still skeptical about Huo Rui's bad idea, but he couldn't think of a better way at the moment, so he could only give it a try.
Liang Chumo looked at them and shouted, "Huo Rui, are you ready? Are you ready to start counting?"
Huo Rui waved at him, indicating that they could start.
"Huo Yu, you have to cheer up. When you see the fish swimming towards you, you have to move quickly."
Huo Yu rolled his eyes at him, "You're just being long-winded!"
I don’t know if they were unlucky, but they didn’t see any fish swimming over before they counted to thirty. They bent over and opened their clothes up and down, forming a long net.
It was undoubtedly tiring to keep doing this. Huo Yu looked at Huo Rui and said, "Your method..."
“Shh!”
Huo Rui raised his chin towards him, motioning him to look at the several fish swimming above.
Huo Yu's eyes lit up.
The two looked at each other, counted to three silently, raised the "fishing net" and surrounded the fish that swam over. It was just because the movements were not skillful and quick enough that the "fishing net" was not rolled up in time, causing the three fish to jump out of the "fishing net" and then fall into the water and escape.
The remaining fish were wrapped in their "fishing nets".
“Pah!”
There was the sound of fish flapping in the fishing net.
Huo Rui was extremely excited and shouted, "We caught a fish."
Huo Yu also had a look of joy on his face.
The people on the shore also held their breath and stared at them.
Huo An clapped his hands and said excitedly, "Brother! Fish!"
However, as the saying goes, "excessive joy leads to sorrow", when the two of them were pulling the "fishing net", Huo Yu lost his balance and sat directly in the stream.
One end of the "fishing net" fell from his hand into the stream, and the few fish left in the "fishing net" struggled to escape from the end where he fell into the stream.
"Ha ha!"
There was laughter from the crowd on the shore.
Huo Yu was dumbfounded when he saw the fish he had caught with great difficulty escape again.
Huo Rui glared at him and said, "Huo Yu, can you hold on to it properly?"
Huo Yu also felt that he was the one who held back this time, and adhering to the principle of correcting mistakes, he said, "Next time, I will definitely get it right."
So the two of them started a new round of fishing and encirclement tactics.
This time they were lucky, as a small school of fish swam down from the upper reaches of the shallow stream.
They did the same thing, and when the fish was about to reach their "fishing net", they began to pull the net in.
“Pah!”
There were more sounds of fish flapping.
"Huo Yu, stay calm, we will walk slowly to the shore." Huo Rui hurriedly reminded.
Huo Yu nodded. He held on to this part of his life desperately, fearing that he would make the same mistake again.
There seemed to be a lot of fish this time, and the clothes were wet from being soaked in water, so the weight was self-evident.
The two of them seemed to have used up all their strength before they managed to get ashore with stumbling steps.
When they put the fish on the ground, the two of them sat down on it back to back.
Huo Rui panted lightly and said, "Huo Yu, let's grab another handful." He was afraid that the number of this handful would not be able to exceed that of Liang Chumo and the others.
"Not going anymore!" Huo Yu waved his hands breathlessly. He was so tired.
"What if we lose?" Huo Rui frowned.
Huo Yu said confidently: "I can't lose."
Huo Rui was stunned, not knowing where his confidence came from.
Liang Chumo walked up to them with a smile, crossed his arms, and said with a teasing look on his face: "Huo Rui, are you guys going to admit defeat?" He pointed at the servant who had counted to 180 and raised his eyebrows, "Your time is almost up."
Huo Yu looked at him as if he were a fool and said, "Let someone count how many fish there are in there before you show off." He had already counted them while he was waiting for the fish to come over. They won the game.
"Hmph! I don't believe that you can catch more fish than us like this." Liang Chumo said.
He asked the servant to open the clothes that were full of holes.
"Pah, pah!" Many fish jumped out one after another.
The servant counted carefully, "One, two, three..."
After losing everything, he was a little bit in disbelief. How could it be such a coincidence? Afraid that he had counted wrong, he counted again. After confirming it again, he felt a little desperate. How come there are exactly sixteen?
"Young Master Mo! There are exactly ten...sixteen of them!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
Liang Chumo gritted his teeth, sixteen? Isn't that one more than they have? He lost again just by one fish?
"I don't believe it." He pushed the servant away and started counting by himself, "one... fifteen, sixteen..." There were really sixteen?
Huo Rui was very proud of himself. He stood up, straightened his body, and smiled brightly. "Oh! I am still as resourceful as ever. This makes it hard for me not to win!"
Huo Yu's face twitched when he heard that, and he didn't know who was anxious just now! Could he say that he didn't know this shameless Huo Rui?
Huo Rui raised his eyebrows towards Liang Chumo and said, "Liang Chumo, I won."
"You're just lucky!" Liang Chumo gritted his teeth.
Huo Rui smiled and said, "That's not true. I've always had good luck." He stretched out his hand to Liang Chumo, "I'm willing to accept the loss. Give me my spoils!"
Liang Chumo looked at the dagger in his hand with reluctance on his face, but he still understood that a real man should keep his word. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then placed his handle heavily in Huo Rui's hand.
Huo Rui played with the dagger in his hand and looked at him with a smile, "Liang Chumo, next time if you have any treasures, you can come and compete with me again."
"You!" Liang Chumo gritted his teeth in anger.
"Amo, forget it, let's go!" Liang Chuxun walked over and patted his shoulder.
"Cousin, he just relies on luck." Liang Chumo muttered dissatisfiedly.
Liang Chuxun looked at him seriously and said, "He was able to find a way out of the dilemma under limited conditions. It was his luck and strategy. You can't just look at one side of a person or a thing. You have to learn to see his strengths."
“Pah!”
"Good!" Luo Chaoyan clapped her hands, looked at Liang Chuxun with a smile and said, "Young Master Liang is indeed worthy of being the descendant of the inheritance of the Art of War. You said it very well."
"Let me tell you, our little Rui is just a little clever, how can he compare to you who are both strategic and capable?"
She ignored Huo Rui's fiery look and continued, "Well...friendship comes first, competition comes second. Since we have the good fortune to meet on this mountain today, why don't we have a good meal here?"
Luo Chaoyan looked at Shi Mengdie, "Miss Shi?"
Shi Mengdie looked at her two cousins.
Liang Chumo nodded repeatedly. It was better to be here than to go back and be forced to play chess by his cousin again.
Seeing him like this, Liang Chuxun couldn't refuse. Forget it, now that you are out, let my cousin relax.
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