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Chapter 188: Catching shrimps and leeches(1/2)

 After eating, the second sister and the third sister started to do their homework. The little girl was playing next to them. Fangyuan went into the room and took a nap.

When Fangyuan woke up, it was already past three in the afternoon, and the little girl was left playing alone in the living room.

Seeing Fangyuan coming out of the room, he quickly ran over and said, "Brother Fangyuan, are you awake?"

"Well! Why don't you go take a rest?" Fang Yuan asked, rubbing the little girl's head.

"I'm not sleepy." The little girl shook her head and said.

"Come on, let's go for a walk."

"Okay."

Although it’s hot outside, it’s too boring to stay at home, and Fangyuan is someone who can’t stay home.

When we came outside, a heat wave hit us, making it difficult to breathe.

Fangyuan turned around and asked the little girl: "Are you warm?"

The little girl shook her head and said, "Brother Fangyuan, I'm not hot."

"Well! Let's go, brother Fangyuan will take you to catch fish."

It's around three o'clock in the afternoon. Although it's not the hottest time of the day, it's not much different.

But if you don't go out at this time, the whole afternoon will pass quickly, which will undoubtedly be a waste of life for Fangyuan.

"Catch fish?" The little girl turned her head and glanced at Fangyuan and said, "Brother Fangyuan, why don't you use tools to catch fish?"

"Uh!" Fangyuan was stunned for a moment and looked at himself with empty hands.

In fact, it was just a spur-of-the-moment idea, and then he remembered that he didn't bring any tools, so he quickly turned back to get a basin and a shovel.

In fact, he had all these things in his space, but he couldn't take them out in front of the little girl, so he had to go back and get them.

It's not Sunday, nor is it a holiday. There are no people on this side of the creek.

There is actually another reason why there are no people, that is, there are no fish.

Since the weather has gotten warmer, people come here to catch fish basically every day, children on Sundays and adults on other days.

In the end, I managed to catch it for a day, but in the end it was not even enough to make fish soup, so no one came to catch it.

This is normal. No matter how many fish there are, you can’t stop catching them every day! And this is just a small stream.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, adults go to the reed swamps to catch them, and some even use nets to cast them.

You must know that the reed marsh is the upper reaches of the creek! The upper reaches have been almost completely caught, how can there be any fish in the lower reaches?

Fangyuan is just for fun, and it’s cooler to play in the water in this weather.

Now that you’ve gone out to play and it’s cool, why not do it!

"Let's go."

"Yeah!" The little girl nodded and said, "Brother Fangyuan, let me help you get the basin."

"Okay."

Soon the two people came to the creek, and just as Fangyuan thought, there was no one here.

This time Fangyuan did not stop the little girl from coming down. The water here is not deep, only up to Fangyuan’s knees.

Even for a little girl, it can only reach a little above her knees and just roll up the trouser legs.

"Be careful of leeches." Before entering the water, Fangyuan arranged for the little girl.

"It's okay, Brother Fangyuan, I'm not afraid of leeches."

"Okay!"

The children of this era are really incomparable to the children of later generations. In later generations, a leech can make a child cry, but in this era, no child will be afraid of leeches crawling on his legs.

In this day and age, when children climb high and low, and even jump from one house to another, no one is afraid.

Even if you tell the adults, the most they will do is nod to show they understand, and they won’t take it seriously at all.

But in the future, even if you climb a tree, adults will be frightened, fearing that you will fall, and be ready to catch you at any time.

This is the difference, so many children in later generations appear to be particularly cowardly. In fact, this is not because the children are cowardly, but because their courage has been restricted by adults.

In this era, it is normal for children to go into the water and touch fish and shrimps. They can even walk in the water and wade for snakes. If they see a snake, they will pick it up with their feet and bring it to the shore, and then they will have a delicious meal.

In later generations, children will be frightened when they walk by the water, even if it is just a small ditch. Not to mention picking it up with their feet, they will scream in fear when they see it.

This is not to say that it is wrong to be careful and not allowed to enter the water. After all, very few children in future generations will know how to swim, and falling into the water will be dangerous.

But this also limits the child's nature to a certain extent, not just in the water, but in all aspects.

"Brother Fangyuan, there is a leech on your leg." The little girl shouted at this time.

Fangyuan lowered his head and took a look, and found that there was indeed a leech lying on his calf. Fangyuan slapped it with his hand, and the leech fell into the water.

If you are bitten by a leech, be sure not to pull it. It will be useless. You can pat it with your hands or the soles of your shoes.

Because the more you pull at it, the deeper it goes inside. Of course, it would be better if there is fire, such as cigarette butts or incense. Just click on the tail of the leech and it will come out.

In fact, there is nothing dangerous about this thing. As long as you pay a little attention, nothing will happen.

"Okay, why don't you go up! I can do it myself." Fangyuan said to the little girl.

"I don't, I want to be with brother Fangyuan."

Hearing what the little girl said, Fangyuan was helpless and said, "Okay! Then let's cordon this place off."

Still the same as before, Fangyuan first built a wall downstream. Of course, he left a gap when he was building the wall, and then blocked the net on the gap.

This is to prevent fish from escaping through the gap.

The downstream wall does not need to be too high or too strong, because there is a water outlet and it will basically not collapse.

After the base was completed, the two of them went ashore. Fangyuan helped the little girl snap the two leeches off her legs, and then looked for any leeches on her legs.

After cleaning up the leeches, the two of them waited on the shore. There was no one there anyway, and Fangyuan didn't plan to get a second one.

To put it bluntly, the two of them just went out to play, and it didn’t matter whether they could catch fish or not.

It wasn't until about six o'clock that Fangyuan went down to build a wall upstream. This time he didn't let the little girl come down.

Because the leech bit her leg just now and it bled. As for Fangyuan, although it also bled, he didn't care at all.

This time the square block was longer, almost ten meters long.

It's summer now, and it gets dark quite late. Although it's already six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is still high and it's very hot.

Fangyuan released a lot of soil from the space when the little girl wasn't paying attention, so he built up the base very quickly. I wonder if this is considered cheating.

After the upstream dam was built, he waited for the water in the downstream section to flow out. Because he cheated and built the dam faster, not much water flowed out after the dam was completed.

There is no other way, Fangyuan can only pour water outside again, but since he cheated in the front, it doesn't matter in the back.

So Fangyuan secretly collected the water into the space. There just happened to be a shortage of water in the space, so it was a perfect killing two birds with one stone.

Soon the water disappeared in this section. Fangyuan looked back and was disappointed because he didn't see any fish at all.

"Brother Fangyuan, there are so many shrimps!" the little girl ran down and shouted.

This is quite gratifying to Fangyuan! Although there are no fish, there are quite a lot of shrimps, but unfortunately they are all relatively small shrimps.

"It's quite a lot."

Just pick up a lot! Maybe it’s enough for a plate, and then the two of you can pick up shrimps in the stream.

Not to mention, there are really a lot of them, and shrimps reproduce very quickly. Now that there are no fish in the reed swamps, the shrimps reproduce even faster.

After picking it up for about twenty minutes, I finally picked up almost everything. I could have picked up a little more, but unfortunately there was too much water upstream, and the dam of Fangyuan Lei was about to be washed away.

"Let's go, these are enough to eat." Fangyuan said to the little girl.

"Yeah!" The little girl swallowed her saliva, glanced greedily at the dam upstream, and nodded.

The two people came to the shore and first checked whether there were any leeches on their legs. It might be because there was no water! No leeches were found.

At this time, the dam at Fangyuan Base finally completed its mission and was washed away by the water upstream.

The two of them went down, washed the mud off their feet, and put on their shoes.

Fangyuan picked up the porcelain basin, shook it, and said, "Go back and clean it, and then fry it."

"Brother Fangyuan, the cooking must be very fragrant."

Fangyuan reached out and rubbed the little girl's head and said, "You girl only knows how to eat."

Hearing what Fangyuan said, the little girl stuck out her tongue and said nothing more.

"Let's go."

"Hmm!"

Although it gets dark earlier, the time to get off work is the same. At this time, my mother has already got off work, and even the eldest sister is almost time to get off work.

The little girl was carrying a porcelain basin and was very excited along the way. She was probably thinking about how to eat these fried shrimps.

Fangyuan doesn't care, he really doesn't know much about eating. Of course, one thing is that it must be nutritious.
To be continued...
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