It was March, the spring rain was crisp, and the drizzle covered the mountains and fields in the distance with a thin layer of white gauze.
Niujia Village.
In the green fields, a child of about six or seven years old wearing a bamboo hat was groping for something in the muddy ditch with his trousers rolled up.
On the field ridge next to it, there was a bamboo basket, with several loaches jumping around vaguely inside.
It can be seen from the half-wet clothes on the child's back that he has been touching here for a long time, but he has not touched a few loaches.
This is normal. There are only so many loaches in the fields. Children in the village come to catch them almost every day. No matter how many loaches there are, they can't withstand catching them like this.
"Isn't this a cow's egg? You are just in good health, so you come to the fields to get wet in the rain. Be careful that your mother will whip your butt to pieces!"
On the ridge of the field, an old man wearing a bamboo hat and raincoat was walking by carrying a load of dung buckets.
When the child heard the voice, he straightened up and showed his white teeth, "Third uncle, I'll go back right now!"
"Haha, go back quickly. There are not many loaches in the ditch. If you get sick again, you will lose more than you gain."
After the old man finished speaking, he left with a smile.
After touching in the ditch for a while, the child felt that time was almost up, so he washed his hands and feet, picked up the bamboo basket and walked along the field ridge towards the door of his house.
He had been out for a long time, and the spring cold was severe. He had to go back and change clothes quickly. If he caught the cold again, it would be fatal.
Glancing at a few small loaches as thick as chopsticks in the bamboo basket, the child, Niudan, sighed slightly, with a hint of maturity on his face that did not match his age.
These little loaches are not enough to fill the gap between teeth. It is really difficult to get some meat to eat!
He is not from this world, but came through his soul and became Niu Dan, the only son of Niu Gen and his wife, a villager in Niujia Village.
To be honest, this name is really a bit fucked up. My name is Niu Gen, and my son’s name is Niu Dan, so why not call him Niubi? Change the name, you must change it!
Today is the second day since he passed away.
After time travel, I had just recovered from a serious illness and felt that my body was hollowed out and very weak.
From yesterday to now, he only drank several bowls of porridge and an egg. He could only eat half full, and there was not a drop of oil or water in his stomach. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he secretly went out to hunt for some loaches, but the harvest was very little.
"Hey, this start is too difficult."
Niudan frowned and turned into a seven-year-old child, unable to do many things.
At this time, he couldn't help but think of the mysterious bead that caused him to travel through time.
Along with the thought, the world in front of him was spinning. Niudan's eyes widened and he found that he had appeared in a vast white place.
"This is--"
One moment I was on my way home, and the next moment I was in this world full of white mist.
There was nothing in front of him except a small pool with spring water constantly bubbling up.
"A fountain at the beginning? The world inside the beads? Goldfinger!"
Niu Dan reacted quickly, with a look of ecstasy in his eyes.
The space here is not very large, it is in the shape of a hemisphere, with a radius of about four meters. In the center is a small pool with crystal clear water and yellow soil around it.
He stretched out his hand to explore and found that the water was as deep as his wrist. The spring at the bottom was constantly bubbling water. The overflowing spring water flowed towards the low-lying area and flowed into the white mist.
The surrounding areas shrouded in white fog seem to have a layer of film that prevents entry into the fog.
After observing the space, Niu Dan felt something in his heart. He squatted down and grabbed the soil on the ground. It was very soft.
So, he dug a ditch next to the pond, introduced the overflowing spring water into the ditch, and then put the loaches in the bamboo baskets into the ditch.
After the loaches entered the water, they burrowed into the soil one after another, leaving a few holes the size of a little finger.
After doing all this, Niu Dan thought about leaving, and the next moment he returned to the outside world.
After walking along the muddy path in the village for about five minutes, a simple farmyard appeared in front of us.
In a yard surrounded by a half-person-high fence, there are three thatched houses.
There is a jujube tree planted in the south of the yard. Under the tree, a fence is used to enclose an open space for raising chickens. It is covered with straw for shade and rain, and there is also a straw shed for cooking.
Two old hens were nesting in the haystack, staring blankly at the drizzle outside. When they saw the eggs coming in, they immediately rushed out with a cry, flapping their wings through the fence, crying for feeding.
Niudan ignored them and quickly went into the house to change out of his wet clothes, washed them and hung them up to dry before entering the bead space again.
"Huh?"
As soon as he entered, he was attracted by a layer of pale yellow eggs floating in the ditch. It was obvious that they were loach eggs.
But how long has it been before the loaches have laid eggs? And the eggs are still so big!
Time acceleration? Evolution? Mutation?
Niu Dan looked at the loach eggs in the ditch that were as big as peanuts, and some guesses suddenly popped into his mind.
Just when he was about to pick one up and take a look, a black shadow suddenly popped up in the water.
"Snapped!"
Before Niu Dan could react, the black shadow rushing towards him seemed to have hit something, bounced off and fell to the ground.
"What? Damn it!"
On the ground is a lively loach, and it is an enlarged version of the loach.
The loach, which was originally only as thick as a chopstick, is now as thick as an adult's arm, more than one meter long, and has a mouth full of fine teeth. It looks extremely ferocious and terrifying.
If I had been bitten by it just now, I would have torn off a large piece of flesh.
Thinking of this, Niu Dan got goosebumps all over his body.
But looking at the situation just now, he was protected by the bead space here, otherwise he would have been bitten by a loach.
After jumping on the ground for a while, the black loach quickly got used to it and began to crawl toward the ditch.
Niudan's heart moved, and he took a few steps forward with courage, and suddenly grabbed the loach's gills with his fingers like hooks.
The loach struggled violently, its whole body began to twist, and its one-meter-long body tightly wrapped around Niudan's entire arm like a python.
It stands to reason that such a big loach should have a lot of strength, but apart from feeling the slippery skin of the loach, Niudan didn't feel much strength, or even the weight of the loach itself.
Just like holding a feather, the loach was easily caught in his hand without any resistance!
Sure enough, in this space, you are the master!
After confirming his guess, Niu Dan immediately became happy and casually put the loach back into the ditch.
After the loach entered the water, it immediately dived into the soil like a frightened rabbit. However, because the soil was too shallow, the fist-sized cave only accommodated half of its body, and the other half was exposed to the outside.
Obviously, the space under the soil is the same as the space above, which is limited, so the loach cannot dig deeper.
This is okay, otherwise the loach will drill too deep and it will take a lot of effort to dig it out.
It was most likely those springs that caused the loach to mutate, and Niu Dan's eyes fell on that pool.
In addition to the spring water, the time flow rate in the bead space should also be different from the outside world, otherwise there would not be so many eggs. As for whether there are other abilities? That will have to wait and be excavated one by one in the future.
The most important thing now is to fill your stomach!
After leaving the bead space, Niu Dan hurried to the kitchen house, grabbed a kitchen knife and wooden bucket, and immediately entered the space again.
Only a few minutes later, new changes appeared in the ditch. The originally dense layer of loach eggs had hatched out, and they had all turned into strips of loach seedlings as thick as a thumb.
It's just that the number of loach seedlings is much less than the densely packed eggs before, and the big loach with its head buried in the soil has gained weight again.
Niudan squatted down and searched around the ditch. He found that except for the big loach and the small loaches swimming around, the few loaches he had caught before were gone.
It was obvious that they were eaten by the big loach early in the morning, and if they came in later, the remaining loach seedlings might not survive much.