There was no other way, Fangyuan could only nodded and said: "Okay! But let's make a promise first, you can't go into the water."
"Why?" Li Yanran asked confused.
"Don't ask why, or I won't take you with me."
Fangyuan can't help it. You must know that Li Yanran has a noble status! At least now.
Hearing what Fangyuan said, Li Yanran could only nod and said: "Okay! I listen to you, I won't get into the water."
"Then let's go."
Fangyuan and the others brought a relatively complete set of things, including a shovel, a porcelain basin, and a net that was not very big.
This is what Fangyuan asked Li Weiguo for. Li Weiguo often catches fish and this is what he lacks the most.
When a group of people came to the creek, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.
There are so many people that it feels like the whole creek is full of people.
Basically, they are all children, and today is Sunday! These students have nothing to do during the week, but they all ran out to catch fish.
Fangyuan glanced at everyone and said, "I think it's better to forget it! With so many people, there are not enough fish to catch!"
Seeing so many people, the second sister also frowned and said: "Otherwise, forget it, there are too many people."
It's not that there are too many, but there are unusually many. The entire creek is densely packed with people, and there is no place to catch them.
"These people are serious, why don't you go to the reed swamp to catch them!" Fangyuan said.
This was a bit of a double standard, and he didn’t even ask himself why he didn’t go to the reed swamp.
"The reed marsh is too dangerous. It's full of mud, and we don't know what's going on inside. No one will go there," said the second sister.
"Boss, you're here, why don't we go downstream!" The little fat man said at this time.
Hearing what the little fat man said, Fangyuan looked back at the second sister and the others, nodded and said, "Okay! Then let's go downstream and have a look."
The reed marsh is the upper reaches of the stream. Although I don’t know where the lower reaches lead to, there must not be as many people in the lower reaches as there are here.
This is normal, because it is too far away from the family home, and few people are willing to travel that far.
The group of people walked downstream, and after walking for about two kilometers, there were a lot less people here.
Fangyuan and the others walked some distance further, and there were even fewer people, but here, Fangyuan met an acquaintance.
It was none other than Cao Qianqian and his brother Cao Xianren, and of course, several of his followers.
Fangyuan glanced at them and walked over directly.
Of course they also saw Fangyuan, but they also ignored Fangyuan.
This may be because the second sister is here! Otherwise, these guys will probably cause trouble for Fangyuan again.
"Just right here!" Fang Yuan said, pointing to a deserted area.
"Okay." The second sister nodded.
The second sister agreed, and of course it was confirmed. Fangyuan took off her shoes, rolled up her trouser legs, and got into the water.
Not to mention, the water is quite cold. It's not summer yet, so how could it not be cold? But it's cool, and it's still within an acceptable range.
"Pass me the shovel." Fangyuan shouted from the water.
This creek is not big. The widest part at the top is only about four meters, and it is even narrower at the bottom. The water surface is only about one meter wide.
The water is not very deep, only up to the knees.
The little fat man also took off his shoes at this time, holding two shovels in his hand, and handed one to Fang Yuan.
"Build up the base from here." Fangyuan was worth a position.
"Uh!" The little fat man was stunned for a moment and said, "Boss, can't this base be set up?"
"What's wrong?"
"Boss, the water upstream is flowing this way, how can we block it up?"
"Who asked you to solidify the base? There is a hole in the middle. Didn't you bring a net? Put the net on the gap."
"Oh! I understand."
Then the two men started digging. In about half an hour, an earth wall was built, leaving a gap in the middle.
Fangyuan and the little fat man put the net over the gap and pressed it with soil. In this way, the water can flow through, but the fish cannot escape.
"Let's go up and wait for a while." After doing this, Fangyuan called the little fat man and went up.
When they came up, Fangyuan opened his schoolbag and took out some food. The few of them sat down to eat and chat.
After waiting for about an hour, Fangyuan put down the food and said to the little fat man: "Let's go to work."
The two people came down again, but it was not the place just now, but upstream of the tired wall, about ten meters away.
"Boss, what should I do?"
"Build up the base from here and make it wider so it won't be easily washed away by water."
"Ah! Boss, how wide the base must be!"
"Looking at the base, maybe it doesn't need to be too wide."
Hearing what Fangyuan said, the little fat man nodded and said, "Okay!"
Then the two people started working, fearing that they would be overwhelmed, they built the wall very wide, but fortunately the impact was not that big.
This was mainly because the water flow was not very fast, and soon a wall of earth more than 20 centimeters above the water surface was built.
At this time, there was not much water between the two earth walls.
This is normal. The water upstream is blocked, but there is a gap downstream, and the water is still flowing. Of course, there is not much water.
To be on the safe side, Fangyuan said to the little fat man: "Make the base higher."
He was worried that the water from the upper reaches would overflow the earth wall, in which case all the previous efforts would be wasted.
The little fat man seemed to understand what Fangyuan was going to do, and he started doing it without thinking.
"Wow! There are fish." The third sister shouted at this time.
Most of the water has been reduced, so of course you can see fish.
Fangyuan and the little fat man built another fifty centimeters of earth wall, and at this time, the height of the water upstream had almost reached the previous position.
"Stop! Go catch fish."
At this time, the water between the two earth walls was even less. It was estimated that it was not even a quarter of what it was before, and some places were even exposed.
"Second sister, hand me the porcelain basin." Fangyuan called to the second sister on the other side.
The second sister quickly handed the porcelain basin to Fangyuan, and then Fangyuan began to pour water on the outside of the earthen wall.
He was planning to get out all the water between the two earthen walls. In that case, he would not be catching fish, but picking them up.
After about ten minutes, there was finally no water, and all the mud was exposed, let alone fish.
It's a pity that there are no big fish. The largest one is only two hands long in Fang Yuan. It is estimated that it is only two taels, and it will not exceed three taels at most.
It’s small, but there are a lot of them!
This is the result of Fangyuan blocking the water and leaving a gap. The fish from upstream cannot escape here.
The second sister, the third sister, the little girl, and even Li Yanran took off their shoes and ran down.
Just like Fangyuan thought, this is not catching fish, but picking up fish.
After picking up all the fish, Fangyuan took a look and saw that they weighed about five or six kilograms.
This is already a lot, mainly because the radius is too small to pick it up, otherwise it would be at least about ten kilograms.
Fangyuan waded with her feet again to see if there were any loaches, but found none.
"Fat man, bring the net." Fangyuan shouted from the upstream wall.
"Little brother, what are you doing?" the second sister asked when Fangyuan asked the little fat man to take the net.
"Catch fish!" Fangyuan said with a smile.
The little fat man also brought the net over at this time. He seemed to know what Fangyuan was going to do.
Sure enough, after getting the net, Fangyuan said: "Make another gap here."
"Okay!" The little fat man agreed, and then dug in the middle of the earth wall.
A gap was soon dug out, and the water was already blocked very deeply. As soon as a small hole was dug, the water flowed out.
Fangyuan put the net over the gap, buried it with soil, and then went over to help the little fat man.
The gap was getting bigger and bigger, and the water flow was getting faster and faster, and soon the earth wall downstream was washed away. At this time, the two people also stopped because they had dug to the bottom.
"Boss, should we build another earth wall in front?" the little fat man asked.
"Wait a while."
"Yeah!" The little fat man nodded excitedly.
People are like this, they are very excited as long as they meet their expectations, let alone exceed them.
The fish he caught just now exceeded the little fat man's expectations. He thought it would be good to catch a few.
More than twenty minutes later, Fangyuan took the little fat man down again, and built another earth wall about ten meters upstream.
With the previous experience, this time it was much faster, but this time it was not as good as the first time.
Because this time there were about half less fish than the first time, but it was still quite a lot.
Fangyuan looked up at the sun and said, "It's getting late, let's go back."
"Yeah!" The second sister nodded.
Everyone packed up their things, washed their feet in the creek, and then put on their shoes.
People nowadays, especially children, are not so particular about drying their feet before wearing shoes.
Basically, don’t even think about it. I put my shoes on immediately after washing my feet, and I didn’t feel any discomfort.
When passing by Cao Qian and the others, Fangyuan took a look and found that they didn't catch many. There were only a few fish in the porcelain basin, which probably didn't weigh more than two kilograms.
"What are you looking at? Get out of here." Cao came over and said to Yuan Yuan.
To be honest, this Cao was quite arrogant before, but he has the capital to be arrogant! His father is the workshop director and can be considered a leader in the factory.
Although there are many people with higher positions than the workshop director in the factory, their children are older, so he, the workshop director's child, has become the little bully of the woolen mill's family.
True to that saying, there are no tigers in the mountains, only monkeys are kings.
If it were someone else, they might spoil him, but Fangyuan wouldn't. Don't look at him as just a child from an ordinary worker's family.
There is no way, Fangyuan has to do this, you know that in a few years it will be ten years, if he wants to better protect his family, he can only stand up.
It's best if no one dares to mess with him. People will avoid him when they see him, or even walk around when they hear his name.
