Unlike many small islands that have been developed into tourist attractions, the island where Jinyu Village is located is rarely visited by tourists.
Although Jinyu Village is not isolated from the world, the people in the village rarely leave the village by boat except to buy some daily necessities.
There are more than 100 households in Jinyu Village, and every family relies on fishing for a living.
At the entrance of Jinyu Village, there lives a family of three.
This family's surname is Gu, and everyone knows that their daughter picked up a fool at the beach three days ago.
Gu Cai'er has lived by the sea since she was a child. Like everyone else in the village, she went to school in the village school. After learning simple words, she followed her family and fished every day to make a living.
At this time, she was walking back to the fishing village from the seaside with a fish basket on her back.
An aunt at the entrance of the village was cracking melon seeds. When she saw Gu Cai'er, she hurriedly waved.
Gu Cai'er looked over.
"Cai'er, it's not what my aunt said to you. Why did you pick up a fool from the beach for nothing? Your family is not well off, so why do you raise such an idle person?" The aunt persuaded her kindly.
Gu Cai'er is very beautiful, but that may be because she fishes at the beach all year round.
Her skin was a bit dark, and she said with a hearty smile: "Auntie, Ah Cai is quite good. He can also help the family with some hard work if he has nothing to do."
"Okay, go back quickly." The aunt waved her hand.
"Hey." Gu Cai'er nodded and ran home with a smile.
Before reaching the door of the house, I saw Ah Cai squatting at the door of the house chopping firewood.
"Ah Cai, I'm coming back." Gu Cai'er ran to Ah Cai and said, "Your injury hasn't healed yet. My father said it will take half a month for you to get out of bed."
Ah Cai lowered his head, shook his head, and said nothing.
"Then you get busy first, I'll go in and help grandma cook." Gu Caier ran back to the house.
After putting down the fish he caught, he ran to the kitchen in the back.
Her parents are cooking in the kitchen.
"Ah Cai, you're back." Gu Cai'er's mother saw her coming back: "You said that Ah Cai has been in our house for three days. He's like a fool. He can't speak and doesn't do things smoothly. Could it be that we are like this?
Keep him? Why not give him two fish and let him leave on his own."
When Gu Cai'er heard this, she hurriedly said: "Mom, he is so seriously injured, how can he survive if he is allowed to leave?"
Uncle Gu smiled and said, "Okay, it's not like Ah Cai has done nothing. At least he can chop firewood, so that's a sign of merit. Let him leave after he recovers from his injury."
When Aunt Gu heard this, she glared at Uncle Gu and said, "Cai'er learned this from you. What's wrong? With our family's conditions, why should we imitate the kindness of people in the city?"
"Our family doesn't lack this much food." Gu Cai'er said, "Besides, when I found Ah Cai, he was almost dead and his eyes were as red as a rabbit. It was so pitiful."
"Okay, okay, little girl." Aunt Gu glared at her: "Go in and ask Ah Cai to come in for dinner."
"Okay." Gu Cai'er laughed. She understood that her mother was a sharp-tongued person.
Gu Cai'er ran to the door of her house.
At this time, the little kids in the fishing village were surrounding Ah Cai.
"Fool."
"The fool who floated over from the river can't even speak."
A group of children were laughing at Ah Cai.
Ah Cai, on the other hand, lowered his head and didn't get angry at all.
"What are you making a fuss about?" Gu Cai'er scolded, "Hurry up and go back and forth from where you are."
The children started to smile playfully: "Sister Cai'er, my mother said that this fool floated over from the sea and it's unknown. Drive him away quickly, otherwise your family will be in trouble."
"What nonsense are you talking about? My sister said it was because Sister Cai'er was afraid that she would not be able to find a husband in the future, so she just found some fool to make up the numbers."
When Gu Cai'er heard this, her face immediately turned red, she glared at these children fiercely, then she took Ah Cai's hand and walked back into the house.
At the dinner table, Ah Cai always lowered his head and did not pick up the vegetables. Gu Cai'er helped him put the vegetables into the bowl.
Then Ah Cai picked up a full bowl of rice, ate it all in one go, and then sat there blankly.
Uncle Gu saw this and sighed, his daughter really picked a fool.
Aunt Gu stood aside and said, "Well, Ah Cai, our family is not rich either."
When Gu Cai'er heard this, she thought her mother was going to drive them away, so she winked hurriedly.
Aunt Gu continued: "It's not a problem for you to just eat like this. You are injured. It's okay to leave after the injury heals. But you have to do something. You can't be idle like this."
Ah Cai nodded silently and said nothing.
Early the next morning, Gu Cai'er took Ah Cai's fishing net and woke him up from bed.
"Ah Cai, hurry up and catch more fish with me today. As long as you can catch more fish, grandma and dad will not drive you away." Gu Caier said with a smile: "You must work hard!"
Ah Cai had no expression on his face and nodded blankly.
"Hey, hey, smile."
After Gu Cai'er finished speaking, she took Ah Cai's hand and walked towards the island.
On the road, many people saw Gu Cai'er taking Ah Cai with her.
"Cai'er, are you going fishing?"
"Girl, what are you doing fishing with this fool? What if you fall into the water and drown."
Gu Cai'er didn't know how to explain it, so she just smiled awkwardly.
After walking to a deserted place, Gu Cai'er angrily slapped Ah Cai on the back of the head: "Ah Cai, I say you are serious. Even if you can't speak and are called a fool, you still have to glare at them."
"You glare at me."
"You don't know how to glare at people, my God, you are really stupid for thinking about it."
Gu Cai'er rolled her eyes: "Forget it, since you are really stupid, I have to teach you how to fish, otherwise my parents will drive you away."
"You will definitely starve to death by then."
Ah Cai nodded and said nothing.
"Follow me."
In the next few days, Gu Cai'er would come home at sunrise and evening every day and teach the Ah Cai she picked up how to fish.
"Oh my God, the net wasn't lost like that."
"The fish is very slippery, so you need to use a harpoon, not your hands to catch it."
"Ah Cai, this is a hairy crab. Hey, my God, you can actually be pinched by a hairy crab."
After Gu Cai'er taught for a few days, not only did she not catch more fish, but because of teaching Ah Cai, the number of fish caught actually decreased a lot.
However, Gu Cai'er did not lose her patience, but became more serious.
She was so ignorant that before she knew it, she had become accustomed to going fishing with Ah Cai.
Even though this guy really gave her a headache and was very stupid.
On this day, Ah Cai was sitting at the door of the house, chopping firewood.
Suddenly, the sound of firecrackers was heard at the entrance of the village.
"What's going on?" Gu Cai'er ran to the door and looked at Ah Cai.
Uncle Gu and Aunt Gu also walked out of the door: "It should be that girl Caihong is back."
Aunt Gu sighed: "That girl Caihong is so lucky that she found a rich man outside. I heard that her husband has several apartments in his house."