Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 687 Turtle
Yang He has already taken out a copying net and a fertilizer pocket: "We're going to collect the lottery."

"Hey you kid! Zhou Zhi just arrived!" Old Yang said angrily.

"I mean what I mean." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "I missed a lot of homework. This time I came to ask the monk to follow me into the city and go through all the newly issued test papers. We race against time."

"Amitabha!" The sister-in-law lifted up her apron and wiped her eyes: "Look at the youngest sitting there without sleeping at night, it's very sinful, or you can recruit all your classmates, we are just like last summer vacation, anyway I can live at home."

"It's not good this year, and I have to help my godfather sort out the materials, and I can't escape." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Besides, letting the girls follow us wild, it will be difficult for their parents to pass, so let's forget it at my house. Then we will collect it first. The sign is gone."

"Go, come back early, I fried chili peppers for you!" Sister-in-law laughed.

Zhou Zhi felt his cheeks drooling: "Then we must come back soon!"

Yang and An's fish sticks are located upstream, and there is a rough sand beach of red sandstone. The purpose of putting sticks in this kind of place is not catfish, but soft-shelled turtle.

The turtles used crooked-mouth hooks and moved gently. Zhou Zhi and Yang He stood in the water with their trousers arm-legged, one of them reeling in the fishing line little by little, and the other was concentrating on holding the dipping net, working quietly. At first glance, it is the old rivers and lakes.

The string hooks were placed at a depth of half a meter underwater, and they were placed around the sand beach. Judging from the footprints on the beach, turtles must have visited here yesterday.

After a while, there was movement from the twine in Zhou Zhi's hand.

"There is."

"Slower."

The two walked forward slowly, and sections of fishing line were lifted up. After a while, a flat figure could be seen struggling on a subline under the water.

Zhou Zhi took the joint of the sub-thread and the main thread and drew a small circle with the struggling turtle, and the turtle fell into Yang He's net.

Zhou Zhi used small lead-cut fishing scissors to cut the sub-thread lightly, and Yang He rummaged through the net and dumped the one-jin soft-shelled turtle into the fertilizer bag on his waist.

The soft-shelled turtle is sometimes very ruthless when eating the hook, and sometimes taking the hook will cause harm to the soft-shelled turtle. There is no need to waste time on this, which can ensure the maximum activity of the soft-shelled turtle.

The two kept moving forward with the same movement and rhythm, and after a while another one came.

This one was a bit small, more than three or two, the carapace on its body was still green, and the hook was hanging by its mouth. Zhou Zhi casually took off the hook, and let it go before the turtle could react to bite.

"Is there any more?" Yang He asked.

"There should be more, she's not too small." Zhou Zhi was still groping forward: "I feel it, it's moving."

"Don't force yourself, it's a pity to run away."

Soon the two touched a place, and the sub-thread seemed to be stuck in the rocks under the water, and they couldn't pull it after trying.

"Hold here." Zhou Zhi stretched the part where the sub-threads were joined by Yang He, took the net from him, squatted down, and groped along the sub-threads toward the deep water with the other hand.

"Be careful to bite you."

"No, if the turtle's mouth is tense." Zhou Zhi found the direction, raised his leg under the water, and tested it down with the thread between his toes, and soon touched the bottom of the water.

"Is it hanging on a stone?"

"Sand bottom, there's a big load." Zhou Zhi stretched out his feet to scrape the sand, and kicked out the things under the sand with his feet.

As soon as the thing left the sand, it started to paddle wildly. The feeling in Yang He's hand came all at once, and he quickly raised his hand as high as possible: "What a big guy!"

"Don't worry, follow it slowly..." A yellow-green round figure appeared in the water beside Zhou Zhi and dangled underwater.

"Hahaha! This old turtle can't hold back five catties!" Zhou Zhi held the net pocket with both hands and raised it up: "It's developed!"

Wild soft-shelled turtles, like Jiang Tuan, have become more expensive two years ago, at least 81 catties for such a big one.

Two soft-shelled turtles, one big and one small, add up to 500 yuan, which most people can't afford.

"Sure enough, Monk, how do you know there are turtles here?"

"I passed by here when I was looking for ducks, and I heard them diving into the water."

There were two or three soft-shelled turtles on the remaining hooks, but they were all in twos and threes, too small, so Zhou Zhi released them all.

The two packed up the big soft-shelled turtle, and Yang He took Zhou Zhi to dig wild sweet potatoes.

The fruits of wild sweet melons are divided into male and female, and the female fruit has a crack and cannot be eaten.

This thing grows best on the long side of the ditch where there is no water accumulation. At this time, as long as you get close, you can smell the sweet fragrance in the air.

This stuff is really delicious, no wonder Jiang Shu never forgets it.

The two quickly followed the smell and found a large field of wild melons, which grew in a clearing between a cliff and a ditch.

Zhou Zhi glanced at the place: "Did we come here last year? There weren't so many last year..."

"People are busy now, not many people come to do this." Yang He said.

This is also true. Take Yang He’s family as an example. Now they have more business of beating rice and soymilk, and they also raise four pigs. Added a three-wheeled small transportation, basically just getting up early and working in the dark, and it was simply too busy.

The only person in the family who is a bit playful is probably Yang He's little nephew.

"By the way, where's your nephew?" Zhou Zhi asked on the way back, "If Xiao Ding Ding is here, I'm afraid the crops in this land will be less."

"He went to see his grandparents at his sister-in-law's house, and the people over there spoiled him so that he could avoid laziness."

"Hahahaha, it's true..."

Fresh peppers, stir-fried sauerkraut, old noodle steamed buns, salted duck eggs, Zhou Zhi whetted his appetite and drank five bowls of porridge in a row.

Some villagers have already come to make soy milk, and the sister-in-law is busy there, and she is also happy to see Zhou Zhi eating happily: "The elbow is not like a baby in the city, he eats better than Yang He."

"It's mainly because my sister-in-law cooks deliciously!" Zhou Zhi really liked Yang He's breakfast.

"I brought a lot of things here, but I didn't listen to what I said." Yang and his mother said angrily: "They also brought us snacks from the capital, which wasted a lot of money."

This was said a little loudly, and it was meant to be heard by the folks who came to make soy milk.

"There are still several bottles of wine, all of which are Laojiao Touqu and Lixiang Touqu." Lao Yangtou also joined the ranks.

Gift giving is also particular. If the wine is too good, the gift will be too heavy for Yang He, and it will be a burden for others to pay back.

It's better to exchange the money for a bottle of Tequ for Touqu and wine from the county winery. Lao Yangtou won't be reluctant to drink it, and these two are already first-class wines in the village.

After dinner, Yang and his eldest brother drove their brother and Zhou Zhi to the pier in three rounds. This time, he will not be kept here. Before the weather is too hot, the chickens, ducks and geese given to Zhou Zhi must be brought back quickly, killed and released. Freeze in the refrigerator.

(End of this chapter)