My village can't be like this

Chapter 438 Kung Fu pays off

On the way back from swimming, Zhang An still patrolled the river very carefully.

I'm just afraid that I'm careless and didn't see something.

Suddenly, he found that his foot was caught by something.

He turned around and pulled it out. Under the moonlight, it was clearly a piece of clothing worn by a woman.

I don’t know who lost it while washing clothes, or accidentally lost it while having fun by the river.

There doesn't seem to be any mud on it, so I guess it was just a short run away.

But these are not important. Zhang An has always liked to help others, so he threw this thing on the road to the shore.

Hopefully its owner can see it again and recover it.

Soon, Zhang An swam back to his original place. Although Jiang Tuan was not seen, Zhang An did not give up yet.

Because I haven’t visited the upper reaches yet, maybe they are hiding in the upper reaches.

If it were just the one caught by a fishing friend today, it could be said that it came here by chance.

But from his father Zhang Jianguo's words, Zhang An also knew that there were traces of Jiang Tuan's activities in this river in the past.

That made Zhang An even more confident that Jiang Tuan was still in the river.

And since we have gone into the river, we should look for it more. Anyway, we have come here, and maybe we will find it later.

After taking a breath and drinking a few sips of space spring water to replenish his strength, Zhang An went down to the river to continue searching.

Compared with the lower reaches, the flow speed in the upper reaches is very gentle. There are many aquatic plants growing on both sides of the river banks, and many fish that are active during the day live in them.

Zhang An searched for it in the river for a long time. Not to mention Jiang Tuan, other fish were rarely seen.

Because in the river, most of the fish are active during the day, and they may have found a place to rest now.

Just when Zhang An swam to a river bend full of rock formations, he suddenly saw several slender figures chasing something.

Although it was not very clear in the water at night, Zhang An quickly recognized them due to their slender and unique shapes.

This is the river turtle he has been looking for all night. It seems that hard work pays off, and swimming in the river all night is not in vain.

It can be seen that now is the time for them to be active. They look extremely fierce and are preying on other small fish in the water.

Although Zhang An wanted to catch these Jiang Tuan quickly, he did not rush forward to take action at this time.

Because this section of the river bend is all rocky, and there are stone crevices everywhere in the water, it is the natural home of these river masses.

If you pounce directly on the fish, you may not catch the fish, but will scare them. By then, they will all get into the cracks, and it will be difficult to get them out.

Since it is impossible to capture him alive, he can only find a way to outwit him.

These guys have not eaten during the day, and now is the time for famine.

Zhang An did not use spatial spring water to seduce him because he was located downstream. Even if he released spatial spring water, it would be washed downstream by the river water and would not have the desired effect.

Since the spring water did not work, the only option was to use bait. Zhang An fished some small fish in the space and put them into the river.

Sure enough, those predators seemed to be able to feel the delicious food, and they rushed towards this side with their slender tail fins.

When the small fish released by Zhang An took the few river groups to the rock crevices away from the river bend, Zhang An released Da Laoqing.

Although Da Lao Qing is not a purely carnivorous fish, its size is undoubtedly a huge threat to other fish.

Zhang An's instructions to Da Laoqing were simple, as long as he was responsible for blocking the estuaries where several river groups traveled back.

When Da Laoqing arrived, these guys seemed to realize that something was not quite right about their situation at the moment, and immediately gave up the hunting operation.

It's just that when they tried to swim back to the crevices in the river bend, it was already too late. Da Laoqing had already blocked their way back.

Although the huge Da Laoqing is not as agile as Jiang Tuan, it is just acting as a roadblock at the moment, so it can handle it easily.

After discovering that this road was impassable, several river groups had no choice but to run downstream, which played into Zhang An's hands.

At that moment, Zhang An didn't hold back anymore. The hunting moment had arrived, and he quickly swam up towards the oncoming grouper fish.

With just one face-to-face meeting, Zhang An received the two rivers in front of him into the space.

In the end, with the cooperation of Da Laoqing, only four were caught, and all the others took advantage of the loophole and escaped back into the crevices of the rocks.

Even if Zhang An is not afraid of water, he can only make a surprise attack.

After all, this is in the water, and this is their world. When they react, there will definitely be fish that slip through the net.

But these four are enough. As long as there is one female fish among them, Zhang An will be satisfied.

"Dahe, Dahe, thank you. I'll lend you a few fish first, and I'll return more to you later."

The fish were also caught. Zhang An went ashore, put on his clothes, and entered the space to inspect the fish.

Among the four, there are three female fish, which is really an unexpected surprise.

Zhang An immediately reopened a fish pond in the space, raised their family in it, and then put the big one in when he returned home.

Zhang An then put some shrimps and small fish inside to serve as food sources for them.

The next step is to wait for the moment of harvest to arrive.

When returning home, Zhang An caught two and put them in a bucket to take home.

Zhang An must keep these fish in a space to speed up their reproduction.

But I still have to take it home tonight so that I can raise the fry openly later.

Back home, Zhang An saw that the lights in his house were still on.

Walking into the room, although Wang Fang yawned, she was still watching TV.

"Mom, go back to bed quickly. Didn't you just leave the door open for me? Why are you waiting for me?"

Zhang An knew that his mother was waiting for him to come back.

Because my parents usually go to bed around nine o'clock.

"Didn't you just watch a TV show that was so good that you didn't pay attention to the time? You really caught the rat fish back."

It's past eleven o'clock now, and the TV series has ended long ago. We are obviously waiting for Zhang An to come back.

As soon as Zhang An came back, Wang Fang turned off the TV. When she came over, she even looked at the fish in Zhang An's bucket.

"I caught so much in one night. There are too few fish and it is too difficult to catch."

Zhang An didn't dare to say that he caught it by himself. He could usually go swimming in the river, but if Wang Fang found out that he was diving at night, he wouldn't have any peace tonight.

"There aren't many of these fish to begin with. The river beach was dry at that time. In such a big village, we only picked up seven or eight fish. In the following years, we haven't even seen them. Okay, I'll go to bed, and you should hurry up. It’s already midnight to pack up and go to bed.”

Wang Fang just took a glance and prepared to go to bed.

From the plowed paddy fields outside, there was a burst of "croak, croak, croak" frog sounds, a well-deserved vocalist on a summer night.

At the same time, there is also the accompaniment of bursts of crickets "Qu Qu Qu Qu", indicating that it is late at night.

"Got it, I'll pack up the fish and go." After Wang Fang left, Zhang An put the two he brought back at night and the one he bought during the day into the space.

Although Zhang An caught four fish in the evening, the biggest one was still the one he bought from a fishing friend in the afternoon.

Arriving in a strange place for the first time, the five fish quickly hugged each other to keep warm in the newly opened pond.

It was obvious that these fish had been in a group before and knew each other.

But it didn’t take long for them to adapt to the new environment and start chasing fish and shrimp in the water, just like having a reunion dinner.

"Eat, eat. Once you're full, have children soon. My grilled fish plan depends on you."

After placing them, Zhang An stopped guarding them here.

He walked straight into the yard and picked up the gourd that he had polished before.

Pulling out the stopper, Zhang An found that the water he filled last time was not less at all, it was still full.

Logically speaking, this gourd shell is full of pores. It has not been filled with lacquer or beeswax, so it cannot be completely sealed. Whatever is inside, it will leak out in just a few days.

I didn't expect that the gourd had been left in the space for so long, and the water it put in last time was not missing at all.

Zhang An originally didn't want to fill it with lacquer or beeswax, but only wanted to use it as a temporary kettle.

Unexpectedly, I discovered an unexpected surprise today. This gourd actually does not leak, and even the sealing process can be omitted.

In this case, it seems that it can be used to hold wine without worrying about evaporation and leakage.

So Zhang An washed several gourds, and when he came out, he brought out his favorite purple and gold gourd and another orange one.

Put everything else in the space first, and then take it out slowly later.

Early the next morning, Zhang An got up, got some gourd seedlings, and planted them in the backyard.

There is something magical about gourds grown in space, so Zhang An plans to plant them outside to see how they go.

Although summer has already begun and the best season for planting gourds has already passed, it is only June and can still be planted.

The gourd seedlings are planted on the edge of the grape vines, and they can be rubbed against the grape trellis when the time comes.

The grape seedlings just planted this year, stimulated by the spring water in the space, have now grown into very long vines, covering half the shelf.

This period is their flowering season. When Zhang Jianguo is at home, he will come over from time to time to prune them.

After planting gourds around the four grape plants, Zhang An returned to the kitchen, found half a bowl of glutinous rice from the cupboard, and prepared to make glutinous rice soup.

"Want to eat glutinous rice today? This half bowl of rice is enough for water. Are you ready to make porridge?"

Wang Fang saw that Zhang An only poured half a bowl of glutinous rice, so she asked. If Zhang An wanted to eat glutinous rice, she could cook it in the morning.

Half a bowl of cooked glutinous rice is not much at all. It is enough for one person at most, and he is not a very good eater like Zhang An.

But if you cook porridge, that's a lot. I guess you can have a meal for the whole family after cooking.

"I have two gourds and I'm going to boil some glutinous rice balls and stuff them into them."

Since those gourds don't leak, Zhang An is going to use them as wine gourds.

However, there was a smell inside, and it had not been filled with lacquer or beeswax, so Zhang An was going to pour some glutinous rice soup into it to remove the smell.

"Then don't throw away the glutinous rice in your pot after cooking. Drain it and put it aside. I will steam it together when I steam the rice."

Wang Fang was afraid that Zhang An would feed the rice to the pigs directly after finishing cooking, so he gave a few warnings first. After all, he had learned too much from his past experience in doing this kind of thing.

Although it was only half a bowl of glutinous rice, Wang Fang had been used to being thrifty all her life and could not bear to see such a waste of food.

After boiling for half an hour, I finally made two pots of glutinous rice soup.

Although it looked like a lot, when it was poured into the gourds, neither gourd was full.

As the saying goes, a pot that is shaken cannot make a sound, but half a pot that is shaken makes a jingle.

Now inside these two gourds, you can hear the sound of "Huang Lang Huang Lang" when they are shaken.

"Zhang An, do you see what I got?"

While Zhang An was cooking the gourd, Chen Ze ran over with a bucket.

With his appearance, Zhang An suspected that he wanted to run away with the bucket.

"What did you get? Why are you so excited?"

Chen Ze usually wouldn't be so excited unless he got something good.

"Look, what is this?"

Chen Ze placed the bucket in front of Zhang An, looked at him with a proud expression and said.

"Hey, Jiang Tuan, did you catch it?"

What was in this bucket was surprisingly the Jiangtuan that Zhang An had spent the whole night with last night, and there were two of them.

But Zhang An didn't believe it was Chen Ze who caught the fish. Zhang An knew his skills thoroughly.

"I didn't catch it. When I went to the river just now, I saw someone catching one. I went to join in the fun and found that someone else had caught another one in front of me. I heard you say it was so good yesterday, so I bought it from that person. ”

Chen Ze has been with Zhang An for a long time now, and he has learned nothing else but his foodie temperament.

Yesterday I saw Zhang An blowing the fish out of the water, which made me feel hungry and thirsty.

But yesterday, Zhang An said that it would be useful to keep it, and he had no intention of eating it.

After being together for so long, he knew why Zhang An kept this fish, it was just to raise it.

Now he can eat any fish from Zhang An's family, so he can only endure it for the sake of the future.

But when he met these two fish today, he immediately bought them from someone else. He just wanted to taste what the fish tasted like.

"Let me tell you, if you don't have this skill, you won't be able to get up in the morning."

Zhang An was not surprised to hear that it was brought up by fishing friends by the river.

It seems that these guys were so frightened by Da Laoqing last night that they didn't even dare to go back home after being kicked out. That's why others had the opportunity to catch them today.

But what Zhang An didn't know was that after he left last night, Da Laoqing was squatting at the bend of the river, so these Jiang Tuan didn't dare to go back.

"You can see which of these two you need to keep. We'll do the rest today."

He didn't know that Zhang An went out for night fishing last night, thinking that Zhang An only had one fish here.

It's better to eat a fish than to keep it, so he planned to let Zhang An choose the one he needed and keep it.

"There's no need to keep them. I went fishing last night and brought back two. I'll kill them both later. I'll let you try grilling the fish today."

Just yesterday I saw my father looking a little nostalgic. Zhang An originally thought of waiting until he was raised in the space before taking it out to eat.

Now that Chen Ze has brought it, there is no need to wait.

(End of this chapter)