He dragged the basket to the shore, poured out all the fish inside, and gathered it up. Zhang Ran was delighted to find that four fish of all sizes were poured out in this basket alone.

However, these fish are not big, the small one is only two fingers wide, and the largest one is just a slap. Although the fish are not big, if they all add up, they will be more than one pound. Made into meat and cook some wild vegetable porridge, it will be enough for the three of them to have a full meal.

"Wow, there are really fish!"

Seeing the lively fish jumping around Zhang Ran’s feet, Juer couldn’t help but exclaim, trotting over excitedly, bent down and picked them up one by one.

"What a big carp! Brother, brother, I'll eat this one tonight!"

In the sunset, my sister Sui'er held a long carp and shouted excitedly. The sun shone on her dirty little face, covering it with a layer of golden color, making her thin face look red, and from a distance it seems to exude an inspiring look.

Looking at this beautiful scene, somehow, Zhang Ran felt a little throbbing in his heart.

Suddenly, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said, "Okay, my brother will personally roast it for you to eat!"

"Thank you brother, brother is the best!" The little girl cheered and threw herself into Zhang Ran's arms. She grabbed the fish with one hand and hugged Zhang Ran's neck with the other hand and said coquettishly.

"Go, go, go! It smells fishy all over your body, stay away from me!" Although he was disgusted, Zhang Ran still gently hugged the little girl, scraped her little Qiong's nose in a doting way, and teased her for a while.

After laughing and playing, Zhang Ran put the fish in the basket again, then carried the basket, and headed towards the direction where the excited little girl was located.

After coming to another area of ​​water, Zhang Ran first found the small tree with vines tied, then untied the vines, and pulled the basket out of the river bit by bit.

This fish cage was made of my sister's small basket, so it was much easier to pull up than the previous one. After pulling the fish cage ashore, Zhang Ran counted it and was surprised to find that the harvest of this basket was actually more than the previous one.

Among them, there are not only five or six large grass carp and crucian carp, but also a few small shrimps and a hairy crab with fangs and claws...

"This is really a big loser, it's a scattered fish cage! It was just a fish cage for recharge, but I didn't expect that there were more fish than the ones caught by the main owner..."

While it was not too late, Zhang Ran found a sharp stone on the river beach and started killing fish directly by the river.

Scrape off the fish scales, dig the belly to remove the internal organs, and then clean the fish in the river. Then pick up another one and apply it in the same way.

Although Zhang Ran's technique was not very skillful, he finally killed seven or eight fish after spending some time. After that, Zhang Ran found some water plants to weave them into ropes, connecting the killed fish and the remaining alive fish.

Then, Zhang Ran put the remaining internal organs of the fish into the basket and used them as new bait. He also used his sister's newly picked willow branches to block the two large holes in the basket, and then put them back into the river water as before.

After all this, the sun had already set. It was not long before the sky was going to dark. Zhang Ran hurriedly called his sister to carry the fish he had caught and rushed back together.

When the brother and sister walked along the river bank and returned to the big tree where wild vegetables were piled up, night had already begun to fall.

Under the big tree in the evening, Zhang Ran's mother Zhang Li paced back and forth anxiously, while constantly looking around, her face full of anxiety overwhelming expression. However, when she looked around and saw the figures of Zhang Ran's brother and sister in the distance, she couldn't help but open her mouth wide and froze in place.

"Mother, mother, come and see, brother has caught a lot of fish in a basket!" The moment he saw his mother, the little girl's face suddenly smiled happily, and then she carried the big fish she had caught, and shouted and plunged into her mother's arms.

"So many fish? They were all caught by your brother?" Zhang Li looked at the few carp and crucian carp in his daughter's hand with a straw rope, and said in surprise.

Looking at the shocked look on my mother's face, the little girl couldn't help but say proudly: "Well! It was all caught by my brother! Mother, you don't know, my brother is so amazing. He poked a few holes with our basket of grass, then tinkered with it, and caught more than a dozen fish. Mother, we have fish tonight!"

After listening to his daughter's narration, Zhang Li couldn't help but grow his mouth wide and said unbelievably: "Can you catch fish in a basket? How is this possible?"

"Not as exaggerated as Sui'er said!" Zhang Ran smiled and walked to his mother and sister, put the fish in his mother's big basket, and explained: "Mother, don't listen to that girl's talk nonsense. Actually, I was greedy. Thinking of the fact that there were a lot of fish in Xiaoqing River, I modified our basket and made two fishing traps. Being able to catch so much is just a lucky result!"

It would be fine if Zhang Ran didn't say it, but after he said it, Zhang Li's doubts became even more. He couldn't help but ask: "My son, when did you learn how to catch fish? You can still make traps. Who will teach you?"

"Uh" Zhang Ran hesitated for a moment, grabbed his head, and tried to explain: "My mother, that's right. I'm not in good health for a while, so I thought about getting some meat to taste it and replenish my body. After I fainted last time, I suddenly remembered a lot of things, so based on the fisherman I saw fishing on the Ba River before, I tried to make some fishing traps. I didn't expect it to be really useful, haha..."

Hearing Zhang Ran say this, his mother Zhang Li's eyes couldn't help but turn red, and tears came down, and she whimpered: "Ran'er, it's all because of my uselessness. She has no ability. She can't even let you have a meal for meat all year round. Wooh..."

Seeing that his mother suddenly burst into tears, Zhang Ran was stunned and hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him, "Mother, don't cry, why did you cry so well? Look, aren't we eating fish?"

Well, after living in his twenties, poor Zhang Ran has never had the experience of coaxing women. After working hard for a long time, he still couldn't stop his mother's tears.

In the end, it was her sister Sui'er who used the method of acting coquettishly, which made her mom burst into tears and resolved the major crisis in Zhang Ran's eyes.

As night falls, stars are everywhere, a crescent moon rises slowly in the air, emitting a faint silver light.
Chapter completed!