"Mother, Mother! Look, my brother and I have caught a lot of fish, a lot of fish!"

Before she could reach her own field, the little girl Sui'er began to scream and couldn't wait to show off her "results" to her mother, as if all these fish were caught by her.

Zhang Li was weeding in the fields. When he heard his daughter's shout, he looked back and found that his son and daughter were struggling to carry a wet and dripping basket, waving toward him.

So he quickly put down the stone hoe in his hand, walked quickly to the two of them, looked at the strange-looking basket they were carrying, and asked with a little curiosity: "Is this fish cage made by Aran? Can this thing catch fish?"

"That's right, we're catching more fish this time than yesterday!" The little girl raised her chin smugly, grabbed the edge of the basket with one hand, and pulled open the branches above the basket with the other hand, showing to her mother: "Mother, look, we've caught more than a dozen fish this time, and there are also many shrimps and crabs!"

"How could it be so many?" Zhang Li was stunned. He lowered his head and looked at the black and lively fish and shrimps in the basket. He couldn't help but cover his mouth and showed an unbelievable look.

"Haha..." Zhang Ran felt a little proud when he saw his mother so shocked, and explained to him with a smile: "I heard that fish are more active at night than during the day, and our fish cage is also longer than during the day. In addition, there is no one disturbing the shore at night, so the fish is more likely to get caught. So, this night, we caught so many fish!"

After thinking about it, Zhang Ran added: "Don't look at the many fish in this basket, it's not a big deal if you really count it. Mother, think about it, in the past few years, in our Qingshui River, except for the occasional people who go into the water to catch a few fish and slaughter teeth, are there fishermen fishing? No!

Because no one catches fish, the fish resources are relatively abundant. We are the first person to do trap fishing. It is natural to catch more at the beginning. In the future, there may be no such great gains."

"So that's how it is!" After hearing Zhang Ran's explanation, Zhang Li was a little surprised, lowered his head and stared at the fish and shrimps in the basket, and couldn't help but blurted out: "What are you going to deal with these fish?"

"What to do?" Zhang Ran thought for a moment and replied, "I plan to carry it home with Sui'er and raise it with clean water so that the fish can live for a longer time, enough to stay until the night to eat!"

"Yeah!" Zhang Li nodded and agreed: "It's time to raise it early, otherwise there would be a pity if there were so many fish dead! Ran'er, you and your sister go home first! I'll just be busy with the work in the field!"

"Okay! Then we'll go back!"

Zhang Ran followed the advice and nodded very obediently.

Then, he said goodbye to his mother for a while and took his sister along the path and returned home.

After arriving at home, Zhang Ran’s large tank used to hold water in the basket, picked out the shrimps and crabs in the basket, and placed them in two pottery pots with wooden lids. Then he poured all the fish in the basket into the tank...

After dealing with the fish and shrimps, Zhang Ran kept moving forward without stopping, taking his sister with him, carrying the basket back the same way, and heading straight to the Qingshui River.

After arriving at the river, Zhang Ran found a slightly calmer area of ​​water, sank the baskets that were put into some fish internal organs into the river, and then rushed back to the field to help his mother weed.

This round-trip twist made Zhang Ran very tired. Therefore, when Zhang Ran returned to the field, he did not immediately start working, but rested for more than ten minutes before picking up the hoe and walking into the field.

Yesterday's painful experience made Zhang Ran know that the seemingly simple weeding work is not as easy as imagined.

He knew better than anyone else how weak Zhang Ran’s body was. So today Zhang Ran did not show off his strength to compete with anyone, but strictly controlled the time of work and rested for more than ten minutes every one or two hours.

In the fields, except for more than a day of grass, Zhang Ran gradually found some tips for exerting force and closing force, and corrected the originally "uncoordinated" posture, so he waved his hoe, and his movements were much smoother than yesterday.

But despite this, his mother, Zhang Li, was still worried that Zhang Ran was too weak, and she was afraid that he would faint again. From time to time, she would look back at Zhang Ran's situation, and sometimes even put down her hoe, walked to Zhang Ran and asked carefully, urging him not to just work, and if he was tired, he would have to rest in time.

Under the ardent care and close attention of my mother, until the sun sets westward. As the evening approaches, Zhang Ran did not feel too tired and successfully completed today's weeding work.

As the sun sets, the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the earth, illuminating the slightly dark face of his mother Zhang Li, a golden look. From a distance, it seems that the whole person is emitting a trace of sacred light. Seeing this scene, Zhang Ran's heart trembled slightly and he couldn't help but be stunned.

Perhaps because he noticed Zhang Ran's gaze, Zhang Li turned his head, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and smiled gently, "It's not too late, Ran'er, let's clean up and prepare to go back!"

"Yes!" Zhang Ran nodded gently, gathered the weeds dug out of the stone hoe under his feet together, then bent down and picked them up, and put them into the basket beside his mother.

Then, Zhang Ran bent down and helped his mother and sister collect all the weeds left in the field and put them into the basket. Until there was no trace of green in the field except the seedlings, he carried the stone hoe and carried the basket with his mother and sister, and walked out of the field.

After bringing a whole basket of weeds to the small road on the edge of the field, the mother and son each grabbed a corner of the basket and worked together to pour out all the weeds.

Looking at the hill in front of him, Zhang Ran patted the dust on his hands and body with satisfaction, and then breathed a long sigh and said, "I'm finally done, and I can go home for dinner!"

With a bit of joy, Zhang Ran hummed a tune that he couldn't understand, while carrying a basket, facing his little sister whose face was dirty and covered in soil, waved and said, "Let's go, Sui'er, go home!"

"Yeah!" Hearing Zhang Ran's call, Xiao Sui'er nodded happily, jumped and came to Zhang Ran in three or two steps. She raised her head and looked at Zhang Ran with a little expectation and said, "Brother, are we still eating grilled fish tonight?"

"Of course!" Zhang Ran bent down, carefully patted the dust on Sui'er's body, and then pinched the little guy's red cheeks and said in a doting way: "We can not only eat grilled fish tonight, but also eat crabs! When we get back, my brother will make steamed crabs for you, okay?"

"I don't want to eat crabs!" Xiaosui'er twisted her body and angrily patted Zhang Ran's big hand who was doing evil. Her little face was full of disgust: "The crabs are so ugly, and they don't have two taels of meat on their bodies, and they are all hard shells. They look bad at first sight! If I don't eat crabs, I want to eat fish!"

"Uh" Zhang Ran smiled silently. While straightening his waist, he also grabbed the hoe in Sui'er's hand, then carried his hoe and his sister on his shoulders, turned around and smiled, "Okay, you eat fish tonight, I'll eat crabs by myself! I'll tell you! Crabs are much better than grilled fish, especially those pairs of crab claws. After steaming, they broke them apart... Hiss, it was full of meat..."

"Really?" The little girl's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help biting her lip, fantasizing about what the crab claws full of meat would look like...

"Hehe..." Seeing this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but be defeated by the little girl's serious thinking. She couldn't control herself and couldn't help laughing.

Hearing the laughter, Zhang Sui'er suddenly woke up. When she looked up, she saw her brother smiling and a bit of teasing. She suddenly felt a deep malice and couldn't help but say with a dark face: "Hmph! I don't believe it! What's the delicious crab claws? I'm going to eat fish!"

Zhang Ran shrugged and said, "Okay, you eat fish, I eat crabs, don't regret it then!"

"Whoever regrets that is the puppy! Humph!"

Zhang Sui'er looked at her brother who was full of strange smiles and had a look at her brother who was "bad" with a look, turned her head arrogantly, and ignored him.

"It's getting dark, don't play with you two, go back with me!"
Chapter completed!