Fishing and Hunting 82, Starting with Three Sisters Who Overprotect Their Brothers

Li Dong and his two companions stared in astonishment at the fish trap they had pulled out.

The six, or rather five and a half, traps contained only a few shrimp and crabs, and the one with the big hole was completely empty, a far cry from the bountiful harvest they had expected.

"You're not in the wrong place?" Li Dong looked at the two suspiciously.

"No mistake!" Zhou Ergou pointed to the big willow tree on the bank. "They set off right here, didn't they?"

Wang Kai looked around and nodded vigorously.

"What's going on?" Li Dong frowned. "There's no reason why Zhang Wenshan could take on so many people; we only have this much."

"How should I know?" Zhou Ergou stomped his feet angrily. "Two pounds of stuff, not even enough to fill a tooth gap!"

"There must be something wrong with the cage. It's one thing for you guys to be lazy, but couldn't you at least borrow a bigger one?" Li Dong scolded.

"Zhang Wenshan also uses a smaller one." Wang Kai shook his head. "Besides, the large earth cages with ten or twenty sections in the village are all locked up by the brigade, so we can't borrow them."

"This is fucking bizarre!" Li Dong scratched his cheek in frustration, then gritted his teeth. "Where did Zhang Wenshan put his trap?"

"What?"

Zhou Ergou and Wang Kai were both taken aback.

"That wouldn't be good, what if someone finds out?"

"What's there to be afraid of! Everyone knows you can't find anything around our village!" Li Dong waved his hand dismissively. "I'll take the blame if anything goes wrong!"

"Let's do it." The two looked at each other and began to search among the reeds on the bank.

result……

"Why isn't it here?" Zhou Ergou and Wang Kai looked at each other, dumbfounded.

"Didn't you see him put down the cage yesterday?" Li Dong felt his head buzzing.

"No," Zhou Ergou turned to Wang Kai and asked, "Did you see it?"

"I didn't see it clearly." Wang Kai's tone was vague. Now that he knew the location, who cared about that?

"Let's go check out another place."

The three of them set off in a great hurry, but the result was even worse. Their harvest was not as good as what they had here, and the two places combined weighed less than four pounds.

"Actually, it's not a small amount; it's better than usual..."

"What good is it if it doesn't fetch a good price? The supply and marketing cooperative won't even accept something like that."

The three of them were usually idle and lazy. After the land was divided, they often went to town to scheme and knew exactly what was valuable.

"You said before that you saw Zhang Wenshan giving shrimp and crabs to people in other villages?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Are they still selling today?"

"Those guys look like a fishing team, they'll probably go!"

Li Dong's eyes darted around, and a plan came to him.

……

They said they wouldn't get up early.

But before seven o'clock, Zhang Wenshan still opened his eyes.

He knew perfectly well that his family hadn't won any bids because the system hadn't updated its daily intelligence yet.

Usually, I'm either on the road or busy selling things, so I only check the status afterward. This is the first time I've ever been able to just lie here and wait for the page to refresh.

[Today's Intelligence 1: Your trap #1 yielded no results (click to view specific location)]

"As expected."

He glanced at it, but felt nothing; he hadn't intended to look at it anyway.

Those fine-scaled fish live in the underground river inside the mountain wall. The continuous high temperature will raise the water temperature at the outlet, so they will not come out at all.

Zhang Wenshan remained calm and continued looking down.

[Today's News 2: A catfish is trapped in the backwater bend east of the village (click to view the exact location)]

"Um?"

He sat up abruptly, hurriedly put on his clothes, and rushed outside.

I had already checked the prices of various aquatic products at the supply and marketing cooperative. Catfish could sell for a little over 40 cents, which wasn't expensive, but it was close by!

Looking at the distance on the map, it's at most 500 meters.

"Sis, I'm going out for a bit, I'll be late..."

Zhang Wenshan rushed outside, but received no reply; only his little nephew was playing in the yard.

"Mom and Grandma went up the mountain to pick wood ear mushrooms." Zhao Qiang heard the voice, got up from the ground, and ran over in a flash. "They said to let you sleep a little longer and heat up your lunch at noon."

"Leaving you home alone, you're really careless."

Zhang Wenshan complained, but his heart was warmed. Clearly, his older sister and mother felt sorry for him because he was exhausted yesterday and changed the plans at the last minute.

"I'm not going anywhere," Zhao Qiang muttered, then looked up and asked, "Uncle, are we going out?"

"Let's go catch some fish."

Zhang Wenshan didn't waste any words.

Find the basket and net, then pick up my little nephew and leave.

Five hundred meters is just a blink of an eye. This backwater bend is not large, and the water is not deep. Reeds grow on the bank, so it's not hard to find anything.

Zhang Wenshan was just about to take action.

A muffled thud suddenly reached my ears; it wasn't loud, but it was particularly jarring in the quiet river bend.

"It came without any effort."

With a look of delight, he took off his shoes and socks, carefully stepped through the mud, and waded into the water that barely reached his ankles, crouching low as he moved forward.

After walking a few steps, they saw the source of the noise.

"Fish, wow, so big..." My little nephew behind me couldn't help but exclaim, "And turtles too!"

Zhang Wenshan's eyelids twitched, and he didn't react for a long time.

At the bottom of the murky water, two huge black shadows were tightly entangled together, occasionally struggling and stirring up a cloud of mud.

A yellowish-brown catfish, about two feet long and as thick as an arm.

Its slippery back was taut and straight, covered with a few strands of seaweed. Its huge mouth bit down hard on the edge of an old turtle's skirt, and its whiskers were taut like iron wire.

Looking at the old turtle, it's not much smaller than the enamel washbasin in the house.

Its bluish-brown hard shell is covered with dense patterns, its neck is stretched out very long, and its flat mouth is biting the base of the catfish's tail tightly, refusing to let go.

The two large creatures remained locked in a stalemate in the water.

The two large creatures remained locked in a stalemate in the water, both seemingly exhausted and listless, yet neither was willing to admit defeat first.

"Two stubborn fools."

Zhang Wenshan couldn't help but laugh out loud, not expecting such an unexpected gain.

This catfish must weigh at least three pounds, and the turtle weighs over two pounds; both are valuable.

After a moment's thought.

He slowly approached with the net, placed it under the catfish, and gently lifted it up, while keeping his other hand close to the turtle shell to prevent any accidental injury.

Stimulated, the catfish struggled again, but still did not let go.

Seeing this, Zhang Wenshan felt much more at ease. He used a net to lift the catfish and, taking advantage of the momentum, dragged the turtle towards the shore, steadily pulling it to the dry muddy ground on the bank.

He knelt on one knee, gently pressing down on the front of the turtle's shell with his knee, freeing his fingers to precisely poke its exposed nostrils.

Startled, the turtle suddenly retracted its neck and released its grip on the fish's tail.

Once the catfish regains its freedom, it immediately tries to swim away.

"Trying to run away?" Zhang Wenshan reached out with both hands, avoiding the pectoral fins and spines, and firmly clamped the fish's body on both sides.

Using a clever twist of the wrist, the catfish was curled into a circle and stuffed into the net.

"Qiangzi, the fish basket."

"Why."

In no time at all, the catfish and turtle were caught and caught.

"call."

Zhang Wenshan finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the shore, panting heavily. Although the whole process seemed effortless, a slight misstep could have resulted in one of them having to run away, and there was also the risk of being bitten or scratched.

The energy and effort required are no less than the physical exertion.

"Uncle, you're amazing! You never come out empty-handed."

Zhao Qiang looked at the big catfish, then at the old turtle, his face flushed red, and his voice was full of admiration.

"You never come empty-handed; no one in the village is as good as you."

Zhang Wenshan smiled calmly, his gaze lingering thoughtfully on the unexpected gain.

Should we sell this thing?