The next day, when Ye's mother woke up in the early morning to cook, she saw the sack in the firewood pile. After realizing it was a cicada monkey, she just cursed softly, "You're too full. You're 25 years old but you still haven't grown up. Isn't working hard enough?"
After cursing a few times to vent her anger, she still found time to wash and clean up the cicada monkeys when it was daybreak. She planned to fry a bowl of them and bring them home for her grandchildren to eat with their rice at noon.
The children at home who woke up early saw it and screamed excitedly, saying that they would also catch it in the evening!
"You're bored, aren't you? Don't let mosquitoes bite you when you go there."
"It's okay, we're not afraid! Uncle San, take us there tonight!"
“Am I too full?”
"You must be not too full, otherwise would you feed mosquitoes to catch this thing in the middle of the night? Wouldn't it waste oil?" Ye's mother said unhappily.
It really consumes a lot of fuel. Ye Yaodong touched his nose, didn't argue with his mother, and walked out with two large buckets and a shoulder pole.
"What are you doing? Where are you going with a bucket and a shoulder pole so early in the morning? What are you going to do? You have to go to work soon. You have been quiet for a few days, but now you are busy with this and that again..."
"Didn't I take a trap to the river yesterday? Go early today to collect the goods and bring the trap back."
"I just like to mess around every day..."
After walking out of the house, he could still hear his mother's muttering. Ye Yaodong picked his ears and walked towards the road, but he kept running into acquaintances. People in the countryside all got up early, and when they greeted him, he just smiled and responded. Then everyone said that he was hardworking and asked him where he was going with a carrying pole so early in the morning.
He just said one sentence and skipped it.
But even if you walk far away, you can still hear them saying that he has improved and knows how to help with housework...
What are the young men from someone's family doing
In the countryside, everyone knows each other well. If something happens in someone's family, it will spread throughout the village within a few days, and no one can avoid being criticized.
Halfway through the journey, I saw A Guang.
Ah Guang looked at the road behind Ye Yaodong with a little regret, as if measuring the distance, "Why did you get up so early?"
"I should be the one asking you this. Have you been working too hard lately?"
If you don’t know, you would think that A Guang was also reborn and turned over a new leaf!
Ah Guang pretended to be innocent and said, "No, I just think you are a good brother, so I want to help you more. Besides, putting traps is not your job alone. I can't just forget about it and ask you to do everything."
Ye Yaodong grinned and hooked his shoulder directly, "You still have a conscience. Let's go and take the goods back and put them at your house as usual."
"I borrowed a cart, took two buckets, and just pushed it to the side of the road. Do you want to take your buckets and shoulder pole home?" His eyes flickered as he said this.
"No need. We've already come this far. Going back would be a waste of time. Since we have a cart, we can just put it on it."
"oh."
A Guang: It’s not far to take it home!
"Go ahead, what are you looking back for? Is there any gold for you to pick up?"
Ah Guang said with a little emotion: "You can push the cart, I won't push it! I'm only responsible for lending it!"
If I had known this I wouldn’t have gotten up so early!
"Good brother, shouldn't we push together?"
"No, go ahead. Stop hugging each other and pulling each other. What are two grown men like?"
"Fuck, you turned against me so easily? You just said we were good brothers!"
Ye Yaodong felt that he was a bit weird, and he changed his attitude faster than his wife! Wasn't he fine just now
Ah Guang rolled his eyes and said, "Hurry up, if you're late it might be taken away by someone else."
"Crow's Mouth!"
The two men quickened their pace and ran quickly, pushing the cart.
When they reached the river where they had set the traps yesterday, there was no one there.
They were the only ones who got up early in the morning. The others were so disloyal!
Ah Guang was cursing there. If he had known, he wouldn't have gotten up.
"Stop scolding. It's just a matter of collecting the net. It won't take too many people. It doesn't matter if you can't get it up." Ye Yaodong said as he untied the rope. He tried to pull it and found it was very heavy!
"Don't untie it yet, put that one aside first, and come and help me pull this one, it's very heavy, it feels like it weighs over 100 pounds."
"Is this true? Only one night has passed." Guang said as he walked over.
When he reached out and pulled it, he found that it was really heavy. He was pleasantly surprised and said, "It must have exploded!"
The two men worked together to pull the fishing net upwards, and the river water became more and more turbid. Just as they pulled it up a little bit, they saw the net covered with crayfish. As they pulled it higher and higher, the fish collecting bag below was already filled with various fish and shrimps.
"Fuck, this much in just one night?"
Ye Yaodong was surprised. People in the surrounding villages liked to fish in the sea and were not very interested in local products in the river. He knew there must be goods in the river, but he didn't expect there to be so many goods. Just by leaving the trap overnight, he could find so many goods in the river!
There are crayfish, loach, crucian carp, carp, grass carp, silver carp, and catfish, in different sizes. Lobsters are the most numerous, and grass carp is the largest.
"And there's a turtle!" Ah Guang rubbed his hands happily. "At least I didn't get up early in vain. Even if I can't eat the turtle, I can still stew a turtle."
"You don't have a wife, so take it easy. Be careful not to overdo it and get a nosebleed!"
"Don't be afraid, maybe it will be there soon."
Ye Yaodong glanced at him and asked, "So quick?"
Ah Guang just laughed, not daring to say more, and changed the subject, "It seems that even if I bring two more buckets, it won't be enough. Let's just not untie the net and put it directly on the cart. We can sort it out when we take it home. The next net will definitely burst."
"Okay, pull it up first."
"Damn, this net is so heavy."
After they pulled them all up and placed them on the cart, they were stunned. There were so many local products!
The entire ground trap was filled with shaking fish and crawling crayfish.
"Fortunately, I'm lazy and don't want to carry it with a shoulder pole, so I just borrowed a cart. Otherwise, how would you have carried it back?"
"What's the big deal? Just tie the two ends to the pole and carry it back slowly."
"Okay, I'll push it for you. Uh... never mind. I'll help you push it to your home."
Ye Yaodong frowned, "Why put it in my house? My house is full of people. If I put it in your place, they will go to your place to take the convenience."
"It's because your family is full of people, so we pushed you there so that you can stay a little longer."
He was barely convinced, "Okay then."
After achieving his goal, Guang was in a good mood. "I just saw a turtle in the second net. We have more people, so we can stew two turtles together tonight. Otherwise, one turtle won't be enough. Let's cook a pot of crayfish, braise a few fish, and stew a bowl of loach. It will be rich enough."
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "Well, sure. Let's save the food for dinner and share the rest. We'll go again in a few days."
This is the only hobby these country folk have.