"Boom boom boom"
"Bang"
“Wow—”
Chen Yang was awakened by the noise coming from the kitchen. He glanced out the window and saw that it was still dark.
The smell of fish came in through the crack in the door.
A new day in this town starts with eating fish.
Chen Yang turned over, almost face to face with the boy. He tilted his head back and patted the boy's arm: "I'm up."
Chao Jian opened his closed eyes, glanced at Chen Yang, and closed them again.
Chen Yang got out of bed and put on his shoes. He put on both shoes, squatted beside the bed for a while, and half of his body stretched under the bed.
The view was dim and quiet.
The mouse in the hole in the wall seemed to have just begun to sleep.
Chen Yang pulled half of his body out from under the bed, brushed off the dust on his knees, and got up to wash up.
Of the other five rooms, the doors of two were closed and no one was inside.
Chen Yang remembered that the two rooms were occupied by Xiangdong and the painter, Qian Han and Ge Fei respectively.
"Thank you, Teacher." Chen Yang called out to the man who had just returned from the bathroom, pointed at the two rooms with open doors and asked him about the situation.
Teacher Xie said: "When I opened the door, I saw two children. They said they couldn't sleep, so they went out for a walk. I don't know about the other two."
"There is no sound when the door opens and closes." Chen Yang rubbed his dry eyes. Xiangdong and the painter lived next door to him, and he didn't even know when they left.
"Yeah, there's no sound." Teacher Xie looked at the door. "I don't know what kind of wood it's made of."
Chen Yang looked at Teacher Xie. He looked like a young man in his thirties yesterday, but overnight, he looked at least ten years older. He had bags under his eyes, dark circles were big and heavy, and his face looked haggard and worn.
"Teacher Xie, you didn't sleep last night?"
"Almost." Teacher Xie smiled bitterly. According to the verbal agreement, he was to sleep in the bed on the first night, but he hardly slept a wink.
Old Wu leaned back in a chair with his feet on the edge of the bed. His breath was heavy and his body odor was strong, and the air in the room was turbid.
Although Teacher Xie did not elaborate, his expression was full of complaints and disgust.
If possible, he really wants to change his roommate.
Breakfast is fish porridge.
The four people who went out early in the morning did not come back, so there were only eight people eating, just enough to fill up the table.
"vomit-"
The big-eyed girl suddenly retched and vomited, and a mouthful of sticky porridge mixed with fish meat pooled on the ground at her feet.
"Why are you vomiting when you're eating well?" Old Wu put down his spoon and glared at the little girl who was only a few years older than his daughter. "If you want to vomit, go outside and vomit. Stay in the room. It will disturb other people!"
"Miss Qiao, we..." Old Wu was just about to say that we could take our bowls and go out to eat, when he saw her eating porridge as if nothing had happened. She looked very relaxed, not affected at all.
Old Wu swallowed the rest of his words and said, "Ms. Qiao, the fish is delicious. It's fragrant, tender, and fresh."
Miss Qiao scooped a spoonful of fish meat and put it in his bowl: "Then you should eat more."
Old Wu was flattered. Under Miss Qiao's charming gaze, he ate all the fish in one go and drank the porridge in one gulp, revealing an expression of being unsatisfied without realizing it.
Miss Qiao smiled and said, "Go get another bowl. Men should eat more, otherwise they won't have the energy to work."
There is nothing wrong with what he said. However, the person who heard it had impure thoughts and had wrong ideas. When he left the table, his face felt hot and he walked unnaturally.
"Old sperm." Teacher Xie made a low comment, glanced at the frivolous woman and frowned.
Miss Qiao didn't care about the gazes from the moral high ground. She threw the spoon into the bowl, propped up her head, and hooked a strand of hair with the tip of her index finger: "Sister, what's wrong with you?"
"I... Ugh! Sorry, sorry." The big-eyed girl sobbed and apologized repeatedly. She pointed at the puddle of vomit on the ground and said, "Eyes, I ate my eyes."
Zhuzhu shook the hand holding the bowl: "Is it a fish eye or a human eye?"
"It must be a fish eye. If it were a human eye, I would be dead!" The big-eyed girl cried.
Zhuzhu gave her a tissue: "Wipe it off."
The big-eyed girl's face, which was covered with mouse paw prints, was covered with physiological tears. She wiped her face while complaining: "Why are there fish eyes in the porridge? Why did the cook put that in there?"
"You are such a little kid. Fish eyes are good things." Old Wu stepped over the threshold and said, "I'm still looking for something to eat in the pot."
Big-eyed girl: “…”
"Look, I found all these." Old Wu used a spoon to scoop up the top layer of porridge, which was full of little white eyeballs.
He could almost hear the crunching sound when he ate.
Chen Yang had lost his appetite. He pushed the bowl away and asked Chao Jian in a low voice, "Do you want to eat more?"
He shook his head at Jane.
Chen Yang said to the others, "My brother and I are going to Yang Erzhu's house."
Zhuzhu wanted to go together, and Big Eyes Girl followed too.
Teacher Xie hesitated for a moment and said that he would go to Yang Erzhu's house with Chen Yang and others to investigate.
There were three people at the table who did not express their opinions: Miss Qiao, Old Wu, and Xiang Zimu.
Chen Yang noticed that Xiang Zimu was stirring the porridge. She stirred it for a long time but didn't put a single bite into her mouth.
Her pure black hair hung on both sides, blocking her face.
"Let's go." Chao Jian poked Chen Yang's calf with his crutch.
Chen Yang didn't look at it again.
When the group went to Yang Erzhu's house, it was just past six o'clock, and it was not appropriate to visit so early.
Chen Yang originally wanted to suggest staying outside for a while, but when he got closer, he found that the door was not closed tightly and there was a gap.
"It looks like he left in a hurry and didn't even close the door properly," Teacher Xie analyzed.
Chen Yang knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside.
Zhuzhu said: "If no one is at home, should we go in?"
The big-eyed girl opened her eyes wide: "Are you stupid? Of course we have to go in. We are here to see the fish. It would be best if no one is home, so that we don't have to find a way to get them out of the way."
Zhuzhu held up her white sun-protection jacket and said, "But when people leave, will they leave their name fish at home?"
The big-eyed girl's brain froze: "What if I forget?"
"Mr. Chen, let's go in." She said and pushed open the door.
Chen Yang saw something and his expression changed instantly.
Yang Erzhu's house has a small courtyard, and the door of the courtyard faces the door of the main room. Now there is half a foot next to the door of the main room, and the shoe has fallen to the side.
"It's a man's foot." Teacher Xie made his usual analysis. "There are two possibilities. One is that it was Yang Erzhu himself, and the other is that the couple killed someone and ran away without having time to destroy the body..."
Before he finished his analysis, he was alone at the gate of the courtyard.
"Wait for me." Teacher Xie quickly caught up with Chen Yang and the other three.
"It's Yang Erzhu." Zhuzhu stood outside the threshold of the main room and said while looking at the person on the ground.
"Yes, yes, that's him..." Big Eyes Girl hid behind Zhuzhu, "Is he alive? Is he still breathing?"
Chen Yang wanted to move closer to check, but a crutch stopped him from squatting.
Chao Jian's cane pointed at a certain place.
Chen Yang looked over and saw that the place Chao Jian pointed to was below Yang Erzhu's waist. The ground there was wet and gave off a slight smell.
He checked Yang Erzhu's whole body and found that his shoes had fallen off, but there were no other injuries on his body.
"Scared to death?" Chen Yang said.
Chao Jian knocked on a place with his crutch, and Chen Yang's attention was drawn there. There was a trash can and a pile of messy garbage there.
Chen Yang glanced at the pile of garbage, and the gnawed fish bones were the most eye-catching.
He looked at all the objects in front of him, his mind working rapidly.
All the garbage was piled at one point, and the outer shape was a circle, indicating that it was dumped from top to bottom.
There is still some garbage left in the trash can.
Chen Yang inferred that the person found what he was looking for in the trash can and stopped dumping it out.
It is almost certain that what you are looking for is fish bones.
Chen Yang guessed that one of them ate the fish without telling the other and was discovered by the other, so he checked the trash can for fish bones.
Did anything else happen during this period...
Besides, who eats the fish and whose fish is it
Chen Yang found a broom not far from the body. One of the couple wanted to clean up the garbage, but an accident happened and interrupted the plan.
Where is Yang Erzhu’s wife
Chen Yang looked around the rooms around the main hall, he walked to the one at three o'clock, and saw Jian walking behind him on a crutch, like his shadow.
Teacher Xie touched the bubble at the corner of his mouth. When Chao Jian reminded Chen Yang, he also paid attention and easily outlined a general outline.
"The two brothers have a good understanding of each other." Teacher Xie commented objectively.
Zhuzhu said: "I can't get a word in."
The big-eyed girl rested her head on her shoulder and nodded up and down.
Teacher Xie and the other two also went to the room. They saw Chen Yang standing in front of a bucket, with Chao Jian standing beside him with his brows lowered, as if he was a portable pendant who would only speak when necessary.
"Mr. Chen, the bucket contains Yang Erzhu's..."
The girl with big eyes grabbed Zhuzhu's shoulders and moved closer to her, and her voice stopped abruptly.
There is only water in the bucket.
Teacher Xie moved closer to the bucket and snorted: "It smells like fish." He discovered something. His hand scraped something shiny on the edge of the bucket. It was fish scales.
"This bucket is for raising fish." said Teacher Xue.
Ordinary fish will not be kept in the room and need to be watched over even when sleeping. They are just name fish.
Now there are no fish in the poke.
Missing along with the fish is Yang Erzhu’s wife.
And Yang Erzhu died.
Once these three pieces of information are combined, the cause and effect have almost surfaced.
"Yang Erzhu's wife secretly ate his fish and took away his life." Teacher Xie said.
Zhuzhu said, "What about his wife?"
"She ran away." The big-eyed girl helped Zhuzhu adjust the white hat on the back of her sunscreen jacket. "Her husband is dead, and she killed him herself. She must be very panicked and dare not stay at home anymore."
Teacher Xie looked at the silent young man and asked, "Mr. Chen, do you have any questions?"
"Yes." Chen Yang's eyes fell on the edge of the bucket. There was a small drop of blurry blood, and a little watermark around it. It seemed that the fish was eaten raw. Right here, he pursed his lips, "According to what you said, the whole thing is that the wife took the life of her husband. Who dumped the things in the trash can, and whose fish bones are they?"
Teacher Xie was unable to answer for a moment.
Zhuzhu stroked the hair beside her ear and said, "Maybe when she was running away in a panic, she accidentally kicked over the trash can and the fish bone fell out."
"The fish bones in the garbage were cooked." Chen Yang pointed at the drop of blood and said, "They are not the same fish."
Then he made the judgment of dumping garbage from top to bottom.
Zhuzhu sighed, "Brain power is limited."
"I am more limited." The big-eyed girl lay on her back, with her hands hanging in front of her. "I have never felt so smart."
"That's it." Teacher Xie reasoned, "The fish bone in the trash was someone else's fish. Yang Erzhu ate it without telling his wife. When his wife found out, she searched the trash can and actually saw the fish bone inside."
"His wife blamed him for eating alone and not sharing with her, thinking that he did not care about the relationship between husband and wife. In a fit of rage, she took out the fish he kept in the bucket in the room and ate them while he was not paying attention."
"You are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust." Zhuzhu murmured, "It makes sense."
The big-eyed girl nodded like a little chicken pecking at rice: "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Teacher Xie was more concerned about the reactions of the other two teammates, but they were each more silent than the other.
He couldn't help but call out to one of them: "Mr. Chen?"
Chen Yang spoke, as if talking to himself: "Yang Erzhu was frightened to death. What did he see before he died?"
Teacher Xie said, "Was he witnessing his wife chewing his fish?"
Chen Yang: “…”
"Yang Erzhu was so frightened that he lost control of his bladder. You can imagine how horrible what he saw was." The girl with big eyes said what Chen Yang wanted to say, "I feel that when he saw his wife eating his fish, he wouldn't be scared to death. He would just lose his mind out of anger and kill her before she finished eating. If they were going to die, they would die together. No one would survive."
Teacher Xie's thoughts were blocked again.
The room was quiet.
Chen Yang was about to pull Chao Jian away. He accidentally glanced at the bed against the wall, paused, and suddenly said, "There seems to be someone under the quilt."
These words made the temperature around them drop to freezing point in an instant.
"Ah!" The big-eyed girl let out a short scream and grabbed Zhuzhu's shoulders with both hands.
Zhuzhu took a few breaths in pain after being scratched by the big-eyed girl.
"Is it Yang Erzhu's wife?" the big-eyed girl asked nervously, "We have been here for a while, why is she silent? Could it be that she also..."
Teacher Xie is a person who likes to analyze and is willing to take action. Without waiting for Chen Yang to answer, he walked to the bed, held his breath, and pulled back the quilt.
There was an old man lying on the bed.
Judging from her body movements, she seemed to want to get up and do something, but was too old to move, or she had a sudden illness and her life stopped at that moment.
The quilts were piled in a mess with some clothes on top, and the old man was so skinny that it was not easy to find him.
The girl with big eyes said with a trembling heart: "She is not Yang Erzhu's wife. I am scared to death."
She wondered: "Don't they have any elderly people in their family? Whose family is the one on the bed..."
Zhuzhu's face turned pale: "She is."
The big-eyed girl didn't react: "What is it?"
"Yang Erzhu's wife." Zhuzhu repeated with trembling lips, "She is Yang Erzhu's wife."
Chen Yang had never seen Yang Erzhu's wife and didn't know what she looked like. He judged that it was real based on the changes in Zhuzhu's expression.
"When I saw it last night, his wife was only in her twenties." The big-eyed girl pointed at the old man on the bed, her hands trembling, "How could that be possible!"
Zhuzhu presented evidence one by one: "Look at the gold-plated earrings on her ears, the fake jade bracelets on her wrists, and the gray nail on her left middle finger."
The big-eyed girl's gaze followed Zhuzhu's words, the color on her face became less and less, and she was completely stunned.
"What about her height?" The big-eyed girl's eyes were filled with confused tears. "She is about the same height as me, but the one on the bed is much shorter."
"People shrink as they get older, which is caused by osteoporosis." Teacher Xie imparted common sense in a timely manner.
The big-eyed girl was speechless.
"A man in his twenties died of old age," said Chen Yang.
The room became dead silent again.
Chen Yang looked at the corpse on the bed. It was shriveled and skinny, with sparse and gray hair. The exposed skin was wrinkled and dull.
"Look at her mouth." Chao Jian whispered in Chen Yang's ear.
Chen Yang randomly picked up a piece of clothing from the bed and pulled open the corpse's mouth through the cloth.
There are no teeth in it.
"The gums are shrinking," Chen Yang said. "There's a bloody and fishy smell in my mouth."
"Judging from the state of her gums, this is a natural aging phenomenon," said Xie. "The fishy smell in her mouth was from the fish she ate before she died."
He added, "I know a little bit about autopsies. The two bodies in this family died not long ago. I guess they died at dawn. The one in the living room died first, and the one on the bed died a little later."
Teacher Xie looked at Chen Yang and said, "I stick to my previous speculation. Yang Erzhu ate alone, and his wife ate his fish out of resentment. As for why she died..."
The girl with big eyes continued: "Her fish was also caught and eaten."
Teacher Xie nodded: "That's right."
"There are still two reasons that don't make sense." Zhu Zhu said, "First, Yang Erzhu saw something terrible before he died."
"Second, his wife's death symptom was natural aging, but how can a person go from being in his twenties to being over a hundred in just a few hours? Does this suggest a certain rule?"
Chen Yang put the quilt back on the body: "Yang Erzhu was scared to death. He must have seen a ghost. It is very likely the owner of the fish bone in the trash can."
He did not mention the second point that could not be explained, and he did not know the reason.
Why does the life in the corpse seem to be rapidly drained away, as if it has been sucked out
Chen Yang and four others came out of Yang Erzhu's house and hurried to the mayor's house.
The mayor should be informed of this matter.
Chen Yang unpacked the milk slices for Chao Jian as he walked: "The evil spirits in this mission will create illusions. I've experienced this before."
He mentioned the attic and deleted the part where he was in the illusion.
The girl with big eyes was both scared and shocked: "Zhuzhu and I have been there before, and nothing happened."
Chen Yang smiled and said, "That can only be because you have too few life themes to build a fantasy world."
Big Eyes Girl and Zhuzhu both looked delighted.
"What kind of illusion is it?" Teacher Xie wanted to be mentally prepared, so he asked Chen Yang, "Are you afraid?"
Chen Yang said: "Almost."
Teacher Xie's expression froze for a moment. If it was fear...
Then he had no choice but to take a gamble.
Chen Yang handed the unwrapped milk slices to Chao Jian. Seeing the big-eyed girl turning her head frequently to look, he took out a few from his pocket and said, "Here you go."
"No, I don't want to eat." The girl with big eyes shook her head and waved her hands.
Chen Yang asked Zhuzhu and Teacher Xie if they wanted to eat, but they both refused.
Can't you give the milk tablets away? Chen Yang silently put it back in his pocket and stretched out a hand: "I want it."
Chen Yangquan caught it and gave it to his partner.
The morning sets the tone for the day. During this period of time, my partner seems to be in a good mood, I hope it will last.
Gao Degui learned about Yang Erzhu's family from Teacher Xie. His goatee trembled: "This is against the will of heaven and earth. It cannot be tolerated by heaven and earth. It cannot be tolerated by heaven and earth!"
Chen Yang glanced at the food on the table.
There was a hole in the white porridge with a salted duck egg and the tip of a chopstick stuck in it.
There are no fish.
Chen Yang said, "Mayor, is this what you eat in the morning?"
"I am the only one who is full and my family is not hungry. Now something happened in town and I don't have the mood to cook. I just need to make something casual." Gao Degui rubbed his tired face. He saw something and shouted to the yard, "Little boy, where have you been? You are covered in mud."
A cat with dirty fur jumped down from the courtyard wall. It was not afraid of Gao Degui's scolding at all. It walked slowly into the house and went straight to the small bowl in the corner.
There was some porridge mixed with salted duck egg oil, and the cat ate it with gusto.
You won’t lose your appetite due to changing taste.
Chen Yang watched the cat eating and asked casually, "Why is it called Yao'er? Does it have brothers and sisters?"
Gao Degui said: "I have three of them, triplets, and their parents are both gone."
Chen Yang said, "Oh," "The proprietress of the Qi Family Inn said that cats don't eat fish or catch mice, they only eat vegetables, which is the same as what people eat."
"That's what happened. The butterfly effect caused by the longevity fish." Gao Degui pulled a chair and said, "Mr. Chen, please sit down. I'll go find the other two cats."
Chen Yang stopped the man and said, "Wait, Mayor, what is the name of Yang Erzhu's wife?"
The next moment, he said, "Can you give us a copy of the town's population register?"
Gao Degui took it out readily.
A big pile.
"Take your time to look at it." Gao Degui said and left the room.
Chen Yang flipped through them and found a one-inch black-and-white photo on the upper left corner of each registration form.
He gave a stack to Teacher Xie, and gave some to Big Eyes Girl and Zhuzhu, asking them to help find those of Old Man Zhao, Li Erban, and Yang Erzhu and his wife.
If you see Widow Zhou during this period, put her aside separately.
Chen Yang also gave some to Chao Jian: "Do you want to look through it?"
Chao Jian didn't move: "No."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yang let it go. This job had no artistic value.
The efficiency of the four of them is quite high.
Not long after, Zhuzhu found the one that belonged to Old Man Zhao.
Old man Zhao’s name is Zhao Gui. According to his date of birth, he is 62 years old this year. The item about family members is blank and he has never married in his life.
Li Erban's report was written in great detail. He was from another place and came to this town with his brother a few years ago. He had never married or had any children.
His elder brother, Li Daban, died of illness last year, and he is the only one left in the family.
Yang Erzhu’s wife is Zhang Cuicui, who is two years younger than him and just over twenty-five.
"There's nothing in common." said Teacher Xie.
Chen Yang sat quietly for a while. He put all the registration forms together in groups of four and took pictures with his mobile phone.
When Teacher Xie saw Chen Yang shooting in the correct order, he shot from the back to the front. He had a power bank in his bag and it had enough power.
The big-eyed girl follows the crowd.
Zhuzhu, who started taking photos as soon as she entered the town, did not participate.
No one asked why, Zhuzhu took the initiative to say: "My memory is not enough, I won't take this picture if you guys take it."
Chao Jian's action of squeezing the milk slice suddenly stopped.
Chen Yang had always paid a little attention to his partner. Seeing this, he stopped taking pictures of the registration form and leaned close to his ear: "Is anyone here?"
Chao Jian continued to squeeze the nipple: "Hurry up and take pictures, we'll be leaving soon."
Chen Yang did as he was told without asking any questions.
Not long after, a townsman ran past Gao Degui's courtyard gate, followed by the second, the third, and several more, forming a small wave.
I didn't know where I was going and I was in a panic.
The girl with big eyes asked in confusion: "What's wrong? What happened?"
"It seems that the news of two people sharing a coffin has spread." Chen Yang quickly took a photo of the registration form. "Hurry up, we'll be there after we finish taking the photo."
When Chen Yang and his team rushed over, the other teammates were all there.
There was a crowd of people in front of Li Erban's house.
Gao Degui held a loudspeaker and said in grief: "Fellow villagers, you have all seen it!"
"Old man Zhao ate Li Erban's fish and died! Yang Erzhu's wife ate his fish and also died!"
Gao Degui yelled at the top of his lungs: "Those who steal life will be struck by lightning. You must never catch fish with names on them again. Don't worry about where they came from. Just go back to where they can go and pretend you didn't see them. Only in this way can our town be safe!"
"Who are you trying to fool? Old Zhao and Yang Erzhu's wife died simply because their fish were eaten by someone."
A disdainful voice emerged from the crowd.
He was a young man, and his face was full of contempt for Gao Degui, as if the words "I ate the fish and robbed my life, but I'm still alive and well" were almost written on his face.
Those whose family members had died in this strange incident all started to make a fuss.
"Did you take away my son's life?"
"Give me back my sister's life!"
"Murderer! You are a murderer! I don't have a father anymore, give my father back to me!"
"… "
Those people rushed towards the young man like crazy, wanting to eat him alive.
The young man's family and relatives protected him and retreated. He was still mocking: "Why are you pretending? When the fish tide came, you guys were so eager to grab them. No one gave in to anyone. Why are you pretending now?"
"If the guy you keep shouting at gets my fish, I'll be the one who dies. It all depends on your ability and fate."
"Also, those of you who have lost someone in your family and are crying your heart out, who knows if you ate other people's fish? You know clearly whether you have something to hide or not!"
There were cries, shouts, and curses mixed together, and the area outside Li Erban's house was in chaos.
Chen Yang flipped through the photos on the registration form on his phone and found the young man's family. There were five people in his family, which was quite a large family. Apart from that, there were no other clues.
After the young man did this, Gao Degui's persuasion work was completely ruined.
On the day when the fish tide came for the third time, the town was very quiet.
When Chen Yang and his group went there after lunch, there were already dozens of people standing in the river.
All the good locations have been taken.
Chen Yang handed Chao Jian a scoop net: "You can just stand here, or sit down. It's tiring to stand. When the fish come over, you can use this to scoop them."
Chao Jian said, "Go downstream."
"What can we catch downstream?" Chen Yang was a little confused. Aren't we all striving to get upstream
Chao Jian put away his crutches and put down his left leg: "Carry me."
Chen Yang shuddered. He carried Chao Jian on his back and said with a sigh, "These two words have left a psychological shadow on me. Fortunately, you didn't add..."
An ambiguous laugh sounded in my left ear: "Brother?"
Chen Yang stumbled: "If you do this, I won't carry you."
The person on his back fell silent.
The scar on Chen Yang's left ear felt a little itchy. The boy's breath always brushed past it. He was about to scratch it when Xiangdong's roar came from behind: "Where are you going, taking a shit?"
"… "
Xiangdong didn't get an answer, so he ran over with his two strong long legs swinging: "Where are you going?"
Chen Yang said: "You guys charge ahead, and I'll follow him to pick up the slack."
Glancing eastward at the disabled man on his back.
The other person's hand holding the crutch was on his neck, and the distance was so close that he could kiss him by just tilting his head.
He ground his back molars toward the east.
In order to avoid being obsessed with jealousy, envy and hatred and delaying the investigation work of the mission, he did not work with Chen Yang these two days. Damn it.
Xiangdong felt a little pain in his liver when he saw Chao Jian resting his chin on Chen Yang's shoulder. He said, "I can't watch it any longer. If I watch it again, I will die young."
"be safe."
Xiangdong finished speaking to Chen Yang and added: "Now that you have caught the name fish, you know what to do, right?"
Chen Yang said: "I brought a bucket with a lot of grass leaves in it, so the fish can't be seen when thrown in."
He pointed back and said, "The bucket is over there, help me carry it downstream."
Xiangdong waited until Chen Yang and Chao Jian found a place to stay, then he took the bucket over and went to the front by himself.
Chen Yang took off his shoes and stepped into the grass and mud. He looked around and saw that all the townspeople in the river were staring at the waterfall.
It was exactly the same scene he saw when he entered the town.
Only this time they were no longer strangers on the hillside;
Chen Yang rolled up his trouser legs to his thighs and was still trying to roll them up, revealing his slender legs with even curves.
Chao Jian frowned and said, "Put it down."
Chen Yang said without even looking up: "It will get wet if you put it down."
"You're still getting wet even if you curl it like this." Chao Jian stared at Chen Yang's legs, his face tense, and he bit the milk slice between his teeth into pieces. His Adam's apple rolled up and down as he swallowed all the broken milk slices.
"Yeah, who cares about this when fishing? I just go back and take a shower after catching fish." Chen Yang put down his trouser legs and walked into the river. The cool water rushed towards him and instantly invaded his pores.
Chen Yang shuddered. He walked to the middle, looked up at the waterfall in the mountains, and wondered where the name "fish" came from...
“The fish are coming!”
Someone shouted upstream.
Chen Yang immediately gathered his thoughts. He held the scoop net and watched the water flow intently. His leg was hit by a fish head.
When Chen Yang reacted, the fish had already swam away. He looked at Chao Jian who was behind him.
Chao Jian picked up the scoop net in the water and showed it to him.
Empty.
There was not a single weed in sight, only a trickle of water dripping down.
"..." Chen Yang sighed, "We won't be unable to catch any fish, will we?"
Chao Jian threw the scoop net into the water: "I told you long ago, I'm not omnipotent."
"Yes, yes, I know. I remember." Chen Yang licked the water that splashed on his face. The sun above his head made his mouth dry. He cheered up and said, "We try not to come with an empty bucket and leave empty."
"Mom, look! I caught another fish!" A child was jumping and shouting not far away.
"… "
Chen Yang and Chao Jian looked at each other.
Chao Jian is not good at anything related to childishness.
Chen Yang saw that Chao Jian's gestures for holding the scoop net were not smooth as his own, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. The important thing was to participate.
The water was not clear, but muddy. Chen Yang maintained his horse stance, staring at the situation in the water without blinking. His method was not to scoop things up randomly.
But just find the right one and catch it with one go.
This saves energy.
Chen Yang was hesitant to move. His palms holding the scoop net were sweating. Just when he was about to change hands, a small fish appeared in his field of vision.
There seems to be... words on the back of that fish
Chen Yang jumped into the water without having time to confirm, holding the little fish in both hands. He tensed his whole body, turned his back to the townspeople in front of him, and carefully opened his palms to look inside.
There are three words on the back of the fish.
—Zhang Cuicui.
The name of Yang Erzhu’s wife.