Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 166 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 9

After washing the dishes, Lin Ziye went back to work on the tasks assigned by the production team. In the afternoon, Liu Yuxi wove four more eel baskets. Then she started making dinner, which was still hand-pulled noodles in bone broth and fried rice with leftovers.

After everyone finished eating, Lin Ziye washed the pots and dishes as usual, while Liu Yuxi took a small shovel to the vegetable patch near the chicken coop composting area in the backyard to dig for earthworms. There were several earthworms in one shovelful, and after digging up half a can of earthworms, she returned to the front yard.

Lin Ziye put a few worms in each basket. When he saw Liu Yuxi catching earthworms from the jar with his bare hands, he almost threw up. Humph, he just doesn't know anything!

What's wrong with that? To put it bluntly, once this stuff is cleaned, it's not only high in protein, but if you chop it up and mix it into the filling of steamed buns in the summer, it also has a certain preservation effect, meaning the buns can be kept longer in hot weather and won't spoil as easily.

Don't ask Liu Yuxi how she knew; she didn't want to recall what she saw when she went to play at her classmate's house, who owned a steamed bun shop, after elementary school!

Knowing that Liu Yuxi was going to set out to catch eels, Lin Ziye, who had been working all day, was fully revitalized and insisted on going with her. After Liu Yuxi went back to change into long sleeves and trousers, Lin Ziye picked up the eel basket and a large handful of straw and headed straight for the village's fishpond.

There are three fishponds in the village. Liu Yuxi plans to fish in them one by one. He will weave some eel baskets in the next day or two, and then they can all be fished together.

After selling the eels, we'll buy fishing nets and wire to make shrimp traps, or just buy shrimp traps directly. No way, spicy crayfish! Liu Yuxi's favorite!

Arriving at the nearest pond, Liu Yuxi had already activated his spiritual power. He swept the pond and exclaimed, "Wow! No wonder the pond owner was always losing money. There are five or six big blackfish weighing one or two jin each at the bottom of the pond. No matter how many fish fry we bring, it won't be enough to feed them!"

I wonder how the pond owner cleaned the pond back then. Didn't he even clean to the bottom? I used my mental power to put these blackfish into my spatial supermarket. I'll find a chance to eat them later.

They also selected some locally farmed fish from the lake in the space park and released some of them, weighing two or three kilograms each, into the fishpond.

After scanning the fishpond again to make sure there were no turtles, he placed eel baskets in several areas with many eels, stuffed the baskets with straw, and then called Lin Ziye back.

Lin Ziye: "No? That's it?"

"Yes! It's all finished downloading, isn't it?"

"No, don't you even look around to see where there are lots of eels?"

"I've checked! I just put the basket where there were lots of eels, didn't I?"

When did you watch it?

"Right when they were put down in the cage!"

The two looked at each other, and in the end, Lin Ziye gave in and followed Liu Yuxi home dejectedly.

Liu Yuxi told him to go directly to Widow Sun's house to shower, change clothes, and go to sleep. Since his hand was healed, he should wash his own clothes. Lin Ziye lowered his head even further.

The next morning, as soon as Liu Yuxi got up, before anyone else in the village was awake, he took a bucket and went to collect the eel baskets. Perhaps because no one had visited the fishpond for so long, each basket contained at least two or three jin (1.5-1.5 kg), totaling nearly twenty jin (10 kg) in total.

He threw the eels weighing less than two ounces back into the pond, put earthworms back into the eel basket, and went down to another fishpond. He scanned the fishpond with his spiritual power and found three large blackfish there as well. He stored them in his spatial storage and released some of the fish into the pond. Without even going home, he went directly to the town's market to sell the eels to the seafood vendor.

Prices in small towns are low; even wild-caught animals only fetch 18 yuan per jin (500g), so I sold them for a total of 320 yuan. I bought a few meat buns and a jin of meat from a breakfast shop in town and then went home.

When she got home, her grandma was already busy in the kitchen: "What have you been doing?"

Liu Yuxi took out three hundred bills: "I caught a lot of eels in my basket yesterday, so I went to town to sell them before dawn."

Her grandmother took the three hundred yuan. "So much?"

"Of course! I guess it's easier to make money this way since no one has been going to the fishponds for the past few years. I put the baskets in another fishpond this morning, and I'll weave a few more later. I estimate I can earn at least two thousand this batch."

"So many?" Grandma was a little surprised, then said worriedly, "What if other people in the village find out? Won't that be bad?"

“It’s okay. I go to the town early every morning to collect the baskets and sell them before going to school. I get up early, so the villagers won’t know. Even if they do find out, it’s fine. Let the villagers catch some too. We just need to say that we’re catching them for our own consumption.”

"Okay, then be careful from now on, don't be late for school!"

"Don't worry, Grandma, I definitely won't miss school. Besides, all the ponds have been harvested, so we won't be able to sell for many more days."

"it is good!"

As they talked, Liu Yuxi heated up the steamed buns she had brought back. After the two had breakfast, Liu Yuxi started weaving eel baskets again, while her grandmother busied herself feeding the chickens.

Liu Yuxi wove four more in the morning, and then started cooking. Today's lunch was braised pork with radish and stir-fried potatoes with green beans and eggplant. There were only two dishes, but the portions were quite large, enough for three people.

After dinner, Lin Ziye fetched water, Liu Yuxi changed and washed the sheets and blankets, and then started weaving eel baskets again, making four more.

Lin Ziye and I arrived at the last fishpond with buckets and eel baskets. We scanned the fishpond with our spiritual power, collected the blackfish, and released some fish fry weighing two or three pounds each.

There are some turtles in this pond, haha, quite a few. I found two medium-sized ones, each weighing about two or three pounds. I used my mental power to move them next to the eel basket and caught the two turtles right in front of Lin Ziye.

Lin Ziye excitedly waved his arms and legs beside him, exclaiming, "Holy crap, it's a turtle! A turtle!" Liu Yuxi said helplessly, "It is a turtle, don't get excited, I'll cook it for you tonight!"

"Really?" Lin Ziye's eyes lit up, but then he hesitated for a moment, as if he had thought of something. "Why don't we sell it? Wild turtles are very valuable." He knew that Liu Yuxi only had her grandmother and herself left, and their circumstances were not good. These turtles were becoming increasingly rare, so they could fetch a lot of money.

"It's alright, this stuff is very nutritious. Even if you don't eat it, I'll still make it for Grandma. Money can be earned again, but this stuff is hard to come by."

“That’s true.” Lin Ziye thought about it and agreed with Liu Yuxi. He could then mooch a meal off her. “Haha!” He couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

The old turtle put the fish into the bucket and then led Lin Ziye to the second fishpond. The basket of eels that had been put in that morning had also yielded a good harvest. They threw the eels weighing less than two ounces back into the fishpond, which weighed about ten pounds. They took them home and kept them in a water tank. Apart from the ones they ate that night, they would save the rest to sell in town the next morning.

They put earthworms in the six baskets, put them in the first fishpond, and then took Lin Ziye home. On the way back, Lin Ziye stayed far away from the buckets.

Well, Lin Ziye is afraid of eels, and by the same token, he's also afraid of snakes. Plus, considering his reaction when he saw Liu Yuxi catching earthworms, well, this kid is afraid of all soft-bodied animals.

There's no way around it; everyone probably has things they're afraid of. Let's respect each other's feelings.