Dozens of people from the village, young and old, came after a while, including the village party secretary and the women's director, and saw that the village chief Zhou Jiakang was pressed by Zhou An in Qin Meixing's melon shed, and there was an uproar.

The reprimand sounded, Zhou Jiakang's wife, daughter, son, and daughter-in-law also came, all angry and ashamed, and had no face to see people, Zhou Jiakang's wife was also a pungent person, as soon as she appeared, she went up to give Zhou Jiakang a big mouth, and Zhou Yuting, who had always had her tail upturned to the sky, stood behind the crowd, with her head down, and she didn't have a face to come forward.

This farce lasted for more than half an hour before it came to an end when Zhou Jiakang was helped home by his son.

The crowd dispersed in twos and threes, and Zhou An, who had already picked up the paint bucket, was about to go home, when he was suddenly stopped by Qin Meixing.

"Anzi!

Zhou An stopped and turned around when he heard the sound, and saw Qin Meixing picking a big watermelon from the ground, walked quickly in front of him, brushed the hair that drooped to the side of his face, and smiled at him gratefully, "Anzi! I thank you tonight! If you hadn't come to the rescue just now, Zhou Jiakang's brute would have really succeeded! You can take this watermelon back and eat it! If I say anything else about thanks, I won't say it now, my sister will say it! No matter what happens in the future, if my sister can help, you can come to me! Okay?"

While speaking, she put the big watermelon in her hand into Zhou An's paint bucket, and Zhou An couldn't refuse at all.

Zhou An saw that she was sincere in sending her off, and did not resolutely refuse.

He's not a good person, and he won't go out of his way to do anything good, but something like this that happened tonight, it's just that he didn't encounter it, and when he really encountered it, he still had the blood to shoot.

"Okay, then, I'll go back, it's not too early, sister, you should go to bed early!"

"Whoa!"

Qin Meixing agreed with a smile on her face.

Under the light in front of the melon shed, Zhou An was fascinated by her smile, although this woman is over thirty years old, she has been doing farm work day and night in the past few years, but she is still as beautiful as he remembers, her goose egg face is very white, and her big bright eyes are especially expressive.

The gourd-shaped young woman's figure is also the most charming appearance, no wonder Zhou Jiakang's old thing beat her idea.

Nodding, Zhou An turned around and went home.

Qin Meixing stood in front of the melon shed and watched it for a long time, until Zhou An's figure completely disappeared into the night, she collected the smile on her face, sighed lightly, and turned around and walked back to the melon shed.

After all, it was late at night, and most of the people in the village were not attracted by Qin Meixing's voice, such as Qin Meixing's parents-in-law, her 6-year-old son, and Zhou An's parents.

His father definitely can't go, he has been in bed to recuperate, and his mother is not a person who likes to watch the excitement, and the family situation has been bad recently, and she is not in the mood to join in the fun.

It saved Zhou An an explanation.

……

Early the next morning.

As soon as Tianji vomited, Zhou An was woken up by the alarm clock set last night, didn't wash his face or brush his teeth, got up and put on his clothes, barefoot, carrying the broken paint bucket, and quietly went out through the back door alone.

There is nothing of value at home, and the back door of his house is generally not latched at night, which is convenient for him to enter and exit late at night and early in the morning for the past two days.

The cool morning breeze blew on Zhou An's body, which was cooler than Sprite.

In the fields in the early morning, the grass on the side of the road was full of dewdrops, Zhou An didn't walk a short distance, and his two calves were already wet with dew, but his steps were brisk, because the next time was his harvest!

Last night he fished 50 fish, and he believed that he would be able to catch some yellow eels unless luck made it to his grandmother's house.

By the pond, next to the root of a tree with a crooked neck, Zhou An brushed open the half-human deep grass, found the fishing stick inserted in the mud at the water's edge, raised his hand to lift the nylon line on the fishing stick, the heavy feeling made his eyes brighten, his face showed surprise, and quickly closed the fishing line up, and soon, a thumb-thick, foot-long yellow eel was raised from the bottom of the water to the surface, and the color on the back was yellow, and at a glance he knew that it was pure wild, which was obviously different from the breeding goods sold in the vegetable market.

Sadly, the sewing needle on the fishing line pierced the eel's belly, and by the time it was lifted to the surface, the guy was dead.

However, it should not be long to die, and it is still fresh.

……

A pile of rotten straw piled up at the edge of the pond at the water's edge has rotted badly, Zhou An brushed aside a pile of rotten grass, found the fishing rod he placed last night, and gently lifted the fishing line, the fishing line immediately trembled, and a surprised smile resurfaced.

With a strong lifting of the fishing line, a large yellow eel of at least half a catty twisted and struggled to be lifted out of the water, and this one was still alive.

Skillfully plucking it from the fishing line and throwing it into the bucket, Zhou An happily moved on to the next fishing spot.

……

Water hyacinth is a common aquatic plant in the southern river ponds, with thick, round leaves curled green on the surface of the water, and sometimes small white flowers.

This thing doesn't really grow a gourd, and it's not very useful, and usually no one gets it, and even if you work hard to get it home, you can only feed it to pigs.

At the edge of the pond, a dense water hyacinth covers the water surface tightly.

Zhou An walked to the water's edge with a smile on his face, looked down, and soon found the small hole he had dialed out last night, reached out and touched the water, and touched the underwater fishing line in a few clicks.

As soon as I pulled the fishing line, I felt the fishing line shake again.

I was overjoyed, and when the fishing line was lifted, there was a fresh yellow eel brought up from under the water.

This one is a little smaller, probably only weighing two, but it's better to have a gain than to be empty.

……

Zhou Taiqing, Zhou An's second uncle, Zhou An's father Zhou Taihu's brother, is the director of the Zhuyuan Primary School nearby, and lives next door to Zhou An's house.

Zhou Taiqing has the habit of getting up early.

I got up very early every day, and I didn't do anything else, I sat in front of the door with a chair and a cup of tea to drink tea and smoke, so that the young people and children in the village did not dare to pass by, because those young people used to study in Zhuyuan Primary School, and the children had not escaped the clutches of Zhou Taiqing.

They were afraid of Zhou Taiqing from the bottom of their hearts.

Zhou An passed in front of Zhou Taiqing with bare feet, carrying this morning's harvest in the bucket, and shouted to the second uncle.

Zhou Taiqing snorted, which was a response.

The foundation of his house is about half a meter higher than the road in front of the door, and at this time, he glanced at Zhou An condescendingly, and when he caught a glimpse of the yellow eels in Zhou An's bucket, Zhou Taiqing's eyes lit up, and he suddenly got up, walked over and stopped in front of Zhou An, and reached out to grab the paint bucket in Zhou An's hand.

"Huh, Anzi! You let go of the fisherman? There are so many yellow snakes, you must not be able to eat them all! Come on! Divide me in half! Second uncle, I like to eat yellow snakes the most!"

Yellow snake is the local name for the yellow eel.

Zhou An has at least twenty or thirty yellow eels in this bucket, no matter how you look at it, there are four or five catties, and he wants half of them when he opens his mouth.