He dragged the basket to the shore, poured out all the fish inside, and gathered it away. Zhang Ran was pleased to find that only this basket poured out four large and small fish.

However, these fish are not big, the small ones are only two fingers wide, and the largest ones are only the width of a palm, although the fish are not big, but if they all add up, they are more than a catty, made into minced meat, and then cook some wild vegetable porridge, which is enough for their family of three to have a full meal.

"Wow, there really are fish!"

Seeing the lively fish at Zhang Ran's feet, Sui'er couldn't help but exclaim, and trotted over excitedly, bending down to pick them all up one by one.

"What a big carp! Brother, brother, I'm going to eat this at night! ”

At sunset, her sister Sui'er held a long carp and shouted excitedly, and the sun shone on her dirty little face, covering it with a layer of golden yellow, making her emaciated face seem to have an extra layer of redness, and it seemed to exude a moving look from a distance.

Looking at this beautiful scene, for some reason, Zhang Ran felt a slight throbbing in his heart.

Suddenly, a smile appeared at the corner of Zhang Ran's mouth, and he said, "Okay, my brother will personally roast it for you to eat in the evening!" ”

"Thank you, brother, brother is the best!" The little girl cheered, threw herself into Zhang Ran's arms, grabbed the fish with one hand, and hugged Zhang Ran's neck affectionately with the other hand.

"Go, go, go! It's full of fishy smell, stay away from me! Although she was disgusted, Zhang Ran still gently hugged the little girl, scratched her little Qiong's nose dotingly, and teased.

After laughing and playing, Zhang Ran put the fish into the basket again, then carried the basket, and took the excited little girl to the direction where the other "fish cage" was located.

After coming to another body of water, Zhang Ran first found the small tree with a vine tied to it, then untied the vine and pulled the basket out of the river little by little.

This fish cage is made from my sister's small basket, so it's a lot easier to pull than the previous one. After pulling the fish cage ashore, Zhang Ran counted it, and then was pleasantly surprised to find that the harvest of this basket was actually more than the harvest of the previous one.

Among them, there are not only five or six large grass carp and crucian carp, but also a few small shrimps, and a hairy crab with teeth and claws...

"This is really a lost puppet, a harvest of mulberry elm! Originally, it was just a fish cage with a full number, but I didn't expect it to be more fish than the main owner caught..."

Taking advantage of the fact that it was not too late, Zhang Ran found a sharp stone chip on the river beach and started killing fish directly by the river

Scrape off the scales, shave the belly to remove the internal organs, and then wash the flesh in the river water. Then he picked up another one and did the same thing.

Although Zhang Ran's technique was not very skillful, after spending some time, he finally killed seven or eight fish. After that, Zhang Ran found some aquatic plants to weave into a rope to connect the killed fish and the remaining live fish.

Then, Zhang Ran put the remaining internal organs of the fish killing into the basket and used it as new bait, and also used the willow branches newly picked by his sister Sui'er to plug the two large openings on the basket, and then put them back into the river according to the previous method.

After all this was done, the sun had already set, and seeing that it would be dark in a short time, Zhang Ran hurriedly beckoned his sister to carry the fish she had caught and rushed back together.

By the time the brother and sister walked along the riverbank back to the big tree where the wild vegetables were piled up, night had already begun to fall.

Under the big tree in the evening, Zhang Ran's mother, Zhang Li, was anxiously pacing back and forth, while constantly looking around, and the anxious look on her face was overflowing. However, when she looked around and saw the figures of Zhang Ran's brother and sister in the distance, the whole person couldn't help but open her mouth wide and froze in place.

"Mother, mother, come and see, my brother has caught a lot of fish with a basket!" At the moment she saw her mother, the little girl suddenly smiled with joy on her little face, and then carried a few big fish she caught, screamed and plunged into her mother's arms.

"So many fish? Your brother caught them? Zhang Li looked at a few carps and crucian carp threaded with straw ropes in his daughter's hands a little sluggishly, and said in surprise.

Looking at the shocked look on her mother's face, the little girl couldn't help but say proudly: "Hmm! It's all caught by my brother! Mother, you don't know, my brother is amazing, he used our straw basket, poked a few holes casually, and then tinkered with it, and caught more than a dozen fish. Mother, we have fish to eat tonight! ”

After listening to his daughter's narration, Zhang Li couldn't help but grow his mouth and said in disbelief: "Can you catch fish in a basket?" How is this possible? ”

"How can Sui'er say so exaggerated!" Zhang Ran walked to his mother and sister with a smile, put the fish in his mother's big basket, and explained: "Mother, don't listen to that girl's nonsense, in fact, I am also greedy, thinking that there are a lot of fish in the Xiaoqing River, I modified our basket and made two fishing traps. ”

Zhang Ran didn't say that it was okay, but after saying it, Zhang Li's heart had more doubts, and he couldn't help asking: "My son, when did you learn how to fish?" Also make traps, who taught you? ”

"Uh" Zhang Ran hesitated, scratched his head, and tried to explain: "Mother, that's the case, isn't my health not very good during this time, so I thought about getting some meat to taste it, so as to replenish my body." After I passed out last time, I suddenly remembered a lot of things, so I tried to make some fishing traps based on the fishermen I saw there fishing on the edge of the Bahe River before, but I didn't expect it to be really easy to use, haha..."

Hearing Zhang Ran say this, his mother Zhang Li's eyes couldn't help but turn red, and her tears came down, and she whimpered: "Ran'er, it's all because my mother is useless, she has no ability, and she can't even let you eat meat all year round, woo..."

Seeing that his mother suddenly shed tears, Zhang Ran was suddenly a little dumbfounded, and hurriedly stepped forward to comfort: "Mother, don't cry, why do you cry so well, don't you see that we have fish to eat..."

Well, after living for more than twenty years, poor Zhang Ran has never had the experience of coaxing women, and he has been busy for a long time and still can't make his mother stop her tears.

In the end, it was her sister Sui'er who used the coquettish method, which coaxed her mother to laugh and resolved this major crisis in Zhang Ran's eyes.

When night fell, the sky was full of stars, and a crescent moon rose in mid-air, exuding a faint silver glow.

Beside the slightly rugged path, frogs chirp and insects chirp. Stepping on the bright moonlight, Zhang Ran's mother and son embarked on the road home with the harvest of a day's work and fatigue.