As time passed, the sky grew darker and darker, and the campfire, which was still bright, became dimmer and began to go out.

When the bonfire is completely extinguished, a not-so-sumptuous dinner comes to an end. After the family of three had eaten and drunk enough, they simply cleaned up with a little sleepiness, and then went back to the thatched hut to sleep.

After returning to his room, Zhang Ran fell on the bed and didn't want to move. Lying on the hard bedboard, fatigue hit, and Zhang Ran quickly fell asleep.

The next day, early in the morning.

Zhang Ran was still immersed in a sweet dream, and when he was sleeping soundly, he vaguely felt a sound of "rustling" around him, mixed with some women's words, and felt very noisy.

When he opened his eyes in a daze, Zhang Ran found that the sky was already dark.

And at this moment, in the outer house, Zhang Li was taking his daughter Sui'er, packing up, carrying a stone hoe, and preparing to set off to work in the field.

When Zhang Ran got dressed, rubbed his eyes, and walked into the big house, he happened to see the mother and daughter getting ready to go. Seeing this scene, Zhang Ran immediately realized that the sound he heard just now was accidentally made by his mother and sister when they were rummaging through farm tools.

"This—" Zhang Ran opened his mouth, just about to say something. But before he could speak, Zhang Li preemptively said: "Ah Ran, your body is just a little better, and you don't need to work in the field today." Just stay at home and rest, and leave the work in the field to me and Sui'er. Anyway, there are only about ten acres of land left, and the two of us will be enough. Oh, and by the way, there's a bowl of porridge left for you in the kitchen, so wait until you drink it while it's hot! But don't forget."

"Ugh"

Hearing his mother say this, Zhang Ran was speechless, so he had to scratch his head, and replied helplessly: "Mother, my body is almost better, and I don't need to rest at all!" Besides, I'm going to go to the river to see if the two cages have caught any fish, so let's go together! ”

"You kid..."Zhang Ran's eloquent appearance made Zhang Li feel a headache, her son's reason was so sufficient, it was difficult for her to refuse, helpless, Zhang Li could only compromise: "Alas, even if you are reasonable, it is not good!" Hurry up to the kitchen and drink the porridge, let's go together after drinking! ”

"Okay! Mother, you stay for a while, and I'll go back when my son goes! Zhang Ran grinned, and against his mother's disgusting eyes, he took three steps and two steps, and slipped away in the direction of the kitchen...

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After breakfast, facing the morning light and stepping on the morning dew, Zhang Ran, his mother and sister walked along the path to their farmland.

When he arrived at the place, Zhang Ran did not immediately go to work in the field with his mother, but took his younger sister, who was full of eagerness to try, and went to the Qingshui River to check the fish cage left yesterday.

Following the marks left yesterday, Zhang Ran easily found the small tree with a vine tied to it by the river.

Looking at the vines that were still tied to the small tree, Zhang Ran breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the vines are still there, neither discovered by others nor torn off by the force of the current, and are still intact.

Fortunately, there was no accident, otherwise Zhang Ran would not only not be able to catch the fish, but also likely to lose two baskets and lose one of the few "important property" in the family.

With a little apprehension, Zhang Ran untied the vines and slowly pulled the basket up from the river. Maybe it's because the basket has been soaked in water for a day, and it feels very heavy to get into, so that when Zhang Ran pulls it, he feels a little struggling.

"Sui'er, come and help!"

Feeling that he was probably unable to do it alone, Zhang Ran hurriedly asked his sister on the side for help.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Sui'er trotted to Zhang Ran's side, grabbed the other section of the vine, and the brother and sister worked together and pulled hard.

The strength of the two people is really more than that of one person, so that the vine with the thickness of the wrist is pulled by the two of them, and it is straight, and when it is forced, it will continue to shake from side to side, and make a "creaking" sound.

"Slow down, slow down, be careful not to rip it off!"

Seeing this, Zhang Ran was afraid that he would suddenly break the vine, and it would be bad at that time, so he hurriedly told his sister Sui'er.

"Yes, yes. That's it, pull little by little, don't use too much force..."

Under Zhang Ran's command, the brother and sister slowly pulled the tree vine, carefully not daring to be careless, for fear that one would accidentally tear the tree vine off.

After a lot of effort, the basket was finally dragged out of the water by the two of them and pulled to the shore little by little.

After the basket came out of the water, Zhang Ran couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief. Reaching out and touching his forehead, Zhang Ran was stunned to find that in just a few minutes, the sweat on his forehead had already flowed out, and his hands and feet were also a little trembling, and he felt exhausted and disobeyed.

"Nima, this body is too empty!"

Looking at the sweat that was wet and covered with the palms of his hands, Zhang Ran was a little speechless for a while, and deeply felt incredible for the weakness of his body...

After the basket was brought ashore, a large amount of stagnant water flowed out of the gap in the basket, and soon a large area was soaked around.

Seeing that Zhang Ran looked tired and choked, Zhang Suier took the initiative to step forward and bring the basket over.

After picking up the willow branches on the basket little by little, Zhang Sui'er couldn't wait to look into the basket.

"Wow, that's a lot of fish! Brother, brother, look! ”

Sui'er screamed in surprise, and didn't know the strength she had to take, so she grabbed the edge of the basket with her small hand and dragged it towards Zhang Ran with all her might.

After hearing his sister's exclamation, Zhang Ran was also slightly surprised in his heart. I didn't care about resting, so I swooped forward, grabbed the basket, and looked down!

Then, Zhang Ran saw that there were half baskets of fish and shrimp of all sizes in the basket. What's more, Zhang Ran also found loaches, small shrimp and other aquatic creatures such as crabs...

"Misty grass, so much?"

Spit fragrant mouth and scream.

Looking at this half basket of fish, Zhang Ran couldn't help but feel excited. Although he hasn't weighed it yet, judging from the current situation, so many fish and shrimp and other things add up to at least seven or eight catties...

"Is it so much better to catch fish at night than during the day?"

With such doubts, Zhang Ran and his sister carried the basket and rushed to the place where the other fish cage was.

According to the location in memory, after finding the tree that was tied to the vine yesterday, Zhang Ran and his sister also pulled the last basket out of the small river like a gourd.

"Haha..., there are a lot of fish and shrimp in this fish cage!"

Taking stock of the harvest, Zhang Ran found that although the number of fish and shrimp in the basket of the latter trumpet was not as much as the previous one, it was at least five or six catties. In this way, the harvest in the two traps adds up to more than ten catties!

Such a huge harvest is definitely a huge harvest that has never been seen in recent years for the impoverished Zhang Ran family.

So many fish and shrimp, if you add some wild vegetables and other things, it is enough for the family to eat for a little half a month!

With a little joy after the harvest, Zhang Ran took out the fish in the big basket one by one with great interest and put them into the smaller basket.

After all the fish and shrimp were concentrated in one basket, Zhang Ran put the remaining empty basket into some small fish and shrimp as bait, tied them to the vines and put them back into the small river.

Then, together with his sister Sui'er, Zhang Ran happily ran back to his mother with a basket and reported the good news to her.