Chapter 10: I'll Go Too
It may be that the three of Cherry were hidden in the reeds, Mi Tao couldn't see it, and thought it was going on, and the voice became more anxious, louder and louder, with a stumbling trembling: "Sakura~~ Sakura, where are you?!! ”
The sound of getting closer and closer made the ducks start to riot
Cherry secretly shouted in her heart, and she didn't care about Mi Tao's words, so she hurriedly asked Akiyama and Runsheng to set up a net.
The three of them "shouted" and got up from their hiding places and began to pull the net fiercely. Unfortunately, the ducks were frightened and began to flee in all directions. In addition, the net, which was supposed to have four corners, was guarded by only three people, and several ducks escaped through the gap, and if the net was larger, only one male duck was left in the end, and he was still injured.
"Cherry!!" Mi Tao's sharp eyes saw the cherry, and she ran over angrily, obviously worried, and said hard in her mouth: "What are you going to do with your dead girl, what I said should be the wind in my ears, don't let you come, you are biased, and you take Akiyama and Runsheng to do nonsense together." I called you just now, and you deliberately avoided me......"
"Found it?" Mi Tao was followed by the panting cotton peach, and seeing that Cherry was fine, she glared at her lightly and played a round game: "You, it's too unreasonable." Fortunately, Walnut accidentally said that she opened her mouth, and the second sister almost ran away from her shoes in a hurry, and now she is running faster than me for the first time. ”
"Cotton peach! Sensei told her it was useless. Mi Tao's eyes were obviously red, and her mouth was still hard: "Look at how I clean her up when I go home!" ”
"Second sister, eldest sister doesn't know about this, right?" Cherry didn't dare to resentment the edge of the rice peach, and asked softly. I really don't know whether to say that the walnuts are too small or the sisters are too shrewd to reveal their words so quickly.
Akiyama and Runsheng stood honestly behind Cherry, their heads bowed, and they were also scared.
"You still have the face to ask the eldest sister!!" Mi Tao stomped her foot lightly and turned away hatefully.
"How dare you let the eldest sister know about this? She told me a thousand times, the water here doesn't know the depth, and she won't let you come. If she knew, she might be in a hurry. Cotton Peach sighed, caught a glimpse of the duck still struggling in Akiyama's hand out of the corner of her eye, and softened her tone: "Walnut said that you are here to catch ducks, what is going on after all?" ”
It's still the most sensible cotton peach. Cherry hurriedly explained the matter, and said, "If the second sister hadn't scared away the ducks, she would have caught more." ”
"Well, yes, there must be two dozen mallards in this area." Akiyama was busy helping.
"Oh, don't you blame me?" Mi Tao turned around, pinched her waist, and her eyes were about to breathe fire.
"No, no. Good second sister, isn't this to prove that this method can catch ducks? Cherry knew that Mi Tao had a hard mouth and a soft heart, so she simply stepped forward and wrapped her waist around her waist and shook it gently: "The second sister is the best for me, I know it in my heart." I'm also thinking about my family, if we can catch wild ducks, wouldn't there be an extra way to make money? The reason why I didn't dare to tell you was because I was afraid that you wouldn't believe in this method, so I took matters into my own hands and asked Brother Akiyama and Brother Runsheng to help. Second sister, am I wrong? Second sister, why don't you beat me up and dissipate my anger? ”
After a soft speech, Mi Tao raised his eyebrows and slowly put it down: "Just your Nizi has a sweet mouth!" Spirits! I know I can't beat you! ”
Cherry smiled tentatively: "Second sister isn't angry?" Shall we go home? Tell the eldest sister the good news and make her happy. Save her from worrying when she sees that you are not there. As he spoke, he winked at the cotton peach.
Mian Tao didn't say anything, just stepped forward to take the duck in Akiyama's hand, tied it with the hemp rope brought by the cherry, and said, "Let's go, let's go home." There is still some sauerkraut in the pickle jar, and make a sauerkraut stew duck at night. Then he turned to Akiyama and Runsheng: "You two will also eat at my house tonight." ”
"Hmph, you two should also be careful, dare to take my sister out behind my back." Mi Tao waved his hand threateningly at Runsheng and Akiyama, and he came down the steps given by Mian Tao.
The men re-sank their nets, then walked out of the reed beach and walked back.
Runsheng and Akiyama looked at each other, and both breathed a sigh of relief. Sister Mi Tao is really good at beating people. When the two of them were halfway there, they each made an excuse and ran away. The five sisters of the Yue family haven't eaten meat for a long time, how can that old duck be enough to eat? They'd better not join in the fun.
"You, always make a mess and tell me to clean it up." Taking advantage of Mi Tao's lead, Mian Tao said to Cherry.
"With the third sister here, I'm not afraid that the second sister will catch fire." Cherry smiled and danced: "When I go home and tell my eldest sister, we can come to catch ducks tomorrow." Walnut is still young and guards the door at home, and our four sisters just one of us guards a corner. I don't know how many I can catch in a day!! It's all a rattling copper plate~~"
The bright road ahead is so beautiful.
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"What?" When Carambola heard that Cherry had gone to the reed beach to catch ducks, she first cried uncomfortably: "How can you be so disobedient? So where do you dare to go to the reed beach? If something happens, how can our family afford it? Alas...... It's all the eldest sister who doesn't have the ability, and I want you little ones to go out and eat a bite. ”
"Big sister, don't cry. Watch me beat her up!! "Mi Tao is going to beat the cherry
"You dare!!" Carambola hurriedly stopped crying, stopped Mi Tao, and was distressed: "She still has injuries on her body, just preach a few words." ”
"Look at it, how much the eldest sister loves you!!" Mi Tao lowered her hand and threw a knife to Cherry.
Cherry stuck out her tongue, "I know." "Otherwise, she wouldn't treat them as sisters, and she wouldn't be desperately thinking about this family. Carambola gasped for a moment and sniffed: "That's it, it's time for lunch." Mi Tao, you go to Zhang Luo Zhang Luo to eat, cotton peach, you go to clean up the old duck, Sakura finally caught it, let's eat it at night. ”
"Hey," the two of them went their separate ways.
Carambola turned to the cherry again: "Sakura, you've been busy all morning, go and rest." ”
"Eldest sister, I'm not tired." Cherry felt that there was no one closer and better than the eldest sister: "Eldest sister, as long as we can keep the secret this time, we can catch it a few more times, not only will the food after the winter be settled, maybe we can also cut a spring dress for each of the sisters." When the money is more, we will buy back our two acres of land, and then we will have this house and our yard ......."
"You Nizi" star fruit laughed amusedly: "Why is there money in your eyes." Okay, the eldest sister agrees with you, and Ming'er will go to catch the ducks? ”
"It's still the eldest sister who knows me best" Cherry laughed happily and got off the kang with a 'rubbing': "Then I'll go out and rest for a while." ”
"Hey, go ahead." Carambola lowered her head, smiled and sniffed, and continued the embroidery on her hand.
"Walnut" came out of the house, and Cherry found Walnut squatting in the corner: "Didn't I tell you to keep it secret, why did it leak so quickly?" "This child is as simple as a drop of water, clear and transparent.
Walnut lowered his head as if he had made a mistake, and drew a circle on the ground with a branch: "I was biting and didn't say anything." However, the third sister said that she saw you in the town, and saw that you had someone kidnap you, and she was so frightened that she ran back to see if you were at home. And I ......"
"Alas......" Cherry sighed and stroked Walnut's little back: "I don't blame you." "The third sister is too shrewd......
After lunch, Mi Tao and Mian Tao took the time to repair the abandoned poultry house at home. I asked Cherry carefully how to use the fishing net.
On the second day, the four sisters left the walnuts at home to watch the house, and walked to the reed bank with plenty of hemp rope and nests.
From sprinkling to attracting ducks and then to collecting the nets, it takes about half an hour. Put the net away, and if nothing goes wrong, you can catch about two or three wild ducks. It's just that it will take at least three hours for the water surface that has been collected once to calm down again and attract ducks, so it can be collected at most twice a day.
At the end of the day, the four sisters caught five ducks. Tie it back with hemp rope and put it back in the repaired poultry house.
The cherry insisted on not clipping their wings. Only when the condition is kept in good condition can it be sold at a good price.
In the evening, Mi Tao came back from the neighboring village of Qujia Village and inquired about the price of wild ducks on the market: the best quality is 20 wen a catty, then 18 wen and 17 wen are available, and the worst condition is 15 wen a catty. That's all the price of dead ducks, because no one usually catches a mallard duck alive.
It's autumn, when ducks are at their fattest. A wild duck is estimated to cost five or six pounds (wild ducks are thinner than domestic ducks), so a duck costs a hundred dollars, and five ducks are five hundred dollars.
When they landed, the five sisters couldn't sleep with excitement.
"Sisters, if we want to make this money, then this method of catching ducks must be kept secret, and outsiders must not know about it. Otherwise, just that small deep beach, how can people step on it? The five sisters lay on the kang for a long time, and Cherry told again: "It doesn't matter who comes, no matter who asks, you can't say." and our net shall not be seen by anyone. "Even if that's the case, I'm afraid it will last five or six days at most. She prayed that the longer it dragged on, the better.
On the second day, the five sisters were careful not to be discovered, and returned with six wild ducks.
The duck cries loudly, attracting many questions.
The star fruit said that it was sent away by the newly bought ducks.
"It's not going to go on like this. The more ducks are caught, not only arouse suspicion, but also the duck house cannot be raised. And we have to eat and drink to serve them. Mian Tao finally found the problem: "Otherwise, I'll take it to the town and sell a few tomorrow." ”
"I'll see it!" Cherry has been waiting for this sentence for a long time: "Ming'er, I'll go to sell ducks with the third sister, and the eldest sister and the second sister will go to catch ducks, and I'll call Brother Akiyama to come over and help." Walnuts still have to stay at home to look after the family. "If you have ducks at home, you don't dare to leave people.
"You've got it right!" Mi Tao knocked on her head: "Just tell your third sister to sell ducks by herself, and you will go to dry hemp?" Honestly come and help catch ducks. Didn't you say that if one of the four corners of the net was missing, the duck would easily escape? ”