Chapter 31: Hunting Bamboo Pheasants
At this time, Mo Changtian had already walked into the water, hooking his waist, and staring at the surface of the water.
Shen Qiushui glanced at it and turned his attention to other places.
After seeing Mo Changtian's light skills, she was very confident that the other party could catch a fish.
The weeds around the lake had budded, and she glanced at them casually, but she didn't see any useful herbs.
Shen Qiushui, who had no goal, sat in a clean place, staring at Mo Changtian in a daze.
However, in the next second, she suddenly stood up with excitement on her face.
Looking at the pond butterfly mussels beside the rocks at the edge of the lake, Shen Qiushui couldn't sit still.
Pond mussels are able to secrete nacre to form pearls.
Looking at those pool butterflies and mussels of different sizes, Shen Qiushui smiled and rolled up his trouser legs and ran to pick them up.
A total of more than a dozen pond butterfly mussels were picked up, and Shen Qiushui piled them all on the shore.
When she was worried about opening mussels to get pearls like this, Mo Changtian carried a half-meter-long fish ashore.
There were also two fish on the shore that had been caught and thrown up.
He pinched a few straw ropes, tied the fish, and walked towards Shen Qiushui.
Looking at the river mussels piled up in front of the other party, he frowned slightly.
"You want to eat this?" Mo Changtian asked, he thought that Shen Qiushui had never eaten this, and explained: "This thing is very fishy and not delicious." ”
"No, no, no." Shen Qiushui hurriedly shook his head: "I just want to see if there are any pearls in the past few years, this river mussel really looks like a pond butterfly mussel......"
Shen Qiushui picked up one of the largest river mussels, the river mussels were alive, and the two shells were bitten very tightly, and there was no way to break them.
She glanced at the machete in Mo Changtian's hand and had an idea in her heart.
"Will there be pearls in here?" Mo Changtian has been here so many times, and he has never had the idea of beating these river mussels.
Seeing that Shen Qiushui's face was full of excitement, he didn't pour cold water on her, but handed the machete over.
Shen Qiushui took the machete, only to find that the weight of the machete was not light.
She struck the mussel with the back of her machete, and after a few blows, her hands became sore.
Mo Changtian pulled Shen Qiushui up and opened the river mussel instead of her.
Just knocked it once, and directly smashed the river mussel out of a hole, and without much effort, he broke the river mussel from both sides along the hole.
Shen Qiushui saw the bulge at the edge of the river mussel, Shen Qiushui's eyes lit up, and he squatted in front of Mo Changtian to take the river mussel.
In a few clicks, a few pearls with pitted skin were squeezed out of it.
When the sun shines on the pearl, several colors faintly appear.
"There really is." Shen Qiushui smiled.
Mo Changtian saw the smile on Shen Qiushui's face, and couldn't help but tell her that the pearl didn't look good and wasn't worth much.
He lowered his head and smashed all the river mussels that Shen Qiushui fished ashore, and opened them in front of Shen Qiushui.
Shen Qiushui squeezed the pearls out of the mussels one by one, and the whole process was very decompressing.
Dozens of strange-shaped pearls were harvested, and only one pearl with a round shape was harvested.
Looking at the pearls wrapped in huge leaves, Shen Qiushui was very satisfied, this was her biggest gain this trip.
What she didn't expect was that her surprise was still to come.
She and Mo Changtian walked back, and halfway through, they bumped into a bamboo chicken.
The bamboo chicken bumped into it by itself, and Mo Changtian naturally wouldn't let it go, and immediately chased after it.
The bamboo pheasant is petite and jumps up and down in the dense bamboo forest, and the speed is very fast.
However, before he was complacent, he was hit in the head by Mo Changtian with a stone.
The whole cockscomb was rotten, which shows how much effort he used.
Shen Qiushui was so excited that he stepped forward and picked up the bamboo chicken by the neck.
The whole head of the bamboo chicken was dented by the stone, and at this moment the bamboo chicken still had its last breath left, and it flapped its wings desperately.
"The bamboo chicken is running this way, there should be a nest near here, you wait for me here, I'll look for it." After speaking, Mo Changtian ran to the other side of the bamboo forest.
Shen Qiushui honestly waited for Mo Changtian to come back.
Mo Changtian didn't let her wait long.
He was carrying a bamboo chicken in his hand and a few bamboo eggs in his arms.
Shen Qiushui didn't expect that Mo Changtian would run over and still have this harvest.
His eyes widened, and he ran towards Mo Changtian quickly.
"You're too good, aren't you?" Shen Qiushui stared at the bamboo chicken in the other party's hand and exclaimed.
"Good luck today." The corners of Mo Changtian's mouth were hooked, as if he was enjoying being praised by Shen Qiushui.
Before coming out of the bamboo forest, Shen Qiushui also found bamboo shoots.
It stands to reason that there are no bamboo shoots in this season, and waiting for another two months is the day when a large number of bamboo shoots will emerge.
These bamboo shoots were bumped into by Shen Qiushui, she naturally wouldn't let them go, and when she got together with the bamboo chicken, she could just make a bamboo shoot roast chicken.
After so many days, I can finally open meat.
Thinking of the taste of chicken, Shen Qiushui swallowed his saliva and quickened his pace to catch up with Mo Changtian.
Put everything you have harvested in the back basket, which is good enough to fit all of them.
Shen Qiushui, who was carrying a basket on his back, and Mo Changtian, who was dragging a large handful of bamboo poles, went down the mountain together.
By the time we descended the mountain, noon had passed.
On the way back, they met many villagers who had gone back to their houses for dinner and then went back to the fields.
When the villagers saw the husband and wife, their eyes looked into the big basket that Shen Qiushui was carrying.
When I saw two bamboo chickens, my eyes were red with jealousy.
The two walked along Tiankan to Luo's house at the end of the village.
The gate of Luo's house was hidden and not locked, it seems that Granny Luo should have returned.
Shen Qiushui crossed the threshold and entered the courtyard, and Mo Changtian followed closely with a bamboo pole.
The first to see the two was Mo Yu.
"Daddy, Mommy!" Mo Yu walked on his short legs and quickly pounced towards Shen Qiushui.
"Don't hug!" Shen Qiushui hurriedly dodged the other party's hand that wanted to hug his thigh, "My mother will get dirty herself, and I'll hug it later." ”
Granny Luo, who was in the kitchen, heard the conversation and came this way with a cane.
"You're finally back." Granny Luo looked at the two of them with empty eyes for a while, "The rice is warm in the pot, go and eat it yourself." ”
"Thank you, godmother, we'll eat later." Shen Qiushui smiled and put the back basket on the ground and poured the contents on the ground.
"Wow!" Seeing the two bamboo chickens on the ground, Mo Yu exclaimed, "There are two chickens!" ”
Mo Yu and Mo Dong squatted beside the dead bamboo chicken, stretched out their hands and poked them cautiously, their eyes full of curiosity.
Shen Qiushui looked at the appearance of the two children, shook his head with a smile, turned around and went to the kitchen to get a bowl with a large handful of pearls.
"What chicken? Did Tianwazi hunt pheasants? When Granny Luo heard Mo Yu's words, she asked with some curiosity.
She stepped forward with her cane and looked at it with her eyes open for a long time before she was sure that there were two bamboo chickens on the ground.
Bamboo chickens are much smaller than ordinary domestic chickens, and the heaviest ones are only about one catty.
"Yes, there are three eggs caught by Changtian." Shen Qiushui came out with two bowls.
One of the three bamboo eggs had broken, and she took the bowl and poured all the pearls wrapped in the leaves into the bowl.