Chapter 4: Sinking Fish and Falling Geese

"Tell me how to describe a girl as beautiful, use idioms!" Ma Li said with a smile.

Hey!

Those who fish do not leave the water's edge, and those who collect firewood do not leave the mountain's side.

Not only Ma Xiaomei's IQ is more than 200, but Ma Li's IQ as an elder brother will not be too low, not to mention the super plug-in help with the boss development system!

has finally succeeded in shifting the topic of Ma Xiaomei, isn't it simple to find a random reason to fool Ma Xiaomei?

"It's beautiful!" Ma Xiaomei said after a little thought.

Ma Xiaomei has been exposed to a little less idioms on weekdays, and she hasn't been able to distinguish the difference between idioms and words for a while.

"Idioms?" Ma Li asked rhetorically.

This is very beautiful, although it looks like four words, but why is it not an idiom?

What's more, now that Ma Li is really looking for a reason, he can have more time to think of a way.

"Super beautiful?" Ma Xiaomei replied again.

"Think about it again, this is not an idiom!" Ma Li shook his head, indicating that it was not right.

Super beautiful is not an idiom either, at most a set of exaggerated words.

"The country is beautiful and fragrant?" Ma Xiaomei said with a smug face, this time it's always an idiom, right?

"No, although you said an idiom, it has nothing to do with the fact that you are too beautiful to catch a fish! Ma Li said with a smile as he walked home with his little sister.

"Stunning beauty!" Ma Xiaomei looked at Ma Li with blinking eyes and replied again.

I thought to myself, right?

Isn't it right?

It's so devastating!

"That's not right!" Ma Li shook his head, it also had nothing to do with being too beautiful to catch a fish.

Seeing that Ma Li continued to deny it, Ma Xiaomei's mood fluctuated a little!

"Born beautiful!" Ma Xiaomei thought about it for a while, and finally came up with another idiom related to beauty.

Isn't that right?

Why is it not right?

It can't be my brother playing tricks on me, right?

I couldn't help but think about Ma Xiaomei while walking!

"It's still not right!" Ma Li smiled, feeling that his sister's appearance was a little funny, and she looked a little angry.

It seems that if she doesn't tell her a suitable excuse, Ma Xiaomei will really be angry!

"Closed flowers and shy moon?" Ma Xiaomei was a little impatient!

Isn't that a complete insult to my intelligence?

With me being so smart, Ma Xiaomei, who is naturally beautiful, can't guess an idiom?

No way!

Looks like my brother is playing tricks on me!

"Almost!" Ma Li reminded his sister, still thinking in his heart that this idiom is really close!

It should be said that this closed flower and shy moon is almost very close!

is a very connected idiom.

"How do I know? There are so many idioms!" Ma Xiaomei couldn't think of it for a while, and began to pick reasons.

Besides!

Isn't that all up to you?

I can't tell if it's right or not!

Who knows if you're playing tricks on people!

If others know, I, a genius beautiful girl with an invincible IQ, was tricked by you, so it's strange if I don't laugh to death!

Ma Xiaomei faintly heard Grandpa's hearty laughter!

Ma Xiaomei always felt that Ma Li asked her to guess that the idiom's motive was not pure, so she immediately decided to put up a stall!

"Hey, my baby sister can memorize the three-character scripture at the age of two, and can memorize 300 Tang poems at the age of three, how can such an idiom be stumped?" Ma Li said with a little teasing exaggeration.

Ma Li was encouraging on his lips, but in fact, he was secretly laughing in his heart:

I still don't believe that with your arrogant personality, you can stand my agitation?

Maybe it's a good way to hide it in front of others, and she looks like a good girl.

But I'm afraid I won't care about so many lady images in front of my brother!

At least this kind of agitation can easily be stuffed in the heart?

It won't be long before you can't get through it, right?

"Okay, okay, I'll guess, but you're going to give me some hints. Ma Xiaomei waved her hand funny.

I look like I'm amazing!

Give me a hint and I'll answer for sure.

Hum!

Give me a fulcrum, and I'll be able to pry the whole world!

Don't look at who I am?

Come and stump me, a genius beautiful girl with an invincible IQ!

"It is necessary to describe it beautifully, but also to put a fish word in this idiom!" Ma Li gave a small hint.

This time, the word 'fish' was directly exposed in the idiom!

"Oh, that's simple, it must be 'sinking fish and geese'! right?" Ma Xiaomei reacted quickly and immediately said very smartly.

With a snickering face, this time it's always right, right?

If it's wrong, it's fooling people, and I'm not going to play anymore!

But it seems that apart from this idiom, there is no other idiom to think of!

"Yes!" Ma Li smiled and gave an affirmative look.

"But does 'sinking fish and geese' have anything to do with my inability to catch fish? Why doesn't this idiom let me catch fish?" Ma Xiaomei couldn't feel the connection between the two.

It won't be my brother fooling me, Ma Xiaomei's first idea continued to pop up inadvertently!

Then his eyes looked at Ma Li seriously-

"Look at the idiom 'sinking fish and falling geese'! It means that people are so beautiful that they can't even compare to the fish, and they are so ashamed that they sink underwater, do you think you can still catch fish like this?" Ma Li said for example.

Ma Li is secretly funny, you can't say that you are not beautiful!

On weekdays, Ma Xiaomei is still quite stinky and beautiful!

If she wants her to say that she is not beautiful, she probably won't be willing to lose this face!

"No wonder I can't catch a fish, it turns out that every time the fish sees my reflection, they are embarrassed to hide in the water!" Ma Xiaomei suddenly realized, but after saying that, she thought about it and felt weird, and she always felt that something was wrong!

"Okay! Okay! I won't catch fish, I'll be fine! Hmph, if you play tricks on me, I'll have to sue Grandpa!"

Glancing at Ma Li with disdain, Ma Xiaomei pouted and ran to the front silently......

Ma Li easily carried the fish in one hand, and finally returned home with Ma Xiaomei to play around along the way.

Seeing that his grandfather hadn't come back yet, Ma Li planned to kill all the fish first and start making dinner.

He didn't know how to cook before, so it was always Grandpa who came back to cook.

Now that he has a boss cultivation system, Ma Li plans to cook a meal with his own hands to honor his grandfather and his old man.

Grandpa gets up early every day and goes up and down the mountain in the dark, which is not only dangerous, but also very hard!

In the past, Ma Li didn't know how to cook, so forget it!

Now with the help of the boss's cultivation system, isn't it easy to cook a meal?

"Brother, what are you doing, don't you wait for Grandpa to come back and cook?" Ma Xiaomei felt a little strange when she saw Ma Li as if she was preparing to cook dinner, didn't Grandpa cook in the past.

"Grandpa is so tired going up and down the mountain! I have to walk a lot to come and go, and I have to cook for them when I come back, I can't bear him to be so tired!" Ma Li thought about it, Grandpa was getting older and older, and he was already very tired from going up and down the mountain, and he had to cook dinner immediately when he came back, so he was really a little embarrassed.

"Oh, but you didn't know how to cook before?" Ma Xiaomei remembered that her brother didn't seem to know how to cook before!

"Haven't you tasted the grilled fish I made today?" Ma Li smiled as he recalled the way his sister ate the grilled fish and devoured it.

Speaking of grilled fish, Ma Xiaomei's eyes lit up, the taste was fragrant, and she always missed it, "Brother, the grilled fish you make is delicious, why don't I come to help you cook?"

Cooking is not a simple barbecue, not something that can be learned in a while, and the little sister's height is too inconvenient, so let's wait until I am older and taller to talk about it slowly!

"No, you can watch from the side for a while, and I'll ask you to help you when you're almost done in a few days!" Ma Li was about to start killing fish, chatting casually with his sister.

Where to cut wood, to what fire, to what fire.

The time and heat are not well controlled, and any dishes are not delicious, and even the paste will be burnt!

At least for now, Ma Xiaomei can't grasp the knock on the door.

Maybe when you are older, you have more strength, and if you are taller, it will be much easier!

Ma Xiaomei thinks Ma Li's suggestion is very good, and after at least one barbecue, she has already found the gap between her and Ma Li's cooking skills.

"Okay!" Ma Xiaomei replied, gradually quieted down and squatted aside to watch Ma Li kill the fish.

Ma Li carried the fish to his well and began to clean the stomach of the fish.

As soon as the fish was put on the ground, it immediately jumped alive.

"Wow! This fish is still alive? Didn't Grandpa say that the fish would die if they left the water?" Ma Xiaomei exclaimed, and she still remembered the lively appearance by the river.

Under normal circumstances, the fish that leave the surface of the water die quickly, and it doesn't take long for them all to die!

First of all, we need to understand why fish die when they leave the water.

In fact!

It's not dry, it's suffocated.

That is, suffocation.

This is because fish survive by encouraging water to flow through their bright red gills through their gill covers, which absorb oxygen dissolved in the water.

After leaving the water, it cannot absorb a large amount of oxygen in the water, and the fish falls into a coma.

At first, it can agitate the gill cover to struggle a few times, and then it has no strength to open the gill cover.

This is the deadliest -

Because even air cannot enter the gill cover, the fish is completely cut off from oxygen, and the fish dies instantly.

"That's the normal situation, now every fish has a willow branch pierced through its mouth, so it can't die for a while!" Ma Li said, pointing to a willow branch inside the fish's mouth and gills.

"Well, that's the case, then I'll tell Grandpa about this method later!" Ma Xiaomei laughed happily, feeling that it was a great thing to be a little smarter than Grandpa.

Originally, Ma Li didn't know about this method of prolonging the breathing of the fish's mouth.

Until Ma Li's grilled fish skill reaches the first level, he can use this very simple and easy method to make the live fish he bought continue to survive for a period of time even if he leaves the water.

Ensure that the fish is boiled and slaughtered, so that the fish is absolutely alive and very fresh, and the grilled fish taste is naturally very delicious and delicious.

This little trick for keeping fresh is still very practical!

"Ding! Gain one for prestige!"

"Ding! Reputation Gain Two!"

"Ding! Gain one for prestige!"

"Ding! Gain one for prestige!"

In the process of killing the fish, Ma Li once again gained 26 reputation points.

"Gain a total of 26 Fame, and currently have a reputation of 31/61 (remaining Fame/Total Fame), and you can choose any three skill boosts?" the boss development system encouraged.

"Well, let's improve your cooking skills, do you have home-cooking skills?" asked Ma Li if there were any skills that could be improved at the moment.

"Yes, if you confirm that you are improving now, then your home cooking skills will be upgraded to beginner?" said the boss after checking the system.

"Confirm!" Since he was planning to cook a delicious meal for Grandpa, Ma Li had already planned to upgrade his home-cooked skills to the first level!

"Okay!, you've gained the Beginner Home Cooking skill, and your current reputation is 21/61 (Remaining Fame/Total Fame), and there are two more skills to improve, I hope you will continue to work hard and level up soon!" the boss cultivation system encouraged again.

After killing the fish, with the basic home-cooking skills, the speed of cleaning up the internal organs in the belly of the fish is much faster, and it didn't take long for all the 20 or so fish to be cleaned up!

Ma Xiaomei, who had just heard a noise outside, hurriedly ran out, "Grandpa, you're back!"

"Little sister, I'm hungry! Grandpa will cook for you right away!" The burly Ma Shangfa looked at his granddaughter running over with a smile on his face, and happily hugged Ma Xiaomei easily and lifted it above his head......

Grandpa goes out early and returns late on weekdays, but he has always been very concerned about his two grandchildren.

I still love Ma Li and Ma Xiaomei very much.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be so old and go up to the mountains every day to collect medicine and find mountain goods.

In fact, as long as you enter the mountains, it is a very dangerous thing!

Although Grandpa only went to the marginal area, the marginal area cannot guarantee absolute safety.

If you really encounter a powerful beast one day, the injury is good, and if you don't get it right, you will die!

Even if there are no bones left, not even a piece of scum left!

Often, this can only be regarded as missing!

In fact, in fact, everyone in the family knows -

That's a gone day!