Chapter 145: Chapter 145: Harvest Chapter 145: Chapter 145: Harvest Su Yunjin agreed not to pick too many.
The second sister, Su Ningxiu, continued to catch fish.
Su Yunjin asked Su Xiaobao to give her the basket, “Xiaobao, give me the basket.”
“Third Sister, here you go.” Walking up to Su Yunjin, Su Xiaobao obediently handed over the basket that was hanging at his waist.
With two handfuls of river snails in her hands, Su Yunjin didn’t reach out to take the basket. Instead, she first dropped the handfuls of snails into it.
Su Xiaobao loved eating crabs, and at that moment, all his attention was on catching them. After giving the basket to Su Yunjin, he went back to the riverbed to feel for crabs among the stones.
Su Yunjin, with one hand holding the basket, continued to pick river snails at the riverbed. River snails were there, but they weren’t everywhere. After groping around for a while, she barely gathered enough to cook a bowl for lunch. Su Xiaobao had been catching crabs in the river since he was young.
As Su Yunjin gathered enough river snails, Su Xiaobao also found two big crabs, “Third Sister, Second Sister, look, I caught crabs.”
“How are they, are they big?” Su Xiaobao held the two freshly caught crabs up high, excitedly asking his second and third sisters.
Glancing at the crabs in Su Xiaobao’s hands, Su Ningxiu saw that both were adult size, about the size of a fist, which was considered quite large for the river. Smiling, she nodded, “Not bad, they’re quite big.”
“Third Sister, come on, put these two crabs in the basket.” Excitedly approaching Su Yunjin, Su Xiaobao placed the two crabs into the basket she was holding.
At this point, Su Yunjin stopped picking river snails and gave the basket to Su Xiaobao, “Carry the basket, I’ll go help Second Sister catch fish!”
Second Sister Su Ningxiu hadn’t found any fish after a while in the river. Su Yunjin approached her, “Second Sister, how is it? Did you find any fish?”
“Not yet!” Su Ningxiu looked at Su Yunjin and shook her head. Su Yunjin scanned the river and saw some aquatic plants ahead, thinking that maybe the fish would be hiding underneath them. She suggested, “Second Sister, let’s go over there and try our luck!”
As Second Sister Su Ningxiu hadn’t found any fish either, she followed Su Yunjin to the spot she had mentioned.
Wary that if there were fish among the aquatic plants, they would be scared away by any disturbance, Su Yunjin deliberately lightened her steps as she approached, and Second Sister Su Ningxiu subconsciously did the same, being as careful as possible not to make too much noise.
Su Yunjin studied the patch of aquatic plants, seeing movement underneath, and was about to move forward to part the plants and check for fish.
Before she could, Second Sister Su Ningxiu had already made her move and, with a swift and accurate grab beneath the plants, pulled out a medium-sized fish.
“Little sister, look, I got one.”
Su Xiaobao’s eyes lit up, and he quickly ran over with the basket, “Second Sister, you’re amazing.”
“Your third sister is the amazing one. I may have caught the fish, but it was your third sister who spotted it.” Su Ningxiu laughed as she put the fish into the basket.
By the end of the morning, Su Yunjin and Second Sister Su Ningxiu had caught two fish together, one big and one small, and in addition, Su Xiaobao had caught some crabs. Initially, Su Yunjin had also collected some river snails.
When they were ready to head back, the basket they brought out was nearly full. Overall, the fishing trip for Su Yunjin and her Second Sister Su Ningxiu turned out to be quite successful.