Siheyuan: Traveling through Cai Quanwu, pretending to be Uncle Shazhu

"I'm coming."

Hearing Cai Quanwu's urging, Sha Zhu and the others stopped chatting and quickly took out the remaining eggs in the basket.

After all the pheasant eggs were taken out, Sha Zhu took the basket and walked to the puddle, and handed the basket to Cai Quanwu: "Uncle, hold it."

Cai Quanwu looked at the basket handed over by Sha Zhu, took a step forward, and took it.

Taking the basket, Cai Quanwu looked at it, turned it sideways, sank it to the bottom of the water with the mouth facing the shore, and then slowly scooped it towards the edge of the puddle.

When the basket was brought to the edge of the puddle, Cai Quanwu stood the basket up and then moved it in the water to wash away the mud.

After the silt was washed away, Cai Quanwu took the basket out of the water and saw that there were many small fish and shrimps jumping around in it.

Two of the loaches kept trying to drill into the gap in the basket.

Unfortunately, once they were in the cage, they had no chance to escape.

"Zhu Zi, pour out the small fish and shrimps in there first. We can eat the edible ones, and take the inedible ones back to feed the chickens with rainwater." Cai Quanwu took a look at the harvest in the basket and handed the basket to Sha Zhu who was standing on the shore.

Sha Zhu took the basket and everyone gathered around.

“Lots of shrimp.”

“And loaches.”

“This little fish can be eaten.”

When everyone saw the fish in the basket, they reached into the basket, pointed at the fish inside and started talking about it.

"Okay, okay, lie down first and watch. Uncle is still waiting for the basket." Sha Zhu looked at Xiao Wu and the others who were talking endlessly around the basket, and said to them.

After hearing what Sha Zhu said, Xiao Wu and the others took their hands out of the basket.

After Xiao Wu and the others took their hands away, Sha Zhu found a place with less grass, grabbed the grass on the ground, cleared a space, then turned the basket over and poured all the small fish and shrimps inside onto the ground.

Sha Zhu looked at the loach darting around and said to the people who followed him:

"Keep an eye on them, don't let them run away."

After saying that, he immediately ran to the puddle and handed the basket to Cai Quanwu.

Cai Quanwu took the basket and continued the previous operation. When he scooped up the fish, he asked Sha Zhu to take it and pour it on the ground.

After a fierce operation, he caught a lot of small fish and shrimps, but no big fish.

Seeing that he was about to fish around the edge of the puddle, Cai Quanwu no longer held out hope of catching a big fish.

He planned to try a few more times and then stop.

There was no way. Human physical strength was limited. He felt more and more tired as he fished further.

Fortunately, he is in good health. Most people probably wouldn't be able to hold on for so long.

After standing for a while and stretching his body, Cai Quanwu put the basket into the water and then picked up the fish.

After fishing it out and swinging the basket back and forth, Cai Quanwu felt that this time was obviously different, as something was shaking back and forth in the basket.

Cai Quanwu didn't know what it was, but he knew it was not a fish.

If it were a fish, it would have jumped up long ago.

He wanted to see what he had caught, so he immediately picked up the basket.

When I picked it up, I saw that it was a huge turtle.

Cai Quanwu estimated that it was about four or five kilograms.

What a surprise.

With this harvest, Cai Quanwu planned not to fish any more and walked towards the shore carrying the basket.

"Uncle, what did you get in the basket? It looks big to me." When they were almost at the shore, Sha Zhu saw something in the basket, but he couldn't see clearly what it was, so he asked out of curiosity.

"Good stuff." Cai Quan replied with a smile as he walked towards the shore.

When they reached the shore, Cai Quanwu handed the basket to Sha Zhu.

"Such a big turtle." Sha Zhu shouted when he saw the turtle in the basket.

Sha Zhu's scream alarmed He Yushui and the others on the other side.

"Brother, what did uncle catch?" He Yushui heard Sha Zhu's cry, but because they were a bit far away, He Yushui and the others couldn't hear it clearly.

"Turtle." Sha Zhu said loudly to He Yushui and the others.

"Ah." He Yushui screamed after hearing this and immediately thought of running towards Sha Zhu and the others.

"Yu Shui, don't come over here, we'll be there soon." Cai Quanwu saw He Yu Shui wanted to run over and tried to stop him.

If you don’t plan to fish anymore, you must go back.

After Cai Quanwu stopped He Yushui, he walked back with Sha Zhu.

"Uncle, I'll show you my cooking skills when we get back. We'll make braised soft-shelled turtle tonight." While walking on the road, Sha Zhu started thinking about the soft-shelled turtle.

"Okay." Cai Quanwu agreed immediately.

In other words, Sha Zhu and Cai Quanwu wanted to eat soft-shelled turtle.

Nowadays, many people throw away the turtles they catch.

Because cooking turtle not only consumes a lot of oil, but if the seasoning is insufficient and the cooking skills are not good, the fishy smell will be too strong and it will be really unpalatable.

Cai Quanwu once heard from the elders in the village that during the years of great disasters, few people ate this thing.

So this thing is not very popular in this era.

"Let me take a look." As soon as Cai Quanwu and Sha Zhu arrived, He Yushui couldn't wait to look into the basket.

He Yushui felt unsatisfied after seeing this and was about to reach into the basket.

"Yu Shui, don't touch it with your hands, be careful of getting bitten." Cai Quanwu immediately reminded He Yu Shui when he saw her about to put her hand into the basket.

If it gets bitten, it will be difficult to get it to let go.

"Ah, it still bites people?" He Yushui stopped his hand quickly after hearing what Cai Quanwu said, looked at Cai Quanwu and asked.

"It will definitely bite you, and it won't let go once it bites you, unless you chop off your hands." Cai Quanwu saw that He Yushui was still a little suspicious, so he deliberately scared her.

When He Yushui heard this, he immediately retracted his hand.

She doesn't want to be missing any limbs.

After scaring He Yushui, Cai Quanwu told Sha Zhu and the others, "Put all the things in the baskets. We will leave soon."

"Okay." After hearing what Cai Quanwu said, Sha Zhu and Xiao Wu agreed and ran to put the fish and shrimps that fell on the ground into the basket.

Guan Jiaqi stayed where she was, looking at Cai Quanwu who was covered in mud, and said with concern:

"Take off your clothes quickly and squeeze out the water."

"Aren't you uncomfortable with this wet body?"

"I understand, wife." Cai Quanwu smiled playfully at Guan Jiaqi when he heard her caring words.

"You're so grown up, but you don't know how to take care of yourself." Seeing Cai Quanwu smiling at her, Guan Jiaqi scolded.

"Okay, wife, I won't do it again next time. I'll go wring out the clothes." Knowing that Guan Jiaqi was worried about him, Cai Quanwu promised her.

After saying that, Cai Quanwu ran to a reed bush, took off his shoes, pants and coat, wrung out the water, and put them back on.

Although it’s still not very comfortable, it’s better than having water dripping all over your body.

When Cai Quanwu came back after finishing all this, Sha Zhu and Xiao Wu had already put all the fish, shrimps and other things on the ground into the basket.

There are a lot of fish and shrimp.

The entire turtle was covered by fish and shrimp, and not even its shadow could be seen.

Fortunately, there was a gap under the basket, otherwise Cai Quanwu would have been afraid that the turtle would suffocate to death.

As for the pheasant eggs, Sha Zhu and Xiao Wu spread a layer of reed leaves on top of the fish and shrimp and placed the pheasant eggs on the reed leaves.

"Let's go back once we're done. It's getting late." Cai Quanwu said to everyone when he saw that everything had been packed up.

After talking to everyone, Cai Quanwu asked Sha Zhu:

"Zhu Zi, can you carry this basket by yourself?"

(Only one chapter today, the rest will be added tomorrow.)