Create a home with a system

Chapter 51 The Contest of Women

When the last piece of fishing net was collected, Tangning finally breathed a sigh of relief. She silently put the fishing net on the sheepskin raft, picked up two baskets and said to the tracker who stayed behind, "The fishing net is here for you. I'm going down."

When the tracker turned around, he was still a little puzzled. He didn't see what Tangning caught or harvested. Seeing that Tangning jumped ashore in no time, he stopped asking questions and thought to himself, probably nothing was posted online. Otherwise, he would have heard the movement long ago.

After everyone went ashore, the four of them immediately went back to the opposite bank to pick them up on a sheepskin raft.

Tangning looked at the sky and said, "Let's light a fire and cook something to eat. It will be dark after they run away again. I guess we will have to stay here tonight."

There are two carts on the opposite side, four donkeys, four people, and some luggage. At least two or three more trips are required.

The Jiangs were sitting on a higher place by the river to rest, and Tang Er was busy packing everyone's luggage, helping Tang Rou take care of the two children, and said: "The tracker who took us across the river said that the wind has been tight recently, and the people who came over Relatively few, we seem to be the only ones today. If we haven’t crossed the river before dark, we can stay here overnight.

Just now I picked up some firewood nearby, and the pot happened to be here, so I boiled a pot of water first. The water was made in Shiwazi over there, and it was relatively clean. "

"Shiwazi?" Tangning walked over curiously and looked around, and found that the so-called Shiwazi looked a bit like a well, but it wasn't a well. The opening was so small that even a child couldn't fall in. It was located in a low-lying area by the river. At the place, a circle of stones was paved around it to isolate it from the river.

Different from the turbid water in the river, the water in it is filtered by stones and allowed to settle, but it is very clean and can be drunk directly.

Tangning was immediately amused, and joked with everyone, "With this water, I want to take a bath."

Mrs. Li immediately shook her head, "It's fine to boil some water to wipe your body, but it's too troublesome to take a bath, and it's the end of August, and it's very cold after the sun goes down, so you can't mess around."

"Did you hear that?" Jiang stared at her seriously.

Tangning had no choice but to agree. She turned her head and took out the back basket that she had brought off the boat, and said, "Since we can't take a bath, we can always eat something good. I'll give you a taste of river fresh food later."

Everyone was shocked when they saw the fish and shrimp jumping around in the basket.

Tang Zhong squeezed into the first row and looked at Tangning with admiration, "Sister, my dear sister, you spent two cents to catch this with a fishing net? This, this, this."

How does this feel like a dream.

Others also looked unreal, two pennies for so many things?Although they have never eaten or bought river seafood, but according to a few trackers, river seafood is not so easy to catch, and it should not be cheap.

Tangning immediately grinned smugly, "So it's not a waste of money to spend these two pennies. Sending these things to the market can earn at least a hundred pennies, not only the two pennies, but also the twenty pennies. At least we can figure out how to take the next step, so we won't be like headless chickens and can't make up our minds about where to go."

She said this because she didn't want Jiang to have a knot in her heart, thinking that she couldn't keep the money, and she was worried about her.

Sure enough, Jiang's complexion changed a lot after hearing these words, and Li was still praising Tangning non-stop, so Jiang couldn't say anything.

In fact, even if she wanted to say it, she didn't know how to say it. Now she didn't even know how many coppers Tangning had in her hand. There was no one else who could be a mother.

"If you don't tell me, I want to ask. I don't know if what the trackers said just now is true. We have so many people and luggage, and four donkey carts are just right. If we dispose of them, we don't know how to deal with them. Besides, How can we get on the road without a donkey cart?

In addition, these three pots belong to a family, and the place can't be sold, so they can't be thrown away! "Jiang's face was full of sadness, and he was extremely anxious.

Tangning was calm and thoughtful, "I'll go out to explore again at night while it's dark. We'll sell two pots and two donkeys. You can keep the cart and push it."

"Are you selling it? Why are you selling it?" Li Shi was more anxious than Jiang Shi, and asked.

Tangning, however, calmed down and murmured, "Auntie, you don't know me yet! I'm not good at other things, but I still have a brain for business, plus I have great strength and good eyesight, so think of a way It's relatively easy to exchange donkeys and cauldrons for food, so you just need to rest assured that we will deal with this matter when my father and the others come over."

After hearing Tangning's words, the two of them were relieved a lot. Jiang Shi wanted to deal with the fish and shrimp first. When she was about to do it, she and Li Shi were both stunned for a moment. They looked at each other, a little embarrassed.

"That... Mother Xiaozao, you have seen a lot, why don't you teach me how to kill fish." Jiang Shi licked his dry lips, shamelessly preemptively.

Li's eyes widened immediately, and he spread his hands out of his hands, "I haven't eaten it either! I can't get it!"

"Then what's the matter?" Jiang looked at the fish and shrimp in the back basket and was in trouble. It was rare for him to want to spend extravagantly, but he didn't know how to do it. It would make people laugh for a whole year if he said it.

The two stared at each other for a long time before Mrs. Li suggested weakly: "Otherwise, we'll just cook it, and it should be fine!"

Jiang always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell. Just when she was hesitating, Tangning moved her head closer and looked at the two women strangely, "What are you doing?"

"I can't do it," Jiang said honestly.

Tangning was stunned for a moment before she patted her head angrily, "Blame me, blame me, I didn't think carefully. I saw a fish seller at the ferry. Let me teach you."

The eyes of the two women lit up, and they immediately followed Tang Ning to the side. Seeing Tang Ning take out Tang Junsheng's knife, Jiang couldn't help but twitched the corners of her mouth, but didn't make a sound to stop her. She concentrated on watching Tang Ning clumsy. to pack a fish.

After she finished killing a fish, she realized that her back was wet, and she couldn't help complaining: "This fish killing is much more tiring than hunting!"

"What nonsense!" Jiang Shi pushed Tang Ning away and began to attack herself.

Not to mention that cooking skills also depend on talent. It was the first time to kill fish. Jiang's was obviously much quicker than Tangning. Similarly, Li's who was also killing fish for the first time also compared Tangning severely.

The two women were full of sense of superiority, they killed more and more vigorously, and even secretly competed. After a while, all the fish that Tangning got were cleaned up. The lines are all pulled out.

Tang Ning looked at the clean fish with satisfaction, and flattered Jiang and Li with all her might.

The two women were coaxed into elation, wishing to kill a few more fish, their eyes were so piercing, Xiao Zao and Tang Zhong were so frightened that they didn't dare to approach them.

(End of this chapter)