The poor girl from the 1970s was forced to kiss by the damp educated youth.

After drinking a bowl of hot fish soup, Chen Zhi felt warm all over, and then felt a little lazy and sleepy.

Xi Lang was also eating multigrain pancakes and drinking fish soup. Noticing Chen Zhi's gaze, he paused and said, "Just put the bowl down."

He was asking the guest to leave.

Chen Zhi understood, so she put the bowl on the ground and thanked her again, "Thank you for the fish soup."

"You're welcome." Xi Lang didn't even look up.

Despite her cold attitude, Chen Zhi felt very comfortable.

Chen Zhi put down the bowl, turned around and left.

After the sun set in the evening, family members gradually returned home.

The eldest uncle led Chen Da and the other three, and as soon as they entered the door, they all rushed into the kitchen.

"It's so cold!" Chen Da shook his pants, which were half-dry from the wind.

"Dad, would you like to take a shower first, or should I?" Chen Fu asked.

The uncle nudged Chen Fu, "You go first."

Chen Fu didn't stand on ceremony and immediately ran back to his room to find clothes, then ran back to fetch hot water.

"Little brother, I'll wash with you," Chen Gui said.

Chen Fu naturally had no objection. "Second brother, you're in charge of fetching hot water."

Chen Mu sat down next to Chen Zhi. "Why are you alone? Where are Mom and my sister?"

"They went to cut thatch, and I went to catch fish today, so I didn't go with them," Chen Zhi said, pointing to a wooden basin not far away. "I caught two blackfish; you can go and take a look."

"Really?"

Chen Mu didn't believe it, but Chen Zhi's expression didn't seem to be lying. He walked towards the wooden basin with some doubt, and when he saw the two large black fish in the basin, he exclaimed, "What fat fish!"

Just then, his little nephew Chen Dongqing spoke up, "Grandpa, Dad and Uncle, the fish you caught are all small, not as big as the fish Auntie caught."

Now, not only Chen Mu, but also his uncle, eldest cousin, second cousin, and younger cousin gathered around the wooden basin. When they saw the blackfish inside, they were all surprised.

Chen Da: "Zhizhi, did you really catch this?"

Chen Zhi nodded and took the opportunity to make a request, "Uncle, I want to go fishing again tomorrow."

My uncle held a black fish in his hand, looked it up and down, left and right, and said, "Okay, you can go if you want."

Dinner consisted of a soup of small mixed fish and stir-fried cabbage. The two blackfish were still quite lively, and the uncle said to let them rest for a while before eating them again in the next day or two. At the dinner table, everyone pressed Chen Zhi on how she caught the two blackfish. Chen Zhi only said that the two fish were sunbathing in shallow water, and she just happened to run into them.

"No wonder you were able to catch it." Chen Mu suddenly realized.

Chen Fu: "Are there only these two blackfish?"

Chen Zhi: "Yes, just these two."

There were only two blackfish; she wasn't lying.

Chen Fu: "I'll go with you tomorrow."

Chen Zhi had no objection. "It was lucky to encounter a blackfish today. There's no guarantee of a big fish tomorrow."

Upon hearing this, Chen Fu immediately became reluctant. He had spent the entire day in the water and was exhausted. He didn't want to go back into the water unless there were big fish.

The next morning, Chen Fu told Chen Zhi he was going to the mountain to cut thatch and wouldn't be going fishing, but he told Chen Zhi to catch a few big fish. Chen Zhi rolled her eyes at him, "You think I don't want to?"

Chen Fu choked, and said unconvinced, "If you can't catch big fish, then catch more small fish."

Yesterday, her uncle took Chen Da and three others to the river for a whole day, and they only caught enough small fish and shrimp to fill two plates. Chen Zhi didn't understand how Chen Fu had the courage to let her catch more.

Did Chen Fu not know how many fish and shrimp there were in the river, and how difficult they were to catch?

Chen Zhi dismissed Chen Fu's nonsense, glanced at him, grabbed her bag, and went out.

The bag was narrow and long, tied around Chen Zhi's waist. When Chen Zhi walked into the water, part of the bag was on the surface and part was in the water. When he caught a fish and put it in the bag, the fish could stay alive.

The river water was cold in the morning. Chen Zhi shivered as soon as she entered the water, and stepped on a clam.

It was a very large clam, its shell clean and beautiful. Chen Zhi instantly felt warmer. She put the clam in her bag and then rummaged around in the mud nearby for a while, finding seven or eight more clams, each one very plump.

This is a really nice place!

Only after confirming that there were no more river clams nearby did Chen Zhi straighten up.

By this time, quite a few people, mostly teenagers, had come to the river. When they saw Chen Zhi, they all tacitly avoided her.

Chen Zhi's eyes darkened, but the next second she smiled again. She didn't care!

There were even fewer small fish and shrimp today than yesterday. Following yesterday's method, Chen Zhi only caught about a pound of fish all morning, and didn't see a single big fish.

Chen Zhi plans to go and check on the place where the grass carp and snakehead fish were found yesterday.

Before they even reached their destination, Chen Zhi saw Li Zhou'an with several other educated youths, fishing with a net. The net had a fine, dense mesh, and just as Chen Zhi looked over, they were pulling it up. Chen Zhi saw about ten fish hanging in the net, each about the size of a finger.

"They're all small fry." Yang Wenyu's tone was tinged with disappointment.

Zhou Zhengping thought it was normal. "The river isn't deep, the fish are replaced every year, and they're not farmed, so how big can they get?"

"It's good enough if there are any fish, who cares about their size? Besides, this fishing net can only catch fish this big." The fishing net belonged to Zhao Jinbao. He wrote a letter to his family to get it for him, and his family went to great lengths to get this net.

"This fish would be delicious to make soup with."

Zhao Jinbao licked his lips. Yesterday, the fish soup that Xi Lang cooked floated to their educated youth settlement, making them so hungry that their eyes turned green.

Mentioning the fish soup reminded everyone of yesterday's aroma, and they couldn't help but swallow hard.

Li Zhou'an: "Let's take the fish off the top first, then we'll move to another spot and continue casting the net."

No one else objected, but Yang Wenyu lowered his voice and said, "Yesterday I saw Xi Lang catch a big fish. I don't know where he got it from."

Zhou Zhengping: "I saw it too. That fish must have weighed five or six pounds."

Zhao Jinbao: "He probably bought it in town. I noticed his trousers were dry, so he hadn't gone into the water. I thought he was poor, but I didn't expect him to be able to afford fish."

Zhou Zhengping waved his hand, "Who cares if he's poor or not? I wouldn't dare get close to someone like him."

The other three nodded in unison.

Chen Zhi went to the place where she had found the snakehead fish yesterday. This time, she didn't see the snakehead fish, but instead saw a group of crucian carp. The crucian carp were not big, only about three or four fingers in size, and there were about twenty of them.

Chen Zhi slowed down and cautiously approached, but she still frightened them, and they scattered in all directions. The water became a little murky. Chen Zhi knew she couldn't catch every single one of the twenty fish in the bag, and she wasn't greedy. She kept her eyes fixed on five or six of them. Some hid in the water plants, some hid in the mud, and some returned to the deeper water.

Chen Zhi was very fast and moved very lightly. Once she locked onto a fish, it almost always ended up in her bag, and very few fish could escape.

Finally, Chen Zhi caught six crucian carp, which weighed more than a pound in total.

By this time, she had more than two pounds of fish in her bag, enough to go back and report.

She took the fish back to hand in her report, but planned to keep the clams for herself. She'd see if she could borrow a fire later so she could cook the clams herself.

Anyway, it's past lunchtime now, and she won't have anything to eat at home.

Chen Zhi felt no remorse whatsoever for eating alone.

Chen Zhi went to the place where she caught grass carp yesterday, which was also the place where she was surrounded yesterday. She looked around warily, ready to run if there was any movement.

The surroundings were quiet; there was no one and no other sound. Li Zhou'an and the others, who had moved from a distance, were heading in her direction, but she was still more than a hundred meters away from them.

The water shimmered under the sunlight, almost blindingly so. Chen Zhi squinted and searched the water, but there was nothing there.

It seems I was just lucky yesterday.

Chen Zhi was not disappointed. She chose a direction and planned to get ashore first.

The shallower the water, the warmer it was. Before reaching the shore, Chen Zhi washed her legs. Suddenly, a bright yellow color caught her eye. She paused, blinked, and trembled with excitement.

It's a big carp!

It's huge, looks like it weighs at least ten pounds. The bright yellow color is very beautiful.

The carp was sunbathing on the water plants, completely unaware of the danger approaching.

Chen Zhi pounced on the fish with lightning speed and pinned it firmly to the ground.

caught!

Chen Zhi pressed the fish down with her body, reached for the bag, then held the fish in one hand and opened the bag with the other, putting the fish inside. She didn't bother to look at the fish, but instead felt around under the water plants and pulled out three large river clams.

She said that something had been poking her.

Chen Zhi, clutching a river clam, grinned foolishly, "Those people in the village are really stupid!"

She's so lucky, she's not unlucky at all.

Chen Zhi was covered in mud. She took off the bag, tied the opening, and put it aside. She then washed the mud off her body in the water.

When Chen Zhi came out of the water, soaking wet, she saw Xi Lang standing not far away.

Xi Lang was still wearing a straw hat, his exposed skin an unnatural pale white. He stood on the edge of the field, looking down at Chen Zhi, or more precisely, at Chen Zhi's bag.

Chen Zhi wondered if Xi Lang would have waited for her here on purpose.

She didn't ask, afraid of being presumptuous.

She handed him the bag, which weighed over twenty pounds and looked quite heavy. Xi Lang took it and started to unpack it without saying a word. When he saw what was inside, a hint of surprise flashed across his usually calm face.

"It's huge, isn't it?" Chen Zhi said smugly.

Xi Lang nodded, "I'll take the carp."

"It was originally for you," Chen Zhi said bluntly. "How much candy are you giving me?"

"One pound of fruit hard candy, one pound of White Rabbit milk candy," Xi Lang said.

Chen Zhi had eaten fruit hard candies. The candy wrappers were very pretty, and her family would buy some during the Chinese New Year. Chen Zhi could eat five or six of them during the entire holiday.

At the mention of candy, Chen Zhi's mouth started watering. "What does White Rabbit milk candy look like?"

Xi Lang took two candies out of his pocket, one a fruit hard candy that Chen Zhi was familiar with, and the other a White Rabbit milk candy. Xi Lang offered the two candies to Chen Zhi; his slender, beautiful hands were like fine white jade. But Chen Zhi's attention was only on the two candies. She grabbed them, peeled the White Rabbit milk candy, and put it in her mouth first.

While she was eating candy, Xi Lang went to catch her big carp.

The fish was golden, very beautiful, and shimmered in the sunlight. Xi Lang's eyes deepened. "Your fish is quite big. I'll give you two pounds of sugar and twenty multigrain cakes."

Chen Zhi was taken aback. She blinked. "So many?"

Even if Xi Lang only gave her half a pound of White Rabbit milk candy, she would be willing to trade. This White Rabbit milk candy is so delicious, so fragrant and sweet; she has never eaten such delicious candy before!

Seeing her stunned expression, Xi Lang nodded earnestly, "It's worth it."

It deserves more.

But these are all the things he can offer right now.