Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

"What's so disgusting about it? This stuff, once dried, is actually a medicinal herb!"

Chang Kun threw the leech on the shore: "Xiuer, throw stones at it!"

"No way!" Xiu'er shook her head, hiding behind Cheng Min, her eyes tightly closed, not daring to look.

"Don't call me, this thing makes me weak just looking at it..." Cheng Min hurriedly waved her hand.

She got goosebumps all over her arms after just a few glances at the wriggling leeches.

"Tsk! You two cowards!" Chang Kun threw away the stone in his hand. "You might not even be able to kill a leech with a stone. Today I'll teach you a better trick."

"Big brother, what brilliant idea is it?" Xiu'er cautiously peeked out and asked curiously.

"Hehe... Xiuer, you can't watch, but Sister Xiaomin can." As he spoke, Chang Kun began to unbuckle his belt.

"Oh dear! What are you doing!" Cheng Min blushed and quickly pulled Xiu'er behind her. "Xiu'er is still here! Besides, it's broad daylight. We weren't satisfied at home, and now you want to come out into the wild?!"

Chang Kun was both amused and exasperated: "You're so lecherous! What are you thinking?"

"Me, a pervert? You've already pulled out your weapon, and you still dare to call me a pervert?!" Cheng Min made a hand gesture like the Nine Yin White Bone Claw. "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I'll scratch you to pieces!"

"Hmph, all you've got is a mouth..." Chang Kun grabbed the weapon and laughed, "Men don't have this just to serve women, watch me!"

A thick stream of water gushed out, pouring directly onto the leeches.

In an instant, the leech was as if it had been doused with sulfuric acid; its entire body twisted into a pretzel and rolled around on the ground.

Just by looking at it, you can tell how much pain leeches suffer.

"These leeches are most afraid of urine. If you encounter one in the wild, just urinate on it, and it will definitely work."

Cheng Min rolled her eyes, annoyed. "You mean we girls should squat on leeches and pee on them?? That's terrifying!"

Just thinking about that scene horrified her.

The ground was covered in slippery, writhing leeches covered in slime. Would a girl squat on them and urinate on them? Her legs would probably go weak with fear, and she wouldn't even have the strength to squat.

Chang Kun gave a wry smile and kicked the leech that was no longer moving on the ground.

"Who told you to kill leeches for no reason? What I mean is, if you encounter a leech biting your skin in the wild, don't try to pull it off. Just urinate on it and it will fall off on its own."

"Leechs attaching to flesh?" Cheng Min shuddered at the thought; it was too terrifying.

Xiuer clung tightly to Cheng Min's clothes and said timidly, "Big brother, let's go home... I don't want leeches crawling out of my nostrils."

Seeing that Cheng Min and Xiu'er were too afraid to go into the water, Chang Kun nodded: "Alright then, I'll take you a little downstream where there are no leeches."

"Brother, are there really no leeches down there? I'm a little scared."

"Don't be afraid, big brother will go catch fish, and little Min will play in the water with you."

Cheng Min pursed her lips, too embarrassed to admit that she was actually quite scared too.

"This is it!" Sensing that there were no leeches in this stream, Chang Kun rolled up his trousers and waded into the water. "Don't worry, there won't be any leeches in this water."

His desire to play in the water and his trust in his older brother finally overcame his fear of leeches.

Xiuer jumped into the water with a laugh and started a water fight with Cheng Min.

It was nearing the end of summer, the midday sun was just right, and the water temperature wasn't cold at all. The two of them played until they were soaked.

"Why did you go so far, brother? I wonder if you caught any fish."

"When has your older brother ever gone hunting empty-handed? Let's catch some small crabs, take them back, fry them up, and serve them to Dad as a snack with his drinks."

"Great! I love fried crab the most!" Xiuer was very excited when it came to catching fish and shrimp, and she rummaged around everywhere, pushing aside the small stones underwater.

"Sister Xiaomin, look what I caught!"

Instead of catching crabs, Xiuer discovered a nest of snails.

She held three or four large snails tightly in her small hands and showed them off to Cheng Min.

"Wow! Xiuer is so capable!" Cheng Min picked up a fruit and looked at it in the light, praising, "There's quite a lot of meat in it. Where did you find it? Let's pick more and take them home to stir-fry."

Stir-fried snails with chili peppers are definitely a great dish to enjoy with drinks. My dad loves eating this in the summer.

"It's right here, Sister Xiaomin, let's hurry and pick it up, so we can give Big Brother a surprise when he comes back!"

"Yeah, he'll definitely praise Xiuer for being amazing!"

"Of course, I'm amazing!"

On the other side, Chang Kun walked quite a distance, making sure Cheng Min and Xiu'er couldn't see his movements, before gently approaching the large fish in the river, sensing its location.

The fish were still packed into the space along with the water, including yellow catfish, redtail catfish, flounder, and chub.

Don't be fooled by the shallowness of the river; there are quite a few big fish there.

We caught about a dozen big ones, which is about enough. Any more and the fishpond won't be able to hold them all.

Once ashore, he casually plucked a few handfuls of grass and vigorously twisted them into a rough rope.

The straw rope is guided by a wooden stick and threaded through the soft nostril of the red trout. The end of the rope is tied tightly, and the other end is wrapped around the tail of the fish. With a quick pull and a tightening of the wrist, the fish's body is bent into an arc shape, and its mouth is wide open.

The remaining fish were processed in the same way. After a while, it was past noon. Chang Kun carried a long string of fish to a spot not far from Cheng Min and Xiu'er.

Unable to see what the two were doing in the water, Chang Kun first placed the fish in shallow water to keep them alive.

"What are you two doing? It's getting late, let's go home?"

Without even looking up, Xiu'er said, "Big brother, we're busy, please wait a moment!"

"You little rascal, you're busy already? Look how many big fish your big brother caught!"

"I caught a lot of big snails too, look, big brother!" Xiu'er showed off to Chang Kun, holding a big snail in her little hand.

Few people come to this stream, and the snails there are quite old; the ones in Xiuer's hand are almost half the size of her palm.

However, bigger snails are not necessarily tastier.

Generally speaking, snails that are too old have thick shells, tough meat, and a strong earthy taste. Snails that are one or two years old are the best. At this time, the snail shells are bluish and shiny, the size is uniform, and the meat is plump and tender, making them the most delicious.

"Xiuer, don't pick the ones that are too big, they don't taste good!" Chang Kun also went into the water to teach the little girl which size snails would taste better.

"Huh?" Cheng Min and Xiu'er were dumbfounded.

They turned over the stones to collect snails, and the bigger the snails they collected, the happier they were. Unexpectedly, the bigger ones didn't taste good.

"So all these big snails, were they all picked up for nothing?" Xiu'er looked at the big snails in the hem of her clothes and felt like crying.

"It's not a freebie! You can keep the big snails in the fish pond. Many fish like to eat snails. And if you crack the big snails open, you can feed the meat inside to the myna bird. Maybe it will like it too."

"Oh right, for the myna birds, hehehe..." Xiu'er laughed through her tears. "Big brother, come help me pick them up! There are so many here, even Xiaomin and I can't finish picking them all!"