In this era, there are no computers, mobile phones, or even televisions, and there are almost no entertainment activities.

The country man was as tired as a dog after a day's work. Of course he went to bed early because he had nothing important to do.

Because although the night is not yet deep at this moment, it is already quiet with people gone.

Liu Houxing drank a little more wine and was already a little confused. Seeing that his grandfather and grandson were still sticky, he became a little impatient: "Old lady, Xinyu said that Xinju should accompany you, so just let Xinju accompany you. What's sticky about?

Woolen cloth!"

Liu Qingsong also drank. After all, he was still young. Not only did he not feel sleepy, he became even more interested when he heard that Liu Xinyu planned to catch eels: "Mom, you go back with dad and rest early. Xinyu and the others want to catch eels."

Eel, I will accompany them."

Then he handed the sleeping Lao Si to Wang Sanmei.

Wang Sanmei glared at Liu Qingsong unhappily, but she couldn't disobey him in front of her parents-in-law and children, so she could only reach out and hugged the fourth child, and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Don't come back too late, we will come back tomorrow."

We’re going to the ground!”

"I know, I know!" Liu Qingsong patted Wang Sanmei: "If we can really catch the eel, we can have a good meal tomorrow!"

With Liu Qingsong accompanying her grandchildren, Chen Zhaodi certainly had nothing to worry about. She waved to Liu Xinyu and helped Liu Houxing stagger home.

Of course Liu Xinyu has eel-catching tools at home, but they have been piled in the utility room unused for a long time.

"Are these tools still usable? My brother really taught you, are you really good at catching them?" Liu Qingsong was still a little doubtful as he watched Liu Xinyu dig out the tools from the pile of debris one by one.

Faced with Liu Qingsong's doubts, Liu Xinyu just pursed her lips and smiled.

Gather the tools and try them out.

Well, it feels pretty good and can be used in everything!

This set of tools for catching eels is relatively simple, but it was modified by Liu Qingshan based on many years of experience.

Liu Xinyu has not used it personally. She said that she can catch eels, but it is because of the inheritance of the class schedule.

This set of tools has not been used for almost a year, and the last time it was used was last summer.

Although it seems to work and is very handy, Liu Xinyu cannot guarantee whether he can catch eels.

Liu Xinyu handed the tools to Liu Qingshan to carry, and then took a bamboo basket with a lid and handed it to Liu Xinjian who insisted on following.

I went into the room and found a flashlight. I tried it to see if the brightness was good. After thinking about it, I took two batteries from the desk drawer.

"Let's go, let's go and try if you can catch eels!" Liu Xinyu led them outside.

"Wait a minute, it's hot. There's no guarantee that there will be snakes anywhere. Everyone has to bring a stick. And there are four of us, so it's not enough to just bring a flashlight." Liu Qingsong quickly called out to Liu Xinyu.

Liu Xinyu touched her forehead in embarrassment. She had too little experience in rural life and was indeed not thoughtful.

There are some wooden sticks in the utility room that are neither long nor short, which are just right for your hand.

As for lighting tools, they seem to be in the utility room as well.

When Liu Qingshan was still here, he made some torches and put them in the utility room. Liu Xinyu didn't care about them before. When she arrived at her destination just now, she didn't take it seriously. After being reminded by Liu Qingsong, she understood the purpose of the torches.

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By the way, the iron bucket placed in the corner of the utility room should contain kerosene.

Liu Xinyu understood what to do.

The first time she caught eel, Liu Xinyu felt a little confused.

Both Liu Xinyu and Xin Yu have certainly eaten eel, but they have never caught it.

Even though I had a tool in my hand and was not grabbing it directly, I still got goosebumps all over my body when I saw the eel twisting around like a snake.

With a shake of his hand, the eel caught on the tool fell back into the paddy field. It twisted twice and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Liu Xinjian screamed in panic.

Liu Xinyu felt that it was really difficult for her to overcome the obstacles in her heart, so she pushed the tool in Liu Xinjian's hand: "What is it called? If you can do it, you can do it!"

"I'll do it, I'll do it, you come and get the torch." Liu Xinjian felt that there was nothing difficult about Liu Xinyu's action of catching the eel just now. He took the tool handed over by Liu Xinyu and handed the torch in his hand to Liu Xinyu.

A total of two sets of tools were brought today. After watching Liu Xinyu's demonstration, Liu Qingsong and Liu Xinjian felt that catching eels in this way should be relatively easy, so they simply divided the troops into two groups of four people.

Liu Xinyu and Liu Xinjian are in a group, and Liu Qingsong and Liu Xinju are in a group.

Of course, for safety reasons, the two groups did not separate too far apart and agreed to operate in two adjacent paddy fields.

Perhaps small business is not allowed in this era, so few people catch eels. It is still easy to find eels in this paddy field.

After separating from Liu Qingsong, after walking a few steps, a large eel appeared in Liu Xinyu's torch.

Liu Xinjian stretched out his tool towards the eel, but unfortunately he moved too much and the eel ran away before the tool even touched it.

After losing the first battle, Liu Xinjian was so angry that he shook his hands violently and almost threw out the tools in his hands.

Catching eels looks easy, but actually it is not easy to succeed.

"Eels are not that easy to catch. Eels are very alert and slippery. If you want to catch them, you not only have to be quick, but you also have to master the angle." Liu Xinyu is not really only sixteen years old after all, and of course she will not make fun of Liu Xinjian for his failure.

Instead, he gave guidance in a low voice.

The eels in this field are really easy to catch. After walking a few steps forward, I saw another eel under the torch.

This time Liu Xinjian did not let him down, he took action quickly and caught the eel!

"Haha, I caught it!" Liu Xinjian shouted excitedly, but it only took a blink of an eye, "Ah ah ah, it ran away again!"

Seeing Liu Xinjian beating his chest and stamping his feet in annoyance, Liu Xinyu could no longer hold back and burst into laughter.

Although Liu Xinyu did not mean to laugh, Liu Xinjian still felt a little ashamed and turned around and gave Liu Xinyu a big roll of his eyes.

At this moment, Liu Xinju's cheers came from the other side, and Liu Qingsong relaxed.

Although there was an annoyed sigh of "Oh!" immediately after, it still aroused Liu Xinjian's competitive spirit.

The successful catch just now gave Liu Xinjian a feeling. He believed that he would be able to catch the second one soon, and he would definitely catch the eel.

Cheers and sighs of annoyance followed one after another, and of course the cheers took over.

An hour later, considering that he still had to work tomorrow and the torches were almost out, Liu Qingsong announced "it's time to finish" even though he was still unfinished.

When they got home and poured the eels from the two small bamboo baskets into the big bamboo basket, all four of them had happy smiles on their faces.

There were more than thirty eels of various sizes, weighing at least five or six kilograms, which gave me a full sense of accomplishment.

Liu Qingsong poured the eels into the water tank to raise them, urged Liu Xinyu and Liu Xinju to wash up and go to bed, and took Liu Xinjian home with him.

It’s really quiet at night now!
Chapter completed!