Chapter 78 - Chapter 78: Chapter 73 Ah Niu Saves the Cow l (1/2)
Chapter 78: Chapter 73 Ah Niu Saves the Cow l
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Qin Niu went home, picked up a wooden bucket and a fish spear, and set off with Er Dan and the others.
Daoyuan Village was not far, bordering Shuangfeng Village.
It just bordered with Shuangfeng Village in a very small area.
The shape of Shuangfeng Village resembled two long and narrow spurs.
From afar, it looked like two slope-like peaks standing side by side, but the actual terrain was much more complex.
The stone forest at the border with Daoyuan Village was at the tail of one of these peaks.
The two villages had long been arguing over the ownership of this stone forest.
It hadn’t been resolved for hundreds of years.
There were even fights in the past, and the villagers of the two villages were hostile to each other. Now, the relationship had eased with intermarriage between the villages.
Shuangfeng Village was located on high ground, while Daoyuan Village lay on a flat, low-lying land.
It was one of the two lowest-lying villages among the several dozen villages in Jade Stream Town.
Whenever there was a flood, Daoyuan Village would surely be inundated.
But it was undeniable that after the flood receded, Daoyuan Village had many fertile fields, and irrigation was very convenient. So Daoyuan Village had always been more prosperous than Shuangfeng Village.
The two richest men in Shuangfeng Village were Wang Furen and Xu Zhenchang.
Yet in Daoyuan Village, there were no fewer than ten such wealthy people.
They say great mountains and rivers give rise to beautiful women.
The girls from Daoyuan Village generally seemed to be fairer and more delicate than those from Shuangfeng Village.
Although their village didn’t have a beauty of Wang Wanyan’s caliber, ordinary beauties were plentiful.
This was probably related to the wealth of their village.
The girls from wealthy families were better off in terms of food, clothing, and education, with exposure to the arts, and it cultivated their demeanor, naturally making it easier for beauties to emerge.
As matters stood, almost no girl from Daoyuan Village was willing to marry into Shuangfeng Village; they all married off to other prosperous villages or into the city.
On the other hand, as long as a girl from Shuangfeng Village was slightly prettier, she could easily marry into Daoyuan Village.
When Qin Niu arrived at Daoyuan Village, the original river course was no longer visible, only an expanse of water. The muddy floodwaters were rampant and ferocious.
In the flood, one could see all kinds of floating objects: doors, cabinets, uprooted trees, rafters, columns, and other debris from collapsed houses.
Facing the fierce flood, Qin Niu felt extraordinarily insignificant.
Humans were too weak in the face of the power of nature.
Looking around, part of Daoyuan Village’s houses were submerged up to the halfway point.
Those houses that hadn’t collapsed in the floods were made of bluish bricks and stone.
Mud houses, even straw huts, had long since fallen without a trace.
The flood was clearly receding quite a bit by now, and where he stood, one could faintly see the marks left by its soaking and erosion.
There was mud everywhere.
On the bank, many villagers were busy catching fish.
Some used casting nets, some net bags, others used dragnets, and there were those like Qin Niu, who used a spear.
If we talk about catching fish, Qin Niu’s skill should be among the best of his peers.
He placed the bucket on the bank, hung the fish spear at his waist, and bent his back as he entered the water to start fishing.
A plump crucian carp was pinned down by him, then he pulled it out of the water.
It weighed at least half a pound.
“All Niu, you’re so good!”
Er Dan and the others looked up to him admirably, their faces full of excitement.
They each followed into the water and began to showcase their “Divine Skills” in fishing.
Qin Niu quickly caught nearly half a bucket of fish, mainly consisting of crucian carp, common carp, and snakehead.
Grass carp generally don’t come near the shore.
At that moment, Qin Niu saw a very small head emerge from the water, rising and falling with the waves.
It was only as big as the tip of a chopstick.
It looked like a little snake.
“Er Dan, lend me your net bag. There seems to be a little snake coming over there; it would be troublesome if it bit someone,” Qin Niu said.
Some little snakes could be more venomous than larger ones.
Especially those little snakes that have never bitten a person before, their venom is the most potent.
Er Dan quickly threw his net bag to him.
After catching it, Qin Niu watched the small head that was striving to swim towards the bank.
It was getting closer.
He approached quietly, then quickly scooped it up with the net bag.