Chapter 19 - Chapter 19: Chapter 19: Big Fish_l (1/2)

Chapter 19: Chapter 19: Big Fish_l

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Jiang Sanlang hesitated for a while, but eventually gave in to his daughter and reluctantly took her to the riverbank.

Yingbao crouched down and put the small ball of dough mixed with Wuding chi into the water from her hand.

“What did you throw in?” Jiang Sanlang asked curiously.

“Bait.” Yingbao mysteriously replied, “The fish might like it.”

Jiang Sanlang laughed, “From what I see, it’s just dough. Fish naturally like it of course, but…”

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard his elder brother Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang shouting from the riverside simultaneously, “Look! Look! Sanlang, quickly look! Some fish are coming!”

Jiang Sanlang looked up and indeed, two dark ridges in the water were heading their way.

“Hey, watch out, everyone!”

Jiang Sanlang promptly picked up his little girl and handed her over to his nephew who had also come, “Quick, take your little sister up to the bank.”

He picked up his fishing net and realized that it was too small to catch such large fish.

“Elder brother, second brother, we can’t catch them!” Jiang Sanlang was so anxious that he was jumping around.

Both elder brothers rapidly came running over, but were equally helpless.

Half of the two large fish emerged from the water. They swam to the shallow waters, ate the bait, circled around a few times, and swam away.

“Oh, oh!” Jiang Sanlang couldn’t help but sigh.

The fish were too big, and the water was too cold; he couldn’t risk going into the water, it could be lethal.

“If it was summer, we wouldn’t have let them get away,” Jiang Dalang sighed as well, “It’s almost nine feet long from head to tail, oh God.”

The last time he had seen such a big fish was in Jianglin County; it was a fish that a fisherman had caught from the big river and dragged to the county town using a flatbed cart, the slices of fish meat, which looked like tofu, were sold piece by piece.

A steward from a wealthy family spent two taels of silver to buy two baskets of fish meat, saying that this type of fish was the best for making sliced raw fish.

Yingbao was also stunned – she didn’t expect that her little ball of Wuding chi would attract such enormous creatures.

This was too absurd.

After gawking on the riverside for a while, Jiang Sanlang hesitantly asked his daughter in a low voice, “Baobao, do you have any more bait?”

Yingbao searched through her pockets and pulled out three dough balls the size of bird’s eggs, “I have three more.”

Jiang Sanlang hesitated for a moment, then asked, “Can you give them to

Daddy?”

Yingbao nodded and put the fish bait into her dad’s large, sturdy palms, “Here, for fishing.”

Jiang Sanlang smiled heartily and ruffled his daughter’s tiger-head hat, “You go home first. I need to discuss something with your Uncles before coming back.”

“Okay.” Knowing the magic of Wuding chi, Yingbao was content and ready to go home to see her little brother. “Dad, be careful not to fall into the river.”

“Mm, Daddy knows.”

Jiang Sanlang sent his nephew, Jiang Quan, to take his daughter home, while he and his elder brothers planned before they went back to look for tools to catch the fish.

Just a fishing net would not be effective. The big fish was violent and could very well drag both them and their net into the river.

In that case, they would have to catch them manually using iron hooks and ropes.

They would attach two long ropes to an iron hook and fork, and tie one end to a big tree. They would use the hook to snag the fish, while assisting with the fork. As long as the hook did not come off, they had no worries about not being able to catch the big fish.

Leaving aside how Jiang Sanlang will catch the fish, let’s talk about Yingbao. Upon returning home, she saw that Sister Dani and Sister Erni were there watching her mother spin flax threads.

Her two younger brothers were still sleeping. So, Yingbao didn’t disturb them and pulled up a stool to watch beside her mother.

Chunniang looked up at her three daughters, “Baobao, take your cousins to sit on the kang (heated brick bed). It’s too cold. Beware of getting frostbite on your

feet. ”

“Okay.”