Chapter 197: Give Birth to a Few More
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Su Ying gave a scornful laugh. Indeed, it was time to release some heat. “If you have the energy, you’d better finish your defense work before coming back. Otherwise, your brain will be filled with pornographic trash all day long.”
The veins on Xiao Jin’s forehead bulged violently as he got up and went out to take a cold bath.
They had eaten too much nourishing heaty food last night, so Hea Shouyi and the others made some cooling food to reduce the heatiness in the morning. After eating them, everyone felt the dry heat in their bodies dissipate substantially.
After Su Ying had eaten her fill, she went to the backyard to take two bamboo baskets. Murong De came out of the kitchen and asked curiously, “Where are you going, Mistress?”
“Going fishing.” While the river was still flowing, she would try to catch as many fish as possible to raise in the fish ponds.
“Oh, fishing? Perfect. We were thinking of cooking fish tonight. 1’11 go with you, Mistress. I’m an expert at fishing.”
“You old fellow, you are getting more and more boastful. If you don’t fill Mistress’s baskets today, you won’t have any meat to eat at night.” Hea Shouyi walked out with a hearty laugh and teased him.
Murong De said with a confident smile, “Just you wait, brat. I guarantee that I’ll make your eyes pop out.”
As he said that, Murong De rushed off excitedly to get the tools.
“Mistress, why don’t you push a wheelbarrow there?”
Su Ying nodded. “Looks like Uncle Murong is going to show off his skills today.”
“He has to.”
After the two of them were ready, they pushed a wheelbarrow to the field.
The grain seedlings planted earlier in the fields were all quite tall now. At a glance, the fields were green and full of vitality.
“Mistress, why are you here?” Li Laosan was watering the fields when he saw Su Ying and Murong De walking over. He quickly stopped what he was doing and went forward to greet them.
“I’ll go catch some fish. You guys go ahead with your work.”
“Alright, Mistress. Be careful.”
Su Ying responded to their greetings one by one before following Murong De to the stream.
Murong De wasn’t in a hurry to catch the fish after he put down his stuff. Instead, he walked back and forth by the stream. Su Ying was puzzled. “Uncle Murong, what are you looking at?”
Murong De raised his head when he heard her query. “I’m observing where there are more fish. It’s only when I find the fish cluster that I’ll be able to fish more quickly.”
Su Ying wasn’t an expert in this. In the past, she simply caught fish with fast movements, so she didn’t know that there was such a technique.
After Murong De selected the fishing spot, he took out a simple fishing rod. The fishing hook was made from an embroidery needle that he had obtained from Aunt Zhao. After hanging the bait on the fishing hook, he cast the fishing line outward.
Su Ying was curious. The stream’s current here was more rapid. Could it be that it was easier to catch fish here?
Before long, there was a reaction in the water. Murong De wasn’t in a hurry to yank the fishing line back. Instead, he slowly pulled it back.
Su Ying had been staring at the surface of the water the entire time, and she quickly noticed the struggling motions in the water.
“Mistress, it’s a big one. Bring the bamboo basket to scoop it up.”
Su Ying could tell as well. She turned around, took a bamboo basket, and jumped into the water to haul up the struggling fish.
“Damn! What a big fish.” This fish weighed at least ten catties. If Su Ying wasn’t covering the basket, it would have jumped out of the bamboo basket.
“This fish is too big. We can’t put it in the fish pond. It will eat all the small fish.”
Murong De’s face was totally calm as if catching such a fish was a normal occurrence.
“Then you can cook it for dinner tonight.”
Su Ying didn’t want the fish to die, so she covered the bamboo basket with a lid and secured it with vines. She then placed the bamboo basket back into the stream to keep the fish alive.
Murong De calmly put on the bait again and in less than 15 minutes, there was movement again.
When he pulled the fishing line back, Su Ying held her breath and watched from the side. It had to be said that watching people catch fish successfully and continuously was also a kind of enjoyment.
“Mistress, hurry up. This is also a big one.”
Fortunately, they had brought a few bamboo baskets with them today. Otherwise, they would not have enough to store the fish.
Su Ying jumped into the water and scooped up another fish. This one was smaller than the first, but it probably still weighed seven to eight catties.
The two of them spent the entire morning by the stream until all the bait was used up. Murong De then reluctantly packed up.
“What a pity. If I had known that the fish here were so easy to catch, 1 would have come earlier. When spring comes, we’ll catch some more and let them lay eggs in the fish ponds. That way, there will be more and more fish in the fish ponds. However, the types of fish still have to be segregated. When the time comes, I’ll go to the fish ponds to take a look…” Murong De spoke to Su Ying as he kept segregating the fish with his hands.
They put the smaller fish into the irrigation canal and let them flow into the fish ponds so that they could raise them. They took the bigger ones back. If they could not finish eating them, the remaining fish would be made into dried fish that could be eaten when the weather turned cold.
Su Ying followed Murong De back. When they passed by the fish ponds, Su Ying wondered whether the fish in the pond would freeze to death if it snowed in winter and the water in the ponds froze.
The moment she thought of this, she couldn’t continue walking anymore.
“Uncle Murong, you go back first. 1’11 go and see if I can move the fish from the irrigation canals into the fish pond.”
Murong De didn’t suspect anything. “Alright. You go ahead with your own tasks, Mistress. But it’s colder after dark and your shoes are wet so it’s better to go back earlier.”
“Alright.”
With that, the two parted ways. Su Ying turned around and went back into her interspatial store to retrieve the solar heating boards.
The heating boards were not big. One needed to be installed in the fish pond, and the other needed to be placed outside the fish pond. The heating board in the fish pond would absorb the heat from the heating board outside the pond so that the heating board in the pond would emit heat and keep the water in the fish pond at a certain temperature.
The outer boards could be directly installed on the wooden roofs of the guardhouses overlooking the fish ponds and the fields.
Su Ying first found a spot in the fish pond and placed the heating board there before climbing onto the wooden roof.
“Mistress, what are you doing? Why don’t you tell us what you want to do and let us do it?” Li Laosan saw Su Ying on the roof and hurriedly ran over.
Su Ying quickly placed the heating board on the roof and leaped down.
“No need. It’s already done. They said that this wooden house is a little drafty and too cold, so I came over to fix it. I put a board on it so that the house won’t be cold anymore.”
“Next time, if you have such tasks to carry out, just leave them to us, Mistress.”
Su Ying nodded casually. “Sure. You guys go ahead with your work. 1’11 head back first.”
“Right, Mistress. Please take care.”
When Su Ying returned home, her hands and feet were freezing cold. Aunt Zhao’s heart ached terribly when she saw this, and she quickly asked Bai Shuang to bring hot water for Su Ying to soak her hands and feet. “Mistress, you’re a woman, and women have to keep warm. Otherwise, you will suffer when your body catches a cold.”
“I’ll be fine,” Su Ying replied nonchalantly.
Aunt Zhao glared at her helplessly. After helping Su Ying warm up her hands and feet, she got up and went to boil some ginger soup. “Mistress and Master are still young. You still have a long life ahead of you. Master is also full of vigor. Isn’t it normal for you two to have a few more children? You can’t afford to damage your bodies with freezing cold at this time.”
Have more children with Xiao Jin?
Su Ying shuddered vehemently.. No way!
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