Seeing Mingyu's hesitation, Li Mengyue asked softly, "What's wrong, Mingyu? You can tell me anything!"

"It's just...it's just...I want a capture net, too."

"Oh, what do you think? I still have some, give it to you."

"Thank you sister."

Mingyu got the catching net, his face turned red like a monkey's butt, and he ran with the children.

After a while, Minghao came back.

"Sister, sister, I also want a fishing net. My brother has one, so I want one too."

Li Mengyue couldn't resist Minghao's sparkling eyes. Without any hesitation, she took out a catching net from her backpack and handed it to Minghao.

"Yeah! Thank you, sister. I also have a catching net. I will go home quickly to get a small bamboo basket and go to the field to catch locusts."

Minghao got the capture net and ran away.

Li Mengyue was about to leave when she saw two boys at her legs. They didn't say anything, but just blinked at her with their big wet eyes.

What else is there that I don’t understand?

Well, the last two capture nets can’t be saved.

There are two boys, one is Mingxuan and the other is the young master of the Jiang family.

The two of them were so excited when they got the catching net, and they were eager to try it out to see if they could really catch locusts.

Later, she saw that there were still 11 children without a fishing net, so Li Mengyue, who was originally heading home, had to turn to Uncle Yang's house and ask him to help make a dozen more fishing nets.

"Go play in the fields with Mingyu and Minghao first. I'll ask someone to make you a trap. When I get home, each of you will have one, okay?"

"Okay, thank you Sister Yue."

When the 11 children who didn't have a catching net heard that their sister Yue would find someone to make one, they held back the tears that were about to fall, grinned widely, and were visibly happy.

Children are children, they can cry at any time and laugh at any time.

Looking at these children who are still able to maintain their innocence after being abducted by human traffickers, Li Mengyue is sincerely happy for them.

So when the children are looking forward to having a catching net of their own, of course we have to satisfy them.

So the children and Li Mengyue went their separate ways, the children went to play in the fields, and she went to Carpenter Yang's house.

Before arriving at Carpenter Yang's house, I saw from afar people going to Yang's house one after another.

It was not until Li Mengyue arrived at the Yang family that she found out what had happened. It turned out that the village chief had gone to the fields to demonstrate how useful the capture net was, and everyone was jealous.

Although catching locusts is not considered a physically demanding job, it is not a good idea to bend over all the time.

Young people are better off. After a good night’s sleep, they will be full of energy the next morning.

But this is not the case for elderly people. After bending over all day, they feel severe pain at night and some of them cannot even sleep.

Even so, no one felt it was hard. When they thought about earning money right at home, even though they were in pain, they were still very happy in their hearts.

The next day, he still endured the pain in his waist and went to the fields. Even if he didn't catch much, he could earn a penny a day. After a few days, he could earn a few pennies to supplement the family income.

While many elderly people in the village were catching locusts in the fields despite the pain in their backs, the village chief went to the fields with something.

At first, no one took it seriously. After all, the village chief's family also needed money, and it was not shameful to catch locusts with one's own hands and sell them for money.

What no one expected was that the village chief was so fast that he caught it in one go without even bending down.

Seeing that the village chief was having great fun catching fish alone, some villagers who were more alert stopped and went to ask the village chief for advice.

I learned from the village chief that what he used was called a capture net. There was a small mechanism on the handle. When he saw the locusts, he just had to aim lightly and press the button, and he would catch them immediately without much effort.

Another point is that when they catch locusts, if they fail to catch them immediately and disturb the locusts, they have to look for the target again, which is very slow.

But the capture net used by the village chief is different. It does not make a loud noise when catching locusts, and the noise can be completely ignored. This not only allows the locusts to be caught quickly, but also does not scare nearby targets.

Such a useful capture net, of course I have to get one as soon as possible.

Then we learned from the village chief that the capture net was designed by Li Mengyue, and everyone had a new understanding of Li Mengyue's abilities.

The villagers all felt that the young lady was different and knew a lot, as expected of someone who had lived in a large family since childhood.

So no matter what abilities Li Mengyue showed or what incredible things she did in the future, the villagers of Xinghua Village did not make a fuss about it. Instead, they thought it was perfectly normal.

After all, Li Mengyue is different from them. They are all peasants, while the girl from the Li family was a real rich lady, so of course she knows a lot more.

Seeing that everyone was praising Miss Yue, the village chief then said that it was made by Carpenter Yang.

When they heard that it was Carpenter Yang who made it, everyone went to Carpenter Yang's house without any prior arrangement.

As they were walking, one person started running. After he ran, the others followed suit and all ran towards Carpenter Yang's house.

Fortunately, Carpenter Yang started making capture nets after Li Mengyue left. He worked slowly at first, but after making about twenty of them, his speed increased.

Besides, it is very simple, but what is rare is that the design is so ingenious.

When the villagers came to Carpenter Yang's house, he had already made fifty fishing nets.

When Carpenter Yang saw so many people coming to his house, he was shocked.

His son, daughter-in-law and grandson were not at home. His legs were lame and he had to use a cane to walk. His wife was sick and was still lying in the house.

If someone came to his house to cause trouble, he would definitely not be able to defeat them.

It was not until someone picked up the catching net on the ground and asked how much it cost that he realized that the villagers came to his house to buy catching nets.

"Two cents each."

As soon as Carpenter Yang finished talking about the price, the man holding the trap spoke up: "Give me five, and I'll send you the money in two days."

First one person asked to buy, and then others followed, some buying in batches of five, six, or seven. Some families even had so many people that they ordered sixteen at once.

Before Carpenter Yang could come to his senses, the fifty fishing nets he had just made had already been bought by the villagers.

He guessed that the capture net would sell well, but he didn't expect it to be so popular.

So he wrote down the number of people who bought the fishing nets, and asked his neighbors to help him go to the field and call his son back.

Locusts were one cent per pound, and a catching net was two cents each. In just a short while, I had sold them for a full one hundred cents.

Thinking about how much money he would make, Carpenter Yang was so excited that he even wanted to grow two more hands.

Of course I have to make a capture net quickly and take advantage of the opportunity to sell more so that I can have money to buy medicine for my wife.

When Li Mengyue arrived at Carpenter Yang's house, the finished catching net had been bought by someone else.

"Uncle Yang."

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