The eldest lady became popular in the farming variety show

Jiang Hexi asked Chu Yang while driving:

"Did you bring the bait?"

"Bring it."

Chu Yang also took out a solar-powered flashlight from his arms, "Sister, I even brought out the night fishing artifact for you."

Jiang Hexi nodded affirmatively and turned to ask the three men sitting in a row at the back:

"Why did you three follow us? Do you know what we are going to do at the rocky beach?"

"Fishing?"

Xie Wanyi asked inquiringly, which immediately led to Yu Xiangwan's complaints:

"We're going to catch river crabs. Not only did you not bring your tools, but you also didn't know what you were doing. I really don't understand what the point of you squeezing into the van was."

Xie Wanyi looked at the person next to him who was also squeezing into the van with empty hands, and suddenly realized what silence is golden. He pursed his lips into a line and shut up as well.

Yan Jie and Xie Wanyi hurried over just for Jiang Hexi and Yu Xiangwan.

The reason why Shen Yingyu squeezed into the van was because he was left behind when playing mahjong last time. He was sitting alone on the sofa drinking tea, and was filmed in the face by the live camera all night. The program crew also opened a separate live broadcast room to make him socially awkward the whole time. How could he dare to be "unsociable"?

The van stopped on the dirt road.

Jiang Hexi pushed open the car door and got out. He saw dots of light scattered on both sides of the rocky beach. Some villagers were already catching river crabs by the water ahead of them.

She rolled up her trouser legs and followed Li Youtian down to the rocky beach.

"River crabs hide under rocks and only come out to look for food at night. We use chicken intestines as bait and suspend them in the water. They will come when they smell the fishy smell."

The group placed baits at several locations along the river bank and then waited quietly for the crabs to take the bait.

Chu Yang turned on the flashlight. The river water was clear and the bottom was visible. The water was flowing slowly forward. River crabs with bared claws and fangs crawled out from under the moss and gravel.

"Sister, the crabs are out."

"It's a little small, I don't think it's even one or two pounds."

"Put them in the bucket first, and then release them if you catch a big one. If you can't catch a big one, you can just eat the small ones."

Chu Yang stood in the water with his back bent, spotted the spot where the crab was lying, and scooped up the crab with a scoop net.

Jiang Hexi suspected that someone had already caught river crabs here.

That's why there were only a few crooked and broken melons and dates left, which were nowhere near as big as the river crabs Li Youtian gave her.

She looked around and saw Li Youtian walking towards the dark waters. She took out her cell phone to light the way and followed him.

Yan Jie followed her closely.

Li Youtian pressed the chicken intestines under the pile of stones and said:

"Sister Xi, stay here and see if you can catch any big crabs."

"Uncle, you go ahead and look for a place. I'll watch over here."

Just as Jiang Hexi saw Li Youtian off, someone came over and pulled out some weeds, and put a piece of meat into the water one meter away from her to lure crabs.

The person who came was a familiar face, the same Mr. Ge who had used two cabbages to cut his hair into a short haircut.

Jiang Hexi smiled at Uncle Ge and greeted him silently.

There is no technical requirement to catching crabs, all you need is bait and a net.

The key lies in the geographical location. If you choose the right location, you can catch lots of crabs in the net. If you choose the wrong location, you can only pick up the crabs left by others.

Jiang Hexi had finally found a good spot, and she would not leave unless there was no one to take the bait.

Uncle Ge also squatted on the river bank, looking as if he was determined to wait until she left.

The two people were one meter apart, each occupying the space under their feet, staring intently at the movements in the water.

A river crab the size of a palm poked its head out from a crevice in the rock, slowly crawled onto the bluestone, and lay right on the middle of the "38th Parallel".

Jiang Hexi picked up the net bag and stood up straight. On the other side, Uncle Ge had rolled up his trouser legs and prepared to go into the water. The two of them stared at each other from a distance, so embarrassed that they kept digging their toes into the ground.

Yan Jieqing's long cough interrupted the stalemate between the two.

Jiang Hexi laughed dryly twice, "Master, how about this, let's guess whether this crab is male or female, whoever guesses correctly gets the crab."

Uncle Ge stared at the big, plump river crab and said, "Okay."

Jiang Hexi answered quickly: "Female."

"Then I'll guess it's a male."

Uncle Ge quietly entered the water, nimbly grasped the crab's back and belly with one hand, turned it over, and sighed plaintively, "It's a female."

Jiang Hexi handed over the bucket, kept saying "thank you", and happily took the river crabs.

Yan Jie asked her without thinking: "How do you know this crab is a female?"

"I want to eat female crab."

Jiang Hexi's eyes were filled with a bright smile, "Of course I guess it's a female."

Yan Jie was defeated by her playfulness, and there was a reason for this.

[?(?Д?)?I didn't expect that you can guess whether the crab is male or female this way. I learned it. ]

[The moment Ximei and Ge Daye both looked up at each other, God knows, I was so embarrassed for them that I was torn in two.]

[What I really like about Ximei is that when Ge Daye took away half of her territory, she didn't say anything. But when Ge Daye wanted to take her territory away, she took it back very cleverly. She was reasonable and well-mannered throughout the whole process, neither humble nor overbearing.]

[No wonder Prince Yan still clings to Ximei even after they broke up. He keeps circling around her all day. I can't stand it even through the screen. He is such a loser! ]

Jiang Hexi squatted back in his previous territory, quietly waiting for the river crab to take the bait.

"Here they come, three river crabs are crawling over here, and they are all big crabs weighing 200 to 300 taels."

Yan Jie picked up the scoop net and scooped up all the crabs into the bucket. When he turned around and looked again, he saw six more river crabs coming out from the cracks in the rocks and slowly surrounding the bait.

"You have... poked a crab nest—"

"There, look, there's more!"

Jiang Hexi grabbed Yan Jie's T-shirt and shouted in surprise.

In places where the mobile phone flashlight could not reach, river crabs had already crawled out following the smell of blood. By the time they crawled onto the shiny stone beach and gathered together, their numbers had visibly increased.

Yan Jie took a scoop net and went into the water, picking up the big crabs from the bottom.

Jiang Hexi didn't know how to catch crabs with bare hands. Seeing the crabs swarming around and grabbing the chicken intestines and gnawing on them, she immediately became anxious:

"I only have this one chicken intestine. What can I use as bait after I eat it?"

While Uncle Ge was busy catching crabs with his bare hands in the water, he shouted to her:

"Lift up the rope, hang the crabs above the bucket, and shake them down vigorously."

"Thank you, sir. I understand."

Jiang Hexi did as he said, and when she pulled up the fishing line along with the long string of crabs, all the netizens in the live broadcast room were jealous.

[I don’t know what to say. Ximei’s good fortune has continued from fishing in the shallow water to catching crabs on the rocky beach…]

[This half-bucket of crabs makes me jealous beyond recognition. ]

[Xiao Baiyang catches crabs, each one is so small that there is not much meat on it. Ximei catches crabs, and there is a long string of big river crabs that she can't shake them all off. How can the gap between people be so big? ]