In the book, I was fed by my sister

Song Ran kept muttering to himself, praying to God to give him an opportunity.

The wild ducks in the center of the lake could not hear the prayers. They dived into the water and shuttled busily across the rippling water, looking for water plants and fish fry.

Suddenly, circles of different ripples appeared in the center of the lake.

The sensitive ducks immediately became alert and flapped their wings, ready to deal with possible danger. But seeing no more noise, the ducks became bolder. A few curious ducks swam towards the ripples and put their heads in the water to check.

Beneath the ripples, a dozen small fish were bound by water plants, swaying in the water.

As soon as one wild duck in a flock of wild ducks finds food, the rest will rush over.

The fish fry tied with water plants swam very fast in the water. The wild ducks chased them vigorously in the water and finally caught the fish fry on the shore.

A large group of wild ducks surrounded a dozen small fish that were "delivered to their doorstep" and started a fierce battle for them.

The slow-swimming wild ducks couldn't even catch a single water plant.

"Ga?" The flock of wild ducks smelled a unique aroma of food and looked towards the shore.

Song Ran stared at the wild ducks' every move, and when she saw them approaching the shore, her heart rose to her throat.

Song Li used a little trick to lure the flock of wild ducks to the shore. As for whether the wild ducks would fall into the trap set by her sister, that was up to fate.

If that doesn't work, she has other options.

I just don’t know what my sister thinks about the wild duck being tied up by water plants.

Finally, a wild duck took the lead and stepped onto the shore. It shook its body, shaking off a circle of water droplets. It staggered and slowly walked towards where the basket was. One wild duck led the way, and one after another wild ducks walked onto the shore.

"Come, come, come, come." Song Ran muttered softly, holding the straw rope tightly in his hand.

Song Li had seen all kinds of storms, and influenced by her sister's emotions, she also started to get nervous.

Two wild ducks stretched their necks and tentatively took two bites of the rice balls.

"Quack!" The wild ducks discovered that it was a delicacy they had never seen before, so they bravely surrounded it.

Song Ran saw that the basket covered the entire body of the wild duck and pulled the rope.

The basket fell to the ground and covered the two wild ducks, and also scared a group of wild ducks around them, making them flap their wings and fly away.

"not good!"

The weight of the basket was only enough to cover one wild duck. Put two ducks in it, and the basket was tossed up and down.

Song Ran took two steps at a time and pressed down on the basket.

"Little cutie! Come here quickly!"

Song Ran was about to take the basket away and catch the two wild ducks inside, but he saw three or four wild ducks trapped in the water behind him, flapping their wings.

It seems to be entangled in water plants.

No matter how strange it was, Song Ran didn't have time to think about it. She shouted for Song Li to come over.

"Come, hold the basket down for me."

Song Ran asked Song Li to hold down the basket and prepared to go into the water to catch the ducks.

Song Li walked around her, took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and jumped into the water.

"Hey hey!" Song Ran was shocked and anxious. She used her butt to lean against the flapping basket and stretched out her arms to scoop up Song Li.

Song Li was as agile as a monkey. He jumped into the water and grabbed the wild duck's neck with both hands.

"Sister, duck!"

When Song Ran saw that the water surface was at his younger sister's waist, he finally felt relieved.

"You push the ducks to the shore, and I'll tie up the wild ducks in the basket and come over." Song Ran said as she lifted a corner of the basket. The wild ducks in the basket stretched out their necks, and she neatly grabbed the necks of the ducks.

Break off the reeds and pass them under the duck's wing, then under the other wing. Tie the duck's wings and then put the feet on.

The two wild ducks were tied up tightly.

Song Ran walked to the shore and saw Song Li holding down two wild ducks with her body. She picked up the two wild ducks with one hand and lifted Song Li to shore with the other.

She used the same method to tie up the wild ducks in Song Li's hands. After they were tied up, she went into the water again and tied up the two wild ducks that were flapping their wings in the water.

There were six tied ducks lying on the shore. Song Ran looked at his little sister whose half body was wet, and then at her trouser legs and skirt that were soaked, and he laughed out loud with joy.

The laughter caused a flock of ducks in the center of the lake to flutter.

"Sister, what are you happy about?"

"Who wouldn't be happy to catch six ducks at once? You dull guy."

Six wild ducks were put into the basket, and Song Ran had a bit of difficulty carrying it.

The two of them returned, and there was no one in sight along the way. Song Li saw that the elder sister's skirt was constantly dripping with water, and said, "Sister, I'm all wet, and it's so uncomfortable to stick to my body. How about we rest here for a while, dry our skirts and pants, and then go down the mountain?"

The people in the village wore a top and trousers, and the women would wear a skirt outside. Only during the busy farming season would the women take off their skirts and wear only trousers, but wives and girls would still be ashamed of such attire.

Song Ran spent most of her childhood living in the city with her parents, and she was even more restricted by that system. She was a little hesitant, but the stickiness on her body really made her uncomfortable.

Song Li continued, "There's no one around here. It will be dry in the sun in a while."

"Okay, there's a big tree in front, let's rest there for a while."

The two took off their skirts and pants. The skirts were thicker. Song Ran wrung out a lot of water and spread it flat on the haystack.

Two people stood naked in the sun with bare legs.

Song Li didn't think there was anything wrong, but she noticed that her elder sister was looking around all the time.

"This is not good." Song Ran pulled down the corner of his clothes.

"What's wrong?"

"It's not good to be seen by others."

"But I saw boys in the village bathing in the river with their buttocks bare, and I also saw old and young men in the village cooling off with their arms and even their upper bodies bare. Why can't we do that?"

Song Li really didn't understand. She came from the end of the world, where being naked was common and no one cared what you wore. Even on the walls and billboards, there were portraits of women wearing scantily clad clothes, which were traces left from before the end of the world. She didn't understand why, in this warm place where she could eat enough, she was restricted from wearing clothes, and this was only demanded of women.

"This..." Song Ran hesitated, she didn't know how to tell her younger sister. In her memory, even her mother didn't explain clearly why, she only remembered those words "shouldn't" and "as a woman shouldn't"

After a while, Song Ran said, "What mother said must be right. When you grow up and know what shyness is, you will understand."

"I'm not shy. I can run faster without an outer skirt." Song Li was a little dissatisfied with her sister's answer. She felt that practicality and convenience were more important.

Song Li didn't understand the etiquette of this era. Song Ran, who had left traces between the city and the countryside, couldn't make sense of it. Her age and experience were not enough to support her in teaching a child.

"You, you are getting better and better at speaking." Song Ran nodded Song Li's head.

"The skirt is almost dry. We have to get going. We have to get out of the mountain before dark." Song Ran changed the subject like an adult and continued to work on the current matter.