After walking downhill for a while, the forest became more and more dense, and the roadside was full of all kinds of messy shrubs and green vines, with bees flying on them and various crickets and insects chirping among them.

From time to time, pheasants and rabbits would appear on the road, causing Qin Yueru and her daughter to scream incessantly.

Suddenly, a row of wild geese appeared in the sky ahead, chirping all the way and flying diagonally to the northwest.

A row of wild geese passed by, and another row of wild geese flew over.

The sky is clear and the geese are passing by, the scene is quite spectacular.

After Qin Yueru and her daughter laughed and laughed while looking at the wild geese, Qin Yueru suddenly frowned: "Look, Fugui, don't they all say that the wild geese fly south? Why do these wild geese fly north?"

Chen Ling raised his head and glanced, "Well, maybe I'm looking for something to eat. Or maybe I'm looking for a place with water."

In previous years, the places where wild geese and migratory birds gathered were the Yaba Lake in the north of the city and the Chenwangzhuang Reservoir in the west of the city. This is nothing strange.

"Then the wild geese may have flown to your side."

Qin Yueru became happy when she heard this, "We will go to you to see the wild geese after the Mid-Autumn Festival."

Little Lizi also raised his little head and looked at the sky and kept nodding: "Uncle, I'll go with my mother, and you can catch two wild geese for me, okay?"

"Okay, then I will catch a group of geese and raise them for you. Next spring we will eat the eggs laid by the geese."

Chen Ling smiled and waved his cattle whip.

At this time, Geadatai Forest Farm arrived, and he slowly stopped the bullock cart.

On the autumn morning, the sun was still very hot, but fortunately there was wind, which made the lush trees in the forest farm rustle.

In the cool wind, the sun seems to be no longer so hot.

Before entering the forest farm, there is a section of road with twists and turns, paved with gravel.

At the end of the gravel road, there is a square earth platform with a temple built on the earth platform, but this temple looks more desolate and dilapidated than other temples in the city.

There is also a tall saponaria tree next to the temple platform. The tree is covered with red cloth strips, and there are traces of incense candles under the tree.

In the hearts of the people nearby, although this Geda Terrace is not as good as the legend says, they still come here to offer incense on every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year.

Wait for Liang Hongyu and the others to lead the cow and follow them.

Chen Ling untied the ox cart and let the little white cow take the two oxen to play in the forest.

A few of them walked along the road in the forest to the foot of Tubao Ridge south of Ledatai.

There is a bridge over there, and under the bridge is a river made of stone. There are two large ponds made of bluestone on both sides of the river, which were used by the forest farm to store water.

Now the forest farm workers have dispersed long ago. Not far from the big pond, the open space that used to be filled with wood is now overgrown with weeds and is completely empty.

Xiao Lizi saw flowers there and wanted Qin Yueru to take her to pick them.

Chen Ling stopped the mother and daughter, picked up two yellow wattle sticks from the side, and gave them to them so that they could get through the grass, otherwise it would be bad if there were snakes and insects in the grass.

"Uncle is so kind."

Xiao Lizi took the stick with a smile, and ran over hand in hand with Qin Yueru.

Wang Susu hugged her son and followed him.

"They all went to play. Come on, uncle, let's start fishing."

Chen Ling smiled and handed Qin Rong the fishing rod first.

Liang Hongyu laughed when she saw it: "Even though we live in the county town now, we don't come to this forest farm very often. We just come here to cool off when the summer heat comes. On weekdays, we usually go to the river bank to graze cattle. Your uncle is at Nanqiaotou."

There are also chess friends, herding cattle and playing chess, it’s very comfortable.”

Qin Rong couldn't help but smile when he heard this. He looked quite proud of himself.

Isn't it?

Although we live a prosperous life in the capital, we remain humble and look down on others.

He was also an ambitious young man at the beginning, and he didn't want to ask for anything, let alone stand in the way of others.

Besides, there was no one who was rich or not at that time, and everyone’s living standards were not much different.

He went for Liang Hongyu.

As a result, her life was like that, and her son couldn't even take his last name.

Now I think it's better to go back to my hometown.

Eating well, sleeping well, living a pleasant life, the old couple is more harmonious than before, and they are getting younger and younger.

This cannot but be attributed to Chen Ling. If she had not recognized him, Liang Hongyu would not have made up her mind to stay here.

"Fishing, fishing, you must have bait."

Qin Rong looked at Chen Ling cheerfully, patted his butt and stood up: "Come on, let me go to the bullock cart to get the bait. I forgot to take it."

"What bait are you looking for, uncle?"

Chen Ling shouted, "I can kill two grasshoppers on the spot."

Qin Rong waved his hand at him without looking back: "How about chasing grasshoppers? I'm here to catch big carp. I heard that the carp in the river here are big. The one you caught last time was as big as Bai Bai. I'm here to catch it."

I also want to try the carp here."

When fishing, it is natural to prepare the bait first.

What kind of fish you want to catch is what kind of bait you want to catch.

For example, crucian carp likes to eat meat, so when fishing for crucian carp, grasshoppers, earthworms and the like are used as bait.

Carp likes to eat vegetarian food. Generally, soybean meal, wheat bran and the like mixed with liquor and sesame oil are used as bait when fishing for carp.

It is naturally inappropriate to use insects as bait.

"Big carp? There is only so much water in this river. How big can a carp be? I'm afraid it's not as big as the carp raised in the pond."

Chen Ling glanced at the small river channel in front of him. It was only more than two meters wide. The river banks were lined with bluestone paved river banks on both sides. The water inside was quite clear.

There are quite a lot of small fish and shrimps in this kind of river channel. It cannot be said that there are no big fish, it can only be said that there are relatively few, at least not in this shallow water area.

"I don't know either. Your uncle said he has a secret recipe."

Liang Hongyu said, then smiled and pushed him, "Hurry up and catch yours, I'm just waiting to see you fishing."

"good."

Chen Ling smiled at the old lady, walked to the grass next to him, kicked a few grasshoppers, pounced on two grasshoppers, and started fishing.

Seeing this, the old lady also went to catch grasshoppers. After catching seven or eight grasshoppers, she strung them with grass, sat next to him, and collected bait for him.

Soon, the fish was hooked and it was not too small.

"Oh, I got hooked so quickly."

The old lady exclaimed, then frowned, "What is this? Grass carp eats grass, doesn't it? Why does it eat grasshoppers?"

"Eat it, it also eats earthworms?" Chen Ling untied the grass carp and threw it into the bucket.

At this time, Qin Rongxian also brought his bait.

Chen Ling took a look and saw that it wasn't a secret recipe, just wine grains.

"What are you talking about? Fishing is so exciting?"

"Just now Fugui caught a grass carp with a grasshopper. Look, grass carp actually eats grasshoppers. Fugui said he also eats earthworms. I've heard people say before that grass carp eats grass and can eat several kilograms a day."

"Ah? You also eat grasshoppers and earthworms? Is that so? I haven't heard of it either."

Qin Rongxian was also quite surprised. He really hadn't noticed it. He only knew that grass carp eats vegetarian food. Otherwise, how could it be called grass carp?

"Eat, eat them all. Uncle, if you don't believe it, let's compete. I'll use grasshoppers, you use your own bait. Let's see who catches more grass carp later."

"Okay, let's compare."

Qin Rongxian was full of confidence and said that he had a secret recipe and was not afraid.

Liang Hongyu also moved the little horse over and sat down: "Okay, I will be the referee for you."

Then the two of them sat on opposite sides, far away from each other, without affecting each other.

At the beginning, Qin Rongxian was really good at this place. Nothing else. The bait mixed with distiller's grains was too fragrant. There were not many people coming to catch fish in the small river in the forest farm. When he did this, carp, grass carp, and crucian carp all bit him.

Hooks, big and small fish, will be half a bucket in a moment.

Nowadays, there are simply not too many fish in rivers and ditches in the wild. There is no need to talk about any skills. As soon as Qin Rongxian's bait enters the water, a layer of fish will appear on the water's edge.

If there wasn't a competition between two people, he would just grab it with the net.

Chen Ling, please be quiet here.

But look carefully, every time he throws the rod, there are fish on the hook, including crucian carp and grass carp.

Soon, Liang Hongyu ran out of grasshoppers.

The old lady went to grab two more skewers for him to use.

After a while, the grasshoppers were all used up again. After going back and forth a few times, Chen Ling's bucket was filled with half a bucket of fish.

"Rong, please come and see. There are so many grass carps caught by Fugui. They are more numerous and bigger than yours."
To be continued...