In fact, if possible, Sankui doesn't want to guard the river every day. You should know that the moisture on the river is very heavy, especially at night.

It may not matter if you stay by the river for a day, but after a long time, you can't stand it. If you accidentally get infected with the cold, you will suffer a lot.

In this era when medical treatment is relatively scarce, a cold wind may take your life.

This is also the most important reason why Zhang Ran was unwilling to go to the river to guard. For a few fish, there is really no need to block his life!

So, after Zhang Ran gave a seemingly feasible solution, although he was still a little suspicious and worried, Sankui finally agreed and no longer insisted on going to the riverside to wait at night.

After discussing how to prevent thieves, Zhang Ran wanted to keep Sankui at home for dinner, but Sankui said he would take the money back and hand it over to his mother, and would come to Zhang Ran’s house for dinner next time he had the chance.

Seeing this, Zhang Ran did not forcefully try to keep him. He casually told me, "I must come next time" and sent Sankui out.

When Zhang Li put the more than 200 yuan back into the house and came out again, he found that Sankui was not there and was very confused. He asked Zhang Ran the reason.

In this regard, Zhang Ran had to explain to his mother again, and finally let his mother understand that it was not that he didn't want to stay, but that Sankui still had something to do and was unwilling to stay.

As usual, the dinner was grilled fish and fish soup...

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The next morning, just as the sky was dawn, Sankui came to Zhang Ran's house early, pulled Zhang Ran, who was still confused, from the bed, pulled his arm, and headed straight to the Qingshui River.

After some busy work, they collected the fish cage and returned home with half a basket of fish and shrimps. The two of them hurriedly ate some food and set off to the back mountain to cut bamboo.

I don’t know what happened today, but Zhang Ran looked through all the rope covers and rock-fall traps arranged the day before yesterday, and found only a field mouse that was crushed to death by rock-falling...

However, now Zhang Ran has passed the initial hunger period when he eats meat and eats it all over the stomach. To be honest, he doesn't want to eat this thing...

So, Zhang Ran asked Sankui if he wanted it. Sankui refused everyone, and happily took the field mouse, tied it to the bamboo with a rope, and took it home.

When Zhang Ran and the others returned to Sankui's house with a bundle of bamboo, they unexpectedly found that Sankui's father Zhang Meng did not go to the field to work, but stayed in the yard, watching Zhang Cui'er and Zhang Ran's sister Zhang Sui'er with interest, and weaving a fish cage there.

Seeing Zhang Ran and the others entering the yard, Zhang Meng immediately stood up, walked to Zhang Ran, helped him remove the bamboo on his shoulders, and smiled at Zhang Ran, "Brother Ran, Sankui had already told me your method last night. This idea is good, much more useful than Sankui's stupid method. So, the method I plan to use is to help scare the little thief who steals fish."

'"Oh?" After hearing Zhang Meng's words, Zhang Ran was suddenly a little happy, quickly patted the dust on his hands and said to Zhang Meng: "Uncle, do you think my method is feasible? Do you think that if we do this, can we scare the thief?"

Zhang Meng pondered for a moment and said, "This is hard to say, but it's okay to give it a try... Before you come back, I had already released some rumors inside, and found a few familiar neighbors, and told them about the fact that we threw things by the river. Please help me pay attention to the suspicious people..."

"That's great!" Zhang Ran became even happier after hearing this. You should know that Zhang Meng is far better than a marginal figure like the Zhang Ran family in Zhang Li. With him going out, this is a bit more certain. Not to mention anything else, it is absolutely fine to scare the fish thief in a short time and make him dare not act rashly.

"Well," Zhang Meng nodded with a smile, and did not forget to remind him: "Although there are more people to help us find the thief, we should not be too careless. Forget it at night, but during the day, we should still walk to the river more often."

"Okay! We will pay attention!" This requirement was not too high, so Zhang Ran agreed happily.

Because there is still a lot of work to be done in the field, Zhang Meng did not stay at home for too long. After chatting with Zhang Ran for a few words, he carried the hoe and went out.

After Zhang Meng left, Zhang Ran and the others were involved in the work of weaving fish cages, splitting bamboo strips, laying keel bones, and weaving fish cages, making them very busy.

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I don’t know if Zhang Ran’s plan worked. In the next few days, the river was calm and the waves were still calm. Even if no one was guarding it at night, there would never be any fish stolen again.

The fish thief seemed to have disappeared, disappeared, and never appeared again...

Because there were no fish thieves making trouble, Zhang Ran and the others were more diligent in making fish cages. As the number of fish cages increased, the number of fish and shrimps harvested increased.

There are 20 or 30 fish every day, and you will definitely not be able to eat them all, but if you keep them, the number of wooden barrels and water tanks at home is not enough.

For this reason, Zhang Ran and Sankui had to dig a square pond more than two meters wide in the backyard of Sankui's family, intending to raise fish.

However, the current waterproofing method of reservoirs is very simple, either laying bluestone slabs or laying bricks... But whether it is bricks or stones, they need to be specially purchased or collected, which is too time-consuming for Zhang Ran and the others.

Therefore, they only adopted the simplest method, laying wooden boards at the bottom and around the pond, and also making some sand and gravel from the riverside and sprinkling them into it...

Despite this, there are still signs of water leakage in this fish pond. The water poured into the pond can drop by half a meter overnight. You need to replenish water every day.

Fortunately, this pond is only a temporary transitional purpose. After almost enough fish in the pond, Zhang Ran and the others will fish out the fish and take it to the county town to sell it. Therefore, there is no need to do it very exquisitely, just enough.

After saving the fish for a few days, it felt like the number was almost the same. Zhang Ran discussed with Sankui and his son, and went to the county town to sell the fish.

Zhang Meng also agreed with this and planned to set off for Xinfeng County with Zhang Ran tomorrow.

However, Zhang Ran didn't want to bother Zhang Meng all the time, so he said to him: "Uncle, I'll just go with Sankui and I. Anyway, it's just selling fish and calculating the accounts. For such a simple thing, there's no need to bother my uncle to run back and forth."
Chapter completed!