Chapter 120 Picking up Duck Eggs

Bai Yunxi crossed a mountain valley with a basket on her back, and then turned to the Qingshui River. She looked at a group of ducks swimming in the river. As soon as she approached, the ducks flapped their wings and flew away, leaving a water stain, just like drizzle, hitting her face.

Bai Yunxi wiped her face with a handkerchief, looked at the gray ducks flying away, and sighed.

It turns out that wild ducks can really fly!

Where there are wild ducks, there must be wild duck eggs. Although she couldn't catch the ducks, she could look up the river and look for duck nests to see if there were any duck eggs to pick up.

In the original owner's memory, villagers often picked up wild duck eggs. It was not surprising at all. It was a common thing.

Some people came back from the fields and walked along the river. If they were lucky, they could pick up a few fresh duck eggs to add to their dishes.

Bai Yunxi looked at the stream upstream, hesitated for a moment, and then went up with the basket on her back.

It is the busy farming season now. Everyone is busy with the autumn harvest and has no time to hang around. She can try her luck here.

Walking up the river, when she reached a shallow beach, Bai Yunxi saw that there was no one in front of her, so she took off her shoes and socks and went into the water with a basket on her back.

The river water was cool, just up to the ankles. Some egg-laying ducks like to lay their eggs in such shallow water.

Bai Yunxi bent over and reached out to grope in the river for a while. As expected, she touched a green-skinned duck egg.

She shone it in the sun and shook it again. It didn't yolk, proving that it was a fresh duck egg.

While touching the duck egg, Bai Yunxi actually found a screw.

It was really easy to get. The villagers don't eat this thing. They think it's troublesome. Occasionally, they touch some and take them home, and smash them to feed the chickens.

As long as you pay attention, there are surprises everywhere.

After a while, she touched the second duck egg...

After she crossed this shallow beach, she harvested ten duck eggs and two or three pounds of snails in the basket.

The snails in Qingshui River are very clean. After spitting out the mud for a day, cleaning them, and frying them with chili, they are also super refreshing.

The indispensable companion for frying snails is perilla leaves. There are everywhere by the river. It is a ready-made seasoning. You can just pick a handful and take it back to eat.

Bai Yunxi put on her shoes and socks, picked up the tender ones, and picked half of the perilla leaves. It’s a pity that no one eats such tender perilla leaves. It just so happens that there is lean meat at home. Go back and make some perilla sauce and mix it with rice, which is also good.

After packing up, Bai Yunxi walked home along the Qingshui River. From a distance, she saw the wooden bridge at the head of the village, surrounded by a group of people, noisy.

When she saw Bai Yuntang in the crowd, she subconsciously stopped and didn’t move forward.

At this time, Bai Yuntang was grabbed by the collar by a middle-aged man and yelled at.

"Bai, check your conscience. My sister has done you wrong. I said divorce and I thought you could just take her back after a while because of the conflict in your clan. It's only been a few days and you've been hanging out with the widow from the next village. Are you playing tricks on us?"

"Sun Mao, I advise you not to mess around. Since the divorce letter has been given to Sun, there is no relationship between us. From now on, men and women will get married and have nothing to do with each other. Do you treat this as a joke?"

Bai Yuntang shook off Sun Mao's hand and replied with a gloomy face,

"You were my brother-in-law before, and I gave in to you and respected you, but now we are just familiar strangers. You'd better be polite to me. You should think twice before playing tricks in our village."