Chapter 1032 Spring Outing

In April, peach and plum blossoms bloom.

He Lingchuan rode his horse through the gorgeous pink wild peach forest, and the horse's hooves made crisp kicking sounds on the gravel road.

The morning breeze blew in, bringing laughter and joy.

He Lingchuan tapped the horse's belly lightly, and the horse trotted a few steps, and it transitioned from the peach forest to the pebble beach in a flash.

There were several adults with more than 30 children here, so it was natural that there was a lot of chatter.

The children were squatting by the stream and playing. When they saw He Lingchuan approaching, they immediately pointed at him and shouted:

"The commander is here, Commander He is here, Master, Master!"

He Lingchuan is approachable, and usually goes around and eats in the name of visiting incognito. Almost everyone in Yuheng City knows him. These children are students of Yuheng Academy, and they have become familiar with Commander He who often visits.

Someone in the stream stood up when he heard the sound and looked at the sudden visitor.

It was Sun Fuling.

But today she was wearing a loose blue flowered cloth dress, a casual cloth belt, and a thick braided hair with a blue headscarf.

He Lingchuan also found that she went into the water barefoot, her trouser legs were rolled up, revealing her fair and well-proportioned calves, and she was holding a bamboo basket in her hand.

When Sun Fuling saw him, she dropped the bamboo basket and walked ashore, unconsciously slightly annoyed: "Why did you run over here?"

"Why didn't you invite me to join you on the spring outing? I went to the academy but found nothing, and they said you were going to play by the water." He Lingchuan jumped off the horse, and the warhorse consciously walked to the side to find green grass.

Sun Fuling pouted slightly: "Isn't the commander a busy man? I don't think I have seen you for three days."

"No matter how busy I am, I have to eat." The beauty also needs to accompany me.

"You came just in time for dinner?" Sun Fuling rolled her eyes at him, "I'm sorry to disappoint you, we don't have anything good to eat with rice!"

"Oh?" He Lingchuan saw several stoves on the pebble beach, with charcoal buried inside and pots placed next to them, but they hadn't been cooked yet.

Where did the fragrance come from?

He walked over and tried to dig up the pebbles near the stove to take a look, but Sun Fuling slapped him on the back of his hand: "Don't move, it's not cooked yet!"

What's wrong with you?

"Yam eggs? Sweet potatoes?"

"All of them. These are the results of Master Wang and Master Liu's battles." The dog's nose is quite sharp, "But we haven't found any food to go with the meal yet."

"Where are the two masters?"

"The academy has divided into groups. They took about 20 children to pick wild vegetables and mushrooms, and our group fished in the stream." Sun Fuling rarely showed distress on her face, "The results are not good."

"Really?" Since it was his girlfriend's trouble, Commander He showed great enthusiasm, "Let me take a look."

He took a look among the children and found that the most picked in the basket were snails and river clams. The most brilliant results were just a few small crabs, not much bigger than a fingernail.

As for river fish, there were only seven or eight, and the largest was no longer than a middle finger.

With just these few things, how could they be enough for six or seven adults and fifty children to eat in one meal?

"Oh, it's really just fishing." No wonder Master Sun was distressed.

"You're not counting on this for lunch, are you?" He Lingchuan teased the crabs in the basket, making them angry. "Such small crabs are not enough for the children to eat in one bite."

"We brought a lot of food with us." Sun Fuling whispered, "but the children like it better if we eat what we catch ourselves."

"In spring, there are a lot of whitefish in Taoxi. You didn't use the right method." Because of the peach blossom forest on the shore, the name of this stream is Taoxi. He Lingchuan said to her, "Knead some big dough for me, and make it a little dry. Otherwise, you can also pick some snail meat, but you need to pick more."

Sun Fuling smiled and went to knead the dough.

He Lingchuan took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, moved seven or eight smooth large stones from the shore, placed them one by one to lay the foundation, and then clapped his hands and called the children: "Come here, come here, if you want to eat fish, come and help!"

The children never worried about lunch. They just wanted to play when they came out. Commander He waved his hand, and the children came running over. Under his command, they began to pick up large pebbles and build a small dam in the water.

"It must be built tightly and solidly, without leaving any gaps!"

He Lingchuan chose a shallow and quiet water surface, and the pebble dam was at an angle to the sand bank, like an enlarged trumpet mouth.

Xiaopang didn't build it well, and when He Lingchuan raised his leg, the pebbles all fell down.

"Do it again!"

There were four or five bamboo baskets at the trumpet mouth, the basket surface was higher than the stream, and the bottom was also pressed down with pebbles to prevent it from being washed away by the water.

After the dam was built, it became a small quiet water bay.

Fish like quiet water.

Soon, small fish from other places swam into the trumpet mouth, but there were not many, not enough for He Lingchuan to swallow.

"From now on, don't move or make a sound." He raised his finger to make a silent gesture.

The children rushed to imitate, and the sound of hissing was endless.

"..."

He Lingchuan turned around and asked the master for dough.

The three masters had already kneaded out a few white dough balls, which were blown by the wind and were indeed hard and dry. He Lingchuan casually broke off a strand of dough, crushed it, and shook his wrist to sprinkle it on the water surface in the dam.

At first, no fish paid attention to it. The movement on the water surface scared the original small fish into the cracks of the rocks.

For a long time, it was quiet here, nothing.

Little Fatty couldn't help but say: "The fish won't come..."

The little girl next to him covered his mouth with one hand and pointed her finger to "hush".

How could the commander do something wrong?

A few dozen breaths passed, and the small fish didn't find the danger, and the dough residue that sank could be eaten again.

Slowly, fish floated to the surface and took away the scum.

One tail, two tails... ten tails.

He Lingchuan threw another handful of flour bait and repeated the above steps.

When he was a child, he caught fish and shrimps in the stream and had a lot of patience.

This was repeated more than ten times. For more than two-quarters of an hour, there were more and more fish in the short embankment. The new ones who joined in saw that their companions were fine and became more and more courageous.

As soon as he casts the bait, the fish swarm over each other on the water surface for fear of missing a bite.

He Lingchuan slowly threw the bait towards the mouth of the trumpet, and then gestured to the children: "Run!"

The children had been impatient for this signal for a long time. At this time, they rushed into the stream with their bare feet and stepped on the water.

They lined up in a row and kicked water toward the embankment, forcing the fish to swim deeper into the embankment.

It was very dark inside the bamboo basket, and the fish that were frightened inside felt safer.

He Lingchuan estimated that it was almost done and ordered the three masters guarding here to lift the bamboo basket at the same time.

He grabbed the big stone on the side and blocked the gap.

Sun Fuling lowered her head and looked into the basket, smiling widely:

"There's fish, there's fish!"

There were quite a few fish, at least thirty of them, bumping into the basket in panic. Most of them are no longer than the tail finger.

Looking at the other baskets, the results are much better.

As soon as the children heard there was fish, they all ran over to see it.