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Chapter 227 - 89: Catching Fish, Digging Pit_1

Chapter 227: Chapter 89: Catching Fish, Digging Pit_1

No matter what kind of news emerges in the small town, it spreads faster than it could be aired on television.

The news that Third Ni’er from the Xu family had been admitted to university spread like the wind after Yan Fei, brought Xu Xiaoyan home to celebrate at noon.

Such news really can’t be concealed, as Xu Xiaoyan isn’t the only student in the town attending First High School. Moreover, the high schools in town also pay attention to the college entrance examination results from all the schools in the county. In fact, a red banner had been hung at the gate of the town’s high school by noon.

There are usually two messages on the banner. One congratulates a certain number of students for scoring higher than the technical college line in that year’s college entrance examination. The other replaces the three words, "technical college line", with "undergraduate line". However, sometimes this isn’t on display.

This high school, housed in a more than 300-year-old building, is basically a big tragedy. In the past, there were instances when only one message was displayed. As one would expect, this meant that only the technical college line had been surpassed. When it came to higher scores, unfortunately, none were achieved!

This year broke the historical record, with the number on the technical college lined banner shockingly reaching double digits. The number of people with higher scores than the undergraduate line was several times higher than the record for the same period in previous years. Even elementary school students would calculate just how significant this increase was.

This was unavoidable. It really was quite an achievement for a high school in a small town to produce these results in today’s day and age.

Once the high school’s banner was up, people who want to watch fun started asking which family’s child had been admitted to university. Hence, Xu Xiaoyan’s scores were naturally made known.

In fact, there wasn’t much to ask. Basically anyone who went to shop at the Xu family’s store that afternoon would receive accurate news from Xu Xiaoyan’s mother. This illiterate old lady remembered her daughter’s scores quite clearly.

So when Yan Fei leisurely returned to the cattle ranch, not only did acquaintances like Pang Fa come to congratulate him, some idlers also came by to see what Xu Xiaoyan looked like under the pretence of buying wine. They took the chance to praise her.

A university student from the prestigious Provincial University really was a marvel, even though she was just a female university student.

If Xu Xiaoyan hadn’t been with Yan Fei, this female university student would have been greatly devalued. But since she was about to become the daughter-in-law of the Yan Family, the value of being a female university student was very different.

This is a difficult concept to explain or understand. Essentially, the idea that one should bring glory to one’s family is still deeply ingrained in people’s hearts. A family without a son, even if their daughter becomes a university student, still doesn’t hold as much value as another family’s daughter-in-law who is a university student.

Even if it’s the same person, a change in identity can naturally lead to a change in the value of the halo they hold. That’s reality.

When Xu Xiaoyan’s two elder sisters were admitted to university, they weren’t as esteemed as she is now. In previous years, the preference for boys over girls was much stronger. A daughter was always considered someone else’s in the end. If someone didn’t say that this family was crazy for cultivating university students for others, it could be considered that they were being polite.

Xu Xiaoyan didn’t have Yan Fei’s thick-skinned manner and simply didn’t stay in the front liquor store. Instead, she accompanied Yan Fei as he busied himself.

Pang Fa had come by to drop off some oil residue. After a few words of congratulations and some inquiries, he left. Yan Fei then busied himself again.

Anyway, he always managed to find something to do and carried a shovel to dig a pit to raise fish.

But his efforts were a bit too vigorous, which resulted in two broken shovels. He had to pause and, with a big basin in hand, head to the river to catch fish first.

Xu Xiaoyan didn’t worry when she saw him catch fish. After all, it wasn’t unusual for him to stay underwater for an hour or two at a time. To pass the time, she brought a book to read by the riverbank. Of course, she couldn’t be without the four big dogs and the cow, who doubled as playmates and bodyguards, by her side.

Meanwhile, Yan Fei was actually daydreaming underwater!

Not far from his small Sarcosuchus, there was a two-foot-long giant catfish.

If it had been before, seeing such a rarely big wild catfish, Yan Fei would have immediately gone into a frenzy and pounced on it.

But now he’s been using giant salamander to fool Xu Xiaoyan, taking advantage of the fact that she hasn’t eaten catfish and doesn’t know the difference between catfish and giant salamander. Now that there really is a giant catfish, can he catch it?

He knows the difference between these two types of meat better than anyone else! Although they’re both called fish, there’s a big difference!

However, such a large catfish is really rare in the river. You only see one of this size during the flood period. To just let it go, he really can’t bear it!

After thinking it over, he ultimately couldn’t bear to let go of this big catfish. After all, this was his favorite among the freshwater fishes he had encountered. As such, he opened his mouth - not the mouth of the little Sarcosuchus, mind you, the catfish was simply too big, even larger than the Sarcosuchus itself!

Instead, he utilized the mouth of a giant salamander. When he was lured to kill the first giant salamander, he hadn’t thought too much, the one he killed was not the largest. But even if it wasn’t the largest, it was almost four meters long. The wide, flat mouth opened wide, and the two-foot-long catfish didn’t have a shred of resistance.

Bringing the big catfish straight underwater, Yan Fei dug into Vegetable Garden Island, then got to work with his tools again.

He dug a hole next to the stream, introduced the stream water into it, blocked the gap, and threw in the catfish.

Reappearing in the river, Yan Fei once again transformed into a small Sarcosuchus to catch fish. The nearly four-meter-long stature of the giant salamander was simply too large. Although the river was somewhat murky due to the flood, this couldn’t guarantee that the maiden on the shore wouldn’t see him, and scaring her would be no good.

Catching fish till evening, Yan Fei groped for a string of crabs on the shore before going back with Xu Xiaoyan.

When he delivered the fish to Lin Yumei, Heizi saw it and sighed: "Fish again?"

His comment immediately attracted unanimous criticism from the group led by Old Cheng: "You’re not satisfied with having fish to eat, what else do you want?"

Yan Fei chose to ignore him, telling Ma Chao to pick up a fish when he went home later.

When Dang Wenzheng and Xiang Changqing came to call him for patrol in the evening, he already had an excuse: "I plan to dig a big water hole to raise fish in the evening, you guys can patrol around here for a while, I’ll be okay in a bit."

Actually, without any incidents for several days, everyone had let their guard down. After all, according to the legend, the big snake had moved upstream, and their part of the river was still filthy. Everyone felt in their hearts that unless the big snake was a fool, it would definitely not choose to show up in this section of the river, weren’t all the fish in the river poisoned and unable to swim?

So the two men cheerfully gave Yan Fei his ’break’, and also congratulated Xu Xiaoyan on getting admitted to university.

Seeing the two of them go out to patrol, and with Yan Fei not having to go, Xu Xiaoyan also went to sleep peacefully.

And then Yan Fei got busy.

First, he stewed a pot of giant salamander meat, and then lit up the iron-smelting furnace. He threw a steel plate in, and after a little while, he clapped it into the shape of a shovel, fitted it with a suitably thick wooden handle, and a custom large steel shovel was made.

Taking this tool, he expanded the home of the big catfish several times to make it comfortable in its last days. Now that they had giant salamander’s meat to eat, the attraction of this catfish was just too minimal, let’s just keep it for now! It can be dealt with when they think about it later.

After thinking about it, he deliberately dug a bit larger. The island was big enough anyway, so it was at his disposal. He planned to continue to raise any big catfish he caught in the future. As for whether he would eat them after raising them, he hadn’t thought about it yet, anyway, his plan was to catch any big catfish he encountered in the river first.

Having arranged all of this, he went to the cow pasture and started digging laboriously.

With his strength, and the right tools, he alone was virtually equivalent to a small excavator.

After digging the hole, he started carrying the water buckets. As there were only a few dogs around and no one else to watch him, he transported water directly from Vegetable Garden Island to the pit.

The efficiency was ridiculously high, and he didn’t even have to straighten his waist; just scoop up the water and pour it out, faster than if he used a hosepipe.

Even after filling up, he wasn’t in a rush to stock the fish. Firstly, there weren’t a lot of fish, and secondly, the freshly dug water pit needed the water to seep down a bit and also to let the water settle a bit before adding the fish.

After working, he was so hungry he couldn’t stand it and hurried back to Vegetable Garden Island to eat meat.

Ever since he could transform into a huge python, his appetite hadn’t shown any indication of receding, particularly after he destroyed the paper mill and had people around him both day and night, chances for him to secretly overeat had been few and far between.

Now, in order to save the Camarasaurus, he had added the transformation of the Deinonychus. His stomach was like a bottomless pit, and the little amount of food he ate during the day wasn’t enough to fill him up!

If anyone saw him eating voraciously like this, they would definitely be frightened. It really was as the saying goes: He was so hungry he could eat a cow!