Chapter 14

"I felt it the first time he came."

"I thought he was a teacher or a technician; I only found out today that he's a farmer, which is really surprising."

Xu Huirong nodded.

"You felt it the first time he came?"

"So you've been paying a lot of attention to him; you said I fell for him, but I think you're the one who fell for him, right?"

"No wonder every time he comes to buy wine, you serve him personally; you want to take the opportunity to talk to him more, right?"

"Did I catch you?"

Chen Xueru seized on Xu Huirong's slip of the tongue and teased her.

At the same time.

There was a hint of a crisis in her heart.

She and Xu Huirong were good sisters, but also competitors.

They always wanted to get the upper hand over the other.

What if Xu Huirong also fell for Wan Ping'an?

Two women fighting for a husband?

Wan Ping'an, who had left the small tavern, headed straight for the Sihe Academy, but after walking only a dozen steps, he stopped again.

"Forgot."

"I ate the last duck yesterday."

"Go catch a few more ducks."

Wan Ping'an turned around and headed straight for the outskirts.

The outskirts.

By the small river.

Jia Dong didn't listen to the advice and walked into the dense water grass by the small river.

"Wan Ping'an, you just wait, I will definitely catch wild ducks, and I must catch more than you; let's see what else you have to be proud of?"

Jia Dong looked at the large patch of water grass; where were the wild ducks?

Whoosh!

Not far in front of him, a wild duck flew up.

"I saw it."

"That must be the wild duck's nest."

Jia Dong ran over excitedly.

Soon.

He ran to the place where the wild duck flew up, prepared to pick up duck eggs, looked down, but didn't find a wild duck nest, let alone duck eggs.

"How could there be none?"

"Did I find the wrong place?"

Jia Dong thought he had seen wrong.

Another wild duck flew up.

Jia Dong chased after it, but also returned empty-handed.

The people waiting by the river to see the joke were all laughing their heads off.

"Haha, another big fool."

"He doesn't know anything about wild ducks; to protect their nests, they never take off near the nest, and there are no duck eggs where they take off."

The people by the river mocked him with cold sarcasm.

Fortunately, Jia Dong couldn't hear them, otherwise, he would definitely be ashamed.

Ah!

Jia Dong let out a miserable scream.

He stepped into empty air and sank.

The large patch of water grass by the river was very dangerous; under the water grass, some of it wasn't solid ground at all, but mud; if you stepped on it, you would sink.

Jia Dong panicked; would he drown?

"I don't want to die, I'm still young, I haven't married a wife yet!"

Jia Dong struggled hard and shouted for help.

Several wild ducks were scared away, but he had no heart to pay attention to the wild ducks now, he was scared to death, and no one came to save him.

Poof!

Jia Dong fell down, face-planting into the mud.

"Ptooey, it stinks!"

"Ugh, it's wild duck feces!"

Jia Dong retched.

After struggling, the exhausted Jia Dong finally crawled to a safe area.

He lay on his back on the ground, gasping for air.

"Not catching them anymore."

"I won't catch them even if I die."

"This broken place is too dangerous, it almost killed me."

Jia Dong was scared.

After recovering some strength, he walked straight toward the shore.

"Young man, didn't catch any wild ducks, did you?"

"If you don't listen to the old man's words, you'll suffer the consequences; suffered, didn't you?"

The old man who had advised Jia Dong earlier looked at him quietly.

Humph!

Jia Dong snorted coldly and turned to leave.

"Look, he's barefoot on his left foot; he lost his shoe."

"Hahaha, it's too funny; he didn't catch any wild ducks, but lost a shoe instead; he really tried to steal a chicken but lost the rice!"

Everyone burst into laughter.

Jia Dong's face turned red, and he left quickly, limping.

It wasn't that he was lame, but that he had lost the shoe on his left foot, and the sole of his foot was in direct contact with the ground; as long as it was slightly uneven, it hurt his left foot.

An hour after Jia Dong left, Wan Ping'an arrived.

"Young man, are you here to catch wild ducks again?"

"How many are you planning to catch today?"

"How about selling us some?"

As soon as Wan Ping'an arrived, everyone surrounded him.

Every time he came, it took him ten minutes at most to catch two or three wild ducks, which left a deep impression on everyone, and it was hard for them to forget him.

Wan Ping'an shook off the crowd and came into the water grass.

Farming intuition!

Soon.

He locked onto a group of wild ducks.

Choosing the fattest one, he walked straight over.

Quack!

The ducks were startled and flew away.

Wan Ping'an flicked his hand, and a small stone knocked the wild duck unconscious.

By the way, he harvested five duck eggs.

"Hey, why is there a shoe?"

Wan Ping'an saw a place where the water grass was messy, as if it had been damaged by someone, and a shoe floated up; it looked like a new shoe.

He didn't pick it up.

He continued to catch wild ducks.

In about a quarter of an hour, he had caught three wild ducks and thirteen duck eggs.

Turn around.

Go ashore.

Head home.

Everyone looked at him with envy.

Wan Ping'an had the technique for catching wild ducks; only he caught them, and there were so many wild ducks that even if he ate meat every day, he wouldn't be able to finish the wild duck flock.

"Eating beer duck again tonight!"

Wan Ping'an looked at the three fat wild ducks.

He only caught the fattest and biggest ones.

Soon.

Wan Ping'an returned to the Sihe Academy.

Yan Fugui was guarding the gate conscientiously as always.

"Ping'an, caught wild ducks again?"

Yan Fugui was envious.

If only he knew how to catch wild ducks.

When Wan Ping'an walked to the middle courtyard, he heard a burst of cursing.

"Jia Dong, tell me, what are you good for?"

"I let you go catch wild ducks, did you catch any?"

"You didn't catch a single duck feather, and you lost a shoe; that was a new shoe I made for you, and you lost it after wearing it for only a few days?"

Jia Zhang's sharp cursing voice came out.

Wan Ping'an was stunned; Jia Dong went to catch ducks?

And lost a shoe?

Wan Ping'an remembered; when he was catching wild ducks, he saw a new shoe.

It must have been the one Jia Dong lost.

When Wan Ping'an passed by the Jia family's door, he saw the Jia family's door open, and Jia Dong was hanging his head, letting Jia Zhang curse him without daring to make a sound.

Jia Dong looked up and saw Wan Ping'an carrying three fat ducks.

"Damn it, why can Wan Ping'an catch wild ducks?"

"Why can't I catch any?"

Jia Dong glared at Wan Ping'an, gritting his teeth; he didn't catch any wild ducks, lost a shoe, and was scolded by Jia Zhang, all because of Wan Ping'an!