Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 392 Catching Fish

After he said that, Song Ying found a stone of suitable height, sat down and recited aloud, "When dryness hurts, the lungs are affected first, then the large intestine, and then the five internal organs are affected, causing different diseases..."

After reciting a few sentences, he remembered something and stopped to ask, "Will that disturb your calligraphy practice?"

I was practicing calligraphy and calming my mind, and she was reciting beside me noisily, which seemed a bit noisy.

Yuan Qing still shook his head, "In the academy, it's impossible for classmates to do everything together."

Song Ying felt relieved and continued to recite. Tangtang was playing with grass leaves and chasing insects beside him. When it ran far away, Song Ying pulled the rope and pulled it back.

After memorizing the three chapters on dryness-induced diseases, colds, and cold diseases in "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", Song Ying stopped and thought carefully, combining the relevant knowledge he had learned with the conditions of patients of this type he had come into contact with in the clinic, comparing the symptoms and pulse conditions of the three diseases, and thinking about how they differed from person to person.

When I looked up, I suddenly saw the line on the fishing rod trembling slightly, and ripples appeared on the water surface.

A fish is hooked!

She turned around and wanted to call Yuan Qing, but she saw him writing with his wrist suspended, his expression focused and he was very absorbed in writing. After a slight hesitation, she did not call him and simply went to collect the fishing rod herself.

Song Ying had never fished before and didn't know that the fishing rod was so elastic. She lifted the rod with force and the fishing line suddenly straightened and then bounced up violently.

Snapped!

Before she could see clearly, something cold and mixed with water was thrown on her face and quickly bounced back. A faint salty smell immediately spread between her nostrils.

Yuan Qing was practicing very attentively when suddenly a few drops of water splashed on his face. Looking up, he saw Song Ying standing there holding the fishing rod. A fish as wide as a palm was struggling violently, causing the fishing line and fishing rod to vibrate rapidly.

"Why didn't you call me?"

He hurried forward to take the fish off the hook, but he didn't expect that something was faster than him. A white shadow suddenly rushed over and leaped towards the fish.

"Candy!"

Song Ying was so frightened that her heart almost stopped. She had just pulled the fish out of the water, and before she could turn the fishing rod, there was a lake below!

Such a thin fishing line, how can it bear Tangtang’s weight!

In a flash, she remembered that there was a rope tied around Tangtang's neck, and the other end was tied to the tree next to her, so she was about to throw away the fishing rod and pull the cat rope.

With a rope, you won't drown, but you will become a drowned cat.

Just as Tangtang hugged the fish and the fishing line was pulled downward, Yuan Qing reached out and hugged Tangtang.

Song Ying finally put his heart back in his stomach. He took a few steps forward to check. Tangtang was hugged by Yuan Qing, a stranger. She was a little scared and struggled a few times, but did not let go of the fish.

It held the fish tightly with its two front paws and bit the fish's body with its mouth, making threatening sounds, and kicked up with its two feet to try to kick the fish. Unfortunately, the fish was too small, and its two paws held down the entire body of the fish. It was also in mid-air, so it failed to kick the fish.

"Be careful with its legs. Don't let them kick you. Its legs are very strong." Song Ying warned Yuan Qing while quickly taking the fishhook out of the fish's mouth to prevent the greedy Tangtang from biting the hook.

Then he tried to pry open Tangtang's mouth, trying to take the fish out of it, "Tangtang, let go!"

Tangtang ignored him and continued to make threatening whimpering sounds to protect her food.

"Be careful!" Yuan Qing was very worried when she saw her trying to pry the cat's mouth open. "Don't touch cats and dogs when they are protecting their food."

"It's okay, it won't bite." Song Ying was very confident in Tangtang. He pried open its mouth and took the fish out of its teeth.

There were deep claw marks on both sides of the palm-wide fish body, and two very deep holes on the back near the neck.

After being bitten like this, can people still eat it?

As soon as this thought flashed through her mind, the next second, Tangtang reached out and pulled the fish into her mouth again.

Song Ying: “…”

"Just let it eat it." Yuan Qing was amused by the scene. He put the candy on the ground while trying to hold back his laughter.

Tangtang immediately took the fish in his mouth and jumped into its bamboo basket.

Song Ying: “…”

It seemed like it had never eaten fish in its entire life. I had fed it fish before, but I had never seen it be so active.

She apologized, "I'm so sorry, it never snatched food before, I really didn't expect this."

"It's okay. If it likes to eat, just give it to it and then go fishing."

Yuan Qing didn't care at all. He picked up the fishing rod on the ground, hooked the earthworm on it again and threw it into the lake. He then taught Song Ying how to reel in the rod: "Don't be too hasty when reeling in the rod. It's okay for small fish, but if it's a big fish, you'll break the line if you're too hasty."

Song Ying nodded, "Okay, I'll remember that. I'll go slower next time."

"Just call me. Don't worry about disturbing me. I'm just practicing calligraphy. I'm not afraid of being interrupted." After a pause, he said, "If you want to learn how to fish, I'll teach you."

Song Ying wanted to refuse. She really had no interest in fishing. She glanced at Tangtang and swallowed the words of refusal. "Then thank you for your help."

"I'll make a fishing rod and bring it over tomorrow."

Song Ying was stunned. That wasn't right. She couldn't come tomorrow, could she? It was fine for a single man and a single woman to meet today, but why did she come later? Why did it feel like a private meeting?

However, it is not good to regret it immediately after agreeing to learn fishing.

Song Ying was in a dilemma and was very worried.

"Hey, another fish is on the hook!"

Yuan Qing's surprised voice rang out, and Song Ying temporarily put aside his worries and went to see how Yuan Qing reeled in his fishing rod.

I saw him holding the fishing rod and letting the fish swim with the fishing line. When the fish's struggle stopped, he tightened the fishing line little by little and pulled the fish to the lake. Finally, he lifted the fishing rod and the fish was struggling while hanging on the rope.

"Meow~Meow~Meow~" Tangtang rushed out of the basket. Because the fishing line was reeled in a little, the fish was hung very high. Tangtang failed to catch it with one leap and was very anxious.

Song Ying quickly hugged it and asked, "Why do you want to eat it again? Have you finished that one?"

Yuan Qing was very generous to Tangtang. He took the fish and was about to throw it to it. Song Ying glanced at the bamboo basket and saw that there was still some fish in it. He hurriedly stopped him and said, "It hasn't finished eating yet. Don't give it to it yet."

As she said that, she walked towards the bamboo basket, ready to take the remaining fish to give to Tangtang, but she found that the fish was intact and Tangtang had not eaten a single bite.

Song Ying was speechless, "Why are you in such a hurry if you don't want to eat?"

Tangtang ignored her and continued to circle the jumping fish, meowing anxiously.

"It doesn't eat fish?" Yuan Qing was surprised. He remembered that cats liked things with strong fishy smell.

Song Ying looked at the motionless fish in the basket, then at the lively fish in Yuan Qing's hand, and suddenly realized that Tangtang didn't want to eat, it wanted to play.

Come to think of it, Tangtang has eaten raw meat before.

“It doesn’t eat raw food.”

After saying this, Song Ying felt that Tangtang was being a little pretentious.