Traveling into the era: I messed with Dr. Xie and got turned on

Chapter 39: Crabs are not tasty because they have no meat

As for shoes, in addition to the pair of very worn rubber shoes on Xie Yan's feet, there was also a pair of cloth shoes. These cloth shoes were wrapped in a piece of black cloth and looked like they had never been worn.

"Is this a token of love?"

According to popular science in various TV dramas, women in ancient times and today seem to like to give their loved ones cloth shoes they made themselves. Xie Yan's pair of shoes is so precious that it must have been given by an important person.

Tang Man quickly wrapped the cloth shoes and put them into the closet together with Xie Yan's clothes. She felt a little annoyed. She shouldn't have opened the cloth bag out of curiosity. Everyone has their own secrets, and even husband and wife should not pry into each other's secrets.

When Tang Man came out of the room, only the kitchen and medicine cabinet were left to be cleaned. The kitchen was very small and it was a bit crowded for two people. Tang Ling thought Tang Man was in the way and drove her out.

Xie Yan didn't need her help. He had to put the herbs himself so that he could remember the approximate location of each herb, which would make it more convenient for him to get the herbs.

Tang Man was bored, so she walked to the back door of the main room and opened it. After coming here, she noticed that there was another back door in the main room. She had no time to explore it before because she had to pack her luggage. Now she was free, so she might as well go and see what was outside the back door.

"Huh!" After the door was opened, Tang Man couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise. There was actually a river several meters wide behind the door. There was not much water in the river at this time. The water in the shallow area was only up to the ankles. There were large and small stones under the water, and the river embankments on both sides were made of earth, and there were many large and small irregular holes on it.

Tang Man narrowed her eyes, the corners of her lips slightly raised, she ran back to the yard to get a bucket, then ran to the back door, rolled up her trouser legs and sleeves, and walked into the river along the specially cut steps outside the door.

She walked to a mud hole. After looking around to make sure there was no one there, she took a branch and dug hard in the mud hole.

After a while, a crab emerged from another mud hole submerged in water below the mud hole. The two crabs scrambled to crawl out of the mud hole and dived into the water, trying to escape.

Tang Man grabbed a crab and threw it into the bucket.

Hehe! She actually guessed it right, the mud holes in the river were indeed made by crabs.

"Where's Manman? She's not in the room, the yard, or outside the door." Tang Ling cleaned up the kitchen and walked out to ask Tang Man what she wanted to eat in the evening, but he couldn't find her after looking around, so he could only ask Xie Yan.

Xie Yan was stunned for a few seconds, looked towards the back door, and walked quickly to the back. He had been busy packing the herbs and didn't pay much attention to other things. Now thinking carefully, Tang Man seemed to have gone out from the back door, and had been gone for a long time.

"It seems he went out through the back door."

"Nothing will happen!" Tang Ling hurriedly followed.

"Manman can't swim." Seeing the river outside the door, Tang Ling suddenly became anxious. He jumped into the river and floated downstream.

Xie Yan also hurriedly followed. He was a little calmer than Tang Ling. After going down, he looked around and soon saw a small figure standing hunched in front of a river bank upstream of the river. No one knew what the figure was doing.

"Manman, brother, Manman is over here." Xie Yan shouted and hurried towards Tang Man.

Tang Man heard the noise of the two people as soon as they jumped into the water, but she had just taken a crab out of the mud hole and had no time to pay attention to them. By the time she caught the crab, Xie Yan and Tang Ling had already rushed in front of her.

As soon as he ran over, Tang Ling yelled at Tang Man, "Manman, what are you doing? You can't swim but you jumped into the river. Do you want to scare us to death?"

"Brother, are you too nervous? The water in the river is only up to your ankles." Tang Man was a little speechless and pushed the bucket in her hand to Tang Ling. "Wait for me for a while, and then go back after you get one more. It's almost time to get off work. Don't let anyone see us and accuse us of stealing collective property."

In this era, everything flying in the sky and swimming in the water belongs to collective property, but most places have relaxed their policies in recent years and will not really take the villagers too seriously. However, the Litang Brigade will still take it too seriously. Once someone is caught stealing collective property, Wang Goudan will gather the entire village together to criticize the person.

Tang Man had just arrived at the Xiaowan Village Brigade and didn't know the rules here, but she still had to be careful when necessary, so as not to be caught and criticized as soon as she arrived here.

Before Xie Yan and Tang Ling could say anything, a voice suddenly rang out from above their heads, "What do you mean by robbing collective property? Our village doesn't have those broken rules. As long as we have the ability to catch anything in the mountains, in the water, or in the sky, it's ours. No one in the village will say anything."

Suddenly a voice came out, startling the three of them, and they quickly raised their heads to look in the direction of the sound.

A gray-haired old lady was standing on the river bank nearby. She was looking at the bucket in Tang Ling's hand with a smile. "So many crabs! Crabs don't have meat, so they're not tasty. If you want to eat meat, you can go to the creek at the entrance of the village and fish."

"Auntie, well, I was just bored, so I caught it for fun." Tang Man snatched the bucket away. "And I caught it by myself. The other two just came down and didn't help."

"Haha! Don't be nervous, my girl. We don't have those stinky rules here. Even Yonglin takes the villagers to the mountains to catch wild game from time to time! But you can't go to the back mountain. There are many large animals in the back mountain. It's very dangerous."

The old lady was amused by Tang Man's reaction. She explained with a smile and said.

"You are Doctor Xie's family, right? I am Yonglin... the second aunt of our Party Secretary Zhou. Everyone in the village calls me Aunt Zhou Er."

"Hello, Aunt Zhou, I'm Tang Man, and this is my husband Xie Yan, and my eldest brother Tang Ling." Tang Man felt relieved when she found out that the other party really had no ill intentions.

"Hello! Hey! My son came back this afternoon and said that he saw you three from a distance and thought you were good-looking people. When he got closer, he saw that you were all handsome indeed!"

Aunt Zhou was very enthusiastic. She greeted the three of them and invited them to her house. However, Tang Man and the others declined. They had just arrived and it was not appropriate to go to someone else's house and disturb them.

After chatting for a while, Tang Man felt a little worried and couldn't help asking, "Aunt Zhou Er, does our village really not care about finding food for ourselves?"

"He used to be in charge, but he stopped since Yonglin became the Party branch secretary. He often encouraged everyone to be independent and not just rely on the work points to make a living."

"Secretary Zhou is such a nice person." Tang Man praised sincerely.

"Of course not. No one in this village would say anything bad about Yonglin."

After chatting for a few more sentences, Tang Man left with Xie Yan and Tang Ling on the pretext of going back to cook.

"This crab has no meat and is not tasty." Tang Ling did not want to criticize Tang Man, but the crab indeed had no meat.