Chapter 360: Chapter 210: Cooking Snails in the Style of Spicy Crawfish! Zeng Xiaoqi: I Left Early! [Request for Monthly Ticket]_2
"Just hand me the phone. You and Dundun can wait on the shore, okay? Dundun, be good and don’t run around. I’ll make you something delicious tonight."
As soon as he heard there would be delicious food, Dundun immediately sat obediently on the square wooden logs of the dock.
But Shen Baobao wasn’t so well-behaved.
Seeing her second uncle driving the assault boat slowly toward the other side of the reservoir, the girl immediately took off her little white shoes. She pulled up her trouser legs, revealing her fair and well-proportioned feet and calves, then jumped into the water.
WOW, the icy cool water feels so refreshing!
What twenty-something Baobao could resist the joy of playing in the water?
The water in the reservoir was very clear, and the bottom was all pebbles, which were comfortable to step on.
After playing for a while, she began to bend down and pick snails from the water. Once she had gathered a handful, she even specifically picked a nearby lotus leaf to place the snails on.
While she was picking, she saw a small crab in the crevice of the rocks and grabbed it, placing it in front of Dundun,
"Here’s something fun for you. Don’t treat me like a wicked stepmother anymore, will you?"
After speaking, Shen Baobao continued to pick snails.
Meanwhile, Dundun lowered his head to look at the little crab on the ground, which was trying to crawl back into the water. He immediately circled it and gently prodded it with his paw.
The little crab instantly raised its two big pincers, and the cat and crab began a standoff.
"Second Uncle, where should we put these shrimp cages?"
"Just leave them in this shallow area over here. The east bank of the reservoir is too close to the water park, so there are fewer shrimp. It’s quieter here, so there are comparatively more shrimp."
When they reached the opposite side of the reservoir, the uncle and nephew began placing shrimp cages into the water.
These cages were designed to let shrimp in but not out. They contained bait, so there was no worry about the shrimp not being fooled.
Besides shrimp, they could also catch small river fish, as well as loaches, eels, and catfish, which are common in the reservoir.
Each shrimp cage had a buoy attached to it for easy retrieval later on.
After setting all the shrimp cages, the second uncle also placed some fishing nets in the area dense with water plants.
He didn’t intend to catch fish. He just felt it was a waste of the speedboat’s gasoline to make a trip just to set shrimp cages. However, just as he set them, a largemouth bass weighing several pounds swam right through the meshes of the net.
"AIYO, we’ve got a catch!"
"A wild largemouth bass, eh? Boss Lin, you’re really lucky, huh?"
"Tears of envy are flowing from the corners of my mouth."
"Dang, this fish is struggling hard! You can tell it’s wild, not like those wild streaming hosts who use dead fish bought from the market."
"Exactly! The wild streaming section is getting faker and faker these days. They swing a dead fish back and forth, pretending it’s tough to catch—it’s just insulting the audience’s intelligence!"
"So does this mean Boss Lin is once again encroaching on the turf of wild streaming hosts?"
"If you hadn’t mentioned it, I’d have forgotten that Boss Lin crossed over into the live streaming circle! Donate big, everyone, and let’s get him to the top of the leaderboard!"
At this point, the live broadcast was getting into full swing.
The popularity of the live streaming room was soaring.
Various fan groups and friend circles, sensing the excitement, also began a new round of gifting.
"Wu Kexin donates five Carnivals!"
"Panda Brother donates three Carnivals!"
"Lin Ji Boy Yue Liyue donates six Carnivals!"
"Zeng Xiaoxiao Xiaoqi donates two Carnivals!"
"Xierqi Qiang Brother donates two Carnivals!"
"Guo Xinghai, Heir to Yue Cuisine, donates five Carnivals!"
"Food Prince donates thirty-three Carnivals!"
"Gao Xiaoshuai donates thirty-three Carnivals!"
"Die Lianhua donates one hundred Carnivals!"
"..."
When the broadcast first started, Chen Yan didn’t notify people under the Lin Ji’s Food topic. Instead, she planned to donate a dozen or two Carnivals to attract some passerby fans.
She also wanted to see if she could stir up the rival streamers on the leaderboard.
Her plan was to wait until fans from both sides started attacking each other, then go to the Lin Ji’s Food topic to invite people, directly stepping over the competition and achieving instant fame.
But not long after the broadcast started, Lin Xu’s fans had advertised it everywhere; even her uncle was startled.
HMPH, this Food Prince who donated thirty-three Carnivals must be her uncle’s account—a man in his forties or fifties still calling himself Prince, TSK TSK...
Watching her brother-in-law’s account firmly occupying the top spot on the donor list, Chen Yan felt her previous arrangements were somewhat redundant.
As the live streaming circles grew more standardized, streamers who used to antagonize each other became fewer. Everyone was sharp as a tack and would immediately join in when they saw a big spender.
Just like now, a group of second-rate streamers rushed to the live room to send gifts, celebrating Lin Xu’s new streaming channel.
Their enthusiasm was so great, an outsider might think they had been old friends for years.
On the assault boat, Lin Xu couldn’t even pay attention to the live stream.
He and his second uncle struggled to pull the largemouth bass that was caught in the net into the cabin of the boat.
After disentangling the net, the second uncle put it back into the water and then drove the assault boat towards the east bank of the reservoir.
"We’ll keep it in the pond when we get back. Isn’t your grandma’s birthday coming up? We’ll cook it then."
"Okay, Second Uncle!"
Back on the shore, Lin Xu saw that Shen Baobao’s trousers were wet halfway up and her T-shirt was also speckled with mud. He couldn’t help but ask curiously,
"My treasure, did you roll around in the water or something?"
"I... I wanted to help you pick snails..."
The second uncle jumped onto the temporary dock, fastened the boat’s rope, and then smiled and said,
"If you want to eat snails, you can just scoop them up with a net a few times. It’s too slow to pick them like this."
After saying that, he took out a long scoop net from the dock’s cabin.