Transmigration: The Little Chef Calls The Shots-Chapter 1391 - 210, Lost (update 7)

Lin Yuan carefully returned to the shore, found a clean spot to sit, and watched Xia Zheng slowly wade through the pond as if he were walking on ice, which looked particularly comical.

"Hahaha." Lin Yuan couldn’t help but point at him and burst out laughing, which caused Xia Zheng, who had just steadied himself in the middle of the pond, to turn around and glare at her angrily.

However, this glare nearly killed Xia Zheng with anger. He pointed at Lin Yuan’s fully exposed little feet and calves, his voice stuttered with fury, "You, you, quickly put on your shoes and socks!"

Lin Yuan, still dangling her little feet in the air, didn’t pause her movements and disdainfully glanced at him, not taking him seriously at all. This was the countryside, not the Capital city with its many etiquettes, like not showing teeth while laughing or not letting men see your feet. Besides, she was still a child. She had often come here to catch fish and shrimp with Xiao Linshuang and Lin Wei barelegged. Where were all those etiquettes now?

Seeing that Lin Yuan was completely ignoring him, Xia Zheng got so angry that he stopped trying to catch fish and kept insisting that she wear her shoes and socks.

Lin Yuan, tired of his nagging, mumbled something, stood up, and was about to walk away barefoot.

Xia Zheng widened his eyes and called out to her, "Hey! Aren’t you competing anymore?"

"No need to compete, I have already won." Lin Yuan pointed to the five little fish on the ground, "You don’t have any."

"I haven’t even started yet!"

"All that nonsense means you’re too scared to start! So, you lose."

Xia Zheng’s mouth twitched. What kind of logic was that?

"Oh!" Xia Zheng’s eyes spun, "It’s not that I am too scared to start, it must be that you intentionally didn’t let me start! Right, you’re definitely afraid I would catch more fish than you, so you are too scared to start!"

Lin Yuan turned around abruptly, her face showing defiance. Xia Zheng knew he had hooked a big fish and continued to provoke her, "What, getting mad? Humph, if you don’t wear your shoes and socks, I won’t start, and if I don’t start, then you are too scared to compete!"

Fine, I’ll wear them!

Lin Yuan sat back down and grabbed her shoes and socks to start putting them on.

But while putting them on, she suddenly looked up at Xia Zheng, who was smirking, and snorted, "Don’t think your provocation worked. I came back to put them on because I felt a little chilly when the wind blew after I stood up!"

Xia Zheng rolled his eyes, clearly not believing her words.

Lin Yuan got her shoes and socks on, and lowered her pant legs. Xia Zheng finally began fishing.

Unlike Lin Yuan’s method, he had already found several tough grass sticks from the shore, which he now used to stir the water, immediately making it muddy and turbulent. The hidden fish started to swim around.

Xia Zheng, having practiced martial arts, had excellent eyesight and past experience in fishing. As soon as he spotted a fish swimming by his leg, his quick reflexes allowed him to swiftly grab the fish.

"One."

A little fish flew in a parabolic trajectory over his head, and Lin Yuan almost lay back on the grass in astonishment.

But before she could draw her neck back, another fish flew over her head, and Xia Zheng’s voice followed, "Two!"

Lin Yuan hummed, watching the two lively and jumping fish on the ground, and pursed her lips forcefully.

However, Xia Zheng clearly didn’t want to give her a chance to rest.

"Three!"

"Four!"

"Five!"

As another fish was about to surpass her own count, Lin Yuan licked her lips nervously and irritably, waiting for Xia Zheng to say "Six" and crush her hopes.

But after waiting a while, she didn’t hear Xia Zheng speak, and as the time was almost up, Lin Yuan grew both nervous and excited.

In the pond, Xia Zheng, who was pretending to stir the water with a grass stick, slanted his eyes towards Lin Yuan on the shore and bent his lips in amusement.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to shout "Stop" in her mind, Xia Zheng swiftly reached into the water and in one move, two small fish flew onto the shore.

"Six! Seven!"

Ah! Lin Yuan was almost going crazy!

Xia Zheng was definitely doing this on purpose; he must have seen how anxious she was and decided to throw those fish ashore at the last moment.

"Xia Zheng! You did that on purpose!"

Hands on her hips, Lin Yuan was so angry her mouth almost went crooked.

Hahaha. In the middle of the pond, Xia Zheng was laughing so hard he almost lost his balance and fell back into the water.

Seeing Xia Zheng enjoying himself so shamelessly, Lin Yuan felt both angry and resentful. Her eyes suddenly caught sight of someone’s shoes and socks by her feet, sparking a mischievous idea in her mind.

"Hey! Perfect, let’s have small fish soup for lunch. Since you’re so skilled, why not catch a few more?"

In a great mood, Xia Zheng readily agreed, "Sure thing! Just wait and see, I’ll catch all the small fish in this pond for you!"

Saying so, he continued to wave the grass stick in the water, bending over to catch the fish one by one and quickly tossing them ashore without looking up.

"How about that? Am I not amazing? Don’t be jealous of me! This unique skill isn’t something just anyone can learn. But, if you want to learn, it’s not impossible. However, you’ll need to find a suitable reward for me! Ah! No more food this time. If you really want to learn, I could offer you a discount. How about marriage, what do you say? Isn’t that a tempting offer? Aren’t you going to say something? Are you shy? Don’t be shy, sooner or later we’ll all... Eh? Yuanyuan? Yuanyuan, where did you go?"

Xia Zheng, rolling up his sleeves, his arms covered in mud, bent over and looked bewilderedly at the shore where Lin Yuan had been standing, but no one was there.

Looking at the ground, Xia Zheng was on the verge of tears.

Yuanyuan, where are my shoes and socks?

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan had already wrapped the small fish in Xia Zheng’s stinky socks and leisurely headed home. After all, Xia Zheng was a man, not so particular, and many men in the village came back from working in the fields with their pant legs rolled up, some even without shoes.

So, Lin Yuan was quite confident about Xia Zheng.

Once home, Lin Yuan asked Shui Xian to prepare a basin of water, dumped the small fish into it, and began to clean them with a small knife.

It had been quite some time since she had cleaned fish personally, and Lin Yuan felt a bit rusty, but after doing two, she got the hang of it. There were quite a few little fish. She had processed half of them when suddenly she heard gasps of shock from Shui Xian and the others.

Lin Yuan sensed something, quickly looked up, and couldn’t help but laugh when she saw the person in front of her.