It was the dead of winter and there had been very little rain, causing the water level in Nanxi Creek to drop significantly. During this time, the river snails were thin and lacked meat, and the wild ducks weren't laying many eggs, so there were fewer ways to make money.
Fortunately, Lin Qin’s luck held out; she was always able to catch large fish. Added to this were the catches from Chen Wenjun’s hoop nets, where he would scoop up marble gobies. On a slow day, they made thirty or forty yuan; on a good day, it could reach eighty or ninety.
They had no outside debts and didn’t need to build a new house. Whether they earned more or less didn’t really matter, and with the gold they had stashed away as a backup, their life was only going to get better.
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