Ordinary people's rice bowl

Chapter 67
After the exam, Mu Zhen felt good about herself, but she had no confidence in her heart. Since Lu Shuang publicly said that he was in love for nearly a month, he has always been in the trough of his life. The feeling is not heavy, and dreams appear from time to time, but I can't remember half of them. It's like suffering from a serious illness, and it's hard and difficult.As soon as the exam was over, Mu Zhen felt comfortable all over, as if recovering from a serious illness.

Waiting at home for the day when the grades will be announced, Mu Zhen still thinks about reading a few more books, and he thinks of Mr. Ma again, thinking about Mr. Ma's bookcase under the bed.

Mu Zhen went to Mr. Ma's house to borrow books this time. Unlike before, he didn't want to go to Mr. Ma's house empty-handed. He should get something to make the old man happy. Mu Zhen looked around the house and didn't look at it. What a decent gift, he sat at the desk thinking, what does an old man need?From time to time, the hand holding the pen is scribbling randomly on the paper in front of him.

He drew an apple, and then a pear, which we don't have at home!Mu Zhen sighed, put down the pen in his hand, walked out the door, saw a few lotus leaves in the ditch outside the gate, and suddenly had an idea.

When the hour hand reached ten o'clock in the morning, Mu Zhen saw that there was no one at home, so she took a woven fertilizer bag and ran towards the pond in the north of the village.The pond has more than ten acres of land. Before seeing the pond, he smelled the fragrance he smelled when he went to pick lotus in the lake earlier. The fragrance made him run for a few steps, and a green pond appeared before him. The lotus in the pond is different from the lotus in the lake. The lotus in the lake is described as "the lotus in the sun is uniquely red", which is just right, but the lotus here is all white, with yellow stamens against it, just like steaming in a white bowl. Cooked egg yolk, tempting taste buds.

Mu Zhen has rarely come here since entering junior high school, but she still remembers the scene of playing lotus pods with other children of the same age in the village when she was a child. Shuttle through the thorny lotus leaf stalks in the cool water, completely ignoring the pain of the thorns on the stalks. After a while, the lotus pods with the rods in their hands could not be grasped, and they all climbed ashore. The bloody marks left behind are like completely forgetting the pain, and they compete with each other for the "results" in the lotus pond.

Today is different from usual. Mu Zhen's "war results" are not enjoyed by herself, but she wants to share them with Ma Sanye. Mu Zhen feels unspeakable excitement in her heart. What a joy it will be when you go to the lotus!Thinking of this, Mu Zhen was excited about her own creativity.

Mu Zhen didn't take off her clothes like she did when she was a child, but wore long clothes and trousers. She didn't even take off her shoes. She just tightened the laces of her yellow cloth military shoes, and went down to the pond carefully. Then he wet his clothes with cold water, and slowly slid down into the lotus leaves in the pond. The pond water soaked his shirt, and the waist-high water made his clothes stick to his body. Taking a deep breath, he suddenly had the idea of ​​retreating, but without lotus pods, what would he bring to the third master's house?Thinking of this, he mustered up his courage again, and slid towards the depths of the lotus leaf.At this time, Mu Zhen only had one idea, to pick the biggest lotus pod as a gift, so as to show her sincerity.

This is the first time that Mu Zhen came to the pond alone to pick lotus pods. The more she walked in, the more quiet the pond was. The sound of "crashing" when the water is poured by hand.

Mu Zhen pinned the corner of the fertilizer bag to the waist of her trousers, and dragged it in the water behind her. Every time she picked a lotus pod, she put it in the pocket, and then continued to look for the next target in the lotus pond.He was only concentrating on looking for the lotus pods hidden in the lotus leaves, when he suddenly felt the fertilizer bag behind him move suddenly, which startled him, and then felt that the bag was detached from his belt, he hurried back to grab it, the movement of the bag in the water was unexpectedly loud When he got up, he felt that there must be something in the bag, and he was shocked. Could it be that he encountered a water monster?He remembered that when his mother talked about biting water monsters when he was a child, in order to prevent his children from going into the water privately, Mu Zhen became a little scared, but suddenly calmed down a lot. Mu Zhen realized that even if there was a real water monster, it was already in the bag. I can't even bite, Mu Zhen thought, twisting the mouth of the bag in her hand, and grasped it firmly, but the monster became more rampant, rolling up and down, left and right in the bag, Mu Zhen didn't dare to let go easily, for fear of running out. Biting himself, he didn't want to look for the lotus pod anymore, and hurriedly dragged the mouth of the bag and slid down to the bank of the water.

While gliding in the water, Mu Zhen felt that the monster in the bag was struggling more fiercely. No matter how strongly the monster in the bag struggled, Mu Zhen tightly clenched the mouth of the bag, not daring to relax at all. How many lotus pods, the biggest harvest is catching the water monster that my mother mentioned before.Approaching the shore, Mu Zhen pulled the bag out of the water first, and the monster who hadn't thought about the bag became more active, jumping up and down in the bag non-stop.Mu Zhen picked up the bag and threw it forward. With some force, she threw the bag to the shore. Mu Zhen jumped out of the water, stepped forward to hold the bag, twisted her hands lightly, and lifted the bag. The bag ran home.

Just entering the house, she almost bumped into her mother, Xiuhua, who was about to go out. Seeing Mu Zhen's body soaked and the fertilizer bag in her hand, Xiuhua couldn't help being a little surprised: "What are you doing here?"

"Look, I caught a water monster from the pond in the north of the village!" Mu Zhen said loudly when she saw her mother, as if seeing a savior.

Xiuhua looked at the shaking fertilizer bag and smiled.

"What water monster? It must be a fish." Xiuhua suddenly felt that Mu Zhen took seriously what she told him when she was a child.

"Then look at what it is?" Mu Zhen said, throwing the bag on the ground, grabbing the two corners at the bottom of the bag, and lifting it up violently, all the contents of the bag fell out.

Mu Zhen opened her mouth wide in shock. Apart from the lotus pod she picked, it was a lively carp with a bulging belly and a red tail. Exhausted, he stopped moving, and his mouth was still opening and closing to suck air from time to time.

"Where did you catch this?" Xiuhua saw that the fish weighed three to four catties, and really couldn't figure out what Mu Zhen used to put him into the fertilizer bag.

"I went to pick the lotus pods. It got into the bag by itself. I thought it was a water monster!" Mu Zhen said playfully.

"Go to the pond to pick some lotus pods again, really be careful of the upper body of the water monster!" Xiuhua blamed a little.

"No, I was still thinking about catching this water monster! It turned out that I hit it by accident, but I didn't expect to catch such a good thing!" Mu Zhen said, grabbed the fish head from the ground, lifted it up and put it into the water in the yard. Basin, this time he went to Mr. Ma's house and got a gift.

When Mu Zhen walked to the door of Mr. Ma carrying the fish, he happened to meet Mr. Ma about to go out. Seeing Mu Zhen carrying the fish, she asked a little suspiciously, "Why are you carrying the fish?"

"For you, I caught it in the pond just now, specially for you!" Mu Zhen said a little excitedly.

"You kid, you've learned to tell nonsense. How could you catch such a big fish?" Ma Sanye had long liked the kid in front of him because Mu Zhen often came to borrow books. Seeing him tease himself like this, I can't help but feel a little bit to blame.

Mu Zhen told her in detail how she was going to make lotus pods, and how she happened to meet such a god carp and got into her bag in detail, so that Mr. Ma could listen to it like a book. It's wonderful.

"Third Grandfather, it seems that this fish was offered for you to taste, so I just mentioned it. It is also a gift from the North Pond of our village!"

Seeing Mu Zhen's beaming expression, Ma Sanye suddenly felt that the child in front of him had grown up a lot and became much more sensible.Not only said to himself with emotion: "Really, children who read books are different from children who don't read!"

Mu Zhenruo realized something, and asked Ma Sanye: "Put this fish up and raise it, or there will be a shortage of water soon!"

"Quick, put it in the water tank!" Ma Sanye signaled Mu Zhen to put the fish into the water tank under the jujube tree in the courtyard.

Mu Zhen, who came out of Ma Sanye's house, returned home and immersed herself in the borrowed "Feng Shen Yan Yi".

(End of this chapter)