Mu family's little lucky girl

Chapter 6

After breakfast, Mu Li put the cornbread and water bag into a cloth bag for Old Man Mu, and asked him to take it with him for lunch. The knife went into the mountain.

Holding the three fish baskets that he had made up in one hand, Mu Li said to Lin who was tidying up the dishes in the room: "Mother, let's go out first."

Xiao Muxuan ran up to Mu Li, excitedly took the three fish baskets from Mu Li's hand, Lin looked at his younger son's lively appearance, nodded with a smile on his face, and then turned to Mu Qing who was beside him. He warned: "Ah Qing, take care of your little sister and Ah Xuan, especially Ah Xuan, don't let him run around by the river, it's not safe."

The young man showed a rare maturity, even with a ostentatious smile on the end of his eyes, he assured: "Don't worry, mother, there will be absolutely nothing wrong with me."

Xiao Muxuan freed up a hand, patted his small chest and said seriously: "Mother, I promise to listen to my brother and sister, so you can rest assured."

The three of them first went to the small river in the countryside, where the soil was moist and covered with grass, which was an excellent place for earthworms to inhabit.

When they arrived at the place, the three of them took a fish basket and squatted in the grass to catch earthworms. After a while, the three brothers and sisters caught many small pink earthworms.

Mu Li straightened up first, looking at the small river in the country about three feet wide, the river was crystal clear, the water was gurgling, and the big geese and ducks raised by the farm were playing and playing on the clear and shallow river.

A few lambs are happily drinking water by the river, and a few scattered lambs are happily eating the fat green grass on the grass next to it, and they will call a few times from time to time.

Mu Li handed the fish basket in his hand to Mu Qing, and said briskly: "Brother, I will leave the fishing to you."

Mu Qing smiled, looked at Mu Li with shining eyes, as if she had read through her mind, took the fish basket and said, "Okay, I'll come and catch it with you later."

The "catch" Mu Qing said was actually catching loaches.

Before Mu Li caught a few loaches in this small river, today the three brothers and sisters came here, and Mu Li started thinking again.

Mu Qing left the fish basket in Xiao Muxuan's hand to hold loach.

Xiao Muxuan was at the side helping Mu Li.

As soon as Mu Qing walked away, Xiao Muxuan excitedly dragged his shoes and rolled up his trouser legs, and was about to go into the river with great interest.

Mu Li was in a water area that just covered her feet, bent over and pulling mud, and Xiao Muxuan was imitating her, very serious, and spared no effort to pull mud.

The morning sun shone on the backs of the siblings, casting a faint golden light.

The water is gurgling, and the water flows slowly over the feet, which is cool and refreshing, which is very refreshing in the summer morning.

They didn't know how long they dug, and they changed one place after another. It was not until the two of them bent over for too long that their backs were sore and aching, that Mu Qing came.

"How many have you caught?" He asked excitedly.

Mu Li thumped his stiff lower back, his face was a little frustrated, "Two."

After working for so long, I only caught two, which is not enough for one person to eat.

Mu Li lacks interest.

Xiao Muxuan bent his right elbow, and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead indiscriminately. At this time, the sun had begun to rise high, and Xiao Muxuan's face was flushed red from the sun, and there was a lot of mud on his fair and immature face. Looking like a little clay figurine.

Kind of hilarious.

"Brother, come and help, the loach is too slippery, my sister and I couldn't catch it at all, and many of them were run away by them."

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Muxuan bent down and continued to scrape through the mud. He was full of energy, as if he had endless strength.

Mu Qing happily responded.

With Mu Qing joining in, catching loaches became much easier. When they decided to call it a day, they had a good harvest, and Xiao Muxuan happily walked to the grassland some distance away from the river with the fish basket.

Gulu Gulu, he poured out a basket of loach.

A strip of loach writhed among the grass.

Xiao Muxuan stretched out his small hand and counted one, two, three, four. After counting, he raised his excited little face and said to Mu Li: "Sister, there are ten loaches in total. We can have a big meal today."

Mu Qing is also happy from the bottom of her heart, she hasn't eaten loach for so long, and today she can finally enjoy it.

"Sister, when Dad comes back in the afternoon, how about we eat braised loach?" Speaking of braised loach, Mu Qing was so greedy that she almost drooled.

Xiao Muxuan put the loaches on the ground into the fish basket one by one, Mu Li was about to nod his head and said yes, when he heard Xiao Muxuan say: "No!"

"I want to eat spicy loach." Xiao Mu Xuankong pulled Muli's sleeve with one hand, his eyes sparkled, "Sister, it's the kind of loach that is fried in oil, and then sprinkled with your made loach. The chili noodles are delicious."

"Shall we eat fried loach at night?"

Mu Qing smiled and refused, "No way. I have to eat fried small dried fish at noon. If I also fried the loach, it would be a repeat."

One big and one small were arguing in the small river in the countryside, Mu Li took the fish basket, and looked at them with a smile, "Go back and ask mother, if mother says how to eat, we will cook, how about it?"

Mu Qing and Mu Xuan looked at each other, thinking that this idea was good, they both nodded.

Just at noon, the sun began to get stronger and stronger, and nearly two hours had passed since the time to put the fish baskets in. The three brothers and sisters estimated that the time was about the same, and went to the mountain stream together.

The creek is surrounded by mountains, and the surrounding is lush and beautiful, with rocks growing on both sides of the creek.

The stream jingled.

Following Mu Qing to a shady place, when Mu Qing picked up the fish basket, Mu Li and Mu Xuan stretched their necks to look.

Mu Li couldn't hide his excitement: "Brother, let me see if there are many fish in it?"

Mu Xuan stood on tiptoe excitedly to see.

Mu Qing smiled and handed the fish basket to Mu Li, then turned around to grab another fish basket.

Mu Li bent down and put the fish basket in front of Mu Xuan, the siblings looked at it together.

There are half a basket of small fishes inside, and the small fishes are about a finger long, full of vitality, jumping around in it, trying to jump out of this confinement, but its ability is too small, and it can't break free every time it struggles to jump.

The small fish in the second fish basket were only half of the size in the first fish basket. However, there were more than a dozen river prawns in it. The shrimps bent their waists and jumped hard, and several of them almost jumped out of the fish basket.

Much stronger than Xiao Yuzai's.

The three returned home with a full load, and one of them drove home with a fish basket.

Mrs. Lin was mending clothes for a few children in the main room. Seeing the three brothers and sisters coming back with fish baskets, all of them had happy smiles on their faces. Knowing that the harvest was good this morning, she put down her needlework, walked out of the room, and asked with a smile: " How? How many caught?"

Mu Xuan ran up to Mrs. Lin with the fish basket filled with loaches, and showed her as if asking for credit, "Mother, look, my brother and sister, I, and I caught a lot of loaches. We can eat spicy loaches tonight." La."

Lin looked down and saw that there were so many loaches crawling around, it made her scalp a little numb, she smiled and rubbed the top of Mu Xuan's head: "I caught so many, Ah Xuan is awesome."

Mu Xuan happily said: "That's not all."

"We also caught a lot of fish and a lot of river prawns."

"Then we are lucky today." Lin Shi rubbed the top of Mu Xuan's head again, smiled at Ah Xuan whose face was covered with mud, stretched out his thumb to wipe off a piece of dried mud, and said with a smile: "Look at this little tabby cat."

"Go and wash your face."

Here Mu Li took out two wooden basins, and poured the loach and small fish into the two wooden basins respectively.

The freshly caught loach cannot be eaten right away, it must be put in clear water for several hours to spit out the dirt inside.

At this time the yard was already very hot, Mu Li brought the wooden basin containing the loach to the main room and put it in the main room, so as not to put the loach in the yard and then burn it to death.

Mu Qing was busy going back to her room to study again.

Seeing Mu Li carrying a wooden basin to the jujube tree to kill fish, Mu Xuan ran over after washing his face indiscriminately. He didn't even bother to wipe his face, water dripped down his face.

(End of this chapter)