Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 29
On May [-]th, the sky was clear, and the poplar flowers circled the river and cried the eagles.

The wild wharf in the early morning is lively and busy. Most people hold their boats to collect their nets. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. If you collect your nets earlier and go to the market earlier, maybe today’s fish prices can sell for a few cents more.

There are only three boats left on the pier. Lu Quan and his neighbor Chen Pingan collected their fishing nets early in the morning and went to the pier to carry their bags. They just waited for the sun to come out today, drying and mending the fishing nets.

Another boat belonged to Li Canguan's family. Li Canguan's father Li Sixi and Li Canguan's elder brother Li Tantan collected the nets and went fishing for eels.

During festivals, Lai Fushun's eel prices are a few cents higher than usual.

Early in the morning, Lu Xiaoyu was on the bow of the boat holding the family's wooden bowl, facing Li Canguan's family's fishing boat without moving.

Her family made zongzi last night, boiled them in a pot, left the bottom fire to simmer in the pot overnight, opened the lid early in the morning, and the aroma was overflowing.

The aroma of rice dumplings mixed with the aroma of wild duck eggs enveloped the whole wild pier.

Now Lu Xiaoyu is wearing a string of multicolored ropes, holding a wooden bowl in his arms, sitting cross-legged on the bow of the boat with zongzi and duck eggs in the wooden bowl, just waiting for Li Canguan to come out of the cabin.

She wants to show him that she has zongzi, salted duck eggs, and the most beautiful colorful rope.

Well, in this life, not only has she never eaten rice dumplings made of white glutinous rice, she has never seen such a beautiful colorful rope.

As the sun rose little by little, Aunt Li cooked the porridge with corn dregs, and called Li Cancan twice at the top of her voice.

In the end, it was Aunt Li who ran into the cabin and pulled Li Canguan by his ears before dragging him up from the bed.

Li Canguan was dragged out of the bed by his mother, naked and naked, with sleepy eyes, standing on the side of the boat with bare buttocks, spitting against the river water and pouring hot urine.

After peeing, Li Canguan yawned and walked towards the bow of the boat, and accidentally spotted Lu Xiaoyu on the opposite boat.

Seeing Lu Xiaoyu's bright eyes, even if he sees him pissing, he looks shameless.

Li Canguan jumped up immediately: "Little fish, are you ashamed to watch people pee?"

The country children grew up naked and muddy together since they were young, and they have always been honest with each other.

Only the girls of the Lu family, no matter how poor their conditions were, the Qiu family had to sew a pair of gowns and trousers for them before they were allowed to go out.

This is also the reason why Li Canguan always targets Lu Xiaoyu, why everyone is similar, but you have to wear clothes while I'm naked.

"Humph……"

Lu Xiaoyu shook his head arrogantly and snorted, what's so interesting, it's as ugly as an earthworm.

Originally, the two boats were the closest, but Aunt Li and Li Canguan came back yesterday with a basket of unsold reed leaves and swung the boat to the other side of Brother Zhang's house.

When Li Canguan came out to pee, he was on the edge of the cabin, with his back facing Lu Xiaoyu, and Zhang Sange's boat was in the middle, so Lu Xiaoyu might not have seen him pee.

But Li Canguan and Lu Xiaoyu have deep grievances, from the one biscuit to the day before yesterday, the two have formed a deep hatred.

If he could ridicule Lu Xiaoyu, Li Canguan would not let it go.

Li Canguan still wants to call out, it's better to call out the group of friends who run wild together all day, and everyone laughs at Lu Xiaoyu together.Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaoyu ignored him at all, raised his hand and rolled up his sleeves, revealing his right hand tied with colorful thread.Slowly took out a salted duck egg from the bowl in his arms, looked at it and smelled it, put it back, and took out a zongzi.

Salted duck eggs?Zongzi?

Li Canguan's eyes are staring straight. They also have wild duck eggs. As long as they are lucky, if they go to the river beach a few times, they can always pick up some wild duck eggs.

But Lu Xiaoyu just took out not only duck eggs, but also rice dumplings.

That was something their family had never had before.

Li Canguan rubbed his eyes, and stood on tiptoe trying to see if the rice dumpling in Lu Xiaoyu's hand was real.

He couldn't believe it, why did her family have zongzi after eating fat intestines.

That is a fake rice dumpling.

Definitely, definitely fake.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, poor families have no glutinous rice, so they wrap a few empty zongzi in zong leaves and cook them in a wild vegetable pot.

In this way, the fragrance of zong leaves in the wild vegetable porridge can be regarded as a holiday.

Before Li Canguan could open his mouth, he saw Lu's Xiaosi also holding a wooden bowl, sitting down beside Lu Xiaoyu.

"Little fish, why don't you eat it?"

Lu Yange never called Lu Xiaoyu third sister, and Lu Xiaoyu never cared about it.

Lu Yange held up the zongzi he had peeled off in front of Lu Xiaoyu: "Taste mine."

The white zongzi has faintly visible red dots inside, either red beans or red dates.

In the early morning sunshine, the white rice dumplings wrapped with red beans glow attractively.

There was nothing else in Li Canguan's eyes, but he felt that he had never seen such a beautiful zongzi in his life.

"Eat it, I have it."

Lu Xiaoyu showed her the rice dumplings in the bowl, she had them, but she couldn't bear to peel them off or eat them.

Lu Yange handed it to Lu Xiaoyu's mouth again: "Try mine, mother baked red beans in it, and I just dipped a little brown sugar in it, it's delicious and sweet."

"Gudong." Li Canguan swallowed a big mouthful of saliva.

Lu Xiaoyu still wanted to refuse, but when she caught a glimpse of Li Canguan who was staring straight at him, she couldn't help showing a slight smile at the corner of her mouth.

The sweetness of glutinous rice mixed with the fragrance of zong leaves, Lu Xiaoyu took a small bite as if dreaming.

Well, it's fragrant, glutinous and soft.

Lu Xiaoyu couldn't describe the feeling in his mouth, he just felt like he was floating on clouds in a trance.

This day is like a dream.

"Gudong."

Li Canguan on the opposite side watched Lu Xiaoyu take a bite of that white and fat zongzi, and couldn't help but swallowed a second mouthful of saliva, tears streaming down from the corner of his mouth.

Lu Xiaoyu is eating zongzi, it's real zongzi.

What does the zongzi taste like?
There are red beans and brown sugar, it must be sweet!

Li Canguan couldn't help but secretly hated himself, when his mother bought him a sesame seed cake, if he was willing, he would grab a small piece for Lu Xiaoyu to taste.

Now, Lu Xiaoyu will definitely let him taste the zongzi.

When he was a child, he picked up wild fruits in the wild and gave them to Lu Xiaoyu, and when Lu Xiaoyu turned around and fried small yellow croakers at home, he would also give him two.

They used to be good friends!
Lu Yange was in a daze when he saw Lu Xiaoyu took a bite of the rice dumpling, so he stopped persuading her.

Everyone has zongzi, one for each person.

She bought glutinous rice with the money from selling mat grass and zong leaves yesterday. For 37 Wen, she only bought glutinous rice less than half a catty, and a small handful of red beans.

Just like that, Lu Xiaoli complained all the way.

In the end, Lu Xiaoyu yelled at her: "If you care about money, then don't eat rice dumplings. I'll make up for you today's copper coins when I earn money next time."

Only then did Lu Xiaoli shut up resentfully.

She also wants to eat zongzi, but she loves the 37 copper coins spent by Xiao Si even more.

Why is Xiao Si such a prodigal? Yesterday he had some money left, but today he has nothing left.

Lu Yange took a mouthful of zongzi and duck eggs, and after eating the zongzi and duck eggs in his hand, seeing Lu Xiaoyu still holding a bowl, he couldn't help but bump her with his elbow.

"Eat, why don't you eat."

"I, I can't bear to eat."

Lu Xiaoyu looked at the zongzi in his hand, with tears in his eyes.

After Xiaosi came back, it seemed that life at home was getting better and better, and she was like dreaming these two days.

At this moment, she just wanted to keep this dream a little longer and never wake up.

(End of this chapter)