After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Chapter 38

It rained all day, and in the middle of the night, the light rain turned into a heavy rain, with lightning and thunder, which scared Chunniang so much that she couldn't close her eyes all night.

She didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the rain stopped the next day.

After a night of torrential rain, the Chuan River overflowed and just barely overflowed its banks.

Jiang Sanlang stood by the rushing river and looked at it for a long time, he was [-]% certain in his heart.

It seems that the daughter's dream may really come true.

But one night of heavy rain can make the river overflow like this, what if there is another night?

He didn't dare to think, if the flood hit, how would he and his family deal with it?

In the past, the Chuan River would flood, even flooding the low-lying farmland, and occasionally overflowing into the villagers' homes, but it receded quickly, so the villagers didn't care.

Ever since the daughter said that there was going to be a flood, Jiang Sanlang and his wife suddenly sounded an alarm in their hearts.

Looking at the Chuanhe after the rain now, the more dangerous it becomes.

No, I still have to move to Xiaonanshan as soon as possible.

Looking back, Xiaonan Mountain is not far from the village, but it looks like two or three miles away, and you can see the smoke of the village from the hillside.

If a few more households move to Nanshan, it seems that there is nothing impossible.

Jiang Sanlang made up his mind and turned to look for Muramasa Chen Sanshu.

After the rain, the sky is clear, the sun is shining, and the weather is getting hotter.

Today is the first day of the Five Poisons Month. Yingbao is wearing a five-color wristband embroidered by A Niang, five-color silk threads on her ankles, a five-color shirt, and five-poison embroidered shoes. Let's go to the river ditch to catch shrimps together, break off some reed leaves by the way, and go back to make zongzi.

The deer followed them step by step, gnawing a mouthful of new grass on the roadside from time to time, flicking its short tail cheerfully.

The reeds were growing luxuriantly, and the leaves were also very wide. Dani asked her two younger sisters and her younger cousin to stay on the bank, and she went down to the river beach to pick leaves by herself.

Soon the bamboo basket was full, and she walked ashore with a deep foot and a shallow foot.

At this time, a pheasant flew by, startling the tiger and screaming. "Pheasant! Pheasant! Big sister caught!"

Dani took a look, "The pheasant is flying far away, we can't catch it."

She put the basket at Erni's feet, and went down to the river beach again, "I'll go see if there are any wild eggs in the reeds."

Under normal circumstances, pheasants and wild birds will make their nests in grass or reeds. Where the pheasant flew up just now, there may be wild eggs.

Sure enough, Dani cried out in surprise from the reeds: "Ah! There are really wild eggs!"

Yingbao and Erni Huzi immediately stretched their necks, trying to see where the pheasant's nest was.

After a while, Dani came out with her skirts deep and one foot shallow, laughing, and showed the wild eggs in the skirts to her younger siblings. "Look, eight."

Huzi squeezed over and reached for it, but Erni slapped it away, "Don't move, it will break."

The four-year-old screamed angrily, jumping up and down to grab it.

Suddenly, his little hand was grabbed by Yingbao.

Huzi stopped immediately, and became as quiet as a chicken for an instant. He turned his head and said to Yingbao with a smile, "I want to play with Yingbao."

"I don't want to play, we still have to fish for shrimps." The two-year-old Yingbao coaxed him like a little sister: "Be good, Hu Zi, go back and cook wild eggs for you to eat."

Huzi nodded wildly, sniffed his nose, and suddenly transformed into an obedient baby.

Dani took her younger siblings to find a large puddle with aquatic plants, and started fishing for shrimps with her own scooping net.

At this time, the shrimps are fat and big, and twenty or thirty shrimps can be cooked in a plate.

Yingbao is small and can't move to copy the net, so he wanders around with a basket.

Seeing that Dani Erni and Huzi were all staring at the puddle, she squatted down and quietly took out a large clump of water chestnuts from the cave and placed it by the side of the ditch, intentionally making it look like it had just been pulled out of the ditch.

Then she shouted: "Sister Dani, come quickly, I found the big water chestnut."

Dani came over when she heard the sound, and she was a little surprised when she saw the thing in the little cousin's hand, "Is this really a water chestnut?"

It's also too big.She had never seen a water chestnut the size of an egg.

No matter how shocked Dani was, Ying Bao picked up a water chestnut and rinsed it in the water, pointed to several water chestnuts hanging below and said: "This should be edible."

As he spoke, he picked one, washed it, took a bite, and couldn't stop muttering, "It's so sweet and delicious."

Huzi had long forgotten that he had eaten water chestnuts last year, so he picked up a water chestnut to rinse, happily tore off a big water chestnut, and stuffed it into his mouth with a clicking sound.

Seeing this, Erni squatted down, picked the water chestnuts one by one, and put them into the basket.

Dani didn't hesitate too long, and came to help.

This time, Yingbao released a pile of freshly plucked bachelor plants, and there was a small basket of water chestnuts.

The fourth sibling stopped fishing for shrimp, and returned home with a basket of water chestnuts and a basket of reed leaves.

"This is a water chestnut." Jiang Liu and Mrs. Jiang's sister-in-law Zhou were surprised when they saw such a big water chestnut for the first time, "Where did it come from?"

"Yingbao found it." Dani and Erni said in unison.

"Where did you find it?" Jiang Liushi asked.

"Over the ditch."

Dani was still a little confused, and asked Jiang Liushi: "Grandma, is this really edible?"

Jiang Liushi picked up a water chestnut and wiped it on the palm of her hand, took a bite and chewed, "It's not numb, it's sweet and sweet, it should be edible."

Passed another one to the eldest daughter-in-law, "Try it too."

Mrs. Zhou took it, went to the kitchen to scoop up water and washed it, and then took a sip. "It tastes like water chestnuts, but sweeter than water chestnuts."

Jiang Liushi smiled and asked her granddaughter, "Is there any more in the ditch?"

Dani was at a loss, and turned to look at her little cousin.

Ying Bao hurriedly said: "It should be there, let's look for it tomorrow."

She wants to get all the water chestnuts in the cave, and maybe she can mobilize her family and her uncle's family to plant some, so she should be able to sell them for money.

If you can't sell it, you can eat it yourself, which is better than letting it rot in the cave.

Jiang Liushi touched Yingbao's head and said with a smile: "Then you can look for it tomorrow. If you find it, come back and tell Grandma, and Grandma will ask your second brother to help dig it."

"Yeah." Yingbao nodded.She's sure to find lots and lots of water chestnuts.

Yingbao returned home and showed A Niang half a basket of big water chestnuts.

"This is the water chestnut that my sister Dani and Erni found."

"Such a big water chestnut?" Chunniang picked up one and looked at it. "It's really rare."

The two milk dolls on the kang also crawled over to grab them.

When they were teething, they put everything they caught into their mouths.

Yingbao moved the basket away a little and said, "I'll cook it for you guys after it's cooked."

Seven or eight-month-old children have weak spleen and stomach and cannot eat raw food, and these things grow in water, so there is no guarantee that there will be small bugs in them.

Chun Niang took the water chestnuts and washed them, cooked them all, and put them in a yellow basin.

The two babies were drooling as they watched their elder sister peel the water chestnuts for them, screaming excitedly.

Yingbao handed the peeled cooked water chestnuts to his younger brother, seeing how sweet they gnawed, he also took a Kazikazi to bite.

The two little guys gnawed with relish, and the saliva flowed all over the front of their clothes.

Chunniang had no choice but to wipe the saliva and little hands of the two sons, but the little milk baby pushed her away, babbling and protesting.

(End of this chapter)