Travel to ancient times and make a fortune

Chapter 4 Digging for loaches

There was no talking all night until dawn.

Li Xiao opened his eyes and it was already bright.All I could hear was the crowing of chickens and the crowing of ducks.

I got up, had a meal, fed the chickens and ducks, and looked at the door. It was not locked today.

So I put on the little straw hat that my father knitted, took a cucumber in one hand, and skipped towards my field.

Because Dapo Village is surrounded by mountains, the land in the village is relatively concentrated.

Li Xiao's house is only a little over a quarter of an hour away from her home. Of course, this is based on an adult's walking distance.

Li Xiao, a little kid like him, jumped up and down and walked for two quarters of an hour before he saw his own land.

It's the end of Chenshi (almost nine o'clock), and it's still quite cold.Everyone was working in the fields with their heads down.

After all, Li Xiao's third brother Li Qingzhu was young. The eight-year-old couldn't stand being tired, so he got up and stretched. When he looked up, he saw his sister jumping over.

"Xiao Xiao, Xiao Xiao!" Li Qingzhu shouted happily.

The family heard the sound and looked up.

When Li Dashan saw his daughter, he was afraid that she would fall, but he was reluctant to stop what he was doing.Then he said to Li Qingzhu: "San'er, go and look after your sister, and don't fall again, otherwise you'll be careful of your skin!"

Li Qingzhu whispered "Oh", threw away the sickle, and ran to Tian Kan'er to accompany his sister.

Li Xiao first broke a cucumber into two pieces, gave half to his third brother, and gave another whole piece.

"Third brother, give the cucumber to your parents and brothers, and we will eat it together when you come back." He said while shaking half of the cucumber in his hand.

After the brother and sister finished half of the cucumber and played with dogtail grass for a while, Li Xiao couldn't bear to be idle anymore.

Looking at the wet field, Li Xiao suddenly had an idea.

In China, Li Xiao also grew up in a rural area when he was a child, and he also worked in the fields and harvested rice.

After the rice harvest, one of the great fun for the children is to dig out the soil for loaches!

Li Xiao didn't know if there were loaches here, at least she hadn't eaten such a thing in her memory.After rolling up his trousers, Li Xiao took his third brother down to the field and bent down to look for the loach hole.

Li Qingzhu didn't know what her sister was doing, but she also bent down like this.

After searching for a while, Li Xiao finally found the hole!
"Third brother, third brother, quickly bring the sickle and dig it out!" Li Xiao patted the third brother on the back and said crisply.

The three brothers of the Li family are used to doting on their younger sister, so naturally she does whatever she says.

Li Qingzhu took the sickle and pointed it at the hole, digging it all the way through.

After only two digs, two loaches the size of an adult's index finger were actually dug out.

Li Xiao grabbed the loaches, passed the prepared dogtail grass through the gills and through the mouth, and hung up the two loaches.

"Xiaoxiao, why are you catching this mud slider?" Li Qingzhu was curious.

It turns out that loaches are called mud sliders in Dali. Villagers can occasionally see them when they are serving rice, but not many. For fear of damaging the grain, they basically kill them and throw them on the field ridge.

Li Xiao was reluctant to throw it away, she also wanted to eat some meat!

"Third brother, look where there are holes, dig more! It's hard to catch fish, these mud sliders are also meat!" He kept talking and even pouted to look cute.

How could Li Qingzhu stand his sister's coquettishness?Otherwise, I wouldn’t have taken my sister to play in the mountains!

Needless to say, just roll up your sleeves and get to work.

The elder brother dug and dug in the small field, and the younger sister wore it in her hands...

By the end of the year, the brother and sister had dug out more than ten strings.

A bunch of eight or nine pieces, Li Xiao visually estimated that he could have a full meal.

Seeing that the weather was getting hotter, Li Dashan asked his wife to take his daughter home to bring food, while he and his three children continued to work for a while.

(End of this chapter)