The life of a peasant girl reborn

Chapter 24 Catching Fish
By the time Father Shen and the others went back, it was already an hour past noon.Shopkeeper Bai wanted to keep Father Shen and the others for dinner, but Father Shen refused.It's embarrassing to delay others for so long, and Mrs. Zhou doesn't feel at ease when she is alone at home.Father Shen thought in his heart that if the family had the conditions, he would definitely thank shopkeeper Bai.

When Father Shen and the others returned home, Mrs. Zhou had already prepared meals and was waiting.Everyone was hungry after a busy morning, and the meal was finished soon.Father Shen took Brother Qiu to the old house, intending to discuss with his elder brother about the schooling of the nephews, and also brought two packs of pastries from shopkeeper Bai.Zhou's originally wanted to wash the dishes but was stopped by Shen Xuan. It was a joke, and Shen Xuan would despise herself if she let herself watch the pregnant woman working.

After Shen Xuan finished cleaning up, the third grandma Song next door came over with a few eggs in a basket. Shen Xuan rushed out to greet her and handed the bench to the third grandma Song.

"Third Aunt, what are you doing, don't you save the eggs for your younger siblings to make up for?" Everyone knew the situation next door, and the corners of Zhou's eyes felt a little hot when he saw the person who suddenly aged a few years.

"It's all right. It's all from our own chickens. There's nothing else. There are still eggs." Zhou knows that this is the love of the third aunt before she returned to her family. If she doesn't want to keep it, she is worried that the old man will think too much about what the family has to give away in the future. Go over.

"Are the siblings and the child okay? The child is young, so I dare not go there because I was afraid of a collision."

"It's all good, both mothers are asleep, so I came here to take a look. I usually don't have time to come out to take care of them." Shen Xuan brought two glasses of water over, and sat and listened by the way.

Mrs. Zhou looked at the unresolved sorrow on the third aunt's brows, and asked, "Third aunt, what's the matter with you?"

"Hey, it's not that your younger brother and sister are short of milk. The children cried several times at night. Eating eggs alone doesn't work, hey!" A deep sigh expressed the old man's helplessness and powerlessness in life.Mrs. Zhou knew that it would be good to make up for it with things, but it would be useless if there was no extra money at home. She wanted to lend some to the third aunt, but she was afraid that the other party would not accept it.

"You can also drink goat's milk. Boil the goat's milk and put some sugar in it." Shen Xuan couldn't hold back her voice.

"How do you know?" Zhou Shi was suspicious, and Grandma Song also looked back at Shen Xuan.

"Go to town and listen to what others have to say."

Although no one had heard of it before, Grandma Song decided to give it a try when she had a solution. Anyway, goat milk is not worth much, so she decided to go to the village and ask someone who has goat milk to squeeze some goat milk first.Mrs. Zhou looked at Grandma Song who was about to leave, and took some rice and a bag of brown sugar bought today for her younger siblings to use.

After Grandma Song left for a while, Father Shen and the others came back.From the conversation between Shen's father and Zhou's, Shen Xuan knew that her uncle's family had decided to send her fourth brother to study with her own brother.The problem of accommodation will be checked when we go to the town.As for the eldest brother who is almost 10 years old, he decided to go to the town to find an apprentice to do it. The second brother proposed not to go to school. It turned out that the second brother did not know when he became obsessed with herbal medicine, so he decided to follow the fourth grandfather Shen, a doctor in the village. Recognize herbs, and when I am older, I will work as an apprentice in a pharmacy.In fact, Shen Xuan knew that this was humility between brothers, and it was all caused by lack of money.My family still has some money, but unfortunately the uncle's decision will not be changed.Forget it, let's see what happens next, Shen Xuan decided to help the eldest brother and the second brother if they can.

Mrs. Zhou felt tired after tattooing for a while and went to bed, and Father Shen accompanied her.Brother Qiu consciously went to the house to practice the copybooks, leaving only Shen Xuan sitting there with nothing to do.Shen Xuan calculated that her mother still had about 80 taels of silver, and she got 300 taels from Xie Wuyou.Now that the whole family can't make ends meet, how can they make money?At the end of the month, the first batch of watermelon is ripe enough to make some money.Shen Xuan was thinking whether to persuade her father to buy some fertile land or use the money in her hand to go to the town to see what business opportunities there are.Shen Xuan rested her chin and fell into deep thought, but the sleepy bug went to sleep in bed in a daze.

Shen Xuan was woken up while falling asleep, looking at Brother Qiu who was standing by the bed and asking, "What's the matter, brother?" Lazily lying under the quilt.

"Don't sleep, I'll take you out to play, big brother and the others are waiting outside." It turned out that Zhou Shi saw that Shen Xuan was staying at home all the time and didn't go out to play, so she asked Brother Qiu to take her sister to go with her.

Shen Xuan was taken by her brothers to the place where she usually plays with her friends - by the river.There are already several boys and girls standing there, and it is estimated that the elder brother brought the younger sister out to play.

"Brother Chun, you are here." A naive-looking doll asked, and the others saw it as well.

"Gouzi, you've come a long time ago." The eldest brother and the others greeted each other, while Shen Xuan stood beside him and snickered.There is no way, most of the names given to boys in rural areas are Gouzi.big cow.Erniu and the like, what kind of flower is a girl.Yeh or something.

The boys here got together to discuss going into the water to catch fish. Shen Xuan looked at the two girls beside them who were washing clothes.Go over and say hello, "Hi, I'm Shen Xuan, what's your name?"

The two girls looked at Shen Xuan and were embarrassed to speak.As the only girl in the main family in the village, Shen Xuan has a very high status.What's more, Shen Xuan was wearing beautiful and clean clothes. Out of inferiority, the two girls didn't dare to speak, even though Shen Xuan was younger than them.The two girls looked at Shen Xuan not angry, but with smiling eyes, and then they spoke in a low voice.

"My name is Wang Ruhua, and the dog is my brother." The girl who spoke was about 7 years old, with a small voice, and wearing patched clothes. Children in the village are generally malnourished and it is hard to tell what they look like.

"My name is Shen Xiaojuan, and the taller one in the gray clothes is my brother." Shen Xuan looked along, and the one in the gray clothes in the river was Da Niu.

"Brother Daniel is your brother?" Shen Xuan asked softly.

"Well, my brother is amazing. He caught the fish at home a few days ago. Unfortunately, I didn't eat much..." The girl's voice became weaker and weaker.Every family in the countryside has a hard time, and even a little bit of meat can't eat much as a girl.Girls who are only 7 or 8 years old start doing housework.Take half of the house.Although Shen Xuan can cook and wash, she has never washed clothes. Most of the clothes are saved by Zhou's family when she is free.

"Brother Big Niu, hurry up. Hurry up, the fish has run to you." The youngest brother Dong shouted vigorously.

"Quick, big cow, here it is." This is a silly dog.

"here."

7. Eight boys are messing around in the water, busy catching fish, but are fish so easy to catch?Of course, it is not difficult for Shen Xuan, as long as the speed and strength are mastered, there will be no problem.

"Hey, it's a pity that it ran away." One of them opened his mouth, and lost the delicious food in his mouth.

Everyone sat by the river and didn't talk. It didn't matter that the brothers were just catching it for fun. The others were thinking about adding food to the family, and they haven't eaten meat for a long time.Shen Xuan looked at this and that and decided to help them.

"Brother, I know how to catch fish, and I can help you catch fish."

(End of this chapter)