pastoral fragrance

Chapter 88
Chapter 88 Fish and lotus root

After several autumn rains, the weather is getting colder every day.Seeing, the footsteps of winter are getting closer and closer.

Everyone these days can be said to go back and forth between the forest and the village non-stop.When it's winter, who will go into this gloomy and cold forest?Naturally, we should go to the woods to pick up more acorns while the weather is not too cold.Pile up the acorns in the warehouse, and the pig will depend on them for food in winter.

When it came to the school's rest day, Qiu Song and Qiu He also went to the forest to pick up acorns.The speed of the two of them was very fast, and they had to go back and forth between the forest and the village several times a day.During the days when they were studying, the burden of the family fell on the elder sister and the younger sister, but they enjoyed the blessings in the school without fighting or lifting their heads and shoulders. Naturally, they felt sorry.So take advantage of Muxiu's life to help the family with work.

After the acorns filled the warehouse at home, everyone stopped going into the woods.In this season, Qiulin's lotus root and fish are also available.

Some time ago, they blocked the water inlet channel, and the water flowed down the drainage channel for several days, and finally there were not many hands in the fish pond.At this time, you can go to the fish pond to catch fish and dig lotus root.

On this cold day, how cold must it be in the fish pond?Qiuyue Qiulin's two girls don't have to go to the fish pond. Girls are not as good as boys, and these things like cold water should be touched less often.

The Xu family specially picked the day when the school was closed to fish, and on the day of fishing, many villagers came.Men, women, young and old, it seemed that everyone had made an appointment to come to Qiulin's fish pond.

"Qiu Lin, the fish in your family is really big!" Mei Xiang looked at Qiu Lin's fish pond and saw the fish swimming in the not-so-deep fish pond, she had already squinted her eyes with a smile.This fish is sure to taste delicious!

Qiu Lin raised her head and saw Mei Xiang dragging her brothers and sisters over, and said with a smile, "Why are you here too?"

Isn't Mei Xiang someone who likes to join in the fun? "It's so lively, why don't you come? Qiulin, my older brothers and younger brothers can also come to help! Your family needs a lot of people to fish. Anyway, it's the slack season now, and there is nothing to do at home." Mei Xiang's family I have long thought that I will come to help Qiulin's family when they have fish and lotus roots. The family is busy with Qiulin, and now they can save a few taels of silver. Isn't this all due to the achievements of Qiulin sisters? En naturally thought of paying it back.

This fish matter required manpower, so Qiulin didn't refuse now.Quickly thanked: "Then thank you two brothers, everyone should go to our house for dinner today."

Xu Hai and Xu Yang hurriedly took off their shoes and socks, and rolled up their trouser legs to their thighs, fastening them firmly.Then went to the fish pond.The water and mud in this early winter seem to be able to cool people's hearts.As soon as they entered the water, the young men were so cold that their bodies were chilling, and goose bumps appeared one after another.But after a while, maybe I got used to it, and it wasn't so cold anymore.

"Wow, look, it's a big one!" As soon as he entered the water, Xu Yang caught a big fish, weighing about four catties.Holding the fish in both hands, he lifted it above his head, and called out to Mei Xiang and the others on the bank.The fish, which was short of water, flicked desperately on the floor in Xu Yang's hands, and slipped out of Xu Yang's hands in a slippery manner.He plunged into the fish pond, flicked the fish's tail, and disappeared without a trace.

Seeing the fish being walked, Mei Xiang laughed loudly: "You're so happy, I don't know how slippery this fish is."

Xu Yang didn't know that the fish was so good, so he slipped away like this, with a slightly embarrassing expression on his face.He retracted his hand and buried his head in catching fish again.

The buckets of fish are placed on the shore, and when everyone catches a big fish, they pass it one by one. There are also people here to help pick the fish back home. Everyone is very busy and having a great time. .

"Look, this fish is the biggest, and its color is so beautiful!" Those boys were having fun in the fish pond, vying to see who caught the bigger fish and who had the smaller one.

When silkworms were raised, these fish had eaten a lot of silkworm excrement. This silkworm excrement is equivalent to modern feed. Can the fish raised in this way be small?Qiulin smiled cheerfully and watched the fish pond closely.

At this moment, more and more people came to the shore to watch. The men took off their shoes and socks one after another, rolled up their trouser legs and went into the water to catch fish.The women and children just watched from the sidelines, cheering up the men and teenagers who were catching fish in the fishpond from time to time.An aunt next to Qiulin yelled very hard, not only her voice was loud and mellow, but she also danced and danced, with extremely rich facial expressions, as if she was catching fish in a fish pond.

As if infected by the aunt, Qiulin also looked at his second brother, only to see that the second brother had his sleeves up, mixed with a hand of mud, and was groping in the shallow water with his hands down. .At this moment, Qiulin saw the tail of a carp protruding from the muddy water, but it disappeared into the muddy water in a blink of an eye.The speed is extremely fast, only the blink of an eye. "Second brother, in front of you!" Qiu Lin couldn't help but yelled.

Qiu Song withdrew his hand, washed the mud off the back of his hand, regained his strength, and touched the place where the carp's tail protruded just now.The fish's tail swung again on the turbid water, but soon sank into the fish pond again.Qiulin bulged his eyes and stared at it with great interest, as if the blood in his whole body was boiling, and he was so excited that he wished he could go into the water to catch it himself!
"Hey, I ran away, I went to the left!" The voice of calling sounded from another place, and the tone was full of disappointment.It seems that she is not the only one who went down to the pond to catch it.

Qiu Song turned around again, held it in the middle with both hands, and caught its tail now, but the carp was so powerful that one carp rolled over and fell into the muddy water, and disappeared again. "Hey..." Seeing the carp slip away again, everyone around the fish pond sighed in unison.

Qiu Song turned his head and saw a carp's tail wagging again. He was teased by this fish three or five times just now, and this time he couldn't let it go.Qiu Song clasped his hands together, and hopped towards the fish's tail.At this moment, everyone was a little stunned. Seeing Qiu Song rushing towards him, everyone's hearts were suspended, and they couldn't help leaning forward.

"Ouch, baby Jing has gone into the pond!" Everyone who was originally focused looked sideways at this moment, only to hear a "click", and Xu Jing, who was still watching the fun by the fish pond, fell headlong into the fish. Go to the pond.

The two men who were closer to Jing Wazi in the fish pond hurried over to help him up, "Why are you so careless, your clothes are all wet, wash off the mud, go home and change."

Xu Jing was covered in mud and water, his whole body was drenched, and now his teeth were chattering with the cold.He faltered and said: "Oh, it's all my fault, brother Qiusong, it took so much trouble to catch a fish, and I thought I caught it. But I didn't catch the fish, and told me to roll down the fish pond."

At this moment, the man who fished in the fish pond and the women and children who watched the fun on the bank burst into laughter.

"Oh, I caught a big fish this time. Aren't you the big fish?" Now everyone knows why this Jingwazi rolled down the fish pond. It turned out that he was too focused. Qing went to catch the fish, and he couldn't help following, but didn't he just roll down the fish pond?

Only then did Qiulin realize that when he was watching his second brother catch the fish, he also leaned forward, but stayed a little farther from the shore so as not to fall.

"Mingwazi, you are still crowded and you are about to fall into the fish pond. Jingwazi just ate a mouthful of mud. Do you want to taste it too?" Everyone was watching with great interest. A seven or eight-year-old boy blocked the sight of the aunts, so he squeezed forward.

"Hey, cousin, why are you here? You didn't move just now when I called you." Mei Xiang looked at the boy gruntingly, and went over to pull him over.

It turned out that this child was Xu Ming, the son of Mei Xiang's second uncle's family.

Xu Ming stared at her with dark eyes, it was so lively here, of course he wanted to join in the fun.Xu Ming broke away from Mei Xiang's shackles, and thought about slipping away, why did Mei Xiang let him slip away? "Hey, there's mud everywhere here. I'll get you a whole body of mud and muddy shoes. I only know how to wash it all day. My sister and I rarely wash it for you."

This Xu Ming's mother died of a serious illness in the early years, and their family was poor, so they couldn't afford the dowry, and if they were married to the stepmother who was the head of the family, there were not many who were willing to marry.Later, Xu Ming's father simply didn't marry, and the family's clothes were washed by Grandma Xu Ming or Mei Xiang.

"Yeah, go to a place where the mulberry is a bit dry." He Xiang also washed his clothes, which was annoying. They all went to school, and they were all dirty with their clothes covered, more dirty than those who worked. Farmers' clothes are still dirty, and it takes too much time to wash them.

Xu Ming opened his big eyes innocently, blinked, and said in a very pitiful tone: "I don't want to buy it anymore?"

Qiulin looked at this cute little guy. Although this baby is a treasure, he is also attractive, isn't he?She could see that although Sister Mei Xiang was reprimanding him, it also contained concern. If it wasn't for being unpopular, there would be no such thing.

Sure enough, Xu Ming's pitiful expression finally made the Mei Xiang sisters laugh. "Look and see, don't crowd people around. Jingwazi fell just now, calm down."

Xu Ming nodded obediently, and now he really listened to He Xiang's words and stopped crowding people, and found someone to watch more quietly.

The men in the fishpond were so busy, they didn't feel that the work was tiring at all, and they didn't feel that the water was muddy.Everyone separated the big fish and small fish they caught.This little fish is not worth eating, so it has to be thrown into the fish pond to be raised again.

After everyone caught almost all the fish, they started digging lotus root again.This lotus root has now reached maturity and can be dug.And anyway, they were already in the water, so they dug up the lotus root, so as not to have to go into the water again.

The girls in Qiulin watched for a long time, thinking that it was almost noon now, and the workers had to eat.Everyone stopped watching the excitement, packed lotus root in a basket, and went to Qiulin's house.

(End of this chapter)