Chapter 6 The King Sent Me to Patrol the Mountains
When he woke up, Zhang Muyang habitually pulled out the mattress and hung it on the clothesline pulled up by the wire to dry. Why is he always sweating, when will this problem be cured?
Others are refreshed and energetic when they get up in the morning, Zhang Muyang is different, he always feels chest tightness and shortness of breath, and he has to hurry to the yard to catch his breath for a while. Accustomed to it, Zhang Muyang also felt the same.
Zhang Muyang is still immersed in the annoyance of being bullied yesterday and the anxiety of lying to his family. It stands to reason that children are forgetful, and if there is something to sleep, they will be out of the clouds the next day, Zhang Muyang is not, this child is always cautious, afraid of causing trouble to others because of himself. Especially yesterday's incident, he still feels aggrieved and uneasy.
After breakfast, each doing their own thing, the eldest brother and the second brother went to work as soon as the day dawned, in the summer, everyone will take advantage of the cool in the morning, hurry up and rush forward today's work, and wait for 11 o'clock at noon, the field is not suitable for work. There are also people who don't believe in evil, and they insist on giving medicine to cotton at noon, and after heat stroke and poisoning, they are injected and gastric lavage, and they can't get off the ground for a few days, not to mention that their bodies are guilty, and they also send money to Cheng Yantong in vain.
Of course, for the people in the village, it doesn't matter if you are in the body, it doesn't matter if you are offended, it is really distressing to send money to the doctor for nothing, and you don't want to bargain for medical treatment, Cheng Yantong has to give as much as he wants, and if he has money, he owes it first, and he doesn't have to give it at the end of the year.
In the days of poverty, everything is more expensive than money.
With the unhappiness of the whole body, Zhang Muyang is going to "patrol the mountains" again, which is his homework that he must do every morning. The so-called "patrol of the mountains" is actually to wander around, and the first destination is the reed field under the roof.
In the Yellow River Delta, the most common plant is reed, grow in the saline-alkali land called reed grass, grow in the water, the reed grass will grow three or four meters high, and so on the autumn after the reed flowers bloom after the harvest, the local will generally be later, and so on the winter after freezing, put down in pieces, sell by catty, sell a catty for a few cents, and sell it for two cents a catty when it is more. In the local adobe houses, the roof is a curtain made of reeds, which is thickly covered with several layers, and then sealed with mud, and the family conditions are directly covered with red tiles on the curtain.
During the growing season, reeds are also an independent ecosystem. Dozens of acres of land, hundreds of acres of land size, spring from the Yellow River water irrigation, and then grass and trees sprout, all kinds of animals naturally derived, now the Yellow River Delta wetland, most of this is the situation, people will along the repaired asphalt road, cement road from a distance to watch, they are looking for the kind of original reckless beauty, Mu Yang patrol the mountain is to find food.
Take the rhubarb, follow the trail that you stepped on, and walk into the depths of the reeds, Zhang Muyang often has a harvest.
A kind of crop associated with reeds, the locals call it Maozi, in fact, it is thatch, this kind of thatch is cut home, dried, rubbed into a straw rope, and so on when the wheat is harvested to bundle wheat, this work can basically start before the summer, the thatch is one meter high, Zhang Muyang uses a pencil knife, one by one to cut down, bundled into a small bundle, back home, every year the straw rope used for wheat harvest is provided by Mu Yang, Mu Yang feels that he has done a job for the family, although it is dispensable, but for Mu Yang, it is a very happy thing.
There is more than this to do in the reeds, bring rhubarb, mainly to drive away snakes. Snakes are called long worms in the local area, they panic at a glance, this kind of wetland environment, the most in it is the water snake, walk along the reeds, you will see snakes of various colors, therefore, people are reluctant to go to the reeds, thinking and thinking about it is mad.
Where the rhubarb passed, the snake would hide far away, and Mu Yang didn't have to think about encountering the snake at all.
The path in the reeds was stepped out by Mu Yang, he never brought children from the same village in this matter, at most he would bring Zhang Qingguo in a few times, this is Zhang Muyang's battlefield, and it must be kept secret.
Rhubarb often has a catch, wild ducks and pheasants in the reeds, can not fly up in the middle of the dense reeds, encountering rhubarb is a disaster, once rhubarb bites the belly of the wild duck, so that Zhang Muyang taught a lesson, after that, rhubarb remembers, only pinch the neck.
Mu Yang has a good heart and does not kill, but this is a sin done by Rhubarb, and his job is to give them excess.
Small bays can often be found, when there is little rain in summer, the water in the reeds evaporates naturally, and those small bays separated from the large area of water are the treasures that Mu Yang is looking for, there are fish in them.
Today, Zhang Muyang was in a bad mood, and he didn't bother to cut the thatch, so he directly led the rhubarb to expand the territory, and continued to drive deeper from the end of the path.
This year's drought has caused the Yellow River to run out, and the water in the reeds is almost dry. All the way forward, Rhubarb suddenly became excited, plunged into a small inlet in front of him, rushed left and right, the water in the small inlet instantly became turbid, Zhang Muyang walked to him, Rhubarb had already pinched a big catfish and put it at Zhang Muyang's feet.
"Hehe, it's good, rhubarb is so powerful, go home and give you something to eat, hurry up, go and bring them all up for me." β
The water is shallow, just above the feet, not below the calves in the depths, still in the reeds, and these fish are really impossible to hide. Zhang Muyang pulled up his trousers, cut two handfuls of thatch and tied his shoes tightly, and fished in troubled waters to talk about the scene at this time.
As soon as the water is turbid, the fish will lose its sense of direction, Zhang Muyang stood still in the water, and saw a fin swimming over on the water surface, Zhang Muyang's left hand was in front of the fin, and his right hand was copied down at the fin position, and a half-pound crucian carp lost its freedom.
Zhang Muyang gave full play to his steady, accurate and ruthless combat policy, and after a while, seven or eight crucian carp, carp, silver carp and gayu were in the game
γ If you want to talk about catching fish, Zhang Muyang has some experience, but compared with rhubarb, his combat power has been left behind.
Rhubarb fights side by side with his master, and he has a tacit understanding. Seeing that the owner stood in the water and did not move, it did not move, waiting for the fish to take the initiative to send it to the door. Seeing the opportunity, one bite at a time, I caught five or six catfish for just two or three catties.
Rhubarb is a local dog, we now call it the Chinese pastoral dog, loyalty is very high, raised at home for seven or eight years, younger than Zhang Muyang, for itself is in the prime of life, Zhang Muyang has been closest to rhubarb since he was a child, he is the most idle at home, and rhubarb is also a day and night, the family has been wrapping dumplings for eight years, Zhang Muyang also secretly gave rhubarb one or two, there is nothing to do, rhubarb's eyes have always been staring at Zhang Muyang, Zhang Muyang rhubarb is also eager to lick his belly clean, Zhang Muyang thinks it is buried and does not let you eat, he even changed his nature that he can't changeγ
Usually there is no opportunity to perform, but today ushered in the opportunity to be in the limelight, catch a few fish and go to Zhang Muyang's side, shake his body, splash the master with water, and then stay away from it, and then go to catch fish.
The focused Zhang Muyang ignored the flow of time, and all that flickered in his eyes was the fins swimming on the surface of the water. Seeing that the sun was on the sun, Mu Yang and his mother prepared the meal, but found that Mu Yang had not come back, and the usual child had come back early, it was so hot, but don't suffer from heat stroke, so he hurriedly walked out of the house and shouted at Mu Yang to go home for dinner.
Hearing his mother's cry, Mu Yang found that it was already dark, and he didn't dare to say anything in the reeds, because this reed field was contracted by someone else, and there was a special person to take care of it.
Hehe, no matter, it's your business to contract, this is the public property of the brigade, so I should also have a share of it.
Zhang Muyang walked out of the inlet and began to worry again, this pile of fish, big and small, sixty or seventy, how can it weigh more than 100 catties, how can I get it home? Rhubarb, I have to work hard for you again.
Cut a bundle of thatch, which is very strong, and pass through the gills of the fish, four or five fish in a string, and tie them with thatch in the middle, and put them on the rhubarb. "Rhubarb, you are obedient, don't run when you will go back, just follow my head, once you run, these fish will not be able to move back, and we will be busy in vain this afternoon." β
The big ones such as catfish and carp are straddled on the rhubarb back, and the small crucian carp and gaa fish are straddled on their shoulders and tied to their belts. When Rhubarb took the lead in running into the house, he got rid of a mud monkey alive, covered with fish, and the third brother laughed directly.
"Rhubarb, so capable, yesterday people relied on your master to steal fish, you will go to the master today to vent your anger, this is on which mud pile arch, like a mud monkey. β
Rhubarb also seemed to hear the taste, I worked at noon, don t you hurry up and follow it, Mu saw that his waist was about to break, and he looked at the third child coming over, shaking his body uncooperatively, and splashing you with mud.