On Saturday morning, Ganluo returned from Humei's house, walking very slowly on the way home, for the first time she had seen Humei's father, or more precisely, what he looked like after he had sobered up.

The man wore glasses, and the scholar's Confucian spirit was exhausted with only a face of vicissitudes, and Hu Mei said that he was a teacher in the village elementary school more than ten years ago and taught for a few years.

She remembered that it was an unrecognizable face with a sallow face, a mouthful of yellow teeth missing half of a front tooth, and a little leaky speech.

His trouser legs were covered with thin mud, and the night rain was muddy, he should have gone to look for it after he sobered up, and look at his eyes were blue and black, he should have stayed up all night.

She looked at him excitedly and trembled a little and wanted to pull Hu Mei over, but she didn't let go, and protected Hu Mei behind her without saying a word.

He stared at the wound on Hu Mei's forehead, and she saw that his hand was wrapped in a thick layer of calluses, and the calloused hand was raised, and it was slapped on the sallow face, "Smack!"

It was loud, it was crisp, and she saw the man crying, slowly approaching Hu Mei, his mouth moving, talking.

But she still didn't let go of Hu Mei, she stared at the man's eyes, those eyes were filled with tears, and the whites of the eyes were yellow.

Hu Mei cried and broke free, ran to him, took his hand, she was calling him daddy.

Looking at the father and daughter with red eyes, the suppressed anger in her heart was smoothed out a lot by the crisp slap, and she didn't say a word from beginning to end.

She remembered what her father said to her: a man who is crushed by life is a poor person, and a man who is crushed by himself is a coward.

Before she arrived at home, she saw Zhou Jingrui walking towards her, and her heart was a little calmer.

The other party walked a few steps to her side, and when he saw that she didn't say a word, he walked side by side with her steps.

"Have you taken care of your friend's business?"

"Not yet, it will be a while before we know. ”

Ganluo stared at the ground, walking as before, staring at his toes forward, walking up to him, looking up at him, looking up at him: "You're waiting for me here in the morning?"

She was a little closer, only half an arm's length between the two, Zhou Jingrui froze in place and nodded.

He took a step back and coughed: "I'm waiting for you to go fishing, you said to go down the river to fish on Saturday, don't tell me that you forgot." ”

"I didn't forget. With his hands behind his back, Ganlo took a step back and turned, "Wait until I get home and get ready." ”

She turned her back and strode forward, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, she just glanced at the roots of his ears and found that the roots of his ears were red, isn't this guy shy?, and teased loudly: "You were shy just now!"

"Cut, what nonsense, how could I ......" Zhou Jingrui snorted, looked at Ganluo's back, saw the other party smile back, made a grimace at him, and ran away without a trace.

Ganluo's smile flickered in front of his eyes, Zhou Jingrui pressed his heart, he felt that he was a little abnormal recently, and thought that he would have to go for a re-examination next week.

"Xiao Luo, this is yours. Deng Yanghui arrived at the Xiejiang River early and distributed the fishing rod in his hand to the two people, "Zhou Jingrui, this is yours." ”

"Brother Yanghui, didn't you say that you went down to the river to fish?" Gan Luo looked at the fishing rod in his hand, and felt a little worried in his heart, going down the river is more exciting than fishing.

"The second uncle's boat broke down yesterday, and then there was a fishing moratorium for a few months, and there was no hope of going down the river. Fishing is good too. ”

"I haven't fished for a long time, but now that the weather is good, I might be able to catch the king of fish." Deng Yanghui helped her put on the bait, and Ma Li threw it into the river, floating half a section and standing quietly on the water.

They are located in the upper reaches of the river, where the flow is gentle and unwavering, and there are dikes and gates about a mile downstream.

The king of fish, in fact, is a red-tailed carp, about three feet long, vigorous and fat, the carp can grow to such a size is not easy, so it was given the title of king of fish.

The second uncle caught it once, and the fishing line was broken on the spot when the fish broke free.

Deng Yanghui saw that Zhou Jingrui, who was silent, was throwing the fishing rod in a similar posture, and the location was also very particular, so he couldn't help but say: "Zhou Jingrui, do you want to compete?"

"How do you compare?"

"Before noon, whoever catches more wins. ”

"Good. Zhou Jingrui agreed, and turned his head to look at Gan Luo, who was sitting on the pony next to him, "What about you?"

"You can compare it, I want to be Mrs. Jiang today. "Ganlo doesn't have much interest in fishing.

stared at the float for a while, and remembered that he had just gone to the river and passed by a lotus pond.

The morning sun is not poisonous, but it is also hot and dazzling.

Ganluo put the fishing rod on the mud bank and walked in the direction of the lotus pond, he only wanted to pick three wide lotus leaves as a hat, but he saw that the lotus flowers were blooming very well, the pink and tender buds were half-opened, and he stepped on the edge of the pond barefoot and pulled seven or eight flowers and hugged them together.

"It's yours. ”

Gan Luo picked up the lotus leaf and handed it to Deng Yanghui, the other party grinned, and directly took the buckle and put it on the top of his head.

"It's yours. Gan Luo took out a lotus leaf from his arms, and was about to buckle it directly on top of Zhou Jingrui's head, when the other party turned his head to look at her, and put his index finger to his lips, "Shh." ”

Zhou Jingrui was stunned this time, Ganluo was holding a lotus leaf in her hand, holding a bunch of lotus flowers in her arms, the buds were pink and tender covering half of her face, her shoes were slipping in her hands, her feet were stained with mud, and some grass and leaves were sticky.

Ganluo knew that he was silent, this was a fish eating bait, so he lightly buckled his head, and when he saw that the float was floating and uncertain, he raised his hand and patted him, "It's hooked!"

Zhou Jingrui turned his eyes and got up to look at the float, "I have to wait a little longer." ”

"My fishing rod!"

Gan Luo glanced at his position out of the corner of his eye, the fishing rod inserted in the ground was bent at great speed, the float had already sunk into the water, the lotus flower in his hand was thrown, and he ran to the shore barefoot and grabbed the fishing rod.

The waveless water splashed, and Gan Luo pulled the fishing rod and shouted at the two, "Help me, I can't pull it!"

The hooked fish in the water fluttered and struggled, the force was very strong, and the three of them dragged together with all their might, and a red tail cut through the water.