After the exam, Mu Zhen feels good about himself, but he has no confidence in his heart, since Lu Shuang publicly said that he fell in love for nearly a month, he has always been at a low point in his life, these days, he does not eat well, sleep does not sleep, and sometimes dreams appear, but he can't remember half of it, as if he has a serious illness, it is hard. As soon as the exam ended, Mu Zhen felt comfortable as if she had just recovered from a serious illness.

On the days when he was waiting for the results to be announced at home, Mu Zhen was still thinking about reading a few more books, and he thought of Ma Sanye again, and remembered Ma Sanye's bookcase under the bed.

Mu Zhen went to Ma Sanye's house to borrow books this time, unlike in the past, he didn't want to go to Ma Sanye's house empty-handed, he should take something, so that the old man was happy and happy, Mu Zhen looked around the room, didn't see any decent gifts, he sat at the desk and thought, what does an old man need? The hand holding the pen scribbled randomly on the paper in front of him from time to time.

He drew an apple, and then he drew a pear, which we don't have at home! Mu Zhen sighed, he put down the pen in his hand, walked out of the door, saw a few lotus leaves in the ditch outside the gate, and suddenly had an idea.

The hour hand pointed to 10 o'clock in the morning, and Mu Zhen saw that there was no one at home, so she took a woven bag of fertilizer and ran towards the pond in the north of the village. This pond has more than a dozen acres of land, has not seen the pond, then smelled the fragrance that he smelled when he went to the lake to pick lotus in the early days, the fragrance made him run a few steps, a pool of turquoise is presented in front of him, the lotus in the pond is different from the lake, the lotus flowers in the lake are described by "the lotus flowers are different red in the sun", it is just right, and the lotus flowers here are all white, and the yellow stamens are reflected in it, like a steamed egg yolk in a white bowl, tempting people's taste buds.

Mu Zhen has rarely come here since she entered junior high school, but she still remembers the scene of playing lotus pods with children of the same age in the village when she was a child, when three or five formed a group, competing to take off naked, "fluttering" jumped into the cold water, shuttled through the thorny lotus leaf stalk, completely ignoring the pain of the thorns on the stalk, and after a while, the lotus canopy with the connecting rod in his hand could not be grasped, so he climbed ashore one after another, and completely forgot the pain for the bloody marks left on his body, and competed with each other for the "results" in the lotus pond.

Today is different from usual, Mu Zhen's "results" are not to enjoy themselves, but to share this "results" with Ma Sanye, Mu Zhen has indescribable excitement in his heart, when Ma Sanye sees the lotus canopy he brought him, how happy he will be! Thinking of this, Mu Zhen is excited for his creativity.

Mu Zhen didn't take off his clothes like when he was a child, but wore long clothes and trousers, and didn't even take off his shoes, but just tied the shoelaces of the yellow cloth military shoes on his feet tighter, and then carefully went down to the pond, and then wet his clothes with cold water, and slowly slid into the lotus leaves of the pond, the pond water soaked his shirt, and the waist-length water made the clothes stick to his body, he only felt a cool air soaking into his body, and couldn't help but gasp, he suddenly had the idea of retreating, but without a lotus canopy, what did he take to the third master's house? Thinking of this, he once again mustered up his courage and slid towards the depths of the lotus leaf. At this time, Mu Zhen had only one idea, to pick the biggest lotus pod as a gift, so as to show his sincerity.

This is the first time Mu Zhen came to the pond alone to play lotus pods, the more she walked in, the more she felt the silence in the pond, the screaming cicadas had gone away, as if they had disappeared in the lotus pond, and the most clearly heard here was the "whoosh" sound of the water with her hands from time to time.

Mu Zhen pinned the corner of the mouth of the fertilizer bag to the waistband of his trousers, dragged it in the water behind him, and put every lotus pod he picked into the pocket, and then continued to look for the next target in the lotus pond. He was only concentrating on finding the lotus canopy hidden in the lotus leaf, and suddenly felt that the fertilizer bag behind him moved suddenly, which startled him, and then felt that the bag was out of his belt, he hurriedly returned his hand and grabbed it, the movement of the bag in the water turned out to be big, he felt that something must have entered the bag, and he was shocked, could it be that he had encountered a water monster? He remembered that when his mother was a child in order to prevent his children from going into the water without permission, he talked about the water monster that would bite people, Mu Zhen was a little scared in his heart, and suddenly calmed down a lot, Mu Zhen realized that even if there was a water monster, it had already entered the bag, and he couldn't bite if he wanted to, Mu Zhen thought, screwed all the mouth of the bag in his hand, and held it firmly, but the monster became even more rampant, up and down in the bag, Rolling left and right, Mu Zhen didn't dare to let go easily, lest he run out and bite himself, he had no intention of looking for the lotus pod, and hurriedly dragged the mouth of the bag to slide down the shore of the water.

Mu Zhen slid in the water, while feeling that the monster in the bag struggled more fiercely, no matter how strong the monster in the bag struggled, Mu Zhen clenched the mouth of the bag tightly, not daring to relax at all, Mu Zhen felt that this harvest was not only how many lotus canopies were hit, but the biggest gain was to catch the water monster mentioned by her mother before. Approaching the shore, Mu Zhen pulled the bag out of the water first, and the monster in the bag became more active, constantly jumping up and down in the bag. Mu Zhen lifted the bag and threw it forward, and the fierceness that came from nowhere suddenly threw the bag to the shore, Mu Zhen immediately jumped out of the water, hurriedly pressed forward and held down the mouth of the bag, twisted his hands slightly, lifted the bag and ran home.

As soon as she entered the house, she almost collided with her mother Xiuhua, who was about to go out, looking at Mu Zhen soaking wet and carrying the fertilizer bag in her hand, Xiuhua couldn't help but be a little surprised: "What are you doing here?"

"Look, I caught a water monster from the pond in the north of the village!" Mu Zhen said loudly as if she had seen a savior when she saw her mother.

Xiuhua looked at the shaking fertilizer bag and smiled.

"What a water monster? It must be a fish. Xiuhua suddenly felt that Mu Zhen took what she scared him seriously when she was a child.

"Then what do you see?" Mu Zhen said as she threw the bag on the ground, grabbed the two corners at the bottom of the bag, and jerked it upward, pouring out all the contents of the bag.

Mu Zhen opened her mouth wide in shock, except for the lotus pod she picked, it was a live carp, the carp's bulging belly and red tail flicked a few times on the ground, obviously this time of tossing, a little exhausted, no longer moving, and the mouth was still sucking air one by one from time to time.

"Where did you catch this?" Xiuhua saw that the fish weighed three or four pounds, and she really couldn't understand what Mu Zhen used to put him in this fertilizer bag.

"I went to pick the lotus pod, it was it that got into this bag by itself, I thought it was a water monster!" Mu Zhen said mischievously.

"Go to the pond to pick some lotus pods, really be careful of the water monster!" Xiuhua blamed a little.

"But no, I still want to catch this water monster! It turns out that I stumbled by mistake, but I didn't expect to catch such a good thing!" Mu Zhen said, grabbing the fish head from the ground, lifting it up and putting it into the water basin in the courtyard, this time he went to Ma Sanye's house to have a gift.

When Mu Zhen walked to the door of Ma Sanye with the fish, he happened to meet Ma Sanye who was about to go out, and when he saw Mu Zhen carrying the fish, he asked a little puzzledly, "What are you doing with the fish?"

"For you, I caught it in the pond just now, and I caught it for you!" Mu Zhen said a little excitedly.

"You kid, you've learned to talk nonsense. How can you catch such a big fish?" Ma Sanye had long liked the child in front of him from the bottom of his heart because Mu Zhen often came to borrow books, and he couldn't help but blame a little when he teased himself like this.

Mu Zhen sent him to prepare to beat the lotus pod, and how he happened to meet such a god carp and got into his bag and told it in detail, so that Ma Sanye listened to it like listening to a book, which was very exciting.

"Third grandfather, it seems that this fish took the initiative to let you taste it, so I only mentioned it, and it is also a gift from the pond in the north of our village!"

Looking at Mu Zhen's eyebrows fluttering, Ma Sanye suddenly felt that the child in front of him had suddenly grown up a lot and became much more sensible. Not only did he say to himself with emotion: "Really, children who read are different from children who don't read!"

Mu Zhen realized something, and asked Ma Sanye: "Quickly put this fish up and raise it, otherwise there will be a shortage of water for a while!"

"Quick, put it in the water tank!" Ma Sanye motioned for Mu Zhen to put the fish into the water tank under the jujube tree in the courtyard.

Mu Zhen, who came out of Ma Sanye's house, returned home and immersed himself in the borrowed book "Romance of the Gods".