After eating.

Grandma cleans up the dishes and chopsticks.

Originally, Wang Qiang was about to get up and say goodbye, but he was stopped by his grandfather and nagged.

"When I was your age, I was fishing every day in the summer. Grandpa leaned back on the recliner and reminisced about the past, "At that time, I was greedy and wanted to get some meat dishes to taste, but I didn't have the brains to sell them, and the key was to sell them for so much money." ”

When Wang Qiang was a child, he often listened to his grandfather tell the story of the second uncle's war, what was swept off the plane with a machine gun, and only one leg was left by the comrades-in-arms, and the grandfather had a good mouth, and he listened to the story with relish, he moved the small bench forward a little, and said: "I heard my father say that you were a good swimmer when you were young." ”

"That's it. Grandpa's eyebrows fluttered, and he gently patted the armrest of the recliner, "It's not that I'm bragging, I can swim back and forth from the Tonghai River." ”

The grandmother who was washing the dishes said, "You haven't bragged yet, I don't know who almost drowned in the Tonghai River." ”

Grandpa was not happy and shouted, "Who bragged? Who bragged? This is not the original leg cramp, otherwise I would have drowned according to my water performance?"

Well, he's not convinced.

In fact, Wang Qiang knew that his grandfather had more or less boasting in it, but as a grandson, he had to give his grandfather face, just listen.

As if he wanted to save some face, Grandpa changed the topic, "There were a lot of fish and shrimp in the Tonghai River in the past, and when you touch it in the water, it is a lot, I remember that there were many kings at that time, and this beast was not easy to catch. ”

Grandma interjected: "Then how many Wang Ba have you fished and come home? After I married you, I ate Wang Ba once." ”

Grandpa was annoyed and angry, "Wash your dishes, I'll talk to Qiangzi, what's the matter with you?"

The two old men quarreled, although the grandfather was quite dignified at home, but the old couple fought every day, which was also a kind of fun.

If Wang Qiang would have looked at it with a smile, but when he heard his grandfather say fishing Wang Ba just now, his heart suddenly moved, and he quickly interrupted the two of them and asked, "Grandpa, you said fishing Wang Ba?"

"Yes, ignore the old woman, she will doubt me all day long. Grandpa didn't forget to step on grandma, and said: "Unless Wang Ba goes ashore, you want to catch it easily in the water, so you can only fish." ”

Wang Qiang asked, "Then how should I fish?"

"Use the embroidery needle, smash the needle butt and sharpen the tip, and just get some old flower field chicken offal to hang on it, and you will be able to catch it. Grandpa said lightly, the old flower field chicken is another name for frogs, local dialect.

Hearing this, Wang Qiang was puzzled, he was fishing for Wang Ba according to what his grandfather said, why was the pig liver gone, but he didn't catch Wang Ba?

That's not right.

Is there some mystery in it?

Wang Qiang felt that there was something negligent, and said half-truthfully: "Two days ago, I saw Wang Ba's footprints in Xigou Beach, and it was almost a fishing boy as you said, but the internal organs of the old Huatian chicken were gone, and Wang Ba was not hooked at all." ”

Grandma said, "I'll just say he's bragging, but you still don't believe it." ”

"What did you say?" Grandpa glared.

"Cheng Cheng Cheng Cheng Cheng Grandma shook her head.

Grandpa seemed to be trying to verify that he was not bragging, and looked at his grandson with a faint gaze, "Let me ask you, how big a needle do you use?"

Wang Qiang thought about it carefully, and gestured with his hand, "Half a finger is more than a needle." ”

"I'll just say it!" Grandpa patted his thigh, then waved his hand again and again, "The needle used is not right, the needle is not right." ”

Eh, what's the point?

Seeing that what his grandfather said was quite true, Wang Qiang said: "How big should I use a needle?"

"The smallest embroidery needle. Grandpa smacked his lips and explained, "Do you think about how big Wang Bazui is, and you have a half-finger-long needle, can it swallow it?"

Wake up the dreamer with a word!

Wang Qiang understood everything in an instant!

That's right, how big is Wang Bazui? He used such a long needle to catch Wang Bazui.

He couldn't help but get excited in his heart, and he came to chat with his grandfather today.

Next, Wang Qiang chatted with his grandfather absentmindedly for a while, and then asked his grandmother for five or six of the smallest embroidery needles, and hurriedly flashed people.

There are only a few small embroidery needles in the grandmother's needle box, otherwise he would really want to get a few more.

……

Back home.

The king couldn't wait to follow the last process, and threw the fish cage into the river first.

Subsequently, I returned home and began to make the Eight Hooks of the Fishing King.

With the last experience, this will be easy to master, it only took an hour, and six hooks were made, but the pork liver ran out, and he was going to go to the vegetable market in the afternoon to buy some back, as for the old Huatian chicken offal that grandpa said, Wang Qiang was not going to get it.

When he was a child, he was very happy to catch frogs, and even disemboweling his stomach was nothing, but his actual psychological age went up after all, and he knew that frogs were beneficial insects, on the other hand, the frogs were sticky and uncomfortable to grasp, not to mention that the internal organs were a little disgusting, it was better to buy some pork liver directly, anyway, it didn't cost much.

Just getting ready to go out.

There was a clanging outside, and the sound of a bicycle bell could be heard.

Wang Qiangxin said who, when he looked up, he saw his mother angrily pushing the bicycle and running in, and scolded: "Where did you run in the morning!"

The mother was angry.

He hurriedly smiled and said, "Mom, why didn't you go, I ......"

"Why didn't you go?" the mother parked her bicycle and said with a sigh of relief: "I looked for you three times in the village, but you are good, you don't even have a ghost, where can you talk to me!?"

It's going to cry.

Wang Qiang is a filial son, of course he can't bear to cry his mother, so he quickly got up and said: "Mom, don't cry, listen to me, I'm going to sell fish to earn tuition!"

I wasn't sure if I could sell the fish, so I didn't say anything.

This time it was already sold, and he simply didn't plan to hide it, so he said it directly.

The mother was still angry, "So how much did you sell it?" ”

Wang Qiang knew that she was angry, and smiled and took out the money from his pocket and put it on the table, "More than one hundred and fifty." ”

"Yi......" The mother, who was still angry, stopped abruptly when the words came to her mouth, and said in a daze: "You really sold fish? more than one hundred and fifty?"

Wang Qiang pointed to the money on the table of the four immortals, "You can know if you count it." ”

The mother hurriedly ran to the door and looked left and right, then closed the door and plugged in the deadbolt, returned to the table again, and began to count the money.

Wang Qiang can understand his mother's behavior, countrymen generally like to not expose their wealth, no matter how fierce they blow, real money will not be revealed in front of outsiders, and it is estimated that she is afraid that a neighbor will come, so she closed the door.

"So much?" the mother looked back in surprise as she counted the money.

Wang Qiang nodded, "Yes, I caught dozens of catties of fish." ”

His mother was not at ease and asked him how to catch the fish.

Wang Qiang explained the situation in 1510.

The mother didn't speak for a long time, and only after half a ring did she stretch out her index finger and tap it on his head, "You have a bad stomach and hide a hundred yuan, and the money will be confiscated, and I will help you keep it as tuition." ”

Wang Qiang said bitterly: "Don't, you leave me some, I have to sell fish tomorrow, I always have to find change, right?" Anyway, the money was originally going to be handed over to his mother to pay off the debt, and he didn't feel distressed.

"You're still going to catch fish?" the mother shook her head like a wheel, and persuaded her bitterly, "It's not safe to go into the water, so don't do it." ”

Listening to the words of concern, Wang Qiang's heart was warm, others were all good, not as good as their parents, he was relieved: "If you don't go into the water, the fish cage will be thrown away, and you can put it away the next day, don't worry." ”

Mother said a few more words.

can't dispel Wang Qiang's resolute thoughts.

In the end, she couldn't help it, so she took out fifty yuan and odds from it, "Oh, you can take it and find change." After saying that, she was about to go to the room, but suddenly turned around and said, "When you go to collect the cage tomorrow morning, call me to go with me, I don't worry." ”

Wang Qiang nodded vigorously, "Okay." Reaching out and stuffing fifty yuan into his pocket, he asked, "How much money do we owe outside?"

"Two thousand five. The mother said casually: "Count the six hundred you gave me, and one thousand nine, don't bother you, Mom and Dad can pay it back." ”

A little less than you think.

Wang Qiang sighed, and set a small goal for himself in his heart, striving to help his parents pay back the 2,500 yuan as soon as possible.