When Li Yadong and the three arrived in the small county town of their hometown, it was already the next day. Li Tingting ran home in a hurry, but she had a closed door, and a big lock hung on the wooden door.

"Let's go, Tingting, let's go back to the village, eighty percent of them will go back for the New Year. Li Yadong greeted Li Tingting with a stupid face.

Today is the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, and it is normal for his eldest brother and sister-in-law to go home. When I came to the workshop, I saw that the door was closed.

They had rented a car from the provincial capital, but fortunately they didn't let the driver go first, so they got back into the car and drove in the direction of the village.

More than half an hour later, when the taxi approached the village, Li Yadong could clearly feel the changes around him: the road was still the original mud road, but it was paved with a layer of cinders, which did not look muddy, and the road surface was obviously widened a lot. The crops in the past are gone, and they have become a pond of mouths, and the area is not small, just like merging the word "field" into the word "mouth".

"Little uncle, is this our village?" Li Tingting craned her neck and looked out of the car window, looking confused, always feeling that she was on the wrong path.

She only knew about the establishment of a cooperative in the village, but she didn't know how to dig a pond.

And Yan Weixian on the side, looking at the mountains and rivers in front of her, there was something strange in her eyes. Not disgust, but surprise.

She always thought that Li Yadong was born in a big family, but she never thought that this man who was as dazzling as a comet would actually come out of such a poor countryside.

She couldn't wait to get out of the car and feel the land - what kind of water and soil can raise such an excellent man?

Yes, excellent.

The more she got to know Li Yadong, the more Yan Weixian felt that he was almost perfect - he was rich but not greedy for pleasure; he was surrounded by beautiful women, but he never messed with flowers; he had a mysterious and powerful backer, who could treat people and still remain humble.

Such a man, probably a woman who knows him will fall in love......

"I think you're stupid at reading, don't you even know your own home?" Li Yadong angrily rewarded her with a chestnut.

"Not really. Li Tingting pouted, rubbed her little head, and said a little unconvinced: "It's too much change." ”

"Big?" Li Yadong smiled, slowly turned his head to look out the window, and said lightly, "No matter how it changes, even if it turns it over, I won't admit it." ”

It was this land that gave birth to him and raised him.

A tree cannot break its roots, and a person cannot forget its roots.

The car drove smoothly into the village and unimpeded. Two tractors carrying large plastic water tanks stopped at the head of the village, which made Li Yadong understand the necessity of building a road - the village did not know whose fish pond was "drying fish".

This is a dialect expression that means to drain the water in a fish pond and catch all the fish inside.

The two tractors were apparently driven by fishmongers, purchased on the spot, and then towed to the county for sale.

There are a lot of people standing on the ridge of that fishpond, which is a very interesting thing, and it is definitely worth watching in the countryside where there is no entertainment.

The taxi that suddenly entered the village naturally attracted everyone's attention.

"Eighty percent of Yadong is back, right?"

The villagers speculated that there was no second person in the village who could have this kind of pomp.

"Oh...... "The bear children are undoubtedly the most excited—they can't miss such a lively event as dried fish, so almost all the doll heads in the village gathered.

The appearance of taxis successfully diverted their attention, and they rushed wildly, directly surrounding the road in front of them.

The adults scolded and picked up the sticks and couldn't get rid of them.

"Uncle Niu, leave them alone, I'll just lay down here, I just happened to run into dried fish, come down to have a good time, I haven't seen it for many years. Li Yadong stepped out of the car, took the salute, paid the money, and let the driver go first.

The sudden appearance of Yan Weixian and Li Tingting was actually more effective than the stick in Uncle Niu's hand, and the bear children didn't dare to approach when they saw them.

"Wow, these two girls are so good-looking, better than the people on my family's New Year's paintings. ”

The bears whispered.

"What kind of New Year's painting? I look better than the stars in the TV series?"

"Yes...... Where did they come from?"

"Li Erdan, aren't you stupid, didn't you see that your Uncle Yadong brought them back?"

"Eh, you say...... They can't be Mr. Li's daughters-in-law, right?"

"Two?"

"Wow, Mr. Li is such a cow, he married two daughters-in-law and came back!" A guy with a fat head and a fat brain screamed strangely, and his voice was really not small.

When Li Tingting heard this, she instantly became angry, crossed her waist and scolded, "Zhang Fugui, are you undersmoked, open your dog eyes and see who your aunt and grandmother are!"

Zhang Fugui was stunned for a moment, looked at it again and again with a pair of squinting eyes, and then said in disbelief: "Li Bawang!"

"Count your kid not blind yet!" Li Tingting crossed her waist and "hummed" twice.

Li Bawang is her nickname, as for the origin, it is a long story.

She grew up in the city since she was a child, and only returned to the village during the winter and summer vacations, and she lived in the city for a long time, and it was not easy for her to play with the children in the village. Once they were playing hopscotch, Li Tingting loved cleanliness and was afraid that her clothes would get dirty, so she jumped very slowly, and the other children laughed at her for being the eighth king.

She cried for several days, and finally her backer, the big demon king Li Yadong, went crazy and swept the entire village with her, and the little rabbit cubs who dared to shout "Wang Ba" saw one and beat one another, not only that, but also asked them to read these two words upside down.

Therefore, the "eighth king" has become the "overlord".

"Li Bawang, why do you seem to be a different person?" Zhang Fugui asked with a smile, his brother told him that he was a little bit of trouble with Li Bawang, so don't look at this bluff, he is not afraid at all. The guy behind Li Bawang, who really scared him, was the big demon king in the village, with a great reputation, and after going outside to study in the past few years, he seemed to have gotten better. But it is also necessary to ensure that the sudden beastly nature is big and the original form is revealed, so the necessary awe must still be had.

"Your aunt and grandmother are naturally beautiful, are you done with your winter vacation homework, why don't you hurry back and write?" With Li Tingting's majesty in the village, she can only play majestic in front of these bear children who are at least half a round younger than her.

"I want you to take care of it, ...... slightly" Zhang Fugui stuck out his tongue and grimaced at her.

was so angry that Li Tingting's hand shrunk in the white down jacket, and she didn't know what she had picked up, so she smashed it directly, but when she saw it, it was actually a handful of candy......

That's the best candy, chocolate sandwich toffee imported from the Netherlands, she didn't want to eat it herself, so she put it in her pocket, ready to go home and tease Erbao......

Lost.

At this time, many adults who were originally watching the dried fish also came over from the pond ridge and greeted Li Yadong one after another.

Their eyes were sharper, but they recognized Li Tingting, praised this girl for growing more and more smart, and secretly looked at Yan Weixian with curious eyes, not daring to look closely - this is a kind of timidity caused by inferiority complex.

"Tingting, you take some candy from the bag and divide it among the children, put the things here first, I will find someone to get them later, you take Sister Yan back first, I'll go see the dried fish." ”

"I don't, I'll watch it too, and I'll come back together later. Li Tingting said, opened a suitcase, took out a bag of candy from it, and began to sprinkle flowers.

Li Yadong didn't bother to care about her, and after saying hello to Yan Weixian, he left on his own, came to the pond ridge, touched out a handful of China, and sent it when he saw someone.

After a while of greetings, I had time to pay attention to the pond.

Good guys, the water has bottomed out, as if the fish are floating on the water, and there are quite a few of them. Moreover, before releasing the water, they must have been caught with fishing nets, and there are no crucian carp, silver carp, and fathead fish living on the upper water surface, only the big ones at the bottom - grass carp, black fish, catfish, diced cucumbers, etc.

There are many people in the pond, and they are not afraid of the cold in this winter, and the water clothes are not easy to walk in such a muddy pond bottom, and they are all barefoot, wearing single clothes, half of their bodies are stuck in the mud, and they are very busy.

Many people noticed Li Yadong and greeted him with hands full of mud. A big fat man who stood out from the crowd quickly attracted Li Yadong's attention.

If it's not Zhang Chunxi, who else can there be?

"Xiaodong, hurry up, come down, there is a big herring in this small pool, at least fifteen catties, Uncle Datian has already bragged, I will be able to catch it today and take it away directly." Zhang Chunxi naturally also found Li Yadong and waved at him.

"Isn't it, fifteen pounds?" said that this kid can't be so diligent, and he really can't afford to be early.

It seems that this fishpond belongs to Uncle Daejeon's family.

"Fifteen pounds is still my preliminary estimate, just now it shook in front of me, shit, I didn't catch it!"

"This fish pond has only been raised for a year, can there be such a big fish?" Li Yadong always felt that this kid was trying to deceive himself.

"Yes, I do. Zhang Chunxi has not yet spoken, Uncle Datian, who was busy weighing fish with the fishmonger on the side, said with a smile: "In April, when I put fish fry, I threw two into it, and one was more than eight catties at that time. If you look at such a big fish pond, there are only two herring fish, which grow seven or eight catties a year, which is nothing. Experts also say that the largest fish can grow to more than 100 catties. ”

"Then Uncle Datian, are you willing to do it?" asked Li Yadong with a smile.

As the saying goes, scarcity is expensive, and herring is not suitable for large-scale stocking of fry in the mode of polyculture in rural fish ponds, so the price has been high.

Many children in the countryside have a fish tongue around their necks, and that thing comes from the big herring.

"You kid, what are you reluctant to give, this is also thanks to you, this year the family raises ducks and fish, life is a lot better, not bad for this fish. Uncle Ota scolded with a smile.

"Then if that's the case, I'll go down?" Li Yadong was eager to try, when he was a child, he didn't do less work like this, and Zhang Chunxi and Zhang Chunxi would go to the river to fish every once in a while.

"Oh, don't go down, get your clothes dirty again. If you want to eat fish, just take it directly from Uncle's basket, can Uncle still care about you?" Uncle Ota stopped as he looked at his excessively clean clothes.

"It's okay, I'll go down and have fun, I haven't touched a fish in years. With the plan to do it himself, Li Yadong made up his mind that he must touch the big herring with Zhang Chunxi today.

He didn't want anything, he just asked for the fish tongue, and he wore it just right for Erbao, which was said to ward off evil spirits and diseases.

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