Chapter 14: The Toad

Zhang Xingming had nothing to do on the side, looked up, and it was not far from his grandmother's house, more than 100 meters, so he walked back. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info into the house, two pots on the cabinet, picked up and looked at it, took the empty one down, scooped a pot of warm water from the pot, carried it back to the water's edge, called several children over, filled the pot with water, and a child drank a pot of hot water. The water in the mountain stream is still quite cold, and drinking some hot water can prevent colds.

When I sent the thermos back and came out again, I saw Brother Mancang and the three eldest children walking up to it at the entrance of the yard, carrying a fish basket and holding a few poles, and Brother Mancang was also carrying a hand-cranked telephone. "A few big children turned their faces, the second child of the Mancang family, and his own cousin Erwei, but at this time I haven't known each other, and I don't recognize the rest of them, but they must all be relatives, counting my own grandfather, the thirty or so children of the five grandfathers are all in this fort except for the soldiers who got married, and Mancang's father is the eldest of the fourth grandfather's family.

Man Cang said to Erwei: "Your third uncle's second child, don't you know him?" Erwei scratched his head and said, "I haven't seen it either." After speaking, he walked over and squatted down, and said to Zhang Xingming: "I am your second brother, and my father is your second uncle, do you know?" Zhang Xingming nodded and called "second brother", although the impression is not very cold to the second uncle and the second aunt, but the second uncle's family has frequent contacts with him in later generations, and they are quite acquainted, and the relationship is quite good.

The second brother pulled his head and said, "Let's go, the second brother will catch a toad for you." Zhang Xingming asked, "Where to catch it?" The second brother pointed to the front and said, "Just the water bubble along the well." Zhang Xingming nodded and said, "I'll call my brother, you go first." (A blister is a pond, which generally refers to a stagnant pond with no entry or exit)

trotted all the way to my brother's side and shouted: "Brother, Xingliang, come up, Brother Mancang and Second Brother have passed the toad, hurry up." ”

(The Northeast called the electric shock, the toad is the electric toad, and the electric toad is the electric toad.) )

The elder brother and Xingliang asked, "Really?" while crawling out of the water, putting on clothes and shoes, and asking, "Where is it?" Zhang Xingming pointed to the side of the well and said, "The well is along the water bubble, just go." Several other children also crackled and crawled out to get dressed.

A group of people ran to the edge of the well, more than two miles, and after a while, they ran to it, and from a distance, they saw the second brother wearing a pair of water pants, holding a wooden pole swinging back and forth in the water, and Mancang stood on the shore and shook the telephone vigorously. The two people on the side took the copy net they made, fished it out of the water from time to time, and buckled it into the fish basket.

This bubble is on the lower edge of the well and the stream, and the terrain is one block lower than the other side of the stream. The well water is coming out of the ground, the well is full and flows out into the stream, when the water potential is big on rainy days, it will overflow the stream water, flow to this side, in the depression formed such a pond with a water surface of dozens of square meters, the pond has no water source and water outlet, except for the stream water to rely on the rain to enter some water, silt here. Because it is stagnant water, the water is very corrupt, and it looks green in summer, and you can't take a bath or wash clothes. But because it is stagnant water, there are a lot of toads, it should be enough food, anyway, this area is very dense with mosquitoes in summer, and the cats and dogs at home are avoiding this area.

A group of little cubs snorted and ran closer, and saw the wooden stick in the second brother's hand slowly shaking, and then one by one the toads straightened their legs, floated out of the water, and were picked up by the nets and put into the fish basket. There are also fish, floating on the water surface with the water waves swaying, the water surface is green and turquoise, this is the signature color of fertile water, there are many water fertilizer algae, the water color is green, and many private fish ponds in later generations are this color. But in this era of beautiful mountains and rivers, such water is considered too dirty, and no one even eats the fish inside.

Mancang scolded the group of small ones: "Let's all go back." fell in and drowned and no one saved Oh, who will go down in this water and who will die, listen?" Xingliang obediently leaned back and stood behind Mancang, Zhang Xingming also pulled his brother over, and the rest of the children just moved their feet back slightly, seeing that Mancang was not really scolding, so he didn't move, and stood there watching.

This pond is a year old, it must be older than everyone present, what terrain is below, how deep it is, no one knows, Mancang is not to scare these children, no one dares to go down to save it, this is not like Qing Shui can see things underwater, who dares to open their eyes here? It's disgusting to think about looking at the green water.

The back of the toad is black-brown, it doesn't look as smooth as a frog, it has some bumps, and its body shape is larger than that of a frog. What is the relationship with huskies?

After being charged for a while, most of the fish baskets were loaded, Mancang put down the telephone and sat on the ground, panting and saying to Er Viagra in the water: "No, Erwei, it's too tiring to shake this play, or you come and shake it for a while and I will go down to the electricity." Er viagra looked back at Brother Mancang, smiled slyly, and said, "Then what's the matter, I can't shake it, I won't be bored in a few clicks, and I can't get over anything." ”

Second Viagra is relatively thin and small, and it really doesn't look like a strong Northeast man, but Zhang Xingming knows that Second Viagra is not like what it seems, if you really want to get it, Brother Mancang is really not necessarily his opponent, but he has more eyes, is more slippery, and can be lazy.

"Come, work harder, and withdraw in a few more clicks, there are too many mosquitoes. Er viagra reached out and scratched his back a few times, and said to Brother Mancang.

Brother Mancang propped it up with his hand, got up from the ground, and said, "This game is a little small, so it's good to get a big one." Second viagra said: "This is still my third uncle doesn't know where to get it, it's a lot of work to make this play, and I can get a big one, which is not faster than us using a net to fish." "The power generation of the hand-cranked telephone is really not large, but the electric fish or something is not bad.

After a while, there were too many mosquitoes, Zhang Xingming had a few bags on his body, Er Viagra came up from the pond, took off his water pants, and a few people cleaned up, carrying things on their backs and walking towards the fort, and a group of children followed.

Far away from the pond, there are significantly fewer mosquitoes, and there is no longer a buzzing ear.

Er Viagra and Brother Mancang went to the side of the road and folded some artemisia, the rods are finger thick, one meter five or six long. The two of them took the artemisia rod and twisted it by hand, twisted it a few times, and the artemisia rod softened, and the two of them made a basket together, picked out a dozen large toads from the fish basket and put them into the artemisia basket, handed them to the elder brother, and said, "Here, let your grandmother make it and share it with the second child." Zhang Xingming looked into the basket, and the toad was still in a coma, stretching his legs, and he was soft.

Xingliang must have something to eat, and the other children were a little envious and watched with a blank eye.

The elder brother happily walked to his grandmother s house with the artemisia basket, Zhang Xingming followed behind, Brother Mancang and Er Viagra They went back to the castle directly, and a group of children were also in the castle and followed behind them.

As soon as he entered the yard, a toad jumped out of the artemisia basket and jumped directly to the ground. Zhang Xingming stretched out his hand to cover the mouth of the artemisia basket, his mouth was big and his hands were small, so he said to his brother: "Cover it quickly, you will run away in a while." The elder brother put the artemisia basket on the ground, and the two of them squatted down with four small hands to cover the mouth of the basket, and they could feel the toads under their hands that were coronaized and relieved, jumping up again and again, and touching the palms of the two people from time to time. The temporary basket is a little big, and some toads drill out along the basket eye, and the brothers push back one by one with their hands.

My brother didn't forget to go back to the edge of the pigsty to find the one who had run away, but it was gone, probably because he jumped into the pigsty. A few chickens came around and stared at the artemisia basket and cooed, so my brother reached out and pushed the chicken away, saying, "I won't give you this to eat." Zhang Xingming shouted loudly: "Grandma, grandma, come quickly." ”

Grandma trotted out of the room and asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhang Xingming said: "Come on, the toad is going to run, and I can't hold it." Grandma turned around and called Grandpa, Grandpa took a pocket out, walked over, put the pocket on the artemisia basket, and as soon as he turned it over, the toads were all in the pocket, and he couldn't run away anymore. Grandpa looked at the toad in his pocket and said, "It's quite fat, it's not small, where did this come from?"

The elder brother said: "Man Cang and Erwei gave it, they used electricity in the bubble over there, and they are much older, so they put such a big basket." His hands were larger than the size of a fish basket.

Grandpa nodded, walked into the house with his pocket, and said, "How many can there be, twenty or thirty, there are more than a dozen of them, which is quite generous." Grandma said: "Aren't they all their brothers, pretend to be good people, look at their parents one by one, stay away from them in the future, don't you hear?"

Grandpa said: "Adults are adults, what are you going to do to children? Besides, Qingge is not bad, not like Qingfan." "Qingge is Mancang's father, and Qingfan is Zhang Xingming's second uncle. It is said that Zhang Xingming's grandfather has gone up a few generations, and he is also a relative of Zhang Xingming's family, grandpa Fan Wanzi is a person of the same generation as Zhang Xingming's grandfather, but he has already come out of the five suits. In the countryside, any person can count up to a few generations, and they can talk about relatives.

At dinner, grandma dealt with the toad, put oil in the pot, choked the pot with onion and garlic, put some sauce, put the toad in it and add water, let the water not pass the toad, after the water boiled, stew it over low heat until the soup is thick, put it in a bowl, and the oily sauce is fragrant. A dozen toads filled a big bowl, which will be sold for more than 100 yuan in 90 years.

When it's dark, wash your feet and go into the bed.

The elder brother asked Zhang Xingming in a low voice: "You said that the one who ran away, where did he go? Can he still be in the pigsty?"

Zhang Xingming was speechless, ignored his brother, and lay there looking at the wall in a daze. The summer in the countryside does not block the curtains, the moonlight outside the window comes through the window, everything is hazy, and when you see it and can't see it clearly, you feel that the People's Liberation Army riding a partial three-wheeled newspaper on the wall seems to be alive, riding a partial three-wheeled floating in the air, floating and floating in front of you...... The old cat silently jumped on the kang, stepped on the edge of the kang, sniffed Zhang Xingming's face, lowered his head into his quilt and lay down, purring, purring......