Four years later, in the hot summer.

The Jin family in the capital.

Twelve-year-old Jin Hong held a sword holster made of new silk and carefully put the peachwood sword in his hand on. Liu Qingqing, who was standing beside him, pouted and said, "It's not too cold to take such a rotten piece of wood with you like a treasure all day long." ”

Jin Hong's hand paused, and then continued to put on the sword sleeve, and said three words that made Liu Qingqing very angry at the same time, "You don't understand!"

Liu Qingqing was angry, don't you understand anything? Isn't it just that you met a little earth girl in the countryside, and that little earth girl gave it to you!

The Liu family and the Jin family are world friends.

Since Jin Hong returned from the southern countryside four years ago, he no longer suffers from that strange disease. Grandpa Liu jokingly said to Grandpa Jin that he has five granddaughters who are about the same age as Jin Hong at home, and asked Grandpa Jin to choose one of them to be his granddaughter-in-law.

Grandpa Jin smiled and didn't answer, but acquiesced to the Liu family's behavior of sending their granddaughters to the Jin family on the weekend. Let them be close and close first, and with the friendship that has been accompanied since childhood, they will really get married in the future, which is a matter of course.

Jin Hong has never been with other friends when he was a child, and suddenly there are so five little girls who show off their branches, and they really don't know how to entertain them. He was a little overwhelmed, so he had to smile at the corners of his mouth, and then sit quietly reading a book or writing and drawing.

Because the granddaughters were still young, the grandfather of the Liu family did not tell them his thoughts. A few little girls saw that although Jin Hong was good-looking, they always ignored people, that is, they didn't play with them, and they didn't talk to them, so they only came to Jin's house two or three times, and they made a fuss about going to play elsewhere.

Only Liu Qingqing insisted on brushing his face at Jin's house every weekend.

Liu Qingqing's father is the most incompetent of Grandpa Liu's three sons, so he pointed to relying on Liu Qingqing to catch a golden beetle son-in-law to improve his weight in Grandpa Liu's heart.

At first, Liu Qingqing ran to the Jin family under the coercion and temptation of her father. But then one day, she overheard a conversation between her father and her grandfather, and the meaning of the words was clear - she must marry Jin Hong when she grows up.

After that, she took Jin Hong as her own property.

Jin Hong loaded the peachwood sword, pinned it to his waist, stroked the sword body with his hand through the silk, and looked into the distance. After a while, he chuckled out loud as if he had thought of something funny.

Liu Qingqing looked at him, and suddenly became even more angry, Jin Hong had never smiled so well at her, she suddenly had infinite curiosity about the little earth girl who gave Jin Hong this rotten wooden stick, and she was also jealous.

The more she looked at the rotten stick, the more dazzling it became.

She stretched out her hand and pulled it, snatched the peachwood sword that Jin Hong pinned to her waist, and then broke it hard, and the peachwood sword broke into two at once.

Jin Hong didn't expect such a thing to happen, he didn't take any precautions at all, and he didn't have time to stop it.

As soon as the peachwood sword was broken, Jin Hong felt cold all over, and he said, "It's bad!"

There was a "thunderclap" sound, and the glass on the window was suddenly broken by something. Jin Hong glanced over and saw a puff of black smoke coming through the hole in the glass into the room, heading straight for his head.

Jin Hongyun flashed with a cloud technique, and avoided it dangerously. The black smoke chased after him, and he also made a sharp turn and chased after Jin Hong. Jin Hong flashed again, and black smoke chased again.

Liu Qingqing on the side was already stunned, and his eyes followed this person's smoke rapidly.

The black smoke seemed to have spotted her, separated a small part of itself, and rushed towards Liu Qingqing. Liu Qingqing rolled his eyes, "horned", and fell to the ground.

Mother Jin was attracted by the sound of broken glass, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw Liu Qingqing falling to the ground.

What is the situation? Could it be that her son was finally angered by the girl of the Liu family and beat the girl of the Liu family? Mother Jin raised her head and was about to ask her son what was going on.

As soon as she raised her head, she screamed bitterly: "Jin Hong!" It turned out that Jin Hong had been caught up by black smoke, and the black smoke was drilling into Jin Hong's seven orifices.

It's over, it's going to be sick again!

Jin Hong's face was painful and gloomy for a while.

Jin's mother didn't dare to approach, but she didn't want to leave, she stood in place and didn't know what to do, so she could only shout her son's name one after another: "Jin Hong, Jin Hong!"

The gloomy Jin Hong smiled coldly at her, smiled and smiled, and then turned into a painful face.

This puff of black smoke is too powerful, and Jin Hong is not its opponent. While he was still a little sensible, he endured the pain and squeezed out a few words from his mouth: "Find Xiaoliu, find Xiaoliu!"

……

At this time, Zhou Xiaoliu was catching loaches with Zhou Peng in the rice field, and her nose suddenly itched.

"Ahh

She sneezed twice in a row.

Zhou Peng squeezed his fingers into the loach hole, picked it up, turned the mud up, a fat loach was stuck in the mud, he buckled the slippery fat loach with both hands, put it in the bucket, and said to Zhou Xiaoliu: "Scolding, thinking and thinking, who misses you?"

Zhou Xiaoliu rubbed his nose and replied sourly: "Who would miss me? ”

Yesterday afternoon, Aunt Xiuhua specially asked people to come over to inform them that at five o'clock, Dad and Zhou's parents would make a long-distance call to her grocery store and ask the three of them to answer the phone. As a result, Zhou's mother talked to Zhou Xiaoxian for three minutes and Zhou Peng for five minutes, and then hung up directly.

Every time it's like this, Zhou's mother always hangs up the phone without saying a word to her.

Zhou Peng knew it as soon as he heard it, Xiaoliu was vinegared, he wiped the mud on his hands, and comforted Zhou Xiaoliu: "Our mother is afraid of costing money, making long-distance calls is expensive, and Aunt Xiuhua answers the phone here, and it costs two yuan and five cents a minute." ”

Speaking of money, Zhou Peng looked at the loaches in the bucket and asked, "Little Liu, do you still bring this loaches to the county seat to sell?"

"Hmm. ”

Last year, Guangyuan County finally poured the stone road into a cement road. She bought a bicycle and put it in the storage ring, and when she went to sell the loaches, she put the loaches into the ring and rode the bicycle to the county seat in less than half an hour, which was faster than taking the bus. The bus also has to make a few more detours in various towns according to the established route.

Zhou Xiaoliu washed his hands in the puddle next to him and said, "It's almost, let's go back to lunch, I'm so hungry." ”

Zhou Peng looked into the bucket again and said, "Don't catch a little more?

Zhou Xiaoliu glanced at him and said, "Do you know what the most painful thing in the world is?"

Zhou Peng asked, "What?"

"It's just that the person is dead, and the money is not spent!" At this time, her stomach is going to be hungry, and if she continues to starve, she will really die.

Zhou Peng snorted and scolded with a smile: "It's all nonsense! What kind of money are we, it's about to be spent." "It took four years for Xiaoliu's thousands of yuan, and there is not much left. That's why he thought of taking advantage of the summer to catch more loaches to sell.

The two carried the loaches to the village, passing by Aunt Xiuhua's grocery store, and were stopped by Aunt Xiuhua.

"Little Liu, it's just right, when I have your phone later, don't go!"

Phone, didn't Zhou's mother call yesterday, why did she call again today? Is there an emergency? Zhou Xiaoliu looked at Aunt Xiuhua suspiciously.

"It's the county town calling, it's your Uncle Qingsong calling to find you. Aunt Xiuhua explained.