"Brother Li Liang, sister, let's go catch frogs!" Suddenly, Zhang Junjie, who didn't know where he had gone just now, ran over sweating profusely, grabbed two fat and big frogs in his hands, and shouted at Li Liang and Chenchen.

"Junjie, where did you catch the frog?" Li Liang smiled.

"Brother Li Liang, this is my Taotao cousin who caught him, they are picking up ears of rice in the field, there are many frogs there, and there are many small fish and loaches!"

"Okay, then let's go over and have a look!" Wild frogs in the farmland of later generations can rarely be seen, Li Liang couldn't help but be interested, and asked for Chenchen's opinion, "Chenchen, how about it, let's go and have a look?"

"Well, let's go!"

"Chenchen, Liangzi, Junjie, do you know how to pay attention to safety when you go to play, don't go to the pond?" Chen Chunhua heard that they wanted to go out to play, and admonished.

"Okay, Auntie!" Li Liang agreed.

"Got it, Mom!" were Chenchen and Junjie's voices.

Zhang Xin had already gone to her grandmother's house to cook with the meat and vegetables she had brought over, and the big guys would eat at her grandmother's house at noon.

Li Liang and Chenchen found a place with the sun on their backs and put it against the wall to avoid the sun, put on straw hats, and the three of them walked to the ridge in the field.

At this time, the fields are full of people, and the weather is good during this time, and people are hurrying to harvest the rice. At present, there is no division of fields to households, and the labor force in the same village is collectively harvested, and after the rice is harvested, the cadres of the brigade will calculate the total output and distribute the grain according to the actual work of each household.

However, due to the low yield of rice cultivated in the collective, most families do not receive enough food to eat. Therefore, the industrious people make full use of their own land and start to make articles in their own land, and the vegetables, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other supplementary food crops grown in the land often grow better and more vigorously than the fields of the village collective.

There are many children in the fields carrying buckets and snakeskin bags, the older children are busy picking up the ears of rice, and the younger ones are catching loaches or frogs in the small ditches, and taking home a bowl of good food.

At this time, Zhang Junjie had already led Li Liang and Chenchen to the place where his cousin Taotao was, which was a wild pond about half an acre in size. Because of the weather, the water in the pond has not evaporated. Tao Tao is a few months older than Zhang Junjie and is also 12 years old, and he is the child of Zhang Junjie's second uncle. He was not tall, he looked thin and small, and at this time he was catching small fish and shrimp in the water, and the bucket next to him was already filled with a lot of small fish and shrimp.

"Chenchen, you rest on the shore, Junjie and I go into the water to touch it!" Li Liang observed that the water in the pond was only up to Taotao's knees, although the water was not much, but due to Taotao's activities and the swimming of fish and shrimp, it had become very turbid.

"Brother Tao, this is my Brother Li Liang, he is three years older than us!" Zhang Junjie introduced Li Liang to Taotao.

"Brother Liang, my name is Chen Tao, everyone calls me Taotao, you guys come down quickly, I found a big fish when I was touching the fish just now, but the water is too muddy, I don't know where it went!" Chen Tao replied in the water.

At this time, there were fewer fish ponds for professional fish farming in rural areas, and more wild ponds. The fish in the wild pond are very miscellaneous, including yellow eel, loach, crucian carp, carp, grass carp and the like, and occasionally if you are lucky, you may even encounter soft-shelled turtle and black fish. Hearing Chen Tao say that he saw a big fish, Li Liang pondered how to catch it.

Li Liang looked at the bucket of fish and shrimp on the shore, poured all the small fish and shrimp in the bucket into a small soil pit, and then went down to the pond and brought a bucket of water up and poured it into the soil pit, so as to prevent the small fish and shrimp from dying in the scorching sun.

"Taotao, Junjie, the water is knee-deep, if there are big fish, I'm afraid it's not easy to catch, let's come here to build a small earthen dam!" As he spoke, Li Liang walked to the middle of the water and began to dig mud with his hands to pile up an earthen dam in the middle.

Tao Tao and Junjie understood what Li Liang meant, and the three of them worked together, and soon, a long small earthen dam appeared in the middle of the pond, dividing the water surface into two sections.

Li Liang is tall, he picked up the bucket and scooped water from the earthen dam from the pond on the left to the other half of the water, and soon as the water level dropped, the fish in the pond on the left began to show their backs.

"Wow, I saw a big black fish!" Chen Chen shouted excitedly on the shore, "Taotao, on your left, catch it!"

Chenchen stands tall and can see clearly. Tao Tao turned to the left and saw that a little big black fish was showing its back, lying in a small water nest, twisting its body desperately, trying to swim into the deep water, but it was blocked by the mud and couldn't swim. Tao Tao hurriedly pounced, held down the fish with both hands, grabbed the gills of the black fish with his fingers, and lifted it up. Huo, this black fish is really big enough, weighing two or three catties. He hurriedly carried the black fish ashore and put it into the puddle on the shore. This black fish has a lot of strength, and as soon as it enters the puddle, it rolls its body desperately, scaring the small fish and shrimp in the puddle into fluttering and jumping.

In this way, the three boys, laughing, quickly touched the fish and shrimp in the water on the left. Li Liang brought the bucket ashore, it was full of buckets, and it was really a little heavy, he poured the fish into the puddle on the shore, and then asked: "Taotao, Junjie, do you still catch the fish in the pond on the other side? There are really enough fish in it! Now the bucket of fish caught is not enough!"

Chen Tao said: "We have already caught half of it, otherwise, Sister Chenchen will go home and bring two more buckets!"

Zhang Junjie was playing with fish, and he didn't want to go home so early, so he also helped on the side: "Yes, go home after catching, it's fun to catch fish!"

"Okay!" Chen Chen responded, in fact, she really wanted to go into the water to catch fish, but as a girl, she still had to be a little reserved, she nodded, and walked in the direction of her grandmother's house.

Li Liang carried the empty bucket, walked to the other half of the water, and began to scoop the water with the bucket and splash it on the other half of the pond that had been emptied.

The two children, Tao Tao and Junjie, couldn't wait to touch around in the water, and from time to time they found a small crucian carp and threw it on the shore. Suddenly, Junjie shouted with a sigh: "Brother Liang, Brother Tao, I seem to have been bitten by something, it hurts!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand out of the water in a miserable manner, only to see that there were several tooth marks on the tips of his fingers, which were already bleeding.

Li Liang hurriedly walked over and touched down the place where Junjie had just stretched out his hand, and there seemed to be something hidden in the mud at the bottom of the water. Li Liang carefully pressed the back of this thing with one hand, and it felt like a flat, round Wang Ba in his hand. Wang Ba's bite hurts, he slowly groped with his other hand to pick the skirt of Wang Ba, and slowly lifted it up, Huo, it is really a big Wang Ba, he is sticking out his head, ready to bite Li Liang's hand that grabbed the side of his skirt.

Li Liang threw the Wang Ba to the shore suddenly, and as soon as Wang Ba landed on the ground, he wanted to run, and his four paws paddled quickly on the soft mud by the pond. Tao Tao hurriedly ran ashore and pressed Wang Ba's back with his hand, so that he could not move.

Li Liang and Junjie also ran ashore, looking at Wang Ba who was held down by Taotao, Junjie was still tugging at the corners of his mouth, obviously he was bitten lightly just now.

Tao Tao said with a smile: "This Wang Ba is really big enough, it is estimated that there must be more than a catty, Junjie, I will ask my grandmother to make you braised soft-shelled turtle later, this thing is delicious, I have eaten it before!" As he spoke, Taotao also licked the corners of his mouth with his tongue, as if he was reminiscing about the taste of braised soft-shelled turtle.