The phone alarm rings rapidly.

Chen Chi had just rushed back to his apartment from school and took off his coat. He pulled out his phone, and the time was just right.

Rubbing his face, which was stiffened by the cold wind on the road, Chen Chi dialed the phone and went home.

"Dad. ”

"Chen Chi. His father shouted in a raised voice, and the phone was full of singing and dancing, and even more lively was the crackling sound of firecrackers.

"Chi'er. It was his mother's voice, and after a while the singing and dancing had stopped, and probably his mother had turned off the TV, but the sound of firecrackers was still coming and going, mixed with the loud sound of fireworks and salutes.

"Happy New Year, Mom. Chen Chi couldn't help but raise his voice, afraid that his parents wouldn't be able to hear it.

"Chi'er, you also have a happy new year. His mother laughed.

Chen Chi smiled: "Dad, Mom, you guys are really lively outside." ”

"It's lively, it's just too noisy, and you have to shout when you speak. His mother complained with a smile, and then asked, "Chi'er, it's dusk over there, have you had dinner?"

Chen Chi's window was already dark: "No, I'll eat it in a while." ”

"You have to eat quickly, and you don't need to call home at a fixed time. His mother felt sorry for her son and couldn't help but chatter.

Chen Chi was born to his mother in her thirties, it was not easy to ask for a child, and he was a thin and small male baby, so he was really happy and worried, and immediately discussed Chen Chi's uncle, and urgently moved Chen Chi's grandmother to help take care of it.

Originally, Chen Chi's name should have been "Chi", but his father gave it to him, which meant that he was late, so that the family would ask for soup and medicine. His mother was unhappy, it was not too late for women to give birth at that time, she was already an advanced maternal age, and there were many people who explored gossip behind her back, if she was named after Chen Chi's father, she would have to be worried about this matter in the future. There are always some people with broken mouths, in the name of care, through the name of their son, to inquire about other people's ** in person.

Chen Chi's mother used an excuse to object: "What should I do if my son calls this name in the future, what should I do when I go to school? What if he thinks that the word late is quite kind, so he is habitually late? Don't underestimate the influence of words, he has this word in his name, and all the words of this word will impress him, and he will not be too disgusted." Besides, if he is late for school one day, the children are naughty, so I will give him the nickname "Late King", which is not good. ”

"What do you say?" When the name was named, Chen Chi's mother had just given birth, and she was holding Chen Chi at the bedside for confinement, and Chen Chi's father didn't insist on his opinion.

Chen Chi's mother was able to speak a flower when she was young, and the relationship between the two was very good. Chen Chi's mother has always respected Chen Chi's father, and she recommended: "It's still called this sound, change it to the pond of the pond." Isn't there a pond near our house? It just so happened that I flipped through an ancient poem to find the name, Bai Juyi's Chishang is very good, talking about a little baby who holds the boat to pick lotus, I think my son can be so weird and lively in the future, you see him now, even the crying is so fine. ”

Novice mothers are nervous, newborns love to squint, some children are not too crying by nature, wake up for a while, just feel hungry and pee, the adults will serve up, they will hum slightly. Chen Chi is almost like that, sleeping all day long, with his appearance that has not yet grown, like a crumpled monkey, which can make his mother anxious.

Chen Chi's father looked at little Chen Chi and also wanted his son to be more energetic, so Chen Chi decided on this name and didn't have anything to do with being late.

His mother loved this hard-won son in her heart, and she didn't want to learn from the family next door at all, so she gave the child a popular nickname such as "Big Mao Xiaomao", and she used "Chi'er" to tease her own children, reading it over and over again, and holding it over and over again.

Chen Chi's mother has a sentence that is very right, don't underestimate the influence of words, Chen Chi has been officially named Chen Chi, and when he was five or six years old, he became interested in the pond near his home, and dared to follow the big children in the summer, and went to the pond to dig earthworms and fish, and within a few days, he developed into sitting on the shore and taking off his shoes, and his legs stretched into the water to flutter. When Chen Chi's grandmother called him home at dusk, his family searched all over the village, and finally saw his clothes piled up on the shore, a pair of shoes on the side of the clothes, but there was no one on the water, and he almost fainted on the spot.

That incident was quite big, and Chen Chi's grandmother shouted in a trembling voice: "Chi Lingzi, Chi Lingzi." "I only went around the pond half a circle and cried, crying twice and panicking to find someone. A 65-year-old man kicked his shoes and went down to the pond to touch them, and the old women gathered around the pond shouting, looking for long bamboo poles, pulling Chen Chi's grandmother, and scattered to count the dolls in the village, and followed the madness after finding that their children were not there.

Until the factory got off work, when it was time to cook smoke around the table to eat, the workers heard the news and pulled their legs to help find it, Chen Chi's mother screamed and ran to the pond, and the first sentence heard her mother sitting on the ground and patting her thighs and saying angrily: "Ah Lian, don't worry, Mom is not alive." As soon as Chen Chi's mother's eyes were dark, she was about to soften, but fortunately, someone next to her held her and pinched her violently.

Chen Chi's father had to work overtime that day, and the person who came to report the news didn't dare to say the matter too strictly, so he only said vaguely: "Your baby is missing, and I'm looking for it, go and take a look." ”

Chen Chi has always been naughty, so although his father is also anxious, but not particularly anxious, he threw the work factory door, and met another group to report the news, as soon as he heard that Chen Chi disappeared from the river, he was really anxious, and saw a group of people pressed by the pond from a distance, and his heart was tight.

At this moment, someone shouted and ran over: "Found it, found it, in the village next door." ”

The next village is a farmer's house, close to the family area of the factory, and the children of several families in the village have gone to work in the factory. During the New Year's holidays, many uncles and aunts set up a stall directly at the entrance of the village, cut off the vegetables that could not be eaten at home, took a basket and loaded the old hens, and sold them to the factory workers.

Chen Chi's father turned around and ran to the next village.

On the field, Chen Chi was wearing only a small pair of pants, and he was hurriedly trying to touch home, when a few adults looked at them from a distance and shouted: "Hey, is it them? Chi Yanzi, what are you doing, your family is dying in a hurry, and you won't go back?"

The two older children who were playing together scurried out of the ditch and said, "Run separately." So they put their loins on the ridges, and took advantage of the ears of rice in the field, and found a way to flee.

Chen Chi was still young at that time, his legs and feet were not as sharp as those of a big child, and his decisions were not as crisp as when he grew up. He was reluctant to dig out the mud and pull out the weeds, and in the corner of the ditch, it was easy to surround the dam and drain the water, and he found two small shrimps with transparent bodies. Chen Chi didn't care about washing his black feet, wrapped the small shrimp with the leaves of Lala vine, and held it tightly in the palm of his hand, so he looked around and ran away.

The lara vine was picked by the pond with the eldest child, and the stems and leaves were astringent, and it was extremely difficult to start. The children have long thought about using this rough leaf to catch loaches in the ditch, and when they see the loaches burrowing in the soil, they pat the leaves of the lara vine down, which is more slippery than their palms.

Chen Chi's skin is not rough, but his heart is rough, he doesn't dislike Lala vine leaves grinding his hands at all, and he doesn't choose the way to go, and he refuses to give up the two small shrimps inside. (To be continued.) )