21. Qitang (2)
After breakfast, Li Manman followed his father, took his younger brother, and couldn't wait to see the pond, after a morning, the water in the pond has been pumped almost, the winter is the dry season, there are two tractors with two big leather pipes to pump, so only the center of the pond still has not much water. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Where the water is pumped, the dark mud of the pond is exposed, and there are stranded fish struggling on it, and in the water in the center of the pond, the fish are crowded one after another, which is very gratifying.
"There are a lot of fish!" Brother Lobby was wearing a leather slap, holding a push net, looking at the center of the pond, and said happily.
"Many, big!" The fourth cousin, who usually looks like a teacher and a cultural person, is also fully armed and ready to go to the pond.
"Uncle, can you start?" Brother Lobby asked Li Tianxue.
Li Tianxue looked at the four masters, the four masters glared at the anxious eldest son, took the incense from his son's hand, lit it, bowed to the pond a few times, and inserted the incense in the bowl, put it on the edge of the pond, and lit the firecrackers that had been prepared for a long time.
Li Manman looked at the four masters praying sincerely, and muttered in his heart, what is the point of this? I want to ask, but at this time, if she asks, it will definitely not be good, anyway, in Li Manman's memory, there are some taboos that cannot be asked. I remember one time, when I was sacrificing to the king of the stove, Lin Xiujuan killed a chicken, and put it on the stove the night before, Li Manman said that he would not be bitten by a mouse, and the next day he was bitten by a mouse, and Li Manman was beaten hard.
Covering his ears and holding Taotao in his arms, Li Manman and his friends were very excited, watching the adults go down to the pond, a little eager to try.
"You children, just stand on the shore obediently, and don't come down!" The second cousin saw that the army was about to stretch out his feet, and hurriedly said.
"The mud in the pond is so deep that it will trap you! When the time comes, you won't have a tear when you cry! The fourth cousin glared at his two sons and explained.
Li Manman pulled Taotao, who was about to move, and didn't let him follow the other children. Hearing what the adults said, Li Manman's heart moved, and he said to his friends: "I remember that there should be loaches in the mud on the edge of the pond!" Let's take a small shovel and catch the loaches! ”
"Good! All right! Dajun was glared at by his father, and he was unhappy in his heart, but when he heard Li Manman's words, he felt that this idea was good, and the loaches were also delicious, "At noon, I asked my mother to burn loaches and drill tofu!" ”
"I want to eat it too!" Snack goods Taotao was also very excited, swallowed his saliva and said.
"That's it! Only play on the sidelines, don't go into the mud! Let's go home and get a little shovel! Li Manman took Taotao home to get a shovel, and the old girl of the second army of the army also ran home.
In fact, the loach is an animal, it is very difficult to catch, it is slippery, it can't be caught at all, Li Manman and a few people feel that the butt has been dug for a long time, and the loach has seen a lot, but not a single one has been caught.
Dajun touched the sweat on his forehead and sat on the ground in frustration: "This loach is too cunning! It's like a Japanese devil! ”
Li Manman was also very deflated, watching the fat loach slide away from his fingers, he really experienced the process from hope to disappointment.
"Da Hong, what are you doing? Turning yourself into monkeys like you? The third cousin took the net and walked over and asked a few dejected children.
"Catch the loaches!" The second army raised his head and replied, and said with a bitter face, "But I can't catch it!" ”
"Ha, just a few of you still catch loaches?" The third cousin looked at a few little cat faces and thought it was funny, the loach was slippery, and it was not easy for adults to catch it, how could these children catch it?
"Alright, you guys go aside! I'll throw you a pile of mud, and you'll find loaches in the mud!" The third cousin looked at the children, and he couldn't bear it, so he was kind.
"Okay! Okay! Li Manman immediately agreed, and it was much easier to throw it into the mud on the shore to catch the loaches, and pull Taotao to make the old girls of the second army retreat.
The third cousin used a shovel to shake more than a dozen shovels of mud, and the loaches inside couldn't be hidden, so they drilled around in the thin mud.
The little friends cheered, rushed to the thin mud ground and grabbed the loaches, it was really much easier, and after a while, the muddy loaches approached their respective small buckets.
"There are no loaches, what should I do?" The old girl looked at the mud on the ground and asked in disappointment.
"Let them throw some more mud up!" The army said hopefully.
"The grown-ups are catching fish!" Li Manman looked at the adults who were busy in the pond and said hopelessly.
"Let's go see how many fish the adults catch, shall we?" The army was very curious about the affairs of the adults, and Li Manman actually wanted to know it too. Several children hit it off and ran to the four masters.
"Fourth master, how many fish have you got?" Li Manman asked the four masters who were smoking dry cigarettes and smiling.
"Not a few!" The fourth master took a puff of dry cigarettes, and was in a good mood looking at the large plastic basin with a diameter of about two meters in front of him, the fish in it were dense, and he raised his head to breathe in the fresh air.
"Wow! So many fish! Taotao looked at the fish in the basin, very surprised, in his little heart, it was the first time to see so many fish, and they were still alive, the second army and Taotao were surprised to open their eyes wide, and looked at the fish in the basin without blinking.
"Daddy, this fish is so big!" The army dragged a fish and shouted to the four masters. The fish was fat and long, almost as tall as the army, it was dragged out of the water, resisted hard, and slapped the water everywhere, the army's cotton jackets were wet, and Li Manman, who was standing next to him, also suffered from the pond fish.
The four masters originally watched everyone get up from the pond, but they didn't expect their grandson to do such a naughty thing, so he hurriedly stood up and gave the army a moment, asking him to let go of his hand, and the big fish slipped into the water as soon as he was free, and the four masters slapped the army's ass twice: "You kid is really naughty!" The fish is in a good pot, what are you doing with it? It's wet! ”
The army laughed, not embarrassed at all, touched his buttocks, and ran to the fish basin to look again.
"You get out of the way!" Brother Lobby came over with a big push net with both hands, and the push net was heavy, and the harvest should not be small.
Li Manman and a few people hurriedly retreated to the side, and the lobby brother turned over the net with force, and the fish crackled and fell into the basin.
"Huh? I haven't seen this fish before? The army looked at one of the fish, which was not very large but had a different color, and that fish had a clump of patterns on its body, and it was a little more than the others. Li Manman was also very curious, she hadn't seen it either.
"Huh? That's a chrysanthemum fish! Brother Lobby said disappreciatively.
"Can you eat it? Is it tasty? Li Manman asked.
"How can you eat fish?" Brother Lobby glanced at his little cousin strangely, "It's delicious, there are no thorns yet!" ”
"Ahh That's it! Li Manman's heart was moved, praying that when the time came to divide the fish, his family could get this fish, Li Manman likes to eat fish very much, but he is very afraid of fish bones, so others say that crucian carp soup is supplemented, but Li Manman's family rarely eats crucian carp, and her favorite is sauerkraut fish. There seems to be pickled vegetables at home, and it is the time when it is sour, so let's burn sauerkraut fish tonight! Li Manman thought to himself, and his mouth began to secrete saliva.
"Big brother, how long will it take to finish catching the fish?" Li Manman asked Brother Lobby.
Li Yuanren wiped the sweat on his head, took a few puffs of the dry tobacco of the four masters, and sighed with satisfaction: "It's almost over!" After getting the pond, the east ditch will be raised in the afternoon! ”
"I'm afraid there aren't many fish in the east ditch!" The fourth master squinted and said.
"I know what I know!" The lobby brother rested for a while, picked up the push net again, and went down to the pond.
Not long after Brother Lobby went down, Li Tianxue and Li Yuanwen came up with the net.
"Uncle, this basin is full! Put it in another basin! The fourth cousin glanced at the fish basins that were crowded one after another, and said to Li Tianxue. Li Tianxue nodded, and the two of them lifted the net to the empty plastic basin next to it, opened the net, and picked the fish in one by one.
Li Manman and his friends had already transferred to the empty basin when his father came, and helped the adults put the fish in the basin.
"I found another chrysanthemum fish!" The army shouted loudly with a fish.
"I found one too!" Taotao grabbed the chrysanthemum fish with both hands and said not to be outdone.
"The thorns on the appearance of that fish are very powerful, be careful of being pricked in the hand!" Li Yuanwen looked at a few children and reminded.
Li Manman also caught this chrysanthemum fish, listened to the words of the fourth cousin, and looked at the fish carefully, indeed its fins are a bit like Goya fish, which is sharper. But this fish is so beautiful, a bit like a tropical fish.
Busy morning, at noon, the fish in the pond are almost up, the small fish are picked out, and put back into the water, the pond is not in a hurry to enter the water, wait for the pond mud to dry up, throw it up, is a good fertilizer.
At a meal at noon, Li Manman and his younger brother ate absent-mindedly, thinking about the pond in Donggou in the afternoon.
"You two give me a good meal! If you get dirty in the morning, you will change your clothes, and if you get dirty in the afternoon, you two will have bare butts tomorrow! Lin Xiujuan said that there were two children left, and when she thought of seeing the dirty appearance of the two of them at noon, she was angry, and the weather was not dried in winter, and the clothes were not easy to dry, so it was okay to get a piece of clothes dirty, these two were mud from head to toe, from the inside to the outside! I had to change them from the inside out, wash them off in the afternoon, and put them on the grill at night, hoping to do it tomorrow.
Li Manman buried his head, pretending to eat seriously, and felt sorry for his mother, he and his younger brother were dirty, and his mother was so tired that he could do the laundry.
Taotao was heartless, eating and smirking a few times from time to time.