Chapter Eighty-Three: The River

Wang Xiaofan, who was in front, saw Wang Zhongqiu's unhappy look and immediately reminded: "The place where your two hands were holding just now is the place where the black panther pees, you hurry up and wash it." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

When Wang Zhongqiu heard this, he hurriedly found a place with water to wash his hands, and after washing his hands, he looked at the black panther who was still wagging his tail and became more and more uncomfortable. But he couldn't help this dog, although he was also an old acquaintance with it, but this dog wouldn't let himself get close at all, only Zhang Tao's family could.

The three of them, a cow and a dog, soon arrived at the river, Zhang Tao and Wang Xiaofan jumped off the cow, Wang Xiaofan also deliberately wrapped the reins of the cow around the horns, and let it go to the river to graze by itself. Then the three of them found some wild taro trees from the riverbank, pulled them out with sticks, and dug a hole.

Burn some dry straw and put it underneath, throw the taro they dug on it, and burn some straw on it, and the three of them left it alone, but went to the side to lift the straw pile. The panther had long been on his own, pulling through the piles of straw from time to time, and barking a few times from time to time.

Zhang Tao They lifted the straw pile just to hunt mice, and the voles in winter will burrow into the straw pile to make a nest, because it is warm inside. Because there is a lot of wasteland by the river, there are many more voles here than in the rice fields, and the straw pile here attracts rats more, so rats can be seen every time a pile of straw is lifted.

There are several kinds of rats, some are very large fat voles, some are small and small, and there is a special one. It should be a mutant rat, not big, very scarce, and the hair on the whole body is golden. The children called this kind of mouse a snit, and whoever could catch such a mouse would be more proud than if they had eaten meat.

However, this kind of rat is the easiest to die, and it is too timid. Children always want to catch this kind of mouse back and raise it to play, so that they can show off more in front of their playmates. But this kind of rat generally can't survive the night when it is caught, and if it is not played to death, it scares itself to death. For the children in the country, the rat dies when it dies, and it is good to continue to catch it the next day after it dies, but it is just a little disappointed for a while.

When the panther saw that someone was lifting the straw here, he didn't go to pull it himself, so he immediately ran to Zhang Tao's side to join the battle group together, and besieged the rats in the straw pile together, and the rats he chased were running around. The three of them hurriedly stepped on the rats, or knocked them directly with sticks, basically one at a time, while the panther chased a large vole and played by himself.

The three of them had a great time, and after a while, they were all sweating profusely. Zhang Tao is quite emotional now, he hasn't come to fight rats for many years. Now that I recall my childhood in my previous life, it seems that I still remember it, and there are always some memories in my life that will not be forgotten so easily, although they are all trivial things.

"I'm * grass! Come help me, a rat has come in through my pants. Just when Zhang Tao was stunned for a while, Wang Zhongqiu next to him immediately shouted, and he was still beating there from time to time, trying to shake off the mouse that had burrowed into his trousers.

The rat inside his trousers looked not small, and it was holding up a bulging lump in it. But it was not so easy to be shaken off, the more Wang Zhongqiu jumped, the mouse desperately drilled into Wang Zhongqiu's thigh, and it was about to drill into the important parts.

"It's in that layer of pants?" Zhang Tao felt a little funny when he saw this scene, this guy didn't seem to choose the right day to play today, he has been teased, he was teased by the panther before, and now even the mice have joined in. However, he still asked out loud, at this time, most children will wear autumn pants.

"On top of the autumn pants." Wang Zhongqiu was a little anxious now, for fear that the mouse would drill into his crotch, and he was jumping more and more excitedly. The panther on the side also seemed to see that there was a mouse in this guy's pants, and kept circling around Wang Zhongqiu, as if he was thinking about forcing the mouse out of his mouth. "You guys quickly figure it out, and you'll be in trouble when you get into the crotch."

Wang Zhongqiu saw the appearance of the black panther on the side, and became more and more anxious. Seeing this guy like this, Zhang Tao said funny: "You are stupid, it would be good to take off the pants outside, you also wear a pair of autumn pants inside, and you don't need to let you fart* or something, and there is no one around here." ”

Wang Qiuxiang suddenly remembered, and immediately took off his outer pants in a hurry, and the mouse originally wanted to jump on him. Wang Zhongqiu didn't know the courage to slap it directly to the ground, and then the black panther rushed over and gave the guy a bite directly, and the mouse immediately only had half a breath left.

Generally, if you fight a mouse, you can't let the mouse get close, for fear of being bitten by the mouse. Rats also carry rabies, and although the country children don't know what rabies is, they won't easily bite mice. So Wang Zhongqiu panicked when he saw the mouse get into his pants before, but fortunately he was not bitten.

After experiencing such an incident, the three of them didn't have the heart to fight mice, so they directly found a clean place to sit down and rest, and the taro over there was almost baked. You can eat it by peeling off the outer skin, one bite at a time, it is quite fragrant. The three of them were already a little hungry after playing, basically one bite at a time, and they ate quite quickly.

The black panther wagged his tail to see the three of them eating deliciously, and he also wanted to eat something, so he kept shaking in front of Zhang Tao, staring at the taro in Zhang Tao's hand. Zhang Tao thought about it, as if the dog could eat these, so he peeled one and threw it to it. The panther immediately opened its mouth to bite it, and then fell on the ground and ate it.

After the three of them finished eating, their mouths were stained with black dust, and then they looked at each other and laughed, and walked towards the river together. At this time, there is not much water in the big river, but it is very clear. Zhang Tao and Wang Xiaofan didn't pay so much attention to it, and jumped directly from the shore.

Wang Zhongqiu, who was behind, saw that the riverbank was a little high and hesitated. It's just that this riverbank has never been repaired, and it looks like it will collapse as soon as it is washed by the river, and it collapsed after being supported by a little fat man, and Wang Zhongqiu was directly taken from above to below. "! The cadres of these brigades are fiddling, and the river embankment is not even repaired. ”

Wang Xiaofan, who was next to "flutter", immediately laughed when he heard the whining words of Wang Zhongqiu, who fell down, Wang Zhongqiu just slid down with the mud and sand, except for the dirty clothes, there was no problem. His words are actually not very funny, but they have a history, so Wang Xiaofan couldn't help laughing after hearing it, and Zhang Tao was also laughing.

There is a person in Zhang Tao's brigade who likes to drink very much, and this person doesn't drink very much, and the wine is not good. Often drunk, when drunk, he sleeps everywhere, and he also curses. One day the man came home drunk and fell into the stream next to the village road.

He didn't get up, so he stood in the stream and scolded: "This brigade of cadres is playing tricks, and they don't repair a single roadside railing." ”

The people around them all laughed happily when they heard this, and the word spread nearby. Railings on roads in the countryside? It's impossible to even lay cement sand on the road, and I want to repair the railing, I think too much. Everyone else just took it as a joke, and no one thought too much about it.

But Zhang Tao is different, he came from the later generations, if you want to get rich first build the road slogan, even children in later generations will know, the road of their brigade really needs to be repaired well, and the development of the entire Huangpu Village needs a decent road, otherwise they will fall far behind others.

And now the more important thing is the river embankment in front of you, 98 was the worst flood in the entire south, but there was nothing to do in Zhang Tao's village. The flood on their side broke out in advance, which happened in the autumn of 97, when Zhang Tao had just been promoted to the third year of junior high school, so he was very impressed.

It rained for three days, several reservoirs upstream were dammed, and even the entire village was directly submerged by the collapse of the two mountains, and the big reservoir in their village was also discharged because it exceeded the warning line, and all the water was collected in the big river in the village.

At that time, some of the older people around were frightened, and they had encountered such a time when their lives were almost over, and it had never happened in their memories. This is a real flood not seen in nearly 200 years, not a fictional flood that experts see cities being flooded because they don't drain enough.

The embankments on both sides of the river, which had been bouting, were all washed away. All the paddy fields on both sides of the river were flooded, and many villages near the river were washed away. At that time, the school teacher saw that the situation was not right, and urgently evacuated the students and released the school early.

Zhang Tao and the others just returned home from school, the three bridges of the brigade were all washed away, and the water spread directly to both sides, and all kinds of furniture floated on the muddy river from time to time, as well as ploughing cattle and pigs, chickens and ducks.

An old man downstream saw a beautiful coffin floating on it, and he was tempted to fish, although he was very good at water, he was still washed away by the water with the coffin, and there was not even a corpse left.

Zhang Tao's school was directly flooded on the second floor because of its relatively low location. The pigs raised by the teachers of the school's canteen were miraculously not lost in the flood, and when the flood came, the pigs learned to climb trees. There were so many school trees that no one could take care of them, and when the pigs were flooded into the pigsty, they all lay on top of the surrounding trees, and they were the last one.

But what is really suffering is the people on both sides of the strait, the summer harvest has just been handed over to the public grain, and there are not a few left. The rice planted in autumn was at the time of heading, and it was washed away by the flood, and each family only harvested a little, and the rest was all empty husk millet. When the help from above came after the flood, there was only one pound of rice per person in the hands of the villagers below.