Chapter 63 Frogs chirping and cicadas are noisy on a hot day, and there is a water spring in the depths of the valley

A knife on the head of the color word,

Love words in the arms of the old moon.

Loyal to the heart of a stick,

The word Yi is sandwiched with a handful of hair.

The second brother next to the word benevolence looks,

The German word is out of content.

The letter is written in three words and two words,

Not in the human world, in the Celestial Empire.

After the woman left, Ermao was bored again. His head was lying on the table, his chin resting on the palm of his hand, and his eyes were staring at the west gable opposite, thinking about how to pass the day. When the aunt was at home, Ermao was never bored, she got up early to carry water and sweep the yard, and then helped the aunt make breakfast. After eating, sit on the edge of the door frame and listen to the aunt's hexagram, the day is relaxed, and the aunt learns easy at night, and talks until the dead of night when they rest. Ermao felt so comfortable and fulfilling. I didn't want my aunt's son to be filial, so I took my aunt away, leaving him alone to guard the door, alas, a widow guarding the lonely door, like a lonely goose entering the mountains and forests. It's so boring.

Ermao looked at the west gable and thought: "I have to go out and go around, I am always suffocated at home, don't suffocate to death." "Thinking and thinking: Why go out? There's nowhere to go. Yes! Why don't you go and catch frogs on the embankment? My aunt has been gone for these days, and I didn't dare to move the two coins left, and I haven't smelled fishy for a long time under the white water every day, so it's better to catch a few frogs and come back and stew and eat, one to relieve my hunger, and the other to scatter my heart. After thinking about it, he stood up, went out of the door and went straight to the kitchen where the sundries were kept, and after a long time he found a No. 10 iron wire, and then went back to the hall to find pliers and hammers. I found an open space, held the wire in one hand and the tongs in the other, and then cut off the wire with my hand about a foot long. Cutting off the wire, Ermao stood up and picked up the hammer again, and then looked around to find a strong place, looked around and walked out of the gate. It turned out that there was still a stone mortar outside the gate of the widow's house, which was also called by the rural people, and was used to stir dried sweet potatoes in the past. Now the fields are divided into households. After several years of development, people no longer grow a large number of sweet potatoes, and there are no dried sweet potatoes, so this pair of concave is no longer needed. No one uses it, no one wants it, this thing is heavy, it doesn't have any use for dried sweet potatoes, and children sit on it to play in the summer.

This Fan Ermao went out and saw the stone to the concave, walked forward, and put the end of the iron wire on the stone mortar. With the other end in his hand, he picked up the hammer with his right hand and smashed it towards the tip of the wire. Rank, what are you doing with Fan Ermao smashing the wire? This catching frogs is also a tool, first you have to find a No. 10 wire, cut off a ruler long, and then smash one end of the wire into the shape of a triangular pyramid, why do you have to use No. 10 wire, because the awl to catch frogs can not be too thick or too thin, too thick frog body is thin. The awl is thick enough to pierce the frog, and the thin wire is always bent. Only No. 10 iron wire is suitable, just smash it into a triangular cone at one end of the wire and sharpen it into a sharp edge. Find another long bamboo pole, tie the polished triangular pyramid to the bamboo pole, and tie it firmly, okay. A spear pierced with a frog was made.

(Ranking officials, you must be thinking when you see this, isn't this Fan Ermao a protected animal that he is hunting?) This Fan Ermao is ready to treat frogs as a delicacy. Isn't the killing of frogs about to destroy the ecological environment? No, people at that time did not have this awareness, and it was very popular to catch frogs in the past, commonly known as catching field chickens. Of course, people don't hunt frogs anymore. )

To say that this Fan Ermao is also a veteran of catching frogs, this does not make frog catching tools, but it is very neat. Soon a conone gun was made. This will Ermao looked at his masterpiece with a smug smile on his face.

Fan Ermao made the cone gun, then went into the house to find deep rubber shoes, and then found a woven bag, everything was ready, and he walked out of the house happily.

"Ermao, what are you doing?" A voice came from a distance, startling Ermao.

Fan Ermao looked for prestige, and saw the widow's aunt's uncle walking not far away. The uncle walked towards Ermao with a spring breeze on his face, and said as he walked: "Ermao, what are you doing with an iron awl?" ”

"Oh, uncle, I was in a panic at home, thinking about going to the river embankment to tie frogs, and came back to stew and eat to solve the slander."

"Medium, catch more and come back, come to me, I'll help you stew, let's make wine and eat."

"Wait, I'll be back soon, I heard that there are piles of frogs in the river embankment to the north, and dozens of them are worn in the morning."

"I'm old, or I'll go with you."

"No uncle, you don't need a helper for this little thing, you just wait at home."

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

After saying that, the two broke up, and Ermao went straight to the north river of the village, got on the embankment, and went straight to the southeast along the embankment. Walking to the place where he used to be good with each other, Ermao's mood became gloomy, and his longing rose spontaneously, and he couldn't help but sigh.

Sighing that life is like a play,

The intestine is broken and who is erected.

The past is like a dream with the wind,

Continuing newcomers are like jade.

After Ermao sighed, he continued to walk. Look at the deep water in the ditch in front, the big trees on the embankment are shady, the reeds are gathered under the embankment, the frogs in the water are singing, the cicadas are singing on the trees, and the place of the happy valley is the place where the frogs are planted in the ditch.

Frogs chirping cicadas noisy hot days,

A water spring in the depths of the valley.

Three rivers flow parallel to each other, the country is beautiful,

Who knows that it will be polluted in the future.

Fan Ermao stopped and calmed down. Then he went down the embankment to the edge of the river at the bottom of the ditch, raised his spear, bent down and searched the waterway.

Not long after, Ermao saw a frog emerge from the water, and there was a hunch on his back, Ermao scolded in his heart: "Damn your feet, it's daylight to crush eggs, Lao Tzu wore you first, let you enjoy." I thought about it quietly stretched out the long cone, slowly pointed to the frog, and when the awl was away from the frog's ruler, I saw Ermao's body go forward, and the spear rushed forward with Ermao's body, saying that it was too late, and it was too fast to arrive, and the long cone instantly pierced from the frog's back, and there was a skewer, and the two frogs were solidly strung on the awl by Ermao, and they couldn't run if they wanted to run. Precisely:

In order to have offspring,

Wooing in the water.

When I met Ermao Turtle,

Piercing the intestines and breaking the belly.

After an hour, Ermao's woven bag was already bulging.

Ermao walked along the river, looking at the fruits of his victory, and did not feel carried away. At this time, Ermao felt that his feet were soft, as if he had stepped on something, and Ermao looked down and saw that a long water snake was trampled under his feet.

This clear water drift is about more than a meter long, as thick as a rolling pin, and was stepped on by Ermao, turning his head to attack Ermao. The snake body flipped to break free, but the two hairy eyes were in a hurry, and they bent down and pressed on the seven inches of the water drift, and their fingers were clenched in their hands with a fist. This will, this long snake can't run away if it wants to, and it doesn't even have the strength to twist its body, it turns out that what this long worm is most afraid of is being held seven inches, as long as it is held with seven inches, it is equivalent to giving up its life.

I saw that these two mao quickly went up to the embankment and came to the embankment of the embankment. Bending down and pressing the snake to the ground, the long worm struggled as soon as it landed, and flipped over to wrap around Ermao's arm, and saw Ermao raise his right foot and stomp on it fiercely, stomping on two feet.

Is:

The green water floats in the river,

Confused, fate to return to the West.

Ermao turtle is so ruthless,

Poison for eating snake meat.

Fan Ermao stepped on the snake to death, saw that the long worm was motionless, took out the small folding knife he carried with him, and picked up the snake's head with one hand. Peel off the snake skin on the snake's head with one hand, peel off the snake skin a few inches long, and about two hands have a strong place, and see Ermao pull the head of the worm with one hand, and pull the skin of the worm with the other hand, and pull it hard. The skin of the long worm was detached from the snake's body, and a thin white skinless worm was left in Ermao's left hand, and a snake skin was left in his left hand. Ermao peeled off the long worm, sighed and said, "You deserve to die in my hands." I went back and stewed wine. He said to himself, and then put it in the woven bag.

Fan Ermao saw that he had gained a lot, so he packed up his tools. I went back to the village.

When I entered the village, I went straight to the uncle's house, and when I entered the courtyard, I saw the old man sitting in front of the hall basking in the sun, and when I saw Ermao entering the courtyard, I hurriedly got up to greet him, and asked with a smile: 'How many have you caught?' ‘

'Uncle, look at what you asked, your child has made a good move, can you catch less, anyway, it is enough for the family to eat. Ermao said and walked into the kitchen, turned around and brought out a bucket, poured the loot in the woven bag into the bucket, and saw the bucket full of frogs struggling to escape, that can escape, those who do not escape will be left for the time being, and the one who escaped was grabbed by Ermao and fell to the ground casually, fell to the sky with a white belly, and immediately went to the west to learn the scriptures. Precisely:

Drifting on the Qingshui River,

Meet Ermao.

Catch it and stew it in a pot,

A pot of chicken is fragrant.

At this time, the old man also came over to slaughter the field chicken, and the two got busy.

Ermao looked at the pot of frogs floating in the water and was still alive, as if he remembered something, stood up and said to the old man: "Uncle, you slaughter first, I will go home." Then he got up and went home.

After about a meal, Ermao came back. Carrying a chicken in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other, he walked into the courtyard and walked towards the old man, and said as he walked: 'Uncle, you go and boil the kettle of water, and slaughter this old hen that does not lay eggs, and stew it together. ‘

Look at you, kid, don't you have chickens and wine in this house, and you run back to catch chickens, it's a lot of running. The old man reproached.

'Uncle, how can I let you break the bank, it shouldn't be too much to make you tired, and if you break the bank, then I'm sorry. Where's the aunt?'

'I went out and came back in a while.' ‘

'When you come back, what are you talking about?' An old woman's voice came from outside the courtyard, followed by the footsteps of an old man. When the old man entered the hospital, he saw that two people were busy, and when he stepped forward, he immediately scolded: "You two old and one young people have been injured with a thousand knives, you two are doing evil, where did you get so many frogs, tell me what you two are not doing evil, but what are you doing?" Old man, how old you are, you also follow the young man to do it. ‘

'What are you doing?' What is the evil of beating the tooth sacrifice, you look at the evil, you don't eat it later. The old man stood up and said.

'If you don't eat, you don't eat.'

If you don't eat, you have to work, boil water. ‘

The old lady muttered into the kitchen, and after a while, she came out without idleness, as if talking to herself, and as if she was talking about two cents. "Why don't you let the thunder slash you two wicked people, and fill everything into your dog's belly, look at it, look at this still alive mile, why are you so ruthless?" Babbling, this is not a snake, the snake is a dragon, a spiritual thing, and it is sinful to eat it. The old lady muttered while counting the two of them, turned around, and slapped the old man's back, "Old immortal slut, get up, get up, go to the side, go, go, go talk to Ermao, see when it is, make it dark, get out, get out, get out, get out." The old lady scolded and pulled the old man aside, then looked at Ermao and said with a smile: "Child, you killed the chicken, wash your hands and sit and wait to eat, taste your aunt's stewed chicken, and you will eat it for a lifetime." ‘

'Ermao, get up,' the old man squeezed his eyes at Ermao, smiled and turned to leave.

Precisely:

The scale rod does not leave the scale,

The old man does not leave his wife.

scolding to death in his mouth,

I want to live a long life.

The world's loving husband and wife,

Crying, scolding, laughing.

Closure and detachment,

Ordinary life. (To be continued......)