Dinner was early, but we were still busy in the fields, and no one felt hungry.

Joke, the sun has finally gone down, call it a day now, and you won't be able to bask in the sun tomorrow? Wouldn't it be nice to do more work while it's cool and see?

In the past few days, we have all started work at dawn and finished work in the dark, and the work that could have been completed in ten days has only been completed in ten days, but it is only the sixth day, and there is only the last small piece left.

"Come on, everyone, it's the last point, let's have a good rest and rest when we're done!" An old man inside the long-term worker shouted.

"I've been exhausted these days......"

"Yesterday, Lao Zhao was still hot and fainted!"

"Alas, it's okay now, go home and sleep with him for three days and three nights."

"It's so hot, I can't sleep......"

"yes, this damn weather, it's not been this hot for many years!"

……

The work is about to be done, everyone's mood is better, and the mood of chatting is also there, although the things we talk about are meaningless, but this also reflects our good mood now?

"Xiaowei, this is done, how are you going to play!" A strong man with a naked shirt and an honest face asked me.

That's right, Xiaowei is me, **, I have been calling myself a fake name for seven years, which seems to be longer than the name Prince.

"Brother Niu, I don't know!" I went home with a smile, the strong man's name is Niu Xingcang, he is a good friend I met after I arrived in Pinghu Town, Brother Niu is twenty-seven years old today, he just got married in the first month, and his sister-in-law Niu already has, and Brother Niu will be a father soon.

I have never dared to show my martial arts, of course, I am thin and naturally become the target of bullying by others, without Brother Niu to take care of, I don't know how many beatings I have to take over the years, although they can't hurt me, but it still hurts, right? So I've always been grateful to Brother Niu.

"Come with me to catch fish in the river! After buying the money, we will each have half of it. ”

Brother Niu is very good at water, and he is even better at fishing, if he doesn't work for a long time, he can make a fortune in fishing. It's just that Master Tian seemed to have saved Brother Niu's father back then, and in order to repay his kindness, Brother Niu's family has been staying in Tian Chang to do long-term work over the years. This is also one of the reasons why I like Brother Niu's family, a person who understands Entu Bao is worthy of respect and friendship even if he is just an ordinary person.

When others heard Brother Niu say this, they were very envious, with Brother Niu's craftsmanship, it was okay to catch a hundred and ten catties a day, that was more than three taels of silver, and we could divide it into one or two when we got started, which was enough for our wages for a season. Our wages are paid quarter by quarter, one or two or five dollars of silver per quarter, long-term work, food and accommodation are naturally at Mr. Tian's house.

"That's good, I don't know how to catch fish!" I'm naturally embarrassed to pick up such a big bargain, it's really strange, I've grown up in the water over the years, the water is good, but I can't learn to cast a net to catch fish.

"When I'm a brother? When I'm my brother, don't say anything, let's go together tomorrow. Brother Niu waved his hand, and he said without doubt.

"That's it!" Knowing Brother Niu's temper, I won't say much.

Before it got dark, the work was finally completed by everyone.

After a tiring day, I didn't have much appetite, so I picked up two mouthfuls of food, went to the bathhouse to take a bath, and then went back to the house to rest.

When I came back to the house, the tiredness on my face was immediately swept away, in fact, with my current cultivation, I don't have to do so much work without breathing, just to show that Xiàn is no different from everyone, so I have to pretend to be tired in front of outsiders, and there is naturally no need to act in my own house when I go home.

Sit cross-legged on the bed and work hard.

With the continuous growth of this breath, it itself becomes the nourishment of the body, nourishing the body between the breath, part of it is absorbed by the body and becomes a part of the body, and the rest is stored in the zài dantian, which can be used by me at any time.

After nine turns of Zhou Tian's transportation, he lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, after breakfast, I went to the storehouse with Brother Niu to borrow a boat, and Brother Niu threw his own fishing nets and baskets into the boat, and then I put the boat on our heads and walked to the small river behind the town.

Brother Niu took good care of me, he was almost standing in the middle of the boat and carrying it, and the weight of the whole boat was almost on his shoulders.

Although I am now a martial arts master, I am very happy to be friends with the simple, honest and ordinary Brother Niu. No, it's not just friends, Brother Niu often says that we are brothers, yes, brothers, Brother Niu and Monkey are all my brothers.

Put the boat down into the river, follow Brother Niu to the boat, the penny goes to the shore a little, and the boat rows off the shore to the lake.

It was still early, we were the first to come out to catch fish, and we were the only ones on the lake.

This is what Brother Niu often said, the early bird has worms.

Brother Niu's fishing skills are indeed a must, lunch time has not yet arrived, we have caught forty or fifty catties of fresh fish, but they are all grass carp, carp, herring and other very ordinary fish.

We didn't go back to eat lunch, Brother Niu brought a few pieces of steamed buns made by Sister-in-law, and nibbled on two to fill his stomach with the cool river water.

When I was full, I wanted to continue to do it, but the sun burned my body and hurt, so Brother Niu and I jumped into the river with a pair of pants. After soaking for more than an hour, I was satisfied to climb onto the boat.

"Xiaowei, let's try it!" Brother Niu handed over the fishing net.

"Brother Niu, I really can't do this, I can't play it!" I shook my head again and again, and told me to jump into the water and touch the fish, maybe I could touch one or two, and I really couldn't learn the job of casting a net.

"It's okay, come, I'll help you! How can a man who grew up by Taihu Lake not cast a net? ”

Brother Niu said as he handed the net rope to me. "It's easy to cast a net, this, this!"

As he spoke, Brother Niu handed the upper hem to my right hand, and the lower hem received it to my right hand.

Not to mention, this fishing net is really heavy when the water is wet, and it is enough to weigh forty catties.

"Isn't that good, now start casting the net, shake your body back and forth to the left to try to feel it, and don't move your lower body...... Yes, that's all. Okay, now when you swing your body to the right with your waist strength, throw the net out with your left hand......"

When Brother Niu casts the net, the net is always a beautiful circle, what shape is the net I cast? The dog's gnawing is more beautiful than this!

My face turned red and said, "Brother Niu, this ...... Come on, I really can't learn! ”

"It's okay, if it doesn't work once, do it again! Okay, put the net away, and see how it goes.

I collected the net according to my words, but I really didn't expect that my first net would actually have a result, and a carp weighing more than a pound was splashed in the net.

"Look, didn't you catch a fish? It's simple, isn't it? As he spoke, Brother Niu caught the fish and threw it into the fish basket, and cleaned up the weeds caught in the net.

"Come on, try again!"

Due to the harvest of the first network, my enthusiasm for learning has also been stimulated, and under the guidance of Brother Niu, the technology is becoming more and more proficient.

This found that no matter what you do, you have to fight it well for the first time, even if you will encounter difficulties in the future, you can work hard to overcome it, but if you do something for the first time and you fail, it will only hit the confidence in success and perseverance.

At the end of the day, Brother Niu and I actually caught seventy or eighty catties of fish, of course, if it weren't for me, we would have gained more than that.

Brother Niu is very happy, because we caught three whitebait, this whitebait is a specialty of Taihu Lake, generally only grows to three or four inches long, two or three two, because of its color such as silver, so it is named whitebait. This whitebait is delicious, and very cherished, it is generally difficult to catch, the value of these three whitebait, it can be said that it is not less than the value of our dozens of catties of fish, or even higher. It is said that in the past, it was specially eaten by the emperor as a tribute, but ordinary people could not eat it.

The small river behind our town is connected to Taihu Lake, and one or two can occasionally be caught in the river, and it is very rare to catch three a day like ours, no wonder when he went home, Brother Niu kept humming a song.

Brother Niu's family is working in the Tian family, and Mr. Tian specially gave them a small yard for Brother Niu's family to live in, and the food is not like us eating a big pot of rice, which is solved by Brother Niu and them themselves, and Mr. Tian will give their family some living expenses every quarter.

Naturally, there is nothing to eat in a big pot of rice. Even if it is a subordinate in the Tian family, the food standard is quite high, but after part of the food money goes into the pockets of those people in the room, we eat very pitifully, and we can't see meat twice a month. So I often go to Brother Niu's house to eat, although the food is just ordinary green vegetables and tofu, but it is all made by Aunt Niu and Sister-in-law, compared to the bland and tasteless pig food in the room, these home-cooked dishes are from the fairy world.

The yard is very small, but it is very clean, it seems that every time I come to Brother Niu's house, I will think of Xue'er, and think of the small courtyard where Xue'er lives, which is also like this, very small and ordinary, but it is always clean.

On the left, a small piece of bamboo is circled and a few side dishes are planted, and a small piece is also circled on the right, in which four or five chickens are raised. If you want to improve your meal, fry two eggs and everyone will be very satisfied.

Uncle Niu was also very happy to see that we caught three whitebait, and asked us to sell it immediately, if it died for a long time, it would be a pity, and the dead whitebait could basically only be given away to others for nothing.

Sister-in-law Niu did not appear, because she was about to give birth, and Sister-in-law Niu was resting in the room many times now.

"Don't sell this fish, leave the soup for Sister-in-law Niu to drink, Sister-in-law Niu has to make up for her body at this time!" I saw that Uncle Niu was going to ask Brother Niu to sell the whitebait, so I hurriedly stopped it.

Brother Niu thought of his daughter-in-law, and smiled even brighter: "Yes, yes...... Xiaowei is right, just do it! ”

Uncle Niu has long wanted to hug his big fat grandson, and when I say this, I agree.

"But," Brother Niu said suddenly, "We caught this fish together, and we said that we would sell it and divide the money equally...... So the rest of the fish is sold, and the money is yours. ”

I said: "Brother Niu, you always ask me, 'Are we brothers', and now I also ask you once, are we brothers?" Don't talk about it if it's a brother! I'm waiting to be an uncle! ”

Brother Niu is a cheerful person: "Okay, we are brothers!" ”

"Don't talk about being an uncle, isn't it better to be a godfather?" Niu Bo also said with a smile.

"I can't ask for it!" I said quickly.

"Okay, it's decided!"

"Do you want to ask my sister-in-law?" I know, Brother Niu loves and fears Sister-in-law Niu, and usually lets Sister-in-law Niu make decisions about anything.

Brother Niu said arrogantly: "It's okay, I'm in charge of this matter!" ”

The matter was settled, I didn't expect to be a father too.

"I think so, let's pick a few and keep them to eat slowly, and let's raise the rest of these fish first, and then pick them up and sell them at the market early tomorrow morning!" I reminded.

"Okay!" Niu Bo also agreed: "Pick two more fat ones and send them to the master!" ”

Of course, no one objected to this, Uncle Niu immediately picked two herring fish, called Aunt Niu, and asked her to send them to Master Tian.

I, Brother Niu, and Uncle Niu were busy looking for buckets, wooden basins, and so on, and raising the fish separately. The three precious whitebait cows found a pot and raised them alone.

After a while, Aunt Niu came back with a smile.

"Xiaowei is eating at home today, but he is not allowed to run!" Niu Bo grabbed two carps in his hand and said to me.

"Uncle Niu, there is something delicious, you can't drive me away!" I laughed.

"That's good, you've been busy all day, go and stay in the house for a while, and wait for something delicious! Old woman, catch two more crucian carp and stew pot soup at night! ”。