86_86276The sun is shining, the sky is cloudless, Xia Ruo is lying in the green shade of the grass by the river, the back of his hand covers his eyes, as if he is asleep, but if he looks carefully, there is obviously a trace of water in the corner of his eye, and he can't imagine that he has been wronged to middle age, and he can be lucky to do it again.

"Ruoruo, your sheep have all gone to other people's fields, and you will not drive them back." A black girl wearing printed short sleeves ran over with a willow stick, and frowned when she saw Xia Ruo's appearance: "What's wrong with your eyes?" ”

"It's okay, it's very hot this day, isn't it going to rain?" Xia Ruo hurriedly got up and soothed his mood by driving the sheep.

"It's very hot, and I'm not afraid of rain." The black girl Hongxia didn't care about driving a few of her sheep here, and then sat down in the shade of the green, and picked a few wild flowers from her side dishonestly. "Did you watch yesterday's cartoon, I came home late and didn't watch it." It's not always nice to miss out on something you love.

"I didn't look at it either, I went out to find my sister for dinner." Xia Ruo walked this way while picking wild flowers on the side of the road, entangled in her heart, she watched a lot of cartoons when she was a child, who knows which one she was talking about.

"I'm so thirsty, let's go and pick two watermelons in the field over there and eat them." The black girl Hongxia is an idle person, and when it comes to eating, her eyes immediately brighten, and it seems that this is not the first time she has done this.

"Their watermelons aren't ripe yet, let's go to our apple orchard." Thinking of going down to the river to fish when he was a child, Xia Ruo, who was picking melons in the field, couldn't help but blush a little, fortunately, the weather was hot, and it would not be too abrupt, their apple orchard was still there, and it was not far from here, so they drove the sheep and went.

Hongxia nodded, and the flowers in her hands clapped her hands and went to drive the sheep.

Xia Ruo coped with Hongxia's chirping, while looking at the familiar and unfamiliar scenery around him, he had not been here for decades, and he couldn't imagine that he still had to walk slowly through this childhood dirt road, his life was the life of thousands of people, elementary school, middle school, high school, and even college, he was not high or low, not up or down, not annoying and not likable, and finally chose a life that could guarantee life but did not like it much. In the eyes of many people, it is already very good for me to be able to go to college and have a stable job, but Xia Ruo doesn't want to be like this, I don't want to get by, and I choose the path that my relatives choose by mediocrity against their will. More than once, I wondered if I would be the same obedient if I did it all over again, and I really had this opportunity before I could figure out a result.

Actually, I'm very lucky, isn't it, then, this time, let's live with my heart, don't feel inferior, don't give in, don't do a good temper, Xia Ruo raised a bright smile, and the ubiquitous cicada chirping in summer seemed to be pleasing to the ears.

"Why did you come here to herd sheep?" It was Xia Ruo's sister Xia Na who spoke, and she had only taught Xia Ruo a lesson yesterday who was messing around and unreasonable, and at this time, she naturally didn't have a good temper when she saw the annoying guy.

Hongxia Ghost Spirit secretly stuck out her tongue, she had heard Xia Ruo complain about her sister more than once, seeing them like this, Xia Ruo must have been beaten yesterday, "Sister Na, it's too sunny over there, we're thirsty." ”

Xia Ruo scratched her head, and said without words: "Sister, when did you come over?" ”

Seeing her flattering tone, Xia Na's temper was not so hot, and she continued to squat down to pull the weeds, but replied: "Do you think everyone is like you, you know how to play on vacation, how to pull out the grass in the field if you don't come early." ”

Seeing Xia Na squatting under the tree and pulling weeds, Xia Ruo's eyes were red and her nose was a little sour, there were three of them, her father worked outside all the year round, and she was all pulled by her mother, but she was not sensible and always caused trouble, but her mother and sister said to her face that they would spare themselves if they beat them, but they didn't remember it at all.

I haven't done farm work for a long time, and Xia Ruo helps pull the grass, and her heart is very heavy. Because their family is all girls, and their father is not at home, their mother is not less angry, their grandparents speak coldly, and their neighbors look down on them, and she remembers that when she was a child, her mother cried a lot because of these things.

"Aren't you herding sheep, pick an apple, wash it and eat it." Seeing her sister squatting down on the other side and starting to help pull the weeds, Xana opened her mouth in surprise.

"I'll eat it later, it's okay for the sheep to graze by the river." Xia Ruo wiped the sweat from her face.

Xia Na was full of doubts, she knew that her sister couldn't stand the tiredness, and she could get heat stroke when the sun was hot, and she didn't want to drag a person with heat stroke back for a while. Seeing her clever pulling of grass, she couldn't help but say: "Don't beg in front of me, you can solve the trouble yourself......" Seeing that Xia Ruo was still silent, her tone couldn't help but be angry: "It's okay if you don't help when you're busy at home, it's not good to go out to play, don't let you go out with a shovel to play, you use someone else's, now it's okay, make a big hole in the surface of someone's feet, what's the use of you running, who doesn't know anyone in the whole village......"

Hearing her say this, Xia Ruocai remembered in embarrassment that when she was a child, she once went out to pick up cicada chrysalis from the ground, and the family was not allowed to bring a shovel, but as a result, the girl also wanted the cicada chrysalis, and stepped on the hole with her feet, and she was stunned with a shovel that opened a big hole in the surface of someone's foot.

Xia Ruo's memory is not good, but he still remembers a few stupid things when he was a child, and this incident is one of them.

"Then I didn't mean it, who asked her to put her feet on it......" Xia Ruo explained weakly, no matter what she said, someone injured her foot, and she didn't care what she said.

Sure enough, as soon as Xia Na heard her words, she immediately laughed angrily, "If you do it on purpose, our family really can't afford to support you, you don't see what makes our mother angry." ”

Xia Ruo's heart trembled, their mother, a rural woman with a good temper, the whole village said that she had a good temper, from another point of view, she was weak and easy to bully, taking care of them, paying attention to relatives and neighbors, and tending to the crops of six acres of land...... In my memory, my busy mother can breathe a sigh of relief when my father comes back for the New Year.

Thinking about his own incompetence, Xia Ruodu was a little angry and hated why he was so ignorant, "Sister, I was wrong, I won't dare to do it in the future, is our mother still in the hospital?" ”

"What should I do if I don't stay in the hospital, people don't give up, I have to look at it first, it only cost more than a hundred in two days, you can really bear it......" The more Xia Na thought about it, the more angry she became, and she couldn't wait to fix Xia Ruo again.

Xia Ruo shrunk his neck knowing that he was at a loss, more than 100 was a lot of money when he was a child, although their family had a father who earned money outside, just a few people going to school was enough for his mother to make a careful budget, and such a large expenditure would definitely cause financial tension in the family.

"Is it useful for you to run, it rained the night before yesterday, our mother was worried to death, she was anxious and angry, she hadn't eaten for a day, you can't let the family save some snacks......" Don't blame Xia Na for hating the lesson that iron is not steel, Xia Ruo, who can't be calm about such a thing, it rained the night before yesterday and their family came out to look for it, and she is a perpetrator who still has merit?

"I won't make our mother angry in the future, our mother is eating now, right?" Xia Ruo asked worriedly, her mother Zhao Lan is a delicate person, if there is something in her heart, it is common for her to be unable to eat and sleep.

"I have to clean up the mess you left behind, I can do it without eating, I drank some porridge this morning, and ate half a bowl of noodles at noon." Seeing Xia Ruo's nervous appearance, Xia Na didn't say anything about her, straightened up and picked two apples and stuffed them into Xia Ruo's arms: "You can't do any work, hurry up and eat, I will thank you when I go back and don't make my mother angry." ”

Hongxia, the black girl sitting at the head of the bridge, looked over here, and saw Xia Ruo holding the apple and hurriedly waved her hand: "If you come here, I saw a big herring in the river, and I can see it clearly." ”

Xia Ruo straightened up and walked over there, and saw a big herring fish in the direction pointed by Hongxia: "There is a reservoir above, and it is estimated that the rain overflowed the day before yesterday." ”

Xia Ruo put the apple on the bridge, and slid down the slope of the sloping river, and the black girl didn't shout thirsty anymore, so she followed happily, and Xia Ruo left and right, thinking about catching fish with her bare hands.

The clear water of the river is very shallow, the silt at the bottom of the river and the washed away roots are clearly visible, Xia Ruo clearly remembers that when they were children, they often bathed in the river, sat on the washed roots and had water fights, and had a good time every time.

At this time, the herring fish stayed in the middle of the river and did not move, as if the two humans next to it could not pose a threat to it at all.

"This fish is so long, how many catties do you have to eat, you will definitely not be able to eat it in one meal." The family conditions of the black girl family are not good, and it is good to be able to eat meat during the New Year, so when you see meat, you are very kind, regardless of whether you can eat it or not.

"Let's see if we can catch it first." Xia Ruo stepped forward cautiously, the river was warm by the sun, the mud was slippery, and the surface of the foot was lost as soon as it fell.

Despite the ambition of the two of them, catching fish with bare hands was still too difficult for the inexperienced ones, and the most impressive achievement was when Hongxia touched the tail of the fish.

"I've touched my tail!" Hongxia's face was full of excitement, and even the tail of the fish was touched, which showed that they were lucky, and they would definitely be able to catch this stupid fish if they tried again.

Xia Ruo wiped the sweat on her head, there is a big difference between touching it and catching it in her hand, she was not so optimistic, she looked up and saw that there were buckets left by people who were spraying pesticides on the shore, Xia Ruo struggled to pull out her feet from the mud to get the bucket.

"You can't have fun, don't get muddy." Xia Na, who straightened her waist, immediately roared when she saw Xia Ruo climbing up from the river, she knew that the water in the river was not deep, and there would be no danger, but the two girls were very wild, don't get a water and mud to go back and be trained.

Xia Ruo agreed, took the bucket and slid down the river, she also thought that catching this fish would improve the family's food, and it would be considered a meritorious atonement.

The range of catching fish with a bucket has expanded a lot, but the movement is also much larger, plus Hongxia grabbing with both hands, how can the scene be called a lively.

The big herring was calm, at most it swam twice when it was splashed, and at other times it was motionless and honest. But after a long time, there is a feeling of being a ** person.

Xia Ruo helplessly wiped the water droplets on her face, "Hongxia, you rest for a while." Her arms were sore and dizzy, and the water was so large that she could barely see where the fish were.

Hongxia was a little reluctant, and muttered, "I've touched it." ”

"Let's rest for a while, we don't have the strength, anyway, this fish won't swim away." Xia Ruo simply sat on the grass by the river, rubbed his arm, and said to Hongxia: "Then you catch it first, I'll rest for a while, my arm is sore." ”

Hongxia felt that this was quite boring, the herring was very slippery, she couldn't catch it at all, but she didn't want to give up like this: "Then I'll also scoop it with a bucket." Then he pretended to be casual and said, "Whoever catches us will be counted." ”

Even if children play well, they will have their own little ninety-nine in their hearts before eating.

Xia Ruo was stunned for a moment, then smiled and agreed, it turned out that Hongxia was reluctant to rest for a while because of this.

Hongxia tossed for half an hour, the herring fish swung around her and sat in the water with her buttocks, Xia Ruo hurriedly went to pull her, just helped her up, and the bucket that she pressed into the water obviously sank, Xia Ruo looked at it in a blink of an eye, the herring fish was already in the bucket, what is the situation?

"Huh?" Hongxia was also dumbfounded, whose is this?