The egg finally got to his father's side, and when Zhao Laishu saw his son crying with tears and snot on his face, he knew that this son was really injured, otherwise he couldn't cry so wolf. In a hurry, he washed his hands with the water of the fish pond, hurriedly picked up the back of his son's head, and was relieved to see that there was nothing wrong. That's when I asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The egg didn't even exhale when he cried, "Whew-Whew-Whew, my mother beat me!" ”

As soon as Zhao Laishu heard that it was the child's mother who beat him, he knew that there was nothing wrong with it. The people next to him also think that the child's mother beats the child, which is a natural thing. He smiled and quipped: "Naughty and mischievous!" Otherwise, your mother would be willing to beat you, a little guy who is as precious as a dragon egg. Lao Zhao, it's not a big deal for the child's mother to beat the child, just let him play while playing, let's hurry up, go back early after being busy! Damn, how can you say it's so cold this day!? ”

Zhao Laishu also felt that the child was fine, so he rubbed the back of his son's head and coaxed him: "It won't hurt if you rub it, and when my father goes back, I will beat the evil woman who dares to beat my family!" Good son, play with Baozi and them, and my father is still busy. ”

He buried his head in his father's wet trouser leg and shouted sullenly, "Don't beat my mother!" If we don't give her food, it's uncomfortable to be hungry, and if she dares to beat me, I won't fight! ”

Everyone burst into laughter, and then they were distressed and sour. Although they can leave a life because of their close proximity to the river, they have just come from the predicament of starvation, and everyone knows that it is uncomfortable to be hungry, and they can't even grab the white soil on the ground to eat. But if it comes out of the mouths of adults. That's it, except that if it comes out of the mouth of a child who is only five or six years old, it is used to punish people. It makes people's hearts feel unspeakably uncomfortable and painful. Zhao Laishu felt even more uncomfortable, during that time, when they were forced by Hu County's brother-in-law to be unable to survive, if it weren't for the eldest sister helping the village openly and secretly, he, the old man, was afraid that he would not be able to survive in the world. He didn't care that his body was still wet, so he picked up the eggs and went to find the child's mother.

Seeing that the eldest sister and the child's mother were talking, he sent the eldest sister over. I want to know why the old man was beaten. He nodded and said, "Although I fought because of a misunderstanding, I didn't do anything wrong." The child is small and does not hold grudges. You can coax him in a moment. Then he said to the eldest sister: "It's almost the New Year, take something from my house to have a good New Year first, and tell my aunt that you don't need to save too much." After the New Year, I begged the owner to intercede. Let's see if we can arrange something for our eldest nephew to do. The good thing about your family is that you are all people who live their lives in their own right. As long as there is one person who can work outside and earn money, then life will be better. ”

Zhao Juhua was so excited that she didn't know what to say, she just nodded vigorously, and her eyes flashed with tears of surprise.

Zhao Laishu handed over the old man to the child's mother, and hurried back to catch fish with everyone.

This silver carp usually floats on the surface of the water, so Erya is required to be tall and large when weaving these cages, and there are more than 100 fish in this cage, and they are not small. More than a dozen people carried a cage with a rope around it on a long wooden pole. Dragged step by step up the ridge, the closer to the shore the fish jumped harder. The more difficult it is for those of them to carry the box.

The silver carp does grow faster than other fish, and in the cage that comes out, the big one is as heavy as five or six catties, fat and long, and it looks really frolicking. The smallest one weighs two or three pounds, and when Er Ya saw that the fish was not very small, he kept the size of the building yì and divided it together, don't put it in the water, the fish is not long in winter, and there is no point in putting it back. Unlike black fish and grass carp, which can be raised for another year next year, this silver carp will all rise at the end of the year at most, and all of them will have to be replaced with fry next spring.

There are no more than 150 households in the three groups, plus about 200 households to see the excitement, and two boxes of fish are enough.

Who knew that the family only gave one fish, and it was not enough to distribute it in the end, so they hurriedly picked up a box and almost distributed all the people in their own register and the people who watched the excitement here.

The people who came to see the excitement were basically people from Hekou Village, and they were on the other side of the river in this fish pond, very close. Most of the people in Hekou Village are related to this area, and the girls here are willing to marry on the other side of the river, because they are slightly richer than here.

Most of these children come to see the excitement, and the children don't watch the excitement once or twice, but they have never been, and they can follow the sharing of things when they see the excitement. Carrying the fat and big silver carp in their hands, they smiled silly, and couldn't wait to send them back quickly and share their unexpected gains and surprises with the adults in the family.

One of them, a boy who was only eight or nine years old, glanced at the big fish in his hand for a while, and laughed for a while. The cousins on his side annoyed him, "You look so stupid, don't you look ugly!" Wouldn't we normally catch fish in the river, and I've never seen you so happy! ”

The little boy said to his cousin with great ideals: "I just want to wait for me to grow up, and I will come here to do a long job!" My eldest cousin and his family, during the Dragon Boat Festival, gave the meat back to peaches and apricots. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, ducks, pears, and lotus roots. I heard that they all went to the owner's house for New Year's dinner and dumplings. Now there is no festival and no year, and they are given fish. When I come to work for a long time, my family will have it too! My younger brother and sister also have regular access to meat and fruit. ”

His cousin, after all, was two years older than him and knew better. He sighed and said, "Alas! It's hard to get in! My dad asked our uncle in the lobby several times to see if he could come in. The uncle in the lobby said that it was not easy to do, and there was no shortage of people on their side. When you grow up, there will be no shortage of people. Besides, this entry into other people's homes to do long-term work may not have such a good thing, in the past, the uncle in the lobby was almost forced to have no way to live by the brother-in-law of Hu County, don't you also know! ”

The little boy stubbornly replied: "Then I won't wait to grow up, I'll go to the owner today!" ”

His cousin said to him funny: "Huh! You're not a little bold! Dare to go to someone else's owner by yourself? Don't call people to beat them up in a daze! ”

The little boy is a doer who acts faster than his heart, and immediately turned around and ran back to the pile of people who were still dividing the fish, and when he saw Erya, he knelt down and kowtowed: "I know that you are the owner, please accept me!" Don't look at me small, I can do anything! Please take me! Please! "I was counting every household to see if there was a person who had not been given a fish and was left out, and was startled by the child who suddenly knelt down in front of him, knowing that he was begging her for something to do, looking at this thin little child, I couldn't help but feel pity in my heart. But as soon as she looked up and saw more tigerish eyes looking at her, she didn't dare to agree to the child immediately, so she had to postpone and say, "That's it! If you're okay, just wait here for me to finish things and we'll have a good talk, how about it? ”

When the little boy saw that the proprietor did not immediately tell him to get out, but told him to wait, his heart was like stuffed with honey, sweet and soft. Nodded dumbfounded: "Hmm!" "Well, I don't know how to get up quickly and make way for Erya. When his cousin saw that the lady of the proprietor did not scold his cousin and let his cousin wait, he was surprised, delighted, and annoyed at his timidity. However, he was much more sober than his cousin, and when he saw that his cousin was still kneeling in a daze, he quickly pulled him up, took him to the side, and stood there, waiting for the lady of the proprietor to call them when he had finished his work.

After confirming that each family had already received the fish, Erya also brought a few fish back to prepare for her mother's family. Her own family and her uncle's and second uncle's house are not short of fish to eat. Although the river at the head of their village is not large, the outlet of the house is directly connected to the river. During the flood season, the fish of the river will swim upstream. Whoever wants to eat fish can put the fish basket in the river overnight, and there will be one or two big fish in the afternoon of the next day. When the self-raised fish in the Erya Reservoir were still very young, their family was already able to eat wild big fish.

However, Erya's family did not have such good luck, firstly, because the river in their village had to cross several other rivers in the middle, and they could only flow indirectly to the big river, and few river fish could swim against the current to their side. The second reason is that the fish eaten by the second aunt is basically caught by the fish basket under the uncle and the second uncle, and she is not good at taking the fish sent by the uncle and the second uncle, and then sending it to her mother's house. Although the eldest uncle and the second uncle didn't say anything, she always felt that it was inappropriate to do that.

This time, she started her own fish, and she could finally give it to her parents' family openly.

She packed the fish, divided the two baskets and put them on, and then tied them to the horse's back with ropes. In addition to a few long-term workers who were shoveling mud on both sides of the road, there were two boys waiting anxiously in the messy fish distribution area.

Remembering that the younger of the boys was the one who begged her to do something, she smiled and beckoned him to come closer.

"What can you do? Tell me about it! Erya smiled and asked the little boy who moved to the front of him. She looked at this little guy with a slightly amused expression, she was quite combative just now, but now she was timid, and the road was not walked but dragged with the soles of her feet.

"I, I, I can work in the fields, I can also hunt pigweed, herd geese, take my younger brother and sister. And, yes, and" The little boy couldn't think of anything else he could do, so he was sweating and crying: "I can really do a lot of work!" ”

Erya didn't embarrass him, patted the child's shoulder with a smile, and said, "Okay! I believe you are very capable, but you are still too young to leave your parents, so I can't arrange things for you to do! ”

The little boy hurriedly said, "Boss, I can leave my father, really." Let me do the work for you! ”

His cousin also begged: "My brother looks small, but he is indeed very capable." My aunt and uncle are not used to him, and he is absolutely fine if he leaves my aunt and uncle! Take him! ”

Erya looked at the little guy and felt quite worried. For such a young child, there are things to do for him, but those are all children working and studying to earn some pocket money. But if you are doing a regular long-term job, it is really difficult to arrange such a young child. Although there are no regulations here that the use of child labor is illegal, Erya can't get over that hurdle in her own heart.

Seeing that the lady of the owner was silent for a long time without speaking, the two children were anxious, but they did not dare to ask, so they could only look at the lady of the owner with eyes and trembling. (To be continued......)

PS: There is no way to update tomorrow, so I apologize to all friends. I beg your pardon!