Zheng Si walked slowly around the wild pond, and there were some trees on the edge, although they were not very large, but they could also play a certain role in providing shade under the sun at this time.

There are many wild plants nearby, Zheng Si looks familiar, but he can't name them. There were some frogs or toads standing on some floating branches in the pond and croaking, and when they noticed Zheng Si's approach, they immediately jumped into the water.

Sometimes you can also see some small fish swimming on the surface of the water, which is worthy of being a place for aquaculture, and you can see fish everywhere, not necessarily who deliberately threw them here, but also may encounter some accidental situations during the flood season.

The trees were also noisy, and seemed to shout louder than anyone's voice.

If it is in other places, there will definitely be some children around the wild pond who have summer vacation to fish and shrimp to play, but this place is estimated that the children have played a lot since childhood, not rare, but prefer to go to those big fish ponds to watch the excitement, and occasionally pick up a few big fish for nothing.

I heard that there are some related majors recently college students to a nearby aquaculture base internship, some are engaged in scientific research experiments, etc., it is even more lively, some of the children who are good at killing fish skills are also invited to help, adults do not have that idle time, even if there is no such remuneration, but the children are different, for them, indoor work, not only rewards but also free air conditioning. So Zheng sighed that when they came to Yetang, they basically didn't see the children in the village.

Just thinking about it, Zheng Si's ears moved, and he heard a sudden movement in front of him.

Someone?

In Zheng Si's impression, those children don't even shout loudly. will occasionally talk and laugh quietly, sometimes in groups of three or five, and it will definitely not be so quiet, so as not to suddenly make a disturbance now.

Zheng Si walked over lightly, and the movement over there suddenly became louder. There are some plants growing on the edge of the wild pond, blocking Zheng Si's sight, and at the same time playing a cover role, and it is not easy for people on the other side of the wild pond to find Zheng Si.

The further you go, the narrower the pond becomes, and it's almost the end of the road.

Over there was a little girl about the size of a grapefruit. The clothes on the body are not only old. And also with a rough patch. Although this child looks about the same age as Xiaoyuzi, unlike Xiaoyuzi, this little girl looks quite thin and has a yellow face. Because it's already tanned. It's true that the muscles are thin. The little face doesn't look like any meat, not as white and tender as the little grapefruit with baby fat. The exposed arms and legs also seem to be wrapped in a layer of skin, and there is no flesh. The shoulder-length short hair is estimated to have been cut by himself. It doesn't look very coordinated.

When Zheng Si looked over, the kid was closing the pole, no wonder the sudden movement was a little louder, otherwise Zheng Si really wouldn't have found someone here so quickly.

The child was also fishing for shrimp, and there was a canned bottle next to him, and the bottle contained half a jar of earthworms, and Zheng Si could clearly see the earthworms wriggling inside. It is estimated that he is an experienced one, and the child has laid down three poles in three places not far away, and it is estimated that one of the poles has earthworms that are not working, and after catching a shrimp, the little girl grabbed a few from the canned food bottle and replaced them again.

Earthworm fishing shrimp is not the most ideal bait, but it is easy to catch, but you have to replace it with a new live earthworm every once in a while, otherwise the earthworm will die or soak for a long time, and the effect will be reduced, and you can't fool those old shrimp.

After changing the fresh earthworms, the little girl sat on the side, rested for two minutes, got up and walked lightly between the three poles to see which pole moved.

Zheng Si walked over and took a look, there was a cracked broken plastic bucket that was fastened with a rope, and there were already some crayfish in the bucket, it seemed that the child had a good harvest. There are also some green shrimp in this place, there are many farmers in this place, and there are also green shrimp farmers, so it is not surprising to see green shrimp here. As for the crayfish, this thing is an invasive alien species, with strong adaptability and wide distribution, or how to say "invasive species".

There was also a broken sickle on the side of the barrel, this kind of sickle was very common in farmers, but it was strange for such a little girl to make a sickle.

Just thinking about something, Zheng Si looked up and met the little girl's eyes.

Zheng Si rarely sees this kind of ruthless look in a child's eyes, even some children with a gloomy temperament, they will not do this, because this child still has a strong killing intent in his eyes, Zheng Si has no doubt that if the child holds a sickle in his hand, he will definitely cut at him.

But this kid doesn't have a scythe now.

Zheng Si was really not afraid of this child, but had some teasing thoughts.

Afraid of making trouble yourself? Bad for these shrimp? I'm still going to make trouble.

Zheng Si stretched out his paws and quickly patted the shrimp in the bucket.

I have to say that Zheng Si is sometimes so idle that he hurts, and he is not happy if he doesn't die.

A clod of dirt was thrown over.

Zheng Si reacted quickly and dodged away, but the clod of soil rubbed the edge of the bucket containing the shrimp, and the place where the bucket was originally placed was uneven.

The little girl didn't care about Zheng Si, and quickly ran over, before the shrimp escaped, quickly grabbed them and threw them back into the bucket, and when she looked up again, she saw that the black cat was half-hidden in the grass, so she showed a cat's head, looking at this side, and when she got up, the black cat hid in the grass, and the grass swished a few times, and when it stopped, the cat had run away.

The little girl who was standing there looked at the grass and frowned. She always felt that the cat was playing tricks on her, but when the cat was half-hidden in the grass and looked at this side, there was something wrong with her eyes. Many old people in the village said that the black cat is more evil, some people say that it is a spiritual thing, and some people say that it is an evil thing, she did not agree with it before, isn't it a cat, it is purely to scare herself. But after what happened just now, she was a little convinced.

Zheng Si walked in the grass, and his heart was not very smooth, not because the little girl threw clods of soil at her, but because of the scene she had just seen.

When the little girl leaned over to catch shrimp and threw it back into the plastic bucket, some of her short clothes were lifted up, revealing a section of her back. Zheng Si could see clearly that there were scars on the girl's back, like traces drawn from bamboo poles or other things. Originally, the girl also had some on her arms and legs, but the traces were relatively faint. Zheng Si didn't care, he heard Old Man Gu say that it was common for some children in the village to fight, and there was no distinction between men and women when they fought, and it was not strange to be injured. But now it looks like it's not. The injuries on his back were new injuries, and the traces Zheng Si felt painful when he looked at them, not to mention a little girl as big as a little grapefruit.

Mistreat? Domestic violence?

Zheng Si flicked his tail, Jiao's mother and Xiaoyuzi told him not to cause trouble, and he didn't plan to care about those idle things, besides. I can't manage it if I want to. Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and there are many such families, regardless of the city and the countryside, there is no shortage of parents who beat their children.

So. After walking around for a while. He caught a frog that jumped out of nowhere and teased him. Zheng Si felt that he was in a good mood, better, look at the sky. Run back to the place where Yuzu and the others were fishing for shrimp.

When Zheng Si went back, Jiao Yuan took a shrimp that looked relatively old, the shrimp had two big clips that were fiery, Jiao's mother liked to eat this kind of big clips, and the meat in it was tender.

Xiao Yuzi was changing the bait to tie the earthworms, and the old man Gu grabbed four fat earthworms and put them on the rope, and the little grapefruit only used to tie the rope. Next to them are two that have died, and some of them have been cut off by shrimp. The number of earthworms that Old Man Gu tied to Xiao Yuzi every time was not less than three, and it is estimated that one of them was directly caught by the shrimp, or the earthworm escaped by itself without tying it well.

After fishing for more than half an hour, Old Man Gu asked the two children to collect the rod and prepare to go home. Seeing that Xiao Yuzi was a little unsatisfied, he said with a smile: "You can continue tomorrow, you still have a long summer vacation." ”

Zheng Si looked at the iron bucket containing shrimp, which was half a bucket, which was definitely enough for a dish.

The dinner was very rich, and Zheng Si also had a full meal.

After nightfall, the villagers take a bath in the gatehouse of their own house, gossip about the surrounding news, and tell about the interesting things of the day.

Old man Gu moved out the bamboo bed at home and installed a mosquito net, and Xiaoyuzi stayed inside, listening to the old man Jiao next to him talk about "thinking about the past".

As for Jiao Yuan, he couldn't be idle, and he had already caught fireflies with the children next door.

There was a mosquito coil lit next to it, but Zheng Si could still clearly hear the buzzing of mosquitoes around him.

The second tube of the goods opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue to pant, and after lying down for a while, he changed to a cooler place and continued to lie down. When eating, it provoked Zheng Si, and after being slapped by Zheng Si, it was much more honest, and where Zheng Si was stunned, it was definitely at least one meter away, and it was definitely not close to lying on its stomach.

At night in the village, the breeze is cool, and the temperature is much cooler than in the city.

Originally, Zheng Si stayed next to the bamboo bed, listening to Old Man Gu's bragging with Xiao Yuzi, and his ears moved.

Not far away, Jiao's mother and the old lady, as well as several women from the surrounding neighborhood, sat and chatted together.

"Sold another one? How could he bear it? Jiao's mother sighed.

"What's unbearable, five have been sold before, not worse than this one, I see, the remaining three will have to be sold sooner or later." The aunt who lives next door said.

"If you stay at home, you will be beaten to death by him sooner or later." The old lady sighed.

Zheng Si listened to their conversation, talking about a family in a neighboring village, the male owner wanted a son, but he gave birth to nine daughters in a row, plus this person was a good gambler, and felt that it was useless to keep his daughter, so he did such things as selling his daughter one after another, and often beat the child at home. Now that she has finally given birth to a son, the remaining three daughters have left them alone with what they eat and drink.

Although family planning is the same for boys and girls, the thinking of thousands of years cannot be reversed in such a short period of twenty or thirty years. And many people are just scoundrels at all, it's useless for you to tell him about the legal system, and the people around here don't have the heart to care about this kind of thing.

Listening to these women and old people chatting, Zheng Si suddenly remembered the little girl he saw today, and wondered if the child was one of them.

Zheng Si sighed in his heart, lying on a bamboo chair and looking at the road not far ahead, there were some vegetable gardens on the other side of the road, and further away, there were fields. Originally, looking at Jiao Yuan and them catching fireflies on the other side of the road, Zheng Si suddenly noticed a few people passing by on the road, and one of them sounded familiar.

Zheng Si paid attention to it, there were a few people in the way, and there were a few strangers walking this way, Zheng Si didn't know it at all, but Zheng Si caught the voice. Thinking about it for a while, Zheng Si stood up suddenly, wasn't it the person who was pushed down the artificial lake by himself at Chuhua University some time ago? (To be continued.) )

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