Chapter 204: Fishing
At night, the flat rocks by the river are dry and warm because there are several fires.
The men opened the two tents and laid them on the burnt rocks, pressed the four corners, and propped them up with wooden sticks in the middle so that they could sleep.
Pei Yao and Xiao Ta were already tired, so they took a comfortable bath and had a beautiful dinner.
So after the tent was laid out, the two of them hugged their own package as a pillow, got into it and listened to the sound of the river splashing and soon fell asleep.
There are two men left, and they don't want to sleep together, if they weren't afraid that they would be tormented by sleeping with their beloved girl, they would definitely go to soft grinding and hard bubbles.
I can't help it, I'll just sleep.
The two tents were next to each other, and Duoduo stayed outside listening to the movement and watching the horses, and everyone was very relieved that it was a little housekeeper, so there was no need to leave anyone to keep vigil.
Sure enough, I had a good night's sleep.
In the morning, the light in the tent became brighter, and all four of them climbed out of the tent, a straight "oops" cry who twisted his waist and stretched his arms, and slept on the rocks all night, no matter how smooth it was, it couldn't stop it from being hard!
Pei Yao shook her arms and said with a bitter face: "I thought camping was fun, but I didn't expect it to be so painful, but my bones hurt!" ”
Hearing this, Chen Jiacheng moved a few times and ran to pinch her shoulder, and asked very earnestly: "How is it, can it be more comfortable?" ”
Zhao Ting and Yan Xiaota were shown off by these two people early in the morning, and they kissed me and me in broad daylight!
Let's go to the grove!
As soon as they walked hand in hand to the grove, they saw Duoduo, who was running in front, driving out the two little ones from the bushes, who were the two brothers and sisters who were the same last night.
Xiaota greeted the two of them very happily: "Hello you two!" ”
Then he didn't care what they were doing, he went to the woods with Zhaoting, he was really big-hearted.
The little brother and sister came hand in hand to Pei Yao and the two by the river, and stood there looking at her without speaking.
Pei Yao was also overflowing with maternal love for a while, squatting down and facing the two little guys: "Little man, I got up so early, did you have breakfast?" ”
The little boy was a little shy and embarrassed to be called so respectfully, as if he was not so defensive of her anymore, and he was only a few years old.
He pursed his dry lips and said in a small voice: "I want to learn how to catch fish with you." ”
Pei Yao Yile, this child is short of food and clothing at first glance, I didn't think of coming over to ask for breakfast, but I can think of learning to catch fish, but he is a sensible good child, it's better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish.
"You can teach you, but you are too young, do you have any adults in your family, I am afraid that you will be swept away by the current."
sighed secretly, the children of poor families have long been in charge, so they have to find food by themselves at this age.
The boy hurriedly said, "I, I know how to swim, I am the best in the village, but I can't catch fish, I don't swim as fast as them." ”
"Is there a village around here?" She wondered if she hadn't seen any smoke or anything when she got here yesterday.
Chen Jiacheng went to pick up a bundle of firewood just now and came back, and when he heard it, he said, "Yes, on the other side of the woods, we can't see it because of the woods. ”
The little boy also nodded and said, "Our village is downstream, and my family only has my grandfather, who is busy farming every day and has no time to catch fish." In the village, only the uncles can occasionally catch a little, and when the river is less in the drought, they will stop the dam to catch fish. ”
Pei Yao looked at her little sister and asked, "Is my brother so good at water?" ”
"It's amazing, you can hold your breath for a long time!" The adoration of the younger sister's villain.
"Okay, you two come with me."
Pei Yao had placed two fish baskets in a gentle, deep-water grass nest along the river last night, and threw a cloth bag with some broken rice and some minced fish meat in them as bait.
Now that it's been a night, there should be a lot of fish in there.
Out of curiosity, the two Zhaoting who came out of the woods, as well as Chen Jiacheng and the two little babies, all came around to see if they could catch the fish by putting the fish basket in the river overnight?
These two fish baskets are different from the wide-mouth baskets used when catching fish last night, they are a large fish basket with a slender mouth compiled later, and there are many sharp willow strips inserted in the basket at the mouth of the fish basket, so that the fish is no problem to go in, and it is a problem to come out, and all the big fish are retained, after all, the basket is made at will, and it is not very fine, and small fish can swim out from anywhere.
Seeing that Pei Yao pulled a strip of cloth tied to the fish basket and pulled it up, Chen Jiacheng volunteered to help, and soon the two fish baskets were pulled up, and the fat fish in the fish basket kept jumping, making Zhaoting and Xiaota, two rich ladies who had never seen this kind of scene, cheer loudly with excitement!
"Ouch, come on! It's going to be pulled up, yo drink, it's a lot! ”
This kind of harvest joy can only be experienced at the moment of harvest, and it is not possible to start eating it when it is cooked, and it is time to taste the food, which is different from this mood.
After the two fish baskets were dragged up, they were carried to the rocky beach on the shore, Chen Jiacheng learned from Pei Yao to pull out the willow thorns inserted in the mouth of the basket, the mouth of the basket was downward, and more than a dozen fish were poured out, and now the fish were more intuitively seen, especially the two children, who were excited to jump their feet, so simple, they didn't need to go into the water, if they learned this hand, there was no problem at all to eat fish at home!
Pei Yao kept a few of her own and Duoduo's breakfast, and put the rest in the basket and gave them to the two little ones.
"Little man, you see, it's like this cloth bag with broken rice and fish pieces, and the next time you put the fish basket like I did, and then put it all night and then collect it in the morning. But my sister hopes that you can let grandpa do this, I'm afraid that you will accidentally fall into the water when you pull a fish, and you also have your sister with you, she is even younger, if you don't watch it, if she slips into the water, you can't save it by yourself, then it will be dangerous, you know? ”
The little boy's swarthy face was tight, serious and serious.
"Sister, don't worry, I won't go into the water to catch fish until I'm ten years old, so I'll go back and tell grandpa this good way."
Saying goodbye to several big brothers and sisters, the boy hid an empty fish basket in the bushes, and the other fish basket with fish was carried on his back, and took the little sister back again, from the forest to the house, a path that only their brothers and sisters would come, and the other villagers went to the river to a place like a pond at a bend downstream, so no one found them on the way home.
When he got home, he killed two fish and stewed them in fish soup, and told his little sister to watch the fire in the stove pit come out, and then rushed to the field far away to find her grandfather.
When the gray-haired grandfather returned home with him panting, and when he saw the basket and the fish, he immediately understood that this was not a trivial matter like giving the child two sweet potatoes and a fish last night, but the grace of life!
With this method, in the future, they will be gone, and the two young children will be able to live.
Hurry up and take the child to the river to thank you!
But the river was empty, and only a few piles of burned ash remained, proving that there had been people who had been here for some time, and that no one knew the name of the benefactor.
Grandpa told his grandson that if he had the chance to see that sister again in the future, he would remember to repay him.
The little boy nodded seriously, but his eyes were red with some sadness, so good sister would be if it were his own sister (to be continued.) )