Back in the Westinghouse, Zhou Yang was a little reluctant to go, "Actually, if you go again, you can still get some back." ”

"That's how old and tall it is, the branches are so thin, I can't help you, what should I do if I fall down?" Zhou Chen still thinks about his brother's safety, "I can't work if I fall, my grandmother still scolds, it doesn't matter who you are going to the tree for." ”

Zhou Yang stopped talking, he knew that his younger brother was right, but he was a little uncomfortable with his grandmother's approach. There is so much elm money, he doesn't even make a meal of dry porridge, and he still thinks that he can let his sister eat a meal of elm money dumplings, but it seems that he can't eat it.

"Big brother, ride a horse!" Seeing that the eldest brother was unhappy, Zhou Wanwan hurried over to distract him.

"Alas! Horseback riding! Zhou Yang immediately came to his senses, "Standing or lying on your stomach?" ”

"Stand and ride!"

So, Zhou Wanwan was put around his neck by Zhou Yang and walked around the house while upside down.

Seeing the eldest brother and younger sister happily playing, Zhou Chen also smiled. He hurriedly burned the kang, cleaned up the house again, secretly went to the kitchen to steal the kitchen knife, and sharpened his slingshot while there was still some light.

The next day, the Zhou family's breakfast was earlier than usual, and as soon as they finished eating, the Zhou Yang brothers were kicked out to get money. Because they must take Zhou Wanwan to the gate, they can still hear Mrs. Zhou's scolding.

The three brothers and sisters are not the same thing, and they set off happily on the spring outing.

The brothers discussed it last night, and today they should go to Nanshan first, and then ask Zhou Chen to come back to deliver the letter, saying that they can't get the Yu money. Then they went to the Hetao to see if they could find anything to eat.

There is no river and no water in the so-called loop. It is the dry riverbed left by the diversion of the Gancha River more than ten years ago, when there is no drought, there will be a few not too big blisters in the deep part of the river, and some reeds will grow around, Zhou Yang's plan to sell reed leaves during the Dragon Boat Festival is to cut from here, and they are also taking a look at the reeds growing up today.

When they arrived at Nanshan, Zhou Yang and Zhou Wanwan waited for Zhou Chen under the big elm tree and asked him to go home to report the news. Zhou Yang taught his sister to fight grass, and the brother and sister didn't play a few games, and Zhou Chen came back, with the same happy face as when he left. But Zhou Wanwan knew that Mrs. Zhou would definitely scold them, so it can be seen that Zhou Chen didn't take it to heart at all.

The current Zhou Chen is particularly immune to Mrs. Zhou's scolding, and he forgets it when he hears it, and he never affects his mood because of this. Zhou Wanwan thought about it carefully, this change started when Mrs. Zhou scolded her mother and forced Zhou Chen to kneel down and apologize.

Zhou Wanwan is very happy to see such changes, and she hopes that in the near future, Zhou Yang can also be completely unaffected by the Zhou family, so that their brothers and sisters can completely get rid of the Zhou family and live their own lives.

Hetao is between Nanshan and Songtun, and it takes less than a mile to reach it after passing the small temple.

Zhou Wanwan has never seen the current appearance of this river loop, in her previous life, when she remembered, this was already what it looked like after the completion of the "comprehensive management of the Gancha River Project". At that time, the river was several times wider than it is now, and it was at least ten meters deep, and the embankment was much higher than it is now.

The current Hetao is still a dry ditch dozens of meters wide and less than two meters deep, and there is not even a dam on both sides.

Standing on the shore and looking at it, a few small water bubbles are lying in the river, and the reeds that grow half a foot high around the bubbles are verdant and verdant, which makes people happy to look at. This is located in the middle of Sanjiatun and Songtun, the children of the two tuns are not very much to play, one is some distance, there are bigger bubbles and wasteland than this in their own tun, no need to go far. The second is next to Nanshan here, Nanshan is the cemetery of Sanjiatun, in recent years, there are many people buried in the village, and there are many children who have thrown over, and it is rumored to be an unlucky place, and the adults in the family are frightened, and the timid children will not come. Therefore, although there is green grass in spring and fine sand at the bottom of the river, there is no one in the current Hetao, and it is very quiet.

The three brothers and sisters didn't feel afraid, Zhou Wanwan felt that there were no fierce gods and evil ghosts, and they didn't have their own strange origins, they really did, and they also scared others away. Brother Zhou Yang was buried in Nanshan because of his mother, and he also had some warmth there, so where would he be afraid.

The three of them quickly descended to the bottom of the river, first went to see the reeds that were growing well, and then circled around a few bubbles. Zhou Wanwan strongly asked to touch the water in the bubble, so Zhou Yang had to hug her and touch it.

Zhou Chen's eyes were sharp, and after walking a few steps nearby, he saw the fish in the water. The brothers excitedly observed that there were a lot of fish in the water! It's bigger than the one in the big bubble! Zhou Chen was about to go into the water, Zhou Yang was more cautious, and tested it with a dead branch, and saw that the deepest point on the shore was only half a meter, so he wanted to hand over his sister to his younger brother and go down by himself.

The brothers struggled for a while, and they both wanted to go into the water by themselves, Zhou Wanwan couldn't stand it, there was nothing here, why did they have to let someone watch her! Zhou Wanwan put Zhou Yang's old cotton jacket on a soft sandy ground, sat on it by himself, and let his brothers go into the water, promising not to move. The two brothers saw that the place where their sister was sitting was only a few steps away from the bubble, and there was nothing around except a few grasses and reeds, and the bottom of the ditch was quiet and leeward, so they went into the water together very uneasily.

Zhou Yang tested the small water bubble more than ten meters square with a branch, and found that it was the same as the shore, the water was very shallow, and there was no deep pit left by the sand, so he was relieved to let his younger brother walk in it casually.

Soon, the brothers found that the fish in this bubble were not only big and numerous, but also very easy to catch.

Zhou Wanwan sat on the sand and looked at it with a smile, the fish was fed medicine in the space, of course it was easy to catch. Otherwise, if you don't have any tools, how can you let your brothers eat fish?

After catching more than a dozen, Zhou Chen went ashore, dug a pit in the mud next to the blister, found a broken tile pot to fill with water, and put the fish in it and raised them.

Then Zhou Chen was not in a hurry to catch the fish, he sat next to Zhou Wanwan and began to think about how to eat the fish in his mouth. There must be matches, preferably a little salt. These can't be picked up at home, they will be discovered.

"Trade the fish!" Zhou Wanwan reminded her second brother.

Zhou Chen didn't pay any attention to how his sister knew what he was thinking, he only felt that his sister's attention was very reliable, and he smiled and kissed her soft little curly hair, "Nan Nan is so smart!" ”

Zhou Wanwan is also very happy, she now has a tacit understanding with her brothers, especially the second brother. It is often a look, an action, or even a subtle expression that can guess what the other party is thinking and what needs to be done for him.

The second brother can know if she is full without her making any movements, whether she wants to boo, where she needs to scratch, whether she is unhappy, whether she wants to hug, and so on, and so on, and he can know immediately if she needs life and emotions. She can also accurately perceive the emotions of her brothers, and even the meaning in her eyes, in her previous life, she and her eldest brother had not cultivated such a tacit understanding for so many years, and now they can easily get it.

Although Zhou Wanwan has always felt that she still has the deepest relationship with her eldest brother, after all, she has decades of accumulation in her previous life, but she must admit that in terms of personality and emotion, she is too similar to her second brother. There are four brothers and sisters, and they should be the most similar.

Zhou Chen called Zhou Yang ashore to discuss the matter of exchanging fish for matches. Now matches cost two cents a box, salt a dime and three cents a pack, and a pack of a catty.

Zhou Chen proposed to exchange with Xiao Gao, the salesman of the brigade supply and marketing cooperative, Xiao Gao earns a salary, and he doesn't care about these few cents, he is still greedy, and it will be possible to exchange fish for one.

There is no need to worry about confidentiality every night, Zhou Chen has thought everything through. "I can't say that the fish caught here would have been able to eat this meal. Let's just say that it was caught in Beidabaozi, and everyone in the village should know that there are fish there. Then he thought about it and added, "I have to change two servings, and get one back for the milk." ”

Seeing Zhou Yang and Zhou Wanwan's eyes widen in surprise, Zhou Chen explained: "We can't hide the matter of exchanging fish for things, Xiao Gao's big mouth will soon be known to the whole tun, and if you don't take it back and get some milk, you have to lift the dining table." This is different from our Tibetan malt milk essence, this is conclusive evidence, and the milk must not be counted together with the new and old accounts. In the end, Zhou Chen was amused by himself, and nodded Zhou Wanwan's little nose, who was also amused.

"Then let's change two copies, just take one back, and the milk will have to scold when she knows it." Zhou Yang said a little sullenly.

"What are you scolding? The fish is not caught by our family, and we don't share anyone else's share. Zhou Chen winked at his brother slyly.

The brother and sister all laughed.

In the end, it was decided that Zhou Chen would go to change things. Zhou Chen wrapped four fish in his clothes, Zhou Yang was afraid that it would not be enough to put another one, Zhou Chen blinked his eyes and did not object. Before leaving, Zhou Wanwan had to touch the fish, Zhou Chen thought she was reluctant to fish, and coaxed her: "Second brother will catch you again when he comes back, catch a lot of them, and let the girl eat enough!" ”

Zhou Wanwan smiled and nodded. In fact, she fed some spiritual spring water to those fish to ensure that they could still be alive when they arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, so that they could be sold at a good price.

Zhou Chen left, and Zhou Yang went into the water to catch fish after confirming that Zhou Wanhui would sit there obediently and play with the sand.

Zhou Wanwan silently calculated in her heart, now the fish longer than the palm of an adult's hand should be three cents to four cents a catty, of course, this is the price of water, and the non-staple food stores in the city have to sell five cents, or even more expensive. And, the main thing, there is no market.

At present, there is a serious shortage of all materials, especially non-staple foodstuffs, and the most important thing is that there is no water in Suilin County, and after the diversion of the Gancha River, there is no place in the county that can produce fish. If you want to eat fish, you can only transport it from Ling'an County, which is at least 200 miles away, not to mention that there is also a tight supply there, and it all depends on the point that the farmers catch during the slack time, even if it can be distributed to Suilin, it is difficult to transport it, even if it is transported, it is not bad if it does not smell, how can you expect it to be alive and jumping.

Therefore, the fish brought by Zhou Chen is still in short supply, and it is very likely to be exchanged for things.