Chapter 3 Fish Weaving

86_86881After settling Ling'er Qi'er on the bed, Lin Yu also leaned on the outside of the wooden bed, pulled the corner of the quilt and covered his body.

When I woke up again, it was already afternoon. Ling'er and Qi'er were still asleep, Lin Yu gently got up and got out of bed, and then gently walked out of the door.

I went to the stove room and took a kitchen knife out, broke the bamboo pole that I had cut back and put in the yard, and then divided it into several small pieces. The only knife at home is not sharp, and it is very laborious to use, but fortunately, there was no zài cutting corners in ancient times, so the knife did not curl the blade after breaking the two bamboos.

It's just that she's not used to doing rough work, and there are countless small wounds on her hand that were stabbed by bamboo thorns when she was weaving bamboo baskets two days ago, and she knows that she has no right to seek comfort from grievances, so she has to pretend that nothing happened.

The knives are not easy to use, and she has no experience in weaving bamboo tools, so she can only weave and dismantle them over and over again according to her imagination. After countless scratches on his hand, a simple fish basket was finally made, although the appearance was not delicate and beautiful, but it was much stronger than the bamboo basket made before.

Looking at the fish basket that she had worked so hard to make, a little pride welled up in her heart, it seems that her adaptability is still quite strong, what if she has no money and no food? As long as you have a tenacious heart, it seems that people's potential is really limitless.

Flipped through the prepared fish basket left and right, then straightened up and stretched, ready to take the fish basket to the eaves and put it away, a small figure came out, and muttered in a childish voice: "Sister, I'll get it for you!"

"When did you get up?" It turned out to be Xiao Qi'er, it seems that she was too serious about her work, and she didn't notice that the little guy was up.

"My second sister and I got up early, and my second sister let me play by myself, and I am not allowed to disturb you." Qi'er said as she lifted the fish basket and brought it to the stove.

Lin Yu watched Qi'er shake and take the fish basket to the stove room, and then heard him ask Ling'er for credit: "Second sister, you see I helped the eldest sister bring this bamboo basket in."

"Yes, you're the most capable, and you'll be rewarded with more meat tonight." Ling'er's perfunctory voice came.

"I'm not helping my eldest sister get things for a reward." Qi'er muttered.

"You're lying, don't you want a reward, what do you want?" Ling'er asked curiously.

"Oops, I've grown up, I don't want anything! Second sister, don't ask if it's okay again! Qi'er's voice was a little impatient.

"Okay, okay, I won't ask."

Listening to the conversation between the two children's words, Lin Yu couldn't help but be moved. She had already understood Qi'er's thoughts, which meant that he had grown up to help the family. The poor man's child is in charge of the family early, he is only three years old, and he should be coquettish in his father's arms, but now he is sensible and distressing.

There was a lot of waste bamboo material left over from the fish weaving, and the forest fish took a broom and put it into a pile. Qi'er ran out again and took the broom in her hand: "Sister, I'll sweep it."

"You won't" Lin Yu looked at Qi'er who suddenly became extremely diligent amused.

"I will! Sister, go and rest. Qi'er pushed the forest fish into the house one by one.

"Okay, I'll go rest......" Qi'er couldn't twist Qi'er, she smiled and said as she went back to the house, thinking about waiting for him to play and then clean up again.

When she came to the stove room, Ling'er had already washed the remaining wild vegetables, and the other half of the snake meat was also boiled into the pot.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the family ate dinner in advance. After the meal, she cleaned up Qi'er's uncleaned yard again, and then reminded Ling'er to take care of Qi'er and walked to the foot of the back mountain with a wooden basin and fish basket.

The stream halfway up the mountain flowed down the foot of the back mountain, not far behind her house, where they washed and carried water on weekdays, but when the stream reached the flat ground, it became a small river, much deeper than when it was high.

The forest fish stuck the fish basket between the two stones in the river, diagonally slightly, and then took some gravel to block the flowing water on both sides. Because the fish sliver is small and the belly is big, most of it is now soaked in the water, so it is not easy for the fish to get in, and she carefully checked it again, and after seeing that there is no problem, she took the wooden basin and hit half of the basin and went to the house tremblingly.

When I got home, I took a breath and poured water into the tank, and then ran several times to fill the tank. In the corner of the wall outside the stove room, Qi'er and Ling'er were still playing in the mud, and the two children were squatting together with only a small lump, which was too short and thin compared to children of the same age, and Lin Yu looked sad for a while. During the time she spent with the two siblings, she had fallen in love with the sensible and well-behaved siblings, not sympathy, nor because of the original owner who had left, and the sharing of joys and sorrows during this period of time had made her have inseparable feelings for them.

There are too many things that need to be changed in this family, and the first problem in front of her now is food, although Lin Xiao's has only been gone for less than half a year, but the three of them are already malnourished. Now the family is surrounded by four walls, it is difficult to eat enough, she has to have money if she wants to solve the fundamental problem, but in this unfamiliar place, her body is now a child, and it is too difficult to earn money. Although Lin Yu was crossed here by following the trend, he felt that without the eight-sided exquisiteness and golden fingers of those heroines, he could only think about making money in the long run. At present, she can only take one step at a time, and now that she has seen the fish, she must make it a meal on her plate.

Just as she was thinking about it, Qi'er rushed over when she saw her.

"Eldest sister, eldest sister, my second sister and I have caught a lot of eels, you see......" Qi'er spread out her little hands full of mud, and in her hands were a few wriggling earthworms.

"Eldest sister, I also have a lot of ......" Ling'er, who followed behind, also spread out her hands as if offering treasures.

"The eel can be used to feed the chickens and the fish, Qi'er and the second sister are very capable." Looking at the two dirty little hands, Lin Yu said. She has no habit of cleanliness, but thinks that children have a playful nature, in this poor and remote place, the children of poor families have no toys, playing with water and mud is their happiest thing, so she doesn't care that they are like clay figures, she just wants them both to have a healthy mind and body. Pay attention to hygiene, and after they have played, she will slowly teach them.

"Really? But we don't have chickens and fish? Qi'er is very happy that the eldest sister can praise him, he likes the eldest sister so much now, although he used to like it, but in the past, the eldest sister would scold him when she saw that he didn't like to be clean, which made him a little afraid, but since she fainted, the eldest sister's temper has become good, no matter what he does, she will praise and encourage him.

"Hmm...... Not now, but as long as Qi'er Ling'er is obedient, there will definitely be chickens and fish in our house, and other ......"

"Eldest sister, I will definitely listen to you!" Qi'er immediately promised obediently.

"Eldest sister, I will also listen to you." Ling'er also said.

The corners of Lin Yu's mouth couldn't help but curl.

There is no courtyard wall around the yard, and there is not even a fence yard made of sorghum stalks, I don't know if it was a homeless man or a lonely old man who lived before, anyway, it doesn't look like an ordinary house, it is overgrown with weeds all around, only one that often comes in and out is relatively clean, the area around the house is very large, it looks like a wasteland, she has always felt too wasteful, she feels a lot better these days, plus she ate snake meat at noon, and now she is considered to be full, so she can't help but want to clean it up, ready to reclaim it and plant some vegetables.

You must know that no matter which dynasty it is, land is the foundation of foothold, although they don't have land now, but she thinks that it should be no problem to open up wasteland and farm land in front of her own house. The weather was getting warmer and warmer, and it was a good time to plant, and she saw that not far from her house, there were already people in those good fields who had begun to loosen the soil, so she always wanted to find an opportunity to reclaim it.

Just do it, she bent down and waved her hands and began to move, Qi'er and Ling'er are both well-behaved children, when they saw that the eldest sister was pulling grass with both hands, although she didn't understand why, she also ran over to help obediently.

The three of them worked together, and the weeds in the yard dam were probably torn off when it was dark, and the children didn't have much strength, most of the grass was torn off, but the grass roots were still left in the soil, although it still looked dilapidated, but the yard finally had some popularity. The ripped grass was piled up in the corner, ready to be dried and burned as firewood, and the frugal habits of the forest fish were brought into full play here, and she would not be reluctant to throw away the last surplus value of what passed through her hands without using up the last surplus value.

After doing a qiē, the sky is already dark, there is no oil lamp at home, and I usually rest early before it gets dark. The three of them worked hard, and their whole bodies were covered with sweat and sticky, but the scoundrel had no lighting, so Lin Yu had to boil water in the dark and simply scrub it for the three of them. Let the sister and brother take off their clothes and go to bed first, and when she went out to pour water and returned to the house after washing, the two people on the bed were already asleep because they were too tired.

Lin Yu went to bed in the dark, and after folding the quilt for the sister and brother, she also lay down, and labor was really the best sleeping pill, as soon as she got sleepy on the pillow, she also fell asleep deeply.

A good night's sleep.

Early the next morning, before dawn, the sound of roosters in the village came one after another. Lin Yu woke up as soon as she was startled, she still remembered the fish in the river, looked sideways at Qi'er and Ling'er who were sleeping, got up quietly, put on it and tied her hair with her hands, and went out lightly