"Mom, tonight I want to go to the beach of the Yangtze River to catch crabs." At dinner, Lin Shuang held his rice bowl and discussed things with Liu Xiaoying.

"Are you going alone, or with others?" Liu Xiaoying went to work at night today, and the night lights on the riverside were blind, so she really didn't worry about the villain going to the riverside alone.

Lin Shuang reported while drinking porridge: "I'm not alone, Liu Jianfeng said that the adults in his family are going to go today, and other children are also going." We agreed, if you agree, they would take me with them when they passed by our door. ”

"Go with them, and you have to be careful yourself, and see that the tide is almost high and you go ashore, otherwise the tide will rise, and something will really happen." Lin Shuang followed the people in the village to catch Lan Qi not once or twice. Liu Xiaoying still wanted to tell a few more words.

"I know, Mom, don't worry, what year won't we catch some crabs and come back to eat? It's all veterans, you can rest assured. "Seriously, kids at this time are decathloners. You can get on the stove and you can get off the ground. I can cut pigweed and see my younger siblings. Especially those families whose families respond to glorious mothers, which ones are not big babies with small babies. Otherwise, the adults alone will be able to get busy.

After dinner, Liu Xiaoying helped Lin Shuang prepare the tools to catch Qi. The standard equipment for catching a crab should be gloves and a flashlight and a plastic bucket, but these can no longer be forced. I first found a few sticks of firewood from the pyre outside the house, and divided them around a small torch, without a flashlight, so I pointed to the torch to light myself.

Lin Shuang's house is just such a bucket, if it is fully filled, it is estimated that it can put five or six catties. Lin Shuang took another piece of his old small clothes, and prepared to cover the wooden barrel with a cloth to prevent the blue from crawling out of the wooden barrel. Catch the Crab to start a good night, as soon as it gets dark, the Crab comes out of the hole. At seven or eight o'clock, when you go to the edge of the river beach, you can see the figure of Crab crawling quickly.

"Shuangshuang! Let's go catch the Crab! Hurry up! Outside the house, Liu Jianfeng was already shouting. Lin Shuang answered, then picked up his equipment and ran out of the door. Liu Xiaoying said two more words uneasily. With just these two sentences, Lin Shuang and Liu Jianfeng have already run far away.

"Master, don't worry! I'll help you take care of your little sister! Someone in the crowd who went to catch Angel together responded with a couple of sentences. Liu Xiaoying looked at it and it turned out to be Shan Yongming. This Shan Yongming is Lin Zhihong's carpenter apprentice, and he has been a teacher for two years. It's a steady young man.

"Then Yongming, you can help me watch more!" Liu Xiaoying also let go, ready to pack up and go to the night shift herself.

The river beach is located at the west end of the village, Lin Shuang's family is at the east end of the village, and when he went to the river beach, Liu Jianfeng beckoned the children all the way. Lin Shuang felt that he also had to call some familiar people to go with him, otherwise he would not be able to hold the group at that time, and there would be a big gap in the harvest. So Lin Shuang's children also began to greet their friends. "Big lady, is Lei Jie here?"

"My sister is here to find Lei Jie Baixiang." The eldest lady smiled and talked. He looked up and shouted at the back of the house, "Jiejie, my sister is looking for you." You come out. As he spoke, Lei Jie also rushed out with his equipment. Mom, here we are. My sister and I went out to catch Crab and came back later in the night. "Take your sister and remember to turn around early." "Got it!" The eldest lady stood on the side of the road and watched a group of little ones recruit people from each house. Slowly, from one to two, to a group of tens.

"Lei Jie, why are there so many people?" After counting the heads, there must be twelve, and it seems that all the children in the village who can come out to roam freely have come out.

"It's still Liu Jianfeng, as soon as something happens, I can't wait for the whole world to know." Lei Brown snorted angrily. It's no wonder that Ray Jie is angry. There is a saying that it is easier to do when there are more people, and it is better to eat when there are fewer people. Everyone understands this truth, the more people when working, the better, so that the speed goes up, and there is less time to spend. But when it comes to eating, the fewer people the better, and the fewer people you have, the more food you get.

"Sister, wait a minute, you and I will catch it together, don't with anyone else!" Shan Yongming also called Lin Shuang "sister", in some places in the south of the Yangtze River, calling someone sister does not necessarily mean a sister in blood relationship. It's a bit similar to the meaning of calling people "little lady" and "girl" in ancient times. Speaking of the name of this area, it is also quite interesting.

Someone calling you "eldest miss" is not the meaning of those official ladies in writing, but the title of the eldest girl who is not married. If you walk down the street and hear someone say that my family is a "big girl" or a "little girl" in my family, then this does not mean the eldest daughter or the youngest daughter in the family, but the "eldest sister" or "little sister-in-law" in the family.

Lin Shuang nodded: "I know." Wait a minute, Lei Jie and I will follow you together. Shan Yongming is much older than the two of them, so this time he has to mention the responsibility of caregiving.

Liu Jianfeng on the side was also embarrassed: "Wait a minute, won't you come with me?" ”

"So many people, all coaxed together, how many crabs can be caught, how can you get them if you don't separate them?" Lei Jie said to Liu Jianfeng angrily.

"How do I know they're going to go when they hear it?" Liu Jianfeng was a little anxious. "I didn't call them here."

"If you don't say, how will they know? Every day, there is a big mouth, and there is something I can't wait to shout so that the whole village knows, why don't you shout so that the whole country knows that you are coming to catch Crab? I won't take you with me next time. People who can't steal it, hum! ”

When they arrived at the edge of the river, everyone rushed to the place they liked and dispersed. Lin Shuang and the three of them also lit the torches. Everyone walked towards a reed with torches in one hand and buckets in the other. The beach with the tide receding is a bit muddy and difficult to walk. But I couldn't bear the cheerful emotions of the children, and walked fast one by one.

Lin Shuang put the bucket aside, holding the torch in one hand and turning over the small stones in the other. The stone flipped up, revealing a crab. The moment he saw the light, he slipped away quickly. Lin Shuang trotted up and pounced when he saw the opportunity. And so the first loot arrived. Throwing Xiao Qi into the bucket, Lin Shuang continued to look for a new target.

The originally quiet night, because of the arrival of everyone, it was particularly lively. From time to time, you can hear someone shouting, "Hurry up, hurry up, XX has a big crab at your feet!" Or, "Mom, Buckle my hand!" Pain! "Sister, look at me catching a red crab!"

Lin Shuang felt that he hadn't caught it yet, and he heard the adults shouting: "Okay, okay!" Everybody's called it a day. It's going to be high tide! "Hearing that the tide was going to rise, everyone obediently packed up their fruits and went ashore one by one. When he went ashore, Shan Yongming helped Lin Shuang carry the barrel. In the end, it is an adult, and it is easy for one person to carry two buckets.

On the way home, everyone looked at each other's harvest, and they were all half a bucket, half a bucket, and it seemed that the results were gratifying. When passing by the old mansion, Lin Shuang stopped. Today, Lin Jiamu's mother works the night shift, so Lin Shuang has to live in the old mansion tonight. "Brother, I'm here." Lin Shuang stopped Shan Yongming and reached out to return the barrel.

The Lin family's old house is on the edge of a path in the countryside. So Shan Yongming was very relieved to hand over the bucket to Lin Shuang. "Sister, next time I'm going to catch a big crab, you can eat it, this crab is too small to eat meat. You can only eat umami. Lin Shuang took the bucket and nodded: "Brother, if you go to play in the water and catch what I want, if you go specifically to catch crabs, then I don't want it, it's too troublesome." ”

"This is not a hassle. It's just that the crab will have meat when the weather is hot. But I can touch some fish or mussels first. The dish of roasted vegetables with mussel meat, I remember that Shi Niang burned it deliciously. It's just that I don't know what the master's situation is now. Shan Yongming suddenly mentioned Lin Zhihong. This made Lin Shuang a little sad. It's been more than ten days since I left home, and I don't know if I've arrived in Ningxia.

On one end, Lin Shuang was thinking about his father, and on the other side, Lin Zhihong was getting off the carriage tiredly. After the New Year, Lin Zhihong followed this year's brother out. First, I took a bus to the city, then changed trains from the city to the provincial capital, and then took a train from the provincial capital to Ningxia. When I arrived in Ningxia, I took a carriage to the construction site. For most of the month, I was tossed on the road. Lin Zhihong was so tired that he didn't want to speak. As long as he was given a chair, Lin Zhihong felt that he could fall asleep directly.

"Zhihong, you see, this is the construction site where we are going to work." Lin Zhifeng picked up his big package and pulled Lin Zhihong all the way inside. On the way, Lin Zhifeng has already introduced, this time, it was to start a primary school at that time. Years ago, the foundation had been laid. Now let's wait for the beginning of the year to continue to rise.

The shed on the edge of the foundation is where the employees on the site live. As soon as he entered the house, he smelled of his feet, but after the edification of various smells on the train in the past few days, Lin Zhihong was already numb. After a hurried wash, Lin Zhihong fell asleep. It's really tiring all the way.

In the next few days, Lin Zhihong slowly adapted to life on the construction site. Because Lin Zhihong knows how to read, he is in addition to carpenter's work. Lin Zhifeng also asked him to help him write down the incoming materials. As long as the materials are delivered to the construction site, Lin Zhihong will carefully count the quantity before issuing a receipt order.

Lin Zhihong's carefulness made Lin Zhifeng very satisfied. Originally, why did you bring your own brothers with you when you came out to work? Just so that someone can help you when you go out! And Lin Zhifeng has always paid close attention to Lin Zhihong, and Lin Zhihong's character is worth trusting.

When it comes to resting at night, the men who live together will talk and chat together. There are braggadocio bragging, and there are low-key people who don't talk often. That night, after Lin Zhihong washed up, he lay on a small square stool and wrote a letter to his home. It's been so long, and it's time to report safety.