The spring flowers are blooming, the birds are singing in the branches, the poplar trees are already sending out green buds, and the people in the fields are busy.

"Mom, when will my dad come back? People's rice seeds have been planted, and nothing has been touched in our family," Zhou Fan asked while sitting on a small bench and washing the children's clothes.

"I'll come back the day after tomorrow, your dad and your Uncle Ma and your fifth uncle went to Inner Mongolia to see Huyan's family, and gave your adoptive parents to burn some paper money or something, and by the way, I brought a few good breeds of dairy sheep back, and when they come back, you can get it, there is a good machine"

He also added some hot water to Zhao Yumei's footbath to soak her feet in the water.

"Wait a while to wipe it with cracked hand oil, and then wrap it in plastic wrap, and the heel will not crack for a few days."

There were many cracks on the heels of a pair of feet, several of them were oozing blood, and they were walking on tiptoe, and Zhou Fan was distressed when he saw it.

"Mom, what does my grandma want to eat?"

"Elm money, a bunch of them, the trees are generally old and tall, we really don't have this piece, I want you to see if you have it on the way to work, if you don't have it, forget it"

I just saw the elm tree, and I didn't know it, because I didn't know it, and I didn't see what it looked like.

"Can you eat it? It won't be toxic! If you eat it and go to the hospital, it won't be good."

"What's poisonous! Then we have eaten before, and the old generation thinks of the old people and things like this, and eats the things we have eaten in the past, and when your dad comes back, let him find it."

It's okay if it's not poisonous, some things can't be eaten blindly, what if it's poisonous?

After washing the clothes, he put them aside, took a dry towel and put it on his shoulder, and sat in front of Zhao Yumei with a small bench.

"I'll wipe your feet, you have to tip me" Zhou Fan joked with Zhao Yumei.

"A dollar is okay?"

Is your service attitude bad? Just give a dollar, it's too picky.

"Wipe a dime, who made you my mother! No you, no me, no children."

A pair of feet that are almost twisted and deformed, and the nail covers are still very long, and the nail clippers next to them come in handy.

Zhao Yumei pondered in her heart what Zhou Fan had just said, she was not her biological mother, she was her aunt, and she was a twin sister with her mother.

Zhou Fan cut his nails and asked, "Mom, what was I like when I was born?" Is it like when your child was born? ”

Zhao Yumei recalled that before, she had not seen Zhou Fan's birth with her own eyes, and it had been a few days since the child was born, and she saw her on the day of her sister's funeral.

"Like, all like little old men, the wrinkled ones don't grow"

Zhou Fan flattened his mouth, how could he and his children be compared to a little old man, are they so ugly?

"Grandma, Teacher Xiao Han said that he would bring tadpoles tomorrow"

Haven't slept yet? What are you doing? The children gathered around Zhou Fan and Zhao Yumei, and the stars were even more sticky, sitting directly on Zhao Yumei's lap, feeling sleepy.

"Tadpoles? A toad without long legs? ”

"Hmm"

It's been ten o'clock, where will this go? Why didn't you say it earlier?

"There are also snails, Mr. Han said that he would also bring snails"

Tadpoles, snails, why not earthworms? What kind of kindergarten is this? What the hell?

"Mom, you coax them to sleep, I'll go out for a while, and I'll be back in a while"

After Zhou Fan finished speaking, he put his nail clippers aside, stood up, took his coat, and was about to go out.

"Where are you going to find tadpoles? I can go again tomorrow! ”

A pair of high-top non-slip rain boots, worn on the feet, turned back to the door, looked at the grandmother's red Tang suit buckled cotton jacket on the bench, put down his coat, took the old man's clothes and put them on his body, opened the door and went out.

A snakeskin pocket, a small plastic basin, and a portable electric light on his head, pushed out his broken bicycle and locked the door, and placed the key under a brick in the doorway.

It's pitch black, and there's not even a figure, which is quite scary.

The road I used to walk was potholed, but now I really need to take this road because it's along a small river.

The reeds have also grown, and they are already half a meter high, and the leaves are long, which can be used to wrap zongzi.

Not only myself by the river, but also others, like myself, also wore headlamps and walked by the river.

Stop the bike, lean against the tree, turn off the headlamp, crouch down and listen carefully to hear where the frog is crowing and maybe where the frog is. Where there are tadpoles!

If you don't sleep in the middle of the night with this black light, do you catch tadpoles for your children like yourself? It's not easy to be a parent these days, and you have to come out in the middle of the night.

The light was getting closer and closer, and it was a man with a cigarette in his mouth and something in his hand, walking along the river, as if he were putting a fish basket.

"Quack ......"

There was a voice, still close, coming from the reeds.

"Not much tonight, just a night of busy work"

Damn, it's not the fish basket, it's the frog catcher.

If you don't sleep in the middle of the night and go out to catch frogs, you will be fined, and you may be detained and eat public meals.

Not much, with a snakeskin bag on his shoulder, and I don't know how many frogs there are in it, which will be killed by cruel humans tomorrow and served to the table.

What dinosaurs are tall and big, not all of them are perishing! Talent is the master of the top food chain, and they eat everything.

Did you do it yourself? The children will take tadpoles and snails to kindergarten tomorrow, and they will squat behind the trees to watch the criminals catch the frogs, so speechless.

I pressed the light switch and stood up from behind the tree, my squatting legs were numb, and the soles of my feet felt like something was piercing my feet.

"There are snakes!"

The cold thing suddenly put on Zhou Fan's face, and under the illumination of the light, he saw a flower snake about the thickness of a child's wrist, holding the snake's head, "hissing" and spitting out the letter.

Forget that snakes are cold-blooded animals, and the temperature at this moment is not as high as during the day, and the snake's actions are not as active as during the day.

Grabbed the snake's tail, pulled it off hard, shook the snake's head down, drooped on the ground, stomped on it with his foot, and then twisted it on the ground with his foot.

People in the hierarchical food chain are going to eat snake meat tomorrow, pepper and salt, snake soup, all very good.

Picked up the snake and looked at it with the lamp on his head, he was not dead, he was still twisting his body, the snake's head was bleeding, and it was still wrapped up along the arm he was holding strongly.

If you don't have tools, how can you cut off your head? I didn't expect this when I came out, and I never thought that I would be unlucky enough to encounter a snake.

I can only talk about it, and I can't hide my ears, I grabbed the snake's head tightly, and bit down hard at the snake's neck, the cold thing, and the smell of earth, the taste is really not good.

The electric light on the head gradually became less and less bright, and it could illuminate a small area, and after a while, it would be completely off.

Don't mind! The tadpole hasn't gotten its hands on it yet, and it can't go on strike.

Biting the snake in his mouth, he put down the snake's head with one hand, took off the electric light, and pressed it several times in a row without response.

It was pitch black, only he and a person not far away, he was still slowly approaching him, and he was about to meet.

You can borrow his electric light and use it, and if you get tadpoles and snails, you can go home and go to sleep.

The snake was no longer moving, so he took the snake in his hand, stood up and said to the person on the other side, "Big brother, borrow a lamp to use it, mine is not on"

I don't know if the other party heard it, Zhou Fan walked forward, wiping the blood stains at the corners of his mouth, and there was a strong smell of blood in his mouth.

"Hell, hell!"

The man screamed, threw down the snakeskin pocket on his shoulder, and ran away without looking back.

"Are there ghosts? Where is it? Why didn't I see it? ”

Look around, just by himself, he can't even see a ghost, how did he see it?

"Big brother, your pocket is still here, do you want it?"

Carrying the snakeskin bag on the ground, he quickly chased after him, hoping to catch up with the man, and gave him the hard work of not sleeping in the middle of the night.

"Don't chase me, I didn't do anything bad, there is a debtor, you should go to whom, don't find me"

Still talking to yourself, are you crazy? I also ran deep into the woods, where there were graves, large and small, there were almost dozens, uneven, and it was easy to fall.

The runner didn't wrestle, but he tripped over something and fell in front of a tombstone, almost hitting his head.

"Mom! Is there any mistake? Why don't you borrow a lamp and use it? What the hell is running, it hurts me to death."

No matter what, I tossed around for an hour, and I fell a big heel, and it looks like I didn't have anything to gain tonight.

No, he still holds the person's snakeskin pocket in his hand, and there are things in it, so it's not a waste of work.

"Big brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, grandparents, I really didn't mean to disturb your rest, I'll leave here immediately, and I'll compensate you tomorrow, burn paper money"

I don't believe in the ghosts and gods, but I am indeed a little nervous and scared at the moment, I have experienced such a thing, and I have fallen into the pit and fainted.

The faint blue light, flickering not far away, is phosphorus, and it is also the 'ghost fire' in the old man's mouth.

In the dry season, it is a cemetery again, and when you come here alone at night, it really makes people's hairs stand on end and your back is cold.

Flashed, Zhou Fan carried the snakeskin bag, smeared back to his car, touched the dead snake next to him, tied it around his waist, and pushed the bicycle home with one hand.