On the coal stove sat a black iron pot, covered with an aluminum lid, the lid of the pot was lying together, gurgling and steaming, and the contents of the pot were already boiling, probably stewed eight betta fish! Lin Yang, who grew up in the mountains, has never eaten much seafood, and he has not even eaten a meal in the past few days, and the fragrance wafting into his nostrils is particularly delicious. He couldn't wait to try the deliciousness of Hachidou.

The dumb girl and Xiao Kai signed for a while, Lin Yang didn't understand the way of conversation between their sister and brother at all, so he could only watch stupidly from the side, Xiao Kai smiled and let him into the back room and let him sit on his bed. Then he brought the old table into the room, and put away the curtain between the two beds, between which lay the broken table, just enough for a man to sit on either side.

He set up the bowl and chopsticks that had been cleaned, put some rice in an aluminum basin in the bowl, he filled the bowl with a spoon a few times before filling a bowl, and then handed it to Lin Yang, "Brother Lin Yang, just wait for the eight bettafish." After he finished speaking, he didn't put the other two bowls into the rice, pulled out an aluminum basin with tableware such as bowls, chopsticks, and porcelain basins under his sister's bed, took out all the things, and brought out a large white porcelain bowl at the bottom, which was estimated to have not been used for a long time, and was covered with a thin layer of dust.

He glanced at Lin Yang with shame, "The seaside is windy and sandy, and it has only been a day full of dust!" ”

Lin Yang didn't say anything, just smiled at him. Xiao Kai came out with a bowl, scooped some water into the bucket at the door, and washed the bowl. The kitchen was already steaming, and when Xiao Kai was washing the dishes, the dumb girl lifted the lid of the pot, and the fragrance of eight betta fish wafted all over the house.

Lin Yang swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, and when he thought that he was about to eat delicious seafood, he had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

After a while, Xiao Kai finally put the porcelain bowl on the table, Lin Yang had already prepared the chopsticks, and when the heat in the porcelain bowl dispersed a few small cuttlefish the size of a thumb, lying at the bottom of the bowl, not in a layer of black and gray soup, even the soup added up to only half a small bowl.

Lin Yang's outstretched chopsticks stopped in mid-air in amazement. "Brother Lin Yang, you first taste whether my sister's cooking is good or not, and it will be better to stew it in the pot for a while."

Lin Yang glanced at the mute girl who was holding coal from the stove out of the corner of her eye, and the red coal was carefully dipped in water and placed next to the stove by her. The pot that stewed the eight betta fish just now has been brushed clean and hung on the hook in the corner.

Lin Yang frowned vigorously, and gently put down his chopsticks, "This thing is so black, how can you eat it!" Keep it for yourselves! I'd better go to the city and eat something delicious! ”

He stood up and came out of the back room, and saw the aluminum basin containing the rice, which had been scraped clean by Xiao Kai, and there was not even a grain of rice left.

He glanced back at Xiao Kai, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him, as if a small hand grabbed his esophagus, and he had no appetite at all. The sour tears of the nose could not be suppressed and poured into the eyes.

In the past, his aunt often watched him eat alone, and his aunt always said that he had already eaten it, until one day he saw his aunt secretly eating dug dandelion leaves, and he understood his aunt's good intentions.

Lin Yang wanted to go back to the mountains even more urgently, he came out of the house without looking back, and went straight to untie the reins of the snow, but at this time, the snow was unusually standing still, chewing with a mouthful of wild vegetables in his mouth.

"Let's go! Walk! —" Lin Yang shouted and led, stepping on the snow and standing in place, his butt fell backwards, and he refused to leave. For a while, Lin Yang had no way at all.

Just when Lin Yang didn't know what to do, he didn't know where half a brick flew from, "Bang dang!" It happened to smash on the glass of the window, and suddenly shouted outside the fence, "Pick up the rags, you come out and return my eight betta fish to me!" ”

The voice was screaming and screaming, a teenage child shouted again, Xiao Kai panicked, grabbed a few small fish in the bowl and rushed to his sister's side and stuffed it into his sister's mouth, the dumb girl also felt that something bad was about to happen, and snatched the fish in Xiao Kai's hand and hid it in the pocket on his chest, as if he was teaching Xiao Kai a lesson, Xiao Kai jumped up and down like ants on a hot pot and didn't know where to hide.

Lin Yang looked outside the fence for a sound, and not far from the fence, there were two children and a big man, the two children were twelve or thirteen years old with sticks in their hands. The eldest looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, standing with crooked hands behind his back.

Lin Yang didn't understand what he was shouting, so he didn't answer and then tried to lead his donkey. Treading the snow didn't know what was wrong, and tried to drag Lin Yang away from the fence with his heels hard. When he was busy battling the snow, "the fence made of asbestos tiles was knocked down by three people outside to make a one-meter-square hole."

The three of them rushed into the courtyard like fierce gods, "Where is the tattered Kaizi, return my fish to me," he said, sniffing a few times with his nose, "Good Nima, dare to stew my fish and eat it, spit it out, spit it out, spit it out quickly, spit it out for me!" ”

One of the children was violently waving the stick in his hand, with fierce little round eyes, although he was not very old, he was not tall and not handsome, with a small head, a small nose and a big mouth, and his limbs were very developed, and he could clearly see the strong muscles. The big one was standing behind the two of them with a smile on his face, his malicious eyes spying on the mute girl in the room.

Since Treading Snow has been twisting with himself and not leaving, Lin Yang simply tied the reins again, and it was a child who kept clamoring, and Lin Yang couldn't talk to him, so he could only watch silently.

"Who stole your fish, that net was obviously placed by me" After enduring it for a long time, Xiao Kai finally spoke.

"You fart, you stinky beggar, you scavenger, can you afford a fishing net! You didn't admit that you stole me, and spit it out for me—" the other kid shouted in a helpful voice. He cursed as he knocked the stick in his hand on the stone table. "Bang-Bang-"

The mute girl was so frightened that she hugged Xiao Kai tightly, babbling and shouting. The eldest one who came with the two children was still silent and let them toss around in the yard. Xiao Kai may really couldn't help it, and struggled to break free from the shackles of the mute girl and jumped out of the house.

"You fart! You fart! You're the fart! I picked up that net, and you said it was yours, did you ask him to promise you? Xiao Kai quibbled without admitting defeat. Not to be outdone, the two children quarreled for a while, and the mouths of the two of them together were not Xiao Kai's opponents, the children were so angry that they were about to go crazy, and they jumped up and hit Xiao Kai's head with a stick.

"If you don't spit out Lao Tzu's fish, Lao Tzu will hit you until you spit it out today"

Kai jumped to the side smartly, and his stick hit the ground hard. He was even more annoyed, and turned to look at the other child, "Ah Fei, you give it to me, I will abolish him today"

Ah Fei jumped over and chased Xiao Kai with his fate. Xiao Kai was chased by the two of them, and there was no choice but to circle around the treading snow, "I can't fight, I can't fight, I'm angry with your girl's cover" The two children chased together from one direction at the beginning, and the three children went around the treading snow, and they couldn't catch up with Xiao Kai with a lot of effort, and finally they changed their strategy to attack Xiao Kai from both directions.

Xiao Kai was finally blocked by them behind the snow and had no way to escape, only to be beaten honestly, "Stinky beggar, see where you are running" The two people raised their sticks at the same time, Xiao Kai secretly complained, "God, earth, quickly put away these two with covers"

The mute girl eagerly ran out of the house, shouting and patting her chest, "Ah! Yes! Yes! Yes! No... Beat... My brother... Fish... I... I... "She stammered, and everyone looked at her stupidly.