On the 21st day of the first month of the fifth year of Han Xiping.

Near noon, in the east of the county seat of Peiguoqiao County, Yuzhou, a group of poorly dressed people were standing by a frozen river, looking at the ice, as if they were looking at something interesting.

On this day, although it was a sunny day, there was a cold wind, and the sun could not relieve the chill on the body, and these people did not plan to leave the river to go home to keep warm.

Where their eyes were focused, a child who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old was standing on the thick ice and waving an iron hoe, knocking on the ice with a hoe.

He wasn't wearing a thick one.

"It's the third day, isn't it?"

In the middle of the crowd, a man in a slightly thicker suit asked another man in a slightly thicker suit next to him.

The man who was questioned nodded.

"Yes, it's the third day, it should have been done yesterday, but unfortunately it snowed again yesterday, and Dalang's work the day before was in vain, but fortunately it was sunny this morning, he came early, and it took great pains to let his mother eat fish."

The onlookers on the side also showed emotional expressions when they heard this.

Three days ago, there was a story in the city, saying that the county lady was sick, lying on the sickbed and saying that she wanted to eat fish, but there was no place to buy fish in winter, so Guo Peng, the eldest man of the county family, came to the frozen river to dig ice and wanted to get fish for the county lady to eat.

People were very emotional.

"I heard that Mrs. County Zun is not kind to Dalang, obviously he is the eldest son in the family, and he is not treated well at home."

"After all, if it's not his own son, who can treat someone else's son like his own?"

"If you want to say that Da Lang is also kind enough, he has been treated so badly, and he still came out alone to get fish for her to eat on such a cold day, and the water surface is frozen, where to get fish?"

The more you talked, the more unworthy the child on the ice who was wielding a hoe and tapping the ice.

Finally, someone couldn't stand it anymore and was going to move.

"How good Da Lang is, benevolent, benevolent and charitable, many people in ten miles and eight towns have received Da Lang's favor, let's just look at it, okay?"

Then the person was grabbed by someone else.

"Da Lang said, this is his own business, Mrs. is sick and wants to eat fish, he wants to get fish for Mrs. to eat, it is his own heart, we are not allowed to help, many people have to help before, persuade him to come back, let's not go, the right to obey Da Lang a piece of filial piety!"

The people around him were even more emotional.

The look in his eyes that looked at the back of the hoe-wielding figure on the ice was a little more admiring.

It's so filial piety for the sake of the so-called mother who is not good to herself.

But at this moment, Guo Peng didn't pay attention to these people's thoughts.

He swung his hoe vigorously and hit the thick ice, gasping for air, the cold air was inhaled into the hot body, only to feel that his chest was stuffy, and his trachea was a little painful, which was very uncomfortable.

The day before yesterday, I came here to spread a black cloth and thought that the temperature of the sun would melt the ice a little, but I never thought that it would be snowing again from the afternoon before yesterday to yesterday, and my efforts were in vain.

When it was sunny early this morning, I hurried here to sprinkle some salt, spread a black cloth, and waited for an hour for this piece of ice to be thinner.

If you don't do this, I'm afraid that with a small body like yourself, you won't be able to break through this ice for half a day.

But Rao is like this, the ice is still so thick, knocked for half an hour, and did not see the bottom, but fortunately, a rather deep pit has been knocked out, he sprinkled some salt into the ice pit, and then knocked.

Inhale and exhale heavily, the trachea is aching, and the limbs are sore.

But this is not the time, to persevere, to work harder to persevere, in order to break the ice.

In the interval of respite, Guo Peng's eyes swept to the side of the river, and the crowd was watching, and there were more people than when he first came in the morning, as if people were constantly coming from afar.

Very good.

He had to persevere and persevere until the final victory.

But the more time passed, he felt that his body became more and more numb, and his movements became more and more mechanical, mechanical lifting, smashing, lifting, smashing, and he didn't know when it would be big.

Why is this damn ice so thick?

Guo Peng has never missed the greenhouse effect of his previous life as much as he does now.

Suddenly, there was a shout.

"Big brother! Big brother! Big brother! ”

Guo Peng heard the familiar shout, turned his head, and saw two tiger-headed little guys running from the shore to the ice, and walking towards him with great difficulty on the ice.

"Ah Ren, Ah Chun, why are you here?"

Cao Ren, who had a tiger brain, pulled Cao Chun, who was one size smaller than himself, and Cao Chun, who was also a tiger brain, came to Guo Peng's side from the bank of the river with difficulty, and then Cao Ren reached out and took the hoe in Guo Peng's hand, Cao Chun did not have a hoe, and when he saw a handful on the ground, he also took a handful.

"We came to play with the eldest brother and learned that the eldest brother is here, eldest brother! What are you doing here on such a cold day? Who can fish in the ice in winter? Even if it does, why don't you call someone to help you? ”

Cao Ren looked at Guo Peng very unhappily: "Does the eldest brother regard our brother as an outsider?" ”

"Do you see our brother as an outsider?"

Cao Chun echoed.

“……”

Guo Peng looked at the two tiger-headed brothers a little depressed, and smiled helplessly.

"This is my own business, my mother is sick and wants to eat fish, I want to fish for her, this is what I should do as a son, and it is also a piece of my heart, I can't let you freeze with me."

"Big brother!"

Cao Ren patted his chest, and said with a righteous appearance: "The eldest brother's business is my business, if the eldest brother wants to be frozen, I will be frozen with the eldest brother!" Otherwise, what face do I Cao Ren have to be a man! ”

"What a man!"

Xiao Cao Chun echoed again.

Guo Peng was a little moved in his heart, and after thinking for a while, he took out a ball of cloth strips and wrapped a circle of cloth strips around the hands of Cao Ren and Cao Chun.

"Since you say so, I won't stop you, but you also have to be careful not to freeze, the three of us will be able to cut through the ice soon."

"Hmm!"

Cao Ren and Cao Chun became excited, so they raised their hoes together with Guo Peng, and knocked them into the ice pit fiercely.

Knock knock knock, knock knock, I don't know when it will knock, anyway, suddenly a hoe goes down, and a splash of water stirs up, splashing the faces of the three people.

"Pierced?"

Cao Ren was very surprised to see the water coming out of the ice pit.

"Pierced!"

Guo Peng was also very surprised to look at the water coming out of the ice pit.

"Pierce, pierce!!"

Xiao Cao Chun directly dropped the hoe and jumped up happily, and then fell on the ice all of a sudden.

Guo Peng hurriedly helped Xiao Cao Chun up, and then shouted: "Hurry up and smash it!" Smash a big hole! There will definitely be fish! ”

"Good!"

Cao Ren and Cao Chun excitedly waved their hoes and together with Guo Peng, smashing the ice cave bigger and bigger, and after smashing an ice cave with a diameter of about one and a half feet, Guo Peng shouted to stop.

Then Guo Peng immediately asked Cao Ren and Cao Chun to go back and get the net pocket, and he quickly took out a handful of things from the cloth bag on his body and threw it into the ice cave.

Sprinkled twice.

"Big brother, how do you use this net? It seems to be different from the net pockets we see? ”

Cao Ren took the long-handled net bag made by Guo Peng himself and didn't know what to use: "Just stick it into the river to fish?" ”

Guo Peng shook his head and just smiled.

"Wait a minute, soon, the fish will be delivered to the door on their own."

"Deliver it yourself?"

Cao Ren and Cao Chun didn't know what Guo Peng meant.

And the fish that are stupid enough to send to your door?

They don't believe it.