Zhao Shen's pace slowed down and looked into the store. The tables and chairs in the restaurant are half new, and the three tables are placed against the wall on the west side, and can seat up to 12 people. There was also a noodle bowl on the table in the middle that had not been cleaned up. Behind the desk hung a blue curtain the size of half a door, dark and gloomy. There is a wooden cabinet next to the curtain, behind the wooden cabinet a person sits reclining, unable to see his face, a person is working with his back to the outside, and behind it should be the kitchen. Leaning in front of the wooden cabinet was a man of medium stature, dressed in brown cotton, facing inward, who seemed to be talking to the person behind him.

Could it be the man leaning in front of the wooden cabinet?

Zhao Shen tilted his head and looked this way, thinking as he watched.

The man leaning on the wooden cabinet suddenly turned around, looked out the door, and met Zhao Shen, who was looking inside the door.

The man's disdainful eyes flashed, but Zhao Shen, who was staring at him, could see it clearly.

Zhao Shen lowered his head, it turned out that he was wearing old clothes for work, and there were two patches on his clothes. This is the clothes that Zhao Shen got up early to work in the morning, because he thought that he would go back when he saw Zhao Dazhuang, so he didn't change his clothes, in fact, there were no other new clothes, they were all half-new and not old, but this one was scratched because of the work, and two patches were patched, and he was disgusted without thinking.

The man had a round head and a round head, small eyes squinted, and seemed to be very shrewd. His lips were thin, his voice was rough, and he shouted enthusiastically: "Sister, come in and eat a bowl of noodles!" Our noodles are generous, delicious, and cheap. ”

Zhao Shen shook his head at the man and walked forward.

"Who! Eating noodles? A shrill female voice sounded from behind.

"No, a poor ghost." The man's rough voice came over, with coldness and contempt in it.

"You're not here to eat noodles, what are you talking about with her, come in and help with the work." The high-pitched female voice raised her voice, making her voice even sharper and harsher.

"No one eats, and I'm not busy, you just do it, I want to rest."

"If you're going to die, what's the matter, don't work all day long,......"

The scolding suddenly rose!

It's really a dog-eyed and low-spirited, messy family. Zhao Shen thought as he quickened his pace home.

It's still good for our family, Lan'er is well-behaved, Ju'er is naughty, Qiu'er is cute, and Chun'er is a little old-fashioned, but she is also an obedient child.

Zhao Shen thought about his child, and his steps were faster.

The family I saw just now was thrown into the back of my head.

Back home, a few children gathered together to play on a stone bench in the yard.

"Wow!"

Who cried! Isn't it a good time to enter the door, they still talk and laugh, just take two steps, and some people cry, I don't see who hit whom!

"What's wrong? Who cried! ”

Zhao Shen walked over and asked with concern.

Zhao Lan didn't expect that she would teach them to play kitten fishing in the afternoon, and they would cry while playing.

It was Chun Tao who was crying, her mouth was suffocating, and her tears were still hanging on her face, which was very pitiful. Zhao Ju stood aside, snickering proudly, Maizi looked at her unhappily, Siqi looked at Zhao Ju ignorantly for a while, looked at Chun Tao for a while, grabbed the paper made by Lan'er last time, and was reluctant to drop it, Qiu'er also grabbed a few pieces of paper from the table and didn't know what to do.

Zhao Shen looked at it and thought in his heart: It must be Zhao Ju! This girl has never been quiet since she was a child, so she loves to cause trouble.

So, Zhao Shen yelled at Zhao Ju, who was triumphant: "Zhao Ju, you bullied Chun Tao." ”

Zhao Ju replied: "I didn't." ”

"You didn't bully Chun Tao, Chun Tao can cry! Why do you love to bully others, you play together every day, you can't have fun, you have to make some trouble. Zhao Shen couldn't wait to go up and slap him.

You talk about her, she will talk back to you when she is back, and she can find a reason to come out if she is wrong.

"Humph! I didn't bully her, she couldn't play cards by herself, and when she lost, she shed tears like a kitten and was ashamed. Zhao Ju grimaced at Chun Tao, who had just stopped crying.

"Wow!"

Chun Tao saw that Zhao Ju was ashamed of her, and she cried louder than just now.

"You dead girl, you still have a fierce mouth!" Zhao Shen went up and slapped Zhao Ju's buttocks.

"Mother!" Zhao Ju jumped to the side, rubbed his buttocks, and shouted at Zhao Shen, "It's not my fault, why are you beating me!" ”

Zhao Ju pointed at Chun Tao and shouted: "You are a stingy ghost, you can't afford to lose, I won't play cards with you next time." ”

"I'm going to play! Just play! You don't care! Chun Tao heard Zhao Ju say not to play cards with her, she stopped crying.

Zhao Ju also said weakly: "I won't let you play, next time I play with Maizi and Siqi, I won't play with you stingy." ”

"Wow!" Chun Tao cried again, "I'm not stingy, it's you who didn't handle well, and I lost all my cards to you, it must be that you are unfair." ”

Hey, my sister-in-law still knows the word fairness.

Zhao Shen saw that Chun Tao was crying by Zhao Ju again, and he was so angry that he stepped forward to fight.

It's really three days without fighting - going to the house to uncover the tiles.

Zhao Lan hurriedly stopped Zhao Shen and explained, "Mother, they are playing games!" Zhao Ju did not bully Chun Tao. Chun Tao is just unhappy about losing the game. Mother, dinner hasn't been cooked yet, you can go cook! I'll advise. ”

Zhao Shen was puzzled and asked, "Playing the game?" What a game! Cry when you lose. ”

Chun Tao hurriedly said: "It's just a kitten falling into a fish, it's fun!" However, every time Zhao Ju wins, she must have cheated, otherwise she would have won all my cards every time, and none of them were left. ”

Zhao Shen asked stupidly: "Zhao Ju, why don't you leave a few for her?" ”

Zhao Lan said that there was no way to explain it, and of course there was one person who ran out of cards in the end of the kitten fishing game. Otherwise, how to win or lose.

Zhao Ju said stubbornly: "She can't win herself, how can I stay, I won't take it." ”

"What's wrong if you don't take it?"

"Mother!" Zhao Ju shouted unconvinced.

"Mother," at the same time, Zhao Lan, who couldn't listen to it, also shouted, "The game you play has the rules of the game, and you can't take it casually." ”

Zhao Shen was very puzzled: "It's a game, it's playing, why can't it?" ”

It was the first time Zhao Lan heard someone ask this.

Zhao Lan was speechless when asked!

Mother, you are so amazing!

Chun Tao took it and refuted Zhao Shen's words: "Of course you can't take it casually, just take it casually, how can you play the game." Aunt Zhao, will you play with kittens and drop fish! ”

It was Zhao Shen's turn to be speechless.

Will I be able to play games? I don't know how to play your children's games.

I'm looking for something to do! Children's, I don't ask for trouble. That's the finger at me.

Zhao Shen made a straight face, didn't say anything, and left.

Chun Tao asked Zhao Ju with a stupid face: "Did I say anything, why did Aunt Zhao seem to leave angrily." ”

Zhao Ju said indifferently: "How do I know." My mother is like this, ignore her. Do you still play? ”

Chun Tao shouted: "Play! This time, though, I'll have to split. ”

Zhao Ju replied unwillingly: "Okay! ”

In summer, the face of a child will cry and laugh for a while, which is really good.

I just cried a lot, but I shook hands and started playing again.

Zhao Lan thought: If you learn to run fast, it will be interesting.

The lively day slipped away.

The next day, Zhao Lan remembered that she hadn't told Zhao Shen about asking Siqi's father to work yesterday.

In the morning, after breakfast, Zhao Lan said to Zhao Shen: "Mother, I want to dig a pond under the reservoir first, and then I can raise some ducks and geese." That wetland could not have been planted with fruit trees or food. Mother, what do you think? ”

Zhao Shen thought for a while while eating: "It's okay, I'm afraid that someone will steal it when the time comes." ”

"It's close to the backyard, and we're going to drive the ducks into the backyard house at night. If you can't do it, you can raise another powerful dog to watch. ”

"If you think about it, you can do it."

"There was a lot of rain in the summer, and I was afraid that it would be difficult to dig at that time, so I asked Siqi's father to help. Take advantage of the fact that there has been no rain in the past few days, so hurry up and dig it up. Mother, you see. ”

Zhao Shen thought about it and agreed: "Well, I also thought about it, just the two of us will dig sooner or later, it will be difficult to dig well, if it rains, it will be full of water, but it will be difficult to dig down." The reservoir you mentioned, we have to find someone to dig it. ”

"The reservoir should be dug deeper, or wait until autumn and winter, and ask three or four people to dig it together. It's not good to invite someone now. ”

"It's fine."

The mother and daughter agreed and went their own way.

In the afternoon, Zhao Lan took Siqi's father to the wasteland, pointed to the ground that had been dug a little bit, and said: "My family plans to dig the pond here, this is what I dug some time ago, the speed is too slow, and it took a few days to dig such a little bit." So, please help me catch up. ”

"Hmm!"

"The pond was dug north from where it had been dug, and it should have been dug up to it. The width is as wide as the previous digging. The depth is about half a foot as I said earlier. ”

"That's okay, it's about four or five days, I'll be in a hurry, it's inconvenient to save rain!"

"Thank you, Uncle Stone! Time is not tight, you dry slowly. ”

"Hey! Then I'll start digging now! ”

"Good!"

So, every day Zhao Lan went to help dig the pond in the morning and evening, and looked at the progress, and occasionally saw Yuanhe standing at the end of the village and looking this way, but he never approached.

Zhao Lan sighed every time she saw it, a little boy had to have courage to chase a girl, and he was shameless.

Without waiting for Zhao Lan to sigh a few times, soon, a long pond was almost dug up.

Zhao Lan looked at this long ditch and thought to herself: Siqi's father is still capable, with great strength and stamina, and he will not rest for an afternoon. He alone can stand up to Zhao Lan and Zhao Shen, and the two of them are more than enough.

At the end of the pond dug, there is a piece of land to the north, which is very strange.

When I didn't dig it, the soil on it was wet. Siqi's father dug down, and the soil was still wet, although the soil was also wet elsewhere, but it was obvious that there was more moisture in the soil here. Seeing this, Zhao Lan asked Siqi's father to stop and stop digging.

Because the soil is wet, it is particularly difficult to dig. Zhao Lan discussed with Siqi's father, the pond was dug up to this point, anyway, it was not bad to raise anything, if you wanted to expand it, you could expand it to other places.

After the completion of the reservoir, it did not rain. The place where it was dug was still a dry ditch.

Zhao Lan went to see it the next day, and other places were dried by the sun the day before, but that place was still wet, not only wet, but also a little watery.

On the third day, Zhao Lan went to check again. After a day of sunshine, the soil in other fields was dry and white, but that land was still like that. Zhao Lan thought about it, took a shovel from home and dug it down again, digging about a meter. Zhao Lan didn't find anything, that is, the soil was still wet, very wet.

On the fourth day, Zhao Lan went again, and there was a puddle of water there, very little water, a thin layer. In the evening, Zhao Lan went again, and the water was sunburned again. Zhao Lan didn't give up, took the shovel and dug down again, and dug another meter, but there was still nothing, Zhao Lan carried the shovel back in frustration. But I secretly became more energetic in my heart, and tomorrow morning, I will dig up.

On the fifth day, Zhao Lan came to the wetland again, and there seemed to be more water today than yesterday, but it was not obvious. Zhao Lan continued to dig according to the place where the water was wet, and dug down another meter, the pit was almost three meters from the ground, Zhao Lan was like falling into a mud pit, covered in mud, and became a mud man.

"Why are you like this? Where did you get it? Zhao Shen looked at Zhao Lan, who was a clay man, and asked eagerly.