"When I first heard the old people in the village say this, I didn't believe it. But I once got up in the middle of the night to pee, and saw the uncle and aunt, the second master and the second mother burning paper and kowtowing behind the house, and the aunt and the second mother were still crying softly. I knew it was true. Chen Lan said.

"Songquan and I have never even met our grandparents, uncles and grandmothers since we were born, but fortunately, the professor's grandmother came. When I think of my grandparents and uncle being burned alive by the Japanese, I want to cry, I want to kill! Dog's day, when I grow up, I want to be a soldier, the kind of soldier who can fight. I want to be like Yamato, Mom and Auntie, kill all the invaders, and avenge my grandparents and uncles! Yu Songyuan said through gritted teeth.

"Brother, I want to cry!" Song Quan said with tears in his eyes, and Chen Lan and Shu Tong were also in tears.

"It's okay to cry, but it's not allowed. Grandpa walked into the fire with a smile and grandma, I am big and you are iron-clad, making the enemy cold, to be their descendants, you should live like them! ”

"Brother, I won't cry anymore, I remember all your words." Songquan said. Chen Lan and Shu Tong also said that we also remembered.

In the cold winter, the north wind howls and drips into ice. People are hiding in their homes and not leaving the house around the braziers. The light of the fire shined through the shed, and the people in the distant villages thought it was a ghost fire, dotted with stars, and no one paid much attention to it.

When I got up early the next morning, it was still dark, so Yu Songyuan took everyone to seven or eight hundred meters downstream and began to set up a cofferdam downstream. The river is narrower here, so the project is relatively easy. Yu Songyuan took Songquan to the south bank near the cemetery, bulldozing the earth under the river, and Chen Lan and Shu Tong bulldozed the earth on the north bank. By noon, the cofferdam had closed.

After burning a few potatoes and eating them, they rested for a while, and then they continued to dry. For more than half a month, the four children gritted their teeth and insisted on bulldozing the ditch. Along the river, every sixty or seventy meters, a cofferdam is built, and the intercepted river channel is tied into 11 sections with a cofferdam.

The courage of several people gradually grew, and the illusion never appeared again.

Until he grew up, Yu Songyuan never figured out that the middle-aged man in the Mao suit, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it. Is it really a hallucination? Can four people hallucinate at the same time? Or is there really something else on this shijie?

In fact, in the nearly 20 days that they have been working hard, every night, Yu Xinhe, Yu Xinmin, and Teacher Chen, the three brothers, take turns to change shifts, and there is always one person who will watch them from a distance to prevent them from having an accident. But they never came close, let alone let them find out.

"Big brother, let's help them, this project is too big. A few little guys were tired of the bears, why did they push the soil all night, their feet were not washed, they got into the nest and squeezed together and fell asleep...... "Teacher Chen loves his disciples so much that his nose is sore, and he can't go on."

Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin glanced at each other, gritted their teeth and said, "Wait a little longer, wait until the fish comes out." ”

Seeing that the two brothers insisted on waiting, Teacher Chen couldn't say anything more. He knew that the Yu brothers, who had seen Gale Lang, were deliberately exercising the courage of the four children.

The most difficult and boring water-fighting project began.

Yu Songyuan and the four of them washed the wooden barrels that picked up the dung, tied long ropes on both sides, and began to pour buckets of water outside the cofferdam downstream in pairs. Scooping water with a large bucket is a kind of jishu work, and they have long been proficient. Yu Songyuan is very energetic, and one person has two shifts.

Anyone who has ever fished knows that once you start fishing, you can't stop. There will be water at the bottom of the river, and when it stops, it won't be long before the water is full again. For the four Yu brothers, this is more of a test of their physical strength than bulldozing and building a cofferdam. After all, they are still teenagers.

The first section of the river was sixty or seventy meters long, and they fought for two days and two nights, and the four of them were so tired that they almost fell down. On the third day, before dawn, when they were too tired to lift their hands and feet, they suddenly saw fish. The joy of the upcoming harvest made them forget their tiredness and soon became excited again.

I saw that in the first section of the cofferdam, the water was only less than half a meter deep, and the fish in it were often mixed up. From time to time, fish swam down the current to the sieve-like curtain made of straw curtains, and four or five catties had been caught in the basin. Yu Songyuan judged that in this paragraph, there were no less than sixty or seventy catties of fish.

On the morning of the fish, a new member joined.

It turned out that classmate Yu Qiaoyun came to play with them, and heard that they had gone to Nanyi Canal to fish and had not returned home for 20 days, so he was curious to find them. When Qiaoyun saw the four of them doing such a big project, his mouth opened wide in shock, and he was speechless for a long time.

"My God, it's really a bunch of demon kings of the world, how dare you do this big river?"

When she came to the first section of the hot stage, when she saw the fish jumping in the water, the little girl immediately excitedly pulled up her trouser legs, and was about to take off her shoes and rush into the water. Yu Songyuan and Chen Lan pulled buckets of water, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing, looking for death?" ”

Qiao Yuncai was not afraid of him, and raised his head and scolded: "What are you fierce, hateful!" As he spoke, he took off his shoes and was about to get off.

Yu Songyuan said: "Grandma, don't go down first, listen to my kind words." We're running out of business, and you're welcome to join us. However, you can't go into the water like this, it's minus seven or eight degrees, and it will freeze you to death. ”

"Don't scare me, you four stinky boys, all of you are alive and well, why didn't any of them freeze to death?"

"Stinky girl, you didn't see us in the water, we were all sweating, of course we weren't afraid of the cold. If you want to get down, go to the master's house and bring the boots to put on, go quickly! Yu Songyuan stopped what he was doing and explained.

"If you dare to scold me, my aunt and grandmother will settle accounts with you later!"

Qiao Yun scolded back and ran away in a gust of wind. rushed directly to Yu Xinmin's house, urged She Wenxiu to find his boots and carry them, and turned around and was about to run. She Wenxiu chased after and asked, "Girl, they have been out for twenty days, and they haven't come back, how are they doing?" ”

Qiaoyun picked up his boots, asked for a little salt, and just said, "Auntie, it's amazing, it's all fish!" After saying that, he hurriedly ran away without a trace.

By the time we got back to the first section, there was less water, and the fish were already scurrying around in the water as if they were boiling a pot. Qiaoyun was so excited that he jumped high, put on his boots and was about to go into the water. Yu Songyuan said: "Slow! Then he took the boots off her feet and put a lot of dry straw in them before she put them on, and was responsible for catching fish under the straw curtain.

Qiaoyun tried very comfortably, and was very satisfied, but he still kicked Yu Songyuan on the cheek, and said in his mouth, "Let's even!" After saying that, he happily went to the water to pick up fish.

When there were only a dozen centimeters of water left, it was already noon, and at least a dozen catties had been grabbed in the big basin, Qiaoyun was so happy that he kept giggling, and laughter echoed by the side of the graveyard. Yu Song saw that she was so happy that she forgot that she was hungry, so he said, "None of the fish can escape, we are dying of hunger, you go to make lunch first." ”

"Five people, weishenme should cook for me?" Qiao Yun was so excited that she didn't want to leave, and Yu Songyuan was so angry that she ignored her. Maybe think that she is the only woman, and after a while, she will run to the grass shed to cook.

Qiaoyun came to the grass hut, lit a fire and began to burn the yams. Then he ran over and brought five saury, cleaned them up, and roasted them in willow branches. zuihou, and also boiled a small basin of boiling water.

When the yam was ripe, everyone came to the hut for lunch. At this time, I realized the benefits of having a woman, grilled potatoes and grilled fish, which were too hearty. Grilled black fish skin, dipped in salt, or eaten with pickles, it smells a little smoky, but it's just too fragrant.

Shu Tong sighed, "It's still good to have women, we all drink cold water these days." It's no wonder that the water is so dirty, and it doesn't have diarrhea. ”

Chen Lan said: "It's good to be good, it's too much to take advantage of us if you join now." You don't know how much earthwork we have pushed and how much water we have carried in the past half a month. ”

Qiaoyun was not forgiving, and raised his hand to give Chen Lan a punch: "Southern Sunan, you are really stingy, you are not a stick at all (Northern Jiangsu dialect, not righteous), are you still a man?" That's because you didn't call me, no wonder I am. Besides, you didn't take advantage of me and Su Yun before, and I will have to settle this account with you sooner or later. As he spoke, his face turned red.

This is the softest part of the hearts of the four brothers, and when they were exposed, everyone immediately did not dare to refute it. After all, I'm a little older now, and I'm starting to have a difference between men and women, and I still remember the games I played when I was a child. Thinking about it now, I did go a little too much at that time, and I took advantage of other girls.

After the meal, it is harvest time, and when the water is basically exhausted, the muddy water is full of fish jumping, jumping, and rolling. Qiao Yun and Shu Tong were responsible for catching fish, and there were four large pots, all of which were full, and there were eighty or ninety catties.

After picking up the fish and carrying it to the shed, Chen Lan and "Fat Dun" brought another bucket of water to wash it briefly. Oh my God, big saury, big red fish, big mullet, big bastard (northern Jiangsu dialect, big grass carp), big silver carp, full of four big pots. At this moment, the exhaustion on the four brothers disappeared without a trace.

Qiaoyun giggled happily, and the joyful laughter and the joy of harvest also made them more motivated. With the rest of the work before dark, Yu Songyuan had already begun to cut an opening in the cofferdam of the second section, blocked it with a straw curtain, and began to release water.

Chen Lan said: "Shu Tong and you and Qiaoyun will go back to deliver fish, and then let my mother cook something delicious for everyone to eat." ”

The two agreed, happily pushed two carts of fish, and returned to Yu Songyuan's house. It's still far away from home, Qiaoyun shouted loudly, "Uncle and aunt, second master and second mother, it's amazing, hurry, come on, the fish is coming, the fish is coming!" ”

When they went out to see it, they were astonished. So much? Yu Xinhe said, "Find the scale, divide it." So, Yu Xinmin brought the scales and began to divide the fish.

Yu Yueyue hugged Shu Tong's head, feeling distressed. Unexpectedly, Shu Tong, who was excited, didn't appreciate it at all, "Mom, don't be like this, I'm not tired at all." ”

Yu Yueyue raised her hand and was a burst of chestnuts, "Little bastard, I slapped my ass and slapped my waist?" They have all become black and thin loaches, and they still say that they are not tired, liar! ”

The professor touched Shu Tong's head lovingly and said, "I don't think I'm tired, although I'm thinner and darker, I'm stronger." ”

The fish was delivered to everyone's homes, and the parents couldn't sit still. Yu Xinmin asked Shu Tong: "I just finished the first section of the weir, right?" ”

Shu Tong said, "Yes, sir." It's easy to get it later, and most of the water is gone, and you can see the fish in the second section at noon tomorrow after the night today. ”

Qiaoyun's father, Yu Xinzhu, said, "Big brother, little brother, Master Chen, when it's time, I'll go to help them tonight, and you will go again tomorrow." ”

Yu Xinmin also said, "The second section can drain more than half of the water, and it can't be stopped, or the river will be full of water, and it will be in vain." Big brother, let's all go. ”

Yu Xinhe also wanted them to experience experience, and at this time the professor also said, "Boss Yu, the most difficult thing is to build a weir in front of you to intercept the water, and the children have done it." Now it doesn't take effort, or it will make the children waste a lot of effort. ”

Yu Xinhe then said, "Okay, professor, the four of us will go over now." ”

Yu Yueyue and Wang Feng were also going, Yu Xinhe said, "Don't go, Qiaoyun won't go tonight, and I'll go tomorrow." There are more than a dozen paragraphs in the back, come leisurely, you send food, and then be responsible for distributing and selling fish. ”

She Wenxiu asked, "Do you want to ask Matsujiu to go?" Yu Xinmin has three sons, the eldest Yu Songjiu has separated after getting married, and the second Yu Songming and Yu Xinhe's second son Yu Songlu are studying in high school in other places.

Yu Xinmin said, "I don't think there are so many people, don't call him first, wait until there are not enough people." ”

The four of them, together with Shutong, pushed the cart, took dinner, and rushed to reinforcements vigorously.