The cold river water made Chen Ping shiver and shiver. However, Chen Ping did not panic, but took off his clothes leisurely in the river, rubbed and washed them, and threw them on the shore.

"Take care of it for me." The river was not deep, and as soon as it reached Chen Ping's neck, Chen Ping greeted his head hiding behind the willow tree on the bank.

The girl is not very old, at the age of seven or eight, wearing a green skirt, her body shrunk behind the willow tree, only one head was exposed, and when she heard the words, she immediately retracted her head with the horns.

After a while, seeing the people in the water swimming into the reeds, the little girl cowered and approached the river, looked at the clothes on the dry grass, and looked at the reeds.

Chen Pingshui is very good, the home of the later generations is by the lake, every summer vacation, the fun of the day is to soak in the lake, and the whole day is not boring.

This body is obviously no stranger to water, but its physical condition is a little worse, and after swimming more than ten meters, Chen Ping feels tired of his hands and feet.

"It seems that I have to make a workout plan, and this body is a little weaker." Grabbing the reed pole, Chen Ping scrubbed his body, rested, and lowered his voice.

The river water was very clear, Chen Ping submerged his whole head in the river water, washed the dirt on his body, and could see a circle of stains scattered along Chen Ping's body.

It is said that the ancients loved cleanliness, but why is their body so sloppy?

If you think about it carefully, you may understand that in this era, first of all, not to talk about the hygiene awareness of the world, just in terms of bathing conditions, it is also very cumbersome and complicated, and it is not worth bathing every day.

Chen Ping pulled some reed wadding, used it as a bath towel and shower gel, and deducted a handful of sludge from the bottom of the river and stirred it in his hair.

Half an hour later, Chen Ping had already changed four or five places, and the people had also arrived in the river, and the reeds were even more luxuriant.

A few ducks chirped from the reeds, and a wild duck flapped its wings and flew out of the reeds in front of Chen Ping, and then landed on the open river in the distance.

Chen Ping was overjoyed, followed the direction of the reeds, floated through the water, swam three or four meters, and found a nest of water weeds in a reed.

There was a pile of white wild duck eggs in the nest, which caused a stirring in Chen Ping's stomach.

"Nine." There are no things to contain, Chen Ping directly took the nest with the eggs, "There should be more." ”

Chen Ping found that there were wild ducks a few days ago, thinking that this season was the time when the wild ducks lay eggs, so he waited for the cold to heal and went into the water to get some food.

After swimming in the reeds for nearly half an hour, when he came out again, Chen Ping was already more than 100 meters away from the old willow tree, holding two wild duck nests in his arms, on which nearly 100 wild duck eggs were densely stacked. In Chen Ping's hands, he was also carrying two wild ducks.

God knows what happened to this male and female, Chen Ping was still squatting in the nest and refused to move when he approached, and was caught by him.

It's only been half an hour, and in an hour, the sun above my head is hanging obliquely in the eastern sky, and there is such a harvest, a great harvest.

Tiptoeing to the willow tree, Chen Ping found that his clothes were hanging on the willow branches, and the little girl was gone.

It's just right to be gone, otherwise wouldn't it be more embarrassing to see yourself like this?

"Gotta get some panties." Tearing off the aquatic plants and reeds that covered the shame between the straddles, Chen Ping put on the clothes that had not yet dried, carried the wild duck and held the eggs, and walked home, occasionally humming two songs.

Shuffled tight.

Closer to home, I heard Chen Zhen's cry in the yard from a distance.

"Zhen'er, what do you see the eldest brother brought back to you?" Chen Ping entered the courtyard, and his sister Chen Zhen sat on the ground in front of the hall, biting half an egg in her mouth, and half of it fell into the mud.

Seeing the wild duck in Chen Ping's hand, Liu put down the wooden spoon in his hand, walked quickly to Chen Ping's side, and saw that Chen Ping's hair was really soaked, and his clothes were not dry, so he immediately panicked: "You are not well from the cold, why do you go to play in the water again?" ”

"I accidentally fell." Chen Pingdao, who had already thought of his rhetoric, said, "I saw wild ducks in the reeds, so I followed, and the harvest was good, mother, you see that there are hundreds of duck eggs." ”

Chen Ping's remarks did not reassure Liu, he was so anxious that he almost cried, and his eyes were red: "You child, you can tell your mother if you are greedy, there are still four or five eggs at home." If you get sick with the cold again, what will you do? ”

Saying that, Liu really cried.

Seeing Liu's tears, Chen Ping knew that he wanted to be simple, in this era, medical care is backward, a simple cold and flu is likely to kill people, the river water in autumn is already cold, and Liu usually warned not to play in the water.

Chen Ping went out without telling Liu, thinking that if his parents asked, he would say that he had lost his footing and fell into the water, but he didn't want to come back, and Liu didn't hear about it at all, but just cried sadly there.

"Mother, I'm really cured of my cold." The strong sense of care made Chen Ping very sorry.

"It's my mother's fault, those meals don't suit your appetite, my mother knows. But the conditions at home are like this, and I made you suffer. Chen Ping's change is naturally in Liu's eyes, there were great changes before the same illness, but Liu didn't think much about it, but just thought that the cold disease had changed the child's personality, "But you shouldn't take the illness to play in the water, do you know how many children died in that river?" ”

"I know, but I know water."

"Those who drown know water." How familiar does this sentence sound?

"Next time I won't go." Chen Ping's assurances were sonorous and powerful.

"Really?" Liu was skeptical.

"Really." A scorching smell came from the bed in the hall, and Chen Ping was still thinking about how to make Liu believe in himself more, when he saw Liu turn around and run towards the hall.

Well, that's changing too fast, isn't it? I was still training people just now, and the next moment I turned around and left, still with tears.

"This ......" The wild duck in his hand quacked loudly, Chen Ping looked down, Chen Zhen was holding two duck feathers in his hand, and he was smiling on his little face.

"Don't be stunned, put the duck in the chicken coop and go change your clothes." Liu came out of the hall and took the duck eggs from Chen Ping's hand, "Take care of Xiaoniang, and wait for me to go to the field to deliver porridge." ”

"Birds, I want birds." Chen Zhen hugged Chen Ping's legs, climbed up along the way, and pulled the wild duck, "Give it to me." ”

"This one is useful, and you can't play to death." Chen Ping took Chen Zhen by the hand and put the two wild ducks in the chicken coop, causing another pair of male and female in the courtyard to flutter their wings and swoop in, venting their dissatisfaction.

Cluck...... Rattle......

The courtyard suddenly became lively.

Chen Ping took two sets of clothes, put on another clean one, dried it on the hemp rope in the courtyard and took it off, and carried Chen Zhen into the hall.

"Mother, is there anything I can help with?" Chen Pingdao.

"No, you can hold Chen Zhen in the yard and play, I'll cook a few duck eggs, and you can eat them right away." Liu put the washed duck eggs into the porridge, stirred it lightly a few times, and covered the wooden pot with a lid.

Chen Ping stood at the entrance of the hall with Chen Zhen in his arms, looking at Liu who was busy preparing food jars, bowls, chopsticks and bamboo baskets, and a sense of fulfillment welled up in his heart.

"Ah...... Cut"

"Hee-hee."

"Is it a cold illness again?" Liu in the hall paused, turned his head with a solemn expression, and saw Chen Zhen holding a duck feather under Chen Ping's nose, so he breathed a sigh of relief, "If you are tired, let go of Xiaoniang, a two-year-old child, why is it so heavy." ”

"It's okay, I can do it." Chen Ping responded with a smile, looked at the gap, and kissed Chen Zhen, "Haha." ”

Chen Zhen didn't follow, she seemed to dislike Chen Ping, she pouted with her small mouth, and she didn't know what she was muttering, which was very cute.

The sun was in the middle, Liu served porridge, carried a bamboo basket, Chen Ping hugged the little lady Chen Zhen, and went out of the hospital.

"Wait." Just a few steps away, Liu put the bamboo basket at Chen Ping's feet, turned back to the yard, and came out with a pottery bowl after a while, there was a small half bowl of soybean paste in the pottery bowl, "This is the soybean paste made by my mother herself, and I will eat it with porridge later." ”

The mother and son walked along the village road to the north, and the more than ten acres of land of Chen Ping's family were very scattered, with several acres in the north of the village, and the rest were in the east of the village.

From time to time on the road, I could meet a few villagers, either just returning from the field, or women who went to the field to deliver food together, Liu greeted them one by one, and Chen Ping also called aunt and uncle with the memory in his mind.

Even Chen Zhen in Chen Ping's arms shouted in a changing tone, which attracted the praise of the villagers, saying that the Liu family is blessed, the children are complete and filial, and the life will definitely get better and better.

When you leave the village, you can see the fields on the hills to the north, most of the rice has been harvested, and it is stacked on the ridges, and the owner of the field is picking it back.

The rice is raining, and the sun is not bad today, so we have to take advantage of the good weather to dry the rice, and then the rice comes out.

"It seems that it was because of my illness that I delayed the rice harvest." At a glance, Chen Ping saw Chen An twisting his waist on the hills more than 100 meters away, and the rice in Chen Ping's house had just begun to be harvested in this place.

Crossing a small ditch, Chen Ping noticed that the aqueduct between the fields was quite complete, a large canal brought water from the south, and then divided into small ditches in front of the fields, which were divided into various fields.

There is no shortage of water in the south of the Yangtze River, but because the acres of land in the north of Chen Ping's own village are the highest in this area, it seems that it is not so easy to divert water, Chen Ping did not find the diversion ditch, but found a small pool in the low-lying place at the foot of the field.

I think that the usual watering in the field is to first divert the water from the ditch to this pool, and then rely on manpower to carry the water for irrigation.

"Grandpa, my mother and brother are here to send food." Chen An twisted his hips, dropped the sickle, and ran up the ridge, "Eat." ”

Chen's father retracted the rice stalk with his left hand, waved the sickle with his right hand, and only saw the rice stubble falling, a few strokes of effort, and a few more handfuls of rice stalks behind him, and the golden ears of rice made people feel full and reassured.

"Wow, there's eggs, that's great." Liu was picking out the duck eggs in the porridge and putting them in the bamboo basket, there were as many as eight, and Chen An reached out to get them.

"Go wash your hands, mud in one hand, I don't know if you're cutting rice or playing with mud." Chen Ping slapped Chen An's hand.

"Hmph, you didn't even go down to the ground, and you still talked about me." Chen An muttered and went to the pool to wash his hands, rubbed the mud a little and immediately ran back, "Are you trying to steal my eggs?" ”

Liu served the porridge, and after another half a moment, Chen's father returned to the shore and picked up the sickle thrown by Chen An on the way.

"Why is it so wasteful?" Seeing the duck eggs in the bamboo basket, Father Chen's brows furrowed, "En? This is a duck egg, where did it come from? ”

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