Chapter 69: Her Birth
Pei Ze's boat was tied to the pile of the dock, rippling back and forth with the ups and downs of the waves, Pei Ze jumped on the boat with a bamboo basket on his back, turned around and stretched out his hand to Hua Jiao, Hua Jiao hesitated, Pei Ze raised his eyebrows and said, "Are you sure you can come up?" ”
Okay, she really couldn't climb up, Hua Jiao had to hold his outstretched hand, she didn't have the idea of kissing men and women, she just didn't want to trouble Pei Ze.
Pei Ze dragged her up, let her sit in the cabin, put the bamboo basket into the cabin, jumped off the boat again, untied the reins and threw it on the boat, and then jumped up very easily, picked up the oars, rowed the boat in an orderly manner, crossed the turbulent waves on the shore, rowed into the sea, and sailed towards Tonghua Village unhurriedly.
The first time Sichuan pepper took the boat, both curious and nervous, with great interest lying on the bow of the boat to look at the blue and bottomless sea in front of him, occasionally there are seabirds passing by the bow of the boat, blinking and disappearing, the breath of the sea is so unscrupulous from the four whistling in, take a deep breath, the kind of fresh and salty breath unique to the seaside, into the heart and lungs, the whole person also suddenly became refreshed.
Pei Ze seemed to be used to these commonplace, just rowing silently.
After a cup of tea, the boat arrived at the seaside of Tonghua Village.
Different from the wharf on the Wutong side of the town, the sea on the side of Tonghua Village extends to the land in the shape of a gourd-shaped bay, forming two natural havens.
Dozens of fishing boats in Tonghua Village are moored in a slightly larger bay, taking advantage of the high tide, Pei Ze also rowed the boat in, jumped off the boat and found a boat pile to tie the reins, all the fishing boats parked here are Tonghua Village, the village is now busy farming, and has not gone to sea for the past two days.
Pei Ze took a fancy to this bay and planned to raise fish here.
Before Pei Ze could go over to help her, the pepper had already jumped down.
On the shore is a small windbreak, sparsely planted with dozens of pine trees, although she has been here for half a year, but she has not come here once, in fact, because of Pei Ze's disappearance, the Pei family rarely comes to the beach, let alone her.
"Let's go home!" Pei Ze picked up the bamboo basket, pointed to the path in front of him, and said, "This path leads directly to the back of our house, you shouldn't have walked it." ”
Hua Jiao came to his senses and said with a smile: "I really haven't been here, I saw it when I was on the mountain before." ”
As he walked, Hua Jiao turned his head, and saw a nest of duck eggs looming in the grass under the pine tree, and walked over happily, and said to Pei Ze: "Come and see, there is a nest of sea duck eggs here." ”
Pei Ze stepped forward to take a closer look, and coughed lightly: "Are you sure it's a sea duck egg?" ”
"Yes, definitely sea duck eggs." Hua Jiao picked up a light green duck egg, looked at it carefully in the sun, and said firmly, "Sea duck eggs produce two nests of eggs a year, respectively in March and May or October and November, and most of them appear in the grass in the woods by the sea. ”
"What if I say it's a nest of snake eggs?" Pei Ze said quietly.
"What? Snake eggs? Hua Jiao was so frightened that he hurriedly put down the egg in his hand, jumped to the road, and said with palpitations, "No, I don't think snake eggs look like this." ”
Oh my God, the snake she was most afraid of.
"Aren't you sure it's a sea duck egg?" Pei Ze couldn't cry or laugh, "Why do you believe it as soon as I say snake eggs?" ”
"Scared me to death, then you said it was a snake egg?" Hua Jiao stroked his chest and said angrily, "Why are you still lying!" ”
"Okay, this is indeed a sea duck egg, pick it up!" Pei Ze smiled, "Just take it home and stir-fry it." ”
"If you want to pick it up, I won't pick it up." Sichuan pepper is still a little afraid.
She remembered that when she went to the field for outward bound training, she accidentally found a nest of small snakes that had just come out of the shell, and the dense wriggling small snakes scared her into nightmares for several days, and now she knew that these eggs were not snake eggs, but she thought of this matter, so she didn't dare to touch it, what if she really mixed in with the snake eggs?
Pei Ze had to put down the bamboo basket and picked up the nest of sea duck eggs into the bamboo basket.
On the way, Huajiao was still uneasy, and asked: "You say, what if you really get into the snake eggs?" ”
"Then let's earn it, snake eggs are better than duck eggs." Pei Ze couldn't help but smile and said seriously, "When it's empty, let's go to the windbreak to find some eggs and come back and cook them." ”
"No, I'm afraid of encountering snakes." Sichuan pepper waved his hand again and again.
Pei Ze saw that she was really afraid of snakes, so he stopped teasing her.
Wang had been waiting at the entrance of the alley for a long time, and when he saw the two of them coming back, he complained vigorously: "Why did you come back?" Your uncle and the others have traveled the mountain road earlier than you have returned. ”
"Isn't this coming back?" Pei Ze untied the bamboo basket on his back and said to Wang, "Except for duck eggs, they are all ready-made, just take them out and cut them." ”
Mrs. Yang, the wife of Wang Qi, was also there, Mrs. Yuan and Pei Chunhua were talking with her on the kang, and when they saw the two coming back, Mrs. Yang smiled and said, "It's a good match, it's so good." ”
Except for Mrs. Yang, the others are all their own family members.
Mrs. Yang was responsible for combing the hair of the pepper, inserting the hairpin, and saying a few auspicious words.
The banquet was divided into two tables, men and women.
There are many women and children, in the main house.
Because Huajiao is fifteen years old, the woman on the kang is more talking about Huajiao and Pei Zeyuan.
Even the Liu family and the Yang family also teased the pepper openly and secretly, only if they have a round house, can they be regarded as the real daughter-in-law of the Pei family.
It made the peppercorns very depressed.
The men's table is set up in the courtyard.
Their topic was about the town's docks, as well as the new boat Pei Ze had just made.
"Third child, now that the boat is ready, how are you going to raise fish?" Guan Liujin snorted wine and asked, "As soon as this fish is put in the sea, won't it run away?" ”
"It's the third child, you have to listen to persuasion." Pei Man also felt that it was impossible, shook his head and said, "Don't say anything else, the high tide and low tide will bring the fish to the sea, it's really not good, anyway, it's not for nothing that you made a boat, you can follow the people in the village to go out to sea to fish, but you don't even think about raising fish." ”
Pei Run also nodded.
Guan Mao and Guan Sheng are stuffy and eat braised pork.
This braised pork is simply delicious!
"Don't worry, I've taken all of this into account." Pei Ze said calmly, "I set a cage in Tongcheng, and when the time comes, just throw the cage into the sea, not directly keep the fish in the sea, I am preparing for the bay in the past few days, and I will be able to get the cage off at the end of the month, and you will know when the time comes." ”
Cage?
The crowd was still confused.
Pei Ze didn't explain anymore, smiled and didn't answer.
After eating, firecrackers were set off.
The adults and children in the village have come to beg for candy to eat, Sichuan pepper stood at the door, one by one to the people to share the sugar, this kind of sugar is not the modern kind of sugar block, but similar to the kind of dim sum wrapped in powdered sugar snacks, is made by Wang himself, the taste is OK, there is a taste of sweet potato.
Mrs. Yang sat on the kang and chatted with Mrs. Yuan: "I'm not afraid of your jokes, Ah Rong is old, I don't even have a son, I can't sleep well, I persuaded Ah Rong to take a concubine a few years ago, but I didn't know that my daughter-in-law refused to live or die, and forced me to die, I became a sinner......"
Old Mrs. Yuan also sighed: "What can I do, if I want to take a concubine, I have to agree to my daughter-in-law." ”
Sichuan pepper listened outside the window.
Some were worried about Feng.
It turns out that Mrs. Yang has not given up the idea of letting Wang Rong take a concubine, how can this be good.