Chapter 57: Catching Fish
When I got closer, I saw that it was really a fish, and my heart was even more excited.
"Second brother, look, there's fish over there!" Chu Jiayin tugged at Chu Jingyan's sleeve, pointed to a certain piece of water and said, there is a grass carp parked next to the stone there, his cheeks are moving, and a pair of fish eyes are not at all energetic.
Dumbfounded, it's easy to catch at a glance!
Chu Jiayin touched the bank of the river, took off his shoes, and made a gesture to go into the water.
"Yinyin, be careful." Chu Jingyan didn't stop her, looking at her excited appearance, he stopped her, I'm afraid I'm going to turn around and bite someone.
"Huh?" Chu Jiayin glanced back at Chu Jingyan, this was the first time, without Chu Jiayin reminding, Chu Jingyan opened her mouth to call her name.
It seems that the second brother's acceptance of himself has deepened, and if he asks him for something in the future, he should be able to agree, right?
"Good!"
As soon as the words fell, Chu Jiayin put his foot into the water. At this time, the sun has just risen, and the water of the river connected to the clear spring of the water valley is deeply cool. Chu Jingyan's feet had just poked into the water less than an inch before they retracted.
Chu Jingyan looked at it from the side, "What's wrong?" ”
"This water is so cold." Chu Jiayin has the experience of touching cold water in the morning, this kind of "bitterness" stimulated by cold water in the early morning, she can't accept it for a while.
Chu Jingyan bent down and tested the temperature of the river with his hand.
"It's a bit cold. It's just spring, and I'm afraid it's even colder than other times. Chu Jiayin said.
Chu Jiayin had a bitter face: "Ah, it's unfortunate that we came here to catch up with the coldest time in the river?" ”
She still wants to go down to the river to catch fish!
"It's all right, if you don't want to touch the water, go pick bracken. That's it, there's a piece over there. Chu Jingyan took out a bracken from his back like a trick, a green grass-like plant, his head was bent into a ball, and there were hairs in the ball.
Chu Jiayin felt strange, took it over, looked at it carefully, and looked in the direction indicated by Chu Jingyan. Sure enough, the same plants grow there.
"Can you eat this?" Chu Jiayin asked, the old man also made wild vegetables yesterday, but it was not the kind she held in her hand.
The wild vegetables fried by the old man were large-leaved grasses with a patch of red in the middle and a circle of green around them.
Chu Jiayin sniffed the bracken in front of his nose, except for the smell of grass, there was nothing special.
"Hmm. I've seen it in books, and it's probably like this. If ......" Chu Jingyan suddenly laughed.
It was the first time Chu Jiayin had seen him smile like this, and he was surprised to death, so he pulled him and asked, "Second brother, what are you laughing at?" If it's above? ”
"If I'm mistaken, the grass is fine, but if it's poisonous, maybe we won't be able to make it back alive." Chu Jingyan said.
"Huh?" Chu Jiayin was so fooled that he almost threw the bracken in his hand, just now he thought it was a cute plant, but now that he looks at it, how can it seem to be a deadly poison?
Chu Jingyan laughed out loud and said, "Don't worry, I won't admit my mistake." Go pick it with peace of mind. ”
"Oh." Chu Jiayin had palpitations, but because he trusted Chu Jingyan enough, he ran to pick bracken as he said.
Chu Jingyan took off his shoes and socks, entered the water, and helped Chu Jiayin, a gluttonous cat, catch fish.
Where there is bracken, there is also a big stone, as soon as Chu Jiayin goes over and walks to the lush place, he can't see Chu Jingyan. She plucked the flowers, and pinched the bracken in her hand one by one, and when she couldn't hold it anymore, she put it in her elbow and held it, as if she had caught a handful of wild flowers.
"One, two, three...... Thirty-seven...... Five, sixty-six, one person should eat thirty-three should be enough, right? Chu Jiayin finished counting the bracken "bouquet" he was holding in his arms, turned around and walked towards the other side of the stone, and ran towards Chu Jingyan.
Only then did she find out that Chu Jingyan had entered the water.
"Huh? Second brother, why did you get into the water? Chu Jiayin was curious, thinking that the water was not cold, and when he tried it, he shivered and retracted his paws.
She just took off her shoes and socks and didn't wear them anymore, and now she is barefoot, and her bare feet went into the water to probe, and she grinned back: "Second brother, this water is still so cold." ”
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of the cold." Chu Jingyan said that when he used to be in Qingzhuju, he often washed his face and bathed with cold water, and he had long been used to this temperature.
Although the water in this river is colder than the cold water in Qingzhu Curie, now that the sun is shining, I don't feel that cold.
Chu Jiayin showed the handful of bracken in his hand to Chu Jingyan, "Second brother, do you see that these are enough to eat?" ”
Hearing this, Chu Jingyan glanced back and nodded: "Well, that's enough." ”
Chu Jiayin put the bracken on the ground, tied the skirt to her waist, and "poofed" into the water. It's still cold, but after being cold for a while, it's getting used to it.
She stood in a sunny place, and when her body was finally no longer afraid of the temperature of the cold water, she strode towards Chu Jingyan. The water did not reach Chu Jiayin's waist, and it seemed to be different from the depth seen when he was on the shore.
At this time, Chu Jiayin tied the skirt around her waist, which seemed to be boring. Chu Jiayin simply put her skirt down, and any of them danced in the water.
Chu Jingyan focused on catching the fish, but didn't find that Chu Jiayin went into the water, and waited until the fish at hand was scared away, and only then did he collide with Chu Jiayin when he turned around.
Chu Jiayin slammed backwards, sat down in the water, and kept pouring water into her mouth without the water above her head. She was in the water, like a fish, gurgling and sucking up water and blistering.
He was startled, hurriedly lifted the person out of the water, and asked, "Are you okay?" ”
"It's fine." Chu Jiayin spit out a mouthful of water, but didn't feel anything uncomfortable, but his blood was boiling, "Hahaha, second brother, I'll help you catch fish." ”
Chu Jiayin found that Chu Jingyan had already caught two of them, and put them on the big stone stationed in the middle of the water. The fish had no water, so they could only flutter blindly, and after a while they were bored, and lay on the stones as dead fish.
This fish is not the same as the one fried by the old man last night, it is not as big as Chu Jiayin's palm, how big can Chu Jiayin's palm be? One is not enough, Chu Jiayin whined.
"I see there's one over there!" Chu Jingyan's eyes were sharp, and he found a fish under the crack of another stone.
As soon as she took two steps, she was pulled back by Chu Jingyan.
"The current over there is stronger than here, and it is deeper than here, and you will pass it, and you will be washed away in a moment. Stay here and don't move! Chu Jingyan commanded.
"Okay." Chu Jiayin nodded.
She had just tasted the fruit once, and she didn't want to taste it a second time.
Chu Jiayin squatted in the shallow water and was bored, so he turned over the stones. Under the rocks, there are small crabs hidden?
"Second brother, there are crabs here!" Chu Jiayin didn't mention how excited he was, this kind of small crab was so big on the table, it should be able to eat.
"Wait a minute." Chu Jingyan was still blocking the fish over there.
Chu Jiayin saw that the crab was about to run, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, he reached out and grabbed it, but he pinched his fingers.
"Ouch!"
"Don't scratch around, if you accidentally break your fingers, you won't have time to cry." When Chu Jingyan heard her gasp, he knew that she must have touched the crab.
Chu Jiayin was startled and stayed away from the crab. After a while, he was unwilling, picked up two branches as chopsticks, clamped the crab, and pulled the wrist rope on his sleeve to tie the crab up.
"Hey, I've got it!" Chu Jiayin proudly carried the wrist rope, and Xiang Chu Jingyan showed the unlucky crab.
Chu Jingyan lowered his head and caught two more fish, and went ashore.
Chu Jiayin's eyes were attracted by the two little crabs in his hand along the way, and he specifically mentioned the two of them, and the bracken he had worked so hard to pick was rested on the ground, forgetting to clean it, and he planned to leave empty-handed when he went ashore.
Chu Jingyan reluctantly brought everything with him.
When they returned, the two of them were not the same way they came, but the other road was overgrown with cauliflowers. The cauliflower is covered with small green fruits, and several of them have black ripe fruits.
"Wow, this fruit is small, it's so beautiful." Chu Jiayin squatted in front of the cauliflower, and touched the fruit that was not as big as a fingernail, which was rare and tight.
"This should be nightshade." The leaves can also be eaten, and the fruits can be eaten raw like other fruits. ”
When Chu Jiayin heard the word "eat raw", he hurriedly picked a small one and put it in his mouth. It doesn't taste good, it's weird.
"It's not tasty. Are the leaves delicious? ”
"The book says that the leaves are bitter."
"Then I don't want to eat it." Chu Jiayin has tasted bitter vegetables in her life, only bitter gourd is one, but whenever someone mentions anything bitter to eat, she will always think of the taste of bitter gourd.
The bitter taste of bitter gourd, she was fortunate to taste it once when she was five or six years old, and she will never forget it for the rest of her life, and she dare not put it in her mouth again. The bitter taste is as good as the decoction that is boiled to cure diseases.
"Well, let's go back first."
"I'm going to eat up everything I got today."
Chu Jiayin walked forward happily, and when he walked in front of the hut, he couldn't help but think of a sentence in the poem.
Then he coughed dryly, pretending to be a great literati, and in a dumb old gentleman's tone, he pointed to the hut and read: "The thatched eaves are low. Then he pointed to the river in the distance, "The grass on the brook ...... green."
And then, she forgot.
That's it.
Chu Jingyan laughed at her and asked, "What about below?" ”
"The following is not important." Important, Chu Jiayin can't think of it, the words in the back must be more complicated than low and green grass. Complex things, she still has to take her time to understand.
Chu Jiayin comforted herself.
It is the Song Dynasty lyricist Xin Qiji's "Qingping Le Village Residence". It can be regarded as a seclusion in the mountains and forests, not to fight against the outside world, and to live and work in peace and contentment. The old couple in the words lived an ordinary life, but they were so ordinary that they were enviable and carefree. ”
Chu Jingyan also envied, if he was just an ordinary people's family, just like the couple in this word, maybe in the fifteen years that became a thing of the past, he wouldn't have been so tormented, right?
Maybe it's just a foolish person who can't read big words, and when he is old, his family will say goodbye, and when he marries his wife, he will rest at sunrise and sunset every day. In this way, I will live my life in peace.