Thinking about going to the mouth of the fish, Du Mei got up early and threw the bones and black sweet potato skins of the previous night into the stove. When she heated both pots, Wei, who was noisy at night, brought the rice for breakfast.

Du Mei brought food to her mother early, and skimmed more rice oil while people were not paying attention. Xu leaned on the head of the bed to feed juniper, and there was more milk ~ water today than last night. With motherly love on her face, she caressed Juniper's crumpled little hands.

Du Zhu suffered a lot yesterday, and he didn't dare to eat again, so he only walked around the yard with his stomach in his hand. Du Gui grimaced at him gloatingly, and he just rolled his eyes up.

During breakfast, Zhou took two sweet potatoes and wrapped them, saying that they were kept to eat when Du Zhu was hungry. Wei glanced at her and remained silent.

After breakfast, the Fang family next door led seven or eight big girls and little daughters-in-law in the village who had made friends with the Xu family, and poured into Du's house to see the little doll.

Xu's gentleness and humility, embroidery is particularly outstanding, her embroidery is slightly better than the best embroidery girl in the county Jinxiu Xuan.

Her patterns are graceful and elegant, beautiful and refined, even if it is the latest style, as long as you show her a glance, you can embroider your own charm. Therefore, Xu's embroidery products are particularly sought after, whether it is a fan silk handkerchief or a sachet purse are all sought-after goods.

But she is often sick and sick, her body is not well, and she has children to tie her up. Erjin felt sorry for her, and would rather work more by herself than let her burn her eyes and body, so she couldn't make any money in this year.

Xu's temperament is supple, but whenever the eldest girl and little daughter-in-law in the village ask her for embroidery, she does not hesitate to teach, and over time, her popularity in the village is very good.

The villagers are all simple and kind, and everyone is not empty-handed, some give a few eggs, and some give home-made cakes. Fang's is a close neighbor, and she is the best with Xu's, she sent a packet of brown sugar, which is a rare thing.

Some time ago, the Fang family embroidered a wedding dress for the daughter of a large family in the county, and got a lot of guidance from the Xu family. Yesterday's delivery, the owner was happy and rewarded more money. Fang's was worried about Xu's goodness, and she wanted to buy brown sugar to prepare, but she didn't expect that when she came home from the black, she heard that Xu's was born.

A room full of people laughing and laughing, Du Mei instructed her sisters to pour water for these sisters and aunts and talk with them. She carried the bamboo basket on her back and went to the mouth of the fish.

The mouth of the fish, in the shape of a trumpet, is the tail tip of Sheshan Lake, which is a wild lake under Shewu Mountain, mainly formed by the collection of some small tributaries and mountains and rivers. The lake meanders along the river to Sheshan River, and then passes through the county seat of Qinghe.

There is a large river beach above the mouth of the fish, about more than ten acres. In the summer, it is overgrown with reeds and cattails that are taller than a person, and there are even wild grasses that crawl everywhere.

The river beach is next to the Du family's paddy field, only two acres of these three acres of land were bought, and the remaining one acre was opened by Du Shicheng with his two sons and Du Zhong, so this field has the most weeds and is the most difficult to clean up.

There is a mountain forest to the north of these three acres of paddy fields, which is part of the Shewu Mountains, and the village is distributed to the Du family, which is full of loess, except for wild bamboo and unformed miscellaneous trees, nothing grows. Mr. Yin and Yang took a fancy to this place and chose Du Erjin's cemetery.

Du Mei rushed to the mouth of the fish, and Du Zhong and Du Shu had already cut down a large piece of reed grass.

After the New Year, there will be more rain in the spring, and the roof of the thatched hut where their father and son live still needs to be renovated and reinforced. Otherwise, it rains heavily outside, and it rains lightly at home, and there is not even a dry place to sleep.

"Whew." The black girl was the first to spot Du Mei, and rushed towards Du Mei like an arrow, and plunged into her arms, Du Mei was rushed back two steps by it.

The brunette stuck out her tongue and stared at her with big dark eyes. Du Mei smiled and touched its head, the hair on the black girl's body was shiny and shiny, like a fine brocade, smooth and warm to the touch.

"Meizi, you're here!" Du Shu, who heard the movement, straightened up and smiled kindly.

"Uncle Zhong, Brother Shu." Du Mei pulled her legs and walked towards them, and the black girl circled left and right around her legs.

"The water is over there, I saw it in the morning, and it seems that there are no fish." Du Shu touched the back of his head, and his face was full of chagrin.

"I'll see, maybe there's one now." Du Mei smiled.

When the water is large, there are fish swimming in, and when the water falls, the fish can't swim away, and they are trapped.

From the river beach to the lake, there is a large area of shallow water, large and small water holes are less than a dozen, Du Mei picked up a closer look, the lake water is very clear, almost at a glance, really as Du Shu said, did not find any fish.

Du Mei was a little disappointed, she looked up, and all she could hear was the wind blowing and the reed leaves rattling.

The tall reeds block the wind, and the roots can already be seen nesting under the reed leaves, clumps of delicate and turquoise shepherd's cabbage and marantous. Du Mei dug up, and the broken juice got into her hands, and there was a smell of fresh straw syrup.

Before you know it, Du Mei has already burrowed into the depths of the reeds. Suddenly, there was a colorful flash in front of me, and a frightened pheasant cooed and flew into the air, and it fell in the direction of the river beach.

Du Mei couldn't care about the wild vegetables, so he chased them out. If this is caught, her mother will have something to eat, and her brother's rations will also be settled.

It was Du Shu who reacted faster than her, he heard the cooing, and saw the dazzling flash, he ran over with his scythe.

However, there is something faster than Du Shu, that is, the black girl, I saw the black girl running all the way into the mountains and forests with the pheasant.

Du Mei and Du Shu looked at each other, standing still, they would definitely not be able to catch up.

Du Mei, who had an idea, turned around and went back to the place where the pheasant was found.

Since there are pheasants, there must be nests, will there be eggs in the nests?

She searched around excitedly, but found nothing. Could it be that this pheasant is here to hang out?

Du Mei lifted the basket and walked out of the reeds, and she went to look in the water again, and there was not even a finger-long fish.

"Your hands!" Du Shu's eyes were full of distress.

Du Mei felt the pain at this time, and when she looked down, her two hands were full of small cuts, blood stains were congealed, and the red road was quite scary.

It must have been chasing a pheasant in a hurry just now, and it was scratched by reed leaves. Dried reed leaves are like small blades with open blades, and if you are not careful, you will be cut. Du Zhong and Du Shu cut the reeds and wore gloves.

"It's okay, it's okay, I just didn't catch it, it's a pity." Du Mei hid his hand behind him.

Du Mei looked up at the sun, and estimated that it was time to go home and cook, the three little ones were at home, and it was no problem to cook on the fire, but the wild vegetables were still here, and there were no vegetables in the pot.

When Du Mei returned home, the smell of sorghum rice wafted over.

Surprisingly, no one came out to scold her for coming back late.