The next day, after breakfast early, Wei carried a basket of eggs and took his two daughters-in-law to go out in an ox cart driven by Dajin.

Zhou was worried about his three sons, but he remembered the jazz, and finally he was ruthless and left in the car.

As soon as they went out, Du Mei handed over the kitchen to Du Ying, and she carried a bamboo basket on her back and a small bucket to the river beach, where it rained last night and might be able to catch fish.

The river beach was a mess, and the black ash of the reeds and cattails burned was turned black by the rain, and it flowed everywhere. There were still some that were not burned through, and they stood with their limbs and arms broken, and they were blown by the wind, as if they were screaming.

Du Mei pulled two handfuls of dead grass from the side of the road and tied them to the soles of his shoes, picking up dry ground and walking.

The water on the shallows rose, and a few water holes were bubbling, and Du Mei's heart was happy and excited. She quickly rolled up one sleeve and reached out to the water, and the water spilled into her big arm, but she couldn't reach the end.

The water was cold and bitter, and Du Mei had nothing else to do, and if he wanted to catch fish, he had to go down to the water. Du Mei shook his teeth, bent down and pulled up his trousers to take off his shoes.

"Click, click." The sound of rushing through the water, the black girl was so excited that she almost flew on all fours.

Then came Du Shu's voice: "Plum ......"

Du Mei straightened up and watched a man and a dog running towards her. The brunette jumped around her, but didn't stand up and put it on top of her like she used to.

"How cold is this water, don't freeze you. Look at me! Du Shu waved the shovel in his hand.

Du Shu skillfully dug up clods of earth and threw them into the narrow river, and in a short time a small dam was built. He picked up the bucket that Du Mei had brought and kept scooping it out, and Du Mei followed to help.

After about half an hour, the water in the small dam bottomed out. The fish in the water cave have begun to flutter, and most of them are crucian carp that are long in a bundle.

Du Shu didn't let Du Mei go into the water, he took off his shoes, rolled up his trousers, stepped into the mud, and picked up the jumping fish one by one into the bucket, about a dozen or so.

The black girl stood on the opposite ridge and screamed, her two front paws jumping up and down, as if ready to pounce on the battle at any moment.

Du Shu stepped on the thin mud and walked over, but there was not even a blister in the water hole. He frowned, hesitantly reaching out to touch the water.

"Oops." Du Shu's tentacles are slippery. The fish lurking at the bottom of the water suddenly became strong, and Du Shu didn't catch it at once.

Du Shu rolled up his two sleeves, grabbed and lifted them again and again under the water. "Wow" Du Shu saw clearly that there was actually a one-foot-long big mullet in his hand, which was two or three catties!

The mullet was so strong that it struggled and writhed in Du Shu's hand, and Du Mei hurriedly handed the bucket over.

The mullet splashed a lot in the bucket, and the droplets flew all over the black girl's face, and the black girl shook her head like a rattle. Du Shu and Du Mei looked at it and laughed.

Du Shu touched every water hole, except for some loaches, and a half-sized carp.

Du Shu bulldozed the dam, and the water poured in at once, flooding the water again.

Du Mei gave Du Shu both loaches and carp, and she only needed crucian carp and mullet, both of which could be used to make soup, and mullet was also very nourishing.

Du Shu didn't want it, but he couldn't stand Du Mei's repeated pushing, so he had to string it with wicker. When the black girl saw Du Mei, she didn't leave an inch, and even Du Shu couldn't call it away.

"Tomorrow is my father's seventh, I have to dig some wild vegetables and let it accompany me." Du Mei touched the black girl's head.

"Okay, I'll go back first, my dad is still waiting for me to make a reed mat." Du Shu picked up the shovel and carried the fish away.

The reeds were burned in a mess, and the wild vegetables naturally couldn't be dug up. Du Mei thought of the place where the hot springs were found in the mountains, where the temperature was high and the wild plants grew tender and large.

Dumay hid the bucket in the depths of the scorched reeds and covered it with withered grass. When the black girl saw her going to the mountain, she ran excitedly in front.

It rained last night, and the leaves and weeds were covered with water droplets, which soaked the corners of Du Mei's sleeves and skirts. She didn't care about these things, and when she saw wild vegetables, she dug them.

There are many varieties of wild vegetables in the mountains, such as shepherd's cabbage, marantou, gray cabbage, purslane, and wild vegetables in the mountains, which grow fat and tender, and Du Mei quickly dug up most of the bamboo baskets.

When she looked up, she saw a nest of white thunder mushrooms under a chestnut tree. She was overjoyed and rushed over, the thunder mushrooms always grew in clusters, and she couldn't fit the bamboo basket when she picked it up. She finally dug up a handful of wild vegetables and covered them with thunder mushrooms.

Du Mei had a lot of harvest today, and she was happy in her heart, and she didn't feel sweaty on her body, and her hair was wet with sweat. Seeing that the sun was still early, and there were few people eating at home at noon, she wanted to go to the hot spring to take a bath.

The hot spring pool was still exactly the same as the last time she came, white mist. As soon as the black girl entered this place, she sniffed east and west, and roared lowly, and she didn't know where to upset her.

Du Mei untied his hair and washed it in the water, and his black hair floated on the water like a fine black satin. She didn't soak as long as she had last time, but after a while she put on her clothes, wrung out her hair, and let the wind dry, just paddling her two little white feet in the hot spring water, thinking about her thoughts.

Early in the morning, Chu Lin's heart was furious, as if a small hand was pulling his heart and liver. After dealing with official business, he carried light work, a few ups and downs, and stood lightly on the hidden high branch of the day before yesterday, and the hot spring pool in the col was in front of him.

Chu Lin saw the black-haired girl in the shawl, playing barefoot in the water, like a mountain elf who does not eat fireworks in the world, and the corners of his mouth curled into a smile.

looked closely, but saw her frowning slightly, as if she had endless troubles. His heart was inexplicably suffocated, and his smile disappeared.

Du Mei unconsciously paddled in the water, her heart was full of sorrow, her grandmother didn't want to see their mothers, and now that his father was gone, Dafang seized the opportunity to torture them. She can't always rely on digging wild vegetables, catching fish and catching pheasants, this kind of luck to maintain the life of the second room.

Since the day her father left, she had been having the same dream, in the house as bright as day, the low female voice kept saying, "Duck and duck." Is this her father giving her a dream and asking her to raise ducks?

Du Mei pondered for too long, until the black girl's dissatisfied humming grew louder and louder. She turned and stroked its head soothingly, pulled up her hair in a bun, wiped her feet, put on the back of her shoes and walked away.

Chu Lin on the high branch watched with a reluctant expression as the girl and the black tiger gradually disappeared from his field of vision.

When we arrived at the river beach, the bucket was still well hidden in the reeds, and Du Mei picked up the bucket and carried the bamboo basket home, and it was almost time to make lunch.

"Oh, Meizi, where did you dig up the wild vegetables?" An aunt who went to the river to wash vegetables and wash rice looked at the fresh wild vegetables in the bamboo basket and asked enviously.

"On the river beach." Du Mei did not want to say that it was dug in the mountains, and if it was not burned by fire, the river beach could be dug up as well.

"You have fish caught in this bucket on the river beach?" Although the bucket was covered with dead grass, you could still hear the sound of fish fluttering. Another grandmother asked in surprise.

"Well, my mother is in confinement." Du Mei smiled, didn't say anything, turned around and hurried away.

Several aunts and grandmothers behind him exchanged terrifying looks.

Early in the morning, the news that the second stunned man met Du Erjin's ghost on the river beach last night spread all over Dujiagou.

Now is the time of winter leisure, what happened in the east of the village, not a bowl of rice, the west of the village will know, and various versions can be transmitted.

"You know, I met a ghost on the river beach last night!"

"Not only did I meet a ghost, but I was kicked by a ghost, and I had a big purple piece on my waist, I'm afraid I won't be able to live! His mother is calling the soul at the door of her house. ”

"To say, our Dujiagou has always been quite peaceful, how can there be any ghosts and monsters?"

"You are confused! Du Erjin died suddenly, how willing he was to die easily? Don't ...... yet"

"But no, Erjin is reluctant to let his daughter-in-law and children go, and his soul is not left on the river beach. The second stunned man was unlucky, and dared to find Du Mei unlucky. The Present World! It was cleaned up by her father. I don't know if I can live or not, anyway, my leg broke my tendons and I can't get out of bed! ”

"You're not right, Erjin has ascended to immortality, leading the Lei Gong and the Electric Mother, as well as the Dragon King. Otherwise, in this cold winter, how could the river beach burn and thunder and lightning rain? ”

"Yes, yes, yes, it's evil, I've never seen thunder and lightning in this season in my life!"

"Now, I don't dare to go to the river beach, how mad. Erjin's grave is there, and I don't think there is anything like this. Now it's a spade that can dig up a golden doll, and I won't go. ”

"That's not it, I'm going to tell the girl at home not to go to the beach."

"It's quite evil, a few years ago, the big girl who locked the house drowned there. That is, Du Mei is bold, digging wild vegetables and catching fish. ”

"People have a dad to protect them, and if the flame of others is low, don't look for bad luck."

"yes, yes."

Three women in one play, these seven or eight mothers-in-law got together in one place, chattering, writing and acting by themselves, and came to a conclusion. This conclusion is false, and it is infinitely exaggerated, and after lunch, it will spread all over the corners of Dujiagou.

The river beach has completely become a nightmare and forbidden place for the people of Dujiagou.

Du Mei couldn't care about the miraculous stories told by these aunts and grandmothers, so she went straight home. Du Zhu and Du Zhu were leaning against the wall to bask in the sun, and it was rare to not see Du Zhu, the second eldest of the trio. When they saw her return with a full load, their faces were full of horror and envy.

The three younger sisters happily greeted them, and they couldn't help but be happy when they saw Du Mei's harvest in the morning.

The joy of this head is not expressed for the time being, and it is said that Wei's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been bumpy for more than an hour, and it is three o'clock in the first month of the first month when they enter the county seat.

Wei carried the basket and walked to the side door of a large mansion, which was a place for buying vegetables in and out of the kitchen.

"Is Sister Yang here?" Wei didn't dare to rush in, so he only hesitated by the door and asked. Zhou and Xie followed behind her.

"Who?" A lady in her forties came out of a door.

"It's me, Mrs. Wei from Dujiagou." Wei's flattering smile piled up on his face.

"Eggs again?" Steward Yang lifted the cloth from the basket and looked at the eggs critically.

"My eggs are guaranteed to be fresh, a total of 56, 6 of which are honorable to you." Wei couldn't wait to smile his face into a big chrysanthemum.

"Hmm. Xiao Xiang'er takes the eggs in! Steward Yang shouted into the room. A girl of thirteen or fourteen ran out of the house in agreement, and ran back with her eggs.

"Slow down, hairy, you don't care if you fall to death, drop the egg, what will the master eat!" Steward Yang scolded.

Steward Yang took 56 coins from his purse and handed it to Wei: "Thank you for your kindness, how can I ask for your filial piety plainly, as long as the things are good and the master is happy, are you still afraid that there will be no money to make?" ”

Steward Yang was in charge of more than a dozen servants and little girls in the kitchen, how could he see Wei's 6 eggs in his eyes? Don't talk about eggs, it's just a whole chicken, as long as she wants to, there is always a way to get it to eat. If you are greedy for small profits and accept this, firstly, you owe Wei's favor, and secondly, you will be chewed by someone with a heart in front of the master.

"What's so embarrassing about that?" Wei had the intention to stuff 6 yuan to Steward Yang, but she tried her best to refuse, so she had to give up.

"Do you have duck eggs at home? The weather has been dry these days, and the old lady wants to eat some duck eggs and lose the fire, I think that your things in the countryside are fresh, and it is not appropriate to spend more money. Steward Yang was afraid that the people in the kitchen who were not on good terms with him would see them pulling and pulling, so he stood up and spoke.

"Oh, the duck at home is old, and it won't lay an egg for ten days and half a month. Catch up with the new duck to lay eggs, I must keep the filial piety to the ancestors. "The cat scratch in Wei's heart, duck eggs are more expensive than eggs.

Far water can't quench the thirst of the near, since there are no eggs, Steward Yang doesn't want to waste his tongue anymore: "That's okay, you listen to the letter." ”

Wei couldn't hear it, this was the eviction order issued by Steward Yang. She thanked her repeatedly, took the bamboo basket that Xiao Xiang'er had returned, and withdrew with her two daughters-in-law.