The family killed pigs, ground tofu, and steamed steamed buns. When cooking, it is much easier to cook than usual.

Tofu, pig's blood, and pickled vegetables are hot and stewed in a pot, and then a plate of pickled dried radish is fried, and a drawer of steamed buns is hot, and it is just right with corn porridge.

When the moisture in the kitchen just spread, the spring breeze Sanjin came back with Du Jie.

When Sanjin came out of his house again, he was covered with dark clouds and his face was gloomy.

"Father, mother, if Xiuxiu does not do well, even if you discipline it, you will have to mention it if you are separated!" Xiuxiu is the nickname of the Xie family's boudoir, and Sanjin said to Du Shicheng when he was eating.

Du Shicheng's heart moved, the two of them loved this little son when they were young, and it was not in vain that he could say such things today, and it was not in vain for him to read the sage books for so many years.

"It's a matter of time." Du Shicheng said lightly, but his tone was irrefutable.

"Daddy! If this family is divided, how can we still have the face to stay in the village! Don't be laughed to death yet! "When my parents are here, it's a big rebellion to break up.

The Dafang family still didn't come back from Sheshan Lake, and the Du Mei sisters only buried their heads in eating, and no one answered his words.

"Besides, the second brother has just gone, and the second sister-in-law has a group of female dolls and a baby, if this is separated, I'm afraid it will ......" After a pause, Sanjin continued. Before he finished speaking, he felt a pain in the instep of his foot, and Xie stomped on him and glared at him.

"Everything will wait until the New Year." Du Shicheng looked at Xie's eyes in his eyes, and he didn't want to say this in front of the juniors.

Du Mei heard the third uncle's sympathy for their mother and daughter, and it seemed that something was choked in her throat, and she couldn't even swallow the polenta.

"Pick up the fish." Outside the courtyard gate, there was the immature call of a group of children.

"Grandpa, Du Ying and I will also go to the lake to have a look." Du Mei listened to the sound outside, as if he had been pardoned, and ate the porridge in a few bites.

"Well, go ahead." Du Shicheng glanced at her.

"Eldest sister, I want to go too." Du Tao looked at her with blank eyes.

"Me too." Du Gui bit his chopsticks.

"You're too young to fall into the lake for a joke. Obediently at home, I washed the pots and dishes. Du Mei patted their heads and said.

The appearance of the third aunt falling into the soup chicken, the two little ones also saw it, and when they saw Du Mei say this, they were silent.

Xie Shi took a bite of the bun fiercely, although she knew that Du Mei didn't mean to insinuate her, but she trembled inexplicably when she heard the lake, river, and water in her heart, which left a psychological shadow.

While speaking, Du Ying had already eaten porridge, and she was still holding half a steamed bun in her hand, so she and Du Mei went out with a bucket.

"Sister, you say, will it really be separated?" Du Ying asked worriedly.

"Sakurako, are you afraid?" Du Mei did not answer the rhetorical question.

"As long as we are together as a family, I am not afraid of anything." Du Ying bit her lip.

"Don't worry, we'll get by." Du Mei can't say her plan yet, so she can only reassure her sister first.

"Hmm." The three small ones have always looked at Du Mei Ma, and Du Ying didn't ask deeply, but only happily agreed.

Sheshan Lake has arrived, and fishing is a major event in the whole village today, and every family can come.

Early in the morning, Du Huaibing handed over the couplet writing at home to his son, and personally went to the lake to direct on the spot.

Two wooden boats test the water, arrange the fishing nets, prepare fishing gear, and coordinate with each other, which is all time-consuming and brain-consuming.

Four men from each boat spread nets on both sides of the lake, and the men standing on both sides of the shore struck the surface of the water with pennies to startle the fish at the bottom and rush to the waters where the nets were spread.

For a while, the silver scales on the lake rolled, and from time to time big fish jumped out of the water, attracting the continuous cheers of the people on the shore.

Sheshan Lake is a wild lake, the fish in the lake also come with the upstream water, Dujiagou has an unwritten rule, usually do not fish in the lake, only catch on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month a year, enough for the whole village to divide it. If you catch the fry, you put it back and keep it back, so the fish in the lake grow big and abundant.

In about two quarters of an hour the two boats began to reel in their nets, and pulled them to the shore, and the more they reached the shallow water, the more laborious it became, and the water gradually decreased, and the nets were full of struggling fish, and four or five men in chest-length leather trousers came down from the shore to help drag them.

Someone specially put silver carp and herring in a large tank according to their size, and the remaining silver carp fry and herring fry of less than a pound will be thrown back into the lake. Crucian carp and all kinds of miscellaneous fish, regardless of their size, are knocked down on the shore with buckets, and then the nets are arranged and lowered, which is very time-consuming and physically demanding.

Today's main laborers participating in fishing are in charge of the meal by Du Huaibing at noon. Meals were made in the nearest home to the lake. A large pot of radish roast pork, fish caught in the head net, a pot of green vegetables and tofu, and glutinous rice are enough.

When Du Mei and Du Ying arrived, it was the second net, and Du Jiasuo was pouring crucian carp and miscellaneous fish to the shore. The sisters are quick to pick it up, and if they move slowly, they will be snatched away by the naughty boys.

The shore was crowded with people, shouting, laughing, and scolding. Everyone's shoes, bodies, and faces were covered in mud and water.

During the fishing break, the people who spent the morning on the shore also went back to eat one after another, and Du Dajin and Zhou also went home with their two sons with fish.

Du Zhong was the main laborer, Du Huaibing took pity on the fact that there was no one at home to cook, so he let Du Shu eat with them.

It is rare for a black girl to see so many people, and she is extremely excited, and she drills around in the crowd. When he saw Du Mei, he went crazy and pounced on her directly.

"Well, it won't be long before you can live with us." Du Mei touched the black girl's head. The black girl didn't understand her words, and only looked at her with black black eyes.

Du Shu had eaten, and when he saw their sisters coming, he happily stood with them and talked.

"Wang~Wang~" The black girl who was rolling in the grass suddenly screamed in panic.

"What's wrong?" Du Mei Du Ying and Du Shu were watching Du Zhong and they went down to the lake to set up nets, and when they heard the black girl screaming strangely, they all turned their heads to look.

I saw the black girl desperately fiddling with a black and cyan stone with her front paws, and even grinning her teeth and preparing to bite, but she couldn't bite it, and she was very anxious.

"Haha. Silly brunette, it's a turtle! Du Shu couldn't stop laughing.

Du Mei Du Ying also laughed, Du Mei hugged the black girl, smoothed its black and shiny hair, and soothed its emotions.

Du Ying picked up the turtle from the grass that had shrunk its head and limbs into its shell in fright, and it must have been caught with the fish. This thing is a hard shell, there is no meat, and the person who picks up the fish will not want it, it must be in the way and kicked it out.

"Sister, come and see, what is engraved on this turtle shell?" Du Ying said in surprise.

"Huh."

"yes."

"I don't know."

Du Mei and Du Shu came over to see, three little heads and a dog head, studied for a long time, and didn't know what it was. Du Mei decided to take this back to her mother, her mother can read, how can she not know this?

Another net of fresh fish came ashore, and with Du Shu to help pick it up, the buckets of the Du Mei sisters were almost full.

There are more than 100 households in Dujiagou, and the fish in Sheshan Lake have grown big this year, and it is almost enough to catch three nets. Seeing that it was getting dark, Du Huaibing announced the end of fishing and distributed the fish to each household by the lake.

Every family knows that they are going to divide the fish today, and they all come prepared. One silver carp per household, 30 nights Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, a must-have on the dinner table, a good prize for more than every year. Families with large populations also share an extra herring.

There are several people in each family, whether to marry a daughter or a daughter-in-law this year, and whether the old person still adds Ding, Du Huaibing has his own account in his heart. The people of the village were also convinced that he had a fair share, did not make noise or make a fuss, took the fish, and went home happily.

In addition to the above, the strong labor involved in the fishing will also divide the remaining fish into another point. This is also a kind of compensation for their extra work, and the people in the village have no opinion.

The second stunned man's legs were not yet neat, and he was limping when he walked, he said to Du Huaibing with a shy face: "Patriarch, look at my family, the old lady can't come, I'm like this again, you share me with a fish, it's not enough!" ”

Du Huaibing knew that his family was in difficulty, and if it weren't for the Spring Festival couplets written in the village, his family wouldn't even be able to afford red paper. There are some green vegetables and radishes in the field, and the New Year points to the fish as meaty. But according to custom, the ingotfish on the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner can only be seen but not eaten, and it can not be eaten until the fifteenth day of the first month. It's really hard to kill him.

But the poor man must have something to hate, and there are more than ten buckets of fish poured on this shore, and even if the movement is slow, it is not a problem to pick up four or five crucian carp to make a bowl of vegetables.

"Everyone was picking up fish just now, where have you been?" Du Huaibing asked with a calm face.

"My mother is sick, and I'm watching her at home." The two stunned eyes rolled and said.

"At this point, you are filial." Du Huaibing looked stunned and didn't wake up, so he knew that he must be lazy and sleeping at home.

"What am I talking about, let you come early, you want to stand up for the corpse, this time, even the scales are gone!" Far away, the stunned old lady Cao came in a hurry with a stick.

As soon as he saw that he was exposed, he was not too cold, he didn't do anything, he pulled the corner of Du Huaibing's clothes and said: "Patriarch, just pity me, otherwise I will be beaten to death by my mother!" ”

Although Du Huaibing hated the second stunned son in his heart for not learning well, he was the patriarch Lizheng, and it was not good to ignore him. And I'm afraid that this kid will really not be able to live his life, and if he learns badly, he will steal chickens and dogs in the township, which will be even more amazing.

At this time, Mrs. Cao had already arrived, and when she saw that the people by the lake had almost left, and the boat and fishing nets and fishing gear had been put away, she was so angry that she raised a stick and beat her. The second stunned man grabbed Du Huaibing's clothes and circled to avoid her mother.

"Alright. What a system! Du Huaibing was beaten a few times by Mrs. Cao, and he was annoyed.

"Patriarch, his father and his eldest brother died early, I don't care about teaching him, I'm sorry for the ancestors of the Du family." Mrs. Cao said with a crying voice, without a single tear in her eyes.

"Here's another herring for me, take it. Lengzi, in the future, we must learn to be motivated. Du Huaibing knew that Mrs. Cao was selling miserably again, so he didn't wait for her to cry and quickly sent them away.

Du Mei and Du Ying returned home with the fish, and Du Xuan divided two silver carp and one herring fish. In addition to the Dajin they picked up, there are also two baskets of fish.

Du Shicheng looked at the crucian carp and trash fish in the kitchen, and his heart was sour. Last year, it was a boat on Erjin and Dajin, and there was a big pot of big fish alone. I can't look down on these trash fish with less meat and more spines.

"Uncle, are you at home?" Du Zhong asked outside the courtyard gate.