Qiu Xiaobao suddenly cried "wow", Qiu Doudou grabbed Qiu Ling's hand tightly, crying and mourning.

The autumn night is already cold, and the light raindrops are swaying with the strong wind.

Qiu Xiaobao was tired of crying and soon fell asleep, and Qiu Doudou couldn't resist the strong drowsiness.

Qiubai lay on the bed but did not feel sleepy, her heart was mixed, there were sighs, pity, and responsibility.

"Big sister." Qiu Ling's low shout came from the side.

"Huh?"

"I want to sleep with you." Qiu Ling's voice was full of helplessness.

"Okay." Qiubai replied with a smile.

After a "rustling" sound, Qiubai's quilt was lifted into a corner, and she hurriedly moved it in.

Qiu Ling slowly walked down beside her and hugged Qiu Bai's arm tightly.

Qiu Bai patted Qiu Ling's back soothingly, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, there is me!"

"Hmm."

Wang Xuetian entered the barracks with Qiu's father, and the two were friends before, Wang Xuetian has two sons and a daughter under his knees, the eldest son is one year older than Qiubai and named Wang Liang, the second son is named Wang Xiao at the same age as Qiuling, and the youngest daughter is one year older than Qiudoudou, named Wang Xiaoxiao.

Since that day, Wang Liang will come to Qiubai whenever he goes out to find food, and also taught her how to make a water cage to catch fish, and also taught her to dig traps in the mountains to catch some game, for which Qiubai is very grateful.

The weather is getting cooler, and the thin shirt on my body can no longer be worn.

Qiubai opened the cabinet and rummaged for a while, and found some thick clothes to come out, the clothes had patches on them, but the sewing technique was very good, and the patches were very beautiful.

"Wang Liang." As soon as Qiu Bai came out of the room, he saw Wang Da walking in from outside the courtyard.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the cage." Wang Liang shouted in a loud voice.

Qiubai nodded, "Okay." With the basket on his back, he followed Wang Liang out of the door.

Qiubai followed Wang Liang to learn the method of weaving the water cage and the water cage, these days the water cage can receive fish every day, much more than fishing, and it is easy, sometimes you can catch a few eels, but Qiubai is very happy.

The water in the place where Wang Liang went to the water cage is relatively muddy, and there are many aquatic plants in it.

Qiu Bai pulled up her trouser leg and groped her way into the water, Wang Liang grabbed her, "I'll come." With that, he prepared to enter the water.

Qiu Bai waved his hand again and again, and said with a smile: "No need, you have helped me enough, I can't count on you in the future, I'll get it myself a few more times."

Wang Liang also felt that it made sense when he heard Qiubai say this, so he didn't say anything more.

The water was no more than knee-deep, and after Qiu Bai hunched his body and reached out to grope in the water for a while, a water cage was fished up as soon as he raised his hand.

Qiu Bai only glanced at it and became excited, "What a big eel!" He climbed ashore happily and opened the cage, and stretched out his hand to fish out the eel.

Wang Liang on the side exclaimed, and quickly reached out to grab Qiu Bai's arm, "What kind of eel, it's obviously a snake!" See for yourself. ”

Qiu Bai was almost scared to death when he heard this, and hurriedly took a few big steps back, squinted and glanced at the water cage, and saw an earthy gray snake coiled in the water cage.

Wang Da took a stick and stabbed the snake, but the snake lay on its stomach and did not react, "It has drowned." ”

Qiu Bai's heart was slightly relieved when he heard this, "Is this snake poisonous?" She didn't know much about snakes, but she had heard that the more beautiful the snake, the greater the venom, and this snake was all earthy, so she thought it should be non-venomous.

"This is a deaf person, if you are bitten, you can't live, and it is very toxic." Wang Liang picked up the water cage and poured the snake out of the water cage, the snake was soft and did not react at all, and he didn't know if he was dead, Wang Da picked up a stone and smashed the snake's head to pieces.

When Qiubai heard this, he was horrified.

After encountering the poisonous snake incident, Qiubai really didn't have the courage to go into the water to fish for the water cage anymore, and she felt cold in her legs when she saw the bottomless water.

Wang Liang smiled very unkindly when he saw her appearance, "Haha, let's do it with me." ”

Qiubai shook his head, "Forget it, this water is so muddy, you can't see anything, and I don't know if there are any snakes in it, don't take it yet, let's go back and put something on our feet first, so that the snake can't bite it." ”

Wang Liang smiled, "I see that you are usually very aggressive, but I didn't expect to be so timid." Don't worry, I've done a lot of this, and I know it. With that, he went into the water and fished out the water cage in three or two clicks.

As soon as the water cage came out of the water, I heard the "crackling" sound inside.

Wang Liang opened the cage and poured all the crucian carp inside into the wooden barrel on the side.

The two of them were busy for almost an hour before they finished collecting all the water cages, and then returned to the village one after the other.

Qiubai raised his legs and stepped into the courtyard gate, turned back to Wang Liang and said, "We'll be together tomorrow."

Wang Liang nodded, and a simple smile appeared on his handsome black face.

Since catching fish with a water cage, he has been able to catch more than a dozen fish every day, and Qiubai will keep one every time, and all the others will be sold at Uncle Zhang's house.

A fish is about five cents, and she can sell fish for dozens of dollars a day, plus the occasional eel, when she is lucky, she can get sixty or seventy dollars a day, and when she is unlucky, she also has thirty or forty dollars, which is very satisfactory to her.

Every time she comes back from selling fish, she will carefully count the copper plates, and the "ding dong" sound from the collision of the copper plates can always make her full of blood in an instant, and her whole body is full of energy.

Every day, she would thread the copper plate she earned with a rope and lock it into a box.

The box had been hidden under the bed before, but she always felt that it was not very safe, and finally after thinking about it, she hid the box in the crack in the wall behind the cabinet.

The vegetables in the backyard are watered every morning and evening, and they grow very well.

It's just that there are a lot of insects on it, and Qiu Bai will always tell Qiu Doudou and Qiu Xiaobao to catch insects, anyway, they have nothing to do, just find something for them to do.

On this day, after Qiubai went to Uncle Zhang's house to sell fish, he happily returned to the room and began to count the money, and after counting, he leaned over and fished out the box in the crack in the wall.

The oil paper and cotton cloth wrapped outside the box were all rotten for some reason, and Qiubai opened it in wonder, and saw that there was a small hole in the wooden box, and there were many fine scratches at the uneven opening.

"Mouse!" Qiubai hated her teeth so much that she forgot about the mouse because she hadn't seen the shadow of the mouse before.

A few days ago, there was a severe famine, and the rats died and ran away, so there was not a single rat here, but now, all kinds of crops have grown, and every family has rice and flour, and the rats have naturally returned.

Fortunately, the box was thick enough, and she would take it out the next day to take a look, otherwise she would have to let the dead rat steal all her money!

The more Qiubai thought about it, the more angry he became, and as soon as he put the box in the cabinet, he went out of the door, and ran to Uncle Zhang's house.

Uncle Zhang goes to the town almost every day these days, and he sets off at dawn and doesn't come back until the sun sets.

Aunt Zhang was cleaning the yard, and when she saw Qiubai running over, she asked suspiciously, "What are you doing in a hurry?"

Qiu Bai was relieved for a while before he said, "Auntie, do you still have that little kitten in your house?"

Aunt Zhang nodded, "Well, there's another gray one, do you want it?" ”

Qiubai nodded.

Aunt Zhang put down the broom and said as she walked into the house: "Didn't you say you didn't want one last time I told you to give you one?"

Qiu Bai was very depressed when he heard this: "The house has let rats make nests."