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As the saying goes, people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.

On the second night of the rain, my grandfather was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, it rained so hard, no one in Wang Caoyu's family dared to come over and call him to eat, he himself, he also wanted to save face, he was embarrassed to rub his face to eat, so he had to take a few dollars to go out in the rain, and go to the village butcher's house to try his luck, hoping that the butcher could still have some meat or something, that is, buy some raw meat and cook it at home.

The butcher's home, my grandfather and Wang Caoyu came once, that is, the last time Wang Caoyu called the butcher to clean up my grandfather's horse, my grandfather has a very good memory, when I was a child, I could remember it by listening to Tang poems once, and I could remember it as long as I walked the road again.

My grandfather's luck is not bad, came to the butcher's house to ask, the butcher said that his family just died yesterday a cow and a half size, was scared to death when the thunder last night, he was idle at home, this afternoon just peeled the little cattle, at this time the beef has been staged, are soaked in the water tank.

The butcher's appearance was a bit vicious, dark and swarthy, but he had a good impression of my grandfather, and asked my grandfather to go to the water tank to pick a piece by himself, and sell it to my grandfather at the price of raw meat after cooking. My grandfather was a little hungry at this time, and he picked the largest piece, more than a dozen catties, enough for him to eat for four or five days.

It took about an hour to cook the beef, that is, about two hours, and the veal was tender and should not be cooked more, and it was already cooked in an hour. After that, the butcher took out a jar of spirits and praised my grandfather for being a man, and he had to drink a few cups with my grandfather.

When the two of them drank until about three watches, several jars of liquor were drunk for them, and the butcher's alcohol consumption was comparable to that of my grandfather, and the eyes of the two of them were almost unable to open. In the end, my grandfather gave the butcher all the money on him, and he was drunk and polite to the butcher, and left the butcher's house with the rest of the cooked beef.

On the way, you had to pass the iron cage where the river monster was kept, and at this time, the rain was a little lighter.

When my grandfather swayed to the side of the iron cage, I don't know where I heard the cry of a child, wow, very suddenly, startled my grandfather, and the wine woke up for most of the time.

My grandfather settled down, in the middle of the night, where did the children cry, looked around, it was dark, and there were no lights in a few houses on the side of the road, and he looked at the iron cage beside him, and said in his heart, isn't the river monster in the cage alive?

At this time, the child's cry was gone, and only the sound of the rain remained.

My grandfather came to the iron cage and stared at it drunk, because it was at night, in the middle of the night, it was dark everywhere, and it was raining, and the sight was very bad. My grandfather glanced into the cage a few times and didn't look at anything, and then he felt that the cage seemed to be empty, and the "skin and bones" of the river monster seemed to be gone.

This is not a good feeling, my grandfather's heart tightened, hurriedly threw away the beef in his hand, picked up a wooden stick from the ground and pulled it into the cage a few times, followed by it, my heart suddenly cooled, cold sweat almost didn't come out, the cage was empty, and the collapsed skin and bones of the river monster were gone!

Early in the morning of the third day, my grandfather ran out to see the iron cage in the rain, at this time the sky was bright, and the sight was excellent, but the cage was still empty, and the skin of the river monster was really gone, and my grandfather suddenly had a bad premonition......

The rain fell on the fourth day, and finally stopped, when the sky was dark, my grandfather stepped on the mud on the road to the iron cage, he first looked around the iron cage, and there were no other traces around the iron cage except for the shoe prints left by himself in the past two days, that is to say, the disappearance of the corpse of the river monster had nothing to do with people, not taken away by people, and there were no animal footprints around the iron cage, and it also ruled out the possibility that other animals ran to drag the corpse of the river monster away and eat it.

My grandfather muttered in his heart, could it be that this river monster came alive and escaped from the cage that night?

It seems unlikely.

If they hadn't escaped, could it have been the rain that had swept the river monster's skin out of its cage and washed it somewhere else? Thinking of this, my grandfather searched in the puddle near the cage, and after searching for a long time, he didn't find anything.

My grandfather muttered in his heart again, could it be that there is really a dragon king in this world? This heavy rain, was the dragon lord rushed to collect the body of his "son"?

My grandfather looked at the sky, the blue sky was like a wash, and there were no clouds, and he immediately grinned and sneered, he didn't believe that there was such a thing as the Dragon King, and he didn't believe that the "loach" like the beast was really the seed of the Dragon King.

At this moment, the village chief, Boss Wang, led a few young people over, and several young people also carried ropes, poles and other objects. Boss Wang said that he wanted to return the iron cage to the neighboring village, and at the same time asked my grandfather suspiciously, where did the river monster in the cage go?

My grandfather was afraid that telling the truth would make a few people afraid, and half-jokingly said that he was hungry two days ago, so he carried the river monster home to make snacks and eat.

When Boss Wang and a few young people heard this, they changed color at the same time. Boss Wang was a little dumbfounded, and said to my grandfather with a bitter face that I would go to his house to eat in the future, and the son of the dragon prince couldn't eat it.

At noon, Wang Caoyu came to ask my grandfather to go to his house for dinner.

After that, nothing evil happened in the village, and everything seemed to be back to normal.

As for my grandfather, three meals a day are eaten at Wang Caoyu and Wang Dahe's house.

Wang Caoyu has two younger brothers and a younger sister, the younger sister is two years younger than the grandfather, this is sixteen years old, her name is Wang Xiaojin, she looks very good, and she is a beautiful woman second to none here in Sanwangzhuang.

Because of the heavy rain for three days and three nights, the river water swelled, it is estimated that the rain is not only in the area of Sanwangzhuang, the upper river water is wrapped in yellow mud and poured down like a torrent, resulting in the flooding of the river in this area of Sanwangzhuang, and many crops on both sides of the Yellow River have been submerged.

The common people who rely on this mother river to survive have to risk the danger of being swallowed up by the rolling river waves, sailing in the waves, and begging for food under the beard of the dragon king with difficulty.

At this time, my grandfather, because he suffered a loss when he fought with the river monster in the river, he felt that he had to practice his water nature well, and he practiced his water nature, not to mention that he would encounter a similar river monster again, that is, he could save himself if he accidentally fell into the river in the future, and besides, my great-grandfather in Sanwangzhuang in this area in addition to being able to drive away evil spirits and catch ghosts, he was also famous for his good water nature, and he could swim a few times back and forth in the Yellow River.

Wang Caoyu has been fishing on the river with several young people in the village, and my grandfather has also joined them, first, they can practice water, and secondly, fishing is also a livelihood, so they will not always eat white rice at Wang Dahe's house.

However, my grandfather encountered a bad time, at this time the river water swelled, and the boat fishing on the river was dangerous.

Wang Caoyu persuaded my grandfather to wait for this period of time to pass before getting on the boat. What about my grandfather, it is conceivable that with his nature, the more you say that it is dangerous, the more energetic he becomes, he screws to death and refuses to admit defeat, he has to go on the boat to fish, Wang Caoyu has no choice, let my grandfather join.

After a few days, it was quite smooth, there was no danger, and at the same time, my grandfather experienced the excitement and pleasure of boating in the huge waves, which was much happier than his riding on land, and soon, he liked the life in the water.

In the past, there were no industrial equipment such as hinges and winches, and all relied on manpower to release and collect the nets, sometimes there were too many fish, and the fishing nets could not be pulled up, and the people on the boat had to jump into the water, holding the fishing nets and cooperating with the captain to row the boat to the shallow water, and then the manpower dragged them to the shore.

Sometimes when there are fewer fish, a few people don't get off the boat, and when it's time to eat, the people on the shore will row a small boat to bring them food.

The person who is responsible for delivering food to my grandfather and Wang Caoyu is Wang Caoyu's sister Wang Xiaojin, every time she comes to deliver food, the eyes of several young men on the boat are straight hooked, and the beads in their eyes can't wait to jump out and fall into the rice bowl. Of course, except for my grandfather, my grandfather barely glanced at Wang Xiaojin.

At the beginning, there were as many meals in my grandfather's bowl as Wang grass carp, and I don't know when, the food in my grandfather's bowl increased a little bit, especially when I caught up with Wang Dahe's family to improve the food, and when there was meat in the meal, it became more and more obvious, and the meat in my grandfather's bowl was obviously much more than that in Wang grass carp bowl.

After a long time, several other young people found out the clue and whispered to Wang Caoyu, "Hey, grass carp, your sister is eccentric, there is so much meat in the bowl, look at the ...... in your bowl."

Wang grass carp looked, wrinkled is (that is)! I'm not happy, but it's not good to say anything in front of my grandfather. Later, according to Wang Caoyu himself, he told my grandfather that he glared at his sister at that time because of this matter, but his sister still went her own way, and the meat in my grandfather's bowl was not less, and the meat in his bowl was not much.

According to several young people on the same boat, I later told my great-grandfather that at that time, Wang Xiaojin would peek at my grandfather every time he was eating, and when my grandfather returned the rice bowl to her, he would always ask my grandfather if the rice was good or if he was full.

My grandfather always nodded, smiled at her faintly and said, delicious and full. Wang Xiaojin will be satisfied and say that I made this meal today, and then happily put away the dishes and chopsticks and go ashore to go home.

A month later, the water of the Yellow River gradually calmed down, and although the crops near the river bank were gone, the people on both sides of the river were much better than in the previous days, and the area around Sanwangzhuang seemed to have completely returned to normal.

Another month later, the time came to the middle of August, about to enter the busy season of farming, at this time, the fish and shrimp in the river, the river crab, also to the fattest season of the year, the Yellow River fishing, crab fishing boats have increased, everywhere you can see the net fishing boats, occasionally you can hear the captain raise his voice to sing the river, the thick and clear sound echoes in the Yellow River water, it is exciting.

Fishing boats, river boats, and fishermen outline a beautiful ink painting of the Yellow River