Volume 1 Spring Bamboo Shoots Chapter 17 Troubled River

I finally stayed up until the end of school, and after everyone rushed out of the classroom like a swarm, I walked out slowly with my schoolbag, and my sister Xiaojing followed my ass with her little short legs and tail. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

I've been a little lonely these days. Huang Shiren was recuperating at home, Hu Hansan, Zashan Diao and Zhou Papi saw that I was apprenticed to learn boxing, and I recognized my mother, and I had such a good-looking sister, and I was jealous and hateful in my heart, and my eyes were red and I gritted my teeth. I know their temper and character, and they will definitely talk to me in a few days.

The most important thing is that now I have to practice standing piles in the morning and evening, take care of my sister Xiaojing during the day, and even pull pigweed, so I can't go up the mountain with them to chop wood and mess around, so I don't bother to pay attention to them.

At this time, it is the busy season of summer, harvesting wheat, turning the soil and planting sweet potatoes, weeding, fertilizing and protecting green seedlings, and the production team is very busy. My mother has to go to work every day, my father and my new grandfather Ou Chengde went back to work in the mine a few days ago, and my sister Xiaoling is in junior high school in the commune school. The commune school is seven or eight miles away from our village, and we go to school after breakfast, and we don't get home until five o'clock after school in the afternoon.

My five-year-old sister had no one to take care of her, so she had to follow me to school. It's like I used to go to school with my sister. During class, she sat between me and Zeng Xiangkun, and my sister was very quiet, and she could look through a comic book for a day. It's not like me at all, she's a girl, after all. When I was very dishonest, I knocked over my sister's ink and painted her textbooks, which made my sister cry a lot.

My sister is a little bad, she loves to follow her feet, she follows me wherever I go, even when I go to the bathroom, she stands outside and waits, which makes me very annoyed sometimes.

The school is connected to the consignment store of the brigade department, close to the wharf on the east bank of the reservoir, and is the political, cultural and commercial center of our village. Outside the school gate to the left is the consignment store, and I can smell the sweet smell of candy from a long distance, and I hear a loud smacking of lips behind my butt accompanied by a sobbing sound.

I looked back and glared, my sister looked at me with wide eyes, pretending to be innocent seriously, I was so angry and funny, I reached out and threw a chestnut on her head, scolded "good woman", my sister shrunk her neck, reached out and pulled the hem of my shirt, grinning at me.

My sister knows I have money in my pocket. A few days ago, I got a red envelope of six yuan and six cents, and the six yuan was "kept" by my mother, and the six points belonged to me. My sister is greedy, and I'm sticky for the past two days.

I reached out and grabbed a five-cent coin from my trouser pocket and handed it to her, telling her to go to the outlet store to buy candy herself. My sister took the coin and happily went into the consignment store. After jumping out of a flash, she handed me four paper-wrapped sugars, she kept one for herself, peeled off the candy paper and stuffed the sugar particles into her small mouth, and the little cheek on the left immediately puffed up the small bag. Like a little gluttonous cat, she stretched out her little pink tongue, licked the candy paper clean, and carefully folded it into her small pocket.

She has a habit of putting away colorful candy wrappers, and there is already a large stack in the small drawer of the five-drawer table? When she was fine, she took it out and played with it.

I also peeled a candy and stuffed it into my mouth, and immediately it was sweet, I took out a candy bead from my hand and handed it to my sister, put the remaining two in my trouser pocket, and then swayed home. My sister jumped up in front of me and sang indistinctly:

The birdie leads the way in front

The wind blows against us,

We are like birds

Come to the garden,

Come to the meadow,

Bright red scarf,

Beautiful clothes,

Like many flowers blooming,

Jump, jump, jump

Jump, jump, jump

Dear aunts and uncles,

Spend this happy holiday with us......

My sister has a good memory, and she can sing the songs taught in school, and she sings decently. I followed her, and when I turned the corner, I could see home.

I recognized Mr. Yang as my mother, and my mother was very happy. In fact, there are many people in the village who recognize their relatives and mothers, and it is said that all children who are destined to restrain their parents, or whose foundation is unstable, have to recognize their relatives and nobles to avoid evil, and there are also two sides who have eyes and like each other and recognize their relatives, for example, I belong to this category.

Now that they have recognized their relatives, the relationship between the two families is naturally much closer. Our family has a single surname, there are few relatives to come and go, and my mother is naturally hospitable, this time there is one more relative, and it is a decent relative in the town, my mother is naturally very happy, every day I will take the time to go to Uncle Liang's house to chat and sit, and casually bring a handful of home-grown eggplant beans and the like to Uncle Guan and my mother. Because my mother and mother started a gang by themselves, they ate separately from Uncle Liang's family.

Guan Boniang is a city native and well-informed, her mother is a teacher and knowledgeable, and her mother is just an ordinary peasant woman, enthusiastic and bold, and the three of them have endless words every time. Of course, it is the firewood, rice, oil, and salt that live at home that talk about the most. Last night, I heard my mother say that my sister Ou Meiyu wanted to eat crabs, so I asked me to go to the creek after school today to catch some and send them away. Of course, I was glad to accept the order.

When I got home, I put down my schoolbag, carried a small wooden bucket, and sang a song to the stream on the side of the village.

The sun is setting in the west

It is quiet on Weishan Lake

Play my beloved earthen lute

Sing that beautiful song

Climb aboard a speeding train

An elephant riding on a galloping horse

stations and railway lines

It's a good battlefield for us to kill the enemy

Let's pick up the flying car which one is a machine gun

Break the train which bombs the bridge

It's like a steel knife in the chest of an enemy

The devil was frightened

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Although the sun has been slanting in the west, the heat is still not reduced, after the summer solstice, it is about to rise and fall, the weather is getting hot day by day, and the lazy insect (knows) tears out its throat on the neem tree and roars "make it hard and make it hard". The fields are full of green tillers and mounds, and some of them have begun to set flowers and ears. Cucumber and carob seedlings planted on the ridges climb all over the supports, and the prickly tender cucumbers exude an attractive fragrance.

In front of the mountain stream, my sister and I walked along the ridge path to the creek, and then went down the ridge, and suddenly saw three familiar figures sitting on the stone slab in the upper reaches of the stream, and Ding Bang Bang was smashing something. If it's not Hu Hansan, who else can they be? I stopped singing, and Zhou Papi stood up and greeted loudly:

"Hurry up, hurry up, I've been waiting for you for a long time, we smashed a lot of Yangbao wood leaves, just waiting for you to come to the river."

I trotted over, so anxious that my sister yelled at her behind me, and the stream was full of rocks, large and small

Son, high and low and a little slippery, I was afraid that she would fall, so I had to stop and wait for her. Turning around, he asked:

"How did you know I was coming to catch fish and crabs?"

"Xiaojing said, she said that you are going to catch crabs after school for your mother and sister to eat." Zhou Papi replied with a grin.

Among several people, Zhou Papi, who is as thin as me, is closer to me, first, we are neighbors and have always had a good relationship, and secondly, his family is also a single surname, and his father Zhou Limin is the stepson who passed with his mother. There was some ostracism in the team, and Zhou Papi was always bullied by other little butts when he was a child, although he was still a few months older than me, but I helped him every time. Later, I took him and Hu Hansan to form a small organization, and other little butts didn't dare to bully him anymore. Naturally, he was a little closer to me.

Hu Hansan stood up, washed his hands stained with green juice in the stream, and said angrily: "I worshiped the master, and I have my own sister, and I don't tell us anything about it...... Hum! “

I said angrily: "Don't beat the rake, I don't want to offend you, I won't go to my house for the past few days, is it okay that you don't answer me?" ”

The mountain carving threw the stone in his hand into the stream and said loudly: "What so much, hurry up and wash the yang and make the wood to catch fish in the river."

Jiang, in our local language to read the "jar" sound, noisy river, is to smash the tea cake in a pot and add water to boil, and then pour into the upstream of the stream, can be the downstream part of the water flow through the fish and shrimp all administered out, convenient for people to catch.

Tea cake is the residue left after the tea seeds are squeezed out of tea oil, in the old days, the countryside people could not afford to use soap, they all used tea dry water to wash their hair and clothes.

After the fish and shrimp drink tea and dry water, they will be slightly poisoned, and they will be dizzy from the stone crevices and mud where they are hiding to the shore. It is very troublesome to use tea dry water to make trouble, and the tea dry cake is very useful, and the adults do not allow us to use it casually.

Yangbao wood is also called Yangbao tree, is a shrub in our mountainous area, called drunken fish grass in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", small poison, is a blind Chinese herbal medicine, it grows on the roadside or stream pond side of the stone ridge, the stem is brown and green, no more than three feet high, a single stem has no branches, the stem is only the thickness of chopsticks, spring is born and winter withered, the top of the summer blooms lilac trumpet flowers, fragrant and beautiful, the villagers call it Yangbao wood, its flowers and leaves are smashed out of the juice and washed into the creek pond can also make the fish and shrimp slightly poisoned, like people are drunk, have surfaced, Regardless of the rush to the shore, let others arrest. Every summer and autumn, we have to use Yangbao wood to medicine small fish in the creek several times.

I'm not talking nonsense, the big guy poured the green juice of the slab into the slowly flowing stream, and several people jumped into the stream, stirring their hands and feet, and in an instant the clear stream became turbid, and a layer of large and small soap bubbles floated on the surface of the water.

In a flash, the small fish, shrimp and loaches hidden in the creek crevices came out one after another, swimming slowly on the water surface and bouncing around, some even jumped onto the bank of the stream, and several of us shouted and hurriedly picked up and grabbed them.

Unfortunately, there are too few Yangbao trees and their medicinal effects are limited, and the creek is constantly coming from above, so the effective range is only about 20 meters. And the fish and shrimp are only temporarily dizzy, as soon as the living water passes, they will wake up in a moment, resume their previous naughty and slippery, and swing their tails into the stone crevices and mud, so that we have nothing to do and nowhere to chase.

Even so, we have a lot of harvests, the little finger-thick sharp-mouthed fish and summer flowers picked up more than 30, there are more than a dozen loaches, and there are three thumb-thick yellow eels, put in a small bucket, once the water passes, all come alive, and drill around in it, so lively. My sister Xiaojing was lying on the edge of the bucket, and her little hands were grabbing this and that one inside, and she was very busy.

A few people were still in high spirits, and when the muddy water had passed, they began to catch crabs in the creek again. We call crab moving, probably because most of the crabs are hidden under large and small stones, and they can only be seen and caught when the stones are lifted or removed. When lifting or moving the stones, you have to be very careful, to go against the water, gently, slowly, not too big and too heavy, otherwise it is easy to muddy the water, and when the water is muddy, the crab will "take advantage of the muddy" and let you be busy in vain.

At that moment, everyone acted separately, and after a while, they caught dozens of crabs that were not big or small.

Most of the large crabs hide in the stone crevices of the fields by the stream, which is difficult to catch, and only the small crabs and shelf crabs like to hide under the large and small stone slabs on the bank of the stream. We are particular about catching crabs, we don't catch small crabs, we keep them for them to grow up, and we don't catch female crabs, and if we catch them, they will be released.

Seeing that the creek is all overcast, the sun has reached the top of the west mountain, and there is still more than an hour before the sky is about to get dark, the mountain carving beckoned Hu Hansan and Zhou Papi, and the three of them hurriedly went up the stream, carrying the bamboo fiber obliquely, and carrying the firewood knife to the mountain upstream of the mountain stream. There are pine and fir branches on the mountain that they cut down a few days ago, but now they are half-dry, and they can definitely carry them home before dark.

I turned around and found my sister still playing with the loaches in the bucket with her wet clothes. The loaches were too slippery for her little hands to grasp at all, and occasionally they did, and the loaches slipped out of their fingers as soon as they struggled. Angry, her little hands slapped in the bucket, splashing water, and muttered in her mouth:

"Let you run, let you run, kill you, kill you."

As the saying goes, the surname of loach is coaxing, and the surname of yellow eel understands. It means that you can't use force to catch loaches, but you have to use force to catch yellow eels. The harder you catch the loach, the more you can't catch it, you can only coax it, gently hold it with your hand, so that it will not move, and then use your fingernails to jam the cheek raiser, so that it can't break free. Like her, even if you are an adult, no matter how strong you are, you can't catch it? .

When I looked over and saw that most of the little fish in the bucket had been killed by her, I tore her away and shouted:

"Are you begging for a beating? The fish have been tricked to death by you, and you have wet your clothes and pants, hurry up and go home to change them, otherwise when your mother knows, see if she will break your dog's buttocks? “

I carried the pail and walked home, and my sister followed me with red eyes and pouting.

Passing by the entrance of the village, I saw two cows fighting in the sun-grain ping, it was the yellow bull in the team and the black bull in the fifth team fighting again, suddenly opening and closing, scurrying all over the ping, Liu Xing and Zeng Beiyang, the cattle herders who were hiding on the side, shouted loudly, but they did not dare to step forward to drive them apart. A large group of ducks in the reservoir that had already landed were about to go to the sun-grained flat, when they heard the shouting and quacked and quacked back to the center of the reservoir. The blue sky and white clouds reflected in the water and the green hills on the opposite side were shattered.

I didn't want to join in the fun, so I hurried home to change my sister Xiaojing's clean clothes, carried the basket and went out, I had to pull a basket of pigweed back before dark, otherwise tomorrow the pigs will not have to eat, and my mother will beat people. This has always been exchanged with my sister, my sister chops wood, and I take my sister with pigweed. The big fat pig has been sold, and the pen is fed with a small shelf pig of only fifty or sixty pounds, and a basket of pigweed is chopped and boiled into a dumpling and mixed with some rice bran to eat for two days.

When I got to the front of the house, my sister "Brother, brother" shouted all the way and followed, and I stopped in annoyance, and my head was as big as a fight for a while.