"Uncle, do you know mudskipper?" I walked over, looked at my uncle and asked.

The uncle's expression was a little sad, as if there was something hidden and it was difficult to tell him.

"So be it! I will clean up this place, and you will come home with me, and when you come to my house, I will tell you all these things. Uncle looked at the two of us and said.

"Okay." Xiao Sanpang and I agreed, and by the way, we also helped my uncle clean up. Only then did he leave the vegetable market and return to his uncle's house.

Uncle's home is quite close to the vegetable market. Staring at the tricycle, it only takes fifteen minutes to be enough, but the place where the uncle lives is a little shabby.

I looked at it, and it was exactly as the man had said. There is also a family near the uncle's house. These two households, from a distance, look like one home, with two doors open.

The uncle let us out of the room, turned on the light in the room, sat down on the bench, looked at us and asked, "Why are you looking for this fish?" ”

I replied: "I need this fish, and I don't know it, uncle, I have a curse on my body." Mudskipper feet, one of the things I need. ”

"This is the oldest species of fish, and it can walk on its feet, and it has a very strange appearance. But this kind of fish is not rare, but it is rare in our generation. I've seen this fish once, so I know the name of this fish. ”

"Uncle, where did you see that?" I couldn't wait to ask.

"That was a long time ago, maybe ten years, right? At that time, I hadn't been divorced yet, and I had just made a living selling fish. So, I often drive to other places to pull back the fish and sell them with us. That's when I met a mudskipper. ”

"Can you tell us more about that?" Xiao Sanpang asked.

"Okay." Uncle glanced at us, but at that moment, there was a knock at the door next door. It should be the aunt who sells vegetables is back, and the two of them live next door.

"Wife, go cook some food and stir-fry a few dishes." The uncle shouted at the next door.

"What for?" Big Mom responds over there.

"Guests are coming."

"Okay."

Xiao Sanpang and I were a little stunned, aren't these two enemies? How do you come home like a family?

The uncle saw our doubt, so he explained with a smile: "That's my wife, and we have been divorced for many years. ”

"Huh?" This is indeed beyond our expectations, no wonder when he was in the vegetable market, he told the aunt to shut up, and the aunt stopped talking. It turns out that there is still this relationship between the two of them.

"Why do you still live next door when you are divorced, isn't this bad for everyone?" I asked.

"Young man, you underestimate love too much. Although we are nominally divorced, behind the scenes, we still love each other. She didn't want to leave, and neither did I. After all, this is the house we both built when we got married, and we both built it single-handedly. ”

"She can't get pregnant~ because she's afraid of dragging me down. Especially after I met mudskipper, although neither of us said anything to each other, she knew she was sorry for me. I couldn't hold the baby, so I filed for divorce. ”

"Did you say yes?" I asked curiously.

"At first, I didn't agree, but that time she got me drunk and forced me to press my handprint. This is the divorce, although we often quarrel, but the relationship between them still exists. ”

"I haven't loved anyone but her, and my feelings are tied to her. She left me in the hope that I could find another one, so that my family's incense could continue. Hehe, I don't think so. When two people are together, the least is happiness and happiness, and children are just add-ons, with or without them. ”

"Does Auntie know you still care about her?" Xiao Sanpang asked.

"Maybe you know? But it is also possible not to know. For so long, she also knew my temper, always out of tune. But she has always been put in my heart, that feeling is innocent, really unforgettable, and I don't want to forget it. ”

Listening to my uncle's words, I couldn't help but think of Yuan Lei. Maybe she's been reincarnated as a human and is enjoying a new life, right?

"We are also more superstitious, and we used to go and calculate a hexagram. They said that the two of us were not in harmony and that we would only fight each other. This made my wife want to leave me even more, and it became what it is now. ”

"Hehe, I thought about it back then, it was really stupid, but it has come to this. We also had a good life between us, although we quarreled when we met, but she still cared about me when there was something really going on. ”

When the uncle finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of plates being broken outside the door. I immediately went out to look and saw my aunt cleaning up the broken plates.

This scene was also seen by the uncle, he stood up a little tremblingly, his eyes were a little moist ~ looking at the aunt outside.

And the aunt's eyes and the uncle's eyes met at this time, and the kind of look between the two was worth a thousand words.

"Old man." The aunt cried, and after walking in, she threw herself directly into the uncle's arms.

The uncle smiled with tears in his eyes: "Old woman, you are finally here." ”

"You..." Auntie's face was a little ashamed, and she hit the uncle with her hand.

"There is an agreement between the two of us, that is, as long as my wife comes, we will remarry. She's in now, and it's up to you two! ”

I glanced at Xiao Sanpang and me, could it be that I was tricked? Could it be that the uncle doesn't know about mudskippers at all, and just wants to borrow the two of us, and then complete the game and let them remarry?

Forget it, isn't it a matter of accumulating virtue for them to come together?

"Wife, go fry a few more good dishes, I want to drink some with these two little things."

"Okay." The aunt said and walked out.

"I'll give you another thing about mudskippering, it was a summer, and it was very hot. I drove alone and went to Guangdong to pull fish.

"While passing through the woods, it suddenly rained heavily. In the summer, it rains very normally, and I don't think about it that much. But that rain was two days. It was after that rain that I saw mudskipper, and it was lying on a tree. ”

"Wait, where are you lying down?" I asked.

"In the trees." Uncle said.

"Tree, tree?" Xiao Sanpang and I were a little dumbfounded, we know that mudskippers can walk on land, how can mudskippers still climb trees?

I smiled and said, "Uncle, are you mistaken?" How is it possible for a fish to climb a tree? ”

"Pretty incredible, right? At the time, I thought I was wrong, probably because it was that kind of bug. But later I found out that it was not a bug, it was indeed a mudskipper, just lying on its stomach on a tree. ”

"I was scared because mudskipper's eyes were shining and they were looking at me with a twinkle. I was the only one at the time, and I was very scared. But when I actually arrived in Guangdong, I still remember this incident. It wasn't until one day, when I saw this fish again, that I realized what it was. ”

"After being introduced by someone who had a deal with me, I found out that it was mudskipper. The price is not cheap, the average price will be more than 60 pounds, and the largest mudskipper is only about four or five pounds. ”

One pound is sixty, four or five pounds is hundreds! The price is not cheap, this is enough for me and Xiao San Fat to have a meal, and by the way, I can take a shower and take a cupping massage.

But this fish is expensive, and we have to use it, I asked, "How much is that dead mudskipper?" ”

"What I just said is after death, and life is even more expensive."

"It's expensive! It's a thousand dollars a piece, and we have to ask for it! Xiao Sanpang interjected.

I nodded, and it was. If you can't buy a dead mudskipper, this fish doesn't need to be killed, and a mudskipper without fish feet is similar to a human without double ~ legs. That would be a kind of torture for it, it is better to buy a dead one, and we don't have much guilt about this fish.

After saying that, Xiao Sanpang and I decided to go to Guangdong. But the uncle said, "Let's go together the day after tomorrow, right?" Anyway, I should go the day after tomorrow and return the money by the way. I'm driving myself, so I'm relieved to be able to take you with me. ”

"Thank you so much." I held my uncle's hand tightly and asked, "I don't know my uncle's surname?" ”

"My surname is Chen."