Zhou Xiaoran was woken up by Grandma Zhou, and looked at the sky outside that was not yet bright, at most it was half past five, Rao is Zhou Xiaoran is ready not to sleep lazy, and it is inevitable that he will be a little angry when he gets up.

Zhou Xiaoran brushed his teeth and washed his face with the toiletries he brought, and went to help Grandma Zhou cook on the fire, the meal in the morning was very simple, it was corn paste and pickled vegetables at home, Uncle Zhou and his wife and Zhou Xiaobing went to work, and there were only Grandma Zhou, Zhou Xiaohong and Zhou Xiaoguang brothers and sisters left at home, and after eating, Grandma Zhou asked Zhou Xiaohong to go to the field to deliver food, and Zhou Xiaoguang took his sister up the mountain to collect firewood.

"Don't go into the mountains, there are wolves."

Before going out, Grandma Zhou still told Zhou Xiaoguang at ease.

"Don't worry, grandma, we're in that part of Stone Ridge." Zhou Xiaoguang pulled Zhou Xiaoran and shouted loudly as he ran.

Stone Ridge is a small hill near the village, there are not many trees, but there is a small stream, there will be some small fish and shrimp in the ditch, it is a holy place for children in the village to play, the stream is dry during the disaster, no one comes, but since a heavy rain the year before last, there is water again.

Zhou Xiaoguang didn't come here to collect firewood at all, purely for fun.

"Look, what is this?" Zhou Xiaoguang excitedly took out a net.

Zhou Xiaoran is full of black lines, this stupid brother won't want to fish in this net, if you want to have fish, you can wait for him to come, and then thought about it, hey, the opportunity has come!

"Let's try it here, see if there are any small fish and shrimp that have missed the net, and when my brother catches the fish, I will cook fish soup for you to drink."

Gotta find a way to get him out of the way.

"Brother, I'm thirsty, have you brought water?"

"Eh, I've packed it up, I forgot it when I left, you wait, brother will go back and get it for you." Zhou Xiaoguang got up and walked back as he spoke, and then turned around and told Zhou Xiaoran uneasily: "Don't run around, just wait here, I'll be back soon." ”

Zhou Xiaoran nodded obediently.

This one takes at least forty minutes to go back and forth, and when it is certain that Zhou Xiaoguang is far away, he enters the space.

Zhou Xiaoran didn't dare to take too big a fish, so he picked a few ordinary fish weighing two or three catties, and put some small fry.

Zhou Xiaoran looked around the space and found that there was nothing to take out at this time.

Hey, there are so many supplies in the air, but they can't be taken out openly for the family to enjoy.

Seeing someone running over from a distance, Zhou Xiaoran thought it was his brother coming back, and when he saw that it was two people, both thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys, there was no elder brother among them.

"Who are you girl, what are you doing here, do you know this is our territory." Among them, the older ones have very horizontal openings.

Little broken child.

"You say that your territory is your territory, how can you prove it." Zhou Xiaoran thought of something after speaking, and said slyly: "Is it possible, you are also like a dog, can you make a mark?" ”

"Brother Ergou, she scolded us for being dogs." Another small dot of the leper head opens.

The one named Ergou was still menacing, and after walking a few steps to see Zhou Xiaoran's appearance, he asked, "Are you the granddaughter of the third mother-in-law's family who came back from the city?" ”

The third woman refers to Grandma Zhou.

Zhou Xiaoran nodded: "Do you know me?" ”

Ergou was about to speak, when he was suddenly interrupted by an exclamation.

"Fish! Fish! What a big fish! ”

Before Zhou Xiaoran could react, the second dog ran over with a swish, and jumped into the knee-length water with the leper head to net fish.

Zhou Xiaoran also hurriedly ran over: "This is mine, I saw it just now, and I am guarding it here, so that my brother can come back and catch it." ”

Zhou Xiaoran didn't want to find an opportunity to release the fish that he finally found an opportunity to eat in his family's stomach.

"You said it was yours, do you have a mark?" The leper head grinned at Zhou Xiaoran.

Zhou Xiaoran didn't fight with him anymore, and also joined the ranks of net fish.

I only fished one after a lot of effort.

Looking at the harvest fruits in the basket of the leper head and the second dog, Zhou Xiaoran was angry.

"Hey, don't fish out, let it grow inside." Zhou Xiaoran saw that the fish fry he put in were fished out, and said hurriedly.

"Don't worry, it doesn't grow big, and if it doesn't enter my stomach, it will enter someone else's stomach, so it's better to enter my stomach." The second dog said indifferently.

Zhou Xiaoran thought about it, and it seemed to be too.

Just after fishing out the fish, Zhou Xiaoguang also came back, and he rushed this time.

"Brother, why did you come, the fish have been fished out." Zhou Xiaoran couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved, and his brother couldn't eat fish anymore.

"What fish?" Zhou Xiaoguang wondered, could it be that there were really fish in this small ditch.

"Come and see."

Zhou Xiaoguang was stunned when he saw a few big fish in the basket.

"Where did this slip through the net!"

"Brother, I saw this fish first, but they all caught it." Zhou Xiaoran pouted and complained.

"You see that it is yours, and you still see me, why don't you say that I am yours."

"That's it, you also saw me, why don't you say I'm yours."

Damn two dogs!

"Okay, don't we have one, come back next time, brother will catch you." Zhou Xiaoguang thought to himself, he was seventeen years old, and he was embarrassed to grab things with two people younger than him.

As everyone knows, these two people just look small, but they are actually about the same age as him.

Zhou Xiaoran followed Zhou Xiaoguang depressedly and walked back, looking at the teeth of Ergou and the leper head smiling, and suddenly felt a little sad, hey, they are all children, maybe they won't be able to eat meat once a year, forget it, find a chance in two days.

When parting ways at the entrance of the village, Ergou carried two fish threaded with straw ropes and threw them into the basket that Zhou Xiaoran was carrying, without saying a word, turning around and running.

Zhou Xiaoran was stunned, and from a distance, he heard the leper head squeaking and screaming, shouting "Why give it to her" and "girl's piece", and was stopped by a slap from the second dog.

It's a little touching.

It's still the pure kindness of people in this era, Zhou Xiaoran thought with relief.

Zhou Xiaoguang didn't react, who has eaten a little bit tightly these days.

"Let's go, let's go home and make fish soup."

In fact, those fish didn't eat everyone's stomachs right away.

Among them are two crucian carp and one silver carp. According to Grandma Zhou, crucian carp soup is the best, just tomorrow to give birth to her aunt Zhou Aihua, who has just given birth to a son at the age of almost forty, and the rest is air-dried and kept for the New Year.

Zhou Xiaoguang wanted to fight for half of Zhou Xiaoran to make a boiled fish, but was also stopped by Zhou Xiaoran.

She was just looking for a chance to get something out, not because she wanted to eat it herself.

Life in the countryside is actually quite monotonous.

In the next few days, Zhou Xiaoran found another opportunity to release a few fish, but they were all grilled and eaten outside with Zhou Xiaoguang, and met the second dog again, Zhou Xiaoran warmly invited him to eat together, sprinkled a few grains of salt, and stuffed the stomach with wild pepper and wild garlic found from the mountains, well, it has a different flavor.

"Brother, when are you going to your grandmother's house?"

Zhou Xiaoran asked Zhou Xiaoguang while eating fish.

Zhou Xiaoguang thought for a while, "If you don't go, my grandmother is no longer there, and my uncles ..... I don't like it. ”

Zhou Xiaoran persuaded: "But I heard that Tanjiagou has not slowed down since the disaster, and it is said that people have been starving to death in the past two years." ”

"But I can't get food for them." Zhou Xiaoguang still didn't want to go.

"I have money, we can go buy food." Zhou Xiaoran said immediately.

Zhou Xiaoguang said disappreliantly: "You should keep your pocket money for yourself." ”

Zhou Xiaoran calmly took out fifty yuan and ten catties of coarse grain stamps from his pocket and shook them at Zhou Xiaoguang.

"You, you, where did you come from?"

"I've got it."

Zhou Xiaoran thought proudly, this is only less than one-tenth of his total assets, since he was ten years old, Zhou Xiaoran has used the rice and eggs produced in the space to exchange for money tickets, and even went to the black market several times when he was older, the amount each time is not much, and in a few years, he has also saved a lot.

Zhou Xiaoran rolled his eyes: "I heard that there is a reservoir over there in Tanjiagou, let's go see if we can catch fish." ”

Zhou Xiaoguang rubbed the top of Zhou Xiaoran's head: "I still wonder why you are so concerned about my uncle's family, it turns out that you want to play with it." He smiled dotingly: "Okay, I'll take you there, but you put your money away, I still have money, how can I spend your money." ”

Zhou Xiaoran doesn't care, as long as he can go.

"Why are you going with you? Why don't you ask the people of the old Liu family if they want to see you. When Grandma Zhou heard that Zhou Xiaoran was going to Tanjia Village with her, her eyes widened.

Zhou Xiaoran hid behind Zhou Xiaoguang and handed it to his brother.

"Grandma, if I leave, I'm afraid that Xiaoran will make you angry at home, and there will be no one at home at that time, who will help you teach her a lesson."

Grandma Zhou originally wanted to say, I can't teach a little girl a lesson? I thought about it, yes, being alone at home with this girl, how much of an eyesore!

"Okay, listen to your brother, and don't cause trouble at your Liu family's uncle's house." He also told Zhou Xiaoguang: "Leave early tomorrow and return on the same day." ”

"Got it."

"Got it."

The two replied in unison.