The chicken has been stewed to a soft and deboned bone, and the Jiang family has not come back yet, so it is not too early to see the sky.

Xiangling took the pastries to the house, and gave Chu Xia and Xiao Xianglian a big bowl of chicken for them to eat first.

Buckled a bowl of meat in the pot again, and waited for Jiang to come home and eat it.

He walked towards the river with a handful of chicken intestines and a large clay pot filled with water.

The river flows down from the direction of the mountain, flows through the east of the village, the river is not wide, only two cars are wide in parallel, the bank is shallow, the inside is deep, and it is also very turbulent.

In the past, the villagers relied on the river for drinking water and laundry, until a child was bitten to death by a poisonous snake in the water.

Jiang took over the laundry job, and Chu Xia couldn't get off the kang, so Jiang came to the river to wash.

Xiangling glanced at it, There are three women washing clothes by the river, some are talking and laughing, they are very happy, and they are not the only ones who don't see the Jiang family.

Xiangling stepped forward and said to one of the women, "Auntie, have you seen my mother?" ”

The woman raised her eyes to see that it was Xiangling, lowered her head and continued to pound her clothes, ignoring Xiangling.

Xiangling looked at the other two women, who twisted their heads and ignored Xiangling.

Xiangling is so angry, she didn't recruit them and didn't provoke them, what kind of attitude is this!

A thin branch rushed down from the upstream direction of the river, Xiangling's eyes rolled, and she suddenly screamed in fright, pointing to the branches in the river and screaming: "There are snakes!" ”

The three women jumped up in fright, and far off the shore, one of the women's pink clothes floated away along the river.

Until she saw that it was just a branch, the young woman who had lost her dirty clothes scolded Xiangling: "Just like your mother, shameless slut!" ”

Xiangling smirked: "Auntie, your milk-milk-......... was washed away by the water" (Author: Unkind smile, the heroine has the potential to be a hooligan!) Ha ha. ）

The woman's face immediately changed, she lost the small clothes she was wearing inside, and she was shouted by Chu Xiangling, a fool, everyone knows, does she still have a face?

The woman scolded: "Little rabbit, talk nonsense about the old lady tearing your mouth again!" He scolded and ran away with the basin in his arms.

The other two women glared at Xiangling, and also left with the basin of water, and heard the woman comforting the woman who had lost her clothes: "Brother Zhao, don't be like a fool, let alone show face to Ge Changlin, Ge Changlin is also a man who has never been married, and he has the ability to hunt, it is impossible to fall in love with the widow Chu with three children, unlike you, who guards the widow, is sharp-handed, and looks good, you two are just right......."

Xiangling was a little stunned when she heard this, they said that Ge Changlin was a man who had never been married, so how did Xiaoshan come from? Belongs to the Monkey King, jumping out of the cracks in the stones?

Xiangling heard the sound of the upstream water, mixed with the sound of pounding clothes, followed the sound, and found Jiang Shi who was still pounding clothes by the river under a turbulent waterfall, fine sweat flowed down from his forehead, and was illuminated by the sunset, crystal clear, very good-looking.

Hearing the voice, Jiang turned around in astonishment, and when he saw that his daughter was coming, he smiled gently: "Mother will wash it immediately, let's go home together." ”

Xiangling nodded, found a shallow place, dug a mud pit the size of a basin and two feet deep, tied a branch in it, tied chicken intestines to the branch, and used a branch to support an inverted clay pot on the edge of the pit, and a thin hemp rope was attached to the branch, which was held in Xiangling's hand, and her eyes stared at the mud pit for a moment.

Jiang's "fluttered" and was happy: "You girl, you don't want to detain fish, right?" That fish thief is still waiting for you to catch it? If it were that easy, everyone in our village would have come to arrest it. ”

Xiangling didn't speak, her eyes still staring at the fish pit.

I don't know how long it took, the chicken intestines moved slightly, Xiangling pulled the branch violently, the clay pot fell down, and a fish half an arm's length knocked down the clay pot, plopping out of the mud puddle, stirring up the water to be muddy.

Xiangling thought that the fish ran away with the chicken intestines in her mouth, and regretfully walked to the water's edge, through the turbid water, and found that the big fish did not swim away, and the mouth pulled the long fish intestines without spilling her mouth, and the other end of the fish intestines was connected to the mud pit, and there was a basin-sized soft-shelled turtle in it, and the other end of the chicken intestines was pulled in the mouth.

A fish and a turtle, because a chicken intestine does not give way, a bit of a snipe and a clam fight, cheapened themselves.

Xiangling took out an awl from her sleeve, and quickly stabbed the fish in the eye, and there was a hole, the fish fluttered wildly, and the soft-shelled turtle was also frightened and wanted to roll out of the mud pit, because the body was too big and could not be turned out of the mud pit.

Xiangling carried the soft-shelled turtle to the shore, holding a big fish weighing six or seven catties in her hand, waved it to the Jiang family and smiled: "Mother, look, I really caught a fish, I will make fish balls for my brother to eat." ”

Jiang put all the washed clothes in the basin, and said to his daughter: "You girl is really good, so you can get fish." ”

The two mothers were about to go home, and the man's scolding voice came from the grove next to them: "Old pervert, dead lewd, special mother's fear of women in the capital can't sleep, go to our mountain high emperor far away to sleep enough at one time, and I'm not afraid of his mother's exhaustion!" ”

The other man replied, "Is it useful for you to scold behind your back?" Isn't he still waiting like a third grandson in person? Hurry up and find the soft-shelled turtle, if you can't catch it again, the eldest brother will be scolded by Wang Dujun again! ”

Two men appeared by the river, wearing only a small coat on their bodies, and their arms were exposed, Jiang Shi hurriedly protected Xiangling behind him, and asked in a trembling voice: "You, who are you, what are you going to do?" ”

The two men glanced at the two of them in astonishment, the villagers are usually downstream, and it is relatively quiet here, they just arrived here, but they didn't expect to meet the villagers.

Seeing Xiangling, the fat man said "Huh" and said with a smile: "Aren't you a silly girl who fell from a tree?" Fortunately, you pointed us out that day, caught a tiger and paid a bad deal, and today you don't pick mushrooms and catch fish instead? ”

Seeing that they knew Xiangling, Jiang looked at Xiangling suspiciously.

Xiangling took the hand of the nervous Jiang family and comforted: "Mother, they are soldiers stationed in Lingyu Pass. ”

Jiang Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the dark red clothes that the two men were wearing in the crook of their arms, which were the same style as those washed in their basins, and made sure that they were really military masters, not bandits, so they relieved themselves.

Although he was not a bad person, he was really untidy, and Jiang took Xiangling's hand and said, "It's time for us to go home." ”

Xiangling braided a simple straw rope, put the turtle and the fish together, and raised her legs to walk.

The fat man saw the soft-shelled turtle in Xiangling's hand at a glance, his eyes suddenly flashed with ecstasy, and he smiled happily and said, "Girl, haven't you heard the old man say it?" The old don't leak the residual essence, the young don't eat the strong fire, what do the young people do when they eat this great tonic, why don't you sell it to me? ”

Xiangling asked Jiang in a low voice: "Mother, how much can the average soft-shelled turtle be sold for?" ”

Jiang shook his head in embarrassment and said, "I don't know how much it will be sold, but the grandson of the old lady Chu in Kaichun caught one and went to the county seat to sell it for fifty yuan." ”

Xiangling nodded and said to the fat man, "Fifty-five dollars." ”

"I heard it all, fifty yuan, why did you turn your face to fifty-five yuan?" The fat man rolled his eyes and said, the eldest brother said that money that should not be spent, a big money cannot be wasted.

Xiangling patiently explained: "If you go to the county seat to buy, each person will spend two cents to sit on the donkey's feet, which is four cents; Each person who enters the city pays one penny for entering the city, which is another two cents, a total of fifty-six cents, and I want one penny less, fifty-five cents, it is you who take advantage of it. ”

The fat man and the thin man nodded thoughtfully, as if it made sense, and the two of them bought it without leaving to go to the city; Soft-shelled turtle, how to calculate how cost-effective.

The fat man paid happily, and the thin man left with the soft-shelled turtle diligently.