The Ganges, the mother river of the snowy north, has existed since the beginning of the people here, and the exact time is not known.

The Ganges is so wide that you can't see the other side of the river, all you can know is the meandering river to the east and the countless tributaries of the Ganges.

It has nourished generations of people in the North, who have reason to believe that it is an eternal river that will allow it to survive from generation to generation, hence the Ganges River in the Northland.

On a tributary of the Ganges, the sky was slightly bright, and a group of villagers led a few strong donkeys and walked to the river.

The villagers have been fishing for a living for generations, and in addition to keeping them for themselves, the rest will be sold in the county seat, so the villagers all work hard.

At this time, it was the cold winter wax moon, and a thick layer of ice had already formed on the river, and the villagers came to the river to start their busy day.

The leading villager, with a rough complexion, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a thick winter coat, looked even stronger, and after he surveyed the river, he pointed to a certain location and said, "Here it is."

The rest of the villagers got busy in an instant, picked up their awls and threw them on the surface of the river.

After a while, a large hole was smashed into the surface of the river.

Then, the leading villagers pointed at a distance of eight or nine meters, and the villagers immediately smashed a hole about the same size here.

In this way, more than a dozen such ice holes appeared on the surface of the river.

At the beginning of the busy moment, the villagers threaded their fishing nets into the ice holes and then pulled their nets along the ice holes.

Since the fishing net is very large, it is necessary to use a strong donkey to drive the wooden stake to generate thrust in order for the net to move smoothly.

As they pull, the villagers scatter and tap the river with wooden poles in order to drive the fish to the nets.

Since you can't get off the net every day, you can only succeed and not fail every time you work hard.

The whole process lasted more than a dozen hours, from the light of the day until the sun went down.

The exciting moment finally arrived, and with the leader shouting "up", the villagers pulled the donkeys, pulled the wooden stakes, and slowly pulled a huge net of large and small fishing nets out of the river.

In the Ganges, all kinds of characteristic fish have emerged in front of them, scrambling to escape from the nets.

"Oooh"

Looking at the harvest in front of them, the villagers suddenly cheered happily.

And the leader standing next to him let out a long breath, as if relieved, with a slight smile on his face.

"Village chief, this ticket thief is big!"

"It's not a loss to the village chief, the net is accurate, and it's right to follow the village chief. ”

"Village chief, we've made a fortune this time. ”

This harvest will make the villagers earn a lot of silver taels, and the villagers praise them one after another, which makes this sturdy man look embarrassed

At this moment, one of the villagers shouted:

"Village chief, no, there's a child in the net. ”

As the sound spread, everyone crowded up.

"Get out of the way, what's going on?"

Dahan pushed the villagers away and said.

"I didn't know that at the end of the day, the kid was suddenly in the net. ”

The villager pointed to the little man in the net and said in astonishment.

Beneath the nets lay a young man, about eleven or twelve years old, with a pale face and closed eyes

"Village chief, did we kill someone?"

Some villagers said worriedly.

"Whose child is this, will we go to jail?"

Another villager said in the distance

Just now, everyone was still indulging in the joy of a bumper harvest, and at this time, everyone's faces were gloomy.

Some quietly retreated, and some simply walked back without even fishing, for fear that they would implicate themselves.

"Don't talk nonsense, this kid still breathes. ”

The big man touched the young man's nose with his fingers, then dropped a sentence, picked up the young man and ran home like crazy.

"Second brother, you are under your auspices here. ”

"Okay, big brother. A man in his early thirties, dressed in white cotton clothes, answered and got busy urging the villagers to load the fish into the donkey cart.

Not far from the branch river, there is a brick house made of brick and stone.

"Bang"

The big man holding the boy kicked open one of the houses and shouted:

"Girl, hurry up and get me a basin of hot water and a bowl of ginger soup. ”

"Man, what's wrong? ”

In the kitchen, a woman in her thirties came to the room with a large basin of hot water.

"Ah, whose child is this, why is he soaked in winter?"

The woman put down the hot water and asked with concern.

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and bring a bowl of ginger soup. ”

The big man said impatiently, and then wiped the cold water on the young man's face with a hot towel while changing into a dry winter coat.

"Okay, I'll be right away. ”

The woman knew that the matter was urgent, so she hurried to the kitchen and brought in the prepared ginger soup.

Dahan took the ginger soup and put it into the young man's mouth one by one. After drinking, he covered the boy with a thick quilt, and after doing all this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The woman stepped forward to wrap the boy tightly in the quilt, then looked at the wet clothes on the ground, and said:

"Man, whose child is this, so pitiful, in the winter, why is he only wearing soaked thin clothes?"

Dahan shook his head and said helplessly:

"I don't know whose family this is, why did it end up in our fishing nets, maybe it was abandoned!"

"Ah, in the fishing nets, was it caught from the river?"

The woman was stunned, stroked the child's cheek, and said distressedly:

"Who is so ruthless to abandon such a handsome child?"

Maybe it was because the door was kicked too loudly just now, and the two children rubbed their little eyes and walked in, a man and a woman.

The man is chubby, estimated to be as big as a teenager, and the woman is pretty and petite, and should be a younger sister.

They blinked at the person lying on the bed, and said in a daze:

"Dad, mother, who is he?"

"Girl, Da'er, why are you up, hurry back to your bed. ”

The woman got up and said as she pushed the child outside.

The chubby boy said with a look of resentment:

"I don't know who is so hateful, kicking our door, the voice is loud, and it wakes us up. ”

The big man next to him looked embarrassed, scolded by his own child like this, not to mention how unhappy he was, but there was no way, who called it his own fault.

The woman looked at the embarrassed expression of the big man and said with a smile:

"Girl, Da'er, you go back to sleep obediently, Ming'er will introduce that big brother to you, okay?"

As he spoke, he pulled the two children outside.

The big man straightened his clothes, coughed twice, and walked towards the river

The morning sunlight pours into the room through the cracks in the window, making the winter morning feel refreshing.

"Dad, why hasn't that brother woken up yet?"

The girl screamed and ran out of the room.

"Girl, that brother is very tired and hasn't rested enough, don't yell so loudly and make noise about him. ”

In the hall, the big man warmed a little wine and ate peanuts, he got up early in the morning and looked at the young man, the young man was breathing evenly, and there was nothing unusual, so he said with confidence.

"Okay, then I'll go play with my brother. ”

The little girl jumped up and ran out of the house again.

And so it passed for half a month.

Every day the little girl would run to the boy's room to see if he had woken up, and then repeat the same question.

The big man's ears heard the calluses coming, and he was impatient, but he didn't dare to shout loudly on his face, who called his daughter the pearl of his father's palm.

But he also wondered in his heart, how come there is no sign of waking up after all this time has passed?

During this period, he also asked several doctors to help diagnose and treat, but all of them said that there were no problems.

The boy could only eat soup every day, but his breathing was not abnormal at all, which made the big man mutter, puzzled.

One morning, the little girl ran to the boy's room as usual, stayed at the bedside and stared, and touched the boy's face with her little hands from time to time.

Suddenly, the boy blinked, and the frightened little girl screamed, and then shouted happily:

"Dad, mother, come on, that brother is awake. ”

When the big man and the woman heard the noise, they came with the tools of the work in their hands.

"What's wrong, girl, you just said that this brother woke up?"

The big man asked eagerly with his wine glass.

"Well, I just saw this brother blink. ”

The little girl shook her head, pointed at the boy and said:

"Look, my brother is blinking again!"

"It's great, after lying down for so many days, I finally woke up. ”

Dahan happily drank the wine from the glass.

The woman was relieved and said happily:

"Yes, man, I'm sorry. ”

The boy slowly opened his eyes and looked at the four people in front of him, the first of whom was a girl, poking her head out to look at him.

"Mother" The young man popped out a word, and then fell silent, just staring directly at the woman in front of him.

"Here, here!"

Out of a mother's loving nature, the woman sat at the head of the bed and stroked the boy.

More than an hour passed like this.

"Mother, why didn't he speak?" the little girl asked eagerly.

"He's not going to be a fool, is he?" said the chubby boy.

"Don't talk nonsense, stay quiet, or go out and have fun. Dahan scolded.

The woman picked up the boy distressedly, fed the soup with one hand, and said, "Child, tell my mother, what is your name and where do you live?"

The boy did not answer, but looked at the woman with a confused eye.

"My name is Cai Fei'er, this is my mother, this is my father, and he is my brother Cai Da. ”

The little girl next to her enthusiastically introduced the teenager one by one:

"In the future, we can play together. ”

"yes, we have a lot of fun stuff, pinballs, slingshots, and rabbit catching tools. ”

The chubby boy said proudly as he talked about his toy.

"Well, child, don't think about the past, if you want, I'm your mother. ”

The woman hugged the young man and said with pity, for the person who only called his mother at the first sight when he woke up, it can be seen how important his mother is to him.

If it weren't for the great changes in the family, who would have left their children behind, the woman thought.

The young man seemed to be moved by the warmth of the family, and blurted out, saying:

"My name is Shaoyang!"