Chapter 18: Digging Lotus Roots

My twenty-year-old soul was lifted high by a seventeen-year-old boy, and I felt weird and embarrassed.

The two walked out for a while, and they met Erbao.

When Erbao saw them, he smiled and scratched Fluttershy's nose with his fingers, "Come on, brother." ”

It looks like he likes to tease children very much.

Although she looks thin and small, she is twelve years old at the beginning and twenty years old at the age of soul, and the two brothers treat her like a five or six-year-old child, so that Fluttershy wants to get into the cracks in the ground.

She simply broke free from Dabao's arms: "Brother Erbao, what about my father and mother?" ”

Erbao pointed to the front: "They went back first!" ”

Ding Xiaodie's dark eyes blinked smartly: "Why don't we go shopping again!" ”

"Okay, Fluttershy, where do you want to go? Usually we don't have much chance to enter the city in the village, but this time, although there is no one in the town, it is quiet. Erbao smiled with beautiful dimples.

Dabao also agreed: "It's okay to go back anyway." ”

Take a look around, and you might even get something to eat, even if you catch a snake like you did just now.

The brothers see Fluttershy pull a blueprint out of her arms.

Dabao recognized it at a glance, this was not the map of Yangliu Town that he had just found in the yamen.

Fluttershy lays the map on the ground and points to a piece of land and says, "Let's go take a look." ”

It was a paddy field.

When he was in the yamen before, Ding Xiaodie quickly glanced at it twice, the map of the town is not complicated, just a few big planned places, you can know a rough idea at a glance.

She found that if she walked along the road to the east end of the town, she could see a large paddy field, and there was a lotus pond on the edge of the paddy field, although there was definitely no water in the lotus pond.

But she still wanted to try her luck in the past.

Dabao wonders, "Fluttershy, you can look at a map?" ”

Ding Xiaodie hurriedly shook her head: "It's not Brother Dabao, I'm looking at the painting, you look here, painting the entrance gate, going here, painting the appearance of the field, the appearance of the water, you see!" ”

The two brothers leaned over to take a look, and it was really like that.

"Fluttershy, you're so smart." Erbao patted her little brain.

Ding Xiaodie laughed heartlessly: "Let's go, two brothers." ”

……

The three of them searched the road on the map for a while, and finally saw a large barren paddy field, with nothing but dry weeds in the field, and the ground was exposed to large cracks.

Seeing everything in front of them, Dabao and Erbao were full of disappointment.

"The people in Yangliu Town are also quite miserable, their fields are exactly the same as those in our Aozigou." Dabao sighed.

Erbao also jumped into the field and stepped on it, only to hear a sound of hard earth.

The voice made people feel desperate in the hot sun, and all three of them suddenly felt a dry mouth.

At this time, Ding Xiaodie really wanted to go into the space, but she couldn't do it, but when she looked at the lotus pond in the distance, she was pleasantly surprised to find something.

"Brother Dabao, look, there are still a few green leaves in the lotus pond in that corner that have not withered, let's go over and take a look!"

After walking for a long time and finally discovering the New World, Ding Xiaodie couldn't be too happy.

Dabao couldn't cry or laugh: "There can't be water." ”

Let's see what has happened to the bottom of the pond.

"Let's go and have a look!" Ding Xiaodie knew that they were both tired, and they were facing despair again and again, and their mentality was indeed easy to collapse at this time.

Dabao and Erbao glanced at each other.

Not to mention anything else, in order to make the little girl happy, they also let it go.

The three of them finally walked around half a circle to the corner of the lotus pond.

As she got closer, the smile on Ding Xiaodie's small mouth grew bigger and bigger.

And Dabao and Erbao, who have never seen the lotus pond, were disappointed again.

There is no water, except for mud, it is mud, even if there is a small mud pit, a little water in it is good, but it is not seen.

Just as the brothers were about to persuade her to go home, Ding Xiaodie's eyes lit up and she took off her tattered little cloth shoes and threw them on the dam ridge, and then rushed into the mud impatiently.

Erbao was startled, "Fluttershy, what are you doing?" ”

Dabao said: "Are you little girl crazy with thirst!" ”

You can see at a glance that there is no water, and you still insist on rushing into it?

Soon, the mud trapped the little thin legs, and Ding Xiaodie grabbed a withered lotus leaf, and pulled her little hands into the mud along the root path of the lotus leaf.

"There it is!"

Ding Xiaodie suddenly exclaimed in surprise and joy: "Yes, brother, come quickly." ”

What's there?

Dabao and Erbao don't know why, but I'm very excited to see the little girl's appearance, probably related to eating.

Without saying a word, the two quickly took off their shoes and hurriedly walked up to Fluttershy, "What's the matter?" ”

Fluttershy says, "Big Brother, your hands are down, down, down a little more!" ”

She took Dabao's hand and pulled it into the mud, looked at his expression and asked, "Did you touch it, it was eaten, and it was called lotus root." ”

"What lotus?" Erbao didn't hear it directly.

"Lotus root."

In this era, goods were not so circulating, and there were very few villages with lotus ponds, so it is understandable that Erbao had not heard of it at all.

In fact, Dabao has never heard of it, but the most important thing is that he really touched it.

"There really is." Dabao was so happy that he immediately clung to the lotus root, for fear that he would disappear as soon as he let go.

Fluttershy teaches him again, saying, "It's called lotus root, you can eat it boiled and steamed, and you can eat it cold!" ”

After finishing speaking, she realized that she only knew that she was smug and said that the two little brothers in front of her were looking at her with a surprised expression.

"Fluttershy, you know a lot."

"yes, Fluttershy, who taught you this?"

Ding Xiaodie sighed: "Of course it's my father, don't look at him for a while, he actually knows a lot of things, but he is always bullied by the eldest and second uncles at home, so he doesn't dare to express his thoughts." ”

When it came to her family's affairs, Dabao and Erbao's expressions showed sympathy.

At this moment, Erbao also yelled happily: "I also touched it!" ”

"Brother Erbao is awesome." Ding Xiaodie swept away the sadness she had just pretended, clapped her little hands and said, "Now you all know how to find it, as long as there is a soft mud place, find a lotus leaf, and then touch it carefully!" Remember, the lotus root will run deep in the mud, be careful, don't break it! ”

After speaking, she stepped forward to demonstrate, but she had little strength, and with the help of Erbao, she finally set aside a lotus root with three knots.

Dabao and Erbao looked at the mud bunch in front of them curiously, and there was a big question mark in their heads, can this really be eaten?