Liu Guiyuan was full of energy, and when he saw that he had persuaded the second sister, he followed Liu Huahua up and down, ready to go home to get the basket containing the snails, and asked her why the second sister was called Huashi River.

Legend has it that many years ago, there was a wandering monk who stumbled upon a colorful square stone in the water when passing by the river, and thought it was very auspicious, so he planned to take it.

But the surrounding villagers were reluctant, Fang Shi had to brush his sleeves away, who knew that two days later, the square flower stone suddenly disappeared, the villagers said that it must be the ghost of Fang Shi, but no one could help it.

Over time, the river had a new name for Huashi River, and even their village was called Huashi Village.

went home and took the basket, Liu Guiyuan trotted all the way to the Huashi River, and the eldest sister Liu Hongzao was not at ease, so she asked Liu Huahua to send the pigweed alone, and she also followed.

There is a lot of soft mud by the Huashi River, you have to pay attention when stepping on it, otherwise you will be planted in the water if you are not careful, although she can swim, but this body can't, so she can only find a way to fish on the shore.

Stepping on the moist grass, there are many black snails floating on the river covered with green moss, which are not small, and some are directly adsorbed on the soil wall, and they are dragged and fished ashore.

Liu Hongjube also joined the ranks of touching the snails, but she called this thing a black snail, rolled up her trouser legs, slowly went down from the shallow water's edge, and harvested little by little along the soil wall, and picked two handfuls after a while.

On the shore, Liu Hongzao put a bunch of black snails on the ground, washed his legs and feet, put down his pants, and shouted to Liu Guiyuan: "The sun is almost out of sight, let's go back." ”

Liu Guiyuan looked up and saw that it was really true, and looked at the snails covered with a layer in the basket, that is, black snails, and went back satisfied.

When I got home, the second sister was feeding the chickens in front of the chicken coop, and when she came back with a bucket, she couldn't help asking, "How much did you catch?" ”

Before Liu Guiyuan could speak, Liu Hongjube said: "It's not much, it's only enough to fry a plate, and many black snails are scared into the water when they hear the movement." ”

This is a problem, the black snail is not dead, it does like to sink into the sludge at the bottom of the water, Liu Guiyuan's current small body is inconvenient to go down to the water to fish, so she has to think of a way, it is best to make a tool to fish the snail.

Liu Guiyuan poured out the river water in the basket, scooped some clean water from the tank, continued to soak the snails, and then ran to the west side of the house to rummage for things.

What she wants to do is a fishing net, which requires a long bamboo pole, a piece of iron wire and a net pocket, long bamboo poles are available everywhere, and the wire is not easy to get, which can be seen everywhere in later generations, but it is a scarce thing here.

But this is not difficult for Liu Guiyuan, she has a corset in her pink backpack, which can be replaced by the steel ring inside, and the linen cloth here can be used for the net pocket.

Because the steel ring was not as soft as the iron wire, Liu Guiyuan took a lot of effort to twist the steel ring into shape, sew it into the edge of the linen cloth, close the opening, and finally insert the excess steel ring into a wooden stick that was originally used to light the fire.

"What's this?" Liu Hongzao came into the house and called her to eat, seeing her in the dark and not knowing what to do.

In the dim west room, Liu Guiyuan looked at the simple fishing net in his hand and smiled faintly. Tomorrow, she will definitely be able to catch a lot of snails.

Liu Guiyuan made a fishing net by herself, not to mention how proud she was, and when she heard her eldest sister calling her to eat, she answered and went out.

Bumped into Liu Chongshan who came back, Liu Guiyuan touched his nose and didn't speak, Liu Chongshan didn't look at her, and went to the back room to talk to Zhang.

During this period of time, when the farm work was heavy, the work in the field at home was helped by the eldest sister and the second sister, and Liu Chongshan was like no one, turning around outside when he saw the sky, and he didn't know what to do.

"I heard from the old people in the village who know feng shui that our family lives in front of the house at the head of the village, and the terrain is also high, which belongs to the lonely yang and is not conducive to the children and grandchildren, no wonder the family can't give birth to a son, and the little girl doesn't grow well."

The place at the head of the village was originally vacant land, and after the Liu family and the family separated, Liu Yao's family lived with the second family Liu Chonglin, and still lived in the old house, so Liu Chongshan took his wife to move to the front of the village to settle down.

In order to show that his lintel was higher than that of others, he spent three days digging soil from other places, carrying a dung basket back one by one, spreading it evenly on the ground, and then ramming it little by little with a hammer. But I didn't expect that these two points were just wrong!

People in the village are superstitious, and Zhang is no exception, and hurriedly asked, "What should I do then?" Is there a way to crack it? ”

"Swing the gourd. Tomorrow I will go to the Taoist temple in the town and ask a pair of gourds that have been opened and placed in the place where they are flushed. Liu Chongshan swore that he couldn't go to town tonight.

Liu Guiyuan walked to the hall to set up a meal, and when she heard the conversation between the husband and wife, she couldn't help pouting, she didn't believe that if two gourds were placed outside the house, the Zhang family would be able to give birth to a son, which was obviously superstition and psychological effects.

However, she didn't plan to argue with Liu Chongshan and the others, there was no point, and besides, she just put two gourds on the table, whatever they wanted, as long as they didn't drink Fu Shui.

"Daddy, it's time to eat." Liu Huahua stood outside the dark red curtain, shouted and sat down to wait for him, he couldn't eat a few small ones without moving his chopsticks.

Liu Chongshan answered and walked out of the back room, took a cake from the bamboo dustpan held by Liu Huaanhua, walked to the dining table, sandwiched half of the green chili flakes, mixed them on the cake and rolled them up, and ate them in a big gulp.

Today's dinner was made by the second sister, iron pot sticker cakes, cold green chili flakes, and some rice porridge in the pot. The first time Liu Guiyuan saw such a way of eating, he tasted a bite of chili flakes and almost didn't die of spiciness.

Liu Hongjube hadn't come to eat yet, she ordered a bowl of gnocchi soup, with frangipani and a little sesame oil in it, and brought it to Zhang's house.

After eating half full dinner, Liu Guiyuan was still a little hungry, so he could only drink two bowls of thin porridge mats with invisible rice grains, and then lay down on the bed with his eyes closed.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Guiyuan took the fishing net that had just been made last night, and came to the Huashi River with confidence.

Send this half bucket of snails home first, soak them in water and spit out mud, and then scrub the snails they caught last night with a loofah pulp, and then prepare to boil the snails in a pot over high heat.

Wait for the water in the pot to boil, lift the lid of the pot and see, all the snails have opened their mouths, take them out with a rice spoon to cool them, and then use embroidery needles to pick out the snail meat one by one.

At this time, the snail is when it is fat, use the embroidery needle to open the snail cover, poke it in and then take it out, and the snail meat will come out with the intestines.

At this time, use your thumb to pinch off the middle, put the good meat in front of you on the plate, and throw the snail shell with the on the ground, and the snail will be picked clean.

Pick a good snail, wash it with water, put some salt in the pot and cook it again, this is the food of the three sisters today. Liu Chongshan went to the town early this morning to do errands, and did not come back at noon, according to the rules of his family, adults do not need to fire when they are not at home, except for Zhang's.

While cooking snail meat, Liu Guiyuan looked at the grain stored at home, and cooked a bowl of noodle fish roe for Zhang's family, the eggs at home were used up, and the hen didn't know if it would lay eggs today, so Liu Guiyuan could only put a small handful of boiled snail meat into it.

Liu Guiyuan, who was tired for a long time, looked at the black and white snail meat in the white tender noodle caviar, and couldn't help but think that if he could put some vinegar and chili peppers, the taste would be better......

Wait, snails can be used to make snail powder, vinegar, chili, capers she has at home, but rice noodles will not be available for a while, but she can use noodles instead. As for the fried yuba, it's not easy to make for the time being, so it's good to get it when you have the conditions in the future.

Thinking of this, Liu Guiyuan was so excited that he was so busy that he didn't even eat snail meat, took a homemade fishing net against the big sun, trotted all the way to the Huashi River, and continued to fish for snails.

Maybe because it was noon, the sleeping temperature was too high, and most of the snails were hidden at the bottom of the river, Liu Guiyuan worked hard for a long time, and only fished a small handful of snails, but she was not discouraged, lying on the branches of the old locust tree, thinking that she would wait for a little later.

was dreaming of selling snail powder, suddenly felt a pain in his arm, opened his eyes and saw two little boys standing under the tree, one big and one small, the small one was still holding a stone in his hand, looking at her with a smile.

"Hey, fool, what are you doing in the trees?" The little one opened his mouth and asked, throwing the stone in his hand around.

"You two hit me with stones? Looking for a fight, isn't it? Liu Guiyuan rubbed his red arm that was smashed and said angrily.

"Hey, what are you fishing in the river?" The eldest one asked her rhetorically, and when she didn't answer, he walked to the basket under the locust tree and looked at it, and when he saw a handful of black snails, his eyes lit up, and said, "This fried is delicious, hey, can you give me something to eat?" ”

"No, that's what I finally fished, you have to eat it yourself." Liu Guiyuan refused without thinking about it, quickly got off the tree, grabbed the basket and was about to leave.

When she meets these two impolite bear children, she is unlucky, she can't be beaten, and she can't be scolded, so it's better to go home first.

"It's stingy, I don't give a little black snail, and it's not a good thing, if I don't eat it, I'm not too thin to eat." The little one flicked his nose and yelled dissatisfied.

"If you have the ability, you can catch it yourself, and if you want to eat, you are too lazy to do it, and if you ask someone if you don't give it, you will say unpleasant things, and you have a problem with your brain." Liu Guiyuan didn't turn his head back, but also replied loudly, and the angry two children opened their teeth and claws behind them.

When Liu Guiyuan returned home, the eldest sister and the second sister were both working at home, one was washing the diapers of lotus seeds, and the other was washing the snails she fished in the morning.

"Eldest sister, second sister, have you tasted the snail meat I cooked?" Liu Guiyuan asked as he lifted the lid of the pot, and there was still a handful left in the small bowl of snail meat.

"After eating, my mother said that you specially cooked it for us, how can you not eat it?" Liu Hongzao glanced at her with a smile.

Liu Guiyuan nodded, grabbed the remaining snail meat and put it in her mouth and chewed it indiscriminately, when she was growing her body, she was already hungry before she had eaten lunch.

Liu Peanut washed the diaper, poured the dirty water into the thatched house behind the house, and then scooped a scoop of water to continue to rinse the diaper until the water became clear, then picked up the drained water and hung it on the fence to dry.

After doing this, Liu Huahua moved the bench and sat next to Liu Hongjuo, helped her scrub the black snails together, and said to her eldest sister: "Eldest sister, you persuade her, you can't sell these black snails for money, do you see how much snail meat you can get for cleaning up?" It's not enough to stir-fry a dish. ”

Liu Peanhua's worries are not unreasonable, because this kind of black snail is common in the riverside water, the poor are afraid of trouble to eat, and the rich are unsightly to eat, and only some idlers who have nothing to do will eat it once in a while.

Liu Hongzao sighed slightly, and was about to speak when she saw Liu Yao coming from outside, she instinctively lowered her head, and hurriedly stood up, facing the direction where her milk came, and shouted "milk", the voice was as small as a mosquito.

To say that as soon as Liu Hongzao saw her milk, her originally generous personality became timid, and it was not without reason, and it started with a quarrel before the separation three years ago.

At that time, Liu Guiyuan was a little more than four years old, and after Liu Yao determined that she was really a fool, he disliked their family even more, especially their girls, and asked her and Liu Huahua to work before dawn every day, but did not ask them to eat when they arrived.

One day, Liu Yao's took advantage of his father and mother to water in the ground, suddenly broke into the house where they slept, and took the stupid Liu Guiyuan in a sack, she and Liu Huahua looked wrong and went up to stop them, but they were pushed to the ground by her milk, Liu Huaanhua's front teeth knocked out, and she also knocked a small hole on her head.

At that time, Liu Yao's disgust for Liu Guiyuan, and the ruthlessness of pushing her and Liu Peanhua, left a deep imprint in her heart, so that now when she sees her grandmother, she can recall the situation at that time, and naturally see that she dare not squeak loudly.

Because of this, Liu Yao's family looked down on this eldest granddaughter who couldn't be on the stage, and often said in front of people that she was a stuffy person who couldn't beat a fart with eight poles, and lost the face of their Liu family, etc.

Liu Yao's family came over to ask the master for sin, he didn't even look at Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua, walked up to Liu Guiyuan with his little feet, and shouted: "Guiyuan, why don't you give your brother a little bit of black snail to eat?" Tie Dan was yelling to eat at home, and Tie Zhu told me that you wouldn't give it, but really? ”

Liu Guiyuan was yelled at by Liu Yao's family, and only then did he know that the two bear children he met by the river in the afternoon were the second boy (Liu Zhiwu) Tiezhu and the third boy (Liu Zhixiao) Tie Dan of the second uncle's family.

Peasants prefer to give their children, especially children, this kind of cheap name, as the saying goes, cheap names are easy to feed, and big names are named according to the characters on the family tree. The juniors of the Liu family are ranked with the word "Zhi", so they all have a "Zhi" in their names, of course, girls are not qualified for this.

"It turned out to be them, I thought that the muddy boys of the family had nothing to do to hit me with stones, and they still wanted to eat black snails, I think they look like black snails!" Liu Guiyuan touched the red and swollen place on his arm and said a word casually.

"How do you speak? One of them is your brother and the other is your brother, and they ask you what's wrong with what you want to eat? When they ask for something, you should give them something to eat, can you hear me? Liu Yao stretched out his hand and tapped Liu Guiyuan's forehead with his index finger.

Why did anyone attack her head? Liu Guiyuan stroked his forehead and took half a step back, and said loudly: "If you don't give it, you won't give it, Tiezhu is three years older than me, why should I let him?" The iron egg hit me with a stone just now, why should he eat it? Did he still have merit in beating people? ”

"You girl, why are you so tricky? They are both your own brothers, and if you don't give them good food, do you want to die? "He was going to hit her with a gesture.

Liu Guiyuan had already prepared, leaned back, flexibly avoided her big hand, and continued: "They are my own brothers, so I am still their own sisters, why didn't I see them send me food?" I've been fine for so long now, why haven't I seen you send me something to eat, my mother and little sister haven't even eaten a single egg from you. ”

Liu Guiyuan's mouth was so fast, he spoke like a machine gun, and he couldn't speak for Liu Yao's words, so he could only walk out with a blue face, scolding as he walked: "No one can cure such a girl, I said that she has ten sentences, and it is against the sky." Isn't it just a little bit of broken black snail meat, when the eight treasures are ......"