Chapter 48: The Daughter-in-law
Sunset.
There was a brilliant afterglow in the water, rippling the sunlight in the water into pale golden shards.
There are still three boats docked at the wild wharf, one from the Lu family, one from the plum can, and the fishing boat of Chen Ping'an's family at the bottom.
Lu went to the gate with Chen Ping'an and Li Sixi and his son before dawn. For lunch, I brought my own wild vegetable dumplings and water, and there were not many big boats docked at the pier, but there was still work to do.
If you earn well on this day, you can get ten or twenty big bucks.
Although it may not be better than fishing, this drought and flood to ensure harvest, unlike fishing, if you are unlucky, you will encounter many empty nets, and there will be no income on this day.
Around the Dragon Boat Festival, there are few boats at the gate, and there are many people who go home for the festival on the wharf.
Chen Ping'an's family only has three grandchildren on the fishing boat, Chen Ping'an is only fifteen years old, but he has been working at the dock for half a year, and there are also Chen's grandmother and sister Chen Shaoyao at home.
His family now hardly fishes, and most of their lives depend on Chen Ping'an to survive on the dock.
Lu Xiaoyu had just come out of the cabin with a basket, and Chen Shaosha, who was squatting at the bow of the boat, immediately had a smile on his face and asked in a loud voice, "Xiaoyu, where are you going?" ”
It seems that Chen Shaoyao was waiting for the landing fish to come out early in the morning.
Lu Xiaoyu pulled the broken hair that fell from his ear, and pointed to the river beach not far away: "Xiao Si and I are going to go to the river beach to have a look." ”
As for what to see, Lu Xiaoyu didn't say, Chen Shaoyan thought that Lu Xiaoyu was going to look for wild vegetables, and he was also a little moved to see the sun set for a while.
The people on the boat did not have fields, so they either went to the market to buy vegetables, or exchanged fish and shrimp with villagers, or went to the fields to dig wild vegetables.
There are a lot of wild vegetables in spring, and now that we are in May, there are not many wild vegetables to eat.
"I'll go too, wait for me"
"Okay."
Lu Xiaoyu responded, Chen Shaoyao and the eldest sister are the same age, and the relationship between the two is also the best, and they often dig wild vegetables together to find wild duck eggs.
Chen Shaoyao is bigger than Lu Xiaoyu, and she is a very careful and good sister next door.
Chen shook his head and said to his grandmother in the cabin, picked up the basket and ran to the shore.
In this area of fishing boats, there are many girls in the Lu family, and they have a good temperament, and Chen Shaoyan almost only plays with the children of the Lu family.
The Chen family now only has three grandchildren left, Grandma Chen is old, and his brother Chen Ping'an is still underage, and life has been very difficult these years.
Fortunately, several families on the side of the wild wharf were all in the same village at the beginning, and some people were in a group, and they could barely get by.
Grandma Chen privately reminded Chen Shaoyao to let her play more with the girls of the Lu family and socialize less with the girls of other families.
is afraid that her granddaughter will be bullied without her father's protection.
Lu Xiaoyu set up the springboard, and Lu Yangge came out of the cabin, carrying two strange strings of bamboo tubes in his hands.
Lu Xiaoyu carried a bamboo basket in one hand, and took a string of bamboo tubes in the other hand and threw it on his back.
It's not right to say that it's a bamboo tube, it's as long as an arm, thicker than the average adult's arm, it's straight, and it looks weird.
And the one in Lu Xiaosi's hand is even stranger, like a cow's horn, and it also looks like the two tubes in Lu Xiaoyu's hand are sewn together.
In May, the weather has warmed up.
By the riverbank, Li Cancan was barefoot and a few friends were digging mud with tree branches.
Several of the children were dressed in shabby, and some of their clothes were damaged and had not had time to repair them, revealing the swarthy flesh inside.
"Little fish, where are you going?"
Li Cancan saw Lu Xiaoyu and Chen Shaoyao coming over with baskets, and immediately blocked the road.
It was Lu Xiaoyu who asked, but he looked at the bamboo tube that the two of them were carrying diagonally.
Li Cancan must have never seen this thing, he was too curious.
He wanted to ask Lu Xiaosi what this was, but because he was not familiar with Lu Xiaosi, he was embarrassed to speak, so he stopped Lu Xiaoyu.
"If you want to take care of it, get out of the way."
Lu Xiaoyu glared at Li Cancan fiercely, his footsteps did not stop, he hit Li Cancan hard, and walked past Li Cancan.
Li Cancan didn't watch out for being hit by Lu Xiaoyu, took two steps back to the side, and when he stood firm, Lu Xiaoyu was in front, Chen Shao was in the middle, and Lu Xiaosi was behind, and he had already walked past them.
"Yo...... Yo ......"
The little friend who was playing with Li Cancan immediately coaxed: "Li Cancan, you can't even beat the small fish, it's useless." ”
The children on the fishing boat have been honest since they were young, and what they are most afraid of is that they will be said to be inferior to female babies and have no interest.
"Phew......"
Li Cancan spat on the ground angrily: "Lu Xiaoyu, you are so fierce, when you become my daughter-in-law in the future, I will beat you three times a day and not give you food." ”
He learned this from his grandmother.
What his grandmother said was that it would be good if a woman was disobedient and beaten up.
"You ......"
Lu Xiaoyu was stunned by Li Cancan's words, he was ashamed and irritable, and he didn't know how to refute it for a while.
"Don't look at it,"
Lu Yangge raised his hand and tilted Lu Xiaoyu's head forward, turned around and glanced at Li Cancan contemptuously: "My third sister marries you?" Why did my mother agree to marry my third sister to you? Figure what do you have? Figure you black? Figure you ugly? Figure you bald head lice don't like to take a bath? ”
The plums were born black, and the big bald heads glowed blue in the setting sun.
At the beginning of spring, lice were born on the can of plums, and a few days ago his father and eldest brother held down and shaved a big bald scoop, and the whole person was black and thin, looking particularly ugly. And because he didn't like to take a bath since he was a child, every time his mother boiled hot water and called him to take a bath, he could always howl a river that people could hear.
The children on the boat are sloppy, and there are only a few babies like the Lu family who love cleanliness.
It was the first time that Li Cancan was said to his face by the son of the Lu family, and his face immediately couldn't hang up. He raised his hand fiercely: "You ......"
"What for?"
At this time, Lu Xiaoyu reacted, and immediately squeezed between Lu Yangge and Li Cancan, and waited for Li Cancan fiercely: "Li Cancan, you want to hit someone." ”
Although the plum cans are naughty, the people who can stop the boat together are the people who escaped from the flood at the beginning, and the children play and play on weekdays, but they have not fought with any children.
"I ...... I didn't. ”
Li Cancan's face turned red, and he stomped away angrily, forgetting to ask what the weird-looking thing on Lu Yangge's back was.
"Humph......"
Lu Xiaoyu puffed up the blades of grass on the side of the road as he walked, and muttered: "Li Cancan is shameless, I like to pee everywhere with runny nose, so I won't marry Li Cancan." ”
Lu Yangge looked at Lu Xiaoyu, who was only ten years old, and only thought it was very interesting.
With such a young child, do you know how to talk about marriage?
At home, the Qiu family had secretly begun to show Lu Xiaoqing.
Prepare for these two years, and wait for two years, Lu Xiaoqing will be able to get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen.