Chapter 49: The Cage

What Li Cancan said today did not come out of thin air.

The three daughters of the Lu family are all good-natured and diligent children, and Li Tantan, the eldest brother of Li Cancan, is one year older than Lu Xiaoqing. Li Sixi saw it in his eyes, felt that the girl of the Lu family was good, and wanted to talk about the Lu family's Xiaoqing. Aunt Li disliked Lu Xiaoqing's stuttering, and because the Qiu family gave birth to several girls in a row without sons.

It is said that a girl is like a mother, and Aunt Li is afraid that Lu Xiaoqing will be like her mother, only giving birth to a girl, and she can't even give birth to a child.

Didn't that cut off the incense of their Li Tantan?

Last spring, Li Tantan and a cousin's girl from his grandfather's house. The girl is not as beautiful as Xiaoqing, but she is a quick one.

Li Tantan and that cousin are not very old, and they said that they would wait for two more years to get married.

For this, Aunt Li showed off in front of the Qiu family several times.

She has a son and will soon marry a daughter-in-law and hold a grandson. And Qiu, at that time, still had Xiao Wu in his stomach, and he didn't know if it was a man or a woman.

What's the use of giving birth to a litter of girls, in the end, it's not for someone else's family.

Later, Qiu gave birth to Lu Xiaowu, and this spring, Lu Xiaosi also came back from his uncle's house.

There were two more male babies in the family, and Aunt Li regretted it again.

Compared with Lu Xiaoqing, her cousin and niece are not as good-looking as Lu Xiaoqing, nor are Lu Xiaoqing capable, and she is not as good as Lu Xiaoqing's son.

It was Li Sixi who reminded her that Li Tantan has a daughter-in-law, but Li Cancan doesn't have it yet.

Lu Xiaoli is spicy and capable, bigger than Li Cancan, not very suitable, it is better to tell the honest Lu Xiaoyu to her family's Li Cancan, and set a baby first.

These words were nagged by Aunt Li and Li Sixi when they were sleeping at night.

I didn't watch out, and I was heard by Li Cancan.

Growing up to marry Lu Xiaoyu, Li Cancan is willing in his heart, although the three girls of the Lu family are dark and thin, they are all thin eyebrows and handsome eyes, and they are very good-looking.

Besides, the girls on the fishing boat are exposed to the wind and the sun, and there are a few who are not dark.

This is also the reason why Lu Xiaosi said that Li Cancan was ugly, said that he was bald, said that he didn't take a bath, and he didn't beat Lu Xiaosi.

Lu Xiaosi will be his brother-in-law in the future, and if he, who is a brother-in-law, beats his brother-in-law, he will have to do it.

Li Cancan was so angry that he ran home to find his mother, ready to file a complaint, and by the way, asked his daughter-in-law when she would be able to marry back.

Didn't Lu Xiaosi dislike him?

Then he has to marry Lu Xiaoyu back, and when the time comes, let Lu Xiaosi call him his third brother-in-law.

Let's see if he can be proud.

Lu Xiaoyu and Chen Shao shook their hands hand in hand, followed by Lu Yangge, and walked all the way to a small tributary on the edge of Honghu Lake.

Two little girls are looking for wild vegetables and duck eggs on the river beach.

Lu Yangge found a place to put down the eel cages he carried one by one.

When I was a child, because the welfare home was close to the countryside, I also divided a few paddy fields.

She followed a group of male babies to learn to catch fish and shrimp, and learned to swim. He also followed the eel cage behind Grandpa Wu, who was the gatekeeper, to catch yellow eels, to catch crayfish in the river, and to use a flashlight to find leeches and pheasants and water snakes to sell for money at night.

Later, the chicken and water snake were not caught, and she also went to middle school and began to live in the school. As long as she came back from school, Grandpa Wu still had to turn out his eel cage and insist on giving Lu Yang Ge a yellow eel back to make soft and long fish noodles to eat.

Grandpa Wu said that children have a lot of strength to eat eels.

This eel cage was made up for her by Lu Quan when Lu Yangge was recuperating.

She said that she wanted to make an eel cage to catch the yellow eel, and Lu Quan listened to her for a long time before he realized that the yellow eel was their long fish here.

It's expensive, and it's not easy to catch.

Lu Quan is an honest man.

is even more obedient to the words of this fake son who picked up.

Lu Yangge said that he wanted bamboo, and he propped up the boat and used a whole day to cut a large bundle of bamboo.

This bamboo forest is on a mound not far from the embankment of Jiangjiaba to Guanyin Temple. Because there are few fields, it is close to the river beach. There used to be a village, but then there was a plague in the water, and the whole village died and fled, and it became a large wasteland.

The reason why Lu Quan knew was because he used to be from that village.

Every year around the Qingming Festival, as well as the New Year's Festival, Lu Quan has to take a boat to this piece to burn paper for his father and brother.

He couldn't find the bones of his father's brother or the submerged ancestral grave, so he could only rely on this way to remember his relatives.

Lu Yangge said that he wanted to weave cages, and twenty of them needed bamboo. Lu Quan remembered the bamboo forest in his hometown where no one was in charge, and he cut some back to use it, and he didn't need to spend copper money.

The bamboo was cut back, Lu Yang Ge taught, Lu Quan made up, and Lu Quan made up two cages, and Lu Quan got started, and made ten horn cages and ten single cages for Lu Yangge. The first two were not good for him, so he dismantled them, and made a medium small bamboo basket for each of the four young brothers.

In this way, if the four siblings want to pick something in the future, they don't have to carry the big bamboo basket at home out.

The whole family, except for Lu Xiaoyu and Lu Xiaoli, was curious and asked about this strange thing.

Whether it was Qiu or Lu Quan, or Lu Xiaoqing, no one asked Lu Yangge what this thing was for.

It seems that as long as she wants, as long as they can do it, they will try their best to find it for her.

Chen Shao shook a handful of purslane and put it in the basket, looked at Lu Yangge who was running around by the river, and asked softly, "What is your little four doing?" ”

"Get out of the cage."

Lu Xiaoyu knew that Lu Yangge was going to get out of the cage, but she didn't know what she could do in the cage.

With such a thin cage, you say catch fish, but it definitely won't work.

She could see that there was a circle of pointed bamboo sticks stuck upside down in the cage.

But what do you catch if you don't catch fish in the water?

You can't catch snakes!

Seeing that Chen Shao was confused, Lu Xiaoyu couldn't explain more, because she was actually confused.

Fortunately, Chen Shaoyan didn't ask much, she was not a child who talked a lot, because her parents died early, there were only grandmothers and brothers at home, and her life was more difficult than others, and she became more and more sensitive.

When playing with the Lu sisters, they never do annoying things, let alone talk too much.

Around the Dragon Boat Festival, the wild grass is luxuriant, and most of the wild vegetables are too old to eat.

What can be eaten now is probably the more fatty purslane, although this thing can be eaten, but it is extremely oily when fried.

However, the poor people don't care about these, whether they spend oil or not, no one is willing to put oil anyway, most of them go back and scald them with boiling water, put a little salt and pat two garlic cloves to mix even a dish.

If you pick a lot, you can also scald it in boiling water, dry it, and keep it for winter.

Lu Xiaoyu and Chen Shaoyao picked half a basket of purslane, and found a piece of wild mugwort that was not bad.

This thing is good, go back to dry it and make tea, invigorate blood and relieve pain, and it can also dispel wind and dehumidification.

The people on the boat like to make a big pot of tea with wild mugwort in summer, and dry it there for adults and children to drink.

Lu Yangge got out of the eel cage and made sure that there was no problem, before he got up and walked to Lu Xiaoyu's side.

Before she could walk to Lu Xiaoyu's side, she heard Chen Shao scream: "Xiaoyu, snake." ”

Then there was Lu Xiaoyu's surprise cry: "Where is it?" ”

Lu Yangge was startled, and ran away.

On this river beach, it is good to meet non-venomous water snakes, but if you meet a poisonous snake and get bitten, it will be a big trouble.