In the blink of an eye, there were all birds and beasts walking at the door of Zhou Xingping's house, and Shui Qing glanced at him impatiently.

Turning his head to look at the two crying children, "It's useless!" If you are bullied, you have to scold back? What problems does crying solve? Can crying solve your meal? Dressed? Don't you have to fish and pay taxes if you cry? ”

Shi raised his hand to wipe his tears and didn't dare to cry, and followed Shui Qing to the side of the boat to hold the fishing net.

Shui Qing rolled up his trouser legs and walked to the shallow water and dragged the net to watch.

"Lots of fish! Mother, a lot of fish! Sister, come and see! ”

Cao Mozi ran over with red eyes, there were half a net of large and small fish, and she couldn't care about crying, so she hurriedly pulled the net with her hand.

The mother's tired face was red and her neck was thick, and she suddenly felt a lot lighter, Shui Qing looked back at Zhou Xingping with a wooden face to help pull the net, she didn't say anything, why don't you use it? Do you have white rice on it?

"Rich! Get rich! We got rich sister! Shishi's happy tone was particularly similar to Zhou's mother's appearance.

"Do you know what it means to be rich? Fortune with such a small fish? That's too good to get rich," Shui Qing smiled helplessly.

"Isn't that much? It's the most fish I've ever seen," Grass Moko said with a frown.

"These fish are definitely not worth much when sold nearby, we have to make them into smoked meat and send them to Fucheng to sell them."

"Fucheng? What kind of place is that? The stone was curious.

"A state capital city that is much more prosperous than the town, hurry up and get everything into the house, I'm starving!"

She dragged the fishing net and walked in front, and Zhou Xingping went into the water to push the boat ashore and tie it up.

"Dad, you see we have caught a lot of wild ducks, and we will definitely be able to sell them for a lot of money tomorrow!" Stone showed his father a net of ducks.

Zhou Xingping smiled at his son and touched his head.

Shui Qing returned to the house to prepare to boil water to wash, and found that there was hot water in the pot, so she unceremoniously scooped a basin into the house to wash it, and went to the pot house to cook food when she came out.

The two children also learned to clean the water, fetched water, went into the house, bathed and came out, and waited for food.

"It's time to eat," Shui Qing shouted to the sitting child as he extinguished the fire at the bottom of the pot.

The two children jumped up three feet high, and ran to the stove to look at the pot, "Is this a duck egg?" ”

"Well, duck egg stall shrimp cakes!" Shui replied lightly, filled a bowl full of food for the two children, and shoveled two shrimp cakes with oil and salt.

"Daddy will give you food," the stone little hand was hot and red, and he held the bowl to his father.

Shui Qing glanced at their father and son, "Doesn't your father have long hands?" Is he lame in the leg and not in a broken hand, and he satisfies that crippled heart by exploiting his own children? How can he hold your bowl? ”

"No, my dad wasn't like that, my dad didn't exploit us," Stone cried as he put down his bowl.

"I didn't exploit you, you didn't have breakfast and dinner? I didn't exploit you, what else are there in your two houses besides the walls? Doesn't he work? Do you take your brothers and sisters to eat and wait for death all day long? ”

Cao Mozi looked at Shui Qing with teary eyes, "It's not like eating and waiting to die, my father does a lot of work every day," she didn't know what she meant when she was young, but she knew that it was not a good word, so she couldn't help but argue, crying and choking and forgetting to eat the cake.

"You can't eat after doing so much work?"

"We ......"

"Isn't it just that your grandfather went to work at your grandmother's! I can't drink the water in my own family, so I go to help others! Hurry over to eat, wash the pots and bowls after eating," Shui Qing scolded and scolded and brought out two more bowls.

I took a bowl and two pieces of bread and went out to eat.

"Dad gives you shrimp egg cakes, I like this mother, although she is very fierce, but she is willing to give me and my sister food, and is willing to take me and my sister to fish to earn money," Shi wiped his tears and took two cakes and gave them to his father.

The tears on his face were wiped away and he grinned, "The cakes in the pot must be me and my sister, Dad, you eat." ”

Zhou Xingping looked at his son, and countless looks flashed in his eyes, but he couldn't say anything.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Shui Qing to come in with an empty bowl, and saw that there were still cakes in the pot, "Why don't you finish eating?" With that, he gave the shrimp quiche in the pot to the two children.

"When you are still growing your body, eat more to have the strength to help work, and how much food has cost me to feed you! After eating, I only washed the dishes, and the pot with oil was left untouched, and it will be used again tomorrow morning, and I will now officially teach you how to live. ”

"I know Mother, I'll give you another piece of bread," Shi handed the cake to Shui Qing.

"Eat it yourself! I was too full to eat at night and felt uncomfortable, so I cleaned up and went into the house to sleep after eating," Shui Qing lit a fish oil lamp and took it into the sleeping room.

took out two old clothes from the baggage, and took out the needle and thread she drew and began to change the clothes, and the two new pieces of cloth in the box, she was reluctant to take them out and cut them after all.

Cao Mozi went to bed in a daze, Shui Qing glanced at her sideways, and there was no expression in her mouth.

Thinking that she would be a good girl in her second life, she was forced to become a shrew, if she hadn't been spicy yesterday, she wouldn't have known what the Zhou family would be like today!

Sure enough, people still have to be shrews! You can live more comfortably by being spicy, at least people don't bully you so often.

She ordered most of the bowl of fish oil, shook off the two gowns in her hand and looked at it, took out the fish lamp with satisfaction, took out one and hung it on the door over there, and came to the door to go to the pot house.

Seeing that Zhou Xingping was sitting on the ground picking out fish, there were basins and scissors next to him, it seemed that he was planning to clean up the dead fish.

"Are you stupid?" After Shui Qing finished speaking, he squatted down and touched the fish, and all the biggest fish were picked out and put aside, and the dead fish were also picked out, and the small fish were also picked out.

"Small fish don't have to pick ...... together"

Shui glanced at Zhou Xingping innocently, "Give it to them for nothing?" I don't know how to eat without a long mouth? ”

She quickly picked up two or three catties of medium fish into the fishing net, took the fish net to the lake, threw the whole net into the lake, and tied the net rope to the rocks on the shore.

When he came back, he took a big net and put the big fish into it, and threw it into the lake to raise the fish, and threw the big fish into the basket before they died, and moved them to the water's edge to raise them, and picked out the dead ones and kept them for a while to wash them out.

The two of them washed the fish much faster, chopped up the smaller fish and poured it into the basin, and took it to cover the duck cover of the wild duck.

"Eat! Give me all the strength to eat, tomorrow morning I will feed you a pot, when the time comes to sell a heavy half a catty, how can ten weigh five catties. ”

Zhou Xingping's hand washing the fish paused and didn't dare to look up, he lowered his head and worked hard to wash the fish.

Shui Qing went into his house and took out a tripod shelf, which was five or six stories high, and took out two bamboo pole racks, and carried the washed fish and hung them on the bamboo pole to dry the water.

After working hard in the middle of the night, I couldn't open my eyes, "The clothes hanging on the door are stone, you go in and bring him to wear tomorrow morning, and the smell of a good child can't be smelled." ”

Without waiting for Zhou Xingping to answer, she went into the house by herself and closed the door to sleep.

Zhou Xingping walked to the house, picked up his clothes and shook them off, looked at the fish oil lamp for a long time, put down his clothes and walked to the dark place and squatted down for a while before getting up.

"It's all money, don't be poor and generous, if you can ask for more copper, you can ask for more, and after selling it, I will buy two jars of salt and come back, and I will wait to use it."

"Stone, look at your useless father, wild ducks and fish are our rations for eating shrimp egg cakes, I won't give you two meals in the future if you have one less money, you are optimistic I will allow you to buy two meat buns to taste."

"Mother, don't worry, I promise not to let you go less," the stone is lowering his head and tearing his clothes! Although it didn't fit, it was also his second new outfit.

"Mother, the clothes are a little big, you can change them for me when you come back in the evening."

"Change what? You have changed your life quickly, and you can still wear it next year after tomorrow, save some money and save it for the winter to make cotton clothes for your brothers and sisters. ”

"Okay mother," Shishi's eyes lit up immediately when he heard the cotton clothes.

"Don't you catch fish?"

"Don't fish, you can weigh a few catties with water in this way, and the extra is money," Shui Qing said and took the two of them to the water's edge.

Fish out the medium fish and look at it, make sure that it is not dead and tie it to the stern of the boat, "When you get to the wharf and sell it to the shopkeeper of the fishing house, go to the entrance of the village and shout, ask if there is anyone who goes to sell fish together, and take a trip back and forth for five cents." ”

"Mother, the uncle in the village has no money......"

"How do you know they don't have any money? If you don't have money to swim, you two can carry them on your back, if you let me know that you two don't charge money for taking people, you can wait to swim next time! Shui Qingmeng picked up the fish basket and looked at the child viciously, "At a young age, you are very generous to others!" ”

"Others are pitiful if they don't have money, but I am not pitiful if I have money? My landlord is an old rich man? At what age is it not good for children to learn, and to be poor and generous? ”

The two of them were scolded early in the morning and went to the entrance of the village with bloody boats, and they didn't need to shout, many people here were waiting with fish!

"Oops! The third child still has a water duck! Second brother and sister, come and take a look," Sister-in-law Zhou's eyes lit up a lot as she looked at the wild ducks in the boat.

Sister-in-law Tuesday's eyes flashed when she heard this, and she quickly came over with a smile, "It's true, this water duck looks not small!" ”

"Third child, let's take two of them down and stew them for my father to taste at noon," Sister-in-law Zhou instructed briskly.

Zhou Xingping glanced at her and squatted down to prepare to solve it.

The stone hugged the wild duck, "Dad, have you forgotten what your mother said?" This water duck mother has calculated the accounts in her heart, if we can't pay the money back, do you want the mother to let us out? ”

"I said catfish bubbles, this is to honor your father, isn't your father as good as your stepmother?" Sister-in-law Zhou asked with a gloomy face.

"If my grandfather wants to eat, we will come back and bring one to my mother to stew, and it will be the same to pick up my grandfather and my grandmother to eat at our house at night."

The people around him all looked at Zhou Xingping, and they all had a good look on their faces.

Zhou Xingping walked silently to the bow of the boat and sat down, it seemed that the tigress at home was terrifying.

"Dad, let's go!"

"Take us with you," a group of people panicked when they saw that the two were leaving.

"Uncle, it costs five cents to take a trip back and forth," Shi Shi said seriously, looking up.

"Yu Baozi, how did you learn to be so unkind at such a young age? The third child, these are all good neighbors in the village, what do you say about Yu Baozi? Sister-in-law Zhou reproached bitterly.

"That's it! Don't you fathers and sons go away by yourself and run empty? Xingping: You have a ship, you don't recognize people, right? Someone in the crowd said angrily.

"It's okay if you don't give money, lend us your fishing net for a day."

"You've got a bad brain, right? Can I borrow my fish net casually? ”

"I can't break the fish after a day, isn't it just a sprinkle in the water? You go out to sell fish and sell it for a day, and your house is empty. ”

"What do you think of beautiful things......" The person who replied suddenly stopped.

"I didn't think of anything beautiful! Aren't these all good neighbors? I borrowed it for a day when you went out, and I didn't delay your normal net fish or something, and the neighbors all helped each other. ”

"In a while, the child's aunt is ready to carry you across the lake to the dock! I happened to go to his aunt's house to get the net. ”

"When am I going to carry ......?"

What don't you carry? How's that going to work? Without you as the number one, wouldn't they be able to drown when they cross the lake? Before I got married, how did the people who didn't have boats in Yuehu Village cross the lake? These are all uncles who have been in the house for a lifetime, why do you say that if you don't carry it, you won't carry it? ”