Saturday, River Dam Bungalow.

On previous weekends, Xue Yuantong often stayed in bed until 9:10 a.m. before he got up slowly.

Today, at just 7 o'clock, she got up.

Because there is the temptation of crayfish.

Although the crayfish is currently the big cake painted by Jiang Ning, it is still air, but Xue Yuantong decisively pounced on it and bit the hook.

The reason is simple, in some big things, Jiang Ning never lied to her.

Xue Yuantong stepped on sandals, dressed in shorts and short sleeves, and stood at the door.

She looked at the open fields in the distance, lush and relieving.

The two white arms stretched out to the top of the head, the waist was lazy, stretched out a waist, and couldn't help but read:

"Today is sunny and sunny, pinch your fingers, suitable for catching shrimp."

Jiang Ning came out from next door, the weather was really good, since the rain stopped a few days ago, it has been a sunny day.

He skimmed Xue Yuantong and urged:

"I'm hungry, you cook quickly."

When Xue Yuantong heard this, he went back to cook very obediently without complaint.

Breakfast was very simple, Xue Yuantong spread out the egg cake, fried a side dish, and then squeezed two bowls of soy milk with a soybean milk machine.

The soymilk machine is Aunt Gu in the company's lottery, worth two or three thousand, the most popular style on the market, and the squeezed soybean milk tastes good.

Xue Yuantong is a little expert in cooking, and his movements are quite fast.

Breakfast is for the two of them, and Aunt Gu's job is two days off, but on Saturday, Aunt Gu hardly rests and chooses to work overtime in the company.

Yuzhou Evergreen Group, the treatment of grassroots employees, in the entire Huizhou Province enterprises, ranked among the top ranks, of course, compared with some 'cigarette factories', is still slightly inferior.

Evergreen Liquid strictly abides by the law, and overtime work on Saturdays is double pay.

The work content is not heavy, Aunt Gu has worked hard for many years, and now she gets such a job, she is extremely attentive and will never be fooled.

A few days ago, the Gu family set the goal of buying a car, and Aunt Gu was full of confidence in the future.

Xue Yuantong fiddled with her mobile phone while eating, and she planned to call Chu Chu.

She sent a message to Chu Chu last night, but Chu Chu didn't see the message and didn't reply to her.

Soon, the phone went through.

"Chu Chu, why didn't you reply to my message last night?" Xue Yuantong questioned her.

On the other end of the phone, in an old residential area in the city, there is a house on the seventh floor.

Xue Chuchu sat by the window of the living room and read: "Ah, I was studying last night, and I didn't open the traffic." ”

Her traffic has been used a lot this month, and she is reluctant to pay for a traffic package, so she can only disconnect from the Internet.

"Chu Chu, come to my house to cook today!" Xue Yuantong invited, she had delicious food and never forgot Chu Chu.

As soon as she heard the dry rice, Xue Chuchu, who had just finished breakfast, was a little moved, the last time she saw Tongtong, it was the day of the picnic at the beginning of the month, and she hadn't seen her for 20 days.

'Rabbit meat is so delicious...... Xue Chuchu was greedy.

Compared with the wonderful life of her classmates, Xue Chuchu has not seen and eaten many delicious foods, and she thinks that rabbit meat is simply the best thing.

"I still have a test paper to do." Xue Chuchu is habitually polite.

Xue Yuantong: "Don't do it, combine work and rest, I'll take you to dig shrimp." ”

Shrimp? Xue Chuchu took it when he was a child, and now that he thinks back, he hasn't taken it for many years.

"Come on, the shrimp I cooked tastes amazing, and you are satisfied." Xue Yuantong said bewildermently.

Xue Chuchu: "I'll go now?" ”

"Uh-huh, wait for you." Xue Yuantong put down his phone, his little face satisfied.

She invited merit and said: "Jiang Ning, I helped us find a helper, Chu Chuke can dig shrimp, she even dares to dig snakes!" ”

Jiang Ning: "I don't believe it. ”

"When Chu Chu arrives, you'll know."

"Back then, Chu Chu and I crossed the river, you can't imagine it."

Xue Yuantong took a bite of the egg cake: "What time does Geng Lu arrive, why don't you contact her?" ”

"It's already gone, ten minutes." He contacted it, but it was still in front of Xue Yuantong.

Jiang Ning's mobile phone was placed on the table, the screen was facing the table, he didn't need to touch it with his hands, he only used his divine sense and spiritual power to chat.

Just now, Xue Yuantong called Chu Chu, and he was sending a message to Geng Lu.

Xue Yuantong has a good impression of Geng Lu, and often receives snacks from Geng Lu at school.

After eating, Jiang Ning cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and Xue Yuantong prepared tools for catching shrimp.

Fifteen minutes later, Jiang Ning received a message from Geng Lu, and he walked towards the river dam.

……

On the dam.

The sedan turned around in a wide area and drove back for some distance, and the co-pilot's Geng Lu looked out the window:

"Mom, stop the car."

The driver's seat is a woman in her thirties, similar in appearance to Geng Lu, but with a mature charm.

"Stay safe, call me when you get home in the afternoon, I'll pick you up." Geng Lu's mother advised.

"Got it." Geng Lu agreed, looked under the river dam excitedly, and saw Jiang Ning's figure.

Geng Lu's mother swept away without leaving a trace, and sure enough, she saw a handsome young man.

He's Lulu who often mentions Jiang Ning. Geng Lu's mother was stunned, she had only heard about it before, and when she saw Jiang Ning for the first time today, she was indeed handsome.

"Alright, you go down." Geng Lu's mother said.

Before she finished speaking, Geng Lu had already opened the car door, leaving the woman with a helpless expression.

She educated Geng Lu very well, but she wasn't worried about her messing around.

Geng Lu got out of the car and waved his hand, watching the car drive away.

"Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning!" Geng Lu shouted excitedly, her face was sweet, her eyes were dark and bright, and there was a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Jiang Ning climbed the river dam in a few steps, and his divine sense swept away Geng Lu.

Her clothes don't fit well, and her sympathy is cramped, but this sense of crampedness fully shows her strengths.

Jiang Ning looked past Geng's exposed waist, and he said, "You have lost a little weight." ”

At the beginning of school, she brought some baby fat, which she still has, but it is much less, probably because she has shifted her position.

Geng Lu took two steps forward and explained, "I do yoga with my mother every night and exercise. ”

As she spoke, she wrapped her arms around her elegant little movements to demonstrate her results to Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning picked up Geng Lu and walked with her towards the bungalow.

At this time, Xue Chuchu was almost there, and Jiang Ning didn't wait for her any longer.

Compared with Geng Lu, Xue Chuchu is not the first time to come, she knows the road, so she doesn't need to pick it up.

After arriving at the bungalow, Geng Lu visited Jiang Ning's room, there were a lot of things in the house, but it was unusually tidy, and at first glance, it was exceptionally harmonious.

Geng Lu stayed in Jiang Ning's room for a few minutes, and Xue Yuantong outside shouted:

"Let's go, let's go!"

Outside the bungalow.

Xue Yuantong wears a straw hat, sandals, and a bamboo pole on his shoulder, and an empty bucket hangs behind the bamboo pole.

The empty bucket barely maintained its balance, and Xue Chuchu stood by the bucket, always careful not to fall down.

She also had a ball of wool in her hand.

The equipment for catching shrimp is very rudimentary, and there are only three of them.

"Chu Chu, I told Jiang Ning, you dare to dig out the snake, and you will give Jiang Ning a show when you wait until the river." Xue Yuantong said.

Xue Chuchu's cold eyes froze, and she looked embarrassed:

"Tongtong, are you serious?"

The snake, she was scared.

"When you were a kid, you knew you could." Xue Yuantong was right.

Xue Chuchu: "So it was when I was a child. ”

At the door next door, the neighbors Uncle Tang and Mrs. Tang were taking their little granddaughter to dinner, and they saw this scene.

Uncle Tang shouted: "Tongtong, are you catching fish?" ”

Xue Yuantong said: "No, I catch shrimp." ”

Uncle Tang: "Can you catch it?" ”

Xue Yuantong: "Four people, let's grab a bucket." ”

Uncle Tang looked at the four people, according to his eyesight, the one who can really come in handy, I'm afraid it's not just Xiao Jiang.

"Catch shrimp, I have to rush to the hospital today!" Uncle Tang said.

Xue Yuantong: "When will Xiaofan be discharged from the hospital?" ”

Xiao Fan is a child in their row of bungalows, 9 years old this year, only in the third grade, Jiang Ning had bought a goose before.

Uncle Tang sighed: "Xiao Fan had 8 stitches on his head, and Xiao Fan's mother cried miserably." ”

Xue Yuantong: "I'll go to the hospital with my mother tomorrow to see him." ”

It is normal for neighbors to help each other out.

……

Bidding farewell to the neighbors, Jiang Ning and his party set off.

Xue Chuchu took Tongtong's bucket and carried it in his hand.

Geng Lu was empty-handed and followed Jiang Ning's side.

At around 8 a.m., the sun had just jumped over the horizon and the temperature was cool.

There are quite a lot of people in the river dam, walking, exercising, and selling fish.

Xue Yuantong boarded the dam, the vast Hushui River jumped into front of him, from this place, the reeds on the riverside were clearly visible, and the early fishermen stood by the river.

Sure enough, with the topography of the Hushui River, you can always find a fisherman at any time.

They got up earlier than Xue Yuantong, who was in high school!

Xue Yuantong led the team forward, and the river bank they went to was thousands of kilometers away from here.

Halfway through, there was a figure sitting in the middle of the river dam in front of him, and the people who came and went subconsciously avoided him.

Xue Yuantong reminded: "Don't look at that person later, he is sick!" ”

Sick?

Hearing this, Geng Lu's eyes moved, it was a man in his twenties, with shabby clothes, a dirty face, a full beard, and an expression that was abnormal.

Xue Yuantong stopped his steps and whispered:

"He was mentally ill, and the children in our neighborhood were stoned to the head by him."

"Because he is sick, no one can control him."

Xue Chuchu and Geng Lu consciously avoided a little longer, but Jiang Ning remained as usual.

It seems that in every village, there is a mentally ill or mentally handicapped, or 'madman'.

Most madmen don't hurt people, but the river dam is relatively rare, and it is more unusual to take the initiative to attack children.

This time it was the boy of Xue Yuantong's neighbor, the last time was about a few years ago, I heard that a little girl's finger was smashed, it seemed to be broken, and the mentally ill family lost one or two thousand.

When Geng Lu passed by, he unexpectedly glanced at 'Psycho', and as a result, 'Psycho' stared straight at him, with a grim smile on his face.

For some reason, Geng Lu felt a chill in his heart, and he felt an inexplicable sense of fear.

That smile was so weird, Geng Lu had never seen this kind of smile, as if he was looking at a cold object.

Geng Lu silently walked to Jiang Ning's side.

Suddenly, a neurotic voice sounded: "Bucket, I want bucket, red bucket, haha!" ”

The mentally ill young man grinned, bared a mouthful of disgusting teeth, spread his hands, and staggered closer.

Xue Chuchu quickly pulled away from each other.

The surrounding pedestrians stopped and stared at this scene, and there were some people who often came to the river dam for a walk, and they all knew 'mental illness'.

Jiang Ning shouted calmly: "Get away." ”

There was spiritual power and divine sense deterrence in one sentence, and the mentally ill young man was so frightened that he trembled and sat on the ground.

Pedestrians were amazed.

After Jiang Ning walked away, Geng Lu came back to his senses and patted his chest: "He's so scary!" ”

Xue Chuchu was puzzled: "He wants to take my bucket." ”

Xue Yuantong turned around and looked at it and said, "He not only snatched people's buckets, but also took people's vegetables. ”

Geng Lu thought of that scene and said angrily:

"Lawless, no one cares about him?"

Xue Chuchu said: "No one cares, he is mentally ill, even if he kills someone, he does not have to bear criminal responsibility, their group... It's incomprehensible. ”

Geng Lu: "It's not fair, I'm afraid he's not mentally ill, bipolar disorder." ”

"I don't know, but fortunately, he's usually not around, so he can't touch him a few times." Xue Yuantong pointed to the looming village in the distance, "He's usually over there." ”

When Jiang Ning walked around, he silently ran a spell.

'Mentally ill people who like to hurt others should not stay in crowded places. ’

He flicked his fingers, and the spell flew backwards.

The mentally ill young man was chasing a child, and the child was afraid to dodge left and right, and at this moment, the 'mentally ill' body must have fallen straight down as if it had been shot.

The surrounding pedestrians, seeing this scene, hurriedly came over to check the situation.

……

And Jiang Ning is long gone.

The Hushui River is about 200 meters away from the dam, with rice paddies in the middle, and there are many potholes, some of which are connected to the river.

Xue Yuantong: "Those small ditches are especially easy to dig shrimp. ”

Descending the river dam along the path, Jiang Ning approached the potholes on the river's edge.

Jiang Ning was dressed in short sleeves, stepped on flip-flops, and looked like a country boy.

The bottom of the dam is full of dirt roads, but fortunately the weather is sunny and the ground is dry, if it rains, it is difficult to move forward in the mud, and the shoes can be sucked off by the wet mud.

Trees, grass, wheat fields, Geng Lu walked in the countryside, body and mind were brisk.

Xue Yuantong passed by a large pond, the water of the pond was quite clear, she stood by the big tree, and described:

"It's a pit dug by an excavator."

The pit pond is rectangular, about 20 meters long, seven or eight meters wide, and the water surface is about 20 centimeters away from the ground.

"The water is so clean, you can swim, right?" Geng Lu said curiously.

Xue Chuchu shook his head: "Don't, this kind of pit is the most dangerous, and it is the easiest to drown." ”

"If you look at the edge of the pit, the excavator is very steep, and once you get into the water, it's hard to come up."

"The water looks clean, and if you look closely, it seems that you can see to the end, which makes people mistakenly think that it is not deep, but once you go down, you will know how deep it is."

Geng Lu had never been in contact, and when she heard this, she was puzzled:

"How deep is this pit?"

Xue Chuchu thought for a while, she took Tongtong's bamboo pole and came to the edge of the pond.

Xue Yuantong was worried about her, and Xue Chuchu said, "You stay away and look carefully." ”

She carefully approached the edge of the pond and stretched the bamboo pole into the water until the bamboo pole was almost completely submerged, and then she reached the bottom.

Xue Chuchu pulled out the bamboo pole and stood at Jiang Ning's side.

The part of the bamboo pole that sank into the water was a lot taller than Jiang Ning.

Geng Lu looked surprised: "More than two meters deep." ”

"Well, a lot of children fell in and disappeared all at once." Xue Chuchu said.

Geng Lu looked at the pit pond again, only to feel that the calm water surface was like a big mouth devouring people, and she shuddered:

"It's scary."

Say goodbye to the pit pond and continue to move forward, there are many trees planted by the river, and the forest is particularly comfortable, and occasionally the sound of birds is heard.

They walked along the path on the edge of the potholes, passing one pothole after another.

"Dangdangdang." Woodpeckers frantically knock on trees.

Geng Lu took out his mobile phone and took a photo from afar.

Walking through this forest, the front of me suddenly opened up, and the ground in front of me was still full of potholes, which were close to the river, not so regular, and strangely shaped.

There are clumps of pasture grass near the pond, yellow flowers, pink flowers, the east sun shines, the water surface reflects the light, a piece of vitality.

Xue Yuantong: "These are natural pits, unlike the ones dug by the excavator just now, those are dead pits." ”

Xue Chuchu added: "There are generally no fish and shrimp in the dead pit pond. ”

"Start digging shrimp!" Xue Yuantong spread his calves and shook the bucket in his hand.

She took the lead, ran to the edge of the pond, and searched everywhere with her eyes.

Xue Yuantong has good eyesight, and soon, she found a lobster hole by the water.

"Come on, come on!"

Jiang Ning and the others approached.

The lobster cave is located on the edge of the pond, above the water, and there is a distinctive circle of dirt on the edge of the hole, and the difference can be seen at a glance.

"As I said, there's definitely shrimp in there." Xue Yuantong said firmly.

Xue Chuchu said: "Yes, this is a standard lobster cave. ”

Jiang Ning: "Then the question is, who will dig the lobster first?" ”

Xue Chuchu expressed his opinion: "The entrance of this lobster cave is relatively narrow, which is suitable for thin arms. ”

Xue Yuantong clasped his hands to his chest and said proudly: "Yes, it's down." ”

She was already planning to make a move, and she would definitely shock Jiang Ning when she made a move.

At this time, Geng Lu plucked up his courage: "I want to try." ”

As soon as these words came out, the three of them looked at her together.

Geng Lu said: "I haven't picked shrimp." ”

Xue Chuchu explored the lobster cave again, and based on her experience, she determined that 99% of it was a lobster cave, not a snake cave.

"Then you can try it, and be careful not to get caught." She kindly reminded.

"Uh-huh." Geng Lu looked at Jiang Ning and handed him the phone.

She crouched down and reached for the lobster hole.

Xue Chuchu had touched shrimp before, and she said, "You are in the wrong posture, you can't dig deep, and you turn sideways." ”

"Uh-oh." Geng Lu is a novice and doesn't understand much, but after Xue Chuchu's guidance, she decided to change her posture.

Geng Lu began to touch the shrimp.

The lobster hole is tilted into the inside of the pond and has a certain curvature, so she can only crouch sideways.

Geng Lu practiced yoga, her body was very flexible, her chest was completely pressed against her thighs, and her hands struggled to probe into the lobster hole.

Xue Yuantong, who was next to him, saw this scene and whispered: "It's all flattened." ”

(End of chapter)