"Crackle-"

As soon as the nets were retracted, more than a dozen live fish were trapped in the nets, bouncing back and forth on the fishing boats, their mouths buzzing because of the lack of water.

"Ah Xiu, you will kill the fish later, send it to the Li family's aunt, Old Man Yuan wants to live, you don't have to kill it, just send it to him quickly." ”

A swarthy middle-aged man smoked a dry cigarette while instructing his daughter.

"Got it, Daddy. ”

Ah Xiu tore off a live fish from the fishing net and took a sharp fish-killing knife.

She slapped the back of her knife hard, and knocked the live fish stunning, and the fish stiffened and did not move.

Ah Xiu took a knife and cut the fish belly with one sword.

She skillfully took out the internal organs and bitter gall, washed the flesh, scraped the scales, and handled the fish with her hands and feet.

When she went to catch the second one, a man who looked like a monk came over.

"Amitabha, this female benefactor, is polite. ”

The round monk pronounced a Buddha name.

"What is the matter with this Zen master?"

Miss Axiu's skin is a little dark, because she has been exposed to the wind and sun on the river all day long. But her appearance is first-class, not lost to any woman in Qingfeng Town, lying silkworm eyebrows, goose egg face, smiling as if there is the clearest spring water in the world.

Now she smiled and said, "This Zen master, you shouldn't have come to buy fish!"

A monk who eats meat is a precept, isn't he a monk of wine and meat?

Miss Ah Xiu looked at his tattered dress, and saw that he should be an ascetic, not like a wine and meat monk.

The little monk has a reluctant request, and he also asks the donor to agree. ”

"The Zen master said that it doesn't matter, if the little girl can help, she will definitely help. Ah Xiu said.

"The little monk wants the donor to release all the fish in the fishing net, and don't kill them again. ”

Ah Xiu's father on the side listened to the round monk's nonsense, but he was angry, and teased: "You stinky monks, you know how to make people compassionate, you know that you want people to be kind, release us to eat, and who will be pitiful if we starve to death? You monk, hurry up and let me go, otherwise I will beat you with a stick." ”

As he spoke, he actually picked up the stick on the side.

Appearance, vicious.

The round monk stood on the shore and did not flinch at all in the face of Daddy Axiu, who was standing viciously on the fishing boat.

He pulled out another thing from his sleeve, dark and brown, in the shape of a clay doll.

This is a humanoid piece of He Shou Wu.

"The little monk wants to exchange this thing for all the fish on your boat. "The round monk said.

"Let's go, take a piece of black stuff to fool someone, if you don't leave, I'll really beat you with a stick." ”

As he spoke, he looked like he was about to hit someone with a stick.

Ah Xiu's father didn't know the goods, but Ah Xiu's mother on the side recognized the piece of things in the hands of the round monk, before she married Ah Xiu's father, she was the daughter of a medicine collector in the mountains.

The humanoid He Shou Wu is difficult to see and is worth a lot of money.

She pulled Ah Xiu's father and went to the side to whisper to him.

Miss Ah Xiu looked at the round monk, but her eyes were still smiling.

After listening to his mother-in-law's words, Ah Xiu's father finally understood, knowing that the things in the monk's hands were worth a lot of money, and the expression on his face changed suddenly, from vicious to lively and good when talking with regular customers.

Ah Xiu's father said: "Haha, Zen master, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding." ”

"Can the little monk exchange this thing for your fish?" asked the round monk again.

"It's nature, nature. ”

"Then please help the little monk release all the fish in this net into this Mingluo River!"

"Daddy, the fish are all released, what should Uncle Yuan do over there? He still wants to make soup with live fish. ”

Miss Ah Xiu made a difficulty.

Ah Xiu's father didn't care about her, and took the humanoid He Shou Wu thrown by the round monk, and then went to untie the fishing net and threw the live fish hanging in the net into the water, until there was no fish in the net.

The round monk didn't check whether there were any live fish hidden in the boat, but just folded his hands, bowed sincerely to Ah Xiu's father, and turned to leave.

When the round monk walked away, Ah Xiu's father pulled out a live fish from the crack in the boat.

He had just secretly hidden.

"Come, Ah Xiu, take this fish and send it to Old Man Yuan. Daddy Ah Xiu showed a mouthful of yellow teeth and smiled treacherously.

"Daddy, how can you deceive people?" Ah Xiu was a little unhappy.

"What's wrong with deceiving people, deceiving people is not for you, deceiving people is not because they want to save a dowry for you, you want to stay on a fishing boat for the rest of your life, do you want to marry someone like your father for the rest of your life?"

"Okay, okay, let's say a few words. "Ah Xiu's mother didn't let Ah Xiu's father count her down again.

"Oh!"

Ah Xiu was told this by his father, and he was unwilling to nuns, and no longer refuted.

She picked up a straw rope and prepared to tie the live fish and send it to Uncle Yuan.

When the fish arrived in her hand, she had an idea, and with a "oops-" sound, as soon as her hand was released, the live fish crossed the fishing boat and jumped straight into the Mingluo River, and like the fish released just now, dived to the bottom and swam away.

"Daddy, I accidentally let the fish run away. Ah Xiu said pitifully.

Ah Xiu's father didn't know his daughter's tricks, and said: "You go to Li Gui'er next door to buy a live fish and send it to Old Man Yuan, and the money will be deducted from your monthly money."

"Daddy, I was careless. ”

When Ah Xiu heard that she was going to deduct her monthly money for this month, she was unwilling, she had saved up for a long time and wanted to buy a box of rouge, but it was the time when she was short of money.

"What's it called, don't think I don't know what the hell you're playing with this little girl, you grew up watching me and your mother, I still don't know you?"

"Daddy bad guy. ”

Ah Xiu got angry, took the fish that was killed for the Li family's aunt, got off the boat angrily, and went to Li Gui'er next door to buy live fish.

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Day 2.

The round monk came again, and he asked Ah Xiu to release the fish he caught.

Only this time, he didn't come up with anything like the humanoid He Shou Wu, and only the few pennies he got from his fate in Qingfeng Town were not even enough to buy a live fish.

For the sake of his generosity yesterday, Daddy Ah Xiu sold him a live fish.

The round monk took the fish, changed his hand and gently put the fish into the water, the fish met the river, and then violently fluttered, and after a while, it went to the bottom of the water and disappeared again.

The round monk was satisfied, and turned to leave.

Ah Xiu's father scolded him for being a fool and a fool behind him, and the round monk heard it, and he didn't refute it.

Day 3, Day 4, Day 5......

Every day from then on, the round monk would come to Ah Xiu's fishing boat and beg her to release the live fish.

Most of the time he came empty-handed, Ah Xiu's father was here, he couldn't ask for it, and he didn't entangle, so he turned around and left.

Sometimes he can get a few pennies, so he buys a live fish and releases it, which is his own wish.

Winter goes to spring, and flowers are in full bloom.

The round monk also gradually became familiar with Miss Axiu, a fisherwoman.

Perhaps under the influence of the round monk, on the days when the round monk did not ask for money to buy fish, Ah Xiu would carry his father behind his back and secretly release a live fish.

She couldn't say why, but after the release, she would be very happy, and her heart was full of satisfaction when she looked at the live fish that slowly dived into the water.

Another day, when she saw that the round monk's straw sandals were rotten, she secretly wrote them down, bought some materials on the street, and prepared to buy him a new pair.

She can't say why she wants to do this for him, she just thinks that this monk is pedantic and pedantic, but he is a good person, it is difficult for a person to insist on doing one thing, but he has been doing it, which makes her admire it very much, so she is willing to help him make a new pair of shoes so that good people can live a little better.

She didn't know the size of his feet, so she made them for him according to his father's feet.

When he was done and gave it to him, he tried it, but it was a little small, which made Ah Xiu very depressed, he shouldn't be ashamed to say it, he should have asked him the size of his feet at the beginning.

She said that she wanted to help him make another pair, but the round monk shook his head and said, no need.

Then, wearing the blue cloth shoes she made, she left.

The round monk's eyes were filled with fear and trepidation.

There are many people who walk in the red dust, and they will be completely lost in the red dust and the world, and they will not be able to extricate themselves.

Miss Axiu doesn't understand, because she is originally a person in the world.

On the second day, the monk did not ask her for the release of the live fish.

On the third and fourth days, it was still the same.

The round monk disappeared.

Miss Ah Xiu will never see the round monk again, as if he has left Qingfeng Town.

At the end of March, the Li family, who opened a roast chicken shop in the town, came to Ah Xiu's house to propose marriage.

The bride price is very rich, and the person in the Li family has a good reputation in the town, filial piety to his parents and elders, and closeness to the neighbors, Ah Xiu's father agreed without thinking about it.

After all, the daughter married a good family, and she no longer has to suffer from the wind and sun all day long in this fishing boat like them.

Miss Ah Xiu did not object, nor did she nod.

Ah Xiu's father took her as a tacit consent.

At the end of April, the day of worshipping the ancestors and welcoming the gods in Qingfeng Town, it was also the day when the groom of the Li family married the Axiu girl into the door, the town was lively, and the groom of the Li family rode a horse and led the sedan chair to the riverside.

Miss Ah Xiu wore red bridal clothes, put on a red hijab, sat in a sedan chair, and after a while, she had entered the gate of the Li family.

And the night, before you know it, has fallen.

Qingfeng Town is also more lively.

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