Chapter 5: The Brookside Boys

Fortunately, although the spring water is cold, it becomes sweet and delicious when it flows slowly into the stream.

On a summer afternoon, nine bare-bottomed boys of seven or eight years old gathered to play in a stream two or three miles below the spring. When the stream arrived, the chill had faded, and there were even some shrimp, crab and small fish swimming in the water.

The stream was only two feet deep, and it had just reached the child's waist. Several children, their bare upper bodies and skulls and faces, were covered with black and yellow mud, revealing only a pair of black and white eyes, apparently using the mud to resist the sun's hot scorching. (Converted according to the Zhou-Qin unit of measurement, one zhang is equal to ten feet, and one foot is about equal to twenty-three centimeters now.) ๏ผ‰

On both sides of the stream, willow trees with crooked necks grow along the stream, the shadows of the trees are swaying, and the clear shouts of children are heard from time to time in the bursts of cicadas.

Looking closely, the stream is a little narrower, several children are using sand, mud, branches, and turf to build a simple embankment, seeing that the embankment is about to be completed, the water slowly gathers, and gradually does not pass the children's necks, several children can't help but chirp and shout happily, one by one like loaches sliding into the embankment, their little heads sinking and floating in the stream.

On the trail in the distance, there were more than a dozen other children dressed in various colored shirts and trousers, giggling and haha, running around, looking behind them, it was the direction of Wangzhuang, this group of children, the age of the same seven or eight years old. The leader was a red-shirted boy about eleven or twelve years old.

This boy was obviously a head taller than the other children, his jet-black pigtails shook with the beating of his body, he looked delicate, his lips were red and his teeth were white, and he wore a silver collar the thickness of a little finger around his neck.

Seeing that the group of children was getting closer and closer to the stream, a weak boy with a naked upper body and a pair of khaki shorts on the lower body suddenly jumped out of the grass, and stopped in front of everyone.

"Monkey, how are you doing, are the boys in Hanquan Village playing in the old place today, and are there any aquatic villains?" asked the boy in red who jumped out, and when he mentioned the word "aquatic", there was a faint hint of nervousness on his face, and several children behind him also stopped playing and looked at the monkey blocking the road.

The monkey grinned, revealing a few sparse teeth, and said flatteringly: "Young Master Long, don't worry, I didn't see the aquatic life, only Da Niu and the other eight boys built a dam there." โ€

The boy in red suddenly loosened his heart, his eyes rolled, a wicked smile flashed on his face, he turned around, and said to everyone behind him: "Do you hear that? Hehe, the villain in the water is not here, in this case, we don't need to play under them, just kill them directly, extinguish the prestige of those boys, and let out a bad breath!"

The little boy behind him suddenly rubbed his hands, the crowd was excited, and he shouted in a chatter, and from the words of everyone, it seemed that the boy of Hanquan Village, who had built a dam in the stream, had fought several battles, but because of a child named "Shuisheng", he had never taken advantage!

The boy in red waved his hand, and everyone suddenly stopped shouting. Stretched out his finger and pointed to the three children who were slightly thicker, and said: "Erzhu, Huzi, and Gouwa, you three listen to me, just hold the big cow hard and make him unable to move, and the rest will be handed over to us." If you can get out of this bad breath, when you get back, I'll treat you three to the snacks you bought from town. โ€

"Young Master Long, don't worry, wait for me to hold the big cow, if he dares to break free, I will bite him. A little boy with a tiger's head and dark skin puffed out his eyes, waved his small fist, and said in a buzzing voice, looking at his young age, his voice was as hoarse as an adult.

The other two children with average height, cool eyebrows and eyes, both full of leprosy children, heard that there was a "snack" to eat, their eyes showed a look of longing, and they couldn't help licking their lips, one of the children said: "Brother Erzhu is right, if the big cow is not convinced, I will bite him!" The other person echoed. Looking at the appearance of the two, it seems to be a pair of twin brothers.

The boy in red nodded with satisfaction, his eyes swept over the children one by one, raised his right arm, and said in a high-spirited manner: "Okay, from now on, everyone don't make a noise, let's rush over quietly and kill him by surprise!" All the children stopped the noise and followed quickly, and even their steps were deliberately lightened a lot.

From time to time, a child touches a hand of mud from the bottom of the river, quietly waiting for his companion to surface, and then smears it on his head and face, and before he opens his eyes, he first burrows into the water and disappears. Either by grabbing the partner's ankle or holding down the partner's head so that they cannot surface. It's a lot of fun.

A boy from Hanquan Village, Fang poked his head out of the water, but at a glance he saw the menacing red-clothed boy and his party, his eyes widened, and he screamed: "Brother Niu, Wang Lung's villain is here again!"

The water splashed in the river, and all the children swam to the shallow part of the water, and one by one they stood up, and all of them set their eyes on a boy with a red and black face, thick eyebrows and big eyes. After some tossing in the water, the mud that everyone had originally pasted on their bodies had long been soaked off, revealing their smooth bodies one by one.

The boy in the lead, strings of crystal water droplets slipped from the dark and sturdy little body, looked at the red-clothed boy and his party rushing over, not only was not afraid in his eyes, but a trace of excited flames flashed, and he stepped forward and blocked in front of the children. grinning, a hint of mockery flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he said loudly: "Wang Long, you are a defeated general, you don't want to stay downstream and drink the master's footwashing water, but you dare to run up, do you think that if there are more people, you can beat fewer people?

Before he could finish speaking, he quickly bent down and felt a stone the size of an egg from the stream, and threw it with shaking hands. The smooth pebbles arced in the air, striking the red-clothed boy head, which was surprisingly accurate.

Seeing that he was about to be hit by a stone, Wang Lung showed a trace of anger on his face, snorted, his steps swayed slightly, and he jumped into the grass on the side of the road, his body was flexible, as if he had practiced martial arts.

The stone "banged" and smashed on the road, raising a cloud of dust, and the big bull secretly screamed in his heart that it was a pity, raised his right hand, put the two fingers of his thumb in his mouth, took a deep breath, and blew out a loud and long whistle, which spread far away.

Hearing the whistle, Wang Long's face changed, and seeing that the children of Wang Zhuang behind him had already rushed in, he said loudly: "Brothers, quickly, give me a hard stroke, don't wait for him to call the villain of the water." โ€

The group of children roared and rushed into the stream, and the two pillars took the lead, followed by the tiger and the dog, and the three of them pounced on the big cow separately. The big bull was undaunted and stepped forward.

The children looked for their opponents and scuffled together, and the water splashed everywhere, screaming, laughing, and crying sounded together, so that even the cicadas on the old willow trees by the stream stopped chirping, flapping their wings and fleeing.

Wang Lung looked at the rather clean red shirt on his body, looked at the stream that was muddy because of the fighting, frowned, climbed a big rock by the stream alone, crossed his hands on his waist, shouted in his mouth, and commanded the children of Wang Zhuang in a decent manner.

Although the children of Hanquan Village are at a disadvantage in numbers, they are not very afraid, especially the big cow who is surrounded by five children in the middle, the strength is much greater than that of other children, his eyes are wide open, punches and kicks, and in a short time, the five people who surrounded him have blue noses and swollen faces, if it were not for Erzhu and a pair of arms desperately hugging the waist of the big cow, the big cow may have already broken free.

The dog baby who desperately hugged the left arm of the big cow, and when he saw that the five of them were working together, he still couldn't take advantage, lowered his head, and bit the big cow's arm.

The tooth marks are deeply imprinted into the flesh, the blood overflows, the big cow "ah" a cry of pain, the empty right arm retracts hard, and the elbow hits the two pillars behind him between the chest and abdomen, the two pillars are in pain, the arms are loose, and the big bull who has to get rid of the freedom kicks on the belly of the tiger who pounced in front of him, and the tiger stumbles backwards and falls, hitting the dam, and the small dam that is temporarily completed collapses and falls softly, and the stream that has finally gathered up quickly disperses.

The big bull pulled the dog baby who bit his left arm to his chest, and his right fist was quickly struck, "bang, bang, bang" after three punches, the dog baby fell crooked in the river, wow wow crying, tears and nosebleeds on the little face were blurred, one tooth was knocked out, and the blood in the mouth flowed.

The other two children around him were startled and stepped back. Da Niu's gaze swept over the two of them, and a trace of contempt flashed at the corner of his mouth, and instead of chasing them, he bent down and found two pebbles from the stream, threw one out with shaking hands, and threw it at Wang Long on the big rock by the stream.

Seeing the stones whistling and smashing in, Wang Lung had no choice but to jump off the boulder and said angrily: "Zhou Daniu, you are a strong seed, you can come up for me, see how Young Master Ben cleans you up." He squatted down, had just touched a stone, and was about to stand up and fight back, when his eyes inadvertently swept towards the road by the stream, but suddenly his hair stood on end, his little face turned pale, and he suddenly jumped into the stream, and screamed: "Wolves!

The big bull, who was about to smash another stone out, suddenly stopped, looked at the path by the stream, his face changed drastically, and his heart suddenly contracted.

On the road behind the boulder where Wang Lung was standing, there was a sturdy gray wolf with a height of five feet and a body length of seven feet, and behind the gray wolf, the dense grass shook for a while, and quietly crawled out of the other four gray wolves with a slightly smaller body.

The she-wolf led by the head bared her fangs, her shining brown eyes swept towards the children in the stream, her long crimson tongue was salivating, she stretched out one of her paws and slashed lightly on the ground a few times, bowed forward, and pounced on the king dragon that jumped into the stream. Four gray wolves followed behind him.

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