Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 240 River Toad
bell! ! !
The school bell of Caogou Village Primary School rang.

The children rushed out of the classroom with their schoolbags on their backs. Sister Cui stood at the door of the classroom to remind them to go home early to do their homework after school and not to stay outside.

This kind of warning doesn't work in the city, let alone the children in the countryside. They are like wild birds locked in a cage. Once the cage door is opened, they go crazy looking for freedom.

When Anna returned to the village, she naturally became the focus of the children.

You especially saw her take out snacks and toys that she had never seen before from her schoolbag, and those small eyes were as bright as a flashlight.

"Tie Dan, this is Dove chocolate, here you are."

"Mantou, here's beef jerky for you."

"Little one, this is a cheese stick."

"Ah, this is a Barbie doll."

……

The children who got the snacks and toys were as happy as flowers. In their eyes, Anna is the king of children, and they will have fun if they listen to her.

Surrounded by Anna, they walked out of the school gate.

Ooooooo!
Da Hua, who was lying on the side of the road, saw Anna appear, got up and walked forward.

"Da Hua, come and pick me up from school." Anna asked sweetly.

Woohoo!

Dahua nodded, grabbed the schoolbag from Anna's hand, and was about to go to the old house.

"Little aunt, go back after playing for a while!" Tie Dan said with a smile.

"Yes, let's throw sandbags." Sniffing his nose, the little boy took out a sandbag sewn with rags.

"It's okay to play treasure, I have done a lot."

Scarlet took out a stack of paper treasures from his pocket. Paper treasures are pieces of paper folded into squares, which are divided into front and back sides. One paper treasure is used to smash another paper treasure. As long as the smashed paper treasure is turned over, it is considered a win.

The best material for making paper treasures is calendar paper. The folded paper treasures are hard and tough, but wall calendars are a good thing in rural areas. They can be used to fill holes in windows, stick walls and roofs. If the rural child has a paper treasure made of wall calendars , That's so arrogant.

The paper treasure in the man's hand, with matts, was obviously torn out of the homework book.

The children all let out a long sigh, "Ou used his homework book to make a stack of paper treasures, you're just kidding, Mr. Cui said he can't tear up the homework book."

Scarlet's face turned red and he justified, "I didn't, this is... This is a notebook sent back by my father, not from the school."

"Okay, let's talk about what to play." Tie Dan urged impatiently, then turned his head and said, "Why don't you go fishing for the river toad? I went to Yantang yesterday and saw that the river toad has come out."

"Okay, let's go fishing for the river toad."

"After fishing the river toad, roast the river toad and eat it."

"I have cotton at home."

"I'll go home and get the line."

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The little friends responded eagerly, but Anna was stunned. What kind of animal is the river toad, and cotton and thread are used.

Following Tiedan to the Yantang, it rained heavily a few days ago, and the rainwater flowing down from Yuanbao Mountain filled the Yantang, and even the stone platforms where the villagers usually wash clothes were also submerged.

Floating lotus leaves on the surface of the weir pond are covered with frogs, croaking hard.

Li Hongqi, who was chatting under the persimmon tree, saw a group of children playing by the weir pond, and quickly cursed, "What are you bastards doing? If you dare to go down to the pond, I will give you a discount on your legs."

Tie Dan chuckled, and pointed at the dazed Anna beside him, "Little aunt wants to eat roasted river toad."

It's Anna!

Li Hongqi immediately changed his face, jumped down from the dike with a smile, and patted the dirt on his fart, "You guys can catch a ball, and I'll catch it for you. Where's the cotton?"

"This is it!"

The little boy took out a large ball of cotton from his pocket, and the baby took out cotton thread.

"Scarlet, go find a bamboo pole."

Li Hongqi took the cotton, pulled out a small ball, rubbed it on his fingertips, and then tied the cotton with cotton thread, which was tied to the top of the thin bamboo pole.

After the tools were ready, Li Hongqi looked at the children, "Which one of you will come?"

"I'll do it." Tie Dan volunteered to stand up, took the bamboo pole and ran to a reed bush not far away, only to hear the sound of rushing water, and when he came out, the cotton had already turned wet and yellow.

Taking the bamboo pole, looking at the yellowed cotton ball, Li Hongqi smiled and said, "Tie Dan, you're on fire, go back and ask Old Master Liang to cook you a bowl of wheel grass to set off the fire."

While speaking, Li Hongqi threw the bamboo pole into the water, shook it twice, and quickly lifted it up.

Anna saw a green-skinned and yellow-patterned frog biting a cotton ball, kicking around, and immediately clapped her hands happily.

"Frog, big frog."

The bamboo pole carried the frog back to the pond, biting the cotton ball tightly in its mouth, struggling with its legs, and Tie Dan pinched both sides of the frog's mouth with his hands, and with a little force, the frog was picked off.

"Here, little aunt." Holding the toad, Tie Dan handed it to Anna in a very grand manner.

Now Wa Na in the city has seen live frogs, even if she saw them in books or on TV. Watching the frogs struggling and jumping in Tie Dan's hands, Anna's expression was both frightened and excited, and she wanted to stretch out her little hand but dared not.

"Little aunt, don't be afraid, just pinch your legs." Laidou demonstrated on the side.

Ah!
Anna nodded and mustered up her courage to grab the frog's two long legs. It was so wet and terrified. The moment Tiedan let go of her hand, the frog made a violent struggle, scaring Anna and hurriedly let go.

Pfft!
The frog jumped into the water, dived into the water and swam a long way before surfacing, croaking cursingly towards the shore with its big mouth.

Anna pursed her lips, her eyes turned red.

"Don't cry, don't cry, I'll catch you again." Li Hongqi hurriedly threw out the bamboo pole and caught another frog.

This time, Tie Dan had experience. He picked up a piece of dogtail grass from the ground, tied up the frog, and handed it to Anna.

The frog's claws and legs were tightly bound by the dog's tail grass, and there was a gurgling sound in its throat.

Damn, you guys are so ruthless, how shameless you are!
Anna, who got the frog, broke through her tears and smiled, pointing to the croaking frogs on the lotus leaf, "That one, that one, I want more."

As each rod is thrown, a frog must be caught.

Anna learned very quickly, from watching people catch frogs, to doing it on her own initiative.

Watch the sun go down.

The sky was drizzling.

The old man stood under the eaves, looking at the time from time to time, muttering to himself.

"What time is it, why don't you come back?"

"Did I go to play with Tie Dan and the others after school?"

"It's a rainy day, what if you catch a cold?"

Li Hongbing sat on the wheelchair mountain, looking at the sky speechlessly, the drizzle seemed like it never fell, and it turned into heavy rain when it came to his father's mouth. I never saw him being so caring when I was in school, as if I had never given birth to a son.

"Don't worry! Da Hua is following, maybe this party is already on the way back."

Hearing his son's words, the father immediately turned his gun.

"You still have the nerve to say that you don't care about your daughter when you are a father, and you don't know how to pick it up after school. Let the dog pick it up. You are a father like you."

Against the strong wind and rain, Li Hongbing raised his head weakly, "Didn't you pick me up from school back then?"

"I..." the old man got stuck, turned his face and said angrily, "then was then, and now is now, it's not the same thing, do you know?"

Why is it not the same thing.

Double standard like this.

Li Hongbing was speechless.

In the [-]s, I was thrown into the mountains to live with my grandparents. There was no school in Caogou Village, so I had to go to Shilipu, [-] miles away, to go to school.

At that time, there was no such thing as accommodation. Every day before dawn, I took out the sweet potatoes buried last night from the ashes in the stove, and set off to school with the older children in the village. By the time I got to school, it was nine o'clock. Continue to eat sweet potatoes at noon, after school at [-]:[-] p.m., walk [-] miles back to the village on the mountain road.

Especially in the bitterly cold winter, the nineteen turns of Chaotian Rock can scare people to death. The children hold hands and walk in the knee-deep snow with their feet. The students in the village went to class on a snowy day, and that period of unbearable days was over.

Thinking about it now, life is really miserable.

Seeing that Li Hongbing remained silent, the father knew that he had said something wrong. His son had suffered a great crime when he was a child, but his dignity as a father could not lower his figure to apologize. The father and son just sat under the eaves in silence.

After a while.

Anna, on the other hand, was carrying a swollen schoolbag, bouncing into the yard with a string of crisp laughter, followed by Dahua with helpless eyes.

"father!"

"grandfather!"

The appearance of Anna instantly broke the awkward atmosphere, and the father stepped forward to hug his granddaughter with a kind face.

Ah!
A little heavy.

But this is normal, children's schoolbags are very heavy when they go to school.

"Come on, give me your schoolbag. Are you hungry? Your grandma steamed brown sugar buns for you."

Hearing that there were brown sugar buns to eat, Anna's eyes lit up, she threw the schoolbag into the kitchen, and the father sighed with the heavy schoolbag, "The child is so pitiful now, the schoolbag weighs seven or eight catties at such a young age, it's not like before, The textbooks will be gone after school.”

Did you point me on purpose?

Can't be provoked, can't hide.

Li Hongbing rolled his eyes, pushed the wheelchair into the bedroom to read a book, leaving his father sighing alone.

I haven't read the book for long.

Shan Xing quietly walked behind Li Hongbing, and suddenly grabbed the medical book, "Brother, it's time to eat."

"What kind of food to eat, how good it is to eat you." Li Hongbing smiled and pulled Shan Xing, but Shan Xing lost his balance and sat on Li Hongbing's lap with an ah.

The two hugged each other, with an ambiguous atmosphere.

After lying down for more than a month, Li Hongbing's body was slowly recovering, especially after absorbing the source of the colorful rooster, the recovery speed of the source was several times faster.

The reawakening of big objects is the best proof.

However, Li Hongbing would be a little confused.

Normally, as long as the two of them are sticky together, Shan Xing will be very active, how will this be coy, and she won't let go at all.

They have all started, but there is no movement.

Cough!

Suddenly there was a cough at the door of the room, followed by my mother's voice.

"Come out to eat."

Ruined!
Li Hongbing was stunned in the wheelchair by the sound of coughing, and the apricot in his arms was burning all over, and he glared at Li Hongbing with blushing.

But Shan Xing was not angry, she was shy, but there was a smile in the corner of her eyes, as if being bumped into by her mother was not a bad thing.

"Satisfied this time!"

Leaving Li Hongbing's arms, Shan Xing pinched someone again, and pushed the wheelchair out of the bedroom.

It's raining outside.

Dinner is eaten in the main room.

The whole family sat neatly around the Eight Immortals table.

When Li Hongbing and Shan Xing appeared, they found that everyone except Anna was smiling.

"Come out, sit down quickly." Mom got up first, giving up the two seats next to each other.

Shan Xing hurriedly said that he was going to pick it up in the kitchen, but was stopped by the eldest sister and second sister halfway, and forced it back into the chair.

"It's all a family, sit down and eat." The old man acted like a patriarch and set the tone, Xia Shanxing shyly bowed her head and sat beside Li Hongbing, the two of them held hands together under the table.

Everyone ate this meal very happily, only Anna looked at the door from time to time, as if she had something on her mind.

quack!

Somewhere in the main room there was a cry of frogs. At first everyone didn’t pay attention to it, but as the number of frogs croaked more and more, everyone couldn’t sit still. Could it be that the earth toad has come home, because as long as it rains continuously, the earth Toad likes to drill into the house.

At this time.

Meow.

The princess came to Li Hongbing and meowed.

Li Hongbing looked down and saw a green and yellow-striped frog on the ground with its belly up, its four legs trembling slightly.

It's the river toad!
How could there be a river toad at home.

"Princess, where did you catch it?"

Meow!

The princess walked gracefully to the stool by the door of the hall, and used her claws to pull the schoolbag on the stool, and there seemed to be something moving in the schoolbag.

The second brother-in-law was closest to the schoolbag, so he picked up the schoolbag and curiously opened the zipper of the schoolbag.

"Don't open it." Anna stood up and shouted nervously.

But it was too late, the moment the second brother-in-law opened the zipper, densely packed frogs jumped out of it, onto the second brother-in-law's face, onto the dining table, into the soup bowl, and into the old man's rice bowl.

"!!!" Everyone in the main room was dumbfounded.

Li Hongbing gritted his teeth and squeezed out his daughter's name.

"Anna Li!"

Anna screamed and ran out of the main room while shouting.

"It doesn't matter about me, it was the second uncle who opened the schoolbag."

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One.

Two.

three.

four.

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Even the animals joined the team of catching frogs, and soon dozens of wandering frogs were caught in the bucket, croaking and croaking.

Li Hongbing's brain was throbbing, and he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.

He stared at the lovely and pitiful Anna standing at the door with her hands clutching her ears.

"You're really good at it. It's not enough to catch one, but you also grabbed a schoolbag."

Anna choked up and said, "Tiedan said he wanted to roast frogs to eat. Frogs are so cute. The teacher said that frogs are beneficial insects and should not harm frogs, so they took them home."

"You are reasonable." Li Hongbing stared.

My mother came out to smooth things over, and held Anna tightly in her arms, "Okay, didn't you do the same thing when you were a child, hiding frogs in the bed, and crushed them to death at night, and scared your grandma in the morning and thought you had diarrhea and pulled out your intestines gone."

"Mom, don't make trouble."

After being interrupted by his mother, Li Hongbing lost his temper. The upper beam was not straight and the lower beam was crooked. This is what I do when I am an old man, so what right do I have to say about my daughter.

"Let's not take this as an example. Is there any homework assigned today?"

Ah!
Anna was dumbfounded for a moment, and hurriedly left her mother's arms, picked up the schoolbag on the ground, opened it, and took out the soaked and smelly homework book.

What about this?
Hey!
Let you catch the river toad, you are afraid that you don't know that the river toad will pee when it is frightened.

Li Hongbing said happily.

"You're done. Teacher Cui will beat you if you don't hand in your homework tomorrow."

Wow!
Anna burst into tears, tears streaming down her face.

"With a father like you, if you don't help, you'll talk sarcastic." My mother glared at Li Hongbing, and pulled Anna into her arms again, "Ni'er, let's not cry, let your eldest aunt and second aunt help you."

After finishing speaking, he shouted at the two daughters who were watching the fun.

"What are you laughing at, why don't you come over and help."

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(End of this chapter)