home in the end

Chapter 2 Discovery

Meizi waited for the bamboo basket to be filled with fish and secretly counted five fish in total, and there were still some fish swimming around that hadn't entered the bamboo basket.Meizi doesn't want to ask for too much at once. If things are really as she thinks, are she afraid that there will be no fish to eat in the future?

Liang Yilin had long been happily about to pull up the bamboo basket, but Meizi hurriedly stopped her. If this was the case, both of them might be pulled down, and she wouldn't even have a place to cry. "Rope, pull."

Liang Yilin came back to his senses, and hurried to pull the rope. It took a lot of effort for the two of them to pull up the bamboo basket. The five fish were all big and heavy. Fortunately, they didn't go directly to the bamboo basket. Pull the rope as far as possible, otherwise you may be pulled into the water.

Liang Yilin untied the rope and picked up the bamboo basket with difficulty and said, "Sister, let's go home."

Liang Yimei said: "Together." As she spoke, she also grabbed one side of the bamboo basket, Liang Yilin put down the bamboo basket, tilted her head to think for a while, looked left and right, saw a stick, ran to pick it up and walked through the bamboo basket "Lift the stick," said Liang Yimei, holding hands.

Liang Yimei glanced at him with admiration, Xiao Liang Yilin is really too smart.It's not that she didn't expect it, but she was afraid that they might suspect it. Although she had only been together for a few days, she could still feel that the elder brother and the second brother in this body were very smart people. If they weren't young, and this body was too small If they don't show much at ordinary times, maybe they will be suspicious. There are too many things that happened today, Liang Yimei dare not do too much, for fear of arousing everyone's suspicion.

The two staggered and carried the bamboo basket back. After returning, Liang Yilin hurriedly put the fish into the water tank for fear that it would die.

After walking all the way, Liang Yimei was already exhausted. She just sat on the ground and watched Xiao Liang Yilin rush in and out. This is still a six-year-old child.Liang Yimei wanted to stand up to help, but Liang Yilin quickly walked over and picked her up on the small stool that she put aside with difficulty and said, "Sister, sit down, you won't be tired after a while." Then he ran to add water to the water tank.

In order not to worry him, Liang Yimei had no choice but to sit there and watch him rush in and out.Fortunately, there are two water tanks at home, otherwise, if one is used for fish, there will be no water in the tank.

Liang Yimei took advantage of this gap to take a good look at the house.This house is not bad. There are two yards at the front and back. There are a few vegetable fields in the back yard, but there is nothing on it now. There is also a small straw shed, which seems to be for livestock, and a toilet. In the kitchen, there is an ancient well, and there is a room for miscellaneous goods on the side. The walls are built high, and the house is still about [-]% or [-]% new. It can be seen that the family was very prosperous before, but I don’t know why the two people in the family The adults passed away one after another, leaving behind three young children.

Liang Yilin packed up his things and sat next to his younger sister. After a while, he felt cold, so he picked up his younger sister and went back to the house. Liang Yimei struggled to get off the ground, thought for a while and said, "Brother, I want daddy, mother..."

Liang Yilin's eyes turned red, and he said, "My sister is good, as long as I want my brother."

Liang Yimei couldn't bear it, but she still insisted: "I want Dad, Mom."

Liang Yilin hugged his younger sister and sat on the bed, saying: "Father and mother are gone, father was killed by bandits, mother died of illness, uncle and aunt are bad people, they robbed things from the house, elder brother took things away when he grew up Grab it back and give it to my younger sister, my younger sister doesn't want her father and mother, she just wants her elder brother and second elder brother." He also felt very sad and started to cry, Liang Yimei was a little flustered when she saw this, but she also felt sad and followed her elder brother. When he started to cry, Liang Yilin was still a child, but now that his sister was crying, he cried even louder.

This is what Liang Yimu saw when he came in. His younger brother and younger sister hugged each other and wept bitterly. He thought something serious had happened, so he quickly threw down the firewood, ran over to hug his younger brother and sister, and said, "What's wrong? Who bullied you?"

Liang Yilin was out of breath from crying, and said intermittently: "Sister wants...father...mother."

Liang Yimu was stunned, his long-standing pretense of being strong collapsed, his tears welled up, and he hugged his younger siblings and started crying too. It was only a dozen days since his mother died, and he kept telling himself not to cry, father and mother After death, uncles and aunts are unreliable, and he is the only one who can rely on younger brothers and sisters in the future, so he has not cried all the time, even when sending off the spirit, but now looking at the crying brothers and sisters, he will never cry again. Can't stand it anymore...

The three children cried for a while, and everyone felt better. Sure enough, crying is also a way of venting all the time.

With tears on his face, Liang Yilin looked at his brother timidly, and whispered: "Brother, I know I was wrong, I shouldn't make my sister cry."

Liang Yimu patted his head and said: "It's okay, my brother picked some wild vegetables today, and we will eat wild vegetables tonight."

Liang Yilin's eyes lit up, he took his brother's hand and dragged him outside, "Brother, there are fish, we eat fish and wild vegetables at night."

Liang Yimu frowned, "Where did the fish come from?"

Liang Yimei also climbed out of bed and followed them. The three of them came to the water tank together. Liang Yimu saw the five fish inside and asked in amazement, "Where did they come from?"

Liang Yilin said proudly, "My sister and I caught it together."

Liang Yimu's face suddenly darkened, and Liang Yilin called out in fear, "Brother?"

"Who told you to take your sister to catch fish? Didn't I tell you not to go out? What's more, you went to the river. Don't you know how dangerous it is? What if you fall into the water?"

Liang Yimei also felt a little scared, indeed, they were all children, what would happen if they fell into the water?It seems that if I go to the river again in the future, I have to call my elder brother, and I can't go to places where the water is too deep, but to places where the water is shallower.

Liang Yimei hugged Liang Yimu's leg and said, "Let's go together, everyone."

Liang Yimu picked up his sister and asked Liang Yilin, "How did you catch the fish?"

Liang Yilin talked enthusiastically as soon as his eyes lit up, and finally said: "Brother, those fish are so stupid. We put down the bamboo basket, and they burrowed into it. Can we still catch fish later? If we catch fish, we will take them." Go sell it, and then buy something delicious to come back."

Liang Yimei's eyes lit up. This second brother is really smart. She was still thinking about how to get her eldest brother to sell the fish, so he proposed it.

Liang Yimu responded, looked at the sky that was about to get dark, and said, "You guys wait at home, my brother will go change some food and come back." Then he put down his sister, dragged the firewood back to the kitchen, and took three sticks from the water tank The fish went out.

Liang Yimu stood at Sanchakou, thought for a while and went to Liang Wuye's house outside the village.He didn't dare to go to his uncle, he was afraid of getting into trouble again, and he didn't want to enter the village. Now, the people in the village can't avoid them, so how can they exchange food with him?
Liang Yimu stood at the door, hesitating for a moment or knocking on the door, Liang Wuye opened the door and saw the child standing in the wind, he sighed silently, and stepped aside, "Come in."

Liang Yimu called out with embarrassment: "Fifth Grandpa."

Liang Wuye nodded and led him into the house. After Liang Yimu followed him in, he hesitated for a while and handed over the fish in his hand and said, "Fifth Grandpa, I want to exchange some food."

Liang Wuye looked at the fish in his hand in surprise. He could still catch fish at this time of year?
"Who is it?" A hoarse voice came from inside the room.

Liang Wuye came back to his senses, and raised his voice and replied: "It's the master of the Liang family from the top of the mountain."

Liang Yimu also replied, "Fifth Grandma, it's me."

Fifth Grandpa said to Liang Yimu: "You sit down first." He carried the fish into the kitchen, and after a while, he took out a small bag with some brown rice.

Liang Yimu took the bag and said awkwardly, "Fifth Grandpa, you don't need so much." It weighed about twenty catties.

"Not much. This fish costs twenty cents a catty in the market, and brown rice costs ten cents a catty. I weighed the fish just now, which is exactly twenty catties of rice." Fifth Grandpa thought again when he saw him He declined and said, "Go back quickly, your brother and sister are still waiting for you."

Liang Yimu was silent for a while and said: "Yes, I will go first for the fifth grandpa."

Liang Wuye closed the door after sending him out and came back. Seeing his unhappy expression, Fifth Grandma asked, "What's the matter?"

"The family is too ruthless. The three children probably don't even have anything to eat."

Fifth Grandma snorted coldly: "It's not the first time your Liang family has been ruthless, is it worth it?"

"After all, we are adults, so we won't starve to death anyway, but those are still three children. What's more, we would rather bully the rich and the old than the young and the poor. Who knows what opportunities these three children will have in the future? That child looks smart." Liang Wuye shook his head.

Liang Yimu went back and made rice with brown rice, washed fish and wild vegetables and cooked them. The three of them ate a delicious meal.

Lying on the bed at night, Liang Yimu asked in detail about the fish he went out to catch today, and when he heard that the fish really went into the bamboo basket by himself, he showed a pensive look, and before going to bed, he said: "Tomorrow, brother Go catch fish."

Liang Yilin cheered and fell asleep with a sweet dream, but Liang Yimei was a little worried, wondering if she should put her hand in the water and try again tomorrow.I thought I wouldn't be able to fall asleep, but the child's body couldn't stand the tiredness, and soon she fell asleep too.

The next day, Liang Yimu made a meal for everyone to eat, took the bamboo baskets, and led his younger siblings to the small river.

Liang Yimu put the bamboo basket into the river, and after waiting for a long time, no fish came out. Liang Yilin was a little strange, "Obviously, there were already one after putting it in yesterday."

"Didn't you put anything else?"

Liang Yilin thought about it carefully, and said, "No."

"Yes, hand in hand, let me go."

Liang Yimu looked at his sister and said, "Let go?"

Liang Yimei nodded, went to the river and squatted down, put her hand in and said, "That's it."

Liang Yilin let out a "huh", pointed at the bottom of the river and said, "Brother, look."

Liang Yimu looked along his hand, and saw fish swimming from everywhere, he was startled, and quickly pulled his sister up, and the fish swam to the place where his sister put her hand just now, and did not go away for a long time, as if Suck something there.

Liang Yilin shouted, "Catch the fish quickly."

Liang Yimu came back to his senses, quickly picked up the bamboo basket to catch the fish, and put the fish in the wooden barrel that Liang Yilin insisted on bringing.

After fishing for five or six times, the wooden bucket and bamboo basket were full before stopping. Liang Yimu picked up some smaller fish and threw them into the water, and then fished some larger fish into the bucket.After a while, the fish dispersed.

Liang Yimu looked at Liang Yimei and asked, "Does sister know why the fish will come when you put your hand in it?"

(End of this chapter)