Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 3 Catching Fish
The little girl cried when her mother saw her sister's arm.He hurriedly ran to Li Rongrong and took her hand, and gently stroked the hot red spot with her skinny little hand.

She helped Li Rongrong blow with her small mouth and asked: "Sister, does it hurt? San Niu blow it to you!"

The little girl's innocent words and the warm breath from her mouth warmed Li Rongrong's long-cold heart.

Even if it's nothing else, just because of the love and care that the family of four have shown her, she has to survive for them.

Not only did she have to live for them, but also for the dead Xu Xiaomi, and she also had to live well for herself.

In the past 12 years, only [-] years were happy, and in the remaining ten years, five years were spent on father's medical expenses, two years were spent on college living expenses, and the remaining time was spent on buying a house Buying a car, skills training.

Because her mother got married again, there was always a knot in her heart that couldn't be untied.She didn't want to see her stepfather in her house. She said that it was okay for her mother to remarry, but she couldn't live in her house.

That was the house her father left her, and she didn't want her father to see irrelevant people living in it.But the man my mother married didn't have a house, so he lived in her house all the time.

Moreover, every time she went home and saw her stepfather, he would look at her lewdly.In this way, she rarely went back, and even rarely called her mother.

In fact, she knew in her heart that her mother was lonely living alone, but she just couldn't accept that someone else took her father's place.

Now, she figured it out but couldn't tell her mother.But now she has a chance to treat Xu Xiaomi's parents well, okay!

From now on, I will be Xu Xiaomi!My thoughts drifted back, and I saw the little girl was still blowing to her.

She said to the woman: "Bring me your single clothes! I won't wear clothes like this in the future. It's almost Chinese New Year, and there is no food at home, right? The clothes still look new, so pawn them!" Buy some white flour and come back, eat that black stuff every day, we have nothing to do with our younger brothers and sisters who are growing up, if they can’t keep up with their nutrition, they will be unhealthy.”

The woman said with a bitter face, "How is this possible?"

She didn't answer the woman's question, but just took the little girl's hand and said, "Okay! San Niu, thank you for your sister's pain. Let's go and see if brother and dad are done eating. Let's go catch fish after eating!" He pulled Sanniu and left the woman.

Why didn't she call her a mother?She really can't cry out, her soul is more than 20 years old, this woman is only 26 years old, she is only a few years older than her, even if she wants to shout, she has to wait until she gets used to it!

After she took Sanniu away, the woman took out a bundle from the cabinet, tidied it up and brought it over, and put a piece of her own unlined clothing on her shoulders, and went to the kitchen and handed it to Xu Xiaomi now.

She took the single dress and put it on her body. It was big and long. She rolled up the sleeves that had grown a lot, and found a black cloth belt in the bag and tied it casually around her waist.

At this time, Er Niu and his son also packed up the pots and bowls. The father carried a bamboo fish basket, and Er Niu stood at the door with the basket on his back, looking at her.

"Let's go!" Xu Xiaomi pulled San Niu out and said to the father and son.

Xu Xiaomi walked out the door and glanced around. There were two rusty hoes and two poles under the eaves of the small yard.On the side of the road outside the courtyard is a courtyard wall made of fence.

Walking outside the fence, she glanced into the house, saw the woman looking at them with tears in her eyes, and turned her face away when she saw her turn around.

she is crying?Why?Is it because she hasn't called her?
The father and son walked along a small road in the country. It was winter and the fields were deserted.

It was evening again, and occasionally people from the same village would ask, "Second Qiang! Is this your daughter? Are you recovering?"

It turned out that Xu Xiaomi's father was Xu Erqiang, and his mother was Zhou Yuqing.Xu Erqiang has two younger sisters and an older brother. His father, old man Xu, is an honest man, and her mother, Mrs. Wang, is a money-seeker.

When Xu Xiaomi was five years old, because of her handsome appearance, she was secretly taken by Wang to buy it for Ren Yazi in the city.

Xu Erqiang and his wife searched for a long time but failed to find them. After returning home, they discussed with the old man Xu and separated.It was said to be a separation, but in fact, Xu Erqiang and his wife took their three-year-old son Erniu and Sanniu, who was less than one year old, to leave the house without leaving the house.

After Xu Erqiang was separated, he borrowed pots, pans and farm tools from his neighbors to live his own life. He started renting fields and later bought two acres of Susukida.

Although the life is a little bit hard, but fortunately, the three thatched huts that I live in now are built by the couple saving money on food and expenses.Their popularity in the village is still very good.

When people asked about Xu Xiaomi's illness, Xu Erqiang would always say with a smile, "It's getting better. It might be frightening to fall into the water so cold! I'm much better now, thank you for your concern."

After a while, the father and son came to the river. The water was not very deep. Xu Erqiang rolled up his trousers, took off his shoes and walked slowly into the water barefoot.

The river was icy cold but crystal clear, and a school of fish swam right in front of Xu Erqiang.I saw him standing there, bending down and stretching out his hands, slowly approaching the school of fish in the water.

But he swam away before he reached the fish.Xu Xiaomi looked around and found a small forest on the shore, and she asked Sanniu to wait for her there.

She went to the grove and broke off a branch as thick as her arm, walked over, and took out a rusty knife from Er Niu's back basket.

After grinding on the stone, he began to sharpen the thick end of the branch with a knife, removed the leaves, walked to a place not far from Xu Erqiang, and handed it to him.

Xu Erqiang held the branch and looked at her suspiciously. "Use this to catch fish! It might be easier and not so cold." Xu Xiaomi said to him.

"Hey! I'll try!" Xu Erqiang replied with a smile.

Just at this time, another group of fish swam over. Although it was not big, it was better than nothing!
Xu Erqiang spotted the branch in one of the hands and stabbed it down.

"Haha! I really caught it! Girl, you really have a way! Hehe..." Seeing Xu Erqiang's happy look, she also smiled.

However, she felt that it was too cold to stay in the water for too long.Thinking of this, she went to the small woods and broke off two arms-thick branches, and sharpened one end with a knife. She also took off her shoes, rolled up her trousers, and went into the water to spear fish.

After a while, she saw that she had speared several fish and still landed for San Niu to pick them up and put them in the basket.

Er Niu was originally collecting firewood, and seeing Xu Xiaomi catch so many fish, his hands were itchy.

"Sister, I want to catch fish too, teach me!" Er Niu shouted from the bank.

"Don't get cold in the water, take your sister to collect more firewood, we'll cook fish tonight." Xu Xiaomi said to Erniu who was taking off his shoes on the bank.

Er Niu stopped what he was doing, looked at his younger sister and the empty pannier beside him, Dara put on his shoes and took his younger sister to the woods to collect firewood.

Xu Xiaomi walked to a place where the river was deeper, where there were more fish, and seeing the fish swimming in groups, there was no escape.

Xu Erqiang saw that she had brought a dozen more to the shore, and hurriedly walked up to Xu Xiaomi and said, "That's enough! Girl, come back in two days! I can't eat too much..."

After hearing this, Xu Xiaomi thought to herself: How honest, the family has no money to buy meat during the Chinese New Year, so a few more fish would be nice!Why do you think it's too much?
However, she didn't say it out, she was afraid that Xu Erqiang would be sad if she said it out.So, she raised her head and said to Xu Erqiang: "Well! Okay, you go up and clean up the fish, I'll be right there, and you call your younger brothers and sisters over and we'll go home right away!"

While talking and walking, he forked two more fish.Xu Erqiang went ashore, put on his shoes, and started to pick up fish and put them in the basket.

After picking up all the fish on the ground, he saw that Xu Xiaomi hadn't landed yet, so he said to Xu Xiaomi who was fishing, "Come up quickly, girl, the water is cold and you are wearing thin clothes, you will freeze to death."

"Okay! Come right away..." I don't know if there are really many fish in this river?Or Xu Xiaomi's luck?
While speaking, she forked two more.After looking at the fish basket and the basket basket from a distance, they weighed more than ten catties in total, and then happily walked towards the shore while spearing the fish.

After she finished putting on her shoes, Xu Erqiang brought Erniu and Sanniu out from the woods, carrying a large bundle of firewood on his shoulders.

Xu Erqiang put the firewood on the back basket, tied it on his back, and walked home with one hand, Xu Xiaomi followed.

This is a small harvest, they don't have to eat that dark wild vegetable soup tonight!
(End of this chapter)