Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 167

This year's rain is not as heavy as in previous years. Even in the rainy season in July, it is the kind of light rain that doesn't last long. The experienced old people in the village looked at the sky and said that this year's harvest is better than last year. .

In the golden autumn of September, the fruits are fragrant. Some of the home-made melons and fruits are ripe, with a strong fruity fragrance. The white pears from the pear tree in the yard are much more delicious than last year. Not only are they all fresh and juicy , but also sweet and delicious.

When the Yang Weimin brothers were free before, the two brothers deliberately picked off a tree full of white pears, and put the excess in the cellar for the New Year. The rest, the big house took a basket, Mrs. Yang and Li sent a basket there, and they kept a basket for themselves.

Since then, Chunqiu has fallen in love with eating white pears. Whether it is digging medicine in the mountains or catching fish in the water, he will take a few white pears and put them in the basket to quench his thirst and hunger.

Chunqiu stays at home, except for the occasional visit to Heishan Town, the rest of the time is around Yangjiacun. When the house is free, she will take Huzi or Chunhua to run out together.

Yesterday Chunqiu promised Chunhua that today they would go to the reeds by the river to collect duck eggs together.

Although it is already September, the weather has not cooled down yet. Chunqiu is still wearing summer shorts and long shirts, and he is stepping on the straw sandals made by Yuan. Shi still took care of it for a few days, but when she found that she couldn't manage it, she simply let her go.

When she came out after eating in the morning, Chunqiu deliberately carried a small basket to make it easier for her to pretend, and let the tigers beside her carry the wooden bucket. They not only went to pick up duck eggs, but also brought back a few fish with the fishing net. After all, fish meat is plump now, so it would be nice to eat a few more meals.

"Mother, Huzi and I are going out." After tidying himself up, Chunqiu greeted Yuan Shi in the room.

"Okay, slow down," Yuan's voice came from the room.

Chunqiu responded quickly, then called Huzi beside him, ran to the door of the uncle's mother's house, called Chunhua out, and they went out.

Chunqiu discovered something unusual today, that is, Xiaoshitou didn't follow him. Chunqiu asked curiously, "Eh? Second sister, where is Xiaoshitou? Why didn't you come together?" It's incredible, Xiaoshitou and their age It's about the same size, so every time a few people go out, they will bring small stones with them. Over time, it can be regarded as acquiescing in disguise. Although they didn't call him, they all took him with them.

When Chunhua heard Chunqiu's words, she snorted unhappily, and then looked angrily, "Don't worry about him, he got angry with me last night, and ran to the river this morning, saying that he had to pick up more than I did." Chunqiu Looking at the way Chunhua talked, it was more like suing her.

Chunqiu stroked her hair, "It's okay, second sister, let's go too"

"That's right, we can't let him pick up too much," Hu Zi also echoed.

After saying this, several people looked at each other, and then rushed out tacitly.

The reeds in the reed marsh were taller than them. After Chunqiu and the others came over, they first lowered the fishing net brought from home into the water. At this time, the water was not cold. Chunqiu asked the two of them to go to the reed marsh first, and she put the fishing net alone. just fine.

Chunqiu wore straw sandals and went into the water. Nowadays, there is no messy pollution in ancient times, and the water quality in the river is many times better than that of later generations. Looking at the light and transparent river water, the fish and shrimp in it are clearly visible, and there is still water in the river. There were tiny aquatic plants swaying from side to side with the current, Chunqiu walked to the upper reaches of the river, where the current was stable, slowly put the fishing net in his hand into the water, tied one side to the bank, and pressed the top side with stones, Chunqiu just went ashore.

The reeds were very big, Chunqiu entered from one end, wandered for an hour before finding Huzi and the others, they split up, and when they finally came out, everyone gained a lot, Chunqiu picked her and Huzi up The duck eggs were put into the basket, just filling the bottom of the basket.

"Second Sister, let's go and collect the fishing nets, and then go home." Chunqiu looked at the sky and it was not early, although they were just wandering around the reeds, but it took a lot of time.

Chunhua was a little tired, she didn't argue with Xiao Shitou after picking up duck eggs, "Okay, let's go home"

"Huzi, go and collect the fishing net, it's under the rock over there." Chunqiu turned to tell Huzi beside him, she was also a little tired.

Huzi replied with a cry of "ah", and they walked to the river. Huzi first put away one end of the fishing net, and then pulled over the fishing net that had been cast in Spring and Autumn along the cloth strips on the fishing net.

"Eh? Third sister, why are there no fish?"

Chunqiu was sitting on a rock beside him to rest, when Huzi yelled at him.

"What? No, let me see."

Chunqiu stood up in shock, looked at the fishing net not far away, and ran over impatiently.

Seeing his third sister running over, Huzi purposely put the fishing net aside, pointed at the net and said innocently, "Third sister, look, there really isn't one."

Chunqiu took a closer look, and immediately frowned, really not!

Chunqiu squatted down and pulled the fishing net to examine it carefully. It turned out that it didn’t matter. After watching Chunqiu, I wanted to cry even more. Hey, why is this fishing net broken? Looking at Huzi beside him with a straight face, "Huzi, this fishing net is broken." No wonder you can't catch fish, it's so broken, how can you catch fish.

"Broken? No, it was fine yesterday, didn't it?" Chunhua's voice came from behind Chunqiu.

After hearing this, Chunqiu quickly turned around, "Ah? Really?"

"Really, if you don't believe me, you can ask Xiao Shitou, yesterday we caught several fish with fishing nets, but they were downstream." After Chunhua finished speaking, she pointed to the place below the river.

"Is it because there are too many stones in the place where you put the third sister, and the chromium is broken?" Huzi turned his head and looked at the place where Chunqiu lowered the fishing net.

"Impossible," Chunqiu said uncertainly, "Did it be cut by something?" Chunqiu put forward his own hypothesis, the stones in the river have been ground into round and smooth pebbles, and there is still moss on them, how could the fishing net be cut? Chromium is bad, but there are indeed a lot of stones upstream, Chunqiu is not sure.

"What can cut a fishing net into pieces?" Xiao Shitou sighed.

I don't know, Chunqiu also sighed.

"Oh!" At this time, Chunhua suddenly yelled out.

Chunqiu looked at her curiously, only to hear Chunhua point to the river thoughtfully and say, "It can't be those hard things, right?"

"Hard thing? What is it?" Chunqiu didn't know what Chunhua was talking about, so he asked directly.

"It's a crab," Huzi said naturally from the side.

Crab? !Chunqiu's eyes widened suddenly, "There are crabs in our river?" After Chunqiu finished speaking, he stood up and looked into the river.

Hey, that's a crab. After steaming, it's fresh and delicious!
Although Chunqiu liked to eat hairy crabs in his previous life, crabs are also good. The crabs here are freshwater crabs, that is, river crabs, which taste sweet and have an unusual meaty aroma.

After Chunqiu finished speaking, he went down the river like a stream. This is the right time to eat river crabs. Chunqiu rolled up his sleeves and waved to the people on the bank, "Come here quickly, let's eat crabs today!" "

"Eh? Can this be eaten?" Chunhua jumped into the water as soon as she heard that she wanted to eat. Although in Chunhua's eyes, the crab was the kind of thing that was hard to eat and didn't eat its head, but what the third sister said.I should be able to eat it.

Chunqiu nodded fiercely, "You can eat it, come here quickly, remember to ask for a big one."

There's nothing you can't eat, she's good at steaming, frying and cooking.

"Third sister, why didn't you see it last year?" Chunqiu grabbed it while talking, thinking that she didn't miss it last year, why haven't I seen the crab yet!

"Oh, we were down there last year, right? There are only crabs in this area," Chunhua said, taking it for granted.

Chunqiu was surprised, "Ah? Is that so?"

Chunhua nodded, "That's it. Look, there are a lot of rocks here, and there are crabs inside." Chunhua said with a smile, then bent down and started to search again.

Chunqiu lowered his head and glanced, there are indeed more rocks upstream than downstream.

It seems that the gates of Yangjia Village don't like crabs very much, so that the crabs living in this area reacted too cumbersomely. Chunqiu and the others lifted the surrounding cobblestones and grabbed the crabs inside without any effort.

After a while, the bucket brought by Huzi was full.

Chunqiu was worried that the crabs would come out, so he specially made a round cover with the reed leaves on the side to cover the top of the wooden barrel. After catching the crabs, they carried the broken fishing nets that could not be broken, and rejoiced. back home.

(End of this chapter)