June 6, 2014, Manzhong.

On Friday afternoon, after school, Xue Yuantong rarely visited the snack street but took a ride home.

Usually, in addition to playing games in the room, the two of them also like to wander around. While it was still dark, Xue Yuantong asked Jiang Ning to go for a walk in Heba.

Looking down from the dam, the fields are golden and the wheat ears are full, as if they are about to explode.

"Jiang Ning, it's time to harvest the wheat." Xue Yuantong.

"It's almost time."

"Has your family grown wheat?" Xue Yuantong asked him.

Jiang Ning thought for a while: "I stopped farming a long time ago and rented the land to others."

His parents went out to work, so they naturally had no time to take care of the several acres of land at home.

"I still have it at home. My grandparents are planting in the village." Xue Yuantong said, "Every year we use a combine harvester to cut wheat."

It was approaching evening, the sun was not too strong, and there were people walking on the river dam.

She told Jiang Ning about what happened in the village when she was a child, claiming that her family went to work in the fields and she also went to help in the fields.

Jiang Ning said, was she playing by the field?

After talking for a while, Xue Yuantong looked towards the Huishui River in the north and found a large ship docked near the shore.

"Jiang Ning, let's go to the river to see the big boats."

Jiang Ning agreed, and they walked along the dam path towards the river. The dam was one or two hundred meters away from the river, and wheat was planted on both sides of the path.

Jiang Ning walked forward slowly, and Xue Yuantong followed him, wearing sandals and jumping up and down like a child, not feeling too hot at all.

Her voice was clear and melodious: "After the wheat is harvested in our village, we have to light a fire in the field. It's so spectacular, it's all fire!"

"But there are also bad things." Her tone became lower again, she could no longer dance, and she said quietly:

"Many years ago, when I was in the second grade of elementary school, someone in the village next to ours brought gasoline to burn wheat straw. The wind was so strong that day that the wind blew and burned other people's wheat!"

“Dozens of acres of wheat were all burned!

Jiang Ning: "Is he okay?"

Xue Yuantong: "Yeah, I'm fine, but I burned other people's wheat and lost a lot of money later."

Keeping their feet on the ground, they followed the dirt road to the river. The big ship was on the east side, and they continued to turn east.

There are all small roads nearby, and the area is uneven. A hundred meters ahead, there is a pond in front of you. Several people, old and young, are sitting on the edge of the pond fishing.

Xue Yuantong stood by the pond for a while. The water was calm and bottomless. A fishing uncle stood up and swung his hook, causing ripples.

"Jiang Ning, I feel that the water must be very deep!" She said in a low voice because she was worried about affecting other people's fishing.

Jiang Ning's consciousness swept away: "It's more than two meters deep, it's okay."

The old man next to him glanced at him.

Xue Yuantong walked along the pond for a little distance to the south. Here was an almost dry ditch, three to four meters wide and two meters deep. Because both sides of the bank had been dug by excavators, it was very steep.

If you want to see the big ship, you must pass by here.

Xue Yuantong stood on the shore, afraid to go downhill for fear of rolling down.

"Jiang Ning, you go through first." She knew that Jiang Ning was very powerful. If it were him, he would definitely have an easy time. When the time comes, let Jiang Ning catch up with her at the bottom of the slope, and she can successfully climb over and achieve her goal.

"Okay." Jiang Ning responded, took a few steps back, took a run, jumped lightly, and jumped directly to the other side.

Xue Yuantong: "?"

She asked Jiang Ning to go to the bottom of the slope, not to the other side!

Jiang Ning looked at the little Xue Yuantong from across the bank and said with a smile:

"Come here quickly."

In desperation, Xue Yuantong spent five minutes first reaching the bottom of the slope, crossing the stream, and then with the help of Jiang Ning, climbed up to the other side with difficulty.

She stood on the shore and patted the soil on her clothes, puffing out her mouth and looking resentful.

Fortunately, after crossing the ditch, they walked a few dozen meters further and climbed onto a slope. They stepped on the weeds and reached the shore where the big ship was docked.

Looking at it from a close distance, Xue Yuantong was quite shocked by the huge size of the ship.

The big ship dropped anchor and was tied to the shore with a hemp rope as thick as an arm. As the evening breeze blew, the huge hull gently slapped the water.

Xue Yuantong raised his head. The big ship was at least five meters high. There were buildings similar to rooms on the ship. There seemed to be no one there now.

Xue Yuantong looked at it for a while and guessed: "Is this a sand transporting boat? I heard from my mother that many people don't have houses and usually live on boats."

Jiang Ning nodded: "Yes."

He once had a classmate who lived on a boat. Later, when he came to his generation, he chose to study and escaped that fate.

"Jiang Ning, do you know what it's like on the boat?"

"Never been."

Xue Yuantong looked at the hemp rope used to fix the sand transporting ship, and suddenly thought: "Can I step on the hemp rope and board the ship?"

Jiang Ning said: "If you keep your balance, you will definitely be able to go up."

While Xue Yuantong was thinking, a dark shadow came out of the boat: "Wang Wang Wang!"

The black dog bared its teeth and roared at the two people on the shore.

Xue Yuantong trembled with fright and wanted to run away. When she remembered that Jiang Ning was there, she stopped being afraid.

The black dog kept barking on the boat. After Xue Yuantong calmed down, he found that the black dog only dared to bark and did not dare to get off the boat to bite people. He gradually felt relieved.

She gestured at the black dog, and the dog became furious and barked wildly.

Xue Yuantong remembered a movie about a pianist who had lived on a boat since he was a child and never got off the boat in his life.

She suddenly said: "Do you think it is possible that this dog will never get off the boat?"

Jiang Ning thought for a while: "It's very possible."

Xue Yuantong sighed leisurely.

After she blew the wind for a while, she went home with Jiang Ning.

It's getting dark, and it's time for mom to cook at home.

On the way back, Xue Yuantong answered the phone and said a few words. She looked excited and said, "Jiang Ning, the Chu Chu family will have dinner at our house tonight."

"My mother asked me to see if there are any vegetable sellers on the dam, and then buy some vegetables to take home."

Jiang Ning: "Are they coming to talk about a house?"

"Yeah, yeah. Are you happy that Chu Chu will be our neighbor from now on?"

Jiang Ning: "It's okay."

Talking about walking, we went to the river dam. In the evening, the temperature dropped. The river dam was full of people walking. Some distance away, there were old people riding three wheels selling vegetables.

"Let's buy groceries and wait for Chu Chu."

Xue Yuantong went to a vegetable stall and found that the food was not too fresh, so he didn't buy it.

While buying groceries, Chu Chu's mother passed by on a battery car, Xue Yuantong shouted, and Xue Chuchu got off the car.

"Chu Chu, let's eat at our house tonight. Let's go and look at the dishes with me."

Xue Chuchu responded, then smiled at Jiang Ning and said hello.

Xue Yuantong went to a vegetable stall again and bought a piece of lettuce. Passing by an old man selling fish, she stopped in front of the stall.

She rarely buys fish because Jiang Ning is a good fisher. If she wants to eat fish, she can just fish with him.

But it's getting dark today, so it's obviously too late.

When Xue Chuchu saw Tongtong stop, she reached for her pocket, and there was still ten yuan, which should be enough.

Besides them, there were several people watching the fish in front of the stall.

Xue Yuantong squatted in front of the water basin, watching the fish swimming around in the water and spitting bubbles. Her dark eyes stared at the bubbles in a daze.

She pulled Jiang Ning and praised: "Look at how cute this fish is~"

Jiang Ning lowered his head and said softly: "Well, then you pick two and we will stew fish for dinner."

Xue Yuantong smiled: "Okay!"

While the two were chatting and laughing, they selected a few live crucian carps.

Xue Chuchu, who was watching from the side, felt that something was wrong for some reason.

…

Dinner was braised crucian carp, with Xue Yuantong cooking and Jiang Ning cooking the fire.

After cooking, the meat was tender, spicy and delicious. Xue Yuantong even picked up a piece of steamed bun and dipped it in the soup to eat it.

After eating, Aunt Gu and Chu Chu's mother went to Aunt Pan next door to discuss the sale of the house.
To be continued...