In front of the stove fire, two thin figures, one big and one small, were pulled away.
Xiaocao held her chin and asked Luo Xuan, "Duoduo, are you going to study after the summer vacation?"
There is a "junior primary school" in the brigade and a "senior primary school" in the countryside. Luo Xuan is already 13 years old and can only go to the countryside to attend fifth grade.
Those in grade 3 and below are called junior primary schools.
Luo Xuan sighed: "Let's talk about it when the time comes. I can't make the decision."
I will definitely let Luo Xuan continue to go to school!
This is what Luo Tiezhu promised his ex-wife before her death in front of the production team leader and neighbors.
Under the gaze of everyone, Wang could not change the status quo for a while.
Luo Xuan pinched the tip of Xiaocao's nose and said, "From now on, you have to learn to read from your brother. Don't listen to your mother. She said that girls don't need to go to school. That's not right."
"Um!"
Xiaocao nodded vigorously: "I'll never hear it again!"
The fire in the stove was blazing, the pot was already bubbling, and waves of complex food smells filled the entire bamboo shed.
I had already finished eating broad beans, dried sweet potatoes and grass, and stared blankly at the big iron pot with my eyes that were unusually big because of my thin cheeks.
But in the end she didn't dare to reach out and grab the pig food inside.
The pig food in the pot contains bean flour, rice bran, dry sweet potato flour, fresh sweet potato leaves, and a small spoonful of coarse salt in it.
In fact, people can eat it too.
Especially for Luo Xuan, who is in urgent need of nutritional supplements, the pig food in the pot is no worse than the meals he usually eats, and can satisfy his hunger.
But for these pig foods, Uncle Zhou will throw all the ingredients in and soak them before leaving.
Then...
In front of Luo Xuan, he would spit some yellow and smelly old urine into it.
When the water flowed down three feet, Uncle Zhou tied his belt and said with a smile, "This is for adding free salt to the pig feed."
Uncle Zhou even encouraged Luo Xuan to follow suit: "That's child's urine. Come and sprinkle some on it?"
Looking straight at it, Luo Xuan felt waves of chills.
Last time, Xiaocao wanted to reach out to grab the pig food because of her greed, but she was scolded severely by Luo Xuan.
From now on.
When Xiaocao came to the breeding room to look for Luo Xuan at night, she never reached out to the big iron pot again.
He stood up and scooped out the pig food, added a few ladles of water, and then Luo Xuan poured all the pig food into the old sow's stone trough.
Check the water in the large iron pot again. If the iron pot is burned through, it will be a serious liability accident.
The consequences...will be serious!
Luo Xuan patted Xiao Cao on the back.
"Let's go, I'll take you back."
Luo Xuan held up the little arm that was as dry as firewood with pity and said, "Come here again tomorrow night, and my brother will give you sweets."
"real?"
Xiaocao's big eyes were shining with fiery light against the stove fire: "Duoduo, do you have any candy for Xiaocao to eat?"
"have!"
Luo Xuan nodded firmly.
His body is getting weaker and weaker. If he doesn't take risks and make some preparations, Luo Xuan is sure that he will be slowly dragged to death.
The moonlight is bright and the stars are like stars.
Frogs croaked and crickets chirped.
The paths in the production team sparkled in the moonlight, so there was no need for torches.
When she got home, Xiaocao stood on tiptoes and very carefully moved the wooden window open little by little.
Luo Xuan was about to reach out to help, but Xiaocao stopped him silently.
I saw her pick up a wooden stick from under the window, place it gently on the dirt wall, and then climb up along the stick.
Squatting on the wooden board of the window, Xiaocao waved goodbye to Luo Xuan, then picked up the wooden stick and put it into the room, then slid down along the stick again.
The whole process is as light as a swallow and as sensitive as a civet cat.
Xiaocao has been doing this kind of thing a lot these days and has become very skilled at it.
After sending Xiaocao back, Luo Xuan returned to the breeding room.
Luo Xuan found a dry bamboo pole that he had prepared a long time ago. He smashed one end of the bamboo pole with all his strength and made a simple torch.
I had already gone out to catch eels for a while, and the torch had been burned out, so I could only make a new one.
The weather is hot in summer.
At night, the eels in the paddy fields will emerge from the soil to look for food.
At this time, the eel doesn't swim very fast, so it's easy to catch it with a bamboo clip.
But the prerequisite is that you have to have a lighting device.
Don't think about flashlights. There are few flashlights in the entire Hongxing Township. They are high-end luxury goods that can only be distributed to the on-duty staff in the township office.
Holding a torch and a bamboo basket hanging around her waist, Luo Xuan walked towards the terraced fields in the valley again.
Holding a torch with one hand, Luo Xuan waved a thin bamboo stick with the other hand, constantly slapping the weeds on both sides of the path.
Among these weeds, snakes are most likely to lurk on summer nights.
If you encounter non-venomous snakes such as blackhead snakes and cauliflower snakes, you can get extra meals.
But if you encounter copper coin flowers, red snakes, etc., your life may be in danger.
"Gululu——"
He lifted up his trouser legs and descended into the paddy fields.
At this season, the rice is waist-high and it is difficult to see clearly the narrow water surface between the rice stubbles.
Luo Xuan could only bend down, brush away the seedlings with his hands, and search carefully with the faint light of the torch.
There are also tiny duckweeds covering the grass seedlings, which makes it even more difficult for Luo Xuan to find eels.
Fortunately, there are no pesticides or fertilizers during this period, and there are many clams, snails, eels, loaches, and small fish and shrimps in the paddy fields.
As long as you go down to the paddy fields, you won't have to worry about not getting anything.
On the slope in the distance, Aunt Zhang, who had gotten up at night, saw the torches in the rice fields from a distance, and guessed that it was Luo Xuan catching eels.
During this season, there are very few people who go out to catch eels at night.
People from other production teams have hundreds of acres of rice fields in their own production teams.
We have so many rice fields that we can’t catch eels, so we rarely go to other production teams’ rice fields to catch eels.
After all, catching fish on your own production team's territory makes you feel more at ease.
6 There are only a dozen or so young men in the production team, and the only one who is still working outside in the middle of the night is the homeless Luo Xuan.
Aunt Zhang sighed: "What a sin!"
Uncle Zhang's doubts came from the room: "What are you talking about? Who is guilty?"
Aunt Zhang replied: "I guess the person who catches eels in the ravine is Luo Xuan. He goes into the paddy field alone in the middle of the night. What if he falls down in the paddy field?"
Uncle Zhang also sighed, "Come back, I'll watch from the window. If the torch suddenly falls into the paddy field, something will happen to Luo Xuan, so I can pull him up."
"You have to go to work tomorrow, are you okay with not sleeping?"
Aunt Zhang tied her belt and walked into the house, "You sleep, I'll watch over him."
"Once this person has something on his mind, he won't be able to sleep well."
Uncle Zhang gave a wry smile, "Luo Xuan's mother is literate and kind. Zhao Mei has helped our family a lot in the past. I have to return this favor."
The "Luo Xuan's former mother" mentioned by Uncle Zhang refers to Luo Xuan's former adoptive mother Zhao Mei, who has passed away many years ago.
Zhao Mei used to be from the city.
Just after liberation, the state encouraged urban residents to settle in the countryside and receive land allotment.
At that time, Zhao Mei's father was eager to settle in the countryside, where he could be allocated land or even a landlord's house, so he moved from the city to the countryside.
"Then I won't sleep either!"
Aunt Zhang leaned against the window, "The two of us took turns watching, lest one of us fell asleep and didn't even know something happened to Luo Xuan."
then.
Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang were lying on the bed, staring at the torch in the rice field from a distance.
But Luo Xuan, who was busy catching eels in the paddy fields, had no idea about this.
In the light of the fire, Luo Xuan saw a long dark black object swimming faintly under the duckweed.
Luo Xuan quickly stretched out the bamboo clamp in his hand and clamped it firmly!
When I lifted it up and looked at it, I saw that it was an aquatic plant with its roots cut off. It had been soaked in water for a long time and was covered with green hairs. It looked similar to an eel in the water.
A secret curse for bad luck!
Luo Xuan threw away the water plants, then bent down and continued searching in the water.
Soon, an eel was caught by Luo Xuan.
It's just that the eels are too small, only as thick as a little finger, and probably not enough for one or two.
This kind of eel couldn't be sold at a high price, so Luo Xuan put it in a bamboo basket and planned to raise it in a space. He would either eat it himself or get rid of it cheaply later.
After catching it for a while, Luo Xuan gained a lot.
I have to say that there are so many fish caught in the paddy fields during this period!
In less than an hour, Luo Xuan caught two small crucian carp as big as three fingers and two carp that weighed about three to four pounds.
There are also 8 eels and 3 loaches.
tired.
The paddy fields in Bashu Province are made of yellow mud. If you walk in it, you will sink. In deep places, it can even sink into your thighs, making it very difficult to walk on.
This made Luo Xuan, who was already in poor health, feel as if his body had been hollowed out and he lacked much strength.
Jump into space.
Luo Xuan poured all the fish caught in the bamboo basket into a stoneware jar in the space.
Inside the clay pot was the catch Luo Xuan had caught two days ago.
not too much.
Luo Xuan's skills were not good at that time. He caught more eels for two days in a row than he did today.
After pouring out the catch, Luo Xuan went to the spring in the space to fetch some water, and continued to raise all the crucian carp, eel and loach.
Crucian carp and eels are species that are difficult to kill, and the spring water in the space is magical.
Luo Xuan estimated that if these things were kept in space, even if they were kept for ten days and a half, they might not die.
After drinking some spring water in the space and lying down for a nap, Luo Xuan continued to catch eels.
Anyway, when he stays in the space, the time and space outside will be suspended, and Luo Xuan is not afraid of losing time.
Luo Xuan was just afraid that he would catch too few eels and not be able to get what he wanted in exchange.
He couldn't let Xiaocao down, Xiaocao's expectant eyes were too pure.
Heartbreaking.
Don't let yourself down...if you don't get some food rich in sugar and starch to replenish your body.
