Chapter 11 Toshihiko Muranaka The dragon sign heaven (5)
"Atian, you heard me, Xiaolan asked you to meet at your old place at 10 o'clock on a cloudy day. It's already late. Xiaoying should go back to bed." Wang Ergou looked at the stars above his head, and his wife and daughter.
gone back.
Long Zhaotian watched them go away and murmured: "This Xiaolan really knows how to choose a date address!"
The news brought by Long Xiaofeng was like giving him a shot of stimulant. He paced back and forth in the hall, looking up at the ancient lychee plant in meditation from time to time...
The canopy-like tree crown, the thick tree trunks, the stone platform under the tree, the moon hanging high in the sky, the wandering clouds... everything is so familiar.
The scene stirred up emotions, and everything that happened here when he was a child came to mind. Long Zhaotian looked at the ancient trees in the hall, thinking about it, and suddenly felt emotional.
His respect for this ancient tree was deep-rooted in his heart. He remembered that when he was a child, every summer night when there was a moon, the adults and children in the village would gather in the village hall to enjoy the shade. He and Wang Ergou,
After Huicheng, Xiaolan, and Xiaofeng got tired of playing, they all snuggled up to Uncle Zhang and listened to Uncle Zhang talk about the Three Kingdoms, the founding of Fengshan Village, and the story of this ancient tree.
From then on, he knew that although Cao Cao was over fifty years old, he still had the ambition to unify the country;
He knew that this ancient tree was the product of his ancestor Long Xiuqing's business trip. In Luoyang, Chang'an learned that Empress Wu Zetian had a special liking for fragrant lychees, so she brought back a fragrant lychee sapling from Chang'an and planted it in the village.
He still remembered the past of herding cattle and fighting with Wang Ergou's group of friends in his childhood.
He is two years younger than Wang Ergou, and Wang Ergou even saved his life.
His father had never returned since that boat trip. People in the village, such as Shi Chizi and Shi Daniu, who were older than him, often bullied him. Wang Ergou always loved to stand up for him and help him fight injustices.
When he first entered elementary school, the school was on summer vacation. He and some friends from the village went to the river to play and accidentally fell into the river. He couldn't swim at the time, so he instinctively yelled "help" a few times and then died.
Sink slowly.
When Wang Ergou saw this, he jumped into the river and rescued him. From then on, he learned to swim.
In the third grade of elementary school, in the final exam, he ranked first in the grade, while Shi Chizi's score was ranked last in the grade.
On the way home from school, he held Wang Ergou's hand and laughed and laughed all the way, as close as a pair of brothers. However, Shi Chizi was angry and couldn't bear to see them being so close, so he angrily rushed up to separate them, and even
He was said to be a fatherless bastard.
When Wang Ergou heard this, he angrily pushed Shi Chizai to the ground and put his foot on Shi Chizai's back: "Let's see if you dare to bully my good partner in the future!"
Once, he, Long Xiaolan, Wang Ergou, and Long Xiaofeng were playing hide-and-seek on the river beach. They were having fun when Shi Chizi came in. He saw fish in the river and said, "Let's go to the river."
Catch fish in it." Then he went down to the river.
Wang Ergou also followed him into the river.
When he was about to go down, Long Xiaolan stopped him and said loudly: "Brother A Tian, you can't go! I heard my mother said that there are water ghosts in the river that eat people."
He smiled and said, "Sister Alan, how could there be a water ghost here? I believe it." Before Long Xiaolan could persuade him again, he jumped into the river.
That time they caught a lot of river fish, as well as eels, crabs and the like.
The river eel was placed on the river beach, as slippery as a snake, and tried its best to escape into the river.
The crabs were also crawling around, stretching out two large pincers and showing off their teeth and claws.
Long Xiaofeng was too timid to catch eels and crabs. When she saw them trying to escape, she shouted loudly: "Brother Tian, catch them quickly! Catch them quickly!"
When he usually plays with them, he always likes to provoke Long Xiaofeng. Sometimes they go to herd cows together, and after driving the cows down the river, they use the fishing rod to fish for fish and shrimps in the algae at the river bend. Usually Wang Erniu
We went down to the river to fish out the water, dragged it ashore and dumped it into a bamboo sieve. The two of them were responsible for catching the fish and shrimp into the basket.
Long Xiaofeng always likes to play with him.
Seeing that she was afraid, he took advantage of the situation and grabbed a river eel and shook it in front of her eyes and said: "Snake, snake..."
Long Xiaofeng was so frightened that she screamed "quack".
Afterwards, Long Xiaofeng unexpectedly caught a small crucian carp and stuffed it into his vest.
The fish was jumping on his chest. He grabbed a crab and said, "How dare you mess with me! I'll put it into your collar and bite you!"
Long Xiaofeng was so frightened that she ran onto the lawn, and he chased after her without letting up.
Seeing that he was catching up, Long Xiaofeng took advantage of the situation and squatted down in the grass, hunched his neck, and called out delicately: "Brother A Tian, please spare me."
He held the crab in front of her eyes and shook it and said, "No, surrender to me!"
She had no choice but to raise her hands obediently.
Wang Ergou and Long Xiaolan were so happy when they saw them playing, they both grinned.
In addition to being good at diving, catching fish in the river also requires luck.
This time he was lucky and caught the most fish. Wang Erniu also caught a few, and Shichizai only caught an eel and a crab.
Seeing that he and Wang Erniu had caught so many fish, Shi Chizai made up his mind and said, "Let's take all the fish to the oil factory and fry them, okay?"
While he was hesitating, Wang Erniu said first, "A Tian, don't believe him. Last time he caught the most fish alone. I asked him to take the fish to the oil factory and fry them, but he refused."
Shi Chizi scolded: "Brother Niu, didn't you eat the most when you went to the oil factory to fry fish?"
Wang Erniu thought that if he took so much fish home, his whole family would have a delicious meal. He was reluctant but embarrassed to refuse, so he asked for his opinion: "A Tian, what do you think we should do?"
Shi Chizi encouraged him and said, "Ah Tian, the fried fish is so delicious, so fragrant!"
Because Shi Chizai was short of oil and water in his stomach, he couldn't resist the temptation and excitement of the smell of fried fish, so he immediately burped sourly. The sour water surged up in his throat and he felt heartburn, hot and uncomfortable.
Although he could see that Shi Chizi was being cunning and greedy and wanted to take advantage, he thought about the life in that family in those days. Every meal consisted of a few sweet potatoes and a little rice. When cooking, he only used a small amount of oil to lightly spread on the bottom of the pot.
After a while, I couldn't bear to use oil, and almost always used dry pots for cooking. If there was no smell of oil in the intestines, it seemed that they had become rusty long ago.
Shi Chizi couldn't resist the temptation, wiped the yellow snot hanging on the tip of his nose and the saliva on his mouth, and said hesitantly: "A Tian, what do you think?"
He had no choice but to say: "Let's drive the cattle back first and ask Ah Feng and Alan to go with us."
"Okay!" Shi Chizi said cheerfully.
After they drove the cattle back to the village and tied them up in the cattle pen, they slipped outside the oil mill gate and saw Shi Chizai's grandfather, Shi Song, wearing a pair of underpants, straddling two skinny long legs, his head hanging down and his face buried in the oil mill.
In the trough, peanut cake crumbs were crushed with a wooden shovel.