Qin Hao calmly comforted Wu Guihua and coaxed his sister with the mung bean cake that he had not finished last night, and then sent away the neighbors who were watching the excitement.
As he was putting on his schoolbag and getting ready to go to school, Qiao Yicheng followed him anxiously.
"Are you going fishing today?"
Qin Hao said casually: "Of course I want to go, Xiaolan is still waiting to eat carp."
Qiao was relieved as soon as he became a child. Children from poor families are sensible early. Under the hard training of his irresponsible father, he has long understood that firewood, rice, oil and salt are hard-earned. Ten yuan is equivalent to their family's living expenses for twenty days.
He didn't want to see his mother eating unnutritious wild vegetables and grains with her big belly anymore, and he didn't want his younger siblings to drool silently when they saw other children eating snacks.
He also longs to live a good life. He does not need to be too good, and he can eat well and drink hot food every day, as long as he is not too bad than others.
Fishing is the only way he can think of to make money at the moment. If Qin Hao doesn't go, he will try it himself.
"There will be a quiz next week. You will be promoted to junior high school soon. Success or failure depends on this. I hope you can focus on studying..." The head teacher said and saw a few people in the class.
The student at the end of the crane looked unconcerned. His eyes naturally glanced at Qin Hao, who was falling asleep. He just shook his head secretly and did not continue to chatter.
After all, according to the current environment, studying is not necessarily better than working in a factory. Many children here will succeed their parents as workers in the future.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, the bell rang for the end of get out of class. After another day of leisurely activities, Qin Hao stretched, picked up his schoolbag, stood up and left the classroom.
Qiao Yicheng was already waiting at the door of the class. The two of them returned home, picked up their fishing gear, and continued outside the city. For fear of Qiao Wangzu discovering, all the fishing gear was placed at Qin Hao's house.
It was still the same fishing spot as before. Qin Hao exchanged five points for a portion of spices. After making preliminary preparations, he quietly sprinkled the spices on the river while Qiao Yicheng was not paying attention.
The surface of the river was calm, but the water was already boiling. The smell of spices lured all the fish nearby. As soon as Qin Hao and Qiao Yicheng lowered the hooks, fish began to bite them.
"Here we come." Qiao Yicheng was worried at first. It was a coincidence that he was able to catch so many fish yesterday. Now it seems that fishing is not that difficult.
"Maybe the fish here are dumber." Qiao Yicheng secretly laughed.
It was still about the same time as yesterday, Qin Hao and Qiao Yicheng started to close the stall, and it was another fruitful day.
Compared with yesterday, the fish today were bigger, especially Qin Hao, who caught a lot of fish weighing four or five kilograms. Although Qiao Yicheng's fish were smaller, there were more fish. A twelve-year-old child raised
It was very difficult to get up.
However, Qiao Yicheng stopped to rest for a while when he couldn't carry it any longer. He spent the rest of the time on the road and insisted on holding the fishing gear by himself. He had no intention of asking Qin Hao for help.
Arriving at Yipinju again, Master Niu was about to collect the fish, but Qin Hao stopped him.
"Master Niu, let's weigh the fish today. You can pay half of the market price."
Master Niu looked at the fish in Qin Hao's bucket and gave a thumbs up: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have doubted whether this fish of yours was caught in the fish pond. My old Niu has been fishing for so long, and I have never seen it before.
No matter who you have served, you are considered one."
After saying that, he asked his apprentice to collect the fish.
Before Master Niu's apprentice arrived, Qin Hao picked two carp weighing more than three kilograms and put them aside.
Master Niu smiled: "Take it back to have your teeth punched as a sacrifice?"
"We have guests at home recently." Qin Hao sneered secretly, how could he catch fish without bait?
This time the total was twenty-five yuan, Qin Hao handed Qiao fifteen yuan.
Qiao Yicheng only drew a ten-dollar card.
Qin Hao threw the two fish back into the tin bucket and clapped his hands: "You caught more fish this time, so you should take the big head."
Qiao Yicheng stubbornly shook his head: "Ten yuan is already a lot."
After saying that, he packed up his fishing gear and turned around to leave. Qin Hao was angry and funny. This boy was really not stubborn. I don't know how he got this temper. It seemed that neither Qiao Wangzu nor Wei Shufen had this character.
All the way to Qiao's house, Qin Hao did not go home directly, but deliberately stayed at Qiao's house for a while.
This made Qiao Erqiang and the others very curious. Of course, what they were curious about was not Qin Hao, but the two grass carps he brought back.
Qiao Erqiang took Sanli and Simei lying on the edge of the iron bucket, drooling almost.
"Brother Hao, how do you plan to eat this fish?"
Qin Hao heard Qiao Wangzu's voice humming a tune from outside the door and deliberately said loudly.
"Let me think about it, um, yes, first fry the skin in oil until brown, then add water to stew, and add some radish as a side dish..."
Qiao Erqiang's eyes turned red when he heard this, and he wished he could just pick up the fish and take a few bites of it.
Qiao Sanli and Qiao Simei also stared eagerly at the fish in the bucket, looking like two greedy cats.
Qiao Wangzu outside the door couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he heard it. The smell of stewed carp last night was still fresh in his memory.
Seeing Qiao Wangzu coming back, Qin Hao said hello to Wei Shuying and went home carrying the fish.
Qiao Wangzu spat on the ground: "Bah, what are you talking about? It's just two fish. What's the big deal? It makes it seem like our family can't afford it."
Qiao Simei naively believed it, and Baba ran to Qiao Wangzu and hugged his thigh.
"Dad, when can we eat fish? We haven't eaten in a long time."
When Qiao Wangzu heard this, he became even more furious. He pushed his daughter away and said angrily: "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat. Your mother is the housekeeper in our house. Ask your mother."
Qiao Simei burst into tears.
Wei Shuying had no choice but to pick up her daughter and comfort her with difficulty. Seeing her sister crying so sadly, Qiao Yicheng felt very unhappy and waved to Qiao Erqiang.
Qiao Erqiang understood and followed him out of the courtyard.
"Brother, where are you going?"
Qiao Yicheng said nothing and took Qiao Erqiang to a snack bar.
"Comrade, let's have some steamed cake."
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Qiao Erqiang smelled the aroma of the steamed cake, and his saliva could not be suppressed. Faced with the steamed cake handed over by Qiao Yicheng, he hesitated for a while before taking it carefully.
"Eat quickly, what are you doing standing there in a daze?"
Qiao Erqiang just took a bite: "Sanli and Simei haven't eaten yet."
"Don't worry, eat it. This one is specially bought for you. I will buy it for Sanli and Simei separately." Qiao Yicheng said softly. As he spoke, his fingers unconsciously touched the one that Qin Hao just gave him.
"Great unity", his tone has never been tougher than before. Not to mention the steamed cakes, he can even take his younger brothers and sisters to eat roast duck now.
For the first time in his life, Qiao Yicheng experienced the happiness brought by "money".
"Brother, where did you get the money?" Although Qiao Erqiang is still young, he also knows that his family is not rich, and he has doubts about Qiao Yicheng's abnormal behavior.
Qiao Yicheng warned with a straight face: "Don't worry about it, but don't let it slip when you go back, otherwise I will never buy you delicious food again."
"Oh, I promise the teacher I will never say anything."
In front of delicious food, Qiao Erqiang agreed without hesitation.
"Especially our dad." Qiao Yicheng was still worried and gave special instructions.
"good."
After Qiao Erqiang happily finished the steamed cake, Qiao Yicheng asked him to go back and bring Sanli and Simei over.
Soon, Qiao Erqiang brought his two sisters to the snack bar.
With the delicious food, Qiao Simei immediately stopped crying. Although Qiao Sanli had doubts, she readily agreed not to tell her father.
When Qiao Yicheng saw Qiao Erqiang watching his two sisters drooling while eating steamed cakes, he cruelly bought two more.
"Thank you, brother." Qiao Erqiang was so happy that snot bubbles came out of his nose.
Qiao Yicheng also tasted the steamed cake that he hadn't eaten for a long time. The sweetness made him linger, and he unconsciously squinted his eyes.
During dinner, Qiao Wangzu looked at the wild vegetables and grains on the table, and smelled the tempting aroma of fish stewed with tofu coming from next door, and suddenly became angry.
"I've been doing this all day long, and my mouth has become dull. I don't know where my money is spent every day." Qiao Wangzu threw the chopsticks on the table directly.
Wei Shuying remained silent. She had become accustomed to this and was too lazy to argue with him.
Qiao Wangzu stared angrily at Qin Hao's yard for a long time: "Humph, I'm sure I'll eat this fish, we'll see."
The moon was dark and the wind was high, and lights in every house had been turned off, but Qiao Wangzu climbed out of bed.
"Dad, why are you going so late?"
Wei Shuying asked in a daze.
While Qiao Wangzu was getting dressed, he said impatiently: "I can't sleep. Let's go out for a walk."
Wei Shuying didn't care, thinking that her husband was going to play cards with Li Heman and the others.
Qiao Wangzu stood on tiptoe in the yard and looked into the yard next door. Seeing nothing strange, he immediately moved a chair to the corner and carefully leaned over.
Hearing the sound of grass carp swimming in the water tank and causing the water to flow, Qiao Wangzu secretly rejoiced: "Idiot, you just lost the fish yesterday and you still dare to keep it here. If you don't steal it, who will you steal?"
"This fish is really big. Hey, take it to eat with Li Heman and the others. Next time, let them treat me to roast duck."
Just as Qiao Wangzu was picking up the fish and imagining the deliciousness of roast duck, he suddenly heard a cold snort coming from behind him.
Qiao Wangzu was startled suddenly and almost threw the fish aside.
"Who?" Qiao Wangzu looked back, only to find that Qin Hao was standing behind him at some point.
Before Qiao Wangzu could react, Qin Hao punched him directly in the eye, and then punched Qiao Wangzu again in the nose.
In an instant, Qiao Wangzu was stunned. He had only one thought in his mind.
"Why is this kid so strong?"
In fact, Qin Hao didn't land a fatal blow, he used at most 30% of his strength, otherwise Qiao Wangzu would have died after just a few punches.
"Don't fight, don't fight, I'm your Uncle Qiao..."
Qiao Wangzu curled up on the ground and kept wailing and begging for mercy. At this time, he didn't care whether he was embarrassed or not. The most important thing was to save his life.
Qiao Wangzu's miserable howl immediately woke up Wu Guihua. She still hadn't woken up yet, so she asked in a daze.
"Who is it? Haozi, is someone stealing our fish again?"
Without Qin Hao answering her, Wu Guihua wiped her eyes and soon found Qiao Wangzu curled up on the ground, still holding the grass carp.
"Well, Qiao Wangzu, it was you who stole our fish yesterday. You are addicted to stealing, so you are still stealing today, right?"
Wu Guihua didn't give Qiao Wangzu a chance to argue, so she picked up a bamboo stick and slapped him on his back. This bamboo stick was originally used to educate children and wouldn't hurt the muscles and bones, but it hurt a lot when it was slapped on the body. In addition, Wu Guihua was...
Taking action with hatred, Qiao Wangzu jumped up from the ground after being slapped.
"You dare to run, I told you to run, I asked you to steal the fish!" Wu Guihua chased Qiao Wangzu and slapped her again. She had long disliked Qiao Wangzu, so now the old and new accounts were settled together, and she was slapped too much.
Happy.
Qiao Wangzu's cries of ghosts and wolves, coupled with Wu Guihua's scolding, were particularly conspicuous in this silent night, and soon the lights in the nearby neighbors' homes were lit up one after another.
Wei Shuying also went out with a big belly to check the situation.
Some neighbors thought someone's house had been broken into, so they picked up pickaxes in their hands and surrounded them with pickaxes.
When everyone arrived at the Qin family's yard, they discovered that Wu Guihua was beating Qiao Wangzu, while Qiao Wangzu was hiding with his nose and face swollen.
"Don't just watch, stop this crazy bitch quickly, oh, it hurts me so much." Qiao Wangzu evaded while dissatisfied and rushed to the crowd of onlookers for help.
Seeing this, the neighbors separated the two people and began to ask about the situation.
"Osmanthus, what's wrong with you?"
Wu Guihua was also tired of beating, so she threw the bamboo stick in her hand on the ground, then pointed at Qiao Wangzu and cursed: "This bastard who killed a thousand swords came to our house to steal fish, but our Haozi caught him on the spot."
When the neighbors heard this, they looked at the wet clothes in front of Qiao Wangzu, then looked at the grass carp on the ground, and began to automatically imagine the scene of Qiao Wangzu stealing fish.
"Old Qiao, this is your fault. How can you still steal things?"
When Qiao Wangzu saw this, he immediately defended himself: "I didn't steal, don't accuse me wrongly, I was sleepwalking. If you don't believe me, ask our family Shufen, I have the habit of sleepwalking at night."
Qiao Wangzu was wise out of desperation, but before Wei Shuying could debate whether to lie for her husband, Qin Hao said disdainfully.
"Huh, sleepwalking can also climb walls and catch fish from the water. Who would believe this?"
The neighbors nodded after hearing this. They had indeed heard of sleepwalking, but no one could complete the series of actions of climbing over the wall and fishing for fish in a dream.
Qiao Wangzu glared at Qin Hao angrily. If it weren't for this little bastard, he wouldn't be in the situation he is in today.
"You're not sleepwalking. How do you know sleepwalking is not like this? Look at the blows you gave me. Oh, if I were blinded by you, you would have to support me for the rest of my life."
Qin Hao sneered, this old boy even beat him up when he was about to die.
"Wouldn't it be better if we let the police identify whether it is sleepwalking or burglary? They are well-informed and will definitely know whether it is sleepwalking or theft."
When he heard that the police were about to be called, Qiao Wangzu was instantly frightened.
"No, you can't call the police."
The neighbors around him were hesitant upon hearing this. When Qiao Wangzu saw Qin Hao walking out, he immediately softened.
"Don't, don't call the police. It's all from the neighbors. It's not worth it for a fish. Shuying, please help me beg for mercy."
