Chapter 76 Going up the mountain
Zhou Zhi came to the window and saw that the lights in the dormitory of the supply and marketing cooperative below were not yet on. He thought for a moment: "Let's go to the town to eat in a while. I'll treat you to fried dough sticks and glutinous rice cakes." "
"Then what are we doing now?"
"Going for a run on the playground?"
"Running is not fun."
"Then go for a run by the river?"
"Let's go!"
The two people came down from upstairs, one after the other in a running posture, and slipped out of the back door of the school, but not in the direction of In the direction of the supply and marketing cooperative dormitory, he ran through the woods and along a ditch.
After a while, the two of them ran to the edge of the Yangtze River. The genius was just bright enough to allow people to distinguish the river from the other side.
There is sandy land along the river. Farmers took advantage of the retreated beaches to plant peas and broad beans. Now the peas are budding and the broad beans have already produced pods.
"Broad beans mixed with wild onions and folded ear roots are a perfect combination." Zhou Zhi said while looking at the tender broad beans.
"Then... on the hour?" The fourth child never understood what politeness meant.
“Forget it, it’s not impossible to buy it in the town.” In his previous life, Zhou Zhi would have taken action without any discussion, but now he shook his head and continued to run forward slowly: “Uncle farmer, it’s hard work in farming. "
"You have changed," the fourth child followed, shaking his head as he ran: "I don't know who is thinking about the teaching building. The sparrow in my head has been thinking about you for several years... I wanted to ask yesterday if Jiang Shuyi likes you and is with you? "
"Call me sister, no matter how old you are," Zhou Zhi walked forward. Run: "You see, it's a good thing we didn't do anything. There are farmers who got up to pour manure. If you are caught stealing broad beans, you will definitely not be able to escape and get beaten."
"Then let's get up earlier next time... What's your name, sister? I was born in September, otherwise I should be in the same grade as you... Stop talking nonsense, you haven't answered my question yet!"< br>
“I told you last night, we are old classmates.”
"Tch! I've only been at my same desk for half a month. My deskmate changes every Monday. I've never seen any girl treat me like this..."
"That's your problem, not My question."
"..."
The two ran through the bean field one after the other and came to a wild beach. There were fluffs and fluffs of thatch everywhere on the wild beach.
At this moment, something seemed to have heard the footsteps of the two of them under the fresh grass ahead, and hid rustlingly.
"Rabbit!" "Pheasant!"
The two wild boars shouted out in unison, jumping away in tacit agreement, blocking the place one by one.
"Oh, that's not right!" If those two people were the same, they would have jumped out and disappeared by now, so as not to leave the two of them alive. But now there is no movement inside.
"It's the boss! He didn't even run away!" The fourth child pounced on him without caring about the wet dew on the fresh grass in the morning.
Zhou Zhi looked around, holding a stone he picked up casually in his hand. Usually at this time, when the prey was running away, he had to make up for it at any time.
Although it is generally not available, it does not affect the fun.
“Oh big snake!” The fourth child who had just thrown himself onto the grass suddenly jumped up.
"Snake you are so big, no matter how many months it is now, the snake is still coiled in a hole!"
"I didn't lie to you, it's slippery!"
Zhou Zhi looked around and said, "Stay here and wait for me."
Run back to the bean field and start from the farmer's preparation In the summer, I pulled out two bamboo poles from the bamboo pole shed where the bean rack was built and ran back: "Come on!"
When the two of them worked hard to push the grass away with a pole, Zhou Zhi suddenly smiled and said: "We have made a fortune!"
"Catfish?!" The fourth child looked at the big guy inexplicably: "The fish is still there Going ashore? Is this far from the water? ”
"The catfish will come ashore and can also catch mice. Wear it and wear it... No, the pole is too thin..."
This big catfish must have weighed more than thirty kilograms. Zhou Zhi ran to someone's shed and found one. The wood that built the shed came back and passed through the big catfish's mouth: "Hahaha... Lord Jiang is treating me today!"
The fourth child is now dirty and sloppy, but he is still very happy: "Sister is coming today. This fish is enough for two meals! Let's go and carry it back quickly!"
The two men carried the big fish back one after another. This time, the fourth child was in front and behind, and the tip of the tail of the big fish in the middle was still dragging on the ground.
Back at the Central School, it was already dark and the eldest lady had already gotten up. She heard the laughter of the two people downstairs coming from the room to the corridor: "They ran away early in the morning and disappeared... ...Ouch, what did you pick? ”
Zhou Zhi and Lao Si were too lazy to carry the fish upstairs, so they found a big basin in the kitchen and threw the fish in.
This big pot is used to cook lunch for school students, so the big catfish has to be coiled in it.
The eldest lady has come down: "Such a big fish! Where did you get it?!"
"We went out for a run to pick it up, and we found it hiding in the grass! "Lao Si was very proud.
“Look at what you are wearing! Go and change it quickly!”
"No, we have to go up the mountain to dig vegetables later." Zhou Zhi stopped: "I'm going to see if you feel better..."
Leave the eldest lady and the fourth child downstairs to scoop water into the basin. Yu, Zhou Zhi ran to the window upstairs, only to see down the slope that Jiang Shuyi had already gotten up and was gargling at the sink. There was a red basin on the table next to him.
Zhou Zhi put his fingers in his mouth and whistled. Jiang Shuyi heard it, raised her head, and waved to Zhou Zhi with a toothbrush in hand.
Zhou Zhi also waved to Jiang Shuyi, picked up the backpack prepared yesterday and went downstairs: "The fourth brother is setting off, eldest lady, let's go!"
"What are you in a hurry for? ? ! Haven't you had breakfast yet? "Ma'am, you don't allow children to skip breakfast.
"Let's go to the town to eat!" Zhou Zhi said. "Spending money blindly again!" the eldest lady said angrily: "Come back early to eat fish!"
After a while, the two wild boars came back again, and there was another Jiang Shuyi beside them.
"Huh? Why are you back again?" The eldest lady was still adding water to the basin.
"Good morning, Teacher Su. I heard from Zhou Zhi that I caught a big fish. I'll come and take a look too."
Jiang Shuyi leaned close to the water basin: "This fish is so scary! It's so ugly!"
The big catfish that came up from the river had obvious spots on its body, no scales, a big head and a big belly, which made girls It’s normal to be afraid.
"Then I won't watch it anymore. I'll watch it at the dinner table when I get back." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Ma'am, we are really going to set off this time!"
"Get some money..." etc. The eldest lady lowered her head and took out a few dollars from her trouser pocket, but found that no one was in the kitchen.
The market town has become lively, and many farmers who come to the city to buy local products have begun to occupy land along the street.
Zhou Zhi came to a breakfast shop with a basket on his back: "The shopkeeper, three bowls of soy milk, two sweet glutinous rice cakes, one salty glutinous rice cake, three fried dough sticks, and three steamed rice cakes!"
Fried glutinous rice cakes in southern Sichuan! The cake is not fried with pounded glutinous rice cakes, but with glutinous rice squeezed into a wooden frame and cut out to be fried. It is said that the rice ball slices are close together and are more suitable.
There are two flavors, sweet and salty. The sweet one is round with sweet bean paste in the middle, and the salty one is square with salt and peppercorns.
They all taste good. The three people didn’t take one each of the glutinous rice cakes. Instead, they tore them apart and ate them separately, so that everyone could enjoy every flavor.
Paoba is rice cake steamed with rice milk.
Zhou Zhi and Laosi devoured the rice cake in two mouthfuls.
Jiang Shuyi couldn't bear to eat them so quickly, so she just took it and set off, eating while walking.
Following an alley from the street of Laochang Town, the three of them came to the road they came from Jiachuan. They followed the road along the outer wall of Tianhua Company up the hillside and walked three miles. After four hundred meters, we arrived at the foot of the hill on the outskirts of the town.
The bottom part of the hill is mainly terraced fields, and the mid-mountain area turns into a slope, where rapeseed and beans are mainly grown. Above that are some woods, stone slopes, and a substation on the top.
There was a stream flowing diagonally from nowhere. Lao Si was familiar with the road. He turned to the side of the stream where the stream crossed the path and walked up the ditch.
The scenery along the way is also good, and there are many small birds, most of which are sparrows, thrushes and chirping sparrows.
“Here, here!” Lao Si found a wetland beside a ditch: “There are many here!”
“Pick the ear roots!” This is a common dish on the dining table of Jiachuan people. Of course Jiang Shuyi knew him.
"Are Shu Yi afraid of getting his shoes dirty?"
"Afraid!"
Zhou Zhi smiled: "Then we dig, and you are responsible for washing by the water."
The roots on the wetland are the tenderest. Zhou Zhi and Lao Si began to work, and Jiang Shuyi found Lao Si from the basket on his back. I made the water gun and started playing with it while standing on the rocks in the water.
“Comfortable!”
“Hey!”
“The boat is coming down!”
"What?" Jiang Shuyi felt weird. He could cross this creek in a single step, so how could a boat come?
Then Jiang Shuyi saw a green boat floating down. It was made of a galangal leaf with two ends pierced on a bamboo stick. Inside the leaf boat was a pile of young orchids.
“It turns out to be such a boat.” Jiang Shuyi couldn’t help but laugh out loud, and stopped the leaf boat with a bamboo water gun placed between two rocks: “I’ll wash it.”
fold The parts on the ground in Ergen were only young leaves, and underneath were a network of roots. Zhou Zhi and Lao Si sorted through the roots and got a lot of them.
"Zhou Zhi, are there any fish in this creek?" Although Jiang Shuyi grew up in a town, she had never played like this before, and everything she saw was novel.
"Yes, there are small cutting boards and fire slices, as well as loaches." Lao Si replied: "But you have to wait until the summer when the water is high to catch them with a bucket. If you are lucky, you can catch eels and crucian carp."
"Shuyi, if you just touch around in the underwater mud, you might get something." Zhou Zhi encouraged.
Jiang Shuyi put the roots of Zheer into the backpack, reached out and touched the stone under his feet, as if he had caught a handful of pebbles. When he took it out of the water, he said, "Ah! It's a small shell!"
"Little river clams, even though the ones here are only as big as your thumb, they can grow to two or three pounds each in the fish ponds at the foot of the mountain."
"How big are they?"
Zhou Zhi made a gesture: "It's so big!"
"Can it be eaten?"
"Uh... no one eats it in Jiachuan. I only know that some people in Jiangnan like to eat it."< br>
“Can I take this home and keep it? Just like Mr. Su keeps Shaohuo slices. I I want to keep it too."
"The school won't agree to keep it in the dormitory." Zhou Zhi thought for a while: "But it's okay to keep it at home and watch it once a week. It's not afraid of lack of oxygen. You can raise it, but you can only raise one, because this fish loves to fight.”
"One piece is fine."
"One piece...I'll think of a way...Then you come here first!"
"Okay!" Jiang Shuyi was not afraid of getting her shoes dirty this time. .
(End of this chapter)