Chapter 231 River God
When Wang Fang heard the sound, he knew that they were all here, so he also walked out of the house.
"Uncle, aunt, we are here to disturb you two again."
After getting off the car, Ding Yi took Li Li with a smile to greet Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo.
This is Ding Yi's habit. Every time he comes to Zhang An's house, he has to say hello to Zhang An's parents first.
Li Li also met Zhang An’s family when she came here last time, so she knew them.
So Li Li also followed Ding Yi and said hello to uncle and aunt.
"What are you kid saying about disturbing people? Auntie is very happy that you can come."
"And I asked you not to bring anything with you last time. Why are you still carrying this child?"
This is not because Wang Fang is being pretentious, but because there are too many of these things at home.
Normally, Wang Fang and the others don't use it at all, so they can only give it to relatives at home.
After hearing this, Ding just followed Wang Fang's wishes and said with a smile that he would not bring it with him next time.
"Xiao An, take them to sit in the house, there is so much sun outside."
Wang Fang still felt sorry for her daughter-in-law, and took Su Ying into the house as soon as she came out.
"Yingying is here this time, so she won't leave."
"Yes, auntie, she won't leave this time."
Enter the house , Wang Fang was worried that they would be too hot, so she took several fans from the house and turned them on.
"You guys sit down for a while, I'll go and cook the food. We'll eat in a while."
While it's not yet dinner time, the diners haven't come to the door yet, and Su Ying Ding Yi and the others are already here.
So Wang Fang thought of finishing lunch quickly while she was free now.
Otherwise, when it's time for dinner and the guests arrive, I won't be able to take care of lunch.
It doesn't matter if it's a little later on weekdays, but now that there are guests at home, Wang Fang doesn't want everyone to starve together.
Zhang An followed, took down all the things Su Ying brought from the car, and moved them to the prepared room upstairs.
Then he took Ding Yi and drove the car to the yard of the old house to park the car.
Even Zhang An’s own car is now parked in the yard of the old house, just to avoid taking up space.
Because there are more people coming to the village these two days, the yard is basically used to set tables during meals.
As soon as they arrived at the old house, Zhang An opened the door and let Ding Yi drive in.
Maybe it was because of the loud noise that the stone pounders in the frog pond were startled, and they all started howling loudly.
"Zhang An, what is so noisy here in your house?"
Shi Pound's scream was really loud, and it was impossible for Ding Yi not to hear it.
So after stopping the car, he followed the sound and lifted Zhang An's board covering the pool.
“Why are there so many toads in this pond?”
Looking at the stone scales at the bottom of the pond, Ding Yi was frightened for a moment.
"You don't believe me when you say you don't know the goods. This thing is called a stone frog. It's very delicious, but it's not a toad."
Zhang An said and took a look and found that it was inside In addition to the few stone pounds he put in, there were many more baby frogs and tadpoles.
This young frog should have just grown its limbs, and its tail has not completely degenerated.
"Stone frog? I thought it was a toad, it looks so similar."
Shi Ling's body has many raised bumps like Leibao's body.
So Ding Yi just took a look and admitted his mistake. It was normal. After all, he did not grow up in the mountains.
“Stone frogs and toads are actually different. You see, the bumps on this stone frog are very small. In fact, they are just rough skin. They are not as big as the toad.”
Zhang An said, grabbing one and bringing it up for him to take a closer look at.
Ding Yi originally refused, but Zhang An grabbed one and handed it to him.
So I resisted and took a look, and found that the bumps on my back were really not lumps like toads.
Then Zhang An put the stone scale back on his hand and covered the wooden board.
“I remember that this pond in your house was used to raise fish, why are you raising these things now?”
When Ding Yi came to Zhang An’s house for the first time, Zhang An was here The fish caught freshly in the pond are cooked for them.
“Now that I have a fish pond at home, I can no longer use this small pond, and I don’t want to waste it, so I just raise a few stone frogs.”
Zhang An and Ding Yicong When I got back to my old house, lunch at home was already ready.
The children who went out to play today did not need anyone to go out to look for them, they came back on their own.
As soon as he saw Su Ying coming, Yanzi immediately pounced on her.
"Sister-in-law, you're here, I miss you."
But before she could get in front of Su Ying, she was caught by the third aunt.
"Why are you howling? Look at the mud all over your body. It has stained your sister-in-law's clothes. Go and wash them first."
If in the past, I would have looked at the little girl like this Mud, maybe a lesson is indispensable.
But today Su Ying is here. The third aunt does not look at the monk's face or the Buddha's face, so she spared the two brothers and sisters for a while.
At noon, Zhang An’s family had just finished eating and put down their bowls, when some people who went to play in the water on the river beach came back.
It was already dinner time, and Zhang An’s family had grown.
Without any adult greeting, Zhang Xing and Zhang Tie took the initiative to set up a table in the yard and served everyone tea and water.
In the past, Zhang An did this work himself, but a few days ago, after they came to help for a day, Wang Fang gave them some pocket money in the evening.
So the benefits have been tasted. Every day when it’s time to eat, they come over on time to help.
Today is not Saturday, and not many people are here, so there is no need for Zhang An to help.
"Zhang An, if we have nothing to do, let's go and play in the lotus pond you mentioned."
After eating at home, Ding Yi shouted that he was going to play on the river beach. .
"Okay, let's go out for a walk."
Zhang An found two parasols from home and handed one to Ding Yi.
He opened one himself and covered Su Ying's head before taking them out.
The sun is so bright outside, Zhang An doesn’t want to tan the fair and fair teacher Xiao Su.
Her thin skin and tender flesh will definitely feel uncomfortable at night if she is exposed to the sun for a while.
“It seems that your village has really put in the effort. The roads are all paved with bluestone slabs.”
When they came here for the first time, Zhang An took them to an outdoor barbecue. .
At that time, this road was still a ridge road. It was fine on sunny days, but not on rainy days.
Now the road has been dug out and paved with bluestone slabs. It is not only smooth to walk on, but also wider than before.
“Isn’t this the flooded pond we came to? But there are really many people.”
Not long after, a few people came to the lotus pond.
“Look at the lotus flowers in the water. Isn’t it very vivid to call it Lotus Pond? The old man thought the name Flooded Pond was too tacky, so he changed it to another one.”
Even now it is At noon, many people went back to eat, but there were still many people in the water.
In the Bazi next to it, there are many stalls of various kinds, many of which sell snacks such as Liangpi jelly.
As Zhang An said, he walked to the place selling popsicles nearby and bought a few popsicles to cool down everyone.
"Brother An Zi, you are here too. Hey, my sister-in-law is here too."
Huang Ming saw Zhang An and ran over and shouted.
"Yeah, they just came here in the morning. They came here for a walk after dinner."
When Zhang An just came over, he saw Huang Ming and his father setting up a stall in front. "Da Ming, your business is pretty good."
You don't even have to look over, Zhang An already knows that Huang Ming's family sells crayfish here.
Zhang Tieke said this morning that Huang Ming collected a lot of crayfish from their group of dolls.
This guy has no profit and cannot afford to go early. He did the same thing last time when he went to pick kiwi fruits.
Someone bought this guy and went to the mountains every day instead of going to the town.
"Hey, I just saw that there were no people selling, so I bought it to test the water. Unexpectedly, the business was very good."
Business is indeed not bad at the moment, many people are doing it I'm eating crayfish at my stall.
"Brother An Zi, please take my sister-in-law and Boss Ding over to try it out and see how skilled you are in making our shrimps."
Huang Ming said, and was about to pull Zhang An towards the stall.
"No need, Daming, we just finished lunch, go and greet those customers."
Don't think Huang Ming's business is good, but it doesn't last long.
Because no one is selling it now, when everyone knows, there will be many people who like this crayfish.
At that time, there will definitely be a lot of people in the village catching shrimps and then specially cooking them for sale.
"Help, everyone, come and help."
A few people were talking when they understood that there was a commotion in the dam.
It seems that a child refused to listen and insisted on climbing over the fence and running into the deep water. Now he drowned.
When they heard the shouts, many people in the village jumped into the water to save others.
Zhang An was not idle either. After handing the umbrella to Su Ying, he also jumped into the water.
Zhang An didn't find the drowning child until he swam to the middle of the water.
At this moment, there was a huge black shadow under him holding him up.
As soon as Zhang An saw the shadow, he knew it was Da Laoqing, who had saved Zhang An last time.
"You guys, this is such a big fish, it saved the child."
The people on the shore soon discovered that the child in the river had surfaced.
Looking closely, I found the huge figure of Da Lao Qing in the water.
"Child, don't talk nonsense, that's the river god."
"Yes, that's right, this is the river god in the big river."
For a moment I saw the child being He was rescued and everyone cheered on the shore.
At this time, Da Laoqing saw Zhang An in the water, so he patted the water with his tail.
This means that it saved someone again and Zhang An should reward it.
Zhang An looked at this rammed product, a little dumbfounded.
I then touched a fish from space in the water, handed it to it, and was eaten by it in no time.
No one can see it in the water anyway.
When Zhang An held the little boy in his hands, the old man turned around and dived into the water.
The surface of the river, which had just been stirred up by waves, began to regain its calmness.
"Uncle, it's so powerful."
Looking at the disappeared Da Laoqing, the child hanging on Zhang An seemed a little disappointed.
"Of course, otherwise how could I have saved you, but I have to learn a lesson from now on and never go to deep water again."
"Uncle, actually I can swim, but My feet cramped just now, and then I sank.”
Needless to say, Zhang An also knew that he was good at water.
I didn’t get choked even though I had been underwater for so long.
If it were someone who didn't know how to drink water, he would have drank enough in there.
"You can't be proud even if you can swim. Didn't you get cramps just now? There are many accidents."
Zhang An originally wanted to say that most of the people who drowned were those who could swim. But I thought about it and didn’t say it out loud.
After all, I’m not familiar with them, so it’s not a good idea to say such things, as they would be taboo.
“Yeah, I understand.”
Seeing Zhang An bringing people to the shore, everyone who had just entered the water to rescue people swam back.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you for your help."
After finding out that their child was fine, the child's parents thanked everyone.
"It's okay. If you want to thank, just thank the river god. It saved people, and we don't dare to take credit."
When Zhang An was in the water, he heard everyone calling the big herring the river god.
Not to mention, as soon as Zhang An finished speaking, the adults of the family asked the child to kowtow to the river.
However, Zhang An did not stop him. Da Laoqing saved his life and deserved his thanks.
Su Ying looked on with a strange expression.
Others don’t know what’s going on with this fish, but she knows it clearly.
But there were many people at the moment, so she didn’t say anything.
At this time, Zhang Jianwen ran over. He had just heard that someone was drowning in the dam, and he rushed here immediately.
The lotus pond is the first place to make money in the village, and he doesn't want anything to happen here.
“Xiao An, what’s going on?”
Seeing that the drowning child was rescued, Zhang Jianwen breathed a sigh of relief. Nothing happened.
When the old uncle asked, Zhang An informed the old uncle of the cause and effect.
Actually, this child relied on his ability to swim, so he accidentally jumped over the fence and swam into the deep water.
The water flow in this dam is very gentle. If you can swim normally, there will be no problem.
It was just that the child's feet suddenly cramped and he panicked, so he sank into the water.
When Zhang Jianwen heard Zhang An say that there was such a big fish in the river and he rescued the child who fell into the water, he felt a little fantasy.
I have lived here for decades and have never heard of such a thing.
Actually, Zhang Jianwen had met Da Laoqing before, when Zhang An fished Da Laoqing up last time.
It’s just that he doesn’t think about it now.
But seeing so many people speaking with certainty, he could only attribute it to the spiritual nature of this river.
At this time, the child's parent came over to show concern and kept saying sorry to everyone.
Zhang Jianwen saw that the child was okay, so he didn't say anything. He just gave a few words to watch the child carefully next time.
Zhang An looked at it and sighed, everyone nowadays is so honest and honest, and they even apologized.
In the next few decades, this kind of thing will happen quite a lot.
When many people encounter such a thing, they will not look for their own reasons. They will take the blame first and then take the blame on you.
In fact, the village has done a good job. Wooden fences have been installed on the edge of the shallow water area in the dam.
It is separated by a large row of wooden fences. Unless you climb over it intentionally, you will definitely not be able to pass.
At that time, when the village renovated this area, the most expensive thing was the wooden fences in these isolation areas.
If you really want to find a loophole, you can only say that the village did not send anyone to guard here, or the wooden fence is not high enough.
However, after this child sounded the alarm, the old uncle decided that he must find someone to guard him to avoid any further accidents.
(End of this chapter)