My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 422 Thunderstorm

  Old Zhong Tou heard the words and was about to come over and make fun of him.

  Zhao Yubao yelled again, "Hiss~ah~", which startled him, "Oh, itchy, itchy, there are fish in the water gnawing on the soles of my feet."

  He shouted, Zhao Dahai also exclaimed: "Ah, I have this too, I have this too, there are so many small fish swimming over."

  The father and son yelled.

   After seeing clearly what was causing the trouble underwater, I immediately became more playful.

  Staring with bright eyes at the densely packed small fish swimming around his legs and feet in the ditch, constantly gnawing, bringing a kind of tingling and slightly itchy pleasure.

   "Hey, it's fun, isn't this the kind of fish therapy done by foreigners?"

   "Dad, don't move around, it scares away the fish on my side."

   "Whoever moved around, it must be your smelly feet that smoked the fish away."

  Father and son are like two little dolls, soaking their feet, looking at groups of small fish circling around their feet, happily fighting each other...

  Old Zhongtou was not in the mood to laugh at the old man anymore, he walked over greedily and curiously, and stared into the ditch.

   I saw so many little fishes playing around their legs and feet.

  Old Zhongtou couldn't bear it anymore, kicked off his shoes and socks, and couldn't wait to choose a place to soak in the water.

   Followed closely by the two old ladies who were not far behind.

   And then there's—

  “Ah~”, “Ah~”, “Ah~”

   Let out a series of comfortable shouts.

   "I'm going, don't you want to be so exaggerated, just soak your feet, is it really so comfortable? You call it as if you are about to ascend to heaven."

  The Bobcats were surprised.

   "How can you talk like a kitten?"

Zhao Yubao snorted, squinted his eyes in comfort and said, "This is not just a foot bath, but also fish therapy, and although the water is very cool, it is also very soft, flowing over our feet like silk It's as slippery as if touched by a fairy's hand."

  Zhao Dahai echoed after hearing the words: "Yes, it is much more fun than the stream on the mountain, Yaya, quickly bring mom over to play, there are a lot of small fish here, dad."

   As he spoke, he moved his buttocks and changed the place. His two fat and strong feet stirred the water channel and knocked out all the fish at the bottom.

  The fat man burst out laughing: "Fugui, Fugui, we have developed another fun project for you. In the future, people will come to the farm to stay and play. This will be charged as part of the supporting project, which is absolutely true."

  Chen Ling and Wang Susu glanced at each other, but felt that this idea was a good one.

"By the way, Fugui, what kind of fish is this little fish? Isn't the kind of fish that foreigners make for fish therapy tropical fish? A guy in our circle even wrote an article about it. I remember it very clearly." Zhao Yubao asked road.

   "This is an ordinary wheat ear fish, which flows down the mountain along the mountain stream. This small miscellaneous fish is not afraid of people, but it doesn't grow up, basically it grows a little bigger."

  Chen Ling answered casually, dragged the brat who was about to slip away with Yaya with one hand, and slapped him a few times on the ass.

   "Stay obediently and don't go over."

  The brat didn't cry when he was beaten, but just opened his **** and white eyes, looked up at him, and then at Wang Susu, with his mouth pursed and his face full of grievances.

  Don't even care about the bird tied to the bamboo stick, throw it on the ground, let it flap its wings, struggling needlessly.

  Wang Susu patted his head when he saw this, and said softly: "Ruirui is obedient, we are still young, we will catch cold when we play in the water, and if we catch cold, our stomach hurts, and we can't sleep at night."

In fact, Ruirui has a good memory. He was beaten when he went to the water to dig out bird nests last time. When he was at home, he was never allowed to go to places with water. Why, but also ignorantly know that playing in the water will make parents angry...

   It’s just a doll. When playing with friends, I can’t control so much.

   Whatever other people play, he also wants to play together.

   And I couldn't bear to bark.

  When someone called, he couldn't stay for a second, and wanted to run over to play.

  No, Yaya ran to Zhao Dahai's side, saw that Ruirui was not following, and hurriedly waved to him: "Ruirui, come here, there are a lot of small fish here, let's let the small fish eat their feet too."

   Yaya shouted like this, this guy, how can he do it.

  Ruirui twisted his body directly beside Chen Ling and Wang Susu and moaned, grabbing Chen Ling's hand and trying to play, almost tears came out.

  Zhao Dahai and Xiang Wenxia both like Ruirui very much. Seeing that the little baby is making trouble like this, they hurriedly said to their daughter: "Yaya, don't play with water anymore, go play with Ruirui."

   "The aqueduct of your uncle's house is here, and we will have many opportunities to play in the future."

   As soon as he said that, he stepped out of the water, and didn't care about putting on his shoes, so he dragged Yaya to coax Ruirui.

But even though Yaya is a little more than two years older than Ruirui, she is still a playful little doll. Seeing them playing in the water and having such an interesting little fish that can chew their feet, I naturally miss them very much. Play.

Chen Ling saw it, and winked at Wang Susu, then hugged the brat who was moaning and acting coquettishly in front of him, and walked towards the canal: "It's okay, Brother Dahai, don't you just want to play in the water, let them Play, let's play, you have to catch a cold and have a stomachache last time, and you will have a long memory in the future."

   "Come on, come on, Ruirui doesn't listen to your father, grandparents hug you."

   It’s okay for the two adults to hear these words. The two little dolls can’t control this, as long as they are willing to let them play, they can say anything.

   Immediately cheered up.

   This little thing, Ruirui, was held in Chen Ling's arms, knowing that his father was going to take him to play, he became lively again in the blink of an eye.

  The little head suddenly popped out from Chen Ling's left shoulder for a while, and then popped out from the right shoulder for a while, arguing with Yaya endlessly.

  But when they got to the edge of the canal, when they were asked to play in the water, they were afraid of the cold and dared not stretch their feet in it.

  The little doll is delicate after all.

  Even if Yaya was a little older, she tentatively stretched into the water, and the little girl yelled loudly.

   It took a few minutes to adapt back and forth before fully extending my feet.

Ruirui, like a puppy, was afraid of the cold and dared not go into the water, so Chen Ling hugged her arms and hung above the water, her two little feet splashed in the water, kicking the water, feeling the water was cold It was fun again, giggling and laughing, reluctant to leave.

  The elders of the two families showed love for a while, and felt that this little chubby baby was so cute and fun, and people couldn't help but want to hold it in their arms and love it.

   "Come, come, Fugui let me hug, it's the same if I hold him to play..." Several old people came out of the ditch one after another, smiling and stretching out their hands to hug him.

   And when there were fewer people in the canal, those little fishes all ran to Yaya, Xiang Wenxia, ​​and Du Juan.

  The little girl was very happy when she saw a little fish swimming over at first.

  It's a pity that she is young and very ticklish. As soon as the small fish swarmed around her, she couldn't stand the itching.

   But she was tickled and scared, so she hurriedly yelled "Mom, Mom" ​​and asked Xiang Wenxia to carry her out.

  Ruirui was also tired from playing at this time, and since Yaya stopped playing, he didn't find it so interesting anymore, so he lay in Chen Ling's arms and rubbed his own cold little feet.

   "Okay, you know it's cold, do you want to play now?"

   "I told you that little dolls can't play with water, and they still don't listen."

  …

   "Good guy, you guys are still having such a good time without going out."

   But just after noon, Gao Xiulan came back.

   "Xiulan, it took you half a day to send Zhenzhen to school, don't you catch an episode by the way?"

   "What's the catch? First, I met Qiumei and talked for a while. Later, didn't I want to send a letter to my eldest and second son? In the end, the road was being built in the city, and I was tossing around at the post office for a long time..."

  "Old sister, Qiumei is thinking about you. This goddaughter loves you very much. She doesn't want you to run back and forth. She is afraid that you will make trouble. She will come to see you in the afternoon."

   "Ouch, we came here early to play, and we haven't told Qiumei yet. You must have slipped the tongue."

   "I really said it, but I didn't say it."

   "Hey, you mother, you still push Zhenzhen, we will tell Zhenzhen when Zhenzhen comes back from school... In the future, we will pick her up to go to school in the city, far away from your mother."

  Several old ladies were chattering with smiles. They were all good-natured old people, and they got to know each other very well within two days.

   Now Gao Xiulan is more courageous, and dares to go to the county seat by herself, and often takes turns picking up her daughter with Wang Cunye.

  Chen Ling and Wang Susu used to be afraid that they would be too tired to let them send them off.

   Who knew that the two elders were still anxious about this matter.

  It seems that it is an honor to pick up and drop off my daughter.

   In fact, the family is free, and they are willing to go to the county town more to go to the market or something.

   "What are you doing at home, have you fished in the canal? Why are you still barefoot?"

   "Haha, we are just playing with the water, but brother Cunye really went to touch some fish and came back."

   Several people were happy about what happened just now.

Gao Xiulan also followed blindly. In fact, she didn't think it was very interesting. She saw this thing all day long. Isn't it just for small fish to gnaw on her feet? Farmers go down the river to catch fish, let alone let fish gnaw their feet. River mussels and even long worms and leeches are all kinds of strange things, which make people suffer.

  They didn't find it strange for a long time.

  …

   "Father, did you catch this fish from the ditch outside?"

   "Yeah, what's wrong, this fish can't do it?"

   "Okay, it looks better than last year, a little surprised."

  They were playing in the farm just now, Wang Cunye naturally would not be idle, so he went outside the farm to catch some small miscellaneous fish, and plucked some vegetables from the vegetable garden and came back.

  Used for cooking at noon.

  Fish, seasonal vegetables, plus Chen Ling's molted merle, and some scrambled eggs, duck eggs, etc., are enough to eat.

   "Hey, the weather is weird."

  Chen Ling was holding a basin of small miscellaneous fish, and was about to walk to the backyard. When he saw it was noon, the sky changed unexpectedly.

  Wang Cunye looked up, "Yo, it really is, it should be raining soon, didn't there be so many crabs 'going up the mountain' in the reed marsh yesterday, it just didn't make any fish last night, and I guess the next one is going to happen today."

"Uncle Cunye, this time of year used to be like this on our side. Almost when the sun goes down, there must be a rain. To be honest, it's good to have a few rains earlier. Don't let it rain heavily half a month before the wheat harvest..." Wang Li Xian said.

   "That's the reason. I just wonder that crabs are sometimes inaccurate when going up the mountain." Chen Ling laughed.

Zhao Dahai, Shanmao and the others took Ruirui's two little dolls to play with the cats and dogs at home for a while, then they came over and stretched their heads to look at the small fish in the basin: "This is what they are going to eat, miscellaneous Fish pot stickers?"

   "Well, how about it, do you two want to cook?" Chen Ling said with a smile.

   "Come on, we won't make a fool of yourself." Bobcat waved his hand.

  Zhao Dahai smiled and said, "Just don't use the fish that we gnaw our feet on."

   Hearing this, before Chen Ling could say anything, Shanmao kicked over: "Go, go, you fat man is the most disgusting, don't go to the table later, let's eat with Hei Wa and the others."

   "The weather is indeed about to rain. I can't help Dahai with cooking. Go outside and collect the bird net for you."

   "Okay, let's take it."

   "I still want to catch pigeons early tomorrow. It seems that the weather is not good."

   After entering summer, the weather is changeable.

   Especially when the wheat harvest is approaching, in some years, the scene of Longkou grabbing wheat is often staged.

  The so-called grabbing wheat from Longkou means grabbing wheat from the mouth of the Dragon King, who is in charge of cloud distribution and rain.

  In the first two years of 1995 and 1996, the weather was abnormal. There was not much rain in the first summer, but later there were floods.

  This is the normal weather phenomenon this year.

  Natives are not panicking either.

  Because this kind of celestial phenomenon does not bring much rain, it often falls in the afternoon or before the sun sets, and the next morning, or even the next morning, the rain will stop only in the middle of the night.

   That's why Chen Ling didn't pay much attention to the weather before, so he felt strange.

   "Uncle, Auntie, just clean and wash these dishes, I'll do the rest, you don't have to worry about it."

  Chen Ling turned the old people back, walked to the kitchen in the backyard by himself, and made fish potstickers first.

  Is this miscellaneous fish pot stickers easy to make, first coat the small miscellaneous fish with flour and fry them in a pan until they are golden brown, then take them out.

  Heat the oil again, put in soy sauce, garlic and dried peppers and saute until fragrant, then put the fried small fish in, add soy sauce and wine for cooking the fish, and bring to a boil.

  Don’t worry about the rest, as long as the fish is fresh enough, this dish will be delicious enough.

   The weather is really a coincidence. Just as the miscellaneous fish pot stickers were cooked, when Chen Ling went to cook the next dish, the sky outside became gloomy.

   Not long after, there was no more sunlight in the dark sky, and the sky was very dark.

  Only the two dolls in the yard were still yelling, leading a group of dogs and cats running around, yelling to follow the adults to go outside and call the chickens and ducks back.

  Soon, the wind blew up, layers of dark clouds condensed and lingered, changing into various shapes and tumbling over, with bright blue and white interlaced lightning flashing through the clouds.

  The rolling muffled thunder sounded continuously.

   "Hey, there is still thunder. I don't know if the thunderstorm is serious. Can I take this opportunity to take out my Lightning Strike Wood?"

   After a pair of swallows flew back to the kitchen against the wind, Chen Ling poked his head out of the kitchen, looking at the sky and muttering to himself.

  (end of this chapter)