Seventy Little Heads

"This small mud pond is the best. A lot of loaches and eels can be fished out from here every year, but we came late. Looking at the piled up soil, I don't know who took it first two days ago."

Goudan pointed to a large mud pit with apparently little water left and said, this big mud pit is a high-quality resource, because it is close to a deep mud pool, and there are many loaches and eels in it.

The mud in the deep mire is very fertile, but the central area is not dry all year round. No one dares to enter it, and it cannot be used for farming. It will sink, and even the youngest children in the village know the danger.

Although Wang Xuan also grew up in the village, he was only five years old when his mother was still alive. He was cherished by his mother every day, and he took him with him to watch when he worked.Later, when I lived with my aunt, I didn't have the chance to play like Goudan. At a young age, he knew every piece of land near the village.

He was at a loss, "The fish is in the mud?" He carefully looked at the big mud.

"Stupid, of course ordinary fish live in clean water, but loaches and eels like to eat rotten mud."

Wang Xuan's starry eyes said, "Brother Goudan, you are so amazing, you know a lot."

"Hmph, you'll understand later." He waved his hand to let Wang Xuan follow him.

"Come here and see, the idiot who snatched our fish in front did not fish out the loach. Wang Xuan, look, are there small holes in the mud next to it?"

Wang Xuan came over to look at it and nodded, "Is this the home of the loach?"

"That's right, let's dig along this way, wow, wow, did Wang Xuan see it? Did you see it? Big loach!" Goudan held one in his hand and kept twisting it, showing off to Wang Xuan excitedly.

Wang Xuan was also happy, turned around and asked Goudan to put the loach into the fish basket tied behind his buttocks.He also turned around from time to time to look at the only harvest in the fish basket.

Then, "I want to catch it too." Wang Xuan imitated Goudan's appearance, rolled up his trouser legs to the base of his thighs, and raised his sleeves so high, revealing his pale little arms, which were different from Goudan's dark.Goudan doesn't know how to wear clothes in summer.

The two children were digging excitedly beside the mud pit where others had picked up the big fish.Wang Xuan was too short, and the mud covered his knees, making him unable to walk. Goudan had no choice but to take the fish basket tied around his waist that was about to fall to the ground and carry it with him.

"Goudan, Goudan, look, it's such a big loach." Wang Xuan finally touched something, and a blush appeared on his pale face with excitement.

Goudan looked up and shouted anxiously, "Throw it away, throw it away, idiot."

Wang Xuan was so frightened that the thing in his hand fell into the mud, and Goudan hurried forward to pull him away, grabbing the long thing with sharp eyesight and quick hands.

He breathed a sigh of relief, "This is not a loach, it's a type of water snake."

"Ah?" Wang Xuan was startled, he knew that snakes can bite people, they are poisonous!

"Then you throw it away quickly." Wang Xuan wanted to step forward and slap Goudan's hand away, but Goudan avoided it and took a step back.

"It's not poisonous, this one isn't poisonous. Look, I'm holding it tightly. It likes to stay in mud or rotten leaves, but the bite is very painful and it bleeds."

The snake was pinched to death by the dog's egg. He dug out the snake's head with a hoe, and threw the whole snake into the fish basket on the side.

"It's delicious, but it's still meat."

Wang Xuan was a little scared, swallowed his saliva and nodded.

After a while, Wang Xuan carefully caught a real loach, which was only as thick as his finger. Because it was too slippery, he almost slipped out of his fingers and slipped away. Goudan hurriedly passed the fish basket to catch it. up.

In this way, he was also very happy.

Goudan was very lucky, he found a big eel for him, wild things, no matter how big they are, have great strength, fortunately Goudan has a way.

Wang Xuan exclaimed, "Brother Goudan, did you touch the snake again? It's so big."

"Idiot, this is an eel, not a snake!" There is no one who treats a snake as a big loach and an eel as a snake.

Goudan smashed the head of the eel and told Wang Xuan that because the eel grows long and can crawl, it might run away if it doesn't die.

"Let's go, it seems that there is nothing to fish here."

There were several loaches of different sizes in the fish basket, a headless water snake the size of an adult's finger, and an eel with a rotten head.

The legs of the two hairy boys were covered with black mud, and it was a bit difficult to walk, but they managed to climb onto the dry field stalks.

"Ouch."

Goudan turned around quickly when he heard the sound, and Wang Xuan squatted there grinning.

"I stepped on a thorn." Wang Xuan raised his head and said to Goudan.

"Let me see." Goudan pulled out the thorn, and then squeezed out a little blood. "Okay, it won't hurt later, don't step on the hard grass. Come with me."

"Don't go into the water, catch grasshoppers on it. Go back and pickle them with salt before frying them."

Goudan thought of the delicious food, and Wang Xuan also liked it, so he could only listen to him.

The sun was rising high, and it was noon in a blink of an eye. Goudan had intercepted two or three puddles in the field, but there was not much harvest.

Now the fourth one is the biggest one. He is struggling to scoop water out, and he has to strengthen the dam from time to time to prevent the splashed water from flowing back.

Scoop out half of the water, throw the wooden basin, and call Wang to spin down to touch the fish.

"Take a dustpan and look for it." Goudan continued to scoop water, but he had to make sure there was no goods in it, otherwise it would not be worthwhile to waste effort to find an empty pond.

Wang Xuan searched here and there, but there was nothing there, and he didn't dare to say anything, the dog was hot and tired, if he found that there was nothing, he would be angry.Wang Xuan could only keep his head down and continue fishing, hoping to gain something.

"Have you fished it out?"

"...Not yet." Wang Xuan replied in a muffled voice.

"Give it to me, I'll come."

Goudan snatched the dustpan, and began to slowly push it from the middle to the side with the mouth of the dustpan, and lifted it up, no!

Turn around and continue, still nothing.

"It's a waste of effort. This pond has probably been fished out." If it was a month or two ago, the traces would not be obvious, but the fish in it are basically gone, and there is not much accumulated.

"Forget it, let's dig the dirt." Since there are no fish in the water, let's dig the mud next to it. Goudan resisted the hoe and started digging the soft mud, and only started slowly when he was sure there was something in stock.

By the way, pick up the Oda crabs that climbed up the shore because of the turbidity of the water. Put more salt on these crabs and fry them with locusts. They are also delicious and crunchy.

After digging east and west, Goudan pulled down the small dam that he built himself, so that all the water scooped out earlier would flow back, so that there would be fish again after a long time.Everyone does this, and Goudan does it too. Anyway, no matter who it is, it will try to return to its original state after it is over.Otherwise, you will be scolded, because the water irrigation will be affected.

"Come on, go home, I'm starving. Are you hungry?"

"Not hungry."

The two little clay figurines walked to the stream in front of the village. Goudan untied the fish basket tied around his waist and jumped into it. Suddenly, the stream became muddy.It's all rotten mud scattered from Goudan's body.

"Come on, come down quickly, it's so cool." The dog rolls violently in the water a few times, and the burning sensation of the sun on the body is gone. There is only refreshing coolness. This stream flows from the mountain It came out very clear.

Seeing that Goudan looked very comfortable in the water, Wang Xuan also went into the water to wash off the dirt on his legs and arms, and then took off his highly rolled trousers and clothes and put them away.

Slowly squatting down, I was stunned by the cold stream water, and only after I got used to it did I feel the beauty of the stream water.The unrestrained dog has already peeled off his trousers and scrubbed them in the water. The trousers look even worse. He will wear this pair of trousers until winter. He will only use this pair of trousers all day long. They are dirty in summer. When I take a shower, I rub it with my hands, and I can wear it again when it dries the next day.

The reason for washing it is because when it was hot, he rolled it in the mud soup when it was hot, and now it has to be washed.

The mud in the trousers was scrubbed clean, and it was much lighter to lift. He threw it directly on the shrubs on the bank to dry, and Goudan began to scrub his body seriously.

"Wang Xuan, what are you doing there?" Seeing him squatting there motionless, Goudan yelled.

"I'm right here, you turn over the water, I'm afraid of splashing on my head..."

"My dad said when can your head touch the water? Isn't it good? Come here, I won't turn over the water, let me see if your back is clean."

Wang Xuan had no choice but to stand up and rub Goudan's back. Goudan said, "When will your end be washed? I could smell it when I slept yesterday. It smells like medicine. It smells bad."

Wang Xuan pursed his lips, he was also very wronged, okay?Even though the wound is healing, it can't be soaked in water. Brother Goudan despises him because his head stinks.

Goudan didn't care that what he said made Wang Xuan a little hurt. After Wang Xuan finished rubbing his back, he swam behind Wang Xuan and gave Wang Xuan a back rub in return.

"Okay, let's kill the fish."

First soak the fish basket halfway in the water, shake it, and wash off the soil.Wash the wooden basin, fill it with water, and put it upside down from the fish basket into the wooden basin.

Little things of different sizes, different lengths, different thicknesses, and different varieties.

First pick out the locusts, tear off their tails, and pull out a piece of black feces. The locusts are thrown into the fish basket that has been rinsed, and the dirty things pulled out flow away with the stream.

Wang Xuan also helped, he was obviously more skilled than Goudan in dealing with these.

Two naked little boys, squatting by the stream, looked surprisingly harmonious.