Chapter 15: The Gathering of Ghosts (6)
The debate over whether wheat is good or not did not continue.
In his previous life, he was tired of eating fatty meat, potatoes, and fish, but the only thing he didn't get tired of was steamed buns.
Steamed buns are wives, and all dishes are lovers.
He put his hands on top of his head, lay down on the mat made of reeds, thought like this, and then thought of the plain and plain in his life, not as fragrant as meat, not as sweet as melon, not as good as vegetables, not as fresh as fish, but how to never get tired of steamed buns, what would it look like?
Lu Hua no longer argued about whether the wheat was good or not, and lay down on the side in his appearance, gently kicked the appropriate calf with his leg, and motioned for him to lean to the side to make a place for her.
Wei got up quietly, said that he was going to make it convenient, and left the small pergola.
I'm so tired these days, I lay down and thought about it for a while and then fell asleep.
Lu Hua couldn't sleep, and vented the reason why he couldn't sleep on the grasshopper who was screaming on the side, got up and grabbed the grasshopper who was trying to eat corn leaves in vain, and said in his heart, don't scream, he fell asleep.
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In the evening, a group of children gathered around again.
A child's face was swollen and covered with one hand, but the dust on his face showed no signs of being washed away by tears.
Shi was very impressed by this child, because this child was a six-fingered, and his parents directly called him six-fingered when he named him.
"What's going on?"
Several children teased: "I was beaten by my mother, I went to catch fish in the river and swim in the water, I was caught by my mother and beaten hard." I won't dare to go again. ”
At this time, it is hot and it is normal to swim.
But this kid is six-fingered, in the Song Kingdom, where the theory of ghosts and gods is prevalent, this is unlucky. As a mother, she was afraid that the child would be taken away by the water ghost Hebo, so she was stricter.
This kid is actually very smart, and his temper is also very stubborn, and with his natural six fingers, he left a deep impression on Shi.
These children are taught to count and simple arithmetic, and the child who counts the six fingers learns the fastest. In just two months, I have been able to count to a hundred, and it is very rare to count addition and subtraction within ten.
The children usually made fun of him and said that he was good at addition and subtraction within ten because he had eleven fingers, and he said that day that he would chop off the extra little finger to prove that he was missing a finger.
At this time, he heard others making fun of him, and Six Fingers said angrily: "Who said that you didn't dare to go?" I'm not afraid, if there is really a Hebo water ghost, maybe I will catch it out and show it to Brother Shi, he must have a way to make him obedient. ”
Shi laughed and asked, "What are you doing to make him obedient?" ”
"Catch fish for us to eat."
"Great idea!"
Shi didn't say whether there was such a thing, but praised it, and touched the top of the child's head.
Six fingers whispered: "Brother Shi, in fact, I went to play in the water a few days ago and almost drowned." I drank a stomach full of water, but fortunately there was a stone, and I survived. When I vomited a stomach full of water, I thought that I must learn it, and I won't be able to drown if I want to drown in this water in the future! ”
Hearing this, Shi Tu was surprised.
If an ordinary child is drowned and dies once, I am afraid that he will not dare to go to the water again for three or five years. This kid was drowned once, but he was ruthless to fight with Hebo, which was interesting.
Estimating that this group of children was not good swimming, he said: "I'll take you to the river to play now, do you dare to go?" ”
"Why don't you dare?"
Six fingers rubbed the puffed face that was slapped up, and tilted his head not to be outdone, not afraid at all.
He led a group of children to the river, took off their stripes and jumped into the river, and taught them to swim for a while, staring thoughtfully at the fish in the river.
On the second day, he went to the village community where the festival was held, looked at the large clay jar, which was rarely used, and calculated how long it would be before the seeds he had planted could be harvested.
In the evening, while telling a story, he led the children to make a flail with a fire drill, and suddenly asked, "Do you want to eat fish?" ”
The children nodded together, and the six fingers were the fiercest, and they were all masters who wanted to catch the water ghosts and catch fish like a carriage.
It's just that these people farm for a living, fishing nets are too expensive to buy, fishing things are also rare, and they have to be busy working in the fields on weekdays, so they don't have time at all.
These days, the children feel that Shi Zhi knows everything, and when he says this, the things that have not yet been seen have been salivated one by one.
A few days later, the group of children made a lot of water cages out of wicker, with small openings, and tied a funnel to the outside that could only enter and difficult to get out.
Shi took a few live mice, and asked the children to peel the rats and roast them, put them outside to dry them, and threw them into the fish basket as bait.
The fish basket is easy to make, and the children can make it up, there is no technical content, as long as it is easy to get in and difficult to come out.
The sentence in the Peach Blossom Spring's record is reversed, the beginning is extremely cheerful, but the fish can be counted; Half a foot of re-swimming, the hole is extremely narrow, and the fish is passed.
The hardest part is the bait-based mice, and if there is no bait in the basket, the fish will not burrow into it.
Corn can't be used as bait, the taste is not strong, and the water will disperse as soon as it is soaked. Stinky meat is the best bait, but unfortunately at this time, it is ideal to be able to eat meat at the age of seventy, and you can only plan from mice.
Several long, narrow clay pots, placed on wooden sticks to form an oblique angle.
A few grains of corn are placed at the bottom of the clay pot, and the mouth of the clay pot is topped with a stone, because at the beginning the bottom is at the bottom and the top is on top, so the stone cannot block the mouth of the clay pot.
When the rat wants to come out after entering, when it reaches the mouth of the can, the center of gravity shifts forward, and the can is top-heavy, and it will fall down and block the exit by stones, and the rat can only spin around inside.
These rats can't eat a few grains of rice on weekdays, and they are already hungry, so they are willing to let go of such a good opportunity, but they don't know that the rats die for food, and they have become bait for fish and shrimp.
It's not the kind of yellow rat that has been infected with plague and doesn't die, and there has been no plague in recent years, and these rats can eat as long as they pass the psychological barrier.
Peeled the skin, cut the internal organs, took the fire to roast the aroma, the children were gluttonous and drooling, but they were not allowed to eat, and talked about the truth of fishing, and I don't know how many can listen to the truth that if you want to take it, you must first talk to it.
More than 20 baskets were thrown into the river, tied to the willow trees by the river, and they went home and boasted to their parents that they would eat fish tomorrow.
They had never seen such a fish, but they thought that since it was said by Brother Shi, they would definitely be able to catch it.
Parents can't help but slap these children who play in the water a few times, and they will be suspicious in their hearts.
At noon on the second day, there was a stir among the village community.
A group of half-grown children, following suitable.
Each one carried a wicker in his hand, and the wicker was dressed in large and small fish, and several girls carried a small wicker basket in their hands, which contained some river shrimp attracted by the stinky meat.
Six Fingers, who had been beaten before, walked very happily, and when she saw her mother hurriedly running over, she raised the wicker wearing three big fish and shouted, "Mom, eat fish at night!" ”
With this shout, no one noticed that Shi who was walking in the crowd was quietly scratching his body, and he didn't know what he had done before.
The people in the village community also opened their eyes, and a group of children who didn't even have a net followed Shi Shi to the river a few times, and they really got a lot of fish.
More than 20 fish baskets have a lot of harvest, there are dozens of large and small, and there are a lot of river shrimp.
Nowadays, fish is not valuable, and there are fewer ways to eat it, but it can be sold for some money in Shangqiu City.
Hearing Six Fingers' shout, Six-Finger's mother hurriedly said, "Don't talk nonsense, what do you eat?" This is a fish that you can catch and sell it to buy new clothes. ”
Before Shi could speak, he heard the six-fingered mouth and said: "Brother Shi has said a long time ago, and the ink man does not talk about food and clothing." Besides, Brother Shi said, this fish basket was made up by us, and the idea was from him, but he only had a little merit when he caught the fish, and most of us still had it. Not to mention that Brother Shi originally said that everyone should eat fish together, even if he didn't say that we all said that we wanted to eat fish, this fish would not belong to him. ”
These people have listened to a lot of things such as righteousness and small righteousness on weekdays, and they know that if they meet other people's six fingers, they will definitely make people dissatisfied and feel ungrateful, but in the eyes of Shi, they are obviously taken for granted.
Shi quietly scratched his itchy body that had been stung by wild bees by doing something before, and said loudly: "I will go to the public field to work in a few days, and I will invite everyone to eat fish tonight." In the evening, after each family cooks corn, they will bring some pickled vegetables such as sunflower and leeks, and we will see you in the village community. ”
shouted loudly, attracting everyone's thanks, but he just waved his hand and smiled.
When I got home, I asked the children to cut the fish and go to the field to pinch some coriander that they had grown up and had never been willing to eat.
On the way back, I went around the village community valley field, and when I saw that there was no one around, I hurriedly went back and got a hidden clay pot.
It contained half a jar of honey from wild bees, which was also the cause of the previous itching on his body, so he quietly mixed the honey with water, found a few large ant nests near the grain field, and drew a few dishes with sweet water.
Chen Shengwang, Da Chuxing and other things, this is something to learn, but to engage in this kind of superstitious activities, you need to look at the cultural level of the audience.
Chen Sheng stuffed the silk book into the belly of the fish, if no one recognized it, it would be a joke.
Thinking that in a little while those seeds will be ripe, it's time to say something. After speaking, he is not afraid, in a country like the Song State, the level that the vassals and the monarch can't control when they fight, even if he shouts out the prince and general Xiangning among the hooligans, it's okay.
The premise of saying this is death is that there is a perfect state apparatus, and a country like the Song State, which is beaten all day long, does not have this ability. Of course, he didn't want to say this at all for the time being. All he had to do was wait for Mozi to come back and take him as an apprentice.
The water mixed with the honey of wild bees poured strange patterns in front of the ant nest, and several wayfinding soldier ants had already smelled it, and hurried home with a little tentacle to report the good news.
Shi washed and hid the empty crockpot, and returned to Luhua's house, where the children had already washed the fish.
I found a few children and said, "Go back and talk to your mother, and let them go to the village community grain field now and boil the water." These two coins, buy a liter of salt at someone's house, go ahead. ”
The children took the money and ran back as fast as they could.
When the women were joyfully carrying the fish and preparing to cook it, they were all stunned in the grain floor.
A group of black ants, like soldiers about to fight, surrounded the path outside the village valley, as if waiting for the arrival of a general of the three armies.
It's not a word, and even these people don't recognize it.
But it was indeed a vision.