Chapter 123 Your whole family is pepper
Gu Dong and his friends were unable to reach the river after all. When Yu Lixin and Yu Jianshe heard that Yu Hui and her friends were going to pick snails, they wanted to follow them since they could swim.
Yu Hui asked them to ask Qian Lan. Qian Lan was very confident in her two sons' swimming skills and let them go with her without any worries.
Gu Dong and Gu Nan took their two younger brothers to play with a ball in the yard.
Zhao Changying couldn't sit still at home, so she took Beibei out to find someone to chat with.
There are quite a lot of people by the river in the hot summer. Some adults bring their children to wash clothes and sheets, some come to fish, and there are also many children who come without adults.
The soldiers on duty persuaded this group to go back, but another group came. They were almost drooling in the hot summer.
These people were from the military family compound and nearby villages.
Yu Hui found a shady place by the river and put down her small stool and iron bucket.
"I'm fishing for lobsters here, so don't go too far. Be careful where you step when you're picking up snails, and don't go into deep water."
"I know." Gu Qiuyan and the others responded in unison, then dispersed to touch the snails.
Yu Hui broke off a thin branch, tied a long rope to it, tied a piece of pork to the other end, and then threw it into the river.
I bought pork at the market in the morning, cooked some at noon, and left some to eat with Gu Huai when he came back in the evening.
After a minute or two, when I lifted it up, I saw four or five plump crayfish hanging on the meat.
She quickly took the shrimp off the meat and threw it into a small iron bucket. Her mind was full of spicy crayfish, garlic crayfish, and steamed crayfish!
Gu Qiuyan stood in the water, holding a nylon bag in one hand and reaching into the water plants with the other hand to feel for snails.
When he straightened up, he found two big snails in his hands.
She happily put the snails into the bag. In just a short while, she had already touched quite a few.
"Hey, Pepper."
A male voice came and Gu Qiuyan smiled.
There is actually someone called Little Lajiao, it must be a nickname.
Continue to bend down and touch the snails.
"Hey, the chili pepper with two pigtails and snails."
Wearing two pigtails and touching snails, isn't that calling her?
Gu Qiuyan raised her head and looked around. Under a cypress tree, she saw the "annoying guy" wearing a white short-sleeved cotton shirt, sitting on a rock with a fishing rod in his hand.
Tsk, I didn’t check the almanac before going out today.
She rolled her eyes and continued to bend over and touch the snail.
As the former king of children in the compound and the most handsome boy recognized by the grandmothers and aunts in the compound, this was the first time that Zhan Lang was ignored by a little girl like this.
"Little Pepper, why are you ignoring me?"
Gu Qiuyan continued to ignore it.
"Little Pepper, why are you touching the snail?"
"Little Pepper, the sun is so strong, aren't you afraid of getting a tan?"
Many young girls in the compound are afraid of getting their skin tanned, so they basically won’t go out at this time, and they have to carry umbrellas even in the morning.
She is very different from the girls in the compound. Her wheat-colored skin does not look ugly at all. Instead, it makes her look healthy and energetic.
"Little Pepper..."
Gu Qiuyan couldn't stand it any longer. She glared at Zhan Lang and yelled, "Little Pepper, Little Pepper! You are the Little Pepper. Your whole family is Little Pepper."
"If someone ignores you, it means they hate you and don't want to talk to you. At this time, you should just shut up!"
After cursing, she shook her braids and walked in the opposite direction with the nylon bag.
Zhan Lang was stunned by the scolding. He looked at Gu Qiuyan's back and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
Zhan Lang had lived for twenty years, but this was the first time he was scolded by a little girl.
It was also the first time that a little girl disliked me.
He smiled. It was really unpleasant to be disliked.
There were so many snails by the river that in less than two hours, the bags brought by Gu Qiuyan and the others were full of snails, and they all returned to Yu Hui one by one.
Yu Hui has caught almost a bucket of crayfish.
"Is this a crayfish?" Gu Qiuyan bent down and looked at the crayfish crawling in the bucket. "Isn't this a pest insect?"
Yu Hui: “Pests?”
"Yes, we have this in the fields in the countryside. It will pinch the rice seedlings, and we use pesticides to kill them before they cause disaster."
"Sister Huihui, have you forgotten?" Gu Qiuyan looked at Yu Hui strangely. She shouldn't have forgotten this.
Yu Hui: “…”
"Of course I didn't forget, it's a giant worm."
"The educated youth from Northeast China in our village said it's called crayfish, not a bug, and is edible. It's an invasive alien species, and there are even communes in their hometowns that raise them."
Once again, the blame was put on the educated youth from Northeast China. Anyway, at this time, those educated youth from Northeast China had all returned to the city, and no one went to them to verify.
"When I was little, I used to catch these little crayfish and grill them. They were just as delicious as the big river shrimp."
Hearing this, Gu Qiuyan and Gu Qiuye looked at her with distressed expressions.
Their sister Xiaohui was so pitiful when she was a child. When she was hungry, she had only roasted insects to eat.
Yu Hui put away her fishing rod despite their distressed gazes, took the three lobsters she had caught and threw them into a small iron bucket.
"It's enough to eat, let's go home." It was almost four o'clock, so they went back to prepare the shrimps so that they could stir-fry them and eat them in the evening.
"good."
Wen Zhaodi came back from outside carrying vinegar. She walked past two old ladies who were sitting on a bench by the roadside chatting with their children. She fell back after taking only two steps.
"Is that Aunt Zhao?" he asked with a smile.
Zhao Changying nodded, "You are..."
"I'm Wen Zhaodi. We've met before." Wen Zhaodi sat next to Zhao Changying very familiarly.
Wen Zhaodi?
Who is that?
Zhao Changying had no impression at all.
Her parents weren't too particular about giving her such a name.
Wang Tiaohua noticed that she didn't remember Wen Zhaodi, so she said, "She's the wife of Secretary Wu, the propaganda officer of the military region."
"Oh..." Zhao Changying nodded.
Then who is it?
"Aunt Zhao, you won't leave this time, right?" Wen Zhaodi looked at her and asked.
"Let's go, of course we have to go. We'll go back when it's time to thresh the grain." The family can't do without her, especially the old lady at home.
"You can't leave." Wen Zhaodi grabbed her hand. "You don't know, Xiao Yu abused several children when Captain Gu was not at home. Now Captain Gu has to lead a new regiment and is too busy to take care of the family. Xiao Yu will definitely..."
"This is a misunderstanding. Those children don't look like they have been abused." Wang Tiaohua interrupted Wen Zhaodi.
Wen Zhaodi: "She changed her ways after being discovered by Beibei's grandmother and educated by us."
"Was it discovered by Beibei's grandmother?" Zhao Changying asked Wen Zhaodi calmly.
"yes."
"How did you find out?"
Wen Zhaodi recounted the entire story from beginning to end.
"...Xiao Yu still refuses to admit it and says we wronged her."
"But after our education, she finally stopped abusing the children. She made clothes for them and bought meat for them, pretending to be very kind to them in front of others."
Wen Zhaodi was talking with saliva flying everywhere, but she didn't notice that Zhao Changying's eyes were looking at her more and more coldly.
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