With doubts in her heart, Ning Xiyue followed everyone out of the cafeteria and walked towards the Youth League Home.
When they were almost at the Youth House, Liu Yao pointed at the people squatting in the ditch ahead and asked curiously, "Are those four the new Youth?"
"Where is it? Let me see."
Wang Mengmeng stood next to Liu Yao and looked in the direction she pointed. She saw four people in the drainage ditches on both sides of the road not far away.
Two boys were in a ditch, one was upstream and the other was downstream.
The two girls were together, one was moving in the ditch, and the other was standing on the side of the road looking down.
The people in the water were half-bent over or half-squatting in the ditch, with their heads down looking intently into the water. From time to time, they were running in the water, with their hands pointing vertically downwards as if they were in the water.
However, due to the obstruction of the viewing angle, we cannot see the part below the elbows, and therefore cannot see what they are doing. We can only see people half-squatting inside.
But looking at them walking around in the water, they seemed to be having a lot of fun.
Ning Xiyue looked over and saw that the person standing by the roadside was Sun Meimei, and together with the three people in the ditch, they were indeed the four people she brought back to the Youth League Home this morning.
These four people didn't go to the cafeteria to eat but stayed in this ditch. Don't they feel hungry at all?
"He's a new educated youth."
Ning Xiyue, the only person who had seen the new educated youth, nodded in confirmation of Liu Yao's words.
“It’s true!”
Liu Yao looked over there in surprise. She didn't expect that the first time she would meet the new educated youth would be here.
"So what are they doing in there, playing in the water?"
Wang Mengmeng smiled with a puzzled look on her face and said, "Why do these new educated youth seem so silly?" This was the first time she saw educated youth playing in the ditch on their first day in the countryside.
"They shouldn't be playing in the water. Let's go over and take a look."
Ning Xiyue shook her head in disbelief. They really couldn't be playing in the water. The movements of those people didn't look like they were playing in the water, and the four of them wouldn't skip their meals just to play in the water.
The ditch here reminded her of the news she heard when she was chatting with her aunts yesterday. Perhaps these people were sharp-eyed and saw it in the ditch, otherwise she couldn't understand what was more important than eating.
Just wait and see what happens.
"Are they fishing?" Ning Qingyuan muttered as he looked into the distance. When he thought of something, he pulled Yu Zhiyu and Wang Jiandong beside him and walked towards the fork in the road.
Only three female comrades, Ning Xiyue, Wang Mengmeng and Liu Yao, were walking in front. Ning Xiyue noticed the movements of her second brother and others, but did not care what they did.
Her attention was mainly focused on the new educated youth. The team leader handed them over to her in the morning. Before Wu Guifang and Zhao Jianshe returned, she had more or less some responsibility on her.
She, Wang Mengmeng and Liu Yao walked quickly forward. The closer they got, the more they could feel the happiness of the four people. It was impossible not to hear their joyful smiles.
Ning Xiyue heard Tang Xiaohu's cheerful voice: "Ah, I caught another one. My god, this one is so big."
Are you really catching fish?
As far as she knew, this ditch passed through a reservoir. It rained a few days ago, causing the water in the reservoir to be higher than the connected ditch, and the water flowed down through the gap.
This ditch is the main ditch of the brigade. It passes through many places and many branch ditches are connected to it. It is well-connected and even connected to the big river outside the brigade.
This ditch can be said to connect most of the land in the entire brigade and reach most parts of the brigade.
Recently it is the important time for spring plowing and sowing. The water in the ditch is used for irrigation of the land along the way, which can greatly facilitate the members to irrigate the land after sowing.
In order to ensure that there is enough water in the ditch, the team leader dug the gap in the reservoir deeper to ensure that the land is adequately irrigated.
Just yesterday she heard an aunt say that she had scooped up a big crucian carp while diverting water for irrigation.
Many people who knew about this put fish baskets or nets in the ditches in front of their homes to catch fish.
I heard from them that they had caught some fish and shrimp, which could add a bowl of meat to the table.
Liu Yao walked over and suddenly asked, "What are you catching in the ditch?"
The few people who were concentrating were frightened, but they calmed down when they saw Ning Xiyue's figure.
"Xiyue, look." Tang Xiaohu was holding a freshly caught eel in his hand and waving it happily.
"Ah, a snake." Wang Mengmeng was so scared that she took a few steps back and hid behind Ning Xiyue.
Liu Yao had been bitten by a snake before, so she was scared when she saw the long object in Tang Xiaohu's hand. She and Wang Mengmeng hid behind Ning Xiyue on both sides.
“…”
Who isn’t afraid of eels? Oh, she is really not afraid of eels.
Ning Xiyue looked at the two people grabbing her shoulders and smiled helplessly: "It's not a snake, it's an eel."
"Yes, yes, it's an eel. You can see it's yellow in color."
Tang Xiaohu knew that what he had in his hand scared others, so he quickly explained and lowered the eel in his hand to show everyone that what he had in his hand was really an eel before putting it in the snakeskin bag hanging by the ditch.
Sun Meimei, who was standing next to her, picked up the sack placed by the water and ran to Ning Xiyue, opening the bag to show her.
The two people lying on Ning Xiyue's shoulders curiously stretched their heads to look into their pockets: "Oh, my god, this is too scary."
Seeing this, the two were frightened again. They quickly retracted their heads and tried their best to hide behind Ning Xiyue, resting their heads on Ning Xiyue's back, covering their eyes with their clothes, not daring to look again.
At this moment, Ning Xiyue only felt like she was a safety shield, with the people on her left and right huddled behind her human-shaped tool shield and shivering.
Ning Xiyue looked down alone.
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