Chapter 188 Let's go to the fish pond
After Rong Mei drove to pick up the fireworks, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned with a full load. Except for the driver's cab and the co-pilot seat, the back seat and the trunk were also full.
This year was the most "luxurious" year for Liu Rong since she came to Harbin.
It cost a lot, but I spent it happily and it was worth it.
It’s because I can earn money now, and I don’t have to think for a long time before buying a small thing.
Want it? Then buy it!!!
You can feel confident spending the money you earn yourself.
When they got home, only Zhou Zhengfu and Zhou Dabao were at home. Zhou Nanxu had gone to Zhou Zhengmei's house and had not returned yet. Zhou Dabao came out and saw a pile of New Year's goods in the car. He cheered with joy.
After unloading everything in the car, Rong Mei hooked her finger and called Zhou Dabao over, smiling mysteriously, "Dabao, do you want to try something exciting?"
"I do!" Zhou Dabao nodded without thinking when he heard the excitement.
As soon as the little guy nodded, Rong Mei bent down, stretched out her hands unexpectedly, opened them in front of the little guy, and shouted "Bang!!!" with an exaggerated expression.
The little guy was not prepared at all. He was so scared that he subconsciously closed his eyes, shrank his little head, and curled up into a ball.
Looking at the cute appearance of the little guy, Rong Mei laughed loudly, squatted down, and leveled her eyes with Zhou Dabao, "Hahaha, isn't it exciting?"
Zhou Dabao was not angry when he found out that it was his aunt who was teasing him on purpose. He smiled and looked at Rong Mei who was squatting in front of him. He clapped his hands in cooperation and said, "It's exciting. I like to play."
Rong Mei stood up and rubbed Zhou Dabao's head. "Okay, then I'll take you to do something more exciting. Let's do something real and blow up the fish pond!"
After saying that, he took the little guy into the outer room. After a while, the two of them put on their coats and went out.
Liu Rong watched the two, one big and one small, happily take some small toys like firecrackers and go out, and the corners of her mouth couldn't close the curve.
She shook her head helplessly. Was this still the girl who was so eloquent and protected her at the market? In her eyes, Rong Mei was like a child again, with a childlike innocence.
When Zhou Nanxu came back, Liu Rong was cooking in the kitchen.
He took off his coat and walked around the house. He found that Liu Rong was the only one at home. He asked casually, "Mom, when did you come back? Where are they?"
Of course Liu Rong knew who her son was mainly asking about, and she also felt like joking for a moment, "He's been back for a while, your elder brother is piling firewood in the backyard." She deliberately did not mention Rong Mei.
Zhou Nanxu was still waiting for his mother's next words. After waiting for a long time, he found that Liu Rong was silent.
In the end, he couldn't make it, "Where's Rong Mei?"
After hearing this, Liu Rong turned around expressionlessly and went to the outer room to get something. When Zhou Nanxu couldn't see her, she smiled secretly with her back to her son and pretended to be casual, "She took Dabao out to play. She said she was going to fry the fish pond."
She said that she was her own son and she knew exactly what kind of person he was.
Zhou Nanxu was a little surprised, thinking he had heard it wrong, and repeated, "Blast? Blast the fish pond?"
Liu Rong was busy cutting vegetables and nodded, "Yes, I went to the county town today and bought a lot of firecrackers."
Zhou Nanxu frowned, thinking that he hadn't heard any firecrackers on the way back. If they really wanted to blow up the fish pond, the sound of the firecrackers would be very loud. Thinking that it was freezing outside and some ponds and rivers were frozen, "I'll go out and take a look."
As soon as he finished speaking, he went into the house and put on the coat he had just taken off.
He walked out without saying a word.
After leaving home, Zhou Nanxu kept looking for people along the waterside, but he had almost gone through all the places with water near his home and still did not see the two figures, one big and one small.
The temperature these two days was relatively warmer than the previous period, and a lot of snow had melted. It was precisely because of this that Zhou Nanxu was even more worried. The temperature was high, and the ice on the water surface was not thick to begin with. After the change in the warm weather in the past two days, the ice surface was not solid. If an adult and a child walked on it, they would fall down if they stepped on the thin part...
When he thought of this possibility, Zhou Nanxu took bigger steps. While walking, he called Zhou Dabao's name and kept an eye out for any unusual holes on the ice.
At the west end of the village, next to the river.
Rong Mei was standing on the surface of the glacier with her butt sticking out, staring intently at a hole as big as a bowl that had been chiseled in the ice.
Holding the iron hook tied with a long line that was put into the ice hole, he waited quietly for the fish to take the bait.
Even Zhou Dabao held his breath, staring at the entrance of the ice cave intently, imitating his aunt's example, expecting a big fish to emerge from inside as his aunt said, and then he could take it home to make soup.
The surroundings were extremely quiet, with only the whistling of the phoenix and the slight crackling sound on the ice.
Rong Mei had been keeping this posture for an unknown period of time. She felt her hands were almost numb from the cold.
But when she thought about how she had spent a lot of time just using the ice pick to dig the hole, and how it was cold and painful when the ice chips flew on her face, and how her arms were sore from being hit, if she gave up now, then what would the suffering she had just endured be?
Zhou Dabao, who was squatting on the ground watching, stood up and pulled Rong Mei's arm, "Aunt, I think I heard my uncle's voice."
Although his aunt asked him to keep quiet, he seemed to hear his uncle looking for them. He didn't want to disturb his aunt, but he was not tall enough and the dry reeds around him completely blocked his view.
Rong Mei listened carefully and frowned slightly, "Is there? No?"
She heard nothing except the rustling of the wind.
Then he smiled and discussed with the little guy, "Right away, Dabao, wait another five minutes. If we still can't catch any fish, we'll go back."
Although she didn't want to give up, the little one was now hallucinating from the cold, and she had no choice but to go back.
As soon as he finished speaking, another shout was heard, "Dabao, Zhou Dabao!"
The little fellow finally saw Zhou Nanxu's figure through the gaps in the reeds, "Aunt, it's my uncle, it's really my uncle."
He raised his gloved hands and waved them high in the air, shouting excitedly, "Uncle, we are here, here!"
When Zhou Nanxu heard Zhou Dabao's voice, he looked over towards the source of the sound. When he saw two figures, one big and one small, standing on the ice unharmed, his worries finally subsided.
He walked towards this side and said, "Didn't you say you were going to come out to fire the cannon? Why are you here?"
Zhou Dabao ran towards Zhou Nanxu with his short legs in his Magotan and soon arrived in front of Zhou Nanxu.
Zhou Nanxu bent down and picked up the little guy. The little guy made a gesture in front of him, hushed, and leaned close to Zhou Nanxu's ear to remind him, "Keep your voice down. Auntie is catching fish. We'll take them back and make soup later."
Then he answered Zhou Nanxu's question in a low voice, "We originally wanted to set off firecrackers to fry fish, but my aunt said that the person selling firecrackers was a liar. He said that the fish pond would be overturned because it was covered with ice and there was no way to blast it open. Then we walked and walked and came here. My aunt found an ice pick over there..."
He explained to Zhou Nanxu clearly and in detail how the two of them came here.
Zhou Nanxu also heard the whole story and praised the little guy for being so great.
Holding Zhou Dabao, he walked to Rong Mei and put the little guy down, "Let me take a look."
Rong Mei then turned around to look at the man, then looked at the entrance of the ice cave which was still motionless, and handed the long line in her hand over.
I thought to myself: Can you just come and do it?
The man took it, looked at it for a while, and then said, "There are no fish in here."
As soon as he finished speaking, he put away the long line in his hand.
Rong Mei originally thought that the man was just trying to get her to go back and give her an excuse to be perfunctory, but she didn't expect that after Zhou Nanxu hung up the line, he would stand on the ice with an ice pick, looking around again and again, and squatting down from time to time to wipe off the frost on the ice.
Finally, it seemed that he had found a "treasure land", so he picked up the ice pick and started smashing it.
Her arms were sore from hitting the ice, and the man easily punched a hole in it with just a few hits.
Rong Mei: It must be that the ice Zhou Nanxu broke was too thin. It’s definitely not her fault.
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