The sun sets in the west.

A brilliant afterglow fell on the water, ripples breaking the sunlight in the water into light golden fragments.

There are still three boats docked at the wild pier, one from the Lu family, one from the Li Cangan family, and at the bottom is the fishing boat of the Chen Ping'an family.

Lu Quan went to the gate with Chen Pingan, Li Sixi and his son before dawn. For lunch, he brought wild vegetable dumplings and water. There were not many big boats docked at the dock, but he still had something to do.

If you earn well on this day, you can get more than ten or twenty yuan.

Although it may not be better than fishing, the harvest is guaranteed during droughts and floods, unlike fishing. If you are unlucky and encounter a lot of empty nets, you will have no income on that day.

Around the Dragon Boat Festival, there are few ships at the gate, and there are many people on the pier going home to celebrate the festival. If you go there by chance, there might be a big ship coming to unload the goods, and you can find a job carrying bags.

Chen Ping'an's family only has three people, his grandfather and grandson, living on the fishing boat. Chen Ping'an is only fifteen years old, but he has been doing the work at the dock for half a year. Grandma Chen and his younger sister Chen Yaoyao are also at home.

His family rarely fishes now, and most of their lives depend on Chen Ping'an working on the dock.

Lu Xiaoyu had just come out of the cabin with a basket on his arm. Chen Yaoyao, who was squatting on the bow of the boat, immediately had a smile on his face and asked loudly: "Xiaoyu, where are you going?"

Apparently, Chen Yaoyao had been waiting for Lu Xiaoyu to come out early in the morning.

Lu Xiaoyu conveniently held the strands of hair that fell around his ears, and pointed to the river beach not far away: "Xiao Si and I are going to the river beach to have a look."

As for what he was looking at, Lu Xiaoyu didn't say anything. Chen Yaoyao thought Lu Xiaoyu was going to look for wild vegetables. Seeing that the sun would still set for a while, Chen Yaoyao was a little excited.

The people on the boat had no land, so they had to buy vegetables at the market, exchange fish and shrimps with villagers, or dig wild vegetables in the fields.

There were many wild vegetables in spring, but now that it is May, there are not many edible wild vegetables left.

"I'll go too, wait for me"

"OK."

Lu Xiaoyu responded, Chen Yaoyao was the same age as his eldest sister, and they had the best relationship. They often dug wild vegetables and hunted wild duck eggs together.

Chen Yaoyao is older than Lu Xiaoyu. She is a very attentive and caring girl next door to Lu people.

Chen shook his head and said to his grandmother in the cabin, picked up the basket and ran towards the shore.

There are many girls from the Lu family on this fishing boat, and they have good temperaments. Chen Yaoyao almost only plays with the children of the Lu family.

The Chen family now only has three grandsons left. Grandma Chen is old and her brother Chen Pingan is still underage. Life has been very difficult these years.

Fortunately, the families in Ye Pier were all from the same village, and with people working together, they could barely get by.

Grandma Chen privately reminded Chen Yaoyao to play more with girls from the Lu family and socialize less with girls from other families.

I am just afraid that my granddaughter will be bullied without the protection of her parents.

Lu Xiaoyu set up the springboard, and then Lu Sheige came out of the cabin, holding two strange bamboo tubes in his hands.

Lu Xiaoyu carried a bamboo basket in one hand and a bunch of bamboo tubes in the other hand and threw it to his back.

It's wrong to say it's a bamboo tube. It's as long as an arm, thicker than an average adult's arm. It's straight and looks weird.

The one in Lu Xiaosi's hand was even stranger, like a horn, and it also looked like the two tubes in Lu Xiaoyu's hand were sewn together.

In May, the weather has warmed up.

By the river embankment, Li Guangguan was digging mud with tree branches with a few friends in his bare feet.

The children's clothes were very shabby, and some of the clothes were broken and had not been repaired in time, exposing the dark flesh underneath.

"Xiaoyu, where are you going?"

When Li Cangun saw Lu Xiaoyu and Chen Yaoyao coming with baskets, he immediately blocked the road.

The person who asked the question was Lu Xiaoyu, but his eyes were looking at the bamboo tubes that the two of them were carrying across their backs.

Li CanGuan was sure that he had never seen this thing before, he was really curious.

He wanted to ask Lu Xiaosi what it was, but because he was not familiar with Lu Xiaosi, he was too embarrassed to ask, so he stopped Lu Xiaoyu.

"If I want you to take charge, get out of the way."

Lu Xiaoyu glared at Li Cancan fiercely, kept walking, bumped into Li Cancan hard, and walked past Li Cancan.

Li Cancan was accidentally bumped by Lu Xiaoyu and took two steps back. When he stood firm, Lu Xiaoyu was in front, Chen Yaoyao was in the middle, and Lu Xiaosi was behind. They had already passed by them.

"Yo...Yo..."

The friends who were playing with Li Cancan immediately started shouting: "Li Cancan, you can't even beat small fish, you have no future."

Children on fishing boats have been skinny since they were young. What they fear most is that they are said to be inferior to girls and have no future.

"Pooh……"

Li Cancan spat on the ground angrily: "Lu Xiaoyu, you are so cruel. When you become my wife, I will beat you three times a day and not give you food."

He learned this from his mother.

What he always talks about is that if a woman disobeys, she can be beaten.

"you……"

Lu Xiaoyu was stunned by Li Cangun's words. He was so shy and irritable that he didn't know how to refute for a moment.

"Stop looking,"

Lu Xiangge raised his hand and pushed Lu Xiaoyu's head forward. He turned around and glanced at Li Canguan contemptuously: "My third sister will marry you? Why did my mother agree to marry my third sister to you? What do you want to do for you? Do you want to be black?"

Is it because you are ugly? Because you are bald and have lice and don’t like to take a bath?”

Li Cankan was born so strong and black, and his big bald head glowed blue in the setting sun.

At the beginning of spring, there were lice on Li Guan's cans. A few days ago, his father and elder brother held him down and shaved his head. His whole body was dark and thin, making him look particularly ugly. And because he didn't like to take a bath since he was a child,

Every time his mother boiled hot water and called him to take a bath, he would always howl so loud that people across the river could hear him.

The children on board are used to being sloppy, and only a few are as clean as the Lu family's children.

This was the first time that Li Cancan was told this by the son of the Lu family in person, and he immediately lost his composure. He raised his hand fiercely: "You..."

"What?"

At this time, Lu Xiaoyu reacted and immediately squeezed in between Lu Sheige and Li Cancan, waiting for Li Cancan fiercely: "Li Cancan, you want to hit someone."

Although Li Canguan is naughty, the people who can park the boat together at the Wild Pier are all people who escaped from the flood. Children usually go back to playing and having fun, but they have never had a fight with any children.

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"I...I didn't."

Li Canguan's face turned red and he stomped away angrily. He even forgot to ask what the weird-looking thing Lu Sheige was carrying was.

"snort……"

As Lu Xiaoyu walked, he angrily picked up the grass on the roadside and muttered: "Li Cancan is shameless and likes to pee everywhere with a runny nose. I will not marry Li Cancan."

Lu Xiangge looked at Lu Xiaoyu, who was only ten years old, and felt that it was particularly interesting.

Do children at such a young age know how to talk about marriage?

At home, Mrs. Qiu had secretly begun to show Lu Xiaoqing.
Chapter completed!