The little boy who caught the carp first was named Jiang Yun. His father used to be a teacher in Bao'an County. An accident happened the year before last. He was ordered to clean toilets first, then sweep streets, and finally he was caught picking up manure in a cowshed.
After his father's accident, his mother took him back to her parents' home and stayed there for two years.
Jiang Yun lowered his head and looked at the big carp in his hand, which was flapping its tail wildly, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Just when Jinbao thought he would quarrel with his fourth brother over the carp, he did not expect that he would take the initiative to hand the fish to his fourth brother.
Su Xiaosi obviously didn't expect that he would give the fish to him so easily. He was stunned for a moment and said, "Huh?"
"Didn't you say this is your fish? Here it is."
"Yes, because I saw it first." For some reason, Su Xiaosi felt a little embarrassed when looking into Shangjiang Yun's eyes that were clearer than the stream. "But you did catch it..."
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Jiang Yun explained: "The water here is very deep, and it will be three inches deeper every time you take a step. I just saw you trying to catch fish from a distance, and then I found that you didn't seem to be able to swim. I was afraid that you would drown if you walked further, so
I just wanted to help you catch it."
"You swam here to catch fish because you were worried about me drowning?"
"Yes." Jiang Yun's eyes were full of innocence.
After saying that, he looked towards the shore and asked, "Is that the bucket you brought? Let me help you put the fish into the bucket. The fish is very slippery, so it won't fall back into the water and swim away."
Su Xiaowu was still a little confused after listening to the conversation between him and his fourth brother.
Seeing that he was indeed walking towards the bucket, Su Xiaowu hurriedly filled half a bucket of water into the bucket.
Jiang Yun threw the fish into the bucket and said, "Are you the children named Su who have just moved to the village? You are really lucky. I often play by this river and the biggest fish I have ever seen is only as big as my thumb."
, I’ve never seen one as big as this one!”
When he spoke, Su Xiaosi had already walked back to the shore and asked: "Are you really going to give us this fish?"
"You were the one who saw this fish first, so how can it be considered that I gave it to you?"
"You make me feel like I'm a bit ungrateful," Su Xiaosi thought of the way he stared at Jiang Yun menacingly before and felt embarrassed. He frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Otherwise, each of us would do half the job, right?"
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Worried that Xiaowu and Jinbao would disagree, he immediately asked his younger siblings for their opinions after finishing speaking, "What do you think?"
Su Xiaowu said: "Fourth brother, you can make the decision. You saw this fish first."
"I don't have any objection," Jin Bao said, "Just half for each person."
She wanted to recruit more fish, but she felt that this was too suspicious.
It's good luck to catch a big carp occasionally. If you catch a few more, I don't know how people will talk about it.
This fish weighed at least five kilograms. Half of the fish was boiled into soup. Everyone in the family could at least have a bowl of fish soup. They also brought a lot of bacon, sausages, canned pork and the like from Jinghai City. They
There is no shortage of meat to eat now, so there is no need to be greedy for too much.
When Jin Bao was thinking this silently, Jiang Yun subconsciously looked at her.
Under her long and curly eyelashes, her big eyes were clear and bright. Every time she blinked, it was like a black butterfly fluttering its wings, and then the full aura in her eyes seemed to be about to overflow.
Her clothes are completely different from those of little girls living in the countryside.
Wearing a beige shirt on the upper body, the sleeves are too long, and the wrists are rolled up twice, revealing the fair and slender small wrists. The lower body is paired with a pair of Deliang overalls made with bright red prints.
Jiang Yun had never seen such an outfit before, even when he lived in the county town.
Not only are the clothes and skirts beautiful, but her hair is also tied beautifully. The hair just past her shoulders is thin and soft, tied into two loose fishbone braids, which looks playful and cute.
As expected, she is a girl from a big city, it feels so special!
Jin Bao noticed Jiang Yun's gaze, tilted his little head, and looked back at him doubtfully.
The moment their eyes met, Jiang Yun's face turned red involuntarily, and he hurriedly looked in other directions, "No, no need, this is your fish, I have a lot of family... Anyway, no need, thank you, I...I
Gone, goodbye."
After saying that, he turned around and ran back to the river, then buried himself in the water and swam to the other side quickly.
"Wow! This person can swim really well!" Su Xiaowu exclaimed, "Like a fish."
Looking at Jiang Yun swimming in the water, an idea came to Su Xiaosi's mind, "I think I can become friends with him. After becoming friends, I will let him teach me how to swim."
Jinbao was amused by his fourth brother's words, "Fourth brother, do you want to make a new friend, or do you want to find someone who can teach you how to swim?"
"I want to make a friend who can teach me how to swim."
After speaking with a smile, Su Xiaosi said excitedly: "In the future, I can also swim and catch fish at the same time."
"Fourth brother, if you want to learn to swim, I can teach you," Su Xiaowu said, "I can swim, but I'm not as good as him, and my posture is not as beautiful as his. I can only do the dog paddle."
“What is the doggy style?”
Su Xiaowu thought hard and said: "Just swim like a dog, keep your head above the water, and then use your limbs to pound the water. This is the easiest to learn, but the speed of progress is slower."
Ah? Like a dog? Su Xiaosi tried to think about it for a while, then shook his head and said: "I want to learn how to swim very fast like him."
"Then I don't know how to do it. His swimming style is indeed beautiful, beautiful and fast. I want to learn it too."
Su Xiaosi patted Xiao Wu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Then let's learn from him together in the future!"
After finishing speaking, he looked at Jinbao and said, "Jinbao, please don't learn swimming. Swimming is too dangerous and not suitable for girls. Besides, it is autumn and swimming is too cold. If dad knows that I am taking you swimming, he will definitely beat him to death."
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Jinbao held back his laughter and said, "I don't want to learn. I watch the fourth and fifth brothers swimming on the shore."
The three children talked and laughed for a while, then walked home carrying a bucket with red carp. Su Xiaosi said loudly: "Dad, Mom, Third Brother, we caught a fish, it's a red fish. Come and see it."
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"Wow! It's a red carp," Su Jianmin bent down and looked at the bucket, "caught it in the river?"
"Yeah, this fish is so big, right? But it wasn't me who caught it, it was a boy from the village..."
Su Xiaosi described the process of Jiang Yun helping to catch fish, and then continued: "I wanted to give him half of the fish, but he didn't want it."
After hearing this, his mother couldn't help but said: "I think the fish should be given to him half. After all, he caught this fish with his own hands, and he had good intentions. A good boy like this should take the opportunity to get to know him."
"I also want to get to know him and make friends with him."
"Then Xiaosi, have you asked him what his name is and where he lives?"
Su Xiaosi shook his head, "No, he jumped into the water and swam away like a fish. I didn't even have time to ask."
After he finished speaking, Xiao Jinbao beside him said: "There should be very few boys in this village who speak Mandarin as well as him. I think you can ask Brother Aqiang, he should know."