Ge Xiaozhu has been worried this morning since he heard from Xu Weiguo on Weishang that his son Xu Tongdao had something to do during the day and could only come to replace her in the evening.
It is true that her eldest son has been too restless in the past two days and has not given her any peace of mind.
First, he carried her on his back to find the things that had been robbed a few days ago by the creditors who insisted on returning home. Then, on the first night after coming to Wei, he risked his life and jumped into the river to save Xu Tonglin.
These two things, I think he did it wrong... not really, but if he did it right, they were both dangerous.
Are creditors who often gamble money easy to offend? She doesn't dare to offend them.
What about jumping into the bottomless river to save people? As long as she lived to such an old age, she had often heard of people who jumped into the water to save people, but ended up drowning together with the people who fell into the water.
Therefore, when Xu Weiguo, who came to Weishang this morning, told her that her eldest son had something to do during the day and could only come to replace her in the evening, she couldn't help but start thinking wildly.
I don’t know what this brat wants to do. What’s going on at home recently?
But when she asked Xu Weiguo what her son was going to do during the day, Xu Weiguo couldn't answer. He only said that he was just conveying what her daughter Ge Yuzhu said, and he didn't know anything else.
It's this lack of clarity that makes Ge Xiaozhu feel like a cat scratching his head, and he can't always feel at ease.
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And Xujiacun.
After having lunch, Comrade Xu called his sister Ge Yuzhu and carried the shrimp dumplings he had made in the morning. In his other hand, he held a plastic bucket prepared to hold river shrimps and asked his sister to bring the ones she had picked up.
With broken tiles and bait, the brother and sister went out.
Xu Tonglu still wanted to go together, but Xu Tongdao ruthlessly refused and told him to read at home.
Not long after Xu Tongdao and his sister went out, Xu Tonglin came to his house to play with him again.
Xu Tonglin, who has graduated from junior high school but has not yet gone out to work, has been very idle recently, so he wanted to see Xu Tongdao when he had time.
The result was all in vain.
Knowing from Xu Tonglu's intersection that Xu Tongdao and his sister went to the Xihe River to stock shrimps, Xu Tonglin's eyes lit up and he immediately became interested. He hurriedly said goodbye to Xu Tonglu and hurried to the Xihe side.
Xu Tonglu was left standing melancholy at the door and sighed.
This afternoon, Comrade Xu gained a lot.
This West River has never been drained since he was born. There are very few people who put shrimp in this river, so there are many big river shrimps in this river.
He specially selected a section of land with abundant aquatic plants. Together with his sister, he dropped more than a dozen shrimps onto broken tiles, sprinkled them with bait, and placed them all next to the aquatic plants on the riverside.
Soon, Xu Tonglin came and had another helper.
The three of them kept lifting and putting down more than a dozen shrimp buns. Every time they lifted them up, as long as they saw river shrimps in the shrimp buns, they immediately picked them up in the bucket, sprinkled some bait on them, and put the shrimps in again.
In the water.
Fishing with shrimp buns is different from fishing. If there are more than a dozen shrimp buns, you don’t have to wait. You can take turns to pick up the shrimp buns one by one. Rice bran and rice mixed with rapeseed oil are fragrant and delicious.
I mean, it's just good food.
If you are lucky, you can catch more than a dozen river shrimps of different sizes when a shrimp bag is raised out of the water.
When you have bad luck...of course the air force is empty.
But this afternoon, overall, the frequency of the air force was still very small. Generally, every time a shrimp bag was lifted, a few river shrimps could be caught.
After working like this for more than half an hour, Xu Tongdao suddenly remembered something.
She turned around and asked her sister, "Yuzhu, I caught the fish in the morning and asked you to pick the big ones to sell. Have you forgotten?"
Ge Yuzhu was stunned when asked.
Then he became anxious, his face turned red, "Oh, brother, I, I really forgot, what should I do? Aren't all those fish dead? This, this..."
Seeing how anxious she was, Comrade Xu couldn't bear to blame her.
She had been helping him make shrimp dumplings this morning. Not to mention that she forgot about the fish, he himself also forgot about them.
"It's okay! You go back and take a look now. They're probably not dead yet. You go pick out the big ones and the living ones, and go out and sell them to see how much you can sell!"
"Oh, oh, okay, okay! I'm going right now! I'm going right now!"
Ge Yuzhu ran back in a hurry.
Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin were left to continue making shrimp buns here and making river shrimps.
Not long after she returned, this guy Xu Tonglu came.
"Why are you here? Didn't I ask you to read at home?"
Seeing him coming here, Xu Tongdao was a little unhappy and didn't look good to Xu Tonglu.
"Yuzhu went to sell fish. I was afraid that you would be too busy here, so I came over to help."
Before Xu Tongdao could scold him, Xu Tonglu said: "Don't worry! Even if I don't read a day during this summer vacation, I will still be admitted to the County No. 1 Middle School next year! If you don't believe it, we can bet that if I can't be admitted to the County No. 1 Middle School by then
, you can beat me to death!"
The arrogance in Xu Tonglu's bones emerged again.
County No. 1 Middle School is the best high school in their county and is a provincial key high school. Every year, there are only a handful of students from their township middle school who can pass the exam to County No. 1 Middle School, and sometimes even none of them can pass the exam.
But Xu Tonglu dared to make such wild remarks.
This couldn't help but make Xu Tonglin look askance.
But Tongdao Xu saw the arrogant expression on his younger brother's face and believed it.
Because his younger brother is really talented in reading. He has not taken his studies too seriously since he was a child, but he can always get certificates every year. Every time his grades drop slightly, as long as this kid guarantees to get first place next semester, and then the next semester's exam results will be better.
Come out, this guy is really number one, without exception.
So, Xu Tongdao glanced at Xu Tonglu and said nothing more.
Let Xu Tonglu stay here to help.
The three of them stayed busy by the river until late in the evening, then packed up and went home.
On the way back, the three of them all had smiles on their faces.
One afternoon, they actually caught five or six kilograms of river shrimp, most of which were quite large.
On the way back, Xu Tongdao said to Xu Tonglin: "Linzi, you helped me all afternoon today. I want to sell the big river shrimps for money. You can follow me to my house later and I will pick out the big river shrimps and the smaller ones."
I’ll give you half and you can eat it when you go home!”
Xu Tonglin initially said no, but Xu Tongdao insisted, and Xu Tonglin agreed with a smile, and the smile on his face became brighter.
When the three of them passed by the door of Ge Xiaoyu's house, Ge Xiaoyu, who was about to go out, saw them and his eyes lit up, "Xiaodao! Wait! Wait! Our high school entrance examination scores came out today. All we need to do is call to check the admission ticket number.
You can check your scores. I remember you don’t have a phone at home, right? What’s your admission ticket number? Report it to me and I’ll check it for you using my home phone!”
Hearing Ge Xiaoyu's shout, Xu Tongdao, Xu Tonglin, and Xu Tonglu subconsciously stopped.
After listening to what Ge Xiaoyu said, Xu Tonglin and Xu Tonglu looked at Xu Tongdao.
Xu Tonglin hesitated and said: "Xiaodao, do you want to check? No matter what, since you took the high school entrance examination, you must find out how many points you got this time, right?"
Xu Tonglu bit his lip and suddenly asked Xu Tonglu: "What is your admission ticket number?"