warm and deep

Chapter 42
As soon as Liang Shi entered Uncle Gu's house, he saw Hua Changqun sitting there crying, begging Uncle Gu to get her some medicine to treat her injuries.

Uncle Bone sat there without saying a word, shaking his head.

As soon as Hua Changqun saw Liang Shi come in, she cried out: "Gong Liang, you have seen it all. I didn't hit that child, but that stinky woman took her anger out on me."

Liang Shi said: "Don't justify yourself, it's not you, would a stone hit a child?"

Hua Changqun said with tears and snot in her nose, "You can't blame me, Shitou lent me money and asked me to go to his house to get it. I have to go."

Uncle Gu interrupted her and said, "Okay, Liang Shi, you take some burn medicine from the cabinet and apply it on her, let her go quickly."

After Liang Shi finished finishing the flowery dress, Uncle Gu said again: "You were burnt by the potion, even if it healed, there will be a blue-brown scar, it can be regarded as a lesson for you, so you can take care of yourself in the future."

When Hua Changqun heard this, she burst into tears, gritted her teeth and scolded: "Damn woman, you can't control your husband, you've ruined my old lady's appearance, don't let me take a chance."

Uncle Gu leaned his head against the bed frame and murmured: "Everything has a cause and effect."

Hua Changqun stood up, took the medicine and prepared to leave.Uncle Gu stopped her and said, "Only for injuries caused by accidents, I will treat them for free. You are doing it yourself and you have to pay for it."

Hua Changqun reluctantly took money out of her pocket and asked, "How much?"

"Two hundred and five." Uncle Bone said loudly.

Hua Changqun screamed, and said angrily: "You are stealing money, isn't it just the medicine picked in the mountains? It didn't cost money, isn't it killing me? Last time there was an official You don’t charge a penny to treat your legs, so why are you scratching our poor folks?”

Uncle Gu said coldly: "Then you leave the medicine and go to the mountain to gather it yourself."

Seeing Uncle Bone's cold face, Hua Changqun quickly smiled and said, "Master Bone, I'm just joking." She took out two hundred yuan from her pocket, put it on the table, and then He smiled and said, "Uncle Bone, I only have this little money on me, if it's not enough, I'll bring it to you next time."

Uncle Gu waved his hand without raising his head, and said, "Go back, go back."

When she walked away, Uncle Bone sighed: "A man has no wife and no owner, and a woman has no husband and no support. It is very difficult for her to live alone with a daughter. If I didn't go too far, I wouldn't have to Take her money. Ugh."

Liang Shi watched her walk away, and said, "Master, what she said made me think of Secretary Zhang's legs, and I don't know how he is doing?"

Uncle Bone pondered for a while, and said: "This secretary seems to be a shallow person, and he may be embarrassed to bother me, an old guy who doesn't charge money. You can ask him at your convenience."

Liang Shi nodded.I asked Uncle Gu for a pack of traditional Chinese medicine to bring to Guo Zisu. Uncle Gu said, "The medicine I gave her is for girls to nourish their body, but you can't overdo it at once. You have to boil it slowly and give her half a bowl of it." That’s enough. Divide a pack of medicine into three boils and drink it once a day before and after dinner.”

Liang Shi pondered for a moment, then said hesitantly: "Master Bone, Zisu vomited blood on the mountain, although not much, and went down the mountain with us well, but I'm still a little worried."

Uncle Bone said: "I asked Zeng Wenwei carefully, the one that hit her was a small oak tree, so it shouldn't be a big problem. All medicines are three-point poisonous, so try not to take medicine if you can keep it healthy."

Liang Shi thanked Uncle Gu, took the medicine and went out.

Uncle Bone thought for a while, and stopped him: "Boy, you are really worried, bring back some fresh rice field eels, and I will tell you to prepare two kinds of medicine, stew the soup, and prepare it for her."

Liang Shi immediately went to wait at the intersection of the canteen to see if anyone was going to the county seat.

After waiting for a long time, I only saw people who came back from the city, but no one went out.He looked at his watch, it was already evening, let's talk about it tomorrow.First boil the medicine in your hand for her to drink.

Walking to the door, seeing Chunhua walking out, she said shyly, "Mr. Liang, you got the medicine again. I'm so mad, I don't care about that much. I'm going to buy a sand jar now and come back." .”

"Are you going to buy in the street?" Liang Shi stopped immediately.

"No, someone from the village went to the street. I went to the store and called them to bring me one." Chunhua said and quickened her pace.

Liang Shi quickly took out his mobile phone, "Sister Chunhua, use my mobile phone to make a call, and ask them to help me buy rice eels by the way."

Chunhua reported the number, Liang Shi dialed, handed her the mobile phone, and said: "Please ask them to help me bring the rice field eel back."

Chunhua talked to someone for a while, hung up the phone, and said, "Mr. Liang, it's winter, and there are no rice field eels to buy on the street. Rice field eels sleep in winter, and they don't eat or move, and no one raises them."

After hearing this, Liang Shi thought to himself that he had forgotten that rice field eels hibernate. It is very cold now, and it only snowed yesterday, so how could there be rice field eels?He smiled self-deprecatingly.

Chunhua said strangely: "Gong Liang, you don't suddenly want to eat rice field eel, do you?"

"Of course not." Liang Shi said as he walked into the house: "Uncle Gu said, if I can get rice field eels, he will tell me to make two kinds of medicines to recuperate Zisu's body."

It turned out to be like this.Chunhua's eyes glowed as clear as a bright moon, "In the rice fields in winter, it's a coincidence that you can catch eels, but it's very troublesome and laborious."

When Liang Shi heard this, he stopped immediately, his eyes shone brightly like the sun, "Tell me, how do you catch it?"

Chunhua gestured and said: "In some empty fields there is a thin layer of water, not too much, it can only be the kind that just makes the ground tide, and some small holes can be clearly seen, that is the hole of eel or loach. When the sun is very strong at noon, the water at the entrance of the cave is hot, and the eel and loach are half awake in the cave. At this time, if you step on the entrance of the cave with your feet, the eel and loach will fly out from the other end of the cave with a snap. "

Liang Shi became excited, and said confidently, "Great, I'll go to the field to catch them at noon tomorrow."

The next day, the sky was as blue as it was washed, and the bright sunlight shot down from the gaps in the thin clouds, forming thick and thin beams of light, dyeing the forest and fields with a veil-like mist in crimson.

Liang Shi put on the deep-tube rubber boots used on the construction site, took a small plastic bucket from Chunhua's house, and walked towards the field in good spirits.

Min Rou, who had been silently watching his every move, followed, "Uncle Liang, what are you doing?"

Liang Shi turned his head and smiled, "I'm going to catch eels in the fields."

Minrou immediately trotted all the way to catch up with him, "I'll go too, I'll carry the bucket for you."

Liang Shi stopped and dissuaded him: "Minced meat, don't go, the fields are wet and dirty, and your clothes will be ruined. You stay at home and pour water for Mr. Guo to drink."

Min Rou reluctantly twisted his body, "Didn't you prepare it for her at the bedside just now?" He kicked the boots on his feet and said, "I saw you wearing boots just now, so I put them on too."

Seeing that Liang Shi was still silent, he rolled his big clever eyes and tried his best to find an excuse in his mind, "I went to the fields with my father to catch loaches, and I know which fields have them and which ones don't."

Liang Shi sighed softly, touched his head, and said, "Okay, little guy, let's go."

Facing the bright sunshine, two figures, one big and one small, walked towards the field covered with carmine.

There are very few paddy fields suitable for catching eels in winter.Liang Shi and Minrou walked through many mounds of paddy fields, some of which were too deep to see the entrance of the hibernating eels.Some of them don't have a drop of water inside, and they are hard to step on. Even if there are eels lying in the mud layer, there is no way to step on them.More rice fields have been plowed, and rapeseed or wheat have been planted, and there is no way to find eels.Occasionally, there was a mound with a thin layer of water stains, but the two of them stared wide-eyed and searched every corner of the field, but they didn't see a small hole.

Liang Shi sat on the ridge of the field a little disappointed, staring at the field under the sun in a daze.Zisu will be leaving next semester, and they won't have much time to spend together once the winter break is over.He became inexplicably sad, and something salty filled his nostrils.

He comforted himself, maybe they can continue to live in the same city in the future, so there are still many opportunities to meet each other.He thought of his love affair with Xiaomi, and he didn't want to abandon Xiaomi, but he still hoped that Zisu could live in his vision.

However, that reporter Wang was chasing her, and he must have caused her to go to the elementary school in the county so soon.

If Zisu really fell in love with Reporter Wang and married him, then he would be far away from her for the rest of his life.Liang Shi couldn't help but buried his head deeply in the crook of his arms, and sad emotions pervaded his whole body.

"Uncle Liang, don't you want to catch eels for Mr. Guo?"

After tidying up his emotions in a panic, Liang Shi looked up, and saw Min Rou opening a pair of big black grape-like eyes, looking at him strangely.

"Of course, come on, let's go and look for it in the rice fields farther away."

They turned over a small mountain depression and came to a relatively open and flat field. The sun was pouring down and sprinkled on the withered yellow grass on the light brown land, making the monotonous and calm field a bit more lively and colorful.
In a flat and moist rice field, Liang Shi finally found a small round hole.He put down the plastic bucket in his hand a little excitedly, stared at the hole intently, stretched his arms, took a deep breath, then approached gently, approached, raised his right foot, and stepped on the hole with a "snap" The hole.

"Hey!" Almost at the same time, a small hole appeared in the mud that was one foot square in front of him, and a small eel flew out of the hole stiffly and fell into the mud.

"Hey! I caught the rice field eel! I caught the rice field eel!" Min Rou jumped up and down ecstatically, ran to pick up the little rice field eel that was still motionless, ran to Liang Shi, and shouted excitedly: "Uncle Liang, I got it, look, I got it."

Liang Shi couldn't help but hugged Minced Meat, grabbed his hands, and swung them around. The joyful laughter of the two echoed in the open field for a long time.

If you catch one, you don't have to worry about the second.Soon, Liang Shi and the others caught a lot of loaches and eels.Liang Shi looked into the bucket and said, "Enough for a few meals, let's go home."

(End of this chapter)