warring states careerist

Chapter 15
The debate about whether the wheat is good or not did not continue.

In his previous life, he was tired of eating fatty meat, potatoes, and fish, but the only thing he didn't get tired of was steamed buns.

Mantou is a wife, and all dishes are lovers.

He put his hands on top of his head and lay down on the mat made of reeds. He thought about it, and then thought of his mediocre life, which was not as sweet as meat, sweeter than melon, inferior to vegetable, and inferior to fresh fish. What would a steamed bun that won’t get greasy be like?
Lu Hua stopped arguing about whether the wheat was good or not, and imitated his appearance and lay on the side, kicking Shi Shi's calves lightly with her legs, signaling for him to lean to the side to make room for her.

Wei got up quietly, saying that she wanted to go to the convenience, and left the small shed.

I was so tired these days, I fell asleep after lying down and thinking about it for a while.

Lu Hua couldn't fall asleep, and vented the reason for her inability to fall asleep on the chirping grasshopper, got up and grabbed the grasshopper who was trying to eat the corn leaves, and said to herself, stop screaming, he fell asleep.

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In the evening, a group of children gathered around again.

A child's face was swollen, and he covered it with one hand, but the dust on his face was not washed away by tears at all.

Shi was very impressed with this child, because this child is Liuzhi, and his parents called him Liuzhi when they named him.

"What's going on here?"

Several children laughed and said: "I was beaten by my mother. I went to catch fish and swim in the river. My mother caught me and beat me hard. I will never dare to go there again."

At this time, it is hot and swimming is normal.

But this child has six fingers, which is unlucky in Song Dynasty where the theory of ghosts and gods prevails.As a mother, she was afraid that the child would be taken away by He Bo, the water ghost, so she was stricter.

This child is actually very smart and has a stubborn temper. With his natural six fingers, he left a deep impression on Shi.

Teach these kids counting and simple arithmetic, and the kid named Liuzhi learns the fastest.In just two months, I have already been able to count to one hundred, adding and subtracting within ten is very rare.

The children usually make fun of him and say that he is good at adding and subtracting within ten because he has eleven fingers. On that day, he said harshly that he would chop off the extra little finger to prove that he was good at counting without fingers. After a scolding meal, he let go of his mind.

Hearing other people making fun of him again, Liuzhi said angrily: "Who says you dare not go? I am not afraid. If there is a Hebo water ghost, maybe I will catch it and show it to Brother Shi. He must have a way." Make him listen."

Shi laughed and asked back: "Why make him obedient?"

"Catch fish for us to eat."

"good idea!"

Shi didn't say whether there was such a thing, but praised it, and went over to touch the top of the child's head.

Liuzhi whispered: "Brother Shi, in fact, I went to play in the water a few days ago and was almost drowned. I drank a lot of water, but fortunately there was a stone, so I survived. I think I must learn it, and I won’t be able to drown if the water wants to drown me in the future!”

Hearing this, I was amazed.

If it is an ordinary child who is drowned once and is on the verge of death, he may not dare to go into the water again for three to five years.This child was drowned once, but he wanted to fight He Bo fiercely, which is interesting.

Guessing that these children are not good swimmers, he said, "I'll take you to play in the river now, do you dare to go?"

"What dare not?"

Liu Zhi rubbed his swollen face, raised his head not to be outdone, without any fear.

He led a group of children to the river, jumped into the river naked, taught them how to swim, and stared at the fish in the river thoughtfully.

On the second day, he went to the place where the village commune held festivals and sacrificial gatherings to look at the seldom-used large pottery jar, and calculated how long it would take for the seeds he planted to be harvested.

In the evening, while telling stories and leading the children to make flails out of fire holes, they suddenly asked, "Do you want to eat fish?"

The children nodded together, and Liu Zhi was the most fierce. He was the master who wanted to catch the water ghost and catch fish like a horse-drawn cart.

It's just that these people farm for a living, fishing nets are too expensive to afford, fishing things are also rare, and they have to be busy with farm work on weekdays, so they don't have time at all.

These days, the children feel that Shishi knows everything. Hearing what he said, their mouths are drooling for everything that hasn't happened yet.

A few days later, the group of children weaved many water cages out of wicker according to what Shi said, with a small opening, and tied a funnel on the outside that could only enter but could not exit.

Shi took a few live mice and asked the children to peel and roast the mice, put them outside to dry until they stink, and threw them into the fish basket as bait.

Fish baskets are easy to make, and children can make them up. There is no technical content, as long as it is easy to get in and difficult to get out.

The sentence in Taohuayuan can be reversed. At the beginning, you are very cheerful, and you can count fish; after swimming half a foot, the hole is very narrow, and you can pass fish.

The most difficult thing is the few mice that are used as bait. If there is no bait in the fish basket, the fish will not drill into it.

Corn cannot be used as bait, the taste is not strong, and it will dissipate as soon as the water is soaked.Smelly meat is the best bait, but it is a pity that it is an ideal country to eat meat at the age of 70, and we can only make plans from rats.

Several long and narrow clay pots, placed on wooden sticks to form an inclined angle.

A few grains of corn were placed at the bottom of the pot, and the mouth of the pot was supported by a stone. Because the bottom was at the bottom and the top was up, the stone could not block the mouth of the pot.

When the mouse wants to come out after entering, when it reaches the mouth of the jar, the center of gravity moves forward, and the jar is top-heavy.

These mice can't eat a few grains of rice on weekdays, and they are already very hungry. How can they let such a good opportunity pass, but they don't know that the mice died of food, and they became bait for fish and shrimp.

It's not the kind of chinchillas that are infected with the plague and don't die. There has been no plague in the past few years. These rats can be eaten as long as they pass the psychological barrier.

Peeled the skin, cut open the internal organs, roasted it with a fire, and the aroma made the nostrils smell. The children salivated greedily, but they were not allowed to eat it. They talked about the principles of fishing, and I don’t know how many people listened to it and wanted to catch it. It must be the truth with it first.

Throw more than 20 fish baskets into the river, tie them to willow trees by the river with velvetleum, and then go home, bragging to their parents that they can eat fish tomorrow.

They had never seen such a fish catcher, but they thought that since brother Shi said it, they would definitely be able to catch it.

Parents can't help but slap these children playing in the water a few times, and they are dubious in their hearts.

At noon on the second day, there was a sensation among the village community.

A group of half-grown children followed Shi Shi.

One by one was holding wicker sticks with fish of all sizes on them, and several girls were holding a small wicker basket containing some river prawns that were attracted by the stinky meat.

Liuzhi, who had been beaten before, was very happy to see his mother running over in a hurry, holding up the wicker with three big fish on it and shouting: "Mom, eat fish tonight!"

With this cry, no one noticed that Shi, who was walking in the crowd, was scratching his body quietly, and they didn't know what he had done before.

The eyes of the people in the village were also opened. A group of children who didn't even have a net went to the river several times with Shi, and actually caught a lot of fish.

More than 20 fish baskets have been harvested quite a lot, there are dozens of large and small ones, and there are quite a few river prawns.

Nowadays, fish is not worth much, and there are few ways to eat it, but it can be sold for some money in Shangqiu city.

Liuzhi's mother heard Liuzhi yelling, and hurriedly said: "Don't talk nonsense, what are you going to eat? This is a fish suitable for you to catch, let him sell it to buy new clothes."

Before Shi could open his mouth, Liu Zhi said stubbornly: "Brother Shi said a long time ago that Mo Zhe doesn't care about food and clothing. Besides, Brother Shi said, we made up this fish basket, and he came up with the idea, but the fish He only has a little merit in catching it, and we still have more than half of it. Not to mention that Brother Shi originally said that everyone should eat fish together, even if he didn’t say that we all said to eat fish, the fish would not belong to him.”

These people have heard a lot of things like great righteousness and small righteousness talked about by Shi on weekdays. They know that if they meet other people's six fingers, they will definitely make people feel dissatisfied and feel ungrateful, but in Shi's eyes, it is obviously a matter of course.

Shi quietly scratched his itchy body that was stung by wild bees because of something he did before, and said loudly: "I will go to work in the public land in a few days, and I will invite everyone to eat fish tonight. Everyone will cook corn and rice in the evening." , bring some sunflowers, leeks and other pickled vegetables, and see you at the village commune."

He yelled carelessly, which attracted everyone's thanks, but he just waved and smiled without paying attention.

When I got home, I asked the group of children to cut open the fish, and went to the field to pick some coriander that had grown up and was not willing to eat.

On the way back, I walked around the village village and saw no one around, so I hurried back to get a hidden earthen pot.

It contained half a pot of honey from wild bees, which was also the reason for the itching on his body before. He quietly mixed the honey with water, found a few large ant nests near the grain field, and painted a few lines with sweet water.

Things like Chen Shengwang and Da Chuxing need to be learned, but to engage in such superstitious activities depends on the cultural level of the audience.

Chen Sheng stuffed the silk book into the belly of the fish. If no one recognized it, it would be a joke.

With the thought that those seeds will ripen in a while, it's time to say something.He is not afraid to say that, in a country like the Song Dynasty, vassals and warlords can't control the level, even if he calls out among the gangsters that the princes and generals are kind, it will be fine.

To say this is to die on the premise that there is a complete state machine, and a country like the Song Dynasty, which is beaten all day long, does not have this ability.Of course, he didn't want to say this at all for the time being.All he had to do was wait for Mozi to come back and accept him as a disciple.

The water mixed with wild bee honey poured out one after another strange patterns in front of the ant nest. Several soldier ants who were looking for the way had already smelled it, and hurried home with their tentacles to report the good news.

It is appropriate to wash and hide the empty earthen jar, and when I return to Luhua's house, the children have already dissected and cleaned the fish.

He found a few children and said: "Go back and tell your mother, let them go to the village communal grain farm now and boil the water. For these two coins, buy a liter of salt at someone's house, go."

Those children took the money and ran back quickly.

When the women were happily carrying the fish and preparing to cook it, they all froze in the valley.

A group of black ants, like soldiers about to go into battle, surrounded the path outside the village village, as if they were waiting for the arrival of a general of the three armies.

That's not a word, even if it's a word, these people don't know it.

But this is indeed a vision.

(End of this chapter)