Chapter 22

Crushing the hawthorn fruit, the sour pulp split open in his mouth in an instant, Jiang Shuxin couldn't help but cursed in his heart, what kind of broken candy string, it's so fucking sour.

But the acid returned to the acid, Jiang Shuxin swallowed the hawthorn without changing his face, and the Four Treasures were very surprised. She stretched out her finger and lightly tapped Jiang Shuxin's cheek, looking at her curiously.

"Where's Guoguo?" Four Treasures asked her.

"I swallowed." Jiang Shuxin opened his mouth to show her, and finally asked her, "Did you just get sour?"

"Sour?" Sibao was puzzled, she didn't understand what acid was.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Shuxin felt a daze in his heart, and couldn't help but guess: "Have you ever eaten something sour?"

Sibao nodded honestly, she didn't even know what was sour.

Jiang Shuxin suddenly felt that Aunt Yu was too careful with the Four Treasures. She knew that the Four Treasures had not eaten many kinds of food, but she did not expect that it would be so scarce.

She took the candied gourd in Sibao's hand and held it in front of Sibao: "Take another bite and tell me how it feels."

Four Treasures resisted and pushed the candied haws away, not wanting to bite anymore.

Jiang Shuxin didn't care whether she wanted it or not, she squeezed Sibao's little face, squeezed her little mouth open, and directly stuffed the hawthorn into the person's mouth.

The action looked rude, but fortunately it didn't make Sibao uncomfortable. Sibao just stuck out his tongue and pushed back the hawthorn in his mouth, looking at Jiang Shuxin a little angrily.

Jiang Shuxin shook her chin indifferently, and gestured, "Bite, bite and taste."

Four Treasures did not, she put the round hawthorn in one side of her mouth, her whole face looked bulging and angry.

"No, it's unpalatable!" She said rudely and fiercely at Jiang Shuxin.

"It's just sour, it's not unpalatable, try it again, if you don't like it, spit it out again." Jiang Shuxin coaxed her very gently, raising her hand to smooth her frizzy hair.

The Four Treasures, who were shunned by the hair, looked at Jiang Shuxin suspiciously. In the end, under Jiang Shuxin's expectant eyes, he bit the hawthorn apart. His mouth was still trembling.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Shuxin hurriedly reached out and picked up the handkerchief and handed it to her: "Hey, spit it out and spit it out."

But Four Treasures didn't vomit. She imitated Jiang Shuxin, chewed a few times, swallowed it, and then opened her mouth to show Jiang Shuxin.

I don't know if it was because of the acid or something, but the whole mouth of the Four Treasures was full of water. Bai Shengsheng's teeth were still hung with crystal filaments, and his lips were red and moist. Jiang Shuxin felt inexplicably tight in his throat.

As if nothing had happened, she looked away, covered the mouth of the Four Treasures, and said preaching: "Okay, you can close it; remember this smell, it's sour."

Four Treasures took her hand away, swallowed her cigarettes, thinking that this sour thing is really unpalatable, but it is a little delicious, and want to eat it after eating.

"I still eat, a little bit." Four Treasures took the candied haws again, and ate slowly again.

Seeing this, Jiang Shuxin also let her go, and went to do other things in the house.

By noon, each family began to prepare their own lunch, but the Yu family's courtyard was deserted.

Because the house is messy, Yu Dabao is in

Because the Four Treasures were not at home, Aunt Yu took Yu Wuya out to do farm work all day long. She didn't want to take care of the family affairs, and she didn't bother to take care of it.

The injured old man Yu and Yu Erbao were left alone. Although the old man Yu, who was barely able to get down, hated Jiang Er for kicking him that day, he kept the twenty taels of silver in his arms. Ask the second person to see it.

After the doctor came to visit him that day, he said that Yu Erbao was dead in his entire life. This made Yu Erbao change his temperament. He hid in the house all day and refused to see anyone, even when he was eating. Eat at home.

Seeing that his mother-in-law and son were not at home, Old Man Yu had no choice but to get up and cook by himself while supporting his dilapidated body, but he, a person who has always enjoyed himself, couldn't cook at all, so he reluctantly ignited a fire, but was caught by the raging fire. The smoke chokes tears.

He finally grabbed a handful of vegetables and threw them into the pot to fry, but it was also burnt to a screeching end. The exasperated old man simply overturned the pot to the ground, and sat on the edge and cursed.

It's nothing more than scolding Aunt Yu for not cooking for him, scolding Yu Dabao, not being filial to him, scolding Yu Erbao for ignoring him, scolding Sibao for that useless thing, looking for such ruthless people, and beating himself like this appearance.

Sitting there, the old man Yu, who was venting and passing through, didn't feel relieved at all, and because he was too hungry, he simply rummaged through the boxes at home, trying to find something to fill his stomach.

And Aunt Yu took Yu Wuya to work outside. When she was tired, she sat under the shade of a tree to rest in the shade. The two of them ate the steamed buns made by Aunt Yu herself. They were very comfortable.

Yu Dabao, who also works outside, ate a hot meal at his employer's house at noon.

Only Old Man Yu and Yu Erbao were starving at home because they were left alone.

After lunch, Jiang Shuxin, who had not gone to sea for several days because of the Four Treasures, had been playing with his fishing gear under the shed.

Sibao moved a small chair and sat beside Jiang Shuxin, watching her work with great interest.

Jiang Shuxin held a forearm-length sharp knife in his hand, and cut a long bamboo pole little by little. The top of the bamboo pole was split by her and divided into three sharp forks.

Then Jiang Shuxin stuck a few sticks on it, and then took the hemp rope and wrapped it around the place little by little.

After a while, a simple harpoon was ready for her, and she couldn't take her eyes off the four treasures.

"Do you know what this is?" Jiang Shuxin asked the Four Treasures, placing the harpoon beside the wall.

The Four Treasures looked at the long bamboo pole and said with their own opinion, "Stick stick!"

Jiang Shuxin laughed lightly, but did not refute her, but explained for her: "It's a stick, and it's also a harpoon."

With that said, Jiang Shuxin pointed to the top and continued: "See, this is for forking fish."

"Fish, fork." Four Treasures followed Jiang Shuxin's fingers seriously, nodded as if babbling, repeating Jiang Shuxin's words word by word.

Speaking of harpoons, Jiang Shuxin simply took the Four Treasures to the beach.

Because it was the afternoon, the sun had already started to move westward, and it was not too strong. Jiang Shuxin took off her shoes and socks for Sibao and took her to the beach.

Jiang Shuxin was carrying a fish basket on his back, holding a harpoon in his right hand, and holding the somewhat nervous Four Treasures in his left.

"Afraid of water?"

Xu Shi was too nervous for the Four Treasures, Jiang Shuxin had to stop and look at the Four Treasures and asked.

The Four Treasures are really afraid. She has never left the village. She has seen a pond full of mud even in the sky, not to mention the sea, she has never even entered the water.

She grabbed at the corner of Jiang Shuxin's clothes in fear, her little feet were tender and white because she had not seen the sun for many years, and her delicate toes curled up because of fear, and she was tense to the naked eye.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Shuxin didn't know what to think, she stretched out her hand to wrap her arms around the little girl's waist, and immediately picked her up and put it into the sea.

When the cold sea water touched Sibao's feet, Sibao was startled, and instinctively shrank his feet, hanging on Jiang Shuxin's hands and reluctant to go down.

"No, no!" Four Treasures hugged Jiang Shuxin's neck tightly, and because of fear, she started to stutter again, and her voice trembled.

Jiang Shuxin also knew that being tough would only be counterproductive, but she was not as tough as before, she held the Four Treasures tightly with one hand, and patiently said to her: "Don't be afraid, I'll hold you, put your feet Put it down and try it."

Four Treasures still refused, and still hugged Jiang Shuxin's neck tightly, with a pair of small feet raised high, just unwilling to fall, this pair of hanging on Jiang Shuxin's body is a bit funny.

No way, Jiang Shuxin had no choice but to walk back to the beach where there was no seawater, only then did the Four Treasures happily get off Jiang Shuxin.

Seeing that she couldn't accept the sea water for a while, Jiang Shuxin didn't force it any more, so she took off the hat on her head and put it on her head, leaned over and said in her ear:

"Then you stand here alone, and I'll go fork fish, okay?"

Wen Yan Sibao nodded obediently, the big hat covered half of her little face, she looked at Jiang Shuxin a little embarrassed, with a little emotion on her little face, but Jiang Shuxin could see that she had something to say to herself , he didn't worry, he still leaned over and stood in front of her.

After waiting for a while, Sibao raised his hand and pulled Jiang Shuxin, and whispered in her ear with a tangled face: "I'm sorry, Jiang Er, I, I, I am a little bit scared."

Jiang Shuxin didn't expect that what she was going to say to him was an apology. She rubbed her head in distress, smoothed her tangled eyebrows, and said softly, "It's okay, Jiang Er doesn't blame you."

After speaking, Sibao looked at Jiang Shuxin at a loss. Jiang Shuxin thought she didn't understand, so she continued to whisper to her, "No need to apologize, and I don't blame you."

Only now did Sibao's expression relax, she looked at Jiang Shuxin and began to laugh, her fair face was a little red from the sunlight, and Jiang Shuxin couldn't help pinching her face.

After pinching the Four Treasures' cheeks, a trace of red appeared, Jiang Shuxin released his hand, and pretended to knead for her, and then walked into the sea with the harpoon.

Sibao also stretched out her little hand to rub her face that was hurt by Jiang Shuxin, but she still smiled and kept following Jiang Shuxin.

Jiang Shuxin didn't go too far. He picked a place with lots of rocks and carefully looked for it with a harpoon.

The brightly colored fish swam happily in the water, but Jiang Shuxin was quick to pierce the harpoon.

Putting the fish on the harpoon into the fish basket behind, Jiang Shuxin began to look for the next one, and the four treasures on the shore saw Jiang Shuxin's fork fish, clapped his hands with joy, and kept looking at Jiang Shuxin with a smile. .

It didn't take long for Jiang Shuxin to go ashore. She poked the harpoon in her hand into the sand and stood there, walked to the Four Treasures, and put down the fish basket behind her to show her.

There are not many fish in the fish basket, but they are all very big. Any one of them can be as thick as Sibao's forearm. Sibao stood on the side and looked at the fish with curiosity. His little hand was eager to try, but he dared not touch it.

Jiang Shuxin was washing her hands with the sea water. Seeing the cautious appearance of the Four Treasures, she couldn't help but say, "Touch it, it's fine."

Only then did Sibao pluck up the courage to reach out and touch the fish. The smooth touch made Sibao quickly withdraw her hand, and then she looked at her hand with disgust.

The mucus from the fish stuck on his hands, and the four treasures raised their hands to look at Jiang Shuxin.

Jiang Shuxin, who didn't know why, thought she was scratched by a fish scale, and hurriedly took her hand to check, but couldn't see anything broken: "What's wrong?"

"Dirty, wash quickly, wash!" The Four Treasures were in a hurry, and their fingers were straining.

Unexpectedly, Sibao is still a little girl who loves cleanliness. Seeing her anxious appearance, Jiang Shuxin couldn't help but want to tease her again.

Jiang Shuxin grabbed the hand of the Four Treasures with one hand and put the other hand on her waist, lifted her whole body, and then let her step on his feet and walked into the sea with the Four Treasures.

The Four Treasures were so anxious that she almost screamed. She pinched Jiang Shuxin's arm, wishing she could climb onto Jiang Shuxin's body, but Jiang Shuxin grabbed her hand and pressed it against her waist to prevent her from moving at all.

"If you move, it will fall."

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