新石器时代

After the New Year, the air gradually became humid, and it began to rain day and night.The rain is not heavy, and the rain is as thin as a needle, piercing the ground one by one and seeping into the soil.

Spring is here, and the weather is getting colder.The dank chill penetrated into the bone marrow, and no amount of clothes or fur could resist it.

Everyone in Niu Niu Village was depressed.If I knew it would rain, why bother to build a water tanker?

Liang Tian comforted them: the rain in the sky is not a faucet, and it can stop as long as you want it to fall.This region will enter the dry season in April and May, and there will be many places where waterwheels will be needed.What's more, it's raining non-stop now, you can still brave the rain to clear the ground?

So everyone calmed down and nestled at home to enjoy the fire; they waited for the weather to be warmer before going out to farm.

So for half a month, Gu Xiaolu was the only one walking around in the field in the valley.

The village assembly ordered him to maintain the waterwheels and canals of the whole village. He had no objection. After he recovered from his injury, he began to walk along the main waterway in the valley every day to carefully check the condition of each waterwheel.If there is a small problem, he can fix it by himself, and if there is a big problem, he can call the people in the group that the water tanker belongs to to fix it.At the beginning, Ji Huaifeng wanted to accompany him, but he refused to give up, saying: "You might as well stay at home and cook, so that I can have hot food to eat when I come back."

Ji Huaifeng was still worried, and secretly followed behind.After walking for several days, seeing that there was nothing wrong, he was relieved to let him go by himself.Gu Xiaolu wore a bamboo hat with banana leaves on his head, a coir raincoat made of reed leaves, and a pair of straw sandals on his feet. He walked among the overgrown grass every day, looking a bit leisurely.Only Ji Huaifeng knew that he was taking pleasure in bitterness - the rain outside was so cold that it could seep into his bones.When he came back every day, his hands and feet were red with cold.

Ji Huaifeng put the clean clothes on the firepit to bake, so that he could change as soon as he came back.When Ji Huaifeng was cooking that day, he heard footsteps approaching outside, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

Rushing out the door, he saw Gu Xiaolu limping back.

"Little oar—"

Ji Huaifeng didn't care that it was still raining outside, so he rushed out to help him in: "What's wrong? I fell or—"

Gu Xiaolu shook his head: "The floor was slippery, I knocked it accidentally."

Ji Huaifeng dragged him in, and a gust of wind swept away his rain-shielding equipment.Gu Xiaolu sat down by the firepit by himself, lifted up his trouser legs, and Ji Huaifeng gasped in fright.

Gu Xiaolu's calf was bruised.The wound wasn't deep, but it was a large piece of blood, which looked terrifying.Ji Huaifeng's heart ached terribly, and he fetched warm water to wash him off.Before Fan Siming left, he left some medicine and bandages. Ji Huaifeng wiped his wounds with disinfectant, applied the wound medicine, and wrapped the bandages before he heaved a sigh of relief.

"You really haven't had a good time." As he spoke, his eyes fell on the old scar under the new wound.He sighed, and pulled down Gu Xiaolu's trousers.

Gu Xiaolu stretched out his hand to grab it, "Wait—it hurts here too—give me some medicine."

"what?"

Gu Xiaolu was referring to that old scar.Ji Huaifeng knew that he didn't hurt his bones back then, and now there is absolutely no possibility of suffering from pain again.

"Isn't it ready?"

"pain."

Thinking about it, Ji Huaifeng still had the medicine anyway, so he rubbed some on that old scar.Gu Xiaolu's tense body suddenly relaxed: "Well, these days, it hurts every day."

Ji Huaifeng's scalp went numb.

"Little oar, do you—do you still remember how you got this injury?"

Gu Xiaolu shook his head, then asked him back: "You don't know?"

Of course Ji Huaifeng knew it, he knew it better than anyone else.He smiled embarrassingly: "It's fine if you don't remember."

Fortunately, Gu Xiaolu never mentioned this matter again.Sleeping at night is also much more peaceful than usual.The bruise on his leg hasn't healed these days, so Ji Huaifeng went to patrol and check the water tanker on his behalf.One day when Ji Huaifeng came back, he saw Gu Xiaolu rubbing medicine on his legs.Wipe new wounds and old wounds, be careful.

Ji Huaifeng pretended not to see it, and went to pour water for himself.

"There was a lot of blood," Gu Xiaolu murmured, "There was a lot of blood just now."

Ji Huaifeng hurried over to have a look.But I saw that the scabs had scabbed over his scratches, where was the blood?

Gu Xiaolu raised his head and smiled: "It's okay, I wiped it off. By the way, I caught a fish in the fish basket in the water. Let's have fish head soup tonight."

Ji Huaifeng nodded: "Okay."

A grass carp with a weight of seven or eight, the head is boiled in soup, the body is fried until the skin is slightly browned, and it is delicious if sprinkled with a little salt.Don't throw away the bones either, Ji Huaifeng pulled out a few long and straight fish bones and kept them as needles, and then fried the others, it was another small dish.

Gu Xiaolu said: "In the future, if we catch small grass carp, don't eat it. There is still some open space over there, just dig a small pond to raise fish. It would be great if we could plant some lotus roots. There are lotus seeds to eat in summer, which is fine." Steamed meat with lotus leaves is very fragrant."

"it is good."

"What are you thinking about? Absent-minded."

Ji Huaifeng woke up.Now his mind is full of Gu Xiaolu's screaming pain, how can he care about these things.

"Is Xiaolu still hurting?"

Gu Xiaolu smiled: "It's okay. I can check the water truck tomorrow. If you have time, dig the fish pond."

"Okay. Let's dig a big one."

When it was time to sleep, Gu Xiaolu was still thinking about the fish pond: "When I was young, I went fishing with my father, and there was a plant floating on that fish pond, with round leaves and round stems, and purple flowers. One of them The petals are like a peacock's tail. I thought it was beautiful, so I asked my father what it was, and he said he didn't know. Then an uncle next to him said, "That one is called a water hyacinth. It can grow as long as you throw it where there is water." 'If we dig a fishpond, let's plant some on it."

Ji Huaifeng patted his head: "Okay." It took a long time to realize - Gu Xiaolu just mentioned his father -

"Little oar! You—"

Well, Gu Shenlan's story has been revealed.Gu Xiaolu probably remembered everything soon.

Ji Huaifeng really felt that the end of the world was coming.

Gu Xiaolu's tone was calm. "I only dreamed about it last night. He is much older. Why do you still lie to me? You are bad too, you are all bad, and you all lie to me together."

Ji Huaifeng didn't seem to be angry when he heard his tone, and said boldly: "I—we—are actually afraid that you will be unhappy—we are really doing it for your own good."

"Can you lie to me for my own good? Is it for my own good that you can do anything?"

Ji Huaifeng was at a loss for words.

Gu Xiaolu squeezed him. "Forget it, don't lie to me again. When the old man comes back, I will take good care of him."

Ji Huaifeng thought to himself: It's up to you

The next day their fish pond officially started.The rain was still on the ground, Ji Huaifeng put on a full set of rain-covering gear, marked a spot on the ground with fire ash, and dug it up.Gu Xiaolu went to inspect the water tanker and came back to join the battle group.Ji Huaifeng dug out the soil, Gu Xiaolu picked it up with a basket and dumped it at the foot of the mountain.Later, Ji Huaifeng changed with Gu Xiaolu when he was tired.Two people take turns, which saves effort.The designed fish pond is one meter deep, and there is a small ditch connected to the stream next to the house.In dry weather, water can be diverted from the stream, and in rainy weather, it can be drained out.The middle is blocked by a dense bamboo fence, so that the fish will not run away.

After digging like this for a long time, Ji Huaifeng came back with a load of soil, and saw Gu Xiaolu standing in the pit clutching his feet.

"There is a piece of glass in the soil." Gu Xiaolu said.

Ji Huaifeng pulled him out, and sure enough, he saw blood oozing from his left big toe.

"You're too careless." Ji Huaifeng picked him up and went back to clean up his wound.

Gu Xiaolu hugged his neck: "That piece of glass is transparent, I can't see it."

Ji Huaifeng looked up at him, and said helplessly: "Be careful in the future, and walk out after seeing clearly. I will feel bad if I bump into it all day long."

After Ji Huaifeng bandaged him, he went out to find the piece of glass.I couldn't find it on the left or right, so I came back and asked, "Xiao Lu, where is your glass stuck? I'll throw it away, and don't let anyone step on it."

Gu Xiaolu thought about it hard, "Oh, I threw it into the pile of rocks, don't be afraid."

It took three days to complete their fish pond.Later, Ji Huaifeng simply piled up the excavated soil, and Gu Xiaolu said that he wanted to build a loofah shelf on it.When there is vegetable oil in the future, you can light a small lamp on the water at night to attract flying insects into the water to feed the fish.Ji Huaifeng pinched his cheek: "You are the only one with more ideas."

The fish pond was full of water, so Gu Xiaolu put all the small fish caught in the past two days into it.They squatted on the edge watching them looming in the somewhat muddy water, unwilling to move for joy.The rain was still falling, and the raindrops hit small circles on the water.The water circles rippling and interlacing, interweaving into a fish scale-shaped ripple.

Gu Xiaolu suddenly said: "If we look at it from the sky, it's actually like this when an asteroid falls into the sea, right? It's like a drop of rain falling into water and then disappearing."

Ji Huaifeng found it very novel, and turned to look at him: "Then what do we look like, ants?"

Gu Xiaolu said: "No, it should be like bacteria. We are only as big as bacteria."

Ji Huaifeng burst into laughter: "Bacteria" had a thought, and hugged Gu Xiaolu: "Okay, bacteria want to eat bacteria! Eat them!"

Gu Xiaolu struggled: "Get lost! I am an invincible overlord!"

The Invincible Overlord Bacteria was still eaten up.Gu Xiaolu huddled into a ball, and said sadly, "It's not safe to be a bacterium these days, I'm a virus."

Ji Huaifeng took a hard bite: "Eat it!"

I don't know if it was because of shouting about bacteria all day, but that night, Gu Xiaolu really dreamed that he had turned into a tiny mushroom.

Mushrooms grow under the eaves.Outside the eaves is a dilapidated street.It was very late at night, the street lights were on listlessly, and there was no one on the road.Mushroom was bored, so he yawned and turned to look at another place.

On this side of the eaves is a window.Through the dirty glass window, Mushroom could see a person lying under the light inside the window.

A very scary person.His face and neck were as red as if he had been roasted by fire.A thick bandage was wrapped around the calf, and blood continued to ooze out from under the bandage.

The man's eyes were slightly open, looking at another person.The other man was crying while holding his hand.

Both of them looked familiar, but Mushroom couldn't remember who they were.

The man lying down said, "Don't go"

Someone outside knocked hard on the door.The crying person let go of his hand decisively, opened the door and went out.

The person lying down fainted.

Humans are so boring, the mushroom thought.