Dinon

As soon as the first cock crow sounded in the village, Tuo Bachen opened the wooden door of his house.

This door is made of poplar wood, and it is also wiped with the juice from the crushed and leached layer of spirit herbs. Although this can play a role in antisepsis, the house to which this door belongs is an ancestral house that has been passed down for many years. Many years have passed, and the door panel has long been rotted by moths, leaving pits and pits of different sizes and shades. The wear and tear of many years and the erosion of wind and rain make this door look particularly dilapidated .

But Tuo Bachen didn't care about these things, she had lived here for many years, and she was used to these things long ago.

After opening the door, she dragged a somewhat lame leg and walked slowly towards the east room. After washing with the last bit of green salt hidden in the crock pot in the east room, she slowly walked to the middle of the room , where there is a pine tablet.

"Mother, forgive me for not being able to offer tribute to you today." Tuo Bachen sighed, held the tablet in his arms, wiped and wiped it carefully with his linen clothes, and then carefully put the tablet in his arms. On the altar table, he took a step back and bowed three times and said, "Mother, don't worry, I will go fishing by the river today, and I will wait for Brother Big Niu who is a helper in the town to come back at noon, and then I will ask Brother Big Niu to bring those fish to the town for sale." Some money, so that I can help you buy tribute." As she spoke, she gently stroked the wood pattern on the tablet with her thumb, and her eye circles were also a little red, "Don't worry, mother, the child must obey mother's words and live well." Like As if comforting his mother's spirit in heaven, Tuo Bachen said softly.

After the routine worship was completed, Tuo Bachen took the fishing gear he made himself, put on the straw hat that his mother wove for her when he was still alive, carefully locked the door with a stone lock, and then went to the small river in the village with peace of mind. while walking.

She is crippled. Although the family has a few acres of fertile land passed down from their ancestors, they often fail to harvest in time or plant in the rainy season, and the crops rot in the field, which is a waste of food seeds.

It's not that I don't want to ask the folks for help, it's just that everyone is so busy during the harvest, who has time to take care of her cripple?Besides, even if someone wanted to help her, she would be ashamed to accept their help for nothing, and she just said that she would give something in return, but she was really helpless.Since her father's death, her family has been worsening day by day. Later, because of her mother's illness, her family's ancestral 100 mu was sold and only four or five mu were left in the end.Fortunately, Shang Shengming issued an edict to exempt the whole country from taxation for three years, so she did not lose the last land inherited from her ancestors.It's just that her legs and feet are inconvenient, and most of those fields are barren, which is no different from losing them. If there is no land, where can food come from?Not to mention that there is still some surplus, even if I want to treat someone to a meal, there is no rice at home.

Tuo Bachen walked to the river hungry as usual.The rice she got in exchange for catching a five-pound black fish three months ago has already been eaten up. Even if she changed the original three meals a day to one meal a day, it would not be of much use. of.

People are iron and rice is steel, she didn't eat yesterday, if she can't catch any more fish today, she might go down to accompany her mother in a few days.

Tuo Bachen's home is at the westernmost end of the village, and the small river is in the middle of the village near a forest at the east end of the village. If you want to get there, you have to pass through many houses in the village. After all, this is not like her ancestral house. Live alone.

It was still early for Tuo Bachen to go out, but at this moment, green smoke was already rising from the chimneys of many houses.Farmers always think that it is more work to do more work, and if the hands and feet are slow, it will be bad if the farming season is delayed.

Tuo Bachen tried his best to drag his lame leg forward gently so that no one would notice her. Even so, she was still startled by the barking of dogs one after another.

"What's your name in the early morning? Dead dog!" Following the sound, Tuo Bachen heard the sound of opening the door and the sound of the dog "wow" in pain. He thought it was the dog's owner who thought it was noisy and kicked it hard. It kicks.

"Chen'er, you go fishing early in the morning." The one who spoke was Aunt Gu, a well-known shrewd person in the village, because she was short and fat, and some people in the village could not understand her. So I gave her a nickname, "Five Chiefs", which means that she wants to take advantage of everything.At this moment, her dark face was full of wrinkles from laughing at the moment. Looking at her appearance, she didn't know what she was planning again.

"Yeah, you're early too, auntie." Tuo Bachen replied politely, "Have you had breakfast, auntie?"

Thinking that Tuoba Chen was going to her house for dinner, Aunt Gu quickly waved her hand, "I have already finished eating, and I even gave the last bit of white porridge to this dog," she said with a forced smile, "Chen'er eat Yet?"

"Eat." The cock crowed three times now, and she could clearly see the smoke coming from the chimney of her house just now, how could she have eaten it?Seeing her like this, Tuo Bachen knew what she was thinking, and didn't want to entangle with her any longer, so he politely said, "Auntie is busy first, I'll go fishing first, the fish should find their own food when it's late."

"Oh, okay, you can go." Aunt Gu said with a smile on her face.

She didn't say in a sour tone until she saw Tuoba Chen's far away back, "It doesn't matter if you look handsome, as long as you are lame, no girl from a good family will marry you, and if you can't get a wife, you can't continue the incense Said, I can't live by myself alone. Bah, what a gentleman!" Saying that, he kicked the dog that had been lying at the door since just now, "Dead dog, barking at an unlucky person early in the morning Come and call, I won’t give you something to eat today.” After she finished speaking, she straightened her fat body and closed the courtyard door with a bang.

The little episode just now did not affect Tuo Bachen's mood. She walked slowly to the small river, put down the fishing gear in her hand, and put down the bamboo tube she was carrying on her back. After staying on the grass for a while, after cooling off the sweat from her body, she started to prepare for fishing.

The most indispensable thing for fishing is bait. Some noble families have special fishing food, but poor families are not so particular about it.Turn over the fertile soil with branches, and there are fat and fat earthworms everywhere. Using that as bait is a good way to save both trouble and money.

Tuobachen found a dead branch from the willow tree by the river, dug it carefully, and in a short while dug out enough bait for today, she wiped the sweat on her face with the clothes on her arms contentedly, and saw Looking at the rising sun, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I hope there will be a good harvest today." Tuoba Chen secretly cheered himself up, then carefully found a good place upstream, put the earthworms on the self-made fishhook, and threw the fishhook out with light force .

After the fishhook threw a perfect arc in the air, it landed steadily in the center of the lotus where the aquatic plants were everywhere, and began its underwater journey.

It is said that waiting is the most anxious thing, but Tuobachen has a meek temper and has always adhered to the principle of "no one offends me, I will not offend others" taught by her mother when she was alive, and she is well-known among the villagers on weekdays.In the matter of fishing, patience is fully reflected.

Seeing that it was noon, many people working in the fields either went home to eat one after another, or were sitting and eating on the ridge of the field with some soup brought by their mother-in-law at home. Only Tuo Bachen sat alone. Under the big sun, wearing a straw hat made of wheat straw, staring at the fish float in the water stupidly.

She has only lost a crucian carp weighing three catties since the morning, and the others are small fish weighing less than half a catty. Tuo Bachen looked at those small fish and thought that God had the virtue of good life, so he let them go. Therefore, so far, there is only that one crucian carp in her fish basket.

Staring at the water surface for a long time, Tuo Bachen's eyes were a little sore, but he still didn't dare to move his eyeballs away from the water surface, for fear that the fish would run away if he was not careful.It's just that her eyes were so sore, Tuobachen couldn't help but raised her head and rubbed her eyes with her hands. At this moment, the fishhook in her hand suddenly shook violently!

Tuobachen was overjoyed, and hurriedly pulled the fishing rod up, but she couldn't lift the fishing rod with all her strength.Thinking about whether it was because the fish he was catching was too big, Tuobachen held the fishing rod with both hands together and pulled it up with all his strength. Unexpectedly, although the rope used by Tuobachen's self-made fishing rod was strong The hemp rope and the pole are just ordinary sticks. The upper part is pulling the fishing rod with force, and the lower part is holding the fishing rod and pulling back. The two-phase force makes the stick break easily.

Looking at the half stick in her hand, Tuobachen felt like crying. God knows how difficult it was for her to restrain her frustration, but she always thought of her mother's words, "Chen'er, you have to work hard!" survive."

"Chen'er, you have to work hard to survive." Tuo Bachen said to himself, throwing away half of the stick in his hand, and dragged one leg closer to the river. She wanted to find out where her hook was. Encountered big fish or got caught by aquatic plants.

Just looking at the river for a long time, he couldn't see what was wrong with the fishing rod. Undaunted, Tuobachen dragged his legs and ran to the woods not far from the river, found a long and thick stick, and gestured. Run back again.

Before she could catch her breath, she couldn't wait to use the stick to pick it into the river, but she could clearly feel the resistance coming from the top of the stick, and at the same time, there was a small groan, "Save... I... ..."

Tuo Bachen was startled by the sound. A lot of aquatic plants like lotus were planted in the creek, and he was blocked by these things just now. Now he observed carefully that there was black hair on the place where she dropped the fishing rod. float up.

Goosebumps arose all over Tuo Bachen's body.