Mr. Jiang and his wife did not go to the next door to have dinner. They also have a lot of food. Although life is good now, they are not wealthy next door. They are already very happy to eat when they go over. It would be unreasonable for them to follow them.

Seeing this, the old lady didn't say anything. She just put a large bowl and asked Xie Zheng to send it back to the two old men to taste it. Anyway, there were a lot of things tonight.

The wontons with green mouth filling tasted particularly good and were also Xu Ning’s favorite stuffing. At this time, everyone sat around the dining table, and everyone held the big shot and ate it so happily. Even on this hot summer night, who cares if they were sweating profusely?

Xu Ning was fine, one bowl was enough, but the few men in front of him were Qin Zhao at least, and there were three bowls after eating, and the most was Yin Ke. He burped and couldn't walk.

So much so that Xu Ning and grandmother were watching the watermelon and eating it, but they shook their heads directly, indicating that there was no place to put things in their stomachs.

Who is blamed? I still eat so much at night, so don’t I fall asleep very late at night?

On Sunday, Xu Jianjun's holiday, early in the morning, the three of them were carrying a bamboo basket and a homemade fishing rod in their hands. They greeted the two boys next door and went to the back mountain of the village.

There is a lotus pond, a large reservoir at the foot of the mountain, and a small river that will always flow all year round without encountering severe drought. When she was young, Xu Ning especially liked to come here to play. She couldn't go to places with deep water, but standing in the stream, the cold stream water wades over and feels that the heat will be washed away.

Moreover, the stream will follow the water flow, and occasionally there are small fish and shrimps going down the water and flowing into the lotus pond, so there are many fish under the lotus pond. This trip is to carry a fishing rod and take a boat to fish in the middle of the lake.

Naturally, a small boat could not let go of the five of them, but there were many parked by the lotus pond. They were made of wood by the old carpenters in the village. There were in the mountains near the wood. It only took some effort on the left. Moreover, the boat was not too complicated and inside. It was just like a willow leaf shape, with nothing in the middle, and even the black tent did not exist.

In the past few decades, we can usually make two or three new small willow-leaf boats every year. Over the years, there are at least ten small boats by the lotus pond, and there are enough to play with the vegetables, water chestnuts, lotus roots.

"Xu Ning, can you swim?" Yin Ke asked around Xu Ning.

"No." She shook her head.

"You should stay in this good place, so you should learn it, otherwise it would be a waste."

When Xie Zheng heard this, he glared at Yin Ke, "Don't go into the water this time. Don't you know that almost all those who drowned can swim."

"That's because they are not careful, I'm very cautious." Yin Ke retorted.

"Listen to Xiao Zheng, don't go into the water casually. There are also a little deeper stream next to it. If you like it, go there and soak it."

"Uncle San, it's so boring to soak in a bathtub in that kind of stream, just like taking a bath at home."

"Hey, you guy." Xu Jianjun was happy, "Do you know that people from all over the country drown themselves almost every year, be careful not to make a big mistake."

"Okay, I won't go into the water this time, so let's sit on the boat and fish."

On the way, many children walked towards the lotus pond in three groups. They didn't get into the water very much. They usually took small boats to pick lotus pods and water chestnuts.

Before we could see, the green scene in front of us came into our eyes. It was a bit exaggerated to say that the lotus leaves were infinitely green. However, the area of ​​this lotus pond is really not small, at least 20 acres of land. As for the location below, there is a large reservoir, which is quite large. So even if we encounter a severe drought, as long as it takes not too long, their village will have water sources to irrigate the farmland.

It's still morning and the sun is not strong. After getting closer, they boarded two small boats.

I don’t know if Yin Ke was intentional, so he directly said that he wanted to change his seat with Xu Ning. As a result, Xu Ning, who wanted to be with his father, was thrown to Xie Zheng.

Xie Zheng praised the sensible Yin Ke in his heart and said to Xu Ning: "Uncle San and others fish, let's see if there are any lotus pods and water chestnuts. I guess they have been almost finished picking them by the boys in the village."

"Okay." She doesn't know how to fish, so she likes it very much while riding in a boat and traveling through the lotus pond.

After getting on the boat, Xie Zheng shook the oars, and the slender boat shuttled between the lotus leaves. Sitting in the boat, surrounded by pink lotus flowers and green lotus leaves. At noon, the children from the village even placed the boat among the lotus leaves and took a refreshing nap.

"This is my first time here this year." Xu Ning raised his hand and swept over the lotus leaves that were dragging water droplets, and soon wet his hands.

When I looked up close, I always felt that there were not many lotus flowers blooming. Only when I stood on the shore would I find that the pink lotus flowers were floating on it, some were in full bloom, and some were in bud. I remember that when I was a child, my mother asked my father to dig a lotus from here and take it back, and cultivated it in a water tank in the yard. After two or three years of blooming, it completely withered. The lotus root was dug out, and it seemed that it had turned black and turned bad. Later, my mother cleaned the water tank and never raised it again.

"The summer vacation has just begun. There is more than a month left in this summer, so I can come to play frequently." Xie Zheng felt that the atmosphere is very good now. He wanted to break it but was afraid of backfire. He seemed to have a little lack of emotional intelligence.

"Brother Zheng, do you think the water droplets on the lotus leaves can be drunk?" Xu Ning knelt in the boat and looked up at the shaking water droplets on the lotus leaves.

"Thirsty?"

"No." Xu Ning shook his head, "I heard from Grandpa Yao that some of the ladies in the Qing Palace like to make tea with dew, just ask."

Grandpa Yao’s ancestor was the imperial physician of the Qing court, and he naturally knew that, “Don’t drink this, who knows whether it’s hygienic or not? If you like it, collect it and bring it to a boil and drink it after you go home.”

"No, so troublesome."

There are really not many lotus pods nowadays, and many mature ones have been picked by others. Xu Ning, who is immature, is naturally reluctant to pick them, otherwise it would be wasteful.

Although it was a lotus pond, it was also divided into dense and dense. At this time, Xu Jianjun rowed a small boat and stopped in a relatively open place.

"I can't catch any fish here. There are really many places in the reservoir and they are big." Xu Jianjun said with a smile: "We mainly look here in the morning and go fishing next to the reservoir in the afternoon. However, Yin Ke, I don't recommend you to swim there. The reservoir is very deep, and the deepest place is at least thirty or forty meters. Almost every year, a few adults and children will drown."

"...Oh, Uncle San, don't say anything. I will definitely not go swimming there anymore. Don't let the water ghost drag me down." Yin Ke shivered.

"That's right." Xu Jianjun laughed, "The stream above is just good. If you walk along the stream for two or three hundred meters above, you won't think the reservoir is better."

"What's above?" Yin Ke asked curiously.

"There is a small waterfall, with pebbles washed out from the bottom, and the deepest part is only more than one meter, and the others are only thirty or forty centimeters. It's so comfortable to soak in it..."

"Let's go there in the afternoon, Uncle San, okay?" He complained to Xie Zheng in his heart. He clearly had that good place, but he didn't take him there.

"Okay!" Xu Jianjun nodded, "We all brought our clothes to take a good bath in the afternoon."

Qin Zhao was also very interested in listening to it. He had never played in the wild river when he grew up so old.

Xie Zheng just cared about rocking, and Xu Ning said that he would go there. Not long after, he picked six or seven mature lotus pods.

"The quantity is a little small. Brother Zheng, let's come here often afterwards. Pick more, and then save it to stir-fry it during the Chinese New Year." Xu Ning peeled one with a knife with her with her and handed it to Xie Zheng. She also ate two of them herself. It really left a fragrance on her cheeks, and she lost her poverty aftertaste.

Xie Zheng nodded: "Listen to you."

After eating one, Xu Ning stuffed another into Xie Zheng's mouth, but felt the tip of the other person's tongue swept across her fingertips. Xu Ning didn't care too much, but Xie Zheng was a little unable to sit still.

"Ouch..." Suddenly, Xu Ning rushed forward with a swaying body.

Xie Zheng's face changed, he quickly let go of the oar, stretched out his arm to fill the little girl's arms. The soft and fragrant touch made him almost moan, and he had to grit his teeth and endure it.

Seeing the boat that gently collided with their boat, Xie Zheng met the other party's surprised and joking smile, and said helplessly: "Brother Shuanzi, be careful, this boat has not yet collided."

"Ning Ning is okay? Brother isn't he careful." The person who came was Shuanzi, the son of the village chief's family, and there was also Xu Cuiyun, the youngest daughter of the village chief's family, on the boat.

Seeing the situation here, the little girl stood up and put her hips on her back and said to Shuanzi, "Brother, look at you, I said I would ask you to slow down, you are always so rough."

"Yes, yes, my brother's fault, I apologize..." Although Shuanzi was a little careless, his character was not bad, but sometimes he was so slick that he was annoying.

After a few words, Shuanzi rowed a boat to go to another road. This is also an unwritten rule. As people walk here, they naturally have to change places. Anyway, the lotus pond is so big that they have to grab things from this part unless they have conflicts with each other.

Xu Ning went back to do it, and Xie Zheng continued to row without hesitation.

The fragrant little girl has a soft body. She has to find an opportunity to hug her a few more times in the future, and then find an opportunity to hug her for the rest of her life.

Just looking at Xu Ning's shy expression, Brother Zheng felt so bitter, it was even more bitter than eating untreated lotus seeds.

In the morning, Xu Ning only found more than a dozen lotus pods. If there were too many, he could pick dozens or hundreds of them this morning.

At the door of the house, Yin Ke said he would not sleep at noon, and after dinner, he would go to the small waterfall, and then complained to Xie Zheng while entering the house.

As for the fishing few of them, they really did not gain any gains.

It's really just a pure view of the scenery.

After lunch, Qin Zhao called Xu Ning out to play. Xu Ning saw their attitude and knew that these people were going to the small waterfall in the back mountain. It was not convenient for her to follow her, so she shook her head and refused.

I took advantage of the afternoon to do my homework at home. I finished writing this summer at this time last year, and I have written less than half of it now.

The old lady went to the house for lunch, while Qin Xuejuan was sitting in the main room guarding the small dumplings in the crib. Xu Ning simply set up a table in the main room, chatting with her mother while doing her homework.

In the back mountain, when the four men came here, there were already three or five kids slamming inside.

However, Yin Ke did not dislike it this time. He looked at the small waterfall less than two meters wide and rushing down. This was living water. If it were the swimming pool, he might have despised it while swimming two laps. There was no pressure here at all.

When several children saw Xu Jianjun, they all said hello.

Yin Ke couldn't help it anymore, so he took off his top and shorts, wore black underwear, flirted with water on his body, and then walked in.

"Oh, it's so comfortable." The temperature at noon is enough to reach 30 degrees, but the hot people are covered with skin. However, the climate here is not too good compared to the imperial capital. After all, water will not look dry. The summer in the imperial capital is really dry and dry.

The other three people also stepped into the water and sighed with satisfaction.

"Uncle San, there is no big girl here, right?" Yin Ke smelled it.

Xie Zheng raised his hand and lifted a handful of water on his head, "I want to mess around again. Do you think this is Journey to the West or the Seven Fairies."

"Tsk, I'm not Zhu Bajie, nor Dong Yong. I just ask casually. Besides, I'm afraid that a woman will show up and see me all. This is to prevent problems before it happens." He, the second young master Yin, is not a lustful person.

"I'm afraid you'll see it all." Xu Jianjun was so amused and laughed. "Don't worry, there are no women here."

"That's good." After that, Yin Ke went a little deeper and dug the dog away.

After that, there were more and more boys here, and even married men came over in three or two. Soon, almost 20 or 30 people were made under the waterfall.

Fortunately, the waterfall pool is not small, and these dozens of people do not seem crowded. The four of them simply sit not too far from the waterfall. At least it occupies the upper reaches. It is obvious that the four men are rare in the countryside who love cleanliness.

Nowadays, rural areas are not as good as in the future. It is good for ordinary families to take a shower for ten or half a month, and some even don’t take one in the winter.

Not to mention that Qin Zhao and Yin Ke are from the city, Xu Jianjun and Xie Zheng, who grew up here, all bathe twice in the morning and evening in summer, and one another two days in winter. It would be so uncomfortable not to take a bath for a long time.

The little dumpling, who was sleeping soundly in the crib, suddenly started to hum. Xu Ning thought he had peed, so he quickly prepared to help his mother change his brother's diapers.

Qin Xuejuan glanced at it and smiled and said, "Maybe she was dreaming."

"You can dream at such a young age?" Xu Ning looked at the little dumpling who was humming curiously, then slept peacefully again. He reached out and poked his little hand clenched into fists twice. He was a small one when he was born, but now he looks a lot older. First of all, the little hand becomes fleshy, and his face is even softer, really like a small glutinous rice dumpling, white and soft.

"Of course!" Qin Xuejuan smiled softly, "I just don't know what I dreamed of."

"It must be delicious." Xu Ning smiled, "Little Greedy Cat."

This little dumpling has a lot of appetite, but fortunately my mother has enough milk.

I reorganized the small blanket covered by my son, "Is your school's high school moving to the county?"
To be continued...