It gets dark very quickly in winter, and before six o'clock, the sky is completely dark. After dinner, the villagers close their doors early to sleep.
After Qiao Zhenjun became paralyzed, the old Qiao's family took turns sending people over to watch over him, and it was Qiao Zhenguo who came over these few days.
With her uncle around, Da Qiao had nothing to worry about. After washing her body, she went to bed and went to sleep.
After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, there was a sudden knocking sound in the room—
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
In such a quiet winter night, the voice was clear and abrupt.
Big Joe was woken up.
She sat up from the bed, rubbed her eyes with her little hands, her little face was flushed from sleep, like a little milk cat that was woken up, looking naive and cute.
She listened carefully, but the sound disappeared. After waiting for a while, the sound did not come again. Just when she thought she heard it wrong, the impact sounded again.
This time she heard clearly.
The voice came from the wooden basin in the corner, which kept the little koi that her grandmother bought back with an egg.
She climbed off the bed, walked to the tub, and said softly, "Little Yu'er, it's, so, late, you, why, don't, go to bed?"
The little koi spit out a few bubbles, and suddenly said: "Da Qiao, thank you for saving me! But I can't stay here for long, can you take me home?"
Its voice is milky and milky, it sounds like the voice of a five or six-year-old child, sweet and waxy.
Da Qiao was so surprised that his mouth opened into a circle, enough to stuff a bird's egg: "You, you, can you talk?"
The little koi spit out a few more bubbles: "I am the eighteenth daughter of the Dragon King. I can speak naturally. My brothers and sisters can also transform into human forms, but I am still young and not strong enough, so I can't transform into human forms. You If you haven't answered my question, can you take me home? If I don't go back, I will die, woo woo... "
Da Qiao couldn't understand why a fish could talk, but she understood the words behind the little koi.
Seeing the little koi crying miserably, she quickly comforted it and said, "Don't, don't cry, I'll take, take you home, but, where is your home?"
The little koi immediately stopped crying: "There is a waterfall in Xilin, take me to the waterfall."
Big Joe's palm-sized face suddenly crumpled into a ball.
The last time she went to Xilin to dig out bird eggs, she almost died, and then her father was sent to the hospital, so she subconsciously didn't like Xilin.
Seeing Da Qiao's refusal, the little koi burst into tears and looked at her with big eyes miserably, which made people's hearts soften.
Da Qiao has always been a soft-hearted kid, how could he stand such a gaze.
So despite the struggle, she nodded and agreed: "You, don't cry, I, I promise you, that's it."
"Great! Thank you, Big Joe, I will repay you!" The little koi happily spit out several bubbles and swam happily around in the wooden basin.
When she got up early the next morning, Da Qiao remembered what happened in the middle of the night, and she only thought it was a dream. She didn't expect that when she came back from breakfast, the little koi would open her mouth again.
"Big Joe, are you done with your work? When will you take me to the small waterfall in Xilin?"
Da Qiao was stunned again: "Yuanyuan, come on, no, no, it's a dream!"
The little koi made a movement similar to rolling its eyes: "Of course it's not a dream, you take me there quickly, please, big Joe!"
Da Qiao felt that it was more coquettish than Xiao Qiao, looking at people with foggy eyes, making it impossible to refuse.
She nodded her head: "Okay, I'll take you there."
The wooden basin is too heavy, and it is easy to attract attention when carrying a wooden basin, so she found a small backpack: "No, there is no water, can you, can you?"
The little koi said crisply: "Well, I'm fine, as long as I reach the small waterfall within half an hour."
Da Qiao didn't know how far the small waterfall was, but in order to prevent the little koi from dying, she told his father and immediately went out.
All the strong laborers in the village were sent to farmland infrastructure construction, and the children were detained at home because of the cold weather, so Da Qiao didn't meet anyone along the way.
She couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief, she was afraid that she would meet Song Jinlai's wife again like last time.
Xilin was still filled with smog, and he couldn't see his fingers. Da Qiao stood at the entrance of Xilin, trembling in his heart.
The little koi comforted: "Don't worry, I won't let you fall into the trap."
Da Qiao was easily persuaded by how confident he was, and it turned out that the little koi really didn't lie to her, and the journey went smoothly without any accidents.
Following the guidance of the little koi, she came to the small waterfall smoothly.
The small waterfall was less than ten meters high, and the water flowed down from above with a rushing sound. The water hit the stones below and splashed, and Da Qiao couldn't help but stare dumbfounded.
Xilin is filled with smog all the year round, and there are traps set up inside. The villagers dare not come in easily, let alone go into the deep mountains, so no one knows that there is a waterfall inside.
This was also the first time Da Qiao saw the waterfall, but at this time her eyes were fixed on the fish in the water.
So many fish!
She couldn't help swallowing.
The last time she ate fish was during Chinese New Year, and she still remembered that the fish was so tender that she almost swallowed it with her tongue, but she only ate two pieces, because her mother said that she was too young to digest too much.
Thinking of the taste of fish, her mouth is watering.
Seeing Da Qiao swallowing his saliva, the little koi giggled: "Da Qiao, wipe your saliva quickly, it's dripping on me!"
Da Qiao subconsciously wiped the corners of her mouth, only to realize that she was being teased, and her little face flushed immediately: "Bad, fish!"
The little koi fluttered in her hand and said, "Big Qiao, put me into the water quickly!"
Although the time we spent together was only a few days, Da Qiao was full of reluctance, but she followed the instructions of the little koi and put it into the water: "Goodbye, little fish."
The little koi swam happily in the cold stream, and then swam back to the stream: "Give me your hand."
Da Qiao obediently stretched out his little hand.
The little koi spit out a piece of jade pendant from its mouth. The jade pendant was only the size of a fingernail at first, but after vomiting it into his hand, it grew bigger and bigger, filling up Da Qiao's entire palm.
The whole body of the jade pendant is white, crystal clear, and the carvings are vivid, and the fish scales on it can be clearly seen. More importantly, its shape is exactly the same as that of a small koi.
"Good, good, beautiful!" Da Qiao stared at the jade pendant with sparkling eyes.
The little koi said: "I give it to you, it's a gift for you to save me."
Da Qiao had the nerve to accept such a precious gift, but after finishing speaking, the little koi turned around and swam away, not giving her a chance to refuse at all.
I saw it going upstream against the water and swimming quickly towards the top of the waterfall.
Swimming against the water is not easy, let alone going upstream against the force of gravity. The little koi failed time and time again, falling from mid-air many times and hitting the bottom of the water heavily. The fish was covered with wounds visible to the naked eye .
But the little koi did not give up.
Da Qiao was so nervous that he clenched his little hands into fists to cheer him up: "Little Yu'er, come on, come on!"
I don't know how many times I tried, and I don't know how many times I failed, but finally the little koi succeeded!
A shining halo appeared at the top of the waterfall, and the little koi jumped into it, glowing with colorful light all over its body, and the wounds on its body disappeared immediately.
The little koi flicked its tail at the dragon's gate and said happily, "Goodbye, Big Joe!"
Da Qiao waved her tender little hand vigorously: "Goodbye, little fish."
With a flash of light, the little koi disappeared, and Da Qiao was stunned for a while before looking down at the jade pendant in his hand.
This jade pendant is so beautiful, where should she hide it
If she was seen, how would she explain it
At this moment, the jade pendant suddenly fell into her palm and disappeared!
Big Joe held his breath in fright.
What about jade pendant
Why did it disappear in her palm
She turned her palm over and over to look, and then lay down on the ground to search, shouting anxiously in her heart, come out the jade pendant, and the next moment the jade pendant popped out of her palm.
Da Qiao was so stunned that he couldn't close his mouth again.
She couldn't understand why Yupei would hide in her palm, but after Yupei "appeared and disappeared" several times, she vaguely found a pattern and knew how to make it hide and appear.
She put away the jade pendant, and suddenly heard a crackling sound coming from the edge of the water. When she looked back, she happened to see a dozen fish jumping out of the water onto the grass by themselves!
The fish jumped onto the shore automatically, which is unheard of and unseen!
But Da Qiao has seen too many weird things today, so now he "sees nothing strange".
She walked over and counted them, and there were fifteen in total, each weighing four or five catties, and they were very fat and tender!
She didn't dare to stay in Xilin alone for too long, so she immediately put the fish into the small basket.
The small back basket was filled to the brim, and two of them couldn't fit in. She twisted two straw ropes through the fish's gills and carried them with her hands.
It stands to reason that even if each fish weighs only four catties on average, fifteen fish add up to sixty catties, and a six-year-old girl can't even carry it.
But Da Qiao is like her grandma, who is born with supernatural powers, otherwise she wouldn't have contracted most of the family's work since she was four years old.
But no matter how strong she was, she was too young after all, and the weight of the 70-jin back basket made her shoulders burn with pain, and she had to rest several times before she managed to walk out of Xilin.
Although the pain in her shoulder made her gasp, she was happy in her heart.
She had already figured it out, fifteen fish, except five for grandma and grandfather, three for Aunt Hui, and all the rest for her father to make up for.
Her father had been lying in bed for a month, but not only did his condition not improve, but it seemed to be getting worse. She was very worried.
As for her mother
Sorry, she didn't think of this person at all at the moment.
It's also lucky, she still didn't meet anyone all the way back, otherwise there are so many fish, it's hard to tell if they have mouths.
After returning home, she ran to his father's house, put the small back basket on the ground as if offering a treasure, and panted, "Dad, fish!"
When Qiao Zhenjun saw a basket full of fish, he was shocked on the spot: "Where did you get so many fish? Did your milk give it to you?"
Da Qiao shook his little head: "No, milk, yes, yes..."
She wanted to tell her dad about the little koi, and wanted to say that these fish jumped out of the water by themselves, but for some reason, every time she opened her mouth, there was a resistance, preventing her from telling the truth.
She tried several times, her face turned red, but she still couldn't speak.