In the early morning, a round of red sun rises slowly from the place where the sea and sky meet. The waves gently raised by the sea breeze gently slapped the golden sandy beach. It was when the tide was ebbing, and the industrious fishermen went to the beach to catch the sea with their tools and friends.
The sea water in spring is cool, brushing the fishermen's bare feet. The selfless sea has nurtured generations of fishermen. At this time, there are countless gifts from the sea on the shore, waiting for the fishermen to discover like treasures.
"Xiaocao—Xiaocao—" Zhou Shanshan's clear voice passed over the high fence and entered Yu's courtyard. The slender figure of the little girl soon appeared at the gate of the courtyard. Xiaocao and Xiaolian, who were working in the vegetable field, looked at her in unison.
Looking at the two almost identical faces, Zhou Shanhu was stunned for a moment, blinked his big eyes a few times, laughed dryly, and said, "Xiao Lian is also at home! That's even better!! I have good news to tell you !"
Xiao Lian pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "What good news makes you happy? Your mother also told you a good marriage?"
Zhou Coral's older sister, Zhou Linglong, just got engaged last month, and she was talking about the son of a shopkeeper in a grocery store in the town. The owner of this grocery store, like Zhou Linglong's father, was also a peddler who went from house to house. He was quick-witted and quickly accumulated a fortune, renting a shop in the town to sell groceries.
The owner of the grocery store has a good relationship with Zhou Linglong's father, and the two have a close relationship. Almost all the goods sold by Zhou's family are taken from their family now. There was a son in that family, about the same age as Zhou Linglong, whom he had met when he was a child. He was a good-looking young man. It was almost a matter of course that the two became in-laws. Zhou Linglong is embroidering a dowry at home now, and Zhou Coral is always busy, so she often visits Yu's house to harass Xiaocao. No, I don't know what sesame-sized things were exaggerated by her.
Zhou Shanhu was one year older than Xiaocao and the others. The ten-year-old girl was already ashamed. She blushed and gave Xiaolian a look, and said, "Xiaocao, you will bully me! I want to tell Aunt Yu!"
Xiaocao, who bent over to pick vegetables, felt that she was shot while lying down, and said with a flat mouth: "I said coral, before you file a complaint, do you want to find out who you are? Since you entered the door, I can't say a word." I didn't say anything. Why did I bully you?"
Mrs. Liu, who was putting the vegetables into baskets, smiled gently. Seeing the three little girls who looked like flower bones, she felt that no matter how they looked at them, they were pleasing to the eye.
Hearing this, Zhou Shanhu knew that he had misunderstood the Xiaocao sisters again, and smiled embarrassingly: "Oh! You two look so much alike, I have misunderstood again! Xiaolian, your mouth can't learn how to use it. locked the door?"
Well! This means that her mouth has never been able to control the door! Xiaocao immediately counterattacked: "Although Xiaolian and I are twins, we are not exactly the same. Your sister has never missed it! It seems that your IQ is worrying!"
"IQ? What is IQ?" Zhou Coral asked with wide-eyed stupidity.
Xiaocao picked a piece of lettuce, gently shook off the dirt on it, and said with a disgusted face: "I tell you that you don't understand! Anyway, you don't have such a thing, why do you ask so clearly?"
Xiao Lian leaned forward and back together with laughter. Zhou Shanhu finally understood that Xiaocao must not have said anything good about her, puffed up her cheeks, and said, "Xiaocao will bully people. Xiaolian, tell me, what is IQ?"
Xiao Lian pointed to her head, and said with a smile, "I want to go!"
Zhou Shanshan frowned and thought hard, showing sudden embarrassment, and shouted: "Good you Yu Xiaocao, you actually said I have no brains! I'm not stupid, I'm so smart!!"
Mrs. Liu saw that the little sisters were noisy, and the excitement was lively. She was afraid that her daughter would annoy others, so she hurriedly said: "Xiaocao! You are not allowed to bully Shan Shan in the future, do you hear me? Shan Shan, what did you say just now?" News?"
Zhou Shanshan slapped his forehead and shouted loudly: "Oh! I almost forgot about the business! Xiaocao, Dr. Sun from Tongrentang came to our village in person and said that he wanted to collect sea intestines at a high price!"
Xiao Lian was full of doubts and said: "Collect sea intestines? Why do you want that thing? Is sea intestines also a kind of medicinal material?"
Xiaocao followed Dr. You to memorize a lot of books on medicine, and immediately said: "Sea intestines are also called sandworms. They are cold in nature, sweet and salty, and have the effects of nourishing yin and reducing fire, clearing lungs and tonifying deficiency. According to the medicine book According to records, it is most suitable to eat sandworms for symptoms such as bone steaming, hot flashes, night sweats due to yin deficiency, cough due to lung deficiency, excessive phlegm due to chest tightness, and postpartum women with scarce milk; for tuberculosis cough, neurasthenia, spleen deficiency or dryness in children, use It is curative to drink sand worm soup with ginger slices and lean meat; because sand worm nourishes yin and nourishes kidney, children who have frequent nocturia due to kidney deficiency can get good curative effect by cooking sand worm porridge... ”
"Oh! Sea sausages are so useful. No wonder Tong Ren Tang offered to buy them at a price of 100 yuan per catty! Xiaocao and Xiaolian, let's go quickly! Otherwise, all the good tidal flats will be taken away!" Zhou Shanhu said. Before I finished speaking, I ran back to get the tools like a gust of wind.
Xiao Lian pursed her mouth, seemingly not very optimistic, and said: "Sea intestines are not so easy to dig, they all hide under the sand, and when there is any movement, they will go to a very deep place, and it may not be possible to dig a piece for a long time! "
Mrs. Liu looked at the pair of young daughters, smiled and said to them: "Let's go and have a look with Shan Shan! Just take it easy."
Of the two daughters, one stays at home tending the vegetable and melon fields, and the other goes to the wharf to sell stewed vegetables for a long time. They rarely have the opportunity to communicate and play with their peers. Liu's two sensible daughters are both gratified and distressed. Fortunately, the child's father's leg is healed now, and the injury of the eldest son has recovered, and the family is no longer like before, wishing to split it in half. It's time for the daughters to relax and make friends with their little sisters.
Yu Xiaocao is very interested in sand digging worms. She knew that besides its medicinal value, sandworms also had high nutritional value, and if they were cooked well, they would have absolutely no taste. Although sandworms are not as expensive as sea cucumbers, shark fins, and abalones, they are delicious and crisp, which is inferior to sea cucumbers and shark fins.
She happily took the small shovel that her father made for her, and a small bucket, and called Xiao Lian to go to the beach together. Xiao Lian saw that the younger sister was so excited, so she went out with her.
Zhou Shanhuo was already waiting not far from her house with a basket, beside her was her elder brother Zhou Shaohua who was rarely at home and did not go out to sell goods. Zhou Shaohua's age is not much different from Qian Wen and Wednesday's. Maybe he has been running around with his father all year round, his skin is darker than the two, and with the Zhou family's unique three-dimensional facial features, he looks older than his actual age, and he looks like a little man. Of course, he was worse than Zhao Han!
well! Brother Han has been back to Beijing for more than ten days, and I really miss him when he was there!
"Hurry up, hurry up! If Tongrentang collects enough, we'll have to work for nothing!" Zhou Shanhu's personality was rather out of character, and he talked like a little sparrow.
Under the urging of the coral girl, a group of four quickly came to the beach. On the tidal flats along the coast, many figures are busy.
"Oh! The water is so cold!!" Zhou Coral's feet, wearing straw sandals, were quickly wet by the sea water, and she frowned and complained.
Under Xiaocao's feet are the moccasin boots that Mr. Tuo made on Wednesday. The boots are well made and not at all water-permeable. However, the deerskin boots are soaked in sea water, which really makes people feel distressed. The boots on the little lotus feet are made of shark skin, and the water-proof effect is also good.
Zhou Shanshan looked at the two sisters enviously, and whispered to his brother: "If my father can hunt sharks, he will make me a pair of boots!"
Zhou Shaohua let out a muffled laugh, and said, "Stop dreaming! There are few people over there, let's go there!"
Yu Xiaocao had never dug sandworms before, so she dug randomly on the beach with a small shovel. Xiao Lian stopped her, dumbfounded, and said: "There is a trick to digging sea intestines, you can't dig like this. When digging sea intestines, you must first look for insect eyes. Look, there are such handfuls of things on the beach. These are sea intestines." When digging, you should walk lightly and dig fast, otherwise, if there is any movement, the sea intestines will drill very deep. And don’t dig straight down, there should be such a large angle with the beach.”
Xiaocao picked up the shovel and dug down hard on the sandworm eye. After digging very deep, I dug out a fat sandworm from inside. The sandworm is naked, like a fattened version of an earthworm, which looks quite creepy.
"We made a lot of noise just now, so this sea intestine hides relatively deep. Let's spread out and dig carefully!" Xiaolian put the sandworm in the small bucket of Xiaocao, and carried the basket towards the other direction and go.
Xiaocao continued to walk along the seashore, and found another sandworm eye after a while. She put down the small bucket, dug and dug vigorously, dug a deep hole, and lay down on the beach again, her face pressed against the sand, and she stretched her hands to feel down vigorously. It made sand all over the body and face, and then got out the sandworm that was trying hard to get into the sand.
so difficult! If only the sandworms could get out on their own... Huh? Doesn't she have a cheating artifact in her hand - the small butian stone
[snort! Assign me such a low-level task again! It is an insult to my godhead! !]The multicolored stones on Xiaocao's wrist shone with golden light, slowly forming a cute miniature kitten. With its head held high, it walks up and down the beach with proud steps.
Xiaocao touched its small head with a hand covered in sand, and was slapped away by its disgusting paw. It widened its golden vertical pupils and screamed: [It's so dirty! You touch my holy hair with such dirty hands. I don't take my god stone seriously! !]
"Dirty? Well, it's a bit dirty, wouldn't it be dirty after taking a bath?" Yu Xiaocao smirked, taking advantage of the little golden cat not paying attention, picked it up by the back of the neck, and threw it into the sea.
[Remain! Small! Grass! ! This God Stone will make you regret what you did to me today! !]The golden kitten, unable to use spells in the eyes of everyone, fell into the sea in a parabola.