In winter, it gets dark very quickly. Before six o'clock, the sky is completely dark. After dinner, the villagers close their doors early to go to bed.
After Qiao Zhenjun was paralyzed, the old Qiao family took turns sending people to watch over him, and it was Qiao Zhenguo who came over these days.
With her uncle here, Da Qiao had nothing to worry about. After wiping her body, she went to bed.
I don't know how long I slept, and suddenly there was a crash in the room—
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
On 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, and her little face was red from sleep, like a little milk cat that was woken up. She looked silly and cute.
She listened carefully, but the sound disappeared. After waiting for a while, the sound didn't come again. Just when she thought she heard it wrong, the crash sounded again.
This time she heard it clearly.
The sound came from the wooden basin in the corner, which raised a small koi whose milk was exchanged for an egg.
She climbed down from the bed, walked to the wooden basin, and said softly, "Xiao Yu'er, then, it's too late, why, why, not yet, go to bed?"
The little koi spit out a few bubbles and suddenly spoke: "Big 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 glutinous.
Da Qiao was so shocked that his mouth opened into a circle, enough to put a bird's egg: "You, you, you can talk?"
The little koi spit out a few more bubbles: "I am the eighteenth daughter of the Dragon King, so I can speak naturally. My brothers and sisters can still transform into human form, but I am still young and lacking in skill, so I can't transform into human form. You If you haven't answered my question, can you take me home? If you don't go back, I'll die, woohoo..."
Da Qiao couldn't understand why a fish could speak, but she understood the words behind the little koi.
Seeing the little koi crying miserably, she quickly comforted it and said, "Don't cry, I'll take you home, just, where is your home?"
The little koi stopped crying immediately: "There is a waterfall in Xilin, you take me to the waterfall."
Da Qiao's small face, the size of his palm, was instantly wrinkled.
The last time she went to Xilin to dig for eggs, she almost died, and after that, her father went to the hospital, so she subconsciously didn't like Xilin.
The little koi looked at Da Qiao and didn't agree
, and suddenly burst into tears again, looking at her with miserable eyes, making her heart soften.
Da Qiao, a child who has always been soft-hearted, can't stand such a look.
So despite the entanglement, she nodded and agreed: "You, don't cry, I, I promise you, that's all."
"That's great! Thank you, Da Qiao, I will repay you!" The little koi happily spit out several bubbles and swam happily in the tub.
Waking up early the next morning, Da Qiao remembered what happened in the middle of the night. He just thought that he had a dream. He didn't think that when she came back from breakfast, Xiao Koi spoke again.
"Big Qiao, are you finished? When will you send me to the small waterfall in Xilin?"
Da Qiao was stunned again: "Yuanyuan, come, no, no, it's a dream!"
The little koi made an action like rolling his eyes: "Of course it's not a dream, you can take me there, please, good Joe!"
Da Qiao felt that it was more coquettish than Xiao Qiao, and looked at people with foggy eyes, which made people completely unable to refuse.
She nodded her head: "Okay, I'll take you over there."
The wooden basin is too heavy, and it is easy to attract attention when you carry a wooden basin, so she found a small backpack: "No, 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 not to let the little koi die, she told his father and went out immediately.
The village's strong laborers were all sent to farmland to build infrastructure, and the children were detained at home because the weather was too cold, so Da Qiao didn't meet anyone along the way.
She couldn't help but secretly let out a sigh of relief, she was afraid that she would meet Song Jinlai's wife again like the last time.
Xilin was still full of smoke, and he could not see his fingers. Da Qiao stood at the entrance of Xilin, and his heart was trembling.
The little koi comforted: "Don't worry, with me, I won't let you fall into the trap."
Da Qiao was easily persuaded when he saw how he made his promises. It actually proved that the little koi really didn't lie to her, and the journey was smooth and there was no accident at all.
Following the guidance of the little koi, she came to the small waterfall smoothly.
The small waterfall was less than ten meters high. The water flowed down from the top and made a rustling sound. The water hit the stones below and splashed water. Da Qiao couldn't help but watch.
Xilin is full of smog all year round, and traps are set inside. Villagers dare not come in easily, let alone into the deep mountains, so no one knows about it.
There is a waterfall.
This is also the first time that Da Qiao has seen a waterfall, but at this time she is staring at the fish in the water.
So many fish!
She couldn't help swallowing.
The last time I ate fish was during the Chinese New Year. She still remembered that the fish was so tender that she almost ate her tongue, but she only ate two pieces because her mother said she was too young and could not digest it if she ate too much.
Thinking of the taste of fish meat, her saliva flowed out.
The little koi giggled when he saw Da Qiao's continuous swallowing of saliva: "Da Qiao, wipe your saliva, it's all dripping on me!"
Da Qiao wiped the corners of his mouth subconsciously, only to realize that he had been tricked, and his little face immediately flushed red: "Bad, fish!"
The little koi fluttered in her hand and said, "Da Qiao, put me in the water!"
Although the time spent together was only a few days, Da Qiao was full of reluctance, but she still followed the instructions of the little koi and put it into the water: "Goodbye, little fish."
The little koi swam freely 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 it became bigger and bigger when it was spit into his hand, filling Da Qiao's entire palm.
The jade pendant is white and crystal clear, with vivid carvings, 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 Yu Pei with bright eyes.
The little koi said: "I gave it to you as a gift for you to save me."
How dare Da Qiao accept such a precious gift, but Xiao Koi turned around and swam away, giving her no chance to refuse at all.
I saw it swimming up against the current and quickly swimming up to the top of the waterfall.
It is not easy to swim against the water, not to mention the fact that you have to go upstream against the gravity. The little koi failed again and again, fell from mid-air many times, and hit the bottom of the water heavily, and the fish was covered with visible wounds. .
But the little koi did not give up.
Da Qiao was so nervous that he clenched his little hand into a fist to cheer him up: "Xiao 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 the little koi finally succeeded!
A shining halo appeared at the top of the waterfall, and the little koi jumped in, and the whole body glowed with colorful light, and the wound on his body disappeared immediately.
The little koi flicked her tail at the dragon gate and said happily: "
Goodbye, Big Joe! "
Da Qiao waved Bai Nen's 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
How would she explain if she was seen
At this moment, Yu Pei suddenly fell into her palm and disappeared!
Big Joe held his breath in fright.
What about Yupei
Why is it missing from her palm
She turned her palms to and fro, then lay down on the ground to look for them, and shouted anxiously in her heart, Yupei come out, the next moment Yupei emerged from her palm.
Da Qiao was so stunned that his mouth could not be closed again.
She wondered why Yupei would hide in her palm, but after Yupei had "appeared" several times, she faintly found the pattern and knew how to make it hide and appear.
She put away the jade pendant, and suddenly heard a crackling sound from the water's edge. She looked back and saw a dozen fishes automatically jumping from the water to the grass!
The fish jumped to the shore automatically, this is unheard of, unseen!
But today, Da Qiao has seen too many strange things, so now he is "not surprised".
She walked over and counted them. There were fifteen in total, and each one weighed four or five pounds and was very fat and tender!
She didn't dare to stay in Xilin alone for too long, and immediately began to put the fish into the small back basket.
The small back basket was filled to the brim, and there were two more that couldn't fit. She rubbed 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 pounds on average, fifteen fish add up to sixty pounds, and a six-year-old girl can't carry it at all.
But Da Qiao was born with supernatural powers like her milk, otherwise she wouldn't have contracted most of the family's work since she was four years old.
However, no matter how strong she was, she was still too young, and the 70-pound backpack made her shoulders aching for a while, and she had to rest several times before she barely walked out of Xilin.
Although the shoulder pain made her gasp, but she was very happy.
She had made an early calculation, fifteen fish, except five for grandma and grandfather, three for Aunt Hui, and the rest for her father to make up for her body.
Her father lay in bed for a month. Not only did his condition not improve, but it seemed to be getting worse. She was very worried.
As for her mother
I'm sorry, she didn't think of this person at all at this moment.
She was also lucky, she still didn't meet anyone on her way back, otherwise, there were so many fish, she wouldn't be able to tell if she had a mouth.
After returning home, she ran to his dad's house, put the small back basket on the ground like a treasure, and panted and said crisply: "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 head: "No, milk, given, yes..."
She wanted to tell her dad about the little koi, and wanted to say that these fish jumped out of the water by herself, but for some reason, every time she opened her mouth, there was a resistance that prevented her from telling the truth.
She tried several times, her face turned red, but she still couldn't speak. :,,.