sbdcsierra Chapter 333 Play with us
Chapter 333 Play with us
Everyone was busy and sweating. Zhou Gule said with a smile: "I have been staying in the house for so many days. I feel like I am getting moldy all over. I still have to find something to do, otherwise I will become depressed."
Zhou Mai said with a smile: "Brother, how did you spend the winter in previous years? Why didn't you get moldy?"
Zhou Gu said, "It's different over there than here. It only snows in the middle of winter every year, and it only lasts for ten days or half a month at most. I also have several plots of land at home planted with winter wheat, so there's a lot to do, so how can I rest like this?"
Zhou Mi said: "I can also go into the mountains with everyone to pick mushrooms and go to the river to catch fish."
Li laughed, "In the past, you didn't come home until dark. You just came here and you are not familiar with it yet. After two years, you will be familiar with it."
Zhou Guo shook his head and smiled, "Mom, you're overthinking it. In two years, my brothers will all be grown up. When they grow up, they will get married and have nephews. By then, it won't be them who won't be home, but the nephews."
The brothers felt a little embarrassed after being teased.
Li poked her forehead helplessly, "You, I really don't know what to say to you. Why are you still teasing your brothers? You don't act like a girl. Now you tease them, and then they will tease you."
Zhou Mi and the others nodded, "That's right, Guoguo, don't forget that although you are still young, you are not much younger, and you will have to get married when the time comes."
Zhou Guo shook his head and smiled: "I'm not afraid. I still want to stay single for the rest of my life. My brothers have to support me for the rest of my life."
Mrs. Li didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "What nonsense are you talking about? What kind of girl wouldn't marry? You're staying at your brother's house. Aren't you afraid of being despised by your sister-in-law and nephews? But don't let them kick you out of the house. You won't even have a place to live. You won't even have time to cry."
Zhou Mai said firmly: "Mom, no, even if Guoguo doesn't get married, she is still our aunt. I will support her for the rest of her life, and her nephew will also support her in the future."
Zhou Gu and Zhou Mi also nodded repeatedly.
Li disagreed, "Then you will have to be the master of your wife by then."
Zhou Guo waved his hand and said, "No need. At most, I can build a house next door and not live with you. Mom, you can live with me then."
Li found it funny and didn't take her words to heart. The little girl just thought whatever she wanted. She had all kinds of ideas. When she was a girl, she even thought about having more than ten children after she got married. When she went out, no one in the surrounding area dared to offend her.
After the heavy snow stopped for five or six days, it started to fall again.
The river has frozen. Even when the sun is out during the day, it is too cold to go out, and the adults are staying at home during the winter.
But the children couldn't stay at home, and ran out in groups of three or five, playing in the snow, making snowmen, having snowball fights, breaking the ice, and fishing.
Everyone took the big fish they caught home, and the smaller fish were kept and grilled by everyone together.
There were holes several feet away from the river bank. The children were squatting on the shore, holding their homemade fishing rods and concentrating on fishing.
At that time, the largest fish that could be caught was only the size of an adult's palm, and most of the fish were the size of a thumb. No one knew what they were, but the children did not dislike them and put them into the bucket with great care.
The remaining children picked up piles of branches and used the kindling they brought from home to light the fire. However, the wet and frozen firewood was not easy to ignite, and clouds of choking black smoke rose up. They could not start a fire until the firewood was dried out.
Zhou Guo sat far downstream and cast his fishing rod towards the middle of the river. The middle of the river had not yet frozen and the water was still flowing.
The fishing hook was made from needles at home, and the meat was made from rabbit viscera. The largest fish caught was the size of a palm, and the smallest fish was as long as a finger.
After fishing for more than an hour, I caught about ten big fish and countless small fish.
She took the bucket of fish and exchanged them with everyone.
"Ah? You want to exchange the big fish for our small fish? Why? This small fish has no meat and is not tasty."
"Yes, even if you take it back to cook, it won't taste good. It smells fishy and is terrible. What do you want to do with this fish?"
Zhou Guo said, "I only have a dozen big fish. It's not enough to take back. Do you want to exchange?"
"Change, change, change. Of course."
The children were looking forward to it. The big fish has so much meat that they could take it home and make soup so that each member of the family could have a few bowls. If they kept it, they could eat it for a long time.
Several people were tossing and turning in the bucket, the big fish turned upside down and the small fish turned over.
Both sides looked at the fish in the bucket and were very satisfied.
Zhou Guo was about to go back with the bucket when he was stopped by someone. "Hey, are you going back now? Otherwise, come and play with us. We are about to make grilled fish. Although it has no oil or salt, it is better than having nothing to eat."
"Yeah, yeah, don't go back. There's nothing to do there anyway. Let's play together."
Zhou Guo raised his eyebrows. Seeing them staring at the big fish in the bucket with joy, he wanted to refuse. But then he thought about his younger brothers at home, especially Xiao Su, who was afraid of the cold and stayed on the kang all day long and didn't go anywhere. Those who were locked up were unhappy. Li Lai and the other two became his followers, and the three of them shook their heads when he said they wanted to go out.
So he nodded and said, "Wait, I will go back and bring my brother out."
"Okay, okay, it's more fun when there are more people."
Although the Zhou family is large, they are all very capable. Her fishing skills alone are equivalent to those of four or five of them, and she caught so many small fish.
Zhou Guo went back and put down the wooden barrel, then pulled Zhou Su and said, "Let's go out with sister. It's very lively outside. People in the village are playing over there. They plan to grill the fish they caught. Let's go and see what's going on."
Zhou Su was tempted but reluctant to move. She looked outside and said, "Sister, it's snowing outside and it's too cold."
Zhou Guo said, "If you move around, you won't feel cold anymore. Your brothers are fishing over there, and you can't stay on the kang all day. Be obedient, Li Wang, and you two should follow your sister."
Zhou Su had no choice but to slowly get down to the ground and put on his shoes.
Zhou Guo brought several people's hats, rabbit fur scarves, and gloves and put them on one by one.
She walked in front carrying a wooden bucket, followed by three chubby little kids in tight clothes, timidly following behind her.
Before they reached the river, Zhou Gu and his men came over from a distance. When they saw Zhou Su and his men, they widened their eyes in surprise and asked, "How did you get these three out? They were lying on the kang and refused to get down, right?"
Zhou Guo smiled and pointed at the large group of people in front. "The villagers invited us to grill fish together. I brought them here because I thought it would be more lively with more people. Brothers, let's go together."
Zhou Gu said happily: "Okay, since I came here, I have never played with the villagers. Let's go, we did this a lot when we were in the village before, and we also roasted birds and eggs."
The children in the village looked at the large group of people behind Zhou Guo with their mouths open. This seemed a bit too many. There were only seventeen or eighteen of them in total, which was almost half more than the number.