Chapter 2 Chapter two

Over the past few days, the whole family has been sleepy as early as possible, and before seven or eight o'clock, everyone went to bed. Sisters Zhenguan and Yinchan have always slept with their grandmother; this night, it was already half past nine, and the three of them were still in bed asking "Zhou Cheng has been to Taiwan", "Sister-in-law Zhan Dian sued the court"... The stories in her grandmother's mouth can never be finished: "Zhan Dian went out to do business and came back with a lot of money. His father-in-law became greedy when he saw the money, planned to kill him, and forced his daughter to remarry—Zhan Dian's wife again She is a chaste woman and a filial daughter, under such a difficult situation, she had no choice but to write a pleading against her biological father—"

"Zhou Cheng came to Taiwan to do business, and married his new aunt, A-Mian; his wife, Yue Nv, who stayed in her hometown, waited for him not to come back, and came across the sea from Fujian to find her husband--A-Mian pretended to be kind and entertained, and secretly gave her a gift of pork belly and lotus seeds. The taboo white tree chopped firewood and poisoned Yi to death...in the middle of the night—” Zhenguan has to be afraid and listen at the same time; he used to be afraid of Aunt Hu, but now he is afraid of the ghosts of Zhan Dian and Yuenu. As soon as Grandma finished speaking, Yinchan and Yinchan fell asleep if they had the ability, but Zhenguan turned over straight there; seeing that the old man also closed his eyes, he had no choice but to touch Yi's elbow: "Grandma, are you sleepy?"

"Well--" "Grandma—what if ghosts come?" The old man opened his eyes and said with a smile: "It's really stupid, why don't you think: get up early tomorrow, and have good fish and meat to eat?" When she said this, Zhen Guan really felt that she was stupid; there were so many things to think about every day, why did she only focus on this point? After thinking about it, her heart was soothed; Zhenguan yawned and was about to fall asleep, but remembered something: "Grandma, can you wake me up at one o'clock?" Her grandma smiled and said, "It's midnight, do you want to steal a chicken?"

Zhen Guan also laughed and said: "That's not true, I want to go to the fish farm with Uncle and the others!" The old man let out a half-awake "uh" and soon fell asleep. In the middle of the night, when Zhenguan was asleep, he was awakened by the sound of knives and anvils. He leaned over and saw the lights in the backyard; eat. Yinchan and Yinchan were still sleeping, but they didn't see her grandmother. Zhen Guan rubbed his eyes, took the washbasin on the wooden frame to change his face water, and before going out to court, he met Daxin, Yinshan and others head-on...

... "Morning—" "morning--" Everyone is easy to talk, but Yincheng is the only one who doesn't spare her: "Ha, you know it too?! For four or five days in a row, when we came back with fish and nets early in the morning, you were still dreaming! How dare you say you want to talk to me?" To catch fish?" "..." "—according to the time when you got up, the fish market only sells fish in the afternoon and evening—" "..." Zhen Guan quickly walked to the water tank, and didn't answer Yin Cheng; in fact, if it wasn't for the guest, she would have dumped him with the water from the water ladle...

The tank is a stone cement tank, placed in the center under the half wall of the kitchen, half inside, for all the water under the stove, and the other half is exposed, so it is convenient for everyone to use. Zhen Guan bent over to grab the water ladle, and felt empty in the big vat, only grabbing the midnight air that was heavy with dew in the middle of the night. When I looked again, it turned out that Yincheng had already taken the first step; he went in from the kitchen, and took it from the inside. Zhenguan couldn't get water, so she had to stand aside and wait, and then she saw clearly that the whiteness in the tank turned out to be moonlight.

The moon mother had already crossed the eaves of the "five rooms", coldly shining into the bottom of the tank; there was a moon in the tank, and Zhen Guan had never looked at each other so closely, and felt that her own person had become clear. After washing their faces, everyone ate some snacks, and when they were about to leave, Yinyue and Yingui arrived: "Ah Zhenguan, wait for us—" The fishmongers, workers, and uncles had all set off; Zhenguan looked at Yinshan and the others and said, "You guys go first! We'll be the last!" Yinshan was worried: "I have to wait for everyone, you two, hurry up—"

The two sisters were relieved to wash their faces and rinse their mouths; before leaving, Zhen Guan added: "You don't need to eat——Yincheng has a suitcase in his hand!" It was only ten minutes before and after, when the six people came to the door, the original group of people had disappeared; now, twelve feet rushed on the road together; the wind was so cool that Zhenguan almost forgot that it was a July day. The moonlight shines from the top of the head, and the street lamps along the way stretch endlessly... Zhenguan looks at the future, and his heart is only bright and clear.

After leaving the village, turn right again and enter the path, which is a few feet away, followed by a bank like a sheep intestine; eight or ninety soft-shelled turtles below the bank, connected by furrows. Six people formed a column and started to walk; the girls were timid, Yinshan asked them to go first, namely: Yinyue, Yingui, Zhenguan, then Daxin, Yincheng, and Yinshan himself was the general behind the town. Every time Zhen Guan took a step, he thought in his heart: People of Taizu’s generation built a business here, how did they build such a narrow embankment when they opened up such a large area of ​​land? Along the way, Yinshan wanted to tell the guests in Taipei: “This area is nearly a hundred years old. Because it is connected to the Huwei River in the outer sea, people in the town call it 'Huwei Liao'... Huwei Fishing Lantern is one of the eight scenic spots in Budai Harbor—"

Yincheng, on the other hand, made an introduction every time he passed by: "This plot belongs to my fifth uncle. The fifth uncle doesn't live in his hometown with one house, and the fish pond is entrusted to everyone to take care of. ——This is Li’s——Huang’s... Ah Zhenguan’s house belongs to her, and she has to go further north, which is where the hanging fishing lantern you see now—” Not only did Yincheng talk, but he was even fighting with his hands and feet, causing the soup in the carrying box to spill out: "What's wrong with you?" As Yinyue said, she picked up the suitcase to have a look, seeing that there was not much spilled out, she was still worried, so she changed positions by herself and pulled Zhenguan forward and backward.

Walking along the coast, Zhenguan's heart is in the pool: the fishing pond is full of moonlight; one water is one month, and a thousand waters are a thousand moons-there are such scenes in the world...Looking at the distance and near, each has its own The lights hanging from the fishermen's cottages are faintly scattered in the cool night sky. "Huwei Fishing Lanterns" must of course be the first of the eight scenic spots in Budai Port; they embellish the world, so moving and spectacular! Yincheng didn't know what he was talking about, so Yinyue said to him: "If you keep talking, everyone will see you fall to the bottom of the fish pond!" Yincheng retorted: "Will it just fall there?! Grandpa, Uncle, they don't even need to look at the road, they can run if they run!" Before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw a watchman coming from Heng'an; as soon as the man approached, he shone a flashlight on Yinshan's and Yinyue's faces, because he could tell who the children and grandchildren were, he left immediately. go. At this moment, Zhenguan suddenly hoped that she would fail in the joint entrance examination, and she would stop studying as a provincial girl. In the moment just now, she really felt the kind of love and kinship between herself and this land: this is the case in her hometown, everyone is really closely related, no matter how irrelevant, even if she can't call the other person's name, she knows in her heart: you Which neighborhood, which family's son or daughter's surname! She doesn't want to leave such a warm place. If she goes to Chiayi, she will definitely miss home every day and cry every night—after thinking about it, Zhenguan's steps suddenly become brisk, and the words blurted out: "Don't talk about grandpa and the others, this I can walk with my eyes closed—” As soon as she walked fast, Yinyue couldn't keep her balance, and her hands were probably sore, so she handed the box back to Yincheng, and Yincheng smiled as she picked it up: "Ha! Learn from others!" Zhen Guan stopped and asked: "What are you laughing at? Who am I to learn from?" Yinshan smiled and said, "This sentence is said by Daxin; he lives in Ximending, Taipei, and he said that he can walk in Ximending with his eyes closed!" There was so much noise, but I arrived at the destination very quickly; the fish farm was surrounded by people, watching my mothers and uncles jumping into the pond to help drag the fishing net, and then jumping ashore to direct the landing, I stood there without breaking a drop of sweat. Looking at it, it was really not good, so he dragged Yingui to sit in the cottage. Although there are 20 to 30 people on the shore and underground, there are at least 10 to 20 calcium carbide torches and flashlights. However, when Zhenguan sat in the fish house, he realized that the moonlight really made the surroundings bright. It not only illuminated the rubble on the ground in front of the liao, but also saw the standing figure of Daxin not far away, and even illuminated the scenery so clearly that even Zhenguan thought he was wearing a moon-white shirt. The fish caught in the first net are the fattest. As soon as the fishmonger pulls out the net, the fish will jump and jump in mid-air, and when they fall back to the net, they will push each other again when thousands of fish bodies are stacked on top of each other. The one at the bottom, because it is thinner, can slip through the mesh again and return to the familiar pool water; the fish don't want to leave the fish farm, maybe it's just like Zhenguan himself doesn't want to leave his hometown? !Zhen Guan couldn't help but bent his head and lowered his body to look, there were also two or three fish, the head of which had already passed, but because the fish was bigger, they couldn't get caught in the net... Zhen Guan leaned back, and lay back on the straw bed made of wooden planks, feeling sorry for the fish in his heart. She closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, but who knew she couldn't fake it, she really fell asleep; when Yinyue pushed her, Zhen Guan opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was the vast sky, the vast wilderness, the moist air, and the misty white All around, everything returned to the weather when the world was first opened.At the dawn of dawn, the sky and the earth closed their veils and turned into a newborn baby; Zhenguan was lucky enough to be born as a daughter of the harbor. When the first gust of sea breeze blew towards her, the feeling in her heart was actually Can't talk to people. After eating milkfish for several days in a row, the dinner table is full of their conjured tricks every day, such as fish porridge, fish floss, clear soup, braised in soy sauce, fried, and simmered.Daxin was the one who benefited the most. According to Zhenguan, people in cities rarely have such times, but he was the one who suffered the most. He was stabbed several times by fishbone. The last few times, she was taken away by her third concubine with chopsticks. This time, the fishbone got into the meat, and it hurt when it pricked, but I couldn't find the head. Chopsticks and rice balls were useless. A big boy was sitting in the main hall, with red eyes and tears It's blunt, not to mention the adults are in a hurry, even she is sad to see it. Zhenguan thought about her own experience of eating fish, and came up with a plan for her, and walked back to her home in three or two steps. Her mother looked at her, smiled and said: "The report card has just been sent, why don't you Do you know that you can take it home?" As he spoke, he opened the closet, showed it to her, and said, "Tomorrow's newspaper is ready! Go to school and tell your husband, he will be happy too!" Zhen watched the score, but said: "I'll go to ask Aunt Chongyi for malt first, Sijin's nephew got stuck in the throat by a fishbone." As he spoke, he walked to the backyard to open the door. In the alley behind, there was a bakery shop with lead barrels and lead barrels of maltose piled up inside. The malt was obtained, it was a small stick of bamboo, sticking to a soft ball, Zhen Guan was afraid that it would fall to the ground, so he didn't go home, he went straight out of the street from the alley and went back to his grandfather. At home, adults are still anxious!A crowd of people gathered around Daxin, probably impoverished. Zhenguan didn't dare to stretch out his hand, and took advantage of the chaos to stuff it to Yin'an. Sure enough, after swallowing Daxin for a minute, he stood up and applauded. When asked afterwards, no one knew who begged for the malt. Daxin said that Yin'an asked him to swallow it, but Yin'an couldn't remember who handed it to him. When he was asked anxiously, he stared and shouted: "It's fine, it's fine, let it fall from the sky!" After this time, Daxin didn’t dare to eat fish any more. He was only interested in boneless and spineless clams and mussels. He took bamboo baskets with him every day to touch the “red mouth” in the fish farm with Yinchuan and the others.The red-billed clam is another type of clam with thicker flesh and thinner shell. It likes to make a hole in the wet soil near the embankment around the fish farm. At dusk, it runs out of the hole to drink water. Ten days later, Daxin's face was also tanned, but he figured out a trick for him to find a red mouth: If there is a small hole like a keyhole in the soil near the shore, if you put your hand in, you will definitely touch it. to one. Just as he was touching his red lips, his mother had already packed her luggage and was about to leave; everyone in the family kept them back one after another: "If you don't hate this place, you can stay for a few more days. After eight or nine During the month, there are hairy crabs on the seaside and in the caves, "October is a pity, the crab is smaller than the rocks", and the inside is full of crab roe!" His mother said: "It will be another two months until October! I have lived here for more than a month, and his father will say that I..." "At least wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival before leaving. It's quite lively here during the Mid-Autumn Festival. All the boats at the pier will automatically carry people to the open sea to enjoy the moon." Daxin looked a little tempted, but his mother said: "How can I do it! His father wrote in the letter and urged him that Daxin's school is about to start!" Zhenguan's grandmother said again: "Daxin asks his uncle to send him back first, Jinzi, it's rare for you to come, so you should stay longer." "Next time! Come again next time... In-laws, in-laws, everyone, go to Taipei if you have time!" Now that the time was right, the mother and son decided to take the morning bus back tomorrow; Zhenguan thought that after dinner, they would have an early sleepover, but when her grandfather came late to talk about "Xue Rengui's Conquest to the West" in the courtyard, Zhenguan found a seat and sat down. When he looked up, he suddenly found that Daxin was in the front seat. "Ghost-headed flying knife Su Baotong, Fan Lihua moved mountains and seas..." The story was being told lively, Da Xin suddenly turned around and said to Yin An: "I won't hear the story tomorrow night." Her four concubines came to distribute the love jade as usual, and Zhenguan took the bowl, and she almost knocked it over when she heard what he said; at the same time, she remembered the registration notice she received this morning.