Chapter 39 short story lake lotus root

A boy's heart is always jumping in the sunshine.This summer is so long that the sun comes out almost every day. During breakfast, mother asked Awei to water the bitter gourds on the slope, and Awei agreed, not thinking about it.While Avey was doing the dishes, Mom was at work. She worked in the weaving factory.Awei put the bowl in the cupboard indiscriminately, locked the door and walked out without drying his wet hands.Someone was waiting for him below the slope. The man was a young man with a crippled hand and a fair face. He carried a cloth bag on his back and wore rubber shoes on his feet.Ave called him "the third".

"Awei, aren't you afraid of the cold?" the third child asked him. "Don't be afraid!" "It's cold to sleep out in the middle of the night." "What's there!" When A Wei walked behind the third child, the children in the dormitory at the top of the slope all came out and looked at him enviously. They all wanted to go out to play, but no one took them.A Wei remembered that just yesterday, he had caught beetles and longhorns together with them in the orangery for a day, and now he suddenly became a higher level. "Go back, I'll take you with me tomorrow!" He waved his hand triumphantly.

The place they are going to is a lake called "Heye Pond". The third child said that the water in it is very shallow, and it is full of wild lotus roots, which can't be eaten up.There is also a cloth bag inside the third child's cloth bag, which is said to be used to hold Awei's lotus root.The third child has a habit that Awei hates, that is, he always likes to touch Awei's face with his crippled hand.That hand was like a baby's hand, and it was cold. A Wei felt scared, but for the benefit he gave him, he had to endure it. The third child is a bum, wandering around Awei's residence when he has nothing to do, picking up scraps to sell for money when he is happy, and he is hungry most of the time.Children like to play games with the third child, because he is fair and has a good temper.When the adults saw their children playing with the third child, they would often scold them and scare the children away. At this time, the third child would walk away embarrassingly.The third child talked about going to the "Lotus Leaf Pond" when he was catching crickets with Awei.At that time, they rummaged through many grave mounds and sat by the tombstone to rest without finding anything.The third child told Awei that he wouldn't be here for a few days, and that he wanted to start a business to make some money.Hearing this, Awei felt disheartened. If the third child didn't come, he would have almost nothing to do in such a sunny day.The third child then said that he could do business with him, that is, sell lotus root.This is a no-cost business, but it takes a long distance to go home the next day.Awei was a little hesitant at first, but the third child said, "If you can't go, forget it. If you go, one more person will share the money, and it will increase my burden. Or I will ask Xiaozheng to go with me." Ah Wei Wei quickly said that he must go, and asked the third child to call him when he left.

The slate paths in the suburbs are not very easy to walk. They are in disrepair and full of potholes. When walking, you have to look at the ground.Not far away, Awei heard his mother scolding angrily.Mother stood at the gate of the weaving factory, yelling for Awei to water the bitter gourd vines.She didn't come here, she had to go to work, and she would be charged for leaving the factory casually.Awei blushed, pretended not to hear, lowered his head and walked vigorously.In order to prevent Awei's mother from seeing him, the third child has already run far away from him.A Wei's mood was disturbed by his mother, and the joy and pride when he went out all disappeared.When the mother's scolding could no longer be heard, Awei ran up and caught up with the third child after a long run.

"If I had known your mother objected, I wouldn't have taken you there. The place we're going to is dangerous." The third child said, glancing at him unhappily. A Wei couldn't figure it out, how could he think that his mother might agree to such a thing?All adults are against him, does he just not know? "Are there any beasts there?" "That's not true, there are only some malicious people. Sometimes, when you think there is no one, a few pop up from the ground." "So what?" "How?! You will die if you don't run away. But it doesn't matter, those guys can't run fast, they have leg problems, and they will fall to the ground when they run. The key is to be vigilant and don't let them catch you."

"I don't run, I stand in the middle of the lake." "They will wait on the shore, as long as you stand they will wait." "Then I'd better run, and I don't want the lotus root." "That's right. When you meet such people, throw a bag of lotus roots at them. Their eyesight is bad, so they think you are jumping at them." When the third child said this, seeing that Awei was listening attentively, he took the opportunity to put his cold little hand on Awei's hairy head and touched it a few times.Awei felt very displeased, and lowered his head, pretending to bend down to tie his shoelaces, avoiding the hand of the third child.A Wei didn't know where the third child was leading him, but it definitely wasn't going to the city, because the houses became rarer the further he went.

Near noon, Awei felt that he was in the real wilderness, and he could no longer see any houses at a glance. The valleys of the small hills were full of rape blossoms, whether they were wild or planted by someone.The third child showed no signs of laziness in normal times, and walked non-stop for several hours as if he had something urgent in his heart.Awei complained in his heart, and was afraid that the third child would look down on him, so he tried his best to imagine the excitement waiting for him ahead, and kept encouraging himself.The stone road was finally finished, and they walked on a dirt path winding around the hills, one hill after another.

Just when Awei felt that he was exhausted, there was a burst of laughter in the open space in the distance, as if there were many people playing around in the woods.A Wei stared at the woods ahead, and saw an old man running out of the woods.Then ran in again.The third child told Awei to stop, and sat on the side of the road with him to rest.Awei sat down on the ground, feeling his whole body was exhausted and his stomach was getting hungry.Then he remembered how he forgot to bring food.Turning around to look at the third child, he saw the despondency on his face. "We're done for today. You heard just now, those people have dug up all the lotus roots in the lake. I didn't expect this."

"Then what shall we have for lunch?" Awei asked this urgent question, but it was already afternoon, and Awei was so hungry that he was about to pass out. "Naturally nothing." "Let's go back quickly, or we'll starve to death here." "Eat! You fool can eat! You are like a plague god, I shouldn't have brought you here. If you want to go back, go back alone! Go!" He suddenly showed a fierce look. Awei was terrified, and couldn't help but apologize to the third child repeatedly, and promised that he would never say such discouraging words again.The third child ignored him and told him to drink some water from the stream beside the road with a straight face.

Awei bent down and drank enough of the stream, and then began to eat those small red fruits shaped like mulberries growing by the stream. While eating, he remembered that the third child was not afraid of hunger at all, thinking about this thing that made him despair It was black in front of my eyes.He stretched his neck to look at the woods, but there was no movement there.He felt very sad and thought, if those people in the woods found him, maybe he could ask them for something to eat, even a lotus pod would be good.He had eaten a lotus pod two years earlier, and the lotus seeds inside were really delicious, and the more he ate, the more he wanted to eat it.Because he followed the third child on the road passively and didn't pay attention to the direction at all, Awei didn't know where he was now and where his home was.He looked at the third child who brought him to this wild place with hatred and fear, and a chilling thought came to his heart: this person won't kill him, right?The third child set up a tent with his hands and was watching the movement in the woods. He seemed to have forgotten about Awei. He stood there with his hips crossed, with his bulging cloth bag thrown at his feet, looking like a man fleeing famine.

There was a crab crawling over in the creek, Awei was overjoyed, he quickly approached it slowly, and caught it suddenly.This crab is not too small, and its carapace is glowing green.Awei tore off its two arms, smashed the shell, and dug out the meat inside to eat.He still wanted to eat the body of the crab, but there was almost no meat in the body, so he had to throw it away with regret.When A Wei was concentrating on eating crabs, someone's shadow was thrown into the stream, but he didn't notice it at all.When he looked up and saw the old man, he was suddenly frightened and ran away immediately.The old man didn't come after him, he just stood there and shouted: "Don't fall!" As soon as he shouted, Awei stopped in his tracks.He felt that he shouldn't believe what the third child said, he was in a daze, what was he afraid of?He turned around and lowered his head and slowly approached the old man. "That's right, that's right! I want to treat you to fish soup." The old man said. "Really?" Avey's eyes gleamed greedily. "Of course it's true, you can come with me, but you have to tell me first, how did you know there is a lake in this place?" "Third brother told me... where did third child go? Third! Old third!! Old third!! Old..." Awei yelled a few times, his face turned pale, and he began to cry. "Don't cry, the third child has already gone back. I told him that the lake is full of water, and he can no longer dig lotus root. You go to the lake with me first. Isn't that why you walked so far to go there? " Ave doesn't remember how he adjusted to the new situation.The old man hunchbacked and walked ahead, and Awei followed him.The woods looked very close, but it took them a long time to get there.After entering the woods, the old man pointed to a small pond and said to Awei: "This is the lake, take a good look at it." At first Awei thought he had heard it wrong, but then the old man repeated his words again.A Wei stared at the pond, which was about ten feet square.The water in the pond is dark green stagnant water, and mosquitoes and flies are flying around on the aquatic plants.The old man was rustlingly unwrapping a paper package, and Awei saw two dried fish in the paper package.He handed one to Awei, and Awei gnawed hard, the blood vessels on his neck protruding.It was only when his stomach was a little full that Awei realized that the fish had a strange smell. "It's not very tasty, is it? This is what grows in this rotten water." The old man looked at Awei and smiled, Awei noticed that he was sitting on top of an ant nest on the ground, some big black ants were climbing up his legs, and one climbed up his neck, It got into his chest from there again, and he sat there without knowing it. "How can the lake look like this? If I had known, I would not have come." Awei said. "That's why the third child didn't let you know. What do children know? Let me tell you, there used to be a lake here, and the place we walked just now was all that lake. The lotus flowers all over the lake are dazzling." "and after?" "Then the lake dried up and all that was left was this little pond." "strangeness." "What's so strange?" The old man suddenly became angry. "There was a famine here, and people cannibalized people every day. If we stay here tonight, they will come and invite me to dance." "Who?" "There are a lot of people. I don't want to talk about it now. I want to hear about the third child." A Wei hesitated for a long time, unable to make up his mind how to speak.The old man didn't force him, he stood up and looked around for those dead branches, and Awei also helped him find them.A Wei was still thinking about the fish soup, but he no longer had any hope. He felt that the soup made from the fish in this pond must be very smelly.This forest is full of fir trees, and there are caterpillars crawling on the trees. Awei is afraid that the caterpillars will fall on him.Seeing that the old man broke off a dead branch and two pine caterpillars landed on the back of his hand, he glanced at it and shook them lightly to the ground.A Wei sighed in his heart, this old man is really invulnerable. Unknowingly, it was getting dark, and a large pile of dry firewood had been piled up on the open space by the pond. The old man told Awei that these firewood were kept for burning in the middle of the night.A Wei suddenly wanted to go home, and wanted to go back immediately, because his mother didn't know how to be in a hurry, and the few bitter gourd vines hadn't been watered.He looked at the old man beside him, and felt resentment in his heart. What he hated most was the man who tricked him into this wilderness, and he made up his mind to ignore him after he went back.He wanted to stay away from the old man, because he couldn't bear the stench on his body, but he couldn't help but get closer to him. In this kind of place, if he doesn't rely on the old man, who can he rely on?If a tiger or a wolf came, wouldn't it be a dead end?The old man was sitting on a tree stump smoking a cigarette. A Wei could no longer see his face clearly, only the red light. Suddenly, it seemed to come from far and near, and it seemed to emerge from the ground, a loud noise and crying sounded.The old man stood up abruptly, as if he was about to run, but he didn't move.He listened for a while in the direction of the noise, and asked Ave: "Do you know what that sound is?" "It's a lot of people, they've come around here." After Awei said this, his eyelids could not be opened, so he hurriedly found a place with thicker thatch, fell down and fell asleep.The strange thing was that he couldn't fall asleep again, it felt like climbing a mountain, his whole body fell apart from exhaustion, but he couldn't stop.The noise was still the same, and those running people seemed to be stepping on him, making him afraid and irritable.For a moment he opened his eyelids vigorously, and saw the old man on the opposite side fishing with a fishing rod. Awei had always been very interested in fishing, but at this moment he was too tired to move.He struggled like this, unable to fall asleep or wake up.After an unknown period of time, he suddenly felt a pain in his face being roasted. It turned out that the old man burned a fire a little away from his head, and then he smelled the stench again. "Drink fish soup, drink fish soup!" the old man yelled at him. He handed over an enamel jar to Awei, and Awei caught the stinky thing blindly, frowning and took a sip.It's so strange, it turned out that the fish soup didn't smell bad at all, and it was delicious. The hungry Awei took a big gulp and finished it in a while.He asked the old man in a daze: "How is this going?" The old man didn't answer Awei, but bent down to add firewood to the fire.At this time, Awei saw a person standing motionless under the fir tree in front of him. Awei asked the old man who was standing there, and the old man said that it might be the third child.A Wei was about to get up to look, but as soon as he stood up, the man disappeared into the darkness. "The third child is still thinking about digging the lotus root in the lake, and he is always reluctant to leave this place. Think about it, he is a bum, and has no ability to make a living. How can he survive? I told him about the lake. He came here every once in a while. He didn’t have the patience to fish, so I told him to look in those potholes, maybe he could find the lotus root left by the lake. Before this place, the lake was full of lotus and lotus leaves. Once you're in, you don't want to come out." Following the old man's voice, the man came again, waved his fist in a threatening manner, and shouted: "Nonsense! Nonsense!" Ave saw that he wasn't the third child at all, and when he pointed it out to the old man, the old man angrily called him a "fool," and it seemed that the old man couldn't hear the man yelling behind him.He bent down and picked up the grass with a pair of big hands, and picked up a lot of dead leaves in a while.He held the dead leaves in both hands and threw them into the fire. The fire ignited with a bang, and Awei heard the cries of many babies in the fire.At this time, A Wei noticed that the man was also crying, and his shoulders shrugged sadly.The old man sat down with a satisfied expression on his face, and said slowly while lighting a cigarette: "There are a lot of sad things in this place. Don't underestimate this pond. It is so deep that there is no bottom. Those fish swim in such a deep water, and the bottom is full of running water, so the fish soup is so fresh. You Sleep well, I will take you home at dawn, I have a shortcut, and you will be home in less than an hour." Awei saw the old man comforting the man in a haze, and the figures of the two gradually approached on the fire, and then they hugged each other.Now it was the old man who was crying, and the man was comforting him, patting him on the back and whispering.A Wei didn't bother to find out about this kind of thing, so he turned his face towards the tree. When he woke up again, there was actually the third child standing in front of him.The third child is still carrying the big cloth bag, but the cloth bag has swelled up, obviously he has gained a lot. "Third! Old!" Ah Wei yelled. The third child turned around and reproached Awei, saying that he shouldn't lie on the dew, and he would be in trouble if he got sick.Awei sat up, only to find that the fire had been extinguished, and the old man had disappeared, and it turned out that it was already dawn.The third child told Awei that he had gained a lot yesterday, so he took out a piece of fat lotus root from the cloth bag for Awei to taste.Awei gnawed the lotus root and asked where he dug it. The third child said lightly, "It's everywhere. This used to be a land of fish and rice." Only then did Awei notice that there was a bag of lotus pods thrown under his feet.He felt that he had been cheated, the third child must have left him here, and went to another place by himself, that place was the real "Lotus Pond", he was afraid that Awei would reveal his secret, so he went alone there.But thinking about it, Awei felt that he was not at a disadvantage. Last night was so interesting!He has never had such a delicious fish soup in his life!He smacked his lips, and the third child made a face at him. A Wei remembered something, he asked: "Is there a shortcut home?" The third child seemed to be lost in memory, and answered after a while: "Indeed, I heard from my grandpa. I have never found it once. You can see it when you look around. There is not even a house. How do you know the way? I only know this way." On the way back, Awei kept thinking about how to explain to his mother.The three bitter gourd vines must have suffered a lot, so he must try to water them before entering the house; if his mother beat him up, the only way he could run was to run away.A Wei thought of the children in the dormitory again, and this thought lifted his heart and filled him with pride, and he suddenly felt that the gloomy emotions about his mother could be ignored.He began to pay attention and wanted to remember this road so that he could bring the children here in the future.At this time, the third child who was walking in front turned around and said abruptly: "Awei, what method do you use to keep track of the road?" Awei honestly said that he didn't know too well, probably mainly because of the shape of the road, maybe the composition of the soil, the types of shrubs on the side of the road and so on. "This is the most unreliable method!" said the third child. "The shape of this road changes every day. Sometimes for several months, there is no road at all here, only a large swamp, let alone any bushes." When it rains, I'm so sad as hell, because I can't even find this place at those times." The third child's back was bent under the weight of the bag of lotus root, looking very pitiful.Awei walked behind with the bag of lotus pods, and wanted to eat lotus pods when he was tired.He peeled one and started to eat it. Somehow, the lotus seeds were bitter, and he was fooled.So he spit out again and again.He also recalled the section of lotus root he ate just now, and it was a bit bitter to remember, not as delicious as the lotus root bought in the usual market.Will it be poisonous?Awei was a little scared, so he asked the third child, and the third child taught him: "Don't just eat for the taste." Awei felt very uncomfortable when he heard that, so he threw the unfinished lotus pod into the weeds by the roadside while the third child was not paying attention. When the sun rose, Awei saw the city was already lying in front of his eyes, the familiar chimneys and the old department store, they brought him a friendly atmosphere.It turned out that the third child took another road and actually walked into the city. It seems that all the thoughts he spent on remembering the road just now were all in vain. The third child walked into the vegetable market, and there were already a few emaciated people waiting there. They each gave the third child some money, and then shared the lotus root in his bag, and even the bag of lotus pods that Awei was carrying. It was also divided.Everyone walked away with their share. "These people, they have become addicted to eating my food, like smoking opium." The third child stared at the backs of those people and said thoughtfully. Someone was calling the third child, and the third child disappeared as soon as he got into the crowd.Awei suddenly regretted it, regretted it to death, why didn't he leave one of the lotus pods just now?This way you can take it to the dormitory and show it to the kids.But it was too late to regret it. Although I was downcast, I had no choice but to go home quickly. A Wei returned to the dormitory at noon.When he was still at the bottom of the slope, he saw Ah Hua stretching her neck to look at him under the loquat tree. She looked a little gloating, her braids were disheveled. "Awei, Awei, your mother has gone to the northeast, and she went with your uncle!" A Wei's heart sank.After a while, the children surrounded him and asked him about the "Heye Pond" and asked him if he could take them there.With this question, Awei's sense of pride welled up again. He sat on the ground, swished his throat for a long time, and then said: "The lotus roots and lotus pods that grow in that kind of place are bitter, it's a terrible place!" The children looked at each other, only Ah Hua asked provocatively: "How can there be bitter lotus root? Lotus root is delicious. I have never eaten bitter lotus root. You are not lying, are you?" "You idiot! I'm not lying. It's a pity that we sold those lotus roots just now. How about I give you a taste." Awei was very angry. "You just said that lotus root is bitter! How can anyone buy bitter lotus root and lotus pods? Tell me!" Ah Hua put her hips on her hips, pointed at him confidently and asked.The children exchanged suspicious glances, as if hesitating to walk away.A Wei suddenly heard Xiao Zheng say behind him: "Awei, the door of your house is locked by your mother, where are you going?" A Wei didn't want to think about this embarrassing thing, so he said loudly: "You can't go to the place where I stayed last night. It used to be a lake, but it has dried up, and there is no road to it in any direction. There is an old man living there. I stayed with him last night. He used a fishing rod to catch fish from a small deep pond for me to eat. The fish soup is delicious! Think about it, I went out early yesterday morning and didn’t eat anything. starving?" A Wei became proud when he said this, he felt that he was already an adult, and it was just a trivial matter for his mother to leave him, and he didn't need to be afraid. "Anyone who dares to take risks with me, I will help him to ask the third child, as long as he agrees, we can go together, but we can't tell the family about this." He said again. Everyone fell silent, stepping back unknowingly, exiting a much larger circle than before, and Awei was still in the center of the circle.A Wei felt that these people were watching him vigilantly, ready to run away at any time, and their attitude made him angry and resentful. He doesn't want to talk to the children anymore, he wants to go home and have a look.When he came to the door of the house, he saw a huge copper lock hanging on the door, and all the windows were tightly bolted from the inside.He tried knocking on the door a few times with a stool in the hallway, but it didn't budge.It seems that my mother has really traveled far away.A Wei sat down at the door of the room, he needed to think about his own affairs.The question before him now was: Where was he going to eat?Bowel sounds started as he thought about it.He raised his head in despair, and saw that the children were all gone. Usually, they were playing billiards in front of the house.Several grown-ups came out of the room, their eyes swept over Awei, as if he was a thing, and they walked past him without saying a word.He thought of those little pumpkins in the vegetable field, no doubt he could get them to cook and eat, but they were only as big as a fist, so they couldn't solve much of a problem.He also thought of stealing, but the doors of every house were tightly shut. Where could he steal?When Xiaozheng's mother walked over while wiping sesame oil on his face, he finally plucked up the courage to call out: "Aunt Wu!" His voice was shaking. Aunt Wu turned her head, looked at him in surprise, and said quickly: "Awei, don't go to play with my Xiaozheng these two days. He has a fever, and I'm worried that he will die... Think about it, how terrible this kind of thing is. Is your mother gone? Go away, Good to go." She walked away as she spoke.A Wei didn't expect her to say such words, and he couldn't close his mouth in surprise.He felt that he couldn't sit still now, and he had to find a way quickly. He walked to the vegetable field on the slope.From a distance, he saw the change of his family's vegetable field. When he walked up to him, the bitter gourd vines had disappeared. A small cement pond had been built where the bitter gourd had been planted. Some leeches were raised in the pond. Got creepy. "Awei, you have to learn to endure hunger like me." It was the third child who was talking, and he followed Awei to the vegetable field at some point.The third child squatted down by the edge of the pool and put one hand into the water.A Wei hurriedly turned his head away, he didn't dare to look.After a while he took out that hand and held it up in the air, Awei heard him say: "They'll come out when they're full." The children were playing under the slope and making a lot of noise.A Wei thought that he and they would never play together again.He resented the third child.The third child, who raised his hands in the air, became paler and paler, and beads of sweat emerged from his forehead.Suddenly, he slapped his palm hard a few times, and Awei saw a few round leeches that had sucked blood and rolled into the pool.At this moment, A Wei had goose bumps all over his body.The third child stood up weakly, and seemed to be walking in a dejected manner, and A Wei followed behind in a dejected manner. Aunt Wu was teaching those children downhill, her voice was loud and unscrupulous.A Wei heard her keep saying the word "loafer" and saw her waving her hands, as if she was going to hit someone. The third child went to the tree stump where he used to sit and sat down.A Wei asked him where he could find something to eat, and he replied, "Let's figure it out." Then he fell silent, pretending to be thinking about something.In desperation, Awei remembered Ahua's kitchen, where he and Ahua stole her mother's honey to eat.It was a very special kitchen, separated from her house by a wall in front of it. When A Wei sneaked into the kitchen, A Hua happened to be inside.Ah Hua latched the door, and stuffed a cold thing into A Wei's mouth: "Eat the leftover pancakes from yesterday!" she whispered in the dark. He gobbled it up.I heard Ah Hua say that if her family finds out, she will be beaten to death; the reason why she is taking this risk now is because she also wants to run away with Ah Wei and the third child, and never come back after leaving. die outside.A Wei was taken aback by her impassionedness. He felt that she must have misunderstood him and the third child in some way, so he kept silent.After eating a pancake, Awei felt much more comfortable, and his legs didn't feel weak anymore.Ah Hua made rustling noises under the chopping board. A Wei asked her what she was doing, and she said she was making rat poison.Awei was thinking about the third child, so he went to open the door, but was pulled back by Ahua, who was taller and stronger than him, Awei was clamped by her and could not move.After a stalemate for a while, Ah Hua suddenly pushed, A Wei's back hit the broken door heavily, the latch came out, and he fell to the ground outside. When he got up, he saw the third child standing not far away watching him.Awei remembered that the third child had just sold those lotus roots and had money, but he refused to invite him out for a meal. Before, he didn't know that the third child was such a miser.He ignored the third child angrily, and walked towards the corridor of his house.He arrived at the door and sat down on the previous stool, and the third child followed him. "The money from selling lotus root is life-saving money, so you can't use it casually. You must learn to endure hunger." The third child persuaded him patiently, "In two or three days, I will take you to the lotus leaf pond again, where there is no The lake is full of water, and you may have to use a boat to get in. I have a cave near here with straw in it. If you are tired, you can come with me there to rest." As the third child spoke, he touched his face with that baby-like hand. A Wei felt weirder about his hand than before, and jumped away with a loud cry. "Why are you so excited?" The third child said nonchalantly, "You'll be fine once you get used to it. Now your status in this place is almost the same as mine, and I've already seen that you are the material. Let's go." A Wei wanted to say "no", but his two feet followed him.After they walked a few steps, Ah Hua ran over panting, dragged A Wei by the corner of his clothes and asked: "Can I go? I have no home like you now, can I?" A Wei angrily shook off her hand, and she squatted on the ground and began to cry. That day Awei and the third child were lying together on the straw in the cave dwelling, and the third child kept telling Awei everything about the lake and his own life.He said that his life was closely connected with that lake, because when he was very young, the old man Awei met there often took him there from his home, and they drove The boat paddled back and forth among the lotus leaves. At that time, there was more than enough fish and wild ducks to eat.When the old man doesn't come, the third child just waits at home and can't do anything.Years passed like this, and he became a veritable bum.I don't know from which day, the lake has dried up day by day. If it doesn't rain for a long time, the lake will disappear completely.At this time, the third child already knew the way to the "Heye Pond", and he often ran there alone.When they got there, he and the old man looked at each other and had nothing to say. They broke up after getting together for a while, and each went to find the ruins of the lake... A Wei often fell asleep while the third child was narrating. At this time, the third child pushed him angrily, and he struggled to continue listening.A Wei feels that the monotonous story of the third child is endless...