59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

In the yard, a group of people made coal balls out of yellow mud and coal, and then waited for them to dry.

If it were a courtyard house in the old city, someone would have to be watching over it.

Even if coal is not worth much, there are still some people/children who will steal it and take it home.

But things are fine in Zhoujiagou. My grandpa said there is no need to worry, so there is basically no need to worry.

When it was night, Zhou Jing went out with a flashlight.

"Dad, what are you doing?" Zhou Dinghai came out to pee and saw him, and asked curiously.

"Go to sleep." Zhou Jing took a flashlight and illuminated the way to the village.

My aunt chased me out with a piece of clothing and said, "If you want to show off your flashlight, put on your clothes first."

Zhou Dinghai was stunned.

Chen Feng brought three flashlights, one was in his grandfather's hand, and two were taken away by his uncle.

This thing is rare in the countryside, not as rare as in the city.

Whether you are traveling at night or catching frogs or going to the sea at night, it is a good thing.

But Zhou Dinghai never thought that he could go visit someone with a flashlight.

"Mom, I'm going to go play with Brother Qi. Let me use the flashlight."

"Go away, the moon is so big that it's not bright enough!"

"???"

Zhou Dinghai felt very sad when he saw his mother go into the house and close the door.

"Cousin, why do you think my mother loves my father so much but not us?" Zhou Dinghai, who had just returned from watering the fertilizer, asked Chen Feng, who was reading a book under the oil lamp.

This question is so profound!

Chen Feng thought for a long time but couldn't find a good reason.

Zhou Fubo was smart and said, "Dad can go fishing and work in the fields, but what can you do? You can't do anything, and you're wasting food."

"If it were me, I would love my father too!"

When Zhou Dinghai heard it, he also thought it made sense.

"Then I'll get up tomorrow morning and fetch some water."

At around ten o'clock in the evening, Chen Feng turned off the kerosene lamp.

The three of them slept together.

Zhou Dinghai, who said he would get up early last night, naturally did not get up early. He lazily lay in bed, dreaming that he was the Monkey King in the book and beat to death with a stick all the beautiful female fairies who were flirting with Tang Sanzang.

When I think of happy things, I can't help but smile.

In the morning, my grandma and aunt rushed to cook. After dinner, as expected, my uncle and aunt took leave from work and went fishing at home instead.

Zhou Xiaoya arrived early.

I could just get a bowl of mutton soup and three roujiamo.

The little girl was reluctant to eat too much, but was too embarrassed to take them home. But she was also reluctant to return them to her grandma. After struggling for a long time, she finally secretly hid two in her pocket, her face flushed.

"If you want to bring it back for your brother to eat, then take it back. Just don't let anyone else see it."

Chen Feng smiled and touched her head.

"We'll leave after we finish washing the dishes. You still have time to run back now."

"Thank you, big brother!"

Zhou Xiaoya's face turned even redder and she ran home, covering her pocket.

"Dad, can I help you at home too?" Zhou Fubo said enviously.

"Don't even think about it. Last time it was your cousin who couldn't do it alone. This time we are all at home, so you should go to school." Zhou Jing didn't give his son any chance to skip classes. He told him, "Study hard. If you can get into junior high school, you can go to the city to work in the future."

The two guys who really wanted to go fishing had their hopes dashed. They could only finish their breakfast slowly and then go to school with their schoolbags on their backs.

"This is for you. You are not allowed to bring comic books to school."

Chen Feng gave them a stack of straw paper and two red and blue pencils, and checked their school bags and took out all the picture books inside.

"Cousin, we won't watch it during class. We'll watch it after class." Zhou Fubo promised.

"Guess whether I believe it or not?" Chen Feng smiled and put the picture book on the dining table.

"Fubo, Dinghai, if you read comic books in class, I will catch you and beat you with a hundred sticks!" Zhou Jing threatened viciously.

"We also need to confiscate the picture books," Grandpa added.

"Dad, Grandpa, we got it."

The two elementary school students were very depressed, and even their happiness in getting a stack of toilet paper and two colored pens decreased a lot.

After they left, Zhou Jing picked up the picture book and flipped through it. He thought it was quite good.

Zhou Xiaoya came back soon and brought back a book.

"What is this?" Chen Feng took it curiously and opened it. It was a common thread-bound copy of "The Heart of the Book of Rites".

"Grandpa said that the family was poor and only had books left. This book was one of the books left by my grandfather's grandfather's father, who passed the imperial examination. He gave it to my elder brother as a thank you gift."

When Zhou Xiaoya talked about her grandfather's grandfather's father, she puffed out her chest and looked very proud.

Chen Feng smiled and flipped through it. At first he thought it was printed, but after looking carefully he found that it was a handwritten version. This was indeed a special gift.

It's not very valuable, but it has special meaning.

"Okay, I'll take it. I'll call you when I go fishing from now on."

"Thank you, big brother!" Zhou Xiaoya was extremely happy.

Several people got fishing rods and fish buckets and went to the beach with dried clams. Zhou Jing deliberately imitated Chen Feng and carried a bag full of picture books.

“Is it so beautiful?” When my aunt saw Zhou Jing flipping through the books while walking, she thought he was a little childish.

"This one is for you." Zhou Jing threw a comic book about The Three Strike of the White Bone Demon to his aunt.

"Hey, the painting is quite good." My aunt also started looking at the picture.

They only know individual characters.

In the past, the old patriarch taught in Zhoujiagou, and the teaching was basically the Three Character Classic, and most people only knew a hundred or so characters.

"Grandpa, it's right here."

The mutton is still decomposed in space and sprinkled under the reef area to attract fish.

In just a few minutes, a fish was caught.

As always it was a pike.

After mid-March, it is the annual spawning season for pike in the Bohai Bay, especially April, which is a happy paradise for fishermen.

"Haha, a pike, it's so big, I almost worried that the fishing line would break."

Zhou Jing picked up a large sea wolf that was over 40 centimeters long.

He was particularly worried that the sea wolf would resist and break the fishing line, but to his surprise, the fish was as obedient as a kitten and swam towards him with a gentle pull.

"Yes, big brother must be a god that even the Dragon King respects, so the sea wolf never resists and takes the bait obediently."

Zhou Xiaoya said longingly, "The last time my third sister and her friends were fishing here, they came after my eldest brother left, and as a result, several sea wolves ran away and broke the fishing lines."

"Ha ha!"

Several adults laughed together.

Chen Feng reminded: "Little girl, you are not allowed to talk about this kind of thing outside."

Zhou Xiaoya smiled and said, "I know, I only told grandpa."

Chen Feng turned around and looked at his fishing rod. He gently pulled it back and a large sea wolf appeared on the water.

Sea wolves are ferocious and aggressive, and like to travel in groups. They are usually around 20 centimeters long, but this marine fish can live for 50 years, and large sea wolves can grow to 1.8 meters.

If an adult is hit by its tail, it may break ribs or even die.

In fact, the most suitable fish for fish skin clothing is the sea wolf, but the sea wolf goes into the deep sea to hibernate in December, so it depends on fate if fishermen want to catch it.