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On this day, since noon, the sky has been gloomy, like a big net that has been pressed down, and the dark clouds inside are rolling, trying to find a breach, the air is stuffy and hot, even if you don’t do anything, you can sweat all over .

Mrs. Cao was very anxious at home, looking out frequently, and kept muttering, "Why don't you, Dalang, go up the mountain to look for them?"

Grandma Bai was not happy when she heard the words. She seemed to be able to find mistakes in what Cao said, "San Lang is not stupid. Look at this day, and he still doesn't know how to come back? Da Lang has gone, what should we do if the two go astray? "

"But..." Cao frowned, arguing in a low voice, "If Sanlang Wuniang catches up with the rain, the mountain road will be difficult to walk, I'm afraid they..."

Grandma Bai didn't want to hear her humming like a mosquito, so she waved her hand to interrupt her, "Go if you want Da Lang to go, but don't go up the mountain, lest you get lost."

Dalang responded, put on his coir raincoat and bamboo hat, and walked out quickly with another one in his hand.

Grandma Bai snorted, without any worries on her face, and walked back to the house slowly, leaving Mrs. Cao walking around in the yard alone.The aunt was in the sister-in-law's room, looking at the dog together. It was gloomy outside, and the house was as dark as night without the lights on. The aunt was also worried about her younger siblings, but at the same time, the feeling that the sky was being lowered made her feel Si felt at ease, as if wrapped in something invisible.

Bai Xin is indeed not stupid, even if he is reluctant, he will not take the risk of waiting for the rain. If it really catches up with the rain, it is not a joke, let alone gonorrhea, the road is slippery and muddy. His life was gone, as early as when the sky had just darkened, he led Wu Niang back in a hurry.

Soon they went down the mountain, and the two of them asked Khan to take a bath. When they passed by the pond, they heard the sound of frogs croaking inside. Then he raised his head abruptly, took a closer look, and then exclaimed in surprise, "Third Brother, Fifth Sister."

Seeing that it was him, Wu Niang rushed over in surprise: "Brother!"

The eldest brother took off the bamboo hat and put it on Wu Niang's head, and said with a smile, "Hurry up and go home." As he said, he helped Wu Niang put on the coir raincoat, then untied his own, handed it to Bai Xin, and took care of himself. He took the two panniers, one on his back and the other in his hand.

"Brother, you can wear it." Bai Xin wanted to hide, but the elder brother held Bai Xin with a big hand and hurriedly put it on for him.

There was a rumbling thunder, and a bean-sized raindrop fell down. In a moment, the ground was densely packed with small dots like a colander, and they were connected in an instant. There was the sound of rain, accompanied by the sound of the pond. There was a thud, and a smell of earth penetrated into his nose.

"Run." The eldest brother shouted, his voice almost drowned out by the sound of rain.

The three started to run, Wu Niang laughed happily, even Bai Xin felt happy all over, and the boredom of the past few days seemed to be swept away.

They ran back home. Mrs. Cao saw the three people in the rain from a distance, with a smile on her face, she stood at the door and shouted: "Come in, come in."

In fact, the three of them didn't hear what she was shouting, but they could guess that Bai Xin and the others filed into the gate and rushed into the house. The ground was wet, full of footprints, and Cao's inevitably splashed some water On their bodies, Bai Xin and Wu Niang leaned against the door and took off their coir raincoats. They looked up at Da Lang again, and there was a puddle of puddles under their feet like a drowned chicken.

When the three of them came back safely, Mrs. Cao was relieved. She smiled and called aunt, and asked her to go to the kitchen to boil hot water for them.

The aunt seems to be in a good mood today, with a slight smile on her face, and her eyes are full of spirits. The rain curtain separates other people, as if they are the only ones in the house.

Soon, the hot water came on, and the three of them went back to the house to scrub, and changed into clean clothes, feeling refreshed and comfortable.

The aunt splashed the water outside, feeling a sense of venting pleasure. The splashed water was not as good as the rain from the sky, but it gathered together in a blink of an eye and flowed to the lowest place in the yard.

It rained for nearly half a day, and it stopped at night. It fell drop by drop along the thatch on the roof, and the small puddles on the ground suddenly rippled. Grandma Bai looked up, with a distressed expression on her face: "Before winter comes It needs to be repaired again."

After the rain, the air was refreshing, and the barely visible breeze was mixed with a little bit of coolness. The Bai family all went out of the house and sat in the yard to enjoy the cool air. Even Bai Erlang came out, with a light and happy expression on his face, looking at the sky in the distance, and said: He recited a poem impromptu, which aroused the applause of others, Bai Erlang was proud of himself, and subconsciously put on a superior posture.

Sanniang and Siniang were deeply thoughtful, and wanted to steal a few words from Erlang, and it seemed that they had talent, and they might be able to use it in the future, so they said delicately, "Second brother, let's do another song."

Erlang originally wanted to show off, but now that Sanniang and Siniang asked him to compose poems, he didn't want to, otherwise it would seem that anyone asked him to compose a poem and he would compose it, lowering his status. Erlang groaned in his heart and refused without understanding , but turned his back and stopped talking.

When Sanniang and Siniang saw him turn around, they thought he was thinking about it, but after waiting for a while, Erlang started talking to someone else, as if he hadn't heard it just now. Walking up to Wuniang, she pretended to be innocent and talked to Wuniang, but in fact her face was still hot, and she hated Erlang to death in her heart. Grandma's partiality all the year round and the injustice to their third wife made the two little ones The girl was crazily cursing Erlang.

Bai Xin watched the turmoil of the second and third bedrooms from the side, and snorted, "Dog bites dog."

The next day, the scorching sun was like fire, and the coolness brought by the rain was like a flash in the pan. The cicadas on the trees sang harder, echoing each other one after another, and the breath mixed with a smell of earth and scorching sun.

Just after it rained, the mountain was slippery and muddy. Mrs. Cao said to her children: "The road on the mountain is not easy to walk. You two should rest at home for a few days. Wu Niang, you are too old to learn needlework from your sister. How old are you? God knows how to run outside."

Grandma Bai passed by, just in time to hear the word "rest" in her mouth, and snorted unhappily, "Why do you rest? There is endless work at home, how can I let them rest?"

In fact, Grandma Bai wronged Mrs. Cao. Mrs. Cao's original intention was to let the two children stay at home and not run away, and she didn't choose words on purpose, she just said it out of her mouth.As for Grandma Bai, it's not that she doesn't know the original intention of the eldest daughter-in-law, but she doesn't feel comfortable without stabbing at Cao's doormat appearance.

Cao's mouth was clumsy, and he stuttered to explain a few words. Grandma Bai dropped a few ugly words, turned her face and left.

Mrs. Cao patted her little daughter's head aggrievedly, and said in a low voice, "When you finish your work, learn how to sew with your sister, and then..."

She didn't finish her sentence, but Bai Xin knew that she was afraid that Wu Niang would not know any female celebrities, and it would be difficult to marry in the future.

Wu Niang is ignorant. After studying a few days ago, she still has the innocence of a child. She doesn't like to embroider with a thin needle, and she can't sit still. It's just that she just saw her grandma scolding her mother. She obediently didn't refute, and secretly Thinking of hiding in the name of working, she still didn't understand her mother's painstaking efforts, and would rather work than embroider.

After dinner, the yard was tidied up. Seeing that grandma was in a good mood, Bai Xin took the opportunity to say, "Grandma, I'm going out for a walk."

Grandma Bai's patriarchal patriarchy is really strong, even the most hated big room is more tolerant towards Bai Xin, she said a few words in her mouth, "I know how to play all day long", and then waved her hand as a tacit consent.

Seeing this, Wu Niang felt envious, and wanted to open her mouth to say that we would go out together. Cao Shi, who had already known her mother-in-law's temperament, grabbed Wu Niang tightly first, and whispered, "Stay at home."

Wu Niang showed a pitiful expression and looked at Bai Xin with her lips pouted.

Bai Xin really had no other choice now, so he could only turn his head away from seeing his sister's kitten-like expression. Seeing that his grandma agreed, he ran out in a hurry, as if afraid that she would change her mind.

Bai Xin ran for a few steps, and his legs were covered with mud. At first, he was a little uncomfortable, but after getting more mud spots, he got used to it, and it felt cool and comfortable.

He wandered to the edge of the field, intending to walk around casually, to see if there was any way to make money. As he walked, he was suddenly cut by a weed that only reached the calf height, and there was a slight pain in his calf, which could have been ignored It doesn't matter, but Bai Xin's legs are covered with muddy water, which flowed into the wound, making it itchy and painful.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Xin felt as if some insect had crawled on his leg. Although he was not afraid, he was still made hairy by the sudden touch. He subconsciously waved his hand, swept his little finger, and the insect landed on him. On the foot, Bai Xin looked down and saw that it was a thumb-sized bug with a shiny black shell. Bai Xin's eyes lit up like this bug. He grabbed the bug that had no resistance, and said in surprise: "Oil beetle!"

The oil beetle was pinched in the hand, its wings flapped, and its legs kept moving, making a slight crackling sound.

Bai Xin was in a good mood, grabbed the oil shell beetle and popped it into the cloth bag he carried, then searched around and caught a dozen or so.

He walked straight along the road, went into the weed pile, and caught dozens of them in a blink of an eye. He was busy catching oil beetles with his head down. When he noticed, he almost bumped into someone walking in front of him. , before seeing the person clearly, the other party started bluffing and calling out, "Hey hey!"

Bai Xin looked up, and saw Yu Xiaobao standing opposite him, with an iron can tied around his waist, and an oil shell beetle in his other hand. Obviously, Yu Xiaobao had also seen clearly what Bai Xin was doing, and he turned He curled his lips and said, "Are you here to catch 'Blind Touch' too?"

Bai Xin knew that different places had different names, so he nodded, but he felt a little strange, the Yu family was rich, so he shouldn't be catching oil beetles as a tooth sacrifice, so he asked, "Why are you catching this?"

Yu Xiaobao didn't think much about it, and threw the oil shell beetle in his hand into the tin can with disgust, and said, "My father likes this, go back and fry it." He looked at the bulging bag on Bai Xin's waist. Something was moving around, so he said in an almost sympathetic tone: "Someone in your family also likes to eat this?"

Bai Xinen let out a cry.

Yu Xiaobao yelled strangely: "Can this worm be delicious? It's black and bright, and it's disgusting to look at."

"Haven't you eaten?" Bai Xin raised his eyebrows.

Yu Xiaobao waved his hands again and again, "My dad keeps letting me taste it, but I feel disgusted when I see it. There are fish and meat at home, why should I eat bugs?"

Bai Xin looked at him with pity, "The taste of this is different from fish and meat, it is fragrant and crispy, you will like it after eating it."

Yu Xiaobao didn't believe it, but shook his head in disgust.

Bai Xin didn't persuade him either, but shrugged.

The two of them didn't know each other too well, and now they can talk when they meet, one is because they beat the two tigers last time, and the other is because they are both catching oil beetles, and after a few words, they separated.

Bai Xin glanced at the direction Yu Xiaobao came from, then turned around and went elsewhere.