Chapter 10: Scars healed, pain forgotten, crab hunting in the stream

Chapter 10: Scars healed, pain forgotten, crab hunting in the stream

Chapter 10: Scars healed, pain forgotten, crab hunting in the stream
In the blink of an eye, more than two hours passed. During these two hours, he found three walnut trees, five chestnut trees, and two hawthorn trees.

I heard from others that there were also pear trees, kiwi trees, crabapple trees, mulberry trees and apricot trees, but unfortunately he didn't find them.

But this is normal, it seems that these things don’t exist here, but are somewhere else.

He was very happy to get these five kinds of trees. After all, some fruit trees could not be found in the mountains but were available outside.

For example, there are grape and peach trees in the village. We can just get a few peach pits and break off a few grape vines and the problem will be solved.

Before going down the mountain, Li Jiayi entered the space. The sweet potatoes he planted yesterday had already sprouted into more than thirty sweet potato seedlings at night.

He planted them in the ground, and now the seedlings have grown into very long sweet potato vines.

Li Jiayi left one root on each tree, took down the rest, cut them into pieces, and replanted them.

Seeing that there were not many changes in other places, he didn't care and ran down the mountain after coming out of the space.

When I got back to grandma's house, she was picking vegetables in the yard, preparing to cook.

"Is the eldest grandson back?"

"Yes grandma."

"Are you hungry?" asked grandma.

"Not hungry." Li Jiayi shook his head.

"I asked your aunt to take back one bag of peach cakes and fruits you brought yesterday, and I'll leave the remaining bag of peach cakes and fruits for you. You can eat them when you're hungry."

"Grandma, I'm really not hungry. Also, my mom asked me to bring those peach cakes and fruits to you and grandpa."

"You kid, I'm as old as your grandfather, and we've eaten everything. I'll leave it for you to eat."

Before Li Jiayi could refuse, his grandfather said, "Grandson, your grandmother is right. If you get hungry after running around, you can have something to eat if it's not time to eat yet."

Hearing what his grandparents said, Li Jiayi felt a little jealous, because he knew that it was not that his grandparents didn't want to eat, but wanted to save it for him to eat.

"Okay, put the schoolbag in the house first."

"I know, Grandpa."

Li Jiayi came into the house and went straight into the west room, which was where grain was stored.

He also lacks seeds.

Sure enough, the room was filled with grains, including wheat and corn. He also saw soybeans and sesame seeds, but there were not many of either type.

Li Jiayi collected four or five kilograms of wheat, two or three kilograms of corn, and then grabbed a handful of soybeans and a handful of sesame seeds.

When he came out of the house, his grandparents were not in the yard, so he hurried to the kitchen to check.

I saw grandpa making a fire and grandma cooking.

"Grandson, it's too hot in the kitchen. Don't come in. Go cool down in the shade of the trees in the yard."

"It's okay grandma, I'll watch you cook."

"What's so great about cooking?"

"I'll teach you."

"Child, why do you need to learn this? Cooking is women's work," said grandma.

"Uh!"

Li Jiayi didn’t know what to say, but there was nothing he could do. This was the way things were in this era.

To put it bluntly, it is feudal thinking.

Just after lunch, my second cousin Li Chenghou ran over. He is twelve years old, the same age as my eldest sister Li Jiaqi.

"Hey, second brother, doesn't your butt hurt anymore?" Li Jiayi asked.

"Yeah! It doesn't hurt as much anymore."

"Hou Cheng, what are you doing here?" asked grandma.

"Grandma, let me call Jiayi to go out and play." Li Chenghou said quickly.

"Go fishing again? No."

"No, grandma, I'm not slacking off, I'm just playing."

"Really?"

"Really." "Okay! But if I find out that you guys are slacking off with Jiayi, I'll have your dad beat both of your butts into pieces."

"Grandma, I'm really not slacking off."

At this time, Li Jiayi said, "Grandma, I'm going to go out and play. Don't worry, I won't go fishing."

"Well, my eldest grandson is still obedient."

As soon as Li Jia entered the house, he put on his kettle and schoolbag, and followed his second cousin out.

"Second brother, what are we going to do?" Li Jiayi asked when they came outside the yard.

"Let's go catch crabs in the creek."

"Ah! Still slacking off!" Li Jiayi was speechless.

I just got beaten up last night and now I’m going to slack off again today.

"Plus one, it's different. Yesterday we went to the river, today we went to the stream, the water was only up to the knees."

"Is that so? Let's go then."

If it wasn't going to the river, Li Jiayi would have been happy to go, but there was nothing he could do about it. Although he wasn't a landlubber, he wasn't a good swimmer.

At least he can't compare with his eldest cousin and second cousin, and he can't even compare with Li Jiafen.

There is no way. There are no places for you to swim in the city, but in the countryside, there are places for you to swim everywhere.

Soon the second cousin brought him to meet up with the eldest cousin, and it seemed that the eldest cousin had quite a lot of weapons.

Shovel, large wooden tub and large wooden bucket.

In rural areas, it is rare to see iron buckets and porcelain basins. Even the basins used for washing faces are made of ceramic, including those for kneading dough.

The stream was not far from the village, only about four or five hundred meters. He didn't know where the upper reaches of the stream were, but he knew that the lower reaches of the stream led directly to the river where his eldest cousin and his friends went yesterday.

"Brother, let me help you get it!" Li Jiayi said.

"No, this is heavy. Let me take it."

"fine."

"Jiayi, you take the shovel! I'll hold the basin and let your brother take the bucket." said the second cousin.

"OK then!"

Of these three items, the shovel can be said to be the lightest. You have to know that both wooden barrels and wooden basins are thick and particularly heavy.

A few minutes later, the three of them arrived at the stream, where there were already many children from the same village.

Basically, they are the same as theirs, with wooden basins, buckets and shovels.

But seeing how they touched the crabs, Li Jiayi was speechless. They were really touching them!
And when you encounter a crab hole, you just use a shovel to dig it out. This is too inefficient!

"Brother, there are too many people here. Let's go downstream!" said Li Jiayi.

"Go downstream? Shouldn't we go upstream?"

"Brother, just listen to me! Let's go downstream."

Li Jiayi had no intention of going down to touch it, but was preparing to divert the stream.

In this case, it would be very troublesome if you were upstream, after all, there are many people there, but it would not matter if you were downstream, since there is no one behind you.

"Okay! Let's go downstream."

My eldest cousin is fourteen years old this year. After school started, he was also in the first grade of junior high school like Li Jiayi.

So he thought Li Jiayi was smarter than him, and he basically listened to whatever Li Jiayi said.

Li Jiayi quickly found a good location, a slightly narrow place with many stones.

Li Jiayi took off his shoes first, then his pants and shirt, leaving only a pair of shorts.

There were no tight underwear for children in this era, basically just big shorts.

Of course, he took down his schoolbag and water bottle, went straight down to the stream and said, "Big brother, second brother, first build up this place with big stones."

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