"Don't kill the dog!" Chang'an frowned.
Song Chengqi scratched his head: "I'm just saying, I'm not really going to kill it."
Then he pointed to the boy and girl next to him: "They are also members of the Goldfish Society."
Chang'an was stunned, and then she remembered.
One day Song Chengqi told her and Goudan that they would set up a society, and he would be the president, and he also said that he would go home and get an egg for himself.
"Eggs!" Chang'an said.
Song Chengqi was confused: "What eggs?"
Chang'an puffed up his cheeks: "You said that when your chickens lay eggs, you would bring one for us to eat."
Song Chengqi was stunned, and then he remembered, coughed awkwardly, and said softly: "My chickens didn't lay eggs." The voice was as light as a mosquito.
Chang'an exposed his lie without giving him face: "Brother Goudan's chickens have laid a lot of eggs."
When Song Chengqi heard this, his eyes wandered around.
"Humph! We won't be members anymore." Chang'an said, "Brother Goudan, Little Chutou and I are all presidents."
Song Chengqi:
"Okay, okay, we are all presidents." Song Chengqi was helpless and pointed at the boy and girl next to him: "They are members."
The boy next to him blinked and didn't react.
The girl was only five or six years old, her face was dark red, and she didn't understand what they were saying.
So, the Goldfish Society had two more children, but three more presidents.
Song Chengqi hesitated for a long time and said, "Chang'an, actually they are here to learn how to make clay figurines from you."
Chang'an glanced at the two children and was surprised: "They also want to worship me as their master?"
Song Chengqi nodded and said embarrassedly: "They are my cousins, and my mother asked me to bring them here to learn how to make clay figurines from you to make money."
Chang'an looked back at Brother Goudan and Little Chutou and shook her head: "I already have two apprentices." She didn't want many children to be apprentices, because there was no room under the persimmon tree in the backyard.
Moreover, it is not easy to sell too many clay figurines. Last time, Goudan and Xiaochutou only sold four and took the rest back.
Seeing that Changan was unwilling to accept apprentices, Song Chengqi did not hesitate and asked, "Changan, can I play with you?"
His parents always wanted him to come and learn how to make clay figurines from Changan, but they couldn't bring themselves to do so. As a result, they often scolded him at home for being playful, not good at literature or martial arts, and not as sensible as Changan and Goudan.
Song Chengqi was scolded by his parents and had no choice but to bring his cousins to Changan.
Changan nodded.
It's okay to come to play at home, but forget about accepting them as apprentices.
So, the children walked into the backyard of Song Sanshun's house.
Song Sanshun's backyard is very large. There is a long ditch near the vegetable garden. There is no water in the ditch at present, but there are a lot of water celery growing in it.
This kind of water celery is not the same species as poison hemlock. It can be cut and eaten as a vegetable, and the taste is very special.
A reed mat was laid under the persimmon tree near the ditch, and a low table was placed on the mat. The tools used by Changan and others to make clay dolls were placed here.
It was the first time that Song Chengqi came to the backyard of Uncle Sanshun's house. When he saw the lush vegetable garden, he was stunned.
He also had a vegetable garden and a well. A Niang would draw water from the well every day to water the vegetables, but the growth was still not as good as that of Uncle Sanshun's.
Changan took off her clogs and sat on the reed mat with Goudan and Xiaochu to make clay dolls.
She had to paint the dragon statue today, so she had to be extra careful.
Song Chengqi and the other two sat obediently and watched Changan and the others make clay statues, but they couldn't sit still after a while.
The boy named Heiwa ran to catch chickens and geese, and chased the dog around.
Hei Mei was not idle either. She went into the vegetable garden and shouted in surprise, "Brother, look at these big radishes!"
Chang An looked up and saw Hei Mei pulling out two big radishes from her own garden. She frowned, but since she was a guest, she didn't say anything.
Hei Wa heard his sister's call and ran into the vegetable garden. Seeing so many big radishes, he couldn't help but want to pull them out. Song Cheng Qi scolded him, "What are you doing? Come out!" What a shame! Song Chengqi secretly glanced at Changan, and hurriedly snatched the radish from Heimei's hand.
"You guys should go home quickly." Song Chengqi put the radish on the ground and pushed his little cousin with his hand: "If I had known you were so ignorant, I shouldn't have brought you out to play!"
Heimei wanted to take the radish, but was dragged out by Song Chengqi. Heiwa
seemed to realize that his sister was wrong, and followed her out listlessly.
Seeing that the children were about to leave, Wu smiled and said, "Why don't you play for a while?"
Song Chengqi lowered his head and said, "They are too noisy, I'll take them back."
"Don't leave in a hurry." Wu asked Song Chengqi to wait for a while, and she went to the vegetable garden to pull up several big radishes and stuffed them into Song Chengqi's hands: "My radishes are growing well this year, take a few back for your grandparents to taste."
Song Chengqi couldn't refuse, so he had to take it: "Thank you, Third Aunt."
"What are you thanking me for? Come and play with Changan and the others when you are free."
"Yes." Song Chengqi carried a few big radishes out of the gate of his third uncle's house and ran home quickly.
I will never bring my cousins to visit people again. It really makes him, the president, lose face.
Hei Mei didn't notice anything. She smiled and hugged a big radish and ate it all the way home.
It was already June. The scorching sun was scorching the earth. The leaves began to wilt and many ponds dried up.
The mud in the pond was cracked into pieces like a spider web, which looked particularly scary.
The wells next to the ponds gradually ran out of water, which made the villagers panic.
So many villagers ran to a river several miles away to fetch water.
But there was not much water in this river. It was only a little shallow in the middle, like a stream.
Song Sanshun also went to the river to fetch two buckets of turbid water. He wiped the sweat off his face and said worriedly: "This is not a solution, Xiuying, how about we dig a well too?"
"How deep should the well be to get water?" The deep wells outside the village were all dry, and even the well of the clan leader's uncle's house was emptied by the villagers. Wu really didn't dare to take the only money in the family to gamble on an uncertain one.
Song Sanshun frowned and took a look at his own water tank.
It was full of water, and the water was so clear that you could see the bottom. It was what his niece had just conjured this morning.
He walked to the water tank and looked at it for a while. Song Sanshun scooped half a bucket of water with a ladle and drank it. When he wiped his mouth, he felt that the fatigue in his body disappeared instantly.
It was not a good idea to always let his niece conjure water for the family. Moreover, he found that his niece was very busy every time she conjured water. She would sit on the mat in the backyard for a whole day and even jog to eat.
"Let's dig a well ourselves." Song Sanshun picked up a cattail leaf fan and fanned it: "Let's dig it in the cellar and don't tell anyone."
The cellar in the backyard had been dug very deep. He always felt that it was cool inside, and the soil was moist. Maybe water could come out.
Wu breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, let's try digging in the cellar." As long as it doesn't cost money, it doesn't matter if she works a little harder.
Song Sanshun stood up: "I'll go and have a look now."
The couple came to the backyard and saw their little niece sitting alone under the persimmon tree painting a clay doll.
That thing needs to be painted many times to be bright and beautiful.
Song Sanshun felt sorry for his little niece and wanted to tell her not to work so hard, but Chang'an seemed to like doing those things very much, so he could only let her do what she wanted.
Chang'an looked up and saw that her uncle and aunt went to the cellar again, so she stood up and ran over.
Today is the day off for brother Goudan and Xiao Chutou, so she was alone in the backyard.
Of course, there are six chickens and two geese.
Dahei was also led in by his uncle and tied under the shed to keep company with Huahua and Baihuahua.
"Uncle, are you going to dig a cellar again?" Chang'an asked, lying at the entrance of the cellar.
"Well, uncle wants to dig a well." Song Sanshun went into the cellar along the ladder.
Chang'an raised the statue of the Dragon King in his hand and said, "Uncle, take this with you, it will definitely produce water."