It was getting dark, and there were fewer people on the dock. The remaining fish Jihuai simply stopped selling and packed up their things and went home.

Yin Cai and his daughter walked in front, and he followed behind with his fishing net. He took off his water shoes, his trousers were wet a lot, curled up high and low, with a straw hat on his head. When he met an acquaintance, he still greeted him warmly.

"Are you going to sea?" The other side looked at him like this and asked.

"Isn't it." Ji Huai was still a little stunned.

"What good stuff did you catch?"

"As soon as I got out of the horse, of course I caught a lot of good goods, and they were all sold out. There are also a few mullet. Take them back and fry them." Ji Huai took the fish out of the bucket and stuffed them hard.

Poor is poor, lazy is lazy, but he is good-looking and generous to outsiders.

The other party happily thanked him and walked away with two mullets.

Yin Cai naturally listened in front of him, and was accustomed to his appearance.

Walking home all the way, Yin Cai went to the kitchen to cook, took out the cutting board, and placed it on the ground while processing the salmon, ready to be braised.

The crab is still fresh, so she doesn't plan to put too much condiment, try to keep the taste delicious, steamed with sauce is also good.

Outside the kitchen.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Ji Huai was handling his fishing net and packing his props. When he saw that Ji Ziqing was about to boil water, he helped her lift the boiling pot of water.

When Ji Ziqing went to pick vegetables, he pointed to the beans, "Pick some of that, and fry them."

She walked to the bean stand and began to pick the beans. This season is cowpea, also known as carob, a long one. The vine grows on a carob frame, and the beans hang down one by one, and you have to pick them long and full.

Cowpeas grow fast, and if they are not picked in time, they will become "old", soft and tasteless.

After Ji Huai packed his things, his body was slimy, and he went to take a shower. In the cities in the south by the sea, there is no winter at all, and he takes cold showers all year round.

After receiving a bucket of water, I went in for a bath, took a two-and-a-half-dollar old brand soap, washed from head to toe, and poured from top to bottom, usually in less than ten minutes.

When he came out, he helped Ji Ziqing pour out the hot water and carried it to the shed, "Go take a bath."

"Yeah." She returned quietly.

Before Ji Ziqing entered the bun, she took a peek at Ji Huai. In the past, my father seldom went home. She and mother needed to do everything. Mom was too hard, and she did everything she could to help her.

Dad has been at home in the past few days. As long as Dad is there, she can do a lot of things. She doesn’t want Dad to go out and drink every day. Isn’t it good to be at home all the time?

Ji Huai took a shower and wandered in the yard comfortably, looking at the tall buildings around him, without any thoughts. The reason why a lazy person is lazy is that there is no need or desire. Hope, if there is a pursuit, he will not be lazy.

He feels that living in a tall building is the same, he doesn't care at all.

Yin Cai cooked the meal, and the family of three was eating.

The crab was placed in front of Ji Ziqing, with a pot of braised salmon in the middle. Because Ji Huai had a big appetite, Yin Cai made a whole fish.

In the meantime, when talking about Ji Ziqing's test results this time, her language has been a bit regressive, and Yin Cai asked her to be more careful next time.

Ji Huai gnawed at the fish's head and said, "Well, read, you can read, and you can't read it. Your dad didn't read much, didn't he still live well?"

"Don't study like you?" Yin Cai couldn't help but mock him.

"What's wrong with me? I can eat and sleep, and the days are not bad." He was confident with a hint of honey.

Yin Caiqi didn't fight at all. "The teacher said that Ziqing is a material for reading. What are you trying to mix with? It's okay if you don't encourage her. Can you stop mixing with it?"

"I don't mean anything else, I mean don't be stressed..." Ji Huai said that with a guilty conscience at the end, he quickly changed the subject and picked up a crab for his daughter. "How fresh is this crab meat, eat more." Point. Dad will keep it for you next time I go to sea."

"Thank you Dad." Ji Ziqing buried her head in eating crabs.

Yin Cai also didn't bother to care about him. Compared with Ji Huai's previous ignorance, now willing to leave crabs for his daughter is an improvement.

In the past, Jihuai had to go for a walk around the village after eating. Even if there were only twenty yuan in his pocket, he would have to go to the small shop in the village to buy a few bottles of beer and find a place to sit with them. If you drink it, a pack of peanuts can be used as a side dish.

I haven't gone for a stroll lately. Yin Cai came out of the bath and saw him sitting on the floor in the house sorting out the banknotes he received today. It was stuffed into his pocket and crumpled into a ball, and he was spreading it out one by one.

Ji Ziqing sat next to him, lying on the bed doing homework.

The room was so small that she had to go around him in order to get to the bed, and Yin Cai asked him to move away.

Ji Huai leaned against the cabinet, leaving her a way, Yin Cai walked over and climbed onto the bed.

She sat on the bed and looked down, seeing clearly. Ji Huai already has a few red banknotes in his hand, and it seems that the income is good today.

They live by the sea, and the local economy is relatively good compared to the entire province. Even if they work hard, there are at least two hundred a day.

If there is only one reason for being poor, that is laziness. Ji Huai is not only lazy, but also lazy.

Ji Huai sorted out the banknotes and quickly counted them in his hand, "One, two, three, four, four hundred, five, five hundred, five hundred two..."

When Ji Ziqing heard her father's thoughts behind her, she stopped the hand of homework, turned and turned to look at him.

Ji Huai just finished counting, a total of five hundred and ninety-seven, plus the money collected online, it was about a thousand or so. Excluding the oil money, you can make a net profit of hundreds.

He counted it again, saw his daughter looking at her, looked at her, then looked down at the money in his hand, and drew out two red bills to her, "Here."

Yin Cai was wiping hand cream, seeing his movements, she also looked over.

Ji Ziqing didn't pick it up immediately, but instead looked at her mother.

"Don't the school have to pay for the food? I will pay it tomorrow." Yin Cai reminded her daughter.

Ji Huai was in a good mood, so he had to accept it immediately, or he would say that he had no money when he finished spending it. He has to let him take it when he has money. If he doesn't take the initiative to give it today, she will also force him to give it.

Ji Ziqing stretched out his hand next.

"I'll give you another thirty. Go buy some snacks." Ji Huai put thirty yuan in front of her again, stood up, and put the remaining money in his pocket.

There is no good part.

She also got used to it and went to bed with a quilt. He gave two hundred, and he saved two hundred, which was enough.

Ji Ziqing looked at the thirty yuan on the bed, picked it up gently, put the twenty yuan in the piggy bank beside the bed, and put the remaining ten yuan in the bag and closed the zipper.

The next day.

Ji Huai went to sea before dawn, and Yin Cai sent her daughter to school.

Sending Ji Ziqing to the school gate, she told her daughter, "Dad will give you the money in the future, you have to keep it, or your dad will spend it all. When you see him have money, you have to ask him to take it, you know?"

Ji Ziqing didn't speak.

Seeing this, Yin Cai sighed again and asked her daughter to ask Ji Huai to get the money. She was afraid that it would be more difficult than going to the sky, so she said again, "Forget it, he will just continue."

"Yeah." This time, Ji Ziqing nodded and said goodbye to her mother.

Yin Cai watched her daughter walk to a certain distance, checked the time, and drove forward quickly.

When Ji Ziqing stood at the gate, she looked back at her, clutching the schoolbag belt in both hands, and walked to the classroom.

The elementary school in the small town has only two classes for each grade, namely Class One and Class Two.

When Ji Ziqing walked into a class, the class bell rang, and the study committee member walked to the podium and took the lead to lead the reading.

"The little rooster and the little duck."

"The little **** and the little duck go out to play together..."

....

Reading aloud came one after another in the class, Ji Ziqing took out the textbook and read aloud together.

When class was about to end, the head teacher came in to collect the food and said to the students, "From tomorrow, we will take turns to let the students take the school, starting with the student number, tomorrow will be Chen Xun, the day after tomorrow will be Ji Ziqing... ."

After finishing talking, the head teacher walked to Ji Ziqing's side and arranged the text for her to read. She was so nervous that she was gripping the corner of her school uniform with timid eyes.

"Don't be afraid, read more to get used to it." The head teacher smiled and comforted her.

Ji Ziqing didn't dare to refuse the teacher, her eyes kept fluttering, and she was panicked and afraid.

The head teacher naturally felt it. When I returned to the office, he said this. The math teacher drank tea and said, "Ji Ziqing is a good student. He is too timid to do a problem, even if he doesn’t understand it. Won't come to ask."

"Yeah, it's too introverted, she must read more." The head teacher sighed.

"Her brain turns faster than Yang Hui and has a strong absorptive capacity, but Yang Hui is easy to ask, and she can catch up with a little harder. This child maintains such a personality, it is inevitable that she suffers." The math teacher commented.

Yang Hui is Ji Ziqing's tablemate, lively, and the head teacher arranged for the two to sit together, also wanting to bring Ji Ziqing to the other side.

In the classroom.

Yang Huizheng came over and asked Ji Ziqing, "Why don't you go to the dance audition? Everyone goes, but you are the only one."

The dance institution in the town happened to be in the same class.

"I don't want to go." Ji Ziqing lowered her head to read the book, her voice whispered.

"Why don't you? It's so fun. I heard that there are performances. My parents still want to see them. They are held in a middle school in the city. Let's go, let's go and play together." Yang Hui pestered her. Keep talking.

"I don't want to go." Ji Ziqing grasped the pen tightly, and wrote the words harder and harder.

"but...."

Yang Hui wanted to say something, a little fat man squeezed over and said with a throat, "Ji Ziqing's family has no money. She lives in a dilapidated house, so she has no money to go."

He is the son of Brother Ji. The house has several floors in front of Ji Huai's house. He often stands on the window and scolds Ji Ziqing for being stupid.

"You are talking nonsense!" Ji Ziqing suddenly raised her head, clenched her small fist, her neck flushed, and retorted him.

"I'm not talking nonsense. Your family has no money. Your father is a drunkard and a lazy person. Your house is going to fall. My mother and grandma said your father is poor and lazy." Xiao Pangdun was also not convinced, "You Mom still does useless things. If you have no money, she will send you to dance and paint. Your family is poor. If you are poor, you have to go to dance and paint. It is to love face and deserve to be poor!"

The language of childhood Wuji carries the greatest malice.

weekend.

The painting teacher is not going to class this week and is going to study in the city. Yin Cai doesn't know what's wrong with her daughter, and she doesn't want to take dance lessons.

She was going to send her daughter, she said she didn't want to go, and she was extremely stubborn.

Part of Ji Ziqing's stubbornness followed Ji Huai, and what others didn't want to do was useless.

"Mom is going to work. If you don't go, go to the store with your mom. Otherwise, who will cook for you?" Yin Cai packed her things for her daughter and wanted to take her out.

Ji Ziqing was lying on the bed, still not moving.

She doesn't want to go to the store, but also eats other people's food, and will be talked about. Everyone knows that she has a struggling mother and a lazy drunkard father.

"What's wrong with your child today? Mom is going to be late for work, get up quickly." Yin Cai couldn't move her, thinking she was lazy, she stretched out her hand to get her out of bed.

Ji Ziqing cried with a "wow", tears falling down, crying out of breath, "I don't want to go, I don't want to go..."

Yin Cai was taken aback and squatted down to coax her, "What's wrong? Tell mom what's wrong?"

Ji Ziqing has been crying.

Ji Huai was here today, and when he heard his daughter's cry, he rushed in, "What's the matter? Why are you still crying?"

Ji Ziqing lay on the bed crying, no matter what the two said, she didn't say anything.

The lady boss called and urged Yin Cai to hurriedly open the door. The truck has arrived, and the master wants to unload the goods. She coaxed her daughter for a long time, with nothing to do, and anxious.

"You go first, the big deal is that I won't go out to sea today, and I will take her out for dinner later." Ji Huai said.

"Look at her and call me if you have something to do. I'll see if I can come back at noon." When Yin Cai received the call from the boss again, she hurried out.

After Yin Cai left, Ji Huai sat by the bed and watched her daughter.

When Ji Ziqing was a child, she would still talk to Yin Cai. When she grew up, her temperament became more and more introverted, and she liked to hold it in her heart. However, he can probably guess the reason.

He didn't speak either, just stayed with her in silence. After his daughter calmed down, he said, "Dad is going to sea to fish. Do you want to go with Dad?"

The weather is very good today, there is no wind, it is still very safe.

Ji Ziqing's head buried in the quilt shook vigorously.

"You haven't been to the sea yet. Would you like to see it? The sea is beautiful. Go catch a crab and come back and let your mother cook it for you." Ji Huai slowly tempted her.

Ji Ziqing did not refuse this time, but did not agree.

"Your dad went to sea when he was a few years old. If it is safe, he is safe. A few days ago, my dad discovered that there are many mussels on an uninhabited island. After we put the net, we will go to dig the mussels and sell them back, okay?" Ji Huai Coax her.

Ji Ziqing sat up and looked at her father, her eyes all red, she kept looking at him, her mouth narrowed, "Dad, don't be so lazy in the future."

"Why is Dad lazy? Dad got up very early today and has to go out to sea. Isn't this worrying about you, so I didn't go?" Ji Huai quibbled, and saw that his daughter was watching him all the time, and his heart was guilty, "Go and go. , We went to sea, went fishing and digging for mussels."

In the end, Ji Ziqing was fooled by Ji Huai to go out to sea.

She is also very curious about the sea. Because her family is poor and she didn't go anywhere to play, Ji Huai would go out to sea with Hupengou friends from time to time, and would not bring their wives. Relatives don't have much contact with their homes, and feel unlucky.

Ji Huai first found a straw hat for Ji Ziqing, and then went to the town to buy her a pair of small water shoes and a pair of small water pants.

"We ate lunch on the boat. What do you want to eat? Dad will buy it for you." Ji Huai took his daughter around the town and went to the small restaurant.

Ji Ziqing always looks at the price when buying things. Ji Huai didn’t let her choose in the end. He said to the aunt who sells meat, “Here are three big rice balls, a bowl of dried fish, and two chicken drumsticks and two chicken wings. In the refrigerator. What kind of drink? A bottle of beer and a bottle of lactic acid bacteria."

"Dad, don't drink." Ji Ziqing frowned, very angry, "I still want to drink when I go to sea!"

Ji Huai looked at him, "I don't want the beer. Change to Coke."

After paying the money, one big and one small walked to the pier carrying things.

Ji Ziqing sat on the small broken boat, looked at her father, and then at the shore. She was still a little scared, "Does my mother know? I'll be worried if my mother comes back and can't see it."

Ji Huai called Yin Cai in front of her, emphatically saying that he would not go too far and would be sent back safely.

Although Yin Cai was worried, she finally agreed, and Ji Huai would still take care of her daughter even if she was a bastard. He has been out to sea since he was a child, and he still has common sense.

As the boat gradually left the coast, Ji Ziqing was frightened at first, but she was attracted by the sea behind her. She lay on the bed and looked at the sea, bright light streaming out of her eyes.

The sea I saw on the beach was different from the sea I see now. She stretched out her hand to play in the water, and a little smile appeared on her face.

Ji Huai’s broken phone was still holding a dirty love song on the side. Ji Ziqing was taking photos with his phone. The screen was too broken and it was difficult to see the true face of the photos, but she never tired of it.

"Let's go and put the crab cages first." Ji Huai drove the boat to a place not far from the coast and set down the three crab cages.

The crab cage is a cylinder supported by an iron rod and a fishing net. A box is placed in the middle, and the bait is placed inside. The fishing net will leave a hole. The fish, crabs and shrimps are attracted by the fishy bait into the crab cage and cannot escape. .

After Ji Huai released the crab cages, he said to her, "There will be crabs in it for a while. If you catch the big crabs, I will leave them all for you to eat."

Ji Ziqing looked at the crab cage that was put down, and continued to watch while lying on the boat.

Ji Huai turned around and drove a long way away before putting the sticky net down.

Today, there are still three rows of sticky nets. Ji Ziqing still stepped forward to help. She is not very good at it. Ji Huai also slowed down to let her participate.

After putting out the three rows of sticky nets, Ji Huai looked at her.

The little face under the straw hat also looked at him. The sun was shining on the boat. She moved a little bit, sweating on her forehead and nose, and her little face was flushed.

Usually there is no communication, and the father and daughter start to stare at each other.

"Let's go, go to dig mussels." Ji Huai said while standing at the stern holding the engine in hand.

Mussels: "Mom likes to eat mussels."

"Then dig more and go back."

"Ok."

....

Mussels are scientifically named mussels. The shells are large and emerald green. They live on shallow seabeds or rocky areas all year round. The meat is delicious and delicious.

The most important thing is that this shellfish does not contain sand and tastes good.

Jihuai passed this uninhabited island a few days ago and found densely packed mussels growing on it on the rocky ground. Row after row, a small uninhabited island was everywhere.

Mussels are also cultivated artificially, and when the price is high, they can reach more than 30 kilograms. This thing is very heavy. Large mussels are as long as half of his palm.

Ji Huai stopped the boat, told Ji Ziqing to wear gloves, and gave her a bucket and an iron hook.

Standing on the rock, he lowered his head to point to a row of emerald green mussels growing on the rock, "Do you know how to dig it? Hold the tip of the iron hook and lift it up. Dig one out and it's easy to dig. ."

"Be careful, don't fall."

The uninhabited island is small and the rock is steep, he told his daughter.

Ji Ziqing's small figure was moving, and Ji Huai took her to a slightly flat area, under which there was also a row of mussels growing closely together.

As far as I can see, there are rows after rows, horizontally long, vertically long, interlaced and long, and there are huge piles of rocks underground.

Ji Ziqing squatted on the rock, awkwardly digging the mussels with an iron hook, and as Ji Huai said, he could lift it up with a hard knock.

Sometimes there were still a few attached, she reached out and picked them up, separated one by one, and threw them in the bucket.

For her, this experience is novel. Although she lives by the sea, her mother is not free and she leaves work late every day. To her, rushing to the sea is a luxury.

She digs while wiping sweat, working hard.

Ji Huai's hands and feet were much more flexible than her. He kept tilting the iron hook and threw handfuls into the bucket. After digging this place, he carried the bucket to the next place.

He keeps all the places that are easy to dig, specially digging hidden in the rock underground or slightly steep places.

After filling a bucket, he returned to the boat with the bucket, poured out the mussels in the bucket, and came back to dig with the empty bucket.

After he dug two buckets, Ji Ziqing dug a small half bucket, sweating a lot, he asked his daughter to stop, "It's time to eat, and then dig after eating."

Ji Ziqing was actually hungry too. Ji Huai helped her carry the bucket back to the boat, poured out the mussels, and put the bucket aside.

The uninhabited island is very small, the waves have been beating against the rocks, and there is no dry place. The two returned to the boat to sit down and take out the food they bought in the morning.

He could wash his hands with sea water by leaning over, Ji Huai gave a rice ball to his daughter and laid out the food.

Ji Ziqing has been busy all morning, too hungry, eating faster than usual, Ji Huai gave her chicken wings, and when she finished eating, she would give her a chicken drumstick.

"I can't finish it," she said.

Ji Huai put the chicken drumstick on his end, and gave her the remaining chicken wing.

Ji Ziqing ate two chicken wings and ate a large rice ball.

He bought three rice balls, one for each person, and one left. He looked at his daughter and took out the remaining big rice balls, "Eating half more?"

She shook her head.

"Eat more and go to collect the net in the afternoon." Ji Huai broke a small and a half rice ball to her and asked her to eat more dried fish.

Ji Ziqing didn't refuse any more, and had eaten a lot of food, and her stomach was full.

After eating, take a rest, and then continue to dig the mussels, but not long after digging, Ji Huai asked Ji Ziqing to get on the boat to collect the nets, and to go back, otherwise it was too late to sell.

She looked at a lot of mussels left, reluctantly.

The author has something to say: in the previous chapter, because of Mi'er's negligence, there was a small mistake, so I am really sorry.

Because the hairtail is a deep-sea fish, it will die soon after leaving the water. The reason is that the deeper the water, the stronger the air pressure. The hairtail cannot adjust the high and low pressure difference when leaving the water. The rapid expansion of the internal pressure will cause fatal damage to it. Finally, The hairtail there is changed to salmon.