Chapter 1173: The little boy
Bai Zhi had fished before. There was a lot of fish in the built fish pond. They were all very hungry, so they jumped at the sight of food. Fishing naturally became simple and easy, and it was not interesting, because it was too simple.
The fish in the lake in front of her were all wild. There was never a shortage of food in the lake. It must not be easy to catch fish in the lake.
She knew it was not easy, but she never expected that it would be so difficult. After sitting for more than half an hour, the goose feather float did not move at all.
At this time a little boy came to them carrying a cage with a long rope tied to one end of the cage. Holding the rope with one hand, the boy threw the cage into the lake with the other. After the cage sank, he squatted in the lake. By the side, waiting for the fish to arrive.
That cage was the same as Gu Boyang’s cage, even the rope was made by Gu Boyang himself, how could he not recognize it?
Just as Gu Boyang was about to get up, Bai Zhi pressed him down, turned her head to the little boy, and asked: “This little brother, this cage is interesting to weave, where did you buy it?”
The little boy laughed and said, “I didn’t buy it, I picked it up.”
Bai Zhi smiled and asked: “Picked it up? This cage looks quite new, you pick it up?”
The little boy looked like eleven or twelve years old, and he smiled innocently: “I just picked it up. I picked it up here. And when I picked it up, there were two big fish in the cage. After selling the two big fish for 30 coins. My sister finally doesn’t have to go hungry, and I will be able to feed my sister with this cage.”
It was only then that Bai Zhi noticed that the clothes on the boy’s body have many holes. For children from poor families, it was normal for them to continue wearing their old clothes, but they would always put on some patches, at least not to expose the skin.
But the clothes on the little boy’s body were full of tears without a single patch, and his clothes didn’t fit well, so one could tell it wasn’t his own.
Bai Zhi asked: “Aren’t you supposed to go to school at your age, why are you still out fishing?”
The little boy turned his head away and looked at the rope half floating in the water. The bright smile on his face faded slightly, “My mother is sick, my father is gone, and my sister is still young. I am the only man in the family, I cannot let my sister and mother go hungry.” He has no way to find money to treat his mother’s illness, but at least, he can let his mother and younger sister have food.
At the ordinary time, he goes up the mountain to cut firewood and buys food with the money from the sale of firewood. But recently, the mountain was going to be mined, and he was not allowed to enter. He was so worried that he wander here yesterday, then he found a cage thrown in the water. No one cared, he thought it was abandoned by someone, so he pulled up the cage, and unexpectedly, there were two big fish inside, which made him very happy.
Bai Zhi looked at the little boy, at such a young age, he was able to shoulder the burden of a family, much better than her.
In the eyes of the world, Bai Zhi in Huangtuo Village also took on the burden of a family at the age of twelve.
But only she knows that she was not twelve years old, she was clearly in her twenties.
But the child in front of her was just eleven or twelve years old!
Gu Boyang took a deep breath, looking at the child in front of him, he couldn’t help but think of his child, his child, counting it, he was now seventeen years old. He wondered how the two of them were doing.
Gu Boyang put down the fishing rod in his hand, got up and walked to the place where the cage was lowered five steps away and pulled out the cage that had been submerged in the water. The cage he made today was bigger than the previous one, and there are already three big fishes inside and also some prawns.
He brought the cage in front of the little boy, “All these are for you, and the cage is also for you.”
The little boy stared at the cage, which was the same as the one he had thrown into the lake just now, only different in size.