He pulled his sister Yang Dongxu towards the back of the house. Although her sister walked a little slowly, there was nothing she could do. She was only two years younger than him. With his undernourished little body, it was obviously impossible for him to pick up the little girl who was wrapped like a ball and walk.
Behind the south house is the threshing floor. The four houses of Yangjia Village surround the threshing floor. This is obviously an important military area. The village's cattle, sheep and other livestock as well as some common property of the granary are next to the threshing floor.
"Grandpa, my dad asked me to use a hammer and chisel." Yang Dongxu walked into a big room next to the granary and shouted to the old man gathered not far away.
This is the place where carpenters work in the village. Some of the tables, chairs and benches in the village are made here, so the tools are complete. At this time, several old men were gathering around to fuck their horses.
Horse-inserting is an intellectual game in rural areas, also known as six-horse (horse-walking). There are six lines vertically and horizontally surrounding a large square, with a total of 36 points in the small square like a Go board.
When both sides of the game mention a starting move, the four points in the small box and the circle around the city are all one person's pieces. For "eat", you can add one more word.
The left line is the third point from the top and the upper line is the third point from the left. If the three pieces are all connected to form a line, it is called "Sanliji". Like "eat", you can play one more piece.
If the fourth point from the left of the line below is connected to a line with exactly four pieces, it is called "Siliji". You can also add one more piece.
If there is a small line on the left, the second dot from the top, and a line below, the fifth dot from the left, all five of them are connected to form a line called "Wuli Ji", you can add two more characters.
If the six points on the diagonal line are all connected by one person, it is called a "Liu Li Ji", and you can play 3 more pieces. If the six points on a line are connected by one person, it is called a "bar". You can place 3 more pieces.
When all 36 points are occupied by both sides, the 'horse play' begins, and the person who 'gets the bottom' plays first. The bottom means that the person who made the last move first knocks one of the opponent's pieces from the occupied chessboard to create a gap for other pieces to move around.
The person who moves first may not necessarily get the bottom, because multiple bets of 'eating', various 'sets', and 'bars' can affect who gets the bottom in the end.
When playing a horse, you cannot move the pieces that are in a line of pieces, collections, or strips. You can only play other pieces. If the opponent's pieces are not moved, you can't move them. Then the other party can designate a piece for you to play, and the game will continue after each person plays a 'horse'.
During the walking process, you can continue to beat the horse by forming a piece of food, collection, and strips. For example, if the person who moves first moves a piece to form a pattern of a small square with four points of his pieces, he will "take", and he can continue to defeat the opponent. It can be knocked off.
Eat and three-mile set, knock out one opponent's stone in four-mile set, two in five-mile set, and three in six-mile set and strip, until the opponent admits defeat, or the last two stones left on the board are lost, and then a new one is opened. plate.
Although the game is simple and the rules are not complicated, there are endless changes in the thirty-six points. The killing routines of experienced people are no less generous than chess.
And it costs nothing to play. Just find a flat place and draw a chessboard. The chess pieces can be played with small wooden sticks on one side and clay heads on the other. You can start a battle anytime and anywhere.
Of course, in addition to the six horses, there are also four horses, three-slope steel nails, ox hoof clamps, etc. These are rural board games that Yang Dongxu has played before and his skills are good. In addition to being unable to defeat some old guys, he has swept several nearby ones. The village chief is invincible.
Compared with accompanying Daliang and a few little kids, this kind of intellectual game suitable for all ages is obviously Yang Dongxu's favorite now. It's a pity that he can't participate now because he has something to do. Even if it's not challenging to play with a kid, playing with an old man will obviously not pay attention to a kid like him.
"Take it yourself, don't lose it, and remember to bring it back after use." Yang Dongxu's eldest grandfather is the village chief. He has white hair. At this time, he and the third grandfather opposite him were fighting fiercely without raising their heads and shouting. .
The few old men with the word "Master" around them did not have the consciousness of a true gentleman who watches the chess without saying a word. They kept giving advice and made the battle even more difficult to resolve.
"I will fight you for a few rounds when I have time to avenge the past." When he went out, Yang Dongxu glanced at the fierce 'battlefield' before turning around and leaving.
When I first learned how to ride a horse, I was often abused by these old men. From six horses to cow hooves, I still had the psychological shadow of being abused in my forties.
When failure finally turned into a successful mother, and Yang Dongxu reached the peak of his horse-drawing skills, these old men were already accompanying the Lord of Hell underground to start fighting landlords. The inability to 'revenge' became a major regret in Yang Dongxu's life.
Carrying the hammer and chisel, Yang Dongxu couldn't help but lead his sister away. After all, he was only in his mid-fifties now. The hammer and chisel weighed several kilograms each and it was okay to swing them around a few times. It was a bit reluctant to hold both with one hand.
The Robinia River is a large river within a radius of dozens of miles. It is said to be a branch of the Huaihe River. Yang Dongxu has not investigated the details. However, I have left many memories here as a child, especially swimming in the summer.
Of course, from time to time, I hear stories from parents or grandfathers about drowning children to scare them not to swim in the water without adults. I don’t know if they are true or false.
The wind on the river bank was biting his face. Yang Dongxu quickly found a path and dropped the hammer and chisel first, then staggered down with his sister.
The bank was blocked by reeds and trees and could not see very far, but the ice on the river was very thick. He first picked up the hammer and chisel and asked his sister to stand by the river and not move. Yang Dongxu ran to the center of the river to check. I found that the ice was thick and safe.
The little girl standing alone by the river with reeds on both sides had already started to shed tears. Yang Dongxu couldn't let her cry now and let him take her to find his mother.
As soon as he returned to the river and coaxed his sister a few words to put the tears in her eyes away to stop the rain, a few thieves from Da Liang had already ran over.
"Here, it's already bent. Don't tell my mother." Daliang handed a bent needle to Yang Dongxu with a slightly frightened look on his face. Although children in rural areas are naughty, they are obviously very afraid of their parents' slaps.
Not long after Daliang arrived with his younger brother Xiaoliang, Xiaowu also arrived with his own Xiaotao. The two brothers held a roll of thread for sewing clothes, and finally the general carried a bamboo stick.
"Is this bamboo okay?" The general who came down from the river bank said breathlessly. The bamboo was thicker than a rolling pin, but it was already yellowing and it was obviously not newly cut. The length is about five meters.
"That's about it. Come and let me twist the rope. Da Liang is going to find a toad." Yang Dongxu nodded.
He took the sewing thread that Xiao Wu had brought and asked the general to hook up his fingers. Then he twisted several sewing threads together to form a rope, and finally slowly threaded it through the bent nose of the needle.
The sewing thread is already thin, so after being kneaded and twisted several times, the rope was still not very thick. Daliang used a large needle at home to make quilts, so the nose of the needle was not small enough to fit through it.
After going through it, I tied a tight knot. Just as Yang Dongxu got it back, Daliang had already got a lazy toad from some small holes on the river bank next to it.
"Brother Xuzi, can you catch fish in winter?" Daliang asked uneasily. Although rural children at this time had an inexplicable craving for meat, the incident of stealing needles made him still fearful of being beaten when he went home. .
"Remove the word "?", it must be possible." Yang Xudong took the other end of the twisted rope and tied it to the chisel.
Then the general pulled the bamboo pole, Xiao Wu carried the hammer, and Da Liang followed. Xiao Liang and Xiao Tao stood on the bank with their sister, and the few little kids walked towards the river.
"Hold the chisel and I'll smash it." When he reached the center of the river, he handed the chisel to Xiao Wu next to him. Yang Dongxu took the hammer from Daliang's hand.
"Look carefully, don't hit my hand." Xiao Wu was a little scared, but Yang Dongxu obviously had a lot of authority in this group of people, so he still took the chisel and put it on the ice.
The chisel is originally used to dig holes in wood, so although Yang Dongxu is weak, the force of dropping the hammer with both hands is not small, and it is not drilled through at once, so after more than ten minutes of going back and forth, changing people, on the ice A hole in the ice was opened the size of a basin.
"Stand away, no one can save you if you fall at this time." Untie the rope from the chisel. This was just to prevent the chisel from falling into the water after cutting through the ice.
After tying the untied rope into a knot in the middle of the bamboo pole to stabilize it, Yang Dongxu asked Xiao Wu, who was near the ice cave, to step back. He hammered the lazy toad that Daliang had caught just now to death, tore off the skin from one thigh of the toad and hung it on a fishhook made of a large needle, and then hung some intestines on it.
A mortar head (an earth concretion similar to a stone but not very hard) was tied about two decimeters away from the fishhook and the fishhook was dropped into the ice hole.
"Don't panic if a fish takes the bait soon. Just listen to my instructions." Yang Dongxu placed the bamboo pole across the hole in the ice and asked his friends to stand farther away.
The twisted line is long enough and has a mortar head with a fishhook that can sink to the bottom of the river. The toad's flesh is buoyant and will continuously swing on the bottom of the river under the action of the current to better attract nearby fish.
It's just that in winter, although all fish do not hibernate, they eat very little. He is not sure whether the fish can fall, because he has never seen fishing in winter. When he was a child, everything was fish in the river of the production team.
Although the people in the village are hungry and the fish in the river are about to become sperm, they cannot move, otherwise they will be poaching the socialist corner and will be criticized with high hats. And when fishing was possible, within a few years there would be no fish left in the river, not to mention there was no tradition of winter fishing in this area.
However, criticism and struggle are only for adults, not children. If you have nothing to do, dig out bird's nests, get a fish hook for fishing in the summer, and catch pheasants, wild ducks and other things in the reeds. Adults just treat them as children. If you get it, you are lucky. If you don't, it doesn't matter. But adults can't participate.
Asking Daliang and the others to stay away from the ice cave, Yang Dongxu turned around and comforted his sister loudly, telling the three little guys to stay away. At the same time, he comforted Daliang and the others and told them not to wait in a hurry. Just as Yang Dongxu was speaking, the bamboo pole lying across the ice hole suddenly moved.
