The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

He pulled his younger sister Yang Dongxu and walked towards the back of the house. Although the younger sister walked a bit slowly, there was no way. The younger sister was only two years younger than him. With his malnourished body, it was obviously impossible for him to pick up the ball-like little girl and walk.

Behind the south house is the threshing ground, which is surrounded by the four houses in Yangjia Village. This is obviously an important military area. The cattle, sheep and other livestock in the village, as well as some common property such as granaries, are all next to the threshing ground.

"Grandpa, my dad asked me to use a hammer and a chisel." Yang Dongxu walked into a big room next to the granary and shouted to the old men gathered not far away.

This is the place where carpentry works in the village. Some 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 insert horses.

Inserting a horse is an intellectual game in the countryside, also known as six horses (walking horses). There is a large square with six lines in the vertical and horizontal directions, and inside is a small square like a Go board with a total of 36 points.

The two sides of the chess game start for one, and the four points in the small box encircle the city and one circle is one person's stone. For "eating", you can add another word,

The line on the left is the third point from the top and the third point from the left of the line on the top. If all three pieces are connected to form a line called "Sanliji" and "eating", one more piece can be placed.

If the fourth point on the left side of the following line is just connected with four pieces to form a line, it is called 'Siliji' and can also have one more piece.

If it is the second point from the top on the left, and the fifth point from the left on the bottom line, use your own five pieces to form a line called "Wuli Collection" and you can add two words.

If the six points on the diagonal are connected by one person to form a small line called "Liuliji", you can place 3 more pieces, and the six points on a line are connected by one person to form a line called "Tie". You can place 3 more subs.

When all 36 points are occupied by both sides, the "horse beating" will start, and the person who has "bottomed out" will be the first to fight. The bottom means that the last person to place a piece first knocks out the opponent's piece from the occupied chessboard to form a gap for other pieces to move around.

The person who moves first may not necessarily "get the bottom" because the "eating" and various "sets" and "bars" can affect who gets the bottom in the end.

When playing horses, the stones connected to the line of eating, gathering, and strips cannot be moved, and only other pieces can be played. If the opponent's stones are all unmovable. Then the other party can designate a piece for you to play, and the game continues after each player hits a 'horse'.

In the process of walking, you can continue to hit horses by forming eat, set, and stick. For example, the person who moves first forms a small square with four points all of his own pieces, and then "eats". He can continue to beat the opponent A child that can be knocked out.

Qihe Sanliji, Siliji knock out one piece of the opponent, Wuliji two pieces, Liuliji and tie three pieces, until the opponent admits defeat, or the last two pieces left on the board are lost, and then open a new one. plate.

Although the game is simple and the rules are not complicated, there are infinite changes in the small thirty-six points, and the killing routines of experienced people are no less than that of chess.

And there is no cost to play, just find a flat place to draw a chessboard, the chess pieces can be used on the one hand with small wooden sticks, and on the other hand, you can use mud heads to get local materials and you can start a war anytime, anywhere.

Of course, in addition to the six horses, there are also four horses, three inclined steel nails, ox hoof clips, etc. These are rural board games that Yang Dongxu has played before and his skills are good. The village is invincible.

Compared to accompanying Da Liang with a few little kids, this intellectual game suitable for all ages is obviously Yang Dongxu's favorite now. It's a pity that he can't participate because he has something to do now. Even if it's not challenging to play with the little kid, people who play with the old man obviously won't pay attention to him, the little kid.

"Take it yourself, don't lose it, and remember to send it back when you're done using it." Yang Dongxu's great-grandfather was the head of the village, and he already had white hair. At this time, he was fighting with the third grandfather on the opposite side without raising his head.

The few old men of the "father" generation around the side did not have the consciousness of being a real gentleman while watching chess without speaking, and they kept pointing at the side to make the battle situation even more indistinguishable.

"I will fight a few rounds with you when I have time, to avenge the past." When he was going out, Yang Dongxu glanced at the fierce 'battlefield' before turning his head and leaving reluctantly.

When I first learned how to insert a horse, I was often abused by these old men of the "grandfather" generation. The shadow of being abused from six horses to cow's hooves has not been eliminated in my forties.

When failure finally became a successful mother, and Yang Dongxu's horse-inserting skills reached the pinnacle, these old men had already accompanied Lord Yan in the underground to start fighting landlords, and not being able to "revenge" became a great pity in Yang Dongxu's life.

Carrying the hammer and chisel, Yang Dongxu couldn't help leading his sister along. After all, he was only in his fifties now. It was fine to pick up a hammer and a chisel that weighed a few kilograms, and it was a bit reluctant to hold both of them with one hand.

The Black Locust River is a large river within a radius of tens of miles. It is said that it is a branch of the Huai River. Yang Dongxu has not investigated the specifics. But there are many memories here when I was a child, especially swimming in summer.

Of course, from time to time, I heard stories from parents or grandpas about drowning children and scaring them not to swim in the water without adults, and I don’t know if it’s true or not.

The wind on the river bank was a bit harsh, Yang Dongxu quickly found a small path and threw the hammer and chisel down, and then staggered down with his sister.

There were reeds and trees on the bank, so we couldn't see very far, but the ice on the river was very thick. First, I picked up the hammer and chisel, and asked my sister to stand still by the river. Yang Dongxu ran to the center of the river to check, It is found that the ice is very thick and safe.

The little girl standing alone by the river with Weizi on both sides has tears in her eyes, Yang Dongxu can't let her cry now and let him take her to find her mother.

Just after returning to the riverside, I coaxed my sister a few words, told her to put away the tears in her eyes and stop it from raining, when it dawned on a few thieves and brats who had already run over.

"Here, it's already bent, so don't tell my mother." Da Liang held a bent needle and handed it to Yang Dongxu, with a frightened expression on his face. Although the children in the countryside are skinny, they are obviously very afraid of the slap of their parents.

Not long after Da Liang arrived with his younger brother Xiao Liang, Xiao Wu also arrived with his own Xiao Tao. The two brothers held a roll of sewing thread in their hands, and finally the general carried a bamboo.

"Is this bamboo okay?" The general who came down from the river bank panted and said, the bamboo is thicker than a rolling pin, but it has turned yellow and it is obviously not freshly cut. It is about five meters long.

"Almost, let me rub the rope. Da Liang finds a toad." Yang Dongxu nodded.

After taking the sewing thread that Xiao Wu had ordered, the general hooked up his fingers, then twisted several pieces of sewing thread together to form a rope, and finally threaded it through the bent needle nose slowly.

The sewing thread is already thin, so the rope that was twisted several times is still not too thick. Da Liang used a large needle at home to make a quilt, so the nose of the needle is not small and it just fits through it.

After passing through, there was a deadlock. Yang Dongxu had just made a knot there, and Da Liang had already brought a lazy toad from a small hole on the river bank next to it.

"Brother Xu Zi, can you catch fish in winter?" Da Liang asked a little uneasy. Although rural children have an inexplicable greed for meat at this time, the incident of stealing needles made him still fearful of being beaten at 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 behind, letting Xiao Liang and Xiao Tao stand on the bank with their sister, and the little kids walked towards the river.

"Hold the chisel, and I'll smash it." In the middle of the river, he handed the chisel to Xiao Wu who was next to him, and Yang Dongxu took the hammer from Da Liang's hand.

"Look carefully, don't hit my hand." Xiao Wu was a little scared, but Yang Dongxu obviously had a lot of prestige in this group of him, so he still took the chisel and put it on the ice.

The chisel was originally used for digging holes in wood, so although Yang Dongxu had little strength, the force with which he dropped the hammer in both hands was not small, and the chisel was not cut through at once. An ice hole the size of a washbasin opened.

"Stay far away, no one will save you if you fall at this time." Untie the rope from the chisel. It was just to prevent the chisel from falling into the water if you can't hold the chisel firmly after cutting through the ice.

Tie the untied rope to the middle of the bamboo pole to stabilize it, and Yang Dongxu told Xiao Wu who was close to the ice hole to back up. He beat the lazy toad that Da Liang caught just now to death with a few hammers, tore off the skin of one of the toad's thighs and hung it on a fishhook made with a big needle, and then made some intestines or something to hang it on.

About two decimeters from the hook a mortar head (a kind of soil concretion similar to a stone but not very hard) was tied and the hook was thrown into the hole in the ice.

"Don't panic if a fish takes the bait for a while, just listen to my instructions." Yang Dongxu asked his friends to stand a little further away with a bamboo pole across the ice hole.

The twisted line is long enough to sink to the bottom of the river with a mortar head and a fishhook. The toad's meat has buoyancy, and it will swing continuously on the bottom of the river under the action of the current to better attract nearby fish.

It’s just that although all fish do not hibernate in winter, they eat very little, and he is not sure whether they can drop fish, because he has never seen fishing in winter.

Although the people in the village were hungry and the fish in the river were almost fine, they couldn't move. And when fishing is possible, there will be no fish in the river in a few years, not to mention that there is no tradition of winter fishing in this area.

Little kids don't matter. It’s okay to dig out the bird’s nest, get a hook to fish in summer, and catch pheasants and wild ducks among the reeds.

Telling Da Liang and others to stay away from the ice hole, Yang Dongxu turned his head and loudly comforted his sister, telling the three little guys not to come over, while comforting Da Liang and the others, telling them not to wait in a hurry. Just as Yang Dongxu was speaking, the bamboo pole across the ice hole shook suddenly.