Pet King

As Liu Ying said, her hometown is a coastal fish village located further south of Binhai.

When she was young, her parents were busy, and she went out to fish and sell fish every day. She also contracted fish farms on her own. The family conditions were acceptable, but the price was that she rarely saw her parents. She was brought up by her grandmother and raised her. With an introverted personality, after going to college and working, she slowly worked hard to make herself cheerful because of her work needs.

Grandma's legs and feet were inconvenient, and she didn't feel comfortable letting her go outside to play with other children, because at that time, the traffickers in the neighboring villages were very troublesome. There were always rumors that the pats from outside had flown to the neighborhood and abducted the neighboring villages. Several children spoke with noses and eyes and did not know if it was true or false, but her grandmother believed it to be true, and often kept her at home to prevent her from going out.

Xiao Liuying thinks that grandma is somewhat patriarchal. Perhaps if she is a boy, grandma will take the child out even if her legs are inconvenient.

There is nothing to play in the home. The TV is not connected to the cable. It can only watch a limited number of TV stations through cracked satellite receivers. Some of them also speak foreign languages, but the signal is not good, often a snowflake.

Liu Ying was bored at home, always entangled with grandma, let grandma tell stories, and let grandma accompany them to play together.

Grandma may be annoying and delayed doing housework, especially her grandma has a heavy Mahjong addiction. She must go to play cards with other elderly people in the village every afternoon. A little fish, let her keep the game for herself, but she locked the gate of the hospital, and hurried to play cards, worried that she would be late for a place.

The so-called small fish is actually a few catfish and loach, probably grandma picked it up from a small river near the village.

At that time, it was easy to fish from a small river. It was rolled into a pocket with a gauze net, put some rice grains or steamed buns in it, and sank in the river. Within a few minutes, stupid catfish would enter the net.

Later, it was no longer possible. Industrial enterprises near the villages became more and more polluted, and fish in the river were almost impossible to catch.

Fishing for fish in the river has always been the patent of the boys in the village. Liu Ying, who got the little fish, is very happy. She has a new playmate, and her grandma is no longer lonely in the afternoon.

There was a small water tank in the yard. It was empty. Xiao Liuying filled it with water, and put the sturgeon and loach into it.

Anchovies and loach are very skiny. They belong to the kind of fish that you can hardly die if you don't toss too much. You can live by throwing a few grains of rice or steamed buns in the water tank every three to five.

"Recalling now, I didn't keep them as pets at that time, I just regarded them as a tool for sending loneliness, and even did too much to them because of being boring ..." Liu Ying said regretfully.

There is a two-dollar fish hook in the village shop. She used an excuse to want to eat popsicles, and asked her grandma for money to buy the fish hook. Then she tied the end of the fish hook with a cotton thread for sewing machine, and stuck a rice grain on the tip. Learn to look like people fishing.

Both catfish and loach are easy to hook, and even scramble for rice like a starving ghost. Soon a catfish bites the hook.

Xiao Liuying excitedly lifted the cotton thread. I did not expect that the catfish was struggling very much, and her strength was beyond her imagination. She broke the cotton thread, fell on the yellow earth, and constantly slammed it, covered with dirt, like Coat the fish with a layer of flour before frying them.

She scrambled to pick up the catfish and throw it back into the tank, but the fish scales were slippery and the catfish was dying and struggling hard. Instead of holding the catfish steady, she was stabbed in her finger by the hook on the fish's mouth. The puncture was quite deep, and the dark red blood burst out.

She cried in pain, her hands loosened, and the catfish fell back to the ground, struggling a few times.

No one at home, she cried for ten minutes and no one came to comfort her.

The sturgeon on the ground was dead and her finger wounds were no longer bleeding.

She gradually stopped sobbing.

She lied for the popsicle money, so she didn't dare to tell her parents and grandma what she was doing today, fearing that they would call her naughty, and quietly concealed it, saying only one fish was dead.

However, things are not so simple.

Within a few days, she suddenly began to have headaches, dizziness, and fever. Her parents thought it was a cold, but taking medicine didn't work, but it became more and more severe, and even the whole body was cramping.

Her parents sent her to the town's hospital overnight. The doctor said that she had tetanus. It might be dangerous to send it a long time later, and asked if she had suffered any injuries recently.

Under the pressure of her parents, she cried and told her about her finger being stabbed by a fishhook.

If it weren't for her serious condition, waiting for her would be a violent meal.

Later, she became ill, returned home from the hospital, and found that the water tank was empty, no matter the water or fish, was gone.

She didn't dare to ask her parents, who were very angry because they spent a lot of money on her treatment.

To her surprise, after this incident, grandma seemed to be sorry for her and felt that her negligence had caused her a serious illness. So a few days after she was discharged from the hospital, she bought her a fish tank from the temple fair. The fish tank, about forty centimeters long, is crystal clear, and there are small houses for landscaping.

From then on, grandma did n’t play mahjong again. For many years, the addiction to cards seemed to be quit. Even though there were often card players who came to greet each other, grandma refused, even if it was a lack of one.

"Yingying, do you want to raise fish together?" Grandma's face opened countless deep wrinkles, and asked with a smile rubbing the top of her head.

Xiao Liuying was a little overwhelmed by the change in grandma's attitude, but just nodded blankly.

For a while after she was discharged from the hospital ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ she was afraid of anything sharp, and the preparation of fish farming was done by her grandma.

Grandma carried a bucket of water from the beach to call the sea, and pushed a wheelbarrow to dig up sand, pick up reefs, and arrange in a fish tank. A rough fish tank world gradually took shape.

Grandma not only bought a fish tank, but also an oxygen pump and a pair of clownfish.

Compared to the gray-and-black catfish and loach, the clownfish is much more beautiful. It looks like the contrast between the ugly duckling and the swan, which makes Xiao Liuying happy.

She and her grandmother started to raise fish together, pondering what the clown fish eats, lying on the side of the fish tank with their chins together every day, and admiring the elegant swimming posture of the clown fish shaking its head and tail in the water.

During this period, Liu Ying was the happiest day. For the first time, she felt that her grandma was so close, instead of the grandma who had let her play rudely.

However, the problem followed, and the clownfish became ill and covered with a white membrane.

She and grandma are at a loss.