January 21, the fifth year of Xiping, Han Dynasty.

Near noon, in the east of Qiao County, Peiguo, the governor of Yuzhou, a group of simple-dressed people were standing by a frozen river, looking at the ice, as if they were looking at something interesting.

Although it was a sunny day, it was a rustling cold wind, and the sunshine on its body could not relieve the chill. Even so, these people did not plan to leave the river and go home to keep warm.

Where their eyes gathered, a child who seemed to be only eleven or twelve years old was standing on the thick ice surface, waving an iron hoe, hitting the ice surface with one hoe and another.

He was not wearing thick clothes.

"It's the third day, right?"

Among the crowd, a man in a slightly thicker dress asked to another man in a slightly thicker dress beside him.

The man who was asked nodded.

"Yes, it's the third day. I should have done yesterday, but unfortunately there was another snow yesterday. Dalang's work the day before was wasted. Fortunately, it cleared up early this morning, and he came early. He also took great pains to get his mother to eat fish."

The people watching around them also expressed their expressions of emotion as they heard these words.

Three days ago, something circulated in the city, saying that the wife of the county master was sick and lay on the sickbed and said she wanted to eat fish, but there was no place to buy fish in winter. The eldest son of the county master Guo Peng came here to climb the frozen river and chisel ice, and wanted to get fish for the wife of the county master to eat.

People were very moved.

"I heard that Madam Zun of the County is not generous to Dalang. She is obviously the eldest son in the family and is not well treated at home."

"After all, it's not a biological son. Who can treat other people's sons like their own?"

"If you want to say that Dalang is kind enough, he is treated so hard that he still came out alone to get fish for her on such a cold day. The water surface is frozen. Where can I get fish?"

The crowd of onlookers said something, and the more they said it, the more they felt that the child on the ice was waving a hoe and hitting the ice.

Finally, someone couldn't stand it and planned to move.

"How great is Dalang. He is kind and kind. Many people from all over the country have received Dalang's favor. Let's just watch it like this, right?"

Then the person was pulled by others.

"Dalang said that this is his own business. His wife is sick and wants to eat fish. He wants to make fish for her. It is his own will. We are not allowed to help. Many people have to go and help him before. If he persuades him to come back, we should not go. Just think that Dalang has filial piety!"

The people around him were even more moved.

The look of looking at the back of the hoe waving on the ice was even more admirable.

It is so filial to say that the mother can still do this in order to treat herself badly.

But at this moment, Guo Peng ignored these people's thoughts.

He waved his hoe hard and hit the thick ice surface, gasping for breath, and the cold air sucked into the hot body. He felt his chest was stuffy, his trachea was a little painful, and he felt very uncomfortable.

I came here the day before yesterday to lay a black cloth, thinking about using the temperature of the sun to melt the ice, but I never thought that there was another snow from the afternoon before yesterday to yesterday, and it was useless.

It cleared up early this morning, so I quickly came here and sprinkled some salt and covered it with black cloth. After waiting for an hour, I waited for the thinner ice layer.

Otherwise, with a small body like myself, I may not be able to break the ice surface for most of the day.

But even so, the ice surface was still so thick. After knocking for half an hour, he didn't see the bottom. Fortunately, a very deep pit had been knocked out, so he sprinkled some salt into the ice pit and then knocked it.

If it were a civilian, he might feel a little distressed, but as the eldest son of the county magistrate's family, he didn't lack the salt, so he just sprinkled it.

What you want now is efficiency, efficiency is the most important.

Inhale in and exhale in large mouths, the trachea is painful and the limbs are sore and swollen.

But this is not the time. We must persevere and work harder to break the ice.

While breathing, Guo Peng swept out of the corner of his eyes to the river bank and was watching. The number of people was more than when he first arrived in the morning. It seemed that people were still coming from afar.

very good.

He must persevere and persevere until the final victory.

But the longer he felt his body became more and more numb and his movements became more and more mechanical, lifting, smashing, raising, and smashing, and he didn't know when it would be.

Why is this damn ice layer so thick?

Guo Peng has never missed the greenhouse effect of his previous life as much as he does now.

Suddenly, a shout sounded.

"Big brother!Big brother!Big brother!"

Guo Peng heard the familiar shouts, turned his head and saw two little guys running from the shore to the ice, and supported each other on the ice with great difficulty and walked towards him.

"Aren, A Chun, why are you here?"

The stubborn Cao Ren pulled Cao Chun, who was the same number one smaller than him, and came to Guo Peng's side with difficulty from the river bank. Then Cao Ren reached out and took away the hoe from Guo Peng's hand. Cao Chun had no hoe. Seeing that there was a handful on the ground, he also took one.

"We came to play with my eldest brother and learned that my eldest brother is here, my eldest brother! What are you doing here on such a cold day? Who can chisel ice and fish in winter? Even if you want this, why don't you ask someone to help you?"

Cao Ren looked at Guo Peng with great displeasure: "Does your eldest brother regard us brothers as outsiders?"

"Did you think of our brothers as outsiders?"

Cao Chun followed and agreed.

“…”

Guo Peng looked at the two brothers with a little depressed look and smiled helplessly.

"This is my own business. My mother is sick and wants to eat fish. I want to fish for her. This is what I should do as a son, and it is also my intention. I can't let you and me suffer from the cold."

"Brother!"

Cao Ren patted his chest and said with a righteous look: "Brother's business is mine. If you want to get cold, I will suffer from cold with you! Otherwise, what kind of face is Cao Ren, a man!"

"What kind of face is a man!"

Xiao Cao Chun followed and agreed.

Guo Peng was a little moved. After thinking for a while, he pulled out a ball of cloth strips and wrapped them around Cao Ren and Cao Chun's hands.

"Since you said that, I won't stop you, but you should also be careful not to freeze. The three of us work together and will surely be able to drill through the ice surface soon."

"Um!"

Cao Ren and Cao Chun became excited, so they raised their hoes with Guo Peng, and knocked them hard into the ice pit with one hoe and another.

I knocked and knocked, and I don’t know when it was knocked. Anyway, I suddenly felt a hoe, and a splash of water splashed, splashing all over the three of them all.

"Throw through?"

Cao Ren looked at the water coming out of the ice pit in surprise.

"Thread through!"

Guo Peng was also surprised to look at the water coming out of the ice pit.

"Throw through it!!"

Xiao Caochun threw down his hoe and jumped up happily, then fell on the ice.

Guo Peng quickly helped Xiao Cao Chun up and shouted: "Stop smashing it quickly! A big hole will be smashed! There will definitely be fish!"

"good!"

Cao Ren and Cao Chun excitedly waved their hoes and together with Guo Peng, smashing the ice hole bigger and bigger. After smashing an ice hole with an diameter of about one and a half feet, Guo Peng stopped.

Then Guo Peng immediately asked Cao Ren and Cao Chun to turn around and get the net bag, and quickly took out a handful of unknown things from the cloth bag on his body and scattered them into the ice cave.

Sprinkled twice.

"Brother, how do you use this net bag? It seems different from the net bag we saw?"

Cao Ren held the long-handled net bag made by Guo Peng and didn't know how to use it: "Can you just reach into the river like this?"

Guo Peng shook his head and just smiled.

"Wait a minute, soon the fish will come to your door."

"Take it to your door?"

Cao Ren and Cao Chun brothers didn't know what Guo Peng meant.

Are there fish that are so stupid that they come to your door?
Chapter completed!