In the midsummer of the 31st year of Guangxu, in a small chessboard town in the north, the noon sun made people dizzy. There are also few people on the street, either shaking a fan at home to fall asleep, or chatting in a teahouse, or talking about the Japanese-Russian war in Lushun, or talking about the imperial government's abolition of the imperial examination. Most of them shook their heads and sighed with sad faces.
The happiest and most worry-free ones are the boys in the town, playing in the lake all day long and getting a lot of coolness. They built a tall wooden shelf by the lake, one by one with bare buttocks, standing in a line on the elevated shelf and jumping into the lake, thumping one by one like dumplings in a pot, and the lake was full of jubilation.
This lake is called Baima Lake. In the west of Qipan Town, the lake is close to four thousand hectares. It is covered with reeds and lotus roots. From time to time, wild ducks and geese pop out. The water is filled with carp, crucian, whitebait, silver carp, and more. White prawns, green prawns, crabs and king eight.
Tired of jumping, these boys sat on the high shelf for a while, and began to look for Chen Shuangxi, who came to fish for water chestnut every day. When they saw a shadow in a red suit and red trousers, they began to sing:
Double happiness, red and red,
Swim in the water without taking off your clothes,
Seeing the man don’t look back,
I fished the water chestnut and changed the oil,
Ask Double Happiness if you are ashamed or not,
Double happiness only throws away the mud.