The fish in the mountains are no fatter than the ones outside, and in this crystal clear river, the largest fish can grow, about the size of two or three fingers.

Some are small, the size of a pencil.

Although the fish are small, they are better than the abundance, and in the difficult years in the past, the fish in this small river can be regarded as feeding a lot of mountain people with their small bodies.

However, probably because of the lack of culture and the lax reverence for nature, later, in response to the popularization of torpedoes, electric fish engines and fish medicine, some mountain people would frantically kill the fish in the river for their own selfishness, so that in the past few years, there were almost no small fish in the small river in the village.

However, fortunately, the country's vigorous politics later banned people from using tools such as torpedoes, electric fish machines, and fish medicine, which allowed the battered river to recover, and now it has returned to its original appearance.

Ah Gui was very excited when he saw Brother Qingshan coming: "Brother Qingshan, come on, there are a lot of fish in Brother Shui Chong here." ”

"Be quiet, don't scare the fish away. Liu Qingshan walked forward quickly, followed the example of Agui, squatted on the stone bridge, and bowed down to look at the river below.

The bridge is a historic stone bridge that has been repaired entirely of large blocks of stone without any steel bars.

According to the older generation, the reason why the village is located in this mountain is because the ancestors of ancient times could not bear the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so the family fled here.

After the ancestors fled here, they began to cultivate the land, cultivate crops, and repair bridges.

Although the width of the river in the village is not very wide, the ancestors still built many small bridges like this in the village with tenacity and perseverance to make it easier for the mountain people to travel.

These bridges often have only two piers, one on the left and one on the left, with an arched bridge in the middle.

The stones used to repair the stone bridge were made of local materials, and the most common large stones found in the mountains were used. However, the ordinary original large stones have different shapes, which is not conducive to building bridges, so the ancestors had to rely on simple tools to polish these stones of various forms to sharp edges and corners, and the forms are unified, so as to build ancient bridges that have stood for hundreds of years.

This work is complex and arduous, and requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

However, in order to continue this great project, the ancestors gave generously.

Mr. Tan donated six taels of silver, Uncle Liu donated five taels, the Chen family also donated five taels, and the widow Mrs. Lu did not have any silver, but donated two bags of rice that the family had saved by frugality......

So, with the selfless support of everyone, the construction of the bridge began.

On sunny days one after another, the men moved stones and chiseled stones, and the women could not do these tasks, so they were responsible for taking care of their crops and children, and occasionally when they were empty, they would boil a few pots of hot tea and send them to the men.

There were no cell phones, no televisions, and no all sorts of gadgets. Therefore, the men just work, and they don't take a photo and post it to the circle of friends. Women make tea is to make tea, and they will not shout in the WeChat group.

The people of that time were pure, as pure as every stone on this ancient bridge.

Compared with modern people, they have no superfluous material resources, but they are rich in more spirit.

Nowadays, there seem to be very few such people.

Liu Qingshan looked at Agui, and suddenly felt how valuable Agui's family was.

Life in his family may be more difficult than that of their ancestors, but the family has always faced life with an optimistic and easily satisfied attitude.

Just like Agui's mother, even the burden of two children couldn't overwhelm her.

is also like Ah Gui and Ah Hua, even if it is much harder than children of the same age, but this still does not become an excuse for them not to like to study, on the contrary, it is precisely because they have endured more hardships that they are more willing to study hard, and they want to use knowledge to change their fate.

Of course, this is before.

Now, Agui is no longer willing to study.

Liu Qingshan stared at the small fish that ran out of the crack in the stone for a while in the river, and then got back into the crack in the stone, and asked in a calm and light tone, "Ah Gui, do you think it's fun to catch fish?"

"Huh?" Ah Gui was a little puzzled, "It's fun, of course it's fun, but, Brother Qingshan, why do you ask that?"

Liu Qingshan smiled: "Then let's start catching fish." ”

"Huh?" Ah Gui was stunned again, looking at Brother Qingshan, who only brought a fishing net and a plastic bucket for fishing, and said with a confused expression, "Is that it? ”

"Of course not. Liu Qingshan looked around, pointed to the foot of the mountain not far away, and said, "Agui, you wait here first, I'll cut some grass." ”

"Huh?" Ah Gui looked at Brother Qingshan who was leaving, and shouted, "Brother Qingshan, didn't you say that you would catch fish together, why did you go to chop firewood again? ”

"Oh, you little fool, I'm not going to chop firewood, I'm going to chop firewood for fish?"

"What?firewood for catching fish?" Ah Gui's mind came to the picture of the hero in the martial arts TV series using a wooden stick to stab the fish.

Could it be that Brother Qingshan will still do this?

Driven by curiosity, he couldn't take care of it anymore, so he ran away with Brother Qingshan.

When he arrived at the mountain road at the foot of the mountain, Liu Qingshan pointed to a green plant on the mountain wall and said: "Agui, this is it, using this to catch fish is more powerful than your mother using a cage to catch it." ”

"How is that possible?" Ah Gui looked at the green plants on the gable, and didn't believe Brother Qingshan's words.

Brother Qingshan loves to brag the most.

"It's just a weed, and the branches are so soft that even if you want to stab a fish, you can't stab it. ”

When Liu Qingshan heard this, he couldn't help but slap Agui's brain melon and said, "Who told you that you want to use it to stab fish? ”

"Medicine fish?" Agui looked at the plants on the gable in surprise.

It was the weeds in the four spaces of the mountains.

It may be a weed, but it is much taller and stronger than a normal weed, and it is green all year round, with purple arrows.

It resembles a tree, but its branches are so soft that once the arrows are formed, their branches are bound to be easily bent and the clusters of arrows hang upside down in the air.

Its flower arrows are composed of dozens or hundreds of small flowers the size of soybeans, these small flowers are pink and purple, and the color and appearance are rare in the mountains.

It is like grass and like a tree, but it is not grass nor a tree, so it should belong to the shrub category.

As a shrub, this plant usually grows on gables, and rarely on flat ground, probably to keep its pretty arrows from touching the dirt.

In this way, once these purple flowers growing in the gable wall are breezed by the breeze, they will be like lively puppies, under the traction of the branches, dancing happily, and the purple flower arrows will draw beautiful silhouettes in the air.

Because of the warmth of the south, especially in fairy places like Xishan Village, which is like spring all year round, here, this plant blooms purple flowers all year round. More than a dozen flower arrows hung down from the gable, and from a distance, they looked like fairies in purple gauze floor-to-ceiling dresses.

"What is this?" Gui asked, looking at the plants on the gable, "Can it heal fish?"

"Of course. Liu Qingshan easily climbed up the gable, waved the woodcutter in his hand, and cut down these plants with small purple flowers. ”

"Drunken fish grass, drunken fish, is it poisonous?"

"Haha, if you can get the fish drunk, it must be poisonous. Liu Qingshan smiled, and suddenly stopped laughing.

He also asked his grandfather this childish question.

Grandpa said that although this drunken fish grass is poisonous, there are two sides to everything, and poisonous grass, as long as it is used well, can also be used to cure diseases and save people.

For example, these purple drunken fish grasses, although they are poisonous, but their root bark is taken in spring and autumn, and their branches and leaves are taken in summer and autumn. Generally, it is mostly used for rheumatic joint pain, bruises, and fractures.

In addition, if the purple flower drunken fish grass is used externally, it can also treat foot moss.

Although it is common in the mountains, not many people know its efficacy.

In other words, even if they know its efficacy, not many people cherish it. Because there are so many of them, and they grow fast, they can grow a clump in a year.

Therefore, in the eyes of the industrious but uninteresting mountain people, these drunken fish grasses are just weeds. In this way, when they are working, whether in the fields or in the barren forests in the mountains, once they feel that these drunken fish grasses are in the way and rob them of nutrients, they will definitely eradicate them mercilessly.

Of course, they can't be blamed for this. In the past, when people didn't need to buy a car or a house, they were strapped for life and needed land. Now, although the mountain people have a better life, they are also under great pressure and need to buy a car and a house, so they need land even more. Therefore, in their view, all plants that 'invade' the crops are wrong and must be eradicated.

Of course, there are many people who are not interested, but it does not mean that people are not interested. Like Grandpa Aoyama, he is a very interesting person.

When he tended to the crops, he would be reluctant to harm some of the plants in the field because he knew their efficacy.

Some people say that he is stupid, and that the weeds in the ground are almost tall, and he will not cut them down.

Others said he was funny, because they had seen him sit down on the side of the bushes and trees that he had preserved, when he was tired from work, and would face a small flower or a bush of weeds.

Grandpa Aoyama doesn't like to show off his character, so he doesn't care what others think of him.

It's like drunken fish grass, which blooms low to the dust.

Like any other flower, it has beautiful and decent clothes and beautiful S-shaped curves, but it never shows off, but silently converges.

At its most beautiful and splendid, and when it was closest to the earth, its respectful and pious posture was like a purple-clothed goddess bowing down to read the earth. The mountain breeze is blowing, the clothes are fluttering, 'the moon is shy and the flowers are sighing, and the geese are drunk and the fish are jealous', unconsciously, this bending over and flowering, actually bloomed the spirit and faith, and opened the beauty and luxury.

Make the best use of each other.

Grandpa Aoyama seems to know this very well, so when Aoyama was a child, he could often follow his grandfather to medicine fish.

The tool of the medicine fish is the commonplace drunken fish grass.

"Is it poisonous?" asked Koaoyama.

Grandpa laughed: "Since it can get the fish drunk, it must be poisonous." ”

"If it's poisonous, will it kill all the fish in a river?" Agui frowned, full of unbearable heart.

Although he really wanted to catch fish and let his mother eat enough, he still didn't want to hurt the innocent.

There were so many fish in the river that they couldn't catch them all, so wouldn't the other small fish that were also drugged but not caught by them be sacrificed in vain?

"Haha, what do you think of the drunken fish grass?" Liu Qingshan had already cut down two bundles of drunken fish grass.

He held a bundle of drunken fish grass in his left hand and right hand, and said with a smile: "Although the drunken fish grass can drunk the fish, it does not poison the fish, but anesthetizes the small fish, and when the anesthesia time passes, the small fish will slowly recover, not only will not die, but also the same as the original." ”

"Huh?" Ah Gui looked at the drunken fish grass in Brother Qingshan's hand in disbelief, he really didn't expect that these common weeds in the mountains were so magical.

"Also, drunken fish grass does not pollute the water source. They're more environmentally friendly than the laundry detergents that people use for laundry. ”

"That's great. Agui stretched his brows, "If this grass can really catch fish, then in the future, I can use it to catch fish for my mother to eat." ”

"Haha, this can be there. ”

The two of them talked and laughed and returned to the edge of the river.

Liu Qingshan handed the fishing net to Ah Gui and advised: "You stand in the middle of the river and are responsible for fishing, and when you see a fish coming out, you can just catch it, and after fishing, put it in the bucket, don't put too much water in the bucket, so as not to jump out of the fish." ”

"Got it, then I'm fishing, what are you doing?"

Liu Qingshan pointed to the river above the small river and said, "I put poison on it, and you catch fish below." ”

"No problem. "Agui is very excited.

Because it was the first time to catch a fish with drunken fish grass, it felt very fresh and exciting, so he was full of joy in his heart.

Whether or not he catches a fish, it will be an unforgettable event for him.

In the future, when life is difficult, when he recalls the fishing with Brother Qingshan today, maybe his heart will be a little warm.

When he was a child, he had a big brother who caught fish with him. That kind of time may be lamented in adulthood, but it will always be alive in the memory.

Liu Qingshan carried two bundles of drunken fish grass to the top of the river, and without saying a word, he used the back of the woodcutter to beat the drunken fish grass vigorously on the big stone on the bank of the river.