"Big brother, I can't swim!"

"It's okay! Don't talk nonsense! I'm here, and I can drown you? Take it off! It's okay if you can't swim if you touch the river mussels, you can just touch them on the shore! Learn to swim by the way!"

"This ...... Big brother, can't I come down if I don't come down?"

"What do you say? Such a big person, you still don't know water, are you embarrassed to be a southerner? Get rid of it! If you are verbose, I will push you down!"

"This ...... Okay, okay!"

Zhou Jian hesitated, and finally got into the water.

Zhou Jian, who has never swam before, naturally can't touch the mussels at the bottom of the river, saying that he is touching, but not with his hands, that is to use his feet to feel, sweeping around under the water little by little, and by the feeling of the soles of his feet, to feel where there are mussels and where there are none.

Zhou An didn't expect him to be able to touch the river mussel today, and forced him to go into the water, a large part of Zhou An's psychology was actually to see that he was afraid of water, and he thought it was funny, and he wanted to tease him.

Simply put, it's fun!

Looking at Zhou Jian, who was a little taller than himself, cowering in the water, like a timid little quail, it was fun to watch, when he and his father went into the water to learn to swim, it was almost the same.

Speaking of which, his father didn't have much patience when he taught him to swim, and every time he threw him into the deep water, and then told him to swim back by himself, he was so scared that he cried, but he had no choice, and if he didn't swim back, he would have to choke on the water.

Sadly, even if he could swim back in the end, he would have to choke on a few mouthfuls of water halfway through, and his dad was still laughing and scolding over there, which was very hilarious.

What's even more inhumane is those who watch the excitement, the more panicked he is, the more he chokes, and the happier those who watch the excitement laugh.

Before Zhou An learned to swim, he didn't drink much water in the river.

Every time I finally swam back to my father, I was pushed away by my father, and then I told him to swim back again, and I didn't want to swim?

If he doesn't swim, he chokes on water, and if he doesn't choke until the gurgling water bubbles up, his father will definitely not come to his rescue.

In contrast, Zhou An's method of teaching Zhou Jian to swim was much gentler.

Like the ancient Yanei teasing the little daughter-in-law, he supported Zhou Jian's chin with his fingers to ensure that he couldn't choke on water, and then asked him to use his hands and feet to learn to swim.

It's a pity that Zhou Jian was quite bold when he was on the shore, and when he got out of the water, he was as timid as a mouse, his eyes were flustered, and he always wanted to run to the shallow water, and only when his feet stepped on the bottom of the river and the water surface was below his waist, he could be frightened.

Zhou An didn't force him, he taught him twice occasionally, and let him ponder by himself in the shallow water the rest of the time.

One by one, the river mussels were picked up by Zhou An with his feet and thrown ashore.

The place where the brothers swam and touched the mussels was in the river in front of Zhou Jian's house, and the Zhou River in Zhoujia Village passed in front of his house.

In other words, it is not unhelpful for Zhou Jian to always toss in shallow water! No, when Zhou An touched enough of the river mussels used today and was about to go ashore, he suddenly noticed that the water on the shore had been muddied by Zhou Jianquan, his eyes lit up, and Zhou An smiled.

"Big brother, what are you laughing at? Don't scare me!"

Zhou Jian saw Zhou An's smile, and thought that Zhou An was going to take him to a deep place to continue learning to swim.

"Look at you cowardly! Get out of the way! Brother will teach you how to touch fish!"

"Fishing?"

Zhou Jian looked blankly at the vast water surface of the Zhou River, "Big brother, how can you touch fish in such a big river......?"

This Zhou River is more than a mile long, and the water is deep, and the two brothers can't step on it at all, who in general believes that fish can be touched in such a deep and long river?

Think it's in your own fish tank?

"Haven't you seen it, right? That brother will teach you a good job today!"

Zhou An said, while walking to the shore, his hands greatly stirred the river water on the bank, a row of poplars with dense rhizomes stretched out in the water on the bank, and some tenacious aquatic plants, this kind of aquatic grass has a local name, called "revolutionary grass", the kind of grass that most pesticides can't kill.

With Zhou An's great agitation, the river on the bank soon became very turbid, and under Zhou Jian's UFO-like gaze, Zhou An squatted down with a smile and leaned under the roots of the trees on the shore.

The poplar tree has a well-developed root system, and half of the brown roots grow in the soil by the river, and half in the water.

Zhou An slowly touched it with both hands, the initial speed was slow, like catching chickens in the chicken pen, and suddenly, he pressed his hands forward suddenly, because his hands were underwater, and Zhou Jian couldn't see if he had touched the fish.

But soon, as Zhou An turned around and smiled at him, and took his hands out from under the roots, Zhou Jian was surprised to see a palm-sized crucian carp struggling desperately in Zhou An's hands, and the silver scales were so dazzling.

"This ...... Big brother, how do you touch this? Teach me?"

Zhou Jian was surprised, and came to a strong interest, and flatteringly leaned over to ask Zhou An to teach him.

Zhou An smiled and broke off a thin branch from the poplar tree by the river, passing through the gills of the fish, there are two or three forks at the other end of the branch, which can ensure that the fish passing through the gills will not fall, Zhou An casually bit the thin branch in his mouth, his hands regained his freedom, and squeezed his eyes at Zhou Jian, "There is nothing to teach, you just try to touch it a few more times yourself! Note that before touching the fish, it is OK to be lighter with your hands!"

……

The brothers were having fun touching the river, and Zhou An touched crucian carp of different sizes one after another.

In this way, you can only touch crucian carp and angsting fish.

Because these two fish are accustomed to being on the shore, when the water gets mixed up, they will instinctively burrow under the aquatic plants and tree roots near the river.

Zhou Jian couldn't touch the first fish for a long time, but the more he touched it, the more excited he became, because he had touched the body of the fish underwater again and again, but he had never touched the fish, and his hands were not sensitive enough.

In the vernacular dialect here, it is "a basket hand"! The kind that can't catch fish.

Zhou An laughed while watching, and only when he laughed enough did he point him to the trick.

"Don't catch the tail of the fish! The tail of the fish looks like a handle, as if it can be grasped, but in fact, you can't grasp it at all! I tell you the little sword, you have to catch the head of the fish to catch the fish, and you can only grasp the head of the fish!"

"Is that so? really, big brother, you didn't shake me, did you?" Zhou Jian was skeptical.

Also, when your hand touches the fish, don't pinch it in the water, press it into the mud with both hands! As long as you press it into the mud, it won't run away!"

"Really, why didn't you say it earlier?"

Zhou An: "Hey, hey!"

After Zhou An's guidance, it didn't take long for Zhou Jian to touch a fish, but as a result, it was okay when he touched it, but when he came out of the water with both hands holding the fish, it was tragic!

Because the fish he had just touched was a thorn.

The reason why the fish is called Ang Thorn is not only because it is called "Ang Ang", but also because it has several spikes on its body, one on each fin, and one on its back.

When the thorn fish is underwater, the spines generally do not pierce people, but as soon as it comes out of the water, a few spikes on its body will catch what to pierce something, and people who do not know how to catch it, if there is one, they will definitely be hurt by it.

No, as soon as he touched a fish, the fish just came out of the water, Zhou Jian's surprised expression didn't last for two seconds, and he was pierced by the fish and screamed, like throwing a poisonous snake, and the conditioned reflex threw the fish far away.

"Haha......"

Zhou An almost laughed.

But Zhou Jian wanted to cry without tears, his right thumb had been pricked with blood, not only that, but he was still shouting in his mouth: "Big brother! Why does this fish still have thorns? It is swollen to death! It is so swollen! My fingers are so swollen! This fish bone is not poisonous, right? Big brother, am I poisoned?"