In my childhood memory, my village is surrounded by pits, also called Zhai Haizi, is dug before liberation to prevent bandits, the wall of the village is towering, Zhai Haizi is three zhang wide, as deep as one zhang, four pillboxes on all sides, only a passage at the south gate, or the suspension bridge that rises and falls, the suspension bridge floats on the water during the day, so that the people in the village can pass, at night, in order to prevent the bandits from sneaking attack, then pull up the suspension bridge, hang it in the air.

In the past, Haizi was full of hidden weapons, and as long as the bandits dared to come, they would be defeated.

Once, bandits came in large numbers and threatened to level my village.

When they attacked the village, they secretly wanted to swim through the water and prepare to lower the drawbridge, but they all fell into the hidden weapon of the underwater ambush, and they were embarrassed and fled, never daring to invade our village again.

After the liberation, the bandit forces were suppressed, the bandit leaders were also shot, the social atmosphere took on a new look, earth-shaking changes took place, the working people turned over and became the masters of the country, and the bandits no longer dared to gather at night to disperse, burn, kill and loot.

The masses built the suspension bridge into a road dam, and later erected the bridge deck.

The underwater mechanism was removed, and the water of Zhaihaizi was rippling with blue waves, and there were flocks of ducks and geese, which were vivid under the reflection of the sun.

Frogs and waterfowl call melodious sounds, lotus and water chestnut on the water surface compete with each other, every summer, groups of three or five small friends, play in the water, pick water chestnut and lotus, the water will sometimes dive into the bottom of the water, touch a few sections of sweet lotus root as a dish, let the family enjoy.

There are yellow eel nests on the edge of the sea, use a steel needle to thread the rope, install earthworms as a lure ear, and then use your fingers to dust in the water by the yellow eel's nest to attract the yellow eel, sometimes, the yellow eel is also very cunning, and does not eat the hook for half a day, even if it eats into the belly, it can bite off the rope and escape.

A smart person can catch more than a dozen yellow eels in the morning, and then chop off the yellow eel head with a knife, and sprinkle the blood on the paper to cool and dry, which is the best medicine to stop bleeding.

Eel meat is used to be steamed or stir-fried, and it is also a good dish to accompany wine.

In the process of fishing for yellow eel, the method is strange and not uncommon.

Some can't catch the yellow eel, just dig it out with their hands, in the process of digging the yellow eel, the hand will sometimes be bitten by the yellow eel and bleed, and it has to be wrapped in yellow eel blood paper to heal. When some people find that there is a yellow eel nest, dig with an iron shovel, people who know the yellow eel know that the yellow eel has an air eye, digging from this end, it will run away from the other end of the air eye, and the air eye must be blocked before digging the yellow eel.

My brother is a master of fishing, and in his spare time, he will fish in the Zhaihaizi and Nuwa River, and I carry a bucket of fish, and follow behind me, ready to pick it up.

I remember fishing a few times:

One summer, it rained for several days in a row, and it can be said that the pit was full of rivers, and after the rain, the fish heads in the sea jumped and formed a group.

My brother took the fishing hook, and I took the bucket and went to the sea to catch a fish under the tree.

Put the sesame oil and the noodles as a lure, put it on the hook, and then throw it into the fish in the water, the fish see the lure, the peak rushes, rush to eat the hook, see the water float sinking, my brother began to lift the hook, a mention is a fish, happy I can't close the mouth, just throw out and lift, the fish fly in the air, and after a while I caught half a bucket of fish.

Another time was to cut the bamboo sticks into diamond-shaped shapes with tips in advance, and put earthworms on the bamboo sticks to attract the ears.

Tie it to the main rope with a thin line, a main rope across the opposite shore of the sea, the main rope can be hung with twenty or thirty fishing hooks, after dinner, put the main rope in the sea water, tie it with a stick, the next day the day is not dawn, you can take the main rope to pick up the fish, each main rope is hung with loaches, particularly eye-catching, such as putting three main ropes, at the same time can catch a hundred loaches.

Once again, we had a big flood here, and the water of the Nuwa River overflowed the bridge deck, so we climbed on the bridge pole to fish, and in less than a morning, we had caught half a bucket of yellow croaker alone.

The most unexpected time was to lay a lazy hook in the Nuwa River and catch big fish.

At night, use a small frog to put on the hook as a lure, put it in the river, and when you go to get the hook the next morning, you can catch a big fish, among which the largest grass carp caught is 8 catties and 2 taels, and a grass carp is enough for the whole family to eat beautifully for a day.