Water is indispensable for summer fun. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The small stream of Nangou flows down the hillside and flows into the river channel of Baoli, the river water is clear and transparent, and the river water is less than one meter deep more than ten meters wide. Descending the river, crossing a road bridge, the river meets another, larger stream, and the river suddenly widens, forming a curved lake of several tens of meters. The weeping willows on the shore are silky, and the flowers and plants are flourishing.

This is the Three Rivers.

Every summer, children of all sizes in the fort often gather here to bathe, fish, and catch toads.

Bathing is to play in the water, a group of half children in the water fluttering, here the river is deep, the middle of the piece can be a meter, it is a little dangerous for children, generally whether they know it or not, the big children will always take care of the small, do not let them go into the deep water.

Enough of splashing in the water, pulling a handful of grass on the riverbank, scrubbing your body from head to toe.

This grass has wide leaves, purple stems, and a small amount of foam when washed with water, which can remove dirt, and is used by many rural people to wash clothes. But I really can't remember what it's called, I forgot about the iron leaves, soap grass.

After the big ones are washed, they will pull the small ones over and rub them all over again, no matter whose family it is.

After scrubbing, some of them packed up their clothes and went home, but most of the children would not leave and began to play.

Zhang Xingming asked his brother: "Shall we go back?" He didn't like to soak in the water like this, although it was only thirty or forty centimeters deep, he was small, and it had reached his thighs. The brother glanced at him and said, "It's so early to go back, it's still early to eat, touch some fish, go back and get fish sauce to eat." ”

My brother is a master of catching fish, and he looks slowly along the shore in the shallow water in the shade of grass and trees, and he can't go fast, he will startle the fish. While looking for it, he also said to Zhang Xingming: "You go behind me, don't get so close, the fish are scared away." Zhang Xingming didn't want to follow him, but there was no road on this shore, it was a meadow, and the grass grew taller than him. Just find a shallow place to stand in the water and watch my brother.

The water suddenly fell silent, and only the cries of toads came from everywhere. Everyone was cautiously looking for fish, and slowly they dispersed, huddled together, and no one could touch them.

The wind swept through the treetops, and the willow branches swayed gently, occasionally blowing over the water. The sound of the water became louder and flowed into the distance. At that time, the water was so clear that you could see everything clearly, and fish of all sizes swam quickly among the rocks at the bottom of the water.

The elder brother moved slowly, bent over, put his hands in the water, suddenly stopped, waited motionless for a while, slowly stretched out his hand to the side of the swimming fish, and then quickly closed his hands, pulled out of the water, and turned back and shouted Zhang Xingming: "Erming, come, grab it." Zhang Xingming walked over, his brother slowly found his hands, and a small fish struggled between his hands.

The fish can only go forward and not backwards, and it is easy to catch it if it is calculated in advance, and it is said that it is to catch the fish, but in fact, at that moment, the hand is waiting for the fish to get in by itself. In the water, the hand is not fast and the fish is not fast, and it will not be counted in advance, and if you want to rely on the speed, you will never be able to catch it. The same goes for catching a toad, which can jump several meters away after being frightened, and can't catch up when it jumps up. To calm down first, observe, the toad can only jump to the front and top of its mouth, it is also calculated in advance, and at the same time as the hand must be blocked in the direction of its jump in advance, and then it collides and catches it.

Zhang Xingming went to the shore and pulled a straw pole and handed it to his brother, who passed the straw through the cheek of the fish, let Zhang Xingming take it, and went to catch the next one. Zhang Xingming took the straw pole and soaked the fish in the water, so that the fish would not die. This is also because the strength of the small fish is small, and if it is a larger fish, it will tear off the gills and run away.

After catching seven or eight small fish, my brother was not yet satisfied, so he began to circle around a pile of stones at the bottom of the water, and there were more fish in the cracks of the stones. Zhang Xingming called him: "Brother, don't go up to the crack of the stone to touch it, or you can find a stone and smash the stone with the fish." The elder brother stood up and looked at him, thought for a while, nodded, lowered his head and fished out a stone the size of an adult's fist from the water, waited for a while, and smashed a stone with a fish, and the water sprayed everywhere, and the brother himself got a body, and his clothes were wet. But it also succeeded, Xiaoyu was stunned, and slowly floated up, his brother grabbed it in his hand, wiped his face with the other hand, and said to Zhang Xingming: "It's hit." ”

It is very dangerous to fish in the cracks of the stones, and many of the stones are very sharp by the water, and the scratches are light, and the heavy ones are broken by the fingers.

As soon as I put this unlucky fish on the straw pole, I heard someone shout: "Army, you are pulling the second child, there is a water worm." (Water Snake)" saw the fourth master's grandson Mancang rushing over with a stick, blocking the two brothers behind him, looking around with his eyes, and saying, "The army, you lead the second child to the shore, hurry up." "Water snakes are venomous.

The elder brother pulled Zhang Xingming ashore, found a stone for Zhang Xingming to stand on, and looked at Brother Mancang together.

Mancang took a stick and probed in the grass a few times, and with a bang, a water worm that was almost a meter long swam from the grass into the water, the speed was quite fast, and the gray-white body writhed quickly in the water. Mancang reacted quickly, and a stick was pumped up, hitting the water worm, and the worm froze all of a sudden, only the head was still bent around, floating down the water. Mancang threw away the stick, went up and grabbed the tail of the long worm with his hand, picked it up and slammed it a few times, this time the head of the long worm did not move, and the bones of the whole body were disjointed, but if it was sent to the mouth, it would still be bitten.

Grabbing the tail with one hand and pinching the snake's head with the other, Mancang breathed a sigh of relief, turned back to the brothers and said: "There are many long worms here, don't come here to play in the future, listen?" The elder brother said: "I'm not afraid, I've beaten long worms." Mancang was fifteen or sixteen years old at this time, and when he saw that his brother was happy, he reached out and handed the long worm in his hand to his brother, saying, "Then give it to you." The elder brother looked at the long worm, swallowed it a few times, and then said, "Don't, you hit it, you go back and eat it yourself, I'll catch the fish." ”

Mancang coiled the worm into a ball and threw it into the grass in the distance, saying, "The worm is not tasty and fishy." Let's go, brother will lead you to touch the crickets. ”

The cricket is a more common aquatic product in the river here, and it looks exactly the same as the crayfish, that is, it is slightly smaller, and the light cyan body swims upside down in the water, running fast. This toy is very delicious, and the output is also large, if you use a gauze net to fish, it is normal to catch a dozen in a net. But after 95 years, it gradually became less and less, and it was rare to see it.

The three of them went ashore, and Brother Mancang led the brothers upstream, until they came to a place not far from the bridge, and told them to wait, and he ran under the bridge by himself, and after a while he came over with a copy net, checked as he went, and said, "It's okay, no one has used it, it's still good." ”

This piece of water is shallower than below, but also more urgent than below, Mancang put the net into the river, slowly dragged against the water, walked a dozen steps, set up the net, dragged up from the water, the brothers followed over to look into the wind, sure enough, there were a few crickets jumping at the bottom of the net.

Mancang asked his brother to help him copy the net, went to the shore to get a small basket of straw, came over and poured the crickets into it, handed it to his brother to hold, and went to catch a few nets, a total of more than a dozen of them came over, and then put the nets in the bridge hole again, and said: "Okay, lead the second child to go back quickly, don't run here in the future, if you want to eat something to find me, I'll help you get it, the water is deep here, there are many insects, do you hear?" The old brother took the cricket, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Well, remember, Brother Mancang, will you catch toads? I hear a lot of toads here. ”

Man Cang looked around, listened for a while, turned around and walked into the meadow, walking slower and slower, careful cat waist, observed for a long time, slowly bent down his body, jumped out suddenly, covered his hands on a bush of grass, and then turned over and sat up, and said: "Come and see, this is not a toad, this thing is called a chicken, it is not delicious." ”

The two brothers ran over to his hand to look, and a green frog was held in the palm of his hand, and his jaw was bulging.

Mancang slowly let go, pinched the frog with one hand, turned it over and let the brothers look at the belly, and said: "This is a frog, a chicken, the belly is white, and the belly is red, called pepper, you can't eat it, you have to eat the black back, the one with the pattern on the belly, that's the toad, it's bigger than this." There are more in the playful pond, but less in the living water. ”

The elder brother looked at the frog and nodded, looking teachable, and looked at Brother Mancang's eyes full of admiration.

Mancang looked left and right, and said with a smile: "Look, teach you to play." He reached out and plucked a straw from the side, and bit it off with his mouth, and the middle of the straw was hollow, like a straw. Then he turned the frog over, rushed up with his buttocks, inserted the straw into the toad's buttocks, and slowly blew with his mouth, and the frog's belly slowly bulged, and the bulging became bigger and bigger, like a balloon. Mancang pulled out the straw pole and put the frog into the water, but the frog couldn't move, so he could only float on the water, and slowly drifted away with the water, and the elder brother laughed.