Chapter 0619: The Old Man by the Sea
Immortal poverty alleviation is poverty alleviation for a county, he wants to aid construction, it is to aid the construction of infrastructure in a small country in Africa, Liu Feiyang can't do it like him for the time being, but he won't be low-end enough to take all the gold, silver and jewelry into his arms, that patient once told him two words: pattern!
Today, Liu Feiyang also has a pattern, he really wants to divide the order, and let the whole village make money together, not to thank him, but to do so with a clear conscience, as for those who give him the order, the only thing Liu Feiyang can repay at present is to make the dishes: clean, hygienic, and sufficient.
That night, more than a dozen families had already offered to participate in the food delivery.
The grocery store was too small, Liu Feiyang called everyone to his home again, and carefully explained all the processes and procedures to them, everyone seemed to have returned to their student days, on the kang and underground, there were forty or fifty people sitting, their eyes widened, and a few people were holding pens and paper to memorize, listening very carefully.
It wasn't until ten o'clock in the evening that the flow of people faded like a tide.
The next day, the village was almost half empty, and all of them went to buy food or vehicles as Liu Feiyang said.
Uncle Lu's grocery store is also empty...
At this moment, Liu Feiyang and An Ran are holding hands and catching the sea by the sea.
The sun has just risen, and the sea breeze is refreshing.
Liu Feiyang was wearing boots, his military coat had been taken off, he was wearing a very simple camouflage uniform, he was carrying an iron bucket in his right hand, most of the bucket had been filled, and he looked very fruitful, An Ran was still wearing the pale yellow down jacket, and he also stepped on his boots, and his hair was simply tied in a ponytail.
In the past, the two of them came here to live, and when they picked up sea vegetables, they could chop the stuffing, and they would pick them up when they found others.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that it is the first time that the two of them can go out for a walk holding hands like this.
If you find a small hole in the beach, then there will be a discovery inside, it may be clams or razor clams, or something else, there will be dense oysters on the reef that leaks out, that is, oysters, you can't buckle it off by hand, you have to use a special tool, similar to a small axe, to smash the outer shell down, and dig out the meat inside.
The village of Black Rock is far from the city, there are beaches but not developed, and in the summer there may be people who come to camp in the wild, but in this cold winter, there are few people, and there are only two of them on the entire seaside.
The two of them walked while listening to the sound of the waves, which was very pleasant.
"Yesterday, Lu Qing invited you to his house, why don't you go..."An Ran lowered her head and said, the smallest woman's action she could make was to raise her legs, and her legs collapsed very straight, falling to the ground slightly heavier than before, and now it is like this, it will only appear on the beach in the field of vision when the tide falls, and it will splash water drops.
"Now is not the time, if I go, he will definitely invest in me, and I don't know how to refuse his kindness, in the whole Hailian, in his generation, that is, himself, at least for now, I don't want to have any interest in him..."
I saw Lu Qing once when I was in the hospital, but Liu Feiyang was very weak at that time, and Lu Qing didn't say much.
"That's fine," An Ran replied softly.
She knew that Liu Feiyang didn't plan to test anyone's help, but she didn't expect that even Lu Qing's invitation would be refused.
She didn't talk anymore, Liu Feiyang didn't plan to say anything, maybe it was a matter of mood, if he was still the kid who had just come out of the village, or if he came to the beach for the first time, maybe he would have a water fight with An Ran or something, and now, the two just wanted to walk quietly for a while.
At the same time, a bicycle had just stopped on the road on the side of the two, riding a white-bearded old man, wearing a straw hat that did not match the current season, and carrying a fish basket on his back, dressed in navy blue clothes from the eighties, looking no different from the old man in the village, but this old man was very clean, and at first glance it would make people say: the clothes are not worthy of this person, he stood on the road and looked at the back of the sea hand in hand.
Maybe he has reached a certain age, or he has experienced great rights and wrongs, these eyes are cloudy and reveal the vicissitudes of life, he looked at it for a while, and then pushed the car off the road and walked towards the sea, the bicycle first walked on the seaside full of stones, and the bells jingled.
Liu Feiyang heard the sound and turned his head to look.
This old man is not the first day to appear here, but it is very strange to appear here today, Liu Feiyang has seen him four times in total, all of them are the second and sixteenth days of the lunar calendar, that is, when the tide is high, he is sitting on the raised stone by the sea, motionless to face the sea breeze, holding a fishing rod, and sitting until the sunset, Liu Feiyang is watching at home, never came up to see it, and I don't know if he can catch a fish.
"It's coming, it's a little early today..."
Liu Feiyang saw him getting closer and closer, and took the initiative to ask.
"If you can't stay idle at home, you will go out and let off steam..."
The old man was not surprised that he knew him, his voice was full of anger, not like an old man, more like a middle-aged man, he pushed the cart, the pace was faster than the two walking, and after a while he had already walked to his side.
"There is no tide today, the stone you often sit on has completely exposed the sea, there is no water below, the fish can't swim, I'm afraid you have to change places..."
The old man's fishing rod was not a professional fishing rod, just a bamboo with a fishing line tied, and even the hook below looked like it was made by himself, which was somewhat similar to the fishing rod that Liu Feiyang made himself when he was in the village.
An Ran also looked at the old man, smiling, and a little surprised by his simple fishing equipment, although there are almost no people here here, and there are more fish than other places, but it is not enough to use such equipment to be adjusted at will, or rather, he has become a professional fishing rod, and can drop more.
"There's no need, I'm always sitting in this place, the fish already know me, there are some weird old guys who have never bitten the hook, old man, I got up early today, they can't let me go back empty-handed..."
Hearing this, the two were slightly stunned.
This old man is dressed strangely, his equipment is strange, and his speech is even different from ordinary people.
After he finished speaking, he looked at the two of them, and added, "This girl is handsome"
"Thank you," An Ran replied with a smile.
"Old man, there is sand under that reef today, there can be no fish at all, if you put the hook into the sand, maybe you can lure the things inside, but it is not a fish" Liu Feiyang raised his hand and pointed to the reef that had appeared in front of him.
This reef is the most abrupt rock of this one.
About two meters and five high, has to weigh dozens of tons, like a triangle, one side is a slope, the other side is a facet, the old man climbs up from the slope every time, sits on the edge of the facet, when the tide is high, the sea water can submerge half of the reef, and the low tide will be completely exposed to the beach.
He shook his head slowly, and then said, "If I can catch a fish on this reef today, you can give me the tin bucket and the contents in your hand, and if I can't catch it, how about I give you this fishing rod?"
As he spoke, he had parked his bicycle beside the reef and was unloading the fishing rod tied to his bicycle.
Unexpectedly, he was still a stubborn old man, Liu Feiyang didn't have the heart to gamble with him, not to mention that there was a sea cucumber in this iron bucket, and he couldn't make a mistake if he lost, even if he won, it was impossible to ask him for this fishing rod.
"Don't bet?"
The old man grabbed the fishing rod and asked with a bright gaze.
Almost at this moment, Liu Feiyang and An Ran felt the overwhelming pressure at the same time, in fact, this feeling was very ethereal, but his eyes, which were cloudy just now, suddenly became bright, which caught people off guard.
"Don't bet!"
Liu Feiyang said two words from his mouth, and his face became a little serious.
"If you bet you'll lose!" said the old man, laughing heartily, and then walked up the slope to the reef with a sonorous step, walked to the edge of the face, put down the mat, and sat down.
In the past, he used to learn from Jiang Ziya's fishing style, so that the fishing line hung straight down, and this time he did throw it out.
Liu Feiyang found out that the workmanship of the old man's fishing rod is much more exquisite than that of his own fishing rod, and the fishing line looks like it is tied to the bamboo rod, which is essentially hollowing out the whole bamboo, and there is a long section left in it, which may not be as long as a professional fishing line, but it is absolutely constant, and the hook has fallen into the sea more than ten meters away.
"High!"
Standing under the reef, Liu Feiyang couldn't help but give a thumbs up, it was definitely not an easy job to hollow out a bamboo that was about two meters long and the thickness of a thumb.
The old man smiled proudly, "This bamboo has been dug for a year, and no less than 100 have been wasted before it, the fishing hook is bent after being burned red with a steel needle, you are an ordinary fishing rod at first glance, in essence, there are thousands of autumns, old man, I have been fishing here for 60 years, and I don't need a good rod?"
"Sharpen the knife and don't cut the wood!" Liu Feiyang said.
Hearing that sixty years have passed, he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, this old man looks not young, but how old is he to be fishing for sixty years?
The old man stared at the end of the fishing line, and said incomprehensibly, "Yes, sharpening the knife is not wrong for the woodcutter, fishing is a test of patience, especially I think a good rod, may not be able to catch a good fish, now it is different from before, people have become exaggerated, even the fish have become superficial, seeing the fishing rods that others buy at a lot of money from the store, they also confirm a famous saying: the fish is inherently dead, bite the good hook, bite the bad hook..."
"Haha..."Liu Feiyang laughed in agreement, feeling more and more weird about this old man, but he didn't bother to listen to him continue, it was better to be busy with his own affairs in a good time, "Old man, you fish first, and then we'll go over there..."
After speaking, he took An Ran by the hand and turned his head and walked back.
After walking some distance, he always felt that there were a pair of eyes looking at him from behind, not friendly and not hostile, but this feeling was very uncomfortable, and he turned his head slowly, and found that the whole seaside was only the old man who sat motionless on the reef, and there was no one else but him.
And this old man was concentrating on fishing.
He turned his head back again.
The old man seemed to see Liu Feiyang's movements with his peripheral vision, and the corners of his mouth smiled inexplicably...
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