Zhu Laosan is a cleaner in the inland rivers of Qinghe City, and his daily work is to salvage the garbage on the river surface that is difficult to decompose, such as plastic cans, garbage bags, etc. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoHis father was an old fisherman in Qinghe City, and he lived in a fishing village at the mouth of the sea all year round.

He still remembers lying in a rickety fishing boat when he was a child, taking fish, shrimp and crabs caught by the sea to Qinghe City to sell.

They sold fish, never went ashore, but just propped up their boats and rowed all the way to the city along the inland river that was still very spacious at that time in Qinghe City.

Along the way, they would be stopped from time to time by the old Yimu's little daughter-in-law who washed clothes and vegetables on the shore, and when the boat docked, they often sold a few catties of fresh fish.

It wasn't until all the catch was sold out that my grandfather would go to a grocery store near the riverbank with his old boat and buy some necessities from the grocery store.

Zhu Laosan is in his fifties this year.

My grandfather's old boat, in my father's generation, was replaced by a motorized boat. Later, the times changed, and the inland rivers of Qinghe City became less and less like a river, and their boats could no longer drive in from the seaside.

Since then, the fishermen's livelihoods have become more and more difficult, and the number of seafood they can catch has become less and less. Their boat was too small to travel too far, so Zhu Laosan simply did not go fishing again, but took his own boat to help the government salvage garbage in the largest inland rivers in Qinghe City.

He drove an old wooden boat, the old motor was loud, he scooped up a ball of plastic bags with a net, looked up at the position of an old banyan tree, and a soft smile appeared on his vicissitudes of life.

He remembered that forty years ago, under the old banyan tree was still a place for nearby residents to wash clothes, and for the first time he was in charge of the boat independently, he caught a glimpse of a girl on the shore who was working hard to wash clothes, and almost accidentally overturned his own fishing boat, and was scolded by his old father for being bloody.

However, he will never forget the appearance of the round-faced little girl looking at him embarrassed, pursing her lips and smiling happily.

Although, when this little girl was twenty years old, she wore a red flower on her head, married into his family shyly, took care of the housework for him for half her life, gave birth to a pair of children, and her temper was still as violent as fire.

His income is not high, his wife is frying oil cakes in the old alleys of Qinghe City, and the two of them are the most ordinary citizens of Qinghe City.

In the inland river of Qinghe City, after more than 20 years of salvage, Zhu Laosan watched the water quality in the river become more and more smelly, dirty, and lifeless.

In the past, when he stripped off his clothes and could jump down to touch the fish, the water gradually became foul, and when he was at his worst a few years ago, even Zhu Laosan had to wear a mask to salvage the mess of garbage in the river.

Zhu Laosan, who has lived in the river all his life, looks at this change, and often thinks of the appearance of these rivers when he was a child, and his heart is panicked.

Later, in recent years, the government also attached importance to the management of inland rivers.

Zhu Laosan just started, and he was elated for a while, and he drank two more cups of Erguotou when he went home. However, seeing the construction unit coming and going, tossing for a long time, the water in the river did not change much, and the enthusiasm in my heart gradually cooled.

He still holds up the boat all day long, picking up garbage in the inland river. It was piled up into a cart, placed on the shore, and transported away by the garbage truck in the unit, but he knew in his heart that the water veins of the Qinghe River were dead.

However, recently, the river water in Qinghe City has undergone some changes.

This kind of change is the deepest for Zhu Laosan. He has been dealing with the river in this city for decades, and he is sensitive to the fact that the river water is different.

Initially, the government planted grass in the river, but Zhu Laosan disagreed. But as this plant, which looks like a water hyacinth, expands like crazy, most of the river surface is encroached upon by this plant, and in some places, it is more difficult for Zhu Laosan's boat to sail through.

But the most amazing thing is that this plant produces purple flowers and is able to flow clear water. Zhu Laosan has never seen this strange scene in his life.

After the plants bloomed, Zhu Laosan often worked on the banks of the Xima River, and often stood in a row of people every day, watching the circus, staring at the purple flowers in the river.

Some people also want to rent Zhu Laosan's boat to get closer to it.

There are even people who take out money and ask Zhu Laosan to help get a few of these plants. Zhu Laosan also made a few extra bucks because of this.

After Zhu Laosan flowered this plant, he felt that the water in these rivers had changed. This lifeless inland river seems to come to life.

This feeling, without instrument measurement, without water quality identification, is his intuition.

The garbage salvage boat is parked in the old place where you usually rest. Zhu Laosan leaned on the boat, smoked a cigarette, used the scoop he carried on the boat, scooped up a spoonful of river water, and poured it into the old plastic bucket in the boat.

He squinted, staring carefully at the river in the bucket. Rough fingers, stirring in the water, face from the water in the bucket, very close, very close.

He sniffed and smelled the water.

"The water is really clear. It seems like...... It seems like the water quality of more than a decade ago. At that time, the water was already muddy, and it was impossible to wash the laundry and vegetables, but there were still fish and shrimp in the river. Zhu Laosan dumped the river water in the plastic bucket back into the river, with some tears in the corners of his eyes and muttered to himself.

After the water of the river changed, Zhu Laosan had a little more love for this green aquatic plant in his heart.

Of course, the way he works, something has changed. He was employed by the Qinghe City River Management Office, and the work task had just been assigned two days ago, in addition to the garbage in the river, the garbage that pedestrians threw on the aquatic weeds would also be removed.

It's harder to get rid of the trash on the aquatic weeds than on the surface of the water.

Zhu Laosan went to the unit and received a long bamboo pole with a net, which was specially used to salvage the garbage on the aquatic weeds, and by the way, he also learned from his colleagues in the management office what the name of the aquatic weed was the water hyacinth.

Strange nice name.

On this day, he was salvaging a mineral water tank on the aquatic weeds, and suddenly found a purple flower of a phoenix eye lotus nearby, which looked very wrong.

Zhu Laosan wanders in the river every day, and is very familiar with the flowers of the phoenix lotus, which is the faint purple, and then there is a continuous flow of water from the heart of the flower.

And this bunch of phoenix-eyed lotus flowers turned out to be silvery white all over, and there was no water flowing out. It was covered by a few leaves, and if it weren't for Zhu Laosan's bamboo pole inadvertently opening these leaves, this bouquet of flowers would not be visible.

What's going on.

Zhu Laosan approached the bouquet of flowers, and with great effort, he plucked the flowers and put them in the palm of his hand to look at them.

It's really silver!

Zhu Laosan stretched out his hand and plucked the flowers, and found that the silver phoenix lotus flowers were firmly growing on the bouquet, and even if he used a little effort, he couldn't pull them out at all.

Even, the petals of this small flower are very hard, not like real petals at all, but like fake flowers made of metal objects.

If it weren't for Zhu Laosan picking this bunch of silver flowers with his own hands, he would have thought that who only made a fake flower and put it here to fool people!

Zhu Laosan thought about it for a long time, but didn't figure it out. He stuffed this phoenix-eyed lotus bouquet with seven or eight silver flowers into his pocket.

After these peculiar silver flowers appeared, Zhu Laosan paid special attention to the flowers of the water hyacinth when he was salvaging the garbage on the aquatic plants.

This attention was discovered by Zhu Laosan in many different places.

There are quite a few of these metallic flowers, hidden in the dense leaves, Zhu Laosan is picking up garbage while looking for these flowers, scattered and scattered, and actually found more than thirty flowers.

These flowers, the most colorful are different silver, silver, gray-silver, black-silver, different shades, there are more than two dozen flowers.

In addition, there is a purple-gold flower, which looks bright and clear, and is particularly beautiful. It is also very numerous, about seven or eight of them.

There is also a bouquet of red gold, but it is the most beautiful of all. A bouquet of flowers, twelve trumpet-shaped golden flowers together, illuminated by the sun, shining with golden light, reminded Zhu Laosan of the heavy gold bracelet in his wife's dowry at the bottom of the box.

Zhu Laosan originally put the flowers in his trouser pocket, but when the number of picks increased, he found a plastic bag to pack it. But the bouquet of red-gold flowers was not willing to squeeze it with the others, but found another plastic jar to put it.

These flowers, which look similar in appearance but vary in color, are all beautiful.

After Zhu Laosan finished finishing, he carried the bag and pondered on the way home, so that the old woman at home could see what these flowers that looked like metal were what they were. )