It had been raining like this all morning, and I didn't see the slightest sign of getting smaller or stopping.

Since lunch, Tian Fei has been a little unable to sit still. Wearing slippers, pulling up his trouser legs, and then putting on a poncho, Tian Fei went out.

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Braving the rain, Tian Fei walked in the village. I just saw that the village chief Tian Zhenfeng also went out.

"Uncle Zhenfeng, why did you come out in the rain. Let's go back quickly, it's raining too much outside. Tian Fei shouted.

"I'm the village chief, how can I hide at home. I'll go to the old house in the village, what about you? ”

"Okay, I'll just go with you."

The two of them waded through the water, and the stone road in the village had been flooded, so they could only grope forward one step higher and one step lower with their impressions.

The old houses in the village were all built before the liberation, and they are scattered on the left and right sides of the Tianjia ancestral hall. When it was built, only one person-high green bricks were used, and the rest were adobe bricks. Later, new houses were built on both sides of the road, and the old houses were used to raise cattle and pigs, and only three or four elderly families were not willing to move out. Today, these houses are in disrepair, and most of them are in dilapidation.

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Thankfully, the most dangerous thing didn't happen, only a few unmaintained adobe houses, which had been washed away by the rain and collapsed to the corners. The buildings where the elderly live, on the contrary, stand tall in the wind and rain because of frequent maintenance and repair.

"Don't look at these houses have been built for sixty or seventy years, because they were built together with the ancestral hall in the village at that time, they used enough materials, and they are still very strong today." Seeing that there was nothing wrong, Tian Zhenfeng also relieved himself and explained the history of these houses to Tian Fei.

"I think our Tian family ancestral hall is too dilapidated and should be rebuilt."

"In the past, the village was too poor, and if the ancestral hall was broken, I could only settle it, and I was sorry for my ancestors. In the past few years, I have gone out to work a lot, although I don't say that I have made a fortune, but I finally have some money to spare. Wait for the New Year and everyone will come back, and when the New Year everyone will come back, let me mention it. ”

"I'll promise you first, if you build an ancestral hall, my family will pay at least 10,000." Tian Fei still hopes that there will be a new ancestral hall, at least if anyone holds a banquet, there is no need to borrow tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks everywhere.

"With your 10,000 yuan, I have more confidence to convince others. There's nothing going on here, so let's go to the reservoir and have a look. Tian Zhenfeng said.

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The two walked in the direction of the reservoir, which is the reservoir where Tian Fei found the gold.

Along the way, you can see that many villagers have come out, and everyone is rushing to release water into the rice fields. Although rice is not afraid of water, the rice field cannot be filled, and it is easy to break the embankment of the rice field.

From afar, the small island in the reservoir was almost flooded. Wild ducks and waterfowl have lost their shelter and can only hide in the water and grass on the shore, and let the wind and rain blow.

The two came to the embankment of the reservoir, and the water level had risen to less than a meter from the shore, exceeding the warning line.

"Xiaofei, the water level is too high, we must release water downstream. You give me a look, and I'll go down and open the floodgates. With that, Tian Zhenfeng walked down the embankment.

The gate of the reservoir is a gate made of steel plates, suspended by a rope, which is closed at this time, and there is a layer of steel mesh in front of it to prevent the fish from swimming.

Tian Zhenfeng pulled the rope of the gate hard, and the gate slowly opened, and the water from the reservoir poured out, forming a parabola.

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After all, the rain can't go on like this, and gradually, the rainstorm begins to get smaller. The wind and rain raged all night, and the next day there was only a light drizzle left.

The villagers stepped out of the house and started their normal day. Especially children, at this time, they can't wait, they don't need to open an umbrella, brave the drizzle to play to their heart's content.

If the children in the village could only choose one favorite activity, it would be fishing after the rain.

Shuanghe Village has a well-developed water system, with two rivers and reservoirs, as well as ditches, canals and ponds scattered between paddy fields.

Three or five children, some with dustpans, some with baskets, but rarely with nets. They chose a canal between the rice paddies and fastened the dustpan in the ditch, sealing the gaps on both sides with mud, thus blocking the canal. A child holds a dustpan, and the rest jumps into the canal and starts upstream and rushes down. Two or three times like this, and then the fish in the canal are driven into the dustpan. Then quickly lift the dustpan, and the harvest time has arrived.

There are crucian carp, carp, and some small dogfish that cannot be named, the big ones are three fingers wide, and the small ones are only the size of one finger. If you are lucky, you may have a few yellow eels, and if you are unlucky, there will only be a few small fish and rice.

No matter how big or small the fish is, the child will stay. It's all fish from the rice fields, and when you take it home and let your grandmother fry it in oil, it's a supreme delicacy, even in the future, no matter how old you are or where you go, you won't forget this taste.

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For those who were born and raised near the river, not only children love to catch fish, but adults also love to catch fish.

Tian Fei picked up a pair of nets from home and went to the river in front of the door. The climate is comfortable after the rain and the temperature is pleasant. Tian Fei didn't take a boat, and jumped directly into the river.

Tie one end of the wire mesh to the reed pole by the river, Tian Fei stepped on the water and swam to the other side of the river, paddling with one hand and putting the net with the other.

After that, Tian Fei did not get up from the river, but swam upstream, which was able to swim and catch fish.

Tian Fei's swimming style is not standard, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and even dog planing. Freely changing postures and swimming for more than an hour, Tian Fei gave up.

Finding the fishing net he had put away, Tian Fei lifted a section and found that there were indeed a few fish three fingers wide. Tian Fei was very happy and returned to the shore to start collecting the nets.

The net is made of filaments and has several layers. As soon as the fish crashes into the net, it will come out. Pulling the net up, every time you collect it, you can see that some fish are caught in the net, and then Tian Fei untied the fish one by one, fortunately, Tian Fei brought a plastic bucket over.

The net came down and almost filled this bucket. What made Tian Fei even happier was that he actually caught more than a dozen yellow bone fish. Wild yellow bone fish soup is a treasure among fish soups.

Wash the yellow bone fish and scrape off the yellow mucus from the fish with a knife. Chop the fish into small pieces, add cooking wine and salt, and marinate for 15 minutes. Then put a small amount of cooking oil in the pot, add refined salt, garlic, and ginger shreds and simmer over low heat until fragrant. Add two more tablespoons of water to the pot and cook the severed fish and tofu together. Simmer on low heat until the soup turns milky white, then remove from the pan. At this point, a nutritious, delicious yellow bone fish soup with no small thorns and suitable for all ages is ready.

In addition, some crucian carp, oily fish, silver carp, bream and so on were also netted. Carrying these fish home and weighing them with an electronic scale, there were more than six catties, and Tian Fei cleaned them up one by one. His family couldn't eat so much, so Tian Fei packed a bowl and sent it to his grandparents.