June 26, 2008 is the sixth day of the summer solstice, one of the 24 solar terms in China, during the summer solstice, the sun runs to the yellow longitude of 90 degrees, and the position of the sun directly hitting the ground reaches the northernmost point of the year, almost directly hitting the Tropic of Capricorn, at this time, the daylight time in various parts of the northern hemisphere reaches the longest of the year. For www.biquge.info the Tropic of Cancer and the regions north of it, the summer solstice is also the day of the year when the sun is at its highest at noon.

Today, the sun is high and big, and the temperature at noon has reached 38 degrees Celsius.

Zhan Hao went to the commissary to buy a few sorbets and put them in a clean foam box, then put the foam box in the back bucket of the electric tricycle, and put the freshly prepared lunch and a large bucket of cold boiled water in the rear body of the electric tricycle and fixed it. He put on his straw hat for shade and rode out of the house on an electric tricycle.

Zhan Hao's field is relatively concentrated, there are only two, one is three acres in size, one is five acres in size, yesterday afternoon half a day plus one night, Zhan's father and Zhan's mother have completed the irrigation of the three-acre land, and today there is only about five acres of land left.

In the north, the weather is relatively hot in June, the water evaporates quickly, the land will be very dry, after the corn is sown, if it is not irrigated in time, the seedling emergence rate will be greatly affected, so at this time, basically every household has to water the ground (the northwest of Lu calls 'irrigation' 'watering'), and, because the water in the river is limited, everyone will rush for time.

When watering the ground, it generally takes at least two to three people, one person is watching the diesel pump by the river to avoid problems with the diesel engine, and the other person needs to inspect the aqueduct and water the farmland back and forth, stop the leakage in time, and wait until one farmland is irrigated smoothly after the completion of irrigation to irrigate another farmland.

It took less than ten minutes to ride an electric tricycle, and Zhan Hao came to his field, where Zhan's father was carrying a shovel to check the progress of watering. In 2008, there was no concept of water conservation in rural areas, watering the land was flooded, one end of the field was generally next to the aqueduct, people used diesel engines to pump water from the river to the aqueduct, the water flowed along the aqueduct, after arriving at the destination, people would dig a section between the aqueduct and the farmland, so that the water from the aqueduct could enter the farmland.

"Dad, I brought food over, you and Mom go to eat first, I'll watch here", Zhan Hao stopped the electric tricycle and shouted loudly.

"Okay, then you pay attention, don't run out of water, your mother and I will go to dinner first," Zhan's father walked along the ridge to the field and handed the shovel in his hand to Zhan Hao.

"Don't worry, Dad, you quickly bring the rice over to eat with my mother, this foam box is the sorbet I bought, on such a hot day, you and my mother eat a few more", Zhan Hao took the shovel in Zhan's father's hand and handed the electric tricycle to Zhan's father.

"Okay, pay attention to yourself, don't get heat stroke, go to the tree to rest for a while when it's hot", Dad Zhan nodded and admonished.

In most cases, river water is used for irrigation of farmland, unless the river is cut off and the weather is dry. Taking off his shoes and pulling up his trouser legs, Zhan Hao immersed his feet in the water channel, and a cool feeling came from the water, with the word 'cool'.

When Zhan Hao was young, as long as it was summer, basically every Saturday on the planet, the friends in the village would go swimming in the river in groups. At that time, the river water was extremely clear, and on a hot day, it was very refreshing to soak yourself in the river water with a temperature of only 27 or 8 degrees.

However, when Zhan Hao was in junior high school, due to the excessive pursuit of economic benefits in the local government, some polluting enterprises lost control one after another, and as a result, the originally clear river water turned into red and black sewage, and people could even smell the stench of sewage from dozens of meters away, let alone go down to the river to swim.

It wasn't until this year, when a few heavily polluting companies were shut down, that the water in the river became clear again, but even if the river became clear, there were very few people who came to swim this summer, after all, the river water has been black and red sewage for several years, and although the water has become clear this year, people are still a little worried.

About half an hour later, when Zhan Hao was sitting bored in the shade of a tree to avoid the hot sun after inspecting the aqueduct, Zhan's father came back on an electric tricycle.

"Dad, is there more water in the river?" Zhan Hao asked.

"There isn't much left, it is estimated that the day after tomorrow will have to be cut off", Dad Zhan

"Is there any catch of fish", Zhan Hao doesn't like to eat fish too much, but he likes to catch fish very much, just like those who sit by the river every day to fish a few years later, maybe not to catch many fish, just to enjoy the satisfaction of catching fish. Zhan Hao enjoyed the feeling very much, pressing down, and the fish more than a foot long was struggling in his hand.

"There are so many, maybe there will be more people catching fish tomorrow," said Zhan's father.

Catch fish in the river, less people are not good, a large river is not muddy, there is a good saying, muddy water is good to touch the fish, in the muddy water, the fish will become dizzy, running around, it is easy to hit the person who touches the fish in the water, as long as the reaction is fast enough, at this time, the fish is very good to catch.

"Then I'm going to touch the fish, Dad", tomorrow the water in the river will become less, and there will be more people who come to catch fish, then it is a good time to catch fish, but Zhan Hao, who has not gone down to the river to fish for seven or eight years, can't wait at this time.

"Okay, you go, be careful when you touch the fish", Dad Zhan nodded.

"Then I'll go, Dad", took the electric tricycle from Zhan's father's hand, and Zhan Hao rode the electric tricycle along the aqueduct to the river.

After a short time, Zhan Hao came to the river, the original seventeen or eighteen meters wide river, now only three or four meters wide, there are several people in the river who are catching fish, and two of them have set up fishing nets.

Parking the tricycle on the shore, Zhan Hao took off his shoes and jacket and put them on the tricycle, took the bucket, pulled up his trousers and rushed into the river.

In the rivers of the northwest of Shandong, the types of fish are mainly silver carp, crucian carp, carp, catfish, black fish, these kinds of fish, occasionally you can catch Ga, silver carp is the most, but unfortunately the spines are too many and too fine, not eaten, followed by the crucian carp, generally the crucian carp here rarely grows to a catty, the big one is about eight taels, of course, there are people who can catch the big one, but that is after the upstream reservoir releases.

Crucian carp is delicious, nutritious, more popular than silver carp, of course, the best to eat is Gayu, but Gayu grows slowly, and it is rarely caught, and Gayu will be Ga, and it is very painful to be Ga, so Zhan Hao is painful and loving Gayu.