Among the many fish that Ali caught, there were actually four golden-scaled carps, and before they grilled the fish, they first peeled off the most beautiful golden scales on the golden-scaled carp, washed them and handed them to Xiao Nan to watch.

"It's real gold." Young Master Cai said, "It is said that some foreigners took it for identification and said that the composition of this scale is gold. ”

"Why is that?! Why do fish grow real gold flakes? Xiao Nan was surprised. He hadn't heard of this fish in the future.

"I don't know, it is said that many years ago someone came to investigate, and once went deep into the bottom of the lake, but this lake is very deep, everyone says that there is golden sand under the lake, and the fish eat those golden sands to grow golden scales, but everyone who goes down to the depths of the lake has gone and never returned. It is strictly forbidden to swim in the depths of the lake. Don't look at the shallow calm of the lake, the deeper below is all kinds of whirlpool undercurrents, which can easily drown. He said, "The golden-scaled fish rarely appears, today is lucky to have so many, even if there is a scale on its body is pure gold, in fact, the weight is also very light, these scales will be given to Ali, his mother has to take medicine all year round, these golden scales can be exchanged for a lot of money." ”

"If you catch these fish and pick up the water from the lake, will you be able to raise them at home?" Ah Cheng asked.

"That's not going to work, someone has tried, but they can't survive at all." Other local young people.

Everyone started to cook by the lake, just a simple grilled fish, but it was extremely delicious, Xiao Nan was amazed by the taste of this goldenrod fish, he had never eaten such a sweet and delicious grilled fish in his life, and the condiment was just a little salt.

After eating delicious food, seeing that he had been playing for a day, Xiao Nan was finally able to return to Cai's house. At this time, many people from the surrounding villages began to go to the town, all to see open-air movies.

It's a pity that sound movies hadn't been invented at this time, otherwise it would have been much more interesting.

When they entered the town, the streets of the town had already lit their own lanterns and set up various stalls, not Xiao Nan alone thought of the popcorn economy, many smart hawkers had already begun to act.

According to Young Master Cai's words, it is even more lively than the previous New Year.

Xiao Nan felt that his vacation was worth it, thinking that there might be more people gathering in this town tonight than last night, he simply stopped going to join in the fun, it was no different from the May Day Golden Week.

After Young Master Cai returned home, he was immediately reprimanded by Master Cai, and he was very angry, Xiao Nan originally entered his house, because he heard this movement and came out to see what was going on.

When Master Cai saw Xiao Nan, he complained, saying that he had set up a baby kiss with someone else, and he was going to hold a wedding for Young Master Cai soon, but Young Master Cai was in contact with the civilian woman named Yuzhen every day, which made his face ugly, saying that everyone had to point to their backbone and say that the Cai family was dishonest.

Xiao Nan said: "This is not a question of dishonesty or dishonesty, you are an old concept, and now you advocate young people to fall in love independently and break bad habits, I don't think Master Cai has to make his family so embarrassed." Why don't I vouch for the Cai family and plead with the baby's family for you? ”

"That's embarrassing! A noble person like you......" Master Cai hurriedly waved his hand.

"Thirteen less!" Young Master Cai was full of anticipation, hoping to get rid of the shackles of this old marriage. Xiao Nan felt that he was almost like he was involved in that kind of Qiong Yao Republic of China drama, if the lovers couldn't be together, I don't know how they would be tortured in the future, I was afraid that they would all have regrets in this life.

So he said: "I will take care of this matter for Young Master Cai." Since we are already friends, it is natural to do something for our friends. ”

Master Cai was embarrassed: "The other party is the boss of the rice shop, and my Cai family bowed their heads and didn't look up, in case the other party is annoyed, how do you want me to behave in the future......"

"I'll do it for you." Xiao Nan said, "Young Master Cai, please take me to visit the rice shop boss before dinner." ”

Ah Cheng watched from the side, muttering a little in his heart Xiao Nan manages so much, this kind of other people's marriage has to be sideways, and he is really not tired.

But since he's nosy, he's still going to follow.

The owner of the rice shop is the second local tyrant in the town, and the rice shop in the town and nearby villages is run by his family. Compared with the Cai family, the owner of the rice shop seemed to be more snobbish, and when he heard that Xiao Nan was coming to visit, he was very happy, and even asked his daughter, that is, the one who was married to Young Master Cai, to receive the guests in person.

As soon as Xiao Nan opened his mouth, he asked him if he could cancel the baby kiss that was already a bad habit.

When the owner of the rice shop heard this, he not only agreed, but also promoted his daughter to Xiao Nan. It can be seen that he is bent on making his daughter the aunt wife of the Xiao family.

And the young lady of the rice shop is also full of charms, hinting at something in front of Xiao Nan, no wonder Young Master Cai doesn't like their family.

Of course, Xiao Nan couldn't hook up with this rice shop lady like this, but he was also very good at turning around, and made a blank check, saying that he would take the time to pick up the children of the rice shop to play in Xiao Cheng's high society social circle, and gave him a gramophone that is now super fashionable. In fact, this gramophone was originally intended to be given to the Cai family.

After the gramophone was installed by Ah Cheng, the boss's family began to revolve around this fresh gadget, and Xiao Nan unexpectedly found that on the photo hanging in their living room, there was the old Xiucai who was drunk and talking nonsense that day.

"That old man is your relative?" Xiao Nan asked.

The boss, who was concentrating on watching Ah Cheng fiddling with the record, said casually: "That's my uncle, who has no children and no daughters, and now lives with our family." It made you smile at dinner that day. ”

"Can I see the old man?" Xiao Nan said, "I still want to hear him talk about the old allusions here." ”

"I still think he's annoying, I didn't let my old uncle know that you came, if you like to hear what he says, I'll call someone to invite him." The boss beckoned a little guy to hurry up and find the old man, and he looked at the gramophone with a smile again.

After a while, not only the old uncle came, but even the old man Cai felt that it was not appropriate, and came to apologize, just made up a table of banquets, and the owner of the rice shop set up a banquet to entertain guests, although there were not as many people as yesterday, but it was also very rich. Trendy songs played on a gramophone are very pleasant.

The old Xiucai sat next to Xiao Nan again, drinking and talking about what he saw and heard when he was young.

He said that it happened more than 40 years ago, when he was in his early thirties, and this place was not called Jiahu County at that time, but Kushui Village, and there were not so many villages, and there were very few people.

The reason why it is called Kushui Village is because the lake here is bitter, and the land cannot grow food, and many people will starve to death in a disaster year, and many people will even flee from the village.

Lao Xiucai still had the idea of taking the test for fame, and the family still had a little money to spare, so he stayed in the local area to study, because it was still the last year of the Qing Dynasty, and the local information was blocked, and he felt that once he passed the exam, he would be able to ascend to heaven with the whole family.

Of course, Lao Xiucai, who is poor and unconnected, is destined to be a poor scholar at the bottom in feudal society, and after a lifetime of exams, he is just a showman. Kong Yiji and others are talking about people like him.

According to him, 50 years ago, this place was just a saline-alkali land, and even the area of the lake was very small, it could only be regarded as a tidal flat, and the water quality was extremely poor.

Since there were not many people in the village at that time, and the old man was almost dead at that time, the old uncle said that there are few people who know about the past now.

According to him, it is a geological miracle, and there is never an example of how the water and soil of a place can be changed so dramatically in 50 years.

The old uncle continued: "I remember that one evening more than forty years ago, two young men came from the west, in their twenties, and they brought a cart of things, and they were densely packed, and I don't know what they were.

At that time, there were not so many repaired roads around, and when it rained heavily, it caused a landslide on the side of the road, and the two people had to pass by us.

I remember they knocked on my door and wanted to stay overnight. At that time, my hometown was near the lake in Lizi Village, where there was no lake at that time, it could only be regarded as a puddle, the water was bitter, there was no way to drink, no way to farm, and no one to fetch water.

Those two people stayed in my house, and they were quite generous, and gave me a piece of gold as room money, and it was also by that piece of gold that our family could make a fortune, and only then did we have these descendants who contradicted me every day! ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the rice shop owner. The owner of the rice shop had no choice but to wave at him, signaling that he didn't want to pay attention to him.

"It's strange to say, that piece of gold is not ordinary gold." Lao Xiucai lit the cigarette pouch and fell into a long memory, "It is a golden toad carved with amazing craftsmanship, lifelike, as if the toad has turned into gold." ”

"Golden toad ......" Xiao Nan thought of the carp with golden scales on its body, and felt a little interesting, and asked, "What about later?" Do you remember what those two people were like? ”

"What does it look like? When you said that, I remembered it, and when I saw you, I remembered it, and you looked a lot like one of them. But they didn't tell me what their names were, and they knew that one was tall and thin, and the other was short, and the other was short and stocky, and the two of them were huddled in the west room of my house at the time, and they were still muttering there in the middle of the night.

I couldn't sleep that day, because I was alone at home, and when I heard them mutter, I thought they might not be good people, so I kept not meeting my eyes. In the middle of the night, I heard them sneaking out of the house, and I thought it was strange, so I secretly followed.

There was a reed swing on the bank of the river, and I hid there, and watched the two of them come to the water's edge from afar, and they seemed to have taken something, and they also took a knife, and wanted to divide that thing, but the two quarreled over how to divide it, and finally the thin man raised his knife and slashed down! ”