Xiang Sanmei remembered that there was fried fish to eat at night, so she played a clever trick and pulled out the sauerkraut in the bowl to Xiang Jian, and when she saw that he dared to dodge, she opened her mouth to threaten, "Little boy, if you don't eat more, you won't grow tall." ”

Xiang Yuan was full of energy, and he didn't need to take a nap after eating, so he carried the shrimp rake and ran to the river under the scorching sun.

In the afternoon, they were not so lucky, and they worked for three hours before they harvested less than a pound of small fish and shrimp.

Immediately after thunder and lightning, the torrential rain was like a note, and I hurried to the nearby Nanzhu forest to take shelter from the rain... Xiang Yuan took Xiang Jian to wait in the small grass hut built by the bamboo keeper for half an hour, and as soon as the thunderstorm stopped, he hurriedly came out to try his luck.

The water in the small stream rises faster, and the muddy water overflows from the embankment and flows down the drainage ditch to the rice paddies in the low position next to it.

From time to time, I saw some excited little yellow eels in the mud, small loaches scurrying around, and there were many frogs with children's fists.

Xiang Yuan doesn't have to go down the embankment, standing on the ridge of the rice field, the shrimp rake is thrown to the place where there is movement, and most of the fish and shrimp follow their nature and like to chase live water.

No matter how loud the movement is on a rainy day, it is not easy to scare away the excited fish, unlike usual, the slightest wind and grass will scare the fish away.

He searched back and forth along the embankment, fighting and walking.

In half an hour, I hit two grass carp of about one catty, two carp weighing half a catty, a dozen small crucian carp with a width of two fingers, and the cutting board fish and crayfish were simply not needed, so as not to occupy the space of the aluminum barrel.

Xiang Jian also trotted up happily with him, two little hands struggling to carry the aluminum bucket, one foot deep and one foot shallow followed behind Xiang Yuan to pick up fish, the more fish they caught, the more fish they got in the house, of course they were very happy.

"Uncle Yuan, you see that someone is casting a net at the mouth of the fish pond."

There are many fish ponds dug by fish farmers along the river, because it is easy to get water, but one disadvantage is that during the heavy rains in summer, the domestic fish are easy to run into the river with the overflowing pond water and become wild fish.

This is a great thing for the villagers who do not raise fish, including Xiang Yuan, who are looking forward to catching fish in the rising floodwaters.

Today's rainstorm is not long in coming, there should not be many fish running out of the pond, the big man who cast the net is far from knowing, and there is no conflict of interest on both sides.

The shrimp rake can only hit the trash fish in the shallow water, and the nets are all aimed at the big fish in the deep water, Xiang Yuan exhaled and opened his voice, and pulled the shrimp rake back in the water with both hands...

"Wow, Tuanyu Tuanyu, Uncle Yuan, it's Tuanyu!" Xiang Jian shouted happily, causing the adults who were casting their nets not far away to also look at him with surprised eyes.

A large yellow fish was lying in the bamboo rake with its neck bent, and its mung bean-sized eyes were shining with fierce light, staring at Xiang Yuan viciously.

The group fish shouted in Yuchen County is also the soft-shelled turtle that other provinces say, also called the old turtle.

As the local saying goes: "In early summer, you can see the fish in the warm summer, and the turtles in the Sanfu rivers are now floating, and they do not show their faces in the winter in October, and they burrow into the bottom of the sediment and hide in the water." ”

Because the fish want to hibernate, as soon as the weather is cold, they have to burrow into the bottomless mud hole to hide, and only come out to eat around May in late spring, and they are alert by nature, and often appear late at night, which is very difficult to catch.

Some people who have been catching fish for ten years may not be able to catch a wild group of fish with their own hands.

It stands to reason that this group of fish will not appear in shallow water in the evening, but if it comes, it will be safe, and Xiang Yuan will definitely entertain this unexpected distinguished guest.

This is the first time he has caught a group of fish with his own hands, and in the past, there were occasional lucky fishermen who carried the group fish to the street to sell, and these children liked to use the lawsuit grass to attract the group fish to bite.

The fish is very ferocious by nature, and will not let go of its mouth when it bites an enemy, and will not let go of its mouth and quickly flee unless you put it back in the water.

"Jianwa, get out of the way, don't catch it, the fish bites people very fiercely!" Xiang Yuan pulled a finger-thick mulberry branch from the ridge and slowly approached the fish...

At a distance of five centimeters, the fish suddenly burst into flames and clung to the branches of the mulberry trees, apparently identifying them as enemies.

Xiang Yuan had just tied the fish with mulberry bark, and when he looked up, he found that the adult who had cast the net in the distance was running over in a hurry, he splashed a lot of muddy water on his body, and shouted loudly while running: "Two little dolls, have you caught the fish, this fish ran out of my fish pond, hurry up and return it to me!" ”

Xiang Yuan remained silent, stuffed the bundled fish into Xiang Jian's hand, and whispered: "Jianwa, pick up the fish immediately and run back to the house, this adult must want to eat rabbits." ”

There is also a name for eating rabbits in Yuchen County, which is to cut the plague pig, which is what outsiders say about fighting the autumn wind and knocking bamboo poles, which clearly means bullying honest people and bullying the weak.

Xiang Jian is still young, and his heart is pounding when he hears it, he can't say whether he is scared or excited, he is small and flexible, and he runs barefoot in the direction of the stone bridge with a group of fish.

"If you still want to run, stand up for Lao Tzu!" This adult looks like a roe deer, and now his eyes are even more vicious, he ignores Xiang Yuan, and pulls his feet to chase Xiang Jian.

As soon as he chased three steps, he fell horizontally and vertically, and rolled out of the clay figure in the rice field.

This person's anger was so bad that he jumped up from the mud, and seeing that he couldn't catch up with the child who ran away with the tuanyu, he planned to take Xiang Yuan in front of him out of anger.

"Holy shit, you actually dare to trip Lao Tzu!" The roe deer man has already become angry and wants to take advantage of this reason to do something.

Xiang Yuan took back the shrimp rake rod that was lying under his feet, turned around and yelled at Xiang Jian, who had already run across the stone bridge: "Jianwa, go back to the house and call the adults, saying that there is a shopper who is rampant and domineering, and robs the fish caught by our little baby." ”

The people of Sishui Province are fierce, especially in a bitter place like Yuchen County, which is a realistic sketch of the poor mountains and bad waters.

As soon as interests are involved in strangers, there is very little behavior of respecting the old and loving the young, and it is not uncommon for villagers to fight for a few yuan, and it is not uncommon for them to spill and cheat.

Xiang Jian is also smart, knowing that he is safe, standing on the hillside and shouting in a loud child's voice: "There are adults bullying the little doll, grabbing things and beating people, hurry up and come and see the excitement." ”

On the stone bridge, there are a few peasant women passing by the ridge have stopped, looking at the eager eyes, they like to see the excitement the most, the township dam head usually does not have any activities, a little dispute is to watch people say cross talk, if the fight is more comfortable, it is equivalent to the dragon dance and lantern during the New Year's festival.

"Dog's day...", the roe deer-headed man began to feel weak, he looked around, slowly put down the raised slap, and his face was blue and red for a while.

He could see clearly just now that the group fish was at least three catties, and the wild soft-shelled turtle was very rare, enough to sell for one hundred and fifty yuan, which was worth one hundred catties of silver carp in his small fish pond.

I thought that with a casual threat, I would be able to trick Tuanyu over, but I didn't expect this male doll to dare to have a hard top with him, an adult.

"You don't dare to murmur, it's better to beat me to the hospital, anyway, you adults have money, and the medical expenses are not unaffordable." Xiang Yuan looked disdainful, "I still want to deceive people, I have never heard anyone say that there are fish in the fish pond to feed the fish, if you take two fish from the fish pond now, I will give you the fish group." ”