The next day was Sunday, and I was not very interested in fishing, so I wanted to stay in the shop car and review the Tianqin music I had learned this week, but Flying Fish and Ah Hai seemed to have seen the exciting scene of fighting with the big fish, and they kept urging my father to take me with him when he went fishing tomorrow, saying that it was such a rare opportunity for the children to see and see.

The father was noncommittal.

He asked Ah Ba: "If Jiuyin also goes, plus you a total of 6 people, can your bamboo raft be able to carry it?" ”

"Director Li, you can put a hundred hearts on this. I also rented 4 hollow iron drums from the oil mill in the village, and tied them all under the raft, not to mention 6 people, even if 10 people were fine. ”

When Ah Ba said this, he said quite proudly, "I have been fishing for clams on the Zuojiang River for many years, and I am half a captain, don't worry!" ”

"However, if there are too many people, it's not convenient to throw the rod, right?" The father still had no worries, and turned to ask the flying fish boy again.

My father and his family played lure fishing, which required constant casting, reeling, casting, reeling, and repeating, so some people also called it "water golf".

If there are too many people, and the rod is thrown so frequently on a bamboo raft that does not have a lot of space, it will be troublesome if the hook on the fake bait hooks the person.

"You think you're fishing in the sea, and you can throw a rod with your life? We are fishing in a cave, no matter how good your strength is, no matter how high the level of throwing the rod is, you can't play it at will! Think about it, a cave, how high can it be? How wide? So don't worry, when we get to the fishing waters, people stand on the bamboo raft, gently throw the rod to the water in front of us, and throw the bait into the water, just like raft fishing. ”

The so-called raft fishing is to make a huge raft that can move on the water, and then build a house on the raft, make a few openings in the middle of the house, and put the bait into the water from the opening.

This is a very casual fishing method that has emerged in recent years, and the reason why this fishing method has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain is mainly because it caters to the leisure and casualness pursued by some anglers.

If you think about it, the house above the raft has beds inside, there is food and drink, and anglers can chat, drink tea and eat while fishing, which is really a casual way to play.

Of course, there is another reason why this kind of raft fishing is so hot, which is that individual romantic fishing friends, in the name of raft fishing, look for flowers and ask willows. They often meet up with one or two friends of the opposite sex, run to the house on the raft, and fish on the water day and night. I'm afraid the most important thing in this fishing method is to catch mermaids.

My father said no more.

"How's it going, Nine Tones? Come with us tomorrow! Maybe you can catch a big fish of 100 catties with your own hands, in that case, it will definitely inspire you to write essays, think about it, when you return to Guangdong, how can you still have the opportunity to catch a big fish of 100 catties?

In the end, I couldn't resist their encouragement and decided to go with them tomorrow to see what to see.

Before leaving, a walk-behind tractor pulled the bamboo raft to the side of the first mountain.

The sky is clear, the red sun is scorching, and the sound of cicadas comes and goes. The surrounding green mountains and green trees are reflected in the pond, and the water surface is as calm as a mirror.

The angler said that in this weather, the fish must have taken refuge in the cave.

It turns out that fish are also like people, they also need to find a comfortable place to feed or rest.

We boarded the bamboo raft prepared by Ah Ba by the Broken Desire River. Ah Ba held a bamboo pole and skillfully supported the bamboo raft, which was attached to the calm water surface, drawing two fan-shaped ripple lines, and drove silently to the cave at the foot of the mountain.

When I came to the entrance of the cave, I felt the wind blowing on my face. We were drenched in sweat along the way, and when we arrived at the entrance of the cave, it seemed that we had suddenly entered an ice cave, and we only felt cold.

I entered the cave and continued to drive inside. At first, the caves were covered with trees on both sides, the stones were moss-stained, the entrance to the cave was sometimes large and sometimes small, and the top of the head was high and low, and the water surface was calm, as if the current was not large. Occasionally, small fish are seen chasing in the waves behind the bamboo raft in the clear water.

The cave is not very dark, with light leaking from the top of the cave from time to time, and occasionally some leaves falling down.

I looked up and followed the light and saw in the crevices of the rocks many nests made of mud like hornet's nests, as well as the nests of a few starlings, which had been nesting here for many years, leaving mottled white dung marks on the stones. Occasionally, a "squeaky" bird call can be heard in the trees above.

The raft walked forward for about 50 meters, and suddenly came to a place where it suddenly opened up. The whole cave was the size of a basketball court, and a few bright beams of light leaked overhead, and from time to time something fell from it, hitting the surface of the water with a crisp sound.

Just as the bamboo raft was quietly moving forward, Flying Fish suddenly pointed forward with his hand and said, "Look, what is that?" ”

Everyone followed the fingers of the flying fish boy and looked ahead, and about 20 meters in front, there was a bright light leaking from the top.

We see that there are many animals on the calm water with their heads popping out of the water from time to time, and when they suddenly burst out of the level, they will make a very crisp sound, which is like the "snap" sound of a child's lips.

"Is it a snake or a mouse?" Father was a little horrified.

After all, Flying Fish Boy is a fisherman, he reacted immediately after a little look, and he said excitedly: "Big, brothers, hurry up and copy the guy!" ”

Hearing him say this, everyone looked closely, and sure enough, it was a large group of billfish there frantically culling small fish.

It turned out that there was a bunch of banyan trees in the bright light above, and the banyan trees bore a lot of small fruits, which were like small black balls when ripe, and fell to the surface of the water from time to time in the wind, causing a large group of small white strips to pounce, and a large group of small white strips competed for the banyan tree fruits on the water surface, and attracted a large group of warped mouths to hunt them frantically.

The mouth swims quickly, like an arrow from the string, usually swims in the upper layer of the water, foraging for food is mainly visual, but the sense of smell is also very smart, the mouth is greedy, regardless of life and death to see the bait to grab.

The reason why the billfish is called the mouth is mainly because its mouth is upturned.

It is said that because of its cocked mouth, it is difficult for him to eat bait that falls on the ground, and what he does best is to pounce on prey on the surface.

"What bait?" Wei Xiaotang asked the flying fish, the flying fish boy had already raised the rod, his hands gently threw forward, the fake bait just fell in the fish, as soon as the fake bait fell to the water, there was a loud "bang", and suddenly I saw that the fishing rod of the flying fish boy was bent into a bow, and the line in the fishing wheel "squeaked" out of the line, and the big fish on the bait fled frantically to the deep water.

Seeing this, everyone hurriedly picked up the fishing rod, and the flying fish boy was desperately pulling the rod to reel in the line, while panting and saying: "You can use any bait!" They are hungry, and they will bite any bait, even if it is a stone. ”

Although the flying fish boy was nervously controlling the fish, everyone had a rod in their hands, and no one had their hands free to help him.

Everyone picked up the fishing rod one after another, some with sequins, some with mino, some with iron plates, stood up and threw them into the fish, as long as the fake bait fell into the water, it was frantically snatched by the big fish. The hand holding the fishing rod suddenly felt a violent pause, and then the big thing fled and struggled, pulling the fishing line, and the fishing wheel tied to the rod made a "squeak" sound, and everyone immediately became excited.

I don't know how to fish, so I sit on a chair in the middle of the bamboo raft and watch everyone fight with the big fish, and I am responsible for using the fish controller to put the fish that everyone unties into the fish protection hanging on the side of the bamboo raft.

After a while, everyone pulled up a few rice-level objects, and all of them were protected by the fish I threw into.

When I put them in the fish guard, I use the fish controller to hold the lips of the big fish. I watched the billfish more than a meter long with their frightened eyes open, their mouths wide open and panting, as if scolding us and saying, "Holy shit, for thousands of years, no one has come in to toss us like this, where did you come from?" Why hunt us down? ”

I just laughed at them until they died, and I don't know how they died.

"Such a big fish, make sashimi tonight! The fish head is stewed with sour bamboo shoots, and the fish bones are made ...... with salt and pepper. Ah Bayi became happy, and by the way, he arranged tonight's recipe.

When everyone was happy, suddenly they only heard a "bang-" sound, and when the flying fish boy was fighting a big fish, his fishing line and rod were all broken.

He was so angry that he beat his chest, he had to change the line and change the rod at this critical time, and it was really not the right time to break!

He hurriedly replaced it with a boat rod for sea fishing and iron plate drawing, which was made from the United States, and said to be made of bulletproof fiber, and a drum wheel with an unloading capacity of 10 kilograms.

"What line is it?" Ah Hai was a little uneasy and asked.

"I forgot what number it was, but it was a line for sea fishing, and I pulled more than 100 catties of tuna in the oil field of the Nansha Islands last time." According to his equipment, it is no problem to pull a hundred or ten pounds of big fish directly ashore.

As for what bait to use, he picked up a fish-shaped iron plate of about 120 grams, which was originally used for sea fishing and iron pumping, and this iron plate had a sturdy three-book hook tied to the upper and lower ends of the iron plate.

He raised the rod, threw it forward gently, after the iron plate fell into the water, it flipped like a somersault in the water, emitting a shining light, and sank about three meters into it, and then saw a big black fish pounce from the bottom of the water, and suddenly there was a violent pause, and the tiger's mouth of his hands holding the fishing rod was shaken to pain, and the fishing rod almost fell into the water.

"Medium and big fish!" He let out a loud cry and pulled the rod hard.

The rod was immediately bent like a bow, and he leaned back desperately so that he could use his entire body weight on the rod.

But he couldn't pull it at all.

“...... Are you hanging on the earth? Wei Xiaotang saw that he couldn't pull it, so he sneered.

The "hanging earth" that the angler said means that the hook hooks a tree or a stone at the bottom of the water, and it can't be pulled no matter how much it pulls, and finally the fishing line has to be cut.

"Hang you uncle!" Everyone who plays Lua knows that as long as it hits the fish, even if it hides in the crack of the stone for a while and can't pull it, it can feel whether the hook is hooking the fish, because as long as the fish is on the hook, the signal of the fish's struggle will be transmitted to the angler through the fishing line and rod.

As soon as the words of the flying fish boy fell, the drum wheel "squeaked" out of the line, he shook the drum wheel with difficulty to close the line, and the big fish at the bottom of the water desperately broke free, because the big fish was too strong, every few circles of the line, the big fish pulled out a lot of lines!

In this way, between the retraction and pulling, the drum wheel will soon become hot and hot, and if it does not cool down, the drum wheel will deform or even burst.

"Jiuyin, help pour water onto my drum wheel, hurry up and cool it down!" When I heard this, I quickly picked up half a bottle of mineral water, and as soon as the water was poured onto the squeaky drum wheel, squeaky white smoke came out.

At this time, everyone hit the big fish, but the flying fish boy was bigger and had more strength.

The big fish in the water fled left and right, up and down, and soon the fishing lines of several of them were all entangled, which often caused the line to break and run away.

As the fishing lines of the five people were entangled, the five big fish in the water suddenly exerted force in one direction at the same time, as if agreed. After finding out, Ah Ba quickly inserted the bamboo pole into the bottom of the water, pressed his whole body on the bamboo pole, trying to control the bamboo raft and prevent the fish from pulling it away.

However, when the fish worked together, the bamboo raft spun around, and Ah Ba couldn't control the direction at all.

Soon, the raft lost its control point and was desperately pulled away by the big fish, flying like arrows in the darkness ahead.

Ah Ba scolded while holding the rod on his head: "Dog, next time I'll get a big anchor to anchor and then clean you up!" As soon as the words fell, I heard a loud "boom".

Everyone was startled, it turned out that the bamboo raft suddenly hit a boulder in front of it, and two empty iron buckets under the bamboo raft were cut off the ropes, and they floated up from the water.

"Jiuyin, use scissors for everyone, hurry up and cut the thread! Hurry up and cut the thread! Seeing this, my father quickly told everyone to cut the fishing line and release the fish. Everyone was unwilling, but after losing the two empty oil drums, the bamboo raft was unevenly stressed and began to be a little slanted.

If we continue to fight with the fish, if we don't get it right, the raft will fall apart, and our lives will not be guaranteed.

"Holy shit, after tossing for so long, it broke my bamboo raft, but I didn't even see it!" After cutting the fishing line, the flying fish scolded angrily.

"Ah Ba, you don't make this bamboo raft stronger?" Everyone turned around and blamed Ah Ba again.

Ah Ba is bending down and placing a bamboo pole on an iron bucket on the water, slowly hooking it in front of him.

Although the raft was pulled into the dark by the fish, the raft stopped moving after everyone cut the line and let the fish go. By this time our eyes had adapted to the dim light around us, and by the white light that was leaking from the roof of the cave in the distance, we realized that we had come to a narrow entrance, and on either side of the entrance were huge rocks, like a gate.

On the uneven cliffs on the left and right sides of the gate are densely painted with several brown symbols, each of which has rough and powerful lines.

The portraits are mostly portraits, some with their arms bent, some with their hands pushed forward, their feet half squatting, some with their hands turned upward, and some with their feet bent and forked.

Everyone couldn't help but be shocked.

I opened my eyes wide and looked at a man with a pheasant tail in his head, a dagger in his hand, a knife hanging from his waist, his arms bent and elbows raised, and a half-squatting figure in the shape of a frog on horseback, and said, "This leader is in charge of guarding the gate, and he warns the world not to enter the water hole......

"Don't talk nonsense, little ones!" Flying Fish quickly interrupted me, he was obviously worried that my words would affect everyone's mood.

"The bamboo raft is about to fall apart, we still Mingjin collects the troops, Ah Ba goes back to get the bamboo raft, we change into better fishing equipment, and fight again tomorrow!" Father suggested.

"It seems that this is the only way to go." Although everyone was unwilling, they could only agree with their father's suggestion.

In the evening, my father told me about the symbols in the water hole. My father said that it was a rock cliff mural, and it was called "Balai" in Zhuang language, which means "Huashan" in Chinese.

It is said to be the image of the ancestor of the Zhuang people, Buluotuo.

Buluotuo is a mythological figure in the oral literature of the ancestors of the Zhuang people, the god of creation, the god of origin and the god of morality, and his achievements are mainly to create heaven and earth, create all things, arrange order, formulate ethics, etc.

My father also told me that this kind of mural painting is mainly distributed in the areas inhabited by the Zhuang people such as Ningming, Longzhou, and Chongzuo in the Zuojiang River basin of western Guangxi.

"How did the ancients climb up and draw it? When was it drawn? Who drew it? What is the content of the painting? So far, no one knows. Father said.