Ah Ba carefully propped up the bamboo raft that was about to fall apart, and after surviving the calm mountain pond, he turned into the icy River of Broken Desire.

After we got off the bamboo raft and went ashore, Feiyu saw that it was still early, so he discussed with everyone and said: "It's still early, why don't we go to the county seat to have a look, and drink two drinks in the county seat in the evening." ”

When everyone heard that they were going to the county seat for a drink, they all said it was a good idea.

Because Ah Ba wanted to stay and wait for the walk-behind tractor to pull the bamboo raft back to Tunli for repair, he didn't go to the county seat with us.

He looked at the fish in the fish guard, and there were more than 20 billfish, seven or eight of which were of the rice level.

When Ah Ba heard that we didn't go back to Tunli to eat at night, he said with regret: "There are so many fish, and they are wild, I will go back to make sashimi, you don't want to eat in the county seat, come to my house to 'wear a cup'!" ”

We thanked Ah Ba for his kindness, and after saying goodbye to him, we took Ah Hai's Highlander car to the direction of the county.

Ah Hai drove, his father was fat, so he sat in the co-pilot seat, and Feiyuzai, Wei Xiaotang and I sat in the back seat.

Along the way, the flying fish cub was still immersed in the excitement of fighting the big fish just now.

"Dog's day! I have been to Daqingzhen, the oil wells in the South China Sea, and the Dongsha Islands many times, and I have pulled up seven or eight hundreds of catties of cattle harbor and tuna. But today, tsk, I'm not convinced! ”

"It's the first time I've seen such a thrilling fight today...... The line and rod were broken, and even the bamboo raft was about to fall apart, and in the end, I didn't see what kind of fish it was...... Who will believe us when we speak out? Wei Xiaotang was also unwilling and resentful.

"Could it be a meter-level cocked mouth?" Ah Hai asked curiously. The body of the billfish is larger, but the body of the fish is flat and slender, some are more than a meter long, so the Lua people call the large billfish rice-level billfish. ”

"I estimate that all of you are big mouths, but the one I have is definitely not a mouth, because the largest mouthfish is more than 20 pounds, and I can feel the strength no matter how hard I work. Flying fish boy based on rational analysis.

"If it's a billfish, its lower lip is not very thick, and it is not very tough, and if you pull and pull so hard, its lips will have collapsed long ago." The father chimed in.

"And what kind of fish do you think it will be?" Ah Hai, who was driving, said.

"Could it be a big herring? After the big herring is hooked, they generally try their best to escape to the bottom of the water, while the other fish struggle to jump on the surface of the water after being hooked, trying to wash their gills and escape. I pulled that fish for a long time, and it never surfaced. I think it could be a big herring. Flying Fish said thoughtfully.

"Possibly. The herring is also a lure target fish, and the large ones can reach hundreds of catties. Wei Xiaotang said.

"The herring fish loves to eat snails, snails generally eat mud in paddy fields, the water in the cave is so clear, is there a snail?" Ah Hai asked.

"Well, I guess there will be, this cave should be deep, very long, criss-crossed, with multiple exits leading to the outside of the country. As long as there is water flowing, there will be snails. ”

"If it's a big herring, it can't be a straight mouth." Father said.

The so-called straight mouth is a kind of saying of the Lure people that the hook is hooked to the mouth of the fish when the fish is baited.

After the bait is swallowed by the fish, the hook hooks the fish's mouth when the angler struggles to raise the rod, which is called "mouth". It means "just hooking the fish's mouth".

If the hook is hooked to another part of the fish's body, such as the dorsal fin of the fish, it is not called a straight mouth, but a "car accident". It means that it is accidentally hooked, not the original meaning of the angler.

"yes, it could have been a car accident, or the fish wouldn't have had that much strength." Wei Xiaotang said.

If the hook is hooked into the fish's mouth, it will feel a lot of pain when the big fish struggles, so the fish will not struggle too hard. On the other hand, if the dorsal fin is hooked, the large fish will not feel much pain when it struggles, because it does not hook the flesh, so the strength of the fish struggle is particularly great.

"But if you talk about a car accident, even if you hook the dorsal fin of the fish, you will pull it hard, and the dorsal fin should be torn."

"It won't live for a few days, and the next time we come, we might see it floating on the surface." Flying Fish said.

If a large fish is hooked in the gills by a fake bait with two triple hooks, it will naturally not live for a few days.

While they were arguing, I suddenly whispered, "Could it be a water ghost?" ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other and were stunned.

"That's right, you fought with it for a long time, and you didn't see it at all, could it be something unclean in the water?" Wei Xiaotang said suddenly.

At the mention of the water ghost, Flying Fish Subconsciously reached out and pressed his chest, obviously to check whether his tiger tooth used to ward off evil spirits was still there.

"yes, why didn't we think it was a water ghost?" Ah Hai, who was driving, also said.

"Water ghosts? ...... Well, I was attacked in the chest by a female water ghost at the bottom of the Sampan Chau Bridge, and I know that the water ghost has a lot of strength, but Ah Ba said that no one has entered the cave for thousands of years, what are the water ghosts doing there? Flying Fish said.

"Water ghosts, like living people, need to find a quiet and shady place to rest!" I said with a smile.

"It can't be a water ghost." Flying Fish shook his head.

When asked why he couldn't be a water ghost, Flying Fish explained like this:

The water ghost is a ghost left behind by a person who accidentally dies in the water, or a person commits suicide in the rivers, lakes and seas, and cannot be reincarnated, he is secretly wandering under the water in the place where he died, and when a living person comes, he unexpectedly pulls the living person into the water and drowns him, and becomes its substitute ghost, and then he himself can be reincarnated.

Abadu said that no one had ever been to the cave, that is to say, no one drowned in the cave and became a water ghost, besides, even if someone died in the cave and became a water ghost, but then no one went into the cave, who was the water ghost waiting for in it?

He might as well run to the mountain pond or to the Broken Desire River, and when someone comes to the water's edge, he can pull the person into the water by surprise and drown, only in this way can he have hope of reincarnation.

"By the way, why didn't you bring your pure black male dog today? If it comes, even if there are water ghosts, the water ghosts will be afraid of us. "After listening to the analysis of the flying fish, I asked him another question.

"It's also my carelessness, these days I go around to see mahogany furniture, sometimes I have to go to eat and drink, it's not very convenient for me to bring a black male dog with me, I have been keeping it in the tram in the tunli, and I still have to take him out next time."

"Looks like you didn't bring that either...... Soul Scatter Grenade? I asked curiously.

"I didn't bring it. If only you had it with you. When I was fighting with the big fish, especially when it was trying to pull the raft forward and try to knock it into the stone gate, if we threw a few grenades at it, if it was a water ghost, wouldn't she be gone? If it weren't for the water ghosts, they would have been blown unconscious. Flying Fish said with a smile.

"The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, it seems that you still have to carry the three treasures you carry." The father suddenly teased that the fish were coming.

When it came to the three treasures of the Flying Fish Boy, I suddenly remembered that before we set off this morning, when Master Fang Fang came to see us, he sprinkled a lot of grass and wood ash in some dark corners around the tram, and at the same time replaced the two old straw figures in front of the door with new ones.

At the time, I didn't ask her why she did this, but now that I think about it, I asked everyone, "When Master Fang Fang came to visit us this morning, she sprinkled a lot of grass and wood dust around the tram and replaced the two old scarecrows in front of the door with new ones. ”

"It must have worked, but I don't know...... Do you think the scarecrow is used to scare the birds in the sky? Flying Fish laughed.

My father obviously didn't know why, but he suddenly took over and said: "There are all kinds of customs and habits in ethnic minority areas, let's follow the customs, but I think they are so superstitious, although they are not easy to say, but in their hearts they always feel a little ridiculous." ”

Later, I learned that the people in this area have the habit of planting straw and scattering grass and wood ashes in front of their houses, which is said to be done to prevent "chicken ghosts" from entering the house.

We chatted all the way and walked all the way, and soon we arrived at the county seat.

Flying Fish asked Ah Hai to drive the car directly to the "mountains and rivers" furniture store in Xishan Redwood Market.

Hearing Flying Fish Boy say that he went straight to the mahogany furniture store connected by mountains and rivers, Wei Xiaotang and Ah Hai both snickered, obviously they all knew that Flying Fish Boy was thinking about the beautiful and attractive Vietnamese female boss Nguyen Thi Jinhua again.

Ah Hai drove the car directly to the parking space next to the store entrance.

When Ruan Thi Jinhua saw that it was us, she quickly stood up, gently brushed the waterfall-like black hair with both hands, and trotted out all the way to welcome us into the store with light broken steps.

Before we could sit down, she was busy boiling water and making tea. She took out a piece of Pu'er tea, which was said to be twenty years old, from the tea cabinet and signed it for the flying fish.

The airplane fish boy played the tea under his nose and sniffed it gently, opened it again to look at it carefully, and finally smiled and said: "Old tree tea, the leaves are relatively large, the bar shape is obvious, and it is also very complete,...... Brew it out and drink it to know. ”

While the proprietress was making tea, she asked where we had come back?

The flying fish boy told her truthfully: "I went to the cave of Chuyi Mountain to fish, and I caught a lot of billfish, but the last fish was so big that my line was broken, and even the bamboo raft was about to fall apart, and I almost lost my life, but in the end I still didn't see what kind of fish it was, what a pity!" ”

"Ah, you all dare to go fishing in the cave of Chuyi Mountain?"

"What's wrong? Do you also know the first mountain? ”

"How did I not know? Chuyi Mountain is on the border, half of the east is China, and the west half is our Vietnamese, you call Chu Yi Mountain, we call it Fourteen Mountain......"

Hearing Ruan Thi Jinhua say this, everyone couldn't help but be stunned.

Flying Fish Buzzed and said, "Why are they the same mountain, we are called the first year of junior high school, and you are called fourteen, why is there such a big difference?" ”

"You call it the first mountain, it is said that every time on the first day of the lunar calendar, the water in many caves at the foot of the mountain suddenly disappears or suddenly gushes out, which is very weird, right? We call it the Fourteenth Mountain, and there is also a big mountain pond at the foot of the mountain on our side, and there are many caves on the side of the mountain pond, and suddenly the dragon roars and the tiger roars, and the water in the pond suddenly disappears and surges out, but we are not on the first day of the lunar calendar, but on the ...... of the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar."

"Isn't it true that our two countries have different calendars?" Ah Hai asked.

Ah Hai asked, Ruan's golden flower smiled and trembled.

Flying Fish Boy and Ah Hai are a bit inexplicable.

Nguyen Thi Jinhua said that the lunar calendar was invented in China, and now only Vietnam still uses the lunar calendar in the world, and you China uses the Gregorian lunar calendar, so the lunar calendar we are talking about is the same, it is impossible that I am the first day of the new year today, but you are the fourteenth.

Saying this, Feiyu and Ah Hai then understood.

"And this kind of weirdness? The first or fourteenth day of the new year is the day when ghosts go out. ”

"Not really! No one on our side has ever dared to go, but you dare to go, and dare to go fishing? ”

"We're going in two days!"

"Huh?" Nguyen Thi Kim Hwa was taken aback.