Chapter 28: Encounter with a Strange Big Fish

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After class in the evening, I took Fangfang's car back to Tunli.

Along the way, Master Fang Fang praised my performance in the morning. At the same time, Fang Fang Tianshi also told me: This Tianqin Invitational Contest is a folk art event organized by the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles attaches great importance to it, and requires all counties to carefully select high-quality programs to participate in the competition, and strive to select a number of excellent programs from this invitational competition and push them to the Organizing Committee of the Nanning International Folk Song Festival.

Just as the two of us were chatting energetically, the car drove into the tunli and drove towards the store car in the sunset.

Before we could stop, we saw Ah Ba at the door of the store car from a distance, anxiously walking over and over, walking over and over.

When he heard the sound of the car, he looked up sharply and saw that it was Fangfang's car, so he couldn't wait to run towards us.

Fang Fang ignored him and continued to drive the car to the shade of the tree next to the shop car and parked it.

Before the car turned off, Ah Ba pounced on him and said to Fangfang with a panicked expression: "It's not good, it's not good!" ”

Hearing that something was wrong, Fangfang's face turned pale suddenly, and her closed lips opened and closed slightly, but she didn't speak.

She was stunned for a moment, raised her willow eyebrows at me, and urged me to say, "Get out of the car!" ”

After the two got out of the car, Ah Ba pulled Fangfang aside and said in a panic: "Something is wrong!" ”

"What's wrong? Don't be nervous, tell me slowly

Clear! ”

"I've been waiting for you here for a long time, and I don't know what to do? I want to call the police, but I haven't reported it yet, so I want to wait for you to come back and discuss whether to call the police or not. Ah Ba said.

"You're so flustered, what's going on?"

Ah Ba realized that he was too flustered, and he hadn't told Fangfang what happened today.

Hachi forced himself to compose himself, opened and closed his shriveled pale lips, and was about to speak, but when his eyes moved to me, he stopped talking.

"Nine tones are here...... Is it inconvenient to tell him? He lowered his voice and said to Fangfang.

"It's okay, Jiuyin, come here!"

I hurried over, and the three of us walked into the house, and after sitting down on the sofa, Ah Ba said with a crying voice: "Jiuyin, your father and Flying Fish are all gone!" ”

"It's all gone? What does it mean to be all gone? Fang Fang glared at Ah Ba and asked in horror.

"That's it...... It's just that the people didn't come back! ”

"You start at the beginning, what the hell is going on? How can four living big men say that they are gone if they don't see it? Tell us slowly! ”

Hachi's Adam's apple twitched up and down rapidly, and he apparently forced himself to swallow a mouthful of water, and then intermittently recounted the disappearance of his father and Flying Fish to us.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, the Flying Fish Boy and the others drove to Chuyi Mountain, and I had to hire a walk-behind tractor to pull the bamboo raft, so I set off a little later.

At about ten o'clock, we met at the pond of Chuyi Mountain, took all kinds of fishing equipment and got on the bamboo raft.

I also tied the twenty bamboos of the raft one by one with thick iron wire, and the four iron buckets under the raft were tied with thick iron wire, and between the four large iron buckets, I used four other bamboos to fix them.

After this treatment, even if the bamboo raft is turned over from the bottom to the sky, the iron bucket will not fall out, and the bamboo raft will never fall apart.

Director Li, several of them are fishermen, they often go out to sea to fish, and they naturally have a lot of fishing experience.

This time, they learned the lesson of the last time they broke their lines and rods, and all of them switched to fishing tackle that was specially used for fishing big fish at sea.

What kind of equipment, I asked? They said it was specially used as fishing tackle for 100 catties of tuna in the South China Sea oil fields and the Dongsha Islands.

In addition to changing their fishing tackle equipment today, they each wore a red life jacket.

"Did they bring a life jacket?" Fang Fang asked abruptly.

Heck, they're all anglers, and they usually go out to sea to fish. The trunk in the back of the car is the equipment box for their fishing. There are always several sets of life jackets in the trunk of the Flying Fish Cub.

They told me to put on a suit, but I didn't.

I thought, what am I doing with that? I didn't fish, and besides, I'm not bad at water, folks in Fangyuan for dozens of miles, who doesn't know that I'm half a captain?

Not only did they each wear life jackets, but Flying Fish Boy also brought his pure black male dog with him.

The pure black male dog stood in front of the bamboo raft, sometimes with its mouth open, its long tongue hanging, sometimes its ears pricked up, and sometimes its eyes open. It can be said that he listens to all directions, sees six ways, and looks at the water with vigilance.

In addition to the pure black male dog, Flying Fish also brought twenty special ...... made of empty cans of beer What are they called...... Soul Scatter Grenade.

At first, when I carried the bamboo raft to the middle of the pond, I saw a large bag of beer cans, and I didn't know that it was a special thing they used to expel water ghosts, I thought it was beer.

I smiled and asked Flying Fish Boy, "Bring so much beer?" Should I bring it to drink, or should I make a nest for the fish?

Flying Fish Boy told me that this is beer? This is the "Soul Scattering Grenade".

Flying Fish proudly told me that the name "Soul Scattering Grenade" was his own idea, and in addition to the two powerful electric cannons, it was also stuffed with cinnabar, peach wood, paper charms, black dog blood, wormwood, betel nut, garlic, chili, leeks and other legendary things that can ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts. Usually use wax casting sealing. When using, open the seal and pull out the fuse to ignite.

I was also curious when I heard him say this, and at the same time wondered if it could explode?

Flying Fish said, otherwise, I'll try two for you to see, anyway, I brought a lot today.

With that, he took out two grenades and handed one to Ah Hai, and he took one himself.

After the two of them set up a posture, they asked Wei Xiaotang to help light the fire.

After Wei Xiaotang took out the lighters, he lit them one by one. They threw it into the water in front of them, and sure enough, it exploded in the water, and then, the air was filled with a choking smell, and several small water snakes also floated from the bottom of the water, struggling painfully on the surface of the water.

After we tried the grenade, we laughed and walked straight to the cave.

That cave is the one where the last time we went in to fish, we were pulled by a big fish and broke the rod.

Like last time, we carried the bamboo raft and walked into the cave. When we walked to the stone gate where the last time the big fish broke the line and rod, we were surprised to find that the water level around the stone gate had become very low, and several huge rocks like thresholds in the middle of the stone gate protruded from the water, and the bamboo raft could not sail through, so we had to come down and carry the bamboo raft into the gate.

It turned out that the water was ebbing.

"Is the water flowing in the cave?" I asked suddenly.

"Yes, the water is flowing, and if it is stagnant, there will be no fish." Aba said.

"Does the water in the cave flow outward or inward?" I asked again

When we went in, when we were carrying the bamboo raft to the door at the stone gate, I saw that the water was flowing from abroad, but then they disappeared, and I searched there for most of the day, and then when I came out and passed by the stone gate, I saw that the water was flowing into the country from abroad. That is, it flows in the opposite direction.

After we moved the bamboo raft into the stone gate, everyone got on the bamboo raft and continued to prop it forward.

Along the way, I found that there were many upside-down stalagmite stone clocks in the cave, which can be described as strange.

Although the cave was very deep, it was not very dark along the way, and every other way, some light leaked out.

Sometimes, even if there is no light, you can see it without lighting because of the reflection of the bright water surface in the distance, and sometimes the top of your head is sometimes very high, sometimes very short, and there are dripping water from time to time.

Later, when I saw that I had gone deeper, I was afraid that something would happen, so I persuaded them to stop and not go any further.

But they didn't listen to the Flying Fish Boy at all.

Alas, how can this be said? I guess they haven't seen this kind of strange landscape in the cave on the Pearl River Delta side. They seemed to be so interested that they had to go in and have a look.

However, the cave is also very strange, and the further you go inside, the more bizarre the landscape becomes.

Sometimes the passage is narrow, just enough for a bamboo raft to cross, but after a while, it suddenly opens up and you have a large space.

In short, along the way, there is a scenery all the way, and it can be said that the deeper you go, the more wonderful the landscape will be. So they don't want to quit.

I reminded them a few times, but both Flying Fish and Ah Hai said, "What are you afraid of? Five big living people, besides, there is a pure black male dog, and I still have tiger teeth on my chest to ward off evil spirits. Everyone put on life jackets, plus these dozen soul grenades,...... These grenades, you have seen them in the mountain pond outside just now. ”

From time to time there are some bats in the cave that are so alarmed by us that they flutter and fly into the shadows, and some of them are not afraid of people at all. Flying Fish sometimes plays a prank, using a bamboo pole to sweep the bats hanging from the cracks in the rocks above their heads, and these bad bats are hanging one after the other, and they are tightly hooked to each other with their claws.

The flying fish boy swept it hard with a bamboo pole, and there would be a string of bats falling down, and some fell on everyone's head, and everyone was in a hurry to shoot them off, and the big black male dog thought it was a mouse and pounced on it to bite desperately, which made everyone laugh.

"Is the water in that cave deep?" I asked softly.

We were at the first stone gate, and when we came down to carry the bamboo raft into the gate, we felt that the water there was not deep, and we did not go into the water in other places, but I supported it with bamboo poles, and I felt that the water was not very deep, about chest deep, of course, some places may be a little deeper.

"You go so deep, are there any fish there?" Why don't you go out fishing? ”

Oops, speaking of this fish, I think it's a little weird today.

When we arrived at the place where we had last fished for billfish, we saw from a distance that there were many fish frantically blowing up on the surface of the water sixty or seventy meters in front of us, but when we were about to cast the rod, the boiling water suddenly calmed down again.

I don't know where the fish ran to again, the flying fish they threw more than a dozen rods to the waters where the fish exploded just now, but there was no fish mouth, just when the fish were hiding, and suddenly saw that there were fish frantically blowing up the water in front of sixty or seventy meters in front of them, we chased after them again, and immediately threw the rod, but for a long time, there was no fish mouth.

Just when I was wondering, I heard the crisp sound of big fish frying water in front of me......

In short, it was as if a school of big fish were deliberately playing hide and seek with us, constantly luring us deeper into the cave.

Flying Fish Boy was so angry that he scolded his mother at that time, he scolded: "Dog, I don't believe you guys, look where you run!" ”

He even took a few grenades and wanted to blow them up in the water, but when Director Li saw this, he persuaded him, "If you blow it up like this, all the fish will run away, how will you catch it later?"

In the end, he didn't blow up.

Later, we continued to chase inside with the sound of big fish exploding in water, and we chased for a long distance.

How far is it? I can't tell, anyway, I walked down the river on a bamboo raft, and I walked for more than an hour, and I only heard the sound of big fish exploding along the way, but no one caught a fish.

We chased the big fish like this, chased and chased, and suddenly found that we came to a very open place.

It was a big, big cave. There was an eerie atmosphere in the cave, and we felt a chill spread from the soles of our feet to our whole body.

On the south side of the cave is a large cliff face, partially submerged in water, and on the surface of the water is a strange and eerie Rangai.

"What do you mean?" I'm afraid that I'll miss a word, and if I hear something I don't understand, I'll ask Ah Ba right away.

Originally, the Zhuang people called the mural "Lanlai".

Ah Ba continued, the cliff wall was painted with all kinds of strange characters, the characters were very large, some were more than two meters high, and the small ones were more than one meter.

It's all snakes, human heads, frog heads, and even human heads, fish stomachs, and human feet, all kinds of mess.

I took a picture with my mobile phone to see if I could meet someone who could interpret it in the future.

"How did the ancients come here and paint such things on the cliff walls of the water cave?" The flying fish boy was also puzzled.

After this cliff, we came to a very wide space, with a few gaps in the top, leaking a few pillars of light, shining on the gently flowing water.

It was only then that we could see that below the pillar of light was a large expanse of slow-flowing water, surrounded by darkness, so we did not know how wide the place was.

We gently propped up the raft and pushed it to the middle.

We found a jar jutting out of the water in the middle of the water with the ruins of a house.

After a closer look, I found that there seemed to be many houses under the clear water.

Director Li said: "It is estimated that this place was originally a village of the ancients, and then it was suddenly flooded......

Just as we were curiously looking at the ruins above and below the water, suddenly there was the sound of big fish exploding in the water.

As soon as the flying fish heard the sound of a big fish exploding in water, he shouted, "guy!" ”

Several of them immediately raised their rods and threw the bait to the surface of the water with the sound of exploding water, and the bait of the four people was almost at the moment when it fell into the water, and there was a "boom!" from the water. - "With a loud bang, a large fish jumped out of the water from the bottom of the water and pounced on the bait.

The light in the distance was too dim for us to see what kind of fish it was, but after being hooked, it jumped sideways into the air, and the black shadow was no smaller than an adult.

The four of them didn't bother to speak, they just bent down desperately and pulled the rod. The fishing rod "chirp-chirp-chirp-" sounded straight, all bent into a full bow, and the "squeak" sound made by the fishing wheel out of the line was also particularly ear-piercing, and it was not clear whether the fishing wheel was smoking, only listening to Ah Hai say, "Dog, forget to wear gloves, the wheel is hot and burns your hands!" ——”

When the pure black male dog standing in front of the raft came in just now, he sometimes jumped up and down, and sometimes barked wildly: "Wang! Woof! Woof! ——”

And now, somehow, it was so frightened that its tail stiffened, its ears hung upside down, its four legs lay on the bamboo raft and shivered, and its mouth moaned from time to time.

"Ba, what are you still doing in a daze? Hurry up and throw me a soul grenade! ......" Flying Fish ordered me loudly.