22. Deep pool
Peach Blossom Creek is close to the river channel on the side of the Great Wilderness Mountain, and the water looks green and deep. This is the deep pool that everyone in Dahuang Village is in awe of.
The water in the deep pool is two or three meters deep at the shallowest point. The deepest place is unknown.
In other parts of Peach Blossom Creek, only small fish can be seen, but there are many big fish in the deep pool. Every time the weather is hot and sultry, the big fish in the deep pool will flutter and jump out of the water, and the villagers of Dahuang Village will drool.
It's not that the villagers of Dahuang Village don't know how to fish, but that this deep pool is a bit evil in the hearts of the villagers of Dahuang Village.
The ancestral motto of Dahuang Village: Until you are about to starve to death, you must not touch the fish in the deep pool. Otherwise, there will be bad luck.
A few years ago, when there was a famine, seeing that the autumn grain had not yet come down, many families in the village had run out of cooking.
Wu Xiangle, the old village chief, couldn't bear to see the villagers starving to death, so he had to take some villagers and take a big fishing net to the edge of the deep pool.
Wu Xiangle took everyone to worship by inserting incense on the edge of the deep pool, and then boldly netted a few large net fish in the deep pool.
The villagers were given a few large fish per family, salted them, and boiled some fish soup every day, and finally survived until the autumn harvest.
After the famine year, the villagers remembered the big harvest of fishing, and asked Wu Xiangle to catch a few nets of fish again, so that everyone could have a fat year.
When Wu Xiangle took people to fish again, something happened.
Not long after Wu Xiangle entered the water, he and another villager splashed in the water a few times and disappeared. The villagers were frightened and swam to the shore. The fishing event ended in a hurry.
A few days later, the bodies of Wu Xiangle and another villager surfaced three days later.
The old man of the Great Wilderness Mountain said that the deep pool in Peach Blossom Creek was the territory of Grandpa Mandrill. The big fish in Peach Blossom Creek is the ration of Grandpa Mandrill.
Grandpa Mandrill didn't like others to catch its fish, so the little brother "Water Ghost" did something and drowned the fisher.
Such a statement, although there is no evidence, also frightened a large number of villagers in Dahuang Village.
Over time, no one in Dahuang Village dared to go to the deep pool to catch fish.
A few days ago, He Zhuzi went to his sister's house to visit relatives.
At the dinner table, He Zhuzi drank a bowl of wine and couldn't help but blow nonsense. In the countryside, if you want money or food, it is just enough to support your family, in front of her brother-in-law, He Zhuzi is really a little inferior.
Fortunately, Liu Jiansheng is dull, but not snobbish, and He Zhuzi can be regarded as open in front of his brother-in-law.
After coming and going, I don't know what's going on, He Zhuzi talked about how the people in the village went to the deep pool to fish twenty years ago, but were captured by the "water ghosts" under the mandrill.
He Zhuzi's brother-in-law Liu Jiansheng refuted it with scientific arguments, saying that there are no ghosts such as mandrills in this world. Those two people disappeared, maybe they encountered a whirlpool under the water, and they were swept into it, and they disappeared.
Seeing He Zhuzi looking at him with adoring eyes, Liu Jiansheng gave He Zhuzi a lesson in ocean currents, convection and other knowledge. He Zhuzi listened to the clouds, but what Liu Jiansheng said: There are whirlpools under some rivers, which will produce "suction" force, and the sentence that "sucks" people into it is remembered in his heart.
Maybe the death of Uncle Xiangle in their village was not really the mandrill and the water ghost, but was swept away by the whirlpool under the water?
With such thoughts, He Zhuzi and Liu Jiansheng talked about the fact that there were fish in the deep pool, but unfortunately they couldn't catch them.
Liu Jiansheng said in passing, science is so developed, can people still be suffocated to death by their own bubble of urine? There is a whirlpool under the water and you dare not go into the water? It doesn't matter, don't you know that there is now a fishing tool called a "stun gun"? Standing on the shore and seeing the fish, holding the "electric gun" and reaching out to poke into the water to "electricity", the fish is strange if they don't turn their stomachs!
Liu Yucheng's words made He Zhuzi "suddenly".
After He Zhuzi left his brother-in-law's house, he ran to the street excitedly to find the "electric gun" that his brother-in-law said.
There are still things like "electric guns" sold in Liuhe Town. A long-pole gun, a small fishing net with two batteries, the whole set is fully equipped.
However, the price of several hundred made He Zhuzi daunting. A pound of pork is only three cents! How many fish can you catch to cover the cost of this new set of fishing tools?
He Zhuzi calculated in his mind. I'm a good one, one dime and five pounds of fish, ten pounds of fish are five pieces of fish, and one hundred pounds and fifteen dollars······ In the end, He Zhuzi's brain hurt and he didn't come up with a correct answer.
He Zhuzi didn't dare to ask his brother-in-law to borrow money, so he could only go home in a huff.
He Zhuzi and Zhou Aiguo from the same village had a good time, and after returning to the village, He Zhuzi talked to Zhou Aiguo about the new fishing method: the "electric gun" poke the fish.
Zhou Aiguo fell in love.
The fish in the deep pool, for a foodie like Zhou Aiguo, the temptation is huge.
What's more, Zhou Aiguo is too poor, and the poor Zhou Aiguo can't wait for money to fall from the sky and smash it on his head.
Yesterday, taking advantage of yesterday's holiday for the production team, Zhou Aiguo went to the town. After dark, Zhou Aiguo brought the "electric gun" back to the village.
He Zhuzi said that the "electric gun" poked the fish, and Zhou Aiguo was embarrassed to monopolize this "business". In order to block He Zhuzi's mouth, and in order to allow He Zhuzi to make efforts to find a way to find his brother-in-law Liu Jiansheng, he sold the fish he caught to the town.
Zhou Aiguo "endured the pain" and decided that he would pull He Zhuzi to do this matter together.
After Zhou Aiguo returned to the village, he ran directly to He Zhuzi's house with a "stun gun" on his back.
When He Zhuzi slept in a daze in the middle of the night, he was woken up by Zhou Aiguo. He Zhuzi just wanted to get angry, but before he could say anything to complain, his eyes were immediately attracted by the "electric gun" on Zhou Aiguo's back.
Seeing that the "electric gun" that he had coveted for a long time appeared in front of him like this, He Zhuzi didn't bother to ask Zhou Aiguo how he could have the money to buy such an expensive thing, and itched to hold the "electric gun" to study how to use it.
The principle of this fishing tool, called "electric gun", is very simple, that is, the electricity in the battery is released through the tip of the "gun" with a switch, and the fish is "corona". The "corona" fish will come to the surface, and the catcher only needs to use a small net pocket to catch the fish.
When Zhou Aiguo and He Zhuzi were "studying", the sky was also bright. The two excitedly put on the "electric gun" on their backs and headed in the direction of the deep pool.
There are indeed many fish in the deep pool, and they are big and numerous.
With the "electric gun" in hand, Zhou Aiguo and He Zhuzi caught a big fish in less than half an hour.
When Chaoyang climbed up the hill, Zhou Aiguo and He Zhuzi returned with a full load.
A basket of fish is full of fifty catties. Zhou Aiguo and He Zhuzi did not dare to carry back to the village, the two worked together, He Zhuzi went to the town to sell fish, and Zhou Aiguo brought the "electric gun" back to the village.
At noon, He Zhuzi came to Zhou Aiguo to call someone to go to his house for dinner.
Most of He Zhuzi's fish were sold, selling for six yuan and five cents. The remaining fish, He Zhuzi waited for a long time and no one wanted it, so he simply took it home by himself.