We were in the middle of the Guillotine Gorge, and we got up with a bucket of water, and the water quality of the Guillotine Gorge was really not to be said, it was clear and cold, and there was a small fish fry in it that was salvaged. Zhang Peng nested his palms, scooped and drank, smacked a few times, and scooped and drank. I saw that he drank so sweetly, and I also wanted to learn how to taste the taste of water, and after drinking it, I felt cold and sweet, and I didn't feel anything special.

"Well, it smells of corpses." He said.

After hearing this, I quickly spit out the water in my mouth and poured the water in the palm of my hand into the grass. "Where's the smell of corpses?"

"Didn't you taste it?"

I'm confused. "No, it's very sweet, better than well water and stream water."

"Then you drink this bucket of water!" He kicked the bucket and turned to leave.

We put the bucket in Zhang Peng's room, and then followed him to the reservoir in front of Li Bald's house. Although there are quite a lot of single-family households in Angelica Village, there are very few places like Li Bald's house, and most people are still willing to live in groups, so they have a companion.

This Li bald man is about forty years old, he looks like a fifty-year-old person, his daughter-in-law ran away with someone ten years ago, and he no longer looks for one, he flirts with the widow in the village every day, he doesn't care about anything, and he eats behind Xiong Laoliu's buttocks.

However, it is difficult for him to find a wife again, in addition to the poverty of the family, and the house is too remote. According to the second aunt when she gossiped with others, Li Bald's wife ran away with people not because she was poor, but because Li Bald couldn't get up, and her daughter-in-law was still in the middle of two years of marriage, and the people in the village began to gossip, generally speaking, the daughter-in-law's belly should be big after a year.

So in the past ten years, the second aunt has been using old stalks to scare Li Bald, such as making your daughter-in-law's belly bigger first. Li Bald was not angry, and he didn't even refute it at all, looking detached.

What's more, the reputation of the reservoir is not good, as far as I can remember, there are seven or eight children drowned in it, and parents are powerless to stop it, they can't tie up their children, let alone let them go to the Yangtze River. Everyone was very polite to Li Bald, and hoped that when the child was disobedient and secretly went swimming, he could help watch the point. When I was a child, I saw other children swimming, and I was envious, but fortunately I didn't go into the water, otherwise I might have died.

When we arrived, Li Bald was sitting on the stone pier at the door eating noodles, it was almost three o'clock, and the rural people ate quite casually, especially the singles, I often ate two meals a day. His house is more dilapidated than my old house, and it has not been decorated with lime, and the earthy yellow brick walls have been displaced, and there are cracks everywhere. It's strange to be able to marry a daughter-in-law like this, this guy is also quite lazy, and he is the laziest person in the salvage team.

There is a small wooden boat on the edge of the reservoir with a sea rod made of bamboo, probably because Li Bald usually has nothing to do to fish to pass the time. Zhang Peng said that we have to go to the middle to get water, and the effect is the best. When Li Bald saw me coming, he was about to turn around and enter the house, but Zhang Peng stopped him and said that he wanted to borrow a boat, but Li Bald refused very simply.

"Fifty." Zhang Peng took out an exotic thread wallet from the cloth bag, which should be handmade, and the word "Nasha" was embroidered in the corner, which was very obvious, and the red thread was used. There are exactly fifty pieces in it, but they are all five or ten dollars, and this guy is really good enough to pick the door.

"Sixty." Li Bald raised the price.

"Forty." Zhang Peng took out two pieces of five and put them in his pocket.

"Fifty is fifty, but you can't catch blackfish, and the others have to be paid according to ten yuan a catty." Li Bald said.

"The reservoir was opened by your family? Does your family have a business license? Do you have an invoice?" Zhang Peng asked questions continuously.

"But this is my family, so it's mine."

"Okay, I won't give you a penny, we'll buy our own fishing rods and come over to fish." Zhang Peng quickly put the money in his pocket.

"Fifty is fifty, you can't catch a black fish, or I'll kill you." Li Bald is usually cowardly, and he is a fart, and he dares to say that he killed us.

"Fuck off, Blackfish is your father! If you're gloomy, go back to sleep and recuperate! Have a finger in the pie. Zhang Peng handed him the money, he has always been small, with a big tone, and he is not afraid of being beaten. He was looking for earthworms on the playground in front of Li Baldzi's house, and I also helped to find them, and among the mollusks, the fear of earthworms was slightly better.

"Are you really going fishing?" Isn't that a waste of time, I asked?

"You are an unemployed vagrant, and you are in a hurry like the president all day long, are you tired?"

"The key is you, Ouyang Xiong gave you so much money, and you fool around here every day."

"I don't care, I took 100,000 yuan anyway, and the rest was deceived by my master, Ouyang Qingqing is his daughter, he is not in a hurry, I am in a hurry. If you don't know, Ouyang Qingqing is just a gimmick, and she didn't enter the pond at all. You can grill fish, right? Let's have a drink in the evening. ”

Zhang Peng's suspicion of Ouyang Xiong coincides with mine. "Yes, I bought this recipe, and I should be able to try the boiled fish fillet."

When we got on the boat, Zhang Peng asked me where the body of Huang Xuan's son was found, and I looked around, and there were a few thick willow trees at the foot of the innermost mountain, and the branches were hanging down on the water, and it was really difficult to find the child's body if it was hidden inside.

"Is that the closest to Guillotine Gorge?" Zhang Peng rowed the boat and asked, the target was the willow tree, but he kept spinning in place, the boat didn't go at all, he couldn't row.

I asked him to hook the earthworm, and I went rowing, and the earthworm thing was disgusting, and it smelled terrible. My rowing skills are only better than Zhang Peng's, and I am also temporarily self-taught to find patterns, after all, I have seen a lot of boating by the water. The boat swayed slowly under the willow trees. He threw the pole out and stuck it in the hole in the bow.

Zhang Peng plucked the dead leaves floating on the water with his hand, scooped it with his hands and drank it, and tasted it for a long time, "Did you swim in this when you were a child?" ”

"No, I didn't dare swim when I was a kid for fear people would see my back." I replied.

"Then you're very hanging, you can swim for hours the first time you go into the water."

"I also thought it was incredible, I was confused, I felt like I was in my mother's womb."

"Lacking maternal love, the name Jiang Shuisheng really fits your temperament very well." Zhang Peng leaned on the bow of the boat and looked at the willow trees on the mountain overhead, "The smell of this water is a bit similar to that of Guillotine Gorge, but the smell of corpses is very light." ”

"If it's from the bottom of the mountain, I guess the smell is filtered by the soil, right?" I speculated.

"What do the drowned children say?" Zhang Peng asked rhetorically.

According to some information I know, it seems that almost all the children who drowned in the reservoir were fished up. But Zhang Peng asked me why my mother's body was also fished up, but the soul used for reincarnation was gone, so I don't know what the situation is, and I can't figure out his things at all.

"How far is this from the pool?" He asked.

"It's quite far, take a shortcut, and you have to climb three mountains."

"Damn, if it's connected, isn't there a huge area under Guillotine Mountain? This area doesn't all belong to Guillotine Mountain, maybe your village lives on it. No wonder Ouyang Xiong didn't think about entering from this reservoir, the oxygen cylinders were not enough. ”

His words scared me a little, and the mass grave is also one of the hills, but no one has thought about this problem, otherwise no one would dare to live here. If this place is really connected to the pond, I don't know if Li Bald dares to live by this reservoir, I'm afraid that the people in the village won't even have a place to graze cattle.

"There should be a lot of fish in this reservoir, don't you eat earthworms?" He muttered, took the pole and began to reel in the line, the four hooks on it were empty, and he put on a few more earthworms, for fear that the fish would not be able to see, and the whole hook went up, and the earthworms jumped up and down in pain. I took out my phone and looked at it, it was already five o'clock.

"It's getting dark, I'll go back after playing for a while." I reminded.

"If you go home empty-handed, do you spend money to buy fish? I've got to get those fifty dollars back. ”

"Do you have to eat boiled fish fillet?"

"Yes." Zhang Peng said resolutely.

Since he said so, I didn't bother to care, leaned on the edge of the boat to smoke and look at the willow trees and the blue sky, the sunset shone on the yellow-colored dilapidated brick wall of Li Bald's house, except for Zhang Peng throwing a fishing rod there, time seemed to stand still, I hadn't been so leisurely for a long time, and it was easy to sleep as soon as I relaxed.

"Boy, wake up, save me." Zhang Peng's voice woke me up from my dream.

When I opened my eyes, the ship was empty, but what about the people? Grey cloth bags and iron swords lay in the bow of the ship. The small wooden boat was moving rapidly, and I was so frightened that I quickly turned over, and almost didn't stand firm and fell into the water.

"It's... This... water inside. Zhang Peng shouted.

I looked back, his fingers were on the edge of the bow of the boat, he was dragging in the water, his fingernails were bloodshot, and he was about to fall into the water, but his other hand was clutching the fishing rod, the line was tight, and it seemed that he was being pulled by a big fish. I grabbed his hand and yelled at him, "Why are you still dragging the fishing rod?" ”

"A twenty-pound big black fish is the best choice for boiled fish fillets."

"If you want to eat, you won't die."

"How big a splash a fish can make."

"Fool, let go." I yelled, the boat was getting faster and faster, and it was hard for me to stand still.

But this kid was like he had fallen into an evil spirit, and he was about to lose it, so he had to drag the fishing rod to death, as if he would rather die than eat the fish, and I wanted to kick him into the water. How can there be such a powerful black fish that pulls the boat like a speedboat. What does it mean that Bald Li is not allowed to fish for blackfish?