"Say, how can I repay it?" I asked him bluntly.

Mr. Liang knocked the cigarette ash and looked me up and down: "Come on, boy, remember, you owe me a favor." As for what you want, I'll ask you when I think about it. Now drink two glasses with me. ”

The old man's duty room was filled with a smell, the smell of alcohol and smoke and the peculiar smell of the elderly, and the room was warm and coaxing, like a gas chamber. I drank with him, and I drank and drank a little up, and I seemed to be calling Mr. Liang a brother in a daze, and then he helped him into the lounge and fell asleep, and slept until the next morning.

I was sleeping soundly when someone kicked me in the ass: "Get up." ”

I rubbed my eyes, sat up from the bed, and Mr. Liang said, "I'm off work, come back with me." I said yes and groped my way out of bed. When I touched my waist, I felt empty, it was broken, why was the pocket watch gone.

The pocket watch contains the tokens of my two old fairies, the photos of Huang Xiaotianmao and Cheng Hai, and I have always carried this pocket watch with me. I suddenly came to my senses, and I searched under the bed, but I still didn't find it. At this time, I was really a little scared, where did I put it, did I lose it?

Mr. Liang put on a padded jacket and called me outside: "The surname is Feng, why are you so inky." ”

My voice trembled: "My things seem to be lost." ”

As I spoke, I walked out of the duty room and saw the pocket watch on the windowsill next to Mr. Liang. I was first overjoyed, then furious, and immediately understood what was going on, this pocket watch must have been taken off secretly by Mr. Liang.

I hurriedly went over to get it, and Mr. Liang was quick to hold the pocket watch in the palm of his hand first: "This is your old fairy?" ”

I was annoyed: "What do you want to do?" ”

"Put this thing here first, I'll keep it for you." Mr. Ryo put his pocket watch in his pocket.

I rushed to the top beam door in a fire, and was about to go up to grab it, when the door of the duty room opened, and another old man came in, holding a radio in his hand, and greeting Mr. Liang. This old man is on the day shift, so he came to change shifts with Mr. Liang.

There are outsiders, and I can't get angry, so I can only endure it, with fire in my eyes.

The two old men chatted all over the world, talking and laughing, chatting a few words, and Mr. Liang waved his hand and signaled to leave.

He glanced at me, "Do you want to stay and play the shift?" I held back my anger and followed him without speaking. We went out of the duty room one after the other.

There was a lot of pressure to study in high school, and it was only seven o'clock, and students came to school one after another.

Mr. Liang didn't care about me, he swaggered in front of him, and we went out of the school gate one after the other. There were people coming and going on the street, and the small county town was a little more energetic, Mr. Liang walked in front, and I followed behind. The county seat is a total of two main roads in the north and south, we walked down the south road, can have more than half an hour, out of the county, to a village road.

This is the rural-urban area, and we walked into a village. The supermarket at the entrance of the village was holding a breakfast stall, and Mr. Liang stopped, asked for a bowl of tofu brain, and sat on the side and drank it. There were some villagers here, and I held back my anger and whispered, "Mr. Liang, when are you going to give me back the things?" ”

"Don't worry," he said vaguely, "young man, don't be impatient. I'm not going to covet this little bit of stuff from you, I'll talk to me about it later. ”

"What's the matter?" I tried to calm myself.

Mr. Liang wiped his mouth: "Fishing." ”

Under his persuasion, I barely ate something, and he paid for the meal and took me into the village. Turning the alley, I entered a small farmhouse courtyard. Mr. Liang said: "I live here, one is a bedroom, and the other is a storeroom. "He went to a house, opened the door with the key, and motioned for me to come in.

The room was rectangular, very small, and the walls were covered with all kinds of long rods, and when I looked closely, I saw that they were fishing rods. The table is full of cradles for fishing, as well as various thin lines. There were many boxes, with open lids, filled with plumb sinkers, hooks, and the like.

Mr. Ryo hung his pocket watch on a high place, pointed it and said, "I will train you to overcome the ghost blinding, and if you do it, you will take your things away." If you don't do it, you don't want this thing, and it's useless for the old fairy to give it to you. ”

He took two fishing rods from the wall and handed me one: "You take the hand fishing rod, and I will take the wheel." Go, go fishing. ”

He pulled out a fanny pack from the corner, hung it on his body, it was full of small fishing objects, and carried a horse and a net, and swaggered out of the storeroom. I looked back at the hanging pocket watch, and now I took it, but I gave up on it. Taking the pocket watch away now is equivalent to telling Mr. Liang that I am not cured and that I am leaving. But I don't want to leave like this, so I can only endure the pain for the time being.

We went out of the courtyard one after the other, and went around a long circle to the back of the village, and walked along the dirt road to the end, and there was a deep pool in the midst of the rocks.

Mr. Liang found a place, put the horse on the flat stone, he stood on a high place and flung the rod, the fishing line flew out with a lead sinker, smashed into the far side of the pool, submerged in the water, and the fish floated slowly on the surface of the water.

He sat comfortably on his matza and took out his cigarette to smoke. I was following his example, and was about to throw the rod, when Mr. Liang hurriedly said, "You are a hand fishing rod, throw a chicken feather rod, and fish on the shore." Just put the line vertically into the water. ”

I got off the pole and crouched next to him, watching the water drift. After waiting for a while, the drift was motionless, and I couldn't help but say, "Mr. Liang, I'm not here to play with you, I still have a lot of things at home, can you teach me something useful." ”

Mr. Liang said, "Let's wait until you catch a fish." ”

As he spoke, the drift in the distance suddenly moved. Mr. Liang stood up, lifted the rod and moved it twice, and then violently shook the wheel to close the line, swaying from side to side while retracting, and I couldn't take my eyes off it. Mr. Liang smiled: "Yes, there was a harvest within ten minutes of coming out, and it looks quite big." See how I slip it. ”

After a short time, he withdrew the line and jerked it up, and a yellow fish popped out of the water, the size of a palm. He took the fish off the hook, looked at it, threw it far away, and threw it back into the pond.

I hurriedly shouted, "Don't throw it." ”

"That's not what we want." He shook his head.

"So what do we want?" I asked.

Mr. Liang didn't speak, but hung the bait on the hook again, threw the rod out, and sat down on the mazaar and waited.

None of us spoke, just quietly stared at the water, staring at the drift. Mr. Liang's drift can still move from time to time, and my drift is as if it grows on the water, motionless.

The environment of this deep pool is not bad, there are high mountains and high cliffs on all sides, although the weather is cold, but the wind can not enter, the pool water rarely ripples, just like the dark green mirror.

Mr. Liang caught two more fish in succession, both of which were hooked and thrown back into the water. I could see that he seemed to be waiting for a special fish, and maybe that was what he brought me to fish.

After waiting for an hour, I didn't catch a single fish, so I had to retract the rod, re-hang the bait, and find another place to re-cast the rod. Mr. Liang suddenly said, "Boy, do you know why there are so few people fishing here?" ”

I said I don't know. Actually, I've been thinking about this question for a long time, this place is quite good for fishing enthusiasts. It's not remote, and the mountains are deep and quiet, and there are a lot of fish, so why is there no one?

"In the past, this was not a waterhole, but in the seventies and eighties, when Dazhai dredged the river, the water from the tributaries of the Yalu River was brought in. Before the waterhole was formed, it didn't have a good reputation. He stood up suddenly, his eyes fixed on drift in the distance.

He picked up the rod and began to shake the wheel, sliding as he went, from side to side. I saw that the clubhead was pulled into a crescent shape, which showed that the weight of this fish was not small.

He took a cigarette in his mouth and said indistinctly, "Boy, go up the net." ”

I picked up the net and waited intently at his side, when the line had finally been received, and he jerked it up, and a strangely shaped fish leaped out of the water. The fish has a dark black body and a large head, almost as large as its body. In the sun, there is a thick black gas all over the body.

I rubbed my eyes, it was indeed black. This kind of black gas is not visible to ordinary people, but I opened my spiritual eyes and immediately saw that this fish was unusual.

"Copy the net!" Mr. Liang shouted.

I hurriedly caught the fish with a net, and the black fish kept tossing in the net. Mr. Liang took the rod, and sat on the maza and was very tired, and I was panting with a sigh, and I went to pick the hook from the fish's mouth out of kindness.

Mr. Liang yelled: "Mao Mao is stunned, you don't want to die!" ”

I was stunned and withdrew my hand. Copying the net and throwing it on the ground, the fish jumped up and down, snapping, and visually, the fish could be at least one and a half catties, and the fish meat was full and fat.

I coughed to ease the mood: "I can go back and stew soup tonight." ”

Mr. Liang sneered: "You take a closer look at the fish head, and then talk about the stew." ”

I really didn't pay attention just now, but I looked so closely that I was so scared that I almost didn't sit on the ground. This fish actually has a human face, eyes side by side, a nose, a mouth, and a beard at the corners of the mouth, especially those small eyes, looking at us, with strange eyes, I really can't describe it.

Fish, as far as I know, have most of their eyes on the sides of their heads, and I have never heard of them growing side by side. This fish insists that it is a human face, which is a bit far-fetched, but it is terrible because this face is half-like.

The fish, with its mouth constantly moving, foaming at the foam, looked like it was talking. I was so frightened that my forehead was sweating profusely, and my throat was moving up and down.

Mr. Liang said: "See, just this kind of fish, our task today is to catch ten." ”