In the spring of 1976, Fattyman, Yuan Xiaobai and Cha Wenbin and I were still in Savage Tun. Just like we are in that isolated Tunzi, the news of our family is also so unknown, the descendants of the typical Black Five elements were difficult in those years, but fortunately, the people in the tunzi are very good to us, and the people here are as simple as the mountains here.

In the past six months, we have all grown up, with dark skin and thick arms, and we have done our best to perform the work that men should undertake, except for Yuan Xiaobai, a few of us can be described as black.

The tunzi in the spring is very busy, busy plowing the fields and repairing the canals; Busy repairing farm tools, busy sorting and incubating seeds, the plan of the year lies in the spring, and every day we will work until late. It was always raining, and we had to plant the whole year's harvest before the season, and the whole village, men and women, was working in the fields with hats and raincoats.

After such high-intensity work, someone soon collapsed, and Yuan Xiaobai began to have a high fever, swinging, and even cramping in the middle of the night.

Savage Tun was too remote, there was a lack of medical treatment, Yuan Xiaobai once burned so much that people began to talk nonsense, and he was sent out of the mountain by a donkey cart overnight. After rescue, her little life was saved, and the doctor said that her health was too poor, and suggested that we make up for her after we go back.

What can I make up for that year? Even eggs are collective property, and we are children with family composition problems, so the team naturally does not dare to be too partial, and it is impossible to make an exception because of a foreign intellectual. Fortunately, the production captain is more reasonable, and letting Yuan Xiaobai rest at home is also counted as her three jobs, which has been a blessing from heaven.

In the past, she was responsible for taking care of the daily life and food of the three of us, but now the matter of taking care of her naturally falls on the heads of the two of us. The mountains are green all over the country, which means that everything is still in gestation, and the Oroqen people have regulations, this season is when the animal is pregnant, and hunting is prohibited; Some of the rice in the warehouse are all last year's old rice, the crops in the field have just been planted, and all we eat are cabbage hidden in the cellar for a winter, and Yuan Xiaobai's body is getting weaker and weaker day by day, so we have to think of a way.

At that time, Cha Wenbin and I were mainly responsible for turning over the water, that is, pumping water for irrigation, and there were five pumping machines in the tunzi, driven by diesel, which were said to have been left by the Japanese and kept in the warehouse. The fat man was able to use it after tinkering with it last winter, so this year's main task for us is to fetch water and maintain the machine.

There is a river in the middle of the savage tun, where the usual food and domestic water are used, but there are still many "ponds" in the village, those ponds are said to have existed before the liberation, a total of 18 mouths, irregularly distributed in the village, some large and some small.

The big ponds were the size of a basketball court, and the smaller ones were not much bigger than bathing buckets, and the middle of these ponds was mostly fields, from which we pumped water into the fields.

Coincidentally, we have never cared about these ponds, but that day the fat man saw that there were fish in the ponds, as big as seven or eight catties, and the small ones were less than the length of his thumb, and they often appeared on the surface of the water. This guy can make a few of us happy, the fat man asked the people in the field, after it was not the fish pond of the village collective, we cut down the bamboo overnight and made a fish hook with a lead needle, and we planned to get some fish soup to make up for Xiaobai.

Fishing wasn't a difficult task for me, and digging some earthworms in the field and grabbing a handful of peanut shells and oil cakes to make a nest was not something that I could easily catch. But to our surprise, the fish here don't seem to be interested in any kind of bait, and you can see them swimming in the water, just not biting, and being in the air force for three nights in a row, which makes us sad.

We didn't understand either, so we went to find Daddy Miao at night, he was an old man here, and he should know about this fish.

Unexpectedly, when I heard us mention this, Father Miao also felt puzzled, he said: "Since I entered this tunzi, I have never seen anyone touch fish from those ponds to eat, and the fish is indeed there, but I just can't get it." ”

I said, "The fish here are all immortals who don't open their mouths to eat?" ”

Father Miao took a puff of his cigarette, "Do you think it's your idea to shoot those fish?" I tell you, there is a wicked fish there! ”

The fat man broke the garlic clove and chewed it in his mouth: "What's the evil door?" Will it bite? ”

"In 59, when Lanzi and his mother were just pregnant with her, she was pregnant, she ate and vomited, and she couldn't even see her four-month-old belly. At that time, food was still scarce than it is now, and I was thinking about getting some good supplies for her, so I set my eyes on the fish in the pond. There is no hope of fishing, anyway, no one has ever caught it, so I went to the county people's armed forces department to find an old comrade-in-arms and got ten catties **, and put it down, and the water splashed half of the sky, guess what? ”

The fat man spread his hands: "What else can I do, all the fish let you die, ten catties of ** fried such a small pond, the old man can't see it, you are enough for the next book." ”

Father Miao said to the fat man: "At first, I thought the same as you, ten catties ** is indeed a bit heavy, I thought it wasn't that the fish in a pond were shaken away." Who knows, after the first shot, I didn't even see a single fish scale except for the splash. The next day, I went back to see the fish

He spat bubbles on the surface of the water, and nothing happened. ”

I have also tried this method, I just used the fire nitrate in the firecracker to remove it and stuff it into a vial of penicillin to kick it firmly, and then insert the fuse, a penicillin bottle can blow up a piece, ten catties ** What is the concept?

"Chengjing, right, can't this blow up?" I interjected.

Father Miao said: "So, the next day, I asked the comrade-in-arms for twenty pounds**, this time I lost it when I saw that there were fish on the water, and I still didn't even catch a single hair." That's it, such a small pond, lost thirty pounds**, and didn't see a fish, so don't go to toss around. ”

On the way back, the fat man asked Cha Wenbin: "Cha Ye, do you believe what the old man said?" ”

Cha Wenbin shook his head and then nodded again, the fat man was puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”

"Believe it and don't believe it! Father Miao said that he had fried fish, I believed it, but he said that I didn't believe it if he didn't blow it up, and the pond was only four or five meters wide, which made no sense. ”

The fat man muttered: "** I can't get it, since I can't catch it, so let's just go and catch it, why bother with that effort, don't we have a pump?" Directly drained the pump pond, how good it is to jump down and catch it alive. ”

As soon as I heard it, this is really a good idea, how much water can there be in such a small pond, and it is not wrong to work and catch fish.

Early the next morning, the fat man went to the warehouse and brought two more pumps, and as soon as he heard that we were going to drain the pond, the village was so lively that he didn't even want the work in the field. They don't know where they came from, but everyone knows that there are fish, but they just can't catch them. On that day, we were tightly wrapped in the inner three layers and the outer three layers, and even the secretary of the brigade came to join in the fun.

The fat man gave an order, and the three pumping machines worked at the same time, and the water in the pond was pumped up. Who knows, after a morning, the water line in the pond has not been shallow for half a minute!

The pond we chose was not the largest, it was medium in size, and it was located southwest of the village. The pond is about 40 meters away from the river, and the nearest pond is about 10 meters, and between the two ponds is a field, and the water we pumped out went directly into the canal and did not circulate into the pond. The ponds looked dark all day, and no one knew exactly how deep they were, so it was suggested that the depth should be measured first.

We found a rope and tied a stone to the rope and threw it into the water, which exploded in the crowd on the spot. The rope was a hundred meters long, and it was not until less than a quarter of the stone was left that the power of the stone fell disappeared, which means that this small pond of unsightly appearance was nearly seventy meters deep!

This discovery immediately upended the perception of the pond in the whole village, and as many people became more and more interested, and soon two other pumping machines were also carried over. Five pumping machines started working at the same time, and the amount of water pumped out was like the water rising in the river during a heavy rainstorm, which was no longer just a competition with those few fish, to put it bluntly, everyone wanted to know if the water here could be drained!

Another afternoon passed, the depth of the water went down by more than half a meter, and the lively people dispersed, and we continued. In the evening, we worked shifts, and continued during the day, pumping water for three days in a row, and the pond did not mean to bottom out at all, but revealed something strange.

Originally, I thought that these ponds were small fish ponds dug by people in the past, but when the waterline fell to about two meters for the first time, the soil on both sides began to be replaced by black stones. The stones were a yard of black and smooth, with twill lines similar to those common in the countryside. The stone is a whole, and traces of artificial polishing can be seen everywhere, and as our pumping schedule increases, these artificial signs begin to increase, and what we didn't expect is that the pond, which seems to be only a few meters wide, is gradually expanding downward and widening, and the progress of our pumping is starting to slow down and slow.

Five pumping machines worked day and night, and it took 18 days for the pond to finally bottom. It is a vase-shaped with a narrow mouth and a large belly and a narrow bottom, and the whole thing is black stone. It's like a whole stone, someone dug such a vertical pit inside the stone, and the depth of this pit is close to 70 meters!

For a while, the whole Savage Tun began to boil, some people said that a few of us children dug the spring of the Savage Tun, some people said that this may be a secret place for the Japanese to do experiments in the past, and some people say that this will not be an abandoned stone pit. In short, this is big news that has exploded, and not only us, but everyone wants to know what is under this 70-meter-deep crater that is not visible at a glance.

And the fat man's idea is simpler, he ***, this time the water is drained, where are you fish going......