Rapeseed is sown in late autumn, and in spring, the endless rape flowers stretch to the horizon.

The weather is warmer, and the spring drizzle is the most romantic scenery in the southern border town, full of hazy new greenery, bamboo forests and houses disappear from time to time.

Peasants wore hats and robes, drove buffaloes, and worked in the fields.

In the paddy fields that had been deeply cultivated, the red soil was turned over in large chunks, and the white herons were busy in the fields, looking for the various insects and loaches that had been turned out by the plough and had not yet fully awakened from hibernation.

Ling Bai and Patriarch Zhu, Zhu Fu and a group of villagers gathered in front of a large pond with calm water.

"This is the public pond in our village, which usually acts as a reservoir to irrigate fertile land. Every year, the villagers raise funds to buy fish fry for stocking, so the fish in this pond are all shared by the villagers, and anyone who needs to eat fish can come here to catch them. Patriarch Zhu looked at the pond in front of him and said calmly.

After Ling Bai asked if there was a connection between fish scales and fish scales, the sick villagers all said that they had eaten fish the day before they were infected.

"Won't someone salvage and sell it?" Ling Bai was puzzled.

The villagers raise funds every year to buy fish fry for stocking, which seems to be a good thing for the township, but in fact, it is easy to have disputes and contradictions.

Assuming that each person contributes the same amount of money, and a villager catches fish every day and eats it at home, or even sells it in the town, while some villagers only eat fish once every three or five days, will those who eat less fish complain about those who eat more or even sell fish?

Zhu Fu coughed lightly and explained for the patriarch: "Now that people's living conditions are better, no one will point to the fish in the fish pond every day to live. Even if there are people who are greedy for small and cheap people, at most they will eat a few more. As for the fact that fish is caught and sold, there has never been such a thing. ”

"As the patriarch said earlier, this is the public pond in the village, and although the fish fry are released, no one feeds them. Therefore, the growth of the fish is not pleasing to the eye, and it is not big. Although the free-range fish is more delicious, it can't bear to have a few pieces of meat on it, and no one wants to sell it. ”

"Oh. ”

Ling Bai suddenly didn't expect this.

"Master, what should we do now?" Zhu Fu pointed to the fish pond.

"Find someone to catch a fish and try it. ”

Zhu Fu nodded, looked at the villagers gathered behind, pointed to a thirteen or fourteen-year-old baby, and shouted: "Xiwa, you have a good water nature, go into the water and catch a big fish for the master." ”

"Howler. ”

The child called Xiwa came out in line, rubbed his hands, and took off his clothes in three or two to go into the water.

"Wait. Ling Bai frowned slightly as he looked at the calm water. I heard the patriarch say that the water in the public pond is used to irrigate farmland and water vegetables, and the vegetables that every household in the village eats every day are basically self-produced, and there are less than three layers of fish scale moss in the village, which means that there is no problem with the water in this public pond.

If there is a problem with the fish, it is likely that there is something strange under the water, and if you rush into the water, even if you do not get sick, you are likely to encounter danger.

After talking about the speculation and the Zhu patriarch, they suddenly woke up.

Zhu Fu secretly blamed himself for being careless, if something happened to Xiwazi, his guilt would be great.

"Catch it with a net. Ling Bai commanded lightly.

"No, Master, you see me. Getting dressed, she trotted into a bamboo grove behind her, and a few minutes later ran out with a simple fishing rod made of bamboo.

"Xiwa, when did you hide the fishing rod of your melon baby?" did you steal someone else's fish?" Patriarch Zhu glared at him and scolded with a smile.

"I study hard every day, how can I have time, this is last summer vacation here. Hehe~" Xiwa smirked, rummaged through the red mud beside the path, pulled out a fat black earthworm, and skillfully hooked it on a fish hook made of sewing needles.

Ling Bai watched Xiwa's movements in a daze, this homemade fishing rod brought back his long memories.

The childhood memories of rural children are all related to the countryside, fishing, frog fishing, digging bird eggs, stealing sugar cane, baking sweet potatoes, picking mushrooms....... The abundance and variety of entertainment create the purest memories.

Xiwa threw the rod, and the float made of reed rods had just been lying on the surface of the water, when it was pulled down by a huge force, and the water surface was churning.

"Yo, it's still a big guy. Zhu Fu could see at a glance that the hooked fish was not small.

The bamboo pole is taut and bent into an arc in a full bow state, and the strands collide with the water surface to make a 'siao' sound.

The mood of the surrounding villagers was instantly pulled nervous, according to this posture, the hooked fish was two or three catties, and I didn't know if the bamboo pole could withstand such a big pull.

Xiwa's face was flushed, but her pace was not hurried or slow, and she still maintained the action of holding the fishing rod against her waist.

As the fish continue to slip, the huge fish head is exposed to the surface of the water.

"It's a tail carp!" someone exclaimed.

The carp was golden all over, and was tired from tossing, allowing Xiwa to pull it to the surface.

The villagers, who had been waiting on the surface of the water, leaned down, knelt on the ground, and picked up the carp.

"Wow, it's so heavy, I'm afraid it's three catties. Xiwa, your level of fishing is not bad. The villager who kept moving the carp in his arms quipped.

"Hey, hey. Xiwa scratched her head and smirked.

"Good work. Ling Bai smiled at Xiwa and said, "Trouble Xiwa to work hard again and get a cat over." ”

Xiwa was praised by Ling Bai, and she was happy in her heart, this master in front of her was a master who even treated the patriarch politely, and he could be regarded as a long face for his family this time. Hearing this, he nodded heavily, took out the posture of the 100-meter race of the school sports meeting, and rushed along the winding field path.

Ling Bai motioned for the villagers to put the carp down.

The golden carp tossed twice in the mud and then resigned itself to its fate.

On the surface, this fish does not look unusual, and it looks like a good fish growing in high-quality water.

"It's rare to see such a big fish. Zhu Fu frowned and said: "This pond is not fed, and every year near the Spring Festival, the village will organize fishing to clear the pond, this carp can grow so big is really a miracle, I don't know which mud layer to get into to escape." ”

"Well, that's right. Just now Xiwa also saw the fishing, and the bite of the hook when she entered the water, indicating that the fish in the fish pond were hungry. It's weird to be able to grow so big!" Patriarch Zhu stroked his beard and sighed, feeling more and more that things had become weird.

After a while, Xiwa ran over with a black cat in her arms.

He carefully placed the black cat in front of the carp.

The black cat glanced at the carp on the ground, immediately fried its hair, turned its head in disgust, jumped on the mound of soil with a light body, and gently meowed.

Patriarch Zhu and Zhu Fu looked at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes - there was something wrong with the fish!