The shrimp rake and fish basket were all left by Xu Tongdao's grandfather.

Shrimp rake, as the name suggests, is a rake used to catch shrimp roe.

It consists of three parts, a bamboo pole...... A half-moon-shaped net bag, and a half-moon-shaped mie bow.

The net pocket itself is soft, and the reason why it can be half-moon shaped is because the mouth of the net pocket is fixed to a half-moon-shaped frame.

This half-moon frame, on the straight side is a steel bar, bent into a half-moon shape...... It is made by bending a wooden stick.

A net bag, a bamboo pole, and a half-moon-shaped bow are tied together with rope to form a solid triangle.

The mouth of the net pocket is towards the side of the bamboo pole.

The form is a bit like a large dustpan, the kind with a pole.

The fish basket is made of bamboo strips, with a large mouth and a large belly, but between the mouth and the stomach, there is a slender "neck".

When Xu Tongdao went out, he tied a cloth belt around his waist, and the fish basket hung on the cloth belt around his waist.

The direction he went was the West River at the head of the village.

The banks of the long West River are farmland.

According to his experience, in weather like the recent one, the water in the farmland must flow into the West River day and night, and under the impact of this current, the fish and shrimp in the West River will gather at the outlets, ready to swim upstream.

When he was a child, during the rainy season every year, his grandfather always took a shrimp rake and a fish basket to those outlets by the West River at dawn after a heavy rain, and raked fish and shrimp.

The harvest is often good.

When Xu Tongdao went out from home, the sky was still cloudy, the visibility was very low, and the village was very quiet.

Only a few dog barks from time to time.

......

"...... Uproar"

At the mouth of a drainage canal that flowed into the West River, Xu Tongdao skillfully threw the shrimp rake in his hand into the water, and then quickly pulled it up.

The rattling sound made a smile appear on the corner of his mouth.

Because this clattering sound was made by the struggle of three palm-sized crucian carp and two ang thorn fish in the shrimp rake.

This first rake, there is such a harvest, which is indeed gratifying.

He quickly picked up the fish, threw them into the basket around his waist, then got up and raked the drain a few more times.

The harvest plummeted, but two crucian carp were still raked, and four or five finger-long strips of fish.

In other words, raking fish with shrimp is actually not technical.

If you want to harvest well, the most important thing is to be diligent enough.

For example, in weather like this, if you want to harvest more, you have to get up early enough, because after dawn, the fish and shrimp under the drain will be almost scattered.

Anyway, although Xu Tongdao's younger brother Xu Tonglu likes to engage in fish and shrimp, he has never liked to use shrimp rakes to engage in fish.

In contrast, Xu Tonglu prefers to use his homemade harpoon.

Seeing Fish...... If the fish is big enough, the strength of the struggle will make the barrage of the harpoon, which is several meters long, and it will make people happy.

A sense of accomplishment.

Harpoon, Xu Tongdao will also use it, and the technique of spearfish is also okay.

But he will have to go to duty for his mother later, so he can only take advantage of the fact that the sky is not yet bright and take the shrimp rake out to do something.

Along the way, whenever I see a drainage outlet to drain the West River, Xu Tongdao is a shrimp rake thrown down, and when it is pulled up, sometimes there is a harvest, sometimes it is empty, which is a test of patience.

And he doesn't lack patience.

Half an hour...... An hour passed, and the sky was already bright, and most of the big and small fish in the fish basket on his waist had been harvested.

The big one weighed more than two pounds and was a black fish.

Minimum...... It's just those little fish that are the length of his index finger.

It's time to go back, last rake......

Xu Tongdao glanced at another drain not far away, and decided to go there and rake it again and go home, the drain not far away looked like there were fish, because there were a lot of aquatic plants on the left and right sides of the drain.

According to his experience, in this kind of place where there are aquatic plants, there are usually fish.

He strode over, took a breath, expertly threw the shrimp rake down, and then hurriedly pulled it up.

There was a shaking sensation of struggle in the net pocket, and the movement was quite large.

Xu Tongdao was overjoyed, thinking that he had raked another big fish, but ...... He was stunned when the shrimp rake pulled up to the water, and the shrimp rake was in his net pocket...... In addition to a small crucian carp, there is also an old turtle, which may weigh two or three catties by eyesight.

At this time, the unlucky old turtle was trying to climb up in his shrimp rake net pocket, trying to climb out.

But is it possible?

Xu Tongdao, who came back to his senses, hurriedly pulled the shrimp rake to the shore as fast as possible, and quickly moved away from the river, with a happy smile on his face.

In his eyes, this old turtle ...... It is the shape of a banknote.

Such an old turtle may not be able to sell for a high price this year.

But compared to the average labor force who can only earn twenty or thirty yuan a day, this old turtle must still be valuable, and it should be able to sell for more than a hundred yuan.

Maybe it's enough for my sister's registration fee for next semester.

After collecting the old turtle and the little crucian carp in the shrimp rake, Xu Tongdao went home.

Along the way, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

When he came, because he had to rake the fish, it took him a long time, and it took more than an hour.

It was much faster to go back, and in about twenty minutes, the entrance to the village was in sight.

Before he entered the entrance of the village, he saw in the distance that there were already curling smoke rising everywhere in the village, and it was obvious that many people in the village had already gotten up to make breakfast.

When he was about to reach the entrance of the village, he saw a familiar figure.

It's kudzu.

She was wearing a pair of terrazzo blue jeans, a pink T-shirt, a pair of red rubber boots on her feet, and a bamboo basket on her arm, as if she was going to pick vegetables in the vegetable field.

Xu Tongdao, who had just come back from fishing, naturally knew that although the fields in the village were flooded, the terrain of the vegetable fields was higher, so most of the vegetable fields were not flooded.

Ge Xiaoyu is the same as he remembers, young and beautiful.

The moment he saw her, he also remembered that he had liked her.

The two met head-on, Ge Xiaoyu also saw him, and her eyes looked at him a little strangely, no longer as annoyed as Xu Tongdao remembered.

He also noticed that she stopped talking, as if she wanted to say hello to him.

But he didn't move, he just smiled faintly, feeling the wonder of fate, the original time and space...... Every time Ge Xiaoyu looked at him, he was bored.

Afterward...... Many years later, when we met again, Ge Xiaoyu, who had already graduated from college, every time he saw him, it was no different from seeing a stranger, and he didn't look at him properly.

Therefore, Xu Tongdao has long had no thoughts about her.

But at this time, the faint smile on his face fell in Ge Xiaoyu's eyes, but she immediately showed a kind smile, she seemed to be willing to make friends with him.

But Xu Tongdao had already passed by her, and the fish basket around his waist was rattling, and he didn't mean to give her two fish......