Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1922 Shui Zier

Although the river water has receded, late autumn is the time when fish are preparing for winter, they are hungry for food, and they grow very fat.

The Yi people don't eat fish very much, so the fish in the Meigu River are very easy to catch.

Except when there are guests and a large number of fish need to be caught, Zhouzhi generally does not use the killer method of blocking the river to fish.

The main reason is that there is too much fish to finish eating. Not only does eating fish waste a lot of oil, but cooking is also time-consuming. It is generally more appropriate to eat fish on weekends.

But Mai Xiaomiao was a little curious when she heard that she could fish during the afternoon physical education class, and she insisted on asking Zhou Zhi to show her, so Zhou Zhi took her to the river.

Erjia is also Zhou Zhi's long-term fishing partner. The two are busy casting their fishing rods. A plastic sheet is spread on the lawn behind, on which are placed fruits, cakes, nuts, and a pot of buckwheat tea. Mai Xiaomiao is now wearing a straw hat, sitting on it, enjoying the sunshine and taking pictures with his camera.

The advantage of a digital camera is that you don’t waste film and can take as many photos as you want.

There are many rocks at the bottom of the Meigu River, which are easy to get stuck on the ground. Therefore, sea fishing rods do not use lead sinkers. Instead, the hooks are connected to the main line with a sub-line, and a stone is tied to the bottom of the main line with cotton thread as a traction object. In this way, even if the stone gets stuck at the bottom of the water, you can just pull the cotton thread hard to break it, without losing the fishing line and the hook.

The bait used was the pancreas of the pig slaughtered yesterday. The pancreas has a very strong fishy smell and is cut into small strips and hung on the hook. It is the best bait for the turtleless fish and fine-scaled fish that are abundant in the Meigu River.

Open the reel, throw the bait into the center of the river, close the reel to tighten the fishing line, insert the fishing rod into the river, clip a small bell on the tip of the rod, and you're done.

After setting up the fishing rod, Erjia went to play the "cockfighting" game with the other boys. Zhou Zhi returned to Mai Xiaomiao and said, "Xiao Miao, you should eat less snacks and save some appetite for the fish in the evening."

Mai Xiaomiao scratched his face and said to him, "There's no fish yet, and you're already blowing it up."

Zhou Zhi lay down and put his hands behind his head. "Basically, I haven't run away. I won't say too much. It should be okay for you to have a taste of it."

"I like it here very much. The people here smile so genuinely." Mai Xiaomiao stretched out her hand to cover Zhou Zhi's eyes to shield him from the strong sunlight: "The sky here is so beautiful, the scenery is beautiful too, Grandpa Chi Ri, Uncle Tu and Auntie are so warm and welcoming."

“And the children, they sang beautifully.”

"Well, I like this place too. There are actually many treasures here..." Zhou Zhi said as he remembered something and took out a stone from his trouser pocket: "I found this by the river when I was looking for a pendant just now. Didn't you say that the red stone on my sword is beautiful? This is it."

"It's so beautiful!" Mai Xiaomiao held up the stone and faced it towards the sun: "Wow! There seems to be a flame inside! Why does it feel different from the one on the sword?"

"The one on the sword is more uniform, called persimmon red, and its quality is more like coral. Traditional southern red is also like that." Zhou Zhi said, "This is a kind of agate, but the texture is quite special, and it is different from the common red agate. The uniform color is called persimmon red and cherry red, and the uneven color is called flame red. There is also a kind of red combined with pure transparent vitreous or emulsified vitreous, which we call ice drift."

"Then the one in my hand should be called Flame Red, right?"

"Yes, the transparent but reddish part of your hand is called 'frost', and the opaque part is called 'meat'. The combination of frost and meat, like the natural distribution of flames, is called flame red."

"If the jelly part is not pure red, but a deep rose color, it should be called rose red."

"Although yours is not rose red, it has become round and crystal-clear because it has been washed in water for a long time. We call it 'Shui Zi'er'. Regardless of the color, only the texture, it is the best kind of Liangshan Nanhong."

"Elbow, get up quickly." Mai Xiaomiao stood up and knelt on the mat, and began to pull Zhou Zhi up. "What for?"

"Come with me to the river to pick up these stones!"

"Erjia! Come here!" Zhou Zhi had no choice but to stand up and greet the boy fighting cocks over there.

"What are you doing?" Erjia grabbed his right foot with both hands, and jumped over on one foot with his left foot in a cockfighting posture: "Fighting!"

"Take this can of yellow peaches and share it with everyone. Bring me the glass bottle. I want to go pick up some water chestnuts with Sister Xiaomiao."

"You go first, come over after we decide the winner!" Erjia took the can and said, "Brother Elbow is treating everyone to canned sugar water again!"

Thinking about the sea fishing rods, Zhou Zhi didn't want to walk too far, so he picked up the big kettle and led Mai Xiaomiao to walk around several sea fishing rods.

There are many weathered rocks on the red sandy beach, but some of them are soft sandstone weathered into sand, while the rest are relatively hard, including gravel, flint, quartz, granite and so on.

In addition to these stones, there is also a more peculiar kind of basalt with loose holes, which can even float on the water. Locals call it "bubble stone".

As a kind of agate stone, Nanhong is mixed among these large and small stones, and the proportion is actually not high.

However, compared with the level of picking agates from the pebble piles by the Yangtze River in Zhouzhi in the past, where one or two agates could be found in an afternoon, there are quite a lot of southern red here.

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The main reason is that the colors of pebbles and sand are relatively close. If not much is exposed, it would be difficult to find them if you have poor eyesight.

Generally, when you see such a red stone, you can pick it out, rinse it with water in a kettle, and then you can check whether it is Nanhong.

However, most of them are liver-colored flints called "black stones" by the Yi people.

Wu Shi is actually a kind of associated mineral of Nanhong. Most of its components are silicides like Nanhong, but due to too many impurities, it cannot reach the beauty of Nanhong. So although the quantity is large, it has no value except for firemaking.

The purity of genuine Nanhong is extremely high. It needs to have a jade-like or at least glassy texture, and the color must be beautiful.

In fact, the large materials of Nanhong have to be found in the mountains. There are often "mines" distributed on the rock layers under the yellow mud. In each mine is a pile of raw stones, which are much larger in size.

The Nanhong stones by the Meigu River are the raw stones that were washed into the river. After years of erosion, the hardest parts of the minerals have been preserved, and they are of the highest quality.

These stones have been washed into pebbles, which are shiny and delicate, but they are destined not to be too many, let alone very large. So far, the largest one Zhou Zhi has received is only the size of a fist. Most are only the size of dates or quail eggs, or even as small as peanuts.

Of course there are smaller ones, but Zhou Zhi thinks they are worthless and doesn’t accept them.

After checking several pieces, they were all black stones. Just when Mai Xiaomiao was feeling a little disappointed, the bell of a sea fishing rod rang.

"I caught a fish!" Zhou Zhi dumped the kettle into the sand and said, "Let's collect the fish first!"