The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 20

Due to the rain just now, the flow of the Shizi River became stronger at [-] o'clock in the morning, and the river water also became turbid.

Zhao Shihai expected that the upstream Hong Feng would flow down at around eight o'clock in the morning, and he knew this better than anyone else.Zhao Shihai is like the patron saint of the mountains and rivers around Taohua Ridge. He knows many details that others will not pay attention to, such as which hill has more "jumping eight feet" grasshoppers, which tree has more cicadas in summer, and which stone is in the wake of the sting. There are scorpions at the bottom, when will the nest of eaglets on the cliff above Yan Wang's nose fly...he knows all of this.As for the rain last night, when the flood peak in the Shizi River reached the south end of Qingquanling Village, he also knew that.

Therefore, he came to the Shizi River early in the morning to build up the weirs before the current became stronger.

The great project is completed, and the next step is to witness the miracle.

The melon eaters Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili stole two melons from someone's melon patch by the river, and gnawed on each of them.

"You two, you are not afraid of being seen and let the dog bite you."

Zhao Shihai looked back at Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili who were sitting by the river eating melons, complaining in his heart that the other party didn't pick one for him, and cursed them helplessly.

Wang Shaodong took out the third melon from behind as if by magic, shook his head and said, "Uncle, so you don't like to eat melons, I wouldn't have picked this if I had known, Lili, we will eat this separately later .”

The melon is very sweet, and Ma Lili knew that Wang Shaodong was joking with her uncle, so she stuffed her mouth full, grinning and nodding.

"Mm, um, Shaodong's melon is really delicious."

The melons grown in the field, one has seven or eight weights, and the taste is sweet and refreshing. It is sweet naturally, authentically sweet, and sweet enough to make people feel comfortable after eating.

As soon as he saw that his nephew still had a plump melon in his hand, Zhao Shihai rushed to Wang Shaodong in two steps. Before Wang Shaodong could react, the melon was in Zhao Shihai's hands somehow.

Zhao Shihai washed himself in the muddy river water, then sat down next to his nephew Wang Shaodong, bit off a large piece of the melon fat head's belly with a big bite, nodded repeatedly while chewing, and gave a thumbs up: "Dong My son, your uncle's level of melon cultivation is among the best in Qingquanling Village."

Ma Lili's hair was wet, hanging on her shoulders, and her slender eyelashes looked very moving because of the water.Hearing what Wang Shaodong's uncle said just now, he quickly turned his head to look at Wang Shaodong and asked, "Shaodong, the melon we picked just now belonged to your uncle's family?"

"Oh, I forgot to tell you that the mountainous wasteland of more than ten acres behind us is all contracted by my uncle."

While gnawing on the melon, Zhao Shihai watched the situation inside the stone pocket nest in the middle of the weir.

The turbulent water rushes from the thin stone slab to the nest paved with crushed pebbles, and then quickly penetrates downstream, and the washing of the water forms pieces of foam inside the nest.There is no water in the nest, and it is difficult for fish trapped in the prison to escape.

Suddenly, Ma Lili pointed at Wodouzi excitedly and shouted: "Look, uncle, Shaodong, the fish is coming! The fish is coming!"

"Uncle, it's fish!"

Wang Shaodong was also very excited. The most recent memory of catching fish in Yuliangzi in his memory was when he was still in junior high school in his previous life, and it was almost 20 years ago.

Just like an old friend who hadn't seen him for 20 years suddenly reunited, a small crucian carp in the pocket unexpectedly made Wang Shaodong, who was in his thirties mentally, excited all of a sudden.

However, Ma Lili and Wang Shaodong's yelling didn't make Zhao Shihai, who hadn't finished eating the melon, react at all.He blinked his eyelids indifferently, and then hissed: "Hush your voice, a school of fish is coming."

Upon hearing this, Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili immediately looked at each other and booed and nodded.

When he saw Ma Lili, Wang Shaodong was puzzled by her serious and excited expression, her fair and sweet face, and her hair wet by the river.

Such a beautiful girl, why didn't I find out in my previous life?
I must use the time when Ma Lili is not in college to keep this girl's heart in Taohualing Village, just like a kite caught on a string, as long as Ma Lili's heart is in Taohualing Village, Wang Shaodong will hold the string, Whenever I think about pulling her back, I will pull her back.

It will take some time, but for Wang Shaodong, it is not difficult.

Hearing my uncle said that there were fish schools upstream, Wang Shaodong and Ma Lili looked at each other for a few seconds, then turned their heads to look at the upstream of the river.

Wang Shaodong felt that Ma Lili beside her became short of breath and became nervous.

I don't know if it's because of the way I looked at this girl that made her nervous, or because of the fish that came upstream, or both.

Zhao Shihai glanced sideways at the girl next to Wang Shaodong. He had known that girl before, because that girl had been playing with Wang Shaodong since he was a child.However, what surprised him was that before he knew it, the girl had already appeared so charmingly.

Two "barrages" created a small reservoir in the Shizi River, and the water depth of the entire river suddenly increased by more than ten centimeters.Near the upstream of the "little waterfall", more and more bubbles emerged from the bottom of the water.

Zhao Shihai whispered excitedly: "The school of fish washed down by the first heavy rain this year may have big ones."

Then, Zhao Shihai covered his mouth, leaned forward, and whispered to Ma Lili: "I will catch a big crucian carp later, let my elder brother make crucian carp soup for you, it's delicious."

Wang Shaodong knows that crucian carp soup is a great tonic. If the milk is insufficient for newly born pregnant women, the effect will be very good after drinking crucian carp soup.

Ma Lili likes to eat fish. Hearing what Zhao Shihai said, her saliva almost flowed out, and she nodded excitedly.

Wang Shaodong watched Shiwodouzi, suddenly, a dozen white crucian carp appeared on the thin stone slab waterfall, rushing towards the Shiwodouzi where the trap was laid.The current was so fast that the crucian carp, which was as long as one foot long, had no ability to resist at all, so they rushed into the trap one after another.

"Catch fish!"

The sound of the first wave of fish falling into the trap fluttering in the stone nest had already alarmed the upstream fish school, and then those fish that were warned rushed upstream quickly.It was meaningless for Zhao Shihai and the others to wait by the river, if they acted slowly, a few big fish would jump out of the stone pocket, and then Zhao Shihai gave an order, and the three of them ran into the ingenious trap together.

Taking a closer look, Wang Shaodong was stunned. The stone nest bag as big as a bathtub was now covered in white flowers, and it was full of fish.There are crucian carp, grass carp and silver carp.Among the trophies, Wang Shaodong saw a large crucian carp with an unusual size at a glance, weighing at least one and a half catties, excitedly rushed to hug the fish, and quickly put it into the bamboo basket Ma Lili was carrying in.

"Lili, we have crucian carp soup!"

(End of this chapter)