Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 16 Scooping Fish

This clump of morels weighs more than half a catty, which is enough for a meal.

Cheng He said: "Xinxin, it's almost enough, let's go back?"

Cheng Xinxin got excited, pouted and said, "No, we still need to pick some more. We also have to eat at night."

Forget it, let her do it, let's just go out and enjoy the scenery.Cheng He has never had a temper with his daughter.

Just walking forward, I have never encountered any mushrooms.He had known for a long time that now was not the season for picking mushrooms.

Just when they were about to go back home, Cheng He heard the sound of rushing water.

He was overjoyed, and immediately headed for the place where the water flowed. Cheng Xinxin thought she had found something extraordinary, so she quickly followed. The big yellow dog Napoleon followed behind wagging his tail.

Not far away, a two-meter-high small waterfall rushes down, and there is a deep pool underneath.

In fact, it’s not really a waterfall. It’s just a small puddle. Sometimes it’s full of water in rainy days, and then it flows down and into the pool.Such a scene does not happen every day.

But it happens to be today.

According to Cheng He's experience in the mountains when he was a child, he knows that fish like to go upstream very much. When encountering this kind of small waterfall rapids, they can rush out of the water one by one, imagining that they can rush over the waterfall.

I didn't know the reason when I was young, but after mastering this rule, he often took a basket and looked for places where small waterfalls might appear, and then he didn't have to do anything, just scoop it with the basket.

At that time, there were so many fish that the baskets couldn't fit in them, and they couldn't lift them when they were full.And the single one is also big, and it is almost impossible to hold it down.

Now that there are few fish, Cheng He wants to try his luck, and also wants to reminisce about the feeling of using a basket to hold fish when he was a child.

I didn't have any entertainment when I was a child, but being able to get some fish home like this, and have food to eat at night, the sense of accomplishment is indescribable.

Cheng He got a child's heart, and walked ahead in a hurry, and Cheng Xinxin couldn't catch up.

When I reached the edge of the rock, I poked my head and looked down. The waterfall fell directly into the deep pool, and there was a piece of white foam at the bottom. It is estimated that there may be fish.

He asked his daughter to stand farther away so that she would not fall. This waterfall is not short, and it is nearly two meters high.

Feeling excited, he vacated the bamboo basket containing the mushrooms, took off his shoes, and walked down the rock barefoot.

Cheng Xinxin looked at him curiously.

The 2-meter-high rock slope is very steep, and it is not easy to go down, especially after the rock is wet by water, it is very slippery. Cheng He went down very carefully.

But it was difficult for him to keep his balance while holding the bamboo basket in one hand.

Although he was very careful, when he got down to a big rock, he still missed his feet.The next rock rolled and fell out, and his foot lost its grip as the rock loosened.

For a moment, he fell rapidly, his mind panicking.

He was not afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that his daughter would be frightened, so he also ran down.

Before he regretted coming to the pool, his body had already made an emergency response—the moment he slid down, he took a deep breath, and he floated up just like that.

Very risky!

He immediately breathed a sigh of relief.The gold star in the body is really a good thing!

Now that the body is floating again, it's easy to handle.

He stepped on it lightly, and fell slowly. When he reached the surface of the water, he could still squat lightly without getting his feet wet.

There are several fish in the pool jubilant, scrambling to squeeze to the place hit by the waterfall, jumping up one by one eagerly, just like the ones I saw when I was a child.

Just a lot less fish.

And it's also much smaller.

So Cheng He had some doubts, did he feel that the fish was extra big because of his small stature when he was a child?

At that time, the fish he encountered were often too big for him to hold. When he was holding the whole fish, the fish struggled so much that he almost couldn't stand still.But after subduing a big fish, I feel like an invincible hero.

Oh, I really miss the feeling when I was a child!
The water splashed by the waterfall is very cool, and the drips splash on the face, which is very comfortable.

He no longer mourns the spring and autumn, and scoops the bamboo basket into the water while holding it in his hand.

This scooping down was fast and ruthless, and he almost used all his strength.Now his strength is not the same as when he was a child, especially after having Venus, his strength is more than doubled than before.

The bamboo baskets were fished out, and they were quite impressive, with seven or eight fish of various sizes inside.

The big one weighs five or six catties, and the small one is only the size of a palm. There are several kinds of fish, all alive and kicking.

Although the rewards are quite fruitful and satisfying, but after all, the excitement and joy that I felt when I was a child was gone.

Cheng He shook his head, maybe it was impossible to come back after that time of innocence.

In the bamboo basket was an extremely rare fish named Chiwei, with a snow-white body, red mouth and yellow fins, very beautiful, and it looked about four catties in size.

There is also one called Qingbo, which is the name of the mountain village. Cheng He really doesn't have a scientific name, anyway, it is not the common crucian carp or grass carp in the market.

The three largest ones were left behind, and the rest of the smaller ones were thrown back into the pond, and let them continue to grow.

There are not so many pure wild fish like this, so we have to save some species.

When the three fish were lifted up, Cheng Xinxin was delighted to see them.She probably thought that her father was so powerful that there was nothing he couldn't do.

The little girl asked innocently: "Father, why are there fish wherever there is water?"

I really can't hide anything from her, but she saw it. When Dad heard that there was water here, he immediately ran to this side.

Cheng He raised his forehead, how should he answer this?

It's not that he doesn't know the answer, but that the answer is very long. How can he explain it to his daughter in the simplest language?
In fact, fish like to swim against the current very much. Although it is easy for fish to swim downstream, it is not easy to control the direction of swimming.Once you can't grasp the direction, you may be rushed to a dangerous place.

For fish swimming upstream, the swimming speed is relatively slow, and the swimming direction is also easy to control, so there is no need to worry about being rushed elsewhere.

Also, fish like to eat plankton in the water.When the water flows downstream, the plankton will flow down the water. If the fish swim against the water, it is easy to eat more plankton.

In addition, swimming against the water also has a certain effect on the breathing of fish.

Fish breathe with gills, and only when water passes through the gills can the fish breathe oxygen.When swimming against the current, the water passes through the gills faster, so some fish also swim against the current in order to breathe.

Cheng He had a very headache. How could he tell his daughter so many things in the simplest language?
For children, can you stop asking so many why?
While tying the fish up with grass, Cheng He tried to explain to her as much as possible. When he was about to return to the entrance of the village, he finally finished his explanation.

But he knew that his daughter didn't understand at all.But even so, he couldn't perfunctory her, just dragging her to listen to other things.

He knew that she might not remember the answers, but she would remember how it felt when Dad talked to her.She will also know that Dad will tell her everything and value her very much.

It is enough to remember these.As for written knowledge, when she goes to school in the future, the teacher will teach her again.

At the intersection back to the village, Cheng He found Wen Qingsong dangling by the side of the slope by himself.

Today is Monday, why doesn't he go to school?
Cheng He greeted loudly: "Qingsong, come here."

Wen Qingsong looked at him from a distance, hesitated for a moment, and walked over slowly.

When he got close, he didn't speak, but just looked up, with a little defense in his eyes.

This is probably the case for children who are not supervised by adults.

"This one is for you, take it back and make it for grandpa." Cheng He raised a fish and handed it to him.He left three, thinking about leaving one for his family and the other for Cheng Shi's family.

After thinking about it, he retracted his hand again: "Forget it, don't give it to you, you and your grandpa can go directly to my house for lunch later."

One is a ten-year-old child, and the other is an elderly man in his 90s. Who is suitable for cooking?
Ugh.

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