After not drinking water for most of the day, Su Daqiang put down the bucket and carefully stood on a large slippery rock by the river that had been washed away by water all year round.
"Don't come over here, wait on the shore!" After he finished speaking, he knelt down and took a sip of water, then washed his face before preparing to carry a bucket to fetch water.
"Dad, are there any fish in the river?" Dagouzi still missed the fish and shouted to his father.
"The water is fast and deep, so how can you see if there are any fish? You have to walk into the middle to see clearly."
Of course Su Daqiang also wanted to eat fish. He hadn't tasted meat for a long time.
but……
Forget it, your life is still at stake.
"Dad, I can swim and I'll catch fish."
The big dog said that he was about to take off his shoes, but his father yelled: "What kind of fish are you catching? The water is at least up to your chest. If you are washed away by the water, I can't save you."
Su Daqiang turned back and stared at his sons, fearing that they would sneak into the water, and gave a few warnings.
His youngest son suddenly jumped excitedly, "The fish is flying, flying high!"
"Sangouzi, why did you start talking nonsense? Oh, your brain..."
Looking at his little son, Su Daqiang felt worried.
The little San Gouzi's development is slower than that of his two older brothers. He can't speak until he is almost three years old. His speech is still a bit stumbling. He looks a bit silly and has no aura in his eyes.
His wife did say to take Sangouzi to the health center for a checkup, but the child has no fever or illness. He can eat, sleep, run and jump, and he can understand what he talks to, unlike those idiots who can only giggle.
no the same.
Su Daqiang thought that San Gouzi was just young, and when he grew up, he would be like everyone else.
Now that he heard his son say that fishes fly high, he suspected that there was something wrong with his brain.
While San Gouzi was worrying about it, he heard Er Gouzi say excitedly: "Dad, the fish are really flying!"
"What? Ergouzi, why are you saying stupid things along with your brother?"
As soon as Su Daqiang finished speaking, he saw his eldest son pointing at the river and jumping up and down: "Really! Dad, look at it!"
"What are you looking at?" Su Daqiang turned back in confusion and was shocked by the scene in front of him.
This, this...what? Why are there so many fish?
Fish of all sizes in the river kept jumping out and leaping in mid-air, as if they were flying.
The scene was so spectacular that Su Daqiang was dumbfounded.
He opened his mouth in a daze, big enough to stuff an egg, and it took him a while to come back to his senses.
"Quickly, get the bucket over here."
His eldest son hurriedly handed over a wooden bucket and reminded with some worry: "Dad, be careful, don't get washed away by the water..."
"Okay." Su Daqiang responded casually and slowly walked into the water.
He didn't dare to go too deep, and as soon as the water reached his knees, he didn't go any further.
He held the barrel in the direction where there were more fish. After a while, a leaping fish fell into his barrel. After a while, another fish also jumped in.
"Two...three..." Big Gouzi and Ergouzi counted in unison, "Four, five..."
Oh my god! In such a short time, there are already five fish?
Su Daqiang had never seen a fish jump into a human bucket in his entire life. He kept lamenting that it was strange. It was so strange...
"Dad, the bucket is full!"
"I'm going to pretend to be fish too." Ergouzi was eager to give it a try.
His elder brother hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Don't go, the water is tight and you won't be able to stand firmly."
"Yeah, don't come over here, just watch." Su Daqiang held the barrel he was holding in his arms.
The fish tail hit him in the face, making his face red and painful.
"Oh, this fish is so big that it can even slap people with its tail."
Su Daqiang placed the bucket on the shore, covered his face with one hand, pointed at the lively fish in the bucket with the other, and said loudly: "If you dare to slap me, see if I don't stew you tonight!"
"Dad, the fish is gone." Ergouzi said.
Su Daqiang originally thought about filling several wooden barrels with fish. Now he looked back into the river and saw that the water surface had returned to calm, and the fish that jumped out of the water seemed to have suddenly disappeared without a trace.
"Whew..." The water hit the rocks, and the water seemed to become more turbulent than before. People who walked inside would definitely not be able to stand steadily and would be easily washed away.
"Hey! I should have carried two buckets there just now. At least I could have picked up five or six more fish..."
After a brief moment of disappointment, Su Daqiang lowered his head and glanced at the fish in the bucket, and quickly laughed again, "Forget it, such a big bucket of fish is enough for us. The remaining bucket is filled with water, and we will go home."
Big Gouzi asked curiously: "Dad, what happened to those fish just now?"
"How did I know? This is the first time that your father and I, who are from the countryside, have entered the imperial city."
After loading the water, Su Daqiang and his children were on their way home when they met Wang Jinfu, the son of Huang Cuizhi from the same village, who came to fetch water.
"Hey, Brother Daqiang, are you bringing your three children to fetch water?" Wang Jinfu greeted him first when they met him.
"Yes," Su Daqiang showed off with a smile, "I also got some fish for my little niece."
"Fish?" Wang Jinfu was surprised, "Didn't the village chief say not to catch fish in the river?"
Ergouzi raised his little head and said, "The fish was not caught, it jumped into our bucket by itself."
"What?" Wang Jinfu didn't understand. He glanced at their buckets and soon found that the bucket carried by Big Gouzi was full of fish. There were at least three... not only, but at least there were five fish, and they were all big.
Very big.
Too surprised, he put the pole on the ground, walked forward and bent down to stare at the fish.
"What a beautiful grass carp! What's this one at the bottom? I've never seen one before. It has a beard!"
After hearing what he said, Su Daqiang hurriedly found a flat place to put down the bucket, "What? A fish with a beard?"
Before, he only saw grass carp jumping around, not any fish with beards.
"Dad, this fish looks like an old man!"
"Dad, what kind of fish is this?"
Su Daqiang shook his head, "I don't know what kind of fish it is, I haven't seen it before."
Dagouzi said happily: "I'm going to bring it back to Jinbao to see. She will definitely like it very much."
Just now, he went to the river to wash his hands and remove all the dirty mud from his nails, so he could play with Jin Bao.
"Uncle Wang, go get water quickly, I'm going to take the fish home." Dagouzi said.
"Wait a minute, how did you get this fish? Teach me."
Ergouzi pouted impatiently, "Didn't I just say that? The fish jumped into the bucket by itself."
"The fish flies so high," Sangouzi said while gesticulating, "swish - snap..."
Wang Jinfu scratched his head in confusion, "What?"
Su Daqiang was anxious to go home and show off, so he picked up the water again and said, "Let's go now."
When they entered the village, many people saw the fish in the big dog bucket and gathered around them curiously.
An old man said: "This bearded catfish is a native catfish! Oh, this fish is delicious and has few bones. I saw it in ponds when I was a child. This fish likes to hide in holes and does not swim. It is so difficult.
Look, where did you catch it?"
"I didn't catch it. It was jumping on the water. I took the bucket to catch it..."
Su Daqiang, who was surrounded by everyone, explained everything, which made the villagers stunned.
When he and his sons walked away and returned home, the others suddenly recovered from their shock. Without saying a word, they all hurried home to get buckets and prepare to go to the river to collect fish.