Chapter 19 The harvest in the morning, goodbye is like a still water
The shrimp rake and fish basket were both left behind by Xu Tongdao's grandfather.
Shrimp rake, as the name suggests, is a rake used to catch shrimps.
It consists of three parts, a bamboo pole, a half-moon shaped net bag, and a half-moon shaped mie bow.
The net bag itself is soft, and the reason why it can be shaped into a half-moon shape is because the mouth of the net bag is fixed on a half-moon-shaped frame.
This half-moon-shaped frame, the straight side is a steel bar, bent into a half-moon shape...it is made of a wooden stick bent.
A net bag, a bamboo pole, and a half-moon-shaped bamboo pole are tied together with a rope to form a stable triangle.
The mouth of the net bag is facing the side of the bamboo pole.
It looks a bit like a large dustpan, the kind with a pole.
The fish basket is made of bamboo strips, with a big mouth and a big belly, but there is a slender "neck" between the mouth and the belly.
When Xu Tongdao went out, he tied a cloth belt around his waist, and the fish basket was hung on the cloth belt around his waist.
The direction he went was towards the Xihe River at the end of the village.
Both sides of the long West River are farmland.
According to his experience, with weather like this recently, the water in the farmland will definitely flow into the Xihe River day and night. Under the impact of this flow, the fish and shrimp in the Xihe River will gather at the water outlets, ready to flow back at any time.
And up.
When he was a child, during the rainy season every year, his grandfather would always take a shrimp rake and fish basket to the water outlets along the West River at dawn after heavy rains to rake fish and shrimps.
The harvest is usually good.
When Comrade Xu went out from home, the sky was still bright and the visibility was very low. The village was also very quiet. When he walked in the village, he didn't see a single person.
Only a few dogs barked from time to time.
…
"Wow..."
At the mouth of a drainage channel flowing into the Xihe River, Comrade Xu skillfully threw the shrimp rake in his hand into the water, and then quickly pulled it up.
The sound of splashing made a smile appear on the corner of his mouth.
Because the clattering sound was caused by the struggle of three palm-sized crucian carp and two spiny fish in the shrimp rake.
It is indeed gratifying to have such a harvest after the first rake.
He quickly picked up the fish and threw them into the fish basket on his waist. Then he stood up and raked the drain a few more times.
The harvest dropped sharply, but we still raked in two more crucian carp and four or five finger-long dinner fish.
In other words, there is actually no technical content in using a shrimp rake to rake fish.
If you want to reap good results, 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, because after daybreak, the fish and shrimp under the drain will be almost scattered.
Probably because the technical content of using a shrimp rake to catch fish is not high enough! Anyway, although Xu Tongdao’s younger brother Xu Tonglu likes to catch fish and shrimp, he has never liked using a shrimp rake.
In contrast, Xu Tonglu preferred to use his homemade harpoon.
When you see a fish... you take aim and then harpoon it. If the fish you harpoon is big enough, the struggling force will make the several-meter-long harpoon pole tremble, which makes people overjoyed just looking at it.
Full sense of achievement.
Comrade Xu can also use a harpoon, and his technique of spearing fish is also pretty good.
But he would have to go on duty for his mother later, so he had no choice but to go out with a shrimp rake before daybreak.
Along the way, whenever he saw a drainage outlet draining water into the Xihe River, Comrade Xu would throw it down with a shrimp rake. When he pulled it up, sometimes there would be something harvested, and sometimes there would be nothing. It was quite a test of patience.
And he has no shortage of patience.
Half an hour...an hour passed, and it was already bright. The fish basket on his waist had already harvested most of the various large and small fish in the fish basket.
The big one weighed more than two kilograms and was a black fish.
The smallest...are those little dinner stick fish that are only as long as his index finger.
It's time to go back and rake one last time...
Xu Tongdao glanced at another drainage outlet not far away, and decided to go there and rake it again before going home. The drainage outlet not far away looked like there were fish, because the drainage outlet had two sides on the left and right.
, there are many aquatic plants.
According to his experience, there are usually fish in such places with aquatic plants.
He strode over, took a breath, skillfully threw the shrimp rake down, and then quickly pulled it up.
There was a shaking feeling of struggling in the net bag, and the movement was quite loud.
Comrade Xu was overjoyed, thinking he had raked another big fish, but... when the shrimp rake was pulled up to the water, he was stunned. In the net pocket of the shrimp rake... in addition to a small crucian carp, there was also an old turtle. Visual inspection
Maybe two or three pounds.
At this time, this unlucky old turtle was trying to climb up in the net pocket of his shrimp rake, trying to get out.
But is it possible?
After coming back to his senses, Comrade Xu quickly pulled the shrimp rake to the shore as quickly as possible and quickly moved away from the river, with a joyful smile on his face.
In his eyes, this old turtle...is in the shape of a banknote.
Such an old turtle may not fetch a high price these days.
But compared to the average labor force who can only earn 20 to 30 yuan a day, this old turtle is definitely valuable and should be sold for more than 100 yuan.
Maybe it will be enough for my sister’s registration fee for next semester.
After collecting the old turtle and the small crucian carp in the shrimp rake, Comrade Xu returned home.
Along the way, there was a smile on the corner of the mouth.
When he came, it took him a long time because he had to rake fish, which took him more than an hour.
It was much faster to go back. In about twenty minutes, the entrance to the village was in sight.
Before entering the village, from a distance, he saw smoke rising from cooking stoves everywhere in the village. Apparently, many people in the village had already gotten up to make breakfast.
As he approached the village entrance, he saw a familiar figure.
It's Ge Xiaoyu.
She was wearing a pair of water-brushed blue jeans, a pink T-shirt on her upper body, a pair of red rubber boots on her feet, and a bamboo basket on her arm. It looked like she was going to pick vegetables in the vegetable field.
Tongdao Xu, who had just returned from fishing, naturally knew that although the fields in the village were flooded, the vegetable fields were on higher ground, so most of the vegetable fields were not flooded.
Ge Xiaoyu was just as young and beautiful as he remembered.
The moment he saw her, he also remembered that he had liked her.
The two met face to face, and Ge Xiaoyu also saw him. The look in her eyes when she looked at him was a little strange, no longer the bored expression in Xu Tongdao's memory.
He also noticed that she hesitated to speak, as if she wanted to say hello to him.
But he was not moved, he just smiled faintly, feeling the wonder of fate, the original time and space... Ge Xiaoyu's eyes were filled with boredom every time he looked at him.
Later...many years later, when we met again, Ge Xiaoyu, who had already graduated from college, every time she saw him, it was just like seeing a stranger, and she didn't even look at him.
Therefore, Tongdao Xu has long since thought nothing of her.
But at this moment, the faint smile on his face fell into Ge Xiaoyu's eyes, and she immediately showed a kind smile, as if she was willing to make friends with him.
But Xu Tongdao had already passed her by, and the fish basket on his waist made a splash, and he had no intention of giving her two fish...