My house lives on the shore four
Author: Uncle Guoliang
"Early in the morning the boat goes and casts a net,
Come back in the evening full of fish".
This is the lyrics of "Honghu Lake Waves", which we have sung since we were young. What puzzled me was that the Grand Canal, so famous, has few songs to praise it. The canal has flowed for thousands of years, nourishing the people on both sides of the strait, and has become a paradise for fish, golden carp, red-eyed thick seeds, cocked silver carp, catfish with big heads and small eyes, ugly blackfish, fierce yellow, and toothed and long-spined fish, as well as river shrimp, crabs, clams, in the animal world of the canal, there are many members. When I was young, I rarely saw people casting nets and fishing by the river, because the croppers of the Eight Classics of The Eight Classics did not care to spend their kung fu on it, and occasionally it was okay, and if they did it as a karma, it would make people look down on it and despise it as not living a life.
However, there are still fishing experts who become people's talk of conversation after dinner.
The blind ghost master is one.
The blind ghost master is not blind, and his eyes are staring as if they are going to flow out, and he is most appropriate to describe him with the "eyes are cracked" that shows Fan Duo on the "Feast of the Hongmen Gate", a face of horizontal flesh, indifferent face does not know cloudy days and nights to see a smile, he is tall, walking with a fast pace, the stride is very large. He doesn't like children, and when we juniors greet him, we are happy to meet him, and we give you a "hmm" from our nostrils, otherwise, they will disappear from you like a cold-faced Buddha.
"Hmm, ignore him, just that blood, old man!"
When the children went home to tell their fathers about seeing the blind ghost, the adults often said that the blindness of the blind ghost was probably due to the fact that there was no one in his sight.
The blind ghost master has not had children all his life. People without children are often polarized, one is to see other people's children kiss well, and the other is to see others have children envy and envy, so that they are indifferent. The blind ghost master obviously belongs to the latter.
Still, there was a bunch of little farts following him because he could fish. Every time you go up the riverbank, it's like pulling a shit butt not wiped clean and following a group of flies, followed by a group of twittering children watching the hilarity. The blind ghost master was very annoyed, he did not like children, coupled with the children's frolicking and shouting will affect the fruits of his labor, so he stared at the fierce eyes, and scolded this group of uninteresting fans, but, in vain, he roared, the children stopped, and after a while, they followed up again.
The canal rewards the rich reserves of the people living around it, and people have accumulated rich experience in long-term labor practice. "There are fish in the rising water, there are shrimp in the falling water, there are kings who do not rise and do not fall", the blind ghost master knows the way of fishing in the canal, he knows what season can catch, what fish love in the depth of the water, what fish love in the dense grass, what fish are in the straight channel of the water, what fish are in the bend, a bubble bubbles up, he can determine what fish it is...
The blind ghost does not use fishing nets for fishing, and he will not guard the fishing rod like a stupid wife and other men, and what makes him famous is his stunt of forked fish. He had a good harpoon, I heard that it was two acres of land to exchange with people when he was making trouble with Japanese devils, the five steel spines of the harpoon were wiped by him and pointed and shiny, and each steel thorn was barbed, once the fish was forked, it was extremely difficult to take off the fork. The fork handle is a bamboo rod more than three meters long, every time the fork fish comes back, the blind ghost master will rub the bamboo rod with lard, and then put it in the shade, for a long time, the fork handle will become ochre red, slippery to the touch, but regardless of adults and children, it is rare to be blessed to touch his harpoon. The tail end of the harpoon is tied with a small thumb thick hemp rope, when the fork fish, the blind ghost put the rope on the wrist, once the target is too far away, the harpoon is not enough, then quickly pull off the rope, extend the length of the throw.
Autumn fellers came.
People here call the autumn flood of the canal autumn harvest, every year in the late summer and early autumn, the autumn water comes, the rushing mud, active fat canal carp, fierce yellow, they chase the waves, and the water tribes make a big fuss about the ancient canal.
Naturally, the blind ghost master would not let go of this heavenly opportunity, moreover, his hungry mother-in-law was already impatient. He swept the harpoon in his hand and walked out of the house confidently, and the flies immediately followed the stinking children.
In the early autumn afternoon, the weather is still so hot and dry, the trees are tirelessly singing, and the children who do not know how to be annoying are chattering. When the blind ghost saw that the glare was useless, he had to retreat to the second place, saying, you can follow along, but you are not allowed to make a sound, otherwise, I will throw you into the river!
Yes, just let it look, whatever.
The north canal of the village is the place where the water is deep and rapid, which is where the yellow are infested. The blind ghost master stood at the water's edge, the rapids on the shore wet his shoes, and he still couldn't look at his eyes like a dead fish, and the harpoon he held was slightly trembling in his hand. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and the harpoon in his hand flew towards the target.
"Fork on!"
"Big guy!"
It was a big guy, and in the moment of being forked, the guy jumped out of the water with half of his body, with a pointed head, the size of a bucket, and the whole body was yellow, so big a yellow booby!
"Not bad! The blind devil has fallen into the river! "There are children screaming.
The blind ghost really fell into the water. The fish in his fork was too big, and it was a fierce yellow booby, and before the blind ghost master could loosen the rope on his wrist, the desperately struggling yellow booby dragged him into the river at once.
The prey struggled together in the water, and the harpoon on his body rose and fell like a ship's mast, and the blind ghost who could not free the rope in the rapids would also surface and sink into the water.
"Save people, the blind devil has fallen into the river!"
"Come on people, the blind devil is going to drown!"
The people who heard the news and came to the shore pulled the half-dead blind ghost to the shore.
The harpoon, still lying together in the water of the Tangtang River, gradually faded away.
Since then, the blind ghost has washed his hands in the golden basin and no longer forks fish.
When I saw the children, I occasionally squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying.
(Unfinished)
