Chapter 193： Cat town (1/2)
”I just wanted to row the boat back to shore, and suddenly I felt something hit by the paddle. One flashlight flashed ...” Uncle Zhang slightly changed his color, and that memory was still a little lingering even when I recall it now: ”I saw a huge shadow in Swim by the boat, and my paddle hit it. It seemed startled, and suddenly disappeared into the water. ”
Zhang Laohan, a native of China, farmed and fished for a living. He was too familiar with the waters, but the bottom of the water completely exceeded his knowledge.
”From half a month ago, most of the boats passing through our town sank. I do n’t know why. There are also fishing boats in the town, and they are upset somehow from time to time. Everyone says that there are water monkeys in the river, I didn't believe it, because everyone hadn't seen it, it was Hu Yan. But I was really scared that day, and I saw something in the river. ”
”Paid desperately on the shore, without swimming a few meters, there was a strong underwater overturn of my boat, and I fell into the water.”
”Do you see the big fish?”
”It's too dark, it's darker in the water, and I can't see clearly. I vaguely remember a long tail, thick, long and black.”
Li Xianyu frowned slightly. What kind of fish's tail is thick, long and black?
”Is it a crocodile?” Li Xianyu asked.
Zhang Laohan listened, and patted his head: ”It is possible, you said that there might be crocodile in the river. I have heard news of species invasion on TV. We used to be crocodile here.”
He apparently did not associate the big fish in the water with the monster.
Grandma kicked his great-grandson: ”Can you think of anything other than a crocodile?”
Li Xianyu thought: ”Dollfish?”
Grandma rolled her eyes and said, ”That relationship is good, stay alive this time.”
生物 This creature has a fierce temperament. If it is, Zhang Laohan is already a ray of dead soul at the bottom of the river.
”Later,” asked Li Xianyu.
”Later I climbed into bed and came up on the shore. I told you that after that day I had never used a boat again. If it was a crocodile, I wouldn't dare go by the river.”
”We still want to rent a fishing boat. Don't rush to refuse. There are more than one fishing boat in the town. If you refuse, others will agree.” Li Xianyu took a stack of money out of his wallet: ”Two hundred a day, I'll give you a thousand **** deposit ... isn't the fishing boat big? Is this deposit enough? ”
Ninety percent of things in the world can be solved with money, and ten percent of things can be solved with more money.
Li Xianyu and his grandmother rented a fishing boat as they wished, not a professional fishing boat. The small fishing boat built in the town can carry eight or nine people. The old wood is mixed with new wood, and it looks like it is often repaired.
”Uncle, you have a lot of mice in this town.”
Just after approaching the boat, a large mouse escaped from the boat, panic across the shallow water, and escaped into the next melon field.
”Our town was called Cat Town decades ago.” Zhang Laohan said.
”Not Mousetown?”
”Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were plagues and plagues in the town. Many people died. The conditional people moved away. The poor people stayed here to die. The legend is that the rats were tricked, but one day the town came The cat fairy, it shot and subdued the mouse spirit. There is a cat fairy temple on the mountain behind the town. The town also built a temple dedicated to the cat god. Instead of worshiping the gods of heaven and earth, worship it every year and pray for a good harvest of grain. ”Zhang Laohan said,” In fact, the people in the town later started to raise cats to catch mice, and the plague was gradually resolved. But our cat fairy temple, the road is too wild, so we compiled this legend to increase persuasiveness. ”
In Chinese traditional culture, building temples for gods is also particular about it. It must be an officially recognized deity, otherwise it is an evil **** in a ancestral temple.
”The rat plague has come again in the past few years. There are rats everywhere in the town. The dealers are crippled, and the millet at home is also crickets. Cats are useless,” Zhang Laohan said. Cats are also lacking in morality. They can only eat if they don't catch mice. ”
Boat into the river, the river is very wide, about a hundred meters. Li Xianyu tried to open the eyes of the spirit. The quiet river surface did not change, and there was no boiling spirit.
Therefore, the things in the river are the most difficult to entangle. There must be traces on the land. Some places have been alien for a long time. The scent that belongs to them lasts forever. I checked my eyes last time, otherwise it would be difficult to find.
The boat had a fishing rod on it, and Li Xianyu found a few pieces of meat from his wallet and let his grandmother sit on the bow to fish.
”My adoptive father, my favorite is fishing, and I will go fishing every three minutes. I dreamed that one day I would go out to sea to go fishing on a yacht. I do n’t work and I ’m still old, so my father ’s dream is always my dream. But I hate fishing the most. I ’m stupid and do n’t have a fish for a long time. ”Li Xianyu said.
”I didn't like fishing when I was young,” said Grandma. ”Later I found that fishing was good. I can pass the time. The most important thing is time.”
Holding a fishing rod in her hand, she looked at the water, her eyes blurred like water waves.
Again.
From time to time, grandma and grandma will reveal the vicissitudes of life. Only in this time will Li Xianyu realize that she is a 150-year-old antique.
It should be very happy to immortality. How many emperors will dream of it. Li Xianyu thought so before, but after inheriting his grandmother, he found that immortality may not be a blessing.
You can't die, but your family and friends are all dead. When people overcome time, you are still not invincible, and there is still loneliness waiting for you.
Moreover, times change forever, and people's three perspectives will not change. Grandma is constantly enduring the pain and helplessness of the three views. According to the ratio of men and women in our country, it continues to deteriorate. After a few years, it may not be monogamous, but polygamous.
If Li Xianyu could live to that era ... it would be better to kill himself.