"I was just about to row back to the shore when I felt my paddle hit something. I shone the flashlight on it … "Grandpa Zhang's expression changed. He was still scared when he recalled the memory." I saw a huge shadow swimming past the boat and my paddle hit it. It seemed to have been startled and disappeared into the water. "
Grandpa Zhang was a local who made a living by farming and fishing. He was very familiar with the water, but what was at the bottom of the river was beyond his knowledge.
"Since half a month ago, most of the ships that passed by our town have sunk. I don't know why. There are also fishing boats in the town, but they capsized from time to time. Everyone said that there were water monkeys in the river. I didn't believe it at first because no one had seen them before. But my innocent mind was frightened. I saw something in the river. "
"I desperately rowed towards the shore, but after swimming a few meters, a strong force under the water capsized my boat, and I fell into the water."
"Did you see what the big fish looked like?"
"It was too dark, and the water was even darker, so I couldn't see clearly. But I vaguely remember that it had a long, thick, and black tail."
Li Xianyu frowned. What kind of fish would have a thick, long, and black tail?
"Was it a crocodile?" Li Xianyu asked.
Grandpa Zhang slapped his head. "It's possible. Do you think it was a crocodile in the river? I've heard about invasive species on TV. There used to be crocodiles here."
He obviously didn't associate the big fish in the water with the monster.
Great-grandmother kicked her great-grandson. "Can you think of anything else other than crocodiles?"
Li Xianyu thought. "A salamander?"
Great-grandmother rolled her eyes. "That's great. Let's keep it alive this time."
The salamander was a ferocious creature. If it was a salamander, Grandpa Zhang would already be a ghost at the bottom of the river.
"What happened after that?" Li Xianyu asked.
"After that, I climbed onto the bed and rowed to the shore. Let me tell you, I haven't used the boat since that day. If it's really a crocodile, I won't even dare to go to the river. "Old Zhang still had a lingering fear.
"We still want to rent a fishing boat. Don't be in a hurry to refuse. You're not the only one with a fishing boat in town. Even if you refuse, others will agree to it." Li Xianyu took out a wad of cash from his wallet. "Two hundred a day. I'll give you a thousand as a deposit … The fishing boat isn't big, is it? Is this deposit enough? "
Ninety percent of the things in the world can be solved with money, and ten percent can be solved with more money.
Li Xianyu and Great-grandmother managed to rent a fishing boat as they wished. It wasn't a professional fishing boat, but a small fishing boat that was built by the people in the town. It could carry about eight or nine people. The old wood was mixed with new wood, and it seemed that it was frequently repaired.
"Sir, there are a lot of rats in your town."
Just as they approached the boat, a large rat escaped from the boat. It hurriedly crossed the shallow waters and escaped into the neighboring melon field.
"Decades ago, our town was called Cat Town," Old Zhang said.
"Not Rat Town?"
"Before the founding of the People's Republic, there was a rat plague in the town. Many people died. Those who could afford it moved away, and the poor stayed here to wait for death. Legend has it that it was because of the rat spirit, but one day, a cat fairy came to the town and subdued the rat spirit. There is a Cat Fairy Temple on the mountain behind the town. The town also built a temple dedicated to the Cat Fairy. They don't worship the gods and gods, but worship it every year, praying for a bumper harvest and a good harvest every year. " Old Zhang said, "Actually, the people in the town later began to raise cats to catch rats, and the rat plague was slowly solved. But our Cat Fairy Temple is too wild, so we made up this legend to make it more convincing. "
In China's traditional culture, building a temple to worship gods was also very particular. It must be a god recognized by the government, or else it would be an evil god that couldn't be shown in public.
"In recent years, the rat plague has come again. There are rats everywhere in the town. The farmers eat them, and the grains at home are also eaten. The cats are useless, "Old Zhang said." These days, all walks of life are wicked, and cats are also wicked. They don't catch rats and only know how to steal food. "
They rowed the boat into the river. The river was very wide, about a hundred meters wide. Li Xianyu tried to open his spirit eye, but there was no change in the tranquil surface of the river, and there was no sign of demonic aura boiling.
That was why the things in the river were the most difficult to deal with. Anything that passed by on land would leave a trace, and in some places, the smell that belonged to them would not dissipate for a long time. But the river was constantly flowing, and unless they happened to meet eyes, it would be hard to find.
The boat had its own fishing rod, so Li Xianyu took out a few pieces of meat from his wallet and let Great-grandmother sit at the bow to fish.
"That foster father of mine, his favorite thing is fishing. He would go out to fish every few days, and he dreamed of one day going out to sea on a yacht to fish. But with his salary, it was hard enough to support me and Ice Dregs. Ice Dregs was also disappointing, and after graduating, he didn't work and was still living off his parents, so my foster father's dream was always a dream. But what I hate the most is fishing. I would foolishly do it for half a day, but not a single fish would come out. "Li Xianyu said.
"When I was young, I didn't like fishing either." Great-grandmother said: "Later on, I discovered that fishing is not bad, and can kill time. The thing I lack the least is time."
She held the fishing rod in her hand, and looked at the water, her eyes were as misty as the waves.
Here it comes again.
Great-grandmother would occasionally reveal the vicissitudes of time, and only at these times, would Li Xianyu realize that she was a hundred and fifty year old antique.
Immortality should be a happy thing, and many emperors, generals, and ministers yearned for it even in their dreams. Li Xianyu used to think like this, but after inheriting Great-grandmother, he discovered that immortality might not be a good thing.
You can't die, but your family and friends will all die. Even if you win against time, you are still not invincible, and there will still be loneliness waiting for you.
Moreover, the times will always change, but a person's three views will never change. Great-grandmother was constantly suffering the pain and helplessness of having her three views impacted. According to the ratio of men to women in our country, if it continues to worsen, after a few years, it might not be monogamy, but polyandry.
If Li Xianyu could live to that era … then he might as well commit suicide.
After floating in the water for an hour, Great-grandmother caught a few big fish and released them all.
"What did you find?" Great-grandmother asked her great-grandson.
"There is a little frown." Li Xianyu rowed towards the shore: "According to the experience gained from the Flood Salamander incident, if some kind of fierce foreign species came to this water, then in a short period of time, the fish and other creatures in this water will be drastically reduced, and they will either be eaten or scared away. The situation now is obviously not like that. There are quite a lot of fish, big and small, and the proportion is even. "
"What does this mean?"
"It means that that thing might be a vegetarian or an omnivore, and doesn't specialize in hunting fish." Li Xianyu thought for a moment: "There's another possibility, that thing doesn't live in the water, but if that's the case, it seems very strange."
No, it seemed very mischievous.
It clearly didn't live in the water, but it specifically ran into the water to flip boats and bite through the steel plates at the bottom of the boat. It was too mischievous.
After returning to the shore, they went to old man Zhang's house and asked for a few fishing nets to scatter in the river. The grandfather and grandson walked around the town awkwardly, but they couldn't find a hotel.
This place was only forty minutes away from the county town by bus. Usually, there wouldn't be any outsiders, and at most, people from the nearby villages would come to buy some things.
Hotels couldn't operate in the town.
On the other hand, internet cafes were everywhere, and there were at least two on each street. Business seemed to be quite good.
Li Xianyu and Great-grandmother turned on two computers in the internet cafes and browsed through all the popular online games on the market.
Playing games and shopping were Great-grandmother's only joys in the new era, and it was even better with her great-grandson accompanying her. Together, they shook the world in the game, and attacked cities and strongholds. It was much more interesting.
"It's so much better than the internet cafes in Shanghai." The small internet cafes in the town surprised Li Xianyu.
The environment of the internet cafes had a strong sense of the times. Smoke lingered in the air, and there were encouraging words from men everywhere: Hurry up and go home, idiot, the high ground is gone.
Don't you know it's a team fight? Is the ADC an idiot? He's playing solo.
Don't dismantle the bomb first, the enemy is in A dog, still a grenade.
.....
This reminded Li Xianyu of his childhood. After school, he and his friends would sneak to the internet cafes near the school. He wasn't old enough to go online, so he could only watch the older brothers play games. There was always the smell of cigarettes in the internet cafes. Occasionally, non-mainstream girls could be seen typing on the keyboard and dancing.
The older brothers wore straight white jeans and had greasy hair that hadn't been washed for several days. No matter how they looked now, they were kings when they had three yuan worth of Nutri-express on the table, five yuan worth of Red Gold Dragon cigarettes in their mouths, and their hands stroking the keyboard as if they were caressing a lover.
If it was in the era when Li Xianyu was a child, when a great beauty like Great-grandmother appeared in the internet cafes, there would definitely be frivolous hooligans coming over to strike up a conversation. If they were brave enough, they might even touch her.
But it was different now. Even in a small town with an underdeveloped economy, people still looked at her covetously, but no one would be stupid enough to come over to strike up a conversation.
Compared to the previous generation, people of this generation had one more precious quality: self-awareness.
Poverty gave us self-awareness.
They played until ten at night, and the grandmother and grandson reluctantly left the internet cafes.
"Great-grandmother is really amazing. In that team battle just now, if you didn't kill the two center position players, we would have lost."
"You're also amazing. You took all the damage, or else I wouldn't have been able to cut in."
The grandmother and grandson boasted to each other. The general meaning was that other than the two of them, the other three sons were all idiots.
At ten at night, there were almost no pedestrians in the town. They left the town and trekked along the ridges along the river. They came to the fishing boat that was docked during the day. The fishing boat was locked to a wooden stake by the shore, and Li Xianyu took out the key to open the lock.
Great-grandmother kicked the fishing boat lightly, and then floated onto the boat.
The surface of the river was very quiet and dark. Not far away were the lights of the town, and on the other side was a quiet field. At the end of the field was a boundless stretch of mountains.
After floating in the river for half a day, it was calm.
Li Xianyu and Great-grandmother both restrained their Qi. He didn't even dare to open his Spiritual Eye. If a monster was hiding nearby, opening his Spiritual Eye would scare it away.
"I don't know if the method of waiting for the rabbit is effective. According to the information provided by Old Zhang and the clues from the Hangzhou branch, the probability of the fishing boat having an accident is seventy percent. The probability is very high. With my … my luck value, the probability of it appearing should be one hundred percent. "Li Xianyu said in a low voice.
Li Xianyu fished up the fishing net according to the location of the buoy. He was surprised to find that the fishing net that was intact when it was thrown down had been bitten.
"What do you think it's after? It doesn't hurt people, but instead causes trouble. It's too strange. "
"Who cares. If we catch it, we'll beat it up and suck its blood dry. Then we can leave."
"Splash!"
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