The hard-working fishermen on both sides of the Yangtze River finished their lunch and started working again for the day, rowing, casting nets, and collecting nets. The fishermen who have lived here for generations live like this every day, and they can no longer remember what this kind of life is.
It's time to start. It's common to go out early in the morning or in the middle of the night, just to cast the net. Once the net is caught, a fish is caught, everyone is happy, and they are busy organizing the wife to collect the fish, but unfortunately there is nothing
, the rocks in the river sunk the ship, and the net may be scratched. I had to patiently close the net, and then mend it carefully under the scorching sun. Looking forward to the next net.
Sometimes, fishing is like a lottery. You may catch a basket full of fish in one net, or you may travel more than ten miles away from home to far upstream and downstream, and only catch a lonely fish in one net.
When people were not yet civilized, this river had already nourished them and provided them with endless catches of fish; after slash-and-burn cultivation, these riverbank plains became naturally fertile soil; with the rise of civilization and the mighty empire, they still
Live next to the Yangtze River.
The mother has nurtured her children, and the children may travel far and wide, but the children raised by the Yangtze River are still by her side, sucking her milk.
Jiang Duoyu's family is the children who were raised by Yangtze River mothers for generations. Therefore, they took their mother's surname and hoped for more fish every year, so they were named Jiang Duoyu.
Living to this day, he is over sixty years old. But he still can't leave the river. He finally got ashore, but he always felt that something was missing. Not long after he stayed, he hurried back to the small river.
On the boat, even if it is not as wide or as flat as the shore, the square inch made of wooden boards has its own wind, its own waves, its own fish, and its own net...
People always say that sleeping on a boat is not peaceful, but on the contrary, he always feels that this boat is his real bed, where he can sleep peacefully and soundly.
But every day, they looked forward to the catch of fish and selling it in the morning market. This was the main source of income for the family. After spending a humid childhood on a rickety boat, Jiang Duoyu's son was born again.
He didn't want to go back to the river. He didn't have the conditions to go to a private school, and he didn't have time to study, but whenever he mended the net and dried it, he would always take out a piece of black coal from the stove and take out a book from his arms.
A crumpled and wet old book was placed on the bow of the boat, turned over and exposed to the sun. At the same time, he lay on it and read the book on the boat, copying the gourd and the gourd, and writing a crooked Chinese character. Some of the characters were not recognized by Jiang Duoyu.
But he could see that his son liked books and wanted to read.
So, he no longer let his son fish with him. He borrowed money from relatives in the neighborhood and took out the wealth he had saved for half his life, which was used to buy a house and a wife for his son, so that his son could go to a private school and study.
"Old man Jiang, you are so stupid! You borrowed so much money just to let your youngest son go to school. But there are tens of millions of talented people in the world. How many of them are lucky enough to be famous? How can you do this?
Why not let him fish hard with you, learn well, and save money to marry a wife in the future! So much money! If you feed that pen and ink, who knows whether you will throw a few kilograms of gold and silver into the river and soak it.
No one appears out of nowhere?"
"That's right! If this doesn't work out, all the money you have saved for so long will be wasted. How can you live up to my old sister-in-law!"
"…………"
There were a lot of words like this, but Old Man Jiang just smiled after hearing this. But later he fished even harder. When the wind blew on the river, others did not dare to stay home, so he still lowered the net; fifty years old
A few days ago, he couldn't row the boat with the young man, so he got up earlier than others.
He almost bet everything on his son, the youngest of the family. But Xu is raised by the river, and he works so hard at such an old age. He doesn't look old at all, and his face is rosy. Despite his age, he is like this golden-scaled river bank
There is a famous old fisherman nearby.
There is a saying: If there are fish that can be caught and eaten in the river, there is no one who has not handed over his household registration book to him.
Of course, the veteran fishermen know that fish also have homes, so they never use nets. Any small fish that they don’t like are thrown back into the river. Fishing without exhausting the lake is undesirable. They compare
No one knows this better.
It’s just that when people live in this world, sometimes not everything goes as they want.
Fortunately, Jiang Duoyu was the youngest in his family, and he actually got admitted as a scholar, won the imperial examination, and became a Jinshi. Now he is a seventh-grade county magistrate in Suzhou, and he even married his boss's daughter as his wife.
This shocked everyone's jaws. However, what was even more shocking was what happened behind.
It stands to reason that Old Man Jiang has achieved great success in rising from a humble family. But instead of going to Hangzhou to enjoy the blessings with his son, he took his grandson fishing on the river.
At first, the wife here disagreed to death, but she couldn't resist the old man. Jiang Duoyu was unwilling to go to Hangzhou. In the end, the two of them thought about it and felt sorry for the old man who had suffered all his life and was still alone on the riverside.
I agree that the elderly are allowed to take the children with them for five or six months every year until they are seven or eight years old and go to private school. However, the children are very playful and are always disciplined by their parents. There is no fun in following their grandfather. In fact, they spend most of the year with them.
Next to grandpa.
In the first two years, Jiang Duoyu's grandson came here. The mother felt distressed and worried about her son, so she ran back and forth from time to time. But after coming a few times, the daughter-in-law saw how powerful the old Jiang Long was with her father-in-law, and she really let go.
It made sense. In addition, I was pregnant with my second child last year and it was inconvenient to travel long distances. The six-year-old child has been staying with his grandfather since the Chinese New Year.
As spring goes and autumn comes, the little grandson is about to reach the age of going to private school, and the old guy has taken care of him for more than four years. How can he be willing to be separated from his grandson? He also knows that the little grandson will have a better life in Hangzhou.
In the future, no matter how much older I get, I really don’t know if I can still pull the fishing net, so I always have to leave, I have to leave this river where I have stayed all my life.
But he couldn't imagine what he would be like if he left this river.
"Grandpa, look, look, Baijiangzhu, Baijiangzhu, there are so many Baijiangzhu!"
With joy from the bottom of his heart, the little grandson shouted, interrupting Jiang Duoyu's thoughts.
He took a deep breath, exhaled a mouthful of clouds and mist, and saw all kinds of things happening in the world. Jiang Duoyu knocked his tobacco stick on the bow of the boat, came to his senses, and hit his little grandson on the back of the head.
"Damn boy, I've told you several times. Why don't you listen? I told you not to crawl on the side of the boat. Don't crawl on the side of the boat. You don't listen, do you? I told you not to stare at the river. A dead man will appear later.
Face, I’ve hooked your soul!!” Jiang Duoyu didn’t hold back either. It’s not that he didn’t feel sorry for his grandson, but he had to teach him what he needed to teach well. But while fighting him out, he also pulled his grandson back to the ship.
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Jiang Heng touched the back of his head and grimaced in pain, but still looked at his grandfather with a laugh and pointed at the white figure on the river in the distance that was rising and falling happily and constantly overflowing the water.
"Grandpa, Heng'er knows how to swim and is not afraid of water ghosts! Grandpa taught Heng'er that he is a little white dragon in the river, so he is not afraid of those ghosts and monsters!"
Ever since Jiang Duoyu could remember, in times of peace, the fishermen who died the most in the river were these fishermen.
Therefore, it is true to say that those who drown are all able to swim.
The water quality of the grandfather and grandson is excellent, but Jiang Duoyu will not forget to tell his grandson over and over again. This is the tradition of fishermen. Rivers educate people, but they never forget to respect and fear the water.
Jiang Duoyu shook his head, patted his grandson's head dotingly, and stared at the goddess of the Yangtze River in the distance. He explained to him, "The black one is the finless porpoise, the white one is the white porpoise. They have different shapes and different names, but they live in the same house and are flooded.
There are big fish in the abyss, so I'll plunder them to make them fat. You guys, please remember this carefully. If you fish in this river every day, you can't just scream in the river all the time. You don't know the real name of the elf in the river."
Jiang Heng turned his head and looked at his grandfather with his big dark eyes filled with confusion and asked, "Grandpa, it turns out you understand poetry! Then grandpa always said that you are uneducated and don't know a single big character!"
Jiang Duoyu snorted and just stared at the mighty group of dozens of finless porpoises whizzing by on the river, showing off their superb swimming skills. After all, such a huge group of finless porpoises, including Baiji and finless porpoises, was a big scene.
, which was rare in his lifetime of fishing.
Watching the group of finless porpoises go away, Jiang Duoyu came back to his senses and said, "Your grandpa, he has read too many books. On the contrary, some things cannot be seen clearly. Besides, this poem, your father is by my side every day."
Read it to me, it makes my ears feel calluses, how can I not remember it. You have to remember it for me too."
"oh!"
Jiang Duoyu didn't know much about other poems and texts, but he also knew the importance of education. Therefore, in his spare time, he would take his grandson to read and learn to read. However, as his grandson got older, he knew very well that he was still under the influence of education.
The meager knowledge I had barely learned from my son was no longer enough.
After the Yangtze River Elf left, the grandfather and grandson chatted without a word for another half an hour.
But after finishing the meal and cleaning up the fishing nets, Jiang Heng still didn't see his grandfather, the old captain, giving orders. He couldn't help but wonder, "Grandpa, the third uncle and the fourth uncle have all left the boat, why don't we move still?"
"No fishing today. Row the boat back and let's go home."
"Ah?! Why? The weather is obviously fine today."
"Tsk! Be good, listen to grandpa. Even if I tell you, you don't understand the truth. Anyway, we won't be fishing today."
The grandson didn't understand, but he didn't ask much. He always admired his grandfather, so he obediently helped him paddle.
The fishing boats on the river gradually drifted away, and only this small boat went upstream alone and returned to the shore. But just after returning to the shore, a strange face walked towards the boat of the grandfather and grandson.
Jiang Duoyu is an old master, and today the finless porpoise behaved abnormally. He knew that something was abnormal, something must have happened downstream, and he was still bringing his grandson with him, so he couldn't be careless, but he didn't expect that he had just reached the shore.
Someone came over, but, this, this doesn’t look like those henchmen from the Boat Gang!