Chapter 1922 Shui Zi'er
Although the river water has receded, late autumn is when fish prepare to spend the winter, feed vigorously, and grow very plump.
The Yi people don’t eat fish much, so the fish in Meigu River are very easy to catch.
Except when guests come and need to catch a large number of fish, Zhou Zhi usually doesn’t use the big killer weapon of river fishing anymore.
The main reason is that there is too much fish to eat. Not only does eating fish consume fuel, but cooking is quite time-consuming. Generally, it is more appropriate to eat fish on weekends.
But Mai Xiaomiao was a little curious when she heard that fishing was available in the afternoon physical education class here, and she insisted on letting Zhou Zhi show it off, so Zhou Zhi took her to the river.
Er Xia has been Zhou Zhi’s long-term fishing partner. The two of them were busy throwing sea poles. A plastic sheet was spread on the lawn behind, with fruits, pastries, nuts, and a barbecue on it. A pot of tartary buckwheat tea, Mai Xiaomiao is now wearing a straw hat, sitting on it enjoying the sunshine and taking random pictures with the camera.
The advantage of a digital camera is that it does not waste film and can be taken randomly.
There are many stones on the bottom of the Meigu River, which are easy to hang on the ground. Therefore, the sea pole does not use a lead weight. Instead, the fishing hook is connected to the main line with a sub-line, and a stone is tied to the bottom of the main line with a cotton thread for traction. In this way, even if the stones are stuck at the bottom of the water, you can just pull off the cotton thread without losing the fishing line and hook.
The bait is the pancreas of the pig that was killed yesterday. The pancreas has a strong smell. Cut it into small strips and hang it on the hook. It is the best way to deal with the turtleless fish and thin-scaled fish that are abundant in the Meigu River. Bait.
Open the reel, throw the bait into the center of the river, close the reel and tighten the fishing line, insert the sea pole to the river, and clamp it on the pole with a small bell, and the arrangement is complete.
After setting up the sea pole, Erxia ran to play "cockfighting" with the other boys. Zhou Zhi returned to Mai Xiaomiao: "Xiao Miao, you can eat less snacks and save your appetite for dinner at night. Fish."
Mai Xiaomiao scratched his face and said to him, "There is no fish yet, so let's blow it first."
Zhou Zhi lay down and put his hands on his head. Behind: "Basically, I didn't run away. I won't say too much. It should be okay for you to try something new."
"I really like it here. The people here laugh so real." Mai Xiaomiao stretched out her hand. Blocking Zhou Zhi's eyes from the strong sunlight: "The sky here is so beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, and Grandpa Chiri, Uncle Tu and Auntie are also so enthusiastic."
"And the children, the singing is so beautiful."
"Well, I like it here too. There are actually many treasures here..." Zhou Zhi said, thinking of something, and took out a stone from his trouser pocket. Son: "I just picked this up by the river when I was looking for a pendant. Didn’t you say that the red stone on my sword is very beautiful?”
“It’s so beautiful!” Mai Xiaomiao raised the stone and pointed it at the sun: “Wow! ! Why do I feel different from the one on the sword? ”
"The one on the sword is more uniform, called persimmon red, and its quality is more like coral. The traditional southern red is also like that." Zhou Zhi said: "This is a kind of agate stone, but the texture is special, and it is different from the common red. Agate is different, the ones with uniform color are called persimmon red and cherry red. If the color is uneven, we call it flame red, and if the red color is combined with pure transparent glass or emulsified glass, we call it ice drift."
"Then this is the one I have. It should be called Flame Red, right?”
"Yes, the transparent but reddish part of the piece on your hand is called 'frozen', and the opaque part is called 'meat'. The combination of frozen meat and natural distribution like a flame is called flame red. "
"If the jelly is not pure red, but as deep as rose, it should be called rose red."< br>
"Although yours is not rose red, it has become round and translucent because it has been washed in water for a long time. We call it 'Shui Zi'er'. Regardless of color but texture, it is the best one among Liangshan Nanhong." ."
"Hurry up, elbows." Mai Xiaomiao stood up and knelt on the mat, and began to pull Zhou Zhi to his feet. "What?"
"Come with me to the river to pick up stones like this!"
"Erxia! Come here!" Zhou Zhi had no choice but to stand up and greet the boy fighting the cock over there.
“What are you doing?” Erxia grabbed her right foot with both hands and jumped over with her left foot in a fighting cock posture: “It’s a war!”
“Take this canned yellow peach. Take it and share it with everyone. Give me the glass bottle. Bring it over, I'm going to pick up the water with Sister Xiaomiao."
"You go first and come over when we decide the winner!" Er Xia took the can and said, "Brother Xiuzi invites everyone to eat sugar water again. It’s a can!”
Thinking about the sea poles, Zhou Zhi didn't want to go too far, so he picked up a big kettle and led Mai Xiaomiao around several sea poles.
There are many weathered stones on the river beach with red sand bottom, but some are weathered into sand, soft sandstone, and the rest are relatively hard, including gravel, flint, quartz stone, granite, etc. wait.
In addition to these stones, there is also a rather peculiar basalt with loose holes that can even float on water. The locals call it "pao stone".
As a kind of agate stone, Nanhong is mixed in these large and small stones, and the proportion is actually not high.
However, compared to the one or two agates an afternoon that Zhou Zhi used to pick up from the pebbles along the Yangtze River, there are quite a lot of Nanhong here.
The main reason is that the colors of the stones and the sand are relatively close. If not much is exposed, it is really difficult to find with a bad eye.
Generally, when you see a red stone like this, you can dig it out and rinse it with water in a kettle to check whether it is Nanhong.
But most of them are pig liver-colored flints called "Wushi" by the Yi people.
Wushi is actually an associated mineral of Nanhong. Most of its components are silicides like Nanhong. However, due to too many impurities, it cannot achieve the beauty of Nanhong, so although the quantity is large, Worthless except for making fire.
The purity of real Nanhong is extremely high, it needs to be jade-like, at least vitrified, and the color must be beautiful.
In fact, Nanhong aniseed has to be found in the mountains. There are often "mines" scattered on the rock formations under the yellow mud. Inside each pit is a pile of rough stones, which are much larger.
Nanhong by the Meigu River is where those rough stones were washed into the river. After years of erosion, the hardest parts of the minerals have been retained and are of the highest quality.
These stones have been washed into pebbles, which are smooth and delicate, but they are destined not to be too many, let alone very big. The largest one Zhou Zhi has received so far is only as big as a fist, usually The ones are only the size of dates or quail eggs, or even as small as peanuts.
Of course there are smaller ones, but Zhou Zhi thinks they are worthless and won’t accept them.
After checking several pieces, they were all black stones. Just when Mai Xiaomiao felt a little disappointed, the bell of a sea pole rang.
"We caught a fish!" Zhou Zhi tipped the kettle into the sand: "Collect the fish first!"