Chapter 1 Dead Fish’s True Speech
Summer, 99th year of the New Calendar.
Night has already fallen, and the thick darkness envelopes the earth.
Beside the Yuan River, Jiang Yao found a slightly smooth stone and sat on the ground.
A pair of eyes glanced around, and the dim lights in the distance in the direction of the county town were vaguely visible, but on the riverside, except for himself, he did not see anyone else.
He glanced around, and soon, he withdrew his gaze and focused on the three thin bamboo poles standing a few steps ahead.
The villagers in the village buy several bundles of bamboo every spring to use as scaffolding when planting cucumbers, beans and other crops.
The slim end of the bamboo is of little use and will basically be chopped off.
The few thin bamboo poles less than one meter in front of Jiang Yao were taken from home when he came out.
Use a homemade Liuyang hook made from tire string, connect the fishing line, and then tie the fishing line on a plastic bottle. A set of simple fishing tackle is completed.
When using it, take a long piece of bran cake that you saw yourself, put it into the tire coil of the Liuyang hook and tighten it.
Tie it with a rubber band, hook the fishhook around the bran cake, and throw it far away.
After the bait enters the water and sinks to the bottom, straighten the fishing line and wrap it several times around the thin vertical bamboo poles.
There are several small bells tied to the end of the bamboo pole. Jiang Yao's family used to have dogs. These bells were originally hung on the dog's neck, but he found them and used them here.
In this case, once the fish bites the hook and pulls the fishing line, the tough and thin bamboo pole will shake violently, causing the bell to jingle.
Three sets of such simple fishing gear only cost a few dollars in total.
Jiang Yao’s simple fishing method saves money. The only disadvantage is that after encountering a big fish, the line may break and it will be impossible to pull it up.
But there's nothing he can do about it. He's so cash-strapped that he can't even get a few bucks out of his pocket!
Although the types of fishing gear sold in fishing gear shops in the county these days are pitiful, sea rods can still be purchased.
If he had money in his pocket, why bother using this plastic bottle?
During these days, the daytime temperature is getting higher day by day. With the high temperature of nearly 40 degrees, if you stay in the sun for a little longer, you will lose a layer of your skin.
Staying by the river this night, bathing in the river breeze, is cool, but there are too many mosquitoes.
Jiang Yao came here before the sun set. He stayed there for several hours and saw no fish bites. However, his legs were already covered with large mosquito bites.
In his last life, he was a loser, and when he lived to be in his forties, he was still a bachelor.
Finally, he met a woman who was willing to talk about love and get to know him deeply. He thought he had met true love, but he didn't know that she was interested in his pocket.
The two of them had been together for less than half a year, and the little savings he had saved up through so many years of hard work had been wiped out.
After saying goodbye, the woman disappeared.
When Jiang Yao found the woman, she was already in someone else's arms. Facing Jiang Yao, she not only showed no guilt at all, but also sneered at her.
So, Jiang Yao became angry, took out the fruit knife he carried with him, and stabbed him with more than a dozen knives.
There was a gunshot on the execution ground, and when Jiang Yao woke up, he had already appeared in this world.
The old uncle has now become a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old. Although he is still poor, he can live another life. No matter what, he has made a profit.
When I first woke up, I thought I was reborn as Jiang Yao in the late 1990s, and I was pleasantly surprised.
After all, he retains the memory of his previous life. Not to mention the glory and prosperity in this life, relying on things like Moutai, housing prices, and Bitcoin, it is definitely not a big problem just to achieve economic freedom.
Unfortunately, as time passed and he received most of the memories of his predecessor, he realized that he was traveling through time and was not reborn at all.
In such a completely different world, the little memories of Jiang Yao's past life seem to be of no use at all.
For more than half a month after he gained a certain understanding of the world, he didn't think about anything else but just making money.
Unfortunately, even though he tried it again and again, his pockets were still empty.
After all, the world he lives in now is experiencing a layoff boom. There are only a few companies in the county that are still operating normally. If he wants to work in them, he has no connections and background. Not very likely.
On the street, there are groups of young people who are doing nothing and causing trouble everywhere.
As for what other cities in the federation look like? Jiang Yao didn't know. After all, the original person had never left the county and had no memory of this at all.
In his previous life, he did not have a high degree of education and did not know any advanced technology. Before the accident, he was just a courier delivery person.
As for the original person here, he dropped out of school after graduating from junior high school and stayed at home. The same thing is that he needs academic qualifications but not academic qualifications, and he needs skills but not skills.
If he really couldn't find any other way to make money, why would he come to the river to feed the mosquitoes this late at night?
After all, grass carp and carp in the river can be sold for three to four yuan a pound.
If he is lucky enough to catch a big fish, not only will he get rich, but it will at least make his money easier.
There were many distracting thoughts in my mind, and before I knew it, more than half an hour had passed.
"When the bell rings, there are thousands of taels of gold. I have been in the air force for several days. How can I not give you a bite?" Bamboo pole, Jiang Yao sighed.
Frowning slightly, he touched his trouser pocket, which contained all his belongings, three yuan and eighty cents.
Those friends of the same age in the village didn’t have a dime, so they could go to the county town and hang out for most of the night.
Jiang Yao was not used to days like this. With no money in his pocket, he always felt insecure and uneasy. For this reason, he has declined several invitations from a group of teenagers.
"What does it mean to stump a heroic man with a penny? This should be..." While sighing, Jiang Yao raised his wrist and looked at the time.
When we first went down to the river, the sun had not completely set. Suddenly, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, not far from eleven o'clock.
“Is it already so late?”
After being slightly startled, Jiang Yao smiled bitterly: "Forget it, just put your pole back and go back, it's just another trip in vain!"
Although his village is not far from the river, if you walk back like this, But it takes at least half an hour.
A few days ago, he was fishing at night on the riverside. Before ten o'clock, he had already stopped fishing and left.
It is indeed a bit late to get this today.
Jiang Yao jumped up from the ground, moved his body slightly, and walked to the bamboo pole closest to him in a few steps.
After unwinding the fishing line, he picked up the plastic bottle on the ground and prepared to reel in the line.
‘Dingle bell…Dingle bell…’ At this moment, the crisp bell suddenly rang.
With joy in his heart, Jiang Yao quickly looked in the direction where the ringing sound came from.
Under the hazy moonlight, he clearly saw the bamboo pole with a bell tied to it on his left hand side turned into a bow and was shaking non-stop.
Looking at the posture, if the bamboo pole hadn't been inserted relatively deep into the sand, the pole and the plastic bottle holding the fishing line might have been dragged directly into the water.
"This movement... is definitely a big fish..."
Jiang Yao, who was sighing just now, is now full of energy.
In a flash, he had already rushed to the bamboo pole with the bell ringing, and grabbed the plastic bottle in his hand.
Untying the fishing line wrapped around the bamboo pole, he picked up the plastic bottle and began to slowly wind up the line bit by bit.
At the beginning, he could feel an obvious struggle coming from him.
However, after just taking in the line a few times, I could no longer feel any movement, but the bottom of the fishing line was still very heavy.
Although it was a little difficult for him to reel in the line, as long as he could pull it, it shouldn't be a big problem to pull the fish out of the water.
“There seems to be something wrong. If there is a really big fish down there, it shouldn’t be so calm except for sinking!”
“Is it possible that the fish are scurrying around in the water, making Did my fishhook catch on something else?"
While talking to himself, Jiang Yao, who was originally in high spirits, couldn't help but frown.
A few more minutes passed, and he finally pulled the thing out of the water.
Originally, Jiang Yao thought he had hooked aquatic plants or some tattered shoes and clothes, but to his surprise, what he pulled up was really a fish.
It was a carp weighing about three or four kilograms, but its eyes had turned white and its body had changed color.
Looking closer, Jiang Yao could even clearly smell the rancid smell unique to dead fish.
"Dead fish? Are you still telling the truth? My day..."
Under the dim moonlight, Jiang Yao looked depressed and cursed secretly when he saw the two hooks under the fishing line hooked right into the fish's mouth.
The dead fish just said it, picked up the pole and left.
He must have heard of this saying among fishermen.
But he has always been bold. Otherwise, he would not have the courage to come to the river to fish alone at night.
After all, in the area near the river, there are many places where graves are piled up in patches.
After taking out the fishhook from the dead fish's mouth and kicking it into the water, he was already ready to stop and leave, but naturally he was not prepared to stay any longer.
At this moment, he felt a blur in front of his eyes, and something like a light curtain suddenly appeared in his sight.
Above the light curtain, square characters began to appear one after another.
[On the third day of July in the New Calendar year 1999, you were fishing at night in Yuanjiang River and encountered a dead fish.
Feeling a little panicked, you returned home. For the next few days, you stayed at home and never went into the river again.
Five days later, on the eighth day of July, you felt that the matter was over. The so-called dead fish's truth was simply superstition and there was nothing worth tabooing about.
The sun has just set, and you are carrying your fishing gear and preparing to go down to the river again. When you walk to the intersection between the village entrance and the neighboring village, you suddenly see a white shadow floating in front of your eyes, and then you feel lost in a trance. .
The next moment, a garbage truck is coming towards you, with a 'bang' sound, you are dead...]
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PS: Not a simulator, Just a little reminder, it’s not a cool novel, and the protagonist won’t have too exaggerated dangers.
(End of this chapter)