The fish in the mountains are not as big as those outside. In this clear river, the largest fish can grow by about two or three fingers.

Some are small, only the size of a pencil.

Although the fish are small, they are favored by their large number. When years were difficult, the fish in this small river have nurtured many mountain people with their small bodies.

However, it was probably because of the lack of culture and the relaxed awe of nature. Later, with the popularity of torpedoes, electric fish machines and fish medicine, some mountain people would kill the fish in the river for their own selfishness, so that in the past few years, there were almost no small fish in the river in the village.

Fortunately, the country later vigorously politically banned people from using torpedoes, electric fish machines and fish medicines, which allowed the severely damaged river to be cultivated and now it has returned to its original appearance.

When Agui saw Brother Qingshan coming, he was very excited: "Brother Qingshan, come quickly, there are a lot of fish here."

"Worry, don't scare the fish away." Liu Qingshan walked forward quickly, followed Agui's appearance, squatted on the stone bridge, and bowed to look at the river below.

This bridge is a stone bridge with a long history. It does not use any steel bars at all, but is completely made of large pieces of stone.

According to the older generation, the reason why the village was located in this mountain was because the ancestors in ancient times could not bear the heavy taxes, so they fled here with their families.

After the ancestors fled here, they began to reclaim land, cultivate crops, and repair bridges.

Although the width of the river surface of the small river in the village is not very wide, in order for the mountain people to travel conveniently, the ancestors still repaired many small bridges like this in the village with their tenacious perseverance.

These small bridges often have only two piers, one on the left and one on the left and the arched bridge body is in the middle.

The stones used to repair this kind of stone bridge are all made of local materials, and the most common large stones in the mountains are used. However, ordinary native large stones have different shapes, which is not conducive to bridge construction. Therefore, the ancestors had to rely on simple tools to polish these stones of various shapes to a clear edge and uniform shape, so that they could create an ancient bridge that could not stand for hundreds of years.

This work is complex and arduous, and requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

However, in order to continue this great project, the ancestors generously donated.

Mr. Tan donated six taels of silver, Mr. Liu donated five taels, and the Chen family also donated five taels. The widow Mrs. Lu has no money, but donated two packs of rice saved by the family that they saved with frugality...

So, with the selfless support of everyone, the work of building a bridge began.

On sunny days after sunny days, men move stones and chisel stones. Women cannot do these jobs, so they are responsible for taking good care of their own crops and children. Occasionally, when they have time, they cook a few pots of hot tea to the men.

At that time, there were no mobile phones, no TVs, and no various things. Therefore, men just worked and would not take photos and post them on WeChat Moments. Women would not cook tea or yell in WeChat groups.

People at that time were very pure, as pure as every stone on this ancient bridge.

Compared with modern people, they have no extra material things, but are fuller spirits.

Nowadays, there seem to be very few such people.

Liu Qingshan looked at Agui and suddenly felt how precious Agui's family was.

Life in his family may be more difficult than that of his ancestors, but this family always faces life with an optimistic and easy-to-satisfied attitude.

Just like Agui's mother, even the burden of two children could not overwhelm her.

Like Agui and Ahua, even if they work much harder than children of the same age, this still does not become an excuse for them to not like to study. On the contrary, because they suffered more, they are more willing to study hard and want to use knowledge to change their destiny.

Of course, this was before.

Now, Agui no longer wants to study.

Liu Qingshan stared at the river and ran out of the crack of the stone for a while, and then crawled back into the crack of the stone for a while, and asked in a calm and light tone: "Agui, do you think catching fish is fun?"

"Ah?" Agui was a little confused, "It's fun, of course it's fun, but Brother Qingshan, why are you asking like this?"

Liu Qingshan smiled and said, "Then let's start catching fish."

"Ah?" Agui was stunned again. Looking at Brother Qingshan who only brought a fish net and a plastic bucket for fishing, he said in a daze, "Is that all? Do we just use this net to catch fish? This way, we can't catch those clever little fish in the water."

"Of course not." Liu Qingshan looked around and pointed to the foot of the mountain not far away and said, "Agui, you wait here first, I'll cut some grass."

"Ah?" Agui shouted at the departure of Brother Qingshan, "Brother Qingshan, did you agree to catch fish together? Why did you go to chop wood again? Really, if I had known you would chop wood first, I would have gone to a farther place to herd cattle."

"Oh, you little fool, I'm not going to chop firewood, I'm going to chop fish?"

"What? The firewood that catches fish?" Agui's mind was in Ah Gui's mind. The hero in martial arts TV series used wooden sticks to stab fish.

Could it be that Brother Qingshan can do this?

Driven by curiosity, he didn't care much about it and ran with Brother Qingshan.

When he arrived at the foot of the mountain, Liu Qingshan pointed to a green plant on the gable and said, "Agui, this is it. It is better to use this to catch fish than to catch your mother in a cage."

"How is that possible?" Agui looked at the green plants on the gable and did not believe Brother Qingshan's words.

Brother Qingshan loves bragging the most.

"That's just a weed, and the branches are so soft that even if you want to stab a fish, you can't get it in."

When Liu Qingshan heard this, he couldn't help but slapped Agui's head and said, "Who told you to use it for stinging fish? I want to use this medicine fish."

"Medicinal fish?" Agui looked at the plants on the gable in surprise.

That is the weeds in the four spaces in the mountains.

It may be a weed, but it is much taller and stronger than ordinary weeds. It is green all year round and will produce purple flower arrows.

It is a bit like a tree, but its branches are too soft, so that once a flower arrow is formed, its branches must be easily bent, hanging clusters of flower arrows upside down in the air.

Its flower arrows are composed of dozens or hundreds of small flowers that are only the size of soybeans. These small flowers are pink and purple, and their colors and appearances are rare in the mountains.

It looks like grass and tree, but it is not grass or tree, so it should belong to the shrub category.

This kind of plant, as a shrub, usually grows on gables and rarely on flat ground, probably to prevent its beautiful flower arrows from touching the soil.

In this way, once these purple flowers growing in the gables are gently blown by the breeze, they will dance happily under the guidance of the branches, drawing beautiful silhouettes of purple flower arrows in the air.

Because the south is warm, especially the fairy places like Xishan Village are like spring all year round, so here, this plant blooms purple flowers all year round. A dozen flower arrows hang down from the gables. From a distance, they ride the wind gently, like fairies wearing purple gauze and floor-to-ground skirts.

"What is this?" Agui asked in a daze as he looked at the plants on the gable, "Can it medicate fish?"

"Of course." Liu Qingshan easily climbed up the gable, waved the hatchet in his hand, and cut down these plants with small purple flowers. While chopping, he also introduced to Agui, "This plant is called "Zuiyujiao."

"Drunk fish grass? Drunk fish? Is it poisonous?"

"Haha, if you can get drunk with the fish, it must be poisonous." Liu Qingshan smiled, and suddenly stopped laughing.

He also asked his grandfather about this childish question.

Grandpa said that although this drunken fish grass is poisonous, everything has two sides. As long as it is used well, it can be used to cure diseases and save people.

For example, although these purple flowers are poisonous, they are used in spring and autumn, and their branches and leaves are used in summer and autumn. After they are dried, they can be used as medicine to dispel wind and cold, promote blood circulation and relieve pain. They are generally used for rheumatism joint pain, bruises and injuries, and fractures.

In addition, if used externally, purple flower drunken rhinoceros can also treat foot moss.

Although purple flower drunken fish grass is common in the mountains, not many people know its effects.

In other words, even if you know its efficacy, there are not many people who cherish it. Because there are too many this plant and it grows fast, it can grow a clump in a year.

Therefore, in the eyes of hardworking but uninteresting mountain people, these drunken fish grass are just weeds. In this way, when they work, whether in the fields or in the deserted forests of the mountains, once they feel that these drunken fish grass is in trouble and grab the nutrients, they will definitely eradicate them mercilessly.

Of course, they cannot blame them. In the past, when people did not need to buy cars and houses, they lived a difficult life and needed land. Now, although the mountain people have a good life, they have great pressure. They need to buy cars and houses, so they need land even more. Therefore, in their opinion, all plants that "invade" crops are wrong and will be eradicated.

Of course, there are many people who are not interested, which does not mean that people are not interested. Grandpa Aoyama is a very interesting person.

When he was taking care of the crops, he would be reluctant to hurt some plants in the fields because he knew the efficacy of them.

Some people say he is stupid. Some people are almost taller in the weeds on the ground, so he doesn't cut them off.

Some people also said that he was interesting because they had seen him sit next to the shrubs and trees he had preserved, and faced silently with a small flower and a clump of wild grass when he was tired of working.

Grandpa Aoyama doesn’t like to show off his personality, so he doesn’t care no matter how others think of him.

Just like drunken fish grass, it is so low that it blooms in the dust.

Like other flowers, it also has beautiful and decent clothes and beautiful S-shaped curves, but it never shows off, but silently converges.

When it is most beautiful and brilliant, it is also the time when it is closest to the soil. Its respectful and pious figure is like a goddess in purple looking down on her head and reading the earth. The mountain breeze blows, and her clothes flutter, "The moon is closed and the flowers are all sighing, and the geese are drunk and the fish are jealous of the beauty." Unconsciously, the bent down and blooms, and the spirit and faith are blooming, and the elegance and nobility are blooming.

Everything is your own and use it to the best of your own use.

Grandpa Qingshan seemed to know this well, so when Qingshan was a child, he could often follow his grandpa to go to the medicine fish.

The tool for medicinal fish is this common drunk fish grass.

"Is it poisonous?" Xiao Qingshan asked.

Grandpa laughed and said, "Since it can get drunk with the fish, it must be poisonous."

"If it is poisonous, will it kill all the fish in a river?" Agui frowned, feeling unbearable.

Although he really wanted to catch fish and wanted his mother to eat enough, he still didn't want to hurt the innocent.

There are so many fish in the river that they cannot catch all of them. So, wouldn’t the other little fish that were also trapped by medicine but were not caught by them be sacrificed in vain?

"Haha, what do you treat drunk fish grass as?" Liu Qingshan had cut off two bundles of drunk fish grass.

He held a bundle of drunk fish grass with his left and right hands, and said with a smile: "Although drunk fish grass can drunk fish, it does not poison the fish, but anesthetizes the small fish. Once the anesthetic time passes, the small fish will slowly recover, not only will it not die, but it will also be the same as before."

"Ah?" Agui looked at the drunk fish grass in Brother Qingshan's hand in incredible ways. He really didn't expect that these common weeds in the mountains were so magical.

"Also, the drunkard grass does not contaminate the water source. They are more environmentally friendly than the detergent people use to wash clothes."

"That's great." Agui stretched his brows, "If this grass can really catch fish, then I can use it to catch fish for my mother to eat."

"Haha, this one can have it."

The two of them were talking and laughing and returned to the river.

Liu Qingshan handed the fishing net bag to Agui and reminded him: "You stand in the middle of the river and be responsible for fishing. When you see a fish coming out, just fish it out. After fishing it, put it in the bucket. Don't put too much water in the bucket, so as not to jump out."

"I got it, then I'll catch fish, what are you doing?"

Liu Qingshan pointed to the river above the river and said, "I will release poison on it, and you will catch fish below."

"No problem." Agui was very excited.

Because it was the first time he used drunk fish grass to catch fish, it felt very fresh and expected, so he was full of joy.

Regardless of whether he could catch fish in the end, this is an unforgettable thing for him.

From now on, when life is difficult, when he recalls today when he caught fishing fish with Brother Qingshan, he might feel a little warm.

When he was a child, an older brother caught fish with him. Such time might be sighed that he would never go back after he became an adult, but it would be fresh in memory forever.

Liu Qingshan held two bundles of drunken fish grass to the top of the river. Without saying a word, he used the back of the hatchet to knock the drunken fish grass hard on the big stone on the river bank.
Chapter completed!