"Back mountain?"
Ah Hua frowned: "Brother Xiaoyang, you are not talking about the pond in the back mountain, are you?"
Um?
Zhao Xiaoyang was stunned: "What do you mean? Is there really something wrong with that pond?"
"Yes! I think there must be something wrong."
"My dad wanted me to raise fish, so he planned to use a net in the pond in the back mountain."
Ah Hua laughed awkwardly: "Hehe, I originally thought that since it was just a test, using that place would save me from paying rent to the village."
"And then? And then! What happened?"
Xiaobao next to him scratched his head as he listened.
"What happened next was quite strange. The fish fry disappeared inexplicably!"
Ah Hua was also a little helpless when talking about this: "At first I thought there was a big ferocious fish, so I went to electrocute it and tried again, but I didn't expect it to be the same. The net that was pulling the fish pond had a big hole in it!"
“It’s this big!”
Ahua gestured with his thigh!
"Oh, there's this?"
Hearing this, Zhao Xiaoyang raised his eyebrows.
The waters around Nanshan Village only have copperhead fish and black carp, which eat small fish. They don’t seem to be that fierce, right?
"Oh my god, could it be a water monkey?"
Xiaobao's eyes rolled. "When I was little, I always heard there was a kind of water monkey in Nanshan Lake that preyed on children who were alone. Anyone who went swimming in the water without an adult would be dragged away!"
"What the hell are you telling me? You're an adult, and you believe this kind of story? It's just to trick ignorant kids like you."
Ah Hua sneered disapprovingly.
"If that thing really existed, your brother Xiaoyang and I would have been screwed countless times."
Just as a few people were talking together, a vicissitudes of life voice suddenly came from a distance: "Xiaoyang?"
"Second Master?"
Zhao Xiaoyang turned his head and looked over, and immediately smiled: "Second Uncle, is the old man discharged from the hospital?"
"Hey, the old man heard you were back and insisted on coming over to see me. The doctor also said that there's nothing wrong with your bones, it's just that old people recover slowly. You just need to rest for another ten days or half a month."
Zhao Yuanzheng explained with a smile.
"Haha, it's nothing serious, I just fell down, as long as no bones are broken!"
Zhao Baotai, with a dark complexion, smiled brightly and waved his hand, signaling Zhao Yuanzheng to push the wheelchair over.
Zhao Xiaoyang hurried over.
"Hello, Second Master!"
Zhao Baotai is also considered a respected elder in the village. Ahua and Xiaobao greeted him in unison.
"Yeah, everything is fine!"
Zhao Baotai grinned and was in a good mood, not looking affected by his injury at all.
However, his complexion still looked somewhat haggard, and his cheeks had become much thinner.
Zhao Xiaoyang knew that his second uncle had a stubborn temper and was cut from the same mold as his grandfather. He was probably still feeling the pain.
He must have heard that I was back, so he rushed back.
He didn't dare to be vague. He quickly took the wheelchair from Zhao Yuanzheng and pushed it into the yard. "Second Uncle, when you come back, just let me know so I can go see you. Why did you come all the way here yourself? Come in and have a seat and some tea!"
"Haha, sure! I haven't had tea in the hospital for a while, and it's so bland it tastes like bird food!"
As they were talking, Zhao Xiaoyang had already pushed Zhao Baotai into the yard. There was a threshold to the house, so he simply moved a folding table over and quickly brewed a pot of tea.
"Hey, this tea is good! Could it be grown on this tree?"
"Hehe, we picked them from this tree!" Xiaobao was the fastest and said it directly for Zhao Xiaoyang.
Zhao Baotai nodded slightly, looked around the yard, and suddenly there was a hint of doubt in his eyes.
"Xiaoyang, this place looks great. It seems like you've put a lot of thought into it since you came back."
“It’s okay, it’s okay!”
Zhao Xiaoyang became a little nervous when he heard this.
Fortunately, Zhao Baotai didn't say much. He squinted his eyes and looked at the strawberry garden in the distance: "Wow, the strawberry garden was built so quickly?"
"Of course, Uncle Er, the seven or eight of us have been busy all day!"
Ahua stood up and boasted.
“Haha, good job!”
Zhao Baotai shook his head and said casually, "What were you guys planning to do there just now?"
Speaking of this, Xiaobao's eyes lit up, he finally found the opportunity.
"We were talking about the pond on the back hill. Brother Hua and Brother Xiaoyang suspected there was something in it! I guessed it was a water monkey, but they still didn't believe it!"
"Second Uncle, you were the one who told me about the water monkey, remember?"
Well……
Zhao Baotai immediately shook his head: "Tell me, what's going on?"
Xiaobao immediately repeated what they had just argued about in a few words.
Zhao Baotai frowned, then took out his cell phone and checked the calendar.
Then he smiled and said, "I see, Xiaoyang, your dog is afraid of the back mountain. Maybe he saw the moon-gazing eel in that pond."
"What is that, an eel?"
Hearing this, Ahua was a little confused.
"That's right. The one that could bite such a big hole in the fishing net is in the pond behind the mountain. It must be the Moon-gazing Eel!"
Zhao Baotai looked at the confused young people and smiled, "You are still young. You don't know what it was like when our older generation was reclaiming the land. Back then, Old Nanshan was still barren and there were so many strange things going on there."
"Take the Moon-gazing Eel, for example. It's the least rare. Your grandfather and I once caught one ourselves. It was very ferocious and grew incredibly large!"
Zhao Baotai gestured to Ah Hua's thigh and said, "Look, that head is as thick as Ah Hua's thigh!"
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