Chapter 808: Fishhook

As Liu Ying said, her hometown is a coastal fish village further south of Binhai City.

When I was young, my parents were busy. I went fishing and selling fish every day, and I also contracted the fish farm to raise fish. The family conditions are acceptable, but the price is that she rarely sees her parents. She has an introverted personality. After she went to university and started working, due to the needs of her work, she slowly worked hard to become cheerful.

Grandma's legs and feet are inconvenient, so I don't worry about letting her go outside to play with other children, because there was a lot of human traffickers in the neighboring village at that time, and there were always rumors that pahuazi from other places had fled to the neighborhood and abducted the neighboring village Several children spoke clearly and clearly, and they didn't know if it was true or not, but her grandma believed it and kept her at home every now and then, not letting her go out.

Xiao Liuying felt that grandma was more or less patriarchal, maybe if it was a boy, grandma would take the child out to play even if her legs and feet were inconvenient.

There is nothing to play at home, the TV is not connected to cable, and I can only watch a limited number of TV stations with a cracked satellite receiver. Some of them speak foreign languages, but the signal is not good, and it is often a snowflake.

Liu Ying is bored at home, always pestering grandma, letting grandma tell stories, let grandma play with her.

Grandma may be a little annoyed by being entangled and delayed doing housework, especially grandma has a heavy mahjong addiction. Every afternoon, she must play cards with other elderly people in the village, rain or shine, so one day, grandma brought her back a few A small fish, let her raise and play by herself, while she locked the courtyard door and hurriedly went to play cards, worried that there would be no place for her to go late.

The so-called small fish are actually a few crucian carp and loach, probably picked up by grandma from the small river by the village.

At that time, it was quite easy to catch fish from the small river. Roll it into a bag with a gauze net, put some rice grains or steamed bread residue in it, sink it into the river, and within a few minutes, stupid crucian carp will get into the net.

The pollution from the industrial enterprises around the village became more and more serious, and there was basically no fish to be found in the river.

Going to the river to catch fish has always been the monopoly of the boys in the village. Liu Ying who got the small fish was very happy. She has a new playmate, and the afternoon when grandma is not at home is finally no longer lonely.

There is a small water tank in the yard, which is empty. Xiao Liuying fills it with water and puts crucian carp and loach in it.

Crucian carp and loach are very skinny, and they belong to the kind of fish that can hardly die as long as you don’t toss them too much. You can survive by throwing a few grains of rice or steamed buns into the water tank every now and then.

"In retrospect, I didn't keep them as pets at all, but just as a tool to dispatch loneliness,

I even did something excessive to them because I was really bored..." Liu Ying said apologetically.

There are fishhooks that cost 20 cents each in the small shop in the village. She asked her grandma for money to buy a fishhook on the pretext of wanting to eat popsicles, and then tied the end of the fishhook with cotton thread for a sewing machine, and tied a grain of rice on the tip. Fish like others.

Whether it is crucian carp or loach, they are easy to take the bait, even scrambling for rice grains like a starving ghost, and soon a crucian carp bit the hook.

Xiao Liuying excitedly lifted up the cotton thread. Unexpectedly, the crucian carp struggled very hard, and its strength was beyond her imagination. It broke the cotton thread and fell to the loess ground. Coat the fish with a layer of flour before frying it in the pan.

She frantically tried to pick up the crucian carp and throw it back into the water tank, but the fish scales were very slippery, and the crucian carp was dying and struggling so hard that she couldn't hold the crucian carp steady, but was stabbed by the hook on the fish's mouth. The stabbing was quite deep, and dark red blood gushed out all at once.

She cried out in pain, and as soon as she let go of her hand, the crucian carp fell back to the ground again, struggled a few times and remained still.

There was no one at home, and no one came to comfort her after she cried for more than ten minutes.

The crucian carp on the ground was already dead, and the wound on her finger was no longer bleeding.

Gradually she stopped sobbing.

She lied and bought the fishhook with the money from buying popsicles, so she dared not tell her parents and grandma what happened today, lest they would call her naughty, so she quietly concealed the matter, only saying that one fish died.

However, things are not that simple.

Within a few days, she suddenly started to have a headache, dizziness, and fever. Her parents thought it was a cold, but the medicine didn't help, but it became more and more serious, and even convulsed all over her body.

Her parents sent her to the hospital in the town overnight. The doctor said that she had tetanus, and if she was sent half a day later, she might be in danger. They asked her if she had suffered any injuries recently.

Under the persecution of her parents, she cried and told about her finger being stabbed by a fishhook.

If she hadn't been seriously ill at the time, what awaited her would have been a violent beating.

Later, when she recovered from the illness, she returned home from the hospital and found that the water tank was empty, and neither the water nor the fish were gone.

She didn't dare to ask her parents, who were already very angry because they spent a lot of money on her treatment.

To her surprise, after this incident, grandma seemed to feel sorry for her, thinking that her negligence caused her serious illness, so a few days after she was discharged from the hospital, she bought her a fish tank from the temple fair. The fish tank is about 40 centimeters long, crystal clear, and there is a small house for landscaping inside.

From then on, grandma didn't play mahjong again, and she seemed to have given up the card addiction for many years. Although the poker friends who played cards with her often came to the door to say hello, grandma refused all of them, even if it was three or one.

"Yingying, do you want to raise fish together?" Grandma asked with a smile, rubbing the top of her head with countless deep wrinkles on her face.

Xiao Liuying was really at a loss for the change in grandma's attitude, so she just nodded blankly.

For a while after being discharged from the hospital, she was terrified of anything sharp, and the preparations for fish farming were all done by her grandmother.

Grandma fetched seawater from the beach with a bucket, and then pushed a wheelbarrow to dig up sand and reefs, and arranged them in the fish tank. A crude fish tank world gradually took shape.

Grandma not only bought a fish tank, but also bought an oxygen pump and a pair of clownfish.

Compared with the gray-black crucian carp and loach, the clownfish is much more beautiful, it is like the contrast between an ugly duckling and a swan, which makes Xiao Liuying very happy.

She and her grandma started raising fish together, thinking about what the clownfish would eat, leaning on the side of the fish tank with their chins together every day, admiring the elegant swimming posture of the clownfish shaking its head and tail in the water.

This period was Liu Ying's happiest day. For the first time, she felt that grandma was so close, and it was no longer the grandma who rudely let her play by herself.

However, problems followed. The clownfish was sick and covered with a white film.

She and grandma were helpless.