Dad's life

Arrive at home.

Li Mu simply packed up and took his son back to his hometown.

Starting from this semester.

Li Mu stopped enrolling Li Ran in various interest classes because Lei's senior class was now taking math classes in advance for children like Li Ran who were going to first grade in a few months.

With his son’s brain capacity.

A piece of mathematics is enough to exhaust all his brain cells.

If he were to learn something else, Li Mu might not only fail to learn it, but it might even be counterproductive.

"Li Ran, do you still remember what dad reminded you?"

Li Mu asked softly while driving.

"Don't mention anything about mom"

Li Ran, who was playing with the remote control car in his hand, replied without raising his head.

"Yeah"

Li Mu nodded and said, "Don't forget it."

"Know"

Li Ran was a little annoyed by what his father said, and said dissatisfied, "This is the thing that goes back and forth. I can hear calluses in my ears."

"Haha"

Li Mu chuckled lightly, but he wasn't angry at all.

The little boy is like this. He was cute when he was young, but when he grows up, he becomes a bit annoying no matter what he says or does.

Just like his great nephew.

When I was a kid, I would compliment everyone I saw.

What now?

Even his sister Li Hong said that she didn’t like it when viewed horizontally or vertically. If it wasn’t her own, she wouldn’t feel bad if she sold it.

This is a bit harsh.

However, it also emphasizes that the older the little boy gets, the less likable he becomes, and that his son is about to reach his brother's annoying age group.

The car drove along the cement road behind my hometown, drove to the far west and turned south.

When they arrived at the village, Li Mu went eastward on the cement road that he collected money to build from house to house in front of the village. Their house was the third house to the east on this road in the middle of the village.

After passing a pond, Li Mu parked the car in front of his house.

Compared with the prosperity and convenience of the city, he prefers the countryside where "work at sunrise and rest at sunset".

It's a pity that the times are progressing.

The countryside, which carries the beautiful memories of Li Mu's generation's childhood and adolescence, is also like a shabby photo, gradually fading with the passage of time.

The population is getting smaller and smaller.

There are more and more uninhabited houses.

High-rise buildings in the city.

After all, it is based on the depression of rural areas.

Just like Li Mu's hometown, the village used to be full of people. There were seventeen or eight people who grew up with him. When he was a child, he could play with glass balls and form a few circles. Now, except for him who comes back every now and then.

, I will never meet anyone of similar age again.

Going to work in other places.

There are also people who bought a house in the city and the entire family moved there.

This also means that most of the people living here are elderly people who are not accustomed to city life. The passing of an old man means that the village is even more desolate.

And the Li Mu family.

His parents, grandparents, and four other people live here, making him the household with the largest number of people at home in the entire village.

So many times.

If the village chief or village secretary comes over for something, they will go to Li Mu’s house first.

Because only his house has people there all the time, other houses either need to call or take time to come back.

Got off the car.

Li Mu stood at the door and relaxed his muscles.

"You know you're back!?"

When he saw Li Mu, his mother Xu Mei complained, "Why do you only come back once a month this time?"

"Something happened"

Li Mu explained with a smile.

"Of course, let grandma hug me quickly"

After talking about my son.

Xu Mei stretched out her hand to hold Li Ran in her arms, kissed and squeezed his little face, and said, "I miss grandma so much."

"Grandpa, great grandpa"

Li Ran got down from his grandma's arms, quickly ran to the pond, and shouted, "I want to get on the boat too"

In the pond.

A awning boat broke through the lake water in early spring, making ripples and shuttled among the lotus leaves. On the boat, Li Jianguo held a bamboo pole, and Grandpa Li Mu stood on the bow and threw chopped grass into the pond.

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This is what their father and son do every year. The feed for feeding the fish is not specially purchased, but the grass in the field.

In the vegetable patch.

Or the grass growing on the roadside, Li Mu’s parents would cut it back and chop it into pieces to feed the fish.

This is also the reason why the environment around Li Mu’s hometown is very clean, because once there is grass, it basically feeds the fish.

Li Mu's fish pond is very large, almost one hundred acres of land.

Li Mu didn't know how many fish were raised in it. He only knew that this fish pond had been contracted by his family since he could remember.

Li Mu’s father and grandfather were also very innovative in fish pond planning.

One third is dedicated to growing lotus roots.

The other third grows water celery and gorgon seeds that purify water, and some Myriophyllum algae are grown in shallow water.

The last third is water chestnut.

In short, the income-generating ability of this fish pond is still very good. Whether it is water celery, gorgon seeds, water chestnuts, or lotus roots, you can sell it for money. As for fish, Li Mu probably won’t have too many. After all, if there are many fish, water celery and gorgon seeds will not be enough.

They grow so much because fish especially like to eat the buds of these plants.

Li Mu doesn’t know how to raise fish ponds.

But he also feels that the fish raised by his father and grandfather are indeed more delicious than those on the market.

Even the sand pond snakehead, which has very high requirements on water quality, has a lot of them in their fish pond.

Waiting for his son to be taken on board by his grandfather.

Li Mu turned around and asked, "Mom, how many fish can there be in our fish pond? Can it be sold for 100,000?"

"Are you short of money?"

Xu Mei raised her head and said doubtfully.

"No, I just asked casually"

Li Mu replied with a smile.

"You have to ask your dad and grandpa about this"

Xu Mei peeled the peanuts and replied, "But I haven't smoked them in so many years, so there should be a lot of them. I heard from your dad that the big ones weigh 37 or 8 pounds. A few days ago, there were two young people."

I came here to fish in the middle of the night. When your father went there, he was dragging a herring weighing more than thirty kilograms."

"What happened later? Dad didn't throw someone else's fishing rod, right?"

Li Mu sat on the bench next to his mother and asked.

"No, how dare your father!"

Xu Mei said, "If he really wants to do this, someone else will buy some medicine and throw it into the fish pond. There will be no evidence at that time. Who knows they did it? Besides, once the winter is over, there will be more than one or two people who come to steal fishing, so your dad has been doing this for a long time."

I slept in the boat at night”

The thoughts and patience of fishermen are indeed beyond the understanding of ordinary people.

Fishing in the middle of the night is a normal operation.

There are even some superheroes who fish not in the middle of the night, but at two or three in the morning when sleep quality is best.

It’s not that they can’t afford fish.

But I just like this kind of fishing-for-nothing mentality.

Even though there was grass around Li Mu's fish pond, they had to buy a fishing rod of more than ten meters before fishing. They still bought it without hesitation. Some bought a fifteen-meter long rod that Li Mu had never seen before.

It’s almost as if Archimedes’ lever that moved the earth was placed next to his fish pond.

The price of the entire set of fishing gear is no less than one thousand.

Looking at the fish pond in front of him, Li Mu's eyes finally fell on a telephone pole.

"Tomorrow I will ask someone to install a night camera so that I can see the surroundings of the fish pond at home."

Li Mu thought for a moment and said.

In fact, this is not a big deal.

It’s just about catching some fish, but if nothing is done, these people will catch fish from early spring to late autumn, and from one or two to seven or eight.

His dad can't sleep in the boat all the time.

"By the way, your aunt called yesterday to say that Lao Wang's daughter upstairs at her house came back from out of town."

Xu Mei turned to Li Mu and said, "I am twenty-five this year. I am beautiful and very profitable. Last year I worked night shifts in an electronics factory and earned more than 300,000 yuan a year."

"..."

Li Mu was speechless.