"Old man, thank you very much. If you hadn't told me such a place, I wouldn't know how long it would take to find such a suitable place." Yang Jing naturally would not be stingy with respect and praise for this kind of help.

The old man waved his hand with a smile and said, "My old man is fifty-nine this year, but he has lived on this big river for fifty-six years! When I was three years old, I followed my father on the boat and started fishing for my family at the age of six. It can be said that I have lived on this big river all my life. Even if I started to build the dam in front more than 20 years ago and started to store water here, I have lived on this reservoir for more than 20 years. Naturally, I am familiar with every inch of this place. It is not my old man who wants to find a place here, there is nothing I don't know about. Whether it is above the water or below the water."

The old man said it was extremely confident, just like the carpenter was to Master Luban and to Brother Gates. Obviously, this old man was really familiar with this place.

The little guy next to him also shouted loudly: "And there is me! I will go on the boat with my grandfather every week during holidays, and I am very familiar with this place!"

The old man touched the little guy's head intimately, smiled and did not refute. He obviously loved this eldest grandson very much.

When Yang Jing heard the two men say this, he moved his heart and said, "Old man, is the carp you called to sell?"

"Sell it, if we don't sell it, we can't bear to eat it. This thing is more than 100 per pound now!" The old man was stunned, and then a smile appeared on his face. He was fishing here all day long, so of course he understood what the young man in front of him meant.

Authentic Yellow River carp is basically unavailable on the market now. Fishmongers come to collect fish every day in their area. As long as there are authentic Yellow River carp, the current purchase price has reached 161 kilograms. As for how much these fishmongers cost to take out, it is not something the old man can tell.

Of course, if you happen to catch the Yellow River carp and happen to meet tourists again, the old man will also sell it to tourists at the price of fishmongers. It is all the same money, but who will sell it to, which one is not sold.

"What? Do you want to buy it?" the old man asked with a smile.

Yang Jing nodded and said, "My home is from Shandong Province. When I was a child, I ate Yellow River carp once in Qihe on the bank of the Yellow River. Since then, I have never eaten authentic Yellow River carp again. So when I saw you hit three carp kids, I was so greedy."

The old man laughed, "Young man, the price of those fishmongers collecting carp kids is 161 pounds now. I don't ask you for more money, so I won at this price. I have three, one is five and a half pounds, one is seven and four pounds, and one is more than ten pounds. I can calculate ten pounds for you. Which one do you want? Or do you want them all?"

Yang Jing leaned on the old man's fishing boat, thought for a while and said, "Old man, I will eat it myself after I bought the fish. I can't eat it even if it's too big."

The old man nodded and said, "Well, this is true. In fact, this carp knot is not the bigger the carp knot, the better the food. The most delicious carp knot is between three and five kilograms. You should buy this small one, this fish is five and a half kilograms, eight hundred and eight."

"Oh, this number is pretty good, but I don't have change here. Master, I'll make up for such a good fish! It's great to be perfect, what do you think?" Yang Jing said, taking out his wallet, pointing out ten red Grandpa Mao from it and handing it over.

"Oh, how can this make it happen? I can't charge you more money! Wait, I'll ask you for it."

"Forget it, old man, it's not easy for you two. You guys to go out for fishing so cold this day. Besides, the price is already very cheap. This is an authentic Yellow River carp. You can't buy it even if you have money outside. I know this. So, don't worry about this little money, I will still benefit from it. And I have to stay here for a long time later. Otherwise, you can give me a bucket and a net bag. If I put the fish in, at least I can't die."

The old man was slightly stunned, then smiled and said, "Zhong, just do what you said. I have an extra bucket of water here, I will give it to you. You can put half a bucket of water and put this carp into the net pocket and then put it in the bucket. I guarantee that you will be fine for a long time."

The old man said, picking up a plastic bucket with a diameter of 40 cm, bent down and scooped half a bucket of water in the lake, then fished out the still alive Yellow River carp from the water tank, and threw it directly into the bucket with a net bag.

The half bucket of water and the fish were more than thirty pounds, and nearly forty pounds, but the old man easily carried the bucket over just like he had five or six pounds of things.

Yang Jing took the bucket with one hand, raised a thumbs up with the other and said, "Old man, you are really strong. I think few young people can compare with your strength."

The old man smiled proudly, "You are saying this right. I, an old man, fished all day long. When there were too many fish, the net was only 180 kilograms. I was the only one who managed it. This strength has been developed long ago."

Seeing Yang Jing put the bucket in a corner of the speedboat, the old man said again: "You'd better cover it and add some heavy things. These wild carp kids are so strong that even if they wear net bags, they can splash a lot of water in the bucket. So, you'd better add some heavy things."

Yang Jing nodded and directly put his waterproof backpack on it.

Even if a transaction is completed like this. But from the scene, the empty lake in the early morning, a hand-cranked fishing boat and a speedboat. If you look at it from a distance, no matter how you look at it, it will look like the scene of a smuggler in the movie.

Yang Jing took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out two, and handed them to the old man. He saw the old man smoking a dry cigarette just now, so he knew that the old man smoked.

The old man took the look with a smile, looked at the cigarette mark under the cigarette mouth, and said in surprise: "Oh, it's golden Ye Tianye! This is a good cigarette, a box of one hundred yuan, right?"

Yang Jing nodded, and the old man happily took out a disposable lighter and lit the cigarette, took a deep breath, "Oh, the taste is very mellow, it's just boring."

Yang Jing smiled and said, "Old man, you smoked dry tobacco. This cigarette is not as powerful as your dry tobacco."

The old man shook his head with a wry smile.

Yang Jing also took a sip of cigarettes and then asked, "Old man, since you are so familiar with this nearby, do you know if I ask you about a place?"

"Tell me, as long as it is nearby, there is nothing I don't know about."

"Okay, old man, I want to ask you, do you know there is a Taoist temple called Yuecheng Temple nearby?"

"Yuecheng Temple?" The old man frowned, thought for a long time before shook his head and said, "I don't remember it. I said, "Young man, can you be sure that the Taoist temple is called this?"

"Yes, it's called this name."

"That's wrong. Including the water that was flooded, there are a total of seventeen Taoist temples within a radius of a hundred miles nearby. I have been to them, but I have never heard of a Taoist temple called Yuecheng Temple."

When Yang Jing heard that the old man even said the number of Taoist temples in a radius of hundreds of miles, he knew that the old man did not say anything randomly. "Old man, this Yuecheng Temple is an old name. I saw it from an ancient book. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, that Taoist temple was called Yuecheng Temple."

"Hiss... Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms? That's not a thousand years old? If you want to say, there are indeed thousands of Taoist temples in the south or the depths of Wangwu Mountain in the north, but nearby..." The old man shook his head, "There is no Taoist temple that has been passed down for so long. As for the water, I don't have any impression of it. After all, this reservoir has been storing water for more than 20 years, and I can't remember some of the old things from the past."

"Okay..." Yang Jing said with some disappointment. In fact, Yang Jing had no hope of finding clues about Yuecheng Temple. From the painting, we can see that the Yuecheng Temple back then was not a great Taoist temple, nor was it a large Taoist temple in the famous Taoist mountains such as Luoyang City or Zhongnan Mountain and Wangwu Mountain. It is difficult for such a small-scale Taoist temple to maintain a thousand-year inheritance.

At this time, the sun in the east had already jumped to the horizon. Because of the sunlight, the mist covering the lake had begun to dissipate rapidly. Today it seemed like another good weather.

"Old man, then that's it. The sun is coming out. I'm going to take a photo at the position you mentioned just now. Thank you for your carp." As he said that, Yang Jing waved at the old man and the little boy, twisted the accelerator on the handle, and was about to speed up to leave here.

Xiao Zhengta smiled and waved his hand and said, "Goodbye Uncle." The old man just waved his hand and didn't say anything, but his frowning brows indicated that the old man seemed to be thinking.

Yang Jing adjusted the bow of the boat and was about to speed up when he heard the old man behind him shouting: "Young man, wait a moment!"

The old man's voice was very loud, and the sound of the engine did not overwhelm the old man's voice.

Yang Jing relaxed the accelerator shank in his hand and turned around in confusion to look at the old man.

The old man shook his hands tightly and approached Yang Jing before he said, "Young man, I just thought about it and vaguely remember that there seemed to be a small Taoist temple next to the Songjia Village in the past with a long history. However, when I was a child, the Taoist temple was smashed and the Taoist priests inside were driven away. Later, the Taoist temple was empty for several years. Until the reopening, several Taoist priests came to the Taoist temple to reopen the Taoist temple. However, when the reservoir was stored in water, the Taoist temple and Songjia Village were all under the water, so the Taoist temple was moved away again."
Chapter completed!