Chapter 18 Basket Clamp to Loach Eel
Yang Yong's new home for his parents was also built, and like Professor Lin's home, the exterior wall is made of original red bricks and the roof is made of golden glazed tiles. The interior decoration is also very simple, only a layer of white lime is plastered on the walls, the floor in the house is originally paved with a layer of broken bricks, the cracks in the bricks are filled with sand, and then a layer of cement is plastered, this kind of ground can be kept dry all year round, and will not return to the tide in the spring south wind.
A pond was also dug in front of the yard to grow lotus flowers, and a pond and several ditches were dug in the back to facilitate growing vegetables and flowers. The style of the room is similar to Professor Lin's house, except that there is an extra flower room, Yang Yong's father usually likes to play with some flowers and plants, some flowers and plants are more delicate, and when encountering bad weather such as strong wind and rain, he has to move back to the flower room, otherwise it is easy to be damaged.
Today, Professor Lin and Mrs. Lin moved into a new home, and the furniture was brought in two days ago, all of which were made of solid wood, and there was not much paint brushed.
In the morning, after Liu Wen lit a 10,000-year-old ring in front of Professor Lin's door, Mrs. Lin went to the kitchen to make a fire and make a breakfast, and it was officially time to move in.
In the morning, waiting for the hatchery owner to send the chicks over, Liu Wen heard that Professor Lin wanted to feed some chickens and ducks, so he informed the hatchery owner to add 20 chicks and ducklings to send them over. Professor Lin and Yang Yong's family each divided ten chickens and ducklings to raise.
After the hatchery owner came, Liu Wen went to the entrance of the village to greet them and led them to Taoyuan with chicks. Qiang Qiang and Chubby were enjoying the interaction with the tourists, and the hatchery owner and a few workers were dumbfounded, and they still felt incredible after Liu Wen explained.
Liu Wen transferred more than a dozen hens to the peach orchard last night, and when he arrived, he saw those hens leisurely eating the tips of the tender grass in the peach orchard, and their two paws were sometimes pulling hard in the grass, looking for delicious insects hidden in the grass. Liu Wen believes that with the leadership of these big hens, the chicks should soon be able to adapt to the environment of Taoyuan.
In the evening, Liu Wen took Yang Yong's family to put a basket to collect yellow eel loaches, which is a small basket, about one meter long and about 15 centimeters in diameter, one end is open and the other end can be tied with a rope, and the fish locked in the basket can be poured out after unraveling. This small basket looks far inferior to the big basket with a diameter of more than one meter that Liu Wen took Yang Yong and them to catch fish the previous time, but the principle of fishing is the same.
The bait is still the stinky earthworm caught when we fished together last time, Liu Wen said that if you can't find this kind of stinky earthworm, you can also use other earthworms after being roasted with fire ash.
When he came to a ditch, Liu Wen picked up a place with lush aquatic plants, and the yellow eel liked to stay in a place with lush aquatic plants, which could not only avoid the enemy, but also ambush the small fish. Liu Wen untied the rope, loaded the basket with two or three earthworms stuffed with small bamboo tubes, and after entering the water, he stepped on a gap between the grass with his feet enough to place the leak, and the open end was close to the bottom of the mud, and the end of the rope was slightly exposed to the water. Liu Wen explained that this can make the yellow eel loach inside breathe smoothly, whether it is a yellow eel or a loach, you can breathe air directly, the space in the basket is small, and some yellow eels are easy to suffocate to death if there are many of them.
After the twelve baskets were placed, Liu Wen asked Yang Yong's family to go back first, turned around and went to Taoyuan to see the situation of the chicks. Liu Wen saw that in each cabin there were hens with chicks ready to rest for the night, although the number was more or less, but these did not matter.
The floor of the wooden house is more than a meter above the ground, and the floor is paved with bamboo strips to leave small gaps for cleaning and rinsing chicken manure. The chickens enter and exit by a triangular oblique wooden frame, Liu Wen closes the door of the wooden house and then moves the wooden frame, and the inside of the wooden house is completely suspended, so that like the yellow mouse and the fox, he does not want to steal the chickens nested in the wooden house.
Just finished dinner, seeing that it was already dark, Xiao Haohao, who was in a hurry, urged everyone to go, so Liu Wen took Yang Yong's family out of the door.
The mountain village on a warm spring night is quiet and beautiful, there is no moon tonight, and the starry sky is extraordinarily bright and charming. The gentle evening breeze gently blows on the body, making people feel warm and comfortable, and the frog sound in the distance is very lively and noisy, but if a person comes closer, the frog cry immediately stops, and the alert frog will hide quietly, and it is difficult to be detected. Of course, the target of Liu Wen and his party tonight is not frogs, and Yang Yong's family knows that Liu Jiachong has the habit of not eating or hurting frogs.
Liu Wen took Yang Yong's family of three with flashlights and buckets, Liu Wen and Yang Yong held clips in their hands, the so-called clips were Liu Wen's own fire tongs, Yang Yong's borrowed ones were newly bought by Professor Lin's family, and Xue Fang and Xiao Haohao held small net pockets in their hands. Liu Haiqing and his family had bright brains, and they bought a hundred small net pockets a few days ago, and they were basically sold out when Xue Fang went to buy them before dinner.
The four ditches in the village have been occupied by the villagers with their own tourists, and after searching along the shallow water of the ditches, there will still be a harvest after a while, especially the crayfish, which are like picking them up for nothing.
Liu Wen didn't want to affect the fun of night hunting for tourists, so he took Yang Yong's family to the rice field area. There weren't many people patronizing the rice field tonight, and when he got close to the edge of the field, Xiao Haohao saw that there were some small black fish swimming in the water in the rice field, so he shouted happily: "Wow! What a lot of small fish!"
Liu Wen couldn't help but smile when he saw it, "Xiao Haohao! These are not small fish, but small tadpoles, they are the children of frog mothers, these can't be fished." ”
"Oh! I see, frogs eat pests and are good friends of crops!" Xiao Haohao nodded and said seriously.
"That's right, Xiao Haohao is so good!" Liu Wen touched Xiao Haohao's head and said. The group randomly chose a place where no one was around.
Didn't go far, walking at the back of Xiao Haohao found the first prey tonight, a small crucian carp hidden in the roots of the remaining rice grass, at this time most of the rice fields were raked through, the water is not very deep and not easy to hide, at a glance, it is really a good time to catch yellow eel loaches.
"This little crucian carp is so stupid! Xiao Haohao easily scooped up the small crucian carp with a net pocket.
"Some people think that the fish need to sleep at night, so they don't move, and some people say that because the fish know the danger at night, they can protect themselves better by staying still. As for what it is, then you have to ask the scientists, or when you grow up, you can find out for yourself. Liu Wen explained on the side.
Liu Wen, who took the lead, soon found a fat loach. "Catch the loach to pay attention to gentle, gentle, enter the water to be gentle, slow, the action should be slow, soft, when touching the loach must be gentle. Liu Wen handed the flashlight to Yang Yong, and gently and slowly lifted the loach directly out of the water, and the loach lay quietly in Liu Wen's palms with his hands together.
"I didn't expect it to be so easy to catch loaches, let me try the next one!" Xue Fang said eagerly on the side.
"Okay! tonight's loaches and small fish will be handed over to you and Xiao Haohao to catch, and the crayfish at night can be picked up directly, but the current crayfish have no meat, and they are not interesting to eat. Brother Yong and I are responsible for catching yellow eels. Liu Wen readily agreed.
Next, I found a few loaches and small fish and crayfish that were wrapped up by Xue Fang and Xiao Haohao, Xue Fang did not miss a hand, Xiao Haohao except for the first loach, because he was too nervous, accidentally let the loach run, the rest were also successfully captured. Seeing the mother and son dancing with excitement after catching the loach, Yang Yong's heart itched uncomfortably and muttered, "Why don't you see a yellow eel?"
Liu Wen replied: "It's still early, and yellow eels usually don't come out to move out later. After walking forward for a while, Liu Wen and his entourage finally saw the first yellow eel tonight.
A yellow eel is only exposed to the small part of its head in the water, and the rest is mostly hidden in the mud. The body of the yellow eel is the thickness of an adult's middle finger, and it is estimated to be about two taels. "The yellow eel should be fast and accurate, the so-called fast means that the water should be fast, the position must be accurate, and the ruthless must be hard after being clamped, and if you relax a little, the yellow eel may run away. The whole one is in the middle of the clamp in the water, and if only a small half of it is exposed, try to lean on the mud side of the clip, because the yellow eel is easily frightened, and immediately shrinks into the mud as soon as the wind blows. After Liu Wen finished speaking, the clip quickly clamped into the water, and the yellow eel was smoothly brought into the bucket.
"Okay! I know the method, let me do the next one!" Yang Yong couldn't wait. Fortunately, there were still more yellow eels in the rice field, and after a while, he encountered the second one, which was a little smaller than the first, and more than half of his body was exposed, but Yang Yong still missed. The yellow eel was successfully clamped, but Yang Yong was happy, and his hand was slightly loosened, and the yellow eel, which was twisting his body, escaped smoothly.
"Alas, careless, careless!" Yang Yong said with a little remorse.
"It's fine. Once raw and twice cooked, you will definitely be able to successfully clamp the eel next time. Liu Wen comforted.
Then the next Yang Yong still didn't clamp it, Yang Yong was too nervous, the movement of the clamp into the water was too big, and the front end was too deep into the mud, and the yellow eel shrank into the mud before he had time to clamp it.
"It's okay, practice more, practice makes perfect. Liu Wen made another successful demonstration move, and after discovering the next yellow eel, he asked Yang Yong to continue. Yang Yong held his breath, carefully approached the water surface slowly to see the position, and then quickly inserted it into the mud and clamped it hard, a yellow eel swayed vigorously on the clip, trying to struggle to escape, but everything was in vain, and the yellow eel was thrown into the bucket.
"yes, I'm clipped, I'm clipped!" Yang Yong couldn't help but cheer. Liu Wen, the small prey found along the way, let Yang Yong's family take action, and Yang Yong gradually increased the success rate as the number of times he practiced clamping yellow eels.
Xue Fang thought at first that Yang Yong's inability to clip the yellow eel was due to his clumsiness, but then he volunteered to clip it five or six times one after another, but not a single yellow eel was clamped. Only then did he honestly catch the small loaches that were easy to catch, as for the small fish and crayfish, they were all left to Xiao Haohao, and it was not challenging to catch small fish and shrimp at night, and Xue Fang didn't want to catch them.
Liu Wen also performed a unique trick of clamping loaches with tongs behind the itchy hands, which opened the eyes of Yang Yong's family and was immediately impressed. Xue Fang asked how to do it? Liu Wen replied that there was no other way, and he was familiar with it, and he could make perfect when he was familiar.
Later, Xue Fang didn't have to use a net to catch loaches, and directly requisitioned the clip in Liu Wen's hand to clamp it, even if he failed repeatedly, he was not discouraged, and he had been practicing with great interest.
Liu Wen took the time to look at the time, it was almost eleven o'clock, so he proposed to go home, Yang Yong's family, and then reluctantly followed Liu Wen's footsteps and walked home.