Chapter 22 Bamboo rafts swim in the river to fish for blood eels
After Liu Wen woke up in the morning, Qing'er had already gotten up, sniffing the fragrance left by Yiren, Liu Wen was suddenly surrounded by a full sense of happiness, he didn't expect happiness to come so suddenly, until now Liu Wen still has a feeling that seems to be in a dream.
After breakfast, Liu Wen accompanied the old man, that is, Qing'er's grandfather, to Taoyuan to have a look, accompanied by Qing'er, a new wife, Yaya went to school in the village kindergarten, Yaya has never been to kindergarten in the forest farm, so now every class can not be delayed.
Under the big camphor tree in front of the peach orchard, more than a dozen tourists were surrounding the two wild boars, feeding and feeding, stroking and stroking, and taking pictures, each of them had a lot of fun.
The old man was amazed by the intelligence and docility of the wild boar, who had lived in the mountains for many years, and had never seen a wild boar like this before. Liu Wen saw that Qing'er endured the slight discomfort of her body and stepped forward to touch the wild boar again and again, Liu Wen has always not understood why tourists love the wild boar so much, and today may have the answer. "The wild boar is so cute!" these are Qing'er's original words.
"Is this a wild rooster?" said the old man when he walked into the peach orchard, seeing a few female pheasants and the big rooster proudly patrolling his territory.
"Well, they came here on their own, and they didn't want to leave when they came, so I didn't care about them. Liu Wen replied casually.
At this time, the fruit hanging on the peach tree in the peach orchard was the size of a ping-pong ball, and the old man saw that there were only ten peaches hanging on each fruit tree, and pointed to the peach tree with some curiosity and asked, "The fruits are all the same, why is this?"
Liu Wen explained the reasons in detail, and when he heard that this kind of peach weighed a pound, and that there were about 30,000 peaches sold in Taoyuan this year, the old man couldn't stay any longer, and immediately said: "This can't be done, this peach orchard must be guarded, I have nothing to do anyway, so I came over to watch the peach orchard." ”
Liu Wen persuaded Taoyuan not to be guarded, but the insistent old man had made up his mind and had to agree. Liu Wen found Liu Quanwang and asked for help to build a small two-story bamboo building, Liu Quanwang readily agreed, and promised to complete the bamboo building in a week at most.
Yaya quickly adapted to the new environment, the whole family, especially Liu Wen's mother, loved Yaya very much, what was delicious, the fun came to Yaya first, followed by Qing'er, Liu Wen has completely become a marginal character since then.
I don't know if Yaya has a special affinity, and the monkeys and puppies at home like to play with Yaya very much. Even the red and fire on the tree are willing to have intimate interactions with Yaya, as for the Dahua family, they have long been completely captured by Yaya's fried fish pieces, and Yaya also hugged Xiaopi and Xiaomeng as she wished.
Now Huanhuan and Lele want to sleep with Yaya at night, the two little monkeys used to sleep with Liu Wen's mother, and Liu Wen's mother pointed to the heads of the two little monkeys with a little vinegar and scolded the little traitor!
Liu Wen had nothing to do today, remembering that it was a good season to eat blood eels, so he invited Qing'er to sit on a bamboo raft to visit the scenery on both sides of the Bailu River, and by the way, he fished for blood eels, and Qing'er readily agreed.
Liu Wen called to ask, and Yang Yong and Xue Fang also said they wanted to go. Liu Wen immediately drove to the town and bought three 100-meter-long fishing lines and 300 fishing hooks.
The group hurriedly ate lunch, and hurried to the east end of the village, where there was a small wharf, located at the confluence of the Changgang Reservoir and the Bailu River. In the past, when it was necessary to pay the public grain, because the mountain road was not passable, all the public grain of Liu Jiachong was transported by waterway, and later the public grain did not have to be paid, and the mountain road was also built, and this small wharf was gradually abandoned.
Now there are five or six bamboo rafts on the wharf, seeing that the number of tourists in the village is gradually increasing, in order to facilitate tourists to visit the scenery along the Changgang Reservoir or the Bailu River, the village chief arranged several families with more difficult and good water properties to be responsible for operating the bamboo rafts. The village chief listened to Liu Wen's opinion, and each bamboo row was placed with several pairs of life jackets, because the price was fair and the service was enthusiastic, so it was quite popular with tourists, and the business was not bad.
When Liu Wen and the others came, there was only one bamboo row left in the small dock, and it was Liu Quande who was responsible for rowing the bamboo row. Liu Wen, who was holding two small baskets, walked over to say hello, and after handing over a cigarette, Liu Quande happily withdrew from the bamboo row.
Liu Wen waved his hand, Yang Yong took the long net bag containing the fish, Xue Fang and Qing'er stepped on the bamboo raft, Liu Wen waited for the three of them to put on life jackets, held a long bamboo pole, and gently supported the stone slab on the shore of the wharf, and the bamboo raft swung to the middle of the water.
Liu Wen put the oil residue (the leftover residue of fried fatty pork) that acts as bait into the drain, and then threw a basket with a rope tied to the bamboo raft into the water.
After sliding forward for a certain distance, the bamboo raft enters the Bailu River, where the water flow is gentle, there are low peaks on both sides, the vegetation in the mountains is sparse, and the bare rocks can often be seen, but the mountain is peculiar, and all kinds of strange-shaped peaks appear in turn with the forward bamboo rows, which is dizzying, and the scenery is still quite beautiful and moving.
"The scenery on both sides of the Bailu River is actually no worse than the scenery of the Li River in Guilin, but the Bailu River is not known, and it is also a karst terrain, and underground karst caves are often seen at the bottom of the river. Liu Wen paused for a moment, and then said: "Blood eel is Liu Jiachong's statement, in fact, it is a native eel, with a body length of forty or fifty centimeters, and the largest one is about three catties. The back is grayish-white, and the belly is light pink, so it is called a blood eel. This fish lives in warm underground caves in autumn and winter, and in spring and summer, it swims out of the caves to feed in the river and reproduce. ”
Liu Wen used a bamboo pole to fix the bamboo row, pulled the rope, and put away the two small baskets, both of which contained some small fish and shrimp. Liu Wen put away some transparent shrimp that were only five centimeters long, and poured the rest directly into the river, and without waiting for the three people around him to ask, Liu Wen explained: "This kind of shrimp is called white shrimp, and it is the favorite food of blood eels." ”
Liu Wen began to hook and fish for blood eels, and each hook hooked the head of the white shrimp directly on a long line, and a hook was hung every meter or so. Feeling that the water was very cold, and worried that the blood eel would not eat the hook, Liu Wen quickly replaced the bait with the white shrimp in the space behind everyone's back.
Because the blood eel likes to move on the bottom of the mud, there is no need for a buoy, and the fishing line only needs to hang a buoy at the end. After placing the fishing line, Liu Wen rowed the bamboo row and glided forward for a certain distance, then lowered another fishing line, then lowered the third fishing line, and began to return to collect the first fishing line.
Liu Wen held the fishing line and pulled it up, and soon felt that there was movement, so he couldn't help but say, "There is a stock." ”
Hearing Liu Wen say that there was goods, the remaining three people suddenly came to their senses and looked at the water with an expectant face. "It's a yellow bone fish!" "The yellow bone fish is a bottom-dwelling fish, and it is normal to be caught, Liu Wen untied the fish, threw it into the net pocket, and then threw it into the water.
The river water is too cold, even if you change the white shrimp in the space, not every catch is available, and the hooks are all yellow bone fish or black fish. After collecting forty or fifty fishing, I didn't catch a single blood eel.
Liu Wen was a little puzzled, "Could it be that the blood eel is still in the underground cave at this time?" When he finally accepted the hook, Liu Wen felt that the struggle in the water this time was extraordinarily strong.
"There is a big cargo, it may be a blood eel!" Liu Wen said in surprise. The three people around him were also immediately interested, and their eyes were firmly focused on the river. A blood eel more than 40 centimeters long was finally pulled out of the water.
Liu Wen directly pulled the blood eel onto the bamboo raft and stepped on the head of the blood eel slightly lower position, Liu Wen explained: "The blood eel is very fierce, and at least a piece of meat will be torn off if it is bitten, so to catch the blood eel, you must grab the neck below the head of the blood eel, and you must step on it with your foot to solve the hook." ”
After Liu Wen successfully unhooked the hook, he tightly held the neck of the blood eel with his hand, and threw it into his pocket before he breathed a sigh of relief. After catching the first blood eel, Liu Wen's luck seemed to have come, and he collected the hundred hooks. Liu Wen caught a total of more than a dozen yellow bone fish, most of them were three or five or two heavy, five or six black fish, some were big and some were small, the small ones were more than half a catty, and the big ones might be three catties. There are also three blood eels, all of which are about two catties.
"Let me try the next fish, okay?" Yang Yong felt that the reeling was quite simple, and he was immediately interested and wanted to try it too.
"Okay, but let me solve the blood eel if you catch it, you don't have experience yet, so it's not good if you get hurt. Liu Wen agreed, but also put forward a small condition, Yang Yong nodded.
Yang Yong's luck was better than Liu Wen's, and the yellow bone fish and black fish caught in the second fishing were similar, but there were five blood eels. The catch of the second catch made Yang Yong feel very excited and satisfied, but he couldn't get past the addiction of catching a blood eel with his own hands, and he always felt a little regretful.
The third fishing Yang Yong and Xue Fang changed, and the happy and excited Xue Fang untied a black fish, caught the fish with both hands and put it in the net pocket, and asked Qing'er with a smile if you want to try it too? Qing'er smiled and waved her hand, there are fish in this river, when can't you come to catch it? Let's let you enjoy it first!
Qing'er and Liu Wen looked at each other and smiled, both feeling that each other's eyes were full of tacit understanding. The fish caught in the third fishing was similar to the second fish, but in the end, when Yang Yong thought about catching the blood eel, there was a little accident.
Liu Wen stepped on the neck of the blood eel, and Yang Yong carefully untied the blood eel and grabbed the neck of the blood eel. Liu Wen let go of his foot, Yang Yong wanted to throw the blood eel into his pocket, at this time, the head of the blood eel swayed vigorously from side to side, as if it was about to bite his finger, so frightened that Yang Yong's hand was loosened, and the blood eel fell into the river, and immediately slipped away and fled.
"It's okay! There are always some accidents at first, as long as people don't get hurt. Liu Wen comforted. A total of 12 blood eels, more than 30 yellow-boned fish, and more than 20 black fish were harvested today. Liu Wen directly released the smaller yellow bone fish and black fish, and four of the blood eels had obvious bulging stomachs and were also released.
"I'll eat the blood eel when I go back tonight, and I promise the taste won't disappoint you. Liu Wen carried Yang Yong, Xue Feng and Xiaoqing, who were in a better mood, and rowed towards the small pier in the village.