In 86 years, not to mention Fengshuping, even Sha Tin Village did not have a TV, and there would not be a few in the entire Liulong Town, so although this incomparably classic TV series would generally be said to be the 86 version before, many rural villagers actually saw it for the first time in 88, or even later.

At this time, it was already the beginning of the 90s, and when this TV series was broadcast during the summer vacation, not to mention that children must have stayed in front of the TV early, even many adults couldn't help but put down their work and go home early to watch TV. And when it premiered in 88, after Wang He and these children shouted "Journey to the West has begun" on the edge of the rice field, everyone really rushed back to watch TV.

After starting to play Journey to the West this time, Uncle Xiao and Da Mao Ermao watched it with relish, but Wang He, who didn't know how many times he had seen it, couldn't watch it at all, so he took the initiative to take on the task of turning over the millet.

When the rice fields are empty, the cows and ducks do not need to be cared for, so they rush to the fields in the morning and come back in the evening.

This year, the weather was beautiful, and there was no rain for more than 20 consecutive days, so that the farmers took back the granary with rice. After working in the scorching sun for days and days, until the grain was put into the warehouse, the adults of every household finally relieved themselves, began to smile on their faces, and enjoyed the joy of the harvest.

However, the farm work is not over, and preparations need to be made for the next planting season. The ground was turned up with a plow, then the fields were filled with water, the land was soaked and soaked, and the ploughing oxen and rakes were driven to break up the mud.

After the adults tidy up the fields, it will be a children's paradise.

After there is water in the field, the scorching sun is scorching during the day, and the upper layer of the water can be hot, plus there are ducks foraging, the living animals in the field are hidden, and when night falls, the temperature begins to cool down, and the loaches, yellow eels and small fish that do not appear much during the day will slip out one by one, as well as snakes, toads, frogs, etc., also go out one after another, frog calls, insect chirping, playing nocturne.

Under the moonlight, Uncle Xiao, Wang He, and Da Mao Ermao were dispatched, Xiao Uncle and Wang He each held a long ruler-shaped bamboo slice and carried a small bucket, and Da Mao Ermao was responsible for lighting.

At the end of the bamboo slices there is a row of densely tied, sturdy large sewing needles, which are called loaches and are specially used to cut loaches.

In the beginning, firewood was used for lighting, using a wooden stick to carry a basket framed by iron wire, and carrying firewood that burned vigorously for lighting, but later with the popularity of flashlights, firewood was abandoned and household appliances began to be used for lighting.

The four of them cooperated in pairs, the illuminating person was behind, and the person who cut the loach was in front of the command, and when he saw the fat and big loach, he squatted down on the ridge, slowly put the bamboo ruler close to the water surface, and then slammed the wrist, and then lifted it, the loach that was still swinging and struggling was lifted out of the water, and the bamboo ruler knocked a few times on the bucket, and after the loach was thrown off, he continued to start the next one.

Of course, there are not only loaches in the field, but also when you see yellow eels, because yellow eels are relatively long, they tend to wrap their bodies tightly around the bamboo ruler, and it is more troublesome to untie them, so unless they are very large, everyone generally does not like to cut yellow eels. When they were still lighting with firewood, sometimes they got naughty and saw a smaller water snake, and they would pick it up and burn it on the fire, and throw it aside.

After an hour or two of this, two people can come back with three or five catties of loaches. The more skilled adults in the village can cut more, and when they are lucky, they can even catch soft-shelled turtles by the way. But those were all caught by the lucky guys in the village, and Wang He and Uncle Ke had never caught them in the fields.

This kind of fun and rewarding activity is only available for rural people to play in less than a month at this time of year. In later generations, this kind of activity has basically disappeared, one is that the people's living standards have changed, the material is abundant, if you want to eat loaches, there are sold in the market, and there is another reason, that is, pesticides are used too violently, and there are few living creatures such as fish and loaches in the fields.

Speaking of soft-shelled turtles, the last time Wang Xiangyu caught one with his bare hands spread in the village, one evening Wang He drove the ducks back, and saw an unknown villager going up the canal, at a distance of thirty or fifty meters, he would insert a twenty or thirty centimeter long bamboo piece, and also inserted one at the mouth of the fish pond of Wang He's house.

After the man left, Wang He quietly pulled up the root of the fish pond, and saw that the bamboo piece was cut into the shape of a dagger, the top was cut into a depression, and a fishing line was tied, and a sewing needle was tied at the other end of the line, and the needle and needle tail were inserted into a small piece of pork liver.

It is said that the soft-shelled turtle likes to eat pork liver, and if it swallows this small piece of pork liver, the horizontal needle will get stuck in the neck, so that it can not escape, and can only wait for the person who put the tool to clean it up.

Wang He quietly pulled out all the few placed by the villagers, and inserted them into the water in a different place, which made the villagers who came to collect the tools early the next morning very strange.

When Wang He went to harvest, the first few were empty, but he didn't expect the last one to have a harvest, but this harvest scared him slightly, he didn't catch a soft-shelled turtle, but caught a greedy snake, the sewing needle has been stuck in its neck, and the tip of the needle has penetrated out of the body.

In the first half of the year, the most important farm work was over, and the young and middle-aged men in Maple Flat began to take action, and the loach was a child's play, and they generally did not grab this kind of work with their juniors unless they were idle, because they had to do a side job that made more money, that is, catching stone frogs.

The equipment you need to prepare to catch a stone frog is a snakeskin bag, liberated shoes, long sleeves, long pants, flashlight, spare batteries, dry food, etc. Because it is a night operation, you also need to reverse the jet lag, sleep enough during the day, and start to set off after eating at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, generally acting in groups of two, the night vision is limited, snakes, insects and beasts are infested, and it will be safer for two people to take care of them together, of course, it is not excluded that a very small number of people with strong personal heroism fight alone.

Stone frogs live in mountain streams at an altitude of three or four hundred meters to more than a thousand meters, they generally hide in stone crevices or stone caves during the day, and come out at night to squat on rocks or stones to hunt insects, earthworms, etc.

After eating in the afternoon, Wang He put on his equipment and set off, and he followed his uncles and went straight to Candle Mountain. Da Mao and Ermao were too young because they were too young, and the second uncle didn't agree to let them come.

Originally, Wang He couldn't do this job at this age, but because he was more special, he could not only catch the bad guys, but also be extremely powerful, when harvesting rice before, Wang He could pick up a full load, weighing around 150 pounds, and also walked like flying, more fierce than an adult man, this weight-bearing ability can shock everyone.