Chapter 158: Stone Crawler

After setting up the camp, Li Junge explained to Bai Da that they were optimistic about the camp and not to run around, and then followed Uncle Orion to see the location of the mountain pond.

Uncle Orion took Li Junge over a mountain beam that stretched diagonally into the ravine, and found that a stream appeared in front of him, the water quality was crystal clear, and the bottom of the stream was a huge stone.

Uncle Orion said: "This is it, go up along this stream, is the White Rice Cave, this water flows out of the White Rice Cave, the water flow is stable for a long time, there is no stream along the road, there is no cleaner water." ”

The two walked up along the stream, and Li Junge said, "Is this white rice hole the white rice hole that 'Leper Bao moved rice to save Ga Po'?"

The leprosy treasure is the toad, and the Ga Po is the grandmother, which is another local legend.

Uncle Orion said, "That's right, it's the white rice hole. ”

Li Junge said: "Ouch, you have to go and see it, I've heard this story for so long, and I haven't seen what the white rice hole looks like!"

There is a legend in Panao Township along both sides of the Wuxi River.

Legend has it that there was a woman who died early when she was young, leaving no children, she kept the festival and did not marry to serve her in-laws, until her in-laws died, she also guarded for her husband, and finally kept until she became a grandmother.

Panao Township is Baimi Township, which is the township where Wang Heizi, the owner of the Jiudouwan Oil Kitchen Class, is located, and there is a wide rocky beach in that township next to the Hongshui River, and there is a huge stone shaped like a toad on the rocky beach, and the local people call it the toad stone.

There is a peculiarity about the toad stone, if the first flood peak of the Hongshui River is higher than the toad stone every year, then there is a danger of flooding that year, and everyone must be prepared. If the first flood peak could not be flooded at the foot of the toad rock, then the year would have been safe.

Therefore, it is said that this is a doppelganger of a toad, and has been staying here to remind the villagers of a year's water news.

Then he also said that the cave of this toad spirit is in a hole in the mountain on the other side of Panao Township.

In the old days, every year, the villagers of Baimi Township would put a little bit of newly harvested rice in front of the toad stone to express their gratitude to the toad essence.

The story turns back, one year there was a drought in Panao Township, and the grandmother's land had no harvest, and there was a famine.

There is no way, although the old grandmother is already very old, she still has to go up the mountain to dig fern roots and wild vegetables, hoping to survive this year.

I searched and searched, and somehow found a hole in front of the hole, and the hole was dripping with water, and the old woman couldn't hold on, so she took a nap at the entrance of the cave.

In the dream, a fat man wearing silk clothes, with big and bulging eyes, walked in a circle, came over and said to the old woman: "You are a festival woman, after he ascends to heaven, there will be no place for you in the heavenly court, and I will not be envious of it at that time! ”

The old woman woke up in a trance, only to find that white rice began to flow out of the hole, swirling and piling up at the mouth of the cave.

The old grandmother carried the white rice down the mountain and survived the famine that year, and the cave has been known as the White Rice Cave ever since.

Uncle Orion said: "The old saying among the elderly on our side, 'White Rice Township, across the river, the leprosy treasure moves rice to save Ga Po', this is the story. ”

Li Junge sighed and said, "Look at our folk customs here, even the goblins are polite. ”

Uncle Orion laughed: "If this toad spirit knew that we were going to open a mountain pond under its cave, would it make a fuss? ”

Li Junge said: "How come, this is also a matter for the benefit of one party, and the old man will definitely support it." ”

Coming to the position where a large stone was clamped, Uncle Orion said: "Look here, when the time comes, open a diversion channel next to it, let the stream bypass this big stone, and then build a mountain pond between the two stones, re-close the diversion channel, and store the water, and this mountain pond will be completed." ”

Then he continued: "From here to Lijiagou, it's also ten miles, isn't Piwa a little farther away?"

Li Junge said: "Although it is far away, such a water quality and such a stable flow are not comparable to other places, and it is worth it to be far away." ”

The two continued to walk up, walked another five miles, and came to the white rice cave.

This is a big karst cave, the entrance of the cave is like a living room, more than five meters long, more than three meters high, there are some stalactites hanging on it, there are some large and small stalagmites on the ground, the stream flows out from the side of the cave entrance, the whole cave entrance is cool, the cold air blows on the face, several degrees lower than the outside.

Uncle Orion took the kettle and poured it into a pot, saying, "This water can be drunk directly, it is clear and sweet." ”

Li Junge also turned out the kettle and poured it, and took a sip, it was really delicious, and there was a faint fragrance of glutinous rice in detail.

"Good water! It's just that the water is so cold!"

Uncle Orion said: "You feel cold now, and when you come in winter, you will feel that the water is warm again." ”

Li Junge nodded and said, "Well, that's how the groundwater is, Uncle Orion, thank you for finding such a good water source." ”

After that, he turned out three mineral water bottles, filled them with water, and said: "Wait until I go down the mountain and send it to my eldest cousin, and ask him to find someone to help me analyze the water quality, if it is okay, then we will put the mountain pond under the boulder." ”

Uncle Orion said, "If you want to come to this toad cave again, you have to come on a raft." ”

Li Junge looked at the deep entrance of the cave, took a few steps closer, and shouted at the entrance of the cave: "Hey!"

There were echoes from inside: "Hey, hey, hey......"

Li Junge turned his head to Uncle Orion and said, "Uncle Orion, have you explored this hole?"

Uncle Orion said: "I didn't go deep, it's very big inside, and there are many forks in the road, Piwa, don't mess around, it's great to be trapped in it." Legend has it that this cave can lead to Baimi Township!"

Li Junge laughed: "How is it possible! There is still a Wuxi River between here and Baimi Township! Could it be that this hole can pass through more than ten miles and then pass under the river?"

Orion said, "Anyway, that's what the old saying goes, and I don't know if it's true. ”

The two of them wandered around the entrance of the cave for a while, and then began to walk back.

Back at the camp, they were all greeted by the white ones.

Li Junge touched his head and chin one by one to calm them down again.

Uncle Orion carried the rabbit and prepared to clean up in the mountain stream.

Li Junge took out a pair of threads with fishing hooks and said to Uncle Orion: "I'll go with you and see if I can add another dish tonight." ”

The two came to the edge of the mountain stream, and Uncle Orion peeled off the hare's skin and disemboweled.

Li Junge took out the plug and picked out some of the hare's pancreas and liver and cut them into small pieces, this thing is the fishiest part of the hare's body, and it is the best for fishing.

Wrapping the bait in the leaves, Li Junge walked downstream.

When he came, he passed by a few places where the water was deep, and the bottom was full of stones, and Li Junge was going to try it there.

With the help of the stones exposed from the water in the stream, Li Junge jumped on a stone in the middle of the water three times and two times, tried to test the water depth of about one meter, hung the bait and hooked it, or the fishing method of fishing for loaches, did not drift, holding the fishing line, and felt the situation of the fish biting the hook.

Soon there was a slight shaking of the fishing line, and Li Junge hurriedly lifted the hook.

According to his knowledge of the water situation of the stream, if the underwater thing does not lift the hook as soon as possible, it can swallow the whole hook into the stomach, and it will be troublesome to take the hook when the time comes.

Sure enough, a palm-length and strange-looking fish came up from under the water.

This is a stone crawler, whose scientific name is Huangshi crawler, and it is the ugliest fish Li Junge has ever seen.

This thing is more than ten centimeters long, a bit like a catfish, the whole body is scaleless, covered with mucus, and has a wide and flat head, and a pair of tiny eyes on the head, which are completely disproportionate to the head. It's not like other fish with eyes on both sides of the head, or above the side, but the eyes are facing the sky, and it's uncomfortable to look at.

There are several whiskers directly in front of the head, and the two longest ones are still hung with flesh membranes on the inside, and when the whiskers are stretched out, they look like two small pointed fins hanging from the mouth, a bit like the canard wing design of some airplanes.

The ratio of the head to the body is also not in line with the aesthetics of ordinary fish, with a large flat head and a small body with a fleshy body, and the back and sides of the body are yellow-green, yellow-green and olive. The posterior upper margin of the adipose fin is yellow, and the rest of the fins are grayish-black.

It's even more impossible to look at when you turn it over, and below the flat head is a huge suction cup, a bit like the belly of a scavenger in an aquarium.

In short, it's an ugly fish, and it doesn't come with plastic surgery to say that it's an alien creature.

Because of this appearance, no one in Lijiagou Village had anything to eat in the old days.

At that time, the anglers were annoyed with it, and they were greedy, and they swallowed the hook very well, but it was still an invalid fish, and it would take half a day to get the hook when they caught it.

If you catch a big boulder with a long footboard, you don't call your name, but only curse in your mouth: "Damn, I caught a rotten straw shoe again!"

But I don't know what year it started, these rotten straw sandals actually trembled, and they can be sold for seven or eight hundred and one catties in big cities, and they are getting rarer and rarer. Therefore, in addition to the artificially cultivated ones, it is only easier to get them in the inaccessible alpine cold-water streams.

Li Junge used to be annoyed with this fish, but when he came to Yuzhou, he was scared when he saw that the stone crawler was so expensive, and he came back and tried to do it twice, only to know that this thing is expensive for a reason.

Although God has given it a violent and ugly appearance, he can give it a top-notch taste.

Shuzhou is the capital of foodies, this thing is okay in Qianzhou and Yunnan, and it has been eaten in Shuzhou.

took a straw stick and put the stone crawler on, and Li Junge continued to fish.

This thing is greedy, I am not afraid that it will not bite the hook, but what I have to worry about is that the hook is too strong, and the hook must be lifted in time, and the hook will enter the stomach if you are not careful.

The water quality of the mountain stream is clean, and there are many stone creepers, and it is estimated that there is less food, so once the fishy bait goes, the stone creepers are even hooked.

After a while, more than 20 were caught, which is more than a catty.

It was almost enough, Li Junge didn't continue fishing, he washed the stone crawlers in the stream, skewered them with dogs' tails and straw sticks, and carried them back to the camp.