The children on summer vacation are the craziest, and the creek is going crazy. Catch fish today, touch crabs tomorrow, walk the streets and alleys (although there are no streets and alleys here), jump up and down, not a day is quiet at home, oh, you can be quiet at home on a rainy day.

No, a group of four, fixed teammates, walked out from the back of their cousin's house, intending to go home, and when they saw a stone jar, they curiously leaned up to take a look.

In the creeks, almost every household has a stone tank to store water. There are whole stones to dig out, there are also good stones, with cement connections, there are carved patterns, there are also not carved patterns, although they are different, but because of the large capacity, so the storage of water is more, the draft is more convenient, and the water scooped out is cool.

This stone jar is on a small piece of wasteland next to the acacia tree behind my cousin's house, behind is a bamboo forest, and the front is blocked by a broken wall house, and the stone jar is surrounded by Artemisia annua, which is tightly shaded, but at this time the corner of Artemisia annua is set aside a little, so a few sharp-eyed children can see it.

"Ah, it's yellow eel, a lot of yellow eel!" Zhao Bo rushed over to check first, and then said it out loud.

When they heard that there were a lot of yellow eels, a few little ones rushed up, stared curiously, and then began to gossip.

"Wow, really, so big. ”

"Oh, that's too big, like a snake. ”

"That's a lot, how many are there. ”

"Whose is this? ”

"yes, which one is this?"

"This should have been put by Da Lao Tzu, I went with him to catch yellow eels a few days ago. "Two days ago, my cousin (Zhao Juan, they are called Da Laozi, because their surname is Zhao) went to catch the yellow eel, and Zhao Bo followed, so he judged.

There are indeed a lot of yellow eels in this tank, there is half a tank of water in the tank, and the dense yellow eels are dancing in it, fortunately, there are no dense phobias among these children, otherwise they will be scared to death. Each eel has the size of a baby's arm and has a yellowish-red belly.

The children fiddled with the branches for a while, and when they were done curious, they went home.

On this day, when I woke up from noon, around four o'clock, Xiaoxi took my younger brother to the old yard to play with them.

"Uncle, where is Xiaojuan?" When they arrived at the old courtyard, Xiaoxi found that the brother and sister were not there, so she asked her aunt who was sitting in the middle of the street mending the sheets.

"Oh, Xiaoxi and Binbin came to play with Xiaojuan, they don't know where they went, they didn't sleep at noon, and they didn't know where they went crazy again. My aunt and uncle continued to sew and mend the sheets without stopping, and her mouth was still muttering.

No, this person, I just can't help but chatter, just said Zhao Juan, isn't this coming back.

"Brook, Binbin, you're here. As soon as Zhao Juan turned the corner, she saw the Xiaoxi sisters and brothers standing in the middle of their street, so she beckoned, "Mother-in-law." ”

"You're back, where are you crazy? Xiaoxi and Binbin came to play with you, and you're not there. ”

"I didn't go anywhere, just on the side of the old men. Hee-hee...... Creek, Binbin, wait for me, I'll take you to the strange. After speaking, he turned around and ran back to the stove room, and after a while, he came out with a plastic bucket, and excitedly greeted the Xiaoxi sisters and brothers, "Let's go, I'll take you to play." ”

"Xiaoxi, my brother and I saw the yellow eel in the weir pond just now, and my brother asked me to come back and get the bucket, and he is still waiting there. It's such a coincidence, I just came back, and you ran into you, so let's go together. ”

"Catch the eel, will you two do it?" said Brook, skeptical.

The word "will" is very long, which means that you can rest assured, "Last time, Da Lao Tzu went to catch the yellow eel, didn't my brother follow, he learned a little." ”

"Oh...... By the way, Xiaojuan, you didn't take a nap in the afternoon, what are you going to do?" Xiaoxi said that she admired Zhao Juan very much, in the afternoon, the sun is so poisonous, even the adults who are used to farm work are sunburned and thick-skinned at home, but she often doesn't take a nap, and jumps around with her brother, very energetic.

Hearing Xiaoxi ask this, Zhao Juan covered her mouth and smiled, "Let me tell you, I went with my brother to catch scarabs on the back mountain today, and I caught a lot, Binbin, I'll tie you up later." ”

Hearing some playing, Chen Yubin clapped his hands happily and said, "Okay, thank you Xiaojuan." "People of similar age are like this, and they are called by their names.

Scarab, a common crustacean insect in summer, is an indispensable toy for young creeks.

The weir pond that Zhao Juan said was not the one in front of Xiaoxi's house, but next to his cousin's house, covering an area of about half an acre, although it was not big but very deep.

Standing on it, Zhao Juan shouted at Zhao Bo below: "Brother, I'm here, Xiaoxi and Binbin are also here." Then he showed him the plastic bucket in his hand, "I also brought the bucket." He turned back to Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin and said, "Let's go down." ”

When I got down, the stream saw at a glance the scarabs in plastic bottles placed on the stones, about a dozen, and they were patina-green. The plastic bottle was screwed with a cap, but there were a lot of eyes on the bottle, which was to prevent the scarab from suffocating.

Putting the bucket aside, Zhao Juan hurried to her brother's side, "Brother, how many have you found?"

"Hey, several. Zhao Bo said happily.

This weir pond is generally not used, but still can not store water, now the bottom of the whole weir pond is torn into pieces by cracks, only a few small pits are shallow to cover the bottom. From time to time, water bubbles will emerge from small holes under the water, and this small mud hole is where the yellow eel hides.

After taking off their shoes, Zhao Juan and Zhao Bo went into the water, the stream did not dare to go down, the yellow eel would bite.

Carefully wade to the side of the small hole, follow the direction of the hole's extension, and slowly dig it open with your hands. Be careful when digging, because if you are caught digging by a yellow eel, it will fight back, and yellow eels also have teeth.

In about half an hour, Zhao Juan and Zhao Bo dug all the small holes in several puddles and found six yellow eels, two of which were thick with baby arms, and the other four were too small.

Then, slowly wading to the big stone, there were several holes in the cracks of the stone, Zhao Bo didn't let Zhao Juan do it, let her watch from the side, and groped along the hole and creek.

It's more dangerous to touch a yellow eel in a crack in a stone because you can't see it. Xiaoxi was a little worried about Zhao Bo, after all, he had only been to his cousin once.

In the end, Zhao Bo was not injured, because there were no yellow eels in those holes, and he didn't know where to go for a long time. Seeing that Zhao Bo was not injured, Xiaoxi breathed a sigh of relief.

I went ashore, washed my feet, put on my shoes, carried a bucket, took a plastic bottle, and went back.

On the way back, Zhao Bo thought for a while and said, "I'll pour these small ones on the head of Da Laozi's tank and raise them, anyway, there isn't much meat." ”

Zhao Juan agreed with her brother's decision without thinking about it. So the people changed the route and put the four little yellow eels in the stone jar.

Chen Yubin pulled the edge of the cylinder, wrinkled his face, and said worriedly: "Will these big ones eat the small ones?"

Xiaoxi took his hand on the rim of the jar and said, "No, we'll go back." ”

When Zhao Juan got home, she brought a basin of water out of the stove and began to clean the yellow eel. Cutting open the stomach with scissors and taking out all the internal organs is not usable.

When Zhao Bo boiled the hot water, Zhao Juan also disposed of the yellow eel. Put the whole eel in a pot and blanch it in hot water to remove the mucus from it.

Remove and wash again with clean water and cut it into sections. Brush the pot, wait for the pot to be hot, add rapeseed oil, add chili sauce and ginger and garlic and stir-fry, then pour in the yellow eel section, stir-fry for a few minutes, add salt, and remove from the pot.

Because there is no cooking wine at home now, there is a little fishy smell, but it smells very fragrant. In fact, Zhao Juan has always had a talent for cooking.

When the food was served, my aunt tasted a chopstick very deliciously and praised: "It's delicious." Then he left the little ones alone and went back to mending the sheets.

Zhao Juan tasted her craftsmanship and felt that it was not bad, so she urged: "Xiaoxi, you eat quickly, what are you doing?"

Xiaoxi looked at the three people who were eating with relish on the table, and said curtly: "Hehehe...... I don't eat it, I'm scared. "Xiaoxi has never eaten things like yellow eels and loaches, because I can't satisfy my appetite, I am really afraid of these snake-like things, and I am afraid of the nutrition teacher in college.

At that time, there was a class dedicated to shrimp and crabs, saying how many kinds of parasites there were, and it would be like this if you didn't kill them clean and eat them in your stomach, so Xiaoxi always felt that these things would not be clean, so she rarely ate them, and basically didn't eat them. She can't get over the hurdle in her heart, mainly because she still remembers that class.

Zhao Juan thought she was scared, so she didn't persuade her anymore, so she hurriedly grabbed food with her brother.

Because Zhao Juan put a little too many chili peppers, Chen Yubin's forehead was sweating, his lips were red and bright, and with his pink and fair face, he was really a handsome young man!

Xiaoxi hurriedly snatched the chopsticks from Chen Yubin's hand and said solemnly: "Binbin, you can't eat anymore, look at you like that." ”

Zhao Juan saw Chen Yubin's teary eyes, ruddy face, sticking out his tongue, very cute, her eyes suddenly turned red, she put down her chopsticks, and rubbed his little face, "Ah...... Binbin, you're so cute, aren't you?"

Chen Yubin looked at his sister for help, Xiaoxi couldn't help but be a little funny, so he struggled to rescue his brother's face from Zhao Juan's hands.

After eating and washing, Zhao Juan took out the plastic bottle containing the scarab, and asked her mother-in-law for the white thread for sewing clothes, and the three of them began to make toys with the scarab and the white thread, and Zhao Bo had already gone to watch TV.

Zhao Juan unscrewed the cap of the bottle, carefully poured out a scarab and pinched it in her hand, cut the white thread in the stream, and carefully tied a dead knot on the scarab's leg. When tying, you can't use too much force, it will break its legs, and the force should not be too small, so it is easy to break free and run.

Tie up the first one, because of the promise in the afternoon, Zhao Juan hurriedly handed it to Chen Yubin. Thinking of the scene when he had just eaten, Chen Yubin still had palpitations, and quickly ran to the side to play after taking the scarab.

The two worked together to tie up the remaining dozen or so. Some of them tied small pebbles to one end, and the beetle took the stone and tried to fly to freedom, and the stone would turn in circles, which they called pushing. There are also some tied to the rope for drying clothes, and a row of dozen or so flies on their own, which is very fun.