Eel fishing is a patient job, and it takes more patience than fishing.

The eel is timid, and it is just under the ridge, and the slightest movement may scare it into eating the bait. So eel fishing needs to be quiet, and many experienced people prefer to go fishing alone.

After sending Li Geng away, Li Mu began to wait with peace of mind, at this time the sun had reached mid-heaven, although there was a breeze, it was still a little hot. Li Mu looked around and found that there was a willow tree not far away, so he got up and broke some wicker.

The weather is too hot, he plans to weave a simple willow branch hat, the willow branches are soft and not easy to break, and the fresh willow branches are cool and cool to wear on the head, which is very comfortable.

Holding a small pile of willow branches sitting on the ridge, watching the hook hand at the entrance of the hole keep busy, first use a relatively thick willow branch to form a circle, and then begin to add willow branches, slowly enlarged the circle, after the transformation of the pill Li Mu's eyesight is now more than 2.0.

The slight shaking of the tail of the hook was noticed by Li Mu, and he gently put down the half-finished willow branch cool hat in his hand, staring at the hook calmly, the tail of the hook shook again, and Li Mu quickly stretched his hand above the hook to ensure that he could catch it at the first time when the hook was pulling towards the power.

The eel was clearly cautious, and the tail of the hook regained its composure after moving its tail several times in a row. But Li Mu didn't let go, his right hand straightened, and his eyes stared at the hook.

He knew that at this time, the eel was already the last temptation, and the next time it would definitely be the rhythm of swallowing the hook in one bite!

Sure enough, in less than ten seconds, the hook suddenly began to pull into the cave, and Li Mu's right hand grabbed the hook handle like lightning and lifted it up, and soon a thumb-thick eel was pulled out.

The eel has a greenish-yellow back, a golden belly, a long, round head, and a thin and scaleless tail. The more common wild eels are not too big, the thickness of the thumb is more common, about three feet long, and the weight is between three taels and half a catty.

Everything is different, and so is the eel. Li Mu once saw a giant eel as thick as a beer bottle, about one meter long, and weighing an astonishing five catties.

This kind of giant eel can be said to be hard to find, and Li Mu has only seen it once. At that time, it caused quite a stir in the county, and was later released.

Li Mu steadied himself, took the struggling eel in his hand off the hook and put it into the prepared bucket, and continued to walk to the next cave.

Waiting again, there was something about half an hour. Although he wore a willow branch hat on his head, Li Mu was almost sunburned into a dog when he had a harvest again, this time the eel was not as thick as the first time, only the size of an index finger, and it was estimated that it was only two or two when he checked it.

However, no matter how small the grasshopper is, it is also meat, and for rural people, although the eel is not a pest, it is still quite harmful to the ridges. Besides, you can't stop the mouth of the foodie, put it in the bucket and continue to fight!

After two hours in a row, Li Mu was a little impatient, looking at the six eels in the bucket, Li Mu decided to go home for dinner first. Come back in the cool afternoon for the rest of the day, and it's almost like a plate!

Eel is definitely a good thing, not only is the meat delicious and the nutritional value is high, but it is also a medicinal herb. It has been mentioned in the Compendium of Materia Medica, eel has the effects of replenishing qi and nourishing qi, disinfection and anti-inflammatory, and eel blood can also treat otitis media and frequent nosebleeds and other medicinal effects (in fact, eel serum is toxic, but the toxin is not heat-resistant, can be destroyed by gastric juice and heating, and will not be poisoned when cooked and eaten.) Therefore, you need to be cautious when using eel blood to treat diseases with home remedies!)

Li Mu didn't know where these pharmacology came from, but he didn't dare to do that. Because he knows that bats like the smell of eel blood, and the smell is very fishy!

When I was a child, I didn't know the situation, and I often listened to the old man tell all kinds of ghost stories. I remember my grandmother once told the two brothers the story of a ghost knocking on the door, and later after returning home from eel fishing, she got into a fight with her brother and threw the eel blood on the door of the house, and a bat came to knock on the door at night, which scared the brothers and cry.

Later, my father woke up and beat the bat to death before falling asleep, and then when I watched a ghost movie, I realized that the bat actually liked eel blood.

"Amu is back, how did you catch an eel?" Li Mu had just returned home, and his cousin Li Qiang greeted him with a smile, and then looked at Li Mu with a smile on his face, followed by his father and second uncle.

"Eh, you're all here! You can fry an eel segment at noon after catching a few fish, by the way, you're going to finish?" Li Mu smiled, he could guess a little about his cousin's positive appearance, after all, eel also has a special effect, I believe many male friends know it.

"Okay, then I'll help you deal with it!" As soon as the eldest brother heard that there was an eel, he immediately ran into the house, and soon came out with a knife and a vegetable pot, Li Mu shook his head with a wry smile and went to the well with him to clean up the eels.

Eels do not have scale armor, and what they generally need to deal with is the gills and intestines, and many times the head is directly chopped off and then the stomach is broken to clean up, but Li Qiang insisted on holding the eel blood to make up for it, and directly chose to open the tail to take out the intestines.

Li Mu had no choice but to listen to him, and soon the six eels were cleaned up, and then Li Mu cut them into sections and salted them. My mother had already prepared peppers, peppercorns, garlic, star anise and other ingredients.

"Amu, you can do it yourself, I can't figure this thing out!" The old mother looked at the eel head and frowned and dropped the shovel to strike, Li Mu had no choice but to go into battle.

The eel has a fishy smell and an earthy smell, so you need to oil the ingredients first to let the aroma of the ingredients neutralize and mask the fishy and earthy smell of the eel.

Pour your own rapeseed oil into the pot, add the ingredients and stir-fry when the oil pot is hot for seven minutes, and pour the salted eel segments into the pot when the aroma is permeated, and stir-fry them quickly.

After stir-frying on high heat for about ten minutes, when the eel meat is cracked, add soy sauce and a small amount of vinegar and stir-fry it to get out of the pot.

As the eel section is cooked, the aroma fills the kitchen. The cousin who was watching TV in the hall couldn't wait to rush over and watch it, but after watching it, he still shouted to start the meal, and Li Mu shook his head helplessly.

Good guy, this is the father of two children, and he is as greedy as when he was a child, it seems that Li Ning Jiangcheng has a lot to do with his cousin. When I was waiting for dinner, I found that my grandmother had not come back, and when I called and asked, I found out that I had eaten at my second aunt's house and was playing mahjong.

Li Mu sighed and didn't care about the novice's hidden truth, so he picked up the chopsticks and started. The first bite is naturally my masterpiece fried eel segment, the eel segment colored by soy sauce looks very good, clamp a section and put it in the mouth, the meat is delicate and delicious, the aroma of the material is rich, there is no fishy smell and earthy smell.

"Well, that's good! It seems that Amu has learned some crafts in the past two years, and he didn't go to work in vain!" the second uncle nodded with satisfaction, and then began to drink a glass of wine with his father.

The cousin also nodded vaguely in response to agree with his father's opinion, but his frequently stretched out chopsticks made people a little speechless. Although the eel is not often eaten, it is not such a difficult thing to eat, and the big guy also smiled and followed after seeing him eat well, and soon a plate of fried eel segment bottomed out.