Chapter 11 Fishing for yellow eels and snails and mussels

After Yang Jibin whetted everyone's appetite, he took out the shell he brought back, and said loudly: "Everyone, please see, this is all known, it is this shell, the name of traditional Chinese medicine is cicada, and you can exchange money to buy food and play when you take it to the pharmacy. ”

"This is medicine, and it can be sold for money, how can it be? I haven't heard of it! Someone said in disbelief.

"Can you really sell it for money? How much is a pound? ”

"yes, why haven't you heard of it before?"

The friends in the audience were talking nonsense.

"If you don't believe me, you have to believe what the old fairy said, this is what the old man told me personally. The big guys are all a family, so I don't hide it from telling everyone, I just want everyone to spend some money on the summer vacation. If you are willing to believe me, starting tomorrow, you will go to the nearby mountains and forests to collect the husks, and finally gather to me, I will be responsible for sending them to the pharmacy to sell, and after the sale, I guarantee that the seller will return a lot of money, but you have to pay attention to safety, and do not pick up the steep and dangerous places; If you don't believe me, you can not do it, or go and pick up the shell by yourself and sell it yourself. However, I will leave the words here first, everything can be trusted by my eighth child, and those who are willing to make a fortune with me will promise him a glory and wealth in the future, and if he does not believe in me, he can only be different in the future. In short, all in all, I will have the last sentence, today I just want to tell you about this opportunity to make money, as for how to choose, it depends on you, don't force yourself. The meeting is adjourned, the meeting is adjourned! Yang Jibin crackled and said a big call, without pause, in one go, after speaking, regardless of whether the friends listened attentively to the end or not, he directly waved his hands very imposingly, and walked down the steps with his hands behind his back.

The big movement at home alarmed Yang Yiren, Feng Shi and Li Wenrong, who were doing farm work in the field, and they hurriedly put down their farm work and hurried back from the mountains. As soon as the three of them entered the courtyard, they saw Yang Jibin talking at length on the stage, and he was quite good at talking, and there didn't seem to be anything bad. Especially Feng's, the straight old lady, didn't hear the ugly Ding Mao after listening to it for a while, and couldn't bear to ask Yang Jibin in a loud voice and asked directly: "Binbin, where are you singing, what are you so many children doing here?" The old woman's brain is not flexible, so she will tell her grandmother directly about what she sees! ”

"Grandma, in fact, it's not a big deal, it's a small thing, I found an opportunity to make money, I want my brothers and sisters, younger brothers and sisters to earn some pocket money or save some tuition money or something, grandma, look at this, listen to me explain it to you carefully......" Yang Jibin carefully explained the matter of knowing the shell to his grandfather, grandmother and mother.

The friends next to me pricked up their ears and listened again, and basically understood the whole story.

"Xiaobin, I believe in you, I know that you have been flexible since you were a child, and you have the most ideas, so I will do what you say." Seventh sister Yang Jirong has always been close to Yang Jibin, and she chose to believe it for no reason.

"Okay, thank you Seventh Sister for your trust. If there's anything you don't understand, you can come and ask me, and if you figure out that there's no problem, you can disperse, go back to your own home, and find your own mother. After Yang Jibin nodded to the seventh sister Yang Jirong and thanked him, he answered a few questions in a very leadership style, and then began to issue an eviction order to guide the crowd.

A group of little radish heads walked out of the Yang family's ancestral house one after another.

Yang Yiren stepped forward with a smile and said to Yang Jibin: "Good grandson, I have really grown up, not only do I know how to help my family share the burden, but I also learn to help others. ”

"Grandpa, I'm a man in the Yang family, this is a responsibility that should be borne. Mom, don't worry, I said that we will figure out our own way for tuition, and my son will do what he says, this is just the beginning, and make a lot of money in the future so that the family will be happy and happy. Yang Jibin looked at the relatives around him who were concerned about him, and he was full of pride.

"Good boy, mom believes in you, she will do it." Li Wenrong stroked the hair that was a little loose just now, and his tone was excited and looked very relieved.

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"Little brother, don't you always want to eat meat, there is still some time today, why don't you get some meat and come back to eat, do you want to go?" Yang Jibin saw that it was still early, and he was idle anyway, so he planned to go to the field to get some eels, snails, river mussels or something to satisfy his hunger.

"Okay, I'm definitely going to go, but where can I get it?" Yang Jishun cheered.

"Just go with my brother, but you have to prepare something first, sister, right?"

"Okay, I'll go change into my old clothes." Yang Jiya also enjoys outdoor activities in the countryside.

Although Yangjiazhai is located on the slope of the mountain, due to the high and dense trees of the Longhu Mountains, the water-making function of the primeval forest is very powerful, and a reservoir has been built not far from the Yaowang Peak, so the water resources of Yangjiazhai are still quite abundant, and the village has opened up dozens of acres of rice fields in a relatively low-lying place near the mountain stream. At this time, the rice fields do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides, but use mineral-rich mountain spring water, and the rice produced is high-grade and natural green food!

It is also because of the lack of use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, there are quite a lot of yellow eels, loaches, crucian carp, silver carp, carp and other fish and shrimp in the rice fields of this era, unlike the yellow eels, loaches, fish and shrimp in the rice fields a few decades later. When you want to harvest rice every year, it is a good time to fish in the rice field, and it is not surprising that you can catch dozens or even hundreds of catties with good luck and skills. After the rice harvest is completed, when ploughing the land, it is a good time to harvest the yellow eel, the children only need to follow the plough behind the ox's buttocks, the plow head turns over the mud, and the yellow eel hidden in it will be lifted out, and an eel will be picked up every 2 meters on average. A plow of about 30 meters, not to mention can also pick up one or twenty yellow eels, if there are more people to pick up yellow eels, everyone will consciously line up, each person a plow road and a plow road to pick up, how much can be picked up by luck.

After a while, the three sisters and brothers came to the ridge on the edge of the rice field, Yang Jibin looked at the green seedlings in a very comfortable mood, and then patiently explained: "Every year from April to October is a good season for eel fishing. Summer is the golden season, and if it's better before a thunderstorm, it's good to fish before 9 a.m. and after 4 p.m. during the day. The yellow eel hole in the field is also easy to find, especially in hot days, the yellow eel likes to spit bubbles, some of the yellow eel holes you can see a circle of white bubbles floating on the water surface from afar, this hole is 100% there are yellow eels. You see, for example, this bubbling hole is a yellow eel hole. ”

Yellow eel holes are mostly hit in the water near the shore of ponds, lakes, paddy fields or small river ditches, and consist of an upper hole, a lower hole and a nest. The upper hole is generally about 10 cm below the water surface, and the lower hole is about 30~40 cm below the water surface. The diameter of the hole varies according to the size of the eel, the small finger is thick, and the large one can reach 6~7 cm. The nest is between the upper hole and the lower hole, it is round, about 10~15 cm in diameter, and it is the place where the yellow eel turns, lays eggs, and incubates eggs.

The eel cave in the soft soil is mostly close to the water line, even if it is submerged under the water, it is temporary, and the eel will constantly change the position of the hole, so that the hole is often at the level of the water line, so as to keep the hole moist and avoid being flooded by water. Eel holes can be identified by the rounded, smooth opening of the hole, located in an area of 8 cm above the waterline. After discovering the cave, look for signs of creeping from the entrance to the waterline. Sometimes, the eel's burrow is also below the waterline, mostly because the water rises and there is no time to adjust the entrance to the cave.

Yang Jiya and Yang Jishun took a look, and sure enough, they found a pen-sized hole with white bubbles bubbling outward, "Then let me try it." After Yang Jishun finished speaking, he immediately stretched out his little finger and wanted to dig the hole with his hand.

Yang Jibin hurriedly stopped: "Don't, don't be afraid of biting, just stick in!" At this time of summer, many eels are spawning. At this time, the yellow eel is very fierce. If you find a yellow eel burrow, and you put your hand in it, there's a good chance that the yellow eel will bite you. "His words are not to scare people, the yellow eel bite is also very powerful, people who really know the yellow eel, will know that the yellow eel has a lot of sharp teeth, biting people is not a joke.

"What's more, the so-called cunning rabbit three holes, you have to look carefully at the yellow eel with your hands, otherwise you will work in vain." Yang Jibin continued to explain. Generally speaking, there are only two places where eels can hide. One is the mud hole it drills itself, which is generally 1-2 meters deep, and the hole will not be straight, and sometimes the hole will fork. The other is natural, such as stone caves and stone crevices. The three holes of the cunning rabbit are for survival, and the yellow eel will also play some escape holes in order to survive, as little as two, and more than a dozen of them, so when you find a yellow eel hole, don't be in a hurry, because with the hole of this hole, it is difficult to catch the slippery yellow eel, you must first find other holes, and you have to look carefully, and you can't fall any of them, otherwise even if you get all the holes, you don't even touch the hair of the yellow eel, in fact, it is from the hole you didn't find that part of the hole that escaped.

For people in rural areas, fishing for yellow eel is the easiest thing to do, and it is almost a must-see. Many of the children's fancy styles are also varied, and they all take it as a kind of fun. Yang Jibin also likes the process of fighting against the yellow eel, especially when encountering the big eel, this feeling is exciting. Once the eel bites and is hooked by the hook, and the eel angler drags it out, the eel's mouth is pierced by the hook and suffers great pain, and it seems to know that its life is on the line, so it will wrap its eel around the crooked burrow and struggle with all its might. And the eel angler is afraid of tearing off the hook wire, and is afraid of tearing the mouth of the yellow eel, resulting in a failure, so he does not dare to use too much strength, so people and the yellow eel will experience a game.