Chapter 100: Catching Turtles in an Urn
After a long journey of more than three hours, Zhu Xishi and his party of four finally arrived safely at Bilong Pond.
Carefully observed the environment where the Bilong Pond is located, which is located at the bottom of the Taiyin Valley, surrounded by narrow cliffs, and the sunlight can not shine in all year round, and the dampness is extremely heavy. Not far away, a pool of crystal clear blue pool is like a treasure mirror carved from jade, stretching out in front of everyone's eyes without waves, the water surface rises from time to time with a curling cold air, at a glance, you can know that it is the snow water in this mountain gathered, extremely cold.
Such a unique cold place is indeed conducive to the growth and habitat of snow clams, and the uncontrollable joy in Sheng Zijun's eyes gradually replaced the fatigue on the way.
"That's right, you're right! This is definitely it! ”
Twitching a somewhat blocked snort, Sheng Zijun shouted excitedly, in the eyes of others, he was almost gone.
"Are you sure this Bilong Pond is the habitat of snow clams?!"
When Zhu Xi, who was also looking at the environment around Bilong Pond, he jumped over the high and low bare rocks and walked to Sheng Zijun's side, asking him for confirmation again.
"You can't be wrong! There is no sunlight in Bilong Pond all year round, and it is cold and humid, which is in line with the growth environment of snow clams. ”
"Alright, let's hurry up and get started."
"Start? How to start?! ”
Before Sheng Zijun could ask a question or two, Zhu Xishi had already taken a step towards the rocky beach close to the pond, observed the convergence of the water for a moment, and had an ideal position in his heart; He quickly took off his shoes and trousers, and went straight into the shallows with his bare feet.
Zhu Xishi's strange behavior suddenly stunned the three men present! On a cold day, barefoot and barefoot soaking in the shallow water where the ice water converges, don't you die?! Sheng Zijun hurriedly dared to step forward to stop Zhu Xishi from messing around.
"You don't want to die, hurry up! Soaking in the snow for too long, the cold invades the body and frostbites the blood veins on the feet, and you are not dead but also crippled! ”
"Do you still want to catch clams? If you want to, don't talk endlessly nonsense, hurry down and help move. ”
While motioning to Sheng Zijun for help, Zhu Xishi struggled to pick up a mountain rock of dozens of catties from the side and stood in the water in front of him, this courage and strength really embarrassed several of their men.
"What are you moving these rocks for?"
Sheng Zijun, who still couldn't see what Zhu Xishi wanted, stood on the stone in surprise and hurriedly asked, and Zhu Xishi, who was bent down and kept moving the stone, raised his head slightly, and explained with a little urge.
"It's so simple and you can't see it? Make urns. Uncle Niu, Tiezhu, bother you to come down and help, I'm too slow alone. ”
Although Uncle Niu doesn't know two big characters, after all, he is a veteran who has been in the mountains for many years, and he looked at the mountains and rocks arranged in front of Zhu Xishi at this time, and remembered the basket she made a few days ago, and seemed to have a little understanding.
"Could it be that Miss Zhu wants to make a stone urn to catch snow clams?!"
Brushing the forehead hair that obstructed the vision in front of him, Zhu Xishi showed a smile of praise on his face, and returned to Uncle Niu's rhetorical question: "Exactly, let's catch turtles in an urn, so that this snow clam can't run away when it comes." ”
"The method is good, but this snow clam is also spiritual, can it be so stupid that it can't drill into this stone urn by itself?!"
Sheng Zijun, who heard a little eyebrows, pondered in his heart, and expressed the doubts in his heart.
"Don't forget, we have a female snow clam as bait."
"So what?"
"How?!" Zhu Xishi's laughter, I don't know whether to laugh at Sheng Zijun's brain is too dead, or to laugh at others for being too stupid! When it comes to this, he is still stunned: "Didn't you say it yourself, now is the breeding season of snow clams, can the oil sac on the back of this female snow clam exude a strange fragrance and attract the opposite sex to mate?" As long as we put the female snow clam caught into this stone urn, the other male snow clams can still hold back?! It's strange if you don't drill into it all the time. ”
As soon as these words came out, I suddenly woke up from my dream! Sheng Zijun, who suddenly realized, slapped his head with one hand and shouted happily.
"Wonderful, wonderful!! What a trick 'beauty trick'. ”
"You're a big-headed ghost, why don't you come down and help!"
"Oooh, here!!"
After understanding Zhu Xishi's clever plan, Lehuan's Sheng Zijun took off his shoes and socks three times and divided them by two, and followed into the shallow water.
"Mother! Good ice!! ”
"What the hell are you yelling at! Twisting and pinching a basket of strange problems, he is really not a man. ”
Seeing Sheng Zijun squeamish like a little girl, Zhu Xishi couldn't help but ridicule him on the side, although Uncle Niu and Tie Zhu didn't say much on their faces, they also laughed while moving stones.
"You try"
I was in a hurry and didn't want to refute the last unconfident sentence. Isn't a big girl standing in the snow at the moment? What else to try Sheng Zijun suddenly became dumb, bowed his head, endured the biting snow water, and quickly lifted the stone.
There was a lot of strength in numbers, and it didn't take long for a round stone urn to be built in the shallows. Seeing that it was done, Sheng Zijun quickly jumped ashore like a field chicken, holding his frozen feet and rubbing them.
"I'm freezing to death! I almost don't feel it in both feet."
And Zhu Xishi was still standing in the snow at this time, and the bamboo basket that Aunt Niu had braided in advance was placed on the only gap in the stone urn. The manufacturing principle of the bamboo basket is similar to that of the shrimp hedge for catching shrimp, the import is large and the export is small, and once the snow clam enters the stone urn, it is difficult to come out again.
Sheng Zijun, who had been rubbing his feet on the shore for a while, looked at the stone urn they had spent a lot of effort building, and suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted to Zhu Xishi, who was standing in the snowy water.
"No, there's a big loophole in your method! Although we built this urn with mountain stones, most of these stones were irregularly shaped, and the gaps between the stones were too large. And the snow clams are smaller, and even if they do get in, they can get out of the cracks, right? ”
"Don't bother with you, I've thought about this problem for a long time, so naturally there is a way to make them come and not be able to escape."
Without looking back, Zhu Xishi replied to Sheng Zijun while searching for small stones on the shallow water, carefully plugging the more obvious gaps in the stone urn; Suddenly thinking of something important, Zhu Xishi hurriedly raised his head and beckoned the iron pillar on the side.
"Brother Tiezhu, please hurry up and pick up some firewood around and make a fire."
"Okay."
Tie Zhu is a man with solid eyes, and he is not as verbose as Sheng Zijun, why did he go to collect firewood and make a fire when he received Zhu Xishi. It seemed that he didn't want Sheng Zijun to be idle on the shore alone, so Zhu Xishi calculated it in his heart and arranged a small task for him.
"Doctor Sheng, please go and bring my baggage."
As soon as he heard the word "burden", Sheng Zijun's eyes lit up. On the way here, I noticed the heavy burden on Zhu Xishi's back, and I didn't know what was inside. If you think about it at this time, is it food?! All of a sudden, Sheng Zijun, who was hungry, had strength all over his body, and he happily accepted it.
"Okay!!"
He didn't even bother to put on his shoes, and like a rabbit running quickly, he "swished" to the burden that Zhu Xi had put on the rocks on the shore, and happily removed them.
It's just that with the burden that was gradually unwrapped, the joy on Sheng Zijun's face slowly turned to surprise, and when the things in the burden were completely revealed in front of him, this surprise gave rise to great confusion!