Under Liu Junhao's guidance, Zhang Hongbin's digging finally became smooth. (.)

Not every hole has loaches, many of them are laid by other aquatic creatures, such as snails, shrimps, and locusts...... Zhang Hongbin quickly summed up the experience: the walls of other caves are rough, and the loach holes are very smooth, as if they have been polished by Jingxin, no wonder the old people often say that "slippery like loaches", and the feelings come from here allusions.

In half an hour, seven or eight were dug up, growing in summer, harvesting in autumn and storing in winter, and the loaches also abided by this rule. At this time, the loach has stored a large amount of nutrients necessary for winter, and it is unusually fat, with nearly half a catty of seven or eight pieces.

However, his speed is not comparable to Liu Junhao, and people pick up the shovel and wave it quickly, and at this time, there is already a small half bucket.

Digging another shovel, Zhang Hongbin suddenly became excited, and shouted repeatedly: "Xiaohao, I have a big loach here." ”

"Give up, don't dig this hole" Liu Junhao looked at it twice and said.

"Why don't you dig it, it must be a big loach," Brother Zhang Qian asked suspiciously. He also has experience in digging so many loaches, this mud hole is smooth, the wall of the cave is the size of a dollar coin, and it is definitely a big guy inside.

"It's not a loach hole, it's a yellow eel." Liu Junhao opened his mouth to explain. The Yellow Eel Cave is different from the Loach Cave in that the cave is generally twisted and turned, and it is rarely straight up and down, which can be seen at a glance by experienced people.

"The yellow eel is also very good...... Isn't it more expensive? Zhang Hongbin was confused.

"That being said, the key is more than worth the loss. In winter, the eel cave is at least one meter deep. I couldn't dig it out in half an hour. With this effort, it is better to dig a few more loaches. ”

Liu Junhao is not exaggerating this, the weather is cold in winter, and the yellow eel has poor frost resistance. So it was drilled very deep. Similar to this one are crayfish, which can drill more than two meters deep in winter. If you want to dig them out, you have to dig at least half a truckload of soil, which is really more than worth the loss.

"I'll dig it and try it, there's really a big yellow eel worth it." Zhang Hongbin didn't want to give up and continued to work hard.

Liu Junhao didn't say anything more, Brother Zhang Qian came purely for fun, and it didn't matter what he dig.

However, Zhang Hongbin quickly gave up. Just dug half a meter deep, the bottom is to touch the river stone, the shovel can not exert its power at all, can only give up halfway.

The two dug from nine o'clock until eleven o'clock. The harvest is large, and the loaches are nearly half a bucket small. Liu Junhao carried it, and it was twenty pounds.

"Dad, I need to go to the bathroom" They were busy when Zeyu leaned over and said. This little one. There is no habit of being convenient in the field yet.

"You went home alone, you didn't look busy" Zhang Hongbin was digging energetically, and he didn't raise his head to answer.

"I don't, I'm going to see you dig loaches......" the little guy said he didn't want to leave alone. /

"Large and small?" Liu Junhao asked.

"Trumpet" is rare. This kid can understand.

"You go there to solve it" Liu Junhao pointed to a dry ditch not far away, "Don't worry." No one can see it. ”

"Oh" Ozawa nodded and left, this guy. To pee hands do not leave the small nail rake.

"Wait, I'll go too" Xiao Jianhui responded and followed.

After solving the personal problem, Ozawa Yu casually raised the nail rake and planed it, only to find that a loach hole appeared in the wet and soft black mud.

Now he was in the mood, picked up the little nail rake and planed it. Who knew that with a slight planing, a fat loach appeared.

Planing it again, two ...... appear The two brothers blushed with excitement, and they raised the nail rake one after another.

Four, eight...... Nests of loaches are gouged out. This inconspicuous dry ditch is like a long firecracker, and those loaches are like firecrackers. Tapping the lead, a large string of loaches crackled in front of him.

Liu Junhao and the others were so busy that they completely forgot about the little brothers, and when they rested, they remembered that the two were not around.

So, Zhang Hongbin hurriedly shouted at the top of his voice.

"Uncle, uncle, come over quickly, we caught a lot of loaches. There are so many loaches here that I can't finish digging them, so hurry up......" Xiao Jianhui responded with a loud voice over there.

What...... The two ran over in disbelief.

Good guy, seeing that the keg in front of him was almost full, Liu Junhao was startled.

As for Brother Zhang Qian, he was a little embarrassed. I was busy for a long time, and I didn't dig as much as the two little guys: "This ...... What did you dig here? ”

"Well, look" Xiao Jianhui nodded to demonstrate, and under the nail rake, another loach was hooked out.

That's fine!! Liu Junhao was also amazed. He leaned over and looked twice, still not understanding why the loach holes were so shallow, and the density was far greater than in the puddles. This ditch was newly dug by himself the year before to drain the stagnant water in the backyard, connecting the puddles outside the backyard with the ditch in the field, and further flowing into the Baitiao River, through which the stagnant water in the backyard of his house was discharged in the summer.

It stands to reason that there shouldn't be so many loaches? Old experience has encountered new problems.

Liu Junhao is like that, he always wants to understand things when he encounters things that he doesn't understand. He didn't dig for the loaches, and walked back and forth along the ditch. patted his head, and finally understood, it turned out to be a cement loach!

This ditch does look inconspicuous, but if you carefully study the two ends, you will find that it happens to be in the shape of a basin, slightly higher on the side near the puddle, with a drop of about 30 centimeters. Loaches, like other fish, like to swim against the current. In summer, the loaches in the swollen Baitiao River swim along the current to the dry ditch, but because the drop at the front end of the puddle is too large, most of the loaches cannot go up and can only be blocked in the dry ditch.

Anyone who catches fish on rainy days knows that most of the fish in the upper water are gathered in the water drop, and as long as no one is alarmed, they generally do not turn around and swim away, so it is easy to catch. Make a fishing net under the drop, and the fish won't run.

When the stagnant water in the backyard is drained, the ditch will become stagnant because of the drop problem, and these loaches will not be able to swim downstream, and they will be trapped in the ditch.

That's why there are so many loaches in this inconspicuous ditch.

As for why they hole shallower than other loaches...... Liu Junhao also wants to understand now. The reason is simple, earthy!! When he first dug this ditch, he was afraid of being blocked by silt, so he deliberately put a layer of yellow cement underneath. This mud contains a lot of sand, and it is difficult for the loaches to penetrate when they burrow, so the burrow is only on the top of this thin layer of black mud.

Thinking of this, Liu Junhao asked to dig lightly on the ground with a nail rake, and sure enough, seven or eight centimeters below was yellow clay.

Finding the reason, the two adults immediately waved their shovels to shift their positions.

In just half an hour, they completed the dry ditch, which was about 20 meters long. The results were beyond imagination, and the two small buckets were full.

The more they worked, the more energetic they became, and they even forgot about lunch. Until Zhang Qian called and urged them to come back for dinner. Liu Junhao came back to his senses, folded the loaches into two large buckets, and slipped home.

"You're digging so much in a few hours?" Seeing the loaches in the bucket, Zhang Qian was also surprised.

"Auntie, you don't know ......" Xiao Jianhui and the two brothers scrambled to talk about the legendary experience.

Several people were on the rise, and they were not restless at noon. After eating and resting for less than half an hour, Zhang Luo went to dig loaches outside the courtyard wall.

In less than a day, Liu Junhao turned over the entire puddle. I dug more than 80 catties of loaches. This amount is still a certain distance from what Wang Shengli requires, but no problem. With so many loaches at the bottom, Liu Junhao can secretly catch some from the stone lock.

At noon, thinking about digging loaches, a few people didn't eat well, Liu Junhao originally planned to fry a few more dishes in the evening and drink two cups with Brother Zhang Qian.

How do you know that Zhang Hongbin ordered to eat steamed sweet potatoes, saying that after eating them once at his house last year, he still can't forget them.

Steamed sweet potato ...... No problem!!

After the frost, Liu Junhao shaved the sweet potatoes planted in the backyard, and just put them in the sweet potato well two days ago.

I tied a pot of sweet potatoes with an iron fork, washed them and put them in a steamer, and burned them on firewood for half an hour. When the smell wakes up, lift the lid of the pot, and the tempting sweet potato fragrance comes to your nose.

"That's the smell," Zhang Hongbin didn't care about the heat, reached out and grabbed one, flipped his left and right hands for a moment, and then couldn't wait to send it to his mouth.

There is actually a trick to steaming sweet potatoes, the longer the steaming time, the better, the sweet potato fiber softens at high temperatures, and tastes sweet and silky, making people almost unable to find where the tongue is.

In the past, the same was true for boiling syrup in rural areas, first boiling sweet potatoes, then putting barley malt and puree, then filtering with a sand cloth, and finally putting the sweet potato juice into a pot, slowly boiling it with a fire until the spoon was scooped up into a straight line.

After dinner, Liu Junhao made a direct call and asked Wang Shengli to come over tomorrow to get loaches.

Brother Zhang Qian originally planned to go back to the city in the afternoon, but he was busy until dark and could only live in Liujiagou.

During the day, when he was digging loaches, he was full of energy, and when he lay on the bed, he screamed vigorously. My back hurts, my body doesn't even dare to go to bed, and I can't lie down comfortably.

In desperation, he had to wake up Liu Junhao and let him massage himself.

Liu Junhao understands this situation, and many people who have not worked hard suddenly use too much force will react like this.

It seems that there is still half a bottle of safflower oil in his drawer, Liu Junhao found it and smeared it on Zhang Qian's backbone and arms.

It is indeed very hard to dig hundreds of catties of loaches a day, but when collecting money, several people are happy to close their mouths. Now the price of loaches is high, hundreds of catties of loaches have been sold, and more than 2,000 have been sold.

Liu Junhao didn't plan to put this money into his pocket, but the four of them divided it equally, and Xiao Jianhui's brothers didn't pull it down.

Brother Zhang Qian said that he didn't want anything, and he couldn't bear Liu Junhao to stuff the money into his pocket.

The Jianhui brothers collected the money, but they couldn't do it excitedly, and they screamed that they were going to dig loaches.

Over there, Brother Zhang Qian also suggested that Liu Junhao should dig loaches when he was idle, so that he could make a lot of money in such a month.

Liu Junhao shook his head again and again, saying that he had to take care of the two children at home, and he had no time at all.

There are loaches in the puddle outside the backyard, and ten of them are the credit of the spring water. Plus the place hasn't been dug up for a few years, that's why it's so dense.

There are definitely not so many other places, and it is already remarkable to be able to dig three or four catties in half a day.

That bit of money, Liu Junhao hasn't seen it yet. (To be continued.) )

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