Zhao Guangming has helped himself a lot before, and when I think about it,

"I'll just say, if you can catch that much in less than half an hour, that's not enough. By the way, can you help us catch a few and bring them back? ”

"I'm afraid not," Liu Junhao shook his head with a wry smile and told the fat man about it.

"This old man has a personality" As soon as I heard that someone paid 30,000 yuan to buy his craft, and people still didn't sell it, several people let out a sigh of admiration.

"Since you don't want to move the great god, then let's do it ourselves, anyway, we all came with guys." One of the young men said as he pulled out several whiskers from the trunk.

This whisker cage is different from the common ones, it is made of window screens and steel bars, and when put together, it is very small, and once unfolded, it is more than two meters long.

"Will this work, I heard that the old turtle has been wintering. I didn't come out until April or May. He asked, "worried."

"No problem, the weather is warm this year, and the old turtle is out. Came early. The young man with the beard cage replied.

"This guy is also a big aquaculture farmer, mainly raising Chinese turtles. He. Catching turtles is also a good hand, and people are professionals. Although it can't be compared with the 'fish king' in your village, the level is definitely not low. Zhao Guangming said in a boastful tone.

What I'm afraid of is professionals, Liu Junhao can't say what he is suffering from, and in the end. Followed. He had already planned to wait until he really caught the old turtle, let the big ones take them away, and buy the small ones with all his own money.

The bait used by the professionals was mundane, just some chickens. Blood-soaked bran.

Put the Sulong River in. After being in the water, several people stood in the distance and smoked. Taking advantage of the fact that they weren't paying attention, Liu Junhao pulled Zhao Guangming and asked in a low voice, "This person is not from our town, right?" ”

"It's from the county seat, and I don't know him very well, or Uncle Zhou called me to receive it, otherwise, I wouldn't be crazy and run here." I said, are these people in your village sick in the brain or what, guarding the river beach, a treasure of feng shui, and suffering from poverty? The old turtle was caught casually, and in less than two years, he was allowed to make a fortune. ”

"And then ......," Liu Junhao asked rhetorically.

"What?" Zhao Guangming was puzzled.

"If you catch the turtle once, you won't be able to see the children in the village in the future. This old turtle is not like a leek planted in the ground, you can continue to cut it after cutting a stubble, this wealth is the wealth of cutting off children and grandchildren. ”

"You kid...... This is true. But people have already come, what else can they say. Zhao Guangming agrees with him, "I often heard my dad say that when they were children, there were rabbits and wild boars running in the fields, the fish in the river were floating in groups, and the old turtles in the creek were dense, but now it is difficult to catch an old turtle." ”

He said half a sentence, and suddenly changed the subject: "By the way, don't we all advocate that sustainable development now, you can completely catch it while raising it." Your kid has already raised yellow eels anyway, and it's nothing to raise some old turtles, so there should be no conflict. ”

"I had the idea, but I haven't implemented it yet." Liu Junhao explained with a wry smile. It seems that you have to hurry up in time, don't really wait for the old turtle to be caught before panicking.

He had decided to spend the summer wandering around the beach a few more times and getting some turtle eggs to hatch in stone locks. The quality of the turtles growing in the spring water is definitely better than that of the wild ones, and it should be able to divert people's attention when the time comes.

"The sooner the better, and I will come to your house to buy soft-shelled turtles when the guests come later, how much is your soft-shelled turtle a pound." Zhao Guangming asked with a smile, a hint of cunning flashing in his eyes.

"You kid, scold me in a different way." Liu Junhao naturally heard the meaning of his words.

Although he was disgusted with these people, no matter what, they were all brought by Zhao Guangming, so he naturally had to entertain them at noon.

Seeing that the time was not early, he and Zhao Guangming went home to cook together.

Zhao Guangming only filled two fires, and Liu Junhao saw that this person must be the master of clothes and food at home. Fortunately, Zhang Qian came back from school at this time, rolled up her sleeves and went into the house to help.

There are yellow eels in the backyard and a pound of beef in the refrigerator. Chop some greens, and finally pile half a pot of hot food.

After cooking, Zhao Guangming called to eat, but the two came back, leaving the man who said that he would not come back, and he wanted to watch the beard cage on the river beach so as not to let people steal it.

Who is rare about your thing, seeing that he insisted, Zhao Guangming did not continue to meet.

Liu Junhao was sorry, and he wanted to do some small actions after calling a few people back, but it seemed that it would not work.

After eating, a few people carried some more food to the river to change shifts.

In the afternoon, several tourists in the village happened to go to the river beach to play, and when they saw Liu Junhao, they came over to say hello. As soon as they heard that someone was catching turtles here, they all stood on the shore with great interest and watched.

No matter how anxious others are, then the professional just doesn't mean to mention the beard cage. Wait until the afternoon... It was only then that he slowly picked up the rope and pulled up the beard cage little by little.

As the river rattled, several people also widened their eyes. But when the beard cage left the water, everyone's expressions were stunned.

Don't talk about the old turtle inside, there is no small fish or shrimp.

What's going on? The professional hurriedly picked up the beard cage. Following his gestures, everyone saw clearly that there were several holes the size of bowls in the middle of the cage.

Although Liu Junhao had no expression on his face, he was happy in his heart. Someone is sabotaging? But as soon as this idea came to me, I immediately felt impossible. You know, at noon, someone has been watching here. Even if the people in the village wanted to make some small moves, they couldn't find a chance.

"What's going on?" The expression on one of the faces of one of them was quite wonderful, "It's hanging on a tree branch, is there a branch thrown in this water?" ”

"No, it's living water," Mr. Liu denied.

"It's not hanging from a branch." The professional also shook his head, carefully traced the big hole with his hand a few times, and said, "It should have been bitten by something."

"Was it bitten by an old turtle?" Zhao Guangming followed behind and interjected.

"The old turtle doesn't have that much energy,"

"Look at the other ......," one of them reacted.

The professionals hurriedly pulled up the remaining whiskers, and the results were once again beyond everyone's expectations. The cage was all torn apart, and the inside was already empty, and the gauze where the bait had been placed could not be found.

Not only did they feel weird at this time, but even Liu Junhao felt a little abnormal.

"It can't be a water monster, I used to hear that there was a unicorn in the river." Zhao Guangming usually likes to read some books about ghost fights, so when something happens, the first thing he thinks of is some unknown creature.

"Water monsters?" One of the tourists was also interested, turned his head and asked, "What unicorn?" ”

There have been rumors of water monsters in large rivers for a long time, and in the past few years, people have been saying that they have seen unknown creatures in the center of the river, and most of them are bizarre.

The earliest case was in the mid-60s, when a man named Guo Dafa went down to the river to take a bath at noon, and while washing, he suddenly felt a force under the water pulling him towards the center of the river.

The man sensed something was wrong and hurried ashore. Within two minutes of coming ashore, I saw a huge splash in the center of the river, and then a furry monster came out of the middle of the river. The monster's head was somewhat similar to that of a buffalo, with a single horn thirty or forty centimeters long in the middle of its forehead.

Guo Dafa didn't dare to look at it more, and ran back to the village. At night he began to fall ill with a high fever and is said to have been lying in bed for more than two months before he recovered. Since then, it has been said that a unicorn lives in the river, and from time to time it is said that the unicorn is seen bathing in the center of the river at noon or night.

In the 70s, there was a big flood, and the embankment suddenly burst without knowing what was going on, and some people said that unicorns drilled it with horns. Later, the county specially sent a survey boat to search along the river, but found nothing.

The last rumor of the water monster was seven or eight years ago, when there was a heavy fog and some people went to the river to dig for rice, and when they accidentally looked up, they saw a black thing floating in the middle of the river.

The man was more bold, and went back to the village and called a large group of people to watch along the river, but the fog was too big, and the thing could only be seen vaguely. The commotion was very large, and the town police station also sent two police officers to check.

In the end, three fishing boats were dispatched, and a dozen or so rod laborers rushed towards the center of the river with harpoons in hand. When they reached the center of the river, they realized that it was a false alarm, and it turned out that it was an old tree root that had washed down from the mountain. Because of the fog and the rumors of the unicorn before, everyone regarded it as a water monster.

Since then, the rumors about the Great River Monster have disappeared.

Liu Junhao is ninety-nine percent skeptical of the legends of those water monsters, but this one in front of him is definitely not a water monster. The movement is too small, and the turtle generally lives in shallow water, so the water depth at the lower whisker cage is no deeper than the thigh. There was a big monster, and the man on the shore could definitely see it.

"I'll go down and see" The professional was quite unwilling, pulled up his trouser legs, and jumped into the river to grope.

It's a pity that I searched for about ten minutes in the water, but I didn't touch anything inside.

When I came, I was in high spirits, and when I drove away, I was depressed. For Liu, this is the best outcome. However, he also wondered what it was that had cut a few big holes in the beard cage. Could it be a firehead? When he thought about it, he thought it was very likely.

Fireheads are ferocious creatures that feed on other fish and sometimes even catch waterfowl. They must have been attracted by the fishy smell of the cage, and then blocked by the curtain, and the fire head bit open the cage with his teeth and swallowed the fish inside.

At the beginning, the fire head I caught in the weir pond was more than 30 catties, and the big river was wider and deeper, so it was hard to guarantee that there would be no big fire inside. Although the beard cage is strong, it should not be anything compared to the teeth of the fire head.

However, the movement of the fire head was also quite large, how could that person not find out