Chapter 34: Yellow Eel
"At that time, I was still a child, so naturally I didn't get beaten by your grandma, but when I got a little older, the family had a lot of work, so I didn't do those things anymore." Huang Conghe thought of those things when he was a child, and there was both loss and happiness on his face.
What is lost is that I have fled from my hometown for many years, all familiar things and childhood friends are gone, and I will inevitably feel a little panicked in my heart when I have to adapt to my future life.
Happily, those good memories are worth remembering for a lifetime, and they are his most precious things.
Huang Yiyun didn't disturb his uncle's memories either.
After that, the position between the two of them changed, letting Huang Conghe walk in front, Huang Yiyun held a torch in one hand and leaned forward slightly, illuminating the road on the ridge under the feet of the two of them, and in the other hand, Huang Yiyun held bamboo tongs, looked around with both eyes, and looked into the sowing paddy field.
It's like looking for something.
As for Huang Conghe, who was holding a wooden bucket in one hand and a bucket in the other, the eldest sister said that wherever he went, he would go.
"Big sister, what are you looking for?" Huang Conghe asked after seeing his eldest sister looking in the paddy field.
"Uncle, be quiet, I've found it." Huang Yiyun didn't raise his head, and pressed his index finger to his lips.
Huang Conghe saw the bamboo tongs in the eldest sister's hand clipping into the rice field, and then picked up a brownish 'snake' and threw it at his wooden barrel.
"Big sister, what kind of water snake is this, so small, short, and quite thin, and it doesn't have much meat?" Huang Conghe asked after staring at the "snake" swimming in the barrel.
"Snake, poof, uncle, this is not a snake, the eldest sister heard the villagers say, this is a yellow eel, after frying in oil, put perilla leaves and stir-fry, not to mention delicious, but also old and fragrant." Uncle, this yellow eel doesn't bite like a normal one? Huang Yiyun thought about it, when he was in his hometown, there were no paddy fields, Huang Conghe had never seen a yellow eel at all, and after mistaking the yellow eel for a snake, Huang Yiyun laughed out loud.
Moreover, the yellow eel that Huang Yiyun grabbed is not small, it is the size of an adult's thumb, and it is the length of an adult's forearm, a yellow eel, Huang Yiyun estimates that it weighs half a catty.
"It's a yellow eel, not a snake, Uncle still thinks it's a snake? What about the weird ones? But if you take a closer look, this yellow eel doesn't spit out letters, it's really not like it? Huang Conghe scratched his head and said.
"Uncle, let's take a closer look, we still have a lot of ridges that haven't left? Let's grab more and go back. "However, there were only two of them, one of them carrying a torch in one hand and a bamboo tongs in the other, and the other carrying a wooden barrel and a bucket.
Sometimes, when two or three yellow eels come out next to the rice field, there is only one bamboo tong, and only one yellow eel can be caught, and the others are all frightened away and shrank into the mud field.
It's a pity for Huang Yiyun to look at it.
"Gai Ming'er, uncle makes more bamboo tongs, and a few more people from our family, this yellow eel is running away, looking at my uncle's heart uncomfortable?" Huang Conghe saw this way.
It's just that after only walking half of the ridge, the torches made by the third sister have been used up.
Huang Yiyun's uncle and nephew caught nearly half a bucket of yellow eel.
"If you come back tomorrow at night, we will make a few more torches." Huang Conghe looked at the extinguished torch and said.
"Cheng, uncle, let's come back tomorrow, plus the second sister and the third sister, we can't catch it today, let's go home!" Huang Yiyun said with some pity.
However, the deeper the night, the more eels come out for a walk.
And Huang Yiyun feels that these yellow eels are so good to die?
After being clamped by the bamboo tongs, after twisting his body a few times, he was caught.
Moreover, in ancient times, this yellow eel was wild, and there was no organic chemical fertilizer to raise it, so there were a lot of goods in this field?
Not to mention how tender the meat is.
"Eldest sister, you asked your uncle to come out with a bucket, tonight my uncle saw that you didn't use this bucket, what is this bucket for?" After Huang Conghe's uncle and nephew rushed back home from the ridge by moonlight, Huang Conghe asked the eldest sister after thinking about this.
"Uncle, this bucket is used to catch other things." After Huang Yiyun heard the sound of calling in the rice field, his heart was itchy, Huang Yiyun looked at the yellow eel in the barrel, as if he could not have both fish and bear paws.
After returning home, Huang Yiyun asked Huang Conghe to bring the yellow eel to the kitchen.
Huang Yiyun was still afraid that the yellow eel would be taken away by mice, weasels and night cats, so he deliberately asked his uncle to cover it from the wooden cover, leaving only a thin slit to breathe to prevent the yellow eel from suffocating to death, and the two of them went back to their rooms to sleep.
After a sleepless night.
Suddenly, a scream spread on the roof of the Huang family.
Huang Yiyun came back to sleep with his uncle last night about the third watch.
After being woken up by this scream and dozing off.
After hearing the screams and screaming, and there was a loud noise.
Huang Yiyun mistakenly thought that something was going on at home.
Get dressed and run straight to the noisy place.
After coming to the kitchen.
Seeing that the Huang Jiang clan, the Huang Li clan and a few small ones were hiding behind the adults, running in all directions, they couldn't avoid anything, and they were shouting 'snakes and snakes and the like' in their mouths
Huang Yiyun took a look.
It turned out that after they knocked over the wooden barrel containing the yellow eel, everyone in the Huang family had never seen the yellow eel, and they all mistakenly thought that the yellow eel was a snake.
"Don't be afraid, it's not a snake." Huang Yiyun walked up with an arrow step, stretched out the middle fingers of both hands, and directly grabbed the head of a yellow eel, then straightened the wooden barrel, and threw the yellow eel into it.
"It's not a snake." Huang Liu was a little surprised.
"Mother, isn't this really a snake? Serpents will spit out letters, don't you see these? After the second sister saw that her eldest sister said that it was not a snake, and saw that her eldest sister grabbed it with her bare hands, grabbed one and threw it into the barrel, the second sister was not so afraid in her heart.
And stepped forward to help the eldest sister grab these things and throw them into the barrel.
The third sister is shy and shy, and she still doesn't dare to step forward, not to mention Huang Jiang and Huang Liu, she is scared when she sees it, and she doesn't dare to step forward.
A few small ones heard the eldest sister say that it was not a snake, and then saw that their eldest sister grabbed a quasi-queen, which looked very funny.
One by one, they were not afraid to come forward and want to help.
It's just that the yellow eel has not been caught, and the yellow eel is slippery, and the second sister and brother can't catch it at all.
After grabbing it, it slipped out of the palm of the hand or between the fingers.
"Mother, aunt, this is a yellow eel, basically it doesn't bite, the yellow eel is slimy, there is no skill, it can't be caught, the eldest sister figured it out yesterday, stretched out her middle finger, and directly grabbed it from the head of the yellow eel, so that the yellow eel will not slip out of your hands." After Huang Yiyun saw the second sister come forward to help, he taught them with a smile on his face.
At first, they didn't know how to do it, but they were taught by Huang Yiyun a few times, and they all slowly learned.