In the face of my abusive words, Ao Jin just smiled. Until Uncle Ji and Aunt Ji came out of the house, both sides persuaded a few words. I was able to enter the house, but my nose and face were swollen from being beaten by them.

"Boy, did the centipede come back?" Ao Jin looked at me with a smile.

"I'm sure I've brought it back, I can't go out of it." After saying that, I put down the two large bamboo tubes behind my back.

As time went on, so did the movement in the bamboo tube. The centipede that slowly woke up kept scratching the bamboo tube with its little claws.

"Are you sure this centipede can help us deal with that giant turtle, old man?" Uncle Ji looked at the bamboo tube in confusion and said.

"When it comes to dealing with it, it's definitely not good, but it always has its use, and you'll know when the time comes." After Ao Jin finished speaking, he instructed Aunt Ji to bring a porcelain bowl over.

Then he opened the stopper on the bamboo tube and poured the centipedes out of the bamboo tube. Maybe it's been in the bamboo tube for too long, and the two pairs of transparent wings like cicada wings on the back of the centipede have withered into a lump. But they still writhed their long bodies and crawled around in the porcelain bowls.

Centipedes without wings are exactly like regular centipedes, except that they have a golden stripe on their tails.

Lao Qin and Lao Liu from the National Security Bureau also encountered this kind of thing for the first time. So they stared at the porcelain bowl intently, but Ao Jin stopped them from approaching the porcelain bowl: "Be careful! They're poison gassed. If you accidentally get your eyes on it, you'll be blind in no time. ”

"I've been fighting that giant turtle for nearly a thousand years, so I know its fate. If you want to deal with it, you must first break its life gate. Ao Jin stretched out his finger and pointed to the top of his head: "That guy is cunning and fierce by nature. Therefore, it shifts its life gate to the top of its head, and the life gate of the general king eight or turtle is on the neck. The reason why he wants to move his life to the top of his head is because his head is very hard. Besides, it has a thick layer of scales and horns growing on the top of its head. An ordinary sword can't hurt it even a point. ”

"Then why doesn't it transfer its life gate to its carapace? The carapace on its back must be the hardest part of its body. I looked at Ao Jin curiously.

"The reason why it wants to cultivate the life gate above its head, because then it can better absorb the aura of heaven and earth, as well as the yin qi that comes from the bottom of this river, you should understand it now, right?" Ao Jin patiently explained to me, looked around again, and asked everyone.

"Old man, can you catch soft-shelled turtles? You immediately go to the river and catch a soft-shelled turtle and come back, remember that the bigger the better, I will be useful. Ao Jin put the centipede in the porcelain bowl back into the bamboo tube, and then asked Uncle Ji if he could catch the soft-shelled turtle.

Uncle Ji nodded very confidently: "Isn't it just to catch a soft-shelled turtle?" What's so hard about that? You sit here for a while, and I'll come as soon as I go. After Uncle Ji finished speaking, he picked up a turtle gun behind the door and ran to the river.

This turtle gun is completely different from the turtle guns used by other people who specialize in catching soft-shelled turtles, and its two-meter-long white wax rod is firmly tied to a circle of steel needles, each of which has the same barb as a fish hook.

"Lao Wang, how do you catch soft-shelled turtles with this thing? Why don't we go and have a look?" Jiang Yimeng looked at Uncle Ji who was far away very curiously, and then said to me.

I've seen turtle guns catch soft-shelled turtles, but this turtle gun is the first time I've seen it, so I don't know how to use it at all, Jiang Yimeng's words aroused my curiosity: "Okay! It just so happens that I also want to see how Uncle Ji catches soft-shelled turtles, so let's go together. ”

After speaking, Jiang Yimeng and I also ran out with Uncle Ji's back. Hassle-free

As soon as we arrived at the river, we saw Uncle Ji holding the turtle gun and searching in the waist-deep river.

"Uncle Ji, how is it? Did you catch a soft-shelled turtle?" Jiang Yimeng stood on the shore and shouted.

"I just caught one, but it's too small, so I put it again. Don't worry, I just found out that there's a bigger one in the water, so I'm going to get it. As soon as Uncle Ji's words fell, he suddenly bent down and touched it in the water.

After a long time, Uncle Ji held a soft-shelled turtle the size of a basin in his hand and stretched out of the water: "Look, I caught it." ”

"Wow! Uncle Ji, you are so amazing! I actually caught such a big soft-shelled turtle. Jiang Yimeng slapped his face on the shore and praised Uncle Ji, but Uncle Ji, who was standing in the water, smiled embarrassedly: "Don't talk like that, I'm embarrassed." I've caught all the bigger soft-shelled turtles than this! ”

"Uncle Ji, I want to try it too, you can teach me!" Seeing that Uncle Ji easily caught a big soft-shelled turtle, I couldn't hold back my curiosity. So I mentioned to Uncle Ji that I also wanted to learn how to use this turtle gun to catch soft-shelled turtles.

"Do you want to learn? You can't learn from standing on the shore, right? Hurry down, I'll teach you! Uncle Ji threw the soft-shelled turtle in his hand into a bamboo basket on the shore, and the huge soft-shelled turtle drew a perfect arc in the air and landed firmly in the bamboo basket.

When I saw this scene, I was directly stunned. I hurriedly rolled up my trouser legs and walked in front of Uncle Ji: "Uncle Ji, I've come down, you can teach me." ”

Uncle Ji handed me the turtle gun in his hand, and then stood in the water with his waist crossed and said to me: "Catching soft-shelled turtles is a careful job, don't be in a hurry, you have to take your time." The first thing is to find the water where the soft-shelled turtle lives, and then you take the turtle gun and slowly explore the mud and sand at the bottom of the water. That is to say, use the turtle gun to slowly insert it in the mud and sand, and there are only two possibilities if the tip of the turtle gun encounters a hard object, the first is who lifts the stone or garbage. The second type is the soft-shelled turtle. If your hand feels like the thing underneath that has been stabbed by a turtle spear is hard, don't even think about it, it must be a stone. But if it touches something hard, when you stick it with a turtle gun, it will still have a little elasticity, and even a little movement, it is basically a soft-shelled turtle or a turtle. ”

After speaking, Uncle Ji taught me how to catch the turtle gun correctly, and then taught me how to use the turtle gun to find out if there are soft-shelled turtles in the mud and sand at the bottom of the water.

After teaching for a while, Uncle Ji let go of his hand: "Okay, now you can explore it yourself according to the method I said!" Let's see if there are any other soft-shelled turtles here. ”

"Okay, Uncle Ji, you can give me more guidance when you're next to you." I smiled and picked up the turtle gun and slowly inserted it into the mud and sand at the bottom of the water.

Suddenly, I felt the turtle spear stabbing a hard thing, I hurriedly increased the force in my hand a little, and felt that the hard thing I stabbed seemed to be a little elastic, as if it was still moving. I hurriedly shouted excitedly, "Uncle Ji, I caught a soft-shelled turtle." ”

Uncle Ji smiled and nodded: "Well, yes, I learned it so quickly." Then get that turtle out of the mud and sand, and we should go back too. ”

I bent down and groped my hands in the mud and sand where the turtle spear had stabbed, and sure enough, the turtle was firmly pressed by me with the turtle spear, and was struggling violently with its claws. I grabbed the skirt of its tail with one hand and lifted it out of the water.

"Boy, this soft-shelled turtle you caught is too small. Let's release it. I've already caught a big turtle, and it should be enough, and if they see that we haven't gone back for so long, they will definitely be in a hurry. If you want to learn how to catch soft-shelled turtles, I'll teach you slowly next time I have time. Uncle Ji walked slowly towards the shore.

I hurriedly put the soft-shelled turtle in my hand in the water and said to it, "Little thing, go back quickly." Don't let me get you back next time! Otherwise, I'm going to stew you. The turtle dived into the water and swam quickly into the distance. Then, it disappeared into the water.