Chapter 20 Rely on the mountain to eat the mountain

The surname Huang who lives in the front yard of my house, the uncle is about 50 years old, and he is very stubborn, so he is nicknamed Huang Laoxi. Every winter when the snow was heavy, he used a set of thin wire to go to the nearby mountain to set rabbits, and I followed him several times.

Rabbits are very strange, and on snowy days they will follow their own footprints. It goes out along this route and returns the same way it came. Uncle Huang inserted his finger into the footprints left by the rabbit in the snow. You can determine how long the rabbit has passed, and then use the direction of the rabbit's footprints. Determine if the rabbit has returned. Choose the rabbit not long after the past and have not returned to the route under the set. The set should be down on the straight road that the rabbit walked, there should be a dwarf tree on both sides of the route, and when the next set, the set should be a fist height from the ground, and the set should be directly tied to the low bushes on the side, and the rabbit should walk on the route half a meter apart from each other under two sets. When the rabbit runs quickly along the same road, it will see the first set, the rabbit body is flexible, jumps quickly, jumps over from the top of the first set, just drills into the second set, knows the reason for the two sets before and after, I marvel at the wisdom of the ancestors, and at the same time pinch sweat for the rabbit, when I go to the mountain on the second morning, there is a rabbit in the second set.

Rabbits can only be set in winter when the snow is heavy, and there is a certain technical content in catching, and generally older men will catch them. My favorite season is autumn, when the eyes are full of gold, the leaves of the soybeans in the field have fallen away, and the upright bean stalks are full of bountiful beans. Many of the newly cultivated wasteland on the hillside are planted with turnips, carrots and cabbage, and there are also people who plant fruit trees in the wasteland for convenience, and the trees are full of all kinds of fruits. And my favorite thing is catching toads, and our toads there are forest frogs. As soon as autumn comes, a lot of people who buy frogs gather in our town. Forest frogs are so expensive and expensive, as soon as autumn comes, all the tun'er, regardless of men and women, old and young, adults and children, men and women, as long as they can move, they will join the army of arrest.

When it's cold, the forest frogs in the mountains will find a place with water to hibernate. When the forest frog wants to go down from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, it can only identify where there is water through the sound of water, and where there is only a waterfall under the mountain, there will be a rumbling sound of water. So where there is a waterfall, there must be a large number of forest frogs gathered, and every day a large number of forest frogs will come down from the mountain, and the stones that are turned over on the first day will be turned over on the second day, and there will be forest frogs below. Some of the older and brave people went to the water's edge with their bare hands to dig holes, and if they found a hole, they would catch dozens or hundreds of them at once. Someone smarter removed the generator from the farm vehicle and connected two wires? It is coiled on a long pole, and one end of the pole is connected to two wires. When you get to the river, stretch two wires into the river, quickly shake the generator stick on your back, and the current will flow down the wire into the river. The current from the generator does not electrocute the fish and toads in the river, but it is enough to temporarily shock them and float to the surface of the river, which is much more efficient by using a net with a long pole tied to the surface of the water to catch something floating up. There is a person who does this, and everyone in the tun will imitate it, and slowly have to go out a long way to see the toad. Later, it was impossible to catch a toad with bare hands. Eventually, the forest farm began to regulate, saying that toads were beneficial insects and were forbidden to be captured.

After the soil on the mountain thaws, there will be people who go up the mountain to planing medicinal materials, and there are many types of medicinal materials. From the expensive ones to the cheap ones, there are many money-rich ones, at the beginning, everyone picks the expensive ones to plan, and when the expensive ones are gone, everyone picks the slightly cheaper planers, and slowly the medicinal materials that can be planed are getting cheaper and cheaper. The herb grows slowly, unlike mushrooms and bracken, which grow every year. There are also many kinds of mushrooms in the mountains, and they are commonly picked by needle grinding, and some people come to buy them after they go home to dry. Bracken is also bracken and dried with water after picking home, some people specially buy it, my mother bought it for a while, and she sold it to old customers from other places after she finished harvesting.

Fungus, monkey's head, matsutake mushrooms and other more expensive ones are not produced much.

Later, the fungus was planted at home, mixed together with sawdust and wheat bran, fermented in a bottle, and then planted on the fungus stick, only Zhuo Mu can become a fungus stick. As long as there is enough rain, the yield of fungus is high when it is planted in this way.

Hazelnuts and pine nuts are harvested only once every other year. Hazelnuts are hairy hazelnuts with many thorns on the skin, so they cannot be picked directly, and they must be gloved. The price of pine nuts is very high, and the pine nuts are wrapped in pine towers, which grow on the tips of red pines. It is illegal to pick pine towers, and the forest farm is very strictly controlled, and there are special forest rangers to patrol the mountains. I was fined 480 yuan for picking 48 pine towers. Pecans have a thick skin and don't have many nuts. When walnuts are ripe, they fall from the tree to the ground. Those who didn't specifically go up the mountain to pick walnuts were all piggybacking on their feet. The walnut that had just fallen from the tree to the ground had a layer of green skin, and that green skin was highly poisonous. Pick it up and dig a pit in the garden, pour the walnuts into it and bury them in the soil, and after a while the green skin will rot in the soil. When you want to eat walnuts, dig out the rotten green walnuts from the soil, put them in the bottom pit of the pot with the charcoal that has just finished the fire, grill for a few minutes, the walnuts will crack a small hole, and then split them with a kitchen knife, the walnuts will reveal the white kernels inside, the kernels are very few, and you can eat them with a needle.

There is a bungalow on the west side of my house, and the roof is flat and made of cement. It is specially used to dry the mountain goods that are picked, and all the homes in the tunzi have one such bungalow. In autumn, some grain is also dried on the roof of the bungalow, which attracts a lot of small birds, and those birds are not afraid of people at all, and when they are very close to them, they will not fly away.

When I was in elementary school, I learned a Chinese text, and there was a paragraph about catching birds in Lu Xun's Runtu. Put a sieve with a stick, sprinkle a little millet under the sieve, tie a thin rope to the stick, and hold the end of the rope to hide a little farther away, many birds, get under the sieve to eat the grain, and then pull the rope hard, the stick is pulled down and the sieve is buckled, it will cover many birds.