Late at night, after his grandfather and grandmother fell asleep, the "fully armed" Gu Yu sneaked out and started to act.

He wore a pair of high rain boots on his feet, a bamboo cage tied to his waist, carried a plastic bucket and tongs in one hand, and a flashlight in the other, and walked towards the rice field at the entrance of the village.

Growing up in the mountains and countryside of forest farms, Gu Yu has a lot of experience in catching loaches and yellow eels, which is one of the joys of childhood.

Eels generally live in paddy fields and ditches, and they usually hide in their holes during the day and come out to feed at night.

In summer, due to the high temperatures, loaches and eels will emerge from the mud to the surface of the soil, and the water in the rice fields is generally not too deep.

Of course, Gu Yu also knew that it was risky to catch yellow eels at night.

If you can't tell which are the yellow eel holes and which are the snake holes on the ridges, if you are not careful, in case the poisonous snakes are lured out, it is really very dangerous.

The yellow eel cave on the edge of the ridge, the mouth of the cave is mostly submerged in water, the snake cave is a dry hole, it is impossible to drown in the water, even if the original snake cave is flooded in the water because of the rising water, this snake cave will not have snakes, because the snake can not stay in the water for a long time, otherwise it will suffocate to death.

In rice paddies and shallow ditches, catching yellow eels with bare hands still requires great skill.

But these are not difficult things for Gu Yu.

He knew that the first thing was to find the hole of the yellow eel, and the second was to be able to grasp the yellow eel with his hands or tools. Because the yellow eel is relatively slippery, inexperienced people can't hold the yellow eel steady, and it is easy to run away!

Before going out, Gu Yu used the firewood knife at home, took the Nanzhu used for the fire to make a serrated clip, and also brought a pair of fire tongs wrapped with wool, both of which are used to clip the yellow eel to prevent slipping.

Gu Yu knew that the yellow eel hidden in the rice field generally had two holes, one was in the hole and the other was out of the hole.

Yellow eels hide in the mud, but they come out for feeding activities and ventilation. So there will be holes in the silt.

When the temperature is high, the yellow eel does not foam much, and the hole will be flooded due to frequent activities. The foam mouth is the head of the yellow eel, and the mouth that comes out of the mixed water is the tail of the yellow eel. At this time, use the middle finger of the right hand to probe into the hole, follow the hole to chase the eel, after the right hand touches the eel, the left hand judges the position of the eel according to the size of the eel, the trajectory of the hole and inserts it into the mud, and grabs the eel out of the mud.

After entering the paddy field, Gu Yu bit the flashlight on his mouth, first blocked one of the holes with his left hand, and stirred the water to muddy it.

At this time, a yellow eel soaked in muddy water came out of another hole.

said that it was too late, and with a "whoosh", Gu Yu, who was quick-eyed, violently clamped the yellow eel drilled out with a bamboo clip and put it into a bamboo cage tied around his waist.

Gu Yu used a flashlight to shine a flashlight on the wild yellow eel in the bamboo cage, yellow-brown with black and blue, fat body, slender tail, and beautiful streamlined body, which looked about 30 cm long, and was estimated to weigh 4 or 5 taels.

The first catch was successful, and a wild rhubarb eel was captured, Gu Yu was overjoyed, and the skills of the year were still there!

Cangshi Town is close to the sea, and people in the area here like to eat seafood, yellow eel, loach, and even soft-shelled turtle and other things in the river are generally not eaten here.

In that era of material scarcity, Gu Yu and his friends liked to go to rice fields, ditches or ponds to catch loaches and yellow eels.

Catching loaches and yellow eels also brought Gu Yu a lot of childhood fun and left a lot of good memories.

He also remembers that after the duck eats the loach, it will lay double yolk eggs.

Grandma used to say to Xiao Gu Yu: The duckling will give birth to double yolk eggs when they eat loaches, and Xiaoyu will replenish their strength if they eat double yolk eggs, and my Xiaoyu will grow taller......

After catching four large yellow eels in the rice field, Gu Yu came to the stone wall on the side.

The paddy fields in the mountainous area are surrounded by mounds on one side and stone walls made of rocks on the other.

Many of the caves in the stone walls soaked in the water contain yellow eels, which of course cannot be caught with bare hands.

Gu Yu prepared a hook the size of wire in advance, put an earthworm on the tip of the hook as bait, deliberately made a sound of water bombs at the entrance of the hole with his hand, and put the hook into the hole with the other hand.

At this time, a large yellow eel inside heard the sound of water and smelled the bait poking its head out to bite the earthworm.

Haha, hooked.

only heard a "click", Gu Yu quickly clamped the big yellow eel that poked out its head with the fire tongs in his hand.

This hooked rhubarb eel suddenly became a turtle in an urn!

At half past twelve in the middle of the night, Gu Yu caught more than ten yellow eels in his plastic bucket, and estimated that there were five or six catties, so he stopped and went back to rest......

At eight o'clock in the morning, the sun was already shining, and Gu Yu was sleeping soundly in the room on the first floor of his grandmother's courtyard.

Suddenly, a group of people shouted in his ear, "Little universe, small universe, it's time to get up!" ”

"Little Universe" was Gu Yu's nickname when he was in elementary school in the countryside, and after he went to study in the city, this nickname was carried forward and became "Little Rain Mantra......

After waking up, Gu Yu opened his eyes, looked at the few young people in front of him and said in surprise: "Ah Hong, Ah Wen, Ah Wu!" ”

It turned out that the three best friends of his childhood who shouted him around the bed: Tang Anhong, Tang Wenbin and Tang Wubin.

The surname Tang is the first surname in the nearby Shangzhai Village and Xiazhai Village, and it is said that they were all descendants of the Tang family in the south of the Central Plains.

Tang Anhong is very handsome, his grandfather's generation used to be a famous landowner in the neighborhood, and even the small courtyard where Gu Yu's grandfather's family lived is said to have belonged to their family before liberation.

When I was a child, there was a joke in the village: when the People's Liberation Army went south in 49, when he heard the sound of artillery, Tang Anhong's grandfather was so frightened that he took a few children and immediately jumped into the carriage and boarded a ship to Taiwan. And Tang Anhong's grandfather was pulled down because he was in the pit and fell into the pit in fright......

Of course, this is just a joke, Grandpa Tang Anhong is the youngest son of the family, and he stayed to see the huge assets of the family.

At the end of the 80s, after Taiwan Province allowed local residents to visit relatives and exchange on the mainland, Tang Anhong's family suddenly became wealthy.

Tang Wenbin and Tang Wubin are twin brothers, his father was a postman in the commune, and he used to be very prosperous, because he was one of the few people in the village who "ate public food".

Tang Anhong, Tang Wenbin and Tang Wubin were also Gu Yu's classmates in elementary school, and they had the best relationship.

"Little Universe, why didn't you notify us when you came back to the village yesterday, let's pick you up!" Tang Wenbin asked.

"Hey, don't mention it, the bus broke down in the middle of the road yesterday, and I came back late."

"Little Universe, come back and tell us this time, what's interesting in the city now?"

It is not easy for children in the mountain village to go outside, and Tang Anhong, Tang Wenbin and Tang Wubin are currently in junior high school at Cangshan Middle School in the town. Growing up so big, they have never been to Minghai City to play, so they are full of curiosity about the city.

Gu Yu thought for a while and said: "The most popular thing in the city now is probably the game machine room, which has fun video games such as Street Fighter and Three Kingdoms, and other fun ones are probably bowling, billiards, discotheques, etc......."

At this time in time, there is no game room in the remote Cangshan Town, and they are full of yearning when they listen to Gu Yu talk about fun video games such as Street Fighter and Three Kingdoms.

"By the way, Ah Hong, you are now famous all over the country!" Gu Yu said with a smile.

"Huh?" Tang Anhong felt inexplicable.

"Now there is a movie by Zhang Yimou called "Something to Say" in the city, and there is a heroine named 'An Hong'."

Saying that, Gu Yu learned the classic line in the movie: "An Hong, I can't sleep if I think about it, I want to sleep if you think about it, I don't want to sleep, I can't sleep......"

"Haha, haha, haha!"

Gu Yu's vivid imitation made the brothers laugh.

When a few people were laughing, my grandmother shouted outside: "Xiaoyu, your squad leader has come to see you!" ”

As soon as Grandma's words fell, a girl in a pale blue dress walked in from outside, and her little face was still red because she was in a hurry.