The last time Gao Mingcheng returned to the village, he planted Poria cocos in the mountains, and it had been several days since he flickered, and he had to go to the mountains to see the situation.

Poria cocos is afraid of waterlogging, but the Poria cocos in the growth period also needs to be watered frequently, so he carries a bucket into the mountain, and if the soil is dry and the Poria cocos does not grow well, he will water it some.

It was not difficult for him to enter the mountain, the black tiger and the elf followed behind him as usual, and the movement of one man and two dogs when they entered the mountain frightened all kinds of small animals nearby.

The sound of rustling sounded from the dense bushes, and you didn't have to see it to know that it was a small animal fleeing in a hurry.

Gao Mingcheng walked briskly, walking as if he were walking on the ground, and even had the leisure to tear off a few green leaves from the side.

The leaves are triangular, a bit similar to cat ears, so some people call it cat ears, and some people call it barb.

Gao Mingcheng rolled the back of the leaf into it familiarly, then stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.

The reason why I want to roll it like this is because there are some thorns on the back of the leaves, otherwise it will prick my mouth when I eat it.

After the young leaves are chewed, the sweet and sour taste fills the mouth.

When I was poor, I naturally didn't have money to buy snacks to eat, so the wild fruits and leaves that could be eaten in the mountains became snacks for children.

Gao Mingcheng is a little wilder than ordinary children, he knows a lot of wild fruit trees, and whenever the fruit is ripe, he will quickly run to pick and eat it.

This inconspicuous plant grows all over the mountains, and if you want to eat it, you can pick it by hand.

Raspberries, tea bubbles, wild hawthorns, twisted seeds, hairy chestnuts and other fruits depend on the season.

For example, it is the middle of May, and raspberries and tea brews are out of season and can no longer be found, while wild hawthorn and hairy chestnuts will not be able to be picked and tasted until autumn.

The sweet and sour taste shocked Gao Mingcheng's spirit, and after spitting out the crushed leaf residue in his mouth, he picked another leaf casually.

He forgot the name of the tree, but he knew that the leaves grew symmetrically, and each leaf was oval, which could be used for whistling, and the sound was softer, not as sharp and harsh as bamboo leaves.

Gao Mingcheng is not very good at music, but he can still do it by simply blowing out the sound.

With the intermittent sound sounding, it attracted curious birds on the branches, which fluttered their wings and jumped on the branches, curiously following Gao Mingcheng.

The elf noticed the bird following overhead, grinning at the bird and making a threatening cry.

But because the bird has wings, it is not afraid of a four-legged beast like it.

With a pop, a lump of bird fell from the sky and landed right on the elf's head.

The elf became more and more angry, and screamed at the bird again, and then several more pieces of fresh bird droppings fell from the sky.

The elves had already suffered a loss, but this time they hurriedly avoided it, and finally did not encounter another attack from bird poop shells.

Gao Mingcheng witnessed this scene and laughed unceremoniously.

Birds are quite smart creatures, to be honest, just look at them building nests.

Gao Mingcheng glanced at the nearby birds and recognized them as sparrows, turtle doves, magpies, gray-winged thrushes, etc., and some he couldn't name.

After a short time, Gao Mingcheng came to the place where Poria cocos was planted before, and when he arrived here, he began to get busy, confirming that Poria cocos needed watering, he had to carry a bucket to the nearest water source, and after fetching water, he mentioned the slope where Poria cocos was planted.

While fetching water, he noticed tiny wild fish in the ditch, as well as some forest frogs, bullfrogs and toads inhabiting the water source.

Looking along the winding ditch, Gao Mingcheng felt that there should be a large water source upstream of this ditch.

After watering the poria, he walked along the ditch, and sure enough, on a hillside, he found a small pond hollowed out under the hillside.

The water in this pond comes from a spring and rainwater.

The pond is not big, but there are a lot of things in it, Gao Mingcheng saw a few fish weighing a pound swimming leisurely on the surface of the water, and forest frogs and bullfrogs can also be seen everywhere.

A large tree the size of a bucket, I don't know what year it fell, most of the trunk was immersed in water, and on the trunk and branches, there were some snails adsorbed.

There are natural springs here, there is water all year round, and no one salvagates them, and each of the snails is very large, which makes Gao Mingcheng look quite excited.

There are also snails picked up in the paddy fields, but most of them are not big, because there are many people picking them, and there is no chance for the snails to recuperate.

Gao Mingcheng put down the bucket in his hand, took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and prepared to go into the water to catch fish!

He didn't bring a bag into the mountains today, but he did have buckets for fish and bullfrogs!

In terms of fishing skills, Gao Mingcheng is definitely in the top three in Gaojia Village!

Catching fish, in fact, can also be said to touch fish, after he entered the water, he bent down and reached the bottom of the pond, and then walked all the way, all the way to touch it.

As he walked, the clear water instantly became turbid.

He walked all the way, touched all the way, and after a while, his fingertips felt that a fish passed nearby, and a fish even hit his leg.

When you feel something, you have to be steady and ruthless, and soon, the first fish will be on it!

Gao Mingcheng caught the fish out of the water, and after a glance, he recognized that it was a crucian carp the size of a child's palm.

He was not too small, and threw it towards the shore, right into the bucket.

The crucian carp bounced in the bucket and tried to save itself, apparently without success.

With the first fish, soon there will be a second fish, and this time with good luck, I caught a three-pound grass carp.

The grass carp has a lot of strength, and it is difficult for ordinary people to catch it with their bare hands, but once Gao Mingcheng catches it, he will no longer let the grass carp escape.

The struggle of the grass carp made the water in the pond more and more turbid, Gao Mingcheng held the fish tightly and picked it up from the water, the tail of the fish flicked, and a string of water droplets splashed and slid down.

The tiny droplets of water are illuminated by the sun, and there are faintly colorful flashes of light.

Gao Mingcheng walked towards the shore, he held the grass carp tightly with one hand, picked up the bucket with the other, scooped some water into it, and then put the grass carp into the bucket.

The fish should be eaten fresh, so they are first raised in water and slaughtered when they are eaten.

Gao Mingcheng found a pond in the mountains that no one cared about, and began his happy fishing time. Black tigers and elves can also swim, but the skill of catching fish is infinitely close to zero!

Therefore, when Gao Mingcheng was fishing in the water, the two dogs could only lie on the ground and wait for Gao Mingcheng to come ashore.

It took about half an hour, and Gao Mingcheng finally straightened his waist and was ready to stop here.

He went ashore, washed the mud from his feet with water, and then looked down at the bucket, and saw half a bucket of fish and snails, and his heart was quite satisfied.

He shook the water from his hand, then glanced at his fingers, and there was a small red dot on his left index finger, which was stabbed by the yellow girl's thorn.

The yellow girl is delicious, but the thorns on both sides of the back and on the top are difficult to handle, and after being accidentally stabbed, the pain is unbearable.

Some people let go as soon as they were in pain, and the yellow girl in their hands ran away, and even was pricked too many times, and they would have a sense of fear of touching the fish.

Gao Mingcheng was rarely stabbed, but today he was unlucky and was stabbed.

But he could still endure the pain, and when his feet were almost dry, he put on his shoes and prepared to go down the mountain.

Because of his behavior of going into the water to fish, the frogs that inhabit here fled to the shore.

At this time, in the grass next to the pond, you can see many forest frogs and bullfrogs, forest frogs are smaller than bullfrogs, and they look like frogs, but their colors are different.

Gao Mingcheng is a pragmatist, of course, he is a bullfrog with a lot of meat!

Gao Mingcheng's sharp eyes scanned the grass and the water's edge, and while he sat on the ground and waited for his feet to dry, some frogs seemed to feel no more danger and approached the water's edge again.

After Gao Mingcheng put on his shoes, he didn't move for a while, ready to find a better opportunity to start again.

Looking at these bullfrogs, he remembered that when he was a child, he went to the rice fields to get frogs, and at that time he made a simple fishing rod out of thin bamboo rods and cotton ropes.

At the other end of the cotton rope is a small frog that has been torn in half.

These little frogs are small and easy to catch, and on summer evenings, they can be seen jumping everywhere in the grass near the front and back of the house.

Once caught, one is split in half and used as bait.

Standing next to the ridge, the man throws the cotton rope tied with the bait into the lush rice field, and then waits for the movement.

With such simple equipment, it is more than enough to catch frogs!

But well...... In the second half of the memory, it was the old people in the village who caught their naughty children and taught them that frogs were beneficial insects and could not be fished for food.

The memory is a little long gone, and a trace of memory appeared in Gao Mingcheng's eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He was alone in the mountains fishing, picking snails and catching bullfrogs, but he didn't feel lonely at all, but had a feeling of reminiscing about his childhood.

Of course, the rich harvest is also one of the reasons why he is happy.

He also wanted to pass on this happiness to his children, so he decided to wait for the children to be older, so he took them up the mountain to pick wild fruits and go into the water to touch the fish!

After a while, Gao Mingcheng got more than a dozen bullfrogs, which was enough for a plate of vegetables, so he was not greedy and took the two dogs down the mountain.

In the mountains and forests, there is a singing voice-

The pond was full of water and the rain stopped

The mud on the edge of the field was full of loaches

Every day I wait for you, waiting for you to catch loaches

Big brother, okay, let's go catch loaches~

This song "Catching Loaches" was released by Bao Meisheng in 1978, and it has also become a childhood memory for many people, and it has been sung ever since.

Because of fishing and catching bullfrogs, when Gao Mingcheng went down the mountain, it was already noon, and that's it, he still ran fast when he went down the mountain.

When he went down the mountain, he saw Chen Dasong practicing in a spacious place, and it was naturally his tractor that he was practicing.

Before, he drove back to Niuweiling, and then called Chen Dasong to go to the old village pond and drive the tractor back.

Chen Dasong and the others learned how to drive a tractor with Gao Mingcheng last time, but everyone only had a short meeting, and they were not skilled at all!

Gao Mingcheng shouted that they were going to drive the tractor back by themselves, which was a heavy responsibility for them!

After a few people discussed, in the end, Chen Dasong took his youngest son Chen Duoxi to drive together, because Chen Duoxi patted his chest and said that he had learned, and he promised to drive the car back.

But it's a pity that his father Chen Dasong didn't believe it, so he went with the father and son, in case something happened, there would still be a discussion.

Gao Mingcheng put down the bucket, looked at it for a while, and then said to Chen Dasong: "Uncle Chen, the mouldboard plough installed on the tractor is piled up in my miscellaneous room, and when you are proficient in driving the tractor, you will install the mouldboard plow, first practice in the nearby wasteland, and when you plant late rice, you can go to the ground to plow the field." ”

"I came back with two barrels of diesel, and if I ran out of gas, I would refuel myself."

Chen Dasong responded repeatedly, and felt that he drove well, so he asked Gao Mingcheng how he drove.

Gao Mingcheng affirmed this, "It's okay to drive, and if you practice more in the future, you will naturally drive better." ”

After getting Gao Mingcheng's affirmation, Chen Dasong grinned, and his joy was overflowing.

Seeing that it was about to be lunch, Chen Dasong pulled over and turned off the engine.

"Mingcheng, are you hungry? Go home and eat! Chen Dasong beckoned Gao Mingcheng to go to his house for dinner.

When delivering noodles in the old village, Grandma Xi and his parents both told him to stay and eat, but Gao Mingcheng didn't want to run back and forth, so he politely refused.

Later, I told Chen Dasong to eat at his house at noon and asked Aunt Liu to prepare more meals.

"Okay, I'll go later." Gao Mingcheng was indeed hungry, he first carried the bucket into the house, then took a large basin out, and after filling half a basin of water, he poured the fish in the bucket into it, and as for the bullfrog and the snail, they were still in the bucket.

Chen Dasong also walked over to see him doing things, and when he saw a pot of large and small fish, he couldn't help but be speechless.

It was just like Gao Mingcheng went into the mountain to play, so he was able to get such things, and when he went to the mountain to collect firewood, he couldn't see a big puddle for half a day!

Gao Mingcheng wanted to go to Chen Dasong's house for dinner, so naturally he wouldn't go empty-handed, so he fished out some small fish with a basket.

He took these small fish and ate an original farmhouse meal at Chen Dasong's house.

At the dinner table, Chen Dasong asked if he could let Chen Duofu drive Gao Mingcheng's tractor to pick up the bride when the wedding wine was set up at the end of the month.

In this regard, Gao Mingcheng naturally agreed.

And Gao Mingcheng said: "In the future, you can use the car privately, even if you use the car privately, the fuel money will have to be paid by yourself." ”

Chen Dasong was overjoyed, nodded again and again, and said, "It should be, it should be." ”

At noon, the sun was a little big, and everyone was not in a hurry to go out to work, Gao Mingcheng chatted with the Chen family father and son, and after Aunt Liu cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, she carried a basket of pea pods out and prepared to peel peas.

These peas were planted in March and are now just ready to eat. There are several ways to eat peas, one is the tip of peas, people in Sichuan love to eat, but people in Gaojia Village almost don't eat it.

Here in Gaojia Village, they mainly eat the pea grains in the tender pods and old pods.

The pods have just grown up, and the beans inside are not yet grown, and when they are fried in lard, they are crisp and refreshing.

The beans in the old pods are already full, and at this time, the beans are peeled out and cooked, and the taste is very powdery. If you can cook it with a little pork, it will be even sweeter! (End of chapter)