"I didn't say I couldn't catch it."

Accountant Liu glanced at the soft-shelled turtle with disgust, "This thing smells too fishy, no one eats this, so I clean up the fish pond when I release the fish fry in the spring, catch it out and chop it to feed the pigs, sometimes the fishy smell is so smoked that the pigs don't eat it." ”

The custodian Huang also smiled, "This thing, or in the early years, when it was called Huazi, it was called Huazi gluttonous meat, so I went to the water's edge to pick up two to satisfy my hunger, in fact, there was no oil and water at all, normal people who eat this." ”

Hearing him say this, Chen Fan also remembered that when he was a child, he vaguely heard his grandfather say that this thing used to be eaten only by calling Huazi, and ordinary people didn't even look at anyone who stuttered.

Captain Yang snorted, "Xiao Chen hasn't seen it, and he thought he had caught a good thing, which is understandable." But I caught it all, not to mention such a big soft-shelled turtle, I don't know how many catties of fry I have eaten, I can't cheap it, so I just chop it up today and cook a pot to feed the pig, and kill the pig the day after tomorrow and give it a meal of meat. ”

Chen Fan blinked dumbly, he understood that in their eyes, this thing was not for people to eat, it was for pigs, and pigs still disliked it?!

He looked down at the big turtle that was still struggling desperately, then raised his head and whispered, "Captain, then I'll catch this back and eat it, it's not a violation, right?" ”

"What?"

Captain Yang looked at Chen Fan in a daze, and then looked at the big turtle under his feet.

If you heard it right, this baby from the city at first glance wants to eat the soft-shelled turtle that pigs dislike?

He couldn't help but say, "Why are you eating this?" Isn't it gluttonous? If you endure it again, if you kill the New Year pig the day after tomorrow, you will make pig-killing dishes, and it will be enough for you to eat at that time. ”

Chen Fanhan laughed twice and didn't argue, "It's okay, I just want to try." ”

Captain Yang was about to say something, but Accountant Liu next to him smiled and said, "If he wants to try, let him try, and he will understand when he tastes the bitterness." ”

Captain Yang seemed to think of something, shook his head and smiled, and said to Chen Fan, "Okay, you can try it if you want, anyway, there are many of these things in the ditch, you have to be willing to catch it, grab it casually, no one cares about you." ”

The custodian Huang also kindly reminded on the side, "If you really want to eat, it is better to catch loaches and eels than this, although there is also a fishy smell, but even if you don't put oil, you can get it in your mouth, and this is really not in your mouth." ”

The best time to catch loach eels is, of course, autumn, but you can also catch these things in winter, but eel holes and loach holes are a bit difficult to find, and they are almost impossible to touch if you are not a master.

Chen Fan didn't care about the loach eel, and when he heard that this soft-shelled turtle could be eaten, he grinned and nodded thoughtlessly, "Thank you, thank you." ”

Then pick up the big turtle and run.

Accountant Liu got up and closed the door, turned back and said with a smile, "He is just like those half-grown babies in the village, he doesn't believe in evil, he has to eat once." ”

Captain Yang smiled and shook his head, "Who didn't come here like this, we didn't do it before, I still remember that in 60 years, when there was not enough food to eat, and when the stomach was growling, Wang Babu, who couldn't get out of his mouth, also ate." ”

As soon as he heard this, Accountant Liu's face changed, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't mention this stubble, I won't be able to eat later, it's all up to you." ”

Captain Yang laughed, "Just to save you a meal." ”

……

Chen Fan held the big soft-shelled turtle, took three steps and two steps back to the Zhiqing Point, and just saw Jiang Lili collecting the tripod, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, "Collected it so early?" ”

He also thought that he would come back and collect it himself, which was good, and let the little girl do it for him.

Jiang Lili looked at the soft-shelled turtle in his hand in a daze, and stretched out her hand to point to the sky, "I see that the sky has changed, and the quilt has been dried, so I will collect it first." ”

Then he pointed to the big turtle, "Why are you catching this?" ”

Chen Fan smiled, raised the soft-shelled turtle and shook it, "Eat it tonight." ”

Jiang Lili hurriedly said, "This can't be eaten, the fishy smell is very strong, and the pot that boiled this has a fishy smell, the year before last, there was a young man who didn't believe in evil, grabbed one and cooked it to eat, but the rice for half a month was not delicious, really, I don't lie to you." ”

Chen Fan smiled, "I know, but that's the wrong way he did it." ”

Seeing that Jiang Lili's face was still full of horror, he had to say helplessly, "Okay, then I don't need a pot in the kitchen, are there any other pots here?" ”

Jiang Lili thought for a while, pointed to the backyard and whispered, "There is a big pot in the back, but it was cooked with pig food before." ”

Boiled pig food?

Forget it, anyway, as long as it's a pot, it's a big deal to use fire to disinfect.

Chen Fan asked again, "Is there a crockpot?" ”

Jiang Lili nodded, "There is a casserole." ”

"Casserole is better."

Chen Fan said with a smile as he walked inside, "You help me boil a pot of hot water, and we'll have a big dinner in the evening." ”

Jiang Lili looked at his back, and her face was bitter.

Chen Fan walked a few steps, then suddenly turned around and asked, "By the way, is there any green onion and ginger here?" ”

Jiang Lili pointed to the backyard, "There is one in the vegetable field." ”

Chen Fan smiled, "Okay, you can help me get a big pair of scissors." ”

Then he walked to the backyard with the soft-shelled turtle, and then he saw the whole picture of the backyard clearly, two rows of vegetable fields were planted with cabbage and radish, and a piece of the ridge was planted with a few bushes of onions, ginger and garlic, most of these vegetables were harvested, and only a small half was still growing.

However, unlike the village households in front, the vegetable field is only two or three meters away from the house, and the vegetable field here is fifteen or sixteen meters away from the house.

Anyway, this is the end of the village, and there is no one behind, so I am not afraid of taking up more space.

In the far corner, there are two toilets separated by wooden planks, and on the hanging bamboo curtains, "male" and "female" are written separately with a brush.

In the other corner, against the wall, there is a semi-open shed, that is, there is a roof above, and the wall below is only one meter high, so a place that is enclosed.

Thinking of what Jiang Lili said before, he guessed that it was the former pigsty.

When I walked over, sure enough, the one-meter-high earthen wall enclosed a long space, and it was deliberately divided into two rooms, each of which had a stone trough under the earthen wall.

It must have not been used for a long time, and the thatched roof on top of it is broken in some places, and you can still see the light of day.

The two pigsties, one empty, and the other used as a firewood house, were piled up with a lot of cotton stalks and thick branches more than a foot long, and there was so much firewood that there should be no fear of running out of firewood in winter.

He looked inside, and it was fairly clean, and the fence made of wood was still strong, so he put the big turtle in the stone trough of the pigsty, and then went to the front to carry a bucket of water and poured it into the stone trough.

The big turtle fluttered twice in the water, and then half lay on the wall of the stone trough and did not move.

Chen Fan kept going, ran outside again, took a flat pole and two baskets, and when he passed by the kitchen, he also said hello to Jiang Lili, "I saw a few big ones in the pond just now, now I will see if they are still there, and I will come back soon." ”