Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 142 Bamboo Chicken
Chapter 140 Three Bamboo Chickens

Li Junge handed over the handkerchief, laughed and said: "The bamboo dart is seven feet long, except for the field ridge, there are really not many places for you to use it now."

Grandpa Yu sighed: "Yeah, many things are almost impossible to pass on. Those who can strengthen their bodies are okay. This kind of pure killing skills, who still learns these things now!"

Li Junge said: "Grandpa Yu, don't worry, as long as we think of a way, we can always find a place to use it."

At this time, A Yin also came out, and shouted: "Grandpa, Er Pi, come to drink saponin rice."

Back in the main room, several blue and white bowls were placed on the table, which contained saponins, rice, peach gum, and white fungus soup. Next to them were a plate of fried glutinous rice cakes, a bowl of brown sugar, and a bowl of cooked soybean flour.

Pick up the saponin rice, peach gum, and white fungus soup to look at. The white fungus soup, which should be clear and transparent, has been dyed light brown by the peach gum. Somewhat similar, take a sip and put it in your mouth, it is sweet and smooth, and the saponin rice has a bit of a chewy texture, which is richer and richer than the white fungus soup alone.

"Well, it's delicious! If you don't want it to beautify your skin, the taste itself is not bad."

I took another piece of deep-fried glutinous rice cake, first wrapped it in brown sugar syrup, then wrapped it in soybean powder, put it in my mouth and chewed it, the soybean powder mixed with the sweetness of brown sugar, plus Jiulixiang white glutinous rice The glutinous glutinous rice cakes are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, making them delicious.

"Hahaha, this is the most filling, fragrant and glutinous. If you eat a few pieces of glutinous rice cakes, you won't be hungry after running for half a day!"

After breakfast, Li Junge took a door cover from Grandpa Yu, and prepared to go to the chicken halls of the saponin tree to build the hall.

In fact, the door cover is very simple. It is a wire door like a football goal, which is higher than the height of the bamboo chicken. There are living circles made of fishing lines hanging on it, and they are placed in the activity area of ​​the bamboo chicken.

When the bamboo chicken passes through the door cover, it will automatically fit into the cover. Since the size of the circle is only half the size of the bamboo chicken's body, the head can pass through it, but the body cannot, so the bamboo chicken is trapped.

After the bamboo chicken is trapped, the more it struggles, the tighter the trap becomes, and finally it cannot run away.

The door cover is simple, but the place of the cloth cover is very knowledgeable.

Chickens all have a characteristic that they like to flock, one male and many females, and they have their own specific activity areas in the mountains, usually under the bushes and bamboo bushes, and there are some passages leading to some open areas. Such open areas are convenient for setting up. It is called "Chicken Hall" by Paoshan craftsmen.

Generally, there are "Linxia Hall", "Caojian Hall", "Kuoshi Hall" and "Tiegou Hall".

To set up a trap in such a place, mountain runners call it "butang".

Every mountain-running cloth hall has its own set. According to the habits of different chicken breeds and different terrains, there are U-shaped formations, E-shaped formations, plum blossom formations, eight-diagram formations, and chaotic mountain formations. Law.

Taking Ayin to the forest, Li Junge picked off a bamboo leaf, put it in his mouth and blew it straight, imitating the crowing of a bamboo chicken.

This is called "Yinshan". The chickens are aggressive. When the bamboo chickens on the mountain hear other bamboo chickens coming to their fields, they will croak, saying, 'there is my uncle here, get out of here! '".

There are many places in the mountains that are suitable for building chicken halls. Bamboo chickens will migrate back and forth between chicken halls. The chicken halls that respond are the nearest activity places for bamboo chickens. Only in this kind of places can building halls be rewarding.

There are also routines on how to tease bamboo chickens to come.

Spring is the time when the sun returns and the bamboo chickens begin to reproduce. At this time, the fighting spirit of the bamboo chickens is the highest, and the sound of the bamboo leaves will be wild, which means "don't accept it, come to fight!"

Then it gradually weakens, and in winter, bamboo chickens have the weakest fighting spirit and become timid and less aggressive. At this time, the sound of bamboo leaves will be short and weak, which means "I am Xiaoshou, come and abuse me!"

If you blow it like spring, it may scare away the real Xiaoshou.

I blew a few times, and sure enough, there was a crisp cry from a chicken hall I passed by yesterday, and there were chickens near that chicken hall.

When he came to this entrance, Li Junge was not in a hurry to make a move, but began to observe the surrounding terrain.

This step is also very important. The terrain determines the direction of the bamboo chickens. The direction of the hall must avoid ditches and other directions that are inconvenient for the bamboo chickens to come.

When a chicken is trapped, it will fly up in shock, causing other chickens to run away. This kind of runner is called "Chongtao".

If the cloth is reversed, and the bamboo chickens come from behind the buttocks of the hall, and all the chickens are outside the formation when flushing the sleeve, then you will be blinded by crying.

After arriving at the destination, if you still cannot determine the specific hiding place of the chicken, you must stop and observe for a while at this time. This is called "quiet mountain".

Li Junge remained silent for a while, and then blew on the bamboo leaves. This trick is called "knocking on the mountain".

After a while, there was the sound of bamboo chickens knocking back in the thin bamboo bushes, and now Li Junge had confidence in his heart, and said to A Yin: "Zhuerchong and Er Zhun will have a good lunch at noon."

When I came to the thin bamboo bushes, I found that there were several passages among the undergrowth. There were traces of being scratched by claws on the ground, and there were chicken manure on the roots of some grass.

Li Junge chose two passages with chicken manure, the most accurate way to insert several door covers into an E shape, and the opening of the E letter faces the exit of the passage.

Under normal circumstances, the group of bamboo chickens will come in along the E-shaped opening, and after reaching the bottom, they will start to rush around. Except for one or two returning from the original road, most of the others will be caught.

After retreating seven or eight meters away, Li Junge began to "release the matchmaker".

The so-called "matchmaking" is actually placing bait to attract bamboo chickens into the trap.

Lao Paoshan used to use a chicken matchmaker, that is, he domesticated a bamboo chicken at home. He had to choose the aggressive one, put it in a cage and bring it up the mountain, and put it in the place where the chicken was set to let it sing to attract other chickens to fight.

Bamboo chickens like to watch the excitement just like Shuzhou people. When a male comes over, there is usually a cheerleading team behind him, ranging from three to five to more than a dozen.

It can be regarded as advancing with the times. Li Junge downloaded several kinds of bamboo chicken calls on his mobile phone yesterday, and imported them into the MP3 player that Grandpa Yu bought specially for chicken sets.

This thing is called "electric media".

Throwing the TV media there, Li Junge went uphill with A Yin.

After turning over the highest point, you can see a stone road, which leads to a place at the bottom of the mountain where houses that look like plates are concentrated, which is Bagou Township.

Looking at the mountain and running dead horses, although you can see the bottom at a glance, it is a real fifteen-mile mountain road.

The two found a grassy slope to sit down, cuddled together and chatted.

At this time, a red beetle crawled into the plate. It was Li Junge's bird of prey that had driven into Bagou Township.

"Haha, here they come. How long do you think it will take for them to climb up?"

People in the mountains go to bed early and get up early. It seems that they have done so many things, but in fact it is only before eight o'clock.

A Yin plucked a wild flower and sniffed it in front of his nose, then smiled and said, "I don't know, according to Zhu Erchong's virtue of taking three steps and one rest, it may take three or four hours."

Li Junge said that he took out his mobile phone and called Zhu Chaoan: "Zhu Er Chong, come in along the road now, the township government square is probably on the left, just park there."

Zhu Chaoan said: "Damn, where are you, Erpi? Why didn't I see you?!"

Li Junge laughed loudly and said, "Front in front, look up, at the highest point, you can't see me, but I can see you."

Zhu Chaoan wailed: "You're playing tricks on me again. You said that when you reach Bagou Township, you can walk a section of stone road to get there. The section in your mouth is really long!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "This is punishment for running away. According to the law, you should be executed. It will be cheaper for you to walk a short distance!"

Zhu Chaoan said angrily, "Wait! When Xiaozhun and I come up, we will strangle you to death!"

Li Junge laughed and said: "You all have to be energetic, hurry up, there is probably bamboo chicken to eat at noon, after twelve o'clock, the only thing to do is to drink pot water!"

"Hey, this thing is stir-fried with young ginger and pickled peppers! It must be stir-fried! As long as you stir-fry a plate for us, we will forgive you!"

"Hurry up and talk!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Junge saw the car parked in the yard in front of the township government, and then two small figures got out of the car, put on their backpacks, and started walking towards the stone road at the foot of the mountain.

Li Junge said to A Yin: "A Yin, sitting on the top of the mountain and blowing the cool breeze, watching these two kids climbing the mountain, how can I be so happy in my heart?"

Ayin patted Li Junge, held his hand and said, "You are just gloating, go, go back and see what delicious food Grandma is going to make at noon."

The two walked on the mountain road, chatting with each other.

"A Yin."

"Ah."

"In the future, if we hold hands, can we walk side by side? I feel like you are walking the dog like this."

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm used to walking on mountain roads, and they are all in tandem."

"It doesn't matter, look at the scenery here in Bagou Township, it's much worse than our Lijiagou side."

"Well, but they are much richer than our Miao Village."

"No problem. When we develop, we will definitely be no worse than them. We have what they have, but they don't have what we have."

"Well, it depends on us, we will surpass them one day."

"This goal is too small, surpassing them is nothing! Surpassing Bifeng Town, surpassing Bifeng Town is the start!"

"Well, I just like to see you talking nonsense in a serious manner!"

"..."

Back home, Mother Ni was baking fern cakes.

Bracken is also an ingredient that Chinese ancestors discovered a long time ago. It is mentioned in "Cao Chong" in the Book of Songs that "Zhi Bi Nanshan, it is said to pick its fern. If you don't see a gentleman, you worry about it."

There are many varieties of edible ferns in Jiachuan, which can be harvested from February to August.

Then you can dig fern roots from September to February next year.

This thing is the winter ration of many wild animals in Bifeng Mountain, such as wild boar, porcupine, bamboo civet...

When life was difficult in the old days, half of the rations of the mountain people were also it.

Fern roots grow at a depth of one meter underground. The so-called "digging fern roots, three feet deep, digging with a hoe, and humming." It is hard to imagine.

Put the dug fern roots in a pestle to rot, filter out the fiber and leave the starch, and dry it after precipitation to get the fern root powder.

Fern root starch can be made into fern root vermicelli and fern cake.

Make the fern root powder into a paste, scoop it into the pot one by one and bake it into a solidified block, which is the fern cake.

In the old days, the mother of the Miao family baked fern cakes, and the children of the Miao family stood by the pot and ate them with sticky fern cakes.

This thing is soft and smooth, and Miao babies who grew up eating glutinous rice cakes like it very much.

Ayin said to Mama Ni: "Mom, they have already reached the foot of the mountain, what are they going to have for lunch?"

Mother Ni said: "Cold folded ear root, fried bacon with dried bamboo shoots, chicken with bamboo fungus, twice-cooked pork with fern cake, string bean flower, and your favorite smoked fish. It depends on whether Piwa can catch the bamboo chicken."

A Yin said: "I guess they will all have cracked mouths when they arrive at noon, and they may not be able to drink alcohol. Let's make them some blood rice soup."

(End of this chapter)