Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 157

Chapter 150 Eight Stone Climbers
After finishing the camp, Li Junge told Bai Da and the others to keep an eye on the camp and not to run around, and then followed Uncle Orion to see the location of the mountain pond.

Uncle Orion took Li Junge over a mountain ridge that slanted towards the valley, and found a stream in front of him. The water quality was crystal clear, and the bottom of the stream was full of huge stones.

Uncle Orion said: "This is right here. Walking up this stream is Baimi Cave. This water flows out of Baimi Cave. The water flow has been stable for a long time. There is no stream flowing in along the road. There is nothing cleaner than it. It's water."

The two walked up the stream, and Li Junge said, "Is this white rice hole the same as the white rice hole in 'Gao Gebao Moves Rice to Save Ga Po'?"

Toad is the toad, and Gapo is the old lady. This is another local legend.

Uncle Orion said, "That's right, it's the white rice hole."

Li Junge said: "Oh, I must go and see it. I have heard this story for so long, and I haven't seen what Baimi Cave looks like yet!"

There is a legend circulating along the banks of Wuxi River in Pan'ao Township.

According to legend, there was a woman whose husband died early when she was young and left no children. She kept festivals and did not marry to serve her in-laws until her in-laws passed away.

The opposite door of Pan'ao Township is Baimi Township, which is the township where Wang Heizi, the owner of Jiudouwan oil kitchen team, is located. There is a wide rocky beach next to the Hongshui River in that township. On the rocky beach is a huge stone that looks like a toad. The local people care about it. It's called Toad Stone.

Hama Rock has a peculiarity. If the first flood peak of the Hongshui River is higher than Hama Stone every year, there will be a danger of flooding that year. Everyone must be prepared.If the flood peak did not reach the foot of the Toad Stone for the first time, then everything would have been safe and sound that year.

It is said that this is a clone of a toad spirit, who has been staying here to remind the villagers of the water news for a year.

Then he said that the toad spirit's cave is in a cave on the mountain over there in Pan'ao Township.

In the old days, every year, the villagers of Baimi Township would put some of the newly harvested rice in front of Hama Stone to express their gratitude to Hama Jing.

The story turns back, one year there was a severe drought in Pan'ao Township, the old grandmother's land didn't have much harvest, and there was a famine in sight.

There is no other way, although the old lady is very old, she still has to go up the mountain to dig fern roots and wild vegetables, hoping to survive this year.

After looking for it, I somehow found a hole in front of which water was flowing out. The old lady couldn't hold on any longer, so she took a nap at the hole.

In the dream, a fat man wearing crimson silk clothes came, his eyes were big and bulging, and he walked in a circle. He came to the old woman and said, "You are a chaste woman. After he ascends to heaven, there must be a place for you in the heaven. When the time comes I can't even envy you! But now that my life is not over, let me form a good relationship with you first."

The grandmother woke up in a daze, but found that white rice began to flow out of the hole, and it was piled up at the hole.

The grandmother carried the white rice down the mountain and survived the famine that year. This cave has since been called the White Rice Cave.

Uncle Orion said: "The old saying in our old age, 'Baimi Township, across the river, Ge Gebao moved rice to save Gapo', this is the story."

Li Junge sighed in admiration: "Look at the folk customs here, even goblins are polite."

Uncle Orion laughed loudly: "If this toad spirit knows that we are going to build a pond under its cave, will there be disagreements? You will have to bear the blame at that time."

Li Junge said: "How come, this is also something that benefits one party, and the elderly will definitely support it."

When he came to a place clamped by a big rock, Uncle Orion said: "Look here, when the time comes, a water diversion channel will be opened next to the big rock, so that the stream can bypass this big rock, and then a mountain pond will be built between the two rocks, and it will be closed again. Water diversion channel, store the water, and this mountain pond will be formed."

Then he continued: "It's about ten miles from here to Lijiagou, isn't Piwa a bit far?"

Li Junge said: "Although it is far away, such water quality and such a stable flow are unmatched by other places, and it is worthwhile to go far."

The two continued to walk up, and after another five miles, they came to Baimi Cave.

This is a large karst cave. The entrance of the cave is like a living room. It is more than five meters long and three meters high. There are some stalactites hanging above it, and there are also some large and small stalagmites emerging from the ground. Streams rush out from the side of the cave entrance. The entire entrance of the cave was very cold, and the cold air rushed to the face, several degrees lower than the outside.

Uncle Orion took down the kettle and filled it, saying: "This water can be drunk directly, it is clear and sweet."

Li Junge also took out the kettle and poured it, took a sip, it was really delicious, and there was a faint fragrance of glutinous rice when you carefully discerned it.

"Good water! This water is so cold!"

Uncle Orion said: "You feel cold now, when you come in winter, you will feel that the water is warm again."

Li Junge nodded and said, "Well, that's how the groundwater is, Uncle Orion, thank you for finding such a good water source."

After finishing speaking, he dug out three mineral water bottles, filled them up, and said: "When I go down the mountain, I will send it to my cousin, and ask him to find someone to help me analyze the water quality. If there is no problem, then we will put the huge rock under the mountain pond." There."

Uncle Orion said: "If you want to come to this Toad Cave again, you have to come by raft."

Li Junge looked at the deep hole, walked a few steps closer, and called out to the hole: "Hello!"

Layers of echoes came from inside: "Hey, hey..."

Li Junge turned to Uncle Orion and said, "Uncle Orion, have you explored this cave?"

Uncle Orion said: "It's not that deep, it's very big inside, and there are many forks in the road, Pi Wa, don't mess around, it's a big deal if you get stuck in it. It is said that this hole can lead to Baimi Township!"

Li Junge laughed loudly: "How is it possible! There is a Wuxi River between here and Baimi Township! Could it be possible that this cave can go through more than ten miles and then pass under the river?"

Orion said: "Anyway, that's the old saying, and I don't know if it's true."

The two wandered around the entrance of the cave for a while before starting to walk back.

Back at the camp, they all greeted Bai Da.

Li Junge touched their heads and chins one by one to calm them down again.

Uncle Orion is carrying the rabbit, ready to go to the mountain stream to clean up.

Li Junge took out a pair of lines with a hook, and said to Uncle Orion, "I'll go with you, and see if we can add another dish tonight."

When the two came to the edge of the mountain stream, Uncle Orion peeled off the hare's skin and disemboweled it.

Li Junge took out the plug, picked out the pancreas and liver of the hare, and cut them into small pieces. These are the most fishy parts of the hare, and they are the best for fishing.

Wrapping the bait with leaves, Li Junge walked downstream.

When I came here, I passed several places with deep water, and the bottom was full of rocks. Li Junge was going to try it there.

With the help of a stone out of the water in the stream, Li Junge jumped onto a stone in the middle of the water three times and twice, tried the water depth to about one meter, hung the bait and lowered the hook. It was still the same fishing method as fishing for stone loach, and it did not drift. Holding the fishing line with your hand, you can feel the fish biting the hook with your hand.

Soon there was a slight vibration of the fishing line, and Li Junge quickly lifted the hook.

According to his understanding of the water conditions of the stream, if the underwater thing does not lift the hook as soon as possible, it can swallow the whole hook in the stomach, and it will be troublesome to remove the hook at that time.

Sure enough, a palm-length fish with strange appearance came up from the bottom of the water.

This is a stone crawler, the scientific name is Huangshi crawler, and it is the ugliest fish Li Junge has ever seen.

This thing is more than ten centimeters long, a bit like a catfish, without scales, covered with mucus, with a wide and flat head, with a pair of very small eyes on the head, which is completely out of proportion to the head.Unlike other fish, the eyes are distributed on both sides of the head, or on the upper side, but the eyes are facing the sky, which is uncomfortable no matter how you look at it.

There are several whiskers directly in front of the head, and the inner sides of the two longest whiskers are still covered with meat membranes. When the whiskers are stretched out, it looks like two small pointed fins hanging from the mouth, which is a bit like the canard design of some airplanes.

The ratio of the head to the body is also not in line with the aesthetics of general fish. The big flat head is paired with a small body full of flesh, and the back and side of the body are yellow-green-yellow-green olive.The upper edge of the rear part of the adipose fin is yellow, and the rest of the fins are grayish black.

Turning it over makes it even harder to see, with a huge suction cup underneath the flat head, a bit like the stomach of a scavenger in an aquarium.

In short, it is an ugly fish, saying that it is an alien creature without plastic surgery.

Because of this appearance, no one in Lijiagou Village had food in the old days.

At that time, fishermen were tired of it, greedy, swallowing the hook badly, but it was still an ineffective fish, and it would take half a day to take the hook after catching it.

If you catch a big rock crawler with long feet, you don't call out its name, but just curse: "Damn it, I caught another rotten straw sandal!"

But I don't know when, the rotten straw sandals started shaking, and they can be sold for seven or eight hundred pounds in big cities, and they are getting rarer and rarer.So apart from the artificially bred ones, it is easier to get them only in the cold water streams in the mountains that are inaccessible.

Li Junge used to be bothered by this fish, but when he came to Yuzhou, he was frightened when he saw how expensive the stone clapper was. He came back and tried to make it twice, only to realize that this thing is expensive for a reason.

Although God gave it an ugly appearance, it can give it a top taste.

Shuzhou is the capital of foodies. This stuff is okay in Qianzhou and Dianzhou, but in Shuzhou it has been listed as the top three.

Taking a straw stick and putting Shi Pazi on, Li Junge continued fishing.

This thing is greedy, so you don't have to worry about it not coming to bite the hook. What you have to worry about is that it swallows the hook too hard. You must lift the hook in time, otherwise the hook will enter your stomach if you don't pay attention.

The water quality of the mountain stream is clean, and there are many stone climbers, and it is estimated that there is little food, so once the fishy bait is removed, the stone climbers will be hooked.

After a while, more than 20 fish were caught, which weighed more than a catty.

It was almost enough, Li Junge didn't continue to fish, he cut and washed the stone crawlers in the stream, strung them up with dog's tail grass sticks, and carried them back to the camp.

(End of this chapter)