Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 496 Shrimp and Frog
Chapter 490 Shrimp and Frog

I found an open area and walked down a small stream.

The water got wider and bigger as it went on, until it became a calf-deep clear stream.

Li Junge pointed down the slope towards the stream, and the plants in the valley were like a huge green reptile, with a small gap in its stomach, and the water could be vaguely seen.

Li Junge pointed to everyone with a wooden spear: "Look, that's where the small lake is. If we choose to start from there, follow this green belt to the downhill, and then follow this stream to where we are now." This position may take five or six days."

A Yin asked in surprise, "It's so hard to walk?"

Li Junge said: "Difficulty walking is second, and the loss of direction is the most terrifying thing. There was once a person who walked out in the Amazon jungle for a few hours, and then he could no longer find the camp. It was finally found that he died in the distance. The camp is only a hundred meters away, separated by a dense forest."

A Yin said: "It's so scary?"

Li Junge said: "That's right, so I don't go to places I'm not sure about. It's almost the same when I get down here. Put the things here, and look for something to eat."

A Yin glanced at the water and said, "Erpi, there are a lot of shrimps in the water!"

This stream is about five meters wide, and the water flow is clear. If you look closely at the bottom of the water, there are indeed many transparent and black-striped shrimps swimming.

He is not small, as long as his ring finger.

Li Junge laughed loudly: "Ayin, I'll get you something fun."

Ayin smiled and said, "Fishing shrimp?"

Li Junge said: "It's not fishing, it's trapping!"

Li Junge went to the palm tree by the water and peeled off a piece of brown shell, took out a few longest strands of brown silk from the inside, made a small circle on the tip of the brown silk, and then threaded the other end into the small circle to form a trap .

After cutting off a thin bamboo stick, Li Junge connected the brown silk sleeve and the bamboo tip together, came to the water's edge, squatted down with A Yin, and said to A Yin: "It's very simple, look after it."

Stretch the brown silk circle into the water, go down the water, slip it under the head of a shrimp, lift the bamboo to the shore and shake it, and the shrimp will be caught on the brown silk circle.

Ayin clapped her hands happily: "Oh, it was so easy to catch? Why is this shrimp so stupid? Doesn't it run or hide?"

Li Junge took out all the things in the back basket, put two banana leaves under the back basket, put the shrimp in, and said to A Yin: "If your bamboo is far enough away from the shrimp, it won't hide. There are often thick and thin things in the water, and they are never a threat to them, so they will not hide, at most they will float up a little bit to let the brown silk slip past, and then, there will be no more..."

Ayin said: "This is too amazing, it turns out that catching shrimp is so simple?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "I'm familiar with their habits, isn't it that simple? Let alone such a big one, Xiaobai Xiaosong and the others use this to catch rock loach and small shrimps at the water's edge in summer. The ones two or three centimeters long grow smaller every year. You know how much trouble you will have!"

Ayin squatted by the stream to catch shrimps, and laughed, "I'm afraid that you have suffered a lot when you were young, right? Well, I guess Xiaosong Xiaobai and the others know this trick, and you taught it! You just say it? "

Now that he was caught, Li Junge said embarrassingly: "Isn't it because Yiduo doesn't overwhelm himself? If it weren't for this trick, we could have shrimp at noon today? Hahaha, you can catch shrimp here and play, I will follow the stream Let's go and see!"

Walking down the stream for a while, the stream widened and merged into a muddy field, which turned it into a shallow swamp.

Li Junge likes this kind of place the most. Looking around, sure enough, there are quite a few frogs among the water plants and duckweeds.

"Frog!" Of course Li Junge would not let go of such a delicious dish.

Take off your T-shirt, cut off a piece of bamboo, tie up the cuffs and neck with bamboo thread, bend two bamboo pieces into a circle, wrap the hem of the T-shirt on it, and tie it up. A cloth pocket.

He cut a bamboo pole, and took out a bamboo board with grooves at both ends from his trouser pocket, with a bundle of fine hemp rope wrapped around it.

"Hey hey, I knew it would be useful!"

Cut off a small piece of hemp thread, knead it into small balls after disbanding, cut off a piece of hemp thread about one meter long and tie it tightly, and cut a thin bamboo branch, tie the hemp thread to the bamboo tip, and stretch the hemp ball to the frogs. Shaking up and down in front of him.

Immediately, a frog jumped up and stuck the hemp ball into its mouth with its tongue.

Li Junge shook the bamboo pole, and the frog flew up, and when it fell halfway, Li Junge stretched out his cloth to catch it.

Not long after, there were twenty or thirty frogs in the cloth pocket.

Seeing that it was almost done, Li Junge was about to go back home, but saw two bubbles in the water under a clump of cattail grass.

"Damn it! Seduce me! Do you want me to hurry back and cook!" Now Li Junge was addicted to being teased again.

This is mullet bubbles.

The best bait for mullet fishing is small frogs.

Li Junge regretted that he had released all the little frogs just now, and now he had to tease the little frogs again.

After teasing the three big ones, the two small ones came up.

It is still the same thread just now, but with a thick and long bamboo pole, tie the thread at one end and the hook at the other end, hang the little frog on the thick fleshy part of the leg, and gently stretch the bamboo pole to the place where the frog was bubbling just now. Put it there and move it.

After clicking a few times, a splash of water scattered the duckweed on the water surface, the little frog disappeared, and the hemp rope stretched straight.

Such shallow water cannot hide a large mullet of seven or eight catties. Li Junge was worried that the mullet would have sharp teeth and long nights, so he directly picked up the bamboo pole, picked out the hooked mullet and threw it to the shore.

There is no difficulty at all in doing so.

Mullet can live for a long time out of water, so Li Junge didn't worry about it, and directly passed the hemp rope through the gills of the fish, and tied it to the foot of a bush next to him.

The fish was thrown directly into the grass.

It's not over yet, mullets are usually in pairs, if there is one, there must be another.

After checking whether the fishing line was worn out, I found another small frog to hang on again.

Continue to tease around the nest just now.

Just now, the fish was picked up very fast, and Wozi was not disturbed. Sure enough, after more than ten minutes, another mullet was also caught.

There are two mullets, each weighing more than two catties, which is too much to eat at noon today.

Rewinding the hook line back to the bamboo board, Li Junge returned to the camp with the mullet and the frog.

Ayin was addicted to catching shrimps there, and she could hear her giggling from a distance.

Li Junge went over to take a look: "It's fine, it's fine, why did I eat so much at noon today!"

A Yin looked at the back basket and stuck out her tongue: "Oh, there are so many..."

After speaking, I was about to stand up, but my feet were weak and I was about to fall.

Li Junge quickly threw back the mullet in his hand, stabilized the cloth pocket with his left hand, and held A Yin in his arms with his right hand: "What's wrong?"

A Yin smiled embarrassedly: "Before I knew it, I squatted for too long and my feet became numb..."

Li Junge quickly helped Ayin to sit on a clean stone on the bank, and Ayin chuckled and said, "Now I know why your fishing friends are so addicted. It turns out that I am not much better..."

Li Junge smiled and said, "Don't say this in the forum."

Ayin asked, "Why?"

Li Junge said: "There is a bad habit in the fishing circle. Sea fishers look down on freshwater fishers, Luya fishers look down on Taiwan fishers, and Taiwan fishers look down on traditional fishers. If you set shrimp, you can set shrimp. Fishing, they won't admit it..."

Ah Music is too good: "A group of guys who don't do business properly, how dare they assign factions to diss each other!"

Li Junge said seriously: "Just kidding! We have always been serious about fishing, haven't you heard the saying that Caitou often says? 'This man, you can't delay fishing because of business'... Oh, the fish I caught Woolen cloth?"

Going to the grass behind to pick up two mullets that had fallen into pieces, Ah Yin smiled and praised: "Speaking of the ability to catch fish and shrimp, there is really no one in Lijiagou except you. What's in the T-shirt?"

Li Junge stretched out his cloth pocket: "Look, frog!"

A Yin is the daughter of the Miao family who is good at cooking bamboo insects, centipedes, crawling sand insects, she has no pressure on this at all, she just said: "Look at how dirty your T-shirt is, go, finish it quickly, I will give you the clothes I washed it, but fortunately I brought soap, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to read it when I went back.”

The two began to wash and peel the frogs by the stream, their beards twitching.

Fortunately, there are two mullets, and Hu Zi is very relieved, and it is a delicious dish at noon.

As a result, Li Junge picked up all the shrimps in the basket and put them in a pottery pot, covered the pot, dug a pile of moss from under the bushes, spread a layer on the bottom of the basket, poured some stream water on it, and put the two mullets in the pot. Go in, cover it with moss, pour some water again, and finally cover it with plantain leaves.

He came back to the stream and said to A Yin: "The two mullets can live like this for a week. Let's save it for dinner."

Looking at the resentful beards, Li Junge smirked at A Yin: "Look at them, they still dare to stare at me. I heard that whoever eats the gas valve of the frog can't urinate. I haven't tried it yet..."

Ayin patted Li Junge: "How dare you! Can you learn something!"

Halfway through packing, Li Junge asked A Yin to continue to take care of it, and went to collect firewood by himself.

The forest was very wet, and it was not easy to collect dry firewood. Li Junge walked around for a while before he could find enough dry firewood for a meal.

Back at the edge of the woods, Ayin had already packed up the frogs, strung them together with straws, and was picking up the shrimps.

Li Junge left the firewood behind and came over to help A Yin do the work together.

After finishing the prawns, Li Junge poured the prawns into a banana leaf funnel to free up the pot.

Next comes the fire.

Move a few stones to form a firepit the size of the bottom of a pot, and spread a little hay inside.

Take out a piece of kindling coal and put it on the dry grass, take a flint and use the serrations on the back of the short knife to hit the kindling coal a few times, and a few red sparks will fall on the kindling coal.

The sparks fell on the charcoal and did not go out. Li Junge picked up the charcoal and blew a few breaths. The sparks turned into red spots, which gradually expanded, and finally covered the entire charcoal.

Put the kindling carbon back on the dry grass, blow a few breaths, and the dry grass will burn.

Li Junge is a stingy person who returns particles to the warehouse. Even a small piece of kindling charcoal is reluctant to waste. After lighting the fire, he puts the kindling charcoal out again, pours it out with clean water, and puts it on the side of the fire pit to roast.

This way you can continue to use it next time.

(End of this chapter)