Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 224 Picking up Shrimp
When Xu Dalang left the village committee office, there was only one red horse left in the yard, and Heifeng and Li Hongbing had disappeared.

This grandson's psychological endurance is not that bad!

What a big deal!

Xu Dalang quickly mounted Honghong and chased her out.

After chasing wildly all the way, he found Li Hongbing, whose back was bleak, by the terraced fields at the entrance of the village.

After a heavy rain last night, the vegetable seedlings in the field were green, as if painted with a layer of paint.

"Brother, are you okay?"

Li Hongbing didn't look back, "Brother Dalang, walk with me, after all, I have put a lot of effort into these fields."

"Let's go, brother will accompany you around."

Xu Dalang couldn't understand this feeling, but he knew that at this time, a wounded man needed the silent company of his friends.

The two stopped and walked along the field ridges. After the rain, the field ridges were extremely muddy. After walking for a while, the soles of their shoes were covered with mud, and walking was heavy. They simply took off their shoes and stepped on the muddy ground with bare feet.

"This field is radish seedlings, and Aunt Jinhua will come to pull weeds every day."

"That field is cabbage seedlings, sister-in-law Yuzhi took good care of it."

Li Hongbing pointed to a field of fast vegetables in front of him, and introduced in a low voice.

Xu Dalang could tell that they all looked the same in his eyes, but in order to take care of Li Hongbing's emotions, he could only pretend to be surprised.

I don't know.

In every vegetable field that Li Hongbing walked, he took back all the original power in the vegetable seedlings. Others thought that these vegetable seedlings were growing well, but they didn't know that they had lost their potential for improvement and returned to normal.

I want to prostitute the original vegetables for nothing.

dream.

I don't have any pants left for you to pay.

Go all the way and collect all the way.

Unknowingly, the two came to the mountain depression on the north slope, and the three figures were busy digging ditches to drain water in the terraced fields.

"Scholar, victory, build an army." Li Hongbing shouted loudly.

The three figures stopped what they were doing, turned around and walked towards Li Hongbing.

"Brother Hongbing, why are you here?"

"Brother, come and see, these herbs are all grown."

"Brother Hong Soldier, you are really right."

Smiling, Li Hongbing leaned over and pulled up a mint tree. After absorbing the power of the source, the herb was full of vitality, and its thick and dense root system firmly grasped a lump of soil.

According to the current growth situation, the first batch of Qixiang powder will reach the picking period soon.

Farewell to the three scholar brothers.

The two returned to the entrance of the village, rode on their horses and walked slowly towards the old house.

On the way, Li Hongbing suddenly remembered something, and asked Xu Dalang, "Brother Dalang, what was the surprise you mentioned when you came?"

Xu Dalang was stunned for a moment.

Suddenly remembered that I forgot one thing.

Hastily took out the phone and called.

Ji Li Guala talked a lot, but Li Hongbing only heard Xu Dalang say that he arranged for a Bengbeng car to deliver the things to the village.

As for what, Xu Dalang didn't say anything, only showed a beating expression.

Back to the old house.

Remove the saddle from the horse, let Black Wind and Red go to the meadow to play.

Li Hongbing called Anna and Shawa squatting on the ground, playing with some kind of animal with wooden sticks.

When I got closer, I found a few dark red crayfish waving their pincers. Not to mention they were quite big, each of them was about one or two heavy.

There are quite a lot of crayfish in the streams and rivers, and the countryside calls them red-skinned shrimps.

Strange to say, people in the forest area fly in the sky, run on the ground, and eat everything in the water, but they don't eat this stuff.

Because there are rumors that the red-skinned shrimps were spread to the country by the Neon people, and they are specially used to eat corpses.

When I was young, Li Hongbing and his friends had eaten cicadas, locusts, water turtles, pine wood worms, and spicy eggs, but they didn't eat red-skinned shrimps.

By the way, the frogs can't eat it. When I was young, I saw a frog by an adult, and it was a meal, but the roast frog meat was really delicious. Sprinkle some salt and spicy.

After eating spicy crayfish in the city, I realized how delicious this thing is, and regretted missing so many crayfish back then.

Then he asked his daughter.

"Where did the crayfish come from?"

Anna picked up a crayfish that was holding a wooden stick with a pair of pliers, "Silly brother, catch it for me."

The silly boy smiled innocently, and pointed in the direction of the meadow, "There are many red-skinned shrimps by the river."

A lot of crayfish?
Could it be that the stream flooded the river and washed the crayfish to the shore.

Immediately, a lot of saliva was secreted from Li Hongbing's mouth, and he seemed to see crayfish holding up their pincers, wriggling their bodies and doing a spicy dance.
Oily prawns, garlic prawns, spicy prawns, spicy crayfish.

"Come on, let's go pick up shrimp."

After finishing speaking, he took out a few plastic buckets from the warehouse, Li Hongbing, Xu Dalang, and Shawa took each of them, and led Anna towards the gate of the courtyard.

When the wolfhounds saw that they were going out to play, they hurriedly followed behind.

A group of people came to the meadow.

It rained heavily in the mountains last night, and the rainwater flowed down from the mountains and flowed into the streams and rivers, causing the width of the rivers to swell.

The original river bank was submerged by the raging river, and even the meadows were full of small puddles, and some meadows swelled up with big bulges.

"Anna, Dad will take you to play on the trampoline." Li Hongbing recalled the games he played when he was a child, and picked up Anna and put her on a big drum. At first, Anna was a little scared, but when she stood on the drum, she found that her feet were soft, like stepping on the drum. Same on the box springs.

"It's fun!" Anna jumped up and down on the drum kit, giggling.

Seeing that Anna was having fun, the wolfhounds also found a bulge and jumped up and down.

"Interesting? I'll try it too." Xu Dalang pursed his lips, walked up to a bulge in a childlike way, jumped up hard, and stepped directly through the turf on the surface of the bulge.

boom!
The bulge exploded violently, spraying out fountain-like stagnant water, drenching Xu Dalang all over, like a drowned rat.

Hahaha!
Everyone couldn't stand their backs laughing.

bah bah bah!
Xu Dalang spit out a few blades of grass from his mouth, just about to get angry, but seeing that he was like a drowned chicken, he couldn't help but also laughed out loud.

"Brother Dalang, that's not how you play. You dance too hard, you have to stand up slowly."

Li Hongbing walked slowly onto a bulge while laughing, pressing his legs down hard, and the bulge rose and fell like a water polo.

"You didn't tell me sooner."

Xu Dalang muttered something, walked up to a drum kit to play, and took out his mobile phone to record this interesting scene.

After playing for a while, under the urging of Li Hongbing, a group of people continued to walk towards the Xishui River.

"Dad, crayfish." Anna suddenly called out.

Several adults walked forward quickly, and beside a small puddle, three dark red crayfish raised their large pincers, as if warning them.

Don't come over, I'm going to trap someone if I come over.

Li Hongbing was not used to them, he sneaked up from behind and grabbed the crayfish's head, holding it in his hands.

The crayfish was caught suddenly and waved its pincers angrily.

"Brother Dalang, look at the size of this crayfish."

Xu Dalang looked carefully, and blurted out Wo Cao.

The size of the crayfish is almost as big as a palm, its skin is red with iron blue, its shell is like rusty iron, and its two pincers are big and thick, at least two or two by visual inspection.

Such big crayfish are not unavailable, they are very rare. Generally, they will be taken away by buyers as soon as they land on the shore.

"I ate it once in Jinling. The crayfish was a little smaller than this one. A plate of six sold for 6 yuan. You have to order in advance."

"You are artificially farmed shrimp, which can be compared with my wild shrimp."

Li Hongbing looked at Gou Dahu with disdain, and turned over the crayfish with its teeth and claws in his hand.

"Look at this rusty shell. Only wild shrimps have this color. Look at the belly and claws. It's white and neat. It's a good fresh water old shrimp. 666 yuan is a fart."

"Hurry up and put it in the bucket, I want spicy prawns." Xu Dalang salivated wildly, and lifted the bucket excitedly.

Virtue!

Li Hongbing threw the crayfish into the bucket, and then did not let go of the remaining ones, and the family reunited and threw them into the bucket.

The more you go to the river, the more frequent crayfish appear. Because of the impact of rain, the water will lack oxygen, and the crayfish leave their caves one after another, and either climb ashore or climb onto grass stems.

Three adults and one child, whirring and chirping began to sweep the meadow.

Soon, the wolfhounds also joined the crayfish picking team, biting the lobster's head and sending it into the bucket.

After a while, the three buckets were half filled.

There is no way, there are too many crayfish, scattered everywhere by the river, as long as you have your hands, it is the same as picking them up.

In the end, Li Hongbing didn't like the crayfish below one tael at all.

suddenly.

Xu Dalang jumped up on the spot as if he had seen a ghost, and exclaimed, "There is a snake, a big snake!"

"Where?" Li Hongbing put down the bucket and walked over, while the idiot on the other side directly picked up Anna.

"That, right there. Under the grass roots, there are several big heads." Xu Dalang's face was pale, and he pointed to a small puddle not far away.

Li Hongbing let go of his perception and probed towards the puddle, then said contemptuously, "I'm afraid you haven't seen a snake before!"

After finishing speaking, he strode over, pulled away the water plants, put his hand into the water, and pulled it out violently. A finger-thick eel flew into the air, and by coincidence, it fell into Xu Dalang's clothes.

Omg!

A scream sounded, Xu Dalang was frightened like crazy, took off his clothes and threw it on the ground, ran behind Shawa to seek shelter, and at the same time cursed at Li Hongbing.

"Are you sick? I provoke you and bit me with a snake."

Seeing this, Li Hongbing understood.

Don't look at Brother Dalang, who is a forty-year-old man, he is really afraid of snakes. This kind of fear comes from the fear in his bones, and it is a subconscious fear.

Put away the mischievous heart, pick up the lost clothes, buckle the eel's head that is still in the clothes looking for the exit, take it out and shake it.

"What are you afraid of, this is an eel, not a snake."

Xu Dalang's face turned white and blue at this time, his eyes were fixed on the twisted and tangled eel in Li Hongbing's hands, his head was completely dazed, seeing that Li Hongbing was about to walk towards him, he jumped up and warned.

"Don't come, don't come, I'll go when you come."

After warning, Xu Dalang turned around and ran, scrambling and running towards the old house.

As for?
Li Hongbing pouted, and shouted at the wolfhounds who were catching crayfish, "Hui, follow, don't let Brother Da Lang get lost!"

Woohoo!

San Hui glanced at Li Hongbing, crunched and ate the crayfish in his mouth twice, and chased after Xu Dalang who was staggering and running not far away.

One person ran away, and the crayfish still had to be caught.

Li Hongbing was about to throw away the rice field eel in his hand, but the silly boy was reluctant, expressing that he wanted to eat the rice field eel.

Ha!
Three buckets of crayfish is not enough for a silly baby to eat.

The team was divided into two teams, Shawa and Anna went to pick up crayfish, and Li Hongbing went to catch eels.

Field eels like to stay in places with mud and wetlands. Li Hongbing found a large puddle, submerged his hands in the water, and sent a ray of original power to his fingertips.

soon.

Muddy water churned in puddles.

More than a dozen black and yellow eels drilled out of the mud and swam quickly towards the finger.

"Let's go."

With quick eyes and quick hands, Li Hongbing grabbed an old piebald eel and threw it towards the meadow.

The old eel landed on the meadow, twisting its one-meter-long body.

Ow!

Erhei held down the old eel with one paw, bit his head and shook it left and right, and moved to Li Hongbing's side to claim credit.

I saw Erhei catching eels.

I remembered that when I had just returned to the village after eating at Dakui's house, when I was helping the silly boy catch eels on the meadow, one eel and four wolf and dog cubs had to work together to catch them, and they were all grown up now.

"Erhei is awesome!"

Li Hongbing continued to catch the eels, and Erhei was responsible for putting the eels into the bucket.

soon.

One man and one wolf caught most of the bucket of eels.

Shawa and Anna also brought two buckets of crayfish to join Li Hongbing.

So much to eat!

old house.

Li Hongbing took Shawa and Anna, and started shouting as soon as they entered the yard.

"Myolie, I ate shrimp."

"Here we come." Shan Xing, who was preparing lunch in the kitchen, came out and saw a bucket of rice eel in Li Hongbing's hand, and two buckets of crayfish in Shawa's hand, her delicate face showed a little panic.

"Where did you get so many red-skinned shrimps? Can this be eaten?"

"Why can't you eat it? This stuff is almost eaten up in the city. You'll know if it's delicious when you make it!"

Li Hongbing dragged out the big bathtub that Anna used to row the dragon boat during the Dragon Boat Festival from the warehouse, and poured two buckets of crayfish into it.

The crayfish in the bathtub made a rustling sound, which made the hairs stand on end, and refused to come to help no matter what.

living comfortably without anybody's help.

Li Hongbing picked up the water pipe, turned on the faucet, and cold well water gushed out to wash the crayfish in the tub.

Occasionally, a crayfish escaped from birth, but it was hard to escape the poisonous hands of Anna and the wolf dogs.

"Silly boy, come here and wash the shrimps, and I'll build a stove."

"Xing'er, don't be idle, go and slaughter a jute chicken, I haven't tasted them for so long."

"Anna, stand by the side obediently."

Li Hongbing assigned tasks to the family members one by one. As for Xu Dalang, he got into the house after hearing Shan Xing said that this guy ran back.

After receiving the task, everyone got busy.

The stove is built on the open space between the rice field and the vegetable field, and the two layers of blue bricks are built in a staggered way, which can not only ensure ventilation but also bear the weight of the cauldron.

The water quality of the stream and river is clean, and the crayfish growing are naturally clean, as can be seen from the almost transparent plastron of the stomach. It is said that it can be cooked directly, but Anna also wants to eat it. The step of opening the back to get the shrimp line cannot be omitted. .

After building the stove, Li Hongbing returned to the paddy field, found a stool, scissors, and shoe brushes, and grabbed a crayfish to show Shawa.

First use a shoe brush to make a SPA on the whole body of the crayfish, then grab the back of the shrimp, use scissors to cut off the middle part of the shrimp tail near the back of the shrimp head, find out the shrimp line, pull out the shrimp line, and pick out the part of the shrimp back. After threading the shrimp, trim off the legs and feet of the lobster with scissors.

In the last step, throw the cleaned crayfish into a bucket filled with mixed salt and starch for soaking.

"Would you like to see it?" Li Hongbing packed up a dozen crayfish and looked at the silly boy squatting beside him.

Shawa nodded heavily.

"Yes."

"Then you clean it up, and I'll deal with the eels."

Passing the scissors and brush to Shawa, Li Hongbing carried the bucket through the fruit forest to the pond.

Old rules.

Bench, nails and kitchen knife, three sets for handling eels.

Grab a rice field eel, hang its head on a nail, cut the eel's neck lightly with the kitchen knife, and cut the blade along the middle seam of the knife to the bottom of the belly.

Finally, aim the blade at the spine of the eel, and scrape it down hard, and the viscera and a whole bone of the eel will be completely separated.

Li Hongbing threw the eel's bones, viscera, and head directly into the pond.

Whoa!

Splashes rolled.

Big fish and small fish jumped out of the water, vying for those fresh flesh and blood.

(End of this chapter)