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Chapter 149: Catch mantises, dig out ice and fish

When a female leopard is hibernating, she doesn't have much energy even if she is awakened. She will just float on the water waiting to be slaughtered.

After Wang Biao picked up all the rocks in the shallow puddle, he caught a total of nine hash ants, including seven female leopards and two male dogs.

At this time, Xu Ning pointed to the thin layer of ice on the shore and said, "Crack this ice into pieces and see if there is anything left."

Wang Biao nodded in response, then walked over and struck the hammer twice. Li Fuqiang handed him a wooden stick. Wang Biao took it and went to sleep inside.

"There should be no such thing as fun."

Xu Ning waved his hand and said, "Let's go further upstream."

Nine hash ants are definitely not enough to eat. There are nearly 20 people in four families, so they have to gather 30 or 40 ants, otherwise they will not be enough to satisfy the hunger.

At this time, the resources in the forest area are quite abundant. Harsh ants and crickets are basically in groups. As long as you find a few shallow puddles, you will definitely be able to dig out some hash ants.

Everyone walked upstream. When they saw a shallow puddle, they sent Wang Biao, the vanguard, down to the river to swing hammers. After two o'clock, the sack Li Fuqiang was carrying contained more than thirty hash ants and six or seven crickets. .

"Brother, there are so many crickets here. I can only make soup when I go back."

Xu Ning raised his arm, flashed his wrist, and glanced at the level 35 Sanfeng brand mechanical watch he bought for yuan.

"It's only half past eleven now. Let's go find a ditch and pond to catch some pike after a while."

"I think it will work." Li Fuqiang nodded.

Xu Feng said: "Second brother, let me fish out later."

"Just watch. What are you doing for fun? It's good to take you out. If you want to get wet all over, my mother will fuck you when you get home. I won't hold you there."

"Hey, I finally came here, let me have some fun...Second brother, good second brother..."

Xu Ning tilted his head, unable to stand Xu Feng's humiliation, and said, "Let's talk about it later."

"Yeah, second brother is the best, haha... Jinyu, let's go fishing later."

Li Jinyu was a very quiet girl, and the one she had been led by Xu Feng had become a bit wild recently, so she nodded.

Li Fuqiang said: "Brother, if we walk further up, we may encounter a ditch."

"to make."

Immediately, everyone packed up their things and walked sixty or seventy meters upstream. After seeing a shallow puddle, Wang Biao went into the water and knocked rocks very vigorously without hesitation.

Liu Tianen and Wang Hu squatted in the back, blocking the net bag, looking at each other and suppressing laughter.

This is a laborious and laborious task with cold hands and feet. Silly Biaozi is afraid that others will snatch it away. Normal people would like to leave it at home and sit on the hot kang to wait for their meal.

"Old cricket! Uncle Biao, I'm pulling it on your right side!"

Li Mantang pointed under the ice on the shore and said.

Wang Biao reached into the water, caught the cricket, and said with a smile, "Mantang's eyes are really good."

Li Fuqiang took the cricket and said, "Follow me."

"Haha..." Everyone laughed.

The streams in the mountains are basically not polluted, so whether they are filled with crickets or hash ants, they are quite thick.

After hitting six or seven shallow puddles in succession, the sacks contained nearly fifty hash ants and more than thirty crickets. Why were there so few crickets? Because crickets do not hibernate, they are not as stupid as hash ants, waiting to be caught.

These river fresh food must be enough for two dishes, so Xu Ning asked Wang Biao to stop.

When Wang Biao came ashore, he put his cold and red hands into his pocket and asked, "Second brother, shall we go fishing?"

Xu Ning nodded, he must go fishing. The Bingbingzi was prepared for fishing, otherwise it would have been in vain.

At this moment, they were in an environment surrounded by mountains on the left and right, with valleys on the front and back, and birch and pine forests nearby.

Li Fuqiang carried the sack and pointed to the southwest, "Brother, there is a ditch and pond two miles away from here. I have been there twice when I was young. The pond was frozen and the fish were frozen in the ice. I don’t know if I’m doing it now, I haven’t done it in years.”

Xu Ning shook his head and said with a smile: "No, the ditch and pond you are talking about is the one close to the sow forest, right?"

"OK!"

"Let's go there. The ditch and pond are quite big. We can't have more than two acres of land, right?"

"Yes, there are areas where the water is deep and areas where the water is shallow."

Wang Hu said: "We can go back on time for silver carp and big carp. This trip is not in vain."

When Xu Feng heard the three of them talking, she was a little dissatisfied. She held her clothes and muttered in a low voice: "I just want to catch some pike..."

But no one paid any attention to her. Only Li Jinyu gently grabbed her arm.

These three children came up the mountain to play, but Xu Ning refused to let them do anything. Xu Feng must have been very upset.

After a group of two miles of hiking, they arrived at the ditch and pond. They first pulled apart the tall grass and willow branches on the shore, and then saw a ditch and pond that looked like a small reservoir.

After everyone found a way to get down to the ice, Wang Biao, Liu Tianen, Xu Feng and others skated out and ran out. They opened their arms while skating. With a pop, Wang Biao sat on the ice. It made everyone laugh, and Wang Hule slapped him in the face and said he deserved it!

The ice in this ditch and pond is more than ten centimeters thick, so there is no safety risk when running or jumping on it. I am afraid that someone will dig a hole to set up a net, and if it is empty, it will inevitably fall into it.

Li Fuqiang put the sacks and other things in the grass nest on the shore, carried the glacier on his shoulders and said, "Brother, shall we get started?"

"Treat! Mainly pick out fish in the frozen ice. If there is anoxic floating ice layer, we will also dig out the fish."

"That's it."

Then Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu carried Bongbingzi and walked separately from Xu Ning in three directions.

But as soon as they took two steps, they heard Xu Feng, who was playing slippery in front of them, shout: "Second brother, there is a big fish here!"

Xu Ning turned around and said, "Brother, you can look for it yourself, Hu Zi and I will go take a look."

"Okay." He and Wang Hu walked up to Xu Feng, looked down and saw a big white lotus frozen in the ice. Wang Hu didn't say anything, just picked up the glacier and pierced it towards the ice.

"Brother Tiger, play with me."

Wang Hu smiled and said, "Can you handle it?"

"I'll give it a try."

Xu Feng wandered up to him, holding the handle of the glacier in both hands. She was holding back the handle of the glacier until her face turned red. She could indeed hold the glacier, but she was so small that she was almost at the same level as the glacier, so she couldn't exert any strength at all.

"Hey, why is it so heavy? I'm so annoyed..."

"Haha..." Wang Hu laughed.

Xu Ning carried her to the side, "Don't leave it alone and make trouble. You two go and look for fish."

"Oh." Xu Feng was a little disappointed and led Jin Yumantang away in despair.

At this time, Wang Biao and Liu Tianen were poking at the ice with Li Fuqiang. There was also a silver carp under the ice. Both silver carp weighed three to four kilograms.

Winter is not like summer. If the fish floats on the water in summer, it will stink for two or three days. However, the water temperature in winter is very cold. If the fish is frozen in ice, it is equivalent to being placed in the refrigerator, keeping it fresh.

Wang Hu and Xu Ning took turns poking at the ice, piercing all the ice around the outer ring of the white silver carp. The two of them worked together to take out the large piece of ice. Mang Jin threw it onto the ice, breaking the ice into pieces, and the big white lotus was also It was revealed.

"This must weigh three or four kilograms?"

"Yes, it's enough for us to have a meal. We'll go back in a little while. It's not easy to come here."

Wang Hu nodded and asked: "Second brother, why don't we have a good time at noon? I think Feng'er and the others are a bit embarrassed. Could it be that they are hungry?"

"They don't have anything to do. It's a waste of time to come here for nothing. They're hungry... they're really a little hungry. I'll light the fire later and bake some rice cakes and fish to eat."

"Row."

At this time, Xu Feng and Jin Yu Mantang walked to the bank of the ditch more than ten meters away. Li Mantang pulled Xu Feng and said, "Look, what kind of thing is that?"

Xu Feng took two steps forward and immediately exclaimed: "Oh my God!"

Li Jinyu was a little confused when she looked at the dozens of fish frozen in the ice in front of her, but she quickly reacted. Just when Xu Feng was about to step forward, she was grabbed by her.

"Don't go...the ice in front is thin and it's easy to fall."

Li Mantang said: "Go to my second uncle."

Xu Feng looked at the two of them and nodded, then turned around and called Xu Ning.

When Xu Ning heard the noise, he and Wang Hu came over, saw the ice in front of them, and said: "This is the ice that someone deliberately broke open... Man Tang, go call your dads to come over, and we will clean up these fish." "

"Yeah." Li Mantang turned around and ran to find Li Fuqiang and others.

Xu Ning dragged Xu Feng and Li Jinyu and said, "You two go to the shore and wait. This slip is too dangerous. Don't fall again."

"Oh." Xu Feng nodded.

After Xu Feng and Li Jinyu took a detour to the shore, Li Fuqiang, Wang Biao and others also came over carrying Bingbingzi.

They were a little confused when they saw so many fish. After Xu Ning explained, they suddenly realized.

Because the ice layer in front of them is much thinner than the ice layer they are on, and the edges are jagged, which is the cross section opened by the glacier.

"This person must have known that the temperature was low, so he came over in advance to break open the ice and wait for the fish to come out and breathe, just enough to freeze... Maybe it was a blind cat that killed a mouse."

Liu Tianen asked with a smile: "Second brother, are we going to take all these fish home? Then my aunt can't praise you, haha..."

"The designated one, eh, I don't even dare to think about it, my mother might be so interested in me." Wang Biao covered his face and said.

Wang Hu turned around and patted Wang Biao on the neck, "Don't be so shameless."

"You hit me?" Wang Biao stared angrily.

Xu Ning looked at the group of people and said, "It's impossible to leave them all. Let's leave half of them and leave half for others, otherwise we will break the rules."

"Got it."

Li Fuqiang turned around and asked: "Brother, what should we do? We can't go down."

Xu Ning pointed to the jagged edge cut by the glacier and said: "From here, the glacier is broken. The three of us go to the shore to fish for ice, and then bring it to our net. Then we can fix it."

"Ah, then I'll go get the net." Wang Hu said.

"Don't go, let Wang Biao go. Go quickly, what are you looking at?"

Wang Biao nodded numbly and said helplessly: "Okay."

This is because Xu Ning is good at talking. If Wang Hu instructs him, he will definitely turn his back on him.

Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang first used Bongbingzi to cut the ice. After all the edges were cut, Xu Ning and Liu Tianen fished for ice on the shore with their bare hands. Because the ice area was so large, the two of them couldn't do it for a long time.

Then we can only use stones to break open the thin ice, and then move the net from back to front.

Wang Biao held a large piece of ice in his hand. There were two big carps in the ice. It took him a long time to get the two fish out.

Xu Feng and Jin Yumantang were squatting on the bank, clasping their chins with their hands and feeling unhappy. This was a bit different from the fun they imagined.

It took them more than half a day to get out nine fish, most of which weighed two to three kilograms, including carp, crucian carp and silver carp. Counting the two fish they picked out earlier, there were a total of eleven fish, which could be put into sacks. Very old.

"This must be forty or fifty pounds?" Wang Hu said as he picked up the sack.

"Come on, I feel really good today. Brother, are we lucky?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "It's pretty good. Usually it takes a lot of effort to complete two or three pieces."

Then Wang Biao and Liu Tianen carried Bongbingzi, Xu Ning held the net and carried a gun, and asked Xu Feng and Jin Yumantang to carry the sacks containing hash ants and crickets, and walked towards Qing'an Tun.

(End of this chapter)