Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 479 The Strange Ditch
According to the adults, in order to prevent the treasure from being obtained by humans, the toad will devour it by itself as soon as it sheds its skin.

So keep your eyes peeled, as soon as the toad sheds its skin, it must be put into the money box without delay.

Several bear children stared wide-eyed around the bamboo sieve, just waiting for the toad to shed its skin.

This thing sheds its skin entirely by the strength of its two hind legs. The hind legs have to be turned upside down to the mouth alternately, and it grabs the toad clothes and slowly pulls it back.It was very slow at first, and their eyes were sore from staring, but then the speed suddenly accelerated when they reached the base of the thigh, as if peeling a sausage, the claws pulled the skin of the thigh, and the whole piece fell off.

The toad's skin was as thin as a cicada's wing and was transparent in color.

It was too late to say, but it was too late, and Liu Junhao, who had been waiting impatiently, immediately lifted the bamboo sieve, and then snatched the toad clothes from the toad's claws.Liu Qiyong sent a cardboard box full of one-cent and two-cent coins collected by everyone.

They carefully put the toad skin into the paper box, discussing to check it tomorrow.

At that time, several children almost fought over who should put the paper box, mainly because they were afraid that someone would open it first and the money would not fall into their hands.Finally, it was agreed that the paper box should be placed in Liu Junhao's house, but everyone should mark it, and then find a big stone to press the paper box, and wait for the next day to check together.

They are looking forward to tomorrow, as the adults say, that the carton will be filled with coins tomorrow.In this way, you can buy candy, ice cream, and pinballs...

Early the next morning, this group of guys gathered in Liu Junhao's courtyard.Under everyone's expectant eyes, he slowly moved away the big rock, opened the paper box and the toad skin was still there, but not a single cent was added.

Everyone thought that the time was short and decided to continue waiting.

The third day, the fourth day...until everyone completely lost their patience.

Later, after meeting more times, they realized that it is not uncommon for the toad to shed its skin.This thing is very similar to a snake, it always sheds its skin several times a year.However, most of the toads are eaten by themselves after they shed their skins, so people are rare.

"Is it really common?" Zhao Guangming still couldn't believe that he had discovered such an insignificant thing.

"If you don't believe me, you can check it yourself on the Internet." Liu Junhao said and handed over the phone.

"It's really like this." Several people read the introduction on the Internet and completely believed Liu Junhao's words.

In fact, their reactions are also normal. As the environment deteriorates, many things that were taken for granted in the past have become rare in people's eyes.For example, some time ago, a citizen in the urban area caught an owl, but the people around him did not recognize it. Finally, an animal expert was asked to identify it, and the matter was even reported in the newspapers.

Discovering that the toad had shed its skin was just for fun. A few people wandered around the river beach for a long time, watching the sun go down, and then walked home calmly.

As soon as he got to the door of the house, Zhao Guangming remembered to ask Liu Junhao for something, "Xiaohao, you two will come to my place tomorrow, and I want to ask you for help."

"What's the matter?" Calculating the time, the wife's due date is still more than half a month away, and now he really doesn't want to run around.

"Help us go fishing for fireheads, don't delay too long, at most two hours..." Zhao Guangming didn't go to Liujiagou in the morning, but went to the back of the village to fish for fireheads with a group of buddies, but he was busy all morning Fish up the fire.

He knew that Liu Junhao was good at fishing for fireheads, so he wanted to call in the afternoon, but he gave up when he heard that he had caught a large eel.

"You want me to catch a firehead. The firehead is laying eggs at this time, and you can catch it with any hook." Liu Junhao shook his head and said.

"That fire head is very ghostly. We spent two days trying to catch it and couldn't catch it. That's why I came to you." According to Zhao Guangming, there was an old fire head weighing [-] to [-] catties in the mud pond behind their village.But there are too many aquatic plants around, and this thing is too cunning, it just wanders around the ditch and doesn't eat the hook at all.He didn't catch it after fishing several times, so he wanted Liu Junhao to help.

Fishing for fireheads is a matter of hours at most, and I have to go shopping in the street tomorrow, so I can just go there.Liu Junhao nodded and agreed, but at the end he asked more questions, "Whether the Huotouwo is the green nest, the yellow nest or the black nest, I tell you, if it is the green nest or the yellow nest, I will not go."

"Don't worry, I know you will pay attention to it, an authentic black den." Zhao Guangming emphasized.

At the end of spring and early summer, Huotou will swim to shallow water before giving birth, bite off the aquatic plants in the hiding place to make a nest, and form a bright water nest with a bowl mouth, which is called "green nest" at this time.After a period of time, after the fire head spawned, the aquatic plants bitten off around it had been sun-dried and yellow, and the fish eggs were like yellow rice balls in the bright water with a large bowl mouth, so they were called "yellow nests".At this time, the broodstock swims around the nest all the time, and will never let anything disturb the hatching of the eggs.

In midsummer, the fire head seedlings grow about two centimeters, and the color gradually turns black, like a cloud of black mist rolling up and down in the water, which roughly looks like a tadpole. , but tadpoles have big heads and small tails, while fire-headed seedlings are like shuttles, so they are called "black nests" at this time.

Regardless of whether it is a green nest, a yellow nest or a black nest, there must be two fire heads waiting nearby, and they will not leave for a moment. As long as you pass the bait over, this thing will definitely rush up.Generally, the smaller males will come forward first, and if they are caught, the larger females will show up after a while.

Therefore, when fishing for fireheads during the spawning period, you can catch two at a time.Most fishermen are particular about fishing, in order to make the water flow long, and rarely catch green nests and yellow nests.Both of Liu Junhao's fireheads were caught during the black den period, but the noise was so loud that only one was caught each time.

On the street the next day, Liu Junhao first went to the post office to mail away a few pillowcases ordered by netizens.A few days ago, bored, he looked at his online store transaction records. In the past few months alone, he has shipped hundreds of pillowcases, which is not a small income.

After finishing business, Liu Junhao called Zhao Guangming.This person was impatient for waiting, and he didn't say much when he saw Liu Junhao, and directly dragged him to the back of the village.

The pond was the same as what Zhao Guangming said. The north bank was only [-] to [-] centimeters deep, and the bottom of the ditch was full of aquatic plants.

Under the guidance of Zhao Guangming, Liu Junhao soon saw many aquatic plants with broken roots floating in the shallow water.The dry grass roots stand out in contrast to the surrounding aquamarine.Bubbles are constantly popping up around the aquatic plants, and there is a beeping sound when you listen carefully.Many black spots in the shape of tadpoles appear and disappear among the aquatic plants, which are black nests.

There is no need to prepare the bait for firehead fishing, just catch a small frog by the pond and put it on the hook.Liu Junhao looked at the distance and then threw the hook out.

"Throw it in the middle of the fire, you can throw the hook so far, you can catch a hair!" A young man bluffed beside him.

Liu Junhao turned his head and glanced at him, ignoring the layman's words.Now he can guess why Zhao Guangming and others spent so much effort but failed to catch the fire.

It is simply a group of fish fooling around blindly, so don’t throw the bait into the flames when fishing for dark nests.Because the big fire head is afraid of hurting the fry, it will only drive it away and rarely bite the hook at all.Only when the bait is thrown above or beside the fire, the big fish will catch up and bite.

After lightly throwing the bait out of the fish school, he slowly shook the bamboo pole, trying not to let the bait disturb the fish school, but imitating the scene of the fish watching the fire.

Wow, it was exactly as he had guessed, a dark figure jumped up suddenly, and directly swallowed the little frog in its stomach.

"Hurry up, hurry up!!" Several people started shouting again.

Liu Junhao pretended not to hear their yelling, but gently pulled towards the shore.If the hook is lifted too early, the fire head will be easily unhooked.If the hook is lifted too late, this thing will burrow into the aquatic plants with such force that it will easily break the fishing line.

Liu Junhao suddenly lifted the hook when the water started to bubble the second time.

Zhao Guangming is purely fooling around, he can't weigh one to twenty catties, but the fire head weighs only three catties.

"Are you a master after all?" These young people were convinced.

They have been busy for two days, and others only need 10 minutes. This is the gap.

Liu Junhao humbly sat down and rested under the shade of a tree.Prepare to wait for a while to cool down before catching another fire head.Zhao Guangming made it clear just now that this mud pond is going to raise fish in autumn, and the bottom must be cleared by then, and the fire must be caught earlier.Now the fire head in the water has been alarmed, and it will not eat the hook again for at least 10 minutes.

I turned my head inadvertently and found that the silt in the puddle on the opposite side of the road was very thick, which should be suitable for eels to survive, and there might be large eels.

This was the subconscious reaction brought about by catching that big rice field eel yesterday, always thinking about catching another one.

There is no place to put the big eel that was caught, and it is still thrown in the water tank.After a day of adaptation, this big guy probably accepted his fate, and he no longer had the idea of ​​running away.

There were still people coming to visit this morning, and reporter Guo also told me to take more photos.

"Xiaohao, you missed your mark this time. We just checked this ditch some time ago. We looked through the whole ditch and didn't catch even a single eel hair. I guess the geomantic omen is not good."

"It shouldn't be." Liu Junhao shook his head again and again.The pond looks relatively deep, and the water is relatively clear, with dense reeds growing beside the ditch.It stands to reason that such a place is very suitable for the survival of rice field eels, how could there be no rice field eels.

Liu Junhao walked around the pond unbelievingly, especially under the dry tree trunks beside the pond.In the end, Zhao Guangming really didn't lie to him, and he didn't find a single eel hole, nor even the muddy ditch left by the small eel.

The more this happened, the more strange he felt, and he really wanted to find out.

Finally, he simply took off his shoes and wanted to go into the water to see if the eel hole was underwater.After searching for a long period of time in the mud, there was still no trace.

"How about it, let's give up. Tell you, there are indeed ricefield eels waiting for you to catch." A young man began to shout on the shore again.

Even in ordinary small ditches there will be eels.This piece of water is not small, but there is not even a loach.Just now he noticed the fish swimming in the water, and there were very few small fish and shrimps.

This situation is obviously abnormal, and only a simple-minded guy like Zhao Guangming would get involved in Feng Shui.

(End of this chapter)