Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 544
Under Liu Junhao's guidance, Zhang Hongbin's digging finally became smooth.

Not every hole has loaches, many holes are made by other aquatic organisms, such as snails, green shrimps, leeches... Zhang Hongbin quickly summed up his experience: while other caves have rough walls, loach holes are very smooth, like It is carefully polished, no wonder the old people often say "slippery like a loach", the allusion of feelings comes from here.

In half an hour, a full seven or eight were dug, which was considered a small gain.It grows in spring and grows in summer, and harvests in autumn and hides in winter. Loach also obeys this rule.At this time, the loach has stored a large amount of nutrients necessary for the winter, and it is extremely fat, with seven or eight loach weighing nearly half a catty.

However, his speed is not comparable to that of Liu Junhao. He picked up the shovel and swung it very fast. At this moment, there is already less than half a bucket.

After digging another shovel, Zhang Hongbin became excited immediately, and shouted repeatedly: "Xiaohao, there are big loaches coming out of my place again."

"Give up, don't dig this hole." Liu Junhao looked at it twice and said.

"Why don't you dig it? It must be a big loach." Brother Zhang Qian asked suspiciously.He also has experience in digging so many loaches. This mud hole is smooth, and the wall of the hole is the size of a yuan coin. There must be a big guy inside.

"This is not a loach hole, but a rice field eel." Liu Junhao explained.Eel caves are different from loach caves. The caves generally twist and turn, and seldom go straight up and down, which can be seen by experienced people at a glance.

"Eel is also very good... isn't it more expensive?" Zhang Hongbin became confused.

"That is to say, the key is not worth the loss. In winter, the eel hole is at least one meter deep, and it can't be dug out in half an hour. With this effort, it's better to dig a few more loaches."

Liu Junhao is not exaggerating in this point. The weather is cold in winter and the eel's ability to resist freezing is poor, so the drill is very deep.Similar to this is crayfish, which can drill more than two meters deep in winter.If you want to dig them out, you need to dig at least half a carload of soil, which is really not worth the candle.

"I'll dig it out and try. A large eel is really worth it." Zhang Hongbin didn't want to give up, and continued to work hard.

Liu Junhao didn't say anything else, Brother Zhang Qian came here purely for fun, and it doesn't matter what he digs.

However, Zhang Hongbin quickly gave up. He had just dug half a meter deep when he encountered a river rock below.

The two dug from nine o'clock to eleven o'clock, and the harvest was huge, with loach nearly half the size of the bucket.Liu Junhao picked it up, and it weighed twenty catties.

"Dad, I need to go to the bathroom." They were busy, Zeyu came over and said.This little guy is not used to being convenient in the wild.

"Go home alone, you're not busy," Zhang Hongbin replied digging vigorously without raising his head.

"I don't, I want to watch you dig loaches..." The little guy didn't want to leave alone.

"Large and small?" Liu Junhao asked.

"Trumpet" is rare, but this child can understand it.

"You go there to solve it." Liu Junhao pointed to a dry ditch not far away, "Don't worry, no one can see it."

"Oh" Xiao Zeyu nodded and left. This guy never leaves the little nail rake when he goes to pee.

"Wait, I'll go too," Xiao Jianhui followed up.

After solving his personal problems, Xiao Zeyu casually raised a rake and planed, only to find a loach hole in the wet and soft black mud.

Now he became interested, picked up the small nail rake and started planing.Unexpectedly, with a light digging, a fat loach appeared.

Dig again, and there are two... The two brothers blushed with excitement, and they raised their nails and raked.

Four, eight... Nests of loaches were dug out.This unremarkable dry ditch is like a long firecracker, and those loach are like firecrackers on the firecracker.Lighting the fuse, a large string of loaches appeared in front of them crackling.

Liu Junhao and the others were so busy that they completely forgot about the two brothers, and it was only when they were resting that they realized that they were not by their side.

Ever since, Zhang Hongbin shouted at the top of his voice.

"Uncle, uncle, come here quickly. We caught a lot of loach. There are so many loach here that we can't finish digging them. Hurry up..." Xiao Jianhui responded with a loud voice.

What...the two ran over in disbelief.

Good guy, Liu Junhao was shocked when he saw that the small bucket in front of him was almost full.

As for Brother Zhang Qian, he was even more ashamed.I have been busy for a long time, but I haven't dug as much as the two little guys: "This...you dug here?"

"Well, look." Xiao Jianhui nodded as a demonstration, digging with a rake, and another loach was hooked out.

That's fine too! !Liu Junhao also clicked his tongue in his mouth.He leaned over and took a look, but he still didn't understand why the loach holes were so shallow, and the distribution density was much higher than that in the puddles.This ditch was newly dug by me the year before last to drain the accumulated water in the backyard. It connects the puddles outside the backyard with the ditches in the field, and flows further into the Baitiao River. In summer, the accumulated water in my backyard is drained out through it.

It stands to reason that there shouldn't be so many loaches?Old experiences meet new problems.

Liu Junhao is just like that, he always wants to understand something he doesn't understand.He simply didn't dig the loach, and walked back and forth along the ditch.After patting his head, he finally understood, it turned out to be a loach of mud!

This ditch looks really inconspicuous, but if you study the two ends carefully, you will find that it is exactly in the shape of a washbasin, and the side close to the puddle is slightly higher, with a drop of more than 30 centimeters.Loach, like other fish, likes to swim against the current.In summer, the loaches in the Baitiao River swelled and swam along the current to the dry ditch. As a result, due to the large drop in the front puddle, most of the loaches could not get up and could only be blocked in the dry ditch.

People who often catch fish in rainy days know that most of the fish in the upper water gather at the drop of the water flow. As long as no one is disturbed, they generally will not turn around and swim away, so it is easy to catch.Put a fishing net under the drop, and the fish will not escape.

When the water in the backyard is drained, the ditch will become stagnant water due to the drop, and these loaches will not be able to swim against the current and will be trapped to death in the ditch.

Because of this, there are so many loaches in this unremarkable ditch.

As for why their holes are shallower than other loaches... Liu Junhao also wants to understand now.The reason is simple, soil quality! !When digging this ditch, he was afraid of being blocked by silt, so he deliberately put a layer of yellow clay underneath.This kind of mud contains a lot of sand, and it is difficult for loach to penetrate when digging holes, so the holes are only on the thin layer of black mud above.

Thinking of this, Liu Junhao wanted to dig lightly on the ground with a rake, and sure enough, there was yellow clay under seven or eight centimeters.

Finding the reason, the two adults immediately moved their positions with shovels.

In just half an hour, they turned over this dry ditch about 20 meters long.The fruitful results are beyond imagination, and the two small buckets are full.

Several people worked harder and harder, and even forgot their lunch.Until Zhang Qian called and urged them to come back for dinner.Only then did Liu Junhao regain his senses, put the loach into two large buckets, and carried it home.

"You dug so much in just a few hours?" Zhang Qian was also very surprised to see the loach in the bucket.

"Auntie, you don't know..." Xiao Jianhui and his brothers rushed to talk about their legendary experiences.

Several people were in high spirits, and they couldn't live comfortably at noon.After eating and resting for less than half an hour, I went to dig loach outside the courtyard wall again.

In less than a day, Liu Junhao and the others searched the entire puddle.More than 80 catties of loach were dug out.This amount is still a certain distance from what Wang Shengli asked for, but it's no problem.With so many loaches at the bottom, Liu Junhao can secretly catch some from the stone lock to make up the number.

At noon, he was thinking about digging loaches, and a few people didn't have a good meal. Liu Junhao originally planned to cook a few more dishes in the evening and have two drinks with Zhang Qian.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Hongbin ordered to eat steamed sweet potatoes. He said that after eating it at his house last year, he still couldn't forget it.

Steamed sweet potatoes...no problem! !
After the first frost, Liu Junhao planed the sweet potatoes planted in the backyard, and put them in the sweet potato well two days ago.

Prick a washbasin of sweet potatoes with an iron fork, wash them, put them in a steamer, and burn them with firewood for half an hour.After waking up to the smell, lift the lid of the pot, and the tempting sweet potato fragrance will come to your nostrils.

"That's the taste," Zhang Hongbin didn't care about the heat, reached out and grabbed one, turned his left and right hands for a moment, and then couldn't wait to put it in his mouth.

There are actually tricks to steaming sweet potatoes. The longer the steaming time, the better. The fibers of sweet potatoes are softened at high temperature, and it tastes so sweet that you can hardly find where your tongue is.

In the past, it was the same way to cook syrup in rural areas. First, boil the sweet potatoes, then add barley malt and make a puree, then filter with gauze, and finally put the sweet potato juice into the pot, and boil it slowly until it is scooped up with a spoon and becomes a straight line. All right.

After dinner, Liu Junhao directly called and asked Wang Shengli to come and pick up the loach tomorrow.

Brother Zhang Qian originally planned to go back to the city in the afternoon, but he was busy until dark, so he could only stay in Liujiagou.

During the day, when he was digging loach, he was full of energy, but when he was lying on the bed, he kept screaming.My back hurts, my body dare not even touch the bed, no matter how I lie down, I feel uncomfortable.

In desperation, he had to wake up Liu Junhao and let him massage himself.

Liu Junhao understands this kind of situation. Many people who have never exerted any strength will react like this when they suddenly exert too much strength.

It seems that there is still half a bottle of safflower oil in the drawer of his own house. Liu Junhao found it out and applied it on Brother Zhang Qian's spine and arms.

Digging hundreds of catties of loach in a day is indeed very hard work, but when collecting money, several people are laughing from ear to ear.Now the price of loach is high, more than 2000 catties of loach have been sold for more than [-].

Liu Junhao didn't plan to take the money into his own pocket, but divided it equally between the four, and Xiao Jianhui and his brothers didn't take it away either.

Brother Zhang Qian didn't want to say anything, but Liu Junhao couldn't bear it and stuffed the money into his pocket.

Jianhui and his brothers collected the money, but they were so excited that they couldn't do it, and kept shouting that they wanted to dig loaches.

Brother Zhang Qian over there also suggested to let Liu Junhao dig loaches in his free time, so that he can earn a lot of money in a month.

Liu Junhao shook his head again and again, saying that he had no time to take care of the two children at home.

There are loaches in the puddles outside the backyard, and nine out of ten are due to the spring water.In addition, no one has dug that place for several years, so it is so dense.

There are definitely not so many other places, and it is already considered remarkable to be able to dig three or four catties in half a day.

Liu Junhao still didn't pay attention to that little money.

(End of this chapter)