Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 35 Catching eels at night
  Hearing what his sister-in-law said, Lin Heng showed a smile on his face, shook his head and said, "I'm not angry, that was a joke."

"Because there are no secrets."

Lin Heng added with a smile.

"Ah?" Sister-in-law Liu Juan was confused.

"Because you can see it as long as you walk into the woods at night. It doesn't require any skills at all."

Lin Heng smiled slightly.

Sister-in-law Liu Juan immediately regretted hearing this. It turned out to be so simple. If she had known it, she would have waited to see it in the evening.

"But I advise you, sister-in-law, not to arrest her these days, and your family members don't want to arrest her either."

Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Why?" Sister-in-law Liu Juan didn't understand. She should catch more of such delicious food.

“There are outsiders in our family, and if they spread the word to ten or hundreds of people, they all know about it, and we can’t catch him.

When no one was around, we quietly caught it, and the thing was still there until July. "

Lin Heng explained that there will be no shortage of food and clothing in future generations, as if the cicadas were caught and cut off.

Not to mention this day and age, if the villagers knew it could be eaten, they would definitely go into the woods every night.

"That's true. Then let's wait until they leave before arresting them."

When Liu Juan heard this, she immediately felt that it made sense. The women in the village were the most terrifying. They could run several mountains with a Sophora japonica, let alone catch such a delicious thing as a cicada monkey.

She immediately turned back and told the others.

Lin Heng walked to the yard but didn't see Xiulan, so he went to Caiyun to ask.

"Sister-in-law Xiulan went to pull the gray vegetables. She said that everyone in the family loves to eat them.

But I clearly see that you, the second brother, are the only one who likes to eat, and the others don’t use chopsticks very much. "

Caiyun said while reading about how steel is made.

She has read more than half of this book, and she has been reading it day and night.

Lin Heng: "..."

He really didn't notice this until Caiyun said it.

In the past, gray vegetables were only occasionally served on the table, but recently they seem to be available everywhere.

It turned out that his wife pulled it out for him, which really moved him.

After untying Xiong Ba's iron chain, Lin Heng took him out to find his wife Xiulan.

"Wang Wang!!"

Xiongba looked up to the sky and shouted twice, as if he was practicing his voice.

He took three steps and turned back once he started walking. From time to time he would run to Lin Heng's feet and rub them, as if he was afraid that he would get lost.

Lin Heng found his wife Xiulan on the edge of the field under the road. She was squatting on the ground pinching gray vegetables with her daughter Xiaoxia on her back.

"Why are you here!"

Hearing Xiongba's voice, Xiulan raised her head and showed a smile.

"Come here to pick you up and give me Xiaoxia." Lin Heng said with a smile, and came over to take Xiaoxia down.

"There are a lot of small garlics here. I pulled a lot of them. After I pickled them back and pickled them, they tasted delicious when I ate them."

Xiulan pointed to the small garlic in the bamboo basket and said.

This is a plant that looks similar to garlic seedlings, but it is a wild plant. It is also called wild garlic and small root garlic.

The aroma is very unique. In rural areas, it is usually soaked in a jar and eaten sour. The taste is not bad.

"Well, you do it and I'll watch."

Lin Heng smiled and pulled his daughter. The daughter touched Xiong Ba's head, trying to break away from his hand and go play with Dahuang.

Xiulan didn't know why Lin Heng was giggling, but she was minding her own business picking wild vegetables.

Gray vegetables generally grow very tall, more than [-] centimeters tall. Only the leaves are edible, and it takes a lot of effort to pinch them.

After pinching half of the bamboo basket, Xiulan didn't stand up until it got dark.

On the way home, Xiulan suddenly said: "I won't catch cicada monkeys tonight." "Actually, I have forgotten what you said yesterday." Lin Heng chuckled.

“Anyway, if I can’t go up tonight, it doesn’t mean I’ve broken my promise.

You only said that I would beg you to come with me tonight, but you didn’t say that I couldn’t eat. "

Xiulan didn't look at Lin Heng and tried to argue, but she recalled the smell of fried cicada monkeys in the morning.

Lin Heng thought her behavior was a bit funny and asked with a smile: "Then do you think it smells good?"

"It smells really good!" Xiulan nodded.

Back in the yard, Lin Heng left Xiaoxia in the care of Xiongba and asked her to play with Xiaoxia throwing sticks.

"Wang Wang!!"

Xiongba yelled at Lin Heng twice with some complaints, as if he was very reluctant to do this job.

He ignored it and went to get a Xiulan sewing needle, put it in the stove and heated it red, then used pliers to bend the tip.

Fishing hooks made of safety pins are fine for fishing stream grouper, but they tend to be straightened when fishing for larger prey.

So he took a needle and made a strong one. The needle had high hardness and was not easy to be straightened.

I'm going to catch eels tonight. Some of them are difficult to catch but you can still catch them.

There are also loaches in the fields, all of which are slippery, so they can only be caught by fishing.

Fishing for eels and loaches at night is also very interesting.

When it got completely dark, around eight o'clock, the eldest brother Lin Yue came to Lin Heng carrying a fertilizer bag.

"Let's go catch eels." Lin Yue looked very excited.

"go!"

Lin Heng was also a little impatient. He put on his water shoes, picked up the things he prepared and set off.

His family's paddy field is on the Shanghe River, so it's a long way to go.

"When it comes to catching eels at night, this is what we discovered." Lin Yue said with a smile on the way.

"Yes, no one came out at night at that time. It was because the cows had escaped. We looked for the cows with a flashlight and found that the eels came out and lay on the mud in the paddy field at night."

Lin Heng smiled as he recalled his childhood with his eldest brother. Although he was poor, he had a lot of fun.

While talking and laughing, the two kept moving forward with dim flashlights, and soon arrived at their rice fields.

Lin Heng used an aluminum-cased flashlight with two AA dry batteries, three centimeters in diameter and five centimeters in length.

The light emitted was also relatively weak and dim. Fortunately, the two of them had good eyesight and could see clearly.

"Look, there's an eel here. Come here, I'm afraid I'll let it go." The eldest brother Lin Yue was the first to find an eel, and he lay quietly on the mud and was struck by a flashlight, motionless.

"Okay." Lin Heng came over and took a look. It was a medium-sized eel, a little thicker than a thumb and about twenty centimeters long.

Catching eels with bare hands requires skills, and Lin Heng masters it best because he is most interested in catching fish and shrimps.

When catching eels, you definitely cannot hold them with your hands, nor can you hold them like a stick.

In fact, only one hand is needed.

The four fingers are brought together towards the palm, and the middle finger is raised so that the middle finger, index finger and ring finger form a pliers-like grasping structure.

When catching, the key is to approach gently first, and then quickly and accurately clamp the eel's waist into the pliers formed by the middle finger and the remaining fingers.

Then he clenched his fist hard, and the eel was tightly clamped in his hand by his middle finger.

Lin Heng hit the target with one blow, lifted the eel out of the water, and stuffed it into the snakeskin bag that his elder brother had opened.

By the time it reacted, it was already a turtle in a urn, and could only jump wildly in the snakeskin bag.

"Amazing, his skills haven't declined at all." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Of course!" Lin Heng chuckled. This technique of catching eels has almost become a skill, and as many as eight hundred eels have died under his hand.

I can’t say the success rate is [-]%, but [-]% is more than enough.

"There's another one here, holy shit, there's another one next to it, it's so big!"

Suddenly, the eldest brother Lin Yue discovered another big product.

(End of this chapter)