Among the boys, Zhang Lu didn't know how to do this and had no interest in it. He was left to look after the house, while Zhou Mu and Yang Su were left to go out together.

Since they were not catching eels alive for sale, the four-person group's actions were rather rough.

Each man has a torch and a spear, and the main attack is not the ditch, but the rice field with only rice piles left.

The eels in Jiachuan begin to emerge in March. In April, the fields begin to store water, plow the fields, dam the fields, and plant rice seedlings. There will be a peak period for eels to emerge.

In May, the seedlings begin to grow up, which is called "Fengtian" in the countryside. This means that the seedlings are so lush that the water is no longer visible. At this time, the eels are no longer easy to catch. In addition, the eels are about to start spawning, and the nutrients are given to the fish.

The eggs themselves are thin and thin into a layer of skin. Although the eel at this time is expensive, gourmets will not choose it.

After the millet is threshed, the eel market will enter a peak period again. At this time, the eels begin to eat crazily in order to hibernate. They are not only easy to catch, but also plump. In this way, they can be caught until December, and the eels in the fields are only

There will be less and less, and the eels in the city will become more and more expensive.

Now is a good time.

There are many ways to catch eels, including fishing in cages, fishing with wires, and catching eels with your hands... What Zhou Zhi and his team played this time was to use torches to shine and spears to stab them.

It is best to use a torch to take photos of eels. Because the light beam of the flashlight is concentrated, the irradiation area is not large, and a considerable part of the light will be reflected by the water surface, making it difficult to see underwater clearly.

If you switch to a torch, there won't be such a problem.

There are four or five steel needles on the head of the spear. This kind of tool cannot be used in ditches made of stone, but in fields full of mud, it can be called a great weapon.

The four of them were all experienced people. Yang He and Mu Ruyun were in a group, and Zhou Zhi and Su Datou were in a group. They rolled up their trouser legs and went to the fields.

At night, eels often come out to look for food. Under the firelight, the eels lie quietly at the entrance of the water hole and don't like to move. They only need to slowly extend the stabbing gun, and then stab it quickly and accurately to pick up an eel.

The fish is impaled on the spear.

Because the steel wire is very thin, the eel will not die in a short time, so just scrape it into the fence pocket.

There are eel caves everywhere in the clear and shallow paddy fields, and not every cave has eels exposing their bodies at the cave entrance. In this case, you have to insert your middle finger along the hole entrance. When you encounter the eel, quickly use your middle finger and

Pinch with index and ring fingers.

Some eels have opened two holes. If you go to catch the eel from one hole, the eel escapes from the other hole. At this time, two people need to cooperate, one person digs the hole and the other makes a shot.

It took four people to walk from one end of the field to the other, but already five or six eels had entered the fence pocket.

"Yeah, with this treatment, I'm afraid I'm going to have to eat a lot of food tonight!" Yang He was so happy that he even started talking in dialect: "You've only taken a few steps."

"Shut up!" Zhou Zhi quickly stopped him, and then murmured something: "Mother-in-law Tudou doesn't mind, Grandpa Tunkou doesn't mind, children's words are unscrupulous, children's words are unscrupulous, what should come comes as usual, and don't go where you want to go.

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"Elbow, what are you doing?" Su Datou couldn't help but laugh.

"It's all the monk's fault!" Zhou Zhi was a little angry: "At this time, you have to keep silent. Wait until you are full before you say anything. If you say it openly, it won't work!"

"Oh." Su Datou said he understood, and also prayed: "Don't care, don't care..."

I don’t know if the superstitious begging activities have had an effect. It seems that Granny Tu and Grandpa Tunkou really didn’t care. The most likely reason is that there were so many eels in the fields that they hadn’t reached the mountains yet. Yang He and Zhou Zhi had this problem.

The big bag is almost full.

"Monk, how much do you think you have in your pocket?"

Yang He shook his body: "Seven or eight pounds."

"It's about the same here, about ten kilograms." Zhou Zhi also trembled: "How about going back?"

"Then go back. There will be a lot of work to do when you go back."

Most of the eels in the pockets have been pricked by needles and will never make it to tomorrow morning, so they need to be fished out overnight while they are still alive.

This is good, so that the girls will not be able to eat after seeing the bloody scene tomorrow.

Even so, it was already twelve o'clock when the four of them returned to the open dam. The Yang He family's dogs were incomparable to the Mu family's two dogs and three dogs. They were sleeping soundly under the eaves, without any spiritual energy.

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Get two plastic basins, place them against the beams and columns, find two wooden boards, put one end in the basins, and put the other end on the columns to get a slope, then use two long thin nails to nail the eels, and then Yang He used

Eel knife, Zhou Zhi used an electrician's knife to start carving the eel.

The activity of the eel that has been stabbed is already a little weak, so it is not allowed to stir it on the edge of the bucket, and it is not struggling much.

Nail the eel on the inclined surface, hold the eel's tail with your left hand, use a knife in your right hand to make a cross cut at the throat, then slit it from the back of the spine to the tip of the tail, shave the backbone and internal organs, and make several diagonal cuts into segments.

Instead of cutting it, cut it horizontally from the head, and the eel is finished.

The average number of eels is only two or three, and here there are as small as twenty kilograms, seventy or eighty, which is quite a big job.

When this arrangement is finished, it's almost past one o'clock, put the eel meat in an enamel basin, put a stone slab on one end of the water tank, then put the enamel basin into the water tank, push it under the stone slab and hide it under cold water.

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He hid it because Lao Yang's dog was unreliable and he was afraid that something might come smelling from behind and steal the eel meat.

The purpose of cooling the water is to keep it fresh.

After doing all this, we were still smelly. Fortunately, everyone had changed into shabby clothes before setting off. Now we took them off and threw them next to the water tank. We washed our hands, feet and faces carefully with soap, and then a few of them went to sleep in the side room.

None of them are particular people, but there is a legend in Jiachuan that if the fishy fish mucus sticks to any place on the body and is not washed off, "Xiuzi" will grow in that place, which is also known as "common warts" in science.

thing.

Therefore, I am mainly afraid of this. Even so, the smell is still there, but several people feel that it does not affect their sleep.

When the rooster started to crow, Guan Tingting quietly slipped into the side room where the boys were sleeping, carefully identified who Zhou Zhi was among the four boys sleeping across the bed, and then put her cold hands on Zhou Zhi's warm neck.

Zhou Zhi was so frightened that he trembled and woke up. He saw a pair of big eyes flashing above him. He stretched out his hand and pushed it to her forehead: "Tingting, don't make trouble, she's sleepy..."

As a result, Guan Tingting held her hand back when she stretched it out, and pulled Zhou Zhi back hard until she sat up: "You promised to practice singing with me."

"Do you need to practice your voice so early?" Zhou Zhi kept his eyes closed when he said this, and he would fall to one side as he spoke.

Guan Tingting would not coddle Zhou Zhi. She directly grabbed Zhou Zhi's right hand with both hands, sat on Zhou Zhi's calf, raised her feet and kicked Zhou Zhi's armpits: "Don't even think about lying down! You agreed!"

Zhou Zhi shook his body a few times and found that he couldn't lie down no matter what. He finally shook his head and woke up: "Hey? Tingting, what are you doing?"

"I want you to wake up!"

"Keep your voice down, haha——" After yawning, Zhou Zhi asked: "What time is it?"

"Five forty."

"It's still dark today..."

"But the rooster has already crowed!"
Chapter completed!