After walking a few steps, she turned her head and smiled at Luo Xuan, "Luo Xuan, you have to take good care of me."
Luo Xuan was stunned: What should I take care of?
It means taking good care of the pancakes and not letting them burn.
Or does it mean something else?
Why is she talking so cluelessly?
Du Juan only said half of what she said before she turned around and walked towards the small pool about ten meters away.
on the way,
I saw her bending down and picking up a big stone weighing more than 20 kilograms, and then slowly walking towards the small pool step by step...
"Dujuan, what are you doing?"
Luo Xuan was shocked when he saw this!
Is it because I deliberately brought the topic into the ditch earlier and irritated the proud cuckoo?
Luo Xuan quickly spoke to persuade Du Juan, "Sister Du Juan, please don't be like this! Actually... we are... friends, right? You are such a good girl, there will definitely be someone who loves you and will come here to accompany you in the future.
..."
Du Juan paused slightly, turned around and glared at Luo Xuan, scolding: "What nonsense are you talking about? What kind of friends do you love or not?"
Ah! What kind of leisure do I need you to worry about when it comes to my personal problems?!"
Said.
I saw Du Juan lifting the big stone in his hand high above his head, and then smashed it down hard on a huge stone beside the small pool!
There was a loud "bang" sound!
I saw stones flying randomly on the boulders, and in the small pool, dense small water columns suddenly appeared like hail pouring into the pool!
so far so good!
Luo Xuan secretly rejoiced: Du Juan could just let out all the resentment in her heart.
A young girl actually wanted to go to Shentan with a stone in front of her...
It’s really scary!
After Du Juan threw the stone, she turned around and shouted at Luo Xuan, "Hey, what are you doing standing still? Why don't you come here quickly?"
come over?
Don't you think you can relieve your anger after throwing stones? Do you have to throw people into the water to relieve the hatred in your heart?
Luo Xuan quickly turned over the big cake on the stone slab, and then walked towards Du Juan with some anxiety in his heart.
"Pfft——"
"What are you doing to me?"
Du Juan covered her mouth and chuckled, stretched out her hand to push Luo Xuan, "Go and pick up fish in the pool."
When Luo Xuan looked into the pool, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised!
I saw five or six small fish three to four fingers in size around the boulder that the cuckoo had smashed just now, rolling with difficulty in the water with their bellies turned over.
Dujuan pushed Luo Xuan's back from behind, "Hurry up, or else all the fish will be gone soon after they recover!"
Luo Xuan quickly rolled up his trouser legs, got into the water, and easily picked up the stunned yellow peppers.
turn out to be.
Du Juan is plumper than Luo Xuan, so if she wants to go into the water to pick up fish, it's not easy to roll up her pants legs too high.
At this time, although it is midsummer.
But in the ravines deep in the mountains and old forests, the temperature is not high, and it is even a little cool.
Dujuan doesn't want to wet her trousers. Not only will it be embarrassing, she will also have to spend time and energy drying her trousers.
Wait until Luo Xuan goes down into the water and pick up the stunned fish.
Du Juan then handed Luo Xuan a hatchet and asked Luo Xuan to disembowel the fish.
Picking up small fish and shrimps is a familiar matter.
Three times, five times, two times, Luo Xuan picked out the gills of the fish and removed the scales. As for the bit of intestines and intestines in the fish's belly, Luo Xuan threw it into the small pool.
After a while, there will be old turtles and other fish that will eat all the garbage like it.
Fried white flour cakes, grilled small carp, Du Juan also chopped a bamboo tube and cooked a bamboo tube of fresh mushroom soup.
After eating, Luo Xuan was ready to take a short rest.
But Dujuan pulled up Luo Xuan and said: "You are not afraid of going slow, but you are afraid of standing still. It is better for us to rush to the field earlier. Don't wait until dark and we are still halfway around. In the mountains at night
If you're on the road, it's not as easy as those big roads outside the mountains."
With that said, Du Juan picked up the package and walked along the valley to the upper reaches of the stream.
After walking forward for a few miles, the stream on the side below my feet became more and more turbulent.
The water of the stream is crystal clear.
Luo Xuan inadvertently saw some small black spots on the rocks at the bottom of the creek. These spots would move slightly from time to time.
When Luo Xuan got closer to see it clearly, he couldn't help but feel overjoyed: "Wait a minute, there is an angler fish here!"
The cuckoo obviously has little interest in this fish.
She said disdainfully: "That's a stone fish, that's what we mountain people call it."
Du Juan is not surprised, but Luo Xuan is very happy: "This is the angler fish! I heard that it is very expensive in the market."
Du Juan said: "No matter how expensive it is, you can't take it away! People always want to buy live fish. Even if you want to sell it for money, you have to be sure to take it out alive."
Luo Xuan smiled and said: "I can bring them to the market alive."
In the past, Du Juan only listened to his father and praised Luo Xuan's abilities in front of him.
At that time, Du Juan only had a little admiration for the legendary Luo Xuan who had studied outside the mountains.
After experiencing the incident where Luo Xuan took care of the wasps alone in the morning, Du Juan now trusts Luo Xuan more.
But it is a recognized fact that angler fish are difficult to feed.
Due to this inherent knowledge over the years, Du Juan pouted and asked Luo Xuan again, "Can you really bring this kind of fish to the market alive?"
Luo Xuan patted his chest: "I definitely can!"
Dujuan pouted and said seriously to Luo Xuan: "If you are just greedy and just plan to get it first, and don't care about the life or death of the fish, I won't catch the fish for you!"
at this time.
Du Juan's mountain people's deep love for the mountains and reverence for nature began to take hold.
She was warning Luo Xuan: If Luo Xuan had the ability to bring this kind of fish out of the mountain alive.
Then the cuckoo can help Luo Xuan catch fish.
Du Juan believes that as long as things are used to their best advantage and don't waste them, there is nothing wrong with Luo Xuan even if he catches fish to sell them for money.
But if Luo Xuan is just out of greed, regardless of the life or death of the fish, he just wants to get the Pipa fish first...
If Luo Xuan had this mentality, Du Juan would not only not help Luo Xuan catch fish, but might even fall out with Luo Xuan!
The reason why the cuckoo has this mentality actually makes sense: it is really difficult to bring this kind of fish out of the mountains alive!
The angler fish is also called the sucking fish.
The locals call it "strong pole fish", which means that after eating this fish, men's flagpoles will become stronger.
It’s not easy to “fall back”.
This fish mainly grows in places with waterfalls, deep pools, and high gorges and streams.
The higher the mountain, the clearer the water, and the more suitable it is for this kind of fish to live.
Because it has the function of adsorbing on stones and likes to swim upstream along the rapid streams, it is regarded by the locals as a typical example of "hard-skinned, unwilling to admit defeat, and indomitable energy to move forward".
Educated city dwellers, on the other hand, associate it with those brave tadpoles when mankind was still in a state of chaos.
These little tadpoles moved forward, surpassing thousands of companions around them, and finally stood out.
How inspiring that is!
This kind of angler fish, which is extremely picky about the environment, is not in large numbers to begin with, and in addition, they are artificially related to life.
As we all know.
As long as anything can be related to that thing, the end will probably not be pretty...
Pipa fish is expensive.
But if someone really wants to go into the mountains and look for this kind of fish, it will be a very difficult thing indeed.
The mountains are high and the forests are dense, and the trails are difficult to navigate.
And because of the long distance, it will be difficult for this Pipa language to survive once it is separated from its familiar living environment.
There are often many people who go to the mountains to find this precious fish even after going through all kinds of hardships.
All these fish were already dead before they could be taken to the market for sale!
The reason why angler fish is so expensive.
One is its indescribable magical effect.
Secondly, angler fish are rare in number and difficult to find.
The most difficult thing is that it is difficult to bring it to the market to sell it completely.
You can imagine: since the angler fish can be related to a man's virility, who would be willing to spend money to buy a guy with its belly turned towards him and staring at a pair of dead fish eyes?
It's too annoying to deal with people.
therefore.
A lively and hopping angler fish sells for a very high price in the market.
If it were left in the past, there would still be some rich people who could spend a lot of money to buy 1 catty or 2 catties of angler fish and go back to entertain those dignitaries, pig friends and dog friends.
But now, everyone’s pockets are relatively clean.
Even some relatively wealthy people have become extremely low-key and cautious.
Therefore, in the frog market, if anyone dares to buy 10 or 8 angler fish at once and eat them, he is definitely considered to be a lavish spender, a tycoon among tycoons.
The angler fish is valuable because it is difficult to take it out of the mountains.
But others can’t keep the Pipa fish alive, but Luo Xuan can!
