Chapter 160: Taking photos of eels
Among the boys, Zhang Lu doesn’t know how to do this and has no interest in it. He is left to look after the house, leaving Zhou Mu and Yang Su to go out together.
Because they are not catching eels alive for sale, the actions of the four-person group are relatively rough.
Every 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, 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, eels are no longer easy to catch. In addition, eels are about to start spawning, and all 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. There will be fewer and fewer eels in the fields, and the eels in the city will become more and more expensive.
Now is a good time.
There are many ways to catch eels, such as fishing in cages, fishing with wires, and catching eels with hands... What Zhou Zhi and his team played this time was to use torches to illuminate the eels and stab them with spears.
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 is reflected by the water surface, making it difficult to see underwater.
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.
Eels often come out to look for food at night. Under the firelight, the eels lie quietly at the entrance of the hole in the water. They don’t like to move. They only need to slowly extend the stabbing gun and then stab it quickly and accurately. When he picked it up, an eel was 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 an eel exposing its body at the cave entrance. In this case, you have to insert your middle finger along the hole entrance. When you encounter an eel, quickly use your middle finger and Pinch with index and ring fingers.
Some eels have opened two holes. If you catch them from one hole, the eels escape from the other hole. At this time, two people need to cooperate, one to dig out the hole and the other to replenish the gun.
It took four people to walk from one end of the field to the other, and already five or six eels had entered the fence.
“Yeah, with this treatment, I’m afraid I’m going to eat a lot of skin tonight!” Yang He was so happy that he even spoke in dialect: “I’ve only taken a few steps.”
"Shut up!" Zhou Zhi quickly stopped him, and then murmured: "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. ”
"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 out loud, 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 don’t care. The most likely reason is that there are so many eels in the fields that they haven’t reached the mountains yet. The big pockets on Yang He and Zhou Zhi are 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 pounds." Zhou Zhi also shook: "How about going back?"
" Then go back, there will be a lot of work to do. "Most of the eels in the pockets have been pricked by needles and will not survive until 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 dogs of the Yang family were incomparable to the dogs of the Mu family. They were sleeping soundly under the eaves, without any spiritual energy. .
Take two plastic basins, place them against the beams and columns, find two wooden boards, put one end in the basins, and place the other end on the columns to get a slope, and then use two long thin nails to hammer the eels Then Yang He used an eel knife and Zhou Zhi used an electrician's knife to start carving the eel.
The activity of the eel that has been stabbed is already somewhat lacking, so there is no need to stir it on the edge of the bucket, and there is no need to struggle much.
Put 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 cut it from the back of the back to the tip of the tail, shave the backbone and internal organs. Make a few diagonal cuts into segments without cutting them off, then cut them across from the head, and you've finished processing the eel.
The average number of eels is only two or three, and here there are 70 or 80 eels weighing less than 20 kilograms. It’s a big job.
When the 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. .
Hiding it was because Lao Yang’s dog was unreliable and he was afraid that the eel meat would be stolen by something that came smelling from the back of the mountain.
Zhenliangshui is naturally used to preserve freshness.
After doing all this, we were still smelly. Fortunately, everyone had changed into old 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 before a few people touched them. Go to the wing and sleep.
None of them are particular people, but there is a legend in Jiachuan that if the fishy fish mucus sticks to the body if it is not washed off, "Xiuzi" will grow in that place, which is the scientific name. Something called "common warts".
Therefore, I was mainly afraid of this. Even so, the smell was still there, but several people felt that it would not affect their sleep.
When the rooster started to crow, Guan Tingting quietly sneaked 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 frightened in his daze. He trembled and woke up. He saw a pair of big eyes flickering above him. He stretched out his hand and pushed it to her forehead: "Tingting, don't make trouble. I'm sleepy..."
As a result, this hand stretched out As soon as she went to go, Guan Tingting grabbed her and dragged Zhou Zhi back to sit up: "You promised to accompany me to practice my voice."
"Is it necessary to practice my voice so early?" Zhou Zhi said this His eyes were closed when speaking, and he would lean 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, so he finally shook his head. Bao woke up and asked: "Eh? Tingting, what are you doing?"
"I'm telling you to get up!"
"Keep your voice down, aha——" After yawning , Zhou Zhi asked: "What time is it?"
"Five forty."
"It's still dark today..."
"But the rooster is already crowing!"
"Okay, okay...I'll come back and clean it up later..."
>(End of this chapter)