Chapter 688 Turtle
Yang He has already taken out a dip net and a fertilizer bag: "We are going to collect the signs."
"Hey you kid! I just arrived!" Yang Tou said angrily.
"I mean what I mean." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "I have fallen behind a lot in my homework. This time I asked the monk to follow me into the city and go through all the newly issued test papers. We are racing against time. ”
“Amitabha "Buddha!" The sister-in-law picked up her apron and wiped her eyes: "Look, the youngest is sitting there without sleeping at night. He is really guilty. Why don't you invite all your classmates? We will be like last summer. Anyway, we are at home. The head can fit in. ”
"It won't work this year. I have to help my godfather sort out the information. I can't escape." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Besides, letting girls follow us wildly will not be easy for parents, so let's forget it at my house. Then let's collect it first. The sign is gone.”
“Go ahead and come back early, I’ll fry you some chili pepper!” the sister-in-law said with a smile.
Zhou Zhi felt like his cheeks were drooling: "Then we have to come back quickly!"
The place where Yang and the fish sticks were set up was upstream, where there was a coarse sandy beach with red sandstone. The purpose of placing tags in such a place is not catfish, but turtle.
An turtle uses a crooked mouth string hook and moves gently. Zhou Zhi and Yang He stood in the water with their trousers rolled up, one by one taking in the fishing line little by little, and the other concentrated on holding the net, quietly Working quietly, you can see the old rivers and lakes at first glance.
The string hooks were placed half a meter deep in the water and placed in a circle around the beach. Judging from the footprints on the beach, there must have been turtles visiting here yesterday.
After collecting it for a while, there was movement from the twine in Zhou Zhi’s hand.
"Yes."
"Slow down."
The two of them walked forward slowly, and sections of fishing line were lifted up, and soon one line was underwater. A flat figure can be seen struggling on the sub-line.
Zhou Zhi held the joint between the sub-line and the main line and drew a small circle with the struggling turtle underwater, and the turtle fell into Yang He's net.
Zhou Zhi took the small fishing scissors used to cut lead and gently cut off the sub-thread. Yang He flipped the net and flipped the soft-shell turtle, which weighed more than a kilogram, into the fertilizer bag on his waist.
The soft-shell turtle is sometimes very harsh when eating the hook, and sometimes removing the hook can cause harm to the soft-shell turtle. There is no need to waste time on this, as this can also ensure the maximum activity of the soft-shell turtle.
The two kept moving forward with the same movements and rhythm, and soon another one came.
This one is a bit small, more than three or two, and the shells on its body are still green. The fishhook cannot be swallowed and the rope hangs in the mouth. Zhou Zhi casually removes the hook and bites before the soft-shell turtle reacts. Just let it go.
"Is there any more?" Yang He asked.
"There should be more, he's not small yet." Zhou Zhi was still groping forward: "I can feel it, it's moving."
"Don't force it, it would be a pity if it ran away."< br>
Soon the two of them touched a place, and the thread seemed to be stuck in an underwater stone. They tried to pull it but couldn't pull it.
"You carry it here." Zhou Zhi stretched the joint of the sub-lines to Yang He, took the net from his hand, squatted down, and moved his other hand toward the deep water along the sub-lines. Touch it.
"Be careful of biting you."
"No, if the turtle's mouth is tight." Zhou Zhi found the right direction, raised his leg under the water, and tested the thread downwards between his toes, and soon Touched the bottom.
"Is it hanging on a stone?"
"Sand bottom, big goods are on sale." Zhou Zhi began to dig out the sand with his feet, and kicked out the things under the sand with his feet.
As soon as the thing left the sand, it started paddling frantically. Yang He felt the sensation in his hand all of a sudden, and quickly raised his hand as high as possible: "What a big guy!"
"Don't worry, just take your time with it..." A yellow-green round figure appeared in the water next to Zhou Zhi, and Zhou Zhi quickly controlled the thread with his quick eyes and hands, and then fished it out with a net. "Hahaha! This old turtle can't weigh five pounds!" Zhou Zhi grabbed the side of the net bag with both hands and raised it: "It's developed!"
Wild turtles are the same as Jiang Tuan. It started to get more expensive two years ago, and one of this size is at least 81 pounds.
Two soft-shell turtles, one large and one small, are worth 500 yuan in total, and most people cannot afford to eat them.
“You’re right, monk, how do you know there are turtles here?”
"I passed by here when I was looking for ducks and heard them diving into the water."
There are two or three soft-shell turtles on the remaining string hooks, but they are all in twos and threes and are too small. , Zhou Zhi released them all.
The two packed up the big turtles, and Yang He took Zhou Zhi to dig wild sweet potatoes.
There are male and female wild sweet potato fruits. The female fruit has a crack on it and cannot be eaten.
This thing grows best on the long side outside the ditch where there is no water. At this time, as long as you get close, you can smell the sweet fragrance in the air.
This thing is so delicious, no wonder Jiang Shuyi couldn't forget it.
The two soon followed the smell and found a large field of wild sweet potatoes, growing in an open space between a cliff and a ditch.
Zhou Zhi glanced at the place: "Did we come here last year? There weren't so many last year..."
"People are busy now, and not many people come to do this. Yes." Yang He said.
This is also true. Take the Yang He family for example. Now they have a business of beating rice and making soy milk, and they also raise four pigs. There is a large chicken farm in the back hill, and a goose and duck farm near the water. I still have to farm, and I also added a three-wheeler for small transportation. Basically, I have to get up early and work in the dark, which is simply too busy.
The only person in the family who is a bit naughty is probably Yang He's nephew.
"By the way, where is your nephew?" Zhou Zhi asked on the way back: "If little Ding Ding is here, I'm afraid there will be less harvest in this land."
"He went to his sister-in-law's natal house to see Grandpa and grandma went there, over there I spoil him so much that I feel lazy."
"Hahahaha, it's true..."
Pork with chili pepper, fried sauerkraut, old noodles, steamed buns, and salted duck eggs, Zhou Zhi has a big appetite. I drank five bowls of porridge in a row.
Villagers have already come to make soy milk, and the sister-in-law is busy there. She is also happy to see Zhou Zhi eating happily: "The elbow is not like the children in the city, and he has a better appetite than Yang He."
"The main thing is My sister-in-law makes it delicious!" Zhou Zhi really likes Yang He's breakfast.
"He brought a lot of things again, but he didn't listen to what he said." Yang and his mother said angrily: "They even specially brought us snacks from the capital, which wasted a lot of money."
This The words were spoken a bit loudly, as if they were meant to be heard by the folks who came to make soy milk.
"There are also several bottles of wine, both Laojiao Touqu and Lixiang Touqu." Lao Yangtou also joined the ranks.
There are also things to pay attention to when giving gifts. If the wine is too good, the gift will be too heavy for Yang He, and it will be a burden for others to return it.
Why don't you exchange the money for a bottle of Tequ for wine from Touqu and the county winery? Old Yangtou won't be reluctant to drink it, and in the countryside, these two are already first-class wines. .
After dinner, Yang and his eldest brother drove their brother and Zhou Zhi to the pier in a three-wheeler. This time he was not allowed to stay. The chickens, ducks and geese for Zhou Zhi had to be brought as soon as possible while the weather was not too hot. Go back, kill it and put it in the refrigerator.
(End of this chapter)