Chapter 589: Catching Centipedes
The noise of everyone unloading the boat cannot be said to be small, so many people from the surrounding area soon came to watch.
There are unsuspecting villagers from Changqing Village, tenants from Dongli Courtyard, and some tourists who come to play.
Not many fishing guys came. After all, they are a group of guys who are content to stay calm despite the wind and rain.
But when they saw that the unloaded boats were moved to the pier on the river bank, some people began to frown.
They thought that with so many boats in the river in the future, the quiet fishing environment before would be gone forever.
But even if they knew this was the case, they had no other choice. After all, fishing in this place does not require payment and there are no other conditions. Now that the village wants to operate a sightseeing boat in the river, they can't say anything.
Because this river belongs to the public, they can fish and others can do other things.
And this section of the river is nominally under the management of Changqing Village. They often come here to fish, but they have done their best without saying anything.
So those experienced fishermen who fish near the pier have already made a plan in their hearts. When they come here in the future, they should try to come as early as possible and choose to go upstream or downstream.
Because it is impossible for them to leave like this and not fish here. It is difficult to find such a suitable place for fishing in the nearby area.
Even in other sections of the river, there are not as many fish as here, and transportation and other facilities are not convenient.
So I will still come, but I have to choose a place farther away from this pier in the future.
"Grandpa, there are so many boats, can we take a ride?"
While Zhang An and the others were moving the boats, a little girl opened her eyes and asked Zhang Jianwen.
"Yes, but you have to wait a few days, because the boat has just been bought and needs to be debugged again."
Although Zhang Jianwen was facing the trouble of the group of naughty children in the village, Sometimes, he always has a straight face, but he really likes children.
As soon as he saw the little girl asking him, he immediately answered with a smile.
“Oh, I can’t sit now, so I’m so happy.”
When the little girl heard that she couldn’t sit on the boat yet, she suddenly pursed her lips, and the look of disappointment on her face was disappointing An unobstructed view.
"Jiajia, don't be rude."
The woman next to her might be the little girl's mother. Seeing her expression, she immediately scolded her because it looked impolite.
"Sorry, the child is still young, so when will this boat be opened to the public?"
After the woman apologized to Zhang Jianwen, she continued to ask.
“I’m not sure how long it will take, but we will definitely be able to rent it out during the National Day.”
Zhang Jianwen didn’t give the other party an exact time, because the main problem now is not debugging. The boat, but the ticket sales area at the back has not yet been completed.
So whether these boats can be opened to the public depends on when the ticket selling place in the village is opened.
"You heard it, Jiajia, grandpa said that you can come and take the boat on the National Day, so you have to take classes well during this period. When the National Day holiday is over, mom will take you here and take the boat."< br>
After the woman got the reply, she turned to the little girl and said, this is the most typical and most effective way to motivate children.
“Okay mom, I understand, I will definitely go to school well.”
After the little girl received her mother's assurance, she instantly became excited.
Children of their age are very curious about anything new.
Especially for taking a boat, there are not many opportunities. After all, there are none nearby, and there is no way to spend money. The closest one can only go to the provincial capital.
After moving all the boats to the dock, the people at the shipyard were not in a hurry to go back, but followed everyone to the river because they also had to help train the people in the village who were responsible for driving the boats.
This is what Zhang Jianwen said when he bought the boat, and it was also written into the contract.
“What a great place. Just looking at the river makes people feel comfortable, but with such a big river, there are only so many boats.”
Previously followed The person in charge of the shipyard that Zhang Jianwen was negotiating with was standing on the edge of the river expressing his emotions.
But he did not forget his own job. After seeing the broad river, he somewhat wanted to persuade Zhang Jianwen to buy a few more boats.
“Haha, we can only talk about this later. Our village doesn’t have enough funds, so we can just make a start for the time being.”
After hearing what he said, Zhang Jianwen didn’t take the initiative, he just hit Haha said.
In his opinion, these ten ships were enough. After all, he had never thought of buying so many before. As for the future, he would wait until later.
“Ah, aren’t your funds allocated from above?”
When the man from the shipyard heard what Zhang Jianwen said, he didn’t quite believe it.
After all, he has seen many places that bought boats from them, all using the money allocated from them.
“How can such a good thing happen? The money above is not so easy to get. We use the village’s own surplus.”
Zhang Jianwen smiled and shook his head. People know their own affairs well, and it was considered good to be able to get a sum of money for road construction from above.
"That's okay. I'm very optimistic about your place. When you want to buy more in the future, we will definitely make it cheaper."
The man at the shipyard did not continue. , although it was not possible now, he talked to Zhang Jianwen about the future.
After all, Zhang Jianwen is their customer now. It seems that there is still room for development in the future, and he has not given up.
Then we will discuss personnel training. Zhang Jianwen has already found a candidate before and is waiting for people from the shipyard to come over.
Zhang An was not interested in this. After talking to Zhang Jianwen for a few words, he went back to his home.
After dinner in the afternoon, there was basically nothing going on at home, so Zhang An prepared to prepare the medicinal powder.
It is only mid-September, and the rice in the few acres of fields in front of the yard has not yet been harvested. It may take a few more days.
Today happened to be Saturday. Su Ying didn't have to go to school today and tomorrow, and her son had someone to take care of her. Zhang An was going to prepare some insect attractant powder and go out for a walk to see if he could catch some mountain centipedes.
After all, he had already decided before that he wanted to see if he could help the little girl Yan Qian. Naturally, time could not drag on forever.
There are quite a lot of centipedes in the mountains near Changqing, because the climate here is very suitable for them to survive.
You don’t even need to go into the mountains. Sometimes you can find centipedes crawling around in front of and behind your house, or in any corner.
So every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, every household sprinkles realgar wine and some insect repellent powder, mostly to drive away snakes and centipedes.
However, most of these centipedes are red-headed centipedes, and Zhang An has only seen this kind. At most, their close relatives, yellow-headed centipedes, are rare, but yellow-headed ones are rare.
Red-headed centipedes, under normal circumstances, can grow to a body length of six to eight inches.
When Zhang An was still in school, he saw many red-headed centipedes that were nearly 20 centimeters long.
At that time, when he saw such a long red-headed centipede, he always thought it was already a giant.
But now, ever since he heard Zhang Yixing talking about the big guy who wanted three hundred feet, he suddenly felt that even the biggest one he had seen before seemed not very big, and could only be regarded as a small Kalami. Because the biggest guy he had ever seen had only more than thirty legs, and it was still soaking in Mr. Zhang’s medicinal wine jar.
It is only one-tenth of the three hundred feet the old man said, which is quite a difference.
So there was nothing to do today, so Zhang An was going to go into the mountains to find a few to keep. Although he didn’t know how big the red-headed centipedes could be, there was no loss in trying a few.
And the only ones he could find nearby were red heads and yellow heads, and the others would be difficult to find.
The preparation of the medicinal powder is very simple. Just use a few herbs that Centipede likes, and add some other things, and you can basically prepare it.
Many people think it is difficult to prepare insect-attracting powder. In fact, the main difficulty lies in the formula. Most people do not have such a thing.
Zhang An is obviously an ordinary person. He has several insect-attracting formulas in his hand, all of which he got from Zhang Yixing.
The ingredients required for the recipe happened to be available at home, so Zhang An didn't spend much time preparing them.
Then I found several woven cages in the small room, which can be used to set traps.
"Daughter-in-law, I'm going out. If anyone comes looking for you, just give me a call."
When he went out, Zhang An said hello to his wife, just in case. Someone came to look for him later, but he couldn't be found for a while.
Su Ying was taking care of the child. She nodded to show that she understood and did not ask him where he was going.
After going out, Zhang An carried the long fire tongs and headed straight into the purple bamboo forest.
If centipedes are the largest, they will definitely bear the brunt in bamboo forests, especially in large bamboo forests where there will be more.
So when wandering in the bamboo forest on weekdays, in addition to being careful about snakes, you also have to pay attention to centipedes.
Although the poison of this thing is not as strong as that of Zhuyeqing, it is not uncomfortable to be bitten.
On the way, Zhang An was only halfway through when he saw Yan Peifeng and Yan Qian coming from the purple bamboo forest from a distance.
"Uncle Yan, have you just come down from the temple?"
When the three of them met, Zhang An took the lead in saying hello.
"Hmm, it's this time every day when Daozhang Zhang treats Qian Qian. By the way, Xiao An, I've asked someone to go to the Miao villages in the mountains to inquire. The person I'm looking for is the brother of a woman in your village. ”
When he happened to meet Zhang An, Yan Peifeng told him about looking for Miao people to visit the Miao village.
"That's fine. If we ask people to inquire earlier, the chance may be greater. I hope I can bring back good news."
Zhang An is not surprised. In the past few years, there was no news in the village. The young people all begged Miao girls from the mountains to come home as guests.
"What are you going to do? Aren't you going to see Zhang An?"
Afterwards, Yan Peifeng asked Zhang An what he was going to do and saw the Fire tongs, and a woven cage around the waist, this is not what you need to wear to go to Sanqing Temple.
"No, I'm going to catch something in the bamboo forest."
Zhang An didn't tell Yan Peifeng that he was going to catch centipedes. There was no rush, and it wouldn't be too late to raise them later.
"Brother Zhang An, what are you going to catch? Can I go with you?"
When Yan Qian heard this, her eyes immediately lit up. She had rarely played outside since she was a child, and she wanted to go with her now. Go with Zhang An.
"No, Sissi, you have forgotten that you are afraid of snakes."
Before Zhang An could speak, Yan Peifeng objected first.
Hearing Zhang An talk about going to catch something in the bamboo forest, and then looking at the tongs in Zhang An's hand and the woven cage on his waist, he felt that Zhang An was going to catch snakes.
"Yes, Sissy, there are a lot of snakes in the bamboo forest, so I won't take you there. Next time I go to other places to play, I will definitely ask you to come with me."
Meet Yan Peifeng Zhang An was preconceived and didn't give any explanation, just in time to reject Yan Qian.
"Okay then."
As expected, Yan Qian frowned when she heard about the snake and said nothing more about following her.
“Okay, let’s go back, don’t delay your brother Zhang An.”
Seeing that his daughter was persuaded and Zhang An had something to do, Yan Peifeng called his daughter to go home.
Zhang An came to the bamboo forest and did not stay outside.
Nowadays, many people come to Sanqing Temple. Basically, people walk back and forth in the purple bamboo forest every day.
No matter how many snakes, insects, rats, or ants there are in these peripheral areas, they have been dispersed long ago.
After walking deep into the bamboo forest, Zhang An stopped and looked at the ground intently.
Originally there were many stones on the ground, but they were all covered by bamboo leaves falling from the bamboos, but they were not as soft when walking on them as in the pine forest.
When walking in the bamboo forest, you should be careful. In addition to the green bamboo leaves on the bamboo, there may also be rock spots on the ground. The name is the sharp-nosed adder, which is also known as the five-step snake. .
In places like bamboo forests, they often hide in the yellow bamboo leaves, making it difficult for people to see them.
The venom of the rockhead spot is very strong. In this era, those who are bitten basically have a narrow escape from death. It is difficult to receive timely treatment and medical conditions are not available.
Zhang An was naturally afraid, so he specially changed his boots when he came.
Of course, in addition to these, there is another plant in the bamboo forest that you must be particularly careful about. It is best not to touch it with exposed flesh. It is live hemp.
If you don't pay attention and get a skin attack from it, it will swell up in a short time, causing itching and discomfort.
After taking a few steps, Zhang An saw a few stones in front of him.
He used fire tongs to push aside the surrounding bamboo leaves, and then lifted up one of the stones.
"Hey, you're lucky, I got something right when I came here."
Zhang An couldn't help but feel happy, because he saw several red-headed centipedes under the stone.
But there is only one that is relatively big, probably more than an arm long, and the others are all centipede seedlings.
After this guy realized that his place of growth had been found, his first reaction was not to crawl away, but to drive the two red whiskers on his head to crawl towards Zhang An's feet. , looking very impatient.
This picture looks a bit like the centipede spirit in Calabash Baby with its claws and fangs dancing.
Seeing it being so provocative, Zhang An naturally couldn't bear it. He called the tongs in his hand to catch it, and put it into the bamboo cage while it kept twisting.
As for the other small ones, Zhang An didn't intend to let them go and picked them up all at once.
After all, he is not caught to sell for money, but to be raised in the space, so there is no need to be so picky.
(End of this chapter)