Chapter 587
Take another closer look.
Hey guys, the crabs are coming down the mountain.
I saw in the northwest corner of the back mountain, in the small stream connected to the entrance of the small river ditch, crabs of all sizes formed a winding line, sideways, and quickly followed the ditch towards the orchard. Come crawling.
This ditch existed before, but before Chen Ling did not deliberately divert the water down, it was just a small section naturally formed by long-term rain erosion.
When it rains heavily, the water from the mountain flows out through this and flows into the small river ditch at the foot of the mountain.
But Xiaohegou was a stagnant and smelly ditch at that time. Even if there were fish, there were no crabs.
Not to mention crabs coming down the mountain.
Chen Ling has seen crabs climbing trees and ashore many times. After heavy rain, the river water swelled, and they would climb to high places to avoid the water. Or when it rains heavily and there is a lack of oxygen in the water, they will also climb onto reeds and trees by the river.
But he has never heard of this 'crabs coming down the mountain' since he was a child.
Especially when I look up, the team of crab soldiers is almost full along the ditch above. The winding queue is very long. It is really orderly and spectacular.
Compared with the shrimp soldiers and crab generals we saw in the reservoir, it is even more strange.
"Okay, okay, it's better to have more fish, shrimps and crabs. You can encounter all kinds of wonders."
Chen Ling clapped her hands happily, picked up the bucket, and hurried home to get it Camera goes.
This spectacle is definitely not to be missed.
There was a sense of excitement that a paparazzi reporter had captured first-hand footage.
There is another novelty and surprise of witnessing the legends told by the old people with your own eyes.
There is something to be said for the crab coming down the mountain.
Old people often say, be restless.
The so-called seven ups and eight downs means that in and before July of the lunar calendar, most fish are active on the water surface. After August of the lunar calendar, the weather slowly turns cooler and most fish are at the bottom of the water.
Moreover, before the seventh month of the lunar calendar, many fish like to go upstream, and there are more fish in the upper water. After August, they tend to go downstream, and there are more fish in the water.
Although this kind of situation mostly refers to fish, many things in the water are also the same.
The same goes for crabs.
Before the seventh month of the lunar calendar, crabs like to grow in small streams and rivers. After the eighth month of the lunar calendar, crabs instead run downstream into large rivers.
Many elderly people have seen this and describe this situation as crabs descending from the mountain.
While Chen Ling was taking photos with great interest, he took the bucket to pick it up. After picking up half the bucket, it was not enough, so he took out the ground cage and chicken cover and pressed the stones to block the outlet of the stream and ditch.
In this case, you don’t even need to put out bait, they will just fall into the trap and line up to get in.
Then we looked down the west side of the mountain wall to see the stream there. It was steep here and the stream flowed from top to bottom. When the water was small, it would flow down the bottom of the ditch. When the water was big, it would flow down the ditch. Like a small waterfall, the clear water washed down directly from a high place, but no crabs came down.
“Well, since autumn, there has been a lot of rain, so I haven’t gone to the mountains to see much yet. I want to see where so many crabs come from.”
Lifted up After a few glances, Chen Ling hung the camera on his chest and headed up the mountain with the bucket.
When we got to the back mountain, we discovered that nothing unexpected happened in this creek. The crab came from the Yamanaka Lake.
Only because the west mountain is too steep and the flow of the small stream is fierce, they took a detour.
This seems like a lot.
Chen Ling took a closer look and found that the crab team was indeed large enough.
Even if there is a large group of egrets, as well as red-crowned cranes, white cranes and gray cranes, wild cranes with their long legs and their own little cranes and little egrets are standing by the stream pecking away.
The size of this team doesn't show much damage either.
“Oh, this is such a beautiful scenery. This autumn scene, with the pictures of cranes and herons catching crabs, is even more beautiful than the scenes specially shot here on period TV.”
< br>Chen Ling's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he picked up the camera and took pictures.
Especially the scene of the little crane and the little egret in the mirror, fighting for each other with crabs in their mouths, running around by the stream, and splashing on the stream, it is really wonderful and moving.
And the crab queue is so long, stretching from mountain to mountain, so far away, it’s so rare.
You will regret it if you don’t take a picture and designate it later.
“Tsk, tsk, birds also like to eat these fat crabs.”
After taking the photo, Chen Ling saw in the distance, at the edge of the woods some distance away from the cranes and herons. There were a bunch of magpies jumping around catching crabs to eat.
I was speechless and said: "You are really everywhere, I would like to call you the well-deserved protagonists of Wuyun Mountain."
It didn't rain heavily last night.
However, there were places where water accumulated on the mountain. Chen Ling took a closer look and found that the puddle was really not shallow. It was probably formed by continuous siltation from several rains.
Some places are quite deep.
Chen Lingcong put down the bucket and took out the net that was thrown into the cave.
As the net goes down...
Good guy, there are not only crabs, small fish and shrimps, but also a nest of big fish.
eels, loaches, crucian carp, and even palm-sized turtles.
This is not a wheat field tortoise, but a grass tortoise. It is very active and has great strength. Chen Ling grabbed it from the net and the tortoise kicked off its hind legs and slipped from between his fingers. .
I didn’t worry if I fell to the ground and fell on all fours. I stretched my neck and turned over with a strong push. I used my four legs together and swish, swish, and I crawled very fast.
In the blink of an eye, I slipped into the gap between the rocks next to the big tree.
Chen Ling was too lazy to catch any more. He just looked in the net and didn't see any good fish, so he dumped them all into another stream to the east.
Let them follow the stream, down the water, and enter their own ditch.
The net is lowered at the outlet of the stream in the northwest corner. If the net is not lowered here, they will not enter the net again.
Lest the water in this puddle dry up and the fish and shrimp die.
Then we walked towards Lake Yamanaka.
Specially choose places where there are few birds.
Before we even reached the lake on the way, we discovered that there were many mountain loaches and small striped loaches with beautiful patterns in the creek, following the current and following the army of crabs down the river.
“Hey, these little things are pretty, just like clown fish.”
Chen Ling turned over the stone, blocked one and grabbed it in his hand. He took a closer look, his eyes filled with joy. , quickly caught a few more and threw them into the bucket.
In the past, fishing was just for eating, and little attention was paid to appearance.
Even some fish have very beautiful hair color.
He only cares about whether it tastes good or not.
Now that he has a waterscape tank, he has gradually begun to appreciate all kinds of strange little fish.
What’s more, this little mountain loach is also a bottom-dwelling fish. Like Huang Lading, it likes diamond head seams.
This is exactly what Chen Ling lacks in the tank.
“Hey, it’s so fun. When it grows up, it won’t be able to swim out of the tank and it won’t look good anymore. You can still catch it and eat it.”
Think about the fish you keep in the tank now. Except for koi and goldfish, which cannot be eaten, and turtles, all other fish are edible.
The taste is pretty good.
“Hey, that’s it, it’s both ornamental and edible.”
If the bobcat doesn’t want to raise fish, it has to find someone to sell it to.
He doesn’t need this, he can just catch it and eat it himself.
"Well, let's catch some big crabs first and look for fish while catching them."
Chen Ling muttered.
When he came to the mountain today, he didn't let anyone follow him, not the dog, not the eagle, not the weasel.
Sometimes it’s rare to be alone.
Whether it is playing or doing anything at this time, it is easy to get involved.
For men, it is a kind of enjoyment to sometimes have fun alone without being disturbed.
Catch crabs.
Catch the big one.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, crabs are fat.
The unique environment around the farm means that even if we are still young and have not been able to breed unique crab varieties for ten or eight years, the taste of these big fat crabs now is definitely delicious enough. It's a pity that Su Su is pregnant, so she won't be able to eat these crabs this year.
But it doesn’t matter, I brought beef and roasted chicken, and then I can get some of her favorite pig’s trotters.
"Well, we have to raise some in the cave and some in the fish tank. When she is out of confinement, we will find a chance to make crabs... Then we will talk about the crabs in the tank."
Chen Ling caught crabs alone, thinking about things in his mind, and really got into it.
In fact, the cave is not without crabs.
But not as much as the outside world.
They cannot reproduce on their own, and most of the small crabs will be eaten by fish, shrimps, turtles, and turtles.
Only this thing can dig holes, climb reeds, and climb ashore, otherwise it would have been eaten up long ago.
Just because once shrimps and crabs shed their shells, the smell is very attractive to the creatures in the water.
In particular, the fish in Dongtian are extremely ferocious, and it is very difficult for most shrimps and crabs to shed their shells.
So it won’t spread even if it exists.
“We still have to carve out a special place to raise crabs, just for our own consumption.”
In the past two years, Chen Ling has also made some small crabs and shrimps for wine every now and then, but this time I have never eaten big crabs before.
In previous years, at this time, I only focused on watching the green grass or letting the dogs out to hunt.
This is no longer my mind.
The more I thought about these big fat crabs this year, the more I couldn’t help myself.
There are good things to eat.
Otherwise it is a complete waste.
There are three to four ounces of big crabs, certainly no worse than the so-called Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.
Furthermore, in terms of species, there is no difference between the Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs and the crabs here. They all belong to the Chinese mitten crab species.
That is to say, the crabs here have not been optimized and screened.
It is also a wild crab.
But Chen Ling believes that the quality of crabs grown in the waters around the farm is certainly not inferior to that of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.
In a short period of time, we caught more than half a bucket of crabs, all of them big.
Steamed, braised, or chopped into pieces and fried, it will definitely taste delicious.
Chen Ling looked at the crabs crawling in the bucket and couldn't help but drool.
But after going down the mountain and returning home, he still held back. It was troublesome to deal with the crabs. He planned to soak them in clean water first and then take them back to the county town to do it later.
"Dad, the crabs have gone down the mountain. I put down a net and a chicken cage at the outlet of the Houshan ditch. Remember to collect them."
My father-in-law is still herding sheep at the moment. While he was taking a few puppies to hunt for grasshoppers in the grass, he responded when he heard the words: "There are crabs, that's great. We will fry crabs for lunch."
"I If you don’t eat in the village at noon, you have to go back to the county town.”
Chen Ling said: "Dad, put away the small crabs and leave the big crabs. I will come back in the evening and make a big pot. Don't turn on the stove at noon. I left the beef and steamed cakes."
"Okay, then I can take the puppy to the slope to play for a while. Li Xian's family is busy down the slope today. I will let this little yellow dog meet someone."
That's it. If a puppy is picked, and the mother is still around, it will be very late to recognize its owner.
In other words, there is no concept of recognizing one’s master.
But no matter what, it’s better to get acquainted with people.
Wang Lixian often came over to tease the little yellow dog he picked, or Liu Nier would catch a bird or something, cut it into pieces and feed it.
The little kids in the village are very wild. If they catch a bird, they dare to open its stomach and pull out its intestines with bare hands.
After feeding the dog, my hands were stained with mud and I wiped the snot that flowed to my mouth.
But puppies still like to eat like this.
Wang Cunye sometimes doesn’t like to feed them so much. If he feeds them too much, it will be less fun for him to take the puppies to herd the sheep.
When the puppy's belly is full, he no longer pounces on grasshoppers, nor chases away frogs and birds. This is not a lot of fun.
Chen Ling knew what the old man was thinking, so he thought that after Zhao Gang sent the puppies over, he would keep the puppies for a while and let the old man keep them at home and play with them.
Then, go back and replace the crab bucket with clean water and soak it in water.
Carrying the fish bucket, we went to the middle hall of the wooden building to feed the fish.
For a while now, the door of the middle hall has been open every day, letting in the sunlight during the day. This huge waterscape tank, with the movement of fish and shrimp, looks beautiful and pleasing to the eye.
It has only been a few days, and the fish inside are no longer afraid of people.
Chen Ling used a net to fish a spoonful of small fish and shrimps into it. Oh my god, it was like boiling water. The big fish and small fish in the fish tank rushed up like their heads were crushed.
Some fish even made a clanking sound against the wall of the tank.
In addition to wild fish, these fish, even koi and goldfish, are raised outside the pond. Except for the mullet fish, which is silent, other fish basically eat everything and have a very mixed diet.
It’s just that the two pig-nosed turtles are still a little uncomfortable.
Holding on to the soles of its front feet like two turtles, it hid in the corner and remained motionless.
However, after being raised in the cave for one night, the blemishes on their bodies and the diseases on their heads have disappeared, and they have become healthier overall.
But it’s not beautiful enough and needs to be raised for a while.
Chen Ling thought they were immobile.
Aren’t the crabs and shrimps active yet?
After feeding a few spoons of fish and shrimp, I saw that these fish were full and full of water. Many of the fish and shrimp were eaten in pieces, or were injured all over, and hurriedly hid along the corners of the fish tank wall.
Chen Ling stopped feeding and hid aside, waiting for the reaction of the two pig-nosed turtles, one black and one gray.
Sure enough, after the people walked away, they became bolder. First they went with the crabs and shrimps to pick up some leftover leftovers.
As I ate, I gradually became more courageous.
Swim around in the tank like a turtle to catch injured fish.
When a fish is injured, the smell it emits is very attractive.
However, after eating these injured fish, they were not satisfied and chased some small fish to eat.
Chen Ling was looking at it interestingly, and he didn't care about them eating fish.
The more I watch, the more fascinated I become.
Not only turtles, but also crabs, shrimps and clams are also very interesting.
River mussels have parasites.
It is inevitable that the water quality of the farm is good.
He also kept them in clean water for several days, then selected a few and threw them in.
Unexpectedly, after being thrown in, these few had no parasites, but when it was time to lay eggs, a lot of larvae were sprayed.
Fortunately, Chen Ling put a lot of catfish in the tank.
Small fish like catfish are also interesting. They have a symbiotic relationship with river clams.
When their female fish lay eggs, they lay their eggs inside the mussels.
When the river mussel lays eggs, it sprays out the larvae and sprays them onto the gills of the catfish, where they parasitize.
This thing is called hookworm, and it is very harmful to other fish.
But there is no problem with the catfish. When they lay eggs, they will come into contact with the river mussels, and all the scabies will be hooked on them.
It will not harm other fish.
Chen Ling has good eyesight, and the fish tank is very bright when the sun shines on it.
So you can clearly see the interaction of fish and shrimp, the spawning of catfish, and the spraying of eggs by river clams.
The more he looked, the more fascinated he became.
It was almost noon when Wang Cunye called him and told him to go back quickly if he wanted to go back to the county seat, otherwise his lunch would not be served there.
Only then was he willing to move.
(End of this chapter)