Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 704

Chapter [-]: Watching the eel

The contract has been signed. In theory, these fruits and vegetables belong to Li Junge. Of course, it is impossible for Li Junge to be so fussy with the villagers. Before the renovation of the base is completed, anyone who likes to pick them can come to pick them.

After walking along the path for a while, it was getting dark gradually, the path turned and went up along a small canal.

The small canal has been in disrepair for a long time, and many of the cement slabs on the side of the canal have separated from the soil embryos on the side, forming a gap in the middle, and some cement slabs have fallen into the canal, exposing ridges.

Li Junge came to a place where a canal had collapsed, and part of the water overflowed, forming a large swamp with cattail grass, silk thatch, duckweed, and fireflies, plus the sound of frogs.

Li Junge smiled and said: "This place was only discovered when planning the base, and the kids don't even know about it, otherwise the big eel would not be able to withstand their disaster."

Xiaozhi has now forgotten about the big eel, and gently stepped on the grass by the water, watching the startled fireflies rising around her body, looking at the cattail grass, wild flowers and the stars in the sky, she stretched out her hand to greet him. : "It's so beautiful that I can't believe it's real..."

As for Xu Si, looking at Xiaozhi has already made him demented.

Li Junge squatted down to replace the torch with kerosene to light it up, and hung up the earthworms on the eel hook. When he raised his head, those two were still crazy!
Li Junge said impatiently: "Isn't this kind of scenery everywhere in Lijiagou? As for not? Standing silently so stupidly didn't the mosquito bite you?"

Xiaozhi turned her head to look at Xu Si in frustration: "Er Pi Ge is a saboteur."

Xu Si said: "That is, if I knew this place was like this, I wouldn't let you wear this..."

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Hey! There's no end to it! The most annoying thing is to take you little whites to fish! You don't talk about being a fish boy before and after running, and you complain!"

Xiaozhi walked back with a smile: "What should I do next?"

Li Junge said: "The next step is simple. No one has been to this place for many years, so we lit a torch, starting from the water pool, and went all the way along the two ends of the ditch. The eels were digging holes between the cement board and the soil. , where it is safest for them."

While taking the two of them to slowly inspect the canal, he explained: "You need to use a torch to illuminate the eel. If you use a flashlight, the light will be reflected off the water surface, so you can't see clearly. Did you see the eel!"

Xiaozhi also held a torch in her hand, and said excitedly: "I see! Oh, it hid in the cave!"

Xu Si leaned forward: "Where is it? Show me!"

Li Junge was bumped forward by him, but he reacted quickly after practicing Wutongquan, following the forward momentum, he took a step forward, skimmed the ditch and flashed to the opposite ridge: "Damn! Xu Boss, be careful, move around the ditch carefully, and don’t wave your torch indiscriminately! Fans who burned Xiao Zhi’s hair will fight you hard!”

After finishing speaking, he waved his hands and said, "You two can play over there. It's safer for me to stay away from you."

Divide half of the eel hook and throw it over: "Xiaozhi, put a hook in the eel hole just now, just go in a little bit, let the steel wire stand up gently. Then you find the next hole, use this method .”

Xiaozhi and Xu Si were on one side, and Li Junge was on the other, all the way down the eel hook along the canal.

After a handful of fifty or so eel hooks were finished, Li Junge said, "Go back now, and pay attention to see if the wire shakes slightly, it means the eel has been hooked. We'll talk about how to deal with it then."

The three walked back along the ditch, and when they were almost halfway there, Xiaozhi shouted in surprise: "This one is moving, this one is moving!"

Li Junge said: "Boss Xu, lift the steel wire lightly to have a look, first put the eel's head out of the hole, then the body will come out when the head is out of the hole, I rely on you to call it lightly? Forget it, don't move." Let me demonstrate! Make room for me..."

Then Li Junge jumped over again and taught the two how to catch eels, gently pulling out the head of the eel, and letting Xiao Zhi take over to pull the eel out of the hole.

Xiaozhi was jumping with joy after finishing it: "I really caught it! Brother Erpi, hurry up!"

Li Junge said: "Why don't you try to take it?"

The heads of the two shook like rattles.

Li Junge had no choice but to remove the eel himself: "That's right, this one weighs more than half a catty! Who will feed the earthworms next?"

The two continued to shake their heads like rattles.

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "You guys made a fuss about coming, so I knew I would have such a fate today! I have the same virtue as Er Zhun, and you are only responsible for mentioning that, and the rest is my business!"

The two changed their movements, nodding their heads like chickens pecking at rice.

Complaints are complaints, but Li Junge has not eaten the big eel for some time, and he is very happy in his heart.

So the three continued to investigate, and Li Junge jumped up and down on both sides of the canal. After a while, there were five or six big eels in the fish basket.

After checking the road, the three of them rested for a while and started to walk back again.

The fishing lines were spread by the ditches on both sides of the water pool, and when they were about to approach the water pool, Xu Si noticed that a steel wire was moving very violently.

Xiao Zhi squatted down to take the hook, but pulled the eel head out, and let go with a "wow" in fright, jumped behind Xu Si and jumped up: "What is this thing! It's so scary!"

Xu Si took a torch to shine a light, and she was more frightened than Xiaozhi, and the two jumped into a ball.

Xu Si was so frightened that his voice was stunned: "Erpi, come here quickly... You are so big... Big, big..."

Li Junge jumped over quickly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid! Don't you get caught by snakes, right? I rely on a big eel!"

The big eel's head was as big as Meixian's fist, and it was retracting there.

The gap in the cement board is too small, and the eel cannot be removed.

Li Junge grabbed the steel wire to stabilize the eel's head so that it would not be unhooked, and said, "No, Boss Xu, come and stabilize the hook. I'll lift the cement board next to it."

Boss Xu jumped like a ball: "Get lost! I won't do it!"

Li Junge said angrily: "Then I will hold on! You go to move the cement board!"

Boss Xu jumped even more fiercely: "Get out! If you didn't stop me, wouldn't I be dead?"

Li Junge scolded: "It's because it hid in the hole if it didn't stop! Oh, it's killing me! Forget it, I'll do it myself!"

He sat down on his buttocks, stabilized the steel wire with his hands, and began to kick the cement board with his feet.

There was concrete adhesion between the cement board and the cement board at the bottom of the ditch. Fortunately, it was not too strong after a long time. Li Junge kicked it a few times, and the board finally came loose and fell into the ditch.

Only then did Li Junge start to take out the eels.

Thirty centimeters, sixty centimeters, ninety centimeters...

Boss Xu is about to go crazy, but now Xiao Zhihu is standing in front of him: "It's not a snake, Xu Si doesn't have to be afraid!"

Boss Xu hid behind and took a look, then retracted his head: "It's not a snake, I'm afraid!"

Li Junge took out all the eels and held them up in his hand: "This one is amazing! Xiao Zhi, let's compare and see how long it is."

Xiaozhi stood over, and Li Junge was carrying the eel. The eel's tail was on the ground, and its head could reach her collarbone. It was about 1.3 meters four.

Xiaozhi called Xu Si excitedly: "Xu Si, quickly take a photo with Brother Erpi! Are there many eels as big as Brother Erpi in Lijiagou?"

Li Junge said: "This is not much! Anyway, I have only heard of it but never seen it. This one weighs at least seven or eight catties!"

Seeing that the two of them were not too scared, Xu Si also felt ashamed of his reaction just now. After taking a photo of the two of them, Xu Si said happily: "This one is enough for a meal..."

Li Junge said: "This can't be eaten. We Lijiagou people don't eat eels weighing more than three catties, so we have to let them go."

Xu Si said, "Why?"

Li Junge took off the eel hook from the eel's mouth, took the water pot and poured some spiritual spring into its mouth, and said, "I don't know, this is a legend passed down from generation to generation."

"An eel weighing more than three catties is called 'Wangtian eel' here. Some people say that it has learned to cultivate, and it needs to collect moonlight at night. If you eat this kind of eel, you will have bad luck; some say it is a special species. , itself is poisonous... In short, it cannot be eaten."

Xiao Zhi also nodded: "Even if you can eat it, don't eat it, it's not easy to grow so much!"

The eel didn't move very much in Li Junge's hands. It was probably too old. Its whole body was already orange-red, and the part under its big head was as thick as Wang Meixian's arm.

Li Junge put the eel back into the pond, watched the big eel slowly disappear into the hole under a clump of water bamboo roots, got up and said with a smile: "Haha, Xiao Zhi is a blessed person, today this is too rare! Open your eyes with you! Big surprise! Oh, this must be sent to the big fish list!"

Xiaozhi clapped her hands happily: "Write my name, write my name!"

Xu Si was still in shock: "Let's quickly put away the hook and go back. This is no surprise, it's obviously a shock!"

Next, Xiaozhi was much more cautious when collecting the hook. She had to test the weight before taking it out. Once she found an eel, she immediately asked Li Junge to jump over it. She didn’t dare to do it anymore.

So Li Junge continued to jump on both ends, and when the hooks were finished, there were already a dozen large eels weighing more than half a catty in the basket.

Seeing that it was only past nine o'clock in the evening on the phone, Li Junge smiled and said, "Let's call it a day, let's go home and drink beer!"

Turning on the small headlight clipped on the straw hat, the three happily rode their bicycles towards home.

On the side of the road, I saw a soil cucumber growing well, so Li Junge asked Xiaozhi and Xu Si to pick some cucumbers.

Call A Yin and ask her to wait at the gate of Tiren Garden. There will be a delicious extra meal tonight.

When I received Ayin at the door, everyone came up together. My mother saw that Li Junge was fine, and the other two had turned into mud balls. She couldn't help laughing and said, "If there is no harvest this time, I'm sorry to bring back these two catties of mud." !"

Xiaozhi said excitedly: "Auntie, we caught a lot! We also saw a super big one, it was so tall! Oh no, it's so tall!"

Mom laughed and said, "How is it possible! This is no longer a fairy!"

Li Junge smiled and said, "It's still true, I'll let Boss Xu show you the photos later."

After speaking, he said to the two of them: "Hurry up and go to your respective rooms to take a shower and change clothes, I'll cook a pot of eel!"

My mother turned and went to the kitchen, and said as she walked: "Then I'll peel a handful of garlic for you, poor Xiaozhi, she won't be here for a few days and has to leave again, I haven't eaten a lot of good things yet..."

Ayin also went in to prepare the seasoning.

(End of this chapter)