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After picking the grapefruits, Lin Zhou and the others packed the grapefruits in bags and moved them to the car. They then went to the grapefruit tree of the fourth wife's family who had greeted him before and picked a few large grapefruits.

Later, she went to her laundry station and scooped some water from the sink to wash her hands.

There is no way, Linzhou and his family have no one living at home, so they don't have water.

Because their village has not yet developed to the point of using tap water, and it is not like the situation where the home is close to the mountains and rivers, and they connect a water pipe from the mountains.

In their village, most people jointly built a reservoir, and then collected mountain spring water from a distant place and poured it into the pond.

Of course, because the amount of water in the place where they are connected may not be very large, the water pipes connected from the reservoir are usually connected to one faucet for several households, and then the water pipes come out.

There is a time every day when the water is turned on and off, and the people in the village are responsible for it.

When the water is boiling, there is a speaker that plays music. When everyone hears the music, they know to turn on the water.

After leaving it for a while, almost everyone will fill up their own water tank buckets, turn off the water, store water, and then continue to do so the next day.

In Linzhou's house, because no one was at home, their faucets and pipes were screwed shut and supplied to other houses, so naturally there was no water in the house.

After washing his hands, Lin Zhou took Zhang Tianyu and the others to the paddy fields with eel fishing tools and buckets.

The tool used to catch eels is a thin wire with the top part sharpened and bent into a hook with barbs, similar to a fishing hook.

After arriving in the paddy field, Lin Zhou also took out all the earthworms he had prepared before and strung them on the hook.

These earthworms were specially raised and harvested by him on the farm.

The main reason is that this earthworm may be more attractive to eels than ordinary earthworms.

Of course, according to Linzhou's impression, eels are very greedy!
In the past, even with a hook, you could lure it out of the hole without hanging earthworms.

"Boss Lin, what are we going to do now? Find the eel cave?" Zhang Tianyu held the eel fishing hook with a strong curiosity in his eyes.

"Yes, look for the eel hole. If you don't find the hole, you won't be able to fish!" Lin Zhou nodded: "Let's walk along the field ridge on the back. Eels like to hide in the cracks in the rocks cut on the back!"

"Of course, there are not eels in every stone crevice. You can look at the front of the crevice to see if there are traces of eel activity. Some eels will come out to look for food, so traces will be left at the entrance of the cave!"

"Once you have a rough idea, you can use the hook to reach the entrance of the hole and try it!"

As he said this, Linzhou discovered a stone crevice, which seemed to contain traces of eel activity.

Because the area in front of the cave entrance is relatively smooth, there are also marks left by something crawling on the mud.

"Old He, look here, this cave may contain eels. The place in front of it..."

Lin Zhou called He Shaojun and pointed to the entrance of the cave to explain to him. After explaining, he taught him how to fish: "Actually, fishing for eels is much simpler than fishing. You only need to slowly extend the hook into the entrance of the cave. , don’t extend it too deep, just extend it a short distance, and then gently shake the handle to make it look like some insect is moving in front of it.”

"If there is an eel in there, it will gradually become afraid of coming out to eat the bait!"

"If it is very cautious when eating and does not bite viciously, then don't be too anxious. You can hang it first and wait until it can't bear it anymore and bite it. After it is hooked, you can pull it out. "

As he spoke, the water in front of Linzhou's hook suddenly became muddy. As Linzhou's hook was pulled out, a golden eel emerged from the water and appeared in front of everyone.

When Lin Zhou saw this, he threw it into the bucket with quick eyes and hands.

The eel that fell into the dry barrel kept turning over and struggling, causing the barrel to make loud banging sounds.

"It seems quite simple!"

"I'll try, I'll try!" He Shaojun looked at the caught eel in the bucket, his eyes lit up, he was very interested, and he suddenly became impatient.

Holding the hook in his hand, he carefully looked for the eel cave in the stone crevices.

He was thinking about the experience Lin Zhou had just imparted in his heart, his eyes unblinking and extremely focused.

Soon, he found a hole with a similar standard to what Lin Zhou said. He excitedly stretched out the hook in his hand and slowly shook the handle a little inside the hole.

One after another, one left and one right, his mood also became suspended.

He stared at the hole with a nervous and apprehensive expression, "Come out, come out!"

Just when He Shaojun was full of expectations, there was finally movement at the entrance of his cave.

I saw only the front part of the hook, a head slowly approaching.

Seeing this scene, He Shaojun's breathing stopped, and the hook gently shaking in his hand paused.

At this time, the exposed eel head also fell into stillness. I don't know if it smelled a dangerous smell, but it actually had a tendency to shrink back.

After noticing this situation, He Shaojun hurriedly continued to shake the hook, stretching and retracting it to seduce the eel.

The eel that was retreating noticed this change and still couldn't resist the temptation of the food in front of it. It may even feel that it was provoked. The next moment, it suddenly jumped out and opened its mouth to bite the hook.

"I hit it!"

When He Shaojun saw the eel bite the hook, he shouted excitedly and quickly pulled the hook up.

The hooked eel was lifted up and fell into the bucket he had prepared.

"Boss Lin! Look, look, I caught it!"

He Shaojun looked at the eels rolling in the bucket, beaming with joy.

"It seems that we are very lucky today. We should be able to make a meal with eels tonight!" Lin Zhou nodded at him, indicating that he had seen it.

"It's true, Boss Lin, I think eel fishing is much more fun than fishing!" He Shaojun said happily.

He used to go fishing for ten to ten minutes, and the fish wouldn't even move.

But catching eels is too fast!

Moreover, the speed of loading goods is also very good!
Looking at the eel in his bucket, He Shaojun suddenly asked in confusion: "Boss Lin, why is the color of the eel I caught different from yours? Yours is so yellow, why does mine feel gray? Qiu’s!”

"I don't know much about this specific thing. What we said before is that it may be related to the size and age of the eel. Generally, the larger the eel, the more yellow it is, and the smaller one is greener and darker. But don't worry, both of these are the same. The eel is right!" Lin Zhou shook his head, he didn't know this question either.

In the past, they only knew how to eat eel, but they didn't know the specific species.

However, the larger eels caught are generally yellower.

In addition, there are eels that are divided into those that bite people and those that don’t.

In their time, there were many bubbles at the entrance of the eel's cave, which were called paozi eels, and they were all capable of biting people.

No other eel is as fierce as this one!
Of course, eels like this one usually grow larger!

"It seems so. The one you caught is obviously bigger than the one I caught!" He Shaojun looked at the eels in the two buckets and nodded.

His heel is about the size of an adult's little finger, while Lin Zhou's heel is as thick as the middle finger.

Immediately afterwards, he asked again: "Boss Lin, how big is the largest eel?" "The largest ones are one or two pounds, right?"

"When we were kids, we used to go out with a flashlight to look at eels at night, and we encountered a giant eel that weighed more than a pound!"

"When I saw the eel, I thought it was a snake, but later I realized it was an eel!" Lin Zhou also remembered what happened when they were children.

The so-called taking photos of eels means taking a flashlight or searchlight and a bamboo clip to catch eels at night during the plowing and transplanting period.

It can be regarded as an activity that they were particularly interested in when they were children.

Because after catching the eel, you can still open a small stove for yourself and eat some meat.

At that time, running in the paddy fields all over the mountains and plains at night, we could often see various snakes on the road, and I don’t know why they were not afraid.

"One or two pounds, like a snake!"

"Then can we catch it today?" He Shaojun suddenly showed a very emotional emotion.

"Probably not!" Lin Zhou shook his head, interrupting his fantasy.

"There are too few resources in this kind of paddy field to have those kinds of eels!"

“Although there aren’t many people hunting eels now, there was a time when there were still people who put medicinal eels in some fields!”

"Big eels are basically only found in those ponds!"

There was a craze for eel hunting here.

I just buy a machine that can electrocute eels and fish, and then go to the fields to electrocute eels every night.

Because a pound of eels of good quality can cost sixty or seventy, so if you catch more eels in one night, you can still make a lot of money.

"Then do you have a pond here?" He Shaojun said with interest.

"Yes, it's the pond we drove past when we came here!"

"But now the places where you can catch eels on the roadside have been blocked by vegetation, making it difficult to fish!"

Linzhou's place is considered Shankaka, so there are still ponds in some bays.

The small weir pond they have here is called the big weir pond, and the one they passed by is the big weir pond.

That big weir and pond used to be contracted to raise fish. During the Chinese New Year, they went there to buy fish.

"If you don't catch any big ones later and you're not satisfied, when you return to the villa, you can go fishing in the paddy fields in the villa. There are giant eels in there!"

"Huh? Boss Lin, aren't we looking for something far away from us?" He Shaojun didn't expect it to be in the villa.

"Aren't I afraid that you won't have enough fun fishing? How many fields are there in the villa? Can they compare with this one?" Lin Zhou laughed and pointed to a large rice field, as if he was introducing his own "country".

"Uh... that's right. I've finished fishing in a few fields in a while, so maybe I'm not in the mood!" He Shaojun thought it made sense.

"Boss Lin, let's continue fishing! After we finish fishing, we will go back to the villa to fish and have an eel feast tonight!"

"I've heard that there are so many varieties of eels here, such as Panlong eel, stir-fried eel slices..."

Just talking about it made him salivate.

So much so that he himself did not dare to continue talking. He took the hook and bucket and happily devoted himself to the great cause of eel fishing.

……

After returning to the villa from their hometown, Lin Zhou and the others started to process the food they brought back after eating.

Kill eels and make orange peel candies.

The job of killing eels is not troublesome for skilled people.

But for novices, it can be a bit troublesome.

However, even so, He Shaojun still participated in this task with great interest.

The method they are using now in Linzhou is to use a wooden board and nails to fix the eel head on the wooden board, then bleed open it and kick the spine clean...

After a series of operations, only a piece of eel meat remained.

The whole process doesn't seem complicated, but it still requires some skills to operate.

He Shaojun, Lin Zhou and the others also learned the steps in the mobile video and dealt with it step by step.

Compared to the two of them, Mr. Ye's guards handled the situation much more cleanly than them.

"I never handled it so cleanly when I was a kid!" Lin Zhou sighed while handling the eel.

"Boss Lin, didn't you do this before?" He Shaojun wiped his face with his sleeve.

"no!"

"In the past, it was all forced. I held the head of the eel with my hands, and then cut it open with porcelain pieces. Then I took out the internal organs and cleaned them. I never touched the backbone. They were all planted directly into a lump. It’s lumpy.” Lin Zhou said.

"Porcelain pieces?"

"Yes, we didn't have suitable knives at home at that time, so when killing eels and loaches, we had to look for the fragments of the bowl. After smashing them, we looked for the sharp parts!"

"That kind is easier to use than a knife. It's so sharp that you can make a cut with just a slight pull!"

"Is that so? I didn't expect that the broken bowl could be of such use!" He Shaojun had a sullen expression on his face.

Lin Zhou and the others were handling the eels they had caught. Su Xiaozhao and the others next to them were also using fruit knives to cut the grapefruits they had brought back.

I saw them using knives to peel off the yellow skin on the surface of the grapefruit first, and then making eight symmetrical cuts on the grapefruit. Then they peeled off the grapefruit skin piece by piece and placed it in the basin next to it. Soak.

The water in the basin is also salted.

This step is mainly to remove the astringency in the grapefruit peel.

Because orange peel or grapefruit peel has an astringent taste.

Although the most astringent layer on the surface has been peeled off, the astringent capsule inside must also be removed.

Moreover, it is not just this step, the grapefruit peel must be blanched and washed multiple times.

In this way, the grapefruit peel obtained can be said to be qualified.

At that time, the final step can be carried out. Pour the grapefruit peel into the pot and mix it with the melted rock sugar and stir-fry.

When the syrup in the pot slowly turns into icing like white sugar and sticks to the grapefruit peel, the grapefruit peel looks hard and dry. This orange peel candy is done!
At this time, pick up a piece and put it in your mouth, it will be really sweet to your heart! (End of chapter)