Golden Fishing Village

Ziba is a warm-loving plant, and its optimal growth temperature is 10 to 25 degrees. It is not resistant to cold and high temperature drought.

Under artificial cultivation, it is generally cultivated in spring, and the short-day light in autumn fertilizes the Ziba, and it is harvested in August of the lunar calendar. The Ziba in Longxiang Lake is wild, and the maturity time is different. It is produced from the beginning of September to the beginning of October in the solar calendar.

We ate a few bites at noon, and the two of us went to Longxiang Lake together in the afternoon.

In mid-September, even if the sun is still bright, there is no feeling of summer heat.

The autumn is clear and refreshing. Ao Muyang looked up at the sky. The sky was blue and seemed to be higher and farther. With his back to the sun, he looked up at the sky, which was boundless!

Longxiang Lake in autumn becomes quiet, the autumn wind sweeps gently, and the lake surface ripples gently. The lake water in autumn seems to be bluer. I don’t know if it is because of the reflection of the blue sky.

Wooden boats of all sizes float on the lake. Some people are casting nets, some are fishing, and some are swimming in the lake. Groups of gray ducks and white geese are wandering on the lake. From time to time, wild birds fly up and down, creating a leisurely scene.

Seeing Ao Muyang, someone in the village waved: "Brother Yang, do you want to go fishing? Get on my boat, it's very stable."

Ao Muyang smiled and pointed to the lush water plants by the lake, saying: "I'll dig wild rice stems, Shunzi, you go and have fun."

The small boats in the village do business with tourists. Tourists can rent a small boat to float on the lake for an afternoon for a hundred yuan, which is a very affordable price.

It is the best time to cruise the lake. The lake water in autumn is particularly clear. Except for the deeper waters such as the center of the lake, you can even see the bottom of the lake in other places, the fish swimming in the lake water, the sand and stones on the bottom of the lake, and the roots of some water plants on the bottom of the lake.

If you can row a boat, it is even more wonderful to spend forty or fifty yuan to rent a small wooden boat and go to the lake by yourself.

As the wooden paddles were rocking, the lake water splashed. Under the bright sunshine, the waves were as crystal as diamonds, which was the most romantic for young men and women.

There were many water plants growing by the lake, such as wild arrowroot, cattail grass, and tall wild rice.

Wild rice is a very strong water plant. It can grow taller than a person, lush and strong.

This plant is a perennial aquatic herb. If the wild rice is not dug out, it will dry up in winter and grow again next year.

Wild rice can be eaten, but it is not a delicacy. Although the villages around Longxian Lake are not rich, they are not so poor that they can't eat, so no one rushes to dig wild rice.

Moreover, not all wild rice is suitable for digging out. Every year, there are some newly grown small wild rice. These roots have not grown into wild rice, so it is useless to dig them.

In addition, when the plant of Zizania grows to the height of a person, it cannot be eaten. Its Zizania is very large and woody, and it cannot be used for cooking. The ones that are more than one meter tall are dug. Wild rice they produce are the most tender.

Ao Fugui brought a shovel. He spit into his hand twice and said, "Old and young men, get excited!"

Ao Muyang rolled his eyes at him, "Are you mentally ill again? Do your job honestly. Don't dig here. The wild rice here is not delicious."

In front of them, a pile of wild rice swayed in the wind. Although it was not very tall, it was very thick. This is the wild rice.

In fact, the exact name of the Zibai is the male Zibai. The Zizania is Zizania that has been infected by the black powder fungus and cannot grow rice. The stems are transformed into Zizania.

Some of the plants are very strong, that is, male wild rice, which are particularly resistant to diseases. The hyphae of smut fungus cannot invade and form wild rice. In summer and autumn, their flower stems will stretch, and then sprout and bloom, which is very beautiful.

Ao Fugui shoveled it down, but he could not pull out the shovel or shovel it up at this time. The function of the shovel is to cut off its roots and then lift its plants.

He picked up a wild rice plant and shook it. There was no swollen wild rice plant: "Damn, I told you to be right."

Ao Muyang was speechless.

The two strolled along the lake and happened to meet a young man harassing tourists. After seeing Ao Muyang, the young man turned and ran away.

Ao Muyang frowned and asked, "What is he doing? Is he doing something illegal?"

Ao Fugui looked at the water chestnuts by the lake and said, "Hey, a grandson of Wangjia Village. He must be trying to trick tourists into buying something."

Ao Muyang said, "Why did he run away when he saw me?"

"I'm afraid of you. You are now famous in Wangjia Village." Ao Fugui laughed.

The tourists who were harassed by the young man nodded gratefully when they heard this. Ao Muyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Is he notorious now?

There are many water chestnuts by the lake. Ao Fugui found another one. He shoveled it down, picked it up and shook it a few times, revealing a snow-white, tender and swollen rhizome. This is the water chestnut.

The two tourists next to him also noticed it. The female tourist asked hesitantly, "Is this wild rice?"

Ao Muyang nodded, "Yes, wild rice. If you like to eat it, you can dig some here and then go back to the village farmhouse to process it. The wild rice here is pure natural and pollution-free."

He rolled up his trousers and went down to the lake. He first dug two handfuls of mud to see if there were any leeches in the lake. The creatures in Ambergris Lake are particularly fat, even leeches. Once bitten, it would be quite troublesome.

This area of ​​water is not bad. He dug a few handfuls of mud and found no trace of leeches. It seems that the surrounding area is safe.

He picked up a shovel and shoveled it down. Ao Muyang also picked up a wild rice.

He looked and shook his head: "Unlucky, I met Cinderella."

Cinderella is the local common name for gray water chestnuts. Some water chestnuts are overripe, or the mycelium of the black powder fungus inside grows too much, which will make the water chestnuts full of black-brown spores, and naturally they cannot be eaten.

Ao Fugui was holding the iron shovel and was melancholy: "Alas, when can I meet my own Cinderella?"

Ao Muyang threw the water chestnut in his hand to him: "Here, go back and hug it."

Ao Fugui immediately laughed and scolded: "Get lost!"

Continue to shovel, this water chestnut is fresh water chestnuts, Ao Muyang washed it in the lake water and handed it to the general, the general carried it to the shore, put it down and ran back to wait.

The head of state squatted on the shore to watch, and some tourists saw the collection of water chestnuts for the first time, so they wanted to pick it up to have a look.

Seeing this, the head of state immediately got angry: "Meow! Meow!"

Ao Muyang stood up and shouted: "Head of state, let them see, don't be so stingy, they are not trying to steal our things."

After hearing his words, the head of state folded his body and lay on the shore to bask in the sun lazily.

The tourists were amazed when they saw it: "Hey, brother, your cat is really spiritual."

Ao Muyang smiled and said: "Cats are animals that have spirituality."

The general whipped his leg with his tail, and he had to add: "Of course, dogs also have spirituality."

As he said this, he touched the general's head. The general squinted his eyes and drooped his tongue, and his dog face looked like he was enjoying it.

One after another, Ao Muyang picked up a lot of wild rice stems. He cut the wild rice stems on the spot and threw the plants back into the lake. It would gradually rot and be eaten by fish, shrimps and crabs, or turn into nutrients and settle to the bottom of the lake. The wild rice stems were taken home as vegetables by him.