The Sweet Little Fulang

In the early morning, the dew is heavy, the mountains and forests are quiet, and there is white fog in the morning.

After the sun came out, the mist dissipated quickly, there was movement in the yard, and both Lu Gu and Shen Xuanqing got up. I burned two large pots of water last night, soaked in the tub one after the other to wash away my fatigue, and I went to bed late because of the spring night, so I got up later today.

Digging for fresh loach is also a labor-intensive job. When you are full, you can do more with less. In the morning, when Shen Xuanqing doesn’t go out, Lu Gu cooked rice soup. He cooked more. Do it by hand.

It's cold in the mountains. I wake up early and have a bowl of hot rice soup to eat, and my body is warm after eating.

Before going out, Lu Gu saw that the sun came out and the fog was dissipating, and it was no longer damp, so he poured the four baskets of peppercorns picked yesterday on the bamboo plaque to dry. Fortunately, there were only two trees, otherwise, too many had to use bamboo mats. It was cool in the mountains in summer, and Shen Xuanqing didn't bring a bamboo mat at all, so it wasn't easy to get it right.

In the yard, the smell of pepper and numbness dissipated. They spread the peppercorns evenly and evenly with their hands. At the end, Lu Gu asked in a low voice, "Is there a stone mortar here?"

After the pepper is dried in the sun, it can be pounded into powder with a stone mortar, which can be used when cooking vegetables like salt.

"No, go back down the mountain and bring one up." Shen Xuanqing replied, Wei Lanxiang and Ji Qiuyue came up to pick the two peppers when they were ripe before, or he took them down the mountain after picking them, and he never got them in the mountains.

Lu Gu nodded and said nothing more.

After doing this, the two of them went out with the bamboo baskets and fishing nets on their backs. They also chased the chickens and ducks out and let them find something to eat in the fence outside. The chickens and ducks are getting bigger these days, and they will find food by themselves. There is no need to worry about feeding, there are many small bugs in the grass outside.

Shen Xuanqing cast a good net on the gentle and deep section, and moved a lot of stones with Lu Gu to build a small dam half a leg high to block the downstream water surface. Block, not to mention small, big fish and stones can still block some.

After the big net was put down, because the mesh was too large, it could only stop the fat fish, and other small rivers could hardly get out of the mesh. The shell river prawns are also bigger than summer.

After finishing all this, he didn't wait, Lu Gu followed Shen Xuanqing to the woods in the north behind the house. When he first came here, he heard Shen Xuanqing say that the north is dangerous, so he never approached this side.

Continuing to the north, there is a large dense forest. It is more than 30 miles away from here, which is really not far away, but because there are wild boars there, and even the bear that the old hunter encountered came out of the north, Shen Xuanqing is especially Note that many traps were dug horizontally in the woods to the north, many of which were large pits as deep as one person, and several rows of sharpened wooden wedges were buried under the pits.

It's good that Lu Gu didn't come here before, but he's here now. He pointed to several marks that were cut down on several nearby trees, one up, down, left and right, looking like a "mouth".

He told Lu Gu not to go forward once he saw this in the mountains. There were traps or boars. The traps dug were just mouths, waiting for the wild things to fall. This is their custom here. People who often go up the mountain know it, and even Lu Gu knows a little bit, but they have never seen it before. The front mountain is full of small things, such as hares and pheasants. No traps will be set.

Shen Xuanqing would come to the north to look at it every few days. The day before yesterday, there was nothing there, the dog didn't bark, and nothing should have fallen in, so he followed Lu Gu, who was carrying a bamboo basket, to find the pecan tree and pick up the leaves.

The leaves are a little poisonous, mashed and poured the juice out into the river can get drunk, the fish will not die, even if they turn their stomachs, they will faint, and they will wake up after a while when the effect is gone. In addition to the pecan leaves, there is also a kind of bougainvillea, but unfortunately it is not very easy to find, and it is not as convenient as the leaves.

Seeing that there are a lot of pecans, this is the autumn walnut again, and it will only ripen after a while, but Lu Guruo would not dare to fight if he was alone. He is timid and cowardly. Can't run.

But sometimes it's not a bad thing to cherish life, at least he won't be worrying about walking around in the mountains.

The leaves of the leaves are not very poisonous, so they have to be picked a lot for it to work.

They went to the river with stones to smash the leaves. After they were done, they poured the juice and **** into the river in the water area under the net. The green juice and the broken leaves flowed in the water. Lu Gu stood by the river. I watched, but because the effect of the drug had not yet started, I didn't see any fish that had been drunk, but a grass carp was already caught in the net.

Shen Xuanqing was not idle, anyway, he had to wait for a while, he carried a bamboo basket to dig for loach in the silt by the river, and Lu Gu also followed, removing his shoes and socks, and pulling his trousers very high.

"In less than a month, the rice in the paddy fields will be cooked. At that time, you can also catch loaches and eels, as well as autumn rice fish, which are better than the fish in the river." Shen Xuanqing bent over and turned in the mud as she spoke. Look, hands covered in mud.

"Yeah." Lu Gu listened next to him, and also stretched out his hand to rip and flip in the mud. Fortunately, he and Shen Xuanqing were the only ones here.

The slippery loach was twisting in his hand, and Lu Gu almost didn't hold it, and hurriedly threw it into the bamboo basket. In a short time, the two of them had caught seven or eight, and they were all very fat and big. .

"I'm going to make soup tomorrow. It's easy to feed. It's not like fish. If you put it in a bucket for a long time, it will turn over. If you have mud and water, you can live for a while. I used to raise it in a wooden bucket." Shen Xuanqing searched again Talking to Lu Gu, stewing loach to nourish people is indeed delicious, and I have to let my husband also nourish and nourish.

While he was talking, the fish in the river gradually got drunk, no longer hiding at the bottom of the water, but swimming up to the surface and wagging their tails, just like being drunk, so this method of catching fish was called drunk fish, and some even turned it over. It looks like a dead fish.

Xu is that no one catches here, there are actually quite a few fish, all of them are on the water at a glance, Lu Gu's eyes widened, and the surprise made his eyes brighter, he hurriedly dragged the net with Shen Xuanqing, and threw the fish into the water. Shore tow.

This year, the sky is beautiful and even the water and grass are lush, and the autumn fish eats even more fat. The net is heavy, and even Shen Xuanqing has spent a lot of effort.

In the fishing net on the shore, the undrunk fish were wiggling and fluttering, their tails slapped the ground, and the drunk did not respond. Due to the long water area where the medicine was applied, the net was not finished yet, Shen Xuanqing asked Lu Gu to go back. With a wooden barrel and a bamboo basket, he jumped into the river and caught the fish and threw it on the shore.

Lu Gu ran back in a hurry, grabbed something and ran back in a hurry, both happy and busy, the dog barked at the fat fish that was swaying around, looking at so many fish on the shore, the joy of the harvest made him unconsciously face. There was a smile on the face, and for a while I only felt that the mountains and waters were beautiful, and even the wind blowing by my ears when running was joyful.

Shen Xuanqing was scooping fish in the water with a bamboo basket, and the river water was seeping out from under the bamboo basket. Lu Gu was also fishing in the water with a larger deep bamboo basket. When one basket entered the water and then came out, there were several fish in it. in flutter.

Today's harvest was something Shen Xuanqing didn't expect. Hundreds of fish were thrown on the shore. In addition to grass carp, there were also many more expensive crucian carp and eel, especially eel, which became fat in autumn and stewed together with tofu. Loin bones, many people in town like to make this.

He had never drunk fish in the mountains before. The journey was long, and the fish would die easily. On the way back, he had to feed them with water, which would only sink. Besides, the Qingxi River had flowed all the way down the mountain, and fish could be caught anywhere. I didn't think about working so hard to get a scooter fish and go back to sell it.

Just now, too many fish appeared in front of him. He was still young, and when he was excited, he jumped into the river and threw the fish on the shore.

Calm down now, take a look at the fatty fish on the shore, he will only go to fish eels that are better and more expensive, so much can be sold for a lot of money, it is still early, and it is only half morning, and he can go down the mountain directly.

Lu Gu originally thought he would be back in two days, but now he heard that he would go down the mountain today, and his subordinates would work harder.

The prawns and small fish were caught in the dense net, and Lu Gu threw the small fish back into the river. The remaining white-shelled river prawns were so large and numerous that there were more than half of the fish baskets.

In order not to waste so many fish, the two of them used all three wooden barrels, and also used two bamboo baskets to hold the fish on the trolley, locked the door with dry food, and went down the mountain.

The river eel is as easy to feed as the loach, so it is placed in the bamboo basket. The cheapest grass carp is also in the bamboo basket, and the more expensive fish are left in the bucket. Even if the grass carp is dead on the mountain road for two hours, that is also the case. Today's fresh fish is not afraid of being called dead fish and stinky fish. Because of the large quantity, it can be sold for a lot of coins at a low price, so it is a hard money.

Although they were in a hurry, they were both inexplicably happy. Even if this car of fish could not be sold for five or eight taels, there would be two or three taels. Originally, it was just a rise of net fish. Two taels of silver is also very good.

Although Shen Xuanqing made money by hunting, there were times when he was unlucky and couldn't hit anything, so he could only bring a few hares down the mountain to exchange for some copper plates, so a couple of taels of silver was by no means a small amount of money. These villagers who grew crops in the countryside could get enough money in a month. Earning two taels of silver is pretty good.

In order to make Shen Xuanqing walk lighter, Lu Gu carried a fish basket and a bamboo basket on his back. After walking for a while, he could no longer carry his back, and then put the heavy bamboo basket on the trolley.

The road was bumpy, and a lot of water in the wooden barrel swayed out. Fortunately, most of the roads they walked were not far from the river, so they could replenish some water while walking.

This kind of stunned and unexpected joy was with Lu Gu, and seeing his husband's eyes sparkling, he seemed very happy, which made Shen Xuanqing in a good mood.

Seventeen or eighteen years old is too young and full of energy. They both went down the mountain with their heads and tempers like this. When they arrived at the door of the house, even Wei Lanxiang was surprised to see this car of fish. Seeing them both panting, they were on their way. It's too urgent, she can't laugh or cry, and she can't do it with a lot of strength. The bucket is heavy, so let's go home and rest.

Seeing so many fish, she wanted to sell them while they were fresh when they died. Ji Qiuyue hurriedly went to the field and Shen Yaoqing came back and asked him to pull the cart to the town to sell fish.

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Note: In reality, it is illegal to use walnut tree leaves for medicinal fish, so don't do it.