jdhmnovel Chapter 130 Catching Fish and Crabs
Chapter 130 Catching Fish and Crabs
"Hurry up, hurry up, move the stone over here." Shitou stood in the water with his trouser legs rolled up, directing his friends to move the stone.
"Isn't the stone right there with you?" Zhao Dazhuang and his sister stood on the shore and pointed at the stone in the water.
"Where is it? Where is it?" Shitou lowered his head and looked everywhere, but he couldn't find the stone he needed: "Brother Dazhuang, where is the stone?"
"Isn't that a stone standing in the water?" Zhao Dazhuang told his sister not to run around, then he went into the water and scooped up a handful of water and threw it at the stone.
"Hey, brother Dazhuang, I'm not talking about myself, I'm talking about Shitou." Shitou was anxious and covered his face with his hands.
"Yes, I was talking about Shi Tou as well." Da Zhuang put down his hand. Shi Tou, who didn't feel the water, put down his hand that was covering his face and wiped the water drops off his face.
"Brother Dazhuang, stop teasing him and help him quickly." Zhu picked up a stone and placed it in the narrower part downstream.
"Here we go!" Da Zhuang stopped teasing the stones and picked up the stones on both sides and headed downstream. Soon, several children built a dam with stones downstream, and even blocked the gaps between the stones with mud.
After the downstream was repaired, they went ashore and ran upstream, holding a few branches in their hands, rushing down from upstream.
The fish in the water were frightened and ran downstream. After reaching a certain distance, Shitou and his friends used the same method to block the upstream fish.
After blocking both sides, several children took out the ladles they brought from home and scooped water out.
There was no water coming down from the upstream, so a few children quickly scooped out the water, leaving the mud full of trapped small fish.
This fish is very small, thin and long, a bit like the modern whitebait. This fish does not grow big, the largest is only the size of a palm, with more meat and less bones, especially suitable for frying
When Sister Chen saw that the water was running low, Shitou shouted towards Suihe's yard, "Bring me a bucket."
"Here they come!" Sui He, who heard the voice, poked his head out from a corner of the yard and saw a group of children standing in the stream not far away.
"Sister Suihe" Zhao Xiaohua waved her hands excitedly when she saw Suihe
"I'll be right there." Sui He waved his hand and disappeared into the corner.
After a while, the door of the yard opened and Sui He ran out with two buckets.
"Sui Sui, slow down. You can play, but you can't go into the water. Do you hear me?" Grandma chased out and stood at the gate of the yard, admonishing
"Why do you care about her? If she wants to play, just let her play." Grandpa was sitting in the yard cutting grass for pigs.
"Sui Sui is going to be fourteen soon, and she will be an adult soon. How can she still play with those little brats? It will be embarrassing if this gets out." Grandma sighed, turned and walked into the yard: "No, I will have a good talk with her when she comes back. She is not a child anymore, and there are some things she needs to pay attention to."
"Okay, I'll talk to her when she comes back. Let her go play now." Grandpa put down the kitchen knife and diverted grandma's attention: "Don't stand there. Bring me the bucket of bean dregs. Today's pig food hasn't been cooked yet."
"I'll get it." Grandma brought in the bucket of bean dregs.
"Dazhu, I've got the bucket for Shitou." Sui He stood on the shore with two buckets in his hand and handed them over.
"Sister Suihe" When Zhao Xiaohua saw Suihe coming over, she went up to him, took his hand, and called him sweetly.
"Hey, Xiaohua is so good." Suihe put down the bucket, touched Xiaohua's head, and looked at Xiaohua's aggrieved expression with satisfaction.
"Okay." Da Zhuang took a bucket, threw a small fish in his hand into the bucket, scooped some water, and placed the bucket steadily on the shore.
Without the protection of water, the fish jumped helplessly in the mud. Several children caught all the fish in the mud, one in each hand, and threw them into the bucket one by one.
The water level upstream was getting higher and higher, and small streams of water flowed down. Several people were catching fish while scooping water out.
"Ah!" The child who was catching fish shouted, pulled his hands out of the water, and threw them towards the shore with force. A red figure was thrown to the shore.
The crab was stunned and hid in the corner with its claws raised.
Sui He was also startled, thinking he had caught something incredible, but it turned out to be a crab.
"It hurts so much!" The child who was pinched by the crab shook his hand vigorously, and from time to time he put his fingers to his mouth and blew air.
"Hahahahaha"
"Are you okay? You were pinched by a crab!" The others, who were worried at first, burst out laughing when they saw him like this.
"Da Zhuang, catch the crabs and put them in the bucket." Sui He also laughed, and while laughing he directed Zhao Da Zhuang to catch the crabs.
"Ah, Sister Chen, you want this crab?" Hearing Sui He's order, Zhao Dazhuang did not delay. He picked up a wooden stick from the side and pressed it against the crab's body. Dazhuang grabbed the crab's body from behind, carefully avoiding the crab's claws, and caught the whole crab.
"I want it, throw it in the bucket for me." Sui He pointed to the bucket beside him. There were already many small fish in the bucket. "It's a pity that there is only one. It's not enough."
"This is not that simple." Zhao Dazhuang heard Sui He's somewhat regretful tone and shouted to the others nearby: "We have caught almost all the fish. Leave a few people to look for more fish. Sister Chen wants crabs. Let's go move some stones."
"Oh!" Hearing this, several children climbed out of the stream, walked to the upper reaches, went into the water, moved the stones out of the water, and reached out their hands to slowly and carefully feel around.
"I have it here." Zhu felt a familiar touch, pressed down the crab that didn't react, and caught it.
The crabs here are not hairy crabs but river crabs with hairless claws.
"I have one here too." Soon another child also came up with a river crab.
Da Zhuang carried another bucket and placed it aside. All the crabs caught by the group were thrown into this bucket.
The kids were used to catching birds in the mountains and fishing in the river. Although the crabs were powerful, they could not do anything to the kids and could only surrender.
In a short while, I caught half a bucket of crabs. There were a lot of crabs running around in the bucket.
"Sister Chen, do you want this?" Zhao Dazhuang raised his hand, holding a handful of small brown shells.
"River clams?" Sui He looked at the small shells in Zhao Da Zhuang's hand and said, "Yes, Da Zhuang, give me more. This is delicious."
This small shell is called sand clam, river clam, it is not big, the largest one is about the size of a clam.
"Okay," Zhao Dazhuang replied, throwing the clam in his hand to the shore, then he lay down and started to fish in the stream.
River clams don't move around like fish and crabs, and the water quality of this stream is very good, so there are a lot of river clams. Zhao Dazhuang bent over and caught a bunch of them in a short while, and threw them all on the shore.
"Okay, just get some up." Seeing that it was almost done, Sui He called a few people to come up. The fishermen downstream had also caught most of their catch.
"Okay!" Hearing Sui He's voice, several children stopped what they were doing, threw the things in their hands into the bucket, and walked out of the water.
They took the bucket of fish and threw all the river clams into it. They caught a lot of small fish, enough to fill half a bucket. Sui He was a little surprised. He didn't expect that there would be so many in such a small stream.
Zhao Dazhuang walked to the gap and moved all the stones away. The stream water that had been accumulated upstream for a long time rushed down from the gap.