mchenry-crisis.org Chapter 520 Straw Blanket
Chapter 520 Straw Blanket
Chapter 520 Straw Blanket
The meal was so exciting that it lasted until midnight.
In the end, the two daughters of Raymond's family couldn't stand it any longer. They leaned against the wall and dozed off, shaking their heads and waking up from time to time.
A group of people were also drunk and noisy enough. They left Raymond's house, returned to the grass house, and fell asleep soundly.
The next morning, they got up early miraculously and were busy tidying up the gauze nets that they hadn't finished the day before, until Xue Shuqin came to call for breakfast.
After filling their stomachs, several people got into the car, and Lu Lu drove to the fishing team.
When I got to the place, I saw, good guy, there were more than 30 young and strong in front of the fishing team's station, and the boats were ready, and they were swaying with the waves in the nearby river.
After Lu Lu got out of the car, he saw many familiar faces among them, and greeted everyone one by one.
"Little Lu, how are you going to catch this little goose?" Dong Chenggu asked immediately.
Regarding this point, Lu Lu had already thought about it.
He asked Chen Xiuqing and others to take out the gauze-covered frames nailed at Zuo Songling's house in Xiushantun: "These frames are used to hold the geese, and each boat takes four. Everyone We all know that when the baby goose hatched, it could follow the wild goose into the water within a day.
The nests of these wild geese are mostly hidden in the grass, the grass pier, or the reeds. They can be found in the swamps, near the water or in the large reeds in the water.
However, the aquatic plants are deep here, and it is not easy to catch, and it is also laborious to get into the reeds.
Fortunately, their wings and feathers have not yet formed, so they can't fly, so let's combine capture and netting.
The speed just out of the shell is not so fast, and many of them are still staying in the nest. Let's choose a field first, spread the net around it to form a trumpet-shaped opening, and then go into the surrounding reeds and water plants while catching them. While driving the encirclement.
In this way, the young geese in the nest can be caught, and those who have grown up a lot can also be driven into the range of the net circle. Once they come down, they should be able to catch a lot.I just have to borrow a lot of your fishing nets. "
"That's a good idea! As for fishing nets, what our fishing team needs most is fishing nets."
Hearing what Lu Lu said, Dong Chenggu still didn't understand what Lu Lu meant.
"I am also in a hurry to go back. It will take about ten days. During this time, I hope everyone will help me arrest as many as possible. Of course, I will not treat everyone badly. The wages of three yuan a day... How do you guys feel?"
Hearing Lu Lu's wages, everyone's expressions became excited.
Just kidding, now that I go to work every day, the average cost is only a little over one yuan a day, and Lu Lu's car is completely double.
Where can I find such a good job.
The crowd complied.
In just ten days, he was almost able to earn a month's wages.
"In addition, there are a few brothers who came with us. They are not good at rowing. They have to help you guys, and I have to trouble you to take care of them." Lu Lu added: "It is important to catch wild geese, but human Safety is more important, so I will trouble everyone.”
"no problem!"
"A matter of course."
"Don't worry! Be sure to take good care of them!"
The crowd responded.
That's how things settled.
The number of people greeted by Dong Chenggu, including Lu Lu and others, was 43 people, and there was an odd number. Meng Zhaohua was simply called by Lu Lu to prepare meals with Xue Shuqin. The remaining 42 people took 21 small boats and rowed into the swamp along the river. inside.
In the boat, there are two partners, with sickles and long sticks.
As for nets, there is indeed no shortage of fishing teams. During winter fishing, the large nets are long, and it takes only a few nets to enclose a large area.
In many places, the reeds are too dense to walk through, so we have to use a sickle to clear the way.
As for the long wooden stick, the effect is even greater.
This is to catch small geese. The wild geese are extremely ferocious and powerful in protecting their offspring. One hand is used to drive away the flying geese. Drive out of hiding places.
The people slid the boat and slowly moved deeper into the swamp.
Wild geese live in groups and usually move in groups. Whether they are resting or looking for food, there are wild geese on guard. They are very vigilant and fly up at the slightest movement. Therefore, you can often see flocks of wild geese flying in surprise along the way. I got up, but there were small geese hiding in the grass, so the big geese kept circling in the sky, quacking non-stop.
As if there was a chain reaction, wild geese flew up in the distance and beyond.
For a while, wherever the group of people passed by, there were constant rattles above their heads.
Lu Lu and Zhang Shaofeng took the same boat, followed by Lei Meng and Zhao Yongke, and then Dong Chenggu and Liang Kangbo. After a little discussion, they selected a field in the swamp where many willow trees grew. After boarding, use a sickle to clear a large open space above, and connect and erect the fishing nets.
Then 21 small boats retreated to the periphery of this reed marsh, and drove towards the inside to encircle them.
Row the boat where there is water, and go directly to the place where the boat cannot be used.
A person who is familiar with the terrain will come forward and cut down the reeds, and spread the reeds directly under the feet to prevent subsidence. By the way, they will put the young geese in the bird's nest that have not yet entered the water in the frame, and another person will hold the pole , slapping the reeds on both sides, constantly driving the little geese to move closer to the direction where the seine net is to be laid.
This is not the case now.
The wild geese before were just flying by startle, but now the geese's nest is destroyed and the baby geese are driven away, so they start to protect their offspring.
Wild geese that live in groups often build nests and lay eggs in one area. When you find a goose nest, there are often dozens or even dozens of them around. That is what dozens of geese are constantly flapping around. People with poles can do it now. It is to beat the wild geese back with a pole until they dare not approach.
Then again, no matter how fierce it is, it is just a bird. When facing humans, it can only succeed in a sneak attack or two when it is caught off guard. It is nothing to the well-prepared fishing team. threaten.
In the constant beating, there are even more troublesome mosquitoes and flies, which are simply overwhelming, lingering around like bees.
Among them, in addition to mosquitoes and small bites, which have severe bites, there is also a kind of bran that is smaller than small bites. This thing is more fierce than small bites. It is really hard to guard against big bags.
Being pinched by wild geese if you don't pay attention, and these mosquitoes are infested, it is actually quite painful to do things. Lu Lu gives three yuan a day as a salary, which is really not much.
The first encirclement went smoothly, and it took two hours. The little geese were driven ashore, and there were two to three hundred little geese, large and small, in the circle surrounded by fishing nets.
Adding in the geese caught by the boats and put into the gauze frame, there would be four or five hundred geese at once.
According to this progress, it is not a big problem to get more than 1000 in one day.
Looking at the chirping geese in the fence, Zhang Shaofeng and the others were also extremely excited.
If, as Lu Lu said, these baby geese are brought back to the meadow to graze, supplemented with food supplementary feeding, and grow up in a few months, when the wild geese in the wilderness have completely flown away, these wild geese will be taken out. It's all money, a wild goose costs four or five yuan at least, and it's earned...
Just thinking about it, a few people feel beautiful.
The next step is to catch the geese and put them in cages. Half of the people are left behind. While closing the seine net, they drive away the wild geese that are close to attacking. .
After working hard for more than an hour, these fledgling geese were put into different boxes according to their sizes, so as not to cause trampling.
After the geese were caught, they were loaded into small boats, and a few people rowed back to the fishing team, unloaded, and imprisoned in the nearby aquatic grassland with seine nets, while the rest of the people set up the nets again, and started fishing from the other side. Encircle and drive away.
Just this time, something went wrong.
Large swamps of reeds, hidden below, are invisible swamps and dotted with water bubbles.
Chen Xiuqing and the other person chose to walk on a relatively dry ground, and cooperated with the people not far from the two sides, zigzagging forward, which felt a bit like chasing a stick.
The outer area is large, and people are relatively far apart, and the closer they are to the central fence, the closer they get together.
Just outside, they saw a large water bubble, and there was a goose nest in the grass in the center, and dozens of wild geese were hatching eggs in it.
To be honest, in such a situation, if it were Lu Lu, he would not provoke him and choose to avoid it.
When wild geese lay eggs and hatch, the sooner the better, the sooner they hatch, the young geese will have enough time to grow, and when they migrate south, the young geese with full wings will have enough ability to follow them. Flocks of geese perform long-distance flight migrations.
It's already July now, and it hasn't hatched yet, so it's already a bit late. Therefore, when catching the baby geese, Lu Lu hardly touched them. The bigger geese went to catch them.
Since they are still hatching, most of them are still eggs, the kind that haven't hatched yet.
Once the shell is out, as long as the fluff on the body is dry, it can go into the water soon.There is no need to disturb the ones that are still hatching, and the area in the center of the water bubble cannot be entered by boats, so it is troublesome to go there.
But when they saw such a large wild goose nest, they thought they could drive out many young geese, so they chose the place with the narrowest distance and the shallowest water to wade across.
The wild geese hatching eggs in the nest saw someone approaching, and kept beating around with three-meter-long sticks, quacking and screaming.
Such a large geese nest is enough to show that this group of wild geese is not normal. After being disturbed by this, more than a hundred wild geese flew up in an instant, and rushed towards the two of them fiercely. The geese couldn't handle it, and were pecked by wild geese a few times in succession. Both of them were confused, and they just ran back to avoid it.
Unexpectedly, just a few steps after running out, Chen Xiuqing's body suddenly sank, and she fell into the mud as if stepping on the air.
Seeing this, the person who was with him hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull it. Unexpectedly, before the person could be pulled, he himself sank in.
This person is also experienced, and immediately shouted at Chen Xiuqing who was struggling in the mud: "Don't move around, we have encountered a straw blanket."
The grass blanket is a kind of green plant that floats on the mud. After a long time, a lot of soil humus will accumulate on the grass blanket, and then reeds will grow. On the surface, it looks like land, but underneath it is If people step on it, they will be trapped.
This thing is dangerous, if you step on it firmly in the first step, you may miss it in the next step.
This also has the third function of the pole in the hand. Wherever you pass, first use the pole to insert it to see if the landing is solid, and to explore the way.
But just now, after being attacked by so many wild geese, neither of them expected that they would fall into such a place while fleeing in panic.
There is no way to use force under the feet, and as long as it is shaken, the surrounding areas that were solid before stepping on it will also become soft and spread out. It is difficult to climb up with strength.
Moreover, his body was covered in mud, as if he was being sucked in, and he was much heavier, making it difficult to move.
Chen Xiuqing used the pole in his hand to pestle down to see if he could hold it up to the ground and use his strength to climb out. As a result, the whole stick was completely submerged and he hadn't detected the real place yet, and his heart suddenly became cold. Yes, how deep it must be!
Looking at his sinking body, he suddenly remembered what Lu Lu said when he was saving people in the forest and swamp. He leaned back and fell on the grass blanket, slowing down the speed of sinking by increasing the force-bearing area.
He turned his head to look at the person who was holding hands with him and did the same thing.
I wanted to use my strength to see if I could roll out, but in the end, the material underneath was really thin and soft. After some stirring, both of them found that instead of being able to roll out of the mud, mud and water quickly flooded their bodies For the most part, the body continued to sink.
"Help me..."
Now, the only thing left to do is ask for help.The two immediately shouted.
(End of this chapter)