Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 456

Chapter 456

Since everyone wants to go, it's a party.

The next morning, a group of people drove the sledge and gathered in Lulu's meadow. There were about twenty people, adults and children, even Zhang Shaofeng and his wife brought their children along.

In particular, Chen Xiuqing was the most active, and had already rushed to the sledge to pick up Wang Dalong and his wife Wang Yan.

Originating from Tangwang River in Tangwang County, it is the first river on the north bank of the main stream of Songhua River. There are many rivers in the mountains that converge into Tangwang River.

Compared with the districts along the mainstream of the Tangwang River, in densely populated areas, after the river freezes, almost every family will find time to get some fish or something.

In the wilderness, if you don't go winter fishing in winter, you will feel that you will lack something.

Therefore, places with a lot of people have always had the least fish.

On the contrary, if you enter the mountains where there are no people, you can always catch a lot of fish, and most of them are good fish.

The salvaged fish cannot be eaten in a short time, so they are piled up in the yard of their own house, and they can be eaten whenever they want.

When the weather gets hot, it can be smoked or smeared with salt to dry the fish.

This is not just food on the table, but also a feeling.

When supplies were scarce in the early years, many people relied on these most easily available fish to survive the most difficult time.

Everyone knows that going to the mountains is not as cold as cats at home, let alone fishing, so the men all put on jackets, and those with stilettos also wear them, and they are covered tightly with bulging clothes.Not to mention women and children.

In the mountains, not everyone knows how to hunt, but fishing is a basic operation that many people have struggled with since childhood.

Looking at the fishing tools Chen Xiuqing, Liu Hao, Zhang Shaofeng and Zhao Yongke brought, such as ground cages, fishing nets, etc., Lu Lu felt that the few net bags he made temporarily for fishing last night were not so fragrant.

He originally thought that he would take a shovel and a chisel, go to the river to make a few ice holes, and when the fish came out to breathe, he would use a net to fish them in the ice holes and the job would be over.But looking at their movements now, they are planning to play big.

However, Lu Lu thought about it again, it is better to eat fresh fish. If you want to eat something that you can fish at any time, you don't need to make a big fuss at all, so you don't plan to make too much trouble.

When Lu Lu was at Yan's Nest Island Farm, he couldn't even think about being proficient in fishing.

The large wetlands of Yan's Nest Island are difficult for people to enter on weekdays, but in winter, they are all frozen, and people can walk on them without hindrance. Naoli River... Most of the educated youths love to be rowdy, and in such an environment, it became natural for them to be proficient in fishing.

Seeing that the sky was already bright, Lu Lu didn't write a word, and called everyone to put the fishing equipment on the sledge, climb up to the sledge one by one, and let him take the lead, driving the sledge to the Wolong River in the mountain.

Into the mountains, there is no way.

The snow cover in the forest varies in depth. In order to take care of the women and children, the sledge is not fast in the snow.

Where there are women, the chatterbox can't be shut down, the words are constant, and the laughter is constant.

If you don't pay attention, children and women will be thrown from the sledge. The snow is thick and nothing will happen. They get up and chase the sledge, which attracts another burst of laughter.

Lu Lu didn't forget to greet Chen Xiuyu, who was pregnant with her child, and was always on guard against wild animals breaking in suddenly, so he didn't smile.

It took more than an hour, and finally arrived at the shoal by the Wolong River.

"Here it is, everyone take the guy down!"

Not busy doing anything, Lu Lu got off the sledge. The first thing he did was to fire a few shots into the sky, using the sound of the guns to scare away wild animals that might be spying around.

Originally, with so many people, it was extremely noisy, and ordinary wild animals did not dare to approach, but it was still for the sake of safety.

Everyone obeyed and took the fishing equipment off the sledge.

A pair of twins from Zhang Shaofeng's family, two children from Zhao Yongke's family, and Wang Dalong's son had long ago run up and down the river to make a fuss.

Lu Lu called a few men, walked on the river, chose a place with deep water, and started to fight.

Fishing with ice eyes, everyone has done it before, so naturally there is no need for Lu Lu's guidance.

He also chose a place himself, and began to shovel off the snow on the ice with a shovel, then used an iron pick to draw a large circle on the ice, picked up the ice piercer and started piercing the ice along the drawn line.

Chen Xiuyu couldn't stay idle either, and helped to clean up the broken ice bit by bit with a shovel.

Several families are busy with their own work, working in full swing, as if they are in a competition.

The circular ice holes were gradually formed by Lu Lu digging down with the ice piercer one after another.

Compared with the other families, Lu Lu only had himself and Chen Xiuyu who dared not use his strength here, so he seemed a bit weak.

This is physical work. When the ice hole is shallow, Chen Xiuyu can still help. When it is a little deeper, it can only be done by Lu Lu.

With his continuous efforts, the ice hole with a diameter of about one meter on the ice surface extended downwards little by little, in exchange for the sweat all over his body.

After the ice hole penetrates to a certain depth, it needs to be trimmed to keep it as vertical and round as possible, otherwise, the ice hole will become smaller as it goes through.

When it penetrated to a depth of more than two feet, the ice layer turned light blue.

It's almost water.

At this time, you can't use brute force, you have to try.

If there is a water leak, the ice hole will be useless, and if one is not careful, the person standing in the ice hole will also fall down. In this cold weather, accidents are too easy.

Lu Lu slowed down, cleaning up while piercing through the ice, very cautious.

When there was water seepage in the ice under his feet, he put the ice wearer on the ice, held the edge of the ice with both hands, and climbed up.

After a short rest, he turned the ice wearer upside down next to the ice hole, held the ice wearer with one hand, turned his head downwards, and smashed it down hard with gravity.

Once, twice, again, there was only a splashing sound, and a clear stream mixed with weeds and fish at the bottom came up.

Lu Lu hurriedly threw the ice piercer aside, grabbed the net that was prepared last night, went deep into the water, stirred it clockwise, lifted a net during the stirring and threw it on the ice next to it.

Lively big crucian carp melon seeds, mountain fat head, white striped willow root, gourd baby, loach, small catfish, Ga Yazi and so on.

Of course, the slender scale fish that I was thinking about yesterday, and the surprising red-bellied toad are also indispensable.

The Great Wilderness is cold in winter, and there is still river water flowing under the ice, but the surface of the river is in a completely closed state, and there is not much space under the ice layer, especially for such a river with a relatively small flow of water, there is also the situation of thin oxygen inside, and the water The fish and toads under the water also have the effect of water bubbles in this relatively deep water, and most of them are in a semi-dormant state and move slowly.

After the ice hole is opened, these fish will gather towards the ice hole when they smell the fresh air, which is very easy to catch.

Stirring in the ice hole with a net, the more exciting it is, the more and more fish on the ice.After a while, the fish that were fished out piled up in piles.

The freshly fished fish bounced on the ice for a while, and then gradually froze, sticking up and down, in various poses.

The red-bellied toad is the most ridiculous. It was still jumping on the ice at the beginning, but it jumped lower and lower, slower and slower, and finally froze into ice toads of different shapes.

After stirring for a while, the fish gradually disappeared.

The fish fished out of this ice hole weighed at least forty to fifty catties.

Lu Lu went down the river and saw the harvest of several families, and they were all quite a lot.

Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing even slapped their eyes and dropped a small skating net.

As for the other companies, like Lu Lu, they chose to use the Internet to copy directly, and they all gained their own rewards.

There are not many big fish among these fish, crucian melon seeds and carp of about half a catty are the most, and there are also many red-bellied toads. As for the thin-scaled fish, they account for less than one-tenth of them.

Three flowers, five flowers, eighteen seeds, 72 miscellaneous fish, just listening to this name, you can know how many kinds of fish there are in the wilderness.

The reason why the red-bellied toad surprises people is because it is the forest frog known as the soft gold in the forest, also known as the snow clam, a frog that can survive in the ice and snow.

Every year in April and May, the female frogs lay eggs in the water. After hatching, they leave the river and go up the mountain to the forest. When it starts to snow in October, they return to the stream and lake for the winter.

The thing inside the ovary of the female frog is the precious medicinal material toad oil in Chinese medicinal materials. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, toad oil has been listed as the first of the eight treasures because of its high medicinal value and health care function. It has always been a court tribute .

It is used in the famous stewed snow clams with papaya, stewed snow clams with rock sugar and red dates, and clams in clear soup.

There are many forest frogs these days, but there is no protection level.

In another 30 to [-] years, the oil of the forest frog can even be sold for five or six thousand kilograms, and the frog skin can even reach tens of thousands of kilograms.

However, this is not easy. A pound of high-quality wood frog oil requires thousands of wood frogs that have grown for two to three years. By 2010, wild wood frogs will be protected, and that will be priceless.

This is also a good thing that Lu Lu had thought of.

If you go up the mountain to look for it, and then sell it to the buying station, the value in one day will not catch up with hunting for the time being.

He also thought about sealing ditches and mountains to raise them, but because the conditions are not yet ripe, he can only shelve them temporarily.

However, this is something Lu Lu must do.

After looking at the situation of each family, Lu Lu returned to the ice cave he opened, and fished for a while. After finding nothing to gain, he had to pick up the ice piercer and shovel, and chose another section of the river to start again. ice hole.

In today's day, everyone is more involved in playing.

It is very simple to want to eat fish on weekdays, so around noon, several women made an appointment to choose a flat place by the river, cut some branches, and built three fires.

Heating is a purpose, the most important thing is to eat!

When they came, they all brought iron pots with iron wires tied to the ears of the pots, and they had already planned to have a picnic.

Liu Hao volunteered to take over the matter, saying that he wanted to show everyone a new way of eating.

He put the iron pan on the fire, shoveled some crushed ice directly into the pan with a shovel, no oil, no frying pan, and no onion, ginger, garlic, etc. He only picked fish from the ice. caught some small fish.

The head of the mountain fat head fish was unscrewed and thrown away. The white striped willow root and Ga Yazi were simply squeezed without scraping the fish scales. Throw the belly into the pot if you can’t wash it, and put the frozen cornmeal buns and sticky bean buns brought by each family around the fire to roast, then call a few women to add firewood and watch the three pots start to cook fish soup .

It's just that his rough operation, not to mention a few women, even Lu Lu went to see it, and his face was full of weirdness.

Can the fish cooked in this way still be eaten?

(End of this chapter)