Golden Fishing Village

Youfu and Yuan Shou ran fast enough, but they were still no match for mudskippers.

Mudskippers can run, jump and hop. Their pectoral fins are very powerful. They can climb trees and glide in muddy water. Youfu and Yuan Shou chased them for a long time, but they didn't catch any fish.

Yuan Shou had a bad temper. He watched these fish running around in his field of vision, but he couldn't catch them. He simply gave up catching them and chased a fish all the way to the cave entrance. When he saw the fish go into the cave, he stretched out a front paw with his teeth bared and dug it in.

Unfortunately, in front of the fish cave, his paw was just a short leg, and he dug himself into mud legs.

This made Yuan Shou very angry. His hair stood up and he howled for a long time.

Ao Muyang went to find the harvest. He saw a fish going into the trap they set.

Zhu Zhu picked up a hose and laughed happily: "Uncle Xiaoyang, come and see, I have a fish here - ah!"

A small fish tail like a palm leaf fan stretched out from the hose, and it flicked its body and then drilled out from inside. After landing on the ground, it turned over, climbed up, and whooshed into the hole exposed after the hose was pulled out.

The mudskipper ran away very quickly, and Zhu Zhu didn't react at all. Her eyes blurred and the hose was empty.

There was no fish in the first hose that Liu Mei brought out. She found two more and finally found a fish.

After she brought out the hose, she immediately blocked the mouth of the hose and sighed: "Mud monkeys are very cunning. Here, this is for you, be careful."

Ao Muyang searched and found a total of six fish, and each person could get one and a half.

He waved to Zhu Zhu and said, "Come with me, I'll take you to see fish climbing trees."

Zhu Zhu shook her head and said, "Forget it, it's nothing for fish to climb trees. They may not be willing to climb trees, and now they are afraid. If you put them on the tree, I'm afraid they will immediately jump to the ground and run away."

Lu Zhizi smiled and said, "The little pig is really kind..."

"Let's eat them. Sixth sister told me that this fish is delicious." Zhu Zhu continued.

The smiles on Ao Muyang and Lu Zhizi's faces froze for a moment.

Sixth sister licked her lips and said, "It's true that I haven't eaten mud monkeys for a long time. Just boil a clear soup and it's delicious. If it's braised, I can eat two more bowls of rice."

Zhu Zhu looked at her with wide eyes and said, "Do you really want to eat it? I was just teasing Uncle Xiaoyang. Didn't Uncle Xiaoyang say that the government does not allow the fishing of mud monkeys here."

"Haven't we already caught them?" Sixth sister said coldly.

Zhu Zhu shook his head and said, "That's different. First, we are catching, not fishing. Second, the ban on fishing is to avoid harming them. If we don't eat them, it doesn't count as harming them." Lu Zhizi said, "I think the scared mud monkey in the tube disagrees with this." Ao Muyang smiled and said, "Okay, why are you talking about this? I see there are clams on the mudflats here. We will catch them and eat them later. Come on, let's watch the fish climb the tree first." It's not easy to catch these fish without the mud monkey bamboo tube. Lao Ao doesn't want to waste his efforts. He found a small tree in a weedy place, opened the hose and released the mudskipper inside. The mudskipper quickly withdrew, landed on the tree, and climbed up along the treetop. The pectoral fins of this fish are very powerful, and can be attached to the smooth bark like a suction cup, but after climbing a few times, it suddenly fell to the ground and tried to escape to the beach. On the mudflats, mudskippers run very fast, but not on the grass. The weeds were so dense that the pectoral fins of the mudskipper could not function. It jumped a few times in the grass and was then caught by Ao Muyang.

Ao Muyang put it back on the tree. He found a small poplar tree. Compared with other trees, its bark was smoother, making it easier for the mudskipper to climb.

After suffering in the grass, the frightened mudskipper lay on the poplar again, and then twisted its body like a snake and slowly climbed up.

Zhu Zhu took out his mobile phone and took photos and videos, saying: "Wow, this fish is much better at climbing trees than me."

Ao Muyang was surprised and said: "You can climb trees?"

Zhu Zhu wiped his nose and said: "Sixth sister told me that girls can do what boys can do, so she taught me to climb trees."

Sixth sister said: "Don't say these useless things. Aren't we going to use mud monkeys to compete in climbing trees?"

Ao Muyang said: "Come on, then let all the mud monkeys go and see who climbs faster."

Mudskippers were put on the tree one by one, and they climbed up the tree when they met.

Lu Zhizi also saw this for the first time. She asked in confusion: "Old Ao, do these fish have the instinct to climb?"

Ao Muyang said: "Yes, and you see how scared they are by staying here now? They must climb up to get away from us."

Watching the mudskippers climb up, the group left.

Zhu Zhu was worried that these fish would die if they were far away from the water. Ao Muyang assured her that as soon as they left, these fish would jump down and climb into the sea. They have the instinct to climb and chase the tide.

There are clams in the mudflats by the sea. This is a very delicious clam. After Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River to eat it, he praised it as the most delicious in the world.

Red clams are special seafood. They are large and delicious. They mostly live in the sandy mud bottom of shallow seas. They like to live in river wetlands and intertidal zones with fresh water injection. Ao Muyang found them when he was inserting a hose in the mudflats just now.

It is easiest to catch clams in summer. In autumn and winter, when the temperature drops, clams will drill under the mud and sand, and can drill more than 20 centimeters at most. At that time, wild clams are particularly difficult to find.

Now that the temperature has risen, clams are busy coming out to bask in the sun. Even if they don't drill out of the ground directly, they will get close to the ground. You can find them by stretching your hands and scratching the mud and water surface a few times.

Even from late May to late June, you don't need to put your hands under the mud to catch clams. They will flow on the ground at this time.

The so-called flow refers to the process of moving from the mid-tidal zone to the lower zone of the low-tidal zone with changes in water quality factors or growth habits. To put it bluntly, some marine species will change their positions with the tide.

In the process of growth, clams can not only move with the help of their axe feet, but also move with the tide by secreting gelatinous bands. This is the clam flow, which mainly occurs in the two stages of late May to late June and mid-to-late September.

They walked on the mudflats, one foot deep and one foot shallow. They could see clams by lowering their heads. Ao Muyang found more than ten of them in a short while, all as big as a baby's palm.

Seeing them looking for clams, the generals would come to help. They wandered around the mudflats and would occasionally bring clams to Ao Muyang or Lu Zhizi.

Zhu Zhu was very envious of this. She said, "The butt my mother raised only eats, drinks, poops and pees. It never helps me, but it helps Liu Mei."

Liu Mei said, "What did it help me with?"

Zhu Zhu said, "Didn't Butt help you tear off your winter vacation homework? You didn't write a single word."

Liu Mei's mouth twitched, and she had nothing to say.

Lu Zhizi asked, "Do you have homework for Dragon Boat Festival?"

Both girls showed expressions of fear on their faces at the same time.