Golden Fishing Village

Tease Lu Zhizi, Ao Muyang put the small hook with stinky meat into a small hole.

He gently moved his wrist, and the small hook slowly went deeper. Then he continued to move his wrist, just like fishing for octopus, the wrist always kept the rhythm, but the frequency and strength were smaller.

Lu Zhizi wanted to ask something, but after thinking about it, she closed her mouth and stared at the small hole with full concentration.

When her attention was focused on the hole, Ao Muyang suddenly turned around and made a face at her, screaming: "Wow!"

Lu Zhizi smeared a mud ball on his face: "I knew you would scare me!"

Ao Muyang was very aggrieved. He held up the fishing line in his hand and said: "I'm not scaring you. Look, I have a harvest. I wanted to show you this just now."

There was a crab hanging on the iron hook. It looked square and neat. The head and chest carapace were almost square. The length and width were about three centimeters. It looked very serious and lived very well.

Seeing this little crab, Lu Zhizi smiled: "Ha, weed crab."

Ao Muyang nodded: "Yes, weed crab fishing in spring. When I was a child, I liked to play this with my friends."

Weed crab is a small crab produced in freshwater. There are also salty crabs produced in the sea. It can be seen in many places. It has many common names, such as grinding crab, crab, etc. Its scientific name is Seshou crab.

Weed crabs mature in autumn and winter. At that time, it is the season for harvesting rice. Weed crabs can be caught by the way. Many children will catch them to play. This is called releasing weed crabs. They tie them with ropes and put them on the ground. White foam will emerge from the weed crab's mouth, just like cooking rice in a pot.

Most crabs can only walk sideways, but weed crabs are different. They are used to walking sideways, but they can walk straight.

Ao Muyang put the crab he caught on the ground, pulled out the meat that was tightly held in its claws, put it in front of it and slowly dragged it forward.

Lu Zhizi said: "I know, this is releasing crabs, I saw Ao Xiaoniu and others playing before."

Ao Muyang smiled and said: "It's not an ordinary release of crabs, look."

The crab was very scared when it was caught, but after a while, time passed and it saw the food, it slowly moved forward.

Crabs like to rush around when they are rampant, and crabs are the same, but when they move forward this time, they look gentle and refined. I saw that its two front claws were clasped together, like a Confucian scholar bowing, and it took a step forward and knocked its head, like it was bowing.

Seeing this scene, Ao Muyang smiled and said, "The crab used to have an elegant name called Liyun, which comes from the ancient text "Liyun Liyun, Yubo Yunhu Zai", so its eggs also have an elegant name, called Liyunzi."

As he said, he pinched the crab's belly, which was very full.

Spring is the breeding season for crabs. At this time, the crab's belly is full of crab roe, which is just right for eating.

Seeing the bulging belly of the weeds, Lu Zhizi said: "Nowadays, weeds all have crabs, right? Don't you like to protect these things? Why do you want to catch them and eat them today?"

Ao Muyang said: "I am protecting marine resources. Weeds are vegetarians and eat decayed things. They stay in rice fields and dig holes to find rice roots, dig up the rice roots and eat them. They are pests."

Because weeds eat grass, they enter the most vigorous growth stage in summer, and they will eat grass crazily, causing their bodies to have a grassy smell and cannot be eaten.

Weeds are caught in spring for eating, and in summer for fertilizer.

Ao Muyang remembered that when he was a child, there were weeds in Ambergris Lake, especially on the reed beach.

"At that time, we would find a time to go to the reed beach and drive the weeds to the middle like driving sheep. Then the weeds would crawl into a pile and then be put into sacks."

"Weeds are not as tenacious as sea crabs. They die easily. At that time, we put a weed in the middle of every four rice seedlings. After three days, the rice seedlings began to grow wildly. We called it the weeds paying off their debts."

Ao Muyang couldn't help laughing when he said this. They didn't have many toys in their childhood, but their life was also very rich.

Grabbing the weed crab, he waved his hand and said, "Come, let's fish together. We'll go back to eat fried weed crabs tonight, and then I'll make you weed crab sauce. It's delicious."

Lu Zhizi said, "Okay, teach me, which is harder, this or catching clams?"

Ao Muyang said, "It's definitely harder to catch clams, but there are too few weed crabs now, and the hard part is finding weed crab nests."

Weed crabs are very cautious. When foraging, they never leave their nests. As long as there is a little movement, they will quickly return to their nests, which is far different from the bravery and recklessness of other crabs.

Ao Muyang taught Lu Zhizi to find weed crab nests. The entrance to the cave is narrow and has thin grooves, because weed crabs shuttle through it, and their limbs will leave these traces.

After finding the weevil nest, it is time to fish for weevil. Weevil digs narrow and long tunnels to live. They like to dig holes close to the rice, so you can't use a shovel to dig, otherwise the rice will be destroyed.

Ao Muyang slowly put the hook in and told Lu Zhizi to shake his wrist to feel its strength.

Weevil eats carrion, and carrion has a strong temptation to them. They are as greedy as other crabs. When they find food, they will clamp it with two large claws.

So when you feel that the fish hook has a pulling force, you have to slowly reel in the hook.

Weevil has a strong reproductive capacity. In the past, there were several weevil nests in a rice field. In less than two months, this rice field was full of weevil nests.

It is no longer possible now. The environment has changed, there are fewer rice fields, and more pesticides are used. The era when you could easily catch twenty or thirty weeds is over. It is not easy to find a weed nest.

Fortunately, Ao Muyang and Lu Zhizi regarded this as an entertainment activity. They walked along the ditch and gradually found several cricket nests.

Someone in the village saw the two of them squatting head-to-head on the ditch and laughed: "Brother Xiaoyang, Teacher Lu, your date place is not very particular."

Someone else said: "This is not a date, this is catching loaches and golden eels, right?"

Ao Muyang shook his head: "No, I am fishing for crickets, and I want to make cricket sauce when I go back."

After hearing this, some people swallowed their saliva: "Ah, catching crickets, this is not easy. Crickets are rare in recent years, but they are really a good thing."

Ao Muyang smiled and said: "I will catch more today. If I catch too much and make too much sauce, I will send you a bowl later."

The man also laughed and said cheerfully: "Stir-fry the crickets and shrimps in a spicy mixture. Use a spoon to dig out the seeds and meat. Then you can make steamed eggs or baked rice. These are both delicious dishes."

The two chatted casually. Lu Zhizi carefully dragged the fishing line out. After she dragged it out, he raised his hand excitedly: "Look, Brother Mu Yang, I caught one!"

The dragonfly was very cautious. When he found out that he had been fished out, he quickly let go of the big pliers and tried to escape. The general's eyes were quick and he slapped him down.

Immediately, Lu Zhizi was about to cry without tears. The whole cricket was pressed to the ground, and the orange-red crab sprayed out in a circle!