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Chapter 10 Catching eels (please vote for collection and investment recommendations)

The four friends have obviously been waiting here for a while.

The reason why I didn’t go to the grain station to find Chen Li directly was mainly due to the “notoriety” of Chen Li’s father!

Chen Li's father, Chen Guofu, was formerly in the military and worked in a grain station after retiring.

Even after leaving the army, Chen Guofu still retained many habits he inherited from his time in the army.

For example, getting up early and exercising. The most important thing is that he not only exercised himself, but also the two brothers Chen Li and Chen Xue.

It's understandable that Chen wants to exercise, but it's a bit too much to ask the two brothers and sisters to fold their quilts into tofu blocks, right?

Anyway, the two Chen brothers and sisters have been here like this since they were young, and they often talked back to Chen Guofu because of some things.

In these days, the consequences for talking back to your father are usually not very good. Anyway, when Chen Li was a child, he was really beaten a lot.

Being beaten is actually not the most extreme thing. The most extreme thing is to kneel down as a punishment.

That's not forcing Chen Li to kneel down at home with the door closed! Instead, Chen Li was made to kneel in the courtyard of the grain station compound.

It would be easy to say if it was at home, but where is the grain station?

Although the current grain station has declined, the early grain station was known as the "golden rice bowl"!

So at that time, there would often be strange scenes at the grain station.

Farmers from all over Erlong Town pushed wheelbarrows and carried grain to the grain station to hand over the public grain. As a result, a little kid knelt down in the courtyard of the grain station.

It can be said that this left a very deep "psychological shadow" on Chen Li, who was still very young at the time.

But fortunately, Xiao Chen Li's temper is a bit stubborn, just like his father Chen Guofu's temper.

The more times he was punished by kneeling, Chen Li's face became thicker. Later, he was even able to kneel down while chatting with the farmer uncle who came to hand over public grain.

But this also had an impact. That is, the adults and children in Erlong Town almost all have a consensus, that is Chen Li's father, Chen Guofu. Very crooked!

"Very crooked" is a dialect in Sichuan Province, which means to describe a person who is very fierce and has a bad temper. It also means being very powerful.

Therefore, in the entire Erlong Town, everyone who knows Chen Guofu of the grain station knows that this man has a bad temper!

Not to mention children. Since childhood, there were almost no classmates or friends in Chen Li's family who were willing to come.

Therefore, these four friends would rather wait for Chen Li outside the grain station gate than go to his home to call him.

"Brother Chen, the mushrooms at my house are almost drying. I will bring them to you when the time comes."

"OK."

"Brother Li, I have a lot of cicada shells (cicada shells) at home. You can help me sell some someday."

"I want it."

"Brother Xiaoli, my brother caught a black-tailed snake today, you will do it tomorrow"

"roll!"

"Tell your brother not to catch snakes in the future. If I catch snakes, I won't help him sell them. Next time, take him out to catch eels with us."

"oh!"

Chen Li led his sister and four friends, not directly to the fields, but to the grocery store.

"One for each person."

Chen Li opened the freezer, took five 20-cent popsicles from inside, and handed them to several friends one by one.

"Thank you, Brother Li!"

"Thank you, Brother Chen!"

The friends did not refuse, obviously this scene was not the first time.

"You eat this."

Chen Li held a two-cent popsicle in his hand, and then handed a fifty-cent cream ice cream to Chen Xue!

As a biological sister, the treatment is naturally different. Chen Xue took the cream ice cream and took a bite happily, with a very satisfied expression on her face.

Chen Li paid the money and led a group of older children through the town towards the Erlong River.

However, their destination was not the Erlong River, but the small ditch connected to the Erlong River.

After finishing the popsicles and ice cream in their hands, everyone arrived at their destination. This small ditch was so long that it almost ran through the entire Erlong Town.

In the past, Chen Li usually chose to go to the fields to catch eels, but because the price of eels has increased, more and more people are catching eels in the fields.

It is a law that when there are more people, the harvest will decrease. So today Chen Li chose this small ditch that has not been found by many people.

"Watch out for snakes!"

When they arrived at the end of the field, there was no need for Chen Li to say anything. They were all veterans. Chen Li just gave a casual instruction and led Chen Xue to start searching by the small ditch.

The other four people also worked in pairs, one holding a flashlight and the other catching eels.

In Erlong Town in 1997, although there were many people catching eels, overall the living environment of eels was quite good.

This is mainly because there are no factories in Erlong Town, so the pollution is relatively not serious. In addition, rice eels have only become popular in recent years, so rice eels are relatively easy to find.

"Get one for me."

Chen Li found a hole in the mud and grass beside the ditch, so he handed the rechargeable portable lamp in his hand to Chen Xue.

In fact, when catching eels, it is most convenient to use a headlamp, but this thing is not sold in Erlong Town, so it is best to work with two people when catching eels.

Of course, it's not that one person can't operate it, it's just more troublesome.

"Where? I'll come, I'll come."

Chen Xue didn't even accept the flashlight handed over by her brother. Instead, she took the wire hook from Chen Li's hand with excitement.

"Why are you so anxious? You're not even worried."

Chen Li reluctantly took out the earthworm box, picked a plump black earthworm and hung it on his homemade wire hook.

"Slow down, don't rush, and don't poke too hard."

"Oh, I know."

Chen Xue didn't appreciate it. After her brother helped her thread the earthworm, he stretched the wire hook into the grass hole that Chen Li had discovered before.

At this moment, Chen Xue tensed her face and relied on her own feelings to feel the wire hook in her hand.

"Bite!"

Chen Xue's face lit up with joy, and she immediately lifted the wire hook out. As a result, she felt lonely.

Chen Li was holding a rechargeable portable lamp next to him, with no expression on his face. He had already guessed such an ending.

Chen Xue's so-called bite probably just felt the wire hook in his hand move. In fact, the eel did not bite the hook at all.

"Okay, let me do it! If you keep doing this, I'm afraid this eel will be scared to death by you."

After seeing Chen Xue fail again, Chen Li couldn't stand it anymore and took the wire hook from Chen Xue's hand.

"oh!"

Chen Xue's face fell, but she still obediently took the portable lamp from her brother's hand.

When the wire was hooked into Chen Li's hand, the feeling was different. Chen Li probed the wire hook into the hole and gently twitched the wire hook. Then a sudden pulling force came from the wire hook. Chen Li took advantage of the situation and pulled the wire hook.

I poked it into the hole, and then slowly pulled the hook outward.

The eel eats very hard, and the wire hook used by Chen Li is homemade. When the eel bites the hook, he only needs to push it in slightly. The eel basically cannot escape.

It's just that the eels caught in this way will not survive for a few days, and will easily die if they cannot be sold in time.

This eel cave is not too small, so Chen Li pulled it out relatively easily. After about ten seconds, Chen Li pulled out an eel weighing about half a catty.

"Fish basket."

Chen Li opened the lid of the fish basket and put the eel in.

"Yeah~! A good start."

Although he didn't catch it with his own hands, Chen Xue was still very happy to have harvested it so quickly.

"We'll go over there later to see if there are any eels we can catch. That one is easier. You can try it later."

"Hmm~! I want to catch two tonight!"

"That depends on your ability!"

"Don't worry! By the way, bro, how do you find the eel cave? I don't know how to look."

"Why are you learning this? Just read your book!"

"Oh, just tell me!"

".!"

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