Chapter 456 Drilling holes in the ice to catch fish
Chapter 456 Drilling holes in the ice to catch fish
Author: Zhijianling
Chapter 456 Drilling holes in the ice to catch fish
Since everyone wants to go, it should be treated as a party.
The next morning, a group of people driving sledges gathered in Lu Lu's meadow. There were about twenty people, adults and children. Even Zhang Shaofeng and his wife brought their children with them.
In particular, Chen Xiuqing was the most active and had already driven the sledge to pick up Wang Dalong and his wife and Wang Yan's sister and brother.
The Tangwang River, which originates from Tangwang County, is the first river on the north bank of the main stream of the Songhua River. There are many rivers in the mountains that converge into the Tangwang River by name.
Compared with the densely populated areas along the main stream of the Tangwang River, almost every family will take time to get some fish or something after the river freezes.
In the wilderness, if you don’t go hunting in winter, you will feel like you are missing something.
Therefore, there are always the fewest fish in places with many people.
On the contrary, if you go into the mountains where there are few people, you can always catch a lot of fish, and most of them are good fish.
The fish that I caught couldn't be eaten in a short time, so I stacked them in my yard so that I could eat them whenever I wanted.
When the weather gets hot, you can also smoke or apply salt to dry the fish.
This is not just food on the table, but also a feeling.
In the early years when supplies were scarce, many people relied on these most easily available fish to survive the most difficult period.
Everyone knows that going into the mountains is no better than staying at home, let alone going fishing, so the men all put on their coats and those with jingle shoes, all covered with bulging clothes. Women and
Not to mention children.
In the mountains, not everyone knows how to hunt, but fishing is a basic operation that many people have been doing since childhood.
Looking at the fishing tools such as ground cages, fishing nets, etc. brought by Chen Xiuqing, Liu Hao, Zhang Shaofeng, and Zhao Yongke, Lu Lu felt that the few fishing nets he made last night were no longer so fragrant.
He originally thought about taking a shovel and a drill, going to the river to dig a few holes in the ice, and when the fish came out for air, he would use a net bag to catch them in the holes. But now looking at their movements, this
I am ready to play big.
However, Lu Lu thought about it, it is better to eat fresh fish. You can catch it anytime you want, and there is no need to make a big deal about it, so he doesn't plan to bother too much.
Lu Lu couldn't even think about how to master fishing when he was at Yanwo Island Farm.
The large wetland on Yan's Nest Island is difficult for people to enter on weekdays, but in winter it is all frozen, and people can walk on it without any hindrance. There are too many fish stranded in the water bubbles, and there are many fish around it.
Naoli River... Most educated youths like to make noises. In such an environment, it is natural for them to become proficient in fishing.
Seeing that it was already broad daylight, Lu Lu didn't do anything, so he asked everyone to load the fishing equipment onto the sledge, and everyone climbed onto the sledge and sat down. He took the lead and drove the sledge toward the Wolong River in the mountains.
Once you enter the forest, there is no way.
The snow cover in the forest was of varying depths. In order to take care of the women and children, the sledges were not driven very fast in the snow.
Wherever there are women, there is an endless chatterbox, with constant words and constant laughter.
If you weren't careful, a child and a woman would be thrown off the sledge. It didn't matter if the snow was thick. They got up and quickly chased the sledge, which caused another burst of laughter.
Lu Lu did not forget to greet Chen Xiuyu, who was pregnant with the child. He also wanted to be on the lookout for wild animals that might suddenly break out, so he kept his serious words.
It took more than an hour to finally reach the shoal by the Wolong River.
"That's it, everyone, please take this guy down!"
Lu Lu was not busy doing anything, so he got off the sledge. The first thing he did was to fire several shots into the air to scare away any wild animals that might be snooping around.
Originally, there were so many people and it was so noisy that ordinary wild animals would not dare to approach, but it was just for safety reasons.
Everyone obeyed and took off the fishing equipment from the sledge.
A pair of twins from Zhang Shaofeng's family, two children from Zhao Yongke's family, and Wang Dalong's son were already running around and making trouble on the river.
Lu Lu called a few men to walk on the river, chose a place with deep water, and started to do it.
Everyone has done it before by digging holes in the ice to catch fish, so naturally they don’t need Lu Lu’s guidance.
He also chose a place himself, started shoveling away the snow on the ice, then used a pickaxe to draw a large circle on the ice, picked up the ice threader and started to penetrate the ice along the drawn line.
Chen Xiuyu couldn't sit still and helped to clean up the broken ice bit by bit with a shovel.
The several families were busy with their own affairs, working enthusiastically, as if they were competing.
Lu Lu used the ice drill to dig down the circular ice hole one after another, slowly taking shape.
Compared with the other families, Lu Lu only had himself and Chen Xiuyu who didn't dare to use force, so he seemed a little weak.
This is physical work. When the cave is shallow, Chen Xiuyu can help. But when it gets a little deeper, Lu Lu can only do it by himself.
With his continuous efforts, the ice hole with a diameter of almost one meter on the ice gradually extended downwards, causing sweat to break out all over his body.
After the ice cave has penetrated to a certain depth, it must be trimmed and try to maintain a vertical circle. Otherwise, the ice cave will become smaller as it penetrates.
When it penetrated more than two feet deep, the ice turned light blue.
This is about to hit the water.
At this point, you can no longer use brute force, you have to try.
If water leaks, the ice cave will be useless, and if you are not careful, people standing in the ice cave will also fall down. It is too easy to have an accident in this cold weather.
Lu Lu slowed down, cleaning up while walking through the ice, being very cautious.
When there was water seepage in the ice under his feet, he put the ice threader on the ice, held the edge of the ice with both hands, and climbed up.
After a short rest, he turned the ice tunnel upside down next to the ice cave. Holding the ice tunnel with one hand, he pointed the big head down and used gravity to smash it down.
Once, twice, and again, there was only a splash sound, and a stream of clear water mixed with the weeds and fish at the bottom of the water rushed up.
Lu Lu hurriedly threw the ice threader aside, grabbed the net he prepared last night, went deep into the water, stirred it clockwise, and during the stirring, he lifted up the net and threw it onto the ice next to it.
Lively big crucian carp melon seeds, mountain fat heads, white willow roots, gourd cubs, loaches, small catfish, gaya seeds and so on.
Of course, the fine-scaled fish that I was thinking about yesterday is also indispensable, as well as the surprising red-bellied toad.
It is cold in the wilderness 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. Especially in this kind of river with a small water flow, there is also thin oxygen in the water.
The fish and toads under the water also have the effect of bubbles in this relatively deep water. Most of them are in a semi-dormant state and move slowly.
After opening the ice hole, these fish will gather towards the ice hole when they smell the fresh air, making them very easy to catch.
I stirred the net in the hole in the ice. The more I stirred, the more excited I became. There were more and more fish species on the ice. After a while, the fish I fished out piled up in piles.
The fish that had just been fished out jumped on the ice for a while, then gradually became frozen, with limbs and limbs stretched out in various postures.
The red-bellied toad is the most ridiculous. It was still jumping on the ice at first, jumping lower and slower, and finally froze into ice toads with different shapes.
After stirring for a while, the fish gradually disappeared.
The fish fished out from just this hole in the ice weighed at least forty or fifty kilograms.
Lu Lu went down the river and saw the harvests of several families. They all found a lot.
Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing also made ice eyes and lowered a small sliding net.
As for the other companies, like Lu Lu, they chose to copy directly through the Internet, and they all had their own gains.
There are not many large fish among these fish products. The most are crucian carp, melon seeds and carp, which are about half a catty. 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 fish, and seventy-two miscellaneous fish. Just by hearing this name, you can tell how many kinds of fish there are in the wilderness.
The reason why the red-bellied toad is surprising is that it is the forest frog known as the soft gold in the forest. It is also called the snow toad, a frog that can survive in the ice and snow.
Every year in April and May, female frogs lay eggs in the water. After hatching, they leave the river puddles and go up the mountains into the forests. When it starts to snow in October, they return to streams and lakes to spend the winter.
The thing inside the ovary of the female frog is toad oil, a precious medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine. 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 effects, and has always been a palace tribute.
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It is used in the famous papaya stewed with snow clams, rock sugar and red dates stewed with snow clams, and clear soup with clams.
There are a lot of forest frogs these days, but they don't have any protection level.
In another 20 to 30 years, the price of forest frog oil would even reach 5,000 to 6,000 kilograms, and the price of frog skin would even reach tens of thousands of kilograms.
However, this is not easy. One kilogram of high-quality wood frog oil requires thousands of wood frogs that are two or three years old. By 2010, wild wood frogs were protected, so they have a price but no market.
This is also a good idea that Lu Lu had planned for.
If you go up the mountain to find it and then sell it to a buying station, the value at the end of the day will not be as good as hunting.
He also thought about closing ditches and mountains for breeding, but because the conditions were not yet mature, he could only put it on hold temporarily.
However, this is what Lu Lu must do.
After seeing the situation of each family, Lu Lu returned to the ice cave he opened and fished for a while. After finding nothing good, he had to pick up the ice threader and shovel, choose another river section, and start fishing again.
Ice cave.
Today, everyone has more fun.
It is a very simple thing to want to eat fish on weekdays, so as it was approaching noon, several women made an appointment to choose a flat place by the river, cut some branches, and set up three fires.
Warming is one purpose, but the most important thing is to eat!
When they came, they all brought iron pots with wires tied to the ears, and they had already planned to have a picnic.
Liu Hao volunteered to take over the matter, saying that he would let everyone see the new way of eating.
He put the iron pot on the fire and used a shovel to shovel some crushed ice directly into the pot. There was no oil, no frying, no onions, ginger, garlic, etc. He just picked out the fish on the ice.
Got some small fish.
The head of the mountain fat-headed fish was simply twisted off and thrown away. The white-striped willow roots and rattles were simply squeezed without scraping the fish scales. The loach was simply put into the pot without squeezing or washing it whole. I also picked out more than thirty toads with bulging bellies.
He just threw it into the pot without washing it or cooking it. Then he put the frozen cornmeal steamed buns and sticky bean buns brought by each shop around the fire and grilled them. Then he asked a few women to add firewood and watched the three pots start cooking the fish.
Soup.
However, his rough operation, let alone several women, even Lu Lu looked weird when he went to see it.