Chapter 486 How to Catch Crabs

People who often catch crabs know that when walking by the river during the day, it is easy to see crabs protruding from the hole. This thing is a clever thing. When the surroundings are calm, most of them guard the entrance of the hole to catch the small fish and shrimp swimming around. However, as long as you feel the footsteps vibrate, or see something approaching, it will immediately retreat into the depths of the hole. It will not be slowly poked out again until the danger is eliminated.

"Wow, there are also here. Uncle, please catch some crabs for me." Xiao Jianhui turned his head to the distance and found two more crab holes.

Following the direction he pointed, Liu Junhao discovered that there were many crab holes in the reeds on the shore of the ditch. He was so close that he didn't notice it at all. It was really dark under the light.

It is understandable that although he rarely looks at the ditch in front of his home, he rarely goes to the reeds, and at most he goes back and forth on wooden bridges. Unexpectedly, he has already hit so many caves on the shore inadvertently.

Jianhui also got his mind.

In fact, it is still early to catch crabs now, and autumn is the best time. At that time, female crabs were about to lay eggs, and they climbed to a place with water at the edge of the ditch, and then digged a shallow hole to start laying eggs. It is very convenient to catch them. However, be careful when looking for holes, because many holes are hidden in mice and snakes.

"Catch crabs, okay, let you see how good I catch crabs." It's idle, and Liu Junhao doesn't mind showing off his skills to them.

There are many ways to catch crabs, usually fishing, tying, digging, and so on.

Trail fishing is very simple, similar to fishing for eels. Use fine silk to make a hook to string earthworms, and then find a crab hole in muddy water to put the hook into the hole. As long as the crab's big pliers bite the prey, they can slowly pull out the cave. However, it should be noted that when the moment they are about to leave the water, the crab who feels something is wrong will quickly release the pliers and escape. At this time, you must quickly block the hole with your other hand to block the crab's retreat.

After hesitating a little, the crabs would drill deep into the bottom of the hole and could never catch them again.

To till a crab, you need to make a bamboo strip, then tie a U-shaped lead wire hook at one end, and use it to stir it directly into the hole. The crab cannot withstand the hook's tweaking, and will often escape from the cave and be "thorned" out by the hook.

Digging crabs does not have any technological content, so you can directly put your hand into the hole and dig it all the way to the bottom. This method requires courage. Because a little slower, the crab's big clamps will tightly clamp your hand, which will hurt and sometimes even bleed.

Liu Junhao was once clamped by a crab. He was very fierce at that time and didn't know how to be afraid. He opened his mouth and slashed the crab's claws.

It attracted admiration from many friends at that time, and I was proud of it for a long time.

The crab holes have different depths and thicknesses. When you encounter small crabs, you can catch them. One is easy to catch. It is not that easy to catch them. Their holes are often very deep. When catching, your arms must be completely deep into the hole, your shoulders are obliquely on the entrance of the hole, and half of your face is next to the mud... The success rate at this time is quite low, and your head and face are often covered with mud, but in the end they are not seen.

This method also has risks. Once, Liu Junhao's hand had just reached into the hole. Suddenly a snake ran out from his hand. At that time, he thought it was an eel and pressed his arm directly on the wall of the hole. As a result, the water snake could not escape and wrapped around his wrist. Fortunately, he realized something was wrong, so he quickly took out his arm, otherwise he would have to take it.

After the Water Snake incident, he was much more careful when digging crabs, and he always took the initiative to do it.

The crabs covered with a ball of water plants tightly blocked the hole. After more than ten minutes, they returned to the spot and suddenly pulled out the water plants with their hands. The other hand quickly reached into the hole to grab it. All the crabs that couldn't hold their breath were all staying at the hole. Of course, some of them had been held for too long and suffocated to death at the hole.

When touching a crab, you will follow the feeling, usually when you go down the river to take a bath. People walk in the river, step on quicksand, bend down and touch the bottom of the river with their hands. As long as you step on or touch a smooth piece, you will definitely be a big hairy crab when you catch it. Of course, it is very rare to step on an old turtle.

When catching crabs often, Liu Junhao also discovered an unknown secret, that is, there will be a pile of foamy mud outside each crab hole, which is equivalent to the territory boundary mark of the crab. After catching the crab, just take away the mud, and a crab will usually be relocated in a few days, and a pile of fresh mud will appear.

"By the way, husband, do you know how female crabs reproduce? I mean how those little crabs live after hatching?" Zhang Qian was not very interested in catching crabs, but was a little interested in the origin of crabs and asked curiously. She only knew that crabs lay eggs in their navels and hatched them into small crabs. But the book did not say how those little crabs live.

"You ask the right person, but most people really don't know." Liu Junhao answered in a striking manner. In order to figure out this question, he specially caught some female crabs when he was a child and found that their way of nurturing offspring is quite unique.

When the crab was born, it was soft armor and still hid in the crab shell of the female crab. Only on the sunny and warm days will the female crab climb ashore from the hole and open the crab cover, allowing the small crabs to come out to dry and play. Whenever there is any movement around, the small crabs will rush into the female crab's lid like ants.

Seeing that the child was drilling similarly, the female crab would close the lid, raise two large pliers, and rush into the cave.

Of course, the female crab escaped too quickly, so many small crabs would inevitably be left outside. Such small things cannot be raised if they leave the mother's body. Liu Junhao once caught many of them, but unfortunately they all died in just two days.

Under the guidance of Liu Junhao, several portraits learned how to cover crabs in a decent manner.

He Yifan just lifted the two water plants lids and suddenly shouted at the top of his throat: "Jianhui, Jianhui, come on, I was bitten by a snake."

The miserable voice scared Liu Junhao, but he saw clearly what was in the guy's hand and then he felt at ease and gave his wife a look of peace. When he heard that he was bitten by a snake, Xiao Jianhui hurriedly rushed up with a wooden stick. When the little guy first came to Liujiagou, he was afraid of everything he saw. Now he has been staying for a long time and has long become a calf. He is not afraid of encountering a snake, and always wants to kill it.

He Yifan squatted and stood up, his hands twisting a big snake as thick as an arm. The snake's body was curled up on his hands, and bright red blood was dripping from his fingers, which was very scary.

Jianhui was very brave just now, but he was scared when he saw the blood. He just hid in the distance and shouted: "Cousin, cousin, throw it away quickly and throw it away quickly, why are you still holding it... How can you help you when you ask me?"

"Hurry up... the poisonous snake bit my hand." He Yifan shouted in a whimpering tone.

"Okay, okay, I'll help you," the little guy gritted his teeth and ran into He Yifan's arm with a wooden stick.

"Don't" He Yifan was so scared that he hurriedly retreated, and then shouted, "Stop hitting, bring the bucket quickly." At this time, Zhang Qian also rushed over and the big snake in his hand smiled, pointed to his nephew's head and said, "Xiao Jianhui, why don't you see clearly with your eyes wide? You believe He Yifan's words, how could this be a snake? Look again?" Jianhui noticed that his cousin was holding a ** eel. As for the blood, it was just that He Yifan used too much force when he caught it, and directly cut the eel's belly.

Seeing that his cousin was still laughing, the guy was not upset, and asked, "Uncle, why are there eels in this hole? Shouldn't it be a crab hole?"

"There are exceptions in everything," Liu Junhao explained. In fact, there are occasional situations where crabs, toads, and eels are in the same hole, but this is rare. Unexpectedly, He Yifan encountered it. With this move, he was afraid that the crabs in the hole would be scared away.

"Oh, I understand, Yifan's cousin touches a dead mouse." Xiao Jianhui said with a bit of a scoundrel naughty. The guy remembered that he wanted to catch crabs, so he didn't argue with his cousin and hurriedly walked towards the water.

The results were fruitful. After waiting for more than ten minutes, the crabs caught were half a pot. Among them, Xiao Jianhui caught one of the crabs as big as a bowl, which was a rare old crab. Moreover, this guy mastered the skills very well, and he didn't even let the crabs clamp them.

When cooking at noon, Liu Junhao just steamed the crabs, Xiao Jianhui came to find them.

"Jianhui, why are you doing in? You still want to catch crabs?" He Yifan smiled and joked.

"Uncle, you don't know how much effort it took to catch the crab just now, it almost got into the hole." In fact, it was easy to catch the crab just now. In order to show off his ability, the little guy deliberately exaggerated the difficulty many times.

"Is that true?" He Yifan quipped, "Jianhui, did you see it carefully when you caught this crab?"

"What do you see clearly?" the little guy asked in confusion.

"I see clearly that the crab's eyes are blind. Didn't you pay attention?" He Yifan asked seriously with a look on his face. The guy thought it was true. He looked at Liu Junhao in confusion and said, "No, uncle, see if it's right? I didn't pay attention. How did the cousin know?"

He Yifan laughed and said, "Of course I know, even you can catch it, it's weird if you are not blind."

Everyone laughed, and Zhang Qian bent even more. "Yes, this crab is blind, you can't eat it later." Xiao Jianhui said as he pressed the lid of the pot and looked at He Yifan angrily, obviously not convinced that he had killed him.

"Okay, okay, don't tease the children, how old are you?" Liu Junhao hugged Xiao Jianhui and said, "Wait, we won't catch cicadas tonight, I'll take you to catch the old turtle." "Where is the place, I'll go and help you hit the lantern." Hearing that he wanted to catch the old turtle, Jianhui asked urgently. "Haha, I can't come out now, and I'll run away in the middle of the night, we can't catch it." Liu Junhao said with a smile. He was just diverting the child's attention, how could he really catch the old turtle. "Uncle, why can you catch the old turtle every time?" The guy started to break the pot and ask to the end. "This is all when I was dreaming, Donghailong

The king told me that I wanted me to go there at night, and there was an old turtle for me." "Yes, I just had a dream, dreaming of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and she said to me, 'Zhang Jianhui, you go to catch the old turtle with your uncle tonight, and you are so fun'." After He Yifan said that, he looked up at Liu Junhao very seriously. This immediately made everyone laugh... Zhang Qian did not let her husband continue to tease him, and turned around and said, "You are just taking him to talk nonsense. Our family will worship Bodhisattva this year." After that, since she had a child, although she did not believe in such gods, she also wanted to comfort her, so she did not let her husband continue to talk nonsense.

"Okay, okay, I won't talk about it and eat." Liu Junhao said as he began to add some hard wood to the stove.

The morning glory in July is fragrant. There are luffas planted in the fence wall on the east side of the courtyard. Although there are only a few, the luffas that have emerged are already covered with shelves, and there are also many light yellow flowers blooming, attracting many bumblebees to fly on it.

Luffa is a good thing, but these days, the couple and the two guests are almost annoyed.

The main reason is that there are too many, and four or five loofahs can be picked out from the shelf every day. In previous years, I could give it to Professor Zhao, but this year, the loofahs from others are even delivered to them.

Liu Junhao learned from the lessons of the big locust tree and did not dare to water the spring water under the loofah seedlings. However, this thing was still very tall. Two of them had crossed the fence wall and climbed directly to the branches of the neem tree.

The yellow flowers bloom on the loofah seedlings are obviously more than those grown by other families in the village... I originally wanted to be low-key, but I didn't expect to be low-key. Liu Junhao speculated that it might be due to the soil quality. In the past two years, he has irrigated the spring water several times in the flower pond, and I am afraid that the soil here has been improved.

However, the loofahs from Liu Junhao's family are nothing. What is really conspicuous are the plants planted on the square top in Professor Zhao's courtyard.

Professor Zhao's family has three large tiled houses, which was enough for the couple to live in. But now his son and daughter often go to Liujiagou on weekends, so the house is not enough. It is not common for him to stay in Liu Junhao, so he found someone to build two bungalows next to him, intending to let the children have a place to live when they come back.

However, he didn't expect that this square is different from a tile house. When the sun shines, people can't get in there at all.

A few small trees were just planted around the bungalow, and it took several years to get shade. So Professor Zhao got a few loofah seeds and planted them on the roof as a sunshade cloth. He went upstairs every morning and evening to water them, and sometimes made some fertilizer.

I originally thought I could just hide the sun on it, but I didn’t expect the loofah to grow like crazy. In just over a month, I had already climbed up the shelf and climbed along the roof everywhere.

Many loofah vines hang down along the bungalow, forming a spectacular natural "green waterfall". One of them is even more outrageous. It crosses the roof of the bungalow and extends its tentacles to the top of the tiled house in the air, spreading along the tiled house, climbing the three houses.

This wonder naturally attracted many people to watch. Now it has almost become a small attraction in Liujiagou. Many tourists will come in to see him when they pass by his house and take a few photos. Not to mention tourists, many villagers have also come to learn from the scriptures, saying that they are leaving some loofah seeds for autumn and planting a few plants at that time.

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