Under Liu Junhao's guidance, Zhang Hongbin's dig finally became smoother.

Not every cave has loaches, many of which are drawn by other aquatic organisms, such as snails, shrimps, and leeches... Zhang Hongbin quickly summarized his experience: the walls of other caves are rough and the loach holes are very smooth, just like they have been carefully polished. No wonder the old people often say that "slim like loaches". Feelings are allusions from here.

In half an hour, I dug up seven or eight pieces, which is a small gain. Spring grows in summer, autumn harvests and winter, loaches also abide by this rule. At this time, the loaches store a large amount of nutrients necessary for winter, and they are extremely fat, with seven or eight pieces weighing nearly half a pound.

However, his speed was incomparable to Liu Junhao. He picked up the shovel and waved it quickly. In this time, he had already had half a bucket.

After digging another shovel, Zhang Hongbin suddenly became excited and shouted: "Xiaohao, I have a big loach again."

"Give up, don't dig this hole," Liu Junhao leaned over and looked at it, and spoke.

"Why don't you dig, it must be a big loach," said Zhang Qian, brother, in confusion. He also has experience in digging so many loaches. The mud hole is smooth and the wall is the size of a one-yuan coin. It is definitely a big guy inside.

"This is not a loach cave, but a yellow eel." Liu Junhao explained. The yellow eel cave is different from a loach cave. The cave is usually twisted and twisted, and rarely goes straight up and down. Experienced people can see it at a glance.

"Eels are also very good... aren't they more expensive?" Zhang Hongbin was confused.

"That's right, the key is not worth the loss. In winter, the eel cave is at least one meter deep. It's not possible to dig out in less than half an hour. With this skill, it's better to dig a few more loaches."

Liu Junhao is not exaggerating about this. The weather is cold in winter and the eels have poor resistance to freezing. Therefore, they drill very deep. Similar to this, there are crayfish, which can drill more than two meters deep in winter. If you want to dig them out, you have to dig at least half a truckload of soil, which is really not worth the effort.

"I'll try digging it up. It's really worth it." Zhang Hongbin didn't want to give up and continued to work hard.

Liu Junhao didn't say anything else. Brother Zhang Qian came here for fun, and it didn't matter what he dug.

However, Zhang Hongbin gave up quickly. He just dug half a meter deep and encountered Jiang Shi below. The shovel could not exert its power at all, so he could only give up halfway.

The two dug from around nine o'clock to eleven o'clock. The big harvest was that the loach was nearly half a bucket. Liu Junhao took it and it was 20 kilograms.

"Dad, I want to go to the bathroom." They were busy, and Zeyu came over and said. This little guy has no habit of being convenient in the wild.

"You go home alone, I'm not busy." Zhang Hongbin was digging with great enthusiasm, and he answered without raising his head.

"I don't, I want to see you dig loaches..." The little guy said nothing and didn't want to leave alone.

"Large and small?" Liu Junhao asked.

"Small trumpet" is rare. This child can understand it.

"You go there to solve it." Liu Junhao pointed to a dry ditch not far away, "Don't worry. No one can see it."

"Oh" Ozawayu nodded and left. This guy didn't even leave his hands when he went to pee.

"Wait, I'll go too." Xiao Jianhui followed up.

After solving his personal problems, Ozawa Yu randomly raised his rake and paved it down, but found a loach hole appeared on the soft black mud.

Now he became interested and swung the small rake to scatter. However, with a light digging, a fat loach appeared.

After digging for a while, two appeared... The two brothers were excited and their faces were red, and they all raised their rakes to be busy.

Four, eight... the nests of loaches were dug out. This inconspicuous dry ditch seemed to be a long firecracker, and the loaches were like firecrackers. When the leads were lit, a large string of loaches appeared in front of them.

After Liu Junhao and the others were busy, they completely forgot about the two of them. When they were resting, they remembered that they were not by their side.

So, Zhang Hongbin hurriedly shouted at the top of his throat.

"Uncle, uncle, come here quickly. We have caught a lot of loaches. There are so many loaches here that they can't even dig them. Come quickly..." Xiao Jianhui responded at the top of his voice.

What... the two of them ran over without believing it.

Good guy, Liu Junhao was shocked when he saw that the bucket in front of him was almost filled with it.

As for Brother Zhang Qian, he felt even more ashamed. He had been busy for a long time, but he had not dug much for the two little guys: "This... are you digging here?"

"Well, look," Xiao Jianhui nodded to demonstrate. After rakes, another loach was hooked out.

This is OK!! Liu Junhao also kept tutling in his mouth. He leaned over and looked at it, but still didn't understand why the loach hole was so shallow, and the distribution density was far more than that in the puddle. This ditch was dug by himself to drain the water accumulation in the backyard two years ago, connecting the puddles outside the backyard with the ditches in the fields. A little further away flowed into the Baitiao River. In summer, the water accumulation in his backyard was excreted through it.

Logically speaking, there shouldn’t be so many loaches? I’ve encountered new problems with old experience.

Liu Junhao was like that. When he encountered something that he didn't understand, he always wanted to figure it out. He simply didn't dig a loach and walked back and forth along the ditch. He slapped his head and finally understood that it was a cement loach!

This ditch looks inconspicuous, but if you study the two ends carefully, you will find that it is exactly like a washbasin-shaped, slightly higher than one side of the puddle, with a drop of about 30 centimeters. Like other fish, loaches like to go against the current. In summer, the loaches in the Baitiao River swam along the water flow to the dry ditch. As a result, due to the large drop at the puddle at the front, most of the loaches cannot go up and can only be blocked in the dry ditch.

People who often catch fish on rainy days know that most fish on the water gather in the water drop. As long as no one is disturbed, they generally do not twist and swim, so it is easy to catch. Put a fishing net below the drop, and these fish will not run away.

When the water in the backyard is drained, the ditch will turn into stagnant water due to the drop problem, and these loaches cannot go downstream and are trapped in the ditch.

Because of this, there are so many loaches in this inconspicuous ditch.

As for why they made holes lighter than other loaches... Liu Junhao also figured it out now. The reason is very simple, the soil!! When he was digging this ditch, he was afraid of being blocked by the mud, so he specially put a layer of yellow mud underneath. This mud contains more sand, and it is difficult for loaches to penetrate when they made holes, so the cave is only on the thin layer of black mud above.

Thinking of this, Liu Junhao had to rake and dig it gently on the ground. As expected, it was yellow mud under seven or eight centimeters.

After finding the reason, the two adults immediately waved their shovels to transfer their positions.

In just half an hour, they completed the dry ditch about twenty meters long. The fruitful results were beyond imagination, and two small buckets were filled with them.

The few people became more and more excited and even forgot about lunch. It was not until Zhang Qian called and urged them to come back for dinner. Liu Junhao came to his senses and folded the loach into two large buckets and carried it home.

"You have dug so many in a few hours?" Zhang Qian was also surprised to see the loach in the bucket.

"Aunt, you don't know..." The two brothers Xiao Jianhui rushed to talk about their legendary experiences.

Several people were in high spirits and were not at ease at lunch. After less than half an hour of rest, they were planning to dig loaches outside the yard wall.

In less than a day, Liu Junhao and his friends rummaged through the entire puddle and dug more than 80 kilograms of loaches. This number is still a certain distance away from what Wang Shengli asked for, but it is no problem. With so many loaches at the bottom, Liu Junhao could secretly catch some from the stone lock to charge.

At noon, he was thinking about digging loaches, and the few people didn't have a good meal. Liu Junhao originally planned to cook a few more dishes at night and have two drinks with Brother Zhang Qian.

But Zhang Hongbin ordered steamed sweet potatoes and said that he still missed them after eating them once at his house last year.

Steamed sweet potatoes...no problem!!

After the Frost Descent, Liu Junhao shaved off the sweet potatoes planted in the backyard and put them in the sweet potato well two days ago.

I used an iron fork to tie a basin of sweet potatoes, washed them and put them in a steamer, and set them on firewood to cook for half an hour. When I woke up, I lifted the lid of the pot and the tempting sweet potatoes came to my nose.

"It's this smell," Zhang Hongbin didn't care about the hotness, reached out and grabbed one, flipped his left and right hands for a moment, and couldn't wait to put it into his mouth.

There are actually tricks to steaming sweet potatoes. The longer the steaming time, the better. The fiber of sweet potatoes softens at high temperatures and tastes sweet, making people so beautiful that they can hardly find where their tongue is.

In the past, the same was true for boiling sugar in rural areas. First, cook the sweet potatoes, then add barley and paste them, then filter them with a sand cloth, and finally put the sweet potato juice in the pot and slowly boil them over the heat until the spoon is scooped into a straight line.

After dinner, Liu Junhao called directly and asked Wang Shengli to come to pick up the loach tomorrow.

Brother Zhang Qian originally planned to go back to the city in the afternoon, but he was busy until dark and could only stay in Liujiagou.

During the day, he was full of energy when he was digging loaches, but he kept screaming when he was lying on the bed. His back hurt, and his body didn't even dare to get hit on the bed. He felt uncomfortable no matter how he lay down.

In desperation, he had to wake Liu Junhao up and let him give him a massage.

Liu Junhao understood this situation, and many people who had never put in the effort suddenly reacted like this.

It seemed that there was still half a bottle of safflower oil in his drawer. Liu Junhao found it and applied it all over the back and arms of Brother Zhang Qian.

It is indeed very hard to dig hundreds of kilograms of loaches a day, but when collecting the money, a few people were so happy that they couldn't stop. Now the price of loaches is high, hundreds of kilograms of loaches have been sold for more than 2,000.

Liu Junhao did not intend to take the money into his pocket, but the four of them shared the same amount, and Xiao Jianhui did not pull him down.

Brother Zhang Qian said he didn't want anything, and he couldn't help but put the money into his pocket.

Brother Jianhui collected the money and was so excited that he couldn't do it. He kept shouting that he wanted to dig loaches.

Brother Zhang Qian also suggested that Liu Junhao be idle and dig loaches, so that he would make a lot of money in a month.

Liu Junhao shook his head repeatedly and said that he wanted to take care of his two children at home and had no time at all.

There are loaches in the puddle outside the backyard, and most of them are the credit of the spring water. In addition, no one has dug the place for several years, so it is so dense.

There will definitely not be so many in other places. It is amazing to be able to dig three or four kilograms in half a day.

Liu Junhao didn't see that little money yet. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!