Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Hearing what his sister-in-law said, Lin Heng smiled and shook his head, saying, "I'm not angry, I was just joking."

"Because there is no secret in the first place."

Lin Heng added with a smile.

"Ah?" Sister-in-law Liu Juan was puzzled.

"Because as long as you walk into the woods at night, you can see it, no skills are needed at all."

Lin Heng smiled slightly.

Sister-in-law Liu Juan regretted hearing this. It turned out to be so simple. If she had known earlier, she would have waited until night to see it.

"But I advise you not to catch it these days, and no one in the family should catch it."

Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Why?" Sister-in-law Liu Juan didn't understand. Such delicious things should be caught and eaten more.

"There are outsiders in our family. If one person spreads it, ten people will know it, and we won't be able to catch it.

When there is no one, we will catch it quietly. This thing will still be there until July."

Lin Heng explained that in the future, there is no shortage of food and clothing, and cicada monkeys have been caught and cut off.

Not to mention this era, if the villagers knew that they could eat it, they would definitely go into the woods every night.

"That's true. Let's wait until the people leave before catching them."

Liu Juan immediately thought it made sense. The women in the village were the most terrible. They could run several mountains to pull a locust flower, not to mention catching a delicious cicada monkey.

She immediately turned around and went back to tell others.

Lin Heng walked into the yard and didn't see Xiulan, so he found Caiyun to ask.

"Xiulan's sister-in-law went to pick the gray-gray vegetables. She said that everyone in the family likes to eat it.

But I clearly saw that only you, the second brother, like to eat it. Others don't really move their chopsticks."

Caiyun said while flipping through How the Steel Was Tempered.

She has read more than half of this book, and she really works day and night.

Lin Heng: "..."

He really didn't notice this, and he remembered it when Caiyun said it.

Before, the gray-gray vegetables were only occasionally served on the table, but recently it seems to be served every meal.

It turns out that his wife picked them for him, which really touched him.

After untying Xiongba's iron chain, Lin Heng took it out to find his wife Xiulan.

"Woof woof!"

Xiongba barked twice to the sky, as if he was practicing his voice.

He looked back every three steps, and ran to Lin Heng's feet from time to time to rub against him, as if he was afraid that he would get lost.

Lin Heng found his wife Xiulan on the edge of the field under the road. She was squatting on the ground with her daughter Xiaoxia on her back, picking gray vegetables.

"Why are you here!"

Hearing Xiongba's voice, Xiulan raised her head and smiled.

"Come and pick you up, give Xiaoxia to me." Lin Heng said with a smile, and walked over to pick Xiaoxia down.

"There are quite a few garlic cloves here. I picked a lot of them. They are delicious when I pickle them and eat noodles."

Xiulan pointed to the garlic cloves in the bamboo basket and said.

This is a plant that looks similar to garlic sprouts, but it is wild. It is also called wild garlic and small root garlic.

The fragrance is very unique. In rural areas, it is usually put into a jar and soaked in sour water to eat noodles. The taste is not bad.

"Well, you do it, I'll watch."

Lin Heng smiled and pulled his daughter. His daughter touched Xiongba's head and tried to break free from his hand to play with Xiongba.

Xiu Lan didn't know why Lin Heng was grinning, and she was picking wild vegetables by herself.

Gray vegetables usually grow very tall, more than 30 centimeters tall, and only the leaves can be eaten, so it's quite laborious to pick them.

She picked half a bamboo basket until it got dark, and then Xiu Lan stood up.

On the way home, Xiu Lan suddenly said, "I won't go to catch cicada monkeys tonight."

"In fact, I forgot what you said yesterday." Lin Heng smiled.

"Anyway, if I don't go tonight, it won't be considered a breach of promise.

You only said that I would beg you to go with me tonight, but you didn't say that I couldn't eat it."

Xiu Lan didn't look at Lin Heng, and she tried to argue, but she couldn't help but recall the taste of fried cicada monkeys in the morning.

Lin Heng thought her behavior was a little funny, and asked with a smile: "Then do you think it smells good?"

"It smells good, it really smells good!" Xiulan nodded.

Back in the yard, Lin Heng handed Xiaoxia to Xiongba to take care of, and asked him to play throwing sticks with Xiaoxia.

"Woof woof!!"

Xiongba complained to Lin Heng twice, and seemed very reluctant to do this job.

He ignored it, took a needle that Xiulan used to sew clothes, put it in the stove to burn it red, and then used pliers to bend the tip.

The fish hook made of pins can be used to catch stream grouper, but it is easy to be straightened when fishing for larger prey.

So he made a strong one with a needle. The needle is hard and not easy to be straightened.

Go catch yellow eels tonight, and some of them are hard to catch.

There are also loaches in the field, each one is slippery, so you can only use fishing methods.

And fishing yellow eels and loaches at night is also a very interesting thing.

When it was completely dark, at around eight o'clock, the eldest brother Lin Yue came to find Lin Heng with a bag of fertilizer.

"Let's go, let's go catch eels." Lin Yue seemed very excited.

"Let's go!"

Lin Heng was also a little impatient, put on his water shoes, took the things he had prepared and set off.

His family's paddy field is on the upper river, and it takes a long way to walk.

"Speaking of catching eels at night, this is what we found." Lin Yue said with a smile on the way.

"Yes, at that time, no one came out at night, or because the cows ran away, we used flashlights to look for cows, and found that the eels came out directly at night and lay on the mud surface of the paddy field."

Lin Heng smiled and recalled the childhood with his eldest brother. Although poor, it was a lot of fun.

While talking and laughing, the two kept moving forward with dim flashlights, and soon arrived at their rice fields.

Lin Heng used an aluminum-cased flashlight with two AA dry batteries, three centimeters in diameter and five centimeters in length.

The light emitted was also relatively weak and dim. Fortunately, the two of them had good eyesight and could see clearly.

"Look, there's an eel here. Come here, I'm afraid I'll let it go." The eldest brother Lin Yue was the first to find an eel and lay quietly on the mud. He was hit by a flashlight and became motionless.

"Okay." Lin Heng came over and took a look. It was a medium-sized eel, a little thicker than a thumb and about twenty centimeters long.

Catching eels with bare hands requires skills, and Lin Heng masters it best because he is most interested in catching fish and shrimps.

When catching eels, you definitely cannot hold them with your hands, nor can you hold them like a stick.

In fact, all it takes is one hand.

The four fingers are brought together towards the palm, and the middle finger is raised so that the middle finger, index finger and ring finger form a plier-like grasping structure.

When catching, the key is to approach gently first, and then quickly and accurately clamp the eel's waist into the pliers formed by the middle finger and the remaining fingers.

Then he clenched his fist hard, and the eel was tightly clamped in his hand by his middle finger.

Lin Heng hit the target with one blow, lifted the eel out of the water, and stuffed it into the snakeskin bag that his elder brother had opened.

By the time it reacted, it was already a turtle in a urn, and could only jump wildly in the snakeskin bag.

"Amazing, his skills haven't declined at all." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Of course!" Lin Heng chuckled. This technique of catching eels has almost become a skill, and as many as eight hundred eels have died under his hand.

I can’t say the success rate is 100%, but 90% is more than enough.

"There's another one here, holy shit, there's another one next to it, it's so big!"

Suddenly, the eldest brother Lin Yue discovered another big product.