Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

In fact, she is quite afraid of bugs, but earthworms are an exception.

Grandpa Mu's grandson told her when she was young that earthworms are actually very cute bugs that don't bite people and can help loosen the soil of plants.

When she was a child, she was brainwashed by these praises of earthworms. When she grew up, she really didn't think this thing was disgusting.

So otherwise education must start from childhood.

After catching a few earthworms, Zhao Yeqing pressed them on the stone and divided them into several sections with thin pebbles.

Then I dug up a small pile of mud by the water, mixed some earthworm segments into the mud, mashed it, mixed it evenly with the mud, and put it into the fishing cage.

Earthworm bait mixed with mud can maintain a longer-lasting attraction, is not easily diluted by water, and is not easily eaten by small fish that come in all at once.

Because the fishing cage is made of plastic bottles and is light in weight, a few holes are punched in it so that when it is put into the water, the water will not float after being poured in through the small holes.

The remaining earthworm segments are used to catch small fish.

The fish in the small pool are not too big. The largest one she has ever caught is only about the length of a palm. If you want to catch big ones, you have to go to the small lake behind the mountain. It is a bit far. She has only been there once when she was a child.

The small fish have small mouths, so you have to use a fishhook to hang a small piece from the earthworm bait. The earthworm segment is too big, so the small fish cannot eat the bait directly and will not bite the hook.

The water is small and deep, called a pool.

This pool is round, surrounded by many large raised rocks. The area of ​​the middle pool is about 150 square meters. The area near the edge is shallower and the water is clear and transparent. The innermost area where the water falls is the deepest, which may be more than 15 meters. At depth, the water is blue-green.

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When she was a child, she often swam in the pool in the summer. Her grandma watched her and reminded her every two minutes not to go deep into the pool.

She placed the fish cage among the rocks under the shade of a tree, sat on a big rock, and threw the fishing rod deep into the pool.

The fish in the mountains are much easier to catch than the fish in the city. As soon as the hook is thrown out, there are bites.

Without even a slight test, he just bit it to death and dragged it down with the fishing line.

Zhao Yeqing was amused by this stupid fish.

This is also great for fishing.

Basically, once the hook is thrown, a small fish emerges.

After a while, there were more than ten in the bucket.

Maybe it was because the movement had come and gone several times, and the fish had learned to behave better. This time, there was no movement after a few minutes after the hook was cast.

Zhao Yeqing even doubted whether the bait had been eaten. Just as he was about to pull it up to take a look, the fishing line trembled slightly.

It was a fish that was tapping the hook.

This was the first time she encountered a fish testing it today. After testing it, she took a bite. She felt the fishing line being pulled downward, but the force was very small.

You cannot lift the rod at this time. If it is not bitten to death, the rod will become decoupled.

After a few more seconds, the water surface rippled slightly, and she felt the fishhook being pulled down sharply.

Zhao Yeqing stood up and guessed that the fish might not be particularly small. Her fishing line was very thin, and the pulling force of the fish was very strong. The knot she tied was not good, which would reduce the stress on the fishing line, not to mention the fish's strength. The pulling force is three times its own weight.

The fishing rod was made of thin bamboo and had some toughness. She lifted the fishing rod, lowered it, and raised it again according to the pulling force of the fish.

When the fish lost its strength, Zhao Yeqing saw the right opportunity and pulled it up in one go while the fish was resting.

The fish struggled and swung its tail, splashing water all over her body.

The small fish I caught before were all lancet fish, with a gray-black back and a white belly.

This one has a light golden color in the middle of the dark brown back, the belly is white, and there are black vertical stripes on the body.

This is a stream grouper nearly twenty centimeters long!

Zhao Yeqing was a little surprised. The size broke the historical record of this pool. Moreover, this fish is also rare and has very high requirements for water quality. It is even rarer in the mountains. In the past, farmers from the countryside came to the market to set up stalls and sell wild stream grouper. The price is nearly 100 yuan per pound.

This one is about one and a half palms long, and probably weighs about half a catty.

This size is rare among stream groupers. The common stream groupers are small fish of seven or eight centimeters, which are similar to squid.

With this, I don’t have to worry about today’s food.

Now that she has access to fresh food sources, she tries not to eat from the stock unless it cannot be stored.

She put away the fishing rod and planned to catch some more shrimps. The shrimps in the stream were extremely delicious. Not to mention the meat content, compared with the sea shrimps, the stream shrimps simply beat them.

It's fresh, sweet, and has no fishy smell. It can be made into shrimp cakes without changing the meat.

There are so many small shrimps that you can catch five or six shrimps by squatting by the stream and gently lifting them up with your hands.

However, one was only two centimeters long, so it was difficult to hold it with her hands. She was not prepared this time and would have to use a net next time.

It's almost enough to catch about thirty shrimps, enough to make a large shrimp cake.

This morning was a rare moment of relaxation in recent days. Zhao Yeqing lay on the big rock and looked at the dense leaves above his head and the sky exposed when the wind blew it.

It is surrounded by broad-leaved forests. Different from the deciduous broad-leaved forests in the temperate zone, Meishan, which has a subtropical monsoon climate, is an evergreen broad-leaved forest. The structure of this broad-leaved forest is relatively complex, and it is the most complex forest type except the rain forest. type.

The vegetation is dense and extremely quiet, especially by the water. Approaching it is like opening the refrigerator door.

There are many common shrubs in this kind of forest growing beside the pool - rhododendron and camellia oleifera.

Now is the season when these two kinds of flowers compete for beauty. Camellia oleifera and camellia are similar, except that the edges of the leaves are slightly different. The leaves of camellia are rounded, and the leaves of camellia oleifera are serrated. The flowers are open white petals, and the flowers are small and have yellow stamens in the middle.

Zhao Yeqing prefers Camellia oleifera because the flowers are beautiful and graceful, and the Camellia oleifera seeds are also very practical.

The seeds of Camellia oleifera can be squeezed for oil. Camellia oil has many uses. In addition to cooking, whenever she was injured or burned when she was a child, her grandmother would use camellia oil to smear her.

There are no tea seeds in the tea tree now, and she can't press the oil even if she has it. She doesn't have the tools, and she doesn't know how to press the oil in the ancient way. Who has nothing to do to study that.

So Zhao Yeqing picked two handfuls of flowers, one azalea and one camellia oleifera.

Without practicality, we still have ornamental value.

She also didn't forget the bracken by the water. She ate the bracken in spring and dug its roots in winter.

Fern root and kudzu root are similar in that they both contain high starch. They can be made into fern cake and fern root powder, and can also be used as staple food. Fried bacon with fern cake is also particularly fragrant.

She can lock down the cps of bracken and bacon.

I won’t take the fishing cages back today. The harvest has already been more than expected. If we harvest again tomorrow, we can still eat fresh ones.

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When he got home, Zhao Yeqing planned to make a lunch while taking advantage of the fresh ingredients.

She hasn't eaten on time recently, and has missed a meal.

After rescuing Lin Shek yesterday, she discovered that she had not prepared enough medicine, and reflected that she had not taken good care of her body recently.

In the current situation, if I get sick, I really have to leave it to fate.

She put the flowers she picked into bottles, one in the living room and one in the bedroom.

Then pour today's harvest into a big basin. The fish is packed in a bucket, and the shrimp is rolled into a funnel with large leaves, filled with water, and brought back with your hands.

If you put it with the fish, several of them might have disappeared mysteriously before you even got home.