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    Chapter 486: How to catch crabs

    Anyone who often catches crabs knows that when walking along the river during the day, it is easy to see crabs poking their heads out of the holes.  This thing is a clever ghost. When the surroundings are calm, they mostly stay at the entrance of the cave to catch the small fish and shrimps swimming around.  But as soon as it feels a vibration in its footsteps or sees something approaching, it will immediately retreat deeper into the cave.  It wasn't until the danger was eliminated that he slowly poked out again.

    "Wow, there are some here too. Uncle, please catch some crabs for me." After hearing the explanation, Xiao Jianhui turned his head towards 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 bank of the ditch.  It was so close that I didn't notice it, it was really dark under the lamp.

    "It's understandable. Even though the ditch is in front of his house, he rarely goes to the reeds. At most, he goes to and fro on the wooden bridge.  Unexpectedly, so many caves have been dug on the shore without paying attention.

    He was also moved by Jianhui.

    In fact, it is still early to catch crabs, and autumn is the best time.  At that time, the female crabs were about to lay eggs, so they crawled to the edge of the ditch where there was water, and then dug a shallow hole to lay eggs, which was very convenient to catch.  But be careful when looking for holes, as many holes contain rats and snakes.

    "Catching crabs, okay, let me show you my crab-catching skills." Idle time is idle, and Liu Junhao doesn't mind showing off his skills to them.

    There are many ways to catch crabs, generally including fishing, digging, digging, etc.

    Tao fishing is very simple, similar to eel fishing. Use a thin silk thread to make a hook and string the earthworms on it, then find a crab hole in muddy water and insert the hook into the hole.  As long as the crab's large pincers bite the prey, it can slowly pull it out of the cave. However, it should be noted that at the moment it is about to leave the water, a crab that feels something is wrong will hurriedly release its pincers and escape. At this time, it must use another method to escape.  He quickly blocked the hole with one hand, blocking the crab's escape route.

    After a little hesitation, the crab burrowed deep into the bottom of the hole and could no longer be caught.

    To prick crabs, you need to make a bamboo strip, tie a U-shaped lead wire hook to one end, and use it to stir the crab directly into the hole.  Crabs cannot withstand the manipulation of hooks and often escape from their caves and are "pricked" by hooks.

    There is no technology involved in digging crabs. You just put your hands into the hole and dig all the way to the bottom.  This approach requires courage.  Because if you go a little slower, the crab's large pincers will clamp your hand tightly, which will hurt and sometimes even bleed.

    Liu Junhao was once caught by a crab. At that time, he was quite aggressive and didn't know how to be afraid. He opened his mouth and chewed the crab's pincers into pieces with a "click"

    At that time, it aroused the admiration of many friends, and I was proud of it for a long time.

    The crab holes are of different depths and thicknesses. It is easy to catch small crabs when you encounter them. You can catch them accurately every time.  Old crabs are not that easy. Their holes are often very deep. When catching them, you have to put your arms completely deep into the holes, put your shoulders slanted at the entrance of the hole, and touch half of your face to the mud The success rate at this time is quite low, and you often do it.  My head and face were covered with mud, but in the end I didn¡¯t see any crabs.

    This method is also risky. Once Liu Junhao just put his hand into the hole.  Suddenly a snake scurried out from his hand. At that time, he thought it was an eel, and pressed his arm directly against the cave wall. As a result, the water snake couldn't escape and wrapped around his wrist.  Fortunately, I realized something was wrong and quickly took my arm out, otherwise I would have got a bite.

    After the water snake incident, he became much more careful when digging for crabs, always looking for the right one before he started.

    To cover a crab, you must tightly block the entrance of the hole with a ball of water plants. After ten minutes, you return to the original place, suddenly pull out the water plants with your hand, and quickly reach into the hole with your other hand to grab it. Most of the time, the crab cannot hold its breath.  Of course, some people stayed at the entrance of the cave for too long and died of suffocation.

    When touching crabs, follow your instincts, usually when you go to the river to take a bath.  When people walk in the river, they step on the quicksand and bend down to touch the bottom of the river with their hands. If they step on or touch a slippery patch, they will definitely catch a hairy crab. Of course, it is very unlikely that they will step on a turtle.

    Liu Junhao often catches crabs, and he also discovered an unknown secret, that is, there is a pile of foamy mud outside each crab hole, which is equivalent to the crab's territorial boundary marker.  After catching the crab, you just need to remove the pile of mud. A crab will usually live in it again in a few days, and a pile of fresh mud will appear.

    "By the way, hubby, do you know how female crabs reproduce? I mean how do those little crabs live after they hatch?" Zhang Qian was not very interested in catching crabs, but was somewhat interested in the origin of crabs and asked curiously.  All she knew was that crabs lay eggs in their navels and then hatch the eggs into small crabs.  But how those little crabs live is not mentioned in the book.

    ¡°You¡¯re asking the right person, most people really don¡¯t know.¡± Liu Junhao replied in a showy manner.  In order to clarify this problem when he was a child, he specially caught some female crabs and found thatThe way they feed their offspring is unique.

    When a crab is born, it has soft armor and is still hiding inside the mother crab¡¯s shell.  Only on sunny and warm days, the female crab will climb ashore from the hole and open the crab cover to let the little crabs come out to bask in the sun and play.  As soon as there is any disturbance around, the little crabs will swarm like ants into the cover of the mother crab.

    When the child is almost done, the mother crab will close the lid, raise its two large pincers, and rustle sideways into the cave.

    Of course, if the mother crab escapes too quickly, it will inevitably leave many small crabs outside.  Such little creatures cannot survive outside their mother's body. Liu Junhao once caught many of them, but unfortunately they all died within two days.

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

    He Yifan had just opened the lids of two water plants and suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs: "Jianhui, Jianhui, come on, I've been bitten by a snake."

    The pitiful voice frightened Liu Junhao, but after seeing clearly what the guy was holding, he calmed down and gave his wife a reassuring look.  As soon as he heard that he had been bitten by a snake, Xiao Jianhui hurriedly rushed forward with a wooden stick.  When the little guy first came to Liujiagou, he was afraid of everything he saw. Now that he has stayed for a long time, he has turned into a calf. He is not afraid of snakes and always wants to kill them.

    I saw He Yifan squatting and standing up, twisting a big snake as thick as an arm with both hands. The snake's body was curled up in his hand, and bright red blood was dripping from between the fingers, which was very scary.

    Jianhui had been very brave just now, but he was frightened when he saw the blood. He just hid in the distance and shouted: "Cousin, cousin, throw it away quickly. Throw it away quickly. Why are you still holding on to it  how can I help you?"

    "Hurry upthe poisonous snake has bitten my hand" He Yifan shouted with a whimpering tone.

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

    "Don't". He Yifan was so frightened that he quickly backed away and shouted, "Stop fighting, get the bucket quickly." At this time, Zhang Qian also rushed over. The big snake in his hand laughed, pointed at his nephew's head and said:  "Xiao Jianhui, why don't you open your eyes and see clearly? You believe He Yifan's words. Where is the snake here? Look again?" Jianhui noticed that what his cousin was holding was an eel. As for  The blood stain was just caused by He Yifan using too much force when catching the eel, which directly cut open the belly of the eel.

    Seeing that his cousin was still laughing, the guy was not annoyed and asked back, "Uncle, why is there an eel in this hole? Shouldn't it be a crab hole?"

    ¡°There are exceptions to everything,¡± Liu Junhao explained.  In fact, there are occasionally crabs, toads, and eels in the same cave, but this is rare, and He Yifan did not expect to encounter it.  If he moved like this, he might scare away the crabs in the hole.

    "Oh, I know, cousin Yifan is a blind cat and a dead mouse." Xiao Jianhui said with a bit of rogue mischief.  The guy remembered that he still wanted to catch crabs, so he hurriedly walked towards the water without arguing with his cousin.

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

    When cooking for lunch, Liu Junhao had just steamed the crabs when Xiao Jianhui came over to touch them.

    "Jianhui, what are you doing here? You want to catch crabs?" He Yifan joked with a smile.

    "Cousin, you don't know how hard it took me to catch that crab just now. It almost got into the hole." In fact, it was very easy to catch the crab just now. The little guy deliberately exaggerated the difficulty to show off his ability.  Many times better.

    "Really?" He Yifan joked: "Jianhui, did you look carefully when you caught this crab?"

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

    "See clearly that this crab's eyes are blind. Didn't you pay attention?" He Yifan asked seriously with a straight face.  The guy thought that was really the case. He looked at Liu Junhao in confusion and said, "No way, uncle, look at it. I didn't pay attention. How did my cousin know?"

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

    Everyone laughed, and Zhang Qian even bent over with laughter.  "Yes, this crab is blind. You can't eat it later." Xiao Jianhui said, pressing the lid of the pot and looking at He Yifan angrily, obviously not convinced by his contribution to killing him.

    "Okay, okay, don't tease the children. How old are you?" Liu Junhao hugged Xiao Jianhui and said, "Wait, let's not catch cicadas tonight. I will take you to catch old turtles." "Where are you?"  I'll go over and light the lantern for you." Jianhui asked anxiously when he heard that he was going to catch the old turtle.  "hehe, I can¡¯t come out now, so the old turtle heard it, and ran away in the middle of the night, and we couldn¡¯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, how come you can catch the old turtle every time?"  "The guy started to break the casserole again and asked the truth. "This, the Dragon King of the East China Sea told me this when I was dreaming.  If I were to go there at night, an old turtle would be given to me.  "Yes, I had a dream just now. I dreamed of a Guanyin Bodhisattva. She said to me, 'Zhang Jianhui, you and your uncle go to catch old turtles at night. It's fun for you.'  "After He Yifan finished speaking, he looked up at Liu Junhao very seriously. These words immediately made everyone laugh again Zhang Qian didn't let her husband continue to tease him, and turned around and said: "You, just lead him to talk nonsense.  Our family will also worship Bodhisattva this year.  "After having children, although she didn't believe in such gods, she wanted to gain psychological comfort, so she didn't let her husband continue to talk nonsense.

    "Okay, okay, I won't talk about eating anymore," Liu Junhao said and started to add some hard wood to the pot.

    In July, morning glories are fragrant. There are loofahs planted in the fence to the east of the courtyard. Although there are only a few loofahs, the loofahs have already climbed all over the shelf. There are also many light yellow flowers blooming, attracting many people.  Bumblebees were flying above.

    Luffa is a good thing, but these days, the couple and their two guests are getting tired of eating it.

    The main reason is that there are too many. I can pick four or five loofahs from the shelf every day.  In previous years, I could give it to Professor Zhao, but this year my loofahs are also being sent out.

    Liu Junhao learned the lesson from the big locust tree and did not dare to water the loofah seedlings with spring water anymore. However, these things still grew very tall. Two of them had climbed over the fence and climbed directly to the neem branches.

    The yellow flowers blooming on the loofah seedlings are also obviously more than those grown by other families in the village I originally wanted to keep a low profile, but I didn't expect that I still couldn't.  Liu Junhao speculated that it might be due to the quality of the soil. He has poured spring water into the flower pond several times in the past two years, fearing that the soil here has been improved.

    ¡°But the loofahs in Liu Junhao¡¯s house are nothing. What really stands out are the few plants planted on the top of the square in Professor Zhao¡¯s courtyard.

    Professor Zhao¡¯s home has three large tile-roofed houses, which were originally enough for the two of them.  But now the son and daughter's family often go to Liujiagou on weekends. As a result, the house is not enough.  It was not common for him to stay overnight at Liu Junhao's house, so in Chun Shang he found someone to build two bungalows nearby, intending to give his children a place to live when they came back.

    He didn¡¯t expect that this square meter was different from a tile-roofed house. It was very steamy when the sun was shining, and no one could get in at all.

    A few small trees have just been planted around the bungalow, and it will take a few years for the trees to provide shade.  So Professor Zhao got a few loofah seeds and planted them on the roof to serve as shade cloth.  Go upstairs and water them every morning and evening, and sometimes get some fertilizer.

    Originally, I thought it would be enough to shade it from the sun, but I didn¡¯t expect the loofah to grow like crazy. In just over a month, the shelf was completely covered, and it was crawling everywhere along the roof.

    Many loofah vines hang down along the bungalow, forming a spectacular natural "green waterfall".  One plant was even more outrageous. It crossed over the roof of the bungalow, extended its tentacles to the roof of the tiled house, spread along the tiled house, and climbed three houses.

    This kind of wonder naturally attracts many people to watch, and now it has almost become a small attraction in Liujiagou. Many tourists come in to take a look and take a few photos when they pass by his house.  Not to mention tourists, many villagers also came to learn from the experience. They said they left some loofah seeds in the autumn and would plant a few at home.

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