bantayden 133. Mountain crucian carp
133. Mountain crucian carp
The next day was the weekend, Song Yiyi came back from a meeting in the county, and the hospital also had a half-day break as usual.
Therefore, everyone had made an appointment to eat lunch early, and they went to climb the mountain together.
The mountain is Daqing Mountain, which is located on the mountain road twenty miles south of Chenjia Village. It is lush with lush vegetation.
Especially in response to the country's call for returning farmland to forests in recent years, the cloud pine forest on the top of the mountain has grown tall and large, with a towering canopy.
"Hey, I said, can you slow down, can you take care of me, an old man?"
Lao Song didn't want to follow along to join in the fun.
But when he heard that Chen Youcai had contracted the snacks and drinks, he immediately wanted to eat and drink.
As a result, before he had climbed halfway up the mountain, he was so tired that he was sweating profusely, sitting on a big rock, blushing and gasping for breath.
No matter what, he refused to move his butt any more.
"Old Song, look at this talented man, with a big bag of dry food and drinks on his back, isn't he walking like flying?"
Compared with Lao Song, the three girls looked relaxed and freehand, raising their mobile phone selfie sticks from time to time, taking selfies of the green mountains all over the place.
"Hmph, how can I compare with him, he is a native of the village."
Old Song hummed a little bit unconvinced.
Chen Youcai, who deliberately fell behind everyone, smiled, walked up to Lao Song, took off the large backpack and opened it, and distributed mineral water to everyone.
"Wow, there is a small spring here!"
The three girls got together, chattering about something.
Chen Youcai couldn't get close, so he sat not far from Lao Song, sipping water and watching the scenery at the foot of the mountain.
Zhao Xiaolin is a native of Chenjia Village and has long been familiar with Daqingshan.
Sister Tao has worked in the Chenjia Village Health Center for many years, but she has rarely climbed the mountain.
Especially Song Yiyi, even though she ran around in Chenjia Village these days, she almost went shopping.
But it is the first time to talk about hiking.
Among the three, the latter two were naturally the happiest. As a girl who grew up in the city, it was quite strange to see things on the mountain.
For a while, I chased colorful butterflies, and for a while, I was attracted by a blue wild flower that I couldn't name.
At this moment, Song Yiyi ran a little far away, and suddenly pointed to a pile of rocks, and cried out in great surprise.
"..."
Chen Youcai and Lao Song looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.
I really don't understand seeing a small puddle, is it worth being so happy?
Sister Tao and Song Yiyi looked like they were going crazy, leaning over to take pictures by the Wang Xiaoshan spring, and planned to stretch out their bright wrists to taste the spring water.
"I'm not afraid of parasites. Wild animals often come to drink from this kind of water source on the mountain."
Lao Song didn't have any sense of arty romance, and he said something feebly, which immediately dispelled Song Yiyi and Sister Tao's idea of drinking mountain springs.
"Actually, it's okay. When I followed the villagers to the mountain to cut firewood, if everyone was thirsty, they would drink this kind of mountain spring water."
Zhao Xiaolin comforted, sister Tao and Song Yiyi had lingering fears, but they didn't dare to try it lightly.
The two of them just carefully dug two plants from the orchid bushes by the spring, and wrapped them in small plastic bags, including the roots and mud.
It seems that they are going to take it back to plant.
"Hey, I didn't expect there to be mountain crucian carp."
Lao Song panted for a long time, and finally regained some energy.
Immediately, with hands behind his back, he walked over slowly, and took a closer look at the small pool formed by the flowing spring.
Among the clusters of low aquatic plants, there are several mountain crucian carp, which are only the size of fingernails, swaying leisurely.
Seeing that Sister Tao and Song Yiyi were both surprised and happy, they couldn't help turning their heads to look at Chen Youcai, both pairs of beautiful eyes were full of pleading.
Well, Chen Youcai didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only pat his butt and stand up.
Slowly immerse a small transparent plastic bag under the water, wait until two mountain crucian carp swim leisurely into it, and then suddenly pick it up.
"Is this fish fry specially raised by the villagers on the mountain?"
Song Yiyi took the plastic bag over, looked at the two small crucian carp swimming in panic in the water bag, and asked happily.
"Probably not. Now most of the young people in the village go out to work, and no one wants to raise fish anymore."
Chen Youcai was also a little surprised. Looking back on the past trips to the Daqing Mountain, he really didn't notice that there were fish fry in the mountain spring.
"The Qingshui River is next to the village, so there's no need to raise fish, right?"
Sister Tao was also a little puzzled, but Lao Song grinned with an old god on his face.
"You young people lack common sense too much. The so-called thousand-year-old grass seed ten thousand-year fish, don't look at this little mountain crucian carp, its vitality is quite tenacious."
"The fish eggs produced can be hidden in the soil and can be stored for hundreds of years."
"seriously?"
Everyone was amazed by what he said, but Zhao Xiaolin was the first to not believe it.
She blinked her big eyes and asked, "Won't the fish eggs dry up under the wind and sun?"
"..."
Lao Song was so choked that his old face turned black, and he only knew a little about this matter. How could he know how fish eggs are stored?
"Let's go, it's getting late, go to the top of the mountain to play for a while, and you have to go back."
Chen Youcai glared at Zhao Xiaolin, then smiled and smoothed things over.
The top of Daqing Mountain is full of straight-trunked pine trees, but under the trees are patches of natural lawn growing close to the ground.
The three girls cheered and couldn't help but play and roll on it.
Chen Youcai watched from a distance, smiled, took off the big backpack on his back, took out the tablecloth and spread it on, and then kept taking out food from the bag.
A bunch of biscuits and jellies that girls like, and two bottles of canned yellow peaches.
What was left was the beef mixed with scallions, peanuts with salt and pepper, white sliced chicken, dried spicy tofu, boneless chicken feet with pickled peppers that Chen Youcai bought temporarily at the delicatessen in the village...
Lao Song, who was texting with his mobile phone, smelled the fragrance and his nose twitched.
Then he smiled and sat cross-legged on the edge of the tablecloth.
"It's very good, it's my old man's favorite food."
Greeting the three girls to come over, everyone had a good meal with the sound of clouds and pines on the top of the mountain, and then they returned home satisfied.
Two wild orchids were taken away by Sister Tao and Song Yiyi.
But those two small mountain crucian carp were unanimously agreed by everyone, and they were handed over to Chen Youcai to take them back and raise them.
"Don't raise Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui to death. I will come to your house to check when I have time!"
Back at the entrance of Chenjia Village, everyone parted ways, Song Yiyi reluctantly handed over the water bag to Chen Youcai.
Two mountain crucian carp swim back and forth at the bottom of the bag, leisurely and comfortably, as if they have completely forgotten the small pool of Wangshanquan in Daqingshan.
"Okay, I will feed them whatever I eat, and I will never treat them badly!"
Chen Youcai grinned, thinking of Song Yiyi's frequent visits in the future, he couldn't help feeling hot.
"..."
Song Yiyi was angry and funny, rolled her eyes at Chen Youcai, sat on the back seat of Sister Tao's battery car, and waved her wrist away.