bookrebus Chapter 201 Long-term acquisition of loaches and eels
Chapter 201 Long-term acquisition of loaches and eels
Village Chief Liu also echoed, "I also want to inform everyone that spring ploughing is now underway in our village, and other places have not yet started. They have time to catch eels, which is a big income."
Seeing the two excited village heads, Zheng Sisi asked, "Village Head Liu, Village Head Yao, are there loaches in this field besides eels?"
Village Chief Liu said: "Yes, there are quite a few loaches, they will all come out after a while."
Zheng Sisi said: "Tell everyone to keep these in the future. I will buy loaches and eels for a long time."
The two nodded at the same time, "Okay, we will definitely notify them."
Zheng Sisi suddenly thought of crayfish. She hadn't eaten crayfish for a long time. Thinking of the various flavors of crayfish in the past, such as garlic shrimp, marinated shrimp, stinky tofu crayfish, etc., Zheng Sisi couldn't help drooling. I don't know if there are crayfish in this era.
She asked the two village heads, "Two village heads, do you know if there is a kind of small insect in the fields? It has two large pincers in front, a red and green body, and many legs on its abdomen. The pincers are very powerful and can pinch people very painfully. It can even kill rice seedlings and rice grains."
Village Chief Liu shook his head: "I haven't heard of it, and we haven't seen such insects in this area."
Village Chief Yao did not speak. He thought for a long time and then said slowly, "I seem to have heard my eldest brother-in-law talk about this kind of insect. This insect has a strong reproductive capacity, even more powerful than eels, and it is difficult to catch them all."
Zheng Sisi's eyes lit up: "Yes, this is it, do you know where I can find it?"
Village Chief Yao thought about it and said, "I remember my eldest brother-in-law went to the south of Qingshui County, where there is a big river, which seems to be called Weishui River.
There were no such insects there before. One year there was a big flood and the water submerged all the farmland on both sides of the Weishui River. After the water receded, some of these insects were left behind.
At first, no one took it seriously, thinking that they were just a few bugs that would die when the water receded.
But in the second year, I found that there were more and more insects in the fields, and I couldn’t catch them all. The insects also bit people, and the bites were very painful.
The most hateful thing is that it also bites crops. The seedlings are clamped off by it and cannot grow again. Many seedlings are destroyed.
The insects are all shells and cannot be eaten. The villagers on both sides of the river can only catch them every year and chop them up to feed the chickens and ducks.
That bug is hated in the villages along the Wei River. Sometimes it crawls onto the road and anyone who sees it will be stepped on to death.”
After listening to the description of Village Chief Yao, Zheng Sisi confirmed that this was crayfish, also called red crayfish.
No one knows where the source of the Weishui River is. When the water level rose, this alien species was washed to the Weishui River area. The river should be very long, and the villages in Qingshui County would not be the only ones affected.
It seems that she still needs to go to the Weishui River area. If it is confirmed to be crayfish, she can buy a bunch of them, which can help the villagers on both sides of the Weishui River and increase their income. As for how long the river is and how many villages have been affected by the disaster, she will slowly investigate later.
Zheng Sisi said to Village Chief Yao: "Village Chief Yao, thank you for telling me this. I will go to the Weishui River area when I have time to see if it is the insect I am looking for. If so, I will give you a reward."
Village Chief Yao waved his hand quickly: "No, no, County Master, I don't know what kind of bug you are looking for. I'm just telling you what I heard. You don't need a reward."
Seeing Village Chief Yao's refusal, Zheng Sisi didn't say anything. She would give him the reward in the future. It was confirmed that it was crayfish. This was an opportunity to make a fortune, an opportunity that no one else knew about.
Here, we saw several villagers catching a few more eels. Lily, who had gone back to get the wooden barrel, had not returned yet, so a villager took off his old coat, tied the sleeves into a knot, and put a few eels in.
Some people laughed at him for wasting clothes.
It's impossible to waste clothes. Eels cost ten cents per pound, and these eels weigh one pound. The old clothes can be washed and worn again. There is no waste.