"Look, isn't that a big yellow eel!"
Qin Anning excitedly waved the flashlight.
Following the direction of Qin Anning's flashlight, Fu Ming immediately spotted a dark figure emerging from the weeds on the ridge of the field.
But when he met those cold, vertical pupils, Fu Ming couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.
"Wife, what are you looking at? It's a snake! Let's run!"
Good heavens! It wasn't a big yellow eel at all; it was clearly a snake hiding in the paddy field, foraging for food!
"What? It's not an eel!"
Qin Anning was slow to realize what was happening, but Ye Jianguo and Ye Lin, hearing the commotion, quickly came over.
Upon seeing that it was a grayish-black rat snake, Ye Jianguo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"It's alright, this snake isn't poisonous."
With so many people around, the snake was frightened and quickly slithered into the field and disappeared.
When Fu Wan turned her head to look, all that remained was the rustling sound of the fields.
"Oh, what a pity, we're missing another dish!"
Ye Lin felt a pang of regret; judging from the commotion, it was obvious that the snake was quite large.
Ye Jianguo shook his head, repeatedly told the group to watch their step, and then turned around to continue searching for eels.
Although she had just mistaken a snake for an eel, Qin Anning was the kind of person who would become more courageous after setbacks.
After seeing Fu Wan catch another eel, Fu Ming caught their first eel as well.
Of course, it was Fu Ming who discovered it, but because of this eel, Qin Anning glanced at it several times and remembered its specific characteristics.
It has no scales, is yellowish-brown or grayish-black, and may have spotted patterns on its body. Most importantly, its eyes are not the vertical pupils of a snake, so it doesn't look aggressive.
With this analysis, Qin Anning seems to have been given a cheat code.
Following behind Fu Ming, he aimed his flashlight and hit the target every time.
At first, Fu Ming tried to find it himself, but later he simply gave up and just stretched out his fire tongs wherever his wife pointed.
Before they had finished arresting people on this side, Qin Anning discovered something else on the other side.
Fu Ming was worried that there were snakes in the water, so he insisted that Qin Anning not do anything. Since the fire tongs were too busy, he simply grabbed them with his bare hands.
Anyway, since I'm wearing gloves, I can at least be protected if I encounter a snake.
About an hour later, Fu Ming felt a soreness in his back. After propping himself up, he was surprised to find that the small bamboo basket on his waist was already full.
"Oh no, I can't fit any more here!"
Fu Wan exclaimed in surprise, then felt a surge of smugness.
"Haha, Anning, let's go help them!"
He's not bragging, but those two definitely caught the most eels today!
Qin Anning looked at his heavy bamboo basket, a smile playing on her lips, extremely satisfied.
Really? How could she not catch eels?
However, she was also somewhat worried.
"Brother Ming, you can't put water in the bamboo basket. Won't these eels dehydrate and die?"
"Haha, no, eels are different from fish; they can breathe even when they're on land!"
Fu Ming laughed heartily, "But you're right, there are too many eels in this bamboo basket. We need to find them quickly and distribute some to them so they don't die from lack of oxygen!"
Once an eel dies, its blood will coagulate in its body, which will change the texture of its flesh.
At the same time, the histamine contained in its body will immediately decompose into other toxic substances. If you eat a dead eel, you may experience nausea and dizziness in mild cases, or rapid heartbeat and blood pressure in severe cases.
This is why, in rural areas, even if an eel dies by the roadside, flies won't swarm around it.
This bamboo basket of eels weighs at least five pounds; Qin Anning caught them one by one himself, searching for them with a flashlight.
If he were to die, just thinking about Fu Ming would make my heart ache so much I couldn't breathe.
Fortunately, Fu Wanye and the others hadn't gone far. They were still walking along the ridges of the neighboring fields, looking for eels, with flashlights in hand.
"Ah Wan! Brother Ah Lin!"
Upon hearing Fu Ming's call, Fu Wan was the first to respond.
"Brother, I'm here!"
Fu Wan waved the flashlight in her hand. Bai Qianzhou stood beside her, carrying a basket containing eels.
Fu Ming pulled Qin Anning and quickly walked up to them. Seeing that Fu Wan's hands were empty, Fu Ming couldn't help but show off again.
"Haha, Wan, look at our haul! Oh, do you want me to share some with you?"
Fu Wan could easily hear the smugness in his words, and immediately gestured to Bai Qianzhou beside her.
Bai Qianzhou immediately understood what she meant, picked up the basket and opened the lid.
"Hehe, sorry, our baskets are full too."
"How is that possible?! You also filled a basket with them?!"
Fu Ming couldn't help but question his life choices. Are eels in the fields really that easy to catch these days?
Fu Wan chuckled and then pulled over another basket from the ground.
"You're wrong, it's not one basket, it's two baskets!"
When she and Bai Qianzhou came out, each of them carried a small bamboo basket.
Both baskets were quite full at this moment. In addition to the basket that was already full, the other basket was also more than half full.
"Wow, you guys are the best!"
Fu Ming had to admit defeat. Hey, he just wouldn't learn his lesson. He could never get the upper hand with Fu Wan.
But thinking back over the years, I've only had a few times when I had the upper hand. Maybe my sister is just luckier than me!
After all, his good fortune as an older brother is having such a wonderful younger sister, and also finding such a good wife.
Thinking about it this way, Fu Ming immediately felt less upset.
At this moment, Ye Lin also came over carrying a basket on his back.
Seeing that Fu Wan, Fu Ming, and the others were all there, Ye Lin smiled mysteriously and opened his bamboo basket as if presenting a treasure.
"Look what I caught!"
Fu Wan and Fu Ming were puzzled and immediately leaned over to look.
Upon seeing this, not only Fu Ming and Fu Wan, but also Qin Anning and Bai Qianzhou were extremely surprised.
"lizard?"
Ye Lin pulled the thing out of the basket, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Haha, that's not a lizard, it's a field snake!"
Bai Qianzhou and Qin Anning felt that their understanding had been refreshed once again. They looked at the things in Ye Lin's hands and found them very strange.
Where can you find a snake with four legs?
Seeing the expressions on their faces, Ye Lin knew that the two of them had definitely never seen the field snake in his hand before.
But thinking about it, it makes sense; this kind of thing doesn't even exist in the village, let alone the city.
"Look, these are field snakes. When I was little, Wan, Ming, and I often went to the fields to catch these things to play with."
Recalling the wonderful times of their childhood, Fu Wan, Fu Ming, Ye Lin, and the others all had a smile on their faces.
The field snake, also known as the dog hair snake or dog hemp snake, is actually a salamander-like animal similar to the giant salamander.
Image of snakes on a paddy field ridge (image removed due to copyright infringement)
This thing has the body of a snake, but limbs that are different from those of a snake. Because there were few entertainment options when we were young, many children liked to catch snakes on the ridges of fields to play with.
The field snake is not venomous. In times of famine when even food was scarce, many children would secretly roast the field snakes after playing with them for a treat.
There was no other way; the feeling of hunger was too unbearable. Back then, when people caught something, they only cared about one thing: whether it was edible.
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