And now it is April, and the snails around Qingming are the most delicious. As the saying goes, "Qingming snails are better than geese". After April, the snails will reproduce, but they will not be so delicious. Therefore, the snails at this time are the best. If they are sold, the price will be slightly higher.
That's why Mrs. Shen thought of touching the snails, hoping to touch a ten-pound one, enough to buy a catty or two of meat!
When the family came to the river, several villagers were also touching snails. Shine the flashlight into the river, and you can definitely see the snails looking for food. If you touch it, someone has already touched half of the basket.
The river was not deep, and at most it touched the calf, so Mrs. Shen and Shen Jianlin felt relieved to let the two children go down the river together.
Mrs. Shen picked up the flashlight and looked into the river, and immediately saw a few snails crawling slowly hidden in the water plants. She freed up one hand to touch them, and when they came up with four or five, they threw them into the bamboo basket at her waist.
Mrs. Shen was about to move forward a few steps, but she didn't expect that several snails appeared in the place where she touched the snails just now. She was suddenly surprised, how could there be another snail just after touching it
But Mrs. Shen didn't think much, and continued to reach out to pick it up.
Every time, as soon as she finished touching it, another snail crawled over, as if she wanted to take the initiative to deliver it to her door. Old Mrs. Shen stood where she was, and there was no need to leave, as there were endless snails to pick up.
Mrs. Shen felt that her hands seemed to be enlightened. She picked up handfuls of snails, and the bamboo baskets were piled up all at once. It was heavy, weighing at least ten catties!
Seeing a lot of snails popping up again, Mrs. Shen began to wonder if she was old and her eyesight was not good enough to make a mistake. I carefully took photos with a flashlight, and there really are a lot of snails waiting for her to touch in the aquatic plants!
Why are you so lucky today
It's not that I haven't touched snails before, but I have never touched so many snails like today, not to mention that there are many villagers around.
Old Mrs. Shen was very happy. Seeing Shen Jianlin and the two children go to the front to look for the snails, she hurriedly shouted: "Jianlin, bring the baby back, here it is!"
"Really?" Shen Jianlin touched in the water for a long time, and only touched two or three catties. The two children were flexible in their hands and feet and moved quickly, but they didn't find many snails, and each touched three or four catties.
Hearing Mrs. Shen said that there were snails over there, Shen Jianlin immediately took the baby there. Take a look with a flashlight, hey, there are indeed, and there are quite a few!
Strange to say, there are only a few scattered snails elsewhere, but this place is like a geomantic treasure land, the snails pop up together, and all of them are blue and thin-skinned, and the size is also suitable, not too big or small, this kind of snails is the best!
The family of four picked it up vigorously, and after a while, the bamboo baskets they brought were all full, and it was barely enough to finish picking them up, which weighed dozens of catties!
The two villagers who were close to them were quite surprised to see that their bamboo baskets were full. Where did they get so many snails? Why didn't they touch many of them
"Old lady, why did your family pick up so many snails!"
"That's right! Look, your baskets are full. We've been picking here for a long time, and the basket isn't half full yet!"
Old Mrs. Shen said happily: "I don't know, maybe my old lady is lucky!"
Just as he was speaking, he suddenly saw several eels and loaches at his feet, which are more valuable than snails. Mrs. Shen shouted excitedly, "Jianlin, give me the snakeskin bag!"
(end of this chapter)