Mountain driving career since 1982

The long winter in the wilderness ends from October to the end of April of the next year.

In the ice and snow, even Chinese cabbage, which is relatively frost-tolerant, can be frozen to pieces.

During this period, only stored vegetables should be eaten.

Every family has a cellar. In autumn, they store cabbage, radishes, and potatoes, and then pickle some pickles and dry some dried vegetables.

In fact, every household has these things, such as wild vegetables, mushrooms, radish strips or cloud beans that were dried earlier.

But as time goes by, especially after the Spring Festival, the radishes in the vegetable cellar will develop bran, the cabbage will rot, the potatoes will grow teeth, the pickles will grow hair, and the rest are just dried vegetables, which seem to have the same flavor no matter how they are cooked. .

In this case, the word fresh becomes very valuable.

People in the mountains, especially those near rivers, always want to go hunting or fish in the river to improve their food.

The next morning, the brothers rushed to Lu Lu's place and loaded the large fishing nets, ice tunnels, scoops and other tools for making holes in the ice into the car, including the military cotton tent that had not been used for a long time. , Lu Lu borrowed another car and planned to drive it to Nenjiang with him and Lei Meng.

Seeing Lu Lu and others loading things into the car, several dogs came over and followed Lu Lu in and out.

I have been leading hunting for several years. When I saw the preparations Lu Lu and the others were making, the dogs seemed to know what they were going to do and followed them closely.

Yuan Bao seemed very quiet, standing next to the entrance of the courtyard and watching a few people. He was not as cheerful as Bai Long and the others.

Lu Lu had actually noticed this a long time ago and could clearly feel Yuan Bao's old state.

He is ten years old and is an old dog!
"Yuanbao, just stay home and watch. We are just going fishing this time. When we come back, we will get you some fish and meat to eat... It's time for you to enjoy your happiness for a while."

Lu Lu rubbed Yuanbao's head, and Yuanbao snorted.

He looked at Bailong and Huabao again. The two dogs' bellies were already very big, and the milk on their bellies was swollen. It seemed that they would give birth to cubs in the near future, so they couldn't take them out: "You guys? , just wait at home, don’t go hunting, don’t worry about me, just stay at home, guard the house for me, and wait for me to come back.”

He rubbed the heads of several dogs, then returned to the house and took out the semi-automatic rifle.

Without the dog, it is estimated that it will take four or five days to return. It is inevitable to live outside at night, so a gun has become a must-have self-defense weapon.

After loading the things into the car, Lu Lu asked Chen Xiuyu to help stop the dogs that were following closely, and then asked the brothers to get on the car. Without horses or the like, it would be easy for the five of them. Zhao Yongke and Lu Lu were in the same cab, and Zhang Shaofeng and Liang Kangbo squeezed into Raymond's cab.

The two cars started and drove towards the outside of the meadow.

Several dogs jumped to follow, but Chen Xiuyu hurriedly closed the fence gate to stop them.

Seeing Lu Lu and others walking away, they all stood by the fence and barked. Until they could no longer hear the sound of the car engine, Bailong and the other dogs turned back to the yard and lay down in the kennel.

Only Yuanbao was still at the gate of the fence, pacing back and forth, refusing to return to the yard.

The two of them were driving to the district. Lu Lu suddenly heard Raymond honking the horn behind him. He glanced at the rearview mirror and saw Yuan Bao running behind the car. He quickly stopped the car. He came down and said, "Yuanbao, why are you still here!"

"Wangwang..." Yuanbao waggled his tail beside the car and barked twice at Lu Lu.

"Do you want to send it back?" Zhao Yongke asked.

Lu Lu thought for a moment: "Forget it, it's already here, let it go, otherwise it will take more than half an hour at least to go back and forth. Third brother, please open the car door and let it go." It comes into the cab."

Zhao Yongke nodded and opened the right door.

Yuan Bao had already come around, and when the car door opened, he immediately jumped up. Zhao Yongke put his legs and feet aside to give Yuan Bao a place to lie down.

Lu Lu reached out and rubbed Yuan Bao's head and continued driving.

After a day's work, several people arrived at the Nenjiang River in the evening.

But at a glance, there are quite a lot of people fishing on the river, a group here and a handful there.

Some people drove their cars directly on the river. In order to pull the nets, tractors even drove onto the river to help pull the fishing nets.

"You're really brave... aren't you afraid of falling?" Zhao Yongke was dumbfounded.

"Audacious indeed!"

Lu Lu also shook his head.

Although it has been more than two months and almost three months since the beginning of winter, rivers have been frozen for a long time. In many places, the thickness of the ice reaches [-] or [-] centimeters, or even more than one meter. However, it is more common for some relatively small rivers to freeze. When driving on it, many places are frozen to the ground. It is relatively narrow and has a strong load-bearing capacity.

And below this kind of river surface, which is often more than 200 or [-] meters away, there is still river flowing. The key is that the surface of the river seems to be smooth, but when it reaches the bottom, it becomes uneven and uneven in thickness.

Of course, small vehicles are not a big problem, but for heavy-duty trucks, it is a completely different matter.

Lu Lu couldn't think of taking such a risk.

Seeing that there were many people along the river, we could only go down the river and stay far away from the towns and villages.

Looking along the way, I don’t know how many river nets have been blocked.

In this way, until it was almost dark, after walking for an hour and a half, I finally found a clean place.

That's where the river turns. After crossing the ice, you can see a large meadow on the opposite side, with several large water bubbles on it.

"That's it. Let's camp here at night and start on the ice tomorrow morning." Lu Lu asked a few people to unload the truck, set up the military cotton tent, found firewood, and gathered a lot of firewood at the door of the tent. They lit a fire, baked pancakes bought when passing through the town to fill their stomachs, and used an antimony pot to boil some hot water.

The few of them simply filled their stomachs and fed Yuan Bao some. After rocking in the car for a day, they were all very tired, so they took a rest early.

When they got up early the next morning, several people immediately got busy. It was not their first time fishing and they all knew how to operate it.

They all picked up shovels and shoveled away the dozens of centimeters of snow on the ice, and then used their axes to cut a circular hole in the ice. When they reached an ax depth, they switched to ice axes. When they could no longer use the ice axes, , and put on the ice snorkel, just like this, he dug a series of holes in the ice, then threaded the net to block the river and catch fish.

Fortunately, the ice on the river was not particularly thick, only about 50 to [-] centimeters thick. After working for most of the day, we finally laid out the two [-]-meter-long nets we brought.

In the evening, I set up the net once, and the effect was good. With these two nets alone, I caught at least [-] kilograms of fish.

After continuing to cast the net the next day, Lu Lu turned his attention to the water bubbles on the riverside.

In fact, when I was at Yanwo Island Farm, ice fishing was generally not on the main channel of the Hetao, but in the big pools in the Hetao.

After these water bubbles are sealed by ice, the oxygen inside is thin, and the fish and toads inside are in a semi-dormant state. After opening the ice hole, these fish will smell the fresh air and gather towards the ice hole, making them very easy to catch. .

Lu Lu weighed it up and called a few people while waiting, and went straight to the biggest puddle on the opposite side.

This kind of water bubble with little river flow has a thicker ice layer, reaching about 1.3 meters.

It took five people almost two hours to dig an ice hole with a diameter of about one meter in the water bubble. After the ice hole was drilled through and the ice floes inside were removed with a shovel, the shovel was extended into the ice hole. Stir vigorously for a while.

"No reaction!" Zhao Yongke fished twice with a stirrer, but found nothing. Looking at the water surface of the ice hole, he asked anxiously.

"Let's take a rest. There was such a big noise when a hole was made in the ice just now. The fish were frightened and hid aside. Now you can't catch the fish. The water is still water. After it freezes, so many fish, shrimps and toads will have to gasp for air. The oxygen in the water was consumed for so long, and they were suffocating inside.

When we stirred it with a shovel just now, the oxygen around the ice hole will increase a lot. After a while, they will run over to take a breather. That's when it's time to use the stirrer to catch fish. "

Raymond said with a smile, this is the summary of the experience of many people who have been pioneering in the wilderness for so many years.

"Let's go back and drag out the two nets. It's almost two hours." Lu Lu carried the Bing Chuanzi and walked back.

The group of people dragged the net up with great effort.

After a night, two nets were caught yesterday, probably because of the breathability of the ice cave, and a lot of fish were gathered and replenished in one night.

There were even more fish in the two nets than yesterday.

After selecting the fish, putting them in bags and loading them into the car, several people set off the nets again, and then each carried a stirrer and rushed to the pool.

When several people approached the ice cave, they slowed down and approached.

When I saw the ice hole, bubbles were constantly rising on the water.

Lu Lu was overjoyed: "It's done!"

He immediately stretched out the fishing rod quickly, turned it around and lifted it up. There were many fish in it, as well as toads and soft-shell turtles.

Turn the stirrer upside down on the snow. The fish that were poured out will gradually freeze after jumping on the snow for a while. The toad is the most ridiculous. It keeps jumping on the snow, getting lower and lower, and finally freezes into an ice lump. , available in various shapes.

The fish and toads in the water bubbles were so fat and plentiful that Liang Kangbo and Raymond also took advantage of them.

Not long after, the fish, shrimps, toads and turtles fished out from the fishing were piled up on the snow.

The speed of harvesting is actually no less than that of casting a net in the river.

While several people were catching fish with great interest, they heard Yuan Bao shouting from the side.

Lu Lu glanced in the direction pointed by Yuan Bao and saw a little fox peering through the snowy grass at the edge of the bubble.

"It must be that we can't find anything to eat in winter. We were fishing here, and it came over smelling the fishy smell. It didn't run away when it saw the rest of us. It was probably because it was hungry, otherwise it wouldn't be so courageous!" Zhang Shaofeng laughed. Then, he picked up an old fish from the snow and threw it towards the little fox.

The little fox thought that the stone was thrown, so he turned around and jumped away. After running two or three meters, he looked back at the place where the fish landed, and then tentatively turned back.After confirming that it was a small fish, the old fish was swallowed with just a few clicks.

"Awesome..." Raymond also threw one over.

This time, the little fox only lowered his figure slightly and was wary. After discovering another fish, he quickly ran over and picked it up, eating it in twos and twos.

Just like that, after feeding several fish in succession, it was finally full, took the fish thrown by Lu Lu and the others, turned around and burrowed into the grass.After a while, he turned back again.

They are busy hiding food!

"Little thing, you are quite greedy!"

They threw two more, but after they were picked up by the fox, they stopped throwing them.

Fish and toads were still being fished out from the hole in the ice, and soon more than a thousand kilograms were fished out. But looking at the stirrer, he could still fish out a lot of fish if he just stirred it in. Lu Lu estimated that if he fished out another one, More than a thousand kilograms was no problem, so Zhang Shaofeng and Liang Kangbo were asked to continue fishing. He, Lei Meng and Zhao Yongke sorted and bagged the fish. Each person dragged two bags to the car and loaded them into the car. Stack them up.

Today's harvest was quite rich. In just one day's work, a truck was filled with fish.

Tomorrow, we will continue to lower the net in the river and open another puddle. Lu Lu believes that by the morning of the day after tomorrow, we will be able to return home.

As everyone knows, in the evening, when it was still some time before dark, I heard Yuanbao calling a few more times. Not long after, three wild wolves emerged from the grass, peeping around. (End of chapter)