Chapter 1373 1380. Lower pipe (3)

Chapter 1373 1380. Lower pipe (3)

The fiddler crab is quite cute. It has a small body and big front claws. It has a square head and a square brain. Only one of its two forelimbs has a big claw. When it is waved, it looks like a Spartan warrior holding a shield.

Appearance is justice. Zhu Zhu's heart skipped a beat and she said worriedly: "It's over, the little crab is going to die."

Contrary to her expectations, the mudskipper did not hunt the fiddler crab that had lost its big claw. Instead, it used its mouth to hold the big claw that fell to the ground and sucked it.

The little fiddler crab that had lost its big claw was a little confused for a moment. It also thought that it was doomed - a beautiful woman met a pervert. After the pervert took off the beautiful woman's clothes, shoes and socks, could he let the beautiful woman go?

It met such a pervert today. The pervert hugged the clothes and shoes and licked them without even looking at the beauty. So the beauty knew that she had escaped and ran away quickly.

Several mudskippers are like this, specializing in removing the large claws of the fiddler crab and sucking the juicy and tender meat from it, rather than preying on the fiddler crab itself.

Seeing the fiddler crab running away and getting into the hole, Zhu Zhu patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief: "Phew, it was so dangerous, the little crab finally ran away."

Ao Muyang smiled and said: "Who said it ran away? It escaped from the tiger's den and entered the wolf's den. What kind of cave did it run into? There is a watchtower there, which is the cave of the mud monkey!"

Zhu Zhu shrugged and said, "It's okay, the mud monkey won't eat it."

Ao Muyang said: "Yes, the mud monkey will not eat it, but it will remove its legs one by one and suck the meat from its legs. That is scarier than being eaten directly!"

Zhu Zhu's face was as white as snow, and the sixth sister said angrily: "You are almost thirty years old, why are you always teasing little girls? Are you a psychopath?"

"Are you a devil?" Zhu Zhu realized that he had been teased again.

Ao Muyang waved his hand and said: "Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore. Come with me. There is a mud monkey cave here. Let's catch them."

Mudskippers are small enough to fit a hose into their burrows.

Zhu Zhu followed and watched. This time she did not ask Lao Ao a question, but asked Liu Mei: "How deep is this fish hole? Is it very deep?"

Sixth Sister took out her arm and gestured, and said: "It's not deep, let's go here, it should be a little more than half a meter?"

Zhu Zhu waved his hand and said: "In this case, why do we still waste so much effort? Let's catch them after they return to their nest."

Ao Muyang asked: "What if you reach out and grab a sea snake from inside?"

Zhu Zhu said naturally: "It's okay. Didn't you have a sea snake at home? It doesn't bite."

When he heard this, Ao Muyang felt bad. This silly girl still lacked common sense in life and substituted the individual cases she had come into contact with into the whole.

He said solemnly: "Sea snakes are poisonous. They generally do not attack people actively, but if you provoke them, they will attack you mercilessly."

Liu Mei added: "He didn't tease you this time."

Zhu Zhu said: "But the shortest sea snakes must be more than half a meter, right? How do they get into such a small hole? Why do they do this? For them, it is a prison!"

Ao Muyang was startled and said with a smile: "You are right, but it is really useless to reach out to catch fish from inside. Mud monkey caves are curved, similar to a J shape, and some have two openings at the front and back, which is a Y shape. , they have unstable turning points, so you can’t reach out and touch them.”

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore, let's get to work." He distributed the pipe to the other three people, pointed at the entrance of the cave in the tidal flat and said, "Insert it inside. The mouth of the pipe should enter the cave."

This is the most traditional way to catch mudskippers. Fishermen may have invented this catching method since the Tang and Song Dynasties. However, fishermen did not use plastic pipes, but mud monkey bamboo pipes.

Mud Monkey Bamboo Tubes are bamboo tubes, about 20 centimeters long, with bottoms and no covers. They are inserted in advance next to the mudskipper cave, and then a weir made of sea mud is placed on the original cave entrance to cover it.

Ao Muyang explained to Zhu Zhu, and Zhu Zhu was puzzled. She asked Sixth Sister: "Why do you put it next to the original cave? Instead of inserting it directly into the cave?"

Liu Mei was silent. She only knew that she was doing this, but she didn't know why.

Lao Ao smiled proudly and said, "Look, you have to ask me."

Zhu Zhu turned around and asked Lu Zhizi: "Teacher Xiao Zi, you must know the answer!"

Lu Zhizi said: "Well, there are several reasons for this. First, it is difficult to find it after the bamboo tube is inserted into the tidal flat. If a small dam is erected at the original entrance of the cave, there will be a mark."

"Second, there is a nursery at the top of the mudskipper's cave. They lay eggs here. If you insert a bamboo tube into it, the eggs may be destroyed."

Zhu Zhu looked at Ao Muyang, and Ao Muyang waved his hands and said: "They haven't laid eggs yet, so inserting the bamboo tube will not hurt the eggs. The most important thing is that the plastic tube is too soft. It's like inserting it into the ground like a bamboo pipe."

They used the cover of trees to insert plastic pipes into the caves. There were not many plastic pipes, only fifteen or six. This was an easy job. To catch mudskippers, the fishermen had to insert 156 plastic pipes into the ground at a time. Ten mud monkey bamboo tubes will do.

The tidal flat is very muddy, and mudskippers stay there to move around. It is not easy to drive them away, and people may sink in if they are not careful.

Under normal circumstances, mudflat bamboo tubes should be used in conjunction with mudflat boats. Mudflat boats are tidal flat troughs. Fishermen use mudflat boats to carry bamboo tubes and fish baskets, lay traps back and forth on the tidal flats, and wait for the fish to come out before driving them away. Schools of fish eventually collect mudskippers.

Driving a mud boat to lay bamboo tubes requires good eyesight. Fish holes must be seen in advance and avoided in time, otherwise the boat will pass by the fish holes and the fish holes will be buried.

In addition, the mud boat must be used to drive away the fish. Ao Muyang brought the previous inflatable mat and said, "You go to the side and watch me scare them."

He knelt on one knee on the inflatable mat and used the other foot to push the mud for power. But the inflatable mat is not a tread groove, it is difficult to control the direction, so he tried it but it was not easy.

Lu Zhizi pulled him and said, "Forget it, you stay with us. Come, Youfu, Yuanshou, come here, play a game..."

Youfu and Yuanshou are light in weight and can barely run on the mudflats.

Lu Zhizi pointed out the mudskippers not far away to them. In fact, they knew what to do without her teaching. They had always wanted to catch these fish that could jump on the ground, but Lao Ao did not allow them to do so.

Now that they were free, the two of them started running quickly on the mudflats.

Now it was lively. The male fish, who had been twisting his body to seduce the female fish, no longer cared to kneel and lick her, and turned around and ran away quickly; while the female fish, who had been lying in the mud and posing, ran even faster. They panicked and rushed into the nests they saw nearby!