Feel the fun of children, regain the heart of children ……Dabao said:This summer and the water really barred, either in the play water or on the way to play water. This is not only a few days ago to touch the fish to catch shrimp, and today and a few friends to meet to go crabbing.I heard from my friends that there were a lot of crabs in Wolong Valley, so after lunch, we followed the navigation to Wolong Valley.There were only a few cars parked on the side of the road. We were a group of 3 adults and 4 kids, and the kids were each holding crab catching props, including clips, nets, buckets, magnifying glasses and so on.The people in the village looked at us all prepared and said with a smile from time to time, “Children, are you here to catch fish or dragonflies?

Several children said in unison: “You are wrong, we are here to catch crabs. You’re here to catch crabs in the middle of the day! That’s not a good job!We looked behind us to our left and saw an old man, darkened by the sun, waving at us. The children first cast a puzzled look at him, and after getting permission from the adults, ran quickly towards the old man.At this point, we adults also followed the past, only to see the elderly bare-chested two hands clasped in front of the chest, a navy blue breeches over the thin body, waist tied to an elderly cell phone.

She smiled and said:Children, I heard that you are here to catch crabs, so have you ever caught crabs before? “No …… no ……,” everyone shook their heads in the negative. Then do you know how to catch crabs? “The first thing you need to do is to use a clip, catch it with your hands, or catch it with a net,” several children answered. “No, no, no. …… has a great way to catch crabs.” The old man shook his head and said.Then, I saw the old man slowly walk towards the pavilion nearby, holding the railing, leaning his body, leaning his back against the railing slowly sat down. Then, casually from the waist of the black tobacco bag out of two drying grass tobacco, with thin can pull up a layer of skin and full of calluses hands carefully rolled, and then from the waist of the tobacco bag pulled out a five or six inches of tobacco pot, the rolled grass tobacco slowly into the pot, and then use a lighter to light the grass tobacco pot, watch the tobacco slowly smoke, he immediately with his mouth gripping the big tobacco bag, and then bar bar bar bar a few puffs The children just couldn’t stop watching.

The children just watched the old man’s series of operations with rapt attention, from time to time showing a sense of wonder, and from time to time feeling a little impatient, Dabao finally could not wait, so he asked, “Grandpa, you just said you have a trick to catch crabs, what is the trick? Can you tell us about it?The old man took a hard puff of smoke, exhaled a circle of smoke to form a thin layer of clouds above his head, and gave a satisfied “hmm”, followed by a guessing, puzzling smile on his face, and then kindly said: “Catching mountain crabs! It’s not that simple! The crabs that grow in the mountains like ours are very resourceful! They like to hide under rocks or in holes, so we have to turn over the rocks with our hands to find them, and even if they can see you, you may not be able to see them!

The old man said, “In recent years, as the Wolong Valley repair dam, the downstream river boulders were removed, no more boulders to fix the water, and now the water in the Wolong Valley is particularly rapid, the crabs have nowhere to hide, and slowly become less. So if you want to catch crabs like this, you will not even see a shadow!As soon as the old man said that, the children were like deflated balls, and they lost their enthusiasm to catch crabs.

The old man looked the children up and down, the lips of the pot bag, squinting two eyes almost blocked by the drooping eyelids, said meaningfully: do not be discouraged, grandfather is living in this Wolong Valley for more than seventy years, from the age of three in this Wolong Valley touch fish, catching shrimp, crab, which they can escape my fingers heart.As soon as the old man finished, several children got excited again and asked urgently: “Grandpa …… so now you can tell us the secret of catching crabs?”

The old man thought for a moment and then slowly said: “I have a unique secret! You listen carefully!Now let your mom and dad go to the nearby market and buy some chicken intestines, duck intestines, the stinkier the better, if not, buy some pig liver. Then prepare some threads, cut the chicken and duck intestines into strips, tie them up with threads, and then go to a place where the water is not too fast in the upper reaches of the Wolong Valley, especially to find that kind of rocky place with many seams, put the prepared chicken and duck intestines, and then sit quietly next to it and wait for half an hour.

At the urging of the children, the old mothers immediately drive the car to go around whether there is a vegetable market, about 7, 8 kilometers to a township market, after asking that the vegetable market in the market corner to go, because the road is narrow, we parked the car in a basketball court, walking to the market, looking for a good half day finally found a store selling frozen food, fortunately, she here things are still very complete, just what we want Duck intestines and chicken mushrooms.We followed the old man’s method and tied the duck intestines and chicken morsels with threads, then pressed them with rocks at the mouth of the rocks and put a few on every distance, then waited for the crabs to bite.

The children were so excited! I can’t describe it in words, they walked around for a while and looked at it again and again ……

In less than twenty minutes, Dabao shouted happily: Here is a small crab …… Here is a small crab ……

The actual crab was caught in the middle of the chicken mash, as if it was eating it with relish, and I hurriedly caught it with my hands.

In a short while, there were crabs in the other stone cracks where chicken and duck intestines were placed ……

A few of the children were happy, grabbing crabs in their hands while discussing the old grandfather who taught them the secret of catching crabs, admiring and thanking him.

Yes! If it wasn’t for the old man who told us the crab catching tips, we would have returned empty-handed, but now we not only caught crabs, but also learned these crab catching tips. It was a very fruitful day.