In the middle of April of the lunar calendar, it is the time of the rural silkworm strike, and the farmers have moved the silkworm tools used for one season to the head of the river port to wash them, so that they can be used again when raising silkworms in summer, and the most washed naturally is the silkworm plaque. At this time, the weather is warm, the river is cool, and men and women stand in the water, laughing at each other and splashing water for fun. This is also the best time to catch minnow, and when I was a teenager, I used a silkworm plaque to catch a squid every year.
Minnow is a small fish, it is abundant, fast reproduction, wide distribution, lively, swimming everywhere for food, often active in the spring and summer on the surface of the water, when the weather is cold in the deep water winter. Minnows like to live in groups, and the most common place is the river port where rice and vegetables are washed.
When washing silkworm utensils, because the silkworm plaque has silkworm incense, and there are silkworm sand, dead silkworms, etc., attracting many minnows to come to dinner, whenever a silkworm plaque is put into the water, some silkworm sand and dead silkworms float on the surface of the water, they swim together, chase each other, scramble, crackle, chaos, completely unaware that there is a silkworm plaque below.
When catching them, it is best to have two people, standing opposite each other, holding the silkworm plaque with two hands, seeing them gathered together, in the largest number, the most happy to grab the silkworm plaque, the action must be light, the speed must be slow, because the silkworm plaque is very densely woven, the leakage is very slow, if the force is too fast, the silkworm plaque is tilted, the mackerel will be dumped out of the brain. Therefore, with the silkworm plaque to catch fish, the two must pay attention to cooperation, force can not be biased, to be stable. Silkworm plaques have a rim, when the surrounding plaque edges are faintly exposed to the water, the mackerel churning snow white body, crackling, scurrying, the scene is very exciting, although it is inevitable to sneak out of a few, but most of them have become turtles in the urn. If you come by chance, you can catch a dozen or so minnows at a time.
Although the minnow is small, manglea, but the meat is fine and delicious, if the number is large, can be boiled, can be burned, if the number is not much, the rice steamer can be steamed, as long as it is caught and killed, whether it is braised, steamed, the taste is equally delicious, this is a typical small dish with a farmhouse flavor in the silkworm strike season in the countryside before. However, at that time, there were many fish in the river, and the big fish could be caught casually under the river, and the small fish like minnows could not be seen at all, so they generally did not eat minnows. Usually, they are thrown to cats and ducks to eat.
Source: Tongxiang News Network
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