Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News reporter Yang Yifan
Autumn is coming, and the clams are barking. For many people, fighting cockroaches is a scene that can be seen in TV series, and they also want to fight cockroaches in daily life? Seems a little hard.
For people near Liren Lane on Zhongshan Middle Road in Hangzhou, it is not difficult to encounter this scene at all.
In recent times, there have been more than a dozen people gathered around here, sometimes shouting loudly in their throats. The curious man looked closer, and it turned out that he was crouching on the ground fighting.
Today (October 17) morning, the hourly reporter met this group of players obsessed with fighting clams on Zhongshan Middle Road.
Today's Hangzhou, the sun finally appeared lazily, the sun sprinkled, everyone's mood is also very comfortable.
Near Liren Lane on Zhongshan Middle Road, two groups of people have gathered on both sides of the street, squatting in a circle on the ground, standing probe and looking inward, from time to time there are people passing by, seeing some people gathered, but also close to see, "Fighting cockroaches!" ”
The players who are fighting can be described as "fully armed", some carrying black one-shoulder backpacks, some carrying handbags, pulling open the zippers, and inside are one or two dozen small cans of various colors, some wooden and some ceramic. The jars are hooped with rubber bands, the leather bands are removed, the lid is opened, and inside is the clams. Players look at the cockroaches and exchange feeding tips with each other, comparing the size of the head and the combat effectiveness.
On the ground, there is a fight, and a transparent plate is the arena. Only to see the player use a small net pocket to take out the cockroach, connected to the net pocket, put it together on a small boxy electronic scale, weighed. The two sides weigh equally before putting the cockroaches on the plate, just like the weighing before a boxing match, the same level of competition is required.
When two cockroaches are placed on a plate, someone will use a straw to constantly tease the cockroach, stimulating its combat effectiveness. Then you chase me, and the fierce competition begins. Sometimes the worms seem to be not very aggressive, no matter how to play with the grass pole, it is impossible to stretch the fists and feet. Sometimes two cockroaches seem to be enemies who are extremely red-eyed when they meet, quite a "mountain does not tolerate two tigers", a flick of the grass pole, two cockroaches open their sickle-like teeth to attack, you come and go, repeatedly fighting for positions, until one side loses and flees.
The onlookers kept cheering, and the game was quickly decided. Cover the respective clams with a net hood, and after the slugs are picked up on the net pockets, align them with the mouth of the can, flick slightly, and the clams enter the jar, cover the lid, and then clamp them with leather bands. The player will pull another jar out of the bag and proceed to the next round.
The onlookers were mostly elderly men, and the process of fighting cockroaches was like a field commentator. Light a cigarette, often a cigarette is not finished, a round is over. Players crouching on the ground even have soot on their hair. Soon, a new round began, half-smoked cigarettes being crushed sharply under his feet, staring intently at the "battle situation" on the plate.
At noon, everyone was still unsatisfied, a player left, and immediately a new player joined the battle with a cockroach, "come and fight."
There is an uncle who has been raising clams for about fifty years, "I am old Hangzhou, and as soon as I came into contact with clams, I liked them." At most, I had more than 200 of them, and there were 40 fewer of them. ”
The uncle originally did not pay much attention to the conversation of the hourly reporter, but later heard that the reporter was from Shandong, which opened the conversation. He said that the place where clams are produced is mainly in Shandong, and the more famous ones are Jining, and there are also places in Hebei and other places that also produce clams. There are also clams in Hangzhou. However, when it comes to fighting clams, it is still the moths in Shandong that are more powerful. "Shandong's cockroaches can fight." In Hangzhou, there are many Shandong people who specialize in this business, and there are those who work, and every year when the time comes, they will turn around and go back to their hometown in Shandong to catch clams. Generally, it starts to be caught in August, and then takes it to Hangzhou to sell, and some can earn 60,000 or 70,000 yuan a year, and more than 100,000 or 200,000 have earned. Don't look at this small, in the local has become an industrial chain, very subdivided. There are different prices for caught clams, a few dollars cheaper, 50 yuan and 100 yuan for the better ones, and more than 10,000 expensive ones. Like the leather bands of the cans for clams and hoop jars, there are special people to make them. I myself will go to Shandong in August, like Ningjin, Ningyang I have been, there is a special market, buy clams to go after the store to eat, can drive the local economy. ”
The uncle said that in fact, he lived quite far away, but because he liked this game, he came every morning and went home in the evening. "Fighting cockroaches is also such a few months, the cockroaches are bought, it takes about a month to fight, and when it is around November, it is impossible to fight." Today the weather is good, and many people come. But since it is a fight, there are losses and wins, and some people see that my cockroach has won and want to buy my cockroach. When I encounter someone with an eye rim, I don't say selling, that is, I transfer it well, how much money gives him, hobbies, is to figure a happy. ”
On the side of the cockroach, there was also a Fan Dabo who was selling cockroaches, "Selling clams, 10 yuan a piece." ”
In a hand basket, dozens of large and small tin cans were placed, and the cries of clams were heard from time to time. Fan Dabo said that he has been in contact with clams for nearly 40 years, "On the words of clams, it is still the clams of Shandong, and the fights in other places cannot be fought." Every year I have to go to Shandong to buy clams, and the clams in the Tai'an area are good, like the clams in Ningyang, although they are not big, they are very aggressive. I sold more than 1,000 this year, and the last hundred or so left have not been sold. Pick the cockroaches have exquisite, there are more than 100 varieties of clams, when picking to see the body shape, look at the shell, the average person does not understand, certainly pick bad, I have been in contact for decades, a look can be distinguished. ”
At 1 p.m., the players fighting on the street had not yet dispersed, and there were still many people around, bending over, probing their waists, staring at the battle situation on the ground, presumably, and spending another tense and happy afternoon.
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