To the west of Songjiabao, there is a stream originating from the deep mountains and forests.

It is rainy in the south. Whenever the plum rain season occurs, mountain torrents will erupt. The mountain torrents will rush down with the streams, often flooding a large number of farmland and villages.

This was considered when Songjiabao was built, so for hundreds of years, Songjiabao has been in peace, but the surrounding farmland has been flooded again and again, and the losses have been severe. In the years of famine, the farmland was flooded, and sometimes it was impossible to even have a full meal.

Later, the village decided to block water between the two mountains above the stream to form a dam, which can prevent the farmland at the foot of the mountain from floods, and can also be used to irrigate farmland and generate electricity. It was also since then that the village had electricity and was spared from the disaster of mountain torrents again. The dam of the stream irrigate the fields benefited more than a dozen villages around. Even now, the canal built in that year is still in use.

In the afternoon, Song Wen and Song Hu rushed to the dam, and there were already crowds of people on the dam.

When the old and young men of Songjiabao and the people in the surrounding villages heard about catching water ghosts, they all came to watch. Some brave women even came over with their children. Some small vendors saw the opportunity and pushed the stalls over, such as cotton candy, clay-cutters, salted pears and tofu, which made this place look like they were going to the market.

After hearing the report from the soldier, the village quickly contacted people to rattle the net to catch the water ghost. Because there was a situation in the village where a child was dragged into the water by the water ghost, it was unknown. Now it has happened again, and the village dare not be careless.

In the old days, people thought that those who died of undestiny would always stay in the place where they died, and they had to be replaced by the souls of newcomers so that they could transcend the sea of ​​evil and reincarnate. The so-called water ghosts were actually those who committed suicide by throwing into the water or died accidentally, and turned into water ghosts wandering in the place where they drowned, waiting patiently, seducing or forcing people to die in the water to be their own scapegoats.

Later, everyone had a broad vision and rich knowledge, and realized that this was not the case. But at the same time, they found that there were indeed creatures like water ghosts in the water.

Many people think that the water ghost is the water monkey.

Some of the water monkeys are also called "water lion ghosts" and some are called "kappa boys". The names are different from each place.

Water monkeys usually live in water and sometimes go ashore. It is said that water monkeys have huge and mysterious powers, which can dig the ground at the bottom of the water and shuttle through different ponds and rivers. When people who fall into the water will drag them into the bottom of the water and apply mud to the victim's seven orifices, causing them to suffocate and die. In places with water, everyone has almost been warned by their parents in childhood.

Song Wen was no exception. When he was a child, he was secretly pulled over by his mother and said, "Be careful of being dragged away by the water ghost." Now he still saw someone saying this, and he thought it was an adult who scared the child, but it didn't seem that way.

Some people also think that water ghosts are actually otters. The otters are mysterious in their whereabouts. They like to live on steep banks, shallow river banks, as well as rivers, lakes and marshes with few water plants and nearby lush trees, and live in hidden caves. They almost always eat and live in the water. Only when they are hungry will they leave the water and go to the shore to feed mice and birds, and even venture into the village to steal chickens and ducks. Its appearance is smooth and looks like a child from a distance, so many people mistakenly think it is a water ghost.

Song Wen and Song Hu stood on the dam and looked at the dam. They saw more than a dozen men around the dam wearing half-body water pants and holding the trawl net, slowly surrounding the shore. Fish jumped around the net from time to time.

Song Hu's father and several team leaders in the village grinned as they looked at the big fish that kept jumping in the net. It seemed that the village was going to have another extra income.

Although Song Yuanshan is the village chief, that is just his part-time job. His main business is pig farming, and the villagers are called "pig farming village chief". He is usually very idle when he is a village chief. He goes to Yingmao in the morning, and then goes to his own family and does his own things. Except for the situation that he needs to come forward, most of the things are handled by the other captains themselves.

But even so, Song Yuanshan didn't want to be the village chief. Although the village chief had nothing to do, if the villagers had any conflicts, he would have to come forward. Most of them were brothers, house disputes, and land disputes, which were all things that offend people and were unpleasant. He said more than once that being a village chief was better than raising pigs and wanted to quit the village chief and refused to do so. Unfortunately, the villagers rarely agreed with him as a village chief, which made him unable to escape even if he wanted to.

However, Song Yuanshan also has a personality. It would be fine if he didn't do it, but if he wanted to do it, he would do it well. In recent years, Songjiabao has been booming and his life is getting better and better. It is inseparable from being the village chief.

The fishing nets are constantly closing, and the fish in the net are gathering more and more, densely packed, and some are constantly jumping out of the net.

But until now, no one has seen the so-called "water ghost", which has disappointed some tourists who heard the news.

Just as the fishing net was about to close, a hairy head suddenly appeared from the fishing net.

Everyone exclaimed, and the people next to them took out their AVs, cameras, and mobile phones, and were not afraid of the thing rushing towards them.

When the hairy head was exposed, everyone saw a round and honest guy with a few slender beards beside his mouth and a big fish in his hand. Seeing the people around him and the flashing flash, he was stunned for a moment.

"Otter."

At this time, someone who knew this thing exclaimed.

The people next to him also slowly saw it clearly, it was really an otter.

After seeing this, the villagers teased the soldier who was scared by the water ghost, saying that he was too weak and even dazzled.

Xiaobing just married a wife two years ago. After marrying her, he became thinner, but her wife seemed to be lush. The meaning of this was self-evident, making him look so embarrassed that his face turned red.

When the otter saw so many people around him, he jumped out of the fishing net and drilled into the water in panic. Some villagers grabbed the net and chased after him, but they could not escape the otter in the water. The otter had already disappeared after drilling into the water.

"Hi, what a pity." A captain sighed.

Otters are all made of treasures, meat, liver, kidneys, gallbladder, marrow, bones, feet, fur, and shit. They can all be used as medicine, and the fur is also a valuable fur product, so no wonder he said so.

Song Yuanshan next to him heard this, but said angrily: "It's best not to catch it, but something happens if you catch it."

Now the country is very strict in protecting wild animals. Last time, the Forestry Bureau came to the village to publicize that this otter is also a national second-level protected animal. If it is caught privately, it would be fine. If it is caught in public, it will be possible. Once it is reported, it will have to go into the cage for a free meal. No one will feel it will be a pity.

Seeing that there were no water ghosts, the onlookers were bored and dispersed. Some people also saw that the fish that had just been caught in the dam were fresh and active, so they wanted to buy them. However, the fish village had already agreed to sell them to fishmongers, and the car was waiting there. For a moment, several captains became embarrassed and looked at Song Yuanshan.

Song Yuanshan saw it, waved his hand, and said proudly: "Sell." Then he asked people to get electronic scales and bags in the village.

The people who were about to disperse just now came to buy them and picked the largest one. After a few strokes, the fish sold for seven or eight thousand yuan. Song Yuanshan and several village cadres were so happy that they grinned, but the fish sold were just a drop in the fishing net.

After buying the fish, the people on the dam gradually dispersed.

Originally, Song Wen wanted to buy a fish to eat, but Song Yuanshan shook it away. Song Wen immediately came over, not to mention that he would have fish to eat if he didn't have to buy it at night.

When I got home, before my butt was hot, I saw Song Hu sending two big grass carp over, and then left in a hurry, saying that I would go to another house to see it off.

When Song Wen saw that each of the fish he brought was at least ten pounds. Seeing that the fish was still alive, he took a large basin of water to raise the fish and waited for it to be killed in the evening. Seeing that it was still early, he went to the kitchen to take out the remaining wild boar and cooked it.

Yesterday I only ate the smaller female wild boar, and the male one didn't move. He wanted to make the meat of the wild boar into bacon and sausages and keep it for eating slowly.

There are many types of bacon, and the tastes vary from place to place. However, he prefers the bacon in his hometown. The bacon in his hometown is like the sausage, marinated with wine and sugar. It tastes sweet and has a very sweet smell, which makes him feel very stomach-stomached.

The method of making bacon is very simple. First, cut the wild boar into long strips, preferably 30 cm long and 45 cm thick ribs without dried milk, and then use bamboo sticks to pierce some small pores on the meat so that the marinade can penetrate better into the wild boar. After the wild boar is cut, put it in the marinade solution with salt, sugar, and white wine (preferably about 50 degrees). Marinate for more than ten hours, take it out and dry it. If possible, you can also use it to dry it. It is faster and the color is much better.

The sausage in my hometown is also called red sausage, and it is named after it looks red after it is prepared.

The ingredients for pickling red sausages are the same as those for sausages, but the ingredients for red sausages are strictly selected and they use front leg meat.

Song Wen didn't care about that much and put his front legs back in. The meat used to make red sausages should be cut into squares about two centimeters long, then add sugar, wine, and salt to marinate. It is best to dry it in the sun to let it fully absorb the marinade. After marinating, pour it in the sheep sausage, then take it out and dry it, and the red sausage will be prepared. This is the Nanzhou-flavored sausage and bacon, but the Nanzhou-flavored sausage and bacon are sweet and easy to attract flies, so be careful. Moreover, cats and birds also love to eat this thing. Cats can even climb onto bamboo poles with red sausages to enjoy the food, so be careful.

After making the local bacon, there was still a bunch of wild boar left. Song Wen wanted to make some sausages of different flavors. He searched online and felt that the Sichuan-flavored sausage was very good, so he decided to make this. The main reason was that he had also eaten Sichuan bacon, and it felt that the taste was good, especially the fried green chili pepper, which was really delicious.

To make Sichuan bacon, you must first choose fresh meat with thin skin, moderate fat and thinness, cut into standard meat strips with a thickness of 30-50 cm and 4-5 cm thick.

But Song Wen picked up the wild boar meat and looked left and right, and found that the wild boar meat didn't have much lean meat at all, so he had no choice but to use it.

After the meat strips are cut, rub them with pepper powder, fennel powder, and cinnamon powder, and put them in a marinating liquid made of salt, refined nitro, sugar, white wine, soy sauce, and distilled water. After marinating, take them out and dry them. Then put pine and cypress wood chips in a large iron pot, put them on the iron hedge, put the dried bacon on the iron hedge, cover the pot, heat them over low heat for fifteen minutes, let the smoke smell of pine and cypress wood chips smoke the meat strips thoroughly, and then leave the pot. This way, the bacon is made with color, fragrant and delicious characteristics, which is very delicious.

After Song Yuanshui came back from outside, he saw his son pouring red sausages, so he quickly took a stool and sat down to help.

It was already late at night when the father and son filled the red sausages, and the bacon soaked in pickled liquid had not yet come to time, so they had to make it tomorrow.

After filling the red sausage on the stool for several hours, Song Wen felt that his butt was a little sore and his waist was extremely tired, so he went back to the room to take a shower and go to bed.

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