fishing the heavens

Chapter 2 Golden Silk Eel!
The slightly dilapidated house was like a bleak old man in the wind, lingering on his last breath, and the tiles in some places had fallen off.

It is very doubtful whether this house will collapse in the next instant.

But Beifeng knew that this house had been like this since he was very young, the only difference was that there were people living there and the tiles were intact.

"Squeak!"

Beifeng took out the key, opened the rusty door lock, and pushed open the vermilion door with badly peeled paint.

The paint color of the gate has almost faded, and the gate has been in disrepair for a long time, and there is a decaying sound when it is pushed open.

After entering the house, a flower garden appeared in front of me, but it was full of weeds because no one took care of it. On the contrary, several wild tea trees were growing well, and a huge banyan tree stood in the middle of the flower garden.

The trunk is as thick as three people hugging each other, but after hundreds of years, its branches and leaves are still luxuriant, casting a large shadow in the yard.

With a stone table and a few stone benches under the banyan tree, you can spend an afternoon with a pot of good tea after a meal in the hot summer.

Beifeng carefully looked at everything in the yard, no matter what it was, even if it was just a weed, in Beifeng's eyes, there was a sense of intimacy.

Pushing open the long-sealed door, a smell full of smoke and musty smell rushed over.

The furniture in the room is covered with a white film, but it is still covered with dust.

Beifeng put down the suitcase in his hand and started to work.

When I came to the storage room, it was full of sundries, including stone mills, hoes, and the racks that were used to plow the fields on the cattle.

Beifeng came out carrying a small black bucket. The bucket was not big, and it only weighed twenty or thirty catties when filled with water.

A rope is tied to the bucket and linked to a bamboo pole.

Next to the flowerbed in the yard, there are two thin bluestone slabs.

Beifeng put down the bucket and pushed the bluestone slab away with a little force, and several arthropods that looked like centipedes fled in fright.

The north wind is not afraid at all. Although these insects look scary and it is easy to think of the toxicity of centipedes, they are actually non-toxic.

A hexagonal ancient well reveals its true colors, about 1.5 meters wide, and is supported by stone bars in the well.

The water in the well is clear and bright, and it is dark at the bottom. I don't know how deep the well is. At this time, the water surface in the well is only about two meters away from the mouth of the well.

The water in this well is very cold and delicious. At least the north wind has traveled to so many places in these years, and there is nowhere where the water tastes better than here.

"Huh? What is this?"

Beifeng was stunned, and at the surface of the water in the well, a golden head the size of a baby's fist slowly retracted into the gap between the stone bars.

Beifeng was a little surprised. There were still living things in this well?
Beifeng became interested, and instead of throwing the bucket down to fetch water, he quietly looked at the surface of the water.

But there was no movement in the well for a long time, and the creature did not show its trace again.

After a second thought, Beifeng caught an arthropod similar to a centipede and threw it into the well.

After being thrown down, he struggled vigorously on the surface of the water.

It just likes a dark and humid environment, but it doesn't mean it can't drown.

After struggling for a long time, it still didn't work, and slowly began to sink.

A golden-yellow head the size of a baby's fist protruded from the cracks in the stone bars, and then at lightning speed, it leaned out and swallowed the sinking arthropod in one gulp.

Finally, it slowly retracted into the gap between the stone strips, leaving only the water surface shaking endlessly.

"Golden Blood Eel!"

Although it was only for a moment, Beifeng still saw the creature's true face and exclaimed.

My house is located at the foot of the mountain, and there is no land. How did this golden blood eel get into the well?
The golden blood eel and the rice field eel are of the same type, but they are a different species in the rice field eel. It is golden in color and named after the blood-colored lines on its back.

The flesh and blood of the golden blood eel is very useful to the human body, especially for men.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this golden blood eel was a royal tribute, and ordinary people who caught it privately would be beheaded.

After the founding of Huaguo, the golden silk blood eel became even more famous all over the world, and the price was as high as five or six hundred yuan per catty!
At that time, the people of Qingling Village made a lot of money, and if they had no money, they could just go to the fields and catch a few catties.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. Under such unrestrained hunting, all the golden blood eels were caught.

The last time the golden thread blood eel appeared was more than ten years ago. At that time, the gold thread blood eel was sold for a high price of 8000 yuan!

And now more than ten years have passed, and now this golden blood eel weighs at least one catty!

At least you can buy two or three thousand!Beifeng was moved, tens of thousands of dollars was a huge sum of money for me now.

I didn't care about cleaning the house right now, I just walked away quickly and rummaged through the storage room.

"I found it. I didn't expect it to still work after so many years."

Beifeng found a bamboo pole about three meters long, with a bright red fishing line tied to the end of the bamboo pole.

Walking out of the house, Beifeng rummaged through the flower garden and found two earthworms, put them on the fishhooks, and ran to the side of the ancient well excitedly.

He directly threw the hook with the earthworms on it next to the cave of the golden blood eel, and the fat earthworms kept twisting their bodies.

The golden blood eel naturally sensed it, and slowly poked its head out, observed it for a few seconds, and then swallowed the earthworm in one gulp.

"Hooked!"

Beifeng felt a strong force coming from him, and then he held up the fishing rod without hesitation, but he couldn't let the golden blood eel get into the hole, otherwise he wouldn't be able to catch it.

The golden blood eel struggled hard, trying to get into the hole, but in terms of strength, the north wind was better!
After struggling for a while, the golden blood eel was picked up by the north wind.

"Don't unhook!"

Beifeng prayed silently. It was easy to be freed by him when he was in mid-air. Once he was freed, whether he could catch him again depended on God's will.

Fortunately, what Beifeng was worried about did not happen, and the golden blood eel was pulled out of the wellhead.

Beifeng realized that he still underestimated the weight of the golden blood eel. This golden blood eel was about 1.2 meters long, with a thick bloody pattern running through his body!
Beifeng grabbed the golden blood eel struggling on the ground and was about to take out the hook.

Otherwise, the dead golden blood eel would be worthless. The hook is not deep, and it only pierces through the gills of the golden blood eel.

Beifeng grabbed the head of the golden blood eel with one hand and took the hook with the other.

It took a long time to take the hook, because there were barbs, and the golden blood eel didn't cooperate.

"what!"

North Wind let out a cry of pain.

But when the hook was taken out, the golden blood eel suddenly twisted and struggled, and the hook pierced into Beifeng's finger.

"It's a good thing I didn't stab the barb in, otherwise it would be troublesome."

Beifeng pulled out the hook, thinking of it with some luck.

There was also a drop of bright red blood on the tip of the finger. With a flick of Bai Feng's hand, the blood flew out and dripped on the mouth of the ancient well.

(End of this chapter)