The geographical location of xiaodu village
I have a friend named Bing. He and his wife are both from xiaodu village. They bought a house and a car in the county. Now, his wife and children live in the county, but his parents still live in Xiao Du's hometown. Because his parents still live in his hometown, he visits them several times a month.
At a supper party, we ordered a fried snail. Eating A Bing, he talked about a snail in his hometown mountain stream, which is different from ordinary stone snails. People there call that snail a pit snail. Pit snail is fleshy, its shell is black, and its body is sharp and long. Common snails are mostly dark green in color, and snail meat is also black.
Pit snail
It's delicious hidden in the deep mountain stream, Xiaodu Village Pit Snail. Have you ever eaten this kind of snail?
I looked it up online. This kind of snail does exist. It's called Shankeng Snail. This kind of snail only grows in mountain streams, and the growing environment requires very high water quality. Wild pit snails in the market can be sold for 70 to 80 yuan or even hundreds of yuan a catty, which is ten times the price of ordinary stone snails. A Bing said that when I was a child, there was nothing to eat at home, so I often went up the mountain to pick it up in the stream and cooked it myself. It's been so many years now, I wonder if there are pit snails in the mountains to pick up. So I told A Bing to take me with me when I went back to my hometown. I want to visit xiaodu village. Go and see the lonely old people in the village and look for the pit snails in the mountain stream.
Xiaodu village is about 20 kilometers away from the county seat. We went to Xiaodu Village on July 16. From the county seat to the center of Hengbei Town, it is still a spacious road. When we entered the village, the road became smaller and smaller, because Xiaodu Village is a mountainous area, and the roads all go around the mountain. After going around the mountain road several times, we arrived at our destination. The air in Xiaodu Village, far away from the city, is exceptionally fresh.
Xiaodu village
After visiting the lonely old man in the morning, I couldn't wait to ask A Bing to take me up the mountain to pick up snails in the mountain stream in the afternoon. He said it's much easier to climb the mountain now, and it's all connected to the cement road. It takes 10 minutes to ride a motorcycle. In the past, it took at least half an hour to an hour to climb the mountain.
A stream on the mountain.
Snail picked it up.
I picked it up in the mountain stream for about half an hour, and there were indeed many snails in the pit. And these pit snails are exactly the same as those on the Internet. But they are all small and immature pit snails. It's estimated that the snail in this pit hasn't even grown up. A Bing said that there are snails in the big stream at the foot of the mountain, and they are all pit snails. But because the water is high, it is impossible to pick them up. You can only touch them. Whether you can touch them is another matter.
Daxi at the foot of the mountain
Mokeng snail
I touched the stream at the foot of the mountain all afternoon. Although the water was a little urgent, the water level reached my knees. After my perseverance, I still touched a lot of pit snails, and they are all large and mature pit snails. Because I have to go back after dark, although I have not gained much, I am very satisfied. It turns out that there is such a big specialty hidden in the mountains of Wuhua.
Mokeng snail
Mokeng snail
The snail we touched was given to A Bing's parents, and we rushed back to the county home that night. On the way back, I thought for a moment and mentioned it to A Bing. Xiaodu Village has such a good ecological environment and good resources. Why not use the streams in the mountains to breed pit snails and then buy them back and sell them to the city? Isn't this the way to get rich? Farmers in rural areas, especially in mountainous areas, are not unwilling to get rich by planting and breeding, but are afraid that hard fruits will not be sold and no one will buy them. If they get through the sales link, farmers don't have to think about this problem. As long as their products are cultivated and planted, we will help them sell things in the mountains in the city. Isn't that what we headline poverty alleviation people should do? Don't always say that getting rid of poverty and getting rich is the most important thing.