Stone frog farming has great benefits, making money and getting rich is outstanding

Highlights: He frequently goes up the mountain at night, saying that such adventures are related to his wealth of over a million yuan. But why does he always come back empty-handed every time, covered in mud and water, in a sorry state? He worked for seven years and painstakingly saved 200,000 yuan. Why does he dare to invest it in this industry that takes three years to see benefits? See how Hu You'en spent ten years honing his craft, leading everyone to rely on stonefrogsto make money?

In August, the streams in the mountain forests are abundant. Hu You'en told the reporter that this season is the best time to look for wild stonefrogs.

Hu You'en: It is exactly the peak feeding season. Before wintering, it desperately searches for food to eat, eating until it is plump and fat for the winter.

Wild stone frogs generally grow in the crevices of stone caves in mountain streams, and are used to coming out at night to forage, so when looking for wild stone frogs, you must search along the water flow at night. But such an environment often also hides another kind of danger. Stone frogs are delicious with tender meat, and are exactly the delicacy that venomous snakes love. However, the dangers of searching are not limited to this.

Hu You'en: Balance.

Reporter: There is too much moss, it might be slippery.

Hu You'en: These rubber shoes do not slip much, rest assured.

Reporter: Can I use four limbs?

Hu You'en: Yes, along the wall, hold on inside with your hands.

Under the bridge made of tree trunks is a suspended mountain hollow, pitch black, and you cannot tell how high it is. The obvious shaking made the reporter afraid to move forward.

Hu You'en: Go.

Reporter: How high is it?

Hu You'en: Sister, boldly walk forward.

Reporter: How high is it?

Hu You'en: Do not worry about how high. It is definitely at least one story high.

Reporter: One story.

In less than two meters of tree trunk, the reporter was already drenched in sweat after crossing.

Hu You'en: Not bad, not bad, you made it across.

Only then did Hu You'en tell the truth.

Hu You'en: Below is a very high stone cliff.

Reporter: You did not tell me just now.

Hu You'en: If I told you, you would not dare to come across. In the daytime you absolutely would not dare to walk it. If you cannot see, you cannot see the danger below.

Halfway through, these two villagers who followed Hu You'en to learn stone frog farming began to back out. But Hu You'en insisted on continuing the search. He said this adventure was related to his wealth of several million yuan.

Besides danger, there were also constant small surprises along the way. A tree frog lying on the stone wall, and a lizard that accidentally fell into the bucket by itself.

Hu You'en: The lizard ran in?

Reporter: Let me take a look, a lizard, it really is a lizard. It ran into the bucket by itself?

Hu You'en: (The bucket) was just being carried along, and it probably touched it itself on a tree or leaves, then jumped into the bucket by itself.

Reporter: Good thing it is not a snake.

The group of five walked for more than two hours. The villager leading the way suddenly stopped, saw what they wanted, and started digging in a crack between stones in the stream.

Hu You'en: Wow, one. Beside the water flow, it is lying there.

Reporter: Lying there, a wild stone frog,

Hu You'en: A real wild stone frog. Wild, seems to be a female frog.

Reporter: How so? How can you tell?

Hu You'en: It does not have those spines here.

Reporter: Is it different from farmed ones?

Hu You'en: Farmed (stone frogs) have a whiter belly, while wild ones have a yellowish belly.

Compared with artificially farmed ones, wild stone frogs have smaller bellies, longer legs, and are agile, making them very hard to spot under natural cover.

Hu You'en: It is hiding in this spot, inside the stone crack, hidden in the stone crack.

Reporter: The water is so fast, will it not wash it away?

Hu You'en: Here on the side, the water is not fast. It hides right at the edge of the rushing water.

Reporter: It really knows how to find a spot.

Hu You'en: Right, it hides there waiting for insects.

Wild stone frogs are protected animals and cannot be caught, so Hu You'en released it back into the mountain stream.

Cheng Xiaoyun: (Wild stone frogs are) generally protected animals at the provincial level. They have always been prohibited from being caught. Once the amount caught reaches more than 20, you will go to prison and bear criminal responsibility.

After busying himself all night, Hu You'en returned empty-handed. From August to September, Hu You'en frequently goes up the mountain at night to look for wild stone frogs, and releases them after looking. So what exactly is he trying to do? And what does this have to do with the million-yuan wealth he mentioned?

On August 30, the reporter followed Hu You'en to his base. But as soon as they entered the house, the reporter felt something was off. Looking left and right, not a single frog could be seen.

Reporter: You cannot see a single frog here?

Hu You'en: They do not show themselves during the day, they are all hiding.

Reporter: Hiding?

Hu You'en: Look here, in this grass there is a frog. It runs fast, look, there is another one hiding underneath here, just a head. It is hiding in here. Look, one eye.

Reporter: Really, you completely cannot tell what it is. It is the same color as the stone.

Hu You'en: Right, it is called a stone frog. A male frog.

Reporter: This is a male frog?

Hu You'en: Black spines, this is a male frog, touch it, it is rather rough.

Reporter: It cuts the hand, but not especially.

Hu You'en: This frog is not too old yet. This one is exactly a two-year-old frog. By the time it is a three-year-old frog, its granules will be a bit larger.

Male stone frogs have black spine-like protrusions on their chests, so they are also called spiny-chested frogs, while female frogs do not. When talking about stone frogs, Hu You'en is very proud.

Hu You'en: This is the king of a hundred frogs, the most precious among frogs, very beautiful, look, its eyes are shining, red, it is the king among frogs, the queen of frogs, the frog king.

For this kind of stone frog, the market price can reach 120 yuan per jin. Under each stone slab is like a treasure bowl.

Reporter: There are so many in here.

Hu You'en: They like to live in groups.

Reporter: They like to live in groups, they all like to pile together, right.

Hu You'en: Right, they like to cluster together, hiding in one spot.

Reporter: Then why do they all hide underneath?

Hu You'en: They like dark places, cool places, they like to hide, so they are all under the stone slabs.