How to kill turtles in rural areas?

There is a small reservoir in our local area, with an area of about 100 mu. The water is not very deep, and there are many shallow beaches, which are very suitable for turtles to bask in the sun and dig their nests to lay eggs. These sand stones are formed by the accumulation of mountain streams in the upper reaches over the years. We locals call this small reservoir "Youth Dam". After the founding of New China, in order to control the mountain torrents coming down from Dongshan Mountain, local people were organized to build this reservoir for water storage and irrigation.

When I was a child, during the summer vacation, it was one of our playgrounds on the shallows of this reservoir. At that time, we could often catch wild turtles. Chinemys reevesii eats by himself, and the little turtle plays in a crock! Once bitten (sucked) by a turtle to his heel, he screamed through the cloth shoes. As soon as my uncle saw it, he began to cut off the turtle's head, bleed it, scald it with boiling water, remove the fishy mucosa from the turtle, and finally process it into food. Because the heel is swollen, it hurts too much, and I am not in the mood to eat.

At that time, I heard the old man in the village say that there is an ancient method, and killing soft-shelled turtles is the best way to make delicious food. This method is a bit cruel. Boil frogs in warm water to kill turtles. In feudal society, rich dignitaries hired private chefs, who cooked up a method that was said to be delicious. First, put the turtle in clear water for a period of time, and change the clear water every day to starve the turtle. After half a month, take the turtle out and put it in the pot. Cook it slowly over low heat, leaving a hole in it to let the tortoise leak its head. As the water temperature rises slowly, the turtle in the jar is thirsty and hungry. At this time, someone served a bowl of "immortal" soup made of ginseng and aniseed to the turtle ... After boiling the turtle in warm water for half a day, the turtle would drink a lot of artificially prepared "immortal" soup, and finally it would be stuffed into the turtle and processed into turtle food.

When I was a child, I heard old people tell me this anecdote about killing turtles, which was quite fresh. Those landlords and grandfathers enjoyed it so much! Now that I think about it, I think they are too cruel, so I eat them and make so many tricks. In reality, we have never seen anyone treat turtles like this, which is inhuman. Now there are no wild turtles in that reservoir, all of them are local cultured turtles. Villagers generally deal with soft-shelled turtles, that is, they bleed them, add boiling water to remove the mucous membrane on the body surface, clean them up, and then they can stew or braise them in soy sauce.