Chapter 224: The Old Man's Cricket
Back in the small courtyard of his parents' house, Bian Rui asked his daughter what was going on, and the little girl told her what had happened, roughly the same as what Bian Rui had just understood, a group of little skin monkeys don't go to school now, and they don't have any homework to do, so naturally they only have to play, and they are still playing in different ways. It's so normal to make a fire, and if you don't hit these little things a few times a week, you will feel uncomfortable.
The villagers are accustomed to it, because everyone has been like this since childhood, and Bian Rui appreciates the children's state. Nowadays, there are a lot of toys for children in the city, but many children also lack creativity, unlike children in the countryside who have no toys, and if they want to play, they have to use their brains to toss, and a stick has to play tricks when they get it.
"Uncle Nineteen!"
Bian Rui was talking to the little girl here, Da Xun came into the courtyard, followed by a group of bear children, and the little girl who was constantly looking at the little girl with her two eyes was looking at her in front of Bian Rui, meaning to go out to play.
The children in the village are the skin, look at the Daxun group of boys, there are many people with tears on their faces, and it has not been ten minutes since they were beaten, and Lao Tzu's slap immediately forgot about it, and he ran over to play with his friends again.
The little girl waved her hand at Bian Rui, and ran out with her cousin with her calves.
Bian Rui looked at the back of the little girl and disappeared at the gate of the courtyard, sighed and rode back to his own courtyard on his scooter.
When I returned to the small courtyard, I found that the two old men were still sitting in the courtyard, and I didn't know what their heads were talking about, anyway, the dishes on the table almost left by themselves, and they were still what they were now.
"Why don't you eat?" Bian Rui stopped the car, came to the table, and sat down to talk to the two of them.
Before the buttocks had yet to stick to the stool, Bian Rui found that the two old men were holding a cage in their hands, and the cage contained a cricket.
"You guys are really good, where did you get this in a blink of an eye?" Bian Rui picked up the chopsticks, took a chopstick dish, put it in his mouth, and asked at the same time.
Old Man Wu said: "This is when we went to fight the fire just now, we asked for it from a little guy on the way, and Lao Yan originally had one, but his one was not good, and he was bitten to death by my one."
The smug look on Old Man Wu's face when he said it seemed that he had done something amazing.
Old Man Yan was not happy: "That's you cheating, I haven't laid it out yet, your cricket will bite it, wait for a while after eating, you wait, I will definitely catch a cricket that can bite you to death!"
Bian Rui didn't interject and let the two old men quarrel.
Just when Bian Rui was about to watch the fire from the other side, Old Man Yan burned the fire to Bian Rui's head.
"Xiaobian, where are you going to catch crickets here, take me there when you're done eating, I don't believe in this evil today, and I can't win against this old man!" said Old Man Yan.
Bian Rui listened to it and was ready to continue pretending to be dumb, but unfortunately the two old men had no intention of letting Bian Rui go at all.
Old Man Wu said, "Xiaobian, how is my worm?"
Bian Rui took a look at it and said sincerely: "It's really good, the physique is relatively large, and the legs are long, and he is a combative insect."
There are a few children in the countryside who have not played crickets, like fighting crickets or even fighting rats, but the reserved program of the teenage Bian Rui and his friends, although it is not formal, it is not like a set of experts who play insects, but Bian Rui's experience comes from actual combat, what kind of insect is invincible, naturally it is recognized one or two, to be honest, there is nothing absolute about fighting insects, but generally speaking, it is big and ferocious.
As the old saying goes, those who are afraid of being stunned, those who are stunned are afraid of dying, and it is almost the same if they are placed on insects.
Old Man Wu's worm is indeed good, but it has not yet reached that first-class level, so Bian Rui said to his father-in-law: "It's okay, I'll definitely help you pick a good worm later, and defeat Old Man Wu's one."
Old Man Yan was very satisfied when he heard it.
The matter was settled, and everyone concentrated on eating.
After eating, after Bian Rui cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, Old Man Yan couldn't wait to pull Bian Rui to catch insects.
Bian Rui smiled: "Wait a minute, let's not be in a hurry, as the old saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and we have to get a good guy to catch insects."
"What are you used to catch insects?" asked the old man.
Bian Rui said: "You just keep letting it go, you have to have something to put worms."
"Come, let's see what you have here," said the old man.
Bian Rui walked into the house with a smile on his face, and took down two wooden boxes from the treasure shelf, this thing was originally made to put small things, and now it comes in handy, although it is two circles larger than the exquisite professional cricket box, but it is better than nothing, so much bigger should be regarded as improving the living conditions of the cricket.
took the wooden box to the door, and the two old men grabbed one by one in an instant, and Bian Rui's hands were empty.
It just so happened that Yan Lan called at this time, and Bian Rui walked to the side and picked up the phone.
"What are you doing?" Yan Lan asked.
Bian Rui pointed the camera at the two old men and said, "I'm about to take the two old men to catch insects."
Yan Lan listened to it and said strangely: "Hey, didn't you say that peanuts were grown at home this afternoon, why did you change to catching insects again?"
Bian Rui smiled: "The peanuts are still rising, they are all fed with insects......."
As soon as Bian Rui also said this, Yan Lan was happy: "My uncle and my father have been tossing for a long time, and they are going to collect a few bags of peanuts today, and they have mentioned this to me several times, don't you know...... It's so funny."
Thinking of her father's excitement when he talked about peanuts, Yan Lan couldn't help but laugh.
"Lao Yan, are you sure this little padded jacket is a little padded jacket? I don't think it's even a bumpy shoulder, it's not leaking around," Master Wu heard the conversation between Bian Rui and Yan Lan, and joked at the old man.
Old man Yan sighed: "It's not false that people say that girls are extroverted, and if you have a boyfriend, you don't take Lao Tzu seriously.
The two old men chatted like this, and when Bian Rui put down the phone, they pulled Bian Rui and ran outside.
Crickets live under the wall stones, so you don't need to go out of the village to catch these things, you have to toss in the front yard of the house, turn over to divide the male and female, if it is the female, let it go, the male and the female will directly start to fight, the injured one is thrown directly, and the winning one is only saved.
In less than an hour, the crickets that Old Man Yan and Bian Rui were looking for lost four games in a row, and Old Man Wu's arrogance suddenly rose, and he walked with a sense of vigor.
"Today, I drank the celebration wine, the ambition was not rewarded, and the coming day was long stretching out his hand, sweet wine and blood...... Hey, hey, write the Spring and Autumn ......" Old Man Wu won again, and happily sang in front of Old Man Yan and Bian Rui.
Now they all rolled up their sleeves, the original short sleeves were rolled into sleeveless, and each of them had a grass stalk in his mouth or hand, this thing was funny, and the insects had to make the crickets angry, so that the two crickets could fight together.
At this time, a group of little hairy heads, more than a dozen people happened to pass by, and they saw the proud old man Wu Guanglong's little faces all written with curiosity, I don't know why the old man is so happy today.
"Grandpa Wu, why are you so happy?"
Er Chong didn't understand a little, what was the old man hiding in the corner of the wall, wasn't he hiding there and eating good things? As soon as he thought of something delicious, Er Chong couldn't help it, and curiously stretched out his head to take a look.
At this glance, he found that Old Man Wu was holding a wooden box in his hand, and after swallowing his saliva, he asked again, "Can Grandpa Wu let me see it?"
Erchong is still quite smart, he didn't say to eat but to see, so that he didn't seem so greedy, and secondly, he also understood that as long as he saw it, it was almost equivalent to his mouth.
Old Man Wu said proudly: "Can you only see it?"
Seeing that Er Chong nodded, Old Man Wu put his box in front of the little family provider, and then opened a small crack so that Er Chong could see the crickets inside.
"Isn't it just a cricket!"
When Erchong saw that it was a cricket in the box, he was immediately disappointed.
Old Man Wu covered the lid and said with a straight face: "What do you mean it's a cricket, I'm a winning general!"
"Bragging!"
The child is not afraid of Old Man Wu, not only is he not afraid, but he also likes him, at least he is much better than Zhu Tongqiang.
Master Wu said proudly: "Still don't believe it? Then you go to find worms, as long as you win my one, I will give him a hundred yuan, and I don't want your money if I lose."
When the dolls heard this, they all glanced at their companions beside each other, and said in their hearts: And this good thing?
Playing crickets is a normal thing for them, but they are all playing with each other, winning is an honor, and there is nothing to lose if you lose, of course, no one gambles and no one is willing to pay to play this.
There are not many children in Bianjia Village who have money in their hands, and the money here refers to the fact that there are thousands of dollars on the card, and often the children in the city have thousands of dollars or even tens of thousands of dollars of New Year's money every year, but the children here do not have it, and it is only 510 yuan a year. Because if you give it to others, they have to give it to you, and everyone will give five or ten yuan without adding to the burden.
Now that there are a hundred yuan in front of him, it is naturally a huge amount of money, so he asked in unison, "Really?"
Old Man Wu laughed and said, "Really, can I still lie to you little hairy children? Grandpa counts when he speaks, as long as he can beat me, this is only a hundred yuan!"
Hearing this, a group of children immediately dispersed and ran home, only the little girl did not run but came to her father's side, and the two of them caught the worm together.
After a while, the little girl was a little disgusted with her father, thinking that he couldn't catch insects at all, so she ran away after a while, so she complained a few words and came to the side of Old Man Yan.