Chapter 63: Cicada
The woman was a family with three college students, and although they received money, the old couple treated the children like guests.
Their family is relatively young, and they have the physical strength to do these things, usually clean up the house, think about cooking every day, and wash the sheets and quilts for the children.
They were also willing to help the students do their laundry, but the boys didn't mind, but one girl was too shy to do it herself.
It can be said that it is very well taken care of.
But in general, when their family made money, it caused the eyes of the next door to blush. Next door is actually their family's own relatives, very close cousins.
The family is old, they can't do these things, they don't usually like to be clean, and their temper is notoriously bad, so they definitely can't do it.
No, they just want to be noisy, so noisy that the children can't live in their house, and it's better to be able to move to live in their house.
The reality is that there are such people, the more they have no ability, the more they will quarrel than others, no, they are so angry that they can't help it, and they came to Zhou Heng's wife to complain.
Zhou Heng didn't care about it, but it also gave him some wake-up calls.
He is engaged in breeding in his hometown, and if he develops greatly in the future, he will also have some moves that will benefit his neighbors, not to mention anything else, if he wants to expand the number of people he needs, he will inevitably invite people or something.
But the reality is that this status quo will definitely not work if you rely on playing the nostalgia card to manage, if you really have that day, you have to have a proper rule.
Otherwise, he himself has not become bigger and stronger, and he will have to be annoyed by these messy things.
You have to plan ahead, and you can't do thankless things.
Today's contradiction, in the final analysis, has nothing to do with Zhou Heng's father, because he has not received any benefits and benefits.
Zhou Heng didn't care about this matter, and went out with two small stools.
Wang Rui didn't care about these mundane chores at all, just took a handful of lard residue and followed-after he had just cleared the mountain rats in the cage, he had to continue to catch them.
The bait in the cage has been eaten, and if you want to put a new one, you have to change the place to put it in the cage. Always in a place, the mountain rat smells the smell and will not be fooled.
I don't know why, anyway, following these famous halls, he is very energetic, and it feels more fun than doing anything.
It is estimated that after going to school, he will have a lot to brag about to his classmates.
Today, the chickens moved on the first day, and the whole family watched it more closely, and after a while, they came to see, and after a while, they came to see if they could adapt.
In general, it was okay, nothing happened, except for a few people who were not team-minded, like an adventure king, always running to some remote areas.
Most of them are still crammed into a pile looking for food.
In the evening, the main event comes - they have to be coaxed into the new coop quickly.
Chicks are like this, at the beginning you have to teach them to enter the nest every day, and after a few times you get used to it, and then you will go in by yourself, no need to lead it.
The difficulty is the first few times, it is better to have an old hen, but now the situation does not allow it.
And now the number is still so large, a headache.
The big chickens have no plans to go back at this time, and they are also playing together, so it is very troublesome, and sprinkle some fine rice on the ground, which was originally to let the chickens follow the fine rice, but the big chickens are all rushing to eat it.
It's terrible!
Take a twig and chase it, the little chicken is more afraid than the big one.
I have no choice but to wait for the big chicken to go back first.
It's not too late, it's going to cool down in the mountains, so you have to hurry.
But some of the chicks are so funny that they go with the big chickens, as if the big chickens will take care of them.
Fortunately, the chickens walked behind, and walked slowly, just hurry back, and a few more must follow back, and then catch them back in a while.
Now it's really the whole family out, as usual, Zhou Heng is sprinkling fine rice in front to lead the way, and the chickens follow him in groups, a large piece of plush, chirping, very lively.
Wang Rui couldn't help much, so he followed the blind and saw that the chickens were moving slowly in the direction of the chicken coop with his uncle, and he couldn't help laughing: "My uncle has become a hen!"
Zhou Ying slapped him on the head: "If you can't speak, shut up!"
Wang Rui covered the place where he was beaten, and deliberately broke it blindly: "Mom, I'm not scolding my uncle, really, some places just talk like this." When others say they don't know, they say hens. How do I do this? My hen! Is this delicious? My hen......
Balabala, a whole bunch.
provoked Wang Siqi to think that this was something interesting, and followed the learning: "My hen, my hen...... Hahaha......"
Zhou Ying ignored this guy and helped drive the chickens.
Although my son's exam results are very good, he should be more gentle and caring, but why do I think it's so difficult to do!
Every time I say I'm not angry, I can't help but get angry, alas.
When I finally struggled to coax all the chicks into the new chicken coop, it was almost dark.
Because the whole family is catching chickens today, dinner time has to be postponed, which is a special case.
Hu Jinhua helped turn on the lights of the new chicken coop, added clean water to the chickens, and after reading it, he said: "Zhou Heng, you don't need it tonight, I can do it alone." ”
Zhou Heng said: "It's okay, it's not the same if I sleep here." There's something good to eat on the mountain tonight, so wait. ”
Wang Rui had already said that he wanted to sleep with his uncle, and when he heard this, he hurriedly asked, "What's delicious?"
At this time, before dinner, his stomach began to be hungry, and he was afraid that when he heard the words "delicious", his ears were sensitive.
Zhou Heng said: "You go and bring a bucket, and I'll tell you." ”
"Why do you want me to carry a bucket again?" Wang Rui roared as if he wanted him to do heavy work.
Zhou Heng couldn't help but say, "Yesterday you asked you to carry the bucket, what happened to the result?
Hu Jinhua laughed: "Then it seems that I have to carry the bucket." ”
As soon as Wang Rui heard it, someone mentioned it, then this matter is not in his hands, and the pot is successful, yes yes.
Zhou Heng can't do anything about him, wait for him to grow up, and then accept the education of society.
He took a thick branch and squatted on the ground to find it.
Wang Rui completely forgot the topic of three seconds ago, and he didn't feel embarrassed, so he squatted down and asked, "Uncle, what are you looking for?"
Zhou Heng replied weakly: "I want to find a stick to beat you!"
"Hit me, why do you want to hit me, I'm so handsome and cute!" Wang Rui pretended to be stupid, and by the way, he also pretended to be cute.
It's a pity that the uncle doesn't dare to beat his nephew, for fear that he will hold a grudge, what if he doesn't come in the future?
Zhou Heng saw that there was a hole the size of a soybean in the ground, so he immediately started, poked it a little next to the branch in his hand, and dug it again, the soil was loosened, and there was something the size of a thumb inside.
It's alive, and it struggles as soon as it's unearthed.
Wang Rui was stunned, how could this be like magic, looking at the bare ground, how could he dig it casually, there was such a thing?
It just so happened that Hu Jinhua also came with a bucket, and there was some water in the bucket, so Zhou Heng picked it up and threw it into the bucket.
Wang Rui asked in surprise: "Uncle, what is this?"
"It's delicious!"
"Can you eat this?"
"Why can't you eat this?"
"So what is this?"
"You won't even give me the bucket, why should I tell you?"
"Then can I mention it to you now?"
"Then you carry it, there are still things in the back, you have to keep carrying it. ”
So, Wang Rui took the bucket from Hu Jinhua and carried it himself.
Zhou Heng felt that after saying so many words, his mouth was dry.
He deeply felt the tiredness of his sister taking care of the children.
He searched the ground and found another hole the size of a soybean, and then dug another one.
Wang Rui couldn't help it, and asked again, "Uncle, what is this?"
"Got the monkey. This is the larva of the knowing. Test your biological knowledge, how long do you know how long you live?" Zhou Heng asked him rhetorically.
Wang Rui replied: "I don't know, we haven't learned this." ”
Zhou Heng told him: "Knowing this kind of thing, you see that it is very noisy every day, isn't it? When it reaches this state, it can only live for a few months, but before that, it has been hiding underground, living for three or five years, and even more than ten years, and the highest record is seventeen years." ”
Wang Rui's eyes widened.
Nature's biology class is really better than the books.
Zhou Heng said: "When I know that I have wings and can fly, it is the mating period, the female lays eggs very harmful, all of them are laid on the top of the most tender branches, so that the eggs hatch and eat the young branches directly, scourge the tree or crops, and in the autumn, it hides in the ground, has been developing obscenely in the ground, making holes everywhere, and eating the juice in the roots, which is very harmful!"
Wang Rui understood a little, looking at the thing that was dug out of the ground, he asked, "This is its larvae?"
"Well, this thing has eaten the roots of the tree for three years in the ground, and now it is going to the ground to mate and breed, and it will be a big nest! Zhou Heng replied.
If you dig out the monkey, you should quickly soak it in water, so that it does not start to change. After washing it for a while, soak it in salt water, drain the water and fry it, it is very delicious and nutritious.
This thing may be eaten more by northerners and less by southerners, but Zhou Heng will eat this here.
When the shell becomes known and grows wings, it will not be delicious, and you can only pick up cicadas and sell them for money.
Zhou Heng also picked up the shell and sold it for money when he was a child, and he sold it for a few yuan at that time, and he had a special sense of accomplishment.
In fact, the ancients still had a good impression of it, and they didn't know how many poems they wrote, and there were many cicadas as the theme in landscape paintings.
That's not all, a large part of the jade carvings of ancient people liked to carve cicadas and used them to make ornaments and crowns, a hobby that dates back to more than 3,000 years ago.
It is said that this is due to the fact that the ancients believed that cicadas were noble in nature, did not get stained with sludge, and did not eat sundries and only drank dew for a living.
There is such a record in "The Biography of Qu Yuan" that "the cicada sheds in the turbidity, floats outside the dust, and does not get the dirt of the world", which shows the evaluation of the cicada by the ancients.
However, none of them mentioned that the cicadas survive by eating tree sap or crops - maybe it has nothing to do with whether the farmers have a harvest or not.
Under the influence of the concept of "a gentleman does not go to the body for no reason", it is estimated that the literati believe that wearing a jade cicada that symbolizes nobility will make them look more like a gentleman, so it has become a trend.
Later, there were additional meanings such as "winning the first place in a row" and "blockbuster", which were even more popular.
Even in modern times, there are many people who love to buy jade cicadas, and another one is probably jade cabbage.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and Hu Jinhua and Wang Rui also followed him to find this kind of hole, and several people also dug more than 30 holes.
At this time, I heard Zhou Ying shouting at the bottom of the mountain: "Wang Rui, Xiao Heng, Xiao Hu, come down to eat!"
Today's dinner was later than usual.
But for rural people, when the farming is busy, this point is often still working in the field.