Chapter 42: The Horned Shell
The laity and the land god, two identities, many times Liu Daode himself is a little confused.
As a layman, he should still be qualified. As land, definitely fail. In fact, until now, he has not fully understood what the land god should do.
Helping others for pleasure, punishing evil and promoting good; When the road is uneven, he roars, and the gods block and kill the gods and Buddhas; he takes saving the earth as his own responsibility, and wears his underwear backwards to be a superman!!Is this what the land god should do?
Such a land may meet the wishes of most people, but it is not what Liu Daode wants to do.
Compared with these, he is now more willing to be a layman: planting some fields, raising some chickens and ducks, and living a good life every day. Look up at the clouds in the sky, go and stay unintentionally, watch the flowers bloom and fall, and be pampered and humiliated.
The laity also have the wonder of the laity, rather than sitting in the high clouds and cultivating the Tao, it is better to hide and dust.
Contemplating the Tao with the vulgar and seeking the Tao with the heart, everywhere is the Tao, where is not cultivation?
After talking about the eggs, Lin Xiaotong took out a few more photos from his backpack and asked: "Look at the insects in these photos, what kind of ...... are there in Liu Village, Hedong?"
Liu Daode took the photo, glanced at the top one, and laughed: "This is not a shell lang, you are still going to sell shell lang in the online store." â
I saw that the insect in the photo was huge, dark red in color, and had a single horn of four or five centimeters on its head, which looked quite powerful.
"It's not a shell, you can see clearly, this is a unicorn fairy. It looks a bit like the shell lang, but the unicorn fairy has a long horn," Lin Xiaotong hurriedly explained.
"That's right, that's it, horned shell lang, what's the matter, this thing is also bought on the Internet?" Liu Daode asked in surprise.
"Really, there are such insects in Liu Village, Hedong. Lin Xiaotong no longer bothered with the name issue, and asked a little excitedly.
"Of course, wait five minutes, I'll catch a few for you, and you'll see if it's okay." Liu Daode responded.
"Okay, I'll wait in the courtyard, you go and come back quickly. Lin Xiaotong urged. She was just frustrated for a moment and had the idea of giving up starting a business. Now that the peak is turning, the interest is suddenly rising.
Liu Daode got the order and went straight to the woods across the road with a plastic bag. Three or two steps, I came to a soaphorn tree.
This saponaria tree is at least forty or fifty years old and has a basin thickness. At this moment, several cuts were made in the bark of the shady side of the tree, and the sap flowed. Seven or eight horned husks gathered there.
Without his senses, he knew that there must be a shell lang here in summer, and when he was a child, Liu Daode often came here to catch shell lang to feed his own firewood chickens.
This thing looks fierce, but it doesn't bite people, and when you reach out and pull it twice, seven or eight shells will be put into a plastic bag. He carried it back to the courtyard. threw it directly on the table and said, "Look, isn't this shell the same as the one in your photo?"
"There really is" Lin Xiaotong carefully compared and confirmed that the other party caught the one-horned fairy. Then she remembered an important question: "Do you have a lot of unicorns here?"
"Many, now during the day, most of the shells are hiding in the grass, if you want to catch them, wait until night, it's not a problem to catch two or three hundred in one night. Liu Daode replied.
He did not exaggerate in the slightest, this husk lang is a well-known pest, not only sucking the sap of trees, but also often nibbling on pears.
Sometimes, hundreds of shells live in groups, and in one night, they can gnaw the pears of a tree.
"So much" After listening to his story, Lin Xiaotong completely forgot about the frustration he suffered on the soil egg, and was glad that he didn't leave directly just now.
"Of course, now is the most prosperous season for the shell, and there will be fewer after the autumn harvest. "Liu Daode is quite familiar with this thing.
"As for the unicorn fairy larvae, there should be a lot of them. Lin Xiaotong pulled out the second photo.
There's a milky white bug on the top, the size of an egg, and it's a little scary.
"This is the unicorn larvae...... It doesn't seem to be in summer, but there are a lot of them in autumn and winter, and they are hidden in the haystack. "This kind of white and fat bug, Liu Daode has seen it a lot of times, and he never knew what it was, but today he knew that it was the larva of the shell lang.
"After you finish reading these photos, the rest can be found in Liu Village, Hedong. â
Liu Daode patiently flipped through the remaining photos, and then replied: "This is a blind touch, the scientific name is Scarab, there are a lot of things that can be caught, this one with a silver star, we call it Ding Ding Shell Lang." And this one is called eating fish...... No, is there really anyone who wants these things on the Internet?" Liu Daode asked with some disbelief after reading the photos.
"Of course, these are all things I found in other people's treasure stores, and now there are many young people in the city who pursue fashion and unique personalities, and keep insects as pets. â
"These people are really idle...... What does it hurt" When it came to the general matter, Liu Daode realized that it was impolite to say dirty words in front of girls, and he took a sharp turn: "Okay, I admit that I am outdated"
Seeing that it was about time, he turned around and went into the kitchen to make lunch. Lin Xiaotong was also in a hurry, he caught forty or fifty tender ones this morning, and he originally planned to fry them at noon.
It is said that with the arrival of summer, the underground knowledge has also broken through the ground, and after molting its shells, it climbs to the top of the tree, making a sharp sound, announcing their existence to humans.
For this situation, the villagers of Liu Village in Hedong responded with only one word, that is: catch.
Because of its proximity to the reservoir, many places in Liu Village, Hedong, belong to sandy land. This kind of soil is loose, which is very suitable for the survival of knowledge.
In this season, the adults and children in the village come together to catch the fire with electric lights.
It doesn't take much effort, and a person can catch dozens or hundreds of them if he is busy for a few hours at night.
In the early years, when I caught it, I basically took it home and fried it myself. This thing is fried in oil, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and it is definitely a rare delicacy.
Of course, this thing can be eaten a few times by chance, and no one will fry it every day...... It's not that I don't like to eat it, the key is that it costs oil.
Later, someone in the town bought it for a dime.
Now the interest of the people in the village to catch it is even higher, and they can catch it in the middle of the night. Some of the brave ones even asked their companions to go to the mountains to catch them, and if they were lucky, they could sell them for one or two hundred yuan a night. It's worth a few days of work.
However, this thing has been caught every year, and there is still no sign of decreasing. The main reason is that there are many miscellaneous trees in Liu Village, Hedong, such as Chen Thorn, White Residual Flower and other shrubs, which will also molt on this side when you know it.
At night, the human eye is limited by vision, and can only catch it on the big trees, and the branches and leaves in the bushes are dense, and it is difficult to find the stored zĂ i that is known.
Liu Daode participated in this activity every year in the past, and he didn't do much this year.
I still found these in the house in the morning on my own thorn fence.
But he didn't do it, and the foodie has eaten a lot these days.
In this courtyard, I know a lot. As far as the eye can see, the ground is full of big holes and small eyes. Especially around the large poplar trees on the side of the fence, it is as dense as a mesh.
These days, foodies don't go out to hunt at all, and stay under the big poplar trees at night. When I saw it come out, I took a bite and swallowed it. xh:.74.240.212