Chapter 989: Delicious Bugs
From the moment the insect appeared, Li Qingyun also saw that it was actually eight or nine centimeters long, with a black and shiny shell, like a beetle, but with branches, like a centipede, with many legs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There are two large tongs on its head, which are sharp tools for chewing food, and the movement is extremely fast, and the workers have slapped it with a shovel a few times, but they have not been able to shoot it to death, and it can always hide in the best position to avoid attacks.
This insect has a strange appearance, some familiar, like a common insect in the ground, but that insect is only two or three centimeters, and it is not so ferocious. The big teeth on the head and the small branches can be bitten off, and if the ground is full of such insects, it is estimated that even the greenhouse will be destroyed by them.
Finally, there was a fast-moving worker, holding a large pair of pliers, and clamped the struggling bugs. After being clamped, the insect still "squeaks" and grinds its teeth, struggling with pressure, and biting its teeth on the metal of the pliers, making unpleasant noises.
"What kind of thing is this, why is it murderous? Oh, if you bite your hand, it will definitely bleed, but I don't know if it's poisonous. The worker exclaimed in horror.
Li Tiezhu also frowned and said, "Boss, I haven't seen this thing before, I've been planting it for decades, and I've never caught such a bug." If the ground is full of these insects, this year's greenhouse vegetables will definitely be finished. ”
Li Qingyun took the big tongs, looked at this insect carefully, and vaguely felt that it had a bit of aura on it, and it was not an insect that grew in an ordinary place.
So he clamped it hard, feeling that he could flatten a piece of pig iron, so he clamped it to death, and his legs and feet were still twitching. The hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, and this characteristic can also be seen in it.
"Send a photo to the experts of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and ask them if they know this bug. Li Qingyun threw the pliers and the corpses of the insects to the ground and said to Li Tiezhu beside him.
The worker agreed, took a few photos with his mobile phone, and sent them to the experts of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
At this time, the gold and copper coins were drooling at the corpse of the insect, with an expression that they wanted to eat but did not dare to come forward.
"Hmm, do you want to eat?" Li Qingyun smiled, so he pointed to the insect corpse on the ground and said, "You can eat it if you want, I will feed you the antidote if you are poisoned." ”
When the gold and copper coins heard this, they were immediately unwelcome, and at the same time they pounced forward, and the eight or nine centimeter insects were actually half robbed by their dogs, and they crunched in their mouths, and their saliva flowed all over the ground.
"Oops, it looks delicious. Dad, what kind of bug is this, I want to eat it too. "Insects are naturally curious, they are not afraid of heaven and earth, insects look like black centipedes, and he is actually interested in eating.
Keke looked disgusted and said, "If you dare to eat insects, I'll tell my aunt and let her spank you." It's such a disgusting bug, it's so ugly, I won't eat it. ”
The insect looked at the sky with a small face, looking too lazy to pay attention to you: "Hmph, the interception monkey is also ugly, who rushed to eat it?"
"What is the interception monkey, I didn't rush to eat it. Keke looked dismissive.
Li Qingyun didn't have time to pay attention to the childish arguments of the two children, but he was curious that the hound actually ate this kind of bug, and the hard shell could actually be chewed to pieces, and after swallowing it, he still looked unsatisfied.
Do animals like to eat this bug? Does it taste good or is it because of the aura?
But even if the hounds like to eat, they can't be allowed to arch all over the ground looking for black bugs, in that case, all the vegetables in the greenhouse will really be destroyed.
Moreover, this kind of insect is very difficult to catch, four or five workers here, turned over for a long time, and it was the first insect caught alive just now.
Next, Li Qingyun went to check in other greenhouses, the situation was quite serious, and the insects were extremely difficult to catch, they didn't seem to have a fixed nest, no matter where they were dug from, it was difficult to find them. Occasionally, when workers see them and wear gloves to catch them, they often quickly flee and disappear.
When Li Qingyun made a round, the experts of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences had already replied, saying that they had never seen this kind of insect, and they had asked several insect experts for advice, and they would reply as soon as there was news.
Li Qingyun couldn't wait any longer, and after sending the insects and Keke home, he went to the No. 3 and No. 2 farms to check, the situation was not very good, they were similar, and there were signs of being plagued by unknown insects.
This situation was very strange, Li Qingyun ran to the village next door in one breath, found those ordinary crops, and found no obvious abnormalities.
In other words, these bugs are specially here for his spirit plant?
At this time, there was a slight vibration in the direction of Snake Valley, which was difficult for ordinary people to detect, and cultivators could clearly feel the vibration underground.
"You can't escape from the Snake Valley, right?" Li Qingyun frowned, when encountering this new type of insect, the farm workers were helpless, and they could only use the methods of cultivators to slowly catch it out and kill it.
Li Qingyun avoided the tourists, entered the deep mountains, and found some similar black bugs near the Snake Valley. After searching with divine thoughts, he can also sort it out, but it consumes too much spiritual power, and after searching a radius of several kilometers, Li Qingyun only caught a dozen black beetles, gathered together, and made a strange squeaky sound.
Li Qingyun felt that these insects were close relatives of centipedes, but they were thicker and fatter than centipedes, uglier and more powerful in attack.
Found a hillside where no one was around, and his spirit body carried these black bugs into a small space. Then catch a small fish and put it with these bugs.
The big mouth of the insect bit the fish fiercely, and after only a few bites, the fish was paralyzed, struggling weaker and weaker, and finally eaten by these insects, only a skeleton remained.
Li Qingyun frowned and frowned even deeper, this is the master of meat and vegetarian food, they eat vegetable roots, even living animals, if they gather in large numbers, they will even attack humans. Children can also get bitten if they accidentally come across them.
However, through this fish, Li Qingyun can also be regarded as testing the toxicity on its body, which is not much different from ordinary centipedes.
So his spirit body grabbed a black insect with his hand, and with ingenious spiritual power, he peeled off the hard shell of its body little by little, revealing the tender flesh like white jade inside, snow-white and soft, under the illumination of the sun stone, exuding a charming light, and it looked very appetizing.
"Haha, I can't imagine that such an ugly insect has such delicate flesh. Li Qingyun's spirit body returned to his body, cut some snow-white insect meat with a knife, and put it in his mouth to taste.
The taste is extremely delicious, with a faint aura, and even a faint scent of grass, which should be the special fragrance brought by their gnawing on grass roots.
It's a taste that has never been tasted before, and it can't be described specifically, but the umami flavor is definitely a few levels higher than that of lobster. Even if he is on Moon Island in Hainan, the lobsters mixed with Lingquan water are not as delicious as this kind of bug.
"This is fate, if you eat my vegetables and destroy our crops, and if we catch them, we will eat you. Hmm, it tastes so good. Li Qingyun was extremely skilled with a knife, and he finished cutting this insect in three or five strokes, and easily peeled off the digestive line on their tail.
After eating this bug, Li Qingyun closed his eyes and carefully observed the changes in his body to see if there was a poisoning reaction. As a result, there was no poisoning, and after entering the stomach, it suddenly turned into a warm aura, moisturizing the limbs.
"If it weren't for the scourge of all my vegetables, I would have left you behind and had plans to breed a large number of them...... "Li Qingyun was suddenly amused by his thoughts, yes, now that he owns the entire land of Lijiazhai, the territory is getting bigger and bigger, and it is not a piece of cake to find a place to breed insects?
Thinking of this, Li Qingyun was already moved by his own thoughts, such a delicious insect, and he had never seen it before, and it also had the effect of increasing the aura in the body, even if it was not sold, it was a great thing for his own people to enjoy it.
So he got up and ran home, deciding to gather all the spirits and go to the shed to catch insects. Searching for traces of insects with divine thoughts, and then using aura to build a web to catch them, although extremely laborious, is also the only way at present.
Gong Xinghe, Chu Yingtai, Zheng Xinyan and the others have just finished urging the newcomers to complete today's cultivation task, and after a little rest, they have to go to the tourist area to participate in voluntary labor, which is rewarded with an elixir.
Now that Li Qingyun came back, he said that he wanted all the spiritual cultivators to participate in the task of "catching insects", and even the spiritual cultivators of the Three Realms had to participate, which immediately confused everyone.
However, when Li Qingyun put the black beetle he caught in front of them, through this glass jar, he could also feel the terrifying destructive power of this insect, and he immediately stopped saying anything.
When Li Qingyun peeled off the shell of a black beetle and used a knife to cut the snow-white live insect into small pieces of meat for them to taste, these people's eyes lit up, and they suddenly showed a trace of excitement.
After eating spiritual food for a few years, the taste has long been cultivated, and ordinary food has long been unable to enter their eyes. Even the daily consumption of spiritual plants does not have the initial freshness. At this time, when I tasted this insect meat, which was obviously different from normal food, my saliva almost flowed out.
In the delicious meat, there is actually a fragrance of clear grass, and after the lower abdomen, there is still an obvious aura spreading in the abdomen, which shows that the aura content in the meat has reached the level of a certain elixir.
Zheng Xinyan is a real foodie and a top chef, his eyes lit up with excitement, and he shouted: "What kind of bug is this, it really escaped from the Snake Valley? How many are on our farm, I have it all...... Catch them all, they are all caught, and they are a hundred times more delicious than fried scorpions and centipedes. With this bug, I wasn't even interested in taking a closer look at the lobster sent by Moon Island. ”
"It tasted so good and made me feel like eating spiritual food for the first time. But your appetite is always endless, and in the past two years, even the wild boar, saury, baby fish and the like have been eaten boringly. Suddenly encountered a fresh delicacy, say nothing can not be missed, let's go and catch it now, no matter how difficult it is, I will not catch a hundred today, and I will never rest. Chu Yingtai, the richest man in Nanyang, is also like an old farmer in the countryside who has never seen the world, rolled up his sleeves and was about to go to the greenhouse.
Gong Xinghe nodded reservedly, wanting to say something, but when he saw a few people who had never tasted insect meat, drooling, looking at the ugly insects in the glass jar, he suddenly lost his interest in speaking.
"I won't waste time, all the spiritual cultivators will stay, and all the newcomer martial cultivators will go to the Nanshan tourist area to perform the tasks according to the tasks arranged before. ”
Having said that, Gong Xinghe had already run home, quickly changed a pair of shoes, took a large glass jar that was used for soaking wine before, and ran to the nearest greenhouse.
"Let's compete today, see who catches more, eats more if you catch more, and eats less if you catch less, this rule is the fairest. The kid of the Li family just said that he wants to breed these insects, and we can't eat them all, at least we have to keep ninety percent of what we caught. ”
Before he finished speaking, Gong Xinghe had already entered the lettuce greenhouse and began to search for the traces of underground insects with his divine thoughts.
Everyone was dumbfounded, and secretly sighed that Jiang was still old and spicy, and the speed of Gong Xinghe really made Wu Xiu embarrassed.
The crowd was not willing to be left behind, and they returned to their homes as quickly as possible, found suitable containers, and rushed into the lettuce shed to snatch this ugly delicacy.
Li Qingyun was stunned by everyone's enthusiasm, he really deserved to be a group of foodies, such an ugly bug, eating raw without a trace of psychological barriers?
But when you think about it, it feels normal, after all, after this kind of bug peels off its hard shell, it is not much different from shrimp, and there is no disgusting liquid of that kind of soft bug.
So after he arranged for a few martial artists to go to the Nanshan tourist area on duty, he also walked into the lettuce greenhouse, and after entering, he was suddenly startled, the fastest Gong Xinghe had already caught seven. The largest one is twelve centimeters long, and the smallest one is eight centimeters long.
This kind of insect is better than centipede in that it is thicker in size, and it is full of white and tender fine meat, which is more suitable for making ingredients than the dry insect of centipede.
However, the taste of centipedes, Li Qingyun also likes it very much, wrapped in a layer of batter, put it in the oil pan and fry it, that kind of fragrance, I still feel delicious.
Scorpions are also a similar method, and as for the more complicated method, Li Qingyun has not tried it personally.
But this black beetle can obviously have other cooking methods, it can be eaten raw, and frying will destroy the original umami, but cold dressing, barbecue, stir-frying...... It seems like you can all try.
When Li Qingyun thought of this, he didn't waste any more time, he just wanted to release his divine thoughts to catch insects, and suddenly found out that he was a "Three Realms Martial Cultivator". The insect that I brought back just now can be said to have been caught by someone else, and now in front of everyone, he released a powerful divine sense, and it is estimated that as long as he is not a fool, he can guess that he is a freak of Lingwu Shuangxiu.
He already has too many secrets on him, and he doesn't want to shock everyone anymore.
So Li Qingyun had to patrol around to see everyone catch insects, just half an hour passed, in this lettuce greenhouse, everyone actually caught more than 100 insects, and then combed this greenhouse.
It's scary to think about, if you wait for tomorrow, these lettuces may be eaten by insects.
The workers followed these "mysterious Jianghu people" to the next vegetable greenhouse, and Li Qingyun sprinkled space spring water on the lettuce with yellow leaves in the unmanned greenhouse, and saved them as much as possible. Otherwise, not to mention how much money is lost, it will be too faceless to delay the use of partners. (To be continued.) )