Chapter Thirty-Eight: Old Liuli

"Hehehe, this kid is quite sensible, Lao Jin, I'm sorry for this matter today, this woman is the lover of the chief of general affairs, and she is also notoriously unreasonable in the compound, so you can take care of it, catch up with Ming, I'll take you when I swim again, just watch from the side, his boys still dare to come to find trouble!" Section Chief Wang smiled unnaturally, it seems that he is not without trouble at all, after all, he is a colleague who looks down and does not look up, but what he says is still very polite.

"Alas, I won't say much, if you have time one day, go to my house for a while, call Xiao Zhou, drink some together, I'll go first!" Uncle Jin was also very helpless, it was a good thing, but it turned out to be like this.

After leaving the police station, Uncle Jin took Jin Yue and Hong Tao back to the house on foot, and then chatted with Hong Tao's father about this matter, and Hong Tao was criticized by his father again, which was right and wrong anyway. Hong Tao doesn't care about being criticized, it's a pity that he can't go to such a swimming pool close to home in the future, although the section chief Wang said it very nicely, but after such a thing, how can you be embarrassed to trouble people again.

Swimming can't be done, there is no air conditioning in the house in the summer, there is no fan, Hong Tao can sit still, but Jin Yue can't sit still, always shouting to go out to play, and she has to let Hong Tao take her to play, but what to play?

"I'll take you to stick the dragonfly, and you can feed the chickens when you come back, do you want to go?" Hong Tao thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with a fun thing, so he could only go back to his old business and find the thing he was most familiar with.

"Good...... But I'm afraid of hanging ghosts...... "Jin Yue is more afraid of insects, and girls are generally afraid."

"I'm here, I'll step on it to death, don't be afraid!" Hong Tao stomped his foot, showing the majesty of manhood, and then Jin Yue grinned, not afraid.

The scientific name of the hanged ghost is inchworm, which is a white-green, chopstick-thick, and about 3 cm long meat insects, which are the most common on locust trees. There are generally three kinds of trees in Beijing's hutongs, locust trees, willow trees and poplar trees, and no one sprays these trees at that time, so in the summer, each tree has insects.

There are hanged ghosts on locust trees, crusty insects on willow trees, and oceanic caterpillars (caterpillars) on poplar trees. Among these insects, the foreign ones are the most annoying, and adults and children are all respectful of them, and they hurt and itch when they touch the skin. Hard-shell insects lie on the trunk of the tree in piles, and no one likes it. But hanged ghosts are different, they will hang down from the canopy of the tree, dangling in the air, and when a person passes under the tree, the latter can easily hang on to a person.

This thing doesn't bite, it doesn't sting, it just crawls on you with a bow and a bow, girls are very afraid, but boys are generally not afraid, they often catch a hanged ghost, secretly put it in the girl's pencil case, and wait for her to shout when she appears, for fun. Hong Tao often does this, sometimes he doesn't feel like it's fun, and he directly stuffs the hanged ghost into the girl's neck, and then watches them cry.

The consequence of this is either to let the teacher catch him and punish him in the corridor, or to be caught by other parents, scolded or kicked twice. But after a while, I forgot that I should do this or this another day, children, they all remember to eat and not to fight.

Sticky dragonfly is to use a long pole, smear a little sticky thing on the rod head, and then slowly stretch behind the dragonfly that falls on the branch to rest, touch its wings, and it will be stuck and unable to move. This very sticky thing is usually boiled with rubber, and there are also white flour mixed with gluten, but in the city, rubber is easier to find than white flour. Whether it is a bicycle inner tube, rubber band, rubber gloves and the like, it can be boiled, and the things used by Hong Tao are more advanced, which is the kind of rubber tube for infusion in the hospital, which is made of natural rubber, and the effect is better after boiling.

Boiling glue is very simple, find a small iron box, cut the rubber with scissors, and then put it on the fire to bake, wait for the rubber to melt into a thick liquid state, and then put the small iron box under the water pipe with cold water to flush, so that the liquid rubber will be more viscous, and it will not flow down on the tip of the rod.

Hong Tao's pole is his fishing rod, but this is not enough, because it is only 3 meters long, which cannot reach the higher canopy, and those dragonflies fall very high because there are always people coming and going below. He ran to the yard of his grandmother's house, found a bamboo pole with a rolling pin, and then inserted the tail of the fishing rod into it, tied it with a rope, and it was all over the place.

The tools of the sticky dragonfly are ready, but they can't be dispatched immediately, because the sun outside is very poisonous, and it doesn't matter if Hong Tao tans, Jin Yue can't tan, and he has to protect it! How can he protect it? Hong Tao has a way, he made a big sun hat for Jin Yue, and the hat ring is a thin wire tied to the chimney at home, and the fabric is a flower cloth cut out by the aunt who doesn't know who to change the skirt for, and it seems to be really good.

This kind of hat is very popular in the 8o years of the last century, when you don't usually wear it, you can put the hat ring into a figure of 8, and then fold it in half, the whole hat is only the size of a head, and it does not take up space in a schoolbag or pocket. As soon as you let go of your hand, the hat will automatically pop open, like the size of a small umbrella, and you can wear it on your head to protect yourself from the sun. In fact, it was all nonsense, the anti-ultraviolet function of the cloth at that time was very weak, and there was no reflective coating, so it could only protect against sun, not ultraviolet rays.

Hong Tao is made according to that kind of hat, but he doesn't have a good elastic steel wire to use as a hat ring, so the sun hat he made for Jin Yue can only be a shape and cannot be deformed. But in this way, Jin Yue is also very satisfied, she has a hat that no one else has, and it is still made of flower cloth, and the little girl of this age only knows that the flower cloth is good-looking, and other aesthetic views have not yet been formed.

Not only dressed up Jin Yue, Hong Tao also cleaned up himself, replaced the original short-sleeved white shirt and uniform shorts, and replaced them with shoulders and shorts changed from his father's old work clothes, this is called work clothes, sticky dragonflies are not a clean game, just holding the broken bamboo pole, you can rub a dirty sound.

Two children holding 5 or 6 meters long bamboo poles, walking and stopping in the alley, once there are dragonflies on the treetops, they slowly come to the tip of the pole, with the technique of Hongtao, it is basically nine out of ten. Do you need skill to stick to a dragonfly? That's a must, first you have to have a good eye, you can find the dragonfly against a lot of green leaves, and then you have to move correctly, you have to get the tip of the rod to approach the dragonfly from behind the side of the dragonfly's body, and you have to be slow, because the dragonfly has compound eyes, and the angle of view is very wide, almost 36o degrees, only the back of the body side is the blind spot of the line of sight, and it has vision for moving objects, and it does not respond to static or slow objects in time.

If the sticky dragonfly is particular, it will be put in a bird cage, which has to be owned by adults in the family who like to raise birds, and Hong Tao has no one to raise birds at home, so there is no such cage. The next order was placed in a cage made of window screens, and Hong Tao didn't have time to do it, so he didn't either. The simplest way he used was to clamp the dragonfly head between his fingers, usually two between each finger, and when he reached the age of junior high school, he could clip up to four.

Don't underestimate holding the dragonfly's head between your fingers, this is also a technique, you can't push too hard, too hard to clip the dragonfly to death. You can't be too relaxed, if you are too relaxed, the dragonfly will turn its head and bite your hand with its teeth, don't look at the dragonfly is small, the teeth are not small, and the bite hurts. In addition, you don't just have dragonflies in your hands, you also have to hold bamboo poles to continue sticking, so those who haven't played this and are not convinced can try it and see how many you can clip.

A friend who has played this said again, clamping so many dragonflies, will the glue on their bodies stick together! Indeed, the dragonflies that stick down are with glue, but at this time it depends on your glue boiling technology, the glue is too thin, it is easy to stick to the dragonfly, by the way, it also sticks to your hand, the glue is too thick, and the viscosity is not enough. Therefore, the glue should be boiled not thin or thick, not only will not stick everywhere, but also can stick the dragonfly, and after taking it down, there is almost no trace of glue on the dragonfly, which is the same as the chef's mastery of the heat, which is a long-term accumulated experience.

Jin Yue is only responsible for holding a dragonfly in one hand, she can't hold it more, and she has to free one hand when eating popsicles, and the dragonfly has to rely on Hong Tao to hold its wings with its mouth. After holding both hands full, he went back to his grandmother's house, then tore off the dragonfly wings and threw them at the door of the chicken coop. At this time, people have no oil and water, and chickens are also unlucky, and a few dragonflies can eat, even if it is a holiday to improve the diet.

With the same method, you can also go to stick to the bird, Beijing is called the bird, the scientific name is known, and there are many different species, there is a small one, called Futian, because it always calls when the weather is the hottest, and the sound you think about it carefully, it is very like shouting: Futian'er...... Fu Tian'er......

In addition to the adult insects can catch this play, the chrysalis form of the bird can also be played, and Beijing is called the bird monkey. It does not look like an adult bird, it is covered in a hard shell, the same color as sesame sauce, and its claws are full of spikes. Every summer evening, it emerges from the soft soil, climbs into a nearby tree, grabs the bark with its claws, and in the night it breaks out of its shell and becomes a winged bird.

This thing can be eaten, and it is very fragrant when fried in oil, but Beijingers rarely eat it. Even though there was no oil and water in everyone's stomachs at that time, no one thought of going to eat a large number of bird-catching monkeys. This truth is the same as catfish, people pay attention to a face, cling to something that cannot be touched or seen, this is the temperament of the city, and the temperament of each city and each city is different.

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