Hong Tao paid the money, asked the salesman to find a broken cardboard box, put the 5 cricket cans in it, and then followed the old man out of the store with the box. Hong Tao didn't guess wrong at all, the old man was a force double, he pedaled a tricycle to help people transport goods. However, his tricycle is different from other people's, the iron work of the whole car is polished, the same as stainless steel, and there is a big pure copper bell hanging on the handlebar, the kind that rings when you beat it, it looks so neat and clean, and the old man himself is dressed in a disguise.

"Old man, your car is amazing! What brand is this?" Hong Tao glanced at the logo of this car, it was a villain with a gun, and he had really never seen it.

"Hey, hey, this car is still my father's thing, this is called a German war, 25 years, but unfortunately the accessories can't be bought, and there is one less broken one, just like me, the old man, one day less than one day, get in the car, grandpa will pull you away!" The old man patted the seat of the pure cowhide, and the leather was ground black in some places, but the luster was not reduced.

One old and one young, the old pedaling, the young car, all the way to the north, and after a while, they came to the Gudlin Restaurant at the southeast corner of the Beixinqiao intersection. The restaurant is now gone, and with the rise of Gui Street, it has become too much of a hindrance, and was demolished at the beginning of this century and replaced with a two-story building. The hottest thing to sell in Gudelin is the stewed fire, Hong Tao came here with his wife to eat a bowl of braised stew when he had nothing to do in his last life, and the taste was very authentic.

Unexpectedly, in this era, there is no stew to sell here, only all kinds of stir-fried vegetables and liquor and beer. Hong Tao and the old man found a quiet place inside, asked for 3 side dishes, a bottle of two pots and a glass of beer, sat down to drink slowly and chatted slowly.

"Then grandpa, are you a banner man, right? Hong Tao knew the approximate origin of the old man from the old man's surname, and the general surnames were Tong, Guan, Suo, He, Fu, Na, and Lang, and there were many banner people, all of whom were changed from their Manchu surnames.

"You know this? That grandfather was born in the white flag. The old man took a sip of wine, sandwiched a piece of chopsticks and lamb head meat, and did not hide it from Hong Tao, telling his origin.

"Hey, hey, it's still on the three flags, no wonder you know how to play with insects. As soon as Hong Tao heard the old man's background, he knew why he understood these things, carrying cages and birds, playing insect cockfighting, these were the best skills of those Eight Banners in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

"That's right, this little thing in my stomach has been passed down from my grandfather's generation, but it's a pity that I don't need it now!" The old man was very lonely, and it was estimated that he remembered the scenery of his own home again.

"Hey, thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, maybe one day I have to turn back. Hong Tao could only comfort and comfort this old man, but what he said was the truth, those literary toys and antiques in the later generations were not all leftovers from the children of the Eight Banners, and they were still prosperous.

"Yes, borrow your good words, don't fool me with words, since I drank your wine, I will definitely not drink in vain, let's start with this cricket, you can't remember it if you say too much, just this cricket you can understand, even if it is a skill. The old man was reluctant to talk about his family, and brought the topic back to the crickets.

"Cheng, you say, I'll listen!" Hong Tao himself was not idle, and made a glass of beer to drink by himself.

The old man's wine was very large, and after half a bottle of Erguo was down, his face was only a little red, and his speech did not change at all. And he didn't eat much yet, just drank dry, one sip was a small half-white porcelain cup, and then said a paragraph, and then another sip, and a glass of wine was gone.

Today, Hong Tao can be regarded as opening his eyes, and he feels that he has appeared a rare figure, that is, the old man who pulls the tricycle. The rules and exquisiteness that came out of his mouth about playing with crickets were almost enough to write a book, Hong Tao just listened to a rough idea, and before he could say more details, it was already dark.

"That's where you live, go back quickly, don't run around alone in the future, don't break those jars, they're all good things, and if they are destroyed, they'll be gone." In the end, the old man remembered that Hong Tao was a child, and it was inappropriate to go home too late, so he ended the conversation, pulled Hong Tao to the mouth of the alley with a tricycle, and specially instructed Hong Tao before leaving, and it can be seen that he really likes these old objects.

"Then grandpa, I still want to listen to your chatter when I have time, where can I go to find you?" Hong Tao was reluctant to let this old man go.

"I usually work in front of the store, just in the fourth generation of the East, if you want to find me, ask other pedalers, they all know when it comes to the second master. Thank you for inviting grandpa to drink today, and next time grandpa will invite you to eat big ice cream. The old man raised the less than half bottle of Erguo in his hand, hummed the joke and pedaled away.

Through the chat with this old man, Hong Tao realized that there is so much attention to playing with crickets, far from catching a cricket, putting it in a glass bottle, and throwing in a few lentil beans.

Hong Tao now understands a fur, and he is still far from playing, and he can't even talk on paper. To sum up simply, the word playing crickets can be roughly divided into three parts, namely adoption, raising, and fighting.

This collection contains catching and buying, the season of catching crickets is in the autumn, from the day of the beginning of autumn, the people who play crickets will have nothing to do and run to the East Fourth Archway to turn around, because that area is the gathering place of BJ people who play birds, every autumn, the birds will change their moults, and must be fed live food to increase nutrition, so there are live grasshoppers and live oil gourds (a kind of crickets with large heads) sold in that place every day to feed the birds. As long as these people who play with crickets look at the size of the oil hyacinth, they know that the crickets have probably shed several layers of shells, and they have not reached the best time to catch them.

Catching crickets requires some simple tools, first there must be a copper wire woven cover, the shape is like a funnel, there is a handle, after seeing the crickets, you can buckle the crickets underneath, and then blow a breath inside, and the crickets will climb up along the small passage at the top. At this time, it is necessary to use a cardboard tube to cover the passage mouth, one end of the paper tube is sealed, and after the crickets climb in, the other end of the paper tube is sealed again, and the crickets are trapped inside. This paper tube should not be too thick, the thick cricket will turn around and climb out inside, and the bamboo tube with the appropriate thickness can be used instead.

In addition, you have to prepare a small cage made of window screens and hang it on your waist. These paper tubes or bamboo tubes are placed in cages, and the outside of the cages is covered with a cloth to prevent the crickets from drying to death. When the sun is too poisonous, you can also grab a handful of grass and put it in the cage to cool down the crickets. However, it should be noted that each cricket must be placed in a separate bamboo tube or paper tube, otherwise before you go home, the crickets will already start to fight in the cage, and when you get home, it will be a cage of corpses.

In early autumn, the crickets have not yet dug their burrows, so they hide in the grass and pull the grass apart with their feet as they walk. If the crickets start to burrow in the fall, you have to bring a special tool called a drill. The tip of the drill is made of a wooden drill bit. When you make a cricket's cry, when you get nearby, it burrows into the hole and hides it, and then you use the drill bit to drill into the soil next to the cricket hole, and shake it slightly as you go, and the cricket in the hole is frightened, and then it runs out of the hole, and it falls right into the copper wire cover that is fastened at the entrance of the hole.

In addition, you also have to bring a flashlight, some crickets live in the environment is too complicated, it is not easy to catch during the day, in case it jumps into the crack of the wall, the crack of the stone can not be found, so these crickets can not be scratched, can only look at its hole during the day, and wait for the early morning to come again, at this time it has gone back to the hole to sleep, with a drill to pierce a quasi.

When catching crickets, you must first look at the terrain and not get too close to the water, because the crickets will not live near the water for their own safety, so that if the water rises, it will drown. In addition, the gully is where the crickets like to stay, and there are generally more crickets there than on flat ground. The Dongba River outside the BJ Dongzhi Gate and the Sujiatuo outside the Xizhi Gate were both places rich in crickets before the liberation, and the crickets from these two places were large and of good quality, which were more expensive than the crickets from SD.

It's very tiring to catch crickets in person, so many people can't bear the hardship and can only choose to buy crickets. In the early years, there were crickets sold in the four or nine cities of Bei*Beijing, with Chaoyangmen, Donghuamen, Gulouwan, Xidan, Xisi shopping malls, Caishikou, Liulichang, and overpasses. Generally, it is a piece of cloth on the side of the road, there is a large number of bamboo tubes on it, a few cents of cheap tubes, what is the matter, the more expensive ones can be opened to see, and then buy when you are satisfied. However, these things have been knocked down and disappeared during the special period, so there is nowhere to buy them if you want to.

Since the past crickets were all flag people or rich and noble families, they were basically concentrated in the vicinity of Bei*Beijing and TJ, so the crickets were divided into two kinds according to the place of origin. All those produced in the surrounding areas of Bei*Beijing, including TJ, are called Fudier crickets, which means local, and in addition to them, they are mountain crickets, which means crickets from SD.

In addition, the cricket is also divided into two kinds according to the function, the fighting insect is used to fight, requiring a large head, a large head, and a thick neck;

Whether it's catching or buying, it's just the beginning of playing with insects after having crickets, and if you don't raise them well, good crickets will also become secondary crickets. Therefore, raising is one of the most important, tedious, and fun processes in playing with crickets.

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