It's not yet in ambush, and the weather is already too hot to stand. After breakfast, Wang Shaodong felt that it was really hot at home, so he decided to go to Wujiayuzi in Nanshan to find a place to cool off.

Taohualing Village is surrounded by mountains on the east, west and south, and faces a small river in the north, which is the source of the Muwen River, a tributary of the Wen River.

The surrounding mountains, Taohualing Village villagers commonly call East SX Mountain and South Mountain, in fact, on the map of Luzhong City, this continuous mountain range belongs to the Lianhua Mountain Range, which is a branch of the Taishan Mountain Range. Among them, the Nanshan mountain is steep, there is a cliff with a drop of more than 20 meters on the mountain, and the local people call the nose of the king of Hades. The bottom of the cliff is overgrown with weeds, and there is a mountain spring flowing out of the cracks in the stones at the bottom of the cliff, even on a hot day, the mountain spring is very cool next to it, and it is definitely a good place to escape the heat.

In his previous life, every summer vacation, Wang Shaodong often went to the shade of the mountain spring to cool off. Lying on a smooth stone in the shade of the cliff below, thirsty to drink a sip of mountain spring water, hungry to gather a bunch of bonfire roasted sweet potatoes, it is simply unwanted.

Hades' nose is three miles away from the Wang family's chicken farm, because the three-mile mountain road is potholed and difficult to walk, so even if it is such a good summer resort, in the midsummer season, few villagers in Taohualing Village are keen on this place.

The male laborers in the village are busy going out to work to earn money to support their families, while the women are responsible for housework and children, so the people who can go to the best summer resort in Taohualing Village on a hot day are idlers like Wang Shaodong.

Taohualing Village has a small population, and there are only three people of the same age as Wang Shaodong, namely Zheng Hui, Zheng Tao, and Ma Lili. And Zheng Hui and Zheng Tao went to the south to work after graduating from junior high school, as for Ma Lili, it is not very suitable for her to come to the nose of the king of Hades to enjoy the coolness, so after eating in the morning, Wang Shaodong plans to go to the summer resort that he has been to countless times in his previous life alone.

On the way, Wang Shaodong saw many newly dead sparrows, turtle doves and pigeons on the side of the road, and his heart became uneasy, he knew that it was estimated that the bird flu was not far from Taohualing Village. And next, whether He Jiaqing's family can escape this natural disaster can only be left to fate.

After walking less than 200 meters, as soon as he entered the mountain road, Wang Shaodong was already hot and sweaty.

I didn't bring any water, because when I got to the foot of the mountain, there would be a lot of springs on the side of the mountain road.

These springs come alive during the rainy season in July, and the cool water flows out of the cracks in the stones and converges into a stream on the side of the mountain road. The streams in several ravines eventually flowed into the source of the Muwen River.

Among the more than a dozen mountain springs in total, the water flow of the mountain spring under the cliff of Hades' nose is the largest, and the spring is also the largest, so the people of Taohualing Village call it "Old Spring".

Except for the old spring, all the other mountain springs will stop flowing after the dry season, but the old spring is the only one that continues to flow in all seasons.

In the July season, the creatures on the mountain began to come alive, and after entering the mountain, Wang Shaodong planned to replenish some water in the nearest mountain spring, but before he reached the edge of the mountain spring, he heard a fluttering sound, and a hare ran from the grass next to the mountain spring.

The mountain spring has nurtured the people of Taohualing Village, and it has also nurtured countless creatures on the mountain.

In 2002, the villagers of Taohualing Village had not yet started to use highly toxic pesticides and high-residue chemical fertilizers when they farmed the land, so the environment around Taohualing Village was still very good in this era.

Lying on the edge of the spring, he drank the spring water happily, and Wang Shaodong felt that his whole body was cool.

The pure natural mountain spring water is not polluted and much healthier and cleaner than the so-called mineral water in later generations.

Standing up, Wang Shaodong glanced up at the sun above his head, as if he was laughing at the sun that was raging and baking the earth, and that was nothing more than that.

At this time, a very large green-headed locust on the side of the path jumped forward, Wang Shaodong saw it, bent down quickly and pounced with his hand, and pressed the grasshopper under his hand. Then, he pinched a thick dogtail from the side of the road and skewered the grasshoppers he caught.

There are many kinds of grasshoppers on the mountain, and although the green-headed flying locust is large, it does not taste as good as a small grasshopper that can not fly but can jump only on the top of the mountain. The local people call the grasshopper that can jump "jumping eight zhang", which means that it can jump eight zhang away at a time. With this strength, you can definitely go to the Olympics.

The thighs are well developed, and the thighs are full of high-protein lean meat, which is a standard delicacy.

Because he has been running in the mountains with his uncle Zhao Shihai since he was a child, Wang Shaodong has also accumulated a lot of knowledge in the mountains. Just talking about catching grasshoppers is also very knowledgeable.

There are many species of grasshoppers in the mountains, and different grasshoppers will infest different places.

In addition to the blue-headed locusts that often haunt the roadside, there is also a kind of "grasshopper" that is thin and long, and its belly is full of seeds. The taste of the grasshopper is more delicious than that of the green-headed locust, mainly due to the large number of grasshopper eggs in its abdomen, which are fried and chewed like bean paste, but the taste is far better than that of bean paste.

In addition, in this season, in the damp grass nest, there are piles of gray grasshoppers, which the local people call "camel dark". This is a very reproductive and destructive grasshopper, which is said to be poisonous because they always lay their eggs on cow dung or sheep feces and eggs, which makes people feel disgusting, so no one likes to catch this grasshopper and eat it.

There is also a giant grasshopper on the mountains around Taohualing, which is commonly known locally as "cow grasshopper". This kind of grasshopper likes to bask in the sun on the bluestone slab, and their size in the grasshopper family is definitely contemptuous of other similar existences, and the weight of an adult female "cow grasshopper" is almost twice the weight of the largest "green-headed locust". Because these grasshoppers are so big, they almost lose their ability to fly and have limited jumping ability, so it is always exciting to find them on top of a rock. Unfortunately, this giant grasshopper has a very poor taste, and if it can't be fried thoroughly, it is almost gnawing on an unpalatable piece of bark.

"Jumping Bazhang", "Green-headed Flying Locust", "Grasshopper" and "Cow Grasshopper" are already very common in July, and this season is to catch grasshoppers in the mountains, mainly to catch these four species. If you wait another two months, when autumn comes, there will be "winter fairies" and a large number of praying mantis on the mountain for those who go up the mountain to start. Of course, praying mantis and grasshoppers are not the same species, but it does not affect Wang Shaodong to catch them all.

Along the way, when he walked to the bottom of the cliff of Hades' nose, Wang Shaodong had already caught two large strings of grasshoppers, mostly flying locusts, all of which were skewered with dogtail grass.

Wang Shaodong said: If you are hungry at noon, roast sweet potatoes as rice, this dish is barbecue grasshoppers.