The rain was heavy and light, and it didn't stop until the evening.

Later, Wang Shaodong learned that the rainfall, which lasted for three days, reached 267 millimeters, which is almost more than one-third of the average rainfall in previous years.

Fortunately, the ravines around Taohualing Village and the well-developed water network quickly converged into the river, rolling a large amount of sediment and rushing to the downstream Dawen River.

Tomorrow morning, the flood peak in the quicksand river north of the village will be at its highest, and then the only road leading from the village to the outside of the car will be completely covered by floodwater.

This flood, Wang Shaodong has a deep memory, there are many sweet potato fields on both sides of the road, as soon as the flood recedes, the big guys will run to the sweet potato fields to catch fish, and the big grass carp weighing five or six catties can be seen everywhere.

In the upper reaches of the Liusha River, there are several reservoirs in the villages of Dongjiazhuang, Gaojiazhuang and Luohanyu, among which the reservoir in Luohanyu Village was built in the 50s and has never been cut off from the water, and there must be big fish in it. Then in 2002, a big flood washed the big fish from the upstream reservoir to the downstream, and Taohualing Village was still six or seven miles away from Gaojiazhuang, the most upstream of the Liusha River, and many big fish were washed down in their village.

Of course, grabbing the big fish is a drama that will be staged at noon tomorrow, and the most important job from this afternoon to evening is to catch the monkeys.

Knowing the larval state of the monkey and the cicada, after molting, it is a cicada.

After the ambush, the young cicadas, which had been growing underground for six or seven years, climbed up the roots of the trees, and finally approached the ground when it was getting dark.

The clever cicada then gently pokes a hole in the ground and then puts its eyes on the hole to look around. When it is safe to go outside, and when it gets dark, the young cicadas will quickly open up the hole and then desperately climb towards the nearest tree, climbing to a safe place on the top of the tree as fast as possible. When it is sure that it is in a safe place, it begins to slowly break through its shell from its back, and then emerges from the hard shell, which is the real cicada.

Of course, this is when there is no rain.

Once it rains heavily, the hole opened by the young cicadas will be washed away by the rain, and the cicadas soaked in the water will desperately find the surrounding trees to climb because of the lack of oxygen. However, on rainy days, the bark is slippery, and it takes more physical effort to climb to high places, which makes it impossible for the young cicadas, who have already spent a lot of physical energy to crawl out of the ground. And they also have to preserve their physical strength to prepare for molting, so whenever it rains, especially in the afternoon, there will be a lot of monkeys in the poplar forest north of the village, on top of many poplars, and the trunk is about one person high.

Wang Fumin saw that the rain had become lighter, so he called his son, carried a plastic bucket, and hurriedly walked towards the poplar forest with an umbrella.

There are a lot of people in Taohualing Village, and on the way, Wang Shaodong and his son saw several competitors in the village, and everyone tacitly accelerated their pace.

After knowing that the monkey caught this thing, it was scalded with hot water, and then sprinkled with salt, which could be stored for more than ten days. So when I was a child, catching monkeys to satisfy my hunger was the most important job for my friends in summer.

Wang Shaodong's father and son were lucky, and they were the first to reach the poplar forest.

To the north of the village, there is a poplar forest of hundreds of acres on the bank of the quicksand river, the oldest of which is more than 20 years old, and there are several hugs thick. These poplars are used to prevent wind and fix sand, and then after a long time, monkeys will grow in the ground.

Thousands of trees, set up a kung fu, take a flashlight to find it, it will take most of the night's work.

After catching the monkey, you can do it until the beginning of autumn, and then after the beginning of autumn, as soon as the weather is cold, you will not climb out of the ground when you know the monkey. There is a saying called silence like a chilling cicada, saying that when the weather is cold, the cicada will stop calling. In fact, the real reason is that before the weather is cold, the cicadas do not climb out of the ground, and then when the weather is cold, the cicadas that used to call in the trees have already died.

Young cicadas that crawl out of the ground have a short lifespan of 10 to 15 days after molting. The larvae of cicadas spend a very long time underground, and the longest cicadas can even live underground for more than ten years.

When they arrived at the poplar forest, Wang Shaodong and his son caught more than 20 monkeys in a short time.

This knew the monkey, chubby, with two big paws. The claws have sharp serrations at the front of the claws, which are specially used for digging soil.

In 2002, the monkeys were about 20 yuan a catty, and a hundred monkeys were a catty, which was almost two cents a catty. Later, the price of this thing soared, and by 2016, it could be sold for 80 yuan a catty in the Linshui City area.

In his previous life, Wang Shaodong remembered clearly that his uncle Zhao Shihai, who was good at studying mountain goods, had studied how to breed monkeys, and then in 2015, he finally learned the breeding technology from Suzhou Province, and then wrapped up a piece of land on the Qingquanling side and began to raise cicadas. However, the first batch of this thing will not be harvested until three years later, but it is a pity that Wang Shaodong was reborn before then.

Wang Shaodong actually admires his brother-in-law Zhao Shihai, this guy wanders around the mountains all day long, and later learns to raise whole scorpions, grasshoppers, and golden cicadas, making a lot of money, and he is also a relatively wealthy household in the village. However, there are also people who can't get used to him, saying that he thinks about crooked ways all day long and doesn't do what he does to make a living.

While grabbing the monkey, Wang Shaodong was thinking about something.

According to his brother-in-law Zhao Shihai in his previous life, he knew the monkeys by breeding one acre of land, and when it came to the harvest season, he could collect 300 catties of monkeys a year. According to the current price of nearly 20 yuan, the income of one acre of land is 6,000 yuan. And the cost of breeding this thing is very low, the main thing is to build labor, and it will be no problem to prevent ants after it is over. The income of one acre of land is 6,000, and a family of three raises three or four acres of land, with an annual income of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, which can be regarded as a well-off family.

It seems that the next step is to urge my uncle to learn this technology back, and then promote it in the surrounding mountain villages, which can be regarded as finding a way for the people to make a fortune.

Wang Shaodong, father and son, walked around the poplar forest, and caught three or four pounds of monkeys, and the small plastic buckets were full.

It can be seen that the heavy rain has washed out all the monkeys in the next three or four days.

The rain was getting heavier and the sky was getting darker and darker, so Wang Shaodong and his son were in a hurry to go home to enjoy the spoils.

These three or four hundred monkeys, if you buy them, you will have to spend a hundred and ten yuan, and the rain on this trip is really not in vain.

After returning home, most of the monkeys were stored by Zhao Shiling with salt and salt, and then picked out thirty or forty injured ones and fried them on a plate.

The rain outside the house is loud, the house is full of fried monkeys, drink a sip of wine, eat a mouthful of fried monkeys, it is really a great joy in the world.