Qi Qi watched the little girl leave, and started to skate happily again, Li Qi also called Wang He aside to learn how to play the spinning top with him, because no one competed with Qi Qi anymore, and Qi Qi didn't want to compare with me, so slowly the skating car became boring, Qi Qi was a little absent-minded, "Yaya, let's catch sparrows, okay, I don't want to play this anymore" Before I returned, I was heard by Li Qi.

"Let's go catch sparrows, I agree with this mentions" Seeing Li Qi agree, I knew that it must have been when I was playing with the spinning top, and I was hit by Wang He, I have the truth again, Li Qi is particularly serious about learning how to throw the spinning top, but because there is no opponent, he can only play with Wang He, and he has a little fighting spirit when he loses, but then there is only a blow left, and he is not an opponent at all, and I don't know if he has improved in the end, and he doesn't want to play anymore after being hit.

In fact, I haven't caught sparrows for a long time, when I was a child, I often caught them with the children in the village, and after I caught them, I gave them back to my mother, at that time eating meat was a luxury, so the meat of the sparrows became more precious, and the sparrows were reluctant to fry them, they were thrown directly into the pit, and they were burned, and after they were burned, my mother picked the hair, and they could eat it, which was extremely delicious.

"Then let's go to the threshing floor to catch sparrows, let's go back and get the sieve first, I'm ordering something with my mother, there will be a lot to harvest today" I said to them, I haven't caught it for many years, and I'm also very interested now, we went back to get the sieve, and Grandma Zhang gave me a few handfuls of grain.

"Let's use a sieve to buckle the sparrows first, and we must not be in a hurry," we said to them when we got to the threshing floor. It's winter, and the snow has covered the fields so tightly that the sparrows have nowhere to find food. We took a broom, first swept out a clearing in the threshing floor, sprinkled some yellow millet or millet on it, and put the sieve, with a small wooden stick, and propped it up, and tied a thin rope to the bottom of the small stick, which extended behind the grain stack, and sprinkled some grain stalks on the thin rope to prevent the sparrows from finding the rope.

After making our preparations, we hid behind the barn and watched quietly, and the sparrow knew that it was a trap, but when it saw the vast sea of snow everywhere, it was so hungry that it had to act. It flew from the tree or the roof of the house, slowly approaching the sieve, and every time it approached, the relatives wanted to pull the rope, but I stopped her in time, and signaled to her with my eyes, now is not the time.

When the sparrow observed for a long time and did not move, it moved under the sieve little by little, and pecked at the millet violently. At this moment, I pulled the rope violently, and the sieve was suddenly buckled, and the greedy sparrow was buckled. In response to that sentence, the bird dies for food. The sparrows reacted quickly, because Qi Qi and Li Qi, the two anxious guys, we only detained three. Two more buckled, and when they took the sparrows out of the sieve, the little sparrows ran straight through the cracks.

My method is to take off the padded jacket, surround it along the lower edge of the sieve, and gently lift the sieve while tucking the torn padded jacket in, especially taking care to cover the arms that are pulled into the sieve tightly. In short, you can pull your arms into the sieve to catch the sparrow, but you can't let the sparrow run out of the gap. However, this method can only be used once, and the sparrow who escapes will never be fooled a second time.

Because of this method, the harvest is too small, relatives feel very disappointed, and there are not enough things to eat, when we go out, Grandma Zhang gives food to come in handy, that is an exclusive secret recipe, the children in the village know, drunk sparrows with food. The grain used by Grandma Zhang is sorghum and millet, first find strong liquor, the higher the degree, the better, put the grain in the spirit to soak for a few days, and then take it out to dry, it is "drunk grain".

We sprinkled the drunken food on the clearing, and waited for the sparrows to eat, and when the sparrows saw that some people were drying the food in the snow, and they were hungry, they swooped down in flocks. They all began to cheer, cheer, and chatter. As I ate, I was confused, swaying one by one, staggering, and getting drunk one after another. Qi Qi looked at the scene in front of him, and hurriedly ran over to clean up the battlefield, and tied the legs of the "drunken birds" with fine hemp rope and strung them into strings, because we were lucky enough to get drunk with a pigeon, which is much more meat than a sparrow.

Qi Qi and Li Qi picked up very happily, and even the interest was very high, this method can not be used too many times, although there is no sustainable development policy in the village now, but in winter, drunk grain, each family can only make a small handful, about twice can use the grain, there is no more, this is the custom left by the ancestors.

Qi Qi obviously didn't play enough, but also knew that the customs could not be broken, we picked up the sparrows back and prepared to go home, on the way Qi Qi was still a little sullen, obviously not having fun, "Qi Qi, we can continue to catch at night" I whispered to Qi Qi, sure enough, Qi Qi listened to my words, his eyes lit up, he was so happy.

When we went back in the evening, my mother was surprised by our harvest, and after dinner in the evening, my mother threw the sparrow into the pit, and it was quickly cooked, and the taste was particularly fragrant, because there were many of them, so we learned to pick the feathers by ourselves, because the sparrows were too small, and there was not much meat at all, but the taste was very fragrant.

We ate a lot for dinner, each person ate one or two and couldn't eat, the rest was put away by my mother and prepared to eat tomorrow, sure enough, after Qi Qi finished eating, he began to move, and kept signaling me with his eyes, I just ate enough, and wanted to take a break, stood on the ground and walked for a while, and talked with my mother for a while, and when Qi Qi couldn't wait, I said to my mother, "Mom, we take a flashlight at night, go to catch sparrows, just in the village, don't go far" My mother also saw the eyes of my relatives who had just signaled to me, and didn't say anything about my prank, laughed a little, and agreed.

Catching sparrows with flashlights is also a favorite activity for children in the village, which is fun and meaty. Birds are blind at night, with the exception of owls. It's very easy to catch sparrows with a flashlight in winter. The swishing north wind, rolling in snowflakes, blew in a fog, the sky was cold, dripping into ice, and the sparrows shrank under the eaves. Shine under the eaves with a flashlight, the strong beam of light pierces the sparrow's dizziness, can't open its eyes, like a black cauldron of the winter night, without arguing the direction, the sparrow will honestly wait motionless under the eaves to be caught.