Zhu Zhanji continued to introduce as many family treasures: "The new jar is not used immediately, but must be laid first: mix loess, black soil, and white ash in a certain proportion, and then put it in the cricket jar. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhy do you want to add white ash, because it can't stick without white ash. Isn't the white ash alkaline, after the bottom is finished, wait for the Sanhe soil to dry, but also put it in water to soak, and soak the alkaline thoroughly before it can be used. The laid foundation can neither fall off nor break. ”

It's not enough to have a tank, you have to have two things: a sink and a cage.

Zhu Zhanji showed off and asked the little eunuch to present the "water tank" and "cage" utensils for raising crickets.

Wu Wu picked up the "sink" first:

It is porcelain, semicircular, about 3 cm in diameter, 0.7 cm in height and 0.3 cm deep inside the trough. This thing is delicately made and small, with glaze and flowers, and the patterns are goldfish, aquatic plants, crickets, etc.

It seems that in order to make the crickets drink water comfortably, the owner really put a lot of thought into it.

Wu Wu took a closer look, and there were words written next to the porcelain jar: "Brave Battle for Three Autumns." ”

Wu Wu suddenly felt that this should be the smallest and most elaborate porcelain in the world. Its usefulness does not need to be elaborated: feed the crickets water to drink.

Wu Wu looked at the "cage" again: this is a slurry mud burned, the texture is delicate, the color is light gray, less than 3 cm high, the fan is shaped, there is a lid on it, and there is a handle on the cover, which can be uncovered.

There are holes at both ends of the cage, and crickets can pass through. The space inside can accommodate two crickets.

"What's the use of this 'cage'?"

Wu asked cautiously, knowing that Zhu Zhanji would say a lot of knowledge. Sure enough, Zhu Zhanji couldn't wait to start introducing:

"Sister-in-law, you know, why do you want this thing? One is that crickets like to stay in the dark, and passing through the cage is the nest of crickets; The second is to raise crickets can not only raise males, our jargon is called 'two-tailed', and there must be females, the jargon is called 'three-tailed', male and female as companions. If you have a male cricket that doesn't mate with a female cricket — it's called 'belling' in the jargon — it won't fight with people of the same sex. So, to put it bluntly, 'passing the cage' is the cave room for the crickets to 'pass the bell'. I see? ”

Wu Wu knew that Zhu Zhanji was going to talk endlessly, but she didn't expect that Zhu Zhanji's current knowledge of crickets was completely unseen by Wu Zhanji.

"Brother Zhanji, what have you been studying in the past few years, are you going to study the Cricket Sutra?"

Wu Wu's eyes widened, and she was surprised.

"Hehe, what is this! To raise crickets, it is necessary to provide crickets with similar living conditions as in the wild. There is a lot of knowledge in this, and some professional players hire a formula to raise crickets for him in the fall. It is called 'cricket style', which is an expert who serves crickets. This, I have to go all over the folk cricket style today. ”

Zhu Zhanji smiled proudly, whistled casually, and saw a handsome young man of 18 or 9 years old coming behind him.

The young man was wearing a snow-white straight-lined robe, with a very good drape, a wide belt with moon-white auspicious cloud patterns around his waist, and only a piece of ink jade of excellent jade quality hung on it, the shape seemed rough but simple and gloomy. The black hair was tied with a silver ribbon at will, without a crown or hairpin, and a few strands of hair on the forehead were scattered by the wind, intertwined with the silver ribbon and flying, looking quite light.

Could it be that this is the "expert" who raises crickets?

It's just a bit of a jade tree in the wind, a cultural taste of fairy wind bones!

It seems that this "cricket style" is really exquisite.

I saw that the young man took out a very huge cricket with an amber and blue color from the "cage", and introduced it to Zhu Zhanji and Wu Wu with some joy: "This is the famous Ningjin fighting cricket. ”

"What's the matter? Ningjin? Could it be that this cricket is our Ningjin County, Shandong? I didn't even know? ”

Wu Wu asked in some surprise.

"Sister-in-law, you are really a layman, didn't you take me into the world of crickets in the first place?"

Zhu Zhanji's face showed a trace of regret:

"There are many kinds of crickets in Ningjin. Due to the unique geographical conditions and unique environmental microclimate, the crickets produced in the original Youji Township, Mengji Township, Baodian Township, Ningjin Town, Ningjin Township, and Duji Township in the former Changwa Township are the best, especially the best crickets produced in the area of Chenzhuang in the former Youji Township. ”

"Yes, Ningjin crickets are brave and good at fighting, and have a good reputation in Jiuzhou, and hundreds of foreign merchants gather here every year. This has also become a 'golden worm' for local farmers to increase their income, and there are good stories in Chaihudian Town that "ten thousand households are rich in February, and one centimeter is worth a thousand gold" and "a small cricket is better than a cow". ”

The "cricket style" seems to be also a "cricket control", as soon as I heard the emperor talk about Ningjin crickets, I couldn't help but open the conversation:

"Ningjin crickets have a long history, starting in the Qin and Han dynasties, flourishing in the Tang and Song dynasties, and flourishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Ningjin fighting crickets are famous for their large size, fierce temperament, strong bounce power, and fierce fighting. There are many varieties, there are more than 260 varieties in 6 categories, such as green, yellow, purple, red, black, white, etc., and the precious varieties that are included in the ancient spectrum are big black green teeth, crab shell green, green hemp head, iron head green back, amber green, black head golden red, purple yellow and so on. As early as 2,500 years ago, in the "Book of Songs", there was a record that "crickets are in the hall, and they enter my bed in October". In ancient times, it was known as the 'first insect in Jiangbei'. In the famous work "Gong Insect Record", there was a Ningyang cricket 'jute head' defeated Shanghai's 'plum blossom wings' and won the 'palace flower and red patrol halls'. ”

This "cricket style" gushed endlessly about the cricket scriptures, Zhu Zhanji listened to it as if he was intoxicated, Wu Wu finally knew why Zhu Zhanji could master so much cricket knowledge now, it turned out that he was surrounded by such a group of people, of course, he knew everything about crickets.

Wu Wu knew from their conversation that the crickets they were talking about in Ningjin were infested everywhere in the fields, woods, ravines, open spaces at the head of the village, houses in the village, and even in the farmhouses after the beginning of autumn every year. Day and night, the chirping continues.

The crickets in Sidian Town are famous for paying tribute to the emperor and winning crowns in battles.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji's spirit was flying, and Wu Wu secretly glanced at him:

A riding costume gave him a bit of elegance, wearing a raccoon dog hat, a bright yellow brocade on the brim, embroidered with hundreds of inverted blessing patterns and a piece of excellent quality jade in front of the forehead,

A dark color narrow-sleeved python robe, the cuffs are inlaid with embroidered gold thread auspicious clouds, the scarlet and white jade belt around the waist, and the white jade exquisite waist is hung on it.

Wu Wu suddenly felt that time had gone back in time.

Everything seemed as rosy as it had been when they first met.

Time, if you slow down, will everything go back to the way it was?