Xiao Ju Niang took Xiao Ju and Zhuang Zhuang to the courtyard, asked Xiao Ju to take out the collected key, open the courtyard door, enter the courtyard and close the courtyard door, it can be regarded as a real sigh of relief. Xiaoju looked at her mother for the rest of her life, and it seemed that her mother was not a stupid ordinary peasant woman.

Time passed quickly, and Xiaoju's family left Hujiazhuang and nested in this small courtyard in the county for almost two months. The vegetables they had grown in the two vegetable plots in the front yard were ready to be served. Now they don't eat just omelettes or vegetable paste! Instead, from time to time, wrap some vegetarian dumplings and fry some vegetable cakes to eat.

It's a pity that it's too chaotic outside to dare to go out. But even if she is not free, Xiao Ju Niang is already extremely satisfied with being able to have a full meal and a safe place to stay.

In the past two months, Xiao Ju has been doing Tai Chi in the courtyard every day, or staying in the room to meditate, she found that the small bead located three inches of her lower abdomen is getting bigger and brighter, and when she closes her eyes and meditates on the surrounding environment, she finds that she can see a wider range. What surprised her the most was that she was able to hit objects in the air, but now her skills may not be enough, and the damage to objects is not great.

Of course, what makes her most proud is that Tai Chi can really not only strengthen the body, but also combine with the inexplicable gas in the body, it can actually hurt people, and the power is not small. This made Xiao Ju's practice even more energetic.

Zhuang Zhuang watched Sister Ah doing slow movements in the courtyard every day, and he also followed behind, but because the movements were not in place, it looked a little funny. Xiao Juniang is as long as these children don't go out in a row, but they are also tossed around.

Early in the morning, Xiao Ju and Zhuang Zhuang were playing the slow Tai Chi in the front yard, and Xiao Ju Niang was tending to the two small vegetable patches.

"Xiaoju, come and see, why are there so many grasshoppers in this vegetable field? Ate a lot of our family's vegetable leaves! You two brothers and sisters come and help your mother catch it, otherwise you won't want to have food at home. Xiao Ju Niang suddenly raised her head and shouted at her daughter who was stretching out her hands and feet every day.

In her eyes, that Tai Chi is to stretch out her hands and feet, so slowly, it is not as tiring as she is to do work, I don't understand why her daughter still says that she can exercise.

"Grasshoppers?" Xiao Ju was stunned for a moment, and didn't react for a moment. But then I immediately recalled the introduction of grasshoppers in the encyclopedia in my last life, isn't that the well-known locust? Thinking back to this period of history, it was the time of the locust plague, and her face turned white all of a sudden.

Zhuang Zhuang had already run to his mother's side, and he was already playing with a locust in each hand. Xiaoju walked into the vegetable field and glanced at it with her eyes, and sure enough, the vegetable field was densely crawling with the 'grasshoppers' in her mother's mouth. And the leaves are disappearing at a rapid rate. It seems that there is nothing to save the cabbage, only potatoes and turnips, because they are buried in the soil, and the leaves are eaten up.

Xiao Ju Niang saw Xiao Ju squatting for a long time, and she didn't catch a single 'grasshopper', thinking that she was scared, and hurriedly said: "Xiao Ju, you don't have to be afraid!" This 'grasshopper' will not bite! It's just that the waste of food is very bad! And Zhuang Zhuang had already stretched out the 'grasshopper' he was holding in his two hands in front of her, and showed off his face, "Sister, these insects really don't bite!" ”

"I didn't say I was afraid of it biting! Instead, I was thinking that this 'grasshopper' should be edible! Mother, do you say? Xiao Ju glanced at Zhuangzhuang.

"That's right! I'll go into the kitchen and bring a big bucket over, catch all these grasshoppers, and make grasshopper cakes for you to eat at noon!" Xiao Ju Niang stood up as she spoke. And Xiaoju quickly began to pull out the cabbage in the ground. Xiao Ju Niang saw it, she was a little anxious, and stopped: "Xiao Ju, what are you doing?" These Chinese cabbages have just been packed, and they haven't grown yet! Why did you pull it out! ”

"Mother, if we don't pull it out, we won't have anything to eat! Don't you see that this 'grasshopper' is still coming fast? Where's the catch? Xiao Ju said without a good voice.

Xiao Ju Niang saw that it was true, and the two jujube trees at home began to be full of these green and faint insects. Now I was also in a hurry, so I hurriedly followed Xiaoju to pull out the cabbage, and after pulling it, I had to get down the 'grasshoppers' crawling on the cabbage, and sent it into the hall to be placed.

Zhuang Zhuang heard Sister A say that these dishes were going to be eaten up by the worms in his hands, and he was in no mood to play now. So Xiao Juba, he cleaned the dishes and sent them to the hall. This lady worked for most of the hour, and finally rescued most of the cabbage from the mouths of the grasshoppers.

There are more and more 'grasshoppers' in the courtyard, Xiaoju has already closed the windows of each room tightly, and the radish leaves in the vegetable field and the two jujube trees in the courtyard have long been gnawed away. Xiao Juniang looked at the more and more 'grasshoppers' in the yard, her face became darker and darker, and she kept saying, "It's over!" This year's winter wheat is over again! God still doesn't let people live! ”

Xiao Ju stood in front of the door of the hall, looking at the green insects that kept falling, and she also had a headache. Looking at this situation, the entire Huaxian County should be overwhelming with this kind of 'grasshopper', it seems that it will not be long before there should be no trace of green in this radius of thousands of miles. It has become the ration of these abominable 'grasshoppers'.

"Xiaoju! Strong! These 'grasshoppers' eat our rations, and we eat them! "In the end, Xiao Juliang gritted his teeth and took out a few large buckets at home and ran to the yard to catch 'grasshoppers'.

Xiao Ju and Zhuang Zhuang soon went to help, on the one hand, she hated these locusts very much, if it weren't for these locusts, and this year's winter wheat should be able to harvest, and the Henan people who have been struggling on the edge of death for nearly three years will be able to breathe.

On the other hand, in the past two years, although their mothers can fill their stomachs because of her small space, they have not eaten any meat except eggs. And these 'grasshoppers', in the eyes of Xiaoju at this time, have become meat that can supplement the body's nutrition.

In modern times, she has eaten dishes made from grasshoppers raised in captivity, and the taste is very delicious. Zhuang Zhuang didn't think about it so much, he just wanted to eat the fried 'grasshopper' cake that his mother said.

In this way, although the three people in the family had different ideas, they had the same purpose, and soon collected several large buckets of 'grasshoppers'. Yes, use it, because there are too many, and you can grab it at will.

Xiao Ju Niang got some 'grasshoppers' and went into the kitchen to make cakes. But Xiao Ju cleaned up the other 'grasshoppers', took out a few large jars from the space, and began to make 'grasshopper' meat sauce.

Xiao Ju Niang and Zhuang Zhuang tasted the grasshopper meat sauce made by Xiao Ju, and they both agreed that the taste was very good. Soon, the three members of the family set off a tide of catching grasshoppers. After catching it in the courtyard, he took the bag to the suburbs to catch it. Not only them, but also families and those who went to the city to catch these grasshoppers for rations.

Xiao Ju knows how to make 'grasshopper' meat sauce, and Xiao Ju Niang knows what it means to be full of 'grasshoppers', so she is very obsessed with storing and eating, so she has to take a pair of children every day and go out with a bag to catch 'grasshoppers' several times back to make sauce and store them.