Chapter 700: Different Genera of Bean Worms and Silkworms (Second Update)
"I caught a bug." In Liangpo Village, Lantian County, in the soybean field, four-year-old Xiao Zi is holding a small basket, and she is catching bean worms.
The little purple face was pink and tender, and the hair with two horn braids did not show the slightest yellowness.
As soon as she wears small clothes and pants, the earth on her sandals can't hide her cuteness.
She wasn't what she is last summer, when she was thin and skinny, her hair tied back with a straw rope tied behind her head.
Then she planted a greenhouse at home, and in less than a year, she grew beautiful.
Now is the time when the bean worms are at their best, ready to burrow into the soil for the winter.
People who have soybean fields in their homes start to catch insects and then find a place to raise them.
When the winter wheat is harvested next year, the land is ploughed, and it can be planted.
In the area of Jingzhao Province, one crop of winter wheat is planted, and another crop of soybeans or sorghum is planted.
The grain field is dedicated to growing grain, and the vegetable field is dedicated to growing vegetables.
The method of raising bean worms was announced, and the people of Jingzhao Province chose to believe it completely.
Lose 10 catties of beans for 100 catties of bugs.
If others don't buy it, the Li family Zhuangzi will collect it, the price is high, or they can eat it with their own stuffing.
Your Majesty can eat it, and Li Dongzhu ate it when he was barbecuing.
Why can't I eat it myself? Eating the bug is similar to eating an egg.
Adults are looking for bugs, and four-year-old Xiao Zi actively participates.
Adults have psychological barriers when they catch insects, but children don't, and they feel that the insects are fleshy and soft when they catch them.
If she wasn't deliberately told that she couldn't eat it, she would open her mouth to bite.
Wang Xu's four village officials accompanied Xiao Zi and helped find bugs together.
"Another beanie." Xiao Zi's eyesight can't catch up with adults, and she needs to grow up a little more to have better eyesight.
But she's focused, she's patient, and she treats catching bugs as a game, a game to play with adults.
"Xiao Zi, are you thirsty?" Xia Hao raised his arm, wiped the sweat on his forehead with his arm that had been scratched a lot of red paths, and asked Xiao Zi.
"Don't drink water, catch beans, catch insects." Xiao Zi moved the small basket and squatted slightly as tall as the bean seedlings.
The reason why she doesn't look for bugs slower than adults is because of her height.
She stood up and could see the bugs on the bean stalks.
As soon as she crouched, she saw the bugs on the back of the leaves.
Adults squat down and get up tired, children don't feel tired, adults can only grasp the leaves with their hands and turn over to see the insects, so the back of the hand and the arm are scratched.
Xiao Zi turned the bean worm into a bean and a worm, and she felt that the smaller ones were called beans, and the larger ones were called worms.
The large bean worm is longer than her small hand, and when she holds it, it looks like a whole work of art, and the contrast is strong.
"Li Yi has to say that insects are delicious, let everyone raise insects and toss." Chai Baohong found the work of catching insects hot and tiring.
"Insects eat leaves, proprietor Li said yes, and the people believe it."
Wang Xu didn't know how insects and eggs could be compared together, he only knew what Li Yi said, and the people promised to listen.
"I don't feel like I'm helping much, and I live in the village for nothing, and I can't even be a village official."
Zhu An rummaged through the leaves for insects, looking depressed.
He used to be ambitious, thinking that he had talent, but what he lacked was an opportunity.
As long as he is admitted to the imperial examination and let him become an official, his ability can be displayed, and he can open up territory for His Majesty and raise the people.
As a result, the opportunity came, and I didn't need to take the test to become an official in the village.
When he first arrived, he felt that he had been underused, but now he feels that he is worthless, that he does not understand anything.
I just learned how to keep accounts, and I didn't know how long cucumbers and eggplants would grow when I planted the greenhouse.
The cucumbers and eggplants in the greenhouse, unlike those in the field, grow slowly.
After consulting with the people who had planted greenhouses, I realized that planting vegetables in greenhouses in winter needs to be dipped in flowers, so that more fruits can be hung.
"At least we'll be able to cook our own meals." Wang Xu was more optimistic, and when they finally ate the food in the village, they secretly lit a fire again.
When other people's houses were making fires, they used to learn how to hand firewood to the side, and then they could also use fire sticks to make fires.
What to cook, how long to boil, how much water to put under the curtain in a cauldron, whether to stew with steamed rice or boiled rice with steamed vegetables......
They didn't help much with the administrative convenience, but they did the work and learned a lot of survival skills.
"I want to know, Li Yi cooks by himself, will he?" Chai Baohong wants to compare with Li Yi, he will.
Zhu An found two big insects and hurriedly put them in the basket: "Many kinds of stir-fried vegetables are made by Li Yi, and he must know a lot." ”
"Of course my Li Lang can do anything, and when I grow up, I will marry Li Lang. Li Lang played with me and cooked me food. Giggle~~"
Xiao Zi suddenly answered, inexplicably happy.
Four people: "......"
Not only Liangpo Village, but also Jingzhao Mansion are looking for insects wherever there are bean fields.
Bean insects do not necessarily live in the bean fields, they eat grape leaves, sesame leaves they eat, hemp leaves they eat, and the spices and medicinal white and perilla are the same on the leaves.
In the past, I trampled to death when I saw such a bug, but now I quickly catch it.
It will be raised, and in the current month, as soon as it is buried with sand, the big insects will stay in it and not move.
Occasionally, if you don't want to sleep, you can crawl out, feed some leaves, and bury them again.
You can eat it now, or you can wait for the next year to become a chrysalis and become a moth to lay eggs and continue to raise.
Anyway, as long as you see it and know that this thing can be eaten, it will not be harmful to any crop.
I really can't eat beans and grapes anymore, and I eat bugs all day long.
Li Yi is now looking at the insects in a daze, the head of the Khitan, Li Yan, has come to Chang'an, saying that he is guilty, but in fact, no one can do anything to him.
He brought some people, fur, and dried meat as gifts.
actually brought one to Li Yi, saying that when Li Yi's team went to buy and sell, more than 1,500 Datang people were rescued.
asked about Li Yi's hobbies, Li Yi likes to collect things, flowers and plants, insects and birds.
The flowers and plants were not given, the birds of the insects and birds were not given, and the insects were given.
"This is all the way to the mulberry leaves? But I can't raise it, let's Jingzhao Mansion...... There are silkworm breeders, but there are too few. ”
Li Yi looked at the two baskets of big green insects and was worried, he wanted to eat and raise.
If you raise it, you must now take it out into the wild, put the insects on the leaves of the oak tree, and then make cocoons.
With a cocoon, you can cut it open and eat it, or wait for it to become a moth in the winter, and then collect small insects to continue raising.
Zhuangzi is obviously not suitable for raising this thing, and must be taken to the wild, is it still for the sake of silkworms to make a forest of oaks?
Li Chengqi watched from the side and asked, "Is he embarrassing you?" ”
"Lee is inactive? Can he know how to raise silkworms? Others can learn to farm, but if they want to learn to raise silkworms, they have to wait. ”
Li Yi didn't think that Li was going to make trouble.
The silkworms of the Tang Dynasty are placed there, and they can be taken casually, and others will not raise them if they take them, which is much more difficult than farming.
Later, only then will some countries know that the technology is a little better.
It's not as good as China, but it still refers to silkworms.
Replaced by silkworms, Henan and Hebei don't speak, and the Northeast doesn't make a sound, who dares to call? Especially Liaoning in the northeast.