Chapter 2 Hungry and Eating Bugs

Got Daniel Zhang's promise, Sun Xiangfu suddenly felt relieved, the taste of millet is similar to the sago of later generations, the nutritional calories are average, but the cooked porridge is easy to swallow, has tonic qi, strengthens the spleen and lungs, removes heat and heals sores, very suitable for extremely hungry people diet, because the yield is greater than wheat and rice, is one of the main rations in the Han and Tang dynasties, the ancient government disaster relief, but also mostly millet porridge, not rice porridge.

After a while, the faint fragrance of millet came from the pot, leaving little time for Sun Xiangfu, and Sun Dali also came to the river at the entrance of the village with a large bundle of firewood on his back at this time.

The nameless village was a dirt hillside covered with green bamboo before the villagers were moved by the government, although the villagers cut down a lot of bamboo when they built their houses, but there was still a large bamboo forest around the village, at this time in June, on a hot day, there were no bamboo shoots to dig, however, outside those long bamboo knots, Sun Xiangfu saw a lot of white-gray powder covered on the bamboo, which reminded Sun Xiangfu of a delicacy in a food documentary in later generations.

Bamboo insects, a food raw material that was told by the tip of the tongue for more than half an hour, those white-gray powders are the feces of bamboo insects, judging from the amount of these feces, Sun Xiangfu determined that there are a large number of bamboo insects in these bamboos.

"Brother Dali, borrow me the firewood knife."

Sun Xiangfu took the firewood knife in Sun Dali's hand, and found a bamboo knot with a lot of bamboo insect feces to cut it, because the firewood knife was very blunt, Sun Xiangfu cut a lot before splitting the bamboo knot, and Sun Dali, who didn't know why, also looked at him after putting down the firewood.

"Xiangfu, don't be busy, the firewood I brought over is enough for the soldiers to burn this meal, these green bamboos can't be burned, and the smoke is still big."

Sun Dali didn't know the previous conversation between Sun Xiangfu and Daniel Zhang, leaned over and pulled Sun Xiangfu, just at this time Sun Xiangfu cut off a bamboo, he hurriedly helped push the fallen bamboo aside, and when he looked at Sun Xiangfu again, he found that he was digging something into the bamboo tube with his hand.

When Sun Xiangfu took his hand out of the bamboo tube, Sun Dali was shocked to find that what he was holding in his hand was a large handful of white, wriggling insects.

"Uh, what are you doing with these bugs! Disgusting to death. Sun Dali looked at the insect in Sun Xiangfu's hand in disgust. saw Sun Xiangfu looking at the insect in his hand with a happy face.

"Proper raw game! Brother Dali, you have a mouthful. ”

Sun Xiangfu said, ignoring the bewildered Sun Dali, put the bamboo worms into the broken pottery bowl he brought, and reached out to the bamboo tube to fish out many insects.

"You, you're not hungry, are you? How can a person eat bugs, and, moreover, such disgusting bugs. As a friend, Sun Dali thought that it was necessary for him to stop Sun Xiangfu from dying, and as soon as he snatched the pottery bowl in Sun Xiangfu's hand, he was about to throw it on the ground.

"Don't, don't, if you throw it, I'll die, I don't have the strength to cut a second bamboo." With that, Sun Xiangfu grabbed the pottery bowl and ran towards Daniel Zhang, who was cooking porridge by the river, with straw shoes that did not fit too well.

"Master Jun, I found some good things for you, which is enough to match your handful of millet seeds." Speaking, Sun Xiangfu handed a bowl of bamboo insects to Daniel Zhang as if offering treasures.

"You, you village boy, you dare to deceive this soldier, do you really think that this soldier's knife can't kill you."

Seeing the bowl of wriggling white bugs, Daniel Zhang instantly became angry, and said in his heart, this kid is really a scoundrel who cheats on food, only hates himself for being soft-hearted just now, cooking more millet is a small matter, anyway, it will enter his stomach, being deceived is a big thing, this is a shameful thing.

"Qiang"

The standard Tang knife was pulled out from his waist by Daniel Zhang, and the village chief Hu Cai looked over when he heard the sound.

"Don't use the sword, if you have something to say, the boy in the mountains doesn't understand the rules, and he asks the military master to atone for his sins."

The reason why Hu Cai can serve as the village chief is because he secretly studied outside a school for a few days when he was a child, and he knows a small half of the thousand characters, which is considered the most knowledgeable person in this village, and when he saw Daniel Zhang angrily pulling out his sword, his first reaction was to dissuade, but after seeing that the person who angered this officer was Sun Xiangfu, he looked at it from a distance, and his eyes were a little looking forward to this officer's action.

"Hmph, where is this ignorance of the rules, this is deliberate deception, even if you don't kill this kid today, you have to teach him a lesson."

Speaking, Daniel Zhang turned the knife edge, but he didn't really want to kill him, he just wanted to use the back of the knife to whip Sun Xiangfu for a while, so that he could learn some lessons, and seeing the bright knife flash, Sun Dali and other villagers were all frightened.

"Slow down."

Just when the back of the knife was about to be drawn to Sun Xiangfu's shoulder, Sun Xiangfu used all his strength to shout, with his physical agility, it was completely impossible to avoid this knife, and he shouted desperately, there was no way.

"Scandium"

Said to be late, it was fast, the back of the knife that was not too thick was suddenly framed by a handle, Sun Xiangfu's eyes narrowed because of fear slowly opened, but he saw that it was another soldier in military uniform who blocked Daniel Zhang's back of the knife.

"Zhang Junhou, why don't you listen to what this kid says, it's not too late to do it."

The soldier who framed the back of Daniel Zhang's knife looked more like a half-grown boy, but his figure was no longer lost to adults, and his tone did not have much respect for this obviously Shangguan soldier, of course, he did not give Sun Xiangfu any good face, obviously, he also thought that Sun Xiangfu should fight, but he was curious about what Sun Xiangfu said next, because he looked at Sun Xiangfu's previous actions, and he did not look like a fool.

"Master Jun, do you think the crab looks good?"

"Uh, what does this have to do with crabs?"

Between the questions and the rhetorical questions, everyone's eyes looked at Sun Xiangfu even more suspiciously.

"I want that crab, raw eight claws and rampant, but it is also a delicacy in the world, although this insect is not good-looking, compared to the taste of crabs, but it is not too much, why don't you wait for me to roast it and taste it?"

"Uh······"

Although Daniel Zhang wanted to refute, he didn't know how to refute, and thought in his heart, can this bug really eat? So he said, "That's good, it's baked, if you dare to eat it, this army will spare you today." ”

Sun Xiangfu was overjoyed, thinking that this level was over, so he said, "The military master is fast, I am tired of cutting a few bamboo sticks, so I can string these bamboo insects and barbecue." ”

"I will cut bamboo sticks, I will cut bamboo sticks."

Sun Dali's voice sounded at the right time, and he picked up his firewood knife and split the big bamboo he had just chopped down, and split it into many small pieces with three times and five by two, and began to sharpen it.

"This kid has a strong wrist, if he is put into the army to fight for a while, he can be a sword and shield hand." Daniel Zhang collected the knife and added firewood to the makeshift stone stove.

"It's enough to be a sword and shield hand, but it's not good to be a Mo knife hand, my mission on this trip is to preach Jingzhao Eight Counties, don't think about pulling people into the army for your master."

The young sergeant is obviously not all the way with Daniel Zhang, although it is just a small soldier's clothes, but he bumps into Daniel Zhang one after another, and his tone is not humble at all, moreover, Daniel Zhang actually takes his attitude for granted, it seems that the background of this little soldier is not small, of course, ordinary villagers cannot see this layer, but Sun Xiangfu can see it.

After a while, Sun Dali cut out a bamboo stick, the young sergeant saw that Sun Dali's bamboo stick was too rough, and it was difficult for Sun Xiangfu to string the bamboo worm on the bamboo stick, so he pulled out the fast knife on his waist, and in three or two strokes, a thin bamboo stick was cut out by him.

Taking the thin bamboo skewer handed over by the young sergeant, Sun Xiangfu returned him a grateful smile, and then quickly skewered more than a dozen relatively large bamboo insects on the bamboo skewers, stretched them out to the flame at the stove, felt the heat, and immediately began to rotate.

In fact, if the conditions permit, wrap it in flour, and then fry it in an oil pot, which is the most crispy and delicious, but the flour and oil of this period are not available everywhere, and the emperor eats wheat and basically eats it with the shell!

After a while, the bamboo worm was roasted stiff and discolored, Sun Xiangfu knew that it was almost cooked, and at this time, the millet porridge in the pot had also been cooked, Daniel Zhang gave himself a bowl of millet porridge and looked at Sun Xiangfu and said, "This army waits for this bowl of porridge to drink, if your kid's food hasn't come out yet, don't blame me for being merciless." ”

"Wait a minute, and wait for me to taste it, and then it's not too late to dedicate it to the military master."

After speaking, Sun Xiangfu picked off the top of the bamboo skewer and threw it into his mouth, a fragrance similar to shrimp ball meat suddenly spread in his mouth, Xu is his body is also the reason why he is very hungry, between his lips and teeth, he tasted many tastes of bamboo insects, the most obvious is salty, this bamboo insect sucks the nutrition of bamboo inside the bamboo all the year round, and a lot of bamboo salt has been precipitated in the body, bamboo salt is a good thing, not only has the function of salt, but also can clean and strengthen teeth, even in later generations, it is also a good thing.

In addition to the natural salty taste, the meat of the bamboo insect is tender and elastic, not lost to the shrimp and crab at all, even if Sun Xiangfu eats many delicacies in the later generations, he does not feel that the bamboo insect meat without any seasoning is unpalatable.