Lighting the torch and leaving the bamboo house, Liu Yiyu walked in front to lead the way, and went to take a look at the big trees next to each other in all directions, and saw that these cicada chrysalis climbed out of the soil, climbed to the place where the big tree was smeared with lard, slipped one by one, fell from the tree, and then climbed repeatedly.

Some cicada pupae seem to be tired of crawling, lying on the soil on the ground and directly shedding their shells, and only monkeys fly away after shedding their shells, leaving a place of cicadas molting their shells.

"Sister, how many are there here? It really worked." Liu Yihao saw the cicada chrysalis in one place, and even many of them had faded their shells, and Liu Yihao said with a happy smile on his face.

"The third sister has become, what about these that can't be picked up for a while? Besides, there are still many shells that have not faded, and it will be enough to pick them up tomorrow, the eldest sister looks at this scene, and her heart is much more relieved, and she can finally sleep well tonight." Liu Yiyu pulled Liu Yishuang, who still wanted to pick up the cicada and molt the shell.

When Liu Yishuang heard his eldest sister's words, he also felt justified, and stopped picking them up.

When the three sisters and brothers returned to the bamboo house and had just entered the cave, Liu Li couldn't wait to ask, "Eldest sister, what's going on outside?"

"Mother, what about all the good directions? We have to get up early tomorrow to pick up cicadas and molt their shells, in case the villagers of Shangou Village see how there are so many cicadas molting on the ground, they will definitely be suspicious, and when the time comes, it will attract the attention of others, which is not easy to say." Although now that the military disasters and man-made disasters and natural disasters are coming together, many families can't eat, and even their wives and families are broken up, Liu Yiyu is not the savior, his own family lives in a cave, eats black noodles, and eats three meals a day is only half-full, so naturally he doesn't want this method of making money to be known.

At least, not now, as for the rest.

"What the eldest sister said is that a while ago, my mother heard the villagers of Shangou Village say that someone saw a fire in the mountain forest, and others thought it was on fire? Some people say that they have gone wrong, but fortunately no one wants to come to our family? ”。

"It's done, next time we have to be careful, we have to get up early tomorrow? Hurry up and go to sleep." Liu Zhang said.

Early the next morning, before dawn, the Liu family got up, carried bamboo baskets one by one, and went to pick up cicadas and molt shells in groups of two and two according to Liu Yiyu's division yesterday, even the youngest seventh brother and eighth sister did not let go, and went to pick up cicadas and molt together.

Although the seventh brother and the eighth sister are still young, they can still do these things, and they are happier and happier than anyone else.

Picked up the cicadas for more than an hour, and finally picked up the cicada shell, returned to the bamboo house, one by one smiled, one by one happily said, how much they picked up.

waited until the grandma said that the meal was opened, and one by one they realized it, their hungry chests were attached to their backs, and they gobbled up breakfast one by one.

The grandma on the side looked at it, with a distressed look on her face, and put this dish in her hand for everyone, and said in her mouth, "Eat slowly, grandma made a lot today, she is full, eldest sister, you eat more vegetables, second sister, you drink some soup, Goro, there are still cakes here, eat more."

"Grandma, you eat too, leave us alone, we'll do it ourselves." Liu Yiyu sandwiched a cake for Liu Zhang's and said.

After the Liu family finished breakfast, Liu Yiyu took Liu Yisa and Liu Yishuang to fetch water, and began to wash the cicada molt, wash the mud on the cicada molt, and then dry it.

After drying in the afternoon, and then put it into a burlap bag, his own house is just around the bamboo house around the big trees under the brush oil, picking up the cicada shell, otherwise expand the range, pick up more, first, the weather is too hot, people will not be able to stand it, second, their own family is too busy, even so, Liu Yiyu weighed it, a day estimated, can pick up five catties, buy it and replace it with a copper plate, it is five hanging money, a month, there are twelve taels of silver.

Now in August, with the living habits of monkeys in the north, I am afraid that it will be slowly absent in mid-September, and it will fall into hibernation, so that I still have a month and a half to pick up cicadas and molt their shells, and a month and a half of time can also make my own family earn eighteen taels of silver.

The silver is earned, and the money to build a house is also available, but I missed the best time to build a house, and this year I can only settle for it and wait for the spring of the next year to build a house.

There are rushing days, time flies too fast, five days pass in the blink of an eye, looking at the bags full of cicadas molting, the Liu family is also full of energy.

After waiting for the cicada to molt for five days, it also looked like twenty-five catties, and Liu Yiyu took it to Derentang to sell it on this day, in exchange for two taels and five hanging dollars.

In the last few days, Liu Yiyu found that the cicada molting shells picked up from the ground were much less than the previous three days, and Liu Yiyu also found that there were many monkeys molting cicadas and shedding their shells on the branches of big trees.

Liu Yiyu touched the big tree that was smeared with lard, and saw that under the sun, a lot of lard had penetrated into the trunk, and many cicada chrysalis crawled out of the soil and climbed directly onto the tree, but did not slip and fell from the tree.

Liu Yiyu finished selling cicadas from the town, and bought a few catties of fatty pork by the way, and Liu Li and Liu Zhang talked about it.

The two of them also found out about this, and Liu Li was going to take the children to the trees on the mountain and brush the lard again.

But before Liu Yiyu and them went out, suddenly, the sky thundered and flashed, and a strong wind blew.

"Big sister, it's going to rain, it's useless to brush lard on the trees, it will rain later, it will be washed away by the rain, there is nothing, wait for the rain to stop and then go." Liu Zhang said.

"Hmm".

This rain has been raining for a week.

Some people rejoice, some people are sad.

Happily, this rain finally fell, and the crops in the dry fields, like jade dew and rain, one by one stretched branches, late is better than not at all.

The Liu family had a sad face, and it rained for a week, and the Liu family hid in the cave, and they didn't pick up the cicada for seven days.

"Eldest sister, when did you say that this rain will not fall, this rain will either not fall, or it will rain endlessly, is it really annoying?" Liu Yihao frowned, sat next to the cave with Liu Yiyu, and looked at the sky outside where it was still raining.

"It rained for seven days, grandma calculated, but our family lost nearly four taels of silver? But I feel sorry for Grandma." At this time, Liu Zhang sighed heavily.

"This rain is almost over, that is, in the past two days, grandma, fifth brother, money is a bastard, and it will never be earned, as the so-called gains and losses, why bother so much?" Liu Yiyu thought of a classic saying in his previous life, money is a bastard, and he can never earn enough to comfort his grandmother and fifth brother.

"Is what the eldest sister said really appropriate? This money is really a bastard, when there is no him, I want to die, when there is him, we miss him more, without him, we live like a year, this money, is not a good thing? It's a scourge." Liu Yishuang pretended to be a deep voice.