Chapter 21: The Meal of Grasshoppers

Nearly a month has passed unconsciously when the end comes, and in this muddy and hard-to-survive days, Qiu Xiaoyi has dreamed of his father and mother more than once, how much he misses his father and mother now, thinks about the food they cook, the sweater that his mother knits for herself, wants to steal the old wine that his father treasures, and steals his father's cigarettes. found that he was beaten half to death by his father, and after his injury, he was still dead and yelled at his father to buy him candy to eat. When I was a child, the picture I thought I was going to forget echoed in my mind over and over again like a movie.

I remember that when I was a child, my parents took me to my grandparents' house for the New Year, and my uncle, who had always regarded himself as his own son, always bought himself a lot of firecrackers and fireworks. The sky in the Northeast is dark very early, eight o'clock in the evening is already full of stars, the simple small village is lit with happy bonfires, the green smoke is curling, every household is brightly lit, the sound of color TV sets is huge, and the sketches of the Spring Festival Gala echo in everyone's ears.

All the women are busy making dumplings in the kitchen and making Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, all the men are watching in the small room drinking wine, smoking cigarettes, playing mahjong, hearing funny jokes and the whole family laughing, while they themselves are carefree playing fireworks in the starry yard.

At night, Shou New Year's Eve once accidentally fell asleep, and he was used as a handle by his uncle, and he has been amusing himself with this as a joke, but he made his ignorant self angry. The whole family got together and ate the reunion dinner very happily, and found the feeling of reunion and the taste of the New Year in this chaotic environment.

The greedy self took a little pressure money from his parents to buy a lot of small food, and took a big ticket of ten yuan to sit in the game hall for a day, how cool it felt at that time! But now, when I grow up, I may not be able to go home a few times a year, and there are fewer days to reunite with my family, let alone have a reunion dinner, even if I talk to my dad for a while, it is a luxury.

Qiu Xiaoyi wanted to cry, he was really homesick and missed his parents. I don't know if my father and mother are doing well in this apocalypse? He really wanted to grow a pair of wings and fly back to the northeast to meet his dear father.

Seeing Qiu Xiaoyi looking at the straw in his hand, Zhan Ge smiled and was afraid of his shoulder: "Hey, what does my brother think?" This pulled Qiu Xiaoyi back from fantasy to reality, watching the scene in front of him retreat like a fly, Qiu Xiaoyi felt indescribable loss and helplessness in his heart.

"I didn't ...... I didn't think about anything, I just missed home, I missed my parents! Hearing Qiu Xiaoyi's words, Liu Chuan suddenly interjected and said with some emotion: "Yes, I don't know how my wife who abandoned me in Jiangxi is doing now!" ”

"Since you miss your parents, why don't you drive to Jiangxi! Besides, didn't you say you were an orphan? Qiu Xiaoyi asked a little puzzled.

Liu Chuan pursed his lips after hearing this, and said with a wry smile: "Don't mention it, I was kicked out of the house by my mother, I did too many things to be sorry for her, and my father died, and my mother will kick me out of the house in a fit of anger, and she doesn't recognize me as a son." Alas......" said the man, tears of remorse fell from the corners of his eyes.

After hearing this, Qiu Xiaoyi and the others were suddenly dumbfounded and didn't know how to comfort them, Qiu Xiaoyi felt that his chest was blocked for a while, his mouth was bitter, and all kinds of feelings came to his heart and he couldn't help but hum in a whisper:

"I still remember you said that home is the only beauty, and continue to run with the Daoxiang River."

"Smile slightly, I know the dream when I was a child!"

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The singing voice seems to be infectious, and gradually Zhan Ge and Liu Chuan also hummed along, the three of them broke the gong-like voices and became louder and louder, and the tune no longer knew where to go, but what the three of them sang at this time was no longer a song, it was emotion, and life!

In the blink of an eye, the truck had driven to the edge of the pond, and surprisingly there were really no zombies here, and the zombies behind were not chasing, so they were relatively safe for the time being.

Looking at the green rice growing in the water, everyone suddenly wanted to shout: When will this kind of day be the end! Although complaining about the cruelty of the apocalypse, life will go on. Seeing that the time is about to enter noon, everyone's stomachs are already calling.

But Liu Chuan said that there was not much food for the three of them, and the food in Qiu Xiaoyi's backpack was all dry and hard slag steamed buns or something, and the one who was a little salty was half a bottle of Lao Gan Ma. But the question arises, there is nothing in this food, what do the people eat! You can't just drink the northwest wind with steamed buns that are no different from stones!

Besides, I searched the ground three times, and there was not even a single ant except for the broken leaves, what to eat! After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't think of a way to come out, and the anxious weather became hotter and hotter, so everyone simply rolled up their trouser legs and put their legs in the pond and sat on the ground in a daze.

"Ahh

Suddenly, Qin Ya jumped up from the pond with a scream, and before everyone could react, Qin Ya suddenly looked at her calves at a loss.

On her calf at this time was lying on her stomach a black thing that had been about ten centimeters the thickness of her thumb. Zhan Ge ripped the thing off, and Qin Ya's calf suddenly gushed out a lot of blood. Qin Ya had already been stunned by this situation, looking at her bloody calf and almost fainting: "What is that?" Am I poisoned! Don't die, woo woo......"

Zhan Ge grabbed the wriggling thing and smiled at Qin Ya without smiling: "You are a finished thing, you are just sucked by a locust and you are like a dead mother, it's really useless!" After that, he was about to throw the locust back into the water, but he was hurriedly pulled by Liu Chuan, carefully put the locust in the lunch box on his waist, and smiled at the others.

"Don't throw it away, don't throw it away, it's a good thing, we have something to eat for noon!"

"What to eat!" Zhan Ge looked around at the rice that was not edible except for a rotten leaf full of resin, which made people wonder, and after a while suddenly pointed to the locust in the box and shouted, "It can't be - this thing!" ”

Liu Chuan nodded with a smile, immediately jumped into the pond, and shouted at the two men: "If you want to be hungry at noon, sit down!" What are you doing in a daze, come down! ”

After hearing this, Zhan Ge looked at Qiu Xiaoyi, who had already taken off his shirt and jumped into the pond, and suddenly stirred up the already turbid pool water even more turbid. After seeing this, Zhan Ge didn't say a word, took off his shirt, and jumped into the pool. The turbid water became even more turbid after a toss by the three of them, the green rice seedlings were also tossed and poured a large piece, and many fish fry also emerged to breathe fresh air, but the three of them were still working tirelessly to find something to eat in the water.

In the end, after a lot of tossing, the three men finally caught a box of black and shiny locusts with bloody scars, and surprisingly caught two crucian carp that were not too big or small. Looking at the wriggling thing in the box, Zhan Ge suddenly felt sick to his stomach, squatted on the ground and vomited, saying that he would not eat this thing.

After a while, Qin Lan boiled the pot of boiling water with a small half bucket of water in the car, and poured the slaughtered crucian carp and a lunch box of grasshoppers into the pot with the old godmother, and the grasshoppers were scalded to death after tossing a few times in the pot, and after a while, the strange fragrance of fish and meat and the old godmother wafted above the pot.

Smelling the smell of food, everyone's taste buds were suddenly opened, and they didn't care whether they had eaten locusts or not, and there was a strange taste, so they soaked the steamed buns in the soup and ate them. Zhan Ge sat on the side and watched the others eat positively, swallowing with difficulty, he had long forgotten who had said that he would not eat this meal, but he couldn't pull his face down and leaned over to eat.

Qiu Xiaoyi knew his brother's temper, so he scooped a bowl of fish soup and a steamed bun with a lunch box and handed it to Zhan Ge: "Ah Zhan, eat some!" ”

Zhan Ge glanced at the fish soup, moved his head to the side, and said insincerely: "I'm not hungry, you can eat!" "But the noisy cries of his stomach have betrayed him completely. Zhan Ge felt extremely ashamed for a while, and he didn't dare to turn his head with a red face.

Qiu Xiaoyi smiled and put the lunch box on the ground, sat back on the edge of the pot and ate it. After a long time, Zhan Ge couldn't help it, and when he saw that everyone's eyes were not on him, he held the lunch box and ate all the fish soup in the whole lunch box, and there was not a single locust left that he said he didn't eat at all. Not to mention, the taste of the locust is really good. (I haven't eaten Xiaoyu, but when I was in the second year of junior high school, I saw a food show, which said to eat grasshoppers.) I don't know what it tastes like Xiaoyu, so forgive me. )

After the three men were full of wine and food, they took the initiative to do the work of vigilance, Qin Lan and Qin Ya were repairing the car on the side, the mouse came back once during the meal and never saw a trace again, the time passed minute by minute, and it was dusk in a blink of an eye, Qin Lan's car had been repaired almost, and everyone discussed some decisions and decided to wait for Qin Lan to repair the car before going on the road.

The man was wandering around with nothing to do, when suddenly a small sound came from a distance. Qiu Xiaoyi was the first to hear it, and beckoned Zhan Ge beside him and asked, "Ah Zhan, did you hear any voices just now?" ”

Zhan Ge looked at Qiu Xiaoyi suspiciously for a while: "No." Brother, could it be that you ate too much and farted! With that, he turned around and continued his patrol.

"Did I hear it wrong?" Qiu Xiaoyi still didn't believe it.

Not long after, there was a sparse sound not far away, and at this time, Qiu Xiaoyi believed in his ears, absolutely yes, something must be moving, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

Qiu Xiaoyi didn't say a word for a while, and rushed towards the source of the sound with the mountain opening knife. Zhan Ge shouted behind him, "Hey, brother, what are you doing!" Qiu Xiaoyi didn't have time to reply to his words, rushed to the place where the sound came from, and cut down the one-meter-high grass in front of him, and before he could look at it urgently, he saw a black image flying towards his face, and the two fangs were about to bite his arm. Qiu Xiaoyi immediately reflexively turned his body to the side, and reflexively stabbed at the animal, but what he didn't expect was that the thing was extremely flexible, and it actually crossed Qiu Xiaoyi's swing of the knife and roared at Qiu Xiaoyi on the ground.

Only then did he see what it was, and it was a huge green snake on the ground, the size of a python, with a round head and red eyes, a blood-red letter spitting, and two slender fangs shining with a dangerous light. The snake's red pupils stared at Qiu Xiaoyi tightly, this was clearly a mutated vegetable green snake!

Looking at this thing, Qiu Xiaoyi once again felt a crisis, and his intuition told him that this thing was not easy to deal with.

Qiu Xiaoyi stood on the ground and stared at the snake's eyes, the two sides were deadlocked, waiting for the opponent's attack. A man and a beast stood on the ground in this strange shape. Qiu Xiaoyi saw that the snake's skin slowly expanded, becoming more and more huge, and the blue-green mottled snake skin on its body reflected the afterglow of the setting sun, and had turned into semi-metallic scales.

"Your sister, it's become like this! Damn, aliens! ”

Qiu Xiaoyi was stunned for a while, he couldn't have imagined that it had only been a month since he died, and in order to survive, the animals had mutated into this form that was difficult to explain scientifically to protect themselves from harm!

PS: Happy Eleven! Happy every day! Have fun!! happy!