Chapter Forty-Eight: Fun Stories About Catching Insects

After a rain, the grass and trees in the mountains rose wildly, and the crops in the fields were also thriving, and the soybeans and mung beans on the slopes were especially good. The soybean seedlings are a little higher, and the mung beans are also higher than Lan Yi's knees, and the flowers grow green small beans, and the beans have a layer of white fluff on them, which is very beautiful. The pumpkin seedlings also climbed all over the field, and Lan Yi was very happy to find two small pumpkins in the dense pumpkin seedlings.

The grass in the field really began to grow wildly, and Lan Yi put on gloves and began to pull the weeds. This glove is sewn with oilcloth, although it is not yet a good hand, but at least it will not be scratched by grass, Lan Yi's small hands now lack of labor, very delicate, and if she is not careful, she will cut blood, so she made a few pairs of gloves and carried them when she worked. I don't know why, every time she wears it to work, it reminds her of the group dance at the end of Zhao Benshan's sketch on the Spring Festival Gala a few years ago, the beating and heavy corn man.

Yu'er and the baby played on the straw mat in the shade of the tree at the edge of the field as usual. The scorching sun had already dried the road, and Lan Yi had laid two layers of grass under the straw mat, so she was naturally not afraid of moisture.

Yu'er found a cyan vegetable insect from the soybean tree, which was as big as his finger, and brought it to Lan Yi like a treasure: "Mother, Yu'er caught a big insect, look, look." ”

Lan Yi stood up and looked at the green worm wriggling in Yu'er's palm, this worm Lan Yi couldn't tell the head from the tail, and there was actually a single horn on one end. If Lan Yi remembers correctly, this is a pest she has feared the most since she was a child, called the sesame worm, which can grow long enough to grow to the length of an adult's finger, and loves to nibble on the leaves of sweet potatoes, soybeans and sesame seeds. Lan Yi has an indescribable fear of it, seeing this boneless insect that can only stretch and wriggle, she feels that her scalp is numb and her limbs are stiff, and she always feels that this thing is indescribably disgusting and terrifying.

"Yu'er, where did you catch it?"

"Mother, on the bean leaves, there is more." Yu'er pinched the worm and handed it to the baby to play.

Lan Yi hurriedly stopped: "You can't give it to your brother, he will eat it in his mouth." Lan Yi turned around and looked at the bean leaves carefully, and sure enough, she saw that some of the leaves were bitten by insects, and she quickly found a small insect after looking for traces, she looked at the bean seedlings in the field stiffly, she was squatting among the insects just now to pull weeds?

Lan Yi couldn't help but shake her arms.

"Mother, we can take out this insect and feed it to the chickens, the chickens are cute and eaten." Yu'er rolled the insects in her hand and played with them, and Lan Yi felt that her son was really powerful for the first time.

"Yu'er, have you seen this bug?"

"Last year, I followed my grandfather in the field to catch it." Yu'er tilted her head and recalled, her little face was very happy, "Yu'er found half a bag, and when she ate, grandma gave her eggs, and Yu'er was full." ”

Lan Yi couldn't bear to think about it, praised him a few words and asked him to look at his younger brother, and looked up at the surrounding fields, sure enough, there were many people holding bags to catch insects. There seem to be more birds in the field than usual, so are they also looking for insects to eat?

"Aunt Tuesday, are you catching insects?" Lan Yi saw the Tuesday family not far away, and she went up to say hello.

Aunt Tuesday looked up at Lan Yi with a smile on her face, and said kindly: "Yes, this wave of insects is coming quickly, you have to catch it quickly, and this bean curd will be eaten in a few days." ”

"Second aunt, can you only catch it by hand? Can't do it any other way? Lan Yi looked at the second aunt with a blank look and asked expectantly.

Aunt Tuesday thought for a while: "Just wait less for the bird to go, this can only be caught by people, and when it is powerful, the yamen will also send people to organize everyone to catch together." ”

"......" Lan Yi nodded mechanically, do you have to go home and get a bag to catch insects?

"Brother and sister, this son is not scorching, and the insects are on the leaves, and it will be difficult to catch them when they hide later. Catch it quickly. A tall young daughter-in-law reminded Lan Yi that she was the daughter-in-law Yang who made a fortune on Tuesday, and the children in the family had played with Yu'er a few times, and she was also more familiar with Lan Yi.

Lan Yi nodded mechanically: "Fourth sister-in-law, I didn't bring a bag, let's talk about it tomorrow." "I have to give her some time to do psychological construction, it's not so simple.

"What's this, my mother-in-law and I have brought a lot, let's take it for the two of you." Yang proudly pulled down two small cloth bags from his waist and handed them to Lan Yi.

"Thank you, sister-in-law. Second aunt, I'll catch insects first, you're busy. Lan Yi looked at the squirming cloth bag in the hands of Yang and Aunt Tuesday, and resisted the urge to run away and took it.

"The fourth family, this Lin Shan's daughter-in-law is not quite right today." Aunt Tuesday saw Lan Yi's stunned look and asked worriedly.

"Mother-in-law, I think my younger brother and sister are afraid of insects!" Yang couldn't help but laugh.

Aunt Tuesday was stunned for a moment, but in a blink of an eye, she understood, and laughed twice: "It's not!" This kid didn't grow up in a mud pit, how have I ever seen this. Let's hurry up, and we'll catch her in the field later. ”

The family on Tuesday was full of kindness to Lan Yi, and Lan Yi only received fifty percent of the rent and straw, and the extra food for them was enough to chew for more than half a year.

"Yu'er, let the baby play on the ground, you help your mother catch insects, okay?" Lan Yi returned to the ground, gave the two children some water, and discussed with Yu'er.

"Good. What should I do if my brother falls? Yu'er frowned and looked at his smiling younger brother, now he is very conscious of being a big brother and regards the baby as his responsibility.

"Don't be afraid." Lan Yi turned around and took out a pack of dim sum, originally planning to eat it when the two children were hungry, "Baby, you eat dim sum here, don't run around, behave." ”

The baby should respond twice, grab the pen and put the www.biquge.info heart into his mouth, he has grown his front teeth, and biting things is much less effort than before.

"Yu'er, let's look at him. Yu'er is old enough to help her mother catch insects, and the two of us can be faster. After catching the worm girl, go find some fungus and mushrooms, let's fry them at noon, okay? Lan Yi handed Yu'er an arm-long cloth bag, knowing that Yu'er loved to eat mushrooms, and she would find some back after every rain.

"Okay." Yu'er took the bag and went into the soybean field to catch insects. Yu'er was very excited to feel that she could help, and her eyes were full of mushrooms when she was fooled by her mother, and she shuttled to the beans with his small breasts to catch insects with her hands, and her movements were very fast.

Lan Yi took a deep breath, picked up the cloth bag and began to take the worms. I didn't dare to "take" her directly, but fortunately, I wore gloves today, so I didn't have to touch the insects. She pulled the bean tree with her hand, and saw that the insect still had to do a long time of mental construction, so she slowly reached out and grabbed it into her pocket to cover it tightly, and the speed was of course much slower than Yu'er.

On the hillside in the distance, Zhou Weiji was herding horses, he was dressed as a farmer today, sitting on a stone and observing the busy family in the field, and naturally saw Lan Yi. Seeing her trembling and dying, she was still bent over in the ground, carefully looking for them one by one. Imagining the expression on Lan Yi's face, Zhou Weiji couldn't help laughing, his voice was low and very pleasant. I didn't expect this little woman to look like a little adult all day long, but she was afraid of insects, what is so terrible about this insects?

Zhou Weiji's mother died since he was a child, his father was busy working, and he was brought up by his sister. His sister spoiled him and cultivated his domineering temperament, since he was a child, he only knew how to run crazy and cause trouble, and after his father died at the age of twelve, he became a soldier in the army, and the family's land was also rented to the villagers. After coming back, he was busy with the trivial affairs of the yamen, and did not take back the field, it can be said that he is also half-familiar with this kind of field, but Lan Yi is so afraid of insects, he has never seen it, and it is rare to think about it.

Zhou Weiji heard Zhao Lizheng say that Lan Yi had set up a female household, and with her thin little shoulders to carry the family's livelihood, Zhao Lizheng was full of praise for her, but it was a pity that Wang Linshan went early.

"Just Wang Linshan's kid hanging snot and tears, he can marry such a good daughter-in-law, it's really the ancestral tomb is smoking." Zhou Weiji secretly thought about Wang Linshan, who was running behind him, and couldn't help but burst out of sour water, and his mood drifted back to when he was a child.

Lan Yi's mother and son, with the help of the family on Tuesday and the second uncle Wang's family, quickly caught the insects on these two acres of land. The mother and son led the donkey home, Lan Yi asked Yu'er to feed the chickens with insects at home, and she took the baby to lead the goat hair donkey to the hillside to graze, so as to avoid the scene of chickens eating insects.

Lan Yi put the goat and the donkey in the fence that she had enclosed, and the piece of enclosure was the most lush grass on the hillside that Lan Yi bought, and the two of them in the family had eaten for so long and had not seen much reduction in grass. This piece of hillside Lan Yi and Uncle Wang each circled ten acres, Xia Wan circled fifteen acres, according to the guidance of the gardener Zhao Shangjing, the slopes of the three families are connected, and it is suitable for planting peonies in the middle of this piece, as for the corner of the land, Lan Yi plans to plant some fruit trees in the future, which will be counted as his own orchard.

After Lan Yi and Zhao Shangjing, they planned to clean up three acres of hillside first, and wait for the peony seeds to mature and sow them, so she has started to grass and clear the stones in the past few days.

After grinding that Yu'er should finish feeding the insects, Lan Yi took the baby into the house, and the scene she saw on the shadow wall made Lan Yi a little dazed.

Yu'er was lying on the edge of the pigsty with the bag, the pocket on the ground in the middle of the yard was open, the insects inside were crawling out, and the chickens and geese were chasing each other with the insects. Lan Yi walked to the pigsty, Yu'er poured a bag of sesame worms into the pigsty, and the two little black pigs actually snorted and ate the insects, they were really omnivores!

asked Yu'er to pour the sesame worms in the yard into the pig trough, and Lan Yi took him to wash his hands carefully twice. Soak the mushrooms picked up on the hillside in a pot, eat mushroom meat and lo noodles at noon, the aroma of fresh mushrooms wafts throughout the courtyard, and even the cow eggs that live next door to Lan Yi's house come over to rub rice and eat, provoking the cow's sister-in-law to chase after her with a stick.

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