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- The more cicadas were spoken, the more cicadas appeared. In just two or three days, more than ten cicada holes appeared in Liu Junhao's front yard. Now every night, Xiao Zeyu and Tongtong come over and ask Liu Junhao to look for cicadas under the tree with their handheld lights. We haven't reached the heyday of cicadas yet, so we can touch up to twenty or thirty in one night.
After catching cicadas, they naturally asked Teacher Wang to fry them for them. The two little guys became more and more enthusiastic as they ate, and almost every day they looked forward to darkening in the afternoon.
Liu Junhao had dinner in the morning, soaked the bowl in the pot, and went to the backyard to pick melons. Okay, another watermelon was ruined by the raccoons.
By the way, those two grasshoppers seemed to regard their melon field as a free restaurant, and they would come over every now and then to grab a watermelon.
"These guys are really serious. If you say you can steal melons, just steal melons. They insist on biting the net bag into pieces. It's very irritating."
¡°If it were left in the past, Liu Junhao would definitely not take it lightly if he caught this kind of thing. But Aiwujiwu, thinking of Zhang Qian's attitude towards Cao Lizi, his mood also softened.
Even if it is a contribution to protecting the country¡¯s wildlife!
After picking three watermelons, he was just about to turn around and leave when he suddenly heard a "booming" sound under the melon vines not far away, followed by a "squeaking" sound. I saw the old grass raccoon running out with a big mouse in its mouth, followed by several little guys.
??????????????????? There are rats in my backyard, but I didn¡¯t expect that they are not free food, but can also help me get rid of the rats.
Maybe the reason why the watermelons in the backyard were not damaged by rats is because of these grasshoppers. They still have some merit. Thinking of this, Liu Junhao felt balanced.
Since he successfully planted watermelons on trees in his yard last year, people in the village immediately followed suit. But trouble comes when the watermelon is ripe. Often overnight, a small hole is dug out of the ripe melon on the melon vine.
What a rat that spoils the soup. One bite from them made the watermelon weighing ten kilograms completely inedible.
When people in the village talked about this incident, they were also very worried. The day before yesterday when he went to Er Mazi's house to return the bamboo baskets, he asked if the watermelons in his yard had been damaged.
Liu Junhao didn¡¯t think much about it at the time. Now it seems that it was Cao Lizi who secretly helped him get rid of rats.
The old grasshopper was also stunned when he saw him, but this time he didn't run away, he just stared closely.
They looked at each other like this for half a minute, but Liu Junhao took three steps back first. After the guy was convinced that he meant no harm, he let go of his thoughts, threw the mouse on the ground, and growled at his child.
The little grass raccoon immediately rushed forward and held down the mouse that was trying to escape with its two front legs. But these little guys are clearly just there for fun. He just kept poking at it with his paws and letting out a low roar.
Are you teaching them how to hunt? The poor mouse was frightened and tortured for a long time, but was finally bitten to death.
Only then did the old man come forward to "demonstrate" how to eat a mouse. The little ones also gathered around and started tearing at each other. In less than five minutes, the mouse was devoured completely.
Immediately afterwards, the whole family swaggered out of the water channel without even looking at Liu Junhao.
Damn, you¡¯re so rude. The backyard is my territory. If you piss me off, I¡¯ll block the water channel tomorrow.
No, he suddenly remembered that this raccoon dog not only eats mice, but also fish.
The eels in this ditch are densely packed. In their eyes, isn¡¯t it a perfect fishing spot? No wonder the two grasshoppers built their nest outside the courtyard wall, because they were obsessed with the eels they raised.
The more Liu Junhao thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became. He wouldn¡¯t say anything if he didn¡¯t find them before, but now he can¡¯t continue to let them cause harm. Thinking of this, he hurriedly moved a few bricks from the front yard to block the water channel.
After picking watermelons, he put the pillowcases he had knitted in the past two days on the back seat of his bicycle, and then rode on the street to deliver melons.
This watermelon is of course given to Zhao Guangming. Last time I gave this guy seven large watermelons, and now he called me to ask for it again.
We went early today and the weather hadn¡¯t warmed up yet, so Liu Junhao had a leisurely trip.
After mailing the pillowcase, he pushed the bicycle to Zhao Guangming's house. Unexpectedly, there was a big blackboard erected at the door of his front room, with the four characters "Received the Shell" crookedly written on it.
Zhao Guangming was sitting in the room playing with his mobile phone. He was very enthusiastic when he saw him taking out cigarettes and pouring tea.
"This guy shows courtesy for nothing. He is either a traitor or a thief." Liu Junhao was wondering in his mind, but he didn't know what medicine he bought in the gourd.
"Brother Liu, can you do your brother a favor?" Come on, let's goThe brother in front of me called him, which was obviously not a good thing.
"No, you'd better call me by my name, which sounds comfortable to you. If you have anything to say, just say it. Let's talk about it first. If I can help, I will help. If you can't help, it's useless even if you call me Uncle Liu."
"Damn, you still want to be my elder, how can you take advantage of me like this." Zhao Guangming was furious for a moment and stared at him.
Liu Junhao, however, sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, gently blew the tea leaves in the cup and said, "Good tea."
"I'd better talk about the matter." Seeing that he had no intention of apologizing, Zhao Guangming had no choice but to continue talking about the topic, "You have seen the blackboard at the door, right now I have nothing to do at home, and I want to collect some cicada shells to make some money. Isn¡¯t your girlfriend a teacher in a primary school? Can you ask her to collect the cicada shells for me?¡±
"What are you talking about, how can you ask her to collect it for you?" Liu Junhao was a little confused for a moment.
"She can mobilize students. There are so many students in Liujiagou Primary School, so it would definitely be fine to ask her to open a purchasing point in your village. I will give her a kickback"
"No, Zhang Qian will definitely not do it. How can any teacher let a student do such a thing." Before he could finish speaking, Liu Junhao had already refused.
"Why not? Just now a teacher from the primary school gave me three kilograms of cicada shells."
"My brain is not flooded. I am not in ambush yet. How can he collect so many cicada shells?" Of course Liu Junhao didn't believe his lies.
"Hey, one of his students made it last year, but he didn't have time to sell it. But it's right to sell it this year. Do you know how much a kilogram of cicada shells costs now? Thirty yuan."
"What, so expensive?" Liu Junhao was also stunned when he heard this. "In the past, Guo Laosi only paid 18 yuan per catty. Why did he grow so tall all of a sudden?"
"You don't know this, right? From a close perspective, the roads in our town were not repaired before, and acquisition information from outside could not come in, so Guo Laosi would try his best to lower the price. This year is different, everyone knows You can make money by removing the shell. If you take it, I will take it, and the price will naturally go up.
Generally speaking, the price of cicada shells has been rising in recent years. Do you know the reason? In fact, eating cicadas has become a fashion in cities now. Almost all major restaurants have the dish of "fried cicadas", and the unshelled cicadas can be sold for 15 cents each. This is much easier than looking for cicada shells, and the money comes quickly. As a large amount of cicadas flow into the catering market, there will naturally be less cicada shells and the price will rise. "
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The son of the mouse can make holes. I usually see this kid being careless, but I didn't expect him to be so clear-headed when it comes to business. It seems he has really inherited his father's excellent genes.
"How about it? This job doesn't cost anything. As long as you run to me when you go to the post office to mail something, I will give you a commission of three yuan per catty." Seeing that he remained silent, Zhao Guangming said again. , "Just think of it as doing your brother a favor."
"I'll help you go back and talk, I don't know if she will agree."
The commission is three yuan for one kilogram, and thirty yuan for ten kilograms. In previous years, the naughty children in the village received only twenty or thirty kilograms of cicada shells at most. After a busy summer, the commission was less than 100 yuan. To be honest, Liu Junhao really didn't like this little money.
But he didn¡¯t refuse outright. After all, they had helped him a lot during this period, especially with the watermelon mail last time.
"Then I'd like to thank you first. By the way, there's this thing, I'll take it too." Zhao Guangming said, taking a white thing from the backstage and handing it to him.
"What is thisit's so strange. Why is there dog urine on the cicada?" Liu Junhao looked at the cicada-like thing in his hand in great surprise.
It can barely be seen that this thing was once a cicada. There is a layer of milky white fluff on its surface, which makes it look moldy. Many bright yellow spores emerge from its body, the longest of which is five or six centimeters long. This thing suddenly looks very similar to the dog urine when the moss first came out.
Dog urine moss is very common in rural areas. It usually grows in the corners of toilets or on dung piles. Probably the dog often lifts its hind legs to urinate in these places, hence the name. People in the village often say something like, "Next to the Jinluan Palace, Ganoderma lucidum will grow; next to the hut, dog urine will grow."
"What are you looking at? Take a closer look. This is the legendary Cordyceps sinensis." Zhao Guangming explained slightly with satisfaction.
"That's nonsense. Are you bullying me for being uneducated? If this thing were Cordyceps sinensis, I would eat it immediately." Liu Junhao punched him with a smile.
He had seen Cordyceps sinensis in textbooks before. It was a complex formed by fungi parasitic on insect larvae. Although it is similar to this one, the parasitic insect is not cicada. The impression is that the insect is as long as a caterpillar.
"Okay, I won't tease you anymore,Seeing that he didn't believe it, Zhao Guangming explained, "This thing is called cicada. Like Cordyceps sinensis, it is also a Chinese medicinal material." You go back and see if your village has any. I¡¯ll also collect it here, twenty yuan per catty. "
"I guess not. I have never seen this thing before, and we don't have it here at all." Liu Junhao looked at it a few more times, and finally shook his head. He is also an expert at catching cicadas, but this is the first time he has seen a cicada look like this.
"There must be some. I collected half a catty in the morning. This thing seems to usually grow in the bamboo forest. No one in our town knew the value of cicadas before, so it should be easy to find."
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