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- Chapter 403: Eating Grasshoppers
The crisp autumn air
Liu Junhao held Red Rabbit by the hand and led the two yellow-spotted skins and Wukong directly down to the river beach. After arriving at the place, let the red rabbit go and let it wander by the river. Anyway, there are no crops nearby, so you can do whatever you want.
He himself found a clean place and sat on the grass with a book in his hand and was in a daze.
Wukong stayed by his master¡¯s side and played for a while. He thought it was boring, so he went to catch grasshoppers and feed them to the starlings.
It is true that grasshoppers can only jump for a few days in autumn. Now the grasshoppers are about to lay eggs, and they are big and fat. Especially the "old shoulder pole" and "bandit head", each of them is one finger long, and they are very heavy in the hand.
I couldn¡¯t read the book at all. Liu Junhao started to doze off just after turning two pages. He simply closed the book, moved his neck a few times and looked up at the surrounding scenery. September is the harvest season, and the sky is particularly blue, pure, and amazingly blue. The white clouds above the head are like strands of scales arranged neatly.
Looking into the distance, the Baitiao River is like a soft ribbon winding around the reeds on both sides and slowly flowing into the distance; the trees on the mountains farther away show a pale yellow color, and occasionally a few trees glow with brilliant red; the fields The crops here are getting darker and darker, as if they are ready to seize the last craze at the end of the season.
In this situation, Liu Junhao really wanted to express his feelings with a few poems, but after racking his brains for a long time, he couldn't think of a word to suit the situation.
"On the contrary, a sentence came up: "The dangerous building is a hundred feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hand." I couldn't think of the next two sentences I had already given the teacher the little knowledge in the textbook.
¡°Hey, it seems that I really don¡¯t have the talent to be a poet.
Brother, when did he become sentimental? Liu Junhao stopped thinking about those two lines of poetry and began to close his eyes and rest.
After a while, the plastic bag in the monkey's hand was filled with less than half a bag of grasshoppers. This guy excitedly ran to show off in front of the owner. Liu Junhao was impatient at being harassed, so he had to stand up and tie the mouth of the plastic bag, then took out another plastic bag and handed it over.
These plastic bags were originally used to collect chrysanthemums, but now they have been requisitioned by monkeys.
Watching the monkeys busy in front of him, Liu Junhao remembered the scene of catching grasshoppers when he was a child. In the past, when catching grasshoppers, they were always connected with foxtail grass: hold the grasshopper tightly with your left hand and break off the grasshopper's head, hold the grass stem with your right hand and push it up from the bottom of the neck on the back of the grasshopper, and directly tie the membrane on the neck and saddle. It's rotten and then goes out from under the head. Then pull it to the bottom of the foxtail grass, and the grasshopper will be blocked by the dog's tail that has not been removed.
Just wear them one by one like this, and you can wear a bunch of them in ten minutes. Sometimes when I get excited about catching, I can catch seven or eight skewers in an afternoon, and I can hold them all in my hand. The big green ones and the yellow ones look very successful.
Sometimes a bandit head with a lot of energy would kick on the skewer, kicking off the grasshopper body that was previously put on, leaving only the head hanging there alone.
Liu Junhao also learned from experience in catching grasshoppers that the best time to find grasshoppers is when the sun is about to set. By that time, the dew had fallen, the temperature in the fields was relatively low, and the grasshoppers' ability to move was greatly reduced. They tend to climb towards the branches now.
Early the next morning, when the sun is still shining, you can look for grasshoppers on the low branches on the roadside. You will find grasshoppers everywhere. They lie there one by one and are so honest that they can be picked directly.
But these are things that happened when he was a child. He doesn¡¯t have the leisure time at all now. He would rather lie down and bask in the sun than move.
The weather this summer is dry, which is very suitable for grasshoppers to survive. The river beach is full of them. In just over two hours, the monkey had already filled two and a half plastic bags. Liu Junhao weighed it with his hands and found that it weighed more than two kilograms.
¡°So many grasshoppers can probably feed two starlings for half a month.
Seeing that it was getting late, he picked up the red rabbit and walked back along the way. Wukong initially followed his master, but soon disappeared. When I saw it again, this guy was holding a corn cob and chewing it. I didn't know whose land it was from.
When "Zhizhi" saw his owner, he excitedly raised his jade stick.
Liu Junhao reached out and took it and pinched it, and found that the corn kernels were already hard. It was the right time to cook and eat. After a while, it would not taste good as it gets old.
Seeing that other people¡¯s corns were about to mature, Liu Junhao remembered his own more than 20 plants, and now it was time to cook them.
In previous years, people in the village would give him tender corn to eat, but they were embarrassed because they always ate it.
When he was planting sesame seeds this year, Liu Junhao scattered a handful of corn kernels that he fed to chickens and ducks into the depression at the base of the backyard wall.
The corn seedlings grew very well at first, but one time during the summer it rained heavily and he forgot to open the water channel in the backyard. resultThe courtyard was filled with rain, and after the water was drained, it was discovered that most of the corn seedlings were drowned.
Seeing their half-dead state, Liu Junhao simply ignored them and pretended they had never been planted.
Who would have thought that these corn seedlings are very vital, and more than twenty corn plants have come to life, and they are growing higher and higher. The corn cobs they now produce are thirty to forty centimeters long.
"When these more than 20 corn cobs are mature, they can break the sky and beat more than ten kilograms of corn, which is of no use at all. Therefore, Liu Junhao had no intention of letting them mature and planned to cook them and eat them directly, which would be enough to satisfy their appetite.
When she got home, Zhang Qian was already sitting in the courtyard eating grapes. When she saw her husband entering the yard, she said hello lazily, and then screamed "ah".
Liu Junhao was startled, thinking that his wife was crazy.
"Husband, this is the grasshopper you caught. How about we fry the grasshopper and eat it tonight?"
Since Zhang Qian became pregnant, she always wants to eat something fresh. Now that I see those two bags of grasshoppers, I always want to eat them.
Grasshoppers are all caught on the river beach. There is absolutely no pollution. It is okay to fry them and eat them. But Liu Junhao is worried about whether pregnant women can eat it.
Now all actions are focused on his wife. When he heard that Zhang Qian wanted to eat fried grasshoppers, he immediately checked online for information. Since his wife became pregnant, Liu Junhao has to check online to see if there are any foods that pregnant women should avoid every time he makes a meal.
??????????????????? Grasshoppers are rich in protein, so it¡¯s okay for pregnant women to eat them, as long as they don¡¯t overdose.
However, the newly caught grasshoppers cannot be fried yet. They need to be starved for a day to wait for their stomachs to be empty.
Liu Junhao was afraid that the grasshoppers would be muffled to death over time, so he did not dare to delay and poured the grasshoppers into the wooden basin early. Of course, in order to prevent the chickens and ducks in the yard from eating, he specially covered the basin with two pieces of window screen.
We still cook corn in the evening. The home-made corn tastes sweet and textured when cooked. Zhang Qian gnawed one and planned to continue eating. Liu Junhao quickly stopped him. Although the corn was delicious, he couldn't eat more.
"Wear a red coat on July 15th, and hit red dates on August 15th." It was not yet half of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the dates on several jujube trees in Liu Junhao's yard turned completely red in three to five days. The branches are hung heavily and densely, and a large red cloud can be seen thousands of meters away, which is really gratifying.
Today, Saturday, I can finally have a good rest at home. My wife has been thinking about eating red dates since breakfast. Liu Junhao immediately invited Wukong to climb a tree and beat dates. Just as they were fighting vigorously, the naughty boys in the village didn't know how they got the news, and soon seven or eight of them came.
Well, we can only let Wukong hit more dates.
While he was busy in the courtyard, Huo Jun's voice came from outside the courtyard.
Today he went to Liujiagou to buy mountain goods, and by the way, he gave Liu Junhao dust-free chalk.
Liu Junhao specially asked him to buy this dust-free chalk from the city for his wife to use in class. It¡¯s not that the school chalk cannot be used, it¡¯s just that the dust is relatively large after writing and can be easily inhaled into the lungs.
Liu Junhao didn¡¯t pay much attention to it before, but now his wife is pregnant and naturally has to consider it. To be on the safe side, he asked someone to find out if he could use dust-free chalk. Now I don't care about spending a few extra bucks, everything is about my wife's safety.
Zhang Qian didn¡¯t intend to use it, but she couldn¡¯t resist her husband, so she had to let him do whatever he wanted.
"Xiao Hao, your jujubes are ripe. Why don't you harvest them all today? Just give me a few dozen kilograms to bring back." Huo Jun shouted as soon as he entered the yard and saw the trees full of red jujubes.
Liu Junhao heard what he mentioned, looked at so many people in the courtyard, and nodded.
A few naughty children cheered and volunteered to go back to borrow long bamboo poles and hooks.
Several adults stood swaying under the jujube tree one by one, and immediately a heavy rain began.
These naughty kids got into the kitchen and took out several plastic bowls from Liu Junhao¡¯s house to pick up dates. The hard red dates were crispy and sweet, and they stuffed them into their mouths while picking them up.
Soon the bamboo baskets containing dates were filled. Liu Junhao quickly asked Professor Zhao to bring two more baskets from home.
After working for more than two hours, everyone was able to beat all the dates on the tree. There were many more on the treetops, but unfortunately they couldn't reach them. I can only keep it for now, waiting for Wukong to pick it when he has time.
Huo Jun originally wanted to find a cloth bag to put the dates in, but when he entered the house and saw the grasshoppers in the wooden basin, he was very interested and asked where he caught them. He wanted Liu Junhao to give him half a catty and go back to fry them.
"They were caught on the river beach. You can catch them yourself if you want. There are many of them on the river beach, they are everywhere," Liu Junhao replied.
Huo Jun became interested and immediately ran to the river beach.
Catching grasshoppers seems simple, but in fact it is not easy to catch. First of all, grasshoppers are protected.?, you will miss it if you are not careful. Moreover, many grasshoppers have amazing jumping abilities. If you react a little slowly, they will fly away from your fingers. Don't use too much force when catching, otherwise the grasshopper will be crushed to pieces.
Huo Jun had never caught grasshoppers before, and he was clumsy. It took him a long time to catch seven or eight grasshoppers.
Reluctantly, he went to Liu Junhao¡¯s house again to ask for advice. In the end, he simply did not do it himself. Instead, he summoned the furry children and others to help catch grasshoppers for a dime each.
These naughty kids are idle when they are idle, and they are naturally very motivated when they receive monetary rewards. They all ran to the river beach to catch grasshoppers, and it took only half an hour to catch a large plastic bag.
Huo Jun only planned to get some grasshoppers to eat at home, so he didn¡¯t let them catch more. He stopped after collecting three kilograms.
Thank you all, the memory card can be used now, today¡¯s updates are as usual, there are still two updates.
I¡¯m feeling depressed. I was so anxious just now that I tried various methods according to my friends¡¯ tips but nothing worked (I really can¡¯t compliment my computer skills), so I had no choice but to call the network administrator for help. Who knew it would work if someone wiped the memory card with paper a few times and then plugged it into the computer.
It¡¯s okay to do this I learned a trick, I hope there won¡¯t be any problems in the future.
Well, the second update may be late, so everyone should go to bed early and wait until tomorrow.
It¡¯s not good to stay up late
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