Because Xiaobao promised that the bug was delicious, he immediately mobilized the enthusiasm of all the men and Gan Lai.

According to Xiaobao's description, everyone started to cut off the locust's wings and legs.

"Cut it alive, soak it alive, spit it out in black water and grill it over the fire!" Xiaobao recited his foodie secrets.

When locusts encounter an enemy, they spit out a smelly black-green liquid as a warning, so some locusts spray black water onto the scissors.

There was only one pair of scissors on the boat, but Gan Lai took over it, which made Zheng Xiaorou very angry. Others pressed the locusts on the board of the boat, scratched them with daggers, knives, or simply pinched them off with their fingernails.

Not to mention the scissors, these people even have some black water on their hands and bodies. If you get closer and smell it, everyone will stink.

The lower half of Xiaobao's robe was also dotted with black stains.

Playing with bugs is the fun of every farm boy. These young boys also played with bugs when they were young. They not only played with bugs, but also ate them. Like Baijiaxing, they thought the can of sheep-lime seeds was delicious.

The fun of childhood disappears due to the hardships of life as they grow older. Children from poor families are always forced to mature quickly, and the behavior of playing with bugs is sealed in their memory.

Today, with Xiaobao taking the lead, all the young and old men on the five boats got excited.

Gan Lai, who has lived as a savage for ten years, is even more energetic. She does what Xiaobao teaches her, fast and clean.

It seemed that Zheng Xiaorou was a little out of place.

Bai Jiaxing put his arm around his wife's shoulders and told her stories from her childhood, telling her how delicious bugs were -

“When I was a child, I lived in a shack on the edge of the field, and my uncles, aunts, and ladies in the village brought me food every day;

Other people's children get two meals a day, and I get two meals a day. Sometimes the meals are repeated, but I can eat four meals. As a result, I grow better than the children in the village, and I don't like to get sick;

But at that time, we were all poor. Even if we had four meals, we would not be full. We would eat very sparsely, and we would have no fuel or water. We would go to the toilet and feel empty;

Not only me, everyone is hungry, but even if they are hungry, they have to spare a bite for me;

But the children couldn't help but be hungry. When I was young, I followed the older children to the mountains and looked for food in the fields. When I was five or six years old, I took the children younger than me to look for food.

At that time, we were both hungry and greedy. Everything we saw tasted delicious, and there was a lot to eat. We pinched hemp stalks, picked nightshade fruits, folded sweet millet stalks, and walked and ate all the way;

Not only do we eat these fruits and grass stalks, but we also follow the older children down to the river to catch shrimps. When the older children catch them, we, the younger ones, hold on to our clothes and carry them around. Sometimes we are so greedy that our saliva falls on the small river shrimps;

Even if the older children are hungry, they will stick to us younger ones. They will pinch off the helmets, peel off the plastrons of the shrimps and stuff them into our mouths to satisfy our hunger first.

Those little shrimps, we couldn't wait to take them to the adults, so we ate them alive. They were fresh and salty, and had a unique taste;

In addition to these, we also roasted beans and caterpillars to eat. The bugs were delicious. They were green and fleshy when we caught them. They turned golden when roasted, so we said that what we ate was gold.

The key is that eating the bugs will make you hungry. Although you won't be full, you will get hungry slowly;

The adults in the village always say that the year is bad and the fields are full of bugs, but we children think the year is really good and the fields are full of bugs!"

This statement made everyone laugh.

Yes, the world in the eyes of adults is completely different from that in the eyes of children.

"Don't tell me, bean green worms are really delicious. I ate them when I was a kid. My sister made them for me." Chu Yuan also participated in the conversation between the couple, but when it came to his sister, he felt a little lonely.

"When I was a kid, I caught toads, snakes, and cicadas. I ate whatever I caught. Anyway, I ate everything!" Xiao Sining also chimed in, successfully stirring up everyone's memories again.

These guys, some from the south and some from the north, have eaten different bugs, but they all have a favorite impression of the bean green worm.

Zheng Xiaorou listened with fascination, and when everyone else added to her, she no longer felt that the locusts in their hands were an eyesore.

Bai Jiaxing continued: "These bugs are mostly found in summer and autumn, so even if the food is not enough, we children can always get bugs as snacks. Although we are never full, we do not starve to death;

But once autumn is over, it is not easy to find food. We children will not let go of the wheat ears and grains in the fields. We will pick them up bit by bit and save a small handful to take home. The adults will be very happy;

I don’t have a family, so I saved up a small amount and gave it to the homes of the oldest people in the village. Such families are either the most populous, or they are widowed and lonely;

When winter comes, there is really nothing to eat, but we kids always have a way. Even though many trees have only bare branches left at this time, this is our favorite thing;

Because you can always find "sheep jars" that look like sparrow eggs, and have hard shells like bird eggs;

We would pick it back, get a broken tile to hold it, and then take out a few burning firewood from the stove pit to roast it, it would be delicious;

Sometimes I’m so hungry that I can’t wait for it to be cooked, so I just break the outer shell of the ‘sheep jar’ and pick out the golden bugs inside and eat them.”

Boys in the south have almost never eaten something like "Yanglizi Jar", but they talk about how they often play with it like a small ball.

Autumn and winter in the south are not as cold as in the north, and there are a lot of things they can eat. Some people mentioned eating sandworms, saying that they can always be found in the shallows of river mouths. They said that the insects have no legs from a distance and look like centipedes up close.

Xiaobao thought of silkworms. Silkworms are like centipedes, with two rows of legs.

"You guys in the south should eat silkworm chrysalises, right?" Xiaobao couldn't help but ask.

"What are you thinking!" The boy from the escort agency answered: "Who dares to eat? Who is willing to eat? I hope they will spin the silk and sell it for money!"

Some boys also said: "Sometimes when we see a shriveled cocoon, we open it and see that there is nothing there. It is dry inside and the head is missing!"

Others pointed at Xiaobao and said, "Only a wealthy young man like you can afford it!"

So everyone laughed again.

Zheng Xiaorou felt ashamed, but she could eat it every year.

After marrying Bai Jiaxing, I heard her husband talk about the family history of Chu Qing and his wife. I knew that Xiaobao had not been a rich young master since he was a child, so he could not afford such precious food as silkworm chrysalises.

But I always feel that life is hard, but I don’t know that these people are really suffering.

So Zheng Xiaorou also picked off a locust from the rope. The insect's legs were still moving back and forth. She was so scared that she still pursed her lips and carefully followed the others' example and pinched off the legs and wings.

Bai Jiaxing was still immersed in memories and sighed: "Sometimes when I think back, life was really hard at that time, but sometimes I feel that it was really interesting back then!"

Zheng Xiaorou couldn't help but look up at her husband, her eyes misty: "The days will be better in the future!"


Chapter completed!