This delayed lunch was eaten until the evening, and was eaten together with dinner. Two jars of corn roasted by Chu Qing were also eaten.

No one would have thought that Hou Ze was the first to drink "Shuang".

He was originally silent next to Shui Maomao, but now he was crying loudly.

Shui Maomao slapped him in the face: "You son of a bitch, why are you crying in mourning?"

Hou Ze hugged Shui Maomao, hugged his neck and shouted: "Little old man, I am so happy! I am so sad!"

Chu Qing was too frightened to say anything.

None of his boys are like this, are they crazy?

Shui Mao Mao scolded him: "You are so happy that you are crying!"

Hou Ze cried even louder: "That's the one, it's her..." Hou Ze pointed at Chu Qing: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.com.com"

Shui Maomao kept apologizing to Chu Qing: "Don't mind, this guy is so virtuous, he won't be the same after drinking a little bit of wine, he is also a May 5th!"

well.

Gan Lai lifted Hou Ze's back collar and said, "Let go, you're about to strangle the little old man to death!"

His speaking voice was a little muffled.

Chu Qing looked at her, and the girl's eye circles were also red.

He is also a child who was killed by his own father, so no wonder he takes care of Shui Mao Mao.

Xiaobao asked Hou Ze: "Hey! If you cry when you are happy, should you laugh when you are sad? You smile instead?"

Hou Ze scolded Xiaobao: "You know what the heck! The little old man is going to die! Wuwuwuwu..."

Shui Maomao: "You little turtle, who is going to die?"

Hou Ze: "You have already taken care of your funeral, aren't you going to die?"

Shui Maomao: "..."

Shui Maomao felt bitter in his heart. He just felt that his health was not good. He was not optimistic about how long he could continue with the Salt Gang. It was very likely that he would be finished in the next fight.

But I don’t want to see the Dragon King right away.

But he also understood Hou Ze's thoughts.

This boy was lucky. His parents were soft-hearted, so his parents didn't kill him when he was born. Instead, they wanted to hide his true birth date.

But paper cannot contain the fire. When a family gives birth to a child, the whole village knows that the child born on this "poisonous moon and poisonous day" has not been "dealt with".

Therefore, if anything goes wrong, the family will be blamed, and even neighboring villages will cause trouble for his family.

There is a common reason for this: Why did my child drown to death and yours is still alive? Doesn’t this make us all vicious?

As time went by, his family members received unfair treatment for protecting Hou Ze, and his family members began to complain about Hou Ze and his parents.

And his parents gradually became unable to withstand the pressure of the environment and became resentful of their own son.

Finally, due to a grievance between brothers and sisters, twelve-year-old Hou Ze was expelled by his parents.

For Hou Ze, expelling him at this time would be worse than drowning him in the first place. Why would he have to endure twelve years of abuse?

Children who have just entered adolescence are sensitive and impulsive. They have never traveled far, but they still bump into people from neighboring villages when they walk around. They are bullied so hard that they have a bloody head.

In the end, Shui Maomao was rescued, and he lived with Shui Maomao from then on.

At that time, Shui Maomao also felt guilty after losing the whereabouts of Wei Chengyi, and raised Hou Ze as his son.

Hou Ze's kung fu was taught by Shui Maomao. Although Shui Maomao himself was living a rough life at that time, he still fed and clothed him as much as possible. In addition to martial arts, he also taught him how to read.

Of course, Shui Maomao didn't know many words, but he taught him everything he knew anyway.

Shui Maomao was the best person to him, better than his parents. Hou Ze regarded him as a relative. When he saw this dearest person entrusting the children to him in batches as he was dealing with the funeral arrangements, he felt that his soul relied on him.

It's gone.

Shui Maomao told Chu Qing and Xiaobao what Hou Ze was thinking. It would be inappropriate and rude not to explain.

Chu Qing shook her head after hearing this: "That's not necessary. As the saying goes, treat the disease. Some diseases may not be cured at once, but if you take good care of them, you won't die;

Furthermore, don’t be limited by these boring statements. Things can happen and they can be solved.

What a Poison Moon and a Poison Sun, it would still be a Poison Moon and Poison Sun without you, and it’s not because you were born that it became a Poison Moon and Poison Sun.”

Chu Qing secretly changed the concept and continued: "Let me give you an analogy. A few days ago, I led a group of children to roast locusts in Yibin Mansion..."

Xiaobao's eyes lit up: "Mom, is this the way we used to bake it?"

Chu Qing nodded: "Yes. There is a drought this year, and the harvest in the fields may not be possible. Every family's children are saving food, and usually rely on picking wild vegetables to fill their stomachs when grazing chickens and ducks;

That day I caught some locusts and roasted them for them to eat, but word spread throughout the city that I had offended the 'Locust God' and would be punished by heaven."

Xiaobao exploded all of a sudden: "Mom, you shouldn't pay attention to them, your good intentions are not rewarded! They also scolded me!"

Then, Xiaobao talked about the grievances he had suffered recently, and then said angrily: "Why? I told them a good food with good intentions, which can not only fill their stomachs, but also kill locusts. As a result, both adults and children scolded me! Now it's coming out

Every door, there might be kids throwing stones at me!"

"Hit him!" Shui Damao, who never spoke at the table next to him, said suddenly.

Shui Ermao: "Yes, beat him!"

Shui San4567mao: "Beat me! Beat me hard!"

Shui Xiaomao said softly: "Brother, who said that? Do you recognize the person? Tell us and we will help you beat them up!"

Those "May 5th" children didn't dare to speak, but the expression on their faces was clear: We'll beat you up too!

Xiaobao was a little embarrassed: "Hey...hehe..."

Chu Qing signaled Xiaobao not to get excited and continued: "Where I am, someone is probably inciting the people. Otherwise, what happened the night before can't be caused by an uproar the next morning. Here, think about it for yourself, who would do it?"

This kind of thing;

However, since the commotion has already started, let’s just make it bigger. I asked Deputy Wang Qianhu of the Board of Directors to do something in the name of the Board of Directors - exchange locusts for food, two pounds of locusts for one pound of food, guess what?

What's wrong?"

Xiaobao clapped his hands and said, "Mother is mighty! Now all the gossips are running to catch locusts. No, are they going to offend the Locust God?"

People in this era have limited knowledge of the world. When locust plagues occur, people are often helpless.

For events such as the locust plague, they could not explain it, so they regarded it as a "myth" and believed that the occurrence of the locust plague was a punishment from God.

In this way, the solution is to choose methods such as sacrifice, and the object of sacrifice is the so-called "Locust God".

People are in awe of locusts and dare not hunt them, let alone eat them.

Of course, it’s not that no one eats them. There are also some who are very hungry and brave enough to catch locusts and eat them, knowing that they can’t kill anyone.

However, locusts are highly mobile and do not stay stationary on crops. They are a mobile army and are very flexible.

People in this era did not have any effective tools. If they relied solely on manual labor, they could only capture a handful of locusts, and there was no way to capture them in large numbers.

The more important point is that locusts in locust plagues are different from ordinary locusts, that is, migratory locusts. They migrate very fast. If there are some, they can only catch a few individually, which is not enough to satisfy their hunger.

And since you are already a refugee, catching locusts requires a lot of energy, which is really not worth the gain. After all, after the locusts have eaten the crops, they cannot stay there and wait for the people to eat them for a whole season.

Furthermore, when the locusts passed through the border, there were still crops in the fields and people's homes had surplus food, so no one would eat the locusts.

But after the locusts that covered the sky and the sun flew over, all the crops had been looted. By then, the locusts had disappeared and had nothing to eat.

Chu Qing nodded: "Not only that, but also, I sold the locusts in exchange for kebabs."

Xiangzi duly handed over a lease contract, which was the lease document for the stalls at Yibinfu Pier. He rented the stalls on the entire road on one side of the pier and opened a "food street".

Chu Qing handed the document to Xiaobao: "This is for you, as a gift to complement this year's Dragon Boat Festival!" The box containing the document also contained a shaft of colorful rope and two insect repellent sachets.


Chapter completed!