Chapter 757 Grasshoppers grow in drought and fish grow in floods
The locust eggs are too small for chickens to see, but Xing Yuanjia brought the locusts back, and he happened to have two egg-laying hens at home, so he could experiment.
Fortunately, my father did not object.
It's just mud, and it won't poison the chicken. At best, it won't work.
After a while, the father and son ran to the backyard.
Because there are only two hens in the house, the big rooster next door will come to patrol when there is nothing wrong, as if these two hens are also his mothers-in-law.
Xing's father took a look at the big rooster next door, fearing that something might happen, so he stretched out his hand to drive it away.
The big rooster was still unhappy and stood outside the half-height fence, poking his head.
Xing Yuanjia ignored it and piled the mud with locust eggs on the ground, and drove the hens over to see if they would eat it.
Fortunately, he had been prepared. In addition to locust eggs, there were several locust corpses in the mud pile as bait.
After the hen was driven over, she screamed "clucking" and moved her head up and down, as if she was restless.
But after a while, the hen got used to the owner's presence, stared at the locusts in the soil, and happily ran over to eat them.
The surface of the soil has been eaten, and people are digging into the soil with their claws to check if there is anything left in the soil.
Actually ate it?!
The father and son raised their heads, their eyes full of disbelief.
"I always thought that chickens eat bugs, but I didn't expect that they also eat locusts?!"
"Uh... I haven't noticed it either. Dad, do you want to try whether this fish can eat insect eggs?"
"Try, of course I have to try." Father Xing would be a fool to object at this time.
Since the newspaper said that, it must make sense.
Chickens can eat locusts, so isn’t it normal for fish to eat locust eggs?
When Xing's father ran to tell Rizheng in the village that he wanted Rizheng to ask which house in the village had live fish and borrow them for experiments, Rizheng frowned slightly.
"What kind of xerophytes and grasshoppers produce fish? That's not the case at all. "Natural History" has long said that fish are fish and locusts are locusts, just like chickens are chickens and ducks are ducks. It is impossible to use some means to
Let duck eggs hatch into chickens, or let eggs hatch into ducks..." Xing Yuanjia said, "Dragon begets dragon, phoenix begets phoenix, and the son of a mouse can make holes. It's all the same."
Xing Yuanjia was a little anxious, fearing that Li Zheng would object.
For something as big as renovating the tidal flats, Li Zheng must take the lead, otherwise the people in the village would not listen to him.
Li was looking at Xing Yuanjia without saying anything.
The village is poor and there are few scholars.
He also learned a few words thanks to the light of his ancestors.
As for Xing Yuanjia, he also liked the cleverness. He and his son grew up together, so he taught him a few words.
Now his son was sent to the town to study, while Xing Yuanjia stayed in the village, thinking about this or that all day long.
Li Zheng naturally looked down upon these strange and obscene skills.
Until recently, his son brought back a copy of "Natural History" from the town, which immediately opened a strange door for Xing Yuanjia.
Yukimotojia read "Natural History" and became obsessed with it, studying the things in it.
Li Zheng was also wondering in private, what the hell is this "Natural History" and why does it "recognize" miraculous skills?
Isn’t that something that can’t be put on the table?
But the newspaper was brought back by my son. It is said that the teachers at the school are letting everyone read it. The newspaper also said that the content they mentioned may not be completely correct, but just to give everyone an idea. Everyone is welcome to "intensive discussion" and correct the content.
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And newspapers are run by the princes and grandsons.
In other words, this is a signal.
As for what this signal means, it’s up to the beholder and the wise to decide.
Satomasa was distracted for a while, but Xing Yuanjia was so anxious that he took out the newspaper and pointed it out to Satomasa one by one.
"Uncle, you see, I have experimented with this. When I did the experiment before, I also knew..."
"There's another one. Although I didn't confirm this, this person confirmed it. You see, it was in the newspapers. Now he has been invited to Beijing to do experiments."
"and this."
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"Uncle, I know you are worried that it is fake, but whether it is fake or not, we have never tried it, so how do you know it is fake? Besides, borrow a fish from the village and try to see if the fish really eats locust eggs.
It won’t be anything, it’s just a lot of trouble…”
When Li Zheng came back to his senses, what he heard was Xing Yuanjia's words. He was a little bit dumbfounded: "I didn't refuse to let you try. Okay, I'll ask which house has live fish, you go dig out the mud, and we'll try it later."
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"Hey, uncle, you go and catch it now." Xing Yuanjia was so happy that he carefully collected the newspaper, told Xing's father to take care of it, and then took the guy to dig in the mud.
Xing's father looked helpless and apologized to Li Zheng.
"Hey, why are you apologizing? Yuan Jia is doing it for the good of the village." With that, Li Zheng called someone and asked his wife to go out and inquire about which house had live fish.
The matter of live fish is relatively easy to handle. Although the village is a bit poor, in the mountains and rivers, as long as you are diligent, you can always get a bite to eat.
No, the boy from Sun Laoliu's family caught three palm-sized fish.
It’s not big, but it can still make a bowl of soup, which is enough for your teeth.
When he heard that Li Zheng wanted to borrow it, Sun Laoliu picked up a bucket and took the fish to Li Zheng's yard without saying a word.
After a while, Xing Yuanjia came back from digging the soil and carefully threw the locust eggs into the bucket.
There were fish as big as a palm and wooden buckets as big as dung buckets. Everyone was afraid of staring at the fish and dared not eat it, so it took a while before they poked their heads in to take a look.
I happened to see a fish open its mouth and eat a bunch of white stuff in one bite.
"Eat?!" Sun Laoliu couldn't believe it, "This, this, this...how can this fish still eat its own eggs?"
"Those are not fish eggs, they are locust eggs." Xing Yuanjia explained.
He finally understood why "grasshoppers grow in drought and fish grow in floods".
Well, if there is no water, the fish cannot survive in the mud, then wouldn’t the pond be a world of locusts?
And with water, the fish can dominate the pond and eat the locusts as food, but won't they lose sight of the grasshoppers?
Listening to Xing Yuanjia's explanation, Satoshi felt a trance. Why did he feel that he almost no longer recognized the phrase "grasshoppers grow in drought and fish grow in floods"?
How can you understand this so well?!
But no matter what, it is indeed a good thing that fish will eat locust eggs.
"Yuanjia, please think about it carefully and see what we are going to do about this matter. We will discuss it carefully when Fang announces his holiday."
"Hey, uncle, I listen to you."
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Not long after, Yao Jiuye and the others received letters from all over the country.
Many people said that they had done experiments based on the contents of the newspaper and found that xxx could indeed eat locusts. Moreover, the locust eggs were actually buried in the mud and were dug out as soon as they were dug.
Of course, there are also some old stubborns who don't even ask for verification and just write letters to curse people.
To say that they, as role models for all people, do not want to make progress, neglect their studies, and engage in these ingenious and obscene skills is simply a disgrace to their ancestors.
After reading these abusive letters, Yao Jiuye saw that there was nothing worth learning from, so he just threw them aside and ignored them.
As for those who had pertinent opinions, he carefully collected them, had people copy them, and brought them to regular meetings for discussion with everyone.
