Under Akiko's illumination, the bee pupae were picked out from the nest holes one by one and placed in bowls.
Looking at the big white worms that were still squirming inside, Chen Xiuqing's scalp felt numb. Especially when she thought of the way Zhao Yongke had eaten with his mouth full of pulp before, he couldn't help but feel a chill.
On the other hand, Lu Lu and Jiang Zewei were waiting quietly aside with expectant faces.
Even though the hive is not big, the bee pupae that are so big still fill a large shallow bowl after being picked out.
Seeing that he had almost picked it, Lu Lu took action himself and put a hanging pot on the fire. He put a lot of oil in it. When the oil started to smoke slightly, he put the bee pupae into the pot one after another.
The frying sizzled happily, and Lu Lu stirred it slightly with chopsticks. Within two to three to five minutes, the golden bee pupae that had been fried in the hanging pot were quickly taken out by Lu Lu and put into a large bowl.
No other ingredients were used. Lu Lu just sprinkled some salt grains, tossed them gently in a large bowl, and placed them in front of a few people.
Jiang Zewei took five sets of bowls and chopsticks and poured some privately brewed sorghum wine in Weihe Town into each bowl.
This wine is not that fragrant, but it is a standard pure grain wine. The quality is guaranteed and the temperament is relatively strong. When the weather is cold in the Northeast, drinking this kind of wine will be really refreshing.
Jiang Zewei was very measured and didn't pour much wine, only about one tael per person. With this amount of wine, none of the people sitting here would get drunk.
However, when they distributed the chopsticks, Chen Xiuqing and Liang Kangbo shook their heads.
"I don't dare to eat it!" Chen Xiuqing shook her head directly.
Liang Kangbo also shook his head: "I ate this once. It was roasted over a fire. After eating it, I felt itchy all over my body! I got hot and itchy big bumps. It's so uncomfortable. You can eat it."
He took the chopsticks and put them aside casually: "I'll just have a drink!"
Lu Lu knew that Liang Kangbo had a protein allergy. You couldn't force this kind of thing. People's bodies are different, and some people really can't eat it. He turned to look at Qingzi: "Try some, it's a rare good thing. This thing
Is it more scary than a silkworm chrysalis?"
There is a famous dish in Northeast China that goes well with wine - open-sided silkworm pupae. In Lu Lu's opinion, it is even more vigorous than this bee pupa.
There is also one that is fried out of big green bugs. This bug is a kind of wild silkworm, and it is even more powerful.
Chen Xiuqing still shook her head vigorously.
Seeing this, Lu Lu didn't force himself anymore, called Zhao Yongke and Jiang Zewei, took down their chopsticks and started eating together.
Seeing the three of them eating so deliciously and crunchily, Chen Xiuqing couldn't help but swallow her saliva when she saw that the bee pupae in the bowl were about to bottom out.
I obviously thought it was delicious, but I didn't dare to eat it. It was simply too painful.
Mainly because Lu Lu eats so well.
The one he trusted the most was Lu Lu.
Finally, after taking two sips of wine, I seemed to be more courageous. I picked up a bee pupa from the bowl with my chopsticks, picked it up with my fingers, and tentatively put it in my mouth to bite a small section.
When I tasted the incomparable crispy taste of bee pupae, I immediately let go and began to work diligently with my chopsticks. The other four people couldn't help but laugh.
After a small drink, Zhao Yongke and Chen Xiuqing took over the rotation of vigil, and the other three went to bed early.
A corpse as big as a cannon egg was placed there, with a strong smell of fish and blood, for fear of attracting some big wild animals at night.
The next morning, when Lu Lu, Liang Kangbo and Jiang Zewei woke up, they saw that Chen Xiuqing and Zhao Yongke had almost finished cooking.
After dinner, it was already daybreak. A few people led their horses and dogs to the place where the sticks were found. Sure enough, they saw seven or eight more Mine Bees lying in place of the burned Mine Bee nest.
However, these bee nests have been destroyed, especially the queen bee has been destroyed, and they appear to be without a master, instead of flying around blindly.
Liang Kangbo and Zhao Yongke broke off branches, stepped forward and slapped them several times, knocking them all down.
I can finally lift the mallet with peace of mind.
"Uncle Jiang, are you coming?" Lu Lu smiled and handed Jiang Zewei a bag made of robe leather carrying tools.
The old man shook his head: "This is the first mallet you have found. Of course you have to do it yourself. I can just look at it."
"Okay!" Lu Lu nodded and put the things down next to the mallet. He inserted skewers on both sides of the mallet, set up the crossbar, fixed the stem of the mallet with red wire, and used red wire to mark a one-meter radius.
Seeing that there were more mosquitoes flying in the morning, Jiang Zewei specially asked Chen Xiuqing and the others to light a fire with pine needles to repel the mosquitoes to prevent them from disturbing Lu Lu who was carrying the mallet.
Lu Lüze took a red cloth and spread it on the ground. Quickly used it as scissors, quickly used as an axe, quickly used as a saw, and laid out tools such as deer bone sticks on the red cloth one by one.
To break the ground by lifting the mallet, you must first make a nest under the mallet.
The mallet grew close to the dead tree stump, so the dead tree stump became something that had to be removed. Lu Lu simply started digging from the dead tree stump.
Liang Kangbo, Zhao Yongke and Chen Xiuqing began to line up sticks around them.
Fortunately, the tree stump has been completely rotted. It can be easily peeled off by hand without using an axe, saw or the like. I thought it would take a lot of effort, but now that the wood stump has rotted like this, things have become easier.
Especially the roots of the tree stumps under the soil, which were once strong, rotted and became hollows, making the soil soft.
It only took Lu Lu more than half an hour to clear away these decayed trees, and the stick tree appeared, and the unique fragrance of the stick came to his nostrils.
When he saw the appearance of the stick, Jiang Zewei, who had been watching from the side, was amazed: "Look at those chubby calves, they are so beautiful, they already have the charm of human form, and the head is as thick as a baby's forearm
It’s still very long...eh..."
He suddenly noticed something strange about the stick, exclaimed in surprise, looked closer, and said with some regret: "Why is one of the legs broken? What a pity!"
Lu Lu had already noticed this problem when he was peeling off the soil bit by bit with a deer bone pick.
Probably because the rotten roots of the tree were hollow, they collapsed when a wild animal stepped on them, and then one of the legs of the mallet was trampled off, but it was still connected to the main body of the flesh.
What surprised Lu Lu the most was that buds sprouted on this calf. It is estimated that next year, another ginseng seedling will grow.
This vitality is extraordinary!
The current situation can be regarded as one seedling and two sticks. It is indeed special.
However, this defect does not prevent it from being a six-grade leaf stick that is more than a century old. This age is enough to make its value very high.
Moreover, this weight is at least five taels. In these days, it is not a problem to sell it for more than four thousand yuan.
If that leg was intact, it would be even worse. It would already be a very charming stick.
After spending more than half an hour, Lu Lu carefully lifted out the mallet. Liang Kangbo and others came over to take a look, and they were both happy and a little regretful.
But this is the case, I still have to thank the mountain god for the rice.
Chen Xiuqing helped peel off birch bark, Zhao Yongke went to the ditch to get wet moss, and Lu Lu sealed the buns with his own hands.
What depressed a few people was that after searching the surroundings for a whole day, they only found two Erjiazi trees, not to mention fifth-grade leaves and fourth-grade leaf sticks. The rest also found some scattered three-flowered flowers and slaps.
This place is full of traces of wild boar overturns. It is very likely that some of them have been eaten by wild boars, and some of them have been damaged and have been hidden.
Thinking of the cannon egg that was killed, everyone felt itchy with hatred.
However, Erjiazi also has to be carried!
While several people continued to search, Lu Lu first lifted out one of the Erjiazi trees. The mallet was too small, so Lu Lu took it back and planted it. When he lifted the other tree, what happened made even Jiang Zewei dumbfounded.
Attached to the stem of the small two-kilometer tree was actually a big mallet. It was no smaller than the mallet that Lu Lu had carried out before, and it looked like six taels.
What we are talking about here is the old-fashioned hexadecimal weighing method, which is the so-called half a catty.
Both of them looked at the reed head and knew that it was a reincarnated ginseng.
The growth of wild ginseng depends on the new buds that grow every year, which form reed bowls every year. The reed bowls are stacked downwards. As the years go by, they gradually form the horizontal stripes of sticks.
Once the buds are damaged, the mallet will enter a dormant state, but the mallet will not rot and will start to breed buds again, which can take as short as two or three years, as long as ten years or even decades.
The ginseng seedlings grown from the newly bred spores may be Erjiazi or Wupinye.
The current situation is Erjiazi.
This is also the reason why even though they know that most of Erjiazi's mallets are of little weight and of little value, they are still dug up when they see them, because there is a high probability that there is something big hidden underneath.
Judging from the age of this Bangchui tree, it is not inferior to the Liupinye tree. It is very likely that this is the ancestor of this Bangchui tree.
But it was precisely because of this that one by one they scolded the wild boars that had wandered into the forest.
It took five or six hours to lift this stick. In addition to the problem with the reed head, there is also a rhombus underneath and the flowing roots make it look quite beautiful.
Two large pieces of more than 100 years old were unearthed in succession. Although they are somewhat incomplete and regrettable, they are still a lot of money.
There are many wild animals in the mountains, and it is not uncommon to find incomplete sticks, but this does not prevent Jiang Zewei from looking at Lu Lu with a strange look: "I am very lucky, but there is something wrong with two big sticks in succession. It's really
Weird, your fate..."
Jiang Zewei did not continue talking at this point, but shook his head slightly.
But when Lu Lu heard this, he had to take it seriously.
He was very aware of the special situation of his rebirth, and quickly asked: "Uncle Jiang, what do you think is happening to my life?"
"Nothing?" Jiang Zewei shook his head and refused to continue.
"Uncle, if you have something to say, just say it. No matter whether it's good or bad, I don't blame you. If you say so and leave half of it, I'm always thinking about it. Just tell me!"
The old man's words sometimes sound mysterious and baseless, but when you actually experience the matter, you will find that it is exactly the case.
Although Lu Lu didn't believe in fate, he still couldn't help but ask if it concerned himself.
"Really want to hear it?" Jiang Zewei asked hesitantly.
Lu Lu nodded.
"Then let me tell you straight. I also heard what others said. I feel like there is something missing in your life. It's not very auspicious. I'm afraid something will happen! But don't take it seriously. I don't understand either.
This." Jiang Zewei smiled, and then said: "We will find another day tomorrow. If we don't gain anything, let's go back as soon as possible."
Lu Lu was indeed slightly touched by these words.
But, what will happen?
He thought about it and found that the only thing he was worried about was Chen Xiuyu at home. When Jiang Zewei said this, he immediately nodded: "Okay!"
The next day, a group of people searched the mountain forest for another day, but still found nothing. At night, Lu Lu made a decision: go out of the mountain!