Datang Nongwang

Chapter 410 The Sound of Cicadas
The weather in June is hot with gusts of summer wind.

Under the shade of the tree, Li Yuan on the reclining chair, squinting his eyes, looked at the brother and sister Li Chongyuan who were fishing with a small bamboo pole not far away.Listening to the sound of cicadas coming from the tree trunks beside the waterlogged water.

'嘒嘒.'

The attendant Jin sat quietly on a small stool beside him, staring into the distance boredly.

"Fourth brother, fourth brother, move, move, pull quickly, I'm going to run." At this moment, Wan'er's cry caused everyone's eyes to scramble.

Even Li Yuan, who was like an old god, sat up straight and looked at the fish float in the waterlogged water.

Li Chongyuan held the fishing rod in his hand and lifted it vigorously with both hands.

There was a sound of '咻'.

Empty.

This made Li Chongyuan suddenly lose his temper, "Oh, it seems that I have no life to fish."

Li Chongyuan sighed secretly that he was incompetent.

Also really.

A person who studied fishery in his previous life could not even catch a fish. If outsiders knew about this, they would probably laugh at Li Chongyuan to death.

According to Li Chongyuan when he was in school.

In terms of learning ability, it is only mediocre, not outstanding, but it is not far behind.

but.

In terms of his fishing ability, Li Chongyuan is really like a newborn child.

The nest was also hit.

The wine and rice balls were also thrown away.

The hook bit too.

But when it comes to lifting the rod, there is nothing on the hook every time.

This is not.

From the beginning to now, the brother and sister have been fishing for an hour.

He, Li Chongyuan, didn't even catch a single young fish. Even Wan'er next to him had more than a dozen fish in his bucket. No matter how small the fish was, they were much better than him.

"Yuan'er, with your temperament, even if there are many schools of fish in this waterlogged water, it will be difficult for you to catch one." Li Yuan got up, walked over and said.

This made Li Chongyuan feel ashamed to live on.

A person who studies fisheries can't even catch a baby fish, so he really wants to find a seam in the ground and get into it.

Wan'er, who was sitting on the side, covered her mouth and smiled, "Fourth brother can do anything else, but fishing is the worst. Fourth brother, look, I have caught more than ten fish."

Okay.

Li Chongyuan had already lost his face, but this girl made up for it again, making Li Chongyuan, the elder brother and fourth brother, even more without that face.

"If I stop fishing, I will know how to raise fish. What if I don't know how to fish? In the end, there will still be fish to eat." Throwing the bamboo pole resentfully, Li Chongyuan walked away.

If he stayed any longer, Li Chongyuan might go crazy.

It's fine for Yu to bully him, but whether it's Li Yuan or Wan'er, they all point and point at him, and even say a few mocking words, how can he, Li Chongyuan, have the face to stay.

Just when Li Chongyuan turned to leave, the Jin servant who had not spoken all this time also covered his mouth and smiled.

"Laughing and laughing, go if you have the ability." Li Chongyuan glared at the golden servant again, then turned around and went back to Li Zhuang.

Li Yuanwan'er and the others, seeing Li Chongyuan's appearance, all looked at each other and smiled.

Li Yuan picked up the fishing rod that was thrown aside, and Jin Nei waiter then brought over a bamboo tube with an earth dragon and helped Li Yuan bait it.

Back to Li Chongyuan in Li Zhuang.

After drinking a few bowls of well water, he shouted, "Excellent."

"Little lord, why are you back? Didn't you say you went fishing by the waterlogged water?" Qiao Hui saw her little lord returning empty-handed, so she knew that today's fish feast was going to be a waste of time.

Before going out in the morning.

Qiao Hui heard her little man said that he would have a fish feast today.

And let go of the crazy talk, saying to make boiled fish, fish with pickled cabbage, fried fish, grilled fish, fried fish
look at the moment.

For tonight's meal, Qiao Hui was secretly thinking about what to do tonight.

Li Chongyuan gave Qiao Hui a sideways look, and without speaking, he picked up the straw hat that was thrown aside, put it on, and turned around to leave the courtyard.

Inside and outside Li Zhuang at this time.

The helpers are still like me, continuing to do their jobs.

After nearly two months of construction, the townhouses are almost finished.

"Steward Qiao, these terraced houses are about to be capped. When will the girder that Mr. Xiao Lang mentioned last time be in place?" A villager asked Qiao Suda at the terraced house.

Qiao Su looked at the row house and shook his head, "I don't know either. Mr. Xiao Lang said to wait for Daliang, so let's wait."

When Li Chongyuan came over.

Qiao Su rushed over to meet him and started talking about the big beam.

"Wait, anyway, we are not in a hurry to live in a row house now, just in time for the sun to shine on the house." Li Chongyuan was not in a hurry for the beam he had promised.

It's not that he is not in a hurry, but that he forgot.

The trees on Niu Shou Mountain are not big enough or long enough to serve as beams.

As usual, it would have to hire someone to cut it at Zhongnan Mountain, or go to Chang'an to buy it.

But there are quite a few terraced houses, and the girders really need a lot.

In total, it takes nearly twenty.

After looking at the row houses.

When Li Chongyuan was about to leave, he turned his head and shouted to Qiao Su: "It's too hot, please ask someone to cook more mung bean soup and add some caramel to it."

"Xiao Langjun, this caramel is expensive." Qiao Su was still stingy.

Li Chongyuan shook his head, "No matter how expensive it is, it is worth less than human life. Human life is the sky. If anyone suffers from heatstroke, let's see how I deal with you."

Mung bean soup has been cooking.

But adding caramel, this is really not what Qiao Su is willing to spend the money on.

After all.

Caramel is placed in the present, it is really a precious thing.

Qiao Su had no choice but to follow orders.

No matter how much he cared about money, if something happened to someone, he, the manager, would really have to bear the blame. After all, Li Yuan was here.

Li Chongyuan who walked all the way to the valley.

I've been thinking about sugar all the time.

sugar.

For now.

There are only two ways available.

One is honey and the other is caramel.

Honey is also very rare in various cities, and compared to caramel, it is more than a star and a half more expensive.

And this caramel.

Although it is sold in the square market, the price is about three pennies per catty, and it is really expensive.

"Hey! If the sugarcane can grow now, I won't be short of sugar. If it's not possible, I can only spend a lot of money to buy some caramel." Li Chongyuan sighed helplessly.

Li Chongyuan was reluctant to add honey to the mung bean soup.

and.

The old lady confessed.

Once there is honey, it has to be sent back to Chang'an.

Hit the honey for the first time.

The old lady sent more than half of it to the palace according to the etiquette, and then distributed it to various families, which can be regarded as a kind of walking.

at the same time.

According to what Li Chongyuan said, the old lady even consulted the imperial physician, wrote some ways to eat honey, and gave it along with the honey.

This is the end.

It doesn't matter whether it's a nobleman in the palace or a woman from each mansion.

After drinking the honey, it was as if she couldn't stop, and even ran to my home and begged the old lady.

This is not.

Every time Wu Wen received honey, Li Chongyuan would definitely send the honey back to his family for the old lady to dispose of.

This is the end.

Except for what Li Yuan wanted to drink and what Wan'er wanted to drink, Li Chongyuan basically didn't keep any of the honey.

"How's it going?" Li Chongyuan went straight to his goldfish pond as soon as he arrived at the valley.

of course.

There must be no goldfish in the pond.

There were some wild crucian carp caught by Dadu and wild crucian carp bought from various places in Chang'an.

And now.

At the time of midsummer in June, it is also the season for fish breeding.

When Dadu and the others saw Li Chongyuan coming, they quickly got up from the edge of the pool, "Little Lang, come and take a look, there seems to be something else in the water."

Li Chongyuan heard the sound and walked over.

The hatchery designed by Li Chongyuan.

The water flowing into the pool upstream must have been heavily filtered.

But under the current conditions, even with all kinds of linen, silk and other filters, it is inevitable that some other foreign organisms will pass through the filter and flow into the goldfish hatching pool.

but.

When Li Chongyuan came to the edge of the goldfish hatching pond, he was overjoyed at the first glance, "Okay, yes, these are fish eggs."

in the pool.

The few crucian carp eggs and a small wild crucian carp are wandering around under the current.

The hatching pool is a circle.

With the water flow, a circular hatch is formed.

This is conducive to the breeding of fish eggs.

"Xiao Langjun, are these crucian carp eggs? They are so small, I thought there was something bad in the water source." After Da Du heard this, he finally understood.

For Dadu and the others, who were arranged by Li Chongyuan to specialize in fish farming, even though they had received Li Chongyuan's systematic education, they really didn't know the real fish hatching before they saw the real thing.

Just like this crucian carp egg is one of them.

Li Chongyuan smiled, and began to explain some simple questions to Dadu and the others one by one.

Unable to read with a big belly, he can only memorize it by rote with his huge head.

And the other servants came here with pens and paper at hand, and began to record what Li Chongyuan said, or what they had learned from Li Chongyuan's professional knowledge.

of course.

This pen and paper was made for them by Li Chongyuan, so it can be regarded as a blessing to others.

"You all remember that as long as the crucian carp has a big belly, if it really can't lay eggs by itself, you can catch it and squeeze it. This can also lay eggs, but don't use too much force, or you will die." Li Chongyuan Continuing to talk, they continued to record.

noon.

Only then did Li Chongyuan leave the valley.

And this time.

There are bubbling sounds everywhere.

among them.

Accompanied by the whizzing sound of pieces.

"It's so noisy. It's probably difficult to take a peaceful nap this summer." Li Chongyuan was in a good mood at first, but after hearing the bubbling sound, his mood immediately changed.

But just when Li Chongyuan was upset.

But it reminded me of something I heard in my previous life.

after lunch.

Li Chongyuan got some cloth, put it down and said: "Qiao Hui, Xiaohong, quickly find some thorns for me, and use these cloth to sew a few cloth pockets, as long as they are this big."

Then, Li Chongyuan made another gesture to Qiao Hui and the others.

"Xiao Langjun, why do you need to sew cloth pockets? Is there any use?" Qiao Hui didn't know why.

but.

Li Chongyuan did not explain, but ran out of the small courtyard with a machete.

After half an hour.

Li Chongyuan came back from Niu Shou Mountain.

But there are many slender bamboos in his hand.

Wan'er, who was about to go fishing with Li Yuan after taking a nap, saw that her fourth brother didn't know what to do, so she jumped over, "Fourth brother, what are you going to do? Go fishing?"

"I don't catch fish, I catch cicadas." Li Chongyuan picked up the cloth bag that Qiao Hui and the others sewed, and tied it to one end of the bamboo.

Wan'er didn't know why, so she didn't go fishing anymore, and just watched in a daze.

On the other hand, Li Yuan also stopped and stood aside, watching Li Chongyuan's busy work.

After a while.

A device for catching cicadas is considered ready, but Li Chongyuan did not stop working on the device for catching cicadas.

Curious Wan'er quickly picked up the cicada-catching device that was put aside, "Fourth brother, are you going to use this to catch cicadas?"

"Yes, didn't you hear the cicadas singing everywhere? There are cicadas everywhere on the trees in the village, on the trees beside the waterlogged water, on the trees on Niu Shou Mountain. Just in time, the fourth brother caught some Come back and try my idea." Li Chongyuan responded while busy.

The old and the young are full of suspicion.

They knew what Li Chongyuan made.

but.

They don't know what the cicada is used for.

but.

Li Yuan seemed to understand suddenly, raised his eyebrows in disgust, "Yuaner, although this cicada is edible, but its taste is not good, you made this cicada-catching tool, presumably because you want to catch cicadas to eat? "

"Hey, uncle, it seems that you old man is really good at predicting things. I just want to catch some annoying cicadas to eat. However, how do the cicadas taste like? I have to do it. If others, it's up to you Forget it." Li Chongyuan didn't expect that, but Li Yuan understood what he wanted to do.

Immediately.

Wan'er on the side widened her eyes and said happily, "Fourth brother, I'm going to catch cicadas too, you make me a bag for catching cicadas."

"I'm doing this right now. Fourth brother, I've thought of it a long time ago. I don't need your reminder." Li Chongyuan turned around and gave this girl a blank look.

in the afternoon.

When the sun is strong and the earth's qi and yang fire are flourishing.

Two brothers, Li Chongyuan and his sister, each holding a holster in their hands, poked around in the trees outside the village.

The buzzing continued.

"Fourth brother, fourth brother, this one I just caught is very loud. Look, fourth brother, it is also big. Is it a male or a female?" Wan'er was very excited when the cicadas rang.

But at this time, Li Chongyuan was harvesting all the way.

Li Chongyuan really didn't understand.

The cicadas of the current era are like fools, let you catch them.

Except for the loud noise, they will only run away now.

In his previous life, Li Chongyuan caught many cicadas when he was a child, but the ones he got were only a few.

Available now.

It's only been half an hour, and the wooden barrel that Xiaohong is carrying is already half filled with the maemis whose wings have been broken.

Li Chongyuan saw Wan'er holding a cicada that was about two fingers thick, and shook his head, "I can't tell the difference between male and female, but those who can call are generally male, and those who can't call are female, so , you can only call it, it must be public."

Li Chongyuan only knows the method of identifying male and female cicadas, and he doesn't know anything else.

after all.

He didn't study entomology.

(End of this chapter)