Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 872 Bamboo Insect
Bamboo bees are actually the larvae of bamboo weevils. Bamboo weevils can be eaten from larvae, pupae, and adults. The taste is best in larvae, followed by pupae, worms before pupation come last, and adults come last.

Adult insects can still play, two worms are strung head to tail on a bamboo stick, and the middle of the bamboo stick is tied with a thread. When the two worms flap their wings, they will spin up and become a "windmill" toy.

Foodies who like it are very fond of this bite, mainly people in Yunnan Province and central Guizhou love to eat it. In later generations, there have been "big cases" in which foodies smuggled tons of bamboo insects from the border into the country.

Jiachuan is located at the junction of three provinces, and its eating habits are also greatly influenced by the two places. For example, wood ginger oil and fish coriander, which are commonly used seasonings in central Yunnan and Guizhou, are also commonly used on the tables of Jiachuan people.

The custom of eating insects is not very obvious, it is preferred by rural children, and adults are a little embarrassed to hide it. At most, they can get some silkworm chrysalis and bee chrysalis for the children at home to beat their teeth, and ten years later, there will be fried in various tourist attractions. The situation with bugs is different.

This thing grows in the heart of sweet bamboo, and the real aboriginal children like to eat it raw. When Yang He ate butter cake for the first time at Zhou Zhi's house, he once asked if it was made of bamboo worms.

According to him, the taste of raw bamboo worms is only a little lighter than butter, and not so sweet. In the hearts of children who lacked oily and meaty snacks in the past few years, they are first-class snacks.

And I heard that it is very nourishing, but Zhou Zhi has not had the guts to eat it raw.

Bamboo worms are actually not difficult to find. Young bamboos are dry and yellow, and there are insect eyes on them, so they usually don't run away.

It is about ten miles away from the villages and towns on both sides, and usually no one comes, lack of management, and there are still a lot of withered and yellow young bamboos.

Soon the other end of the forest remembered Zhang Lu and Fang Wenyu's yelling, Zhou Zhi smiled to Yang He and said, "It's probably because Xiang Yu scared them by eating bugs."

"It's really delicious." Yang He said, "Why don't you try it, I guarantee that you won't be afraid if you try it once, it tastes like butter without sugar."

"You don't want to eat puffs if you say that again, and you won't buy them in the future." Zhou Zhi gave an ultimatum: "Every time I make this, I just persuade me to drink blood, and now I don't like to eat things with cream. .”

There are many gingers under the bamboo grove, and when you cut open the withered and yellow tender bamboo, there are dozens of white worms inside a section.

Yang He stretched out two fingers to act as chopsticks, took out a few and put them in his mouth: "It's good to come to Xiang Yu's family to have this stutter."

Zhou Zhi looked a little disgusted: "Why is there no bamboo forest in your house? It's also by the river, isn't it?"

"My family is short, and some of them are eaten by chickens." Yang He smacked his lips, looking after the memory, and put a few more into his mouth: "Who doesn't like good meat?"

"Hahahaha... Let's see if the girls like it then." For some reason, Zhou Zhi seems to have returned to the days when he put bugs in the pencil case of his female classmates in junior high school.

Once the bamboo worms are found, there will be a nest, at least dozens of them, and soon the two teams will collect dozens of "worm zongzi".

For the convenience of carrying, Yang He lit a fire and used it to lift the bamboo tube, and roasted the bugs inside before taking it.

As soon as the worms died, Zhou Zhi became so courageous that he dared to taste a few even if they were not fully cooked. Seeing Fang Wenyu and Zhang Lu's expressions of surprise and joy, they greeted like old capital people: "Have you eaten?"

Zhang Lu cupped his hands: "Have eaten, how about you?"

It was already afternoon when I returned to Xiang Yu's house, and the girls were playing the game of "picking bamboo sticks" around the table, rarely without the boys.

This game is actually quite fun. Zhou Zhi and his generation had eaten popsicles when they were young, and would save the popsicle sticks and dye them in various colors as game props.

When playing, you hold a bamboo stick in your hand and put it on the table, then let go of your hand and let the bamboo stick spread out. Most of the bamboo sticks will be stacked together.

When playing, you pick out the selected bamboo stick with your hands or bamboo sticks. Except for this bamboo stick, you can't drive the rest, otherwise it doesn't count.

If the rest of the flying bamboo stick is not affected, the flying bamboo stick will be yours, and the person who gets the most bamboo sticks at the end will win.

It is very easy to get bamboo sticks in the countryside, and this game is relatively popular.

Bamboo worms are very clean, and they don’t even need to be washed. They are straight after being roasted to death. Now you just need to add them to the pot and turn them over medium heat, and bake them to remove the moisture.

When it is baked until it is dry and golden, add some cooked oil to moisten it, sprinkle with salt and pepper and stir well before eating.

"Here comes the delicious food!" Zhou Zhi went into the kitchen to tinker for a while, then came out with a large plate of bamboo worms and put them on the table: "Let's eat together!"

"Ah——" Liang Hong and Guan Tingting jumped up in fright, and Guan Tingting gave Zhou Zhi a good meal: "Brother Elbow, what kind of thing! Goosebumps scared you!"

On the contrary, Zhang Xinyi and Jiang Shuyi were emotionally stable, and Zhou Zhi couldn't help being curious: "Hey, why aren't you two afraid?"

"Should we be afraid?" Zhang Xinyi picked up a bamboo worm: "You are a bad guy. Fortunately, Xinxin brought it to us a long time ago. It is also a specialty of their place."

"Hey, I didn't expect that." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Is she bringing the living or the dead?"

Jiang Shuyi gave Zhou Zhi a blank look: "But it seems that Xinxin's family is very greasy, and Zhou Zhi is not as good as you."

"I learned this from Master Zhang." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "Including fried peanuts, you can also do this. It saves fuel and is not greasy. This trick is at the master level, and it is worth tens of thousands of dollars at least."

"You can blow it!" Liang Hong was startled: "Xin Yi Shuyi, is this really edible?"

"Well, it's still delicious." Zhang Xinyi has been in and out of traditional Chinese medicine shops since he was a child. He has seen many strange snakes and insects, and he is the one who is least afraid of insects.

Jiang Shuyi also nodded: "Liang Hong, Tingting, don't be afraid, once you taste it, you will never forget it."

"You guys eat first." Zhou Zhi said, "I'll make two more plates with dried chili shreds, and have a drink with Dad Xiang at night."

"It seems to taste good, not as chewy as dried shrimp, but sweeter than dried shrimp."

"Speaking of this, I seriously suspect that a legend of the ancients comes from the comparison with the taste of dried shrimp."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Lu knew that Zhou Zhi was going to tell a little story that most people don't know, so he hurried to join him.

"That's right." Zhou Zhi said, "The plague of locusts was very terrible in ancient times, so some people studied it, and finally everyone believed that the cause of the plague of locusts was related to water."

"In a year of severe drought, or when the flood recedes, it is very easy to breed a large number of locusts in the second year on these retreated lands, and finally become a plague of locusts."

"So in many notes of the ancients, it was believed that the locusts were transformed from shrimps. The shrimps lived on the tidal flats. When the water receded, they did not follow the water. If they wanted to continue to survive, they had to burrow into the soil and finally turned into locusts."

"I think that apart from observing natural phenomena, the tastes of the two are somewhat similar, and I am afraid that is also an important reason why the ancients linked them together."

"It seems to make some sense?" Zhang Lu grabbed a handful of bamboo worms and put them in his mouth.

(End of this chapter)