Poor family mother and son

Chapter 423 A Childhood Without Eating Bugs Is Not a Happy Childhood

Because Xiaobao guaranteed that the bug was delicious, he immediately mobilized the enthusiasm of all the men and Gan Lai.

According to Xiaobao's description, everyone started cutting the locust's wings and legs.

"Cut alive, soak alive, spit out black water and roast on fire!" Xiaobao recited his foodie cheats.

When locusts encounter enemies, they will spit out a foul-smelling black-green liquid as a warning, so some locusts spray black water on the scissors.

There was only a pair of scissors on the boat, and Gan Lai took it, which made Zheng Xiaorou very angry.Others pressed the locusts on the board of the boat, scratched them with daggers, knives, or directly pinched them off with their fingernails.

Not to mention the scissors, these people even have some black water on their hands and bodies. If you smell it closely, everyone smells bad.

The lower half of Xiaobao's robe was also dotted with black stains.

Playing with worms is the joy of every farm boy. These big boys did not play with worms when they were young. They not only played with them, but also ate them.

The joys of childhood, when they are a little older, are lost by life. Children from poor families are always forced to mature quickly, and the behavior of playing with bugs is sealed in memory.

Today, when Xiaobao brought it along, all the old and young men on the five boats "woke up".

Gan Lai, who has lived as a savage for ten years, is full of vitality. She can do whatever Xiaobao teaches her, and she is fast and clean.

It seemed that Zheng Xiaorou was a bit out of place.

Bai Jiaxing put his arms around his daughter-in-law's shoulders, told her stories about her childhood, and told her how delicious bugs are——

"When I was young, I lived in a shed on the ground, and the uncles, aunts, and women in the village brought me meals every day;
Children from other people’s families eat twice a day, and I also eat twice a day. Sometimes the delivery is repeated, and I can eat four meals. As a result, I grow up better than the children in the village, and I don’t like to get sick;
But at that time, they were all poor, and they couldn’t get enough to eat even four meals. Every meal was watery, and there was no oil and water, and the stomach would be empty after going to the toilet;

Not only me, everyone is hungry, even if you are hungry, save me a bite;
But the children couldn’t help being hungry. When I was young, I followed the older children to the mountains and the fields to find food. When I was five or six years old, I took the younger children to find food;

At that time, I was hungry and greedy, and everything I saw was delicious, and there were so many things to eat. We pinched hemp capsules, picked nightshade fruits, and broke sweet millet stalks. We walked and ate all the way;
Not only do we eat these grass fruits and grass stalks, but we also go down the river with the older children to catch shrimps. When the older children catch them, we drag the skirts of our clothes around, and sometimes we are so greedy that our saliva falls on the small river shrimps;

Even if the older children are hungry, they will cling to the little ones like us. They will pinch the shrimps, remove the helmets, strip the plastrons, and stuff them into our mouths, so as to satisfy our hunger first;
Those small shrimps, we couldn't wait to bring them to the adults, so we ate them alive, fresh and salty, with a special taste;
In addition to these, we also baked bean green worms to eat. The worms are delicious. When caught, they are green and fleshy and look good. When they are roasted, they become golden.
The key is that eating that worm can make you hungry. Although you can't get full, you will be hungry slowly;
The adults in the village always said that the year was bad and the field was full of bugs, but we children thought the year was good and the field was full of bugs! "

This made everyone laugh.

Yes, the world in the eyes of adults is completely different from that in the eyes of children.

"Don't tell me, bean green worms are really delicious. I also ate them when I was young, and my sister made them for me." Chu Yuan also participated in the conversation of the couple, but when it came to his sister, he felt a little lonely.

"When I was young, I still caught toads, snakes, and cicadas, and I ate whatever I caught, anyway!" Xiao Sining also interjected, successfully stirring up everyone's memories.

These boys, some from the south and some from the north, have eaten different bugs, but they all have the best impression of the green bean worm.

Zheng Xiaorou was fascinated by what she heard, and if everyone added, the locusts in their hands would no longer be an eyesore.

Bai Jiaxing went on to say: "These insects are mostly in summer and autumn, so even if there is not enough food, we children can always get insects as snacks. Although we have never been full, we have not starved to death;
But once the autumn is over, it is not easy to find food. We children, even the wheat ears and grains in the field, pick them up bit by bit, save a handful and take them home, adults will be very happy;
I don’t have a home, so I save a small handful and send it to the oldest families in the village. Such families are either the most populous, or widowed and lonely;

When it comes to winter, there is really nothing to eat, but we children always have a way, don’t look at the bare branches of many trees at this time, but this is our favorite thing;
Because there can always be found a 'Yanglazi jar' like a sparrow's egg, which has a hard shell like a bird's egg;
We will pick it back, get a piece of broken tiles to store it, and then pull out a few burning firewood from the stove pit to roast, it is delicious;
Sometimes I am so hungry that I can't wait for it to be cooked, so I just break the shell of the 'Yanglazi Jar' and pick out the golden worms inside to eat. "

The boys in the south have almost never eaten something like "Yanglazi jar", but they said that they often treat this thing like a small ball and play with it.

Autumn and winter in the south are not as cold as in the north, and there are many things they can eat. Some people mentioned eating sandworms, saying that sandworms can always be found in the estuary and shallows.

Xiaobao thought of silkworms, and silkworms are like centipedes with two rows of legs.

"You guys in the south should eat silkworm chrysalis, right?" Xiaobao couldn't help asking.

"What are you thinking about!" The boy with the escort agency answered, "Who would dare to eat? Who would be willing to eat? I expect them to spin silk and sell it for money!"

Some boys also said: "Sometimes when we see a cocoon with a shriveled shell, we will open it to take a look. There is nothing there, it is dry inside, and there is no head to eat!"

Some pointed to Xiaobao and said, "Only a rich young master like you can afford it!"

So everyone laughed again.

Zheng Xiaorou felt ashamed, but she could eat it every year.

After marrying Bai Jiaxing, I heard her husband talk about the family history of Chu Qing and his wife, and knew that Xiaobao was not a rich young master since childhood, and it was impossible for him to be able to afford such precious food as silkworm chrysalis.

But I always feel that life is hard, but I don't know that these people are really suffering.

So Zheng Xiaorou also pulled down a locust from the string, the insect's legs were still hooking up and down, she was terrified, but she still pursed her mouth, imitating everyone else, pinching off the legs and wings.

Bai Jiaxing was still immersed in the memory, and said with emotion: "Sometimes I think back, life was really hard at that time, but sometimes I think, that time was really interesting!"

Zheng Xiaorou couldn't help but looked up at her husband, her eyes were foggy: "The days to come will be better!"

(End of this chapter)