Poor family mother and son

Chapter 425 Abuse!
Ordinary people always take a compromise attitude towards things that make them helpless, such as weasels that can hold grudges, clever foxes, etc. If they can't deal with them by themselves, they simply regard them as supernatural beings that are both demons and immortals, and enshrine them. It means "join if you can't beat it".

For example, weasels or foxes, if they steal chickens, people will catch them, but the odor they release is toxic and can damage the central nervous system of people. If a person is hit by this poisonous gas at close range, it will seriously cause unconsciousness , and even hallucinations, people feel "controlled mind", which is why people remain in awe of it.

However, these "immortals" are not completely helpless products, they also play a good role in human life.

Hedgehogs, for example, mainly prey on insects and worms. They have to eat more than half a catty of insects in one night, and many insects are poisonous, but they are fine after eating them; they can even live well after being bitten by some poisonous snakes.

Another example is that weasels eat chickens, but they prefer to eat mice. They can eat about [-] mice a year. They can be called the biggest natural enemy of mice, much more powerful than cats.

All of these make people respectful.

That's why people regard them as immortals.

These truths have been clearly explained to Xiaobao, and Xiaobao's telling everyone at this time has also increased the knowledge of these rough guys.

Once the truth of something is clarified, there will be no mystery, and the remaining fear in everyone's heart will be gone.

"Boss, how do you know that locusts can be eaten? It was also taught by your mother?" asked the boy with the escort.

Because not all of them are from the Chu family, Xiaobao doesn't say "mother" in front of them, but really says "mother" like everyone's son.

"Yes," Xiaobao replied, "When I was a child, my mother told me a story about a country called Datang. Their emperor encountered a plague of locusts, which covered the sky and blocked the sun. It was very serious. The emperor himself attached great importance to the plague of locusts." Not enough, the courtiers have to pay attention to it, otherwise how to govern?

So he caught a few locusts and cursed them: "People live on grain, but if you eat it, it will harm the people."If the common people have faults, give it to one person, he has a spirit, but he should eclipse my heart and harm the common people. ' Then put it in his mouth and ate it. "

"What? Have you eaten?" Everyone exclaimed.

Someone also asked: "What is he cursing?"

Xiaobao explained: "The emperor of the Tang Dynasty said: 'The people regard food as their wealth and life, and you eat it, which is harmful to the people. The people are guilty, and those crimes are all on me. If you really have Spirit, eat my heart, and stop harming the people.'”

"Wow! What a good emperor!"

"That's the emperor, eating bugs? No one persuades me?"

"Yeah, how can the emperor eat locusts, which are still raw? At least fry them up!"

Discussions started again, and the last sentence was said by Chu Yuan. He felt that the deep-fried one was better than the dry-baked one, and it was quicker and less labor-intensive to make.

Xiao Bao nodded: "Yes, I ate it, raw, not fried."

Another person asked, "What about the locust plague? Has it been resolved?"

Xiaobao shook his head: "I don't know, that's just a story told by my mother. However, according to this story, my mother caught locusts and roasted them for me, and later made some oil to fry them."

After Xiao Bao finished speaking, he fell into memory.

At that time, not long after I arrived in Wukeshu Village, I couldn't speak. My mother was busy every day. In addition to cooking for the school, she also copied books to earn copper coins. Whenever she had time, she would tell stories to herself or chat with herself.

Sometimes I feel that I will not grow taller without meat, so I catch locusts or dragonflies and cook them on the stove for myself to eat, and I even go to the river to grill fish for myself.

At that time, I was poor and had never eaten fried food. At most, the bottom of the pan was fried and fried, but it was very fragrant and fragrant.

Soon, my mother had money, but she almost died.

Thinking about it, Xiaobao's eyes became a little moist.

At that time, I knew that my mother was not the real mother, but I just felt that I could feel at ease following her.

Follow her, really feel at ease.

Seeing that Xiaobao stopped talking and was thinking about something, Gan Lai sat over and whispered, "Catch more locusts tomorrow, save them and send them to your mother."

Chu Yuan hit her: "Can that thing be saved? Don't it stink?"

But Xiaobao nodded seriously: "Okay, I fried them in oil and let them dry in the sun so they can last longer."

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Yibin Mansion.

Chu Qing was also eating locusts at this time, surrounded by a large circle of children.

In the evening, Chu Qing used a shovel that was twice as big as the lid of the pot, stuck it on the grass by the river and waved it wildly, and then a lot of locusts were engulfed in the shovel.

Chu Qing's arms are strong, she has been exercising all the year round, and her waist is also strong, so she hugged all the locusts in a radius of one mile within two quarters of an hour just by hugging her back and forth with her half-bent body.

The man grazing ducks on the river bank was dumbfounded: "Master, fortunately, this is grass. If you go to the crop field to do this, the ears of rice will be scratched."

Chu Qing divided half of the stolen locusts to Wubing, and asked him to take them back to feed the chickens and ducks, and keep the other half. The children who came to release the ducks with Wubing all watched eagerly, hoping that Master Mian could do the same. Give them some chicken and duck.

Chu Qing built a fire by the river, and asked Wu Bing to bring the children to find thinner stone flakes, and taught them to roast locusts to eat.

Under the leadership of Wubing, the children dared to say a few words in front of Mr. Mian, so they "reported" to Chu Qing about the situation of raising ducks.

First of all, Wubing summed up some experience of grazing ducks, which caused the children to widen their eyes and be surprised.

Wubing said: "The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it is necessary to 'close the eggs' and molt the ducks."

Chu Qing asked, "What is 'off egg'? How do you change duck feathers?"

Before I could answer, the children rushed to answer:
"'Close eggs' means not letting ducks lay eggs!"

"Don't take them out to graze!"

"If you don't clean up their nests, you have to block the sun during the day!"

"Don't clean up the shack for them!"

"Give me less food, nothing but grass and water!"

"Once their good life stops, the hair on the duck's chest and back can no longer grow, and it will fall off by itself. Even if it doesn't fall off, it will fall off if you stretch out your hand and pull it."

Chu Qing immediately felt that the ducks were so pitiful. They were all a group of "pregnant women". As a result, their treatment was directly reduced from "waiting for labor" to the level of "starving to death". Abuse!

Wubing saw clearly with a look of unbearable expression on his face, and summed up the children's quarrel: "It's for their own good. It's hot, and they lay fewer eggs. If they continue to lay eggs, they will be weak;
It is necessary to "close the eggs" and help them moult to dissipate heat, otherwise the ducks will have to moult for three or four months, and the recovery will be slow, delaying the laying of eggs in autumn;

Let's help the ducks moult. It takes only two months at most, and the ducks are not easy to get sick. "

After Wubing explained, Chu Qing had a relieved expression, but the children were full of awe.

They have learned and done these things, but they have never put these things together to make sense, so even if they ask clearly, they can only answer briefly.

Not only can he speak the truth when he is not sick, but he dares to "preach" to the officials, which is amazing!
Chu Qing led everyone to turn over the locusts on the stone slab and continue to roast them, and continue to make "reports" when they are free from illness.

(End of this chapter)