Cicada

Author: Ye Gong Haolong A

Cicada

In fact, few male dolls of Chen Ling's generation went to great lengths to hatch turtle eggs when they were young. They ate them as soon as they found them. Chen Ling, on the other hand, was very playful and liked to mess around, and would even toss to give turtle eggs.

incubation.

I want to hatch a nest of little turtles and keep them for fun.

He remembered that after picking up turtle eggs, he struggled for several years before he figured out how to hatch the little turtles.

Because some turtle eggs are not fertilized, they are useless eggs and bad eggs.

After he gradually became able to differentiate like this, he picked out some and ate them, while others played with them.

The remaining natural hatching rates are extremely high.

It doesn't mean that every turtle egg is guaranteed to hatch, as he told Komori and others. What can he do about the unfertilized ones?

The reason why he mentioned this matter to these little devils is because he has also been taking time to tinker with these things recently.

We do it both in the cave and outside.

Of course, it is mainly inside the cave.

A while ago, the night before going to the zoo, I spent half the night watching watermelons with Wang Jusheng and others.

At that time, Wang Jusheng gave Rui Rui two wheat field turtles, and Rui Rui and Wang Zhenzhen also caught a few in the melon field.

After the turtles were brought back, they also laid eggs one after another.

At that time, Chen Ling and the others were in the city. Wang Cunye and Gao Xiulan saw the turtle laying eggs at home and started saving up.

I have saved up a straw hat.

Later, when Chen Ling and the others came back, Chen Ling put the turtle eggs in a small stone trough, buried them with sand, covered them, and poured some water on them, waiting for them to hatch.

Wang Zhenzhen and Ruirui also participated enthusiastically and looked forward to it.

But during this period, Chen Ling saw that the two of them were very fond of the turtle eggs, so he took a small part of them and put them into the cave on the pretext of removing the unfertilized eggs.

Incubate in the same way.

This is to throw them into the cave to let them multiply and evolve into new species. On the other hand, Chen Ling also wants to try to see if he can make some of the little turtles appear on the backs of these little turtles according to his own wishes in the cave, a place where he has magical power.

Pictures, text, and prints.

Not only is it fun to raise, but it can also make money.

This was the inspiration given to him by the turtle that Wang Jusheng caught.

But it's a pity...

After those turtle eggs were put into the cave, there were some small benign changes after entering the cave for the first time, which can be regarded as mutations.

But there was no way Chen Ling's "wonderful ideas" could be realized.

At present.

This means that the original incubation time of wheat field turtles is shortened from about two months to more than half a month.

Overall, it’s not like there’s no gain at all.

In the subsequent changes, I hope they can have a variety of turtles like bees.

Back at the farm, Wang Susu was pickling salted eggs under the grape trellis, while Gao Xiulan sat beside her and made a mat.

"Lingzi is back? Your father said that you went to Nanshan to collect herbs. I just told Susu that you don't know if you can come back for dinner at noon."

"No one in the village has time to dig up medicinal materials this year. The valuable herbs are in the North Mountain, but no one goes to the Nanshan. The herbs commonly used in drug stores are everywhere. I can just pick them for this trip."

Chen Ling came over and put down the bamboo basket for the two of them to look at.

"It's true. There are many people from outside the village this year, and there is a lot of income. A few days ago, Teacher Zhao was recruiting workers to dig ditches. There are also jackals in the mountains. No one goes to the mountains, and the herbs are growing like crazy..."

Gao Xiulan smiled and said: "It just so happens that while we are drying the medicinal materials, I picked the beans on the shelf in the backyard in the afternoon, washed them, and dried them. Otherwise, there will be so many beans all at once, and they will grow old in a few days."

We are now entering the peak growing season of beans, and we can pick more than ten or twenty pounds of beans a day, which is more than we can eat at home.

No one wanted it even if it was sent to the village.

In the summer, whose family is still short of vegetables? There is so much to eat in the vegetable garden.

Beans, cucumbers, loofah... are not rare.

Especially beans, which grow on seedlings and become old in three to five days, making them completely inedible.

It's better to take advantage of the good weather, pick them all, and dry them into dried beans or pickle them into pickles, so it won't go to waste.

"Okay, then I'll go catch some fish and cook two dishes for lunch."

Chen Ling responded, turned around and picked up the newly woven net bag, and caught a mullet fish and some fine salmon.

Then disembowel it and clean it.

The mullet fish will be steamed today. First spread the lard evenly, then spread with sauce and salt.

Mix soy sauce, vinegar and some peppercorn oil in a bowl.

After boiling the water, put the bowl with the fish in it and the sauce bowl and steam it together.

Set the time and turn off the heat.

Turn off the heat and simmer for a while.

Then pour the sauce bowl all over the fish.

Steamed mullet fish is here.

The fine-scaled fish is simpler, just boil the fish soup directly.

Plus some salad dishes.

Two meat and one vegetable are enough.

Lunch in the summer should be lighter so you don’t get tired of eating it.

These two kinds of fish are delicious no matter how they are cooked.

Every time I make it, the whole family eats it cleanly.

It's delicious, but these two kinds of fish are too expensive.

Even if the family raises a lot of them, they are not willing to eat them.

If Chen Ling hadn't eaten it from time to time on the pretext of replenishing Wang Susu's health, no one else in the family would even move.

…

After lunch, I took a nap.

After going to the cave to take a look at the little turtles, Chen Ling went to the backyard to pick beans.

The fence in the backyard is already full of greenery. Bamboo poles are leaning against the wall at an angle, covered with loofahs, gourds, and beans. The loofah flowers are yellow, the gourds are white, and the bean pollen is purple...Butterflies and bees are among the flowers.

It's really lively flying around.

Under the wooden frame, the old hen led a group of chicks to dig for food in the soil. They didn't know what good things they dug up at this moment. They cooed and squawked, which immediately attracted the chicks to rush for it.

Chen Ling picked up the bamboo basket and stamped his feet, but they were not afraid. It was not until two dogs came to chase him away that they clucked in panic and got out of the water channel in the corner.

"Why are you always running home? There are so many bugs to eat outside, but there are no bugs at home."

Chen Ling asked the dogs to drive them all out.

Then he started to put down the basket and pick the beans.

After working for more than half an hour, I picked a big bamboo basket of beans.

Chen Ling filled two buckets of water, then poured the beans into the basin and rinsed them.

This step is mainly to eliminate insects. Homemade beans have not been treated with pesticides and are a purely natural green food, which means they will inevitably get bug eyes and worms.

During the process of soaking in water and rinsing, the bugs hidden in the beans will become suffocated and crawl out from the holes in the beans.

Otherwise, simple washing will not be able to wash them out.

It would be bad if you eat bugs while eating.

Rinsing took more than half an hour. Chen Ling boiled a pot of water in the kitchen, saved some fresh food for cooking at night, and threw the rest into the big pot, boiled it for three to five minutes, and then cooked it in the front yard.

I pulled a rope over the wooden building and started to dry it.

While he was busy, Gao Xiulan took Wang Zhenzhen back.

As soon as the girl entered the house, she first took a look at the silkworm cocoons and turtle eggs on her wooden floor, and then told Chen Ling not to forget to go out to catch cicada monkeys tonight.

You have to make dinner early.

Then I went to prepare a small bucket, a small shovel and other cicada catching tools in a hurry, not to mention the excitement.

After a while, Wang Cunye came back with Ruirui from herding sheep. My dear, there was another squeaking noise in the house.
To be continued...