Chapter 453: Got it
In fact, few male dolls of Chen Ling's generation had to go to great lengths to hatch turtle eggs when they were young. They ate them as soon as they found them, which meant that Chen Ling was very playful. He likes to mess around, and he also tries to hatch turtle eggs.
I want to hatch a nest of little turtles and keep them for fun.
He remembered that after picking up turtle eggs one after another, 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 distinguish them 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 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 I went 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.
Chen Ling and the others were in the city at that time. Wang Cunye and Gao Xiulan saw the turtle laying eggs at home and started saving them.
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.
Hatch in the same way.
This is to throw them into the cave sky 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 sky, a place where he has magical power. Pictures, texts and word seals.
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 is a pity...
After those turtle eggs were put into the cave, because they entered the cave for the first time, there were some small benign changes, which can be regarded as mutations.
But there was no way Chen Ling's "wonderful ideas" could be realized.
For now.
This means that the original hatching time of the wheat field turtle has been shortened from about two months to more than half a month.
In general, it is not a gain at all.
For 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 for medicinal materials this year. The valuable herbs are in Beishan, but no one goes to Nanshan. The herbs commonly used in drug stores are everywhere, and I can just pick them for this trip."
Chen Ling. After walking over, he put down the bamboo basket and let the two of them take a look.
"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. This herbal medicine is also It’s 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. We can pick more than ten or twenty kilograms of beans a day, which is more than we can eat all at home.
No one wants to send it to the village.
Whose family is still short of food in summer? I can’t even finish what I grow 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 is better to take advantage of the good weather and pick them all and dry them into dried beans or pickle them into pickles, so as not to waste them.
"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 scales. Salmon.
Then go and disembowel and clean it.
The mullet fish was steamed and eaten today. First spread the lard evenly, then spread it with sauce and salt.
Mix soy sauce and vinegar in a bowl, and add some peppercorn oil.
After boiling the water, put the bowl with the fish in it and the sauce bowl and steam it together.
Pick 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 ready.
The thin-scaled fish is simpler, just boil the fish soup directly.
Add some cold vegetables.
Two meat and one vegetable is enough.
Lunch in 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 I raise a lot of them at home, I am not willing to eat them.
If Chen Ling hadn't taken it out 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 diagonally at the base of the wall, covered with loofahs, gourds, and beans. The loofah flowers are yellow, the gourd flowers are white, the bean pollen is purple... Butterflies and bees are flying around among the flowers, which is really lively.
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 drive them away that they clucked in panic and got out of the water channel in the corner. "Why are you running home all the time? There are so many bugs to eat outside, but there are no bugs at home."
Chen Ling asked the dog 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 get rid of insects. The home-made beans are not 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.
The rinsing took more than half an hour. Chen Ling boiled a pot of water in the kitchen, leaving some fresh for cooking at night. The rest was thrown into the big pot and cooked for three to five minutes. , then I pulled a rope on the wooden building in the front yard and started to dry.
While 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 catch cicada monkeys outside tonight.
Have to make dinner early.
Then we went to prepare cicada catching tools such as buckets and shovels in a hurry, not to mention the excitement.
After a while, Wang Cunye came back with Ruirui from herding sheep. Good guy, there was another squeaking noise in the house.
I didn’t feel tired even after playing for a whole day, and I was very energetic.
It’s easy to say if they are not tired, just continue to take them out to play. When they are tired, they will be honest.
So after having an early meal, the sun had just set and it was still dark, so Chen Ling took the two little guys with him, picked up the tools for catching monkeys, and went out together.
We rushed to the wheat field first and waited for Liu Nier and his gang to come over.
"Uncle Fugui, let me test you. Do you know what tree the cicada likes to climb on?"
After Liu Nier arrived, she raised her little head and showed off to Chen Ling. .
“Oh, you’re still testing me? Aren’t there most trees like willows and elms?”
“No, you’re wrong. Cicada monkeys are the favorite. Willow trees and elm trees are not as good as willow trees. We could touch more than ten or twenty cicada monkeys on a willow tree by the river before. ”
"Good guy, you have done research in this field."
The boy chuckled and glanced at Wang Zhenzhen: "My aunt said before that her composition about the old bird and the cuckoo was praised by the teacher. I thought about it and happened to know about cicadas, so I wrote this."
"Good guy, you are so smart."
This thing is cicadas. Cicada larvae.
There are a lot of them these days, not only under the trees but also near the river beaches.
They like willows the most, followed by elms, then poplars. There is less sap in jujube and walnut trees, and less in trees with harder wood.
The little baby catches a lot, and gradually he will know this.
This is the season when cicadas are unearthed. At night, cicada monkeys come out of the ground in dense numbers, starting from six or seven o'clock in the evening before it gets dark, until three or four o'clock in the middle of the night. There are cicada monkeys crawling out.
Especially between ten and eleven or twelve in the evening, cicada monkeys crawl out in a swarm like a market.
After the little kids arrived, Chen Ling led them to the woods behind the Tutu Temple to look for cicada monkeys.
Many villagers here like to move their beds out and sleep under the trees in summer.
There are often cicada monkeys crawling onto the bed.
Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I am surprised to find a cicada monkey crawling on the sheets, mats, and bed legs. It has just shed its shell and turned into a cicada, and it has not yet flown away.
He was caught on the spot and fell to death, so he was fed to chickens.
"Wow, look, there are so many holes under this old willow tree. We should have come out to catch them a few days ago..."
As soon as he passed the Tutu Temple and went down to the woods of Dakeng, Wang Zhenzhen found a dense layer of small holes under a big willow tree, at least twenty or thirty of them, squeezed together, as if someone had inserted them with an iron rod. .
This is the small hole that the cicada monkey climbed out of.
The soil here is particularly suitable for cicadas to thrive. It is very common for twenty or thirty cicada monkeys to climb on a willow tree.
"Let me just say, there are the most under the willow tree. Uncle Fugui, don't move, there is one at your feet..."
As Liu Nier was talking, she suddenly noticed the position at Chen Ling's feet. There is a small hole the size of a soybean, so quickly stop him and stop moving.
At this time, many underground cicada monkeys have climbed to the surface, but have not yet climbed out.
Only a thin layer of soil is left, and a small hole the size of a soybean is often left on it. It can be seen that the soil layer around the hole is very thin.
This is an obvious feature.
Just wait until it gets dark and they will burst out of the ground.
There are a few cicada monkeys that are timid. Once they notice any disturbance outside the cave entrance, they will immediately retreat into the cave and hide in a deep place.
Wait until there is no movement, then slowly climb out of the hole.
Chen Ling stopped and saw Liu Nier gently dig out the hole with her hand, put a finger in, and took advantage of the cicada's pliers to pinch her hand, and hooked it It pulled its pliers upwards and easily pulled out the cicada monkey.
Seeing this novelty, Ruirui knelt down and stared at it with wide eyes.
Chen Ling glanced around and soon discovered that there was another one behind him. He could even see the monkey's head and two black eyes in the small hole, "Hey, there's another one over here. One, let brother Liu Nier teach you how to catch them. Be careful not to scratch your hands.”
The other little kids were also very excited, squatting on the ground and constantly looking for the cicada monkeys crawling out.
"There are so many here. I will definitely be able to catch a hundred tonight."
"What are you talking about? I can catch ten thousand."
"..."
< br>"Uncle Fugui, why is the small bucket you are holding still filled with water?"
While grabbing and grabbing, some children saw that Chen Ling's small bucket was still filled with half a bucket of water. Either they were holding cans or bottles, or wine boxes and the like. No one was holding water.
"This is to prevent it from molting. I don't like eating young cicadas. Put some salt water and they won't change to cicadas."
Chen Ling smiled and replied.
Many people in their local area like the tender white cicadas that have just shed their shells. He can't eat that and prefers the cicada monkeys that have not shed their shells.
Once fried in oil, the outer shell is golden brown, the outside is charred and the inside is tender, and it tastes fragrant and crispy.
(End of this chapter)