Hard times have room

Chapter 435: Catching Grasshoppers

After Su Hongying came out of the room awkwardly, both Wang Baolin and Wang Jiandang had almost eaten, especially Baolin, there was only one mouthful of soup left in the bowl.

"Mom, eat quickly, it'll be cold if you don't eat it." After speaking, she pushed the big soup bowl with a big bowl of mushrooms next to it to where Su Hongying used to sit.

Su Hongying glanced at Wang Jiandang arrogantly, seeing that he was not paying attention to her at all, just staring at the things in the bowl and eating vigorously, she couldn't care less at this time, since no one paid attention to her, she just You are welcome.

Well, Pauline was beautifully ignored, even though she was the one who just said hello.

Su Hongying, who made up her mind, picked up the chopsticks and started to pick up the mushrooms in the bowl. Now the mushrooms in the bowl were no longer cold. After taking a bite, after confirming this, Su Hongying took a big mouthful.

In two or three times, everything that could be picked up in the bowl went into her stomach, and then the soup was not spared.

When the last sip of soup in the bowl entered her stomach, Su Hongying licked the corners of her lips, apparently not satisfied.

At this time, Pauline, who had just returned from the kitchen to the main room, hurriedly handed over the mushroom soup she was holding.

She cooks a lot at noon. She drank two bowls by herself, and her father also drank two large bowls. She kept the rest for her mother. Therefore, in addition to the bowl on the table, she now has another bowl in her hand. bowl.

"This is mine too?" Su Hongying pointed to the bowl in front of her.

Pauline didn't speak, only nodded affirmatively.

"Have you eaten enough? I just ate such a big bowl, and I'm almost full." Although her stomach kept shouting, "Eat it, eat it," Su Hongying stopped her hand and looked at Pauline's the eyes asked.

This time, because she was sulking with herself, she successfully left herself in the room, and she didn't see how much Pauline had just done.

"You can eat. Dad and I both ate two bowls, and we're full." After speaking, Pauline went out.

Standing in the kitchen, she had a headache looking at some oil stars floating in the iron pan, not to mention that in addition to the iron pan, several bowls were also stained with oil, which was even more difficult.

Now there are no cleaning supplies such as detergent, so she can only wait for her mother to finish eating, come back in the afternoon, and rinse the bowls and pots with grass and wood ash.

Standing in the kitchen, Pauline really can't think of what she should do now. Forget it, she should go outside to dig wild vegetables first. This may be the last wave. Those bugs outside are not vegetarians. The next time I come back, I may face The devastated Shanghe Village.

Now, she has to dig some wild vegetables and race against time to fight for food rations. That's right, it is wild vegetables. Now wild vegetables have become her food rations. Basically, every day is wild vegetables and wild vegetables. .

In addition to wild vegetables and mushrooms, Paulin still has a not-so-mature idea in her heart. She plans to go down today to catch some grasshoppers and come back to the experiment. If it is successful, there should be no shortage of protein at home.

That's right, she put her idea to the grasshopper. She still remembers that once her mother caught those bigger grasshoppers, she would bring them home and cook the grasshoppers with fire ashes. When she ate it for the first time, she resisted more or less, but it was no match for her mother's threat of force. After that, it was really delicious. Sometimes she even went to find it by herself and simmered it at home.

She wants to know now, remove the meatless parts of the grasshopper's head, wings and feet, and then blanch the grasshopper, then dry it in a dustpan and seal it in a clay pot. I don't know if it can be preserved. , then eat slowly.

This is just an assumption, and the specifics will have to be seen later.

She didn't stay at home for a long time, only three days. Even if she found out that this kind of thing was feasible, it was up to her parents how to do it. She couldn't help much.

Thinking of this, Pauline couldn't sit still, she just walked out with her backpack in the kitchen.

Before the gate of the courtyard arrived, just halfway through, Su Hongying's voice came from behind: "Paulin, where are you carrying your bag at noon?"

Pauline wants to go out, she has no objection, this person is so old, it is impossible to keep chasing behind the butt, follow, she just wants to know where Pauline went, if what happened last time, there is also a way to find someone. There is a place to go, so you won't be confused, like a headless fly.

"I'll go to the back mountain to see it, just over the peach grove, not far away."

"I'm going to catch some grasshoppers and come back, simmer and eat at night. It's delicious." Paulin turned around and faced Su Hongying who was standing at the door of the main room.

As soon as the words were finished, the man had already retreated to the gate of the courtyard. Then, he turned around and walked out of the gate. After a while, he disappeared from Su Hongying's sight.

Su Hongying didn't care, she turned around and went back to the main room, eating the mushroom soup that she had not finished before.

Paulin went directly to the back mountain. The current peach forest is really much worse than before. There are large and small insects flying between the branches and leaves. Many insects she has never seen before and do not know are also appearing one after another. in her field of vision.

The leaves of the peach tree have been gnawed almost, or they fell to the ground, and the remaining leaves at the top of the branches have also turned yellow and wilted. This kind of tree trunk has obvious traces of worms and wormholes. A lot, there are a lot of sawdust scattered around the trunk, you can tell at a glance that the tree is almost gnawed, and there is a high probability that it will be necrotic.

Pauline didn't dare to stay under the peach trees, but ran quickly, through the woods, to a field of grass, overgrown with the most difficult thatch, and stones, all sizes, the largest. It is as tall as Pauline, and some large rocks are not far away, so it is very difficult to handle. This is also the reason why this relatively flat grassland was not selected to open up wasteland.

When she came here before, most of the thatch could reach her waist, but this time, it only reached her knees. There seemed to be more bugs here, most of which were grasshoppers.

There are big and small, yellow, blue, brown, with patterns, without patterns, only with simple spots, and she almost didn't see her eyes.

With so many grasshoppers, Pauline only intends to catch the species she is familiar with. Those big and fleshy ones are the ones her mother brought back to her before. She has eaten them herself, so she is more assured.

As for those little ones that looked rather strange, she simply ignored them.

Before entering this field of grass, Pauline took care of her attire. Her trousers were tied tightly, and she was wearing oversized leather boots, which didn't fit very well, but for safety, she didn't have to choose.

With black gloves on her hands and her sleeves tied tightly, she couldn't do anything on her head, she could only hope that those grasshoppers wouldn't go crazy and fly towards her.

(End of this chapter)