Hard times have room

Chapter 440 Insect plague
As soon as they got home, the first thing Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang noticed was that there was a large patch of mushrooms in the yard of their house. There were a lot more mushrooms in the yard than they were drying before they left.

It seems that Pauline had a good harvest this morning, yes, after all, they came back early for dinner, and then went to work. When they went to work, Pauline hadn't come back yet, so we shouldn't have to pick up some more. .

Then, looking around, the two dustpans next to the mushrooms seem to be grasshoppers?

Afraid that they were wrong, the two hurried over, squatted beside the dustpan, carefully took a grasshopper out of it, and looked at it.

Su Hongying was a little curious, the grasshopper was obviously boiled, and the color had changed a bit, but the moisture outside was dry. After all, the sun outside is not too small. She squeezed it hard, and it still hardened from the inside. Squeeze out a little water.

In the morning, she also used the ashes of sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge to simmer about twenty grasshoppers, leaving five for Pauline. She and Wang Jiandang shared the rest.

Before she left, she still remembered that there were still grasshoppers in the kitchen, so that's all there?
Why does she feel so little?Is it strange that the grasshopper will shrink after being boiled.

However, I was just thinking about it in my heart, I wouldn't ask, anyway, Paulin wouldn't mess around, why is she opening her mouth so much!

"Mom and dad, what are you looking at? That's the grasshopper I cooked with salt. If the sun is still as big as today, when the sun goes down in the afternoon, it should be able to dry. I'll try it later. It should taste right now. It's not good."

"Also, lunch is ready, wash your hands quickly, it's time to eat." After Pauline finished speaking, she entered the main room with the pot of mushroom soup in her hand.

This time, the mushroom soup she made didn't put any oil in it. There was not much oil at home, so she used a little less. Even if she could pour it in, there was a limit. Small pigtails, the kind that you can't even tell if you have a long mouth.

Today's mushrooms, even without oil, only contain water, salt and ginger slices, and the taste is good.

"Paulin, are you planning to cook the grasshopper you caught, dry it in the sun, and save it to eat?" Sitting at the dining table, Su Hongying held a bowl in her left hand and chopsticks in her right. Things asked Pauline, she was really curious, can it still be like this?

Well, in fact, she has never encountered such a situation. She was able to catch a dozen or so big grasshoppers before, thank God, she was lucky, as soon as she took it home, she would be simmered in fire ashes and then divided. If you eat it, how can you keep it, not to mention that Pauline is cooking and drying now.

So now, when she sees the grasshopper that Pauline had spread out in the yard before, she will be so curious, she has never seen it before!

It's not just her, many people in the village didn't think of this. Even the experienced old people in the village are busy removing insects and thinking about how to keep the food output in the fields. They have never encountered such an array in their life. Fight, how do you know what to do!

Naturally, I hurriedly go to the house every day to pick up wild vegetables and mushrooms, and I want to save a lot of food at home before the bugs clean up the things outside.

Also, I was thinking about how to keep my vegetable garden. If worms are found in the vegetable garden, they must be pinched to death immediately. As for eating grasshoppers, this is true, but a few are killed when I go to work. Going home, simmering and cooking for the children, and catching them specially, there is no such concept at all, at least I haven’t thought of it yet, and they are all rushing to work hard on those familiar and visible things!

Speaking of insect disasters, there has been one here before. There is basically no place in Jiangning County that can stay out of the way, and have not been spared.

Twenty-five years ago, there was a plague of insects in Shanghe Village, but that time it was only caterpillars in the pine forest. The trees were full of wriggling caterpillars. Looking around, they were full of caterpillars for about a month. , the entire forest was almost eaten up, and the pine trees in the forest were all dead.

The people in the village did not dare to approach the forest at all, and they had to be careful even at the edge. At that time, the forest was basically a forbidden area that could not be entered and exited.

After that, the people in the village didn't do anything, and the days passed so anxiously and naturally, and no one dared to enter the forest. After all, the "tragic state" of the caterpillars all over the floor was deeply remembered in their minds, and they felt goosebumps. The kind of pimple.

It was only that winter that it was very cold, with snow and hail. When someone couldn't stand the cold and ran into the woods to pick up firewood, they found that the caterpillars that were all over the ground before had disappeared without a trace. Hidden, still frozen to death by the heavy snow.

The next year, spring came very late. When the snow melted, the villagers carefully entered the woods and found that the woods had returned to their former calm.

"Well, I want to give it a try, anyway, it's all about eating, how can I eat it instead of eating it, I just want to try a different method, and see if it works, and how does it taste? Can it be preserved? Just try it. I don't want expensive things." Bao Lin took a mouthful of sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge, her tone was a little vague, and she replied indifferently.

Well, anyway, on the issue of food safety, she can pat her chest to make sure that the grasshopper is edible. It has been handled before, and she has cooked it in an iron pot, so nothing will happen.

That's it, compared to the various ghosts and animals eaten by those people in later generations, it is already extremely gentle!

"I think it's okay, how to eat is not to eat, just listen to Bao Lin and try it!" Wang Jiandang made a loud "sucking" sound, and just this mouthful, the porridge in his bowl was less visible to the naked eye. down.

Well, he is very interested in the grasshoppers that are drying outside. When the drying is done tomorrow, he must try it. How does it taste? If it is good, he can go to the wild to catch it in the future, just like Pauline, Boil it with salt and eat it in the sun.

"It's still my dad." Pauline smiled and said with a smile, holding a chopstick and mushroom for her dad.

"Anyway, I have time in the afternoon, and I don't have to go to work. If you like to eat simmered fire ash, you can bake it later. It's not a big deal."

Although it looks like a grasshopper with two dustpans from the outside, it is still a question whether it can have two pounds after the severe dehydration.

She plans to make more when she is at home. Whether it is taking the school to eat by herself, or staying at home for her parents to eat, it will be very good.

Although her parents are in the village, they seem to be able to do everything by themselves, but they have to go to work, they are already tired enough, and they have to make time to catch grasshoppers, dig wild vegetables, and take care of their own vegetable fields. Too tired. When she's at home, she can do whatever she can to help her. Anyway, she can't keep herself idle.

(End of this chapter)