Houmen Fenghua: Meet the best evil mother-in-law

The locust eggs are too small to be seen by the chickens, but Xing Yuanjia brought the locusts back, and it happened that there were two hens laying eggs at home, so they could experiment.

Xingfu didn't object.

It's just mud, and it won't kill chickens, at best it won't work.

After a while, the father and son ran to the backyard.

Because there are only two hens in the house, the big rooster next door will come to patrol when he has nothing to do, as if these two hens are also his wife.

Xingfu took a look at the big cock next door, afraid of accidents, he stretched out his hand to drive it away.

The big rooster was still not happy, standing outside the half-height fence, poking his head.

Xing Yuanjia didn't care, he piled the mud with locust eggs on the ground, and drove the hens over to see if they would eat.

Fortunately, he had been prepared. In addition to the locust eggs, there were several locust corpses in the mud pile as bait.

After the hen was driven over, she clucked and stretched her head, as if disturbed.

But after a while, the hen got used to the presence of the owner, stared at the locusts in the soil, and happily ran over to eat them.

The surface of the soil was eaten, and people used their claws to dig the soil, trying to check if there was any in the soil.

Actually ate it? !
The father and son raised their heads, their eyes full of disbelief.

"I always thought that chickens eat bugs, but I didn't expect that they also eat locusts?!"

"Uh... I haven't noticed it either. Daddy, do you want to try whether this fish eats insect eggs or not?"

"Try, of course I have to try." Xingfu would be a fool to object at this time.

Since the newspaper said so, it must be reasonable.

Chickens can eat locusts, so isn't it normal for fish to eat locust eggs?

When Xingfu went to tell Lizheng in the village that he wanted Lizheng to ask which house in the village had live fish and borrow it for experimentation, Lizheng frowned slightly.

"Fish eat locust eggs? Isn't it... grasshoppers born in drought and fish born in waterlogging?"

"What kind of dry grasshopper and waterlogged fish? Not at all. "Natural History" said earlier that fish are fish, locusts are locusts, just like chickens are chickens, and ducks are ducks. It is impossible to use some means. Let duck eggs hatch chickens, or let eggs hatch ducks..." Xing Yuanjia said, "Dragon begets dragon, phoenix begets phoenix, and the son of a mouse can make holes. This is the same principle."

Xing Yuanjia was a little anxious, afraid that Li Zheng would object.

Li Zheng must take the lead in such a big matter as tidal flat regulation, otherwise the people in the village would not listen to him.

Li was looking at Xing Yuanjia, but didn't speak.

The village is poor and there are few scholars.

He also learned a few words because of the honor of his ancestors.

As for Xing Yuanjia, he also likes being clever, and he grew up with his son, so he taught him a few words.

Now his son was sent to the town to study, while Xing Yuanjia stayed in the village, thinking about this or that all day long.

Li Zheng naturally despised these strange skills and ingenuity.

Until recently, his son brought back a copy of "Natural History" from the town, which immediately opened a strange door for Xing Yuanjia.

This kid Xing Yuanjia read "Natural History" and followed like a demon, and followed to study the things on it.

Lizheng was also pondering in private, what exactly was this "Natural History" and why did it "admit" its ingenuity?
Isn't that something that can't be put on the table?

But the newspaper was brought back by my son. It is said that the masters of the Shushu are letting everyone read it. The newspaper also said that the content they mentioned may not be completely correct. .

And newspapers are run by princes and grandchildren.

That said, it's a signal.

As for what this signal means, the benevolent sees benevolence, and the wise see wisdom.

Li Zheng was distracted for a while, but Xing Yuanjia was so anxious that he took out the newspaper and pointed it to Li Zheng to read.

"Uncle, look, I have experimented with this. When I did the experiment before, I also knew..."

"There's also this one. Although I didn't confirm this one, this person has confirmed it. You see, it's all in the newspapers. Now he has also been invited to Beijing to conduct experiments."

"and this."

……

"Uncle, I know you're worried that it's fake, but whether it's fake or not, we haven't tried it. How do you know it's fake? Besides, borrow a fish from the village to see if the fish really eat locust eggs. There will be nothing, it’s a lot of trouble..."

Lizheng came back to his senses, and what he heard was Xing Yuanjia's words, he was a little dumbfounded: "I didn't refuse to try it. Okay, I'll ask which one has live fish, you go to dig the mud, we will try it later .”

"Hey, Uncle, you go catch it now." Xing Yuanjia was so happy that he put away the newspaper as a treasure, and let Xingfu take care of it, and took the thing to dig the mud.

Xingfu looked helpless and apologized to Li Zheng.

"Hey, why are you paying for it? Yuan Jia is doing it for the good of the village." As he said that, Lizheng called for someone to ask his wife to go out and find out which one had live fish.

Live fish is relatively easy to handle. Although the village is a little poor, in the mountains and rivers, as long as you work hard, you can always find something to eat.

No, the cubs of Sun Laoliu's family caught three fishes the size of a palm.

It's not big, but it can cook a bowl of soup, too.

As soon as he heard that Lizheng wanted to borrow it, Sun Laoliu took a bucket without saying a word, and brought the fish to Lizheng's yard.

After a while, Xing Yuanjia came back from digging the soil, and carefully threw the locust eggs into the bucket.

A fish as big as a palm and a wooden barrel as big as a dung bucket. Everyone was afraid that they would stare at the fish and dare not eat it, so it took a while before they poked their heads to look.

Just in time, a fish opened its mouth and ate a lump of white stuff in one bite.

"Eat it?!" Sun Laoliu couldn't believe it, "This...why does this fish still eat its own eggs?"

"That's not a fish egg, it's a locust egg." Xing Yuanjia explained.

He now understands why "drought grasshoppers flood raw fish" happened.

Isn't that right, if there is no water, the fish can't live in the mud, and the pond is the world of locusts?

And with water, the fish can dominate the pond and eat the locusts as food, so they can't see the shadow of the grasshopper?

Hearing Xing Yuanjia's explanation, Lizheng felt in a trance. Why did he feel that he was about to lose sight of the phrase "grasshoppers born in drought and fish born in waterlogging"?
Can you still understand this? !

But in any case, it is indeed a good thing that fish will eat locust eggs.

"Yuan Jia, think about it carefully, and see what we should do about this matter. Let's discuss it carefully when the house is announced for a holiday."

"Hey, uncle, I listen to you."

……

Not long after, Yao Jiuye and the others received letters from all over the country.

Many people said that they had done experiments based on the content of the newspaper, and XXX would indeed eat locusts, and the locust eggs were really buried in the mud, and they were dug out as soon as they were dug.

Of course, there are also some old stubborn people who don't even ask for proof, and write letters to curse people.

To say that they are role models for the people, do not think about making progress, neglect their studies, and engage in these ingenious and obscene skills is simply to embarrass their ancestors.

Yao Jiuye read these scolding letters and found nothing worth learning, so he just threw them aside and ignored them.

As for those who had pertinent opinions, he carefully put them away, had someone extract them, and brought them to the regular meeting to discuss with everyone.