Doomsday Grain

Lin Qian's family was busy enough.Chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and crucian carp all eat meat. Although the locusts outside eat crops, fortunately, they don’t need money. They go out with nets and catch as many as they want.Be diligent and grab a few sacks and come back, maybe you can still make money.

This village is like this, and the villages outside the village, which are almost insulated from flesh, are even crazier at this time.Few people even care about the crops being eaten clean, the temptation of the meat in front of them is better than everything else.

Theoretically speaking, the nutritional value of locusts is quite high, at least in terms of protein supplementation alone, it is more than three times that of beef.

The family caught a lot, and grandpa specially fried a plate to try something new.Lin Qian didn't have any psychological burden. He had eaten it when he was a child. He grabbed one and tasted it, nodded, and fed another one to He Yangxuan.

He Yangxuan glanced at Lin Qian, then at the fried locusts.Looking at the bugs, he was a little apprehensive, but Lin Qian couldn't bear to eat the food he fed him.

Lin Qian knew that he was obsessed with cleanliness, so he smiled and said, "Don't worry, you can eat it. Try it?"

He Yangxuan swallowed, but he still listened to Lin Qian and ate the bugs.

"How's it going?" Lin Qian asked.

"It's delicious."

In contrast, the two children's ability to accept is very strong.Because they know that what can be served on the table is food.

Because there are old people and children in the food at home, very few of them are too heavy.So something with a strong aroma and texture like fried grasshoppers is rare.Eating this once aroused the greediness of the two children, and even Yuan Qing, who was not good at speaking, would clamor to eat "Cong Chong" from time to time after eating.

So He Yangxuan took out a small net for fishing from the space, and gave him a small bucket with a lid, and let the little guy go out to catch it by himself.

Xiaoxiao wanted it too, and He Yangxuan also gave her a copy.

The two children went out to make a fuss for half an hour, and when grandpa was really worried and went out to catch the two little guys back, seeing the two little guys was really rewarding.

Yuan Qing has great strength and quick movements. He picked up the small bucket and looked through the sun. It can be half full, and the smiling one is also half full.Adults can't ask children by their own standards. Such a large amount is already amazing for two children.

At noon, Lin Qian and the two went home. In addition to dragging two sacks of locusts, they also brought back fishing nets.This is an underwater trap placed at the water outlet and inlet.It is inevitable that there are uncaught ones in the rice fields, and this method is used to catch the rest.

Smiling and squatting there, looking at the one or two small fish still struggling in the fishing net, she tilted her head and asked Lin Qian's father:

"Why is the little fish in there?"

"Because if you go in, you can't get out." Lin Qian explained.

"Can't you come out here?" Xiaoxiao pointed to the entrance of the fishing net.

After learning to speak, it is normal for children to have more problems.Lin Qian said patiently: "Because this place is concave. Fish like to swim close to the edge. They are very stupid and it is not easy to find this opening, so generally they can only enter but not exit."

Xiaoxiao listened to this answer, but still didn't quite understand.But she didn't ask any more, but sat there guarding the fishing net, not knowing what her little head was thinking.

He Yangxuan caught the fish inside and put it into the water.The fish won't die for a while, but most of them won't live long after being in the air for such a long time, so they all have to be cleaned up and dried at night.They dare not hang out in such a sky. Although locusts don't eat fish, it's disgusting enough to shit on them.

Xiaoxiao squatted in front of the fishing net and watched for half an hour.In the end, He Yangxuan couldn't stand it any longer, walked over and squatted beside Xiaoxiao and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Xiaoxiao raised her small face, looked at her father and said, "Dad, can we make a big cage that is exactly the same?"

"why?"

"Small fish are small, so they are stupid and can't get out. Chongchong is smaller than fish, so they are even more stupid. Let's make a big net, and when the worms go in, they can't get out. We can catch a lot of worms and eat them."

It's rare for the little guy to speak so much and still enunciate so clearly.

He Yangxuan was stunned by his daughter's words.

I am ashamed to say that as an adult, he has never thought about it this way. Every day he goes out with a net bag and struggles to catch it. Xiaoxiao knows the truth of setting a trap and waiting for the delivery at such a young age.

"Qian'er? Qian'er, come here quickly."

Lin Qian had just put away a fresh batch of dried fish and was about to put the new salted fresh fish on it when He Yangxuan called him and washed his hands with water. Lin Qian came out and said, "What's wrong?" ?”

"Our daughter thought of an idea that neither of us thought about."

"What?"

He Yangxuan picked up the fishing net cage: "Our daughter said, why don't we make a bigger one, so the locusts can get in by themselves?"

Lin Qian was taken aback when he heard that, and he didn't think about it.

The main reason is that catching locusts is really easy for adults. There are [-] or [-] locusts that are overwhelming outside, and you can catch [-] or [-] locusts with a wave of your hand. How can you think of this shortcut?

Lin Qian went over to pick up the eldest daughter, and kissed her on the cheek: "It's still my family that smiles."

"Huh?" He Yangxuan also stretched his face over, "You haven't kissed me yet."

Before Lin Qian could speak, Xiaoxiao stretched out his hand in disgust to push He Yang's father's face away, and scratched his face with his little finger: "Du Diu Diu."

He Yangxuan was angry and funny, Lin Qian hugged the eldest daughter to make a trap for catching locusts.

He Yangxuan provided the screen window fabric for the cage, as well as stronger barbed wire.

The construction of a fishnet cage is not complicated, but it takes a little time to make a large one.And make two, put some in front of the house and behind the house, not on the street, anyone who sees it will take it away.I have a mountain at home, and I put it in the mountain. There are usually no people there, and there are more locusts than here.After all, the fresh and tender crops at the bottom of the mountain are eaten up, and there are still some fresh wild vegetables in the corners of the upper corners.

It took an hour to make two, and then put them on the greenhouse in the yard to try.This kind of trap is divided into two parts, one side is the entrance, which is funnel-shaped, and the opening is not too big or too small, so that the locusts can just follow the smell of the food.The other part is a conical object with a tied end.

When using it, insert the funnel-shaped one into the side of the tapered opening, and it must be recessed, so that ordinary locusts cannot get out after entering.Then after enough locusts have entered, open the tied end and pour out the locusts directly.

Simple and convenient.

The two little guys stayed at home in the afternoon, but Lin Qian and the two went out to catch locusts.In the evening, I took the trap back to the house to have a look, not to mention, I gained a lot.

There are some fresh vegetables picked at home in the trap, which is undoubtedly the most attractive to the locusts.So after finding the entrance, the locusts scrambled to get in, and it was difficult to come out after they were full.

This trap is really easy to use. The family made a few more that evening, and put them on the mountain early the next morning.But during the day, the two will catch more. There is not much work in the greenhouse these days. The more locusts, the better, and they will save feed in the future.The chickens, ducks and geese have eaten too many locusts recently, and basically they have started to lay eggs continuously. Some chickens can lay two eggs a day, which can be described as a bumper harvest.

This wave of locusts lasted for ten days.Every household has stored several sacks of locusts, and after killing the locusts, they fill the yards and gates to dry, which is considered a bumper harvest.Although the crops have been ruined, such a harvest may not be less than the grain harvest.

Gradually, as people catch large areas, there are fewer and fewer locusts.Gradually, only some older middle-aged and elderly people or children would go out to catch locusts to pass the time, and the rest of the strong began to be busy harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes in the field.

Locusts can also burrow into the ground, but relatively, the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the ground are less spoiled.

For sweet potatoes, the growth cycle is not enough, and the dug out are relatively small.However, the potatoes have been growing for three months. Although they are not very large, there are a lot of them.

In addition to the reserves of each household in previous years and the fish harvested from rice field fish farming, all kinds of things add up, it will definitely be no problem to persist until next year, and even more can be saved as assets.

The new currency from the government has come down, and the old currency will definitely not be usable.Because of the large-scale death of the population, the inflation was violent.The economy is considered to have collapsed, but now that barter has resumed, it is still normal.

I am used to exchanging food for what I need, and I am really uncomfortable with the new currency for a while.

The newest currency is somewhat like food stamps.The face value is the same as before, but there are two types, one is rice stamps in cool colors, and the other is miscellaneous grain stamps in warm colors.One catty of rice is equal to three catties of miscellaneous grains, including potatoes and corn.

The common people can exchange their extra food for this new type of currency, and each trading point is guarded by government-certified people, which can ensure the circulation of the currency.

The people in the village exchanged relatively little.In contrast, Lin Qian responded positively to the national policy, left and right families had a lot of food, and exchanged tens of thousands of catties of rice tickets at once.

Almost sold most of the compressed biscuits kept at home.When I bought it, I thought it was good. This thing can replace currency.But the number of times the family went out to buy things seriously was quite seldom, so it was useless to put it in He Yangxuan's space because it took up space at home, after all, there was a lot of food and drink in it.I kept ten boxes and eight boxes, fearing that I might need them in the future, and emptied all the rest.

In addition to this and tobacco.No one smokes at home now. If this thing has been kept in the space, it will be easily exposed if it is taken out in the future.And even if no one suspects it, some people will think that it is an expired item, so it is better to sell it now.In the future, the re-production will probably change the packaging like currency. It is better to dispose of the previous packaging as soon as possible.

But the wine is still good to keep, and most of the good wine does not have space.The time in the space is static, wine is a delicious thing that can only be brewed by time, and it has been kept in the basement, the more it sinks, the more mellow it becomes.