Chapter 404: Cicada

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I got kicked again for no reason, but the key is that it was inexplicable! Looking at the closed door, Xiao Han angrily carried the bamboo pole and walked under the tree.

Who said Taoist priests were quiet and inactive? This big kick is so accurate and cruel!

In fact, for some reason, Xiao Han always felt that the people around him were polite when they first got along.

But later on, it somehow turned into a virtue! He would hit and scold him when he was wrong, and he would kick him when he got angry. Could it be that he had the legendary physique to invite beatings?

"Bah, bah, bah, who loves that unlucky physique?" Turning back and cursing at Lao Sun's Taoist temple, Xiao Han picked up the bamboo pole and began to search for cicadas under the trees.

I found out that this thing is actually very strange. They like to get together very much. There are often a bunch of cicadas on one tree, but there are only a few adjacent trees.

On his favorite crooked-necked willow tree, several were lying on one branch. Xiao Han was overjoyed to see it! Quickly get some gluten from the leaves and wrap it around the bamboo pole.

He gently tapped the gluten with his fingernail to test the viscosity. Only when he felt it started to stick to his nails, Xiao Han stretched the bamboo pole behind the cicada who was screaming Zhenghuan.

"middle!"

With a low cry, Xiao Han grabbed the bamboo pole and thrust it upward! The result was not good. The bamboo pole just shook slightly, and the gluten-laden bamboo pole tip hit the branch!

This time, several cicadas nearby were startled. After dropping a piece of green urine, they fled away...

Lengzi and Xiaodong were both nervously looking up at Xiao Han and Nian Zhi. How could they have expected this?

As a result, the cicada pissed all over his face when he went up, especially Lunzi. He always had a habit of opening his mouth when he raised his head. As a result...

"Bah, bah, bah... vomit..." He quickly rushed to the side. After a painful retching, the idiot looked up with a trace of saliva on his lips and asked Xiao Han: "Master Hou, are you sure you can catch them like this?" No?"

"Hey, it was a mistake just now, it doesn't matter..." The attack went badly, and the two loyal servants got wet all over. Even Xiao Han was embarrassed. However, as someone who has been obsessed with cicadas since he was a child, he had anticipated something bad when the pole became crooked and had already lowered his head and ran to the side, so his body was clean and not stained at all.

He came back to pick up the bamboo pole he had just thrown aside, but the gluten on his head was already stuck to the trunk and could not be removed, so Xiao Han could only wrap it again.

I finally managed to wrap up the gluten again, but it stuck to my hand! Xiao Han rubbed his hands and asked Xiaodong and Lengzi: "Didn't you catch cicadas when you were young?"

It's no wonder that Xiao Han has such doubts. In his impression, shouldn't children cling to cicadas or take a bath in the river in summer? If you pick up a handful of peanuts and eat them while soaking them, your life will be endlessly beautiful!

"I know, I caught it." Sure enough, hearing Xiao Han's question, Heng Ha and the two generals nodded together, but Xiaodong immediately added: "But they just covered it with their hands..."

"Cover it with your hands?" Xiao Han glanced at the two of them strangely, and then asked while raising the bamboo pole: "How many can you cover? Why don't you use gluten to stick it?"

He had already gained experience in catching cicadas when he was a child. These things are on the trunks of trees. But you may not be able to find one on several trees, and if you find one, you may not be able to catch it. After all, they can fly...

"Using gluten like you?" After hearing Xiao Han's nonsense, Xiaodong and Lengzi rolled their eyes in unison: "Master Hou, you just used such a big bowl of white flour to wash out such... A little bit of gluten. If we were like you when we were children, we would probably be beaten to death before we even saw you..."

"Uh..." Xiao Han was suddenly speechless and his face was a little red, knowing that he had made a common-sense mistake again.

It's all because of the world before. The price of flour was so low that even Xiao Han, who was not rich, could squander it.

But now in Datang, most people are struggling to make ends meet. Not to mention using white flour to wash gluten like him, it’s also a matter of whether you can afford white flour!

"When will the world have enough food to eat!" Xiao Han muttered and stood up straight. Looking at the rice fields not far away, the green rice seedlings surged into the distance like waves.

In just one or two months, these three-cropping rice plants have already grown much taller than ordinary rice seedlings.

There was not enough food in the Tang Dynasty, not because of excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, nor because of lazy farmers! It’s just that agriculture today is really underdeveloped.

There are no good food seeds, no scientific planting methods, no fertilizers and large-scale irrigation systems! If God opens his eyes, we can save some food even if the weather is good. But recently, there have been either natural disasters or military disasters, which have made the already fragile agricultural system even worse.

Food is the most important thing for the people. This sentence is an eternal truth! Without enough food, expanding territory is a joke! You can't let the soldiers go to the battlefield hungry!

It is for this reason that Ren Qing now places all his hopes on these three-season rice. As the rice seedlings grew older, Ren Qing seemed to be getting busier and busier. A few days ago, he asked Xiao Han to transfer a team of civilians from Seoul, for no other reason than that some animals would come and destroy the grain.

How to farm the land and how to drive away wild animals are all Ren Qing's jobs. Xiao Han here is more like a decoration, and Ren Qing has no intention of letting Xiao Han work now, as long as he doesn't come up with any more tricks.

Shaking your head and not thinking about these troublesome things will not change the current situation. After all, Xiao Han is just a person, not a god! There is no way for everyone in the world to fill their stomachs at once.

Perhaps, as Ren Qing thinks, when three-crop rice is mature and popularized, it will bring some changes to farmers all over the world.

Leave these worries behind and get on with it now!

This time Xiao Han deliberately slowed down his pace, no longer impatient, but let the bamboo pole get closer little by little. In this way, the success rate is indeed greatly improved.

Maybe no one has ever caught cicadas like this before. The cicadas on the tree are all so stupid that they won’t fly even if they get stuck! He waited until he was pulled away from the branch by Xiao Han before he started to flap his wings.

He happily picked up the struggling Zhizhi and put it into a cloth bag. Xiaodong is eager to try it! After taking the pole, I didn’t expect that two of them would stick to each other at the first stroke, and I jumped up in excitement!

In this way, the three people worked hard for a long time, and their necks were sore just from raising their heads! However, I am tired and the bag in my hand is getting fuller and fuller! It wasn't until they couldn't pretend anymore that the three of them stopped.

After catching so many cicadas, the next step is cooking.

Wash it in a bucket and pluck off all the wings! Then he ran to the kitchen and asked the fat chef to fry it, then put it on a plate and sprinkled it with salt and pepper! The aroma spreads far from the kitchen!

After touching his sore neck, Xiao Han made up his mind to enjoy the fruits of his labor for himself!

Without leaving the kitchen, the three of them just stood on the chopping board, waiting for the fat cook to serve.

When the cicada is fragrant and shiny, it is served in front of you. Xiao Han didn't use chopsticks, just grabbed one and threw it into his mouth!

When you take a bite, you will feel the two completely different feelings of crispy and soft jumping in your mouth, complemented by the extremely fragrant and special taste! Xiao Han was so comfortable that he *sounded*!

This is truly natural and pollution-free, much better than chicken or mutton!