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1072. Drag bamboo (3/5)

When Lao Ao saw Lang Er inferring Zhuzi, he found it incredible.

Bamboo is very tough, so the ancients liked to use it to describe themselves. Many poems are based on this topic, such as snow pressing down on the bamboo head, and falling down to mud. When the red sun comes, it still matches the sky.

With Lang Er's strength, it may be possible to infer the small dead tree, but it is impossible to infer the bamboo.

Ao Muyang went over to check, and his clothes and bellyband crawled from his trouser legs, looking in a terrifying look.

Climbing up to his shoulder, the little monkey began to complain, and at the same time stretched out his arms and asked for a kiss and hug.

Lao Ao doesn't care about them. These two little things have become more and more naughty recently, so he should let Lang Er teach them a lesson.

Seeing that the expected caress did not appear, the little monkey got angry and grabbed Ao Muyang's ear and shook it gently tore it. The squeaking sound became more miserable.

Ao Muyang grabbed the loudest pants pocket and threw it to Lang Er. Lang Er pressed it to the ground with one claw. Seeing that the pocket was honest, he quickly got into Lao Ao's pocket.

There were broken bamboos on the ground. Ao Muyang picked them up and saw that the bamboo was still green outside, but the bamboo wall inside had been gnawed out. You could see some fat white worms in the holes intermittently.

Bamboo insects!

Bamboo insects are different from other insects. Their vigorous growth season is autumn and winter. From October to February each year, they are most frequently active. Because they are hidden in bamboo tubes, they are not afraid of severe cold weather.

When Ao Muyang saw these bamboo insects, he realized that there were too many bamboo insects in this bamboo, and the dried bamboo had been gnawed into a thin layer, so Lang Er shook it hard and inferred it.

He cut down along the bamboo pole and finally cut to the root of the bamboo, revealing more bamboo insects inside, most of which had formed into pupae. A pile of white obese pupae piled up at the bottom, densely packed in large numbers.

Ordinary people feel disgusted when they see this scene, but Lao Ao feels appetizing. Bamboo insects are the best quality types among edible insects, and bamboo insect pupae are the same as silkworm pupae, and have a better taste.

When he saw these bamboo insects, he stopped digging out winter bamboo shoots, but instead found a bag to collect insects and insect pupaes.

Bamboo insects are very harmful to bamboo. They eat young and tender bamboo shoots to absorb nutrients, usually parasitize in the bamboo tube, eat from the tip of the bamboo, and finally hide at the root and turn into insect pupa, which can break out of the pupa in spring.

The harm of this thing to bamboo is throughout the year. They are harmful to bamboo from year to year. First, adults lay eggs at the bamboo branches. After hatching, the larvae are attached to the bamboo tubes of the branches. They start eating from May until mid-September. They are very particular and do not eat bamboo directly, but absorb bamboo liquid.

There are some bamboos in the bamboo forest with yellow patches outside, which is the record of bamboo insect larvae. Once the yellow patches are connected into pieces, the bamboo will basically be scrapped.

In addition, as the larvae grow, the withered yellow patches of bamboo will gradually expand into galls. Starting from early September, they will enter the bamboo, eat from top to bottom, and then become pupal and overwinter after eating and drinking.

Moreover, these bamboo insects are very cunning. They are specialized in dealing with tender bamboos that are less than two years old. Once they are flooded, the bamboo forest will basically be invincible.

It is not easy to deal with bamboo insects. When they are eggs and larvae, they are small and good at concealing, and are difficult to detect. When they grow fat and fat adult pupa, they hide in the pillars and cannot be searched.

In a fishing village, the only way to deal with bamboo worms is to find small holes in the bamboo, stuff the barbs in and drag them out, so that there is a chance that the bamboo worms inside can be hooked out.

But doing this is too inefficient. When Lao Ao was a child, every household lacked food, and the children had nothing to do, so they would come together to pick bamboo worms and let adults cook them.

Yes, it is not fried in oil, but roasted in heat. Put it in a bamboo board and roast it with flames. Because bamboo worms are rich in fat, even if they do not use fried in oil, the roasted ones will be very fragrant.

When Ao Muyang saw all the bamboo worms in the bamboo, he caught them all. After that, he looked for bamboo worms in the bamboo forest. He had to take advantage of this season that the bamboo had dried up and grabbed the bamboo worms as much as possible.

He searched in the bamboo forest to find those bamboos with holes on the outside.

When he found such bamboos or bamboos with galls, he broke the bamboos in one hand. Bamboos with too many parasitic bamboo insects will definitely die in the next year, so it doesn’t matter if they break at this time. They should even break them to catch bamboo insects, otherwise the bamboo insects will pupate in the future and cause greater damage to the bamboo forest.

He broke the bamboo from the bottom, dragged it to the open space outside and piled it up together, and then went back to collect all the insect pupae at the bottom. Tonight he was going to eat the fire-baked insect pupae, which was the taste of childhood.

In this way, he would be slow to work alone, and he would also have to dig winter bamboo shoots. After thinking about it, he mobilized several furry children together.

I went to look for winter bamboo shoots in my clothes and trousers. When I found the winter bamboo shoots, I squeaked and told him. General and Lang Da helped him drag the broken bamboo outside to concentrate.

As for Lang Er? This guy, Lao Ao couldn't count on him. He asked Lang Er to drag bamboo before, but Lang Er dragged one of them away. He might have gone to the deep bamboo forest to play the game of riding bamboo horses.

He worked until noon, and this busy work made him feel warm. The thermal underwear inside was soaked with sweat. He took off his coat and suddenly there was a heat coming out, like steaming buns.

When it was time for lunch, he tied up the bamboo with wild grass vines and prepared to drag it home. At this time, Lu Wuyi's screams sounded: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, where are you? Are you here? Brother-in-law, it's time to go home for dinner."

Hearing his shout, Ao Muyang responded, saying, "This kid has a conscience, and he still knew to ask him to go home for dinner when he was dinner time."

Lu Wuyi ran over and said, "Brother-in-law, why are you still on the mountain? It's time to go, go home to cook."

"What? Didn't you tell me to go home for dinner?"

"Yes, I'm going home for dinner, but I have to cook first. Let's go back and cook soon. Lao Jiang and I will starve to death!"

Ao Muyang was so angry. He wanted to praise this guy for having a conscience just now. In fact, he was really thinking too much. How could this guy have a conscience?

He stuffed the bamboo to Lu Wuyi and said, "Okay, I'll go home to cook. Drag all the bamboos back for me and be careful. There are bamboo worms inside. If they fall off for me, don't think about eating today!"

Looking at the bamboo piled up with Lao Gao, Lu Wuyi's eyes suddenly widened: "Damn brother-in-law, what are you doing? Go back to build a bamboo house?"

"Don't worry, I'll drag a lot of one of them back anyway." Ao Muyang left this sentence, stepped on the bamboo basket and walked down the mountain, and Lu Wuyi screamed behind him: "Don't, brother-in-law, don't let me do this work by myself, there are too many bamboos!"

"Not much, do it well. I have confidence in you. Come on, Smitha!"
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