Do you eat golden cicadas there?

Summer is the season to eat golden cicadas. I like eating it. It drinks the sap from the roots. After it became a "sister" (cicada), it shouted "cicada! Know! " Drinking crystal dew, this little cutie is so clean.

In the morning when I just fell asleep, I wandered around Sanchahe vegetable market. I like shopping in the market. I feel very comfortable when I see green and colorful vegetables. Secondly, it is also a pleasure to hear the true colors of the city in the noise. The language of ordinary people is popular, vivid and in place, and many so-called serious things have become unrecognizable and lifelike through word of mouth.

At this moment, I saw my sister selling golden cicadas.

She is about forty years old, slightly fat, kind-hearted and dressed like a farmer. Quietly guarding a stainless steel washbasin, golden cicadas are crowded and bustling in the basin, making a rustling sound like eating mulberry leaves. Her golden cicada is small and yellow-brown. I bought 50 pieces, washed them and fried them. My mother and my wife said they tasted pure. So I bought it every two days, and they all bought this big sister's golden cicada. We began to get familiar with it.

The elder sister said, "My golden cicada is wild; Others sell bigger ones, taste worse, and are planted artificially. If you are interested, I will take you to Chenlou Taoyuan to catch golden cicadas. "

Cicada first appeared on the solstice every summer. There are many small round holes on the exposed road surface, and cicada larvae climb out of these round holes and become complete cicadas on the ground. Cicadas like places with dry tops and plenty of sunshine best. Larvae has a powerful tool that can penetrate dry soil and sand.

Cicada's tunnels are mostly fifteen or sixteen inches deep, with a wide bottom and a completely closed bottom. Where did the soil move when the tunnel was built? Why won't the wall fall down? Everyone thought that crawling up and down with their claws would collapse the soil and block the house. In fact, it acts like a miner or a railway engineer. Miners support the tunnel with pillars, and railway engineers make it strong with rotating walls. When it digs, it sprays juice on the soil, turning the soil into mud, so the walls are softer. The larva presses it up with its heavy body, so that the soil is squeezed into the cracks in the dry soil. So when it appears on the ground, there are often many wet mud spots on its body. Cicada larvae first appeared on the ground and often wandered around nearby places, looking for a suitable place-a small dwarf tree, a bunch of thyme, a wild leaf, or a shrub branch-to shed their skin. Climb up when you find it, hold it tightly with your front paws and don't move at all.

So its skin began to crack from its back, revealing a light green cicada body inside. The head comes out first, then the straw and front legs, and finally the hind legs and folded wings. At this time, the tail was removed and everyone came out.

Then, it performed a strange gymnastics. Jump and turn around in the air, hang your head upside down, straighten your wrinkled wings and try to open them. Then with an almost invisible movement, try to turn it up and hook its empty skin with its front paws. This action disengages the tail end from the shell.

This cicada, which has just been released, is not very strong in the short term. Before its weak body has energy and beautiful colors, it must be bathed in sunshine and air. Hanging on the shell with front paws, swaying in the breeze, still fragile and green. It was not until it turned brown that it was as strong as an ordinary cicada. Suppose it occupies the branches at 9: 00 in the morning and will not leave the skin until about 12: 30. Empty shells hang on branches, sometimes for a month or two.

The underground life of the immature cicada is still a secret, but it lived underground for about four years before it came to the ground. After that, singing in the sun will only last for five weeks. Four years' hard work in the dark and one month's joy in the sunshine are the cicada's life. We shouldn't hate its noisy singing, because it has been dug for four years. Now it can put on beautiful clothes, grow wings that can compete with birds and bathe in the warm sunshine.

The next night, my wife and I came to Chenlou Orchard. Surrounded by poplars, the short ones are weeping willows, and further inside are swaying peach trees. Sister has been waiting for us in Taoyuan. The sun went down. It was dark in a flash. We look like water ghosts from a distance, wearing rain boots and raincoats and holding flashlights. This suit is mainly to prevent mosquito bites.

It was completely dark that day, and the three of us sat on the ridge and chatted. An hour later, we suddenly turned on the flashlight and shot at poplar trunks, willow trunks and peach trees. I saw the golden cicada climb up the trunk like a mushroom after the rain and as hard as a soldier who received the assembly order. We grabbed it excitedly, and soon it became half a plastic bucket.

The wife said, "Stop it, it's life."

We will stop capturing. Four years of hard work in the dark, in exchange for a month of joy in the sun; If we catch it, the cicada's joy for a month will be gone, so what is the meaning of its life? I secretly blame my gluttony. Zhuangzi said: A gentleman cooks far away. When I see beef, I can't bear to think of it as a baby with a sharp knife. This is compassion for all things.

The sister who took us to catch the golden cicada became good friends with us. When she comes to town, she will give us a handful of fresh beans or a bundle of green leeks. She often comes to my house and never comes home empty-handed. Her daughter is a freshman. I found out my son's previous review materials and gave her a bag full. I hope it works for her children.