"I caught a worm." In the soybean field of Liangpo Village in Lantian County, four-year-old Little Zi was holding a small basket and catching a bean worm.
Little Zi's face was pink and tender, and her hair with two braids didn't look yellow at all.
She wore small clothes and pants, and even the dirt on her sandals couldn't hide her cuteness.
She didn't look like this last summer. At that time, she was thin and her hair was tied behind her head with a straw rope.
Then her family planted a greenhouse, and in less than a year, she grew beautiful.
Now was the best time for the bean worm to grow, and it was ready to drill into the soil for the winter.
People who had soybean fields began to catch the worm and then found a place to raise it.
When the winter wheat was harvested next year and the fields were plowed, the worm could be planted.
In the capital government's area, winter wheat was planted, and then soybeans or sorghum was planted.
The grain field was dedicated to grain, and the vegetable field was dedicated to vegetables.
The method of raising bean worms was announced, and the people in the capital government chose to believe it completely.
They lost ten pounds of beans in exchange for a hundred pounds of worms.
If others didn't buy it, the Li Family Zhuangzi would buy it. The price was high, or they could eat it themselves.
Even the Emperor could eat it. Li Dongzhu had eaten it when he barbecued it.
Why couldn't she eat it? It was said that eating the worm was like eating eggs.
Adults were looking for the worm, and four-year-old Little Zi actively participated.
Adults had psychological barriers when catching the worm, but children didn't. They felt that the worm was soft and fleshy.
If it wasn't deliberately told that she couldn't eat it, she would open her mouth and bite it.
Wang Xu and the other village officials accompanied Little Zi and helped to find the worm.
"Another Doudou." Little Zi's eyesight was actually not as good as the adults'. She needed to grow up to have better eyesight.
But she was very focused and patient. She regarded catching the worm as a game, a game to play with the adults.
"Little Zi, are you thirsty?" Xia Hao raised his arm and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his scratched arm and asked Little Zi.
"I don't drink water. I catch Doudou and worms." Little Zi moved the small basket and squatted slightly. She was as tall as the bean seedlings.
The reason why she could find the worm faster than the adults was because of her height.
When she stood up, she could see the worms on the bean seedlings.
She squatted down and saw the worm on the back of the leaf.
It was tiring for the adults to squat and stand up, but the children didn't feel tired. The adults could only use their hands to hold the leaves and turn them over to look at the insects, so there were scratches on the back of their hands and arms.
Little Purple changed the bean worm into Doudou and Buggy. She felt that the smaller one was called Doudou and the bigger one was called Buggy.
The big bean worm was longer than her small hand. When she grabbed it, it looked like a piece of art. The contrast was strong.
"Li Yi insisted that insects were delicious, so he asked us to raise them. What a waste." Chai Baohong found that catching insects was hot and tiring.
"Insects eat leaves. Li Dongzhu said it was good, and the people believed him."
Wang Xu did not know how to compare insects and eggs. He only knew that whatever Li Yi said, the people would definitely listen.
"I feel like I haven't helped much. I'm even living in the village for free. I can't even be a village official."
Zhu An looked dejected as he flipped through the leaves one by one in search of worms.
He used to be ambitious and thought that he was talented. What he lacked was an opportunity.
As long as he passed the imperial examination and became an official, he could show his ability and expand the territory for the emperor and raise the people.
But the opportunity came. He didn't need to take the imperial examination and became an official in the village.
When he first came, he felt that he was overqualified. Now he felt that he was useless and didn't know anything.
He just learned how to keep accounts, but he didn't know how long the cucumbers and eggplants needed to grow in the greenhouse.
The cucumbers and eggplants in the greenhouse were different from the ones in the field. They grew slowly.
After asking the people who had planted the greenhouse, he understood that the vegetables in the greenhouse in winter needed to be dipped in flowers so that more fruits could be hung.
"At least we can cook by ourselves." Wang Xu was more optimistic. Finally, when they were eating the food in the village, they secretly started a fire.
When other people started a fire, they went over to learn. They helped pass the firewood and then used the fire stick to make the fire.
What dishes to cook, how long to cook, how much water to put under the curtain in the big pot, stewed vegetables and steamed rice or boiled rice and steamed vegetables …
They didn't help much with the administrative work, but they did work and learned a lot of survival skills.
"I want to know if Li Yi knows how to cook by himself?" Chai Baohong wanted to compare himself with Li Yi. He knew how to cook.
Zhu An found two big worms and quickly put them in the basket. "Many kinds of stir-fried dishes were made by Li Yi. He must know a lot."
"Of course, my Li Lang knows everything. When I grow up, I want to marry Li Lang. Li Lang plays with me and cooks delicious food for me. Hahahaha ~ ~ "
Little Zi suddenly added and was inexplicably happy.
The four people were speechless.
Not only in Liangpo Village, but also in all the places with bean fields in the capital, they were looking for worms.
Bean worms didn't necessarily live in the bean fields. They ate grape leaves, sesame leaves, hemp leaves, and white perilla leaves, which were used as spices and medicine.
In the past, when they saw such worms, they would trample them to death. Now they had to catch them quickly.
If they knew how to raise them, they could bury them in sand and stay motionless.
Occasionally, if they didn't want to sleep, they could climb out, feed them some leaves, and bury them again.
They could eat them now or wait until they turned into pupae next year. They could lay eggs and continue to raise them.
Anyway, as long as they saw them, they knew that they could be eaten and were not harmful to any crops.
If they couldn't, they could stop eating beans and grapes and eat worms all day long.
Li Yi was now looking at the worms in a daze. Li Shihuo, the leader of the Khitans, came to Chang 'an. He said that he was asking for forgiveness, but in fact, no one could do anything to him.
He brought some human bodies, fur, and dried meat as gifts.
He even brought a gift for Li Yi. He said that when Li Yi's team went there to trade, they had saved more than 1,500 people of the Tang dynasty.
He asked about Li Yi's hobbies. Li Yi liked to collect things, including flowers, plants, insects, and birds.
He didn't give any flowers, insects, or birds, but he gave the worms.
"They were raised for mulberry leaves all the way here? But I can't raise them. In our capital office … there are too few people who raise tussah silkworms. "
Li Yi looked at the two baskets of big green worms and was worried. He wanted to eat them, but he also wanted to raise them.
If he wanted to raise them, he had to take them to the wild and put the worms on the leaves of the tussah trees to make cocoons.
With cocoons, he could cut them open and eat them. Or wait for them to turn into moths in the winter, then he could collect small worms and continue to raise them.
Zhuangzi was obviously not suitable to raise these things. He had to take them to the wild. Was he going to make a forest of tussah silkworms?
Li Chengqi looked at him and asked, "Is he making things difficult for you?"
"Li Shihuo? He knows how to raise silkworms? Others can learn how to farm, but if they want to learn how to raise silkworms, they have to wait. "
Li Yi didn't think that Li Shihuo wanted to cause trouble.
The silkworms of the Tang dynasty were just there. Others couldn't raise them even if they took them. It was much harder than farming.
In the future, some countries would know how to raise them.
They couldn't be compared to China, but they were referring to the silkworms.
If it was tussah silkworms, who would dare to make a sound if the Henan, Hebei, and Northeast provinces didn't make a sound? Especially Liaoning in the Northeast.
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