The cicadas became more and more. In just two or three days, more than ten cicada caves appeared in Liu Junhao's front yard. Now every night, Ozawayu and Tongtong would come over to call Liu Junhao to use a hand lantern to look for cicadas under the tree. It is not yet the heyday of cicadas, so you can touch at most twenty or thirty ones in a night.

When I caught the cicada, I naturally asked Teacher Wang to fry it for them. The more I was thrilled, the higher the two little guys were, and I looked forward to darkness almost every afternoon.

After eating in the morning, Liu Junhao soaked the bowl in the pot and went to the backyard to pick melons. As expected, another watermelon was ruined by the grass raccoon.

By the way, the two grass raccoons seemed to really treat their melon fields as a free restaurant, and came over to get a watermelon every now and then.

These guys are really good. If you say you steal melons, just steal melons. You have to bite the net bag into pieces, which is very annoying.

If it were in the past, Liu Junhao would definitely not be careless when he grabbed such things. But when he thought of Zhang Qian's attitude towards Cao Lizi, his emotions also eased.

Even if it is to contribute to the protection of national wild animals!

After picking three watermelons, he was about to turn around and leave when he suddenly heard the "boom" sound under the melon seedlings not far away, and then a "squeaking" sound came. The old grass raccoon ran out with a big mouse in his mouth, and there were a few little guys behind it.

I feel like there are rats in my backyard, but I didn’t expect that they would eat for nothing and could help me eliminate rats.

Maybe the reason why the watermelon in the backyard was not harmed by rats was because of these grass raccoons. They still made contributions. Thinking of this, Liu Junhao felt balanced.

Since he successfully planted watermelons on trees in the yard last year, the villagers have followed suit immediately. But when the watermelons are ripe, trouble comes. Often overnight, a small hole is dug in the ripe melon on the melon seedlings.

It’s such a bad pot of soup for rats. When they bite it, the watermelon weighing about ten pounds was completely unable to be eaten.

The villagers were also worried when they talked about this. When they went to Ermazi's house to return a bamboo basket the day before yesterday, he asked if the watermelon in his yard had been ruined.

At that time, Liu Junhao didn't think much about it. Now it seems that Cao Lizi secretly helped him kill rats.

The old Caolizi was stunned when he saw him, but this time he did not run away, just staring at him tightly.

After looking at each other for half a minute, Liu Junhao took three steps back first. After the guy was convinced that he had no malice, he let go of the mouse and threw the mouse on the ground, growling at his child.

Xiao Caolizi rushed up immediately, pressing the mouse who wanted to escape with his two front legs. However, these little guys were obviously just for the sake of playing. They just kept teasing with their claws, and let out a low roar.

Is this teaching them how to hunt? The poor mouse was frightened and frightened for a long time, but was finally bitten to death.

The old grass raccoon then came to the front to "demonstrate" how to eat mice. The little guys also surrounded them and snatched them. In less than five minutes, the mice were eaten and swallowed.

Then the family swayed out of the waterway's eyes, and didn't even look at Liu Junhao.

Damn, it's so rude. The backyard is my territory. I annoyed that I will block the waterway eye tomorrow.

No, he suddenly remembered that this grass raccoon not only ate mice, but also fish.

The eels in the ditch are densely packed. In their eyes, aren’t they the perfect fishing site? No wonder the two grass raccoons make their nests outside the yard wall, and their feelings are focused on the eels they raise.

The more Liu Junhao thought about it, the more he became, the more he was wrong. He wouldn't say anything before he found them. Now he can't continue to let them harm him. Thinking of this, he hurriedly moved a few bricks from the front yard to block the waterway's eyes.

After picking the watermelon, he placed the pillowcase he had knitted for the past two days on the back seat of his bicycle, and then rode his bike to the street to deliver the melons.

This watermelon was naturally given to Zhao Guangming. He only gave seven big watermelons to this guy last time. Now he called again to urge him to ask for it.

I went there early today and the weather had not yet heated up, so Liu Junhao was leisurely all the way.

After mailing the pillowcase, he pushed the bicycle to Zhao Guangming's house. Unexpectedly, a large blackboard was erected at the door of his house's storefront, with four large characters written on it crookedly.

Zhao Guangming was sitting in the room fiddling with his cell phone. When he saw him acting very enthusiastic, he took out cigarettes and poured tea.

This guy is attentive and either a traitor or a thief. Liu Junhao thought about it in his heart, but he didn't know what he bought in the gourd.

"Brother Liu, can you do your brother a favor?" Well, the brother called out as soon as he met. Obviously, it was not a good thing.

"Don't, it's comfortable to call me a name. If you have anything to do, just say it. Let me tell you first. If you can help, I will naturally help you. If you can't help, you will be useless even if you call me Uncle Liu."

"Damn, you still want to be my elder, how could you take advantage of me?" Zhao Guangming was angry for a moment and stared at him.

But Liu Junhao sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, gently blew the tea leaves in the cup and said, "Good tea."

"I'd better talk." Seeing that the other person had no intention of apologizing, Zhao Guangming had to continue to talk about the topic, "You have seen the blackboard at the door. Now I'm idle at home and want to earn some money by collecting cicada shells. Isn't your girlfriend a teacher in elementary school? Can you ask her to help me collect cicada shells?"

"What did you say? How could she help you collect it?" Liu Junhao was a little confused for a moment.

"She can mobilize students. There are so many students in Liujiagou Primary School. It will be fine to ask her to open a purchase point in your village. I will give her a kickback..."

"No, Zhang Qian will definitely not do it. No teacher can ask students to do such things." Before he finished speaking, Liu Junhao had already refused.

"Why didn't it? A teacher from the first little girl just gave me more than three kilograms of cicada shells."

"I have no water in my mind. It's not yet in the underworld. Can he collect so many cicada shells?" Liu Junhao certainly didn't believe his nonsense.

"Hehe, it was made by him, a student, last year, and he didn't have time to sell it. But it's the right time to sell it this year. Do you know how much does a pound of cicada shell cost now? Thirty yuan."

"What, so expensive?" Liu Junhao was also stunned. "In previous years, Guo Laosi collected only 18 yuan per pound, so why did he grow so high all of a sudden?"

"You don't know this. From a near perspective, the roads in our town were not repaired before, and the acquisition information outside could not be obtained, so Guo Laosi tried his best to lower the price. This year is different. Everyone knows that cicada shells can make money. If you charge, I will charge them, and the price will naturally rise.

In terms of the general situation, the price of cicada shells has been rising in recent years. Do you know what the reason is? In fact, eating cicadas in cities has become a fashion now. Almost all major restaurants have the dish of ‘fried cicadas’. Those cicadas that have not been unshelled can be sold for one cent and five cents. This is much more convenient than finding cicadas, and it makes money faster. A large number of cicadas flow into the catering market, so cicadas will naturally be less and the prices will rise."

The dragon gives birth to a dragon and a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and the mouse son can dig holes. Usually, he sees this kid being careless, but he never expects to be very knowledgeable when talking about business. It seems that he has inherited his excellent genes.

"How about it, this job doesn't cost much. As long as you go to the post office to mail things, you can go to me. I'll give you a commission of three yuan per catty." Seeing that he didn't say anything, Zhao Guangming said again, "Just treat it as doing my brother a favor."

"I'll help you go back and talk, I wonder if she will agree."

A commission of three yuan per pound can only be increased by 30 yuan. In previous years, those naughty children in the village received at most twenty or thirty pounds of cicada shells. They were busy for less than one hundred yuan in a summer. To be honest, Liu Junhao really didn't like this little money.

However, he did not refuse at all. After all, he helped him a lot during this period, especially when he was posting Xigua last time.

"Then I'll thank you first. By the way, I'll accept this thing too." Zhao Guangming said as he took a white thing from the backstage and handed it to him.

"What is this... It's so strange. Why does the cicada have dog pee moss?" Liu Junhao looked at the cicada in his hand in surprise.

This thing can barely be seen as a cicada. Its surface was covered with milky white fluff, which looked like mold. Many tender yellow spores emerged from its body, the longest being five or six centimeters long. This thing suddenly looked a bit similar to the dog's urine moss when it first came out.

Dog pee moss is very common in rural areas, and it usually grows in the corners of toilet walls or on dung piles. Maybe dogs often raise their hind legs to pee in these places, hence the name. The common saying of the villagers is "Green Luan Palace, tangerine lucidum grass; next to the thatched cottage, tangerine pee moss."

"What kind of eyes, please look carefully. This is the legendary Cordyceps sinensis." Zhao Guangming explained with a slight pride.

"Just nonsense, are you bullying me for being uneducated? If it were Cordyceps sinensis, I would eat it immediately." Liu Junhao smiled and punched him.

He had seen Cordyceps sinensis in textbooks before, which was a complex formed by fungi parasitizing on insect larvae. Although it was similar to this, the parasitized insects were not cicadas. I remember that the insect was long and similar to caterpillars.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore," Zhao Guangming explained when he saw that he didn't believe it, "This thing is called cicada. Like Cordyceps sinensis, it is also a Chinese medicinal material. Go back and see if there is any in your village. I will also collect it here, twenty yuan per pound."

"I guess it's not. I've never seen this thing before, we don't have it here at all." Liu Junhao looked at it a few more times, and finally shook his head. He was a master in catching cicadas, but it was the first time he saw cicadas look like this.

"There must be some. I collected half a pound in the morning. This thing seems to be growing in the bamboo pole forest. No one in our town knew that cicadas were valuable before, so it should be easy to find."
Chapter completed!