The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Cicadas were very easy to catch in ancient times, especially in the deep mountains and forests, and no one would snatch them away.

During this time period, the cicadas seemed to have made an appointment and most of them crawled out. They were basically found on almost all trees, with as few as one or two and as many as five or six.

It is definitely a scene that is hard to imagine in later generations. I still remember that when I went to catch cicadas with my parents, there were more people than cicadas, and we couldn’t catch a bowl of cicadas in an entire night.

Now, it’s just like picking up. Just hold a torch and look for it, and you will find a handful in a short while.

They would catch a handful and put them into their brothers' wooden buckets filled with water to drown the cicadas and prevent them from shedding their shells, because cicadas that had not shed their shells were tastier.

There are also ones that have shed half of their shells, which are also delicious because the flesh is soft. The black cicadas in the daytime are a bit hard to eat, and although they are also delicious, the taste is still not as good.

Shen Youyou and his team caught them very quickly, and Shen Aye and his team were responsible for starting the fires, so there would be even more of them.

Old men, old women and women lit a fire with flames jumping. The men chose trees with the most cicadas chirping and kicked them hard.

When a cicada is frightened, it will fly down to where there is light.

"Cicada! There's a cicada," Shen Yuanbao was the first to rush forward and caught it in his hand.

The children were all excited. They were sharp-eyed and picked up cicadas on the ground happily. Even Grandpa Shen’s four-year-old great-granddaughter, Shen Nannan, was not afraid.

"Lulu, look, I picked up two. Did you pick up any?"

There was a gleam of excitement in the little girl's innocent big eyes.

"I'm five years old and you're four. You should call me brother."

Shen Luming was depressed. Apart from the little baby who could hardly speak, he was the only one younger than him. Why didn't he call him brother?

"Did you pick up as much as I did? If you pick up more I will call you brother," the little girl was very unconvinced.

Shen Luming's eyes lit up, and he showed her his small bamboo tube, which contained three black cicadas: "Call me brother."

"Hmph, there's just one more, but I won't call it." Little Nannan turned around angrily and continued to look for cicadas.

Shen Luming was also unhappy, puffing up his cheeks: "Just wait, I will definitely pick up a lot and let you call me brother."

Listening to the carefree voices of the children, smiles appeared on the adults' faces. In fact, they are easily satisfied. As long as they can survive and let the children grow up safely, that's enough.

When Li Jingshu saw so many people picking cicadas, she thought of the cicada skins she saw in the bamboo forest when she was looking for water during the day.

"Sisters, there should be cicadas in the bamboo forest nearby. Can we go and look for them with torches?"

"Okay, let's go for a walk in the bamboo forest." Shen Fugui's wife was the first to respond.

"Don't go too far. Hold the knife and be careful. Watch out for snakes under your feet."

Old Mrs. Hua worriedly warned her daughter-in-law that she used to live in the city and didn't know the dangers in the mountains.

Thinking of this, he called his other two daughters-in-law, "Eldest daughter-in-law, Fourth daughter-in-law, please take care of Third daughter-in-law."

"Oh, Mom, I got it." Aunt Song nodded and quickly followed the third brother's wife.

The fourth son's wife, Yang, curled her lips: "My mother-in-law is just partial. She has always been partial to me because I am a young lady. Now that the old man of the Li family is dead and they have fled from famine, she is still partial to the third son."

But she only dared to complain in her heart, and agreed loudly: "I know, mother."

The women carried buckets of water, and when the buckets were not enough, they took bamboo tubes for drawing water and held torches as they entered the bamboo forest.

"Oh, there aren't many weeds or shrubs in this bamboo forest, so it's easier to find things. Maybe we can find more than the men."

Li Jingshu felt that he had come to the right place. As soon as he entered the bamboo forest, he saw two cicada monkeys. One of them climbed to a height of one meter on a thick bamboo.

The other one was lying on a thin branch of bamboo, and the branch was slightly bent by the pressure of its tiny body.

She hurried forward, grabbed it, and put it into her bamboo tube.

"Third wife, you said the bamboo is so thin, let's light a fire and shake the bamboo, can we shake the cicadas down? There are quite a few cicadas chirping on the bamboo."

Song Shigang also picked up two and put them into the bamboo tube, shaking the bamboo pole with both hands and said.

Li Jingshu said: "Sister-in-law, the bamboos in the bamboo forest are quite dense. Although your method is definitely feasible, I'm afraid we might cause a big fire. So let's just catch cicada monkeys. There are quite a few of them. But when we get back, we'll ask Yoyo's father. If it doesn't work, we can come here to light a fire tomorrow night."

"Well, okay," Song gave up the idea when she heard about the fire. There were indeed quite a few cicadas in the bamboo forest, and they crawled relatively low, so it was easy to catch them.

Seeing so many cicadas, the women let go and moved nimbly through the bamboo forest like monkeys.

During this period, many people fell down, and some had their clothes torn by the thin bamboo branches that were hanging across. The clothes had been washed too many times and were a bit rotten.

However, it couldn't stop their enthusiasm for catching cicadas.

Li Jingshu was shocked: Women in ancient times were really models of hard work and perseverance! They were so tired after a day, but they were still energetic. But she couldn't do that. Her legs and feet hurt.

If she hadn't wanted to let Old Shen and her daughter and son eat cicadas and get more protein, she wouldn't have come here to look for them at night. It was mainly because of her mother-in-law's words, "Be careful of snakes under your feet."

They probably caught fish from around seven in the evening until around eleven o'clock. Everyone had a good harvest and was smiling from ear to ear.

Shen Zhiqiu and Shen Youyou were very surprised that they were the team with the least gains.

The first place went to my mother and her friends who went to the bamboo forest later, and the second place went to the old man, the old lady and the children who lit a fire and picked cicadas.

"Dad, let's go to the bamboo forest tomorrow night. The bamboo forest is so big that we can't find everything even if we go together."

I'm addicted to catching cicadas.

Shen Zhiqiu looked at the densely packed cicadas and didn't expect to be able to catch so many. He just didn't know if the lard was enough to fry the cicadas.

There were less than 300 people in Shenjia Village. In one night, each person probably caught 100 to 200 crabs, so there were at least 50,000 crabs in the bucket.

"Is there enough lard?" Shen Zhiqiu asked Li Jingshu.

"Is it enough? Tomorrow, use less oil. Don't deep-fry. Add a little oil to stir-fry, just like frying cicadas in a griddle. If it's still not enough, just grill it. It's meat after all."

In fact, she wanted to say, it’s all protein, but there were so many people around, so she changed her words.

They were really tired after a day's work, so they poured all the cicadas into wooden basins and barrels, soaked them in water, and covered them with large leaves. Then they climbed up to the bamboo house to sleep.

However, there are more people on duty tonight than usual, after all, they are really afraid of being attacked by wild beasts.

In fact, the men on night duty are also tired, but there is nothing they can do; they have to add firewood to the fire from time to time.

They were on duty while taking naps. Today, Dahu was also on duty. He was fine, after all, he was used to being on duty at night because he was a bodyguard before.

In fact, although it is summer, the weather is still very cool at night in the mountains, and people who sleep are covered with quilts.

Shen Youyou slept very uneasily because she felt itchy all over.

When I was catching cicadas, I was bitten by mosquitoes all over my body, even though I was wearing a mask.

You just wonder if the mosquitoes in the mountains have become spirits, as they were able to get into the hood and bite her.