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

The leaves contain very little gum. If it weren't for the abundant water in their well, Shen Youyou would definitely not use the leaves to extract it.

Shen Youyou doesn't plan to use the fruits and seed skins directly now. She plans to dry them and take them away. Anyway, the Eucommia trees drop a lot of leaves every day in autumn, so it's basically free picking them up.

It just takes some effort. They haven't encountered any wild animals for a long time. Not to mention wild animals, they haven't even encountered a rabbit or a pheasant. It looks safe here.

Now that there is enough water, we need to catch more cicadas to store them. So we'll wait for Dad to come back and discuss it with him, and stay for a few more days.

Around 11 o'clock in the evening, the men came back, but their harvest was not as much as before, especially there were not many cicada monkeys.

Slightly more common are the black cicadas caught by lighting bonfires.

It is true that cicadas are most abundant in July and August, and they are almost gone by September.

So the people who came back looked unhappy, probably because they were worried that the cicadas were gone and they couldn't find food to eat.

By this time, the women had almost finished washing the leaves.

After soaking in a large basin, many impurities of the leaves are removed. After washing, a small mass of white substance can be obtained.

It is about the size of an egg, and although it looks very white now, there are still many impurities in it. If you want to use it, it must be further processed.

But the next thing to do is to dry or bake the cleaned white substance.

It was late at night, and there was no sun. They could only choose to bake. Shen Youyou asked her father and the others to dig a fire pit with a diameter of 2 meters, light a fire in it, and when it was almost time, cover it with soil.

Then, lay a thin layer of hay on top and place the white and slightly yellow rubber balls on the hay.

The pile of leaves was as big as a hill, but in the end, there were less than 200 fake eggs.

Keep turning it over in the middle to make sure it is dry and not burnt at all.

Most people could go to bed at this time, but Shen Youyou was anxious and couldn't sleep, so she sat by the fire and waited.

Shen Zhiqiu was also on duty today. It was not his job to be on duty, so he let Dahu go to sleep and stayed with his daughter.

Daya, Erya and Taohua didn't sleep either. They accompanied their sister and turned the white ball over.

Shen Youyou saw a few baskets of cicada shells and asked: "Are you going to sell them?"

After the cicada sheds its skin, the remaining shell is also called cicada molt. Although there are not many cicadas in this season, there are a lot of cicada molts in the forest, which are all left over from the cicadas' previous molting.

If it rains, these cicada shells will be hit by the rain and rot on the ground, but because of the drought and no rain, many of them are preserved on the tree trunks and branches.

Shen Zhiqiu asked everyone to pick them up.

Cicada slough is a traditional Chinese medicine with sweet and salty taste and cool nature. It belongs to the lung and liver meridians and has the effects of dispersing wind-heat, relieving sore throat and opening voice, clearing rashes, improving eyesight and removing cataracts, calming wind and stopping spasms.

It is used for wind-heat cold, the initial stage of febrile disease, sore throat and hoarseness, measles that do not break out, itchy rubella, red eyes and cataracts, acute and chronic convulsions, tetanus, and night crying and restlessness in children.

Shen Zhiqiu added fuel to the fire: "There are not many cicadas here, I thought I could pick them up and smoke them dry, they can also be eaten, fried and they will be fragrant and crispy. Now there is not much oil, so drying them with fire is also a good idea."

In fact, what Shen Zhiqiu wanted to say was that when he was a child, he fried them like this and ate them as snacks.

The four sisters all felt a little greedy after listening to this. Shen Youyou licked her lips, stood up and took a small basin of cicadas. If she was greedy, she would roast some cicadas.

Those who were on night duty were familiar with this job, so without Shen Youyou's instructions, they started looking for branches, tied two branches together at the top, and sandwiched the cicadas in the middle, forming a row and leaving a handle, which was also tied with hay.

Just hold the handle and start grilling.

Shen Zhiqiu was roasting and laughing, which meant he was telling his daughter that he was craving for food.

When grilling cicadas over a campfire, you have to keep turning them to avoid burning them.

Soon, the aroma of roasted meat wafted from the fire. Erya sniffed hard and said, "What a nice smell!"

Shen Zhiqiu looked at his niece's sparkling eyes, just like his daughter who was already eating carefully: "Eat carefully, don't burn yourself."

Since they didn't have much salt left, they had to not add salt to the food, but Shen Youyou still ate it with relish.

She used to be very picky about food, but this time travel seemed to be a cure for all her ailments. Now even cicadas without salt taste delicious to her!

"Third uncle, cicadas are delicious when roasted. We can still eat cicadas when we run out of oil." Wang Shitou, who was on duty in place of his father today, suddenly spoke up.

"You can roast them and eat them, but cicadas will soon be gone. The season is almost over. Go pick up cicada shells tomorrow and dry them when you come back."

Shen Zhiqiu threw a cicada into his mouth and bit it, making a crunching sound.

"Well, okay, there are still a lot of cicada shells on the tree."

Wang Shitou was not afraid of the heat and ate one bite after another. The little boy ate his father out of his house. It turned out that he was not lying.

"Dad, don't you see any grasshoppers? Uh, locusts! There are a lot of them in the hay. They are edible, and they are usually gone in November."

Shen Youyou had seen this before, but when there were cicadas around, she didn't want to eat grasshoppers because she felt cicadas were cleaner than grasshoppers.

If there are no cicadas, you can still catch grasshoppers, but they are definitely not as easy to catch as cicadas. Cicadas can be caught quickly, but grasshoppers have to be caught one by one, and they jump faster.

"Locusts can't be eaten!" Many people stopped what they were doing and waved their hands.

In fact, ancient people already knew that locusts were edible, but they still did not eat them because they believed that locusts were a punishment from God.

Because they are superstitious, they believe in reincarnation and karma, and they pray to gods and Buddhas if natural disasters or man-made disasters occur. For example, if floods or droughts occur, they will go to the Dragon King Temple to offer sacrifices to the Dragon King, or ask gods or even offer human sacrifices.

When facing locusts, they also call them "Locust God". When the locust plague caused farmers to have no harvest, the people would subconsciously think that they had angered the Locust God in some way, so that so many locusts were sent to punish humans.

When a locust plague occurs, people will set up tables in the fields to kowtow to the "Locust God" and burn incense, praying that the "Locust God" can leave a way for the people to survive. In some places, "Locust God Temples" are built to pray for forgiveness.

There have been many locust plagues in Chinese history. From 707 BC to 1935 alone, there were 796 recorded locust plagues, which means that there was one plague every three years.

However, in the recorded history of later generations, only Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, saw the severity of the disaster and could not bear the suffering of the people, so he ate locusts in public to prove that they were not poisonous. After that, only a few people began to use locusts to satisfy their hunger.

In Shen Zhiqiu's memory, this world started from the Ten Kingdoms period, when Zhu Chong, the first emperor of the Daqing Dynasty, emerged as a rising star and unified China.

So he couldn't figure out whether it was the Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty. Looking at the timeline, it should be the Song Dynasty, but there are corn and sweet potatoes. Logically, sweet potatoes and corn were introduced during the Ming Dynasty, which makes it very confusing.

Anyway, few people eat locusts so far.

Shen Zhiqiu told the people present about Li Shimin's eating of locusts, and even asked the boys to catch some tomorrow. While eating the locusts, he sighed: "It doesn't matter if it's a locust god or not. As long as you can fill your stomach, don't think too much. We have fallen into the current situation, and the most important thing is to stay alive."