My Mr. Monster

"Why did you wake me up so early in the morning? I didn't dare to sleep too deeply over there, and if you don't let me sleep here, the video said I will die suddenly." Wu Yang kept complaining behind Lu Xuan.

"If you were to die suddenly, I would go downstairs to accompany you." Lu Xuan complained in front.

"Hey, what are you going to do?"

"I have nothing to do anyway, so I might as well see if I can catch some cicadas this morning."

"Cicada?"

Lu Xuan nodded and said, "There are a few plum trees in the vegetable garden not far away. I have seen the cicadas there since I was a child. I used to like catching them and playing with them. I also liked to pick up the cicada shells to play with."

Wu Yang was puzzled. "Why catch them? Can they be eaten?"

"Yes, it's delicious..." Lu Xuan paused and seemed to be frozen in place.

Lu Xuan's eyes were fixed on the narrow path in front of him. The path was full of weeds, and a bunch of green weeds were scattered all over the place. An inconspicuous green snake was slowly crawling to the other side from a distance of more than two meters in front of him.

"Hey, are you selling spicy strips wholesale here? There are still some so early in the morning." Wu Yang also discovered the little green snake, and he suddenly became interested.

Lu Xuan had nothing to refute, and was too lazy to refute, because Wu Yang seemed to have completely determined that his hometown was rich in these live spicy strips.

Arriving at the plum tree he remembered from his childhood, Wu Yang couldn't help but exclaim, "There are so many insects. This tree is truly tenacious."

The branches and trunks are now covered with cicadas that have not yet shed their shells, but it looks like they are about to shed their shells.

"Hurry up and catch them all, including those that have shed their shells, they are all protein." Lu Xuan said.

"No, do you really want to eat these? I have no objection to catching them for fun. This is not my place. If you are hungry, you will even bite the mice. How can you eat insects when you have everything you need?" Wu Yang was shocked and even felt it was unbelievable.

Lu Xuan couldn't refute it at this moment. It seemed to make sense. To be honest, it had always been like this since he was a child. It felt like the number was increasing instead of decreasing. The small ones ate the bottom and the big ones ate the top... they were indeed tenacious.

"Just treat it as a curiosity. Haven't you eaten it before?"

"Do you see some trees over there that look like they're alive?"

Lu Xuan was very tactful and didn't ask directly. The area where Wu Yang lived was bare. There were trees, but no one knew whether they were dead or alive, because no matter how you looked at it, they looked "dead".

Although Wu Yang didn't like these little bugs, Lu Xuan had already started to take action, and if he didn't move, he would seem particularly petty.

He picked up the cicadas that had not shed their shells and kept throwing them into the basket he brought. While catching them, he looked at the insects carefully. Wu Yang found that these little insects were quite handsome.

"How do you eat this?" Wu Yang became very curious.

Lu Xuan grabbed some and answered seriously, "Grilled, fried, they taste great."

"Do you want to keep it?" Wu Yang pinched the insect. The shell was very thin and it felt like it would burst if poked.

"How can I keep it alive? It will shed its shell in a few hours. I can just take it home and fry it and eat it as a snack." Lu Xuan licked his lips. "I haven't eaten this for so long that I've forgotten the taste. I suddenly want to try it again."

"Are you still planning to take me to catch wild game?" Wu Yang looked at the mountains not far away. Looking at layer after layer of them made his scalp tingle.

"No, I'm afraid you'll drill through those holes again and end up in someone else's grave. That would be too unlucky." Lu Xuan glanced at Wu Yang with disdain. He still remembered the last time clearly.

"..."

Silence is Cambridge at this moment. Wu Yang chose not to speak, but instead sped up the pace of catching cicadas. The sooner he could go back, the sooner he would be free.

During this period of midsummer, the mornings and nights are probably the most comfortable times. The rest of the time is like putting yourself in a steamer.

"Xuanxuan, what's wrong with your neck? Why are you wearing a Band-Aid?" Grandma Lu Xuan looked at Lu Xuan's neck and asked worriedly, "Wasn't it fine yesterday? How did you get hurt?"

"I was accidentally scratched by a branch while catching cicadas just now. It's nothing serious." Lu Xuan smiled easily and simply let the matter go.

"Let me see, why are you catching those so early in the morning?" Grandma Lu Xuan frowned and walked forward to look at the wound.

Lu Xuan was startled, then quickly pretended to be calm and said, "You can't tear it open to look at it, it will get infected. It's easy to get infected in the summer and get a fever and get sick."

What the elderly fear most is probably getting sick, especially their younger children getting sick.

As soon as Lu Xuan said this, grandma stopped and asked worriedly, "Should we go to the hospital?"

"It's really okay, it will be fine in a few days." Lu Xuan looked at his grandmother. Unknowingly, his grandmother had really aged a lot.

"Then go upstairs and rest. Grandma will cook."

"I'm fine. I'll light the fire. I'm going to fry all those cicadas later. Is that okay?" Lu Xuan had already sat in front of the stove and started adding firewood.

"Then where did your soldier friend go?" grandma asked again.

Lu Xuan said, "He went to the canal to wash cicadas. He has nothing to do anyway."

"That's not good. Your friend is a guest after all."

"Grandma, you're here as free labor. Just like you said, you have to do something now that you're here."

Lu Xuan's words left his grandmother somewhat speechless. Since they were both younger than him, she couldn't interfere. Perhaps this was just the way children got along. And they must have a very good relationship, otherwise Lu Xuan wouldn't have invited them into the house.

When she thought about her grandson's performance since he was a child, she suddenly felt happy. It is good to have friends, which is better than having no friends at all.

"Then I'll cook more dishes." said Lu Xuan's grandmother.

"That grandma is such a big eater... I'll cook later." Lu Xuan said a little embarrassedly.

"Hmm? Didn't your friend eat enough before?"

"...A little bit. He usually has a big appetite and is embarrassed to tell others if he's not full. At night, his stomach rumbles like thunder." Lu Xuan exaggeratedly described it.

This time it was Grandma Lu Xuan who felt incredible. She saw that young man eat three big bowls, which was more than her grandson's.

Lu Xuan only ate a little more than two bowls. He didn't expect his grandson's friend to have such a good appetite.

Wu Yang sneezed by the canal. He touched his nose and was surprised. He hadn't sneezed for a long time. Could it be that the environment was too good and he couldn't adapt to it for a while?

He held the cicada in his hand and kept fiddling with it in the clear water. He even caught some small fish and put them in the bamboo basket. The water in the canal was very clear and there were always many small fish among the water plants. There were also some small loaches on the steps that he could catch and play with.

Even when Lu Xuan stood on the steps and looked down at Wu Yang, he was still catching loaches and playing with cicadas, like a child with a childish innocence.

"Don't you feel guilty about harming the fish and shrimps here?" Lu Xuan squatted beside Wu Yang very naturally.

"How could that be? I didn't kill them. The shrimps we caught last time were much better than these, big and small. What kind of fish is this? It looks so strange." Wu Yang said as he handed a fish in his hand to Lu Xuan to see.

"This, this looks like a catfish... I'm not sure. Why are you catching it when it's so small? Did you clean the cicada?"

"It's fun. I'm clean now. It feels cool here, so I'm going to play here."

"Come on, I'll fry the cicadas for you."

"Can you take this fish with you? I'll eat it. I caught it myself."

Lu Xuan glanced helplessly at the thumb-sized fish bouncing around in the bamboo basket. He nodded, "It's up to you. You can eat it anyway, but don't harm so many fish next time. You can go find some dragonflies or whatever to play with."

Wu Yang stretched out his hand and suddenly grabbed the water, and a loach was pulled out from the water plants. The loach kept twisting its body and struggling in Wu Yang's hand.

"Okay, since you take me out to play, it's very interesting here. If I stay in my boring and dead world every time, I might really go crazy." Wu Yang smiled, and his face, which was intimidating without anger, was now warmed by the mottled light under the shade of the trees.

Lu Xuan's eyes softened. Did Wu Yang really not know how alluring his transformation was? It was truly unfair. Lu Xuan's heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably.