Chapter 125 Owl Smile
After a while, the bird weighing more than one pound was caught.
What surprised Zhou Yimin was that the bird did not wake up even after being shaken several times by that guy.
Well! If this kind of bird were to be found in the future, netizens would definitely advise people not to eat it, as eating it would affect their IQ.
Although Zhou Yimin didn't know what this bird was called, it looked a little strange, so it must be a rare animal. In later times, who would dare to catch it? It would probably take at least three years.
Netizens once summarized: the weirder you look, the faster you will be sentenced; the uglier you look, the longer you will be sentenced.
Don't touch the ugly and weird ones, or you'll end up in jail for the rest of your life.
However, there was no such worry now. One of the guys took the stupid bird and twisted its neck, killing it completely, very quickly and neatly.
Zhou Yimin thought: This is good, dying in one’s sleep is not cruel at all.
Everyone continued to catch cicada monkeys, and occasionally they would continue to come across birds that were calling, so there was no reason to let them go.
There were terrifying cries coming from the mountains.
"What are you afraid of? Coward." Someone shrank his neck and was immediately scolded by the person next to him.
"If you're not afraid, then why are you shaking?"
Indeed, it sounds scary.
"Don't be afraid of the owl's cry," Zhou Yimin said to everyone.
There is a reason why our ancestors called owls funeral birds.
First of all, some owls look very scary, especially at night, and can really send people away at first glance.
In addition, owls also have a strange habit of sleeping during the day, with one eye open and one eye closed.
Because there is a light-reflecting membrane behind the pupil of an owl's eye, which allows light to pass through the pupil again, greatly enhancing low-light vision at night. However, this structure also makes owls very sensitive to strong light during the day.
Therefore, when owls rest during the day, they will choose to open one eye and close the other to reduce the stimulation of strong light. At the same time, they can also stay alert to the surrounding environment and guard against potential enemies.
But to ordinary people, this thing's behavior is very strange.
Secondly, there are their calls. Some of them sound like weird laughter. When normal people hear it, they think it is the laughter of ghosts. Of course they are afraid!
The older generation once had this saying: "I'm not afraid of being shouted at, I'm just afraid of being laughed at."
This is because whenever an owl's laughter is heard, someone nearby may have died, so older people are always particularly afraid of owls, and gradually the name of "bird of misfortune" has spread.
Therefore, in this era, especially in rural areas, if a child catches an owl and brings it home, he will definitely be beaten.
Zhou Yimin has no ill feelings towards owls. Although the owls' calls are unpleasant, they are beneficial birds and natural enemies of mice. Someone has calculated that each owl eats about a thousand mice a year and catches about three mice a day.
"Let's stop here tonight! It's a bit late." Zhou Yimin looked at the time. It was almost eleven o'clock.
We had a good harvest tonight, seven or eight birds, a bucket and two bags of cicada monkeys.
Zhou Yimin didn't want those birds, so he let them share them.
When they got home, no one made a sound to disturb Zhou Yimin's grandparents. The elderly people were light sleepers and they might not be able to fall asleep again if they were woken up.
They cleaned the cicada monkey two or three times.
Someone was lighting a fire, and Zhou Yimin poured half a bucket of oil into the pot, which made the young men in the village frown.
If they do this, their legs will be broken by their families.
Of course, they don’t have that much oil at home.
After the oil boils, pour the drained cicada monkeys into the pot and fry them in batches.
Frying is very quick and doesn't take long.
"Bring the basin over here." Zhou Yimin said in a low voice.
Everyone prepared their basins so they could fill them with fried cicada monkeys at any time.
Zhou Yimin picked up the cicada monkey and put it in a basin. Then he sprinkled salt and cumin powder into the basin and asked someone to stir it for a while to make it even.
"It smells so good!" Some people couldn't help but reach out to eat it. It was crispy and soft on the inside. It was a perfect snack to go with wine.
"We'll divide it after the explosion." Zhou Yimin said to everyone.
We caught so many tonight, even if there are more than a dozen of them sharing it, each person can get a lot.
I didn't want to disturb my grandparents, but they woke up anyway.
Although they moved very carefully and tried not to make any noise, the fragrance was so strong that even the lights in the houses nearby were turned on, not to mention the people living in this house.
When grandma got up and saw how much oil was used for frying, she felt so sorry for it!
Although she felt heartbroken, she didn't tell Zhou Yimin for fear of telling her grandson to run away.
"Grandpa, grandma, are you awake? Then just eat something before going to sleep." Zhou Yimin said embarrassedly.
It seems that I have to go to another house next time.
The old man smiled and said, "Okay, I'll have two drinks."
Zhou Yimin: “…”
I let you eat, but your focus is on drinking.
Okay! This is indeed a good dish to go with wine.
Soon, my third uncle Zhou Xuqiang also came over.
"So many?" He was shocked.
Zhou Yimin nodded: "There's more!"
Someone asked, "Uncle Sixteen, are we going again tomorrow night?"
"You guys go tomorrow night! I may not be at home. You can continue to use the oil for frying, and just bring some to me every time." Zhou Yimin said to them.
It's a good idea to clean up all the cicada monkeys.
There is no need to worry about them being caught and extinct, their reproductive capacity is beyond your imagination.
As long as chemical weapons such as "pesticides" are not used, it is difficult to capture them to extinction through artificial capture.
Everyone was very happy after hearing this.
What they are most worried about is running out of oil.
Now that Zhou Yimin asked them to take the oil away, they no longer had to worry about that problem.
Zhou Yimin gave them fried cicada monkeys, almost everyone got two or three pounds, half a basin. Zhou Yimin kept one basin for himself, and everyone had no objection, after all, it was Zhou Yimin who paid for the oil.
"Uncle Sixteen, let's go back!"
Zhou Yimin waved his hand: "Go back!"
I won't keep you here any longer.
There was such a large group of people, and the little wine his grandfather had was not enough to share.
The frying oil will be kept by Chow Tai Fook first.
When they got home, they immediately woke up everyone in the family who were sleeping and asked them to eat fried cicada monkeys. They ate with gusto and praised the food highly.
"We'll go again tomorrow night. The oil is at Dafu's place. There's a lot of this stuff in the woods. I was wondering why there are always dead trees in that area." The young man said to his family.
Moreover, he realized that cicadas are insects that eat nutrients from trees.
Since it is a pest, there is no psychological burden in catching it.
This is how we eliminate harm for the people!
"In my opinion, once it is spread tomorrow, many people will come to look for it by evening," said his father.
No matter how many of these things there are, they cannot withstand the efforts of many people to catch them, so this good thing cannot last for a few days.
If things go wrong, the old branch secretary will organize people to catch it tomorrow and bring it back to the village collective.
(End of this chapter)
