Chapter 2 Dengfeng Crazy Boy
Grasshopper, also known as locust, is a pest, but in some backward and superstitious places, it is believed that locusts are a kind of divine insect.
Gao Laozhuang is just the place where this kind of backwardness and superstition is.
After all, Gao Huan is Gao Youcai's son. Wang Jiaping dared not call Gao Huan. He said something harsh and restrainedly, and took someone back to complain.
Gao Huan's mother died of illness when Gao Huan was very young, and Gao Youcai's concubine Wang became the hostess. Wang was not a good guy. She was good to Gao Huan on the surface, but in fact she wanted to kill Gao Huan and let her son Gao Jian inherit the Gao family's family business.
A local rich man's family in Dengfeng is not considered a wealthy family, and there is such bloody battle, which Gao Huan did not expect.
When he came over, he only knew that he was being taken out of the water tank by the old housekeeper, and he saved his life. However, this accident also caused Gao Huan to lose some memories, forget many key things, and do not know why he traveled through time.
After Gao Huan woke up, he said many words that were inconsistent with his age at the age of three. The family was shocked that he thought he was intoxicated and invited monks and Taoists to tie him up with talismans and put them on him, but these methods naturally had no effect.
Gao Huan still resisted. Finally, his family invited a Taoist priest named Song Xiance to his family, and poured Gao Huan some bowls of talisman water and beat a few sticks. At first, he was desperately resisting and talking nonsense. Gao Huan, who drank a few bowls of talisman water and beat a few boards, was treated to obedience. The madness was completely cured.
The Taoist priest named Song took a large sum of money from the Gao family and disappeared. Gao Huan also figured out his situation. No one would believe in a child, so he stopped making trouble and accepted reality.
After Gao Huan became a child again, he originally wanted to be a genius child, but things were not as simple as he thought.
At this time, Gao Huan looked at Wang Jiaping's back, and a hint of chill appeared in his eyes. Ten years ago, this guy wanted to kill him and pushed him into the tank.
Since then, Gao Huan has encountered dangers many times. Although they have all been resolved by luck, a child of three or four years old cannot be so lucky to escape the murder of an adult man.
Later, when Gao Huan found that there was almost no one around him who could help him, he stopped studying and started making trouble, and survived safely.
In the past, he was young and had no ability. He could not easily lose this opportunity given by God. He could not die at the hands of an unknown man, so he chose to endure.
Now he is fourteen years old and has the ability to resist. Moreover, God has not left much time, so he decided not to tolerate it anymore.
At this time, when Wang Jiaping walked away, Gao Huan retracted his thoughts and turned around to look at his partner who was being slapped and cried, "I have no prospects!"
"Young master, you won't hit us, right?" Zhao Xian touched his swollen face, with a look of fear.
Yang Yan sobbed, his shoulders shrugged, "Butler Wang told the master that my father knew that I had caused trouble and would beat me to death~"
Several children were frightened by Wang Jiaping and felt that they had caused a big disaster. They all wiped their tears and started crying in fear.
From ancient times to the present, locust plague has been one of the most serious disasters in China.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a record in the Book of Songs that "get rid of the moths and the thieves, and do not harm me."
At that time, locusts were classified as pests. However, since the prevalence of the celestial beings in response to heaven in the Han Dynasty, people attributed natural disasters, locust plagues and other disasters to the warning given to people by God.
Under this concept, if a locust plague occurs in a place, and people in a place are unethical, God will punish them. If the locust plague causes a huge impact on the whole country, even the emperor needs to issue a self-destruction, praying for God to forgive and eliminate the locust plague.
After a long time, locusts became divine insects from pests and gradually became divine. Once a locust plague occurs, the people gathered together to burn incense and worship, begging the locust gods to retreat.
Because the people regarded locusts as gods and did not dare to destroy locusts, by the Tang Dynasty, locust plagues became more and more frequent.
The locust plague comes every few years, and the emperor issued a self-criticism edict and was very annoyed. By the time of Emperor Taizong of Tang, the government finally began to dominate the destruction of locusts, but there were still many ordinary people who believed that locusts were the incarnation of gods and did not dare to hurt locusts, for fear of angering the gods.
Now these children don’t understand these taboos. Only when Gao Huan was encouraged by him did they dare to follow him to catch locusts.
Gao Huan couldn't stop crying as he looked at his friends and threatened: "Are you still my soldiers? You cry like a girl, don't mess with me in the future."
The friends listened to Gao Huan's words, and Yang Yan wiped his nose, "Young Master, you are not afraid of locust gods, you are not afraid of the master getting angry."
Gao Huan grabbed a locust from his net bag and put it directly into his mouth to chew it. It was crispy and burst into pieces.
"Bad Locust God, what do you think I have?" Gao Huan was stunned by the fact that he had eaten locusts.
Gao Huan ordered again: "Zhao Xian, Huang Ting, go and bring the things I brought."
Several children had long been accustomed to following Gao Huan's instructions and carried an iron pot and a can of oil from the wheat field. Gao Huan ordered them to build a earthen stove on the ridge of the field, find firewood, and boil the pot.
Gao Huan took out the pan and the oil. After a while, the pan became hot. Gao Huan poured some oil. When it was burned to smoke, he grabbed a handful of grasshoppers from his net pocket and squeezed them to death, and then threw them into the pan.
After a while, the grasshopper was fried golden, and the fragrant aroma made the teenagers scream in a bad mood.
In recent years, Henan has suffered a series of disasters and a county in Dengfeng has become uniquely poor in eastern Henan. The landlords' families have not had a good life, and these children from tenants have never had a full meal.
Gao Huan folded a piece of branch, used it as chopsticks, picked up a golden grasshopper, and handed it to the older Zhao Xian and said, "Taste it."
Zhao Xian shook his head, not daring to eat locusts, Gao Huan looked stern, "Coward!"
Yang Yan, who was a little younger, couldn't stand the temptation of the fragrance, took it with his hand, put it in his mouth, closed his eyes and took it a bite.
After siping, Yang Yan couldn't stop his mouth and chewing, his black eyes instantly brightened.
"How is it?" the friends couldn't help asking.
Yang Yan smashed his mouth after eating, but he was still unsatisfied, "It smells so good, just like eating chicken."
"Eat chicken?" Zhao Xian, Huang Ting and other friends couldn't help it.
They don’t remember when they had eaten chicken, probably when they were very young, they had eaten it once.
The teenagers were greedy. When they grew up, they instantly threw the threats and slaps from adults behind their heads, used branches as chopsticks, and then grabbed them into the pot.
Crispy and fragrant, how could there be such a delicious thing? It's like eating chicken.
Although they don't know what the chicken tastes, it's so delicious.
They completely forgot about the locust god. After a while, they ate the locusts in the pot and ate all the locusts in the net bag.
There were seven children in total, and there was not enough grasshoppers in one net. After eating the last pot, they were still unsatisfied.
"It's all my fault for Butler Wang. If it weren't for them, we would have a few net bags." Yang Yan complained.
Gao Huan stood up and suddenly said seriously: "Follow me in the future, you can't be so timid. If someone dares to beat you, you can find the right opportunity to just pull out your crotch."
Gao Huan made an action, and the friends all stared at him with admiration, remembering the boss's words in their hearts.
Gao Huan was a little helpless. He could only accept these little kids at the moment. He was so miserable that he was a time traveler.
At this time, they played for a while and drove away the locusts in the wheat field. Gao Huan looked up at the sky in the west. It was estimated that Wang Jiaping was waiting at the entrance of the village, so he immediately ordered: "Check it out and go back!"
Yang Yan and Zhao Xian helped him hold the iron pot and oil tank, and Gao Huan led everyone to the village while singing songs.
The teenagers were naive, heartless, and did not hold grudges too much. They didn't take what happened just now and returned to the entrance of the village while fighting and fighting.
At this time, Zhao Xian, who was holding an iron pot in front of him, suddenly stood still. The friends hit him and were about to curse, but they saw the crowd gathering under the archway at the entrance of the village, and immediately stood there blankly.
The air suddenly became quiet, and only insects were left. The children who were singing happily remembered the harsh words Wang Jiaping said, standing at the entrance of the village.
Locusts appeared near the village, which made the adults very nervous. In order to pray to the locust god to let go of the crops, the elderly in the clan prepared incense tables and yellow papers, and prepared to worship the locust god under the leadership of the clan leader.
Unexpectedly, Wang Jiaping came back and told them that Gao Huan had caught locusts with a group of children, which scared the old man and asked Gao Youcai to deal with it properly.
At this time, a group of people gathered at the entrance of the village to discuss. Wang Jiaping saw Gao Huan and others standing in the distance, and sneered at Gao Youcai and said, "Master, they are back!"
Gao Youcai had a gloomy face and said coldly: "Huan'er, come here!"
Gao Huan and the boys stood among the weeds and did not move. However, the friends' families trotted over, grabbed their ears and slashed them, making them howl like a pig.
The adults dragged their friends to Gao Youcai. Yang Yan was stubborn and wanted to struggle for a while. He pulled his father Yang Shulin into a crotch, but he didn't expect to make Yang Shulin furious. He shaved over and immediately cleaned up Yang Yan.
Gao Huan didn't expect that Yang Yan was so cruel, so he secretly decided to train him well in the future.
The adults caught the teenagers in front of Gao Youcai and kowtowed to mercy according to the child who made the mistake, "Master, the children are ignorant, please forgive them once!"
Gao Youcai looked at the villagers kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, and remained indifferent and did not speak.
Wang Jiaping jumped out, pointed at the people who were kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, and sneered: "I offended the Locust God and brought disaster to Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi cannot keep you. Today, you will get out of Zhuangzi for me!"
Now there are wars outside, and thieves are everywhere. If you leave Zhuangzi, you will be dead. Some adults kowtow quickly to ask for good mercy, while others will beat up children while crying.
When the teenagers heard that they were going to drive them out of the village, they were frightened when they saw their parents kowtowed.
Wang Jiaping showed a smug look on his face and drove away these people who were close to the big fool. Let's see who dares to play with the big fool and who dares to support the big fool in inheriting the family business.
Wang Jiaping sneered repeatedly, "Hmph, don't waste your energy! You must get out today!"
Chapter completed!