Chapter 0024 The Cricket Gourd (I)

In Zhuang Rui is only 5, 6 years old, still live in the family old house, the favorite game is cricket, that will often three or five small friends, midnight flashlight, go to the theater near the remnants of the brick tile to catch crickets, and then began to race to see who caught the crickets powerful.

The urbanization of that era is not like now, everywhere is the building, plus the location of the old house and at the foot of Yunlong Mountain, living all kinds of birds and insects, every night time, everywhere is ringing with insects and birds, randomly turn over a stone, the following may be hidden in a cricket and other bugs.

In addition to fighting crickets, in Zhuang Rui know Liu Chuan, two people and like to raise grasshoppers, in order to catch a good grasshopper, the two people less to the outskirts of the city to run to the vegetable field, but also less because of the grasshopper to the classroom to play, and get Liu Chuan’s dad’s board, but that time to raise a body of turquoise green, screaming loud grasshopper, in the classmates undoubtedly is a very dignified thing.

So Zhuang Rui heard just after a burst of rapid chirping, immediately distinguish this is a caddisfly call, when the heart of the great wonder, he knows, play caddisflies are mostly in the summer and fall seasons, once into the winter, basically the caddisfly can not withstand the cold and die, Zhuang Rui childhood caddisflies never live to the New Year, at the moment heard in the ears of the caddisflies sound is a song of the sound of the song is loud and strong, obviously not the kind of winter will be dying. It is not the kind of goods that are dying in winter.

Following the sound, Zhuang Rui found that the caddisfly call is from the arms of the Xiong brother out, can not help but strangely asked: “caddisfly this thing to the winter is not all will die? How come your call is still so loud?”

“Hehehe, at a glance brother you’re not a caddisfly player, you’re talking about the caddisfly raised in a cage, of course it won’t live long, my caddisfly is raised in a gourd, and I keep it close to my bosom every day, so naturally it’s fine.”

Xiong self-satisfied while explaining, while reaching into his arms, and then pulled out, the palm of his hand tightly clutched a body of red through the purple bright color of the caddisfly gourd.

Through the explanation of the male brother, Zhuang Rui only to understand, they used to that is not called play caddisflies, really good caddisflies can be winter, some long life can even live to a year long, but there are many things to pay attention to, the first is the winter caddisflies pay special attention to the temperature, the temperature is low, do not try to let it chirp, during the day on the gourd, tucked into the arms, the temperature of the temperature by the human body temperature rises, the second is the Although the caddisflies are happy to chirp, but each time should not be more than half an hour, not more than three times a day, otherwise it will shorten the life of the caddisflies.

Listening to the caddisflies chirping in front of him, Zhuang Rui seemed to have returned to his childhood days in general, and couldn’t help but say to Xiong: “Can you show this to me?”

“Take it, but don’t take too long, the low temperature is not good for the grasshoppers ……” Xiong is also cool, handing the grasshopper gourd in his hand to Zhuang Rui.

The gourd just into the hand, Zhuang Rui felt a warmth in the palm of the hand, carefully measured, this grasshopper gourd is about ten centimeters high through the mouth, the middle of the belly is very large, estimated that there are seven or eight centimeters, hollowed out the core of the monument is like a jade carving, very fine, the appearance of the skin color red through the light of the ghost of the quiet, revealing a kind of warmth of the old gas, Zhuang Rui this period of time to make up for quite a lot of knowledge of antique, know that this is a paste body Thick performance.

Gourd caddisflies seem to feel the drop in temperature, also stopped chirping, Zhuang Rui in the survey of this caddisfly gourd, habitually will be released in the eyes of the aura out.

“Huh?”

Just when the aura just touched the caddisfly gourd, a familiar feeling surfaced in Zhuang Rui’s eyes, aura, that’s right, a trace of a weak breath merged into the aura in Zhuang Rui’s eyes, although that breath was iffy, and the increase in aura after returning to the eyes was also very small, Zhuang Rui still clearly sensed that this caddisfly gourd obviously contained aura inside.

“Brother Xiong right! I like this thing, are you selling it? I used to play with this when I was a kid, and it’s quite dear to me now that I see it, if you’re willing to sell it, make an offer!”

Zhuang Rui first returned the grasshopper gourd to Brother Xiong, and then without changing his color and pretending to look casual, he opened his mouth and asked. He knew that the people who can hang out in this market, all of them are human savvy, you slightly show a little bit of interest in this object, they will immediately boast of the things in their hands in the sky and underground.

Although this grasshopper gourd contains far less aura than that pair of couplets and manuscripts, but this is also Zhuang Rui encountered the third object with aura, if the price is not very expensive, Zhuang Rui still very much want to buy it.

“I’m playing with this one myself, not selling it.”

Xiong heard Zhuang Rui’s words, his face showed a difficult expression, he this time is not to take the strength, just because this grasshopper he also raised almost a small half a year, every day is to put on the body, but also carefully feed some bugs, is to raise out of affection, heard Zhuang Rui’s words, the heart is really some can not give up.

Zhuang Rui do not die, drumming: “Brother Xiong, I do quite like this, you see can not love ah! Price by you say, suitable I will buy, New Year’s, you are considered to open the door, I also found a favorite thing, we are happy not.”

“Brother Xiong, wait for the fall you raise a good, this brother like, let him it!” The side of the monkey also followed to say item, in his view, a caddis is only ten eight dollars of things, since this person wants to buy, then sell it is not.

Xiong’s face changed, think is also moved, this caddisfly is he half a year ago spent twenty dollars to buy, as for the caddisfly gourd, is the previous year in tianjin uncle home, from the stalls, but only spent ten or so dollars.

Thinking of this, Xiong face a whole, said to Zhuang Rui: “I this grasshopper is a very good ah! You have just heard the call, that call a loud, not I blow, in this whole market inside the play grasshopper, no one can be compared to me, see you do like, I will open a price, if you think it is suitable, I will sell.”

“You say it!” Zhuang Rui returned.

“One thousand dollars, no second price, I even grasshopper gourd together sold to you, I this gourd is a good thing, in front of the ‘Jiya Xuan’ that store in the old man yesterday offered to eight hundred dollars I did not sell.”

Xiong gritted his teeth and said, his words are also half-true, ‘Jiya Xuan’ that antique store boss yesterday did give him this gourd price, but only a hundred dollars, now to Xiong’s mouth, it is flat out more than seven hundred out.

One thousand dollars, Zhuang Rui pondered in his mind for a while, or decided to buy it, after all, since the eyes produce aura, this is the third object encountered that can increase the aura, one thousand dollars is not a lot of money, even if it is a total loss, they are also a loss.

“OK, since you are willing to part with it, Brother Xiong, a thousand dollars is a thousand dollars, you take the money, but the object belongs to me.”

Just when Xiong and monkey measuring Zhuang Rui face, Zhuang Rui spoke, directly from the pocket out of the money clip, counted out a thousand dollars handed to Xiong, and the caddisfly gourd took over, according to Xiong’s previous appearance, the gourd close to put up, Xiong looks really some reluctance, received the money casually counted, and put in his pocket, the eyes are not able to stop looking at Zhuang Rui to put the place of the caddisfly.

Through the clothes touched in the arms of the grasshopper gourd, Zhuang Rui slowly to Liu Chuan’s pet store to go, the heart is also a little happy, after all, pulling out an object with a spiritual qi, although absorbed into the spiritual qi is a little sparse, it is better than nothing.