The days pass by in this kind of waiting.

It feels long when the time passes, but when the day is over and you think back on it, you feel that it was just a blink of an eye. A lot of time has passed so fast that it makes people panic.

In the blink of an eye, midsummer has arrived.

Han Cheng didn't know when cicadas appeared, but at least they already existed when he lived.

The larvae of cicadas are called "Pacha" in Han Cheng's hometown.

Han Cheng himself doesn't know whether this way of writing is correct, but he can guarantee that the pronunciation is correct.

This stuff is an absolute delicacy.

Together with watermelons, small nets, rivers, popsicles, and ice bags, they make up the memories of childhood summers.

Every summer, we would go to the poplar garden or tung tree yard at night with a flashlight or a heavy miner's lamp to grope for forks.

You can touch the fork, but you can also encounter some other things.

Toads are common things. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can even see some long worms crawling out from the cracks in the trees.

Some long insects will even coil around tree trunks, entangle the forks, and compete with humans for food.

After catching the fork, wash it with water, put some oil in an iron pan, heat it up, add some chili peppers, and stir-fry. It tastes really good.

Real chicken flavor.

Especially the part behind the head of the crab, which tastes even more delicious and makes people unable to stop eating.

Of course, this is based on the assumption that no one collects the fork.

If someone collects the crabs, then you won’t be willing to eat the crabs you touch.

Instead, after returning home, they would soak it in clean water to death and leave it there waiting for the fork collectors to come and sell it the next day.

At that time, most homes did not have refrigerators, and sometimes the people who collected the forks would only come once every two or three days.

In order to prevent the climbing fork from going bad and not being able to be sold, they would make a small net bag, put the climbing fork in it, tie the mouth with a rope, and hang it in the well for refrigeration.

Two crabs for one cent. At most, Han Cheng could earn two dollars and thirty cents in one night.

Holding the two yuan and thirty cents at that time, Han Cheng felt that he had reached the peak of his life.

Not to mention the feeling of satisfaction, he was so cool and awesome that he even walked with a step that showed he didn't care about his relatives.

It feels so good to be able to go to the school store and shop a lot!

However, as I get older, this feeling slowly disappears.

In the past, people who had two dollars and thirty cents would feel extremely wealthy and dare to go anywhere. But now, even with two hundred and thirty cents, they dare not go out to do business.

As I grow older, I gradually lose that innocence.

I don’t know if it’s because there are too many things to face and consider, or if I have deeply experienced the difficulty of making money.

As for spending money...

There are always places in life where you need to spend money...

At this time, Han Cheng was frying fried shrimps here.

These forks were caught by the tribesmen under the cover of darkness with torches lit.

Food is in short supply in Jinguan City nowadays. Something as delicious as climbing fork will naturally not be missed by the people of the Qingque tribe who are trying every means to collect food.

After being fooled by Han Dashenzi again, everyone in the tribe became extremely enthusiastic in trying to find the truth.

This is the effect produced even when Han Cheng was reserved.

If he had publicized the slogan "Eat cicadas and live a hundred years" seen on the roadside in later generations, the people in the tribe would have been more active in catching cicadas.

Of course, Han Cheng was just thinking about this in his mind, he would not say it out loud.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to, but that he doesn’t dare.

People at this time are very different from people in later generations.

People of this era basically still believe that "three is three", unlike people of later generations who understand that "three gives birth to all things". To a certain extent, three can represent infinity.

People in later generations, when seeing slogans like "Eat cicadas, live a hundred years", will only smile knowingly, understanding that this only means that eating cicadas has certain benefits for the body. It is also a way for businesses to promote sales and encourage farmers to catch and breed cicadas.

But in today's era, that's no longer possible.

After he said this, these people would definitely think that they could really live for a hundred years after eating the fork.

When the time comes, someone will definitely count on their fingers, and do it very carefully, not wanting to miss a day!

Just thinking about such a scenario made Han Cheng feel a toothache.

Under such circumstances, he would never mention the idea of ​​"eating golden cicadas and living a hundred years."

Because this is just making yourself uncomfortable, and it can make you so depressed that you want to bang your head against the wall...

I got some skewers, wrapped them in eggs, and then fried them in a frying pan. They were really crispy and tasted like chicken.

Not to mention the little primitive man, even the big primitive man would be envious and cry.

At this time, Han Cheng was holding a golden fried shrimp and eating it slowly.

At this moment, although he was eating the fork that could make people cry with hunger and was said to be able to live for hundreds of years, his mood was not as good as he had imagined.

It’s not because the fried dough sticks are not delicious, but because the Youchao tribe has not arrived yet!

At this time, it has been a long time since the Youchao tribe should have arrived, but until now, the people of Youchao tribe have still not arrived.

Waiting for someone is really a tormenting existence that can drive people crazy, especially the kind of waiting that you value so much.

Han Cheng, who was chewing a piece of rice cake in his mouth, raised his head and looked again in the direction where the older female primitives were coming from.

After looking beyond the green rice, what I reaped was still full of disappointment.

However, this disappointment did not last long, because not too long after, some people appeared over there as Han Cheng watched.

Although I couldn't see these people's appearance clearly, I could tell the identities of them just by looking at the burdens they were carrying from a distance.

These people are the middlemen trained by Han Cheng himself.

The older female primitive people came here most likely to continue trading with their own tribe, exchanging food and other things obtained from other tribes for pottery, salt and other things from their own tribe, doing their job as middlemen.

However, there is also a certain chance that people from the Youchao tribe have come, and the older female primitive people have come to report as well.

After all, until now, Han Chengdu has not let the people of Youchao tribe know the exact location of Jinguan City.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. This is not just empty talk, but a real fact.

Han Cheng was experiencing this at the moment.

The older female primitives finally came again, but they did not bring the news about the Youchao tribe that he wanted.

Just come here to trade.

Han Cheng was not the only one who was disappointed. The older female primitives were also very disappointed.

Because this time when she came, she did not see the dark and very powerful man named Mao.

You know, in order to meet this time, I walked very fast in the previous exchange, and I also walked very fast on the way here, just to be able to see that dark and very powerful Mao earlier.

However, the result was that he led his men to other places and has not returned yet...

This exchange started and ended when both of them seemed unhappy.

A person will experience many things in his life, some of which make people extremely disappointed, while others make people feel extremely surprised. The saying "after all the darkness comes the silver lining" is not just empty talk, but a real reality.

Just like now.

After a new round of exchanges is completed, the older female primitives will leave here. Without Mao, the older female primitives feel that there is not much fun in staying in Jinguan City. It seems that a lot of color has been lost all of a sudden.

Well, this is what the legendary "once you taste the marrow, you will know the taste" means.

The older female primitive people, carrying the salt, pottery and other things they had just exchanged from the Qingque tribe, set out from Jinguan City, preparing to return to their own tribe.

Most people are extremely happy.

Of course, this does not include the older female primitives themselves.

The turning point came at this time.

Not long after they walked out of Jinguan City and headed towards their tribe, a figure appeared in the southeast direction of Jinguan City.

Looking at the fluttering, somewhat faded green bird flag, the dogs jumping around and whining, and the donkeys and deer carrying baskets woven from tree branches, Jinguan City suddenly became boiling.

Because the situation at this time only shows one thing, that is, the traders who had led the team again and went out again to trade with other tribes are back!

It always makes people feel particularly happy when people from their own tribe come back from outside.

Even if nothing is brought back, but only a person has returned, the people waiting in the tribe will also be happy.

This is the same as in later generations, even if you have nothing with you and your life outside is not satisfactory, as long as you can go home for the New Year, the elderly at home will be very happy.

Han Cheng naturally saw this kind of commotion first, because at this moment, he was sending the older female primitives out of the tribe and was standing outside Jinguan City.

Looking at the person appearing from the southeast, Han Cheng's face was full of smiles.

On the one hand, it is because Mao and his group have returned, and on the other hand, with the return of Mao and his group, Jinguan City is likely to get a lot of food, which can effectively alleviate the food pressure here in Jinguan City.

"Son of God! Son of God! We are back!"

He is already of some age, and in the eyes of most people he is very calm and methodical when doing things, but at this time he is like a child.

Leading the team and walking in the front, he saw the Jinguan City standing here from afar, as well as Han Cheng and others standing in front of Jinguan City, and immediately shouted excitedly.

"Son of God! Son of God! We are back!"

The rest of the people who followed also started shouting along with Mao. Their voices gathered together and could be heard from far away, carrying with them a sense of excitement and joy.

Han Cheng, who was already happy, immediately had a smile on his face when he heard them shouting like that.

He headed in the direction where Mao and the others were coming back to greet them.

Of course, it was not just Han Cheng and others who were happy to see Mao and others come back. The older female primitive people who were carrying their burdens and preparing to leave Jinguan City and return to their tribes were also particularly surprised.

Originally, she had prepared herself to return disappointed from Jinguan City once again, but she did not expect that at this time, Mao would actually come back!

Seeing Mao, who was getting darker, grinning towards them, laughing and shouting loudly, the older female primitives were so happy that they couldn't close their legs.

"@￥4@3?"

A man from her own tribe, who was standing next to her, asked the older female primitive.

Seeing the older female primitives standing here, carrying their burdens and only looking at Mao and others who had returned, but no longer talking about leaving, he couldn't help but speak up and remind the older female primitives that they should leave here.

After hearing her words, the older female primitive who was grinning foolishly came to her senses.

However, she did not listen to the reminder of this person in the tribe and take people away from here. Instead, she put the burden on her shoulders on the ground.

"@#3@#!"

She said it out loud, meaning that she would not leave at this moment.

After she said this, the person who had just asked the question was suddenly confused, and couldn't help scratching his head with his hands, full of doubts.

Because she clearly remembered that not long ago, the older female primitive people said in person that they wanted to leave the Qingque tribe as soon as possible so that they would have more time to exchange with other tribes and get more food from them so that the people in the tribe could live a better life.

How come such a long time has passed and things have become completely different and changed?

What happened to the promise to work hard to earn food for the tribe and let everyone in the tribe live a good life?

"@#￥@#4E..."

Perhaps she felt a little embarrassed by being looked at by some people from her own tribe, so after a while, the older female primitive people managed to say a few words to explain.

What she meant was that now that Mao and the others were back, she and the others might be able to ask them some questions about the exchange.

Besides, everyone has done a lot of things these days and is quite tired, so they can take a proper rest.

The people of the Qingque tribe are so kind and enthusiastic. It's very nice to take a break here...

After being fooled by her, the people who were originally confused suddenly became enlightened and felt that what the older female primitive said was indeed very right.

However, after experiencing this sudden realization, many of these people felt something was a little strange, as if something was not right, but they could not remember what was wrong at the moment...