Yes, with glue.

I'm from the northeast. There are no cicadas in my hometown. I first saw cicada when I was 16 years old and was a soldier in the south.

In his second year as a soldier, he spent nearly two months in the regiment hospital because of cartilage injuries in his legs and knees during training. There are not many patients in the regimental hospital, only four or five for a long time, and I have been in hospital for the longest time, and I am very familiar with the nurses and doctors in the regimental headquarters.

The little nurse I am most familiar with is from Zhangjiakou, Hebei. She is the same age as me. Because of her similar age, when she works at night shift, she will come to me to catch cicadas with her. I didn't know what cicada was at that time. She told me that they were cicada larvae that crawled out of the hole at night and soon became cicadas. Before they become cicadas, they can be fried and eaten after being caught.

Behind the regiment hospital is a large clearing with many buttonwood trees. Few people come here at night. My main function is to accompany her and give her courage. I have a cane in my left hand and a flashlight in my right. She is holding a big plastic bottle half filled with salt water. I am responsible for shining the flashlight on the trunk of the tree on the ground, and she is responsible for catching it.

In the middle of the night, only the two of us found cicadas under the buttonwood tree, and occasionally a big mouse appeared under the tree. At this time, girls always pull my arm nervously, and I always say, "Nothing, it's a mouse." In fact, I'm more nervous than her at the moment, because it's the first time I've been so close to a girl, and my heart is pounding, looking forward to another mouse. So time passes quickly. From ten o'clock in the evening, I sat for two hours at midnight. After grabbing a big bottle, we came back quietly. I went back to the ward and she went back to the duty room. Of course this kind of thing can't be known. Men and women are not allowed to fall in love, and hospital leaders will criticize us for catching cicadas together in the middle of the night. After all, there are only a few men and women. Who knows what you are doing in the middle of the night? Fortunately, no one has ever found out. I accompanied her to catch cicadas six times. Maybe we were not very old at that time, but we were still very simple and didn't have many ideas in our hearts. Of course, we don't know anything. Every time we catch cicadas with her.

I seldom talk to her during the day. Sometimes when she takes her temperature alone in the morning, we will say a few words in my ward. Sometimes she brings me a story.

Time flies, and my leg is getting better soon. The last time I caught cicada, I told her, "The doctor said I could be discharged in two days." She said, "I'll give you something when you leave."

On the morning of discharge, she came to my ward and gave me a book of Wang Guozhen's poems. This book is very old, so I want her to read it often, so I gave her my pen. She smiled and said to me, "Next time I get hurt, you will accompany me to catch cicadas." I said, "Sure, maybe I will come here soon."

When I went back to the company to browse this collection of poems, I found a photo in the book. The girl, wearing a green military uniform and short hair, stood beside the flower bed of the regiment hospital with a smile. At the back of the photo, her name and the words "forget me" are written. After living in the hospital for more than two months, she knew my name, but I never asked her what her name was. In my last year as a soldier, I accidentally went to the regimental headquarters and went to the hospital to inquire about her situation. I heard from other nurses that she went to military school.

I have cherished this collection of poems for many years. Maybe because of her, I fell in love with poetry after many years.

Tonight,

The moonlight is bright,

You in the distance,

Standing under the buttonwood,

Listening to the cicada,

Do you remember one time,

By your side in the moonlight,

Catch cicada teenagers together.

Cicada is called cicada in our local area. When I was a child, I learned a poem about cicadas by Yu Shinan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty: hanging my head and drinking dew will make the sound sparse. Cicada is far away from cicada because cicada is on a tall tree, not relying on autumn wind. From then on, several of our childhood friends became interested in catching cicadas and wanted to catch them and see what would happen.

The more dog days, the louder the cicada's cry. Adults are sleeping at noon, but we are sweating. There are three ways to catch cicadas: first, pay attention to the cicada's position on the tree, then climb the tree quietly and cover it with your hand when it is not ready. In this way, it is exciting to catch it; If you reach out and fly away, you will be very upset and depressed. The second method is to fix a gauze with an opening at the upper end of the bamboo pole, and people stand under the tree to cover it. This method has a good effect, but during the time when the bamboo pole is from the tree to the ground, cicadas can easily escape the net, which always gives people a regret of losing it. The third method is to tie a slipknot with the hair of the ponytail and fix it on the top of the bamboo pole, and people stand under the tree to cover the cicada. Cicada's hair is so thin that it is not easy to find it. As long as you have strong hands and don't shake the pole casually, you can catch one accurately.

After catching a cicada, you can tell whether it can sing or not. Then let the female cicada fly, cut off the wings of the male cicada to play, and let the cat enjoy it when he is tired of playing.

After growing up slowly, I learned from books that cicadas have been pupated for three years before they come out of the ground, and the singing time in trees is about one year. The life experience of cicada is so hard that we can't bear to think of any way to catch cicada any more.

I do. Happy childhood. As soon as the summer vacation at school was over, we called our friends to catch cicadas. No matter how hot it is, you can catch it by tying it to a long stick with a net bag. Looking at the number of sets, I roasted the cicada and ate it. The second half of cicada is full of lean meat. At that time, there were no snacks to eat, and it felt very fragrant. If it is a child now, who else will eat that? After eating cicadas, let's take a bath in the pond to cool off. Think about it. I really miss those days.

When I was a child, I loved cicadas and ate cicada meat. But I didn't know how to eat cicadas at that time. Cicadas are rare in summer now. Mainly, many southerners go to find cicadas to eat at night. Cicada only came out of the ground in 1967 and was caught as soon as it came out. They haven't mated and bred yet. Can the number of cicadas be less? There are more kinds of cicadas than before, because people don't catch cicadas. This is what we have learned. This is done by pasting and covering. Sticking is sticking the skin on the club head, which is burnt or scratched. The wings of the stuck cicada are damaged and can't fly. The tail hair on the ponytail is used as a cover so that cicadas can fly without being hurt. If I don't take these tools and find cicadas on the trunk, I will catch tall poplars or willows with my hands. Less than half the success this time, I really exercised. It is best to catch cicadas that match, and the success rate is over 80%.

I've got it. I still remember a row of locust trees by the pond in front of my house when I was a child. Every summer, the sun shines through the mottled light and shadow of leaves scattered on the ground. I stood under the tree and listened to cicadas singing. I found it accompanied by cicada singing. I watched it sometimes flapping its wings, and sometimes quietly picked up the net bag in my hand and rushed at it. I let it struggle in the net bag, then let it go, and then grab it. I'm so happy. This is probably the fun of childhood!

When I was a child, it was very pleasant to listen to cicadas, but mostly I heard cicadas on high branches. It was difficult to catch them, so I gave up the idea. Only occasionally will cicadas fly into the house and become' catching turtles in a jar'.

catch

Cicada is also called cicada and grasshopper, but in Jiangsu coastal areas, it is called grasshopper. The sound of grasshopper cattle is crisp and melodious, which often makes people have a rest. The hotter the weather, the happier they cry. At noon in midsummer, the noise is annoying, and the whole summer and autumn is a chance for grasshoppers to sing. In childhood, grasshoppers became the favorite insects for most children because of lack of clothes and food. Catch grasshoppers, play enough, put them in the oven and cook them with fire. When I was a child, I ate a lot of grasshopper cows, and I still remember the smell that was more fragrant than grilled shrimp. But grasshopper cows live in tall trees and are very alert. It is not easy to catch them.

There are two main ways to catch grasshopper cattle.

The first method is to find a long bamboo pole and tie a round support made of lead wire at the end of the bamboo pole. Then take a bamboo pole and look for cobwebs under the eaves of various houses in the village. After finding it, turn the bamboo pole against the spider web, so that the spider web is wound on the lead wire bracket. But one or two cobwebs won't help much, at least five or six will be entangled. Spider webs should be fresh, because old spider webs are not sticky. After winding the cobweb, you can catch it. You don't need to find grasshopper cows. Almost every tree has them. As soon as the grasshopper called, it became the prey of children. We will quietly stretch out the bamboo pole and aim the lead wire bracket at the grasshopper cover. Covered grasshopper cows are struggling and chirping at the same time, and most of them yield easily. However, many of them broke free and ran away.

The second method is to put the egg-sized dough into a gauze bag instead of a lead wire bracket, and then gently rub it in water. When the starch in the dough is washed away, the rest is yellow gluten. Slightly dry gluten is very sticky, and it is especially effective to catch grasshoppers by wrapping it around the tip of bamboo poles. As long as gluten touches any part of the grasshopper, the grasshopper can't escape anyway. But at that time, there were not many families with flour, and most of their friends were cobwebs. When I see my mother making handmade noodles, I always secretly pinch a piece and hide it. Sneak out of the house after eating noodles and catch grasshoppers all afternoon.

After entering junior high school, our living conditions have improved a little, and we have no time and interest to catch grasshoppers. However, grasshoppers are rarely seen in my hometown. What we see now is a little grasshopper, which people call "cicada". I wonder where the big black grasshopper we caught as a child went? Anyway, it was not captured and extinct by us.