Gryllotalpa grows in clear streams or rocky waters at the bottom of large and small rivers in Northeast China, and its growing environment is extremely harsh, so it must flow in clear and pollution-free waters.

? Gryllotalpa looks like crayfish, but it is much bigger than crayfish. Its tail is bigger and wider than crayfish, and the two big claws in front are round and not as slender as crayfish. Both the tail and the claw of the shrew are meat, which is much fatter than the crayfish. If the crayfish is compared to the skinny little beauty in the south, then the shrew is a stocky northern daughter-in-law. The meat of the shrew is extremely delicious. In the breeding period, there is a smell similar to crab roe cream in Huang Shi, and shrew is the best food in that poor era.

Grown-up shrews are about ten centimeters long, and the big ones can reach twelve or thirteen centimeters. Fish, shrimps and ephemera in the river are used as food, and the internal organs of some domestic animals are its delicious food.

There are many ways to catch the wren: grab it directly with your hands, look at the wren in the water, quietly insert your hand obliquely from its tail to its back, hold both ends of its hard shell with your thumb and forefinger in lightning speed, take it out of the water and put it in a cloth pocket or a small bucket; Or fishing for cockroaches, which is different from fishing. Grab a frog, peel it off or use the internal organs of an animal, tie elm bark or hemp rope to a rectangular or oval stone half the size of a palm, find a long pole and tie it to your head, put it in a place where there are many cockroaches, and go and see it later. When you lift it, there are usually cockroaches. Or use a net (similar to the net for catching butterflies, but the net for catching cockroaches is deeper and stronger) to copy, just like playing billiards, which requires certain skills. When you stand in the water and find cockroaches, quietly put the net with the net bag facing down and block it in front of cockroaches. No matter how to catch the mole, the big one is left behind, and the small one is not caught or thrown back into the river until it grows up slowly.

? I once saw a big boy in the village cut a snake open, rolled it into a plate, and threw it at the bottom of the water as bait to catch a mole. In a short time, his hands held up a snake, which was full of greedy goods, and the big boy went home happily with a snake crawling with cockroaches.

? Chicken intestines killed by farmers are their favorite. Find a rope or put it in a small broken basket, find a clear and slow place and put it down. In about 20 minutes, you will see a large and small number of cockroaches crawling on it to enjoy delicious food, and advise those who have intensive phobia not to look at it. What if you run into a cockroach? During the (great migration), the bottom of the river was so dense that there was nowhere to put feet. Soon, you could grab a woven bag with your hands or copy the net, which was ten or twenty pounds.

Spring, summer and autumn are the best time to catch crickets, and the river freezes in winter. At night, when a mole is illuminated, it is easier to catch a fool with a net. At that time, my mother had to take care of her little three sisters and four sisters at night, so it fell to me to hold a lantern to illuminate my father and catch the mole cricket. My father asked someone to make a lighting tool called "Gus lamp", two slender cylinders with screw buttons, put acetylene blocks in them, pour some water and tighten them, and ignite them at the long mouth. A flame screamed and lit up a water area in front of him. The illuminated bottom of the river is unobstructed, and the mole or fish at the bottom of the river are kicked into the net before they can fully react. You can copy half a bag in an hour or two. People who don't have a garter lamp catch crickets at night, so they use a small iron net to hold small pieces of pine seeds (pine roots that have been oiled for many years) to light up, but the lighting effect is not as good as that of garter lamp.

If you catch more cockroaches, you can't finish steaming them, and you will make delicious cockroaches tofu. Although it is called tofu, it has nothing to do with soybeans. Now I know that the tofu was once set as a royal banquet by Emperor Taizu. It is a dish at the Manchu-Han banquet. It is not only delicious, but also nutritious and suitable for all ages. I never thought that the delicious food I often ate as a child turned out to be a favorite dish of the emperor. Think about it and have a good taste. The Financial Channel said in Charming China City that the best crickets are produced in Huinan, Jilin Province, just like hairy crabs are recognized as the best in Yangcheng Lake. I have never eaten crickets in Huinan, but I think the best one is the place where I live-Guanghua, Tonghua, Jilin.

Because I often watch my mother cook the bean curd, so I will. Clean the mole cricket, remove the shell from the back and remove the head, remove the black line from the tail at the same time, put it on the vegetable pier and chop it into pieces, put it in the vegetable basin, pour clean water, filter out the broken shell chips, and leave the filtered water for a while. When it is completely settled, pour out a part of the settled clean water and stir it into a paste with chopsticks for later use. Heat the oil in the pot, add chopped green onion and Jiang Mo until fragrant, add salt, add appropriate amount of water to boil, pour two drops of white wine to remove fishy smell, stir the slug evenly, and slowly pour it into boiling water while stirring. In an instant, the slug will solidify into light powder and light yellow flocs and roll in the pot. If there was a drop of sesame oil in that year, it might taste better. Put it in a white porcelain bowl, sprinkle with minced coriander or leek, and without taking a porcelain spoon, my two sisters and I took a sip at the edge of the bowl. It was tender, smooth and refreshing, and the lips and teeth were fresh and fragrant, with endless aftertaste and smacking mouth. There was no delicious food in the world. Every now and then, my mother would say: Eat slowly, little greedy cats, and don't burn them. There is enough for you to eat in a basin. At this time, the hungry taste buds got the greatest satisfaction, and they put down their bowls until their bellies were round. Although they were often eaten at that time, they never got enough. To say that the happiest thing at that time was to watch the fairy tale book in one hand, while slowly tasting the tofu with a small spoon and competing with the gods.

Now life is good, the material is rich beyond imagination, the delicacies are delicious, it is not difficult to eat anything, and the taste buds are used to eating nothing with relish. Now, many years have passed, and I have never eaten the delicious clams and clams tofu there. Even if I eat them, I am afraid I can't eat the taste of that year! Even so, I'd like to have another meal of salamander and salamander tofu, and taste the most delicious food in my childhood!