Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

With continued force, the small stick was suddenly pulled out, and Chang Qing cried out "Ouch!" as she fell on her bottom.

Ignoring the pain in her bottom from the fall, she first looked at the small stick in her hand. After digging for so long, she wanted to see how big a cicada nymph she had dug out.

"Ah!!" Chang Qing screamed, her hand trembled, and the wooden stick fell to the ground.

There was a large, grayish-brown worm stuck in the stick. Its belly was bulging, and its wings were wrinkled and stuck to its back. The most frightening thing was the pair of protruding compound eyes on its head, along with its mandibles that were moving around with a "click-clack" sound. This scared Chang Qing and the other girls so much that they screamed.

"Hey! Your little bird!" Chang Kun picked up the stick, along with the insects on it, and handed it to Chang Qing.

"Big brother, this is clearly a crayfish! You thought I was a child!" Chang Qing got up angrily. After struggling for so long, he didn't expect to catch such a thing!

The other girls standing nearby also grinned shyly.

"Let's go, your big brother will take you outside to catch some." Chang Kun led the way, taking his sisters towards the edge of the village.

There are too few cicada nymphs in the village, so if you want to catch them, you have to go to the woods outside the village. The villagers don't have flashlights, otherwise they would all go out at night to catch them and eat them.

As Chang Kun walked into the willow grove, he sensed cicada nymphs on the ground, and there were quite a few of them.

"Xiao Qing, look, only these small holes can harbor seasonal birds and monkeys." Chang Kun pointed to a small hole and showed it to Chang Qing.

The opening was only about one centimeter in size, and the edges of the opening looked a bit thin. If you touched it lightly with your finger, you could feel that the inside of the opening was hollow.

"Big brother, is it really in here?" Several little girls crowded around the small hole, squinting as they peered inside.

"Xiao Qing, come pick this one, there's more over there." Chang Kun led Chang Mu, Chang Xiu, and Xiao Shui to the side.

"Hey, this one, this one, and this one, there are baby monkeys in these little holes."

Chang Mu and Xiao Shui quickly found a small stick nearby and gently pried open the cicada's burrow.

"I want my nest too!" Xiu'er stretched out her little hands, searching around, and found a thick branch. "To guard my nest!"

The little boy took a thick branch and stuck it into the hole, all the way to the bottom.

"Hahaha!" Chang Mu and Xiao Shui next to them laughed so hard they almost fell over. Xiu'er did that, directly inserting the cicada nymph into the hole all the way in; it's probably already turned into mincemeat.

"Big brother, what's wrong?" Xiu'er looked up and blinked her big eyes, looking at Chang Kun with an innocent expression.

"Come on, big brother will take you to catch some." Chang Kun took Xiu'er's little hand and found another cicada burrow nearby.

"Find a thin branch, slowly insert it into the hole, and when you feel something hooking the branch, slowly pull it up."

Chang Kun taught Xiu'er step by step, and in no time, she caught a cicada nymph.

"Wow! Big pot!" Xiu'er ran to her older sisters, showing off as she carefully pinched the back of a cicada nymph. "Look, I caught this big pot!"

Chang Qing, Chang Mu, and Xiao Shui ignored her completely, simply holding their breath and using twigs to hook the cicada nymphs.

"Big brother, I caught one too!"

"Me too!"

The little girls all caught cicada nymphs, feeling a great sense of accomplishment, and held the cicada nymphs in their hands to look at them with delight.

"Keep going, catch more today." He put a few cicada nymphs into a cloth bag and continued searching on the ground.

It gets dark quite late at this time; it's almost six o'clock, but it's still not dark. In a little while, the cicada nymphs will have climbed up the tree trunks, making them much easier to catch.

Chang Qing, Chang Mu, and Xiao Shui were the most enthusiastic. Every time Chang Kun pointed out the small hole, they would lie on the ground and carefully lure out the cicada nymphs.

Chang Kun led Xiu'er, picking up cicada nymphs clinging to tree trunks along the way. Xiu'er was so happy that snot bubbles came out of her nose, and she kept counting, "One, two, three, four, five... one, two, three, four, five..."

This little girl can only count to five. I've taught her several times but she still hasn't learned. It seems she's a bit slow when it comes to studying.

As darkness fell, Chang Kun kept a close watch on his surroundings, fearing that a small, earth-ball-like creature might suddenly appear and bite him.

The young girls, including Chang Qing, couldn't see the hole in the ground. They sighed, still wanting more, and got up to help their eldest brother find the cicada nymphs climbing up the tree trunks.

After a while, having estimated that they had caught one or two hundred, Chang Kun led the girls home.

"Big brother, which is tastier, the cicada nymph or the cicada nymph?" On the way, several little girls each held a cicada nymph in their hands and played with it. Thinking about how many they had caught that night, their mouths watered.

Chang Kun thought for a moment and realized that deep-fried cicadas are crispy and fragrant, while cicada nymphs have a meaty aroma and a completely different taste.

If he had to choose, he would definitely prefer cicadas; the crunchy texture when you bite into them would suit his taste better.

However, the best cicadas are not these two types, but the ones that have just molted, when they are soft all over, even their wings are tender.

Back then, cicadas, when deep-fried, were both fragrant and crispy, yet meaty—absolutely delicious.

"Come on, let's hurry back and have something good to eat." Chang Kun led them to quicken their pace. If the cicada nymphs in the cloth bag are squeezed for too long, they won't molt and emerge. If you want to eat freshly molted cicadas, you'll have to put in some effort.

Back home, my older sister and parents had already prepared dinner. Tonight we're having wild boar bones, along with some heart and liver, to eat with a thick porridge.

Seeing the girls return, Liu Meifen's face darkened: "You went out to play until dark before coming home? You're quite something!"

These days, there are very few families that let their children play freely. These little girls don't know any better and dare to play so late before going home. They really should be hungry.

Chang Qing and Chang Mu shrank back, revealing Chang Kun behind them, and said timidly, "It was our eldest brother who took us there."

After saying that, he pulled on the cloth bag in Chang Kun's hand: "We caught a lot of birds and monkeys."

Upon hearing that it was Chang Kun who was playing with the little girls, Liu Meifen's expression immediately changed, and she put on a smiling face: "Xiao Kun, come in and eat."

In her heart, ten little girls couldn't compare to her son. Not only could her son earn money to support the family, but he was also what the villagers called the reincarnation of the God of Literature. Their Chang family had produced such a person for generations; they were incredibly lucky.

After greeting his parents and telling the girls to wash their hands and eat, Chang Kun first went to the big tree outside the courtyard and broke off a large branch. He placed the branch on the west kang (heated brick bed) and took out the cicada nymphs one by one, gently hanging them on the branch.

Several little girls gnawed on meat bones, squatting aside watching their older brother busy himself.

"Big brother, what are you doing?" Chang Qing asked.

"I'll cook something delicious, just wait and eat." After hanging up the cicada nymphs, Chang Kun washed his hands and ate.

The wild boar we hunted weighed only about 200 pounds and had almost no gamey smell. The meat and bones cooked in the pot were incredibly delicious.

Xiuer held a bone in both hands, gnawing on it until her mouth was dripping with oil, especially the bone fragments, which were more and more fragrant the more she sucked.

She suddenly took a deep breath, and a piece of bone marrow was revealed. She carefully licked it, and her eyes immediately narrowed into slits: "Great pot, delicious!"

Upon seeing this, Chang Qing immediately shouted, "Mother, Xiu'er is eating snot!"