In the rivers and streams of our northeastern mountains, there grows a creature similar to the crayfish that is now popular in the market called the scorpion, but it is definitely not a crayfish. The scientific name of the cockroach is "Northeast Black Crawfish", and the living body surface is bluish brown, while the scientific name of the crayfish is "Protocrayfish Klesi", and the live body is reddish brown. The origin of the cockroach is in the northeast, the water quality requirements are extremely high, and it cannot survive at all in the polluted water, which is one of the reasons why the scorpion is on the verge of extinction this year.
I remember when I was very young, there were many butterflies in the rivers and streams outside the village, although life was relatively difficult at that time, and I did not see a little meat all year round. But the walls of the commune were plastered with leaflets prohibiting the consumption of slugs, saying that the worms contained lung trema worms, which frightened us from eating them. Unlike the people in the city today, there is nothing that dare not eat, and there is no disease that dare not get!
When catching toads in the lower river, they also caught cockroaches, which swim backwards in the water using their tails. There is a saying in our hometown that describes some people who cower when things happen and say that you are "a cockroach, and you run backwards when things happen" is indeed very image. We often caught the cockroaches by the river and roasted them on the fire, smelled the seductive aroma, and did not think about the disease at all. There is no propaganda that you can't eat cockroaches. There is also a very delicious method of cockroaches - tofu. I also heard the legend about the tofu of the cockroach, according to legend, when the Qing Taizu Nur hachi soldiers trapped the grain and grass of Xiaotun Fort, he personally led the soldiers down the river to catch the cockroaches, and then used the stone grinding of the hometown to crush the cockroaches, filtered and made tofu like tofu brains, after eating the whole army was saved, and later he called the nameless river that caught the butterflies the cockroaches the lizard river.
The fresh aroma of shrimp and crab in your mouth, and the smooth feeling of bean blossoms and chicken cakes make you send it into your throat before you have time to taste... It's a rare delicacy that still has a lingering aftertaste! I remember that later, I was sprinkled with some medicine in the river in my hometown, and it was difficult to see the cockroaches again. Probably because in recent years no one is artificially destroying its growth environment, in recent years there are a small number of cockroaches, but the price is outrageous, the last time I went home to see the market selling 80 pounds, you can buy 4 pounds of crayfish.