When I was a child, there were no toys, but in the vast countryside, toys were everywhere.
For example, my friends and I love playing with an insect called the Kowtow Worm.
In the past, in our place, "kowtow bugs" were common. On leaves, in the grass or even on the road, it is easy to find a "kowtow worm".
The "kowtow" doesn't look pretty, so what are we looking for? Of course it's kowtowing!
Speaking of which, the "kowtow worm" is not only not beautiful, but even a little ugly. But fortunately, it does not bite, taking a step back, even if it bites, we who are accustomed to rural children can skillfully avoid it. Who's afraid of whom! Rural children are not squeamish.
The "kowtow worm" is not reserved at all. As soon as we pressed our fingers against its back, it slammed its head. When I was a child, the village department often put open-air movies, which were basically war movies. Seeing the prostrating "prostration worm", we think of the traitor in the movie, nodding his head and waist, not at all spineless.
Although we hate that it is not dignified, we still like to catch it and kowtow. Because it is really interesting to watch it kowtow, a series of "pop", "pop" and "pop" sounds, crisp, especially fun. Is it kowtowing, is it to please us, to hope that we will let it go?
The game we like to play is to catch several "kowtow bugs" and then form a circle to see who has the hardest knock in their hands. The "kowtow worms" seem to know that we want to watch them perform, and they don't hide it at all, and the prostrations are wet under their heads. I don't know if they were tired and sweaty, or if they shed tears of grievance or panic.
We don't care about that anyway. After the teasing is over, we will not let them go, one foot at a time, clean and neat, trampled to death. Because adults tell us that "kowtows" are pests.
Pests, no matter how fun they are, must be resolutely eliminated, but they cannot be left to harm people.
I don't know how, now the countryside can rarely see the "prostration worm".
Where did they go? Are they really almost wiped out, or are they hidden deeply?