Chapter 012: The Old Hen That Doesn't Lay Eggs
Looking at the time, it was half past two in the afternoon, and he hadn't eaten lunch, and Qingzhu's stomach was already hungry.
The pillar brought a lot of buckwheat rice, and it was not bad to steam a large pot of buckwheat rice, but before cooking, he was going to go to the vegetable field and plant the pomegranate seeds first.
However, as soon as he walked to the backyard, Qingzhu was stunned.
A huge black bear rode on the top of the wall, and below it was an old hen, one big and one small, two animals, staring at each other in a stalemate, no one making a sound.
"Bear, it's really against the sky, you are so fat, how did you climb to the wall?!"
"This hen is so fierce that she wants to bite me......" said the black bear with a nervous look in his eyes.
Listening to the words of the black bear, Qingzhu almost didn't fall, and thought: A big man of more than 300 catties, would he be afraid of a chicken, and he is also an old hen?
Originally, Qingzhu was worried that the hen would be hurt by the black bear, but he never expected that the result would be the opposite.
"Cluck, kind of you come down!" the hen screamed as she stared back at the black bear.
"There's a kind of you coming up!" said the black bear, though timid, but unrelenting.
"What's wrong with you two, why are you fighting?" asked Aotake.
The hen suddenly looked at Qingzhu and was stunned for a moment before she said, "Giggles, can you understand what I said?"
"Hen, why are you bullying the black bear?" Qingzhu was a little embarrassed for the black bear when he said this.
"Giggles, that stupid bear dares to laugh at me......"
"Bear, what are you laughing at it?!" Qingzhu hurriedly looked at the black bear and asked.
"I just asked it, how many eggs can it lay a day, but I didn't expect that as soon as this hen heard this, she immediately went crazy, and it was natural for a hen to lay eggs, how could I laugh at it......"
"Giggles, I hate it when someone asks me about this ......"
"Why?" Qingzhu asked, looking at the hen again.
"Giggles, now that I'm old, I can't lay eggs, but I don't want to raise me, and you want to stew me and drink soup, human beings are really ungrateful, this is the truth of unloading the mill and killing donkeys!"
Qingzhu had a black line on his face, and he never expected that this hen would still speak idioms.
"Hen, you can rest assured, in my Qingsong Temple, I promise that no one will dare to hurt you, and it is not a big deal if you don't lay eggs, you, stay here in the future to retire!"
"Giggles, really?!" asked the hen, staring at Qingzhu suspiciously.
"Really, I promise you in the name of Sanqing Daozun!"
The hen was satisfied, and flapped her little wings and ran into a bush, perhaps to catch insects and eat them.
Qingzhu looked up at the black bear, hated the iron and said with hatred: "Xiong, come down, it's time to eat in a while." ”
Although the wall of this courtyard is not high, it is not short, and it is really difficult for the black bear to go up.
As soon as he heard about eating, the black bear was in a hurry, and he wanted to jump down directly, but it was too stupid and didn't know how to do it, so he fell face down.
Now the face hit the ground first, the fall was not light, the black bear covered his nose and whined for a long time, fortunately, this guy has rough skin and thick flesh, and he didn't fall out of the way.
"Bear, I know that I am so cowardly, don't climb to dangerous places in the future, remember?"
"Uh-huh, are you going to eat now?"
"Eat, eat, eat, know to eat, and wait until I'm done with my work before cooking. ”
Qingzhu walked to the vegetable field with a hoe, and just wanted to dig a pit next to the pumpkin, the system reminded: "...... Warm reminder, pomegranate trees are woody plants, and hosts should choose larger land to plant, so that pomegranate trees can thrive. ”
Qingzhu thought about it, and the system was right, the pomegranate tree is not a vegetable, it can grow into a big tree, of course, you must choose a larger place to plant.
This vegetable field, to the end of the cliff, three sides of the cliff, want to go here only one way, you must pass through the Taoist temple to enter the vegetable field.
Therefore, even if this vegetable garden is full of rare treasures, Qingzhu does not have to worry about someone stealing vegetables.
Looking for a sunny place, Qingzhu dug a deep pit, threw the seeds of the pomegranate tree in his hand, and then covered it with soil and watered it thoroughly.
"That's it!" Qingzhu said, patting the soil on his hand.
Back in the kitchen, this time with enough food, Qingzhu steamed a large pot of buckwheat rice.
When the meal is cooked, it's not too early.
Although the taste of buckwheat rice is far inferior to pumpkin porridge, the rice that the pillar sends up the mountain is new rice, and it tastes very good.
Qingzhu and the black bear had a full meal, and the old hen also ate some rice grains.
Qingzhu said to the two animals while washing the dishes: "Bear, chicken, let's eat dinner early today, I won't cook at night, I should also go online to read books, you two don't fight, why should you go!"
……
There was nothing to say all night, and when the sky turned around, Qingzhu got up.
When I walked into the yard, I saw that the black bear and the hen were all right.
The black bear was still sleeping with the pine tree in her arms, and the hen was on the branch, making a small nest with hay, and the two little ones had not yet woken up.
Qingzhu hurriedly ran to the vegetable field to see that the pumpkin planted yesterday had already borne fruit.
The size is similar to yesterday's pumpkin, but the color is still dark green, not turning red, probably not fully ripe, after all, it was planted at noon yesterday.
However, Qingzhu is more concerned about the seeds of pomegranates, and now that the land where the pomegranates are planted, only a tender seedling with the thickness of a finger has grown.
A pomegranate seed that I bought for 400 yuan actually grew so slowly, which made Qingzhu a little puzzled.
Qingzhu glared and asked the system, "System, is there a problem with the pomegranate seeds you sold me?"
After waiting for a long time, the system yawned and said lazily: "What a noise so early!"
"System, your pomegranate seeds are so expensive, why do they grow so slowly?"
"Are you blind, aren't the pomegranate seeds already germinating?"
"It's germinating, I see it, but it's growing too slowly?"
"Pomegranates are woody plants, so of course they grow slower than vegetables, and their fruit ripens longer. ”
"System, you're saying that this pomegranate tree won't produce pomegranates in a day or two?"
"Yes. ”
"Uh, how long did you say it would take?"
"If you water it with rootless water, you can shorten the ripening time, but unfortunately you don't have rootless water now. ”
"Uh, didn't you say it for nothing?"
"It takes about seven days for a pomegranate tree to grow if it is watered with ordinary water, but it takes another three days for it to bloom and bear fruit. ”
"System, you mean that in ten days, I will be able to get the pomegranate fruit, right?"
"Yes. ”
"That's okay, ten days isn't too long, I thought I would have to wait three and a half years. ”
"People give birth, and you don't give birth, and the two of you are not in a hurry, why are you in such a hurry?"
"Uh......"
"Don't call me so early in the future, I know, the system usually doesn't go to work until 8 o'clock in the morning. After the system said this, it stopped talking, probably to make up for sleep.
……
In the next few days, Qingzhu took care of the pomegranate tree carefully, let the black bear water it once in the morning and evening, and the hen would also help loosen the soil.
With the buckwheat rice delivered by the pillar, the pumpkin and buckwheat rice ginseng were cooked together to make porridge and drink, so a lot of pumpkin was saved.
A large pumpkin can be eaten for at least two or three days.
In this way, a week passed, and the pomegranate tree on the edge of the cliff had grown to the thickness of a bowl, and a huge pomegranate flower had bloomed on the branch, red and bright, like a fire.
Qingzhu waited for the pomegranate flowers to produce big pomegranates as soon as possible, so as to help the young couple of the pillar realize their wishes.
On this day, a group of students, about seven or eight, both boys and girls, came up from the bottom of the mountain, and they came to the mountain to relax after the college entrance examination.
I have to say that this steep Qingyun Peak does have a little difficulty for ordinary urban men and women.
"I'm tired of this palace, this mountaineering is really not an ordinary tiring!"
One of the slightly chubby girls really couldn't walk, and she didn't care about her image, so she sat on the ground with her butt and gasped for air.
"Sun Miaomiao, you just don't like sports to be so fat......" Qian Xiaolin said with a smile on his face.
Although Qian Xiaolin is also quite fat, he is a boy after all, and he is always better than a girl in mountaineering.
"Shut up, aren't you a dead fat person yourself, if it weren't for a brain-dead like you, who would organize this kind of life-tiring activity. Sun Miaomiao turned white and Qian Xiaolin said with a glance.
The other students couldn't help but laugh and said together: "As a dead fat person, why hurt each other!"
A little girl next to her who looked quiet and beautiful, and had a slender figure, smiled and said, "Okay, Sun Miaomiao, don't keep talking about Qian Xiaolin, you just lack exercise." ”
Sun Miaomiao said with a jealous face: "Zhou Li, do you think everyone is like you, a freak, obviously so thin, but his physical strength is more powerful than that of a man......"
Zhou Li shook her head and walked up to a high ground, breathing in the fresh air of the mountains and feeling the ethereal nature of nature.
"It's so nice in the mountains, sometimes I think about how nice it would be to live in this kind of place one day!" Zhou Li said from the bottom of her heart.
"Hmph, Zhou Li, look at your fine skin and tender meat, don't think how good it is in the mountains, when I went back to my hometown in the past, the mosquito was a nightmare for a lifetime......" Sun Miaomiao said with a creepy face.
"Okay, okay, I heard that there is a Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, let's hold on a little longer, and it's not bad to go to that Taoist temple to rest. Zhou Li said with a smile.
"Hmph, we are all talents of the new century, and we have received a materialist education, so why don't we believe in those bull-nosed old ways?" Sun Miaomiao said with disdain.
"Hehe, Sun Miaomiao, just your mouth stinks, now that the college entrance examination results haven't come down, you are not afraid of offending the old gods in the Taoist temple, and quietly change your scores, when the time comes, you can't even pass the three books, then it will be miserable?" Qian Xiaolin said with an oath.
"Oh, Qian Xiaolin, you still dare to curse me, there is a kind of you don't run!!" Sun Miaomiao was not tired, and ran towards the top of the mountain after Qian Xiaolin.