Chapter 33 Betta Fish

In the middle of the night, Wu Zhiqiu finally couldn't stay up anymore and went to sleep in the shack.

Li Junge saw that Li Ermao was sleeping soundly, so he didn't wake him up and continued to keep vigil by himself.

If you are bored, simply enter the space and see how it goes.

Repeat yesterday's labor, move the weeds on the island to the ground, and then move the big fish from the spiritual spring to the lake.

"Hey, why is there still this in the spiritual spring? Isn't this 'burning fire'? But I haven't seen it for a while. ”

A group of small fish about five to seven centimeters long that Li Junge found in the spiritual spring, with a black stripe on the back of the head and gill cover, and a dark green round spot on the gill cover. The dorsal, pelvic, and caudal fins are about twice the body length, and the first rays of the pelvic fin are elongated filamentous. The body is bright orange-red, with more than a dozen horizontal bands of blue and blue on the sides of the body. Very beautiful.

The tail fin of the smaller fish is short, the dovetail shape is not obvious, and the color is blue-green, which is lighter than the larger ones.

This fish is called "Burning Fire Bian'er" in Lijiagou, and its scientific name is the Covered Spotted Betta Fish, also known as the Chinese Betta Fish.

The larger, brighter-colored males are males, while the smaller ones are darker-colored.

Bettas mainly inhabit ponds, swamps, rice paddies and other areas with gentle currents. Feeds on zooplankton, aquatic insects, and mosquitoes. In the past, there were a lot of streams in the fields of Lijiagou.

However, with the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, as well as the drying of water after the rice harvest to grow vegetables, this fish has not been seen for a long time.

The spotted betta has a gillillary auxiliary respiratory organ that allows it to breathe directly into the surface air. When dissolved oxygen is low, air bubbles can be swallowed into the digestive cavity for breathing. So as long as it is not man-made, the survivability of betta fish is very strong.

This fish also has a lot of fun features.

The male spotted betta fish will become ferocious in order to grab territory and fight for territory, and will often fight very fiercely with the male fish that is close to him, and even seriously injured and killed.

When mating, the male betta will spit bubbles on the surface of the water to build a "bubble nest" for the female betta to lay eggs during mating.

During mating, the male hugs the female with his body, and after the female is stimulated by light pressure on the abdomen to cause the female to ovulate, the male will simultaneously release sperm to fertilize the egg.

After ovulation, the female will appear in a brief coma, at which point the male will attach the eggs to the nest one by one, and the female will also help when she wakes up.

This mating action is repeated dozens of times until the female has finished laying her eggs. In total, it can produce about hundreds of eggs.

Once mating is complete, the male is responsible for guarding the fertilized eggs on the nest and reinforcing the nest, as well as driving out other approaching betta fish, including the female who was originally responsible for mating and spawning.

Typically, if you have a baby, you don't want a daughter-in-law.

Li Junge speculated that the betta fish should have come from the long-abandoned terraced rice fields on the mountain.

Because the terraced fields on the mountain have been barren for a long time, the betta fish hatched again in the puddles accumulated by the rain, and then they were brought into his own pond by the mountain stream, and when he searched the fish pond, they received the space spirit spring together.

"This fish is quite good-looking, and it will be circled out with a fishing net another day. Li Junge thought.

But now he was still keeping vigil in the mountains, and he couldn't do anything, so Li Junge went to check the orchid again, and then withdrew from the space.

After a night without a word, the sky gradually brightened, and the birds in the mountains flew out in groups, one after another, chirping and foraging for food on the small plain.

Li Ermao woke up first, got out of the shack, and said embarrassedly: "Piwa, why don't you ask me to get up for the night, and you will keep watch all night." ”

Li Junge walked around the space, felt that he was very energetic, and said, "Seeing that you slept soundly, I didn't call you if there was nothing to do." ”

Then he extinguished the fire and checked it carefully to make sure that there were no sparks, and then went to the stream to wash his face.

You must be careful with fire in the mountains, otherwise it will be terrible to cause a fire.

At this time, Wu Zhiqiu also woke up. The three of them returned to the village together.

After returning the firearm hunting knife to Uncle Orion, and saying goodbye to Wu Zhiqiu and Li Ermao, Li Junge took the puppies and walked back.

Passing by the threshing floor, Li Junge saw that his parents were already turning the corn, so he went over to say hello.

Uncle had already told his parents yesterday that Li Junge had gone to keep vigil, so the two of them were not surprised, and only beckoned him to hurry home for breakfast.

When I got home, I saw my grandmother and hurried up to say hello.

Grandma said: "Good grandson hurry up and eat, eat and go to bed and squint for a while." ”

Li Junge obediently agreed, first went to the back of the house to wash, and then had breakfast, but he was not sleepy at all, so he ran to his house and dragged out a box.

The boxes are full of things that run the mountain, there are daggers, the ones that run the mountains are called "plugs", there are hunting knives, the ones that run the mountains are called "sticking wrists", there are machetes, the ones that run the mountains are called "backs", there are short spears, and the ones that run the mountains are called "shuttle sticks".

These things are all made of bow boards, and they are considered good in the countryside.

There's a lot of mess out there.

I haven't been back for years, and it's time for these things to be remaintained.

I found a few pieces of straw paper, wiped the oil stains off these tools, and re-polished them after taking them to the house.

Sharpening knives are also exquisite, divided into three kinds of grinding stones and sandpaper, first rust, then coarse grinding, and finally fine grinding.

The sharpened edge line is a straight one, and it is a perfect facet that can reflect the figure of a person like a mirror.

After polishing the tools, Li Junge found another thin hemp rope, twisted it with two cotton ropes, and rewound the thread on the handle.

Such a handle has a lot of friction, sweats, and is easy to use.

After doing this, Li Junge went to the back mountain to repair the chicken pen, and tried the knife by the way.

The guy was very handy, and in the morning, Li Junge enclosed a fairly large chicken farm in the forest on a hillside in the back mountain.

The shelves were set up, and when I went home, I took out a bundle of plastic woven striped cloth, covered the shelves and fixed them with wires, and a chicken farm was enclosed.

Then a few chicken racks and chicken sheds were built in the middle of the chicken farm.

When the chickens in the space were released, I found that the chicken farm was a little bigger, and the chickens were sparsely pulled inside.

When I counted them, there were fifty-three.

"No matter, you can play by yourself here in the future. Li Junge cleaned up the guys, returned to a corner on the edge of the fish pond, and put the duck baby into the fish pond while grandma was making lunch.

In the afternoon, I remembered another thing, and I put the upside-down bamboos hanging upside down in the space into a bundle and sent them to Uncle Craftsman.

In the evening, my parents came back, saw the chicken baby and the duck baby, and asked where it came from, Li Junge said that it was sold to him by a passing fellow, and my parents did not suspect it.

In the next few days, except for one day in the middle of the day with his parents to take back the dried corn, the rest of the time is to arrange the space, walk the dog, tease the little wild boar, or go to the fourth grandfather's house to read a book, or go to Ermao's tea shed to drink tea, chat, and visit the east and west, but also happy.

One night, when everyone in the family was asleep, they suddenly heard the puppies barking, and then they heard an old voice shouting anxiously: "Piwa!

The family was shocked, and Li Junge was the first to come out, and it was Wang Xiaosong's grandfather Wang Dongfang.

Seeing that Wang Dongfang was sweating and his face was full of anxiety, Li Junge felt that the matter was not small, and hurriedly asked, "Grandpa Xiaosong, what's wrong?"

Wang Dongfang said: "Oh, my Xiaosong just had a stomachache and rolled all over the bed, so I called Pharmacist Cai to see it, saying that it was an emergency and had to be sent to the county." Look at this black light, the waterway is desperate, and the child's parents are working outside, this is going to kill me!"

Li Junge is a college student in the village anyway, and he has been mixed in the big city, and Wang Dongfang is also sick and rushed to the doctor, wanting to find him for an idea.

At this time, my father and mother also got up, and hurriedly said, "Go to Uncle Fifth Cousin and ask him to prepare the boat." I can't say I'm going to make a trip tonight. ”

Li Junge ran away, thought about it, returned to the house, and turned his wallet out.

It's not very useful in the village, but it's not good in the county seat.

Bringing the largest battery lamp in the house, Li Junge trotted to see Wang Xiaosong, and at the same time called his fifth cousin Shi Baoquan to ask him to prepare the boat.

rushed to Wang Xiaosong's house, and saw Wang Xiaosong rolling in pain on the bed, with big beads of sweat dripping down his forehead, his face was pale, but he still gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound.

There were several people around, one of whom had a lock of beard, it was Cai Wenzhong, an old Chinese medicine doctor in the village, who often went into the mountains with Uncle Orion, and everyone called the "pharmacist", who was now knocking on Wang Xiaosong's stomach, frowning.

Wang Xiaosong's neighbors, Li Dongsheng and Ai Yulian, the parents of the little sister cub Li Yunqiu, were also there, wiping Wang Xiaosong's sweat.

Seeing Li Junge coming in, Li Dongsheng hurriedly greeted Ai Yulian.

Wang Xiaosong also opened his eyes and called weakly: "Uncle Erpi." ”

Li Junge hurriedly touched Wang Xiaosong's head and said, "Hey, it's all like this, don't talk about etiquette anymore." He turned his head and asked Cai Wenzhong, "Uncle Pharmacist, what's the situation?"

Uncle Pharmacist frowned and said, "This should be an intestinal carbuncle, an emergency, I have to send it to the county hospital immediately." ”

Li Junge called: "Hey, Uncle Pharmacist, can you change your name to something I understand!"

Uncle Pharmacist said, "It's appendicitis." ”

Li Junge was shocked when he heard this, he had a college classmate who had this one, and he would die if he didn't do it. Hurriedly picked up Wang Xiaosong and said, "I asked the fifth cousin to prepare the boat, and I have to go to the county tonight no matter what." ”

When the other three heard this, they said, "Let's go with us." ”

Li Junge said as he walked outside: "Uncle Five's boat is too small, and it is too dangerous to sail at night, in this way, Uncle Pharmacist, you come with me, you are a doctor and you can take care of you on the way, Uncle Dongsheng and Aunt Yulian, you don't go, Xiaoqiu also needs you to take care of it, and my parents and Grandpa Xiaosong will come and tell them later, we have to leave quickly." ”

Leaving Xiaosong's house, Uncle Yao Shi was lighting in the back, and Li Junge carried Wang Xiaosong on his back, and rushed to the small pier with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

When I came to the small pier, I saw that the fifth cousin had already set the iron boat on fire, and was anxiously carrying a headlight to and fro on the road.

Picking up the three of them, the small iron boat did not stop for a moment, turned around, and rushed towards the Wuxi River.

When he was about to enter the Wuxi River, Li Junge called Wang Congjun, told him about the situation, and asked him to drive the car to the dock and wait.