Gu Ren lay on the bed for less than half an hour, when the wind suddenly blew in the courtyard, and there was a faint sound of rain falling.

"It's raining?"

Gu Ren sat up one by one. Today's weather is hot and muggy, and there is a sign of thunderstorms. Thinking that my father went out to catch scorpions, he has not yet returned. got out of bed.

The summer thunderstorm came urgently, and when Gu Ren pushed the door open, the wind outside was stronger, mixed with raindrops, crackling.

Wang Binglian, who had already slept, heard the sound of wind and rain and also left the room.

Farm tools, stools, and dried fruits dried on stone mills were placed in the courtyard. These things should not be exposed to rain, and they must be packed up and put in the house or in the firewood house and well room.

"Mom, I'll help you. ”

Gu Ren helped put the farm tools, shovels, and hoes into the well room.

"Ah Ren, you go see your dad first. Your dad hasn't come back from catching scorpions. Mom will clean up the things in the yard. ”

Wang Binglian advised.

"Hmm. ”

Gu Ren returned to the room, picked up an umbrella, brought a flashlight, and walked towards the gate of the courtyard.

As soon as he arrived at the gate, a figure staggered out. Holding a purple flashlight and a wooden stick in one hand, and a small plastic bucket in the other. It was Gu Dashan who ran back in a hurry.

Gu Ren hurriedly trotted over, covered his father with an umbrella, entered the gate, and entered the firewood room.

"Dad, where to catch scorpions tonight, see that the sky is not right, and don't go back early. ”

Looking at my father's mud-stained trouser legs, as well as the scratches on the branches on his arms, forehead, and face, I was distressed.

"Go to the thorn gully. Ah Ren, look, how many scorpions are there! Haha, it's definitely half a catty. ”

Gu Dashan said excitedly, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, picked up the small plastic bucket in his hand, and showed it to Gu Ren. Half a catty of scorpions can be sold for nearly two hundred.

"Dad, don't go to the thorn gully, it's too dangerous. ”

Looking at the dense scorpions inside the plastic bucket, Gu Ren said.

Thorn ditch is the deepest ditch in Gujia Village, the terrain is complex, the ravines are staggered, the thorns are everywhere, and it is barren, because the land is clay, not suitable for planting, and there are no crops. Ordinary, very few people go there.

"It's fine. ”

My father placed the plastic bucket on the tray on which the dial was weighed.

One said, the weight of nine taels, removed, three taels of skin of the plastic bucket, and the net weight of the scorpion was six taels. In one night, I caught six taels, and I could sell it for at least more than 200 ...... If you can catch so much every night, it will be 6,000 a month, which is more than the income of small white-collar workers in second-tier cities.

Of course, this assumption is not valid, and usually, it is the norm to catch one or two at night. Father was only able to catch so much tonight, and when he came, no one caught the thorn ditch, and there were many scorpions.

Second, the weather is hot and humid today, and it's about to rain again. The scorpions can't stay in the nest, so they come out to move around in search of food.

That's why my father was able to catch six taels of scorpions in just a few hours.

"If only I could catch it for so long every day. ”

Gu Dashan hoped.

Outside, the rain gradually rose, and the rumbling thunder accompanied by lightning appeared.

Wang Binglian finished packing up and also came to the firewood room to see tonight's harvest. He was also very happy to hear that Gu Dashan had caught six taels of scorpions.

When the three of them walked to the door, Gu Dashan's purple flashlight swept the corner of the house at random, and they were startled.

"Ah, there's a scorpion here!"

Gu Dashan's profession was dictated, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly walked over.

There was a bottle in the corner of the firewood room, and in the bottle were two large and small scorpions that Gu Ren was experimenting with.

"Hey, how did you get into the bottle? ”

"Dad, that's what I put in for the test. ”

Gu Ren saw the bottle in the corner, which he had placed.

"Blind toss, such a big scorpion, you pretend to be four or five! ”

Gu Dashan muttered and stood up.

"It's okay, the bottle is smooth, how can it come out. ”

Gu Ren smiled, but before he finished laughing, his smile froze.

"Four or five big scorpions?"

A hint of nervousness flashed in his eyes, and he stared at the bottle with wide eyes, and under the faint purple light, the five huge scorpions in the bottle crawled out with their long tails.

"Dad, give me the flashlight, I'll take a look, you go back and rest first." ”

Gu Ren felt a huge wave in his heart, pretending to be indifferent on the surface.

"Oh, go back early and get some rest. ”

Gu Dashan and Wang Binglian didn't pay attention and went straight out.

Outside, thunder and lightning were blowing, and the wind was roaring.

"Squeak"

Gu Ren half-closed the firewood door and walked to the corner, in the corner, where the wine bottle stood quietly, inside the bottle, several big scorpions opened their teeth and danced their claws.

"One, two, three, four, five!"

Under the faint purple light, Gu Ren counted it, no more, no less, exactly five.

If you look closely, the five big scorpions are huge, but they are all under common sense, and there is no abnormal number of dinosaurs. Basically, they are all hooks one or two centimeters wide and six to seven centimeters long, with a long tail and a curved tail, flashing black, and the hook on this tail is a powerful weapon for scorpions to defend themselves or kill their opponents. When the hook pierces the opponent's body, the poison sac in the tail opens, and the poison in the poison sac is quickly injected into the opponent's body.

It can be said that one hit must be hit, and one hit must be killed.

Don't talk about insects and small animals, even if a person is stung, it will get a big bag, and the pain will be red and swollen for several days.

Gu Ren naturally didn't stupidly touch it with his hands, but clamped its long tail with a clip and observed it carefully.

Three female scorpions, two male scorpions. The skin of a female scorpion and a male scorpion is dark brown, and the rest are light in color, like the color of a newborn young scorpion.

Gu Ren recognized it, this dark brown female scorpion and male scorpion were the big and small scorpions that were put into the bottle an hour ago. The other three scorpions, on the other hand, are newborn young scorpions with transparent bodies.

"Three young scorpions were born in an hour, each one was so big? In other words, three scorpions in an hour...... It's going against the sky!"

Gu Ren took a deep breath and felt completely sleepy. This kind of surprise and accident can no longer be described simply as excited.

I found a small stool, sat next to it, and giggled.

Minutes and seconds passed.

Gu Ren's eyes stared motionlessly.

In the blink of an eye, an hour passed, and there were five more scorpions in the bottle. All five scorpions were born to the first female scorpion. It only took ten minutes for the little scorpion to grow up from the moment it was born.

In ten minutes, a small scorpion grows up.

Inside the small wine bottle, there were ten scorpions.

Another hour passed, and there were five more scorpions in the bottle, which were also born by the previous female scorpion, although the newborn scorpion has a male and a female, but it will not give birth, and it will automatically stop when it grows to a certain size.

Gu Ren took another wine bottle and grabbed two scorpions, one male and one female, from the old basin for experimentation. Unsurprisingly, all of them.

Through the analysis, I also came to a conclusion, that is, after the scorpion absorbs the purple gas, it takes about twenty minutes to fully absorb it, and after the absorption, it grows up rapidly, or gives birth quickly (the scorpion cubs born by absorbing the purple gas grow up directly and do not need to be absorbed twice), and the premise of fertility is that the scorpion has been conceived.

Scorpions, unlike many insects, can continue to give birth as long as they conceive once, and do not need to be fertile a second time.

For a whole night, Gu Ren had been researching.

I don't know when the thundershowers stopped or when the sky dawned. Even her sister Yuyan curiously walked into the half-hidden firewood room, but she didn't notice it at all.

Yuyan asked Gu Ren in surprise if he hadn't rested all night, and Gu Ren lied, saying that he had just gotten up in the morning. Yuyan was interested in the vegetable garden, and wanted to see if the vegetables in the vegetable garden had grown overnight again, so she didn't study it carefully.

Gu Ren followed to the vegetable garden to see the changes.

After a night of thunderstorms, the vegetable garden was lush and green, filled with the scent of earth and flowers.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, and peppers are everywhere......

However, despite their large size, most of them are not yet mature. The first ripe fruits and vegetables were basically picked yesterday. At present, most of the fruits and vegetables in this crop will take two or three days to mature.

Yuyan picked a big tomato and ate it happily.

"Yuyan, the watermelon in our courtyard is also ripe, why don't you eat it, you have to eat tomatoes." ”

Gu Ren asked with a smile.

"Stupid, tomatoes can beautify your face. ”

Yuyan said proudly.

Gu Ren took a closer look, and his sister's skin seemed to be a little more tender today, which seemed to have something to do with the vegetables and fruits in the vegetable garden.

"Every kid knows how to be beautiful. ”

Gu Ren scratched Yuyan's nose, and by the way, the purple qi flashed through his fingertips, and it didn't enter Yuyan's body. Purple qi can cure diseases and naturally improve the body's mechanisms.

Just a sister, the more beautiful the better.