Wang Shaodong's dormitory, inside the plastic basin, all kinds of messy little insects spread all over the bottom of the basin, crawling around, making people with dense phobia look numb in their scalps.

There are centipedes, scorpions, earthworms, turtles, and so on.

"Brother Dongzi, if we throw all these insects into the chicken coop, if the chickens can't eat cleanly, it will be troublesome to crawl to us at night."

Zheng Tao's worries are not unfounded, now that the plastic basin is covered with a gauze net, there are already many small centipedes trying to get out of the gauze net.

"Otherwise, let's take these insects and boil them in boiling water, and then feed them to the chickens, otherwise they may really run into our house."

This situation is not strange at all, the house built on the mountain, sleeping for a night, the scorpion centipede hidden under the pillow is quite light, and some people wake up and feel that their necks are cold, and when they look down, it turns out to be a snake.

In March and April of the solar calendar, just after the sting, the weather is still very cold, and the snake crawling out of the hole will find a place to warm up, and the simple house built on the mountain is the best place to go.

Taohualing Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing the river on one side, Xiangshan Mountain on the east, Songbai Mountain on the west, and Wujiayuzi Mountain on the south. On the mountain on three sides, Wujiayuzi is an orchard with several thatched houses; There are also a few thatched houses on Xiangshan; On Songbai Mountain, there are also several thatched houses.

Some of these thatched houses were places where everyone went to the mountains to take refuge when the bandits came to make trouble, and they have been uninhabited for a long time. Then this kind of bluestone slab thatched roof house, the thatched roof has long been taken down as firewood, and the house is overgrown with weeds, such as hares, foxes, weasels, rats and insects, everything.

In some thatched houses, the people who pack the orchards look at the fruit when it is ripe in the fall.

The fruit on the mountain is ripe, and there is no obstruction on all sides, and if no one is watching, the greedy will surely go in and cause trouble.

Thatched houses are not permanent houses, so the doors are relatively simple, usually made of thorn strips, which can prevent the sheep grazing on the mountains from jumping into the house to make trouble.

This kind of house can't stop rats and snakes.

There are many rats and snakes in the mountains, and these two animals use each other as food, when the weather is hot in summer and autumn, the snake will catch the rats to eat, and in the winter when the snake goes into the hole to hibernate, the rat will burrow into the snake hole, and gnaw the snake as food like a carrot.

Before and after the rain, the weather warmed up, and the hibernating snakes began to crawl out one after another, but at this time, the night was still very cold.

When Wang Shaodong went up the mountain, he was specially instructed by Wu Lao Er in the village that if he woke up in the morning and found that his neck was cold, as if something was lying on it, he should not try to catch it. Because, it was a snake lying on a person's neck to keep warm. If you catch it, the snake thinks it has been attacked, and it may wrap its arms around the person's neck, and the more it grabs, the harder it will coil, and if you don't get it, the person will suffocate to death.

How strong is the serpent?

Wang Shaodong once saw a safflower snake as thick as a sugar cane, and then everyone chased after it, and the snake ran into the crack in the wall, and the three fourteen or fifteen-year-old half-old children grabbed the snake's tail and tug-of-war outside. As a result, the snake's body was dragged off, and the snake was not dragged out.

The strength of the snake is so great, if you are not fully sure that you can break the snake with both hands, then when you wake up in the morning and feel that your neck is cold, the correct way is to knock on the edge of the bed with your hands to make some movement, and the snake will run away.

This is a bit alarmist to say, but in the mountains it is a very real problem.

Fortunately, the snakes around Taohualing Village are mainly white-striped snakes, which are commonly known as safflower snakes by Wang Shaodong, which are non-venomous.

After lunch, Wang Shaodong scalded all the insects with boiling water, and then wore gloves and sprinkled the insects on the plastic sheet on the floor of the chicken coop.

At first, the chicks didn't recognize the little insects very much, and then they clucked in fright, but soon a few bold chicks took the lead and took the lead, and the rest of the chicks rushed to eat them when they saw that there was no problem.

Strange to say, some small bugs are poisonous to humans. For example, a caterpillar that can turn into a butterfly, if a person's skin touches the caterpillar's stinger, it will have an itchy and painful herpes, which is very uncomfortable. But let's not talk about caterpillars, even after eating centipedes, the chickens have nothing to do.

At a feast of insects, Wang Shaodong's five hundred chickens looked very happy.

It was Wang Shaodong's turn to work the night shift tonight, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Shaodong went to sleep.

On the other side, to the east of the village, there is a chicken farm.

The 80,000 broiler chickens of the Wang family are growing well, and today is the ninth day.

These days, the people on this side of the chicken farm are working hard, and the two of them take turns to work at night, and Wang Fumin, as the owner of these 80,000 carnivorous chickens, goes to this chicken coop all night long, and goes to that chicken coop to see, for fear that anything will go wrong.

At night, Wang Fumin went back and forth, and during the day, Zhao Shiling was responsible for coordinating the feed with each family, observing the growth of the chicks in each chicken coop, and then Wang Fumin was able to rest for four or five hours.

However, Zhao Shiling is a woman after all, and sometimes she is not as good as a man when she encounters problems.

The farm is busy here, Wang Shaodong on the mountain is also busy, and so much money has been invested in the Wujiayuzi Reservoir, so the Wang family sent Liu Yujiang and Su Yulong to keep an eye on it, and they didn't even have time to go over and take a look.

In the blink of an eye, another week has passed, the pre-epidemic prevention work of broiler chickens is over, and then the daily management is on the right track, Wang Fumin slept for two nights, and then on the twelfth day of February in the lunar calendar, he rode a motorcycle to Wujiayuzi Reservoir to see the situation.

On the construction site, three construction teams and more than 30 people are working nervously and busily.

Because it is a large contractor, that is to say, the whole project is contracted to three construction teams at a total price, so the project is completed one day earlier, and the construction team will earn one more day, and then each construction team is very motivated to work.

In the early stage, when Wang Shaodong was looking for someone to level the bottom of the reservoir, he dug out a lot of stones, and now it is just right to use those stones to build the barrage.

About 100 meters of barrage, of which 50 meters of rubber dam, do not need to leave any overflow gates, overflow holes or anything, save a lot of things, the amount of work is reduced by more than half at once.

The project is progressing rapidly, and Su Yulong and Liu Yujiang are also conscientious, Wang Fumin is relieved a lot.

After seeing the reservoir, Wang Fumin rode a motorcycle, planning to go to Songbai Mountain, where his son had experimented with pine seed chickens.