Chapter 10: Ah Huang, the thin dog
Most of the houses in Lijiagou are tiled houses built in the 80s, divided into upper and lower floors. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info A small courtyard house is built in the style of a small courtyard, sitting west to east is the main house, south is the kitchen, and the backyard is a small courtyard specially used for cattle.
Looking at his mottled tile house, Li Zhi couldn't be happier, the house was still built in ninety-three years. At that time, Li Zhi had not yet gone to school, and the family still had some spare money. Later, after the siblings went to school, the family's expenses became natural, and there was no money left to rebuild, which has been the case for more than 20 years.
The rusty gate was made with the help of my relatives when I was admitted to university, and it cost almost nothing. Walking around the house, there was an orchard behind the house, and there were all kinds of fruit trees. This was planted by the brother and sister when they were young, and the fruit trees they found everywhere to satisfy their appetites, and the cherry leaves have withered and yellowed.
There were still a few pears and peaches left, and a flock of birds could be heard cheering in the fruit trees. Obviously, no one in the family eats these fruits are cheap for these elves in the mountains, near the yard is a bowl of thick jujube trees, and the green jujubes hide in the leaves and have not been harmed by the birds.
Maybe it's not ripe yet, because the place near the yard is more humid and the dates bear a lot. A few small yellow squirrels on the peach trees in the distance peeked out of the leaves from time to time, looked around vigilantly, and then continued to carry them.
Li Zhidu walked under the tree, the birds on the tree were still cheering, the ripe peaches on the top had already been eaten only a small half, and the pears had not escaped their mouths, Li Zhi was dissatisfied and picked up a stone and smashed it to startle a group of birds. But within a few minutes, the flock of birds came back again, and Li Zhi had to give up after driving away several times in a row to no avail.
Before entering the door, a yellow figure rushed out of the door with a snort, Li Zhi glared at his old yellow dog sitting outside the door and looked at him with a flattering face, his big tail slapping the ground and sweeping up a layer of dust.
The dogs raised by the farmers are basically native dogs, whose scientific name is the Chinese pastoral dog, and the gatekeeper or something is definitely more powerful than those precious dog breeds, and it is easy to raise. They are not picky eaters no matter what they are fed. Li Zhi's family is relatively advanced, and the old yellow dog is a fine dog among pastoral dogs.
The fine dog is actually a kind of pastoral dog, but it is a hunting dog that is more suitable for hunting left after the continuous optimization and breeding of mountain people. SD dogs are relatively famous, but it is not difficult to see them in places with large mountains.
Thin dogs have slender waists and thick and powerful limbs. The cattlefoot is larger than the average country dog and is suitable for running mountain roads. Stamina and a keen sense of smell. Four or five thin dogs even dared to fight wild boars, their teeth sharp and slender, and their lethality was amazing.
The fine dog is well trained and very obedient, and the thin dog Ah Huang in Li Zhi's house was given by his grandfather. Li Zhi's grandfather, who was from Chenjiagou under Sanshui Bay, used to be a famous hunter in the area, but he had long since washed his hands when he got older when the village moved.
Ah Huang was also trained by Li Zhi's grandfather, although he was not as good as those old hounds, but it was quite easy to catch rabbits or something. When he was a child, Li Zhi didn't take it to the mountains and forests to cause trouble, looking at Ah Huang's somewhat withered yellow hair and not too agile movements, Li Zhi had to sigh that time passed too fast.
"Come back, are you old boy unable to bear the loneliness?" Li Zhiqiang suppressed the melancholy in his heart, smiled and waved his hand. Ah Huang is very obedient, and he doesn't know how his grandfather trains, basically Li Zhi's family's instructions can be carried out very well.
But today's Ah Huang seems to be a little disobedient, Li Zhiyi summoned both sides in a row, it just sat on the ground and kept wagging its tail, and its eyes looked like the mountains and forests not far away from time to time. Li Zhi didn't understand that this old guy was beginning to cherish the life of the mountains and forests, but it was going to be dark this day, and Li Zhi didn't dare to let it enter the mountains.
You must know that the mountains around Lijiagou don't look very high, but they are all remnants of the wild mountains. There are many wild beasts in the mountains, and when I called home before, I said that someone in the village had seen a wild boar, and some people even heard a wolf howl.
"I'll take you tomorrow, and I'll be back today!" Li Zhi had no choice but to put down the suitcase and go out and pull Ah Huang into the door, Ah Huang saw his hand stretched out and immediately happily stretched out his tongue to lick Li Zhi's hand, and rubbed his trouser leg with his head from time to time, that look of joy made Li Zhi a little happy.
Pulled Ah Huang into the house, closed the door, looked around, went back to his room to tidy up, and then found some food in the kitchen and threw it to Ah Huang. The other livestock in the family have already been explained, and they don't let him take care of it, and there is no way, once Li Zhi kindly helped feed the pigs, but the next day, the two little pigs all saw the king of Hades.
That year, the family couldn't afford to slaughter the pigs, but Li Zhi was hungry to death. At the same time, there is no less complained by the greedy little sister, as for the fat beating from the mother, it must be indispensable.
After looking around the yard, there was basically no change, and after playing with Ah Huang for a while, I saw that the sun had not yet set. Li Zhi decided to take Ah Huang out for a walk and take a look at Sanshuiwan by the way. I took out the mountain bike I bought with my first money in high school from the utility room in the backyard, washed it with a large basin of water, and got ready to hit the road.
The roads in the village are mostly concrete, and although the roads are not very wide, they are much better than the previous dirt roads. Riding a bicycle with Ah Huang all the way out of the village, he soon came to a mountain road. It's bumpy, but fortunately, the bike is in good condition, although it's bumpy but it's smooth.
The Sanshuiwan Reservoir is not too far from Lijiagou, and if it is a straight line distance, it should only be more than three miles. But there was a mountain in the middle that was not too small, and Li Zhi was tired and panting all the way down the hill. At the same time, what puzzled Li Zhi was that even if he was in great health in high school, he was rarely able to ride a bicycle to climb this mountain road at one time, and it seems that the so-called physical improvement of the system is really good.
After resting at the top of the mountain for a while, Li Zhicai continued to ride his bicycle and took Ah Huang straight to the Sanshuiwan Reservoir, and the next downhill road was relatively easy. Ah Huang also rushed into the forest from time to time to spread wild, startling birds or other wild things along the way, especially those pheasants and hares, which made Li Zhi drool a little.
At this time, it was the end of autumn when the pheasants and hares were the fattest, looking at the fat figures, Li Zhi finally couldn't help but stop and gave Ah Huang an order to catch the hares. As the sun set, the weeds on the side of the mountain road were like a warrior who could fight well, and after more than ten minutes of chasing, he finally caught a hare.
Li Zhi took the hare sent by Ah Huang, touched its head with some distress, and looked at Ah Huang, who was wheezing like a cow, and whose tongue was longer than that of a hanged ghost, Li Zhi knew that it was really old.
The lifespan of thin dogs is generally about twenty-five or five, think about Ah Huang was given by his grandfather on his seventh birthday, and now he is almost twenty-one or twelve years old. It is indeed old, if it was a matter of a few minutes for Ah Huang to catch a rabbit before, now it will take more than twice as long.
"Good work, old man!" Li Zhi got up and tied the rabbit to the car with a straw rope, reached out and touched Ah Huang's head and looked up at the reservoir at the foot of the mountain. At this time, the sun is about to set and the afterglow is sprinkled on the water, and the sparkling Sanshui Bay seems to be dressed in gold, which contrasts sharply with the shadowed mountains on the two shores, like a combination of abstract painting and ink painting, which makes people feel strange and beautiful.
The Sanshuiwan Reservoir is composed of three forked rivers, the water surface is not very wide, and the storage capacity is also limited. However, the surrounding environment does not say, the dam is connected to the main road at the foot of the mountain. Sanshuiwan is an early water conservancy project, but due to its water storage problem, it has long been abandoned, and even its various flood discharge equipment has been abandoned.
If it weren't for the surrounding villages and some land, it is estimated that it would have disappeared long ago, and the water source mainly relies on three mountain streams, and the water quality is very good. However, because its water storage is not enough, it can be described as a chicken rib for the contractor, which is why it has not been contracted.
Next to and below the dam is a wasteland that was once the site of the village of Chenjiagou. Those wastelands are also wastelands reclaimed by the Chenjiagou people, and there is almost no water source for irrigation in the wasteland to the west, Li Zhi looked at it and shook his head and was about to give up. The good one is the ten acres of wasteland under the dam, and the loess-like soil quality is average.
Li Zhi didn't go to the dam to see the specific situation, because it was getting dark, so after a general observation, he made up his mind to get Sanshuiwan, not to mention the other things, the environment is good. At that time, it will be a lot of money to raise chickens and ducks, and this year's free-range chickens or something are not too popular.