Chapter 340: Bat Spirit?
After the first round, they separated. The serpent stopped fighting, and swam quickly into the depths of the grass.
The "Wang" dog did not let it go, and his body scurried and intercepted the big snake again. The little guy became cautious this time, and instead of rushing to bite it like the previous time, his body was tentative.
Not to be outdone, the big snake kept spitting and screaming. Snakes generally don't have very good eyes, and this cauliflower snake is no exception. It can now only adjust its posture according to the opponent's movements, and the speed is noticeably slower by half a beat.
When the temptation was completed, the puppy also lost patience, and his body jumped forward suddenly, and his paws had already pressed the snake's body. Then this guy opened his mouth and bit the snake's head, and after a while, the snake completely lost his breath. After the first battle victory, the puppy seemed very excited, and kept barking at the little skin, as if waiting for his father's praise.
Liu Junhao stepped forward and picked up the cauliflower snake and weighed it a few times, it weighed three catties, and he had a good mouth again at night. Now the snake meat can't be left for a long time in this weather, so it must be taken back immediately and cleaned and salted. It's been less than half an hour. The red rabbit was not full yet, Liu Junhao thought about it, and finally threw the cauliflower snake into the stone lock. He has experimented with this stone lock, and it has a good preservation function, and the effect is even better than that of a refrigerator.
Everything was cleaned up, Liu Junhao directly moved a stone to the big willow tree, and sat on the big stone with his back against the willow tree to take a nap. This place is the tuyere, when the light breeze blows, it is extremely cool, and the whole body is comfortable and does not want to move at all.
He was about to fall asleep when he was awakened by the crisp cry of a yellow oriole from the willow tree. "Two Yellow Orioles Singing Green Willows" This situation is very appropriate, but before he could pronounce this poem, Wukong jumped on the tree and squeaked at the yellow oriole, which frightened people so much that they fluttered their wings and flew away quickly.
This guy knew that if he didn't bring it, it would really ruin the scenery! Liu Junhao shook his head depressedly, and then continued to squint his eyes...... It's not bad to sleep in this place for an afternoon.
"Squeak...... didn't sleep for two minutes, but Goku woke him up again. Liu Junhao wanted to open his mouth and reprimand it severely, but when he opened his eyes, he was stunned: This guy is holding a big old turtle in his paws.
"Where did you get this?" With a little excitement, he took the old turtle over.
The monkey didn't know if he understood it or not, and his paws were just pointing at the river.
"Go, catch another one" Liu Junhao patted this guy's head appreciatively. When Liu Wuye performed catching turtles in the spring, a group of people followed behind and watched for a long time, but they didn't see a reason, but in the end, it was Wukong's blind cat that killed the mouse and caught an old turtle. At that time, he was a little skeptical that the monkey also knew the turtle road, but unfortunately he asked for it several times in a row, and this guy pretended to be stupid. Now it seems that it is really possible for Wukong to understand the turtle road.
"Squeak" the monkey's little head shook vigorously, and he didn't plan to catch it again.
"Catch an old turtle and I'll give you a lotus pod to eat." Liu Junhao stretched out his hand. From the stone lock, he pulled out a lotus pod the size of a bowl.
As soon as Wukong saw the lotus peng, he immediately became excited, stretched out his paws and jumped to beg for it. As long as the things in the courtyard can be eaten, few of them escape the monkey's paws, except for this lotus canopy. Although this guy is not afraid of water, he can't swim, and every time he sees a lotus pod in the lotus pond, he can only sigh.
Liu Junhao stretched out his hand and flipped it over, and the lotus canopy rested in the stone lock again. He pointed to the black guy on the ground, and then gestured with his hand: "Old turtle ......"
The monkey barked reluctantly, and then ran towards the river not far away.
Liu Junhao was completely sleepless at the moment, and followed closely behind, trying to understand how the monkey found the old turtle.
As soon as I walked less than fifty meters, I immediately heard a crackling sound in front of me, and I saw a few black stone-like things running towards the river.
"Plop" "plop" a few times, and the guys jumped into the water. The monkey walked fast in front of it, but it stepped on one.
I'm really dizzy, how can I forget the sentence "the summer is scorching under the willows" in the four sentences of the song about the old turtle, and now if you want to catch the old turtle, you can't just catch the old turtle under the willow tree.
Wukong's movements were sharp, and with a flip of its paws, it had already pinched the guy up. Maybe it's the lesson of the last bite. When it pinched, it deliberately staggered the turtle's head.
Liu Junhao stepped forward to pick up the old turtle, but the monkey quickly took two steps back when he saw the master's hand stretched out, his mouth squeaked, and his eyes stared directly at his hand. The meaning is obvious, one hand to the lotus canopy, the other hand to the turtle, want to empty the gloves of the white wolf, no way!
"Almost forgot?" He patted his head and took the lotus back out. Only then did Wukong get excited, stuffed the old turtle into the master's hand, snatched the lotus pod, and ran to the distance to eat.
Knowing where the turtle is hiding, the next thing is simple. This willow forest by the river is forty or fifty meters long, and there are too many places for the turtle to hide. Liu Junhao took off his shoes, pulled his trouser leg to his knees, and then quietly descended into the river. This trick is called "catching turtles", the old turtles on the beach are very clever, and they generally drill into the river when they hear movement. As long as you get into the water, you'll be fine, and it's hard to get caught. After the turtle catcher touches this rule, he will quietly pull up the turtle net by the river, and suddenly appear to chase after him from behind. The old turtle panicked, and there was a good chance that it would crash into the turtle net.
Turtle nets are very similar to rabbit nets, both are a kind of vertical nets woven with silk threads, and a turtle net is 20 centimeters high and two or three meters long. Seven or eight turtle nets were pulled on the river beach, and the old turtle definitely didn't run. In the past, when there were many old turtles on the Liujiagou River beach, some people used turtle nets, but now there are fewer old turtles, and few people use this kind of nets anymore.
Liu Junhao came in a hurry today, so naturally he didn't bring tools. However, he has another magic gem lock, which is better than a turtle net.
"Little Pi," with a loud shout, the yellow-spotted skin, who was enjoying the shade of the tree, immediately jumped up and ran straight towards his master.
As soon as they heard the movement, those alert old turtles also reacted and rolled towards the river.
Liu Junhao had already opened his net, and when the old turtle approached, he quickly opened the stone lock.
"Bang...... Snap ......" There was a sound, and four old turtles of different sizes fell to the beach.
The creature was stunned by the fall, and when they came to their senses, they crawled into the pond again.
The first battle was urgent, Liu Junhao led Xiaopi all the way to wreak havoc, and after turning this beach, more than a dozen old turtles were also caught in stone locks.
If you catch it again along the same route, you should still catch a lot of fish that have slipped through the net. However, Liu Junhao did not continue, he had to keep a thought about everything, and it would be a sin to really catch all the old turtles in this area.
As soon as the old turtle was caught, Liu Junhao was sweating, he took off his clothes and took a bath in the river, and then took Xiaopi and rushed home.
"Xiao Hao, you're finally back, I'm looking for you everywhere. Hurry up and tie up the red rabbit and follow me to the ancestral hall" Before I arrived at the door, I saw Liu Laosan walking out of Professor Zhao's courtyard.
"To the ancestral hall, what's the matter?" Liu Junhao asked suspiciously. Since the discovery of the stele in the hotel, several old people in the village have focused on repairing the ancestral hall. This ancestral hall is simply a place for the people of Liujiagou to worship their ancestors, and three tiled houses are enough, so it doesn't cost much. After the ancestral hall is built, there is an old cow head to take care of it temporarily, and it is worshiped on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Although the younger generation in the village is not interested in this, they do not say anything, after all, this is a way to remember their ancestors.
"Let's go and see, our ancestors have appeared." Liu Laosan said with a smile.
"" Liu Junhao naturally doesn't believe this kind of nonsense.
"Really, just check it out. It's wicked. It seems to have something to do with this peach tree in your yard......"
"What the hell is going on with the peach trees in my yard?" The more Liu Junhao listened, the more confused he became.
"Don't say it's really a bit evil, it's the old bull head who first discovered it......"
Lao Niutou went to work on the chicken farm during the day, and only occasionally went to the ancestral hall to take a turn. The night before yesterday, he didn't know what was going on, but he thought of a stick of incense in the ancestral hall. As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard a squeaky squeak from inside, and the sound was very noisy, as if there was a large group of rats making noise inside. At first, he thought it was rats inside, so he hurriedly went in with a portable lamp to check, but there was nothing inside. Early the next morning, he took a cat into the ancestral hall to search, and after searching for a long time, he didn't even find a mouse hole.
In the evening, the strange screams were heard again. The old bull head muttered in his heart, and specially called the people in the village to check, but they encountered the same situation. The portable lantern shone back and forth for a long time, but nothing was found, and when I got out of the ancestral hall, it rang non-stop. During the day, the ancestral hall was quiet again, and there was no sound.
"It's not a rat hiding in the beams, is it?" Liu Junhao asked with a little confusion. When the ancestral hall was built, it was a bucket arch composite structure, and a small attic was piled up with wood on the second floor, and it was easy to hide mice.
"If only it were a mouse, a few of us searched inside and out, but we didn't even see a grain of rat droppings. But it wasn't for nothing, guess what we found in there? ”
"Don't sell it, hurry up?" Listening to his chattering appearance, Liu Junhao's curiosity also rose.
"We found peach pits in the cracks of the beams, bigger than eggs......"
"That's the size of an egg?" Liu Junhao was stunned for a moment, it seemed that except for the strange peach tree in his yard, the peaches of other people's houses did not have such a big core.
"Yes, it's very similar to your peach pit, that's why the old bull asked me to find you to recognize it."
While speaking, the two of them had already come to the outside of the ancestral hall. There were already a lot of people around there, and it seemed that they had heard that something strange was happening inside, and they deliberately wanted to come over to join in the fun.
"Xiao Hao, come over and take a look, this peach pit belongs to yours, right?" Liu Wuye said and pulled him to the ancestral hall.
"It should be my family," Liu Junhao replied with a nod after just one look. The characteristics of their own peach pit are too obvious, and the size is nearly twice as large as the average peach pit. The texture should also be much more delicate.
His family lives in the east of the village, and this ancestral hall stands in the west of the village, with a difference of nearly 100 meters between the two places, and half of the village's houses are separated in the middle. What is it that transports peach pits so far? It certainly won't be mice, and house mice generally don't have such a wide range of activities.
"But how can there be peach pits here, could it be that some child sneaked into my yard to pick peaches and put them in the ancestral hall?" He asked rhetorically, rather puzzled. Since the animals don't have that much ability, the only possibility is that some bear child in the village is deliberately mischievous.
"No, these peach pits were cast on the roof of the house, whose child has such a big ability." The beams are four or five meters high, and it is difficult to climb without the help of external objects.
This is really a strange thing, could it be that the ancestor has manifested his spirit.
"Could it be that Wukong did it, every time it eats a peach pit, it hides in the monkey's nest......" Liu Junhao used his brain, and immediately thought of another possibility.
"You hurry back and take a look, ride Junliang's bicycle, go and go back quickly" Hearing him say this, several people set their eyes on the monkey again.
Liu Junhao took the bicycle and rushed to the house within two minutes.
Professor Zhao and Old Man Jiang saw that he was in a hurry and panicked, and they both opened their mouths to ask what was strange in the ancestral hall. They had also heard Liu Laosan say it before, but both of them were atheists, so naturally they didn't believe in the words of the ancestors' apparitions, and they didn't go over to check.
"It's really a little weird" Liu Junhao roughly recounted the matter, and after the two old men heard him, they moved their minds to go over and check.
The peach pits in the monkey nest did not seem to have decreased, Liu Junhao went to the monkey nest to watch for a while, but he really couldn't see any clues, and finally had to ride back to the village.
"That sound may be a bat calling, it's easy to hide bats in old houses, and the sound of bats is very similar to that of mice." After listening to everyone's narration, Old Man Jiang asked.
"What's going on with this peach pit," as he spoke, Liu Laosan threw another peach pit from above.
The pit seems to have just been picked, and there is still a little flesh on it.
As the bamboo pole is thrown, there are more and more peach pits inside. Everyone was a little stunned, this seemed to be too much, and after a while, seven or eight gnawed peach pits appeared inside. There were already fifteen or sixteen of those on the table.
The peach tree in the courtyard didn't have many peaches, and there were so many peaches missing at once, Liu Junhao didn't even know about it, this thing was too incredible.
Old man Jiang saw that there was a small water stain on the side of the table, he came to the front and touched some with his fingers, put it in front of his nose and sniffed, and finally said affirmatively, "Cast hard, it should be a bat, this peach is eaten by them." ”
"Don't bats eat insects?" A tourist asked, confused.
"Hehe, not all bats eat insects, for example, the big-footed rat-eared bat found in China in recent years is a kind of fish-eating bat, and the bats hiding in this beam should be fruit bats, which specialize in eating fruits and stamens for a living......"
Old Man Jiang didn't finish his words, and suddenly Liu Laosan shouted: "My mother, ......", and then the bamboo pole was thrown on the ground with a click.
"Huh" everyone only saw a huge black shadow flying over their heads, and then began to circle around the ancestral hall rapidly.
"This is the bat ......" The people inside were almost stunned, the bat spread its wings and was more than a meter long, it could be said to be the giant of bats