Chapter 303: The Expedition Arrives
Two days ago, when I saw Zhang Qian, I began to notice and pay attention to my spring silkworms, and prepared to use the camera to take pictures of their cocoons. She thinks it's troublesome to feed the silkworms, but it's still attractive to stand aside and watch.
I didn't think that things were completely unexpected, it had been two days, and the silkworm had no sign of cocooning, so she was anxious, and called her husband into the house and asked, "Why don't our silkworms form cocoons, it won't be a problem, right?" ”
"It's alright, it should be almost time." There is no rule for silkworms to form cocoons, even if they are raised in the same litter, the cocoon formation time is sometimes half a month wrong. The silkworms in his family are fed with mulberry leaves in the backyard from time to time, so they are relatively large and have normal cocoons later.
Within a few days, the silkworms stopped eating and began to crawl up on the paper wall. In this case, the silkworm is about to spin out the silk and form a cocoon, which should be placed separately. Otherwise, once the silkworms in the carton form cocoons, they will definitely use silk to seal the mouth of the carton, so that people cannot continue to feed. The silkworms that were still eating had no food. Cocooning can only start early. In a hurry, the silk reserves are not enough, and a large part of the silkworm cocoons are relatively thin, and the silkworm pupae will freeze to death in the cold weather.
According to Liu Junhao's idea, these silkworms that intend to form cocoons can be placed in an empty cardboard box alone, but Zhang Qian didn't think so, and said that he wanted to find a branch to build a silkworm mountain. Seeing that she has a very high temperament, Liu Junhao can only come according to his wife's requirements. He casually got a few reed poles in the courtyard and came back, and then tied them with iron wire to form a silkworm mountain.
"This silkworm mountain is too ugly, and there is no beauty at all!" Zhang Qian only glanced at it and vetoed it.
"We think the eggs are delicious, and we don't need to ask for the hens that lay eggs, and they are beautiful, aren't they? Whether this silkworm cocoon is good or not is the main thing, why is the silkworm mountain so beautiful? "He felt the need to let his wife distinguish between priorities and priorities." You'll know when the time comes, listen to me. I'm sure you'll be a surprise when the time comes......" Listen to that, she secretly played a big game of chess.
"I want to see where the joy comes from" Liu Junhao really couldn't think of what tricks his wife could play on this, but everything was according to her.
The two walked around the courtyard for a long time, and Zhang Qian did not find suitable branches to build a silkworm mountain. She didn't achieve her goal, and finally took her husband to look for it in the woods.
"That's it, that's great, this one is best suitable...... Quickly cut it down with a machete" After searching for almost an hour, Zhang Qian finally stopped.
"Are you sure?" Liu Junhao followed his wife's finger and found only an abrupt elm stump. There was also a branch sticking out of the stump, and the leaves on it were eaten by some animal, and only four or five thin branches remained.
He was a little skeptical of his wife's eyes, which was called a surprise. Surprise is there, but joy is not necessarily. Elm pimples can be burned as firewood, but as for other uses, Liu Junhao has not yet seen them.
"Yes, you cut it like that. Be careful not to break the branches. Zhang Qian took out a carbon pen and drew one on it.
"It's easy, look at me" Liu Junhao breathed into his hands, then picked up the machete and slashed. The stump of the elm tree had already been hollowed out by the heavenly bull, and the wood was particularly loose, and in less than five minutes, Liu Junhao cut off the branches.
"Great, exactly what I wanted." As soon as the branch was cut off, Zhang Qian excitedly hugged it in her arms, like a baby.
"Wife, are you alright?" Liu Junhao was a little skeptical that she had some hysteria, and what was so good about this elm pimple.
"Go, you know what." As soon as Zhang Qian saw her husband's eyes, she understood what he was thinking, but in order to give her husband an unexpected surprise, she didn't care about refutation.
When she got home, Zhang Qian began to get busy. Liu Junhao wanted to come forward to help, but she took him away, saying that she was not allowed to peek.
In two days, those spring silkworms began to form cocoons one after another. The matter of picking spring silkworms will always be replaced by Zhang Qian. She went to school, and before going out, she had to explain to her husband: "You are not allowed to peek while I am not at home." ”
If you don't look at it, you don't look at it, you think I'm rare.
Liu Junhao muttered yes. He was curious in his heart about what kind of medicine his wife was selling in this gourd, if he had to make it so mysterious, wouldn't it be just a cocoon of silkworms? I thought someone hadn't seen it.
My wife went to school, and he began to be busy here, and the beans in the spring should climb the seedlings, and now he has to set up a shelf early. Last year, the beans were planted with straight rods, and when they were sprinkled into the ground, there was no need to be so troublesome. And that variety is willing to hang fruit, and more than 20 nests were planted last year, and as a result, he and Professor Zhao never lacked vegetables to eat in the summer. When I was sorting out the bean seedlings in the autumn, I also collected a large basket, and Zhang's mother happened to be there at that time, making dried beans for them.
This year, I was going to plant this variety, but that day Liu Junhao put the seeds on the slate to dry, but something in the village called him to help. Before leaving, he specially explained to his wife, watching the beans not let the birds peck them. Zhang Qian agreed very well, but she forgot everything in a blink of an eye. When Liu Junhao rushed home, the beans were pecked.
Zhang Qian was quite embarrassed, so she deliberately took advantage of Sunday to buy a bag of seeds on the street. However, she didn't ask clearly when she bought it, and only found out that it was climbing seedlings when she bought it.
The bean shelf is easy to build, just take a few reed rods and pile them into a tripod. It only took half an hour to clean up completely. Of course, he also caught two big green worms from the carob seedlings, and he threw them into the water to feed the yellow eel.
After finishing the bean seedlings, Liu Junhao turned his head to look at the cucumber seedlings on the other ground, and it was almost time to climb the seedlings. It's still early, so by the way, the cucumber rack is also set up, so you don't have to spend a second time.
Then there is weeding, and the spring water in the stone lock brings a good harvest to the backyard fruits and vegetables, but also has a negative impact, that is, weeds grow wildly.
Generally, if there are weeds in people's plots, they can be eliminated by directly applying some herbicides. But there were yellow eels in the ditch in his backyard. Do not spray pesticides, otherwise when it rains, residual pesticides will definitely flow into the ditch. In that case, the eel should have suffered.
This weed is also too hateful, it grows very rapidly, almost yesterday I just pulled it out, and when I look at it the next day, the ground is green again.
After eating in the morning, Liu Junhao pouted his ass and was busy in the backyard, and it was not until half past ten that he dragged the weeds in the two fields clean.
When I was working, I didn't feel that when I was free, sweat ran down my forehead, as if it was raining lightly. Liu Junhao hurriedly poured a glass of bee sugar water, and then sat in the shade of a fan with a pu fan.
After fanning for a while, the heat did not dissipate, but his hands were tired and sore.
It happened that the monkey was interested in the pu fan, and Liu Junhao pushed the boat down the river and handed the pu fan to it, and asked the monkey to help him fan. Wukong felt fresh when he first came into contact with it, and his two paws were in full swing holding the fan handle.
Now Liu Junhao was comfortable, lying there like the county master, drinking honey water steadily.
"Squeak ......" When the monkey saw the master's attitude, he immediately struck and handed the fan back.
It's not so easy to strike. Liu Junhao groped for a few fruit candies from the house, and then pointed to the pu fan. The monkey understood what the master meant: if you want to eat candy, fan me.
After all, he couldn't resist the temptation of candy, and Wukong could only grab the fan again and fan it.
"You kid, you just can enjoy it, and you're embarrassed to let Wukong fan you, what's the difference between you and the landlord in the old society?" Professor Zhao happened to come over and couldn't help but be happy when he saw this scene.
"Hehe, Uncle Zhao is here" There are outsiders, Liu Junhao is embarrassed to oversqueeze the remaining labor of the monkeys, so he can only stuff the remaining candy into the hands of the monkeys. The guy squeaked with excitement.
"You're at home, why didn't anyone answer Liu Guangju's call to you for a long time just now?" Professor Zhao asked suspiciously.
"Uncle Guangju called, why didn't I know?" Liu Junhao hurriedly ran to the house to check the phone, only to find that the thread didn't know when it fell off, no wonder no one called in the past two days. The phone line will not be loose for no reason, it should still be a good thing for your own monkeys.
"Your phone didn't get through, so Liu Guangju called me. Said to let you go later, he has something to look for" The old man passed the word and turned to leave.
I didn't know what was going on with the branch secretary, so I called again and again. If you can't get through, you can go directly to the door, and you have to find someone else to notify you. Liu Junhao shook his head quite depressedly, this person's official frame is getting bigger and bigger! Afraid that it was urgent, he didn't dare to delay, locked the door and walked towards the village.
"Xiao Hao, what's the matter with your phone, I haven't been able to get through." As soon as I arrived at the door of Liu Guangju's house, people had already greeted him.
"The plug is loose, I didn't find it before, this is ......" When he saw the two people in the house, Liu Junhao was stunned.
"These two college students from the city came to our Liujiagou to inspect ......," Liu Guangju enthusiastically introduced them to each other.
"I know, I've been here last time. Sun Yutao and Xu Dongfang, right? "They came to inspect last summer, and it was Liu Junhao who pulled the line. At that time, they wanted to invite Liu Junhao to come out in person, but they were pushed away, and in the end, a few children from the village were the guides.
"Hehe, they're all old friends." Xu Dongfang smiled and stretched out his hand.
"Welcome," Liu Junhao also stretched out his hand and shook it. To say, he is really a little unaccustomed to this orthodox way of greeting.
"Since they all know each other, then it's easy to talk, hehe, Xiaohao, they are going to go up the mountain for a few days, you can be a guide." Liu Guangju interjected beside him.
"Uncle Guangju, I can't leave." As soon as he heard this again, Liu Junhao hurriedly refused, "That mess in my courtyard, do you see if you can leave people." What should I do if someone comes home to buy yellow eels during the day? You'd better find someone else in the village......"
"Other people, other people are busier, you calculate who is not busy in the field in our village at this time, you are an idler......"
Although it is not yet time to harvest the wheat, the people in the village have begun to get busy, mainly planting spring peanuts and spring corn in the wheat fields. This work is the most tedious, the wheat seedlings have grown to half a human depth, and they are in the filling stage. You have to be careful when planting peanuts in the ground, otherwise it is easy to overwhelm the wheat. The stalks of wheat are relatively weak, and if they fall, they will destroy a large area.
Of course, the wisdom of the working people is infinite, and someone invented the brace. Tie two reed poles in a "V" shape and rest them around your waist, point them at the front of you, and hang them around your neck with a rope. In this way, the wheat will naturally be separated, and the wheat seedlings will not be hurt at all.
"What about the yellow eels in my yard? Or you can go up the mountain yourself, anyway, you've been there a few times, and the road is very familiar. ”
"Let them go up the mountain, what if they encounter a wild boar or something, there are no wolves on the periphery of our Daqing Mountain, and they can't be guaranteed inside." Huang Eel asked Professor Zhao to help watch, didn't people greet your mother-in-law very well when you went to your mother-in-law's house in the past? If you don't agree, I'll look for your daughter-in-law. Liu Guangju knew that he was purely cheating and cheating. He knew this person when he was a child, he belonged to the kind of person who did not go away and went backwards, and he would only obey it if he gave him a death order.
"Yes, I can't be a guide." Liu Junhao saw that he had to talk about this, so he could only nod in agreement. To tell the truth, this season, he is really too lazy to run up the mountain, and now he sits in the courtyard, drinking honey, and is more comfortable in his small life.
"Thank you, Liu Changlin said last time when he was our guide, saying that you know everything about the birds on the mountain, if you want to dig out any bird nests, you must be able to find you directly." When Sun Yutao saw them talking, he also smiled and praised them.
"Hehe, it's not blowing." Liu Junhao is still relatively confident in his birdwatching, the last time he accompanied Pang Xu's foodie up the mountain, he unintentionally showed his hand, and the audience was convinced.
"Our investigation has something to do with birds, you know the crested ibis, right?" Xu Dongfang raised his eyes and asked.
"I don't know this, isn't it called the national bird, mainly in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi, I heard that there are thousands of them now." Liu Junhao replied fluently. There is also an article about the crested ibis in the primary school Chinese textbook, and the last time my wife made a lesson plan, it was a picture he looked up on the Internet, so he is quite familiar with this thing.
"That's easy, do you know if we have one on this mountain?" Sun Yutao asked.
"Daqingshan...... What are you kidding, how can there be a crested ibis in Daqingshan? Liu Junhao looked at the two of them in surprise, the whole world knew that only that there were crested ibises in Shaanxi, and there were no other places.
"It's not that it doesn't exist, it's just that it hasn't been discovered yet. As far as we know, someone in your village has seen it," Xu Dongfang explained.
"Who?" Liu Junhao was even more surprised. Someone in Liujiagou has seen the crested ibis, which is no different from the Arabian Nights. It was not for nothing that he was called the King of Birds when he was a child, and to put it mildly, he had more birds than some had ever seen. When I was in elementary school, I was fascinated by bird farming. As long as the birds I have seen, I will try to find a few young birds to raise and play. Qingzhuang, woodpecker, goose cover...... He even caught kingfishers. When it comes to kingfishers, it's not easy to catch them. They are clever thieves, and few people see the kingfisher's nest, and Liu Junhao only found out by chance that this thing would make a hole on the shore. The hole was deeper than a rat's hole, and it took him half a day to dig to the bottom.
Therefore, when it comes to the knowledge of the surrounding birds, Liu Junhao thinks that he is one of the best in Liujiagou.
"Liu Wuye of your village, he said that he saw a crested ibis when he was young"