Chapter 268 Stone Tablet
I didn't pay much attention to it before, but after living together for nearly half a year, Liu Junhao found that his wife's temperament was a little frizzy, and everything was hot for three minutes
Take this silkworm breeding as an example, she was very interested at first, but after a sneeze knocked over the matchbox, she didn't serve it again, but when Liu Junhao was feeding, she came to the side of the layman to command the insider.
A few days ago, Zhang Qian became interested in those tadpoles that had just come out, and threw egg yolks into it every day when she was idle and had nothing to do, if it weren't for Liu Junhao watching from the side, it was estimated that she would throw six or seven eggs in half a day. It is said on the Internet that newborn tadpoles in the natural environment eat the larvae of mosquitoes.
But the water quality in my backyard is good, and there are generally no mosquitoes. Even if there were, it was wiped out by the yellow eel seedlings. Therefore, Liu Junhao raised koi seedlings according to the previous method and fed egg whites directly. Anyway, the tadpoles were very adaptable and never objected. In fact, even if they objected, Liu Junhao couldn't understand it.
These tadpoles grow quite quickly under the water of the spring, and in less than a week, they are already the size of a little thumb belly. A large black patch swam around in the window screen, like an overturned inkstone, which was quite pleasing to look at.
But there are greedy yellow eels who want to come. Predation, but there is a curtain barrier, they can only stare dryly. Some of the impatient ones even slipped ashore and wanted to make a flank attack. Liu Junhao had already taken this situation into account, so he lifted the curtain up to a height of nearly thirty or forty centimeters above the water, and they couldn't get in at all.
After "condolences" to the tadpoles, Zhang Qian pointed the camera at again. A swallow's nest under the eaves. Seeing that the two old swallows had not come back from pecking in the mud, she secretly stood on the stool and took pictures of the unfinished villa.
That pair of swallows was only a week ago. settled here, Liu Junhao was very annoyed at that time, and these two guys didn't look at each other at all. I don't object to you building a nest, but you always have to choose a good location. They happened to choose the nest diagonally above the living room door, so that Liu Junhao was careful every time he entered and exited, for fear that if he was not careful, the swallow poop would fall on the top of his head.
Initially he wanted to instruct Goku to poke the bird's nest out and make them move to another place. Nest. Zhang Qian resolutely objected, and bluntly said what if they were no longer in their own nest after being stabbed.
That's better, the province is annoying, the bird's nest in the yard is already enough for him to dark. Zhong muttered.
Of course, in order to be afraid that the monkey will destroy the bird's nest on his own initiative, Zhang Qian is also right. It has carried out a profound ideological education.
The wife disagreed, and Liu. Jun Hao could only watch the swallows build the villa day by day. Recently, he has followed his wife's instructions when he enters and exits the door, trying to move as lightly as possible, so as not to scare the swallows.
In fact, it is also a pleasure to watch the living habits of this pair of birds every day, they fly out to build a nest in the mud almost every day at dawn, you come and go, not idle for a minute, Wednesday, the nest is completely built.
Bird's nest is very similar to a large porcelain bowl, which looks a little rough on the outside, but it is very comfortable on the inside.
Two days after the nest was built, a swallow squatted motionless in the nest all day long, quietly incubating eggs. The other swallow was not idle, and came from outside one by one to bring in grasshoppers, green worms, butterflies and other food. The female bird has a mouth, and food is fed into her mouth. The cooperation between the two is quite tacit, and when the female bird finishes eating, the male bird will secretly land on the wooden basin and send the Tai Sui water to the female to drink.
Finally, the guy carefully groomed the female bird's feathers with his beak and slammed her head as a gesture of kindness. It's a bit of a respectful taste.
After a period of getting along, the pair of swallows fully adapted to the surrounding environment, and usually he and Zhang Qian went in and out, or when they were active in the yard, the bird did not react abnormally.
However, as soon as Wukong and Doudou get close, the swallow holding the nest will immediately become nervous, its feathers fully spread, and it will be grinning and chirping, completely looking like a great enemy.
Although they are not welcome, Goku is very interested in the two swallows, and when he is fine, he lies on the window and squeaks until the swallows are nervous.
This guy is purely underbeaten, and it was only after Liu Junhao knocked a few brains that it became honest. In fact, Wukong didn't really mean to dig out the bird's eggs, he just thought it was fun.
When Liu Guangju came over, Liu Junhao's comfortable life came to an end temporarily. People called him to dig the foundation, and a few years ago I heard that the village was planning to build a hotel. There has been no movement these days, and he thought that this plan had died again.
Now the sudden start of construction always feels a little abrupt.
"Do you think I don't want to break ground early, it's not just spring, the rest of our village is busy with work in the fields, except for you, where can you find an idler in the village." Now that many people's wheat fields have been figured out, there is time to start construction. ”
Hearing him say this, Liu Junhao immediately understood. Some time ago, the wheat had just been jointed, and every household was busy weeding the wheat field, so they really couldn't spare time. But it seems that there is always work to be done in the spring crops, and I am afraid that this person can't be called evenly.
"How about working in the village, twenty yuan a day for one person?" After Liu Guangju explained the precautions, he explained the matter of wages again.
"Pay me back?" Liu Junhao was a little surprised, he thought that digging the foundation for the village was purely a voluntary work, but he didn't expect that the money would be calculated on a daily basis.
"Of course, you can't be left to do it in vain." In the spring, there was a lot of income from renting land, so Liu Guangju's waist was also straightened. Although there is still a gap in the money to build a hotel for the leased land, he is not afraid, and when the hotel is built, the money will come immediately. After nearly a year of work, I can definitely fill the gap.
The day of the start of construction happened to be Sunday, and none of the bears and children in the village came to join in the fun.
Before excavation, a long whip was put on the ground, and then everyone broke ground.
Liu Junhao has been resting all over his body these days, and he is trying to move his muscles and bones. Now that he has the opportunity to work, he is naturally full of energy, picking up a shovel and digging non-stop.
I was digging hard, and suddenly I heard a "click", and I thought the shovel was broken, so I hurriedly stopped to check. I didn't know that there was no problem with the shovel noodles at all, but a stream of white pulp came out of the soil.
"Got it!" The hairy child's eyes were sharp, and he knew at once what was in the soil.
Hearing him shout, the children in the village all came to their senses and picked up in the mound one by one. Not to mention, there are really a lot of people who have dug up, and after a while, everyone picked up seven or eight.
"Uncle Xiaohao, you hurry up and dig it, there are many roots in this place, and there must be a lot of knowledge, dig more and fry it at noon." The hairy child is worried about eating, so he urges tightly on the side.
The bear child knew a lot about it, and knew that they lived by sucking the sap from the roots of trees when they were underground. Liu Junhao dug near the side of the root of the tree, and sure enough, he dug up a lot of knowledge, almost two or three iron shovels can dig one.
Several children saw the abnormality and ran over to pick it up.
In this way, digging the soil and catching the two is not wrong.
"Xiao Hao, stop it" was digging vigorously, and suddenly Liu Guangju rushed to his side and urgently stopped.
"Uncle Guangju, what's the matter" Liu Junhao raised his head and wiped the sweat on his head, now that his body has been fully moved, the more he digs, the more energetic he becomes.
"You kid, you just lowered your head and dug a ditch, why didn't you look up at the line, where is this slanted?" Liu Guangju pointed to the lime line on the ground with his finger, and shouted angrily and funny.
Sweat...... He turned his head to see that the originally straight foundation ditch had been dug into an arc by himself, and the lime waterline sprinkled on the surface had already been dug up. It's all to blame on the hairy boy, this guy told him to dig along the roots of the tree, and he forgot to dig the foundation while digging.
He lifted the shovel and prepared to put the ground back on, but he only shoveled it with the shovel, and suddenly felt that the shovel was extremely hard, and he must have dug up a big rock.
"How can there be stones here?" Curiously, he peeled the soil off the stone. As soon as a corner of the stone was exposed, Liu Junhao immediately felt the difference.
The texture of the stone looks unusual and appears to be white marble. The stone surface was polished quite flat, and there was something faintly carved on it, but unfortunately it was completely covered with dirt, and it was impossible to see what it was.
"Xiao Hao, you hurry up and dig it, what are you stupid again?" Liu Guangju just beat him, but when he turned his head, he found that this person had stopped working.
"Uncle Guangju, come and see, I dug up a stone." Liu Junhao squatted down and carefully cleaned the soil on the slate, only to see a traditional Liu character appear on it.
"What's so strange about stones, we have a lot of them underground," Liu Guangju said in response.
"No, you all come and see, there's a word on it. It looks like a stone monument! He was a little surprised when more and more handwriting came out, so his voice was particularly loud.
"What's good?" His voice was so sudden that the people on the construction site heard the movement and threw down their shovels and surrounded him.
"Get out of the way a little, get out of the way, don't get in the way here" Liu Guangju looked at the hula la around a large circle of people, he couldn't squeeze in at all, and hurriedly shouted.
Hearing him shout, the children barely managed to make a gap.
"My mother, this is a dragon ......" Liu Guangju rubbed off some of the soil on the stele, revealing a vivid dragon head.
"Dragon's head!" The onlookers exclaimed again.
The news spread quickly, and in a short time, half of the village came running. When many tourists heard about this strange thing, they also came with their cameras.
In order to see the true face of this stele, Liu Guangju decided to dig it out first and then identify it. He called a few people to dig carefully, and it took more than twenty minutes for the stele to finally dig out of the soil. It is probably buried in a long time, and the white marble tablet has been covered with a layer of soil ash, which looks a little dilapidated.
After being placed on the open space, Liu Guangju got two buckets of water and carefully washed them on them, and then wiped them clean with a rag. At this time, the true face of the stele was revealed.
"Xiao Hao, what's written on it?" At this time, Er Mazi asked in a low voice. Many people in the village are literate, but very few know traditional characters. Liu Junhao used to practice calligraphy and copying calligraphy, so he had a little involvement in traditional Chinese characters, and he could barely recognize seven, seven, eight, and eight.
As soon as the sentence "The phoenix rises and falls, and the Liu family has a ...... of melons", Liu Junhao felt very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.
"Genealogy, these are the first two sentences of our Lao Liu family tree" Old Niutou suddenly shouted loudly on the periphery. Hearing his voice, people gave way.
After he said this, Liu Junhao also recalled that he seemed to have heard old people recite this poem before. Why is this poem engraved on the stele in front of you, isn't it a stele that records the life of the ancestor Liu Erwa?
Liu Junhao carefully identified it, and sure enough, Liu Erwa's life was recorded in detail behind the poem, and many things had been told by the old people before.
His classical Chinese is half a bottle, but the inscription is not too complicated, and the general meaning can be understood.
But how could this stone tablet be buried in the village, Liu Junhao wondered again. was thinking about it, when suddenly Liu Qihua shouted: "There is another stone tablet here"
Everyone hurriedly turned their heads to look at the foundation, only to see that as his shovel was digging, half a stone tablet appeared under the open space where the white marble tablet had been placed just now.
"Hurry up and dig up to see what is written, be careful not to break the stele" Liu Guangju waved his hand, and immediately seven or eight people walked over with shovels.
One thing after another, it's really overwhelming.
The texture of the second stele is obviously inferior to the first, and when the soil on it is cleaned up, Liu Junhao finally knows the reason for the stele to move.
In the end, it was because of the flood, it is said that during the Jiajing period, the big river flooded, and Liujiagou was all flooded. After the flood, the entire village was gone, and even the ancestral grave of the Liu family was filled in with mud and sand. At that time, the stone tablet that recorded the ancestors of the Liu family happened to be washed to the current burial location, and the descendants thought it was the "instruction" of the ancestors, so they relocated the village as a whole.
The flood washed away the stele, Liu Junhao felt a little mysterious no matter how he looked at it, it couldn't be that the ancestors deliberately fooled their juniors in order to maintain mystery.
"Can a flood wash away a monument that big?" Liu Qihua has taken the lead in asking questions.
"What's the matter, the flood in the middle of our village has been washed away half a mile away, and then the water subsided and a few of us carried it back again." Liu Wuye followed the interface.
Hearing him say this, a few juniors lost their voices, and the grinding plate could be washed away, not to mention a small stone tablet.
"Dig with shovels, see if there's anything else down here" With Liu Guangju's order, the stick laborers in the village began to get busy again,
After hundreds of years, seeing the stone tablet of his ancestors again, Liu Junhao also sighed in his heart, there is really a God destined for all this.
The crowd turned the field back and forth several times, but found nothing else. However, these two stone tablets are enough, and a few old people over there have already discussed the matter of building an ancestral hall