Chapter Twenty-Six: Melons Bear in the Trees
This time, Liu Laosan seemed to be Wang Ba eating scales, and he was iron-hearted, so he had to ask Liu Junhao to give him guidance, and he personally ran to the backyard to see his yellow eels, as if he wanted to find out what was different, but Liu Junhao had to follow and accompany him in person.
From time to time, yellow eels can be seen scurrying out of the shade of trees, swallowing caterpillars that have fallen in mid-air, and then burrowing into the ditch.
"Your yellow eel is also clever," Liu Laosan turned back and forth in the ditch, and did not find any "insider", of course, he was a little disappointed.
In fact, he also knew that Liu Junhao didn't lie to himself, but he couldn't figure out why there was such a big difference between the people who fed the same yellow eel.
"Hey, there's a watermelon on this tree?" When Liu Laosan's eyes fell on a corner, his eyes suddenly widened, and he was in disbelief.
"Well, I don't know when a few melon seedlings came out in the spring, and I didn't pick them up, so I didn't pay attention to growing so big. Didn't you dig a ditch a few days ago, I thought this watermelon was in the way, I wanted to pull it out, but who knew that Professor Zhao tied the watermelon to the tree, and it became like this. Liu Junhao explained.
"Obediently, the watermelon is on the tree, I can be regarded as opening my eyes today" For a while, Liu Laosan forgot to ask about the yellow eel, and looked at the half-sized watermelon in the net pocket.
I saw that the green watermelon seedlings in the corner were crawling everywhere on the acacia tree with crooked necks, and the top was full of small yellow flowers, and there were a few watermelons that were already the size of a bowl hanging on the drooping melon seedlings.
If the watermelon grows on the ground, he doesn't feel strange at all, but this watermelon grows on a tree, which is something that Liu Laosan has never encountered in most of his life.
When he got home, he told his mother-in-law about the strange things he had just seen, and at first his mother-in-law didn't believe it, but in the afternoon, he went to Liu Junhao's yard to see it once, and then he believed it.
Liu Laosan's mother-in-law herself is a big mouth, but the next day when she went to Liu Junhao's house to see the people who were growing watermelons on the trees were like rushing to the market, they were all amazed.
This completely subverts their cognition, the rural watermelon generally has to press the seedlings, that is, every other section on the melon seedlings to press a large clod, so that the melon seedlings are completely lying on the ground and how many floating roots, but Liu Junhao's melon seedlings are simply hanging in the air, and they also produce round and green watermelons, which makes people go where to reason, watermelons are on the tree.
Of course, the credit for this incident is not completely recorded in Liu Junhao's head, and many people sigh that the experts from the provincial capital are different, and people can plant watermelons on trees.
This strange thing was naturally heard by the people who came to the village to travel, one by one to run to Liu Junhao's house to see the strange, but also took out the camera to take pictures, this watermelon soon became one of the three treasures of Liujiagou's signature, and even some good people also made up a slip: Liujiagou has three treasures, the fire head grows a big grinding plate, the old turtle runs with the word longevity, and the watermelon hangs on the acacia treetops.
This watermelon is the same as the vegetables in Liu Junhao's yard, that is, there are many fruits, how many small green watermelons grow a day, he counted, a melon seedling has produced six small watermelons so far, looking at the small pale yellow flowers on the tree, it is estimated that there are not a few watermelons that will be produced in the future.
Professor Zhao didn't expect this result, and he also made a special call to his colleagues from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, so that he had time to come over and study what was going on, and see if there was any possibility of large-scale promotion of this project of planting watermelons on trees. If it can be successful, then there will be a new idea of interplanting watermelons in the consequence forest.
Watermelon is not cold-tolerant, but also afraid of waterlogging, the whole growing period needs sufficient sunlight, so when planting watermelon, we should choose a plot with sufficient sunshine, high terrain and convenient drainage.
Don't look at the fruit forest interplanting in the newspaper so loudly, but the real situation is not the case, because the interplanted watermelons generally bear very little fruit, and the size is also very small, plus the fruit trees block the sun, resulting in the watermelon being exposed to the light for less time, so although the watermelon in contact with the water is particularly large, but not sweet.
If the watermelon seedlings are climbed on the tree, then the limiting factor of light is weakened a lot, and the possibility of interplanting watermelons in the fruit forest is much greater.
It's just that Professor Zhao doesn't understand why this watermelon bears so much, he doesn't know the reason, but Liu Junhao can guess that it must be the credit of the spring water, he originally prepared more than a dozen net pockets are not enough, this watermelon is the same every day, the largest one is already the size of a bowl, the net pocket is bulging and swollen, so it is not ripe, it depends on the situation to continue to grow, but this net pocket is elastic, it should be able to hold.
In fact, not only are there so many watermelons, but even a few jujube trees in Liu Junhao's front yard have many small flowers this year, and they can feel bursts of fragrance coming from the yard eight zhang away.
However, rural people generally no longer enjoy the shade under the jujube tree, the reason is very simple, there are hairy spicy seeds on the jujube trees, this kind of spicy hairs are all blue, with some small hairs, especially poisonous, stinging people on a big bag, itchy and painful, particularly uncomfortable.
In Liu Junhao's yard, the hairy child suffered such a time, he was digging a hole under the jujube tree, I don't know what's going on, a hairy spicy man got into his shorts, and stung a big bag on his thigh, such a solid bear child cried on the spot, Liu Junhao hurriedly picked up the toothpaste and squeezed out a large piece and applied it on the hairy child's thigh, and it took half a day to reduce the swelling.
Now the jujube flowers have basically fallen, and many jujubes have grown to the size of pigeon eggs, although they are still green, but the bear children in the village have nothing to do to play a few poles.
The jujube tree is different from other fruit trees, and as the saying goes, "there are three poles of jujube." There are no dates and three sticks. "When the jujube tree grows vigorously, it will affect the fruit, and only by beating it often can it produce more dates, so this group of bear children has nothing to poke with a bamboo pole, and he didn't say anything, let them mess around, anyway, the current dates can't be eaten.
However, when the hairy boy handed him a green jujube, Liu Junhao felt strange, this jujube was already crispy, with a faint sweetness in the bitterness, no wonder this group of bear children came to beat the jujube tree every day.
Liu Junhao and Professor Zhao were fighting fiercely on the Chu River Han Realm, and suddenly the little skin at the door screamed again, no need to ask, it was a tourist who came to his yard to see the strangeness, and when he looked up, he saw a big fat man leading two women to the gate of the courtyard.
"Little Pi, don't scream" With his scolding, Little Pi immediately wagged his tail and squatted under the big tree to no longer look at the three of them.
The three of them were all dressed in casual clothes, and the two women next to them looked about the same age as themselves, but the big fat man and one of the girls in front looked familiar.
"You're a mouse?" The fat man was also stunned when he saw Liu Junhao, and then walked over enthusiastically.
"Crabs?! What are you doing here? Liu Junhao also immediately recognized this big fat man, this person was his classmate in high school, and he lived in the same dormitory. His name is Pang Xu, and the homonym sounds like a crab, and a group of classmates nicknamed him Crab at that time. And Liu Junhao's nickname is "Mouse", he and Pang Xu sleep on bunk beds, so the relationship has always been good in high school, when Liu Junhao was dropped out of school, Pang Xu also took him to the restaurant for a meal, saying that it was to see him off.
The old classmates were naturally happy to meet, and the two forgot to introduce others for a while, until the short-haired girl coughed, and Pang Xu reacted, "This is Xu Xiaoli, who used to be in the same high school as us," he said and deliberately winked at Liu Junhao.
Liu Junhao also remembered it now, isn't this the girl that the fat man has been pursuing when he was in high school, his love letter was still revised by Liu Junhao at that time, looking at the current situation of the two, I am afraid that the hookup has come to fruition.
The girl with long hair is called Zhang Qian, a relative of Xu Xiaoli's family, I heard that she is studying as a teacher and has been interning in the county for half a year.
After listening to Pang Xu's story, Liu Junhao knew that Liujiagou's reputation was very loud recently, and he heard people talking about it from time to time in the county, Zhang Qian just asked Xu Xiaoli to bring her after listening to it, because she was afraid that it would not be safe for the two girls to go to the mountains alone, so she had Pang Xu, the "bodyguard".