Chapter 82: Looking for Bugs
They followed the sound for about ten meters and saw a half-sized wild boar scurrying in the depression. One of its hind legs seems to have broken when walking on a mountain road, and no matter how hard it tries, it can't climb a large rock more than a meter high.
As soon as the wild boar saw Er Mazi, he immediately snorted and chirped, as if begging his master to come down and save him.
"There is another one, it may have gone to the mountain, let's leave this alone, hurry up and find it." Liu Junhao looked at the blurred hoof prints on the ground and said.
As the rain gets heavier and heavier, the smell is estimated to have completely dissipated, and Xiaopi may no longer be useful. On the mountain, when it rains, countless streams are formed, which can easily wash away the hoof prints of wild boars.
"Well, let's hurry up" Although the sense of loss of Ermazi is not as great as it was at the beginning, people are like this, and when there is hope, they will want to find more.
But they were soon disappointed, because when they tracked a mountain stream, the hoof prints were completely gone. I don't know if the wild boar ran away across a mountain stream or was swept away by the torrent.
Seeing the muddy stream flowing downward, Er Mazi still didn't give up, and was about to look at the opposite side with his trouser legs, Liu Junhao had to let Professor Zhao wait here, and he accompanied Er Mazi to look for it.
The two carefully searched the distance of more than 500 meters around the mountain stream several times, but found nothing, and it seemed that the wild boar had indeed been washed away by the torrent.
So the three of them had to go back and salvage the wild boar that was soaking in the depression. Professor Zhao answered on the top, and the two of them jumped directly into the pit.
As soon as Liu Junhao jumped in, most of his trouser legs were wet, and his feet were also deeply sunk into the mud. Er Mazi was more on his back, stepped on a small stone when he landed, slipped under his feet and fell directly to a dog to climb, and when he got up, his clothes were covered with mud.
The wild boar couldn't stop humming and warning when he saw Liu Junhao approaching him, and seemed to open his mouth to bite him, but he was quickly stopped by Er Mazi.
Lifting something less than 200 catties was a piece of cake for the two rural stick laborers, and they shouted one, two, three, and carried the wild boar outside, and Professor Zhao didn't even have time to stretch out his hand.
The next thing to drive the pig is handed over to Er Mazi, the wild boar's leg is lame, and he can't run even if he wants to run at the moment.
When he returned home, the first thing Liu Junhao did was to cut a large piece of old ginger, then put green onions and brown sugar in the pot to boil, and after boiling for half an hour, he and Professor Zhao drank a big bowl alone. Although Xiaopi was unwilling, he was still forced by Liu Junhao to press his neck and pour a bowl.
This is the solution for rural people when they suffer from wind and cold, green onions and white sweat, brown sugar replenishes blood and dispels cold, and old ginger cooperates, the effect is very good.
After the two of them drank it, they were covered with sweat for a while, and the cold on their bodies completely disappeared.
After Er Mazi went home, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and finally picked up a stick and beat the wild boar for a while, until his wife said: "The wild boar is worthless if it is broken," and he quickly stopped.
However, as for his wife asking him to find a veterinarian on the street, Er Mazi resolutely disagreed.
Professor Zhao sat in the house for a while, and then went to the backyard with an umbrella to find insects to feed his two turtle doves. Now that the rain is falling, many insects are hiding, and it is difficult to find the two old turtle doves even if they go out in the rain to look for food.
And Liu Junhao's yard has a lot of wild hemp, and there are a lot of leaf curlers on the hemp leaves. This bug is very cunning and rarely crawls outside. Most of them spin themselves early and roll themselves in hemp leaves to chew on the mesophyll, until the whole hemp leaf is eaten by them, and then they will change to another one.
Liu Junhao was idle, and he also followed him to the backyard to help Professor Zhao catch insects. As soon as they approached the hemp leaves, two flower magpies suddenly fluttered into the rain, one of them with a prawn in his mouth.
Liu Junhao was already immune to their behavior of eating and living for nothing, but Professor Zhao also praised a few words.
The hemp leaf stalks in the backyard are stout, and the leaves are the size of a palm, and the leaf curlers hiding inside are not small, and the pale cyan bodies are fat and fat, most of them are three or four centimeters.
There are a lot of those hemp leaves that have been plagued by them, and basically three or four of them can be caught on each wild hemp plant. As soon as he caught more than a dozen bugs, Professor Zhao even said that enough was enough, and he would raise them first and catch them later.
Liu Jun rolled his eyes nicely, feeling that his old man should be a leaf roller breeding base.
When he looked at the circle in the corner, he remembered that it was raining so hard, and if there was water in it, then his grass and snails would suffer.
When he first built it, he didn't think of drainage measures at all, so there was more than ten centimeters of rainwater in the circle, and there were still a few vegetable leaves that had not been eaten clean by the snails. But the snails were all fine, and they all hid on the wall early to avoid the rain.
Liu Junhao hurriedly squatted down and smoked the bricks, the soil on the wall had already been swollen by the blisters, so he easily pulled off a piece of the bricks below, and suddenly the flowing water rushed out along the cracks.
"This snail grows quite fast, it looks like it will be eaten in another ten days" Professor Zhao thought of the delicious food he ate last time, and couldn't help but feel a little raw in his mouth.
I tossed for a long time to find a wild boar for Er Mazi's house, and now when it comes to snails, Liu Junhao remembers that he hasn't eaten breakfast until now. As soon as he asked Professor Zhao, it turned out that he hadn't eaten either, and Teacher Wang over there heard their voices and happened to be calling Professor Zhao to come back for dinner, so Liu Junhao also followed and rubbed it.
For breakfast, Mr. Wang made it relatively light, fried half a bowl of camelina vegetables, Liu Junhao took a steamed bun and sandwiched two chopsticks, and immediately called it delicious. Mr. Wang deliberately fried it with sesame oil, which tasted tender and fragrant, and had a unique taste.
At this time, it was the season to eat camelina cabbage, and Mr. Wang would take the basket to the ditch to dig camelina whenever he had free time, and both of them thought it was delicious.
Now in the countryside, except for those old people digging camelina in the spring, there are very few people who eat it, even Liu Junhao has only heard the older generation of people say that the dumplings are very delicious.
Professor Zhao's two little turtledoves can be said to be the same every day, only a few days of hard work, the turtledoves have grown to the size of a small fist, sparsely stretched with gray-white fluff, and suddenly look like a little hedgehog that has just come out of the nest.
When they saw people coming, they opened their mouths one by one and chirped non-stop. These little guys, like their parents, are not afraid of people, and looking at this size, it is estimated that it is almost time to get out of the nest.
Professor Zhao was afraid that his hands would be damp, so he did not feed the little turtle dove directly, but poured the leaf curls into the bird's nest and let them peck and eat by themselves.
The two little ones immediately pounced in the nest, and at last they fought each other over a single bug, ignoring the fact that there were seven or eight fat bugs running out of the nest around them.
The old turtledove seemed to be accustomed to their behaviour, and just kept an eye on the remaining leaf curlers, and as soon as they crawled out of the nest, they caught them again.
Liu Junhao played at Professor Zhao's house for a while, and the two went to him to play chess to kill time. But this kid's eyes are red, and he obviously looks like he has just cried.
"What's the matter, your dad beat you again, what did you do wrong this time?" Liu Junhao threw down the chess pieces and asked. This bear child didn't fight for three days, went to the house to uncover the tiles, and his father was angry every day.
"I didn't do anything wrong, my dad was unreasonable." The hairy child wiped his tears and was born arguing.
"Oh? Tell me what's going on. ”