Chapter Seventy-Five: Natural Predators
I don't know how the matter of raising snails spread in the village, and Er Mazi was the first to run over and ask: "I said Xiaohao, are you really going to raise snails?" ”
"Hehe, didn't you say last time that you would follow me when I got a big project? Now that you don't raise grass snails, how many will I sell you? Liu Junhao joked with a smile while building a circle.
This circle is not solidified with lime cement, but directly paved with green bricks, and then pasted with mixed mud to finish. So in just a few hours he was almost done, only to cover the curtains at the end.
"What did I buy your grass snail for, I want to make myself have no long hands? If it rains, you can go around the woods for a long time, and you can get seven or eight catties" Er Mazi scolded with a smile, and then asked with some doubts: "Are you really going to raise snails?" ”
"What am I lying to you for, this is not a snail is all done." Liu Junhao said as he poured a large piece of fine sand from the river beach into it. He also crossed the river by feeling the stones, which is not mentioned in the grass and snail breeding book at all. Although Su Nana searched for a long time when she was choosing books, she didn't find a book about breeding grass snails, so she bought a copy of all kinds of books and mailed it to Liu Junhao.
And here Liu Junhao also estimated that the habits of snails were similar, so he raised them as white jade snails.
"Snails still eat sand?" Er Mazi asked with some surprise when he saw that he had made a lot of sand.
"This is prepared for snails to lay eggs, and I am also referring to the book to figure it out" Liu Junhao threw the snails in the wooden basin into the circle one by one, and then threw more than a dozen vegetable leaves.
Probably because of the dampness of the land, after a while, the snails hiding in their shells poked their heads out and crawled inside, many of them crawling on the leaves.
"Dog's day, this thing can be raised, is it delicious?" Er Mazi looked at these grass snails, obviously a little tempted.
"Don't worry, Uncle Guangxi, the grass snails I raised are absolutely delicious, I estimate that I will be able to eat them next month, and I will fry some when the time comes, please come and try them."
"Okay, this can be decided, if it's really delicious, you won't say anything, your uncle's farmhouse will give all the grass snails." Er Mazi said "quite far-sightedly".
Now it's okay, you can eat snails in another month, send away Ermazi, Liu Junhao sat on a chair in the front yard and looked forward to the future.
Before the buttocks sat firmly, the hairy boy led a fat little flower dog to the yard with a blue nose and swollen face. As soon as the puppy entered the yard, he sniffed around, and then puffed Liu Junhao's shoes on the ground, and ran to the hairy child, calling "Wang" to ask for credit.
Dogs generally looked cute when they were young, looking at this little flower dog, Liu Junhao remembered that when Xiaopi was just picked up, in a blink of an eye, Xiaopi grew so big.
"Where did you get the dog from, it looks like you just got out of school, and the schoolbag hasn't been delivered home yet?" He asked, confused.
"I asked my classmates to get it for me, and I have been carrying it to school for the past two days, and Teacher Zhang didn't find out." The hairy boy took out a large piece of steamed bun from his schoolbag and threw it next to the puppy.
The puppy was eating happily, and suddenly saw the little skin lying on the side of the stone slab, and immediately barked and rushed up, and began to arch the little skin's belly, it seemed that he was thinking about feeding.
"Woo woo......" Skinny let out a low warning sound.
But the little flower dog seemed to turn a deaf ear, and arched under its belly for a long time without milk, and was also anxious, and even barked at the little skin.
It's really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, this little flower dog is really bold.
However, the little skin didn't seem to want to meet the puppy, and was annoyed by it, so he got up and walked towards his kennel, but the puppy still followed behind unrelentingly, and finally gnawed the bones in the little leather kennel with peace of mind.
Xiaopi has the habit of collecting bones, and every time Liu Junhao throws a big bone to it and can't finish gnawing it, it will be in the kennel and enjoy it slowly in the future.
Because there is food stored in it, this kennel has become a forbidden area, whether it is chickens, ducks or rabbits, as long as it approaches, it will "whine" and warn.
But this warning was invalid, the little flower dog still swaggered in front of it and gnawed, and the little skin barked a few times to see that it did not respond, so he had to give up and close his eyes to bask in the sun.
This made Liu Junhao a little surprised, and what surprised him even more was that he was still behind, the little flower dog was probably tired of playing after gnawing for a while, so he barked and climbed on Xiaopi's back and bit its ears to play.
And Xiao Pi didn't do anything other than shake his head at all.
"What's wrong with your face, you can't be fighting with someone, right?" Liu Junhao then remembered to ask what was going on with the hairy child's face.
"Go up to the tree to dig out the birds to let the hornets sting, I built a white-headed nest on the toon tree in the backyard of my house, I saw the two old birds catch insects and go back to feed them two days ago, I estimated that the birds are about to get out of the nest, I want to go up to see it, but I didn't find a big hornet's nest under the toon tree." The hairy boy rubbed his swollen face and explained indifferently.
The name of the bald head elementary school in his mouth is the pulsatilla, this bird is very common in Daqingshan, often chirping in groups of one or twenty, quite annoying.
"You kid deserve it, how old are you and you go up to the tree to dig out birds, and sting your eyes to make you feel good." Liu Junhao originally wanted to reprimand him a few words, but seeing that this kid had a rough skin and thick flesh, he had to give up, saying the same as not saying it, this bear child is the master of the left ear in and out of the right ear.
The hairy boy talked for a while, then ran to the house to play with the computer, and no longer cared about the little flower dog he threw into the yard, and the flower dog made a fuss for a while and lay comfortably next to Xiaopi and fell asleep.
Liu Junhao sat in the courtyard for a while, seeing that the sun was about to go down before he remembered the matter of collecting duck eggs. He climbed up the pile of miscellaneous wood with a sieve and looked, and sure enough, there were three or four duck eggs in each nest.
This made him even more suspicious, could it be that this water duck lays eggs at night, otherwise how could he have not found out?
His suspicion was soon confirmed, and when it was almost dark, a water duck flew silently up the weeds, and after a few minutes of patrolling, lay eggs in its nest.
After a while, six flew up, all of them like thieves, sneaky.
Now all the confusion in Liu Junhao's heart has been explained, it seems that although this water duck has been domesticated since he was a child, his vigilance has not degraded at all.
The hairy child forgot the time when he played the game, until it was dark, and the kid had no intention of leaving. Liu Junhao was afraid that his family would be worried at night, so he urged him twice before he was blown up from the computer.
The kid had been sitting for two hours, his eyes glued to the screen, and now he was so sour that he couldn't see the road clearly. When he first stepped out of the door frame, he kicked in the air and fell into the mud.
"Did you fall?" Liu Junhao hurriedly helped him up.
"It's okay" The hairy child patted the soil on his body and was about to go to the kennel to hug the little flower dog, but he suddenly found that the backyard was bright, and suddenly exclaimed: "Uncle Xiaohao, come and see what's going on in your backyard, there are so many fireflies!" ”
"Fireflies?!" Liu Junhao was startled when he heard his shout, and walked out of the house, exclaimed, and hurriedly walked over with a hand-held lamp.
This insect is also so hateful, the snails that I just stocked in the afternoon, they come to make trouble in the evening.
I saw that there were a lot of flickering firefly larvae crawling on the fine curtain, and many of them were still drilling into the eyes of the curtain.
This thing is the natural enemy of snails, and it mainly feeds on snails. I don't know how they smell the smell and crawl into their yard.
Liu Junhao looked at it for a while before he put his mind at ease, the cracks of those green bricks had been covered with mud in the afternoon, and although there were holes in the window screen, they were very small, and the fireflies couldn't get into them at all.