Chapter 37: A Duck Becomes a Goose
"Mom, look at the big white goose, goose goose goose, song to the sky. The little guy saw a group of "big white geese" outside the yard quacking and walking past the yard, and couldn't help but cheer and run towards them.
"It's not a goose, it's a big white duck," corrected the furry boy, who followed behind.
"Well, how do ducks look like geese?" Xiao Haoyu tilted his head and looked at his father with some confusion, wanting Zhao Weidong to explain to him.
"This ......" Zhao Weidong looked at the group of big white ducks chirping outside the courtyard gate, and couldn't say a reason for a while, his knowledge of poultry was also quite limited, so he rolled his eyes and said: "Ask you Uncle Liu, he knows ......"
"It's very simple" Seeing that the little guy's eyes turned to him, with a look of curiosity, Liu Junhao said with a smile: "You go up and kick it and quack, it will be a big white duck, and Ang Ang will cry a goose," As a result, this kid really went up and kicked the ducks, and the ducks who chased him quacked and ran around on the road, and finally pounced and ran into the ditch.
The weather was a little cooler, and the children were going to play by the river, so the adults discussed it and went for a walk together. At this time, it was the time when the small animals by the river were active, and they did not know how many water birds flew along the way, and each time they had just walked a few steps, they heard a few big birds fluttering out of the grass on the side of the road, and then landed in the grass farther away, and the little skin rushed up to chase after them with a cry of joy.
If you want to say that this kid is really 100,000 why, every time I see something strange, I keep asking, "Uncle Liu, why is the water here so clear, the water I see is all mixed"
"Where do you see the water from?"
"He's talking about the city's Jinming Lake, which spends a lot of money every year, but although the money is spent, it doesn't work, and the smell in the lake is still very bad, mainly because people often litter there, and a good lake is ruined," Zhao Weidong explained.
When a group of people are tired of walking, they sit casually under the willow tree and chat, but rural people are not so particular about it, and they will not dislike the dirty ground at all.
In fact, the grass is not dirty, and it is as soft as a cotton mat to sit on it.
At this time, a few people came over talking and laughing, and they should be dressed as people who came to Liujiagou on Sunday to play. These people all know Liu Junhao, so after his introduction, they quickly became familiar with each other, and they talked about some rights and wrongs at work, Liu Junhao couldn't interject, so he could only listen to it.
Xiao Haoyu was a restless master, so he had to go to the reeds with the hairy boy to pick up bird eggs, saying that he wanted to get some back and cook them, but he was stopped by Liu Junhao.
Although there are a lot of water bird eggs in the reeds, there are also a lot of water snakes, and the hairy child is not afraid to see it, but this little guy can recognize a goose when he sees a duck, what if he is scared.
But his efforts were soon ruined by the little skin, who somehow took out a blue and white bird's egg and threw it in front of everyone. The egg was about the size of an egg, and Liu Junhao recognized it as a water duck egg at a glance.
Xiao Haoyu said that he didn't do anything now, he had to go to the reeds to pick up bird eggs, but he had no choice but to follow his wishes. In fact, several adults were also interested, and they followed the boat, and one person couldn't stop taking pictures with a camera.
This duck nest is very close, in the grass not far away, but the location is very clever, there happens to be a big tree root on the top to cover it, very hidden, if it is not for the small leather to lead the way, I am afraid that everyone will not be able to find it if they are killed.
The nest was the size of a small pot lid, and there were more than a dozen turquoise water duck eggs lying in it, and the little guy immediately pounced on it when he saw it, took off his clothes, and wrapped it in a cigarette.
Seeing that he was going to get them all away, Liu Junhao hurriedly stopped: "Give two water ducks, otherwise this nest will be wasted, and the water ducks will not lay eggs in it anymore, and after having this nest, you can come to collect duck eggs every few days." ”
Water ducks have similar habits to domestic ducks, and if they have enough food, they can lay eggs all the time, and they can lay more than 100 eggs a year. It's just that the water duck nest is not easy to find, and it is generally in the depths of the dense reeds, and it is inaccessible.
Zhao Weidong's visit to Liujiagou this time was not completely with the intention of playing, but his father had already made up his mind to retire here, and was about to start building a house.
Liu Junhao also leaned his head over, the picture is very beautiful, the field of vision is quite broad, looking around, the green mountains in the distance are surrounded, and then near is a shallow stream, above is a three or four meters long wooden plank bridge, there are a few crooked neck willows planted on the side of the bridge, a few little chicken trees leisurely soaking in food, and then close to the yard, red bricks and green tiles, the houses are like that, with an obvious courtyard style.
"It's pretty, but it's not like living in the countryside, it's like a villa on the outskirts of the city. I'm not used to living there, so I'd better find a mason in the village and build one myself. Professor Zhao looked at the pictures behind him and shook his head and said.
Liu Junhao also felt that this picture was a little awkward, it is estimated that the designer has no rural life experience, and his mind is full of poetry and painting, thinking that the countryside is "a small bridge and flowing water".
In fact, Zhao Weidong and his family thought about this matter early, there is still a period of time before the autumn harvest, and now the fields are all working, weeding, fertilizing, etc., and the labor in the village is not idle at all. It's not too late to wait until after the autumn harvest to build a house.
Zhao Weidong and his wife and the little guy only left the next day, and before leaving, they naturally brought back a large bag of things, and even Liu Junhao, a big watermelon that had just ried, picked one for them. At first, Zhao Weidong still refused, and finally under the persuasion of Professor Zhao, he carried the watermelon into the car.
Every time they come, they even eat and take, and even their own old people live in Liu Junhao's house, but they don't accept anything when they give him money, which makes them and his wife very embarrassed. Both of them are real people, and they have been discussing what to bring to the family next time they come, so he can't afford not to accept it.
But when they thought of buying gifts, the two of them were worried again, because Liu Jiagou didn't seem to lack anything, and although those high-end nutritional products were advertised on TV, how good the real effect was, but it made people scoff.
What's more, Liujiagou's environment nourishes people, and nutritional products are not used at all, just look at Professor Zhao, when he was at home, the high-end nutrition products were not broken at all, but he still had a problem, and now he is better, his face is getting more and more ruddy, as if he is more than ten years younger.
The weather is still hot, but the days are getting more and more leisurely, and Liu Junhao's watermelons have also reached the ripening stage, pressing the acacia tree even more. The big green watermelon hangs heavily from the tree, making every time the city people who come to visit want to pay for one to taste the strangeness.
If it weren't for Professor Zhao's dissuasion, Liu Junhao almost pulled out these melon seedlings, and now although he has a big watermelon, he doesn't care much about it. Although watermelons are basically ripe one or two every day these days, he and Professor Zhao can't move to consume one a day, where can there be any surplus watermelons to sell. What's more, watermelons are so cheap, you can only sell them for a few dollars? Now that Liu Junhao has the fixed income project of yellow eel, he doesn't pay much attention to these small money.
So the extra watermelon was cut directly, put it in the well water and frozen, whoever came to the yard would send a large piece, of course, the watermelon seeds were to be kept, and he was going to fry and eat it.
Liu Junhao's melon has been watered with his own spring water, and it tastes particularly sand and sweet, and people who have eaten it naturally praise each other, and they still want to eat it. Eating a large piece of chilled watermelon on a hot summer day can dispel all the heat in the body, which is indeed a great pleasure.
It's a pity that there aren't many watermelons, just one piece per person each time, and the adults are okay to say, although they are a little greedy, but they are embarrassed to eat watermelon often. The bear children in the village didn't care, and they came to report about it once a day or two, so that Liu Junhao was about to become a summer kindergarten here, but he didn't eat much watermelon, and most of them were eaten by this group of bear children.
But Liu Junhao doesn't care about these things, watermelons are grown for people to eat, and even if they are eaten, what else can they do, anyway, they are not ready to sell them for money.
So far, at least five or six watermelons have been eaten on one melon seedling, but there are still a lot of watermelons hanging on the top half of the melon seedlings, and those small yellow flowers are also blooming, and there is a tendency to continue.
Looking at this sprout, a melon seedling can produce at least a dozen large watermelons, which is not much, and the large flower skin planted by someone in the village has produced a maximum of 22 watermelons. But if you take into account the weight is different, the watermelons on this tree are more than ten catties, and the largest one is more than twenty catties.
This makes the people in the village say that the watermelon climbs to the tree is big, and many people have also moved their minds to plant a few melon seedlings in their yard next year.