The Chinese New Year is like this, the excitement comes and goes quickly.

Liujiagou Primary School officially opened in the seventh or eighth year of the first year, and although the bear children in the village were reluctant, they still obediently carried their schoolbags to school. The hairy children scurried around like wild horses throughout the winter vacation, and they didn't write a word of their winter vacation homework. Seeing that school was about to start, he panicked, and on the afternoon of the sixth day of junior high school, he actually ran over with his homework and asked Liu Junhao to do it for him, and he didn't notice that there were still people playing with computers in the house.

Liu Junhao held back a smile and said, "Okay, you put it in my room first, and I'll make it for you later."

Of course, the hairy child was happy to hear it, and repeatedly told Liu Junhao to write quickly, and the teacher would check it tomorrow.

As a result, as soon as he opened the door of the hall, he found that Mr. Zhang was staring at him. There is nothing to say, and the hairy boy is honest now, so he has to write his winter vacation homework in the yard for half a day.

The light snow a few years ago did not have much impact on people, and after only a few days, the weather became warmer, and Liu Junhao also stripped off a layer of thick clothes early.

In the morning, as soon as he got up and opened the door of the house, a group of water ducks surrounded him, quacking and screaming, waiting for Liu Junhao to feed them, and even brought the more than 20 hens to come forward. Perhaps the water ducks have grown up in the chicken coop since childhood, so the chickens and ducks get along very harmoniously.

They hadn't eaten breakfast yet, but they were in a hurry. Liu Junhao had to scoop a big bowl of corn kernels from the house and sprinkle them on the ground, and these ducks and hens immediately screamed and snatched, and after a while, the corn kernels on the ground were pecked clean.

The water duck has gray and white fluff and occasionally some green, and it looks much more beautiful than the native duck in the village.

Watching them stretch their necks and peck at their feet one by one, Liu Junhao felt a little satisfied, these ducks should weigh a few pounds, when to stew one and taste it, this is an authentic wild duck that can't be bought with money.

Just as he was thinking about the beauty, he suddenly noticed that a lot of down feathers on the ducks' wings began to fall off, and when he looked closely, almost all ducks were like this, and a lot of hair fell off their bodies.

Well, it's a good thing that it's starting to shed its hair, it seems that it's not far from laying eggs, and it is estimated that you will be able to eat duck eggs after the beginning of spring. Eggs are enough these days, and it's not bad to change duck eggs.

Unexpectedly, this group of water ducks was still quacking around him after eating, Liu Junhao was a little upset when he heard it, so he opened the courtyard door and instructed Xiaopi to blast them all out.

Other people's ducks are all raised cross-country, and they don't come back when they go out to run, and their water ducks are good, and they still need to be driven out.

The ducks were chased by the little skin, and they were all driven into the ditch outside the courtyard gate, and one by one they stretched their necks and quacked.

After eating, Liu Junhao brushed the pots and bowls and went to the next door to play chess with Professor Zhao, but he didn't expect to see Professor Zhao squatting in the backyard with a big teacup, looking at the Chen thorn eggs planted in autumn.

He also walked over to take a closer look, only to see that these old thorn seedlings had faintly broken through the ground, and the green ones looked very gratifying.

Don't look at the thorns that are full of sharp thorns after growing into a tree, but the young shoots that have just grown in spring can be eaten as vegetables, soaked in a pot of boiling water, and then poured sesame oil to cool the tone, eat until the mouth is slightly bitter, but chew the fat and tender with your teeth, it is absolutely delicious.

And after the thorn buds are steamed, you can also make tea to drink, although it tastes a little bitter, but the effect of clearing heat and dispeling fire is better than that of wild chrysanthemums, and the old people in the countryside especially like to drink this.

The fruit of the thorn is a good medicine, who is hot in the summer and does not eat, as long as the thorn egg is chopped and added some sesame oil water into the cow's stomach, less than half a day, the cattle will immediately return to normal.

When Professor Zhao saw him coming, he excitedly pulled Liu Junhao and said, "Let's go, go and see the bamboo poles, all the bamboo shoots have come out." ”

"So little, only seven or eight came out?" Liu Junhao looked at the tips of the bamboo shoots that were long and asked with some doubts, "None of the others have come out?" ”

No one in Liujiagou grows bamboo poles, so Liu Junhao knows very little about it, and he is still thinking about when to get a few bamboo shoots to eat as vegetables, but only a few have come out, and I am afraid that one dish is not enough.

"That's not much, not in early spring? It's just a few shoot shoots that come out of transplantation. When I bought it, people told me that we planted it late, and it would be good to live half of it by then, and they said that there would be no bamboo shoots this year. According to this momentum, the survival rate of bamboo poles is 100%, and bamboo shoots must be blooming everywhere, maybe half a year is a large area. Professor Zhao said happily.

"Can the survival rate not be high? I have deliberately watered it with spring water," he said with a slight smug in his heart.

As they were talking, suddenly the sound of a cooing turtledove came, and two silver-gray turtledoves landed in front of them, this turtledove had been raised in his own house for several months, so he was no stranger to Liu Junhao. He squatted down and stretched out his palm, and the turtledove fluttered and landed on his clothes, and kept pecking at the collar of Liu Junhao's clothes, making people itch.

After reading the bamboo shoots, Professor Zhao went back to the house and took a few small packets of seeds, saying that when he returned for the Chinese New Year, he asked those old friends who love to raise flowers to ask for them, and he was going to scatter them in the yard while the weather was good.

Looking at an old man, he knows that the plan of the year lies in spring, so energetic, Liu Junhao is embarrassed to continue to be leisurely, so he asked for some seeds of these flowers and plants, and prepared to get them back to green the yard, and it is a bit monotonous to just plant those vegetables.

As a result, he was digging with a hoe in front of him, and the hens were pecking at the earthworms, and they were very skilled in their claws as they pecked.

It seems that a fence must be built before scattering these flowers and grass seeds, otherwise they will be harmed by the chickens and ducks in the yard before the seedlings appear.

So Liu Junhao ran to the river beach to cut reeds, led Xiaopi to walk on the river beach, he found that spring has quietly arrived, although the river beach looks a withered yellow, but when you get closer, you will find that the roots of many withered grasses have sent out tender shoots, flashing with a green color.

The reeds dried completely after a winter, and they are especially easy to cut with a sickle.

In less than ten minutes, Liu Junhao cut a lot, tied it with a rope, and he carried it back leisurely, and then turned out a large handful of thin wire from the house to tie up the fence.

He didn't completely scatter the seeds of those flowers and plants in the yard, but sprinkled a lot of them into his stone locks, although the land was sandy, but looking at the appearance of the chicken buds and lotus roots in the spring water, he knew that it was definitely not wrong to plant them inside.

Liu Junhao dug a lot of lotus roots in the spring water during the New Year, all of them were as thick as arms, they were all whole lotus, and they tasted crisp and raw. When he went to the street to buy New Year's goods, he took the opportunity to take out the lotus root and said that he bought it on the street.

Speaking of lotus roots, he thought of the ditch in front of the door, Liu Junhao was ready to plant some lotus roots in it a year ago, and now it is an opportunity. It's just that he doesn't have much experience in planting lotus roots, only that in rural areas, lotus roots are generally buried directly in the soil, but how to bury them is not very clear.

It's easy to do if you don't know, there are agricultural experts living next door, so you can go directly to ask. Although Professor Zhao's research direction is fruit trees, he also has a certain understanding of lotus root planting.

After listening to his plan to plant lotus roots, Professor Zhao was also very interested, saying that planting lotus roots generally requires fertile soil. The silt of this ditch in front of the door is relatively thick, and the lotus root is just right, but this lotus root section should be carefully selected, and it is best to choose those lotus root seedlings with complete lotus roots, intact top buds, and no bruises, and said that the lotus root before the year was good.

If the lotus root is easy to do, Liu Junhao entered the side house for a short time, and he got a large basket of lotus roots, all of which have four or five sections, and they are lotus roots with complete lotus roots and Sun lotus roots.

Professor Zhao praised this lotus root seedling vigorously, but he didn't doubt it, because Liu Junhao bought two big bags of lotus root on the street during the Chinese New Year, and they haven't finished eating it yet.

Now the water in the ditch is still a little cold, Liu Junhao did not let Professor Zhao go into the water, but asked him to guide the work on the shore.

The two of them were busy, Zhang Qian and Teacher Wang came back from school, and when they saw them planting lotus root in the ditch, they were all interested, and Zhang Qian even wanted to jump into the muddy water with her trouser leg and Liu Junhao to plant the tip of the lotus root.

Zhang Qian really has a bit of a lotus root plot, when she was in middle school, she especially liked Mr. Zhu Ziqing's "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond", and was deeply attracted by the beautiful scenery described in it, and said that she must plant a lotus flower by herself when she has the opportunity.

Now that the opportunity has finally come, how can she not be excited.