Chapter 535: A Strange Thing at Night
As the saying goes, "Plant vegetables in cold dew, plant wheat in frost." ”
After planting wheat, the flowers in the fields have almost failed, and the leaves of the trees have fallen when they should have fallen. Birds in the mountains, which are not suitable for cold climates, flap their wings early and leave their homeland. If you don't want to bother, just find a hole and start the cat winter.
There is no farm work in the fields anymore, and the croppers, who have been busy for most of the year, have finally calmed down and become more and more lazy. But such a rizi can be tolerated for a day or two, and after a long time, the young man can't bear Xingzi a little, and they make an appointment to go to the mountains to hunt wild boars.
Fighting wild boars is a project that has emerged in Liujiagou in recent years, mainly because the wild boar herd in Daqingshan has a tendency to flood. In autumn and winter, when the weather turns colder and the food in the mountains decreases, most of the wild boars run to the periphery of the mountains and go down the mountain from time to time to steal wheat seedlings.
The day before yesterday, there was a wild boar who was dizzy and dared, and in broad daylight he actually went to the village to steal food to eat, which frightened people. Indeed, it is necessary to kill a few of them and kill their majesty.
Liu Junqi and the others came to the door to explain their intentions, and Liu Junhao also had the intention to go. However, his family can't do without people, so he can only contribute two macular skins.
Then he called Zhao Guangming again and asked if the other party was coming.
The wound on the face of this thing was just a few days ago, and when I heard that I was going to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars, I immediately became interested. He shouted on the phone, saying that he would come over immediately after ten minutes.
Sending off the hunting team, Liu Junhao took advantage of the two children's sleep and began to be busy in the backyard again, cleaning up the fallen leaves in the yard. Otherwise, it will rain and fall leaves and rush into the ditch, which will easily cause congestion and water accumulation, and it is not convenient to catch yellow eels in the future.
He was busy in front, and the two squirrels were squeaking and squeaking behind him.
The white hair on the eyes is the one sent by the little baby, Liu Junhao took advantage of the time when his daughter-in-law went to school, and threw it into the stone lock space from time to time to recuperate. In just a few days, the squirrel's injuries have healed, and now he is not very afraid of people.
In order to distinguish the two squirrels, Liu Junhao named this one Baitiao according to its characteristics. When the daughter-in-law heard it, she even said that it was cheesy, but she didn't refute it, so the name Baitiao was decided.
I have the same kind at home. Dian Dian felt that his territory was violated, and kept driving away the white striped grinning. This only lasted for two days, and soon the two squirrels got used to each other. They began to chase and play with each other in the precincts. Yesterday at noon, the sun was good, and Bai Tiao even helped to move the cabbage leaves he stored out to dry, and that posture completely regarded himself as half a master.
He's busy here. The mobile phone in his pocket rang, and it was opened by a familiar tourist: "Liu Junhao, do you want a hedgehog?" ”
"Hedgehog, what do I want this thing for?" Liu Junhao responded casually.
"That's right, I was walking in the community garden yesterday. I heard a noise in the flower pond, and when I walked in, I found a hedgehog hidden inside. When I got it home and fed it apples, it didn't eat at all, it curled up in a ball, and it didn't move. ”
"It's right not to move, at this time, the hedgehog hibernates early." Liu Junhao replied on the phone.
"I thought the same thing, afraid that if I went down any longer, the hedgehog would freeze to death. How about I get you there? The tourist spoke again.
"Khan. Don't bother, you just take it to the outskirts of the city and dig a hole. Just put it inside and bury some leaves on it. Liu Junhao replied depressedly. Now people use their homes as animal shelters, just received a squirrel the other day, and now someone is sending a hedgehog.
"Oh. How deep do you want to dig...... The hedgehog needs to breathe when it hibernates, and if the leaves on it are thickly covered, it will not be killed. Cover too thinly. What if the hedgehog freezes to death? I didn't expect the other party to ask a series of questions.
It was not clear on the phone, so Liu Junhao had to reply: "Just send it over."
Saving a hedgehog is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter. It's a life, no matter how you put it. He decided, wait for the hedgehog to be sent to Liujiagou, and throw it directly into the stone lock. Next year, when the weather is warm, I will release it, and this thing will not eat fish anyway.
Zhao Guangming and others were lucky, not long after entering the mountain, they found traces of wild boars, and under the hunting of several yellow spots, two wild boars entered the account in the morning.
In the afternoon, Liu Junqi directly cut the tip of the back buttocks and sent it over, which was twenty or thirty pounds. Liu Junhao couldn't finish eating, so he cut half of it for Professor Zhao's house.
The weather is getting colder day by day, and the cold is especially heavy at night. Coaxed the two little guys to sleep, Zhang Qian watched the time early, got up and sat in front of the computer to watch the TV series, but just half an hour, she began to stomp her feet.
It doesn't work at all, the more you stomp your feet, the colder it gets. had no choice but to call Liu Junhao up and make a brazier.
When the charcoal fire burned, the cold around him gradually disappeared.
Then Zhang Qian threw two handfuls of peanuts into the brazier, eating roasted peanuts while watching TV series. She didn't pay attention to the time at all, and it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening.
What's that...... In a hurry, the TV series was paused, and then I hurriedly ran to the toilet.
As soon as she arrived at the bamboo pole forest on the east side of the house, she heard a loud sound from above, and she hurriedly stopped, turned her head to look up, and was stunned.
After solving the personal problem, Zhang Qian rushed into the bedroom and called her husband up again.
"What for?" Liu Junhao doesn't know what his daughter-in-law is messing with, she is sleepy at this moment.
"Get up quickly, I'll take you to see a strange thing." Zhang Qian took his hand and dragged him under the bed.
"Daughter-in-law, look at what time it is, what strange things are, just tell me directly." The quilt was very warm, and Liu Junhao didn't want to get out of bed at all.
"I just went to the toilet and saw a lot of turtledoves in our bamboo pole forest." Seeing that her husband didn't come down, Zhang Qian had to tell the matter.
"It's normal, Professor Zhao's family feeds turtledoves, and some nights spend the night in the bamboo pole forest." Liu Junhao really didn't understand what was so strange about this thing. He replied, and fell asleep again.
"Get up for me! It's different, let me ask you how many turtledoves are fed by Professor Zhao's family? Zhang Qian pulled her husband up again.
"There are forty or fifty," Liu Junhao estimated. Originally, there should have been more, but Professor Zhao couldn't manage it, and in the past two years, a lot of them have flown away, and the number has not increased much.
"That's right, guess how much I saw in the bamboo pole forest just now? There were two or three hundred of them. And they live in a different place than usual, falling very low, within reach. Isn't that an exception? ”
"No...... Daughter-in-law, you're not going to call me up just because of this, are you? Liu Junhao has understood the whole thing clearly, and still hasn't found anything strange. The phenomenon of turtledoves gathering in groups is rarely seen by ordinary people, but Liu Junhao has seen it many times.
"Then explain to me why they get together so much tonight, and they fall so low." Seeing her husband's calm expression, Zhang Qian was very disappointed.
"The reason is simple, why did you light the brazier tonight." After such a toss. Liu Junhao was also sleepy, and asked patiently.
"Of course it's cold, you said turtledoves are also ......" Zhang Qian came to her senses.
"Right. This is the experience I summed up when I caught turtledoves, don't tell anyone else. If you let others know, Liujiagou's turtledove should suffer. Liu Junhao said with a slight meaning: "When ordinary people see turtledoves making nests, they take it for granted that turtledoves inhabit bird's nests all year round. In fact, this view is very wrong. Except during the incubation period, turtledoves rarely spend the night in their nests. Their habitat has a lot to do with temperature, and the temperature affects the habitat of turtle doves.
Especially in autumn and winter, when the weather is very cold, turtledoves usually find sheltered places to spend the night. And they consciously live in groups. There is also a turtledove vigil in the evening. When in danger, the turtledoves that keep vigil will scream and wake up the other turtledoves. ”
"No, is the turtledove so smart, why haven't I seen it in the encyclopedia? That's what the experts summed up. Zhang Qian asked suspiciously.
"Do those experts stay in the wild at night in the winter to observe turtledoves?" Liu Junhao asked disdainfully. What's that...... Practice brings true knowledge, which is a valuable experience that he and Liu Qiyong summed up when they teamed up to fight birds that night.
In fact, many birds are more intelligent than people think, and the same is true for turtle doves. Many people know that turtledoves will cooing for a while before returning to their nests before falling back into their nests. A few more minutes. Another turtle dove will also return.
This phenomenon is very common. The average person probably won't think so much when they see it.
Liu Junhao and they are different, after a long time of observation and accumulation, they finally came to the conclusion that the first turtledove that flew back was a sentry to report the news. If the turtle dove sees danger, it will turn around and fly away, so that the second turtle dove will not come back for a short time.
So at that time, they hit the bird and came up with a hit, that is, either kill it as soon as the turtledove sentry rushed back. Either wait patiently and wait for the other turtledoves to return to the nest before fighting.
The same is true when turtledoves gather in winter. The lower the temperature, the lower the stopping point. By minus a few degrees, the turtledoves were about to hit the ground.
One winter evening. Liu Junhao and the others found that many turtledoves flew into the woods at the head of the village, so they agreed to come over to hunt turtledoves at night.
The scene I saw at that time was very similar to what Zhang Qian had just described, no matter how high or low the trees were, there were turtle doves on almost every tree, and they fell very low.
It didn't take much effort for them to catch a whole sack, and in the 10s, Daqingshan was closed to information, and no one came to collect game. Therefore, they didn't sell the turtledoves when they caught them, and everyone took a lot of them back to their own homes and fried them.
For the next few days, they went out hunting, and the woods were harvested each time. But when the temperature rises, there is not a single turtle dove in that place.
"Listening to your analysis, it feels very reliable." Zhang Qian nodded convincingly.
"Of course" Liu Junhao is talking about xing now, and he opened his mouth to tell his daughter-in-law about the precautions for hunting turtledoves at night. The best time is after eleven o'clock, when the turtledoves are in a deep sleep, even the sentinels of the night watch. At this time, turtle doves are the easiest to catch, and the occasional noise will not alarm them. If it's too early, shining a flashlight on the tree can easily wake up the turtledove. As soon as a turtledove crowed, the operation was declared a failure.
Listening to him say so much, Zhang Qian said leisurely: "Your research on turtle doves is all obtained when you capture them, right?" ”
"Ahem...... At that time, he was young and ignorant, but now he has long since changed his ways. His weak defense.
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