Chapter Seventy-Two: The Water Duck Lays Eggs
"Uncle Xiao Hao, Uncle Xiao Hao" had just gotten up and hadn't even put on his clothes, when he heard the little baby knocking on the door outside.
"Knock on, don't knock, it's coming." He hurriedly dressed and took the key to open the door.
I saw a young man standing at the door, followed by the half-grown bear children.
"It's you......" The visitor was slightly stunned when he saw him.
"Hey, isn't this Zhao Guangming, why are you here?" Liu Junhao hurriedly opened the door and said apologetically: "Come in, come in" He muttered in his heart, he didn't know what was going on early in the morning, and he hadn't even washed his face.
"I had just been transferred to the post office recently, so I was assigned an errand to deliver letters in the countryside. Someone mailed you something from the city, this is a parcel slip to sign for," Zhao Guangming said and took out a pen.
Qingshan Town is not big, and a big fart can be spread throughout the town within three days. Therefore, Liu Jiagou had a capable thing, of course, he had heard of it.
When he delivered the letter this time, he was also quite looking forward to it, wanting to meet this capable person, but he didn't expect that this capable person had also drunk with him.
Liu Junhao took the list and saw that the sender had Suna's name written on it, and he knew that he was mailing a book on snail breeding. He secretly said in his heart, this girl is very neat, and she has mailed the book in just a few days.
After he signed the list and paid five yuan, he received a post and telecommunications postcard, Liu Junhao didn't look at it, and handed it to the little baby and said, "Give it, take it back and play." ”
The little baby happily took it in the envious eyes of her companions, and looked strange over and over again.
"This postcard can be redeemed," Zhao Guangming hurriedly reminded.
"Redeem a ghost prize, you have been forcibly sending postcards to people for five or six years, I haven't heard of anyone in our town who won the lottery, even if you send a regular letter, you have to sell a postcard, I don't know what the people below say about you." Liu Junhao said disapprerovingly.
"Hehe," Zhao Guangming smiled silently, he had scolded the dogs at the post office for this kind of thing before, but now that he sent the letter, it was not good to say anything more.
"You must not have eaten before you get up so early to deliver the letter, just eat here with me, you wait, twenty minutes is fine." Liu Junhao then remembered about cooking, and hurriedly got up to prepare breakfast.
"Don't, I still have a few letters to be delivered, and when it's late, everyone goes to work in the fields after eating, so I'll run for nothing." Zhao Guangming hurriedly stopped.
Liu Junhao knew that what he said was the truth, so he didn't stay any longer.
"By the way, I almost forgot about business, you give me three catties of yellow eel, and I'll come to pick it up after the letter is delivered, there are guests at home at noon." As he spoke, he took out thirty yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into Liu Junhao's hand.
After sending the people away, Liu Junhao washed his face and began to cook, and after eating, he directly got a dozen large yellow eels from the stone lock and threw them into the bucket to weigh them, almost three and a half catties.
After waiting in the yard for less than twenty minutes, Zhao Guangming drove to his door on a motorcycle, saying that he was here to get the yellow eel. This kid didn't even take anything to hold the yellow eel, but Liu Junhao had to turn over a long insect skin bag from the house for him to use, and told him to go back and put it in the wooden basin quickly, so as not to let the yellow eel suffocate to death, so that it would not taste good at noon.
Fish eat fresh shrimp and jump, fish are freshly killed. Zhao Guangming naturally knew this truth, anyway, this section of the road in Liujiagou had only been repaired, and the road condition was very good, so he drove fast, and it only took five or six minutes to get home.
"Your dad is really, it's not enough to buy two yellow eels on the street, I have to let you go to Liujiagou to buy them, pay such an expensive price," Zhao Guangming just took the bag and began to complain, "I'll see what is good about this yellow eel, how long a head or how long a tail it is." It's not bad, it's fat, have you ever weighed it? ”
Zhao Guangming ran for a long time and was squatting there to wash his face, and only after washing did he say: "When I went, they had already done it, don't worry, it won't be a few taels less than you." ”
"That's hard to say, now the business is all thieves and thieves, what if there is a problem with the scale?" Mother Zhao was a little worried about carrying the yellow eel to the house and weighing it with an electronic scale, and shouted with some surprise, "Guangming, come in and see, is our scale broken again, why did you get an extra half a catty?" ”
Zhao Guangming also walked into the house when he heard this, he turned off the switch, then turned it back on, and stopped for a minute before putting the cloth bag up, and it still showed more than half a catty.
They all understood that Liu Junhao must have given half a catty, and Zhao's mother couldn't help but sigh: "Just because of the sincerity of others, the yellow eel will definitely sell well." ”
In the morning, Professor Zhao made a basket and said that he wanted to get some chicken manure and go back to fertilize those flower seedlings, so Liu Junhao bent down to move the chicken coop, and then shoveled chicken manure outwards with an iron shovel.
He had more than 20 hens at home, plus a dozen or so ducks that had been in the coop for months, so that a thick layer was piled up on the ground, and only a small piece was cleared, and a basket was full.
After helping Professor Zhao get it, Liu Junhao also remembered his flower pond, and this chicken coop should also be thoroughly cleaned and cleaned. Otherwise, as the weather warms up, it will not be easy to deal with these chickens and ducks in case they get sick.
So he was busy with the chicken coop all morning, basket by basket outward, and finally spread a thick layer in the flower pond before stopping.
The chicken coop was cleaned and then the sheepfold, and a lot of sheep manure was cleaned up inside. Last summer, Liu Junhao bought a lamb because the yard was empty, and in the autumn because the yard was dug with ditches, he had no place to graze the sheep, so he sold it and raised the hare in the pen with the vacated sheep.
Although sheep dung and rabbit dung are strong, they must be soaked for a while before they can be used in the ground, so Liu Junhao wanted to clean up the west side against the courtyard wall. There used to be a lot of miscellaneous wood, which was almost burned during the Chinese New Year, and now it's just right to pile up the manure in that corner.
Who knew that he had just walked to the corner with the shovel in his hand, but found a nest made of dead grass with branches on the pile of miscellaneous wood, and a blue and white duck egg lying in it.
"Well, duck eggs," he picked up and weighed, and was pleasantly surprised.
I thought it would take a few days for these ducks to lay eggs, but I didn't expect that this was just the beginning of spring, and they began to lay eggs. This thing is a thief, and he didn't use it for a good chicken nest, but he secretly made a new nest in the yard.
If he hadn't been going to pile up manure here today, I'm afraid he wouldn't have found it.
At last he remembered that there were a dozen or so ducks in his yard, and at least half of them were females. They all hatched in one litter, and it is estimated that it is time to lay eggs, so there may be a nest on it.
He stepped on the wood, and immediately became excited, and there were five or six water duck nests on the pile of miscellaneous wood, and the largest one was already lying in five duck eggs.
In other words, these ducks began to lay eggs a few days ago, but they never found out. I don't know how they hide it, but he's been in the yard all these days.
Liu Junhao hurriedly called Professor Zhao over through the courtyard wall to see, Professor Zhao was also very happy to see it, and when he left, he deliberately got four of them back, ready to fry and eat at noon.
Of course, when they picked up the duck eggs, they did not sweep the nest empty, but each of them left a thought for the ducks, otherwise they would have to change places when they lay eggs next time.
In this way, the place where the dung can be soaked can only be re-selected, and Liu Junhao decided to pile the dung directly behind the sheepfold. When he was done, he went outside to dig up a few baskets of soil and re-cover the sheepfold, and immediately felt that the smell inside was much better.
At noon, Liu Junhao naturally fried a few duck eggs, probably because these ducks often eat vegetables in the yard, and the duck eggs don't taste fishy.
In addition, he was tired for a long time in the morning, he was already hungry, and at noon he felt that the scrambled duck eggs were extraordinarily delicious and tasted particularly delicious.
After eating, Liu Junhao deliberately moved a chair and sat under the poplar tree, looking at the pile of miscellaneous trees from a distance, he wanted to see when the water duck laid eggs.
But after waiting for an hour he was bored and drowsy, for not a single duck flew over the pile.
The duck didn't wait, but heard the sound of another car outside the door, and Little Pi rushed up with a squeal.