Chapter 297: Fossils?
Looking at that, Liu Junhao really felt quite weird.
To say, he really hasn't introduced creatures into the institute recently, and that's why this change makes him feel like the second monk is confused.
But that's a good thing...... The larger the space, the more fine hair grass you can grow.
Liu Junhao observed along the pond with great interest. The bank on the left side is higher, so the spring water can only spread along the right, and in many places, the clear spring water is only as deep as a foot and neck.
This shallow water is more suitable for the survival of yellow eel seedlings, and as far as the eye can see, a large area of black pressure is full. Sensing movement on the shore, they fled under the grass with their tails wagging. The meadows, which used to be green, are now covered with water. It stands to reason that none of these are aquatic plants and will definitely drown in the water. However, there is no sign of decay in sight for the time being, but he is living quite happily.
Moistened by the spring, the withering is estimated to come later.
In the shallow water, there are not only seven or eight centimeter-long yellow eel seedlings, but also the kind of fat big-headed fish. This fish, unlike other fish, lives most of the time in shallow waters. However, these guys have a grayish-brown protective color on their backs, which is difficult for predators to detect.
Along the way, from time to time, stone chickens can be seen jumping and hiding in the grass. Although a stone chicken is not yet half a double, it is indeed time to eat.
Thinking of eating, Liu Junhao was very moved, anyway, there are tens of thousands of stone chickens raised in the stone lock. It's okay to catch some to eat now.
Turning his gaze to the stone chicken, he was a little surprised: the change in the stone lock must be related to this. They used to be just tadpoles, but now they're getting bigger, which is a bit surprising. As the size of the stone chicken increases, the corresponding living space of the stone lock also increases. It's late spring and early summer, and all kinds of creatures are growing actively. Qualitative change causes quantitative change, which is why the changes in stone locks these days are so huge.
Feeling that his explanation was barely reasonable, Liu Junhao set his sights on other places.
The number of native bees in the stone lock seems to have increased considerably, and they are now buzzing around in the grass.
Fortunately, when Liu Junhao transplanted plants into the stone lock, he chose the mode of casting a net all over the sky, so it looked very prosperous and did not give people a monotonous feeling at all.
Of course, the most conspicuous things in the space are still those clusters of jujube trees. They seem to be well suited to the stone lock environment, so they grow very quickly. I haven't seen it for half a month, and it has grown to more than a meter tall. At this moment, it is full of small beige flowers, and a few native bees are fluttering among the flowers with their wings.
Dates should be produced this autumn, I don't know what is so strange about the dates in the stone lock, will they be the same as the Xinjiang Hotan jujube on the Internet, the size of a small egg.
Liu Junhao was very expectant, but after thinking about it, it seemed unlikely. A date tree is a date tree after all, and you can't expect apples to grow on it.
He didn't stop until he reached the edge of the new sandy land. The place has not yet been planted, and it looks a bit desolate.
If it was before, Liu Junhao would definitely be in line with the principle of not wasting and transplanting some plants from the outside to fill it. Not now, everything will take its course, and the plants will naturally take over this place next spring.
More than 20 stone chickens were caught. Liu Junhao retreated from the space.
The day before yesterday, I just picked a small half catty of bamboo sunflower from the backyard, and I was thinking about what kind of food to eat with at that time, just waiting to make a bamboo sunflower stone chicken soup.
Stone chickens are much easier to clean up than fish, and they don't need to be time-consuming at all. Just take the scissors and cut it, and then throw away the things inside, and in less than five minutes, more than 20 stone chickens have been soaked in cold water.
This thing is known as the "king of 100 dolls", and it is naturally rich in nutrition, whether it is braised and steamed or made into soup, it is fragrant and mellow.
Liu Junhao chopped the stone chicken into small pieces and put it in the pot to fry, and when it was half-cooked, add the bamboo sunflower, then add water and salt and seasoning, and finally throw some fungus and vermicelli, and drop two points of sesame oil. Soon, a pungent aroma began to spread in the kitchen.
Within two minutes of "squeak", the monkey jumped and ran in. You don't have to guess to know that you must have been attracted by the smell.
It is not unfounded that the stone chicken is known as the best product of the mountain, this taste, not to mention the monkey, even Liu Junhao himself has the feeling of tasting it quickly.
Scoop half a spoonful of hot soup into a bowl with a spoon and clip it with chopsticks. The tender stone chicken is hot and smooth in the mouth, full of crispy, smooth and delicate.
The stone chicken has already been cooked, and the teeth and tongue are gently stirred, and a fresh fragrance enters the stomach and lungs, which is indeed delicious.
After drinking another sip of fresh soup, the hairs and mouths of the whole body seem to be stretched.
Produced by Shisuo, it is really high-quality, Liu Junhao couldn't help but smack his lips and shouted, "Cool!" ”
Snorting and snorting, he didn't care about burning his mouth, he drank half a bowl of hot soup with three strokes and five divisions by two. When the monkey saw that he had no part in his own sake, he was in a hurry, and he screamed on the ground with a large bowl, and almost jumped on the stove.
originally planned to wait for his wife to come back and eat together, but seeing that Wukong was so eager, Liu Junhao had to get most of the bowl for it and drive it out of the house. The rest ...... Do you want to don't scoop a bowl again? Anyway, there are so many in the pot that my wife can't finish drinking when she comes back.
Just thinking about it, he suddenly heard a shout from outside the door: "Uncle Xiaohao, Uncle Xiaohao, are you not at home?!" ”
"Who?" Liu Junhao walked out of the door, but saw the little baby running in sweating.
"Hurry up and take the shovel and follow me to school, something happened......" The guy said half a sentence and turned his head and ran towards Professor Zhao.
"What's the matter, you want a shovel?" Liu Junhao was taken aback, he didn't want to fight.
"Grandpa Zhao, are you at home?" The little baby shouted at Professor Zhao again.
"Coming, coming......" Old Man Zhao also walked out of the house. He was looking at the information just now, and he hadn't even taken off his glasses yet.
"Grab a shovel and follow me to school."
"You bear child, what's going on, tell me clearly." Watch him pull his legs and run back. Liu Junhao couldn't hold back any longer, and reached out to lift him away. Every time this guy is in a hurry, he doesn't say anything, which makes people want to die in a hurry. The last time the hairy child met the water monkey, it was like that.,As soon as I heard that I was pulled down by the water monkey.,A few adults almost didn't freak out.,But when you wait until the place, you don't know it's okay at all.。
"Oh...... We dug up a piece of blue at the end of class...... It's like a stone, it's weird. Teacher Zhang said that it might be a fossil of some animal, and she asked me to tell you to bring a shovel and go and take a look. Now the little baby finally made it clear.
"Fossils?" Professor Zhao was stunned for a moment, and then asked in disbelief: "Do you still have fossils in Liujiagou?" ”
"This ...... Seems to have it, right? Liu Junhao replied uncertainly. He remembers hearing from his teacher when he was in elementary school that this mountain was an ocean millions of years ago, and there must be fossils in it. The students were very excited to hear this, and they ran up the hill one by one, trying to pick up a few fossils to see what was going on. Not to mention, the hard work paid off, and it really allowed them to find a lot of strange things. Liu Qiyong dug up a section of three or four centimeters long in a depression, white as jade. And Liu Junhao also picked up a few polished stones at that time, and the traces of artificial polishing of that thing were obvious. At that time, although there was no history class in primary schools, there was a "Society" that mentioned the origins of Chinese civilization. There are a few photos of polishing stone tools on it, and they compared them, and they are very similar to the stones in Liu Junhao's hand, so they asked the teacher to judge together.
It's a pity that the teacher's education is too low, and he didn't even graduate from junior high school. Not to mention what kind of higher education you have, where do you know these things. The fossils he talked about earlier were just to enliven the enthusiasm of the class, so he couldn't tell why he could identify those stones, and finally only nodded and said that it might be.
The child is relatively simple, although the teacher gave a non-positive answer, but Liu Junhao was still quite excited, thinking that he had picked up a treasure, so he deliberately put this thing in the house to hide it. As a result, one day after school, Old Man Liu cleaned up the house and found that these stones were in the way, so he threw them all into the ditch in front of the door.
Liu Junhao came back from school and disappeared from the stone, and cried a lot. Jumped into the water to touch the stones, but didn't touch them for a long time.
As for the jade-like thing in Liu Qiyong's hand, it is said that he was thrown under the stove by his Lao Tzu the next day and burned. According to his Lao Tzu, that thing is just a big piece of dog teeth, this thing is unlucky, and it will be burned when you see it.
A few children didn't believe it, and firmly believed that it was a fossil, after all, they had never seen such a large piece of dog tooth. They later went up the mountain on Sunday to organize several large-scale "excavations" in order to find more fossils. It's a pity that their method of risking their luck is simply looking for a needle in a haystack, and naturally there is no gain.
As he grew older, Liu Junhao also felt that his original actions were a little ridiculous. Listening to Professor Zhao's mention now, all thoughts poured into my mind.
"There won't really be fossils, let's go and see" Old Man Zhao immediately became excited when he heard that he might have dug up fossils.
"Well, the fossil is so big that the two of them can't hold it, we just learned the Yellow River Elephant...... Bigger than that fossil. The little baby also interjected.
"Couldn't it be just a big rock, where did you dig it?" Unlike Professor Zhao, Liu Junhao is more skeptical. If it were a fossil, it would not be so easy for them to find it.
"On the playground of the school, the hairy children asked a few of us to bow after class...... When I used a small shovel to dig the bow's nest, I dug up a blue thing, and I thought it was a treasure, so I wanted to dig it out and take a look, but the more I dug it up, the bigger it became, and Teacher Zhang and Teacher Wang were also alarmed...... "This bear child finally panted evenly, and his speech was much more coherent."
Daju is also a game often played by rural children, and there are many ways to play, the most popular one is very similar to throwing glass balls, which requires three people to participate. Dig three nests in the ground, and then each of them finds three small pebbles and hides them in their hands. Everyone is assigned a set of numbers before the game starts. For example, you are "one-four-seven", I am "two-five-eight", and he is "three-six-nine". Everyone shouts "start" and unfolds the hand containing the stone respectively, and decides who will bow first according to the number of stones in the three hands.
However, the glass balls are too small to play with at all, and the average child would rather use mud to make a bow to play with. The way to make a bow is very simple, knead the wet mud into a round ball, and then apply a thick layer of lycium tendons on top and let it dry in a cool place. After drying, it is particularly strong and will not break no matter how you fall.
It wasn't much fun before. This game is quite popular, and the winner can often get a bow from the opponent's hand. It's a mud ball, but a group of children have a lot of fun, and because of the high level of Lai Pida, Liu Junhao also worshipped him to learn art.
"We've been digging down, and we've been digging for more than ten minutes."
After the little baby finished speaking, Liu Junhao also muttered, didn't he really dig up the fossils.
"Let's take the shovel and go over, and you can understand what it is at a glance" Professor Zhao came to his senses at this time, it was useless for the two to argue here, so it was better to see the real thing.
The school was very close to the village, and in less than three minutes, two people rushed into the campus. There was a large group of children around the playground, and it seemed that several classes were not in class. Think about it, too, the teachers are gone, what kind of class.
Seeing them come in, the children gave way.
In the middle of the pit was a jagged and abrupt thing, the part that had been excavated could barely be said to be a cylinder, but the top was rough and rough, like the bones of something. What's even more puzzling is that there are a lot of small holes in the middle.
"This thing ......" Liu Junhao was immediately dumbfounded. Although he only glanced at it, he was sure that it was not a stone, and most of the granite in Liujiagou could not grow like this at all.
"Is it really a fossil?" Professor Zhao was also a little confused when he saw that burly thing...... He had never seen it before.
"Hmm...... I look like a fossilized tree, you see how round it is. Zhang Qian pointed to the oval plane above and said.
"It is said that the fossils are very hard, I'll try it," Liu Junhao said, slashing it with a shovel, and the powder splattered everywhere.
"If it's really a fossil, don't break it, let's ......dig it carefully," Professor Zhao was anxious to see the true face of Lushan, and picked up the shovel after speaking.
Liu Junhao also had this intention, and he was busy following him.
Not to mention that this thing was really big enough, the two of them had been digging along the edge, and they had to stop when they dug knee-deep...... The space for throwing dirt is too small for the shovel to be used.
"If you don't want to call a few people in the village anymore, it doesn't seem to be possible with the two of us......" Old Man Zhao dug more and more out of shape, this is nearly a meter deep, why haven't you dug to the bottom yet.
"It's okay" Liu Junhao's doubts were even deeper, if it was a tree fossil, it would be too thick. Judging from the cross-section of the column, it is estimated that several people were needed to hug it at first, and Liujiagou has never seen such a large tree