Liu Junhao, where is our bald-tailed old hen? In the afternoon, Zhang Qianfang took the opportunity to feed the hens in the yard and counted them, only to find that one was missing.

"It's the bald tail with the yellow color...... Will you peck at Professor Zhao's side? Don't look at the fact that there are seventy or eighty chickens in the yard now, but Liu Junhao is quite impressed by the hen. The main thing is that its characteristics are very obvious, the whole body is golden, but there are few old feathers on the tail.

"If you go over and take a look, it's definitely not there...... Coo-coo......" Zhang Qian said and began to scream again, and the chickens and ducks were all scurrying along with the corn kernels in her hands. To say that Zhang Qian likes to feed chickens and ducks, watching them crowd and shout around her, she has a sense of accomplishment.

Liu Junhao went out to check, but he was really not there.

"I'll just say, I didn't see it when I fed the children two days ago. Will it be stolen by a weasel? ”

"There should be no rat wolves in this area" Liu Junhao also wondered, the hens in his yard only increased, or for the first time, there were fewer hens. As for being spoiled by a weasel, it seems unlikely to think about it. Xiaopi and Doudou wander around the neighborhood all day long, and no weasel dares to make a home here. Besides, weasels usually steal chickens at night, right? The bald-tailed hen is huge, and it is estimated that it weighs seven or eight catties after plucking, and the average weasel is really not an opponent when it encounters it.

I remember that once in the summer, Liu Junhao went to the forest to dig the shell, and saw that it was fighting with a red snake with thick wrists.

"Then let's go out and find out," Zhang Qian was a little anxious.

"Don't look for it, you'll come back naturally," Liu Junhao comforted on his face. If it was eaten by an animal, I wouldn't be able to find it now.

"How can there be someone like you, you don't care if you lose it."

The two were talking. The bald-tailed chicken clucked out of the yard.

"Look. I'll just say I'll come back. "He felt very prescient on his side. How could a hen be lost in the yard.

The hen pecked on the ground for a while. and thieves came out of the eyes of the waterways.

"It's getting dark. What does it want to do? "That's it. The hens are all looking for the nest and burrowing into the nest.

The two men followed stealthily. Didn't go far. I saw the hen burrowing into the haystack. This haystack is the one outside the gate of the elementary school. A few days ago, the weather became colder, and Chitu had no forage. Liu Junhao pulled the haystack back.

They had just walked behind the haystack. The bald-tailed hen ran out when she saw someone giggling.

This guy used the firewood and straw stack as a delivery room, Liu Junhao stretched out his head to look into the depths of the haystack, and there were more than a dozen white eggs inside. It seems that it has been hiding eggs in private for a day or two.

confiscated them all, he let Zhang Qian carry them in his clothes, and he bent down and reached out to pick out the eggs.

"Ah, why is this egg cracked?" Zhang Qian took an egg and exclaimed.

"Normal, this is frozen." When he was a child, Liu Junhao often picked up eggs in the firewood stack, so he was very familiar with this situation.

You can't put this kind of egg, so you can simply make scrambled eggs at night.

Of course, before leaving, the two deliberately covered the chicken coop so that the bald tail could lay eggs outside.

As soon as they turned around, the hen ran away again.

"If you don't kill it for the New Year, eat meat," Liu Junhao said hatefully.

Speaking of the Chinese New Year, this day flies quickly, and there is still more than a month to reach the New Year.

This is the first year that the two of them have spent together, so they must prepare well, and it is best to start acting early.

Thinking of this, Liu Junhao looked at the lotus root in the ditch in front of the door. Lotus seeds are picked in summer and lotus root are dug in winter, and lotus roots can be dug in November. It's just that many families want to make the lotus root grow for a long time, so they dig it in the cold winter.

He eats this lotus root at home, and he doesn't have to wait for a few more months. While it's not too cold now, pick a noon pick to dig some first.

After discussing it with Professor Zhao, he immediately agreed, and even said that his bones were crispy these days and he was looking for a chance to exercise.

The water in the ditch is very deep, and if you want to dig lotus roots, you have to drain the water. That's a big project, and it takes at least a whole day to get started. They finally discussed, and simply touched some places on the side, and waited until they had time to find a pumping machine to dig again.

Only digging on the side, naturally saving more trouble, you don't need to wear rubber shoes, you directly bare feet, and jump into the water with a pull of trousers.

Old Man Wang saw something interesting on the side and wanted to go down to help, but Professor Zhao hurriedly stopped him.

His body has only been recuperating for more than half a month, and although he has recovered well recently, he can't withstand such a toss.

The two of them had just entered the water and had no experience, so they could only grope down the dried lotus leaf stem. However, after soaking in water for several months, the lotus has already become decayed, and if you are not careful, it will be broken.

Therefore, the two of them can be said to follow their feelings, and the lotus root did not touch a few, but they caught a lot of those loaches, yellow eels, crabs, etc.

At first, Liu Junhao didn't care, and the fish he caught were thrown to the ducks to eat. However, as more and more loaches were thrown ashore, he quickly changed his mind and asked Lao Wang to carry a small bucket to pick up on the road.

It is said that this ditch is swept by the water duck Qingzhuang at least five or six times a day, but there are still a lot of fish in it, and under the nourishment of the silt, they grow very fat.

As far as the loach in Liu Junhao's hand is concerned, the body is much thicker than a one-yuan coin, and he weighed it casually, and it weighed it twice.

They kept throwing fish up below, and the old man Wang picked it up a little red-eyed and shouted, "Pro."

, it's better to join it", and then ignored Professor Zhao's objections, and went directly

"The lotus root is not dug like this, it should be stepped on with your feet," Lao Wang quickly found the trick of touching the lotus root. Gently step on the lotus root branches in the silt with your feet, and then keep walking along the silt. When I found a suitable lotus root, I stepped on it vigorously, and the fresh lotus root broke off from the follow. With another hook of the instep, the lotus root will be taken out of the water.

The lotus root that has just come out of the water does not need to be washed, it is just raised with mud, and it will not be bad if it can be left for a month or two.

"Look at this lotus root, it's simply top-notch." Old Man Wang suddenly pulled a long lotus root out of the mud with excitement, and then washed it back and forth in the water several times.

Liu Junhao and Professor Zhao both turned their heads: the lotus root knot was indeed very pleasing, it was as smooth as jade after being washed in water, and several sections were big lotus root sticks with the thickness of an arm.

"Plop" Lao Wang's side struggled, and suddenly his feet slipped and hit a stumble in the water.

"Be careful" Liu Junhao quickly helped him back, so he didn't fall.

"Why is there a big stone in this water?" After the old man stood firmly, he said with palpitations.

"Stone, should there be this piece?" Liu Junhao was a little confused, he had already checked it when he planted the lotus root, and there was no big stone in this piece at all.

"I'm on my left foot...... Hey...... plop ......" Before he finished speaking, his body staggered again, "What's it, what's in the water, why do you ......move?"

"I'll just say your legs aren't good enough to come ashore." Professor Zhao thought he was swinging, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to urge.

"There really is something, don't I touch it for you" Old Man Wang said and reached out to carry the "big stone" in the water, but before he touched it, he felt that the "stone" moved again.

"There's really something!" Liu Junhao got close and saw a black thing in the muddy water slowly sliding into the distance.

"Big fish?" Professor Zhao also came over.

The three of them forgot to step on the lotus root and surrounded them one by one.

Liu Junhao was quick, and when he saw the black shadow swimming towards him, he immediately reached out and threw it hard, and it was already thrown to the shore.

"Old turtle!!" Professor Zhao saw the prototype of that thing at this time, "The one with the word longevity?" ”

"It should be, how did you get into the ditch" Liu Junhao nodded, and then went ashore barefoot.

This old turtle suddenly disappeared last month, and Zhang Qian searched in the yard several times, but found nothing. Liu Junhao regretted it a lot, he knew that he should have put it in the stone lock, so why couldn't he throw it away, and now he can only blame himself for not being blessed.

Just when they thought they couldn't find it, they found this thing lying in the sun at noon.

In the afternoon, it disappeared again, and this time neither of them was worried, knowing that it must have hibernated, and it should still be in the yard.

It was expected that this thing would burrow into the mud for the winter, and if you think about it, it would also keep warm in the mud winter, isn't it an ideal hibernation place?

Liu Junhao just wanted to wipe off the mud on the shell of the old turtle with his hands, but he didn't expect to touch the old turtle yet, the guy suddenly stretched out his head and bit his finger straight.

Good fellow, he was startled and hurriedly withdrew his hand.

"Are you alright?" Professor Zhao caught up.

"It's okay" Liu Junhao was still a little stunned, the old turtle that was awakened from hibernation was really unreasonable, and even the owner bit it. Fortunately, I reacted quickly, otherwise I would have been bitten. If you are bitten by an old turtle, don't struggle, this thing is timid, the more you struggle, the tighter it bites, and it won't let go.

If you want this thing to loosen its mouth, you usually put the turtle in the water so that it will release itself.

"I'll get some water to wash it, and see if the word longevity is obviously not obvious." Lao Wang also knew the story of this old turtle and was quite interested in the pattern on its back.

After a large bucket of water was poured on, the old turtle immediately showed its "true body".

"Hey, there's no word...... This is not the original one," Professor Zhao exclaimed dumbly. Although the old turtle in front of him is about the same size as the previous one, the shell of the turtle is very different. The shell of this old turtle is covered with dark green algae, and there are some small snails mixed in it, which suddenly looks like a moving stone.

"This old turtle doesn't look like it's from the river. Could it be that it came down from the big weir pond? Liu Junhao also said. His inference is based on the fact that the bottom of the river is sandy, and the color of the shell of the turtle is much smoother, and only the old turtle that survives in the mud pond will look like this.

One of the sources of this ditch is the big weir pond, where there are many wild turtles, and the hairy boy even caught one in the summer.

Looking at the comments about pine candy asked a lot, I will explain again.

I've already deduced the cause of this thing in the previous chapter, and for now, I think it's a more reasonable explanation.

I checked it on Baidu today, and I didn't meet anyone who wrote about similar experiences, so I can't give extra information.

In fact, there are many strange things in the world, but many novel things are rarely recorded.

For example, when I first wrote about the soil honey in the reed pipe, some readers asked questions. In fact, local honey is real, and it took me a lot of effort to find a few similar experiences from the Internet.

There is also Zhihua, this thing should not be uncommon, but it is rarely mentioned on the Internet.

The same is true for pine candy this time, I think many people should have eaten this thing, but the strange thing is that it can't be found on the Internet. (To be continued)