The two of them walked in front, and Xiao only followed for a while, and Xiao Pi disappeared without a trace. Liu Junhao knew that this guy would definitely be able to follow the smell, so he didn't care.

Spring has begun to appear in the mountains, and many Yingshan reds have sprouted buds. Although it is not yet open, you can imagine that in a few days, it will be a sea of flowers.

The grass on the shady side is still dry, but the sunny flowers and trees are beginning to bud, occasionally mixed with a few small flowers, adding a little vitality to the mountain forest.

Wukong was very active all the way, and kept pointing his paws at the branches above his head and squeaking. Several times, this guy wanted to slip up the tree, but Liu Junhao watched it die and didn't let it have a chance to break it.

Naturally, it looks at the nests on the branches, and most of the trees have not yet grown leaves, so the nests on the branches are very conspicuous. Along the way, they saw almost all the birds' nests. Many of them were among the bushes, not more than a man tall.

"Wild bees in the mountains have also come out," Zhao Jiao. It was far away, and I didn't look closely at it at all.

"It's not a bee, it's a big-eyed bee, no stings." Liu. Jun Hao opened his mouth and explained with a smile. The big-eyed bee is also considered to be the messenger of spring, and they are active almost as soon as the spring flowers bloom. It looks like a bee, but it has a shriveled stomach and a much slimmer body. They are very alert and will flapp their wings and fly away whenever something comes close.

As he was walking, Goku suddenly squeaked.

"There's movement!" Professor Zhao immediately turned around.

Liu Junhao looked at the grass suspiciously, it didn't seem to be anything abnormal. Before the two of them could regain their senses, the monkey had already scurried up, and then brought out a frog from the ditch.

This guy always does something unexpected, and thinks he's found something. It's an amazing thing, but I didn't expect it to be just a frog that has just woken up.

Both of them couldn't laugh or cry for a while!

Although it is a shortcut, it is not easy. For more than an hour, if it weren't for Liu Junhao's familiarity and letting Professor Zhao go up the mountain alone, he would definitely not be able to walk this area.

When he arrived at the foot of the wolfberry tree, Professor Zhao circled around the trunk of the tree. I was also amazed.

A spring rain, fungus. and it grew many more. Liu Junhao waved his hand, and the monkey rushed to the top of the tree, and then threw the fungus downward.

This time, there are fewer picks, about more than five catties, and it should be less than two catties after drying.

After getting the fungus, Professor Zhao proposed to dig dandelion seedlings in the mountains. Time is too tight, Liu Junhao didn't even have the opportunity to plant dandelions. Helpless, he had to secretly make up his mind, and when he led the old man around the mountain casually, he said that he couldn't find that place.

"Let's look for it separately, there are too many bushes here, two people can find it separately"

"Well, yes" Liu Junhao hurriedly nodded in agreement, which was exactly what he meant.

Seeing the old man's figure far away, he also acted quickly, leading Wukong towards the depths of the bushes, and finally found a sparse place with dandelions.

Pick up a small shovel and dig, dig up the dandelions and plant them in your stone locks, and then dig out the dandelions from the inside of the stones. There were also a lot of dandelions that had just grown on the meadow, and he watered them one by one with spring water to compensate for his actions just now.

When everything was done, he breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the grass to rest.

It's not worth thinking about making a fuss about this......

"Xiao Hao, Xiao Hao!" In less than ten minutes, Professor Zhao shouted over there.

"I'm here," he quickly stood up and waved.

"Did you dig it? It's already past ten o'clock, so let's go back early. "Professor Zhao didn't go far.

"I dug it, not much this time" Soon the old man arrived with his hands rubbed. He just thought it was troublesome to dig with a shovel, so he dragged it directly with his hands, so both hands were wet mud.

Liu Junhao was afraid that he would see something abnormal, but who knew that the old man had no intention of delving into it at all, and only said that he would go up the mountain to dig a few more times in the future.

The two of them dug dandelions and got their hands dirty, so when they went down the mountain, they deliberately found a mountain stream to wash their hands.

This mountain stream is a tributary of the great river, which meanders through the mountains and finally flows into the river from the back of the village. The stones on the bank are particularly smooth after being washed by the stream for a long time.

In the shallow water, a few fingernail-sized fish swam around incessantly, and when they sensed someone on the shore, they quickly ducked into the cracks in the rocks.

The stream water in early spring has become quite soft, Liu Junhao took a handful of stream water to wash his face, and suddenly felt refreshed.

"Tribute...... Tribute...... Suddenly, there was a chirp not far away.

"What's so loud, frog?" The old man was startled.

"It doesn't seem to be, the frog's voice is sharper than this. It should be a stone chicken...... Let's go and take a look, the stone chicken is also coming out at this time. Thinking of this, Liu Junhao looked excited.

"The stone pheasant, known as the 'king of frogs'...... Is there this thing in the mountains? Professor Zhao was also interested.

"Of course there are, there used to be a lot of them, but it's not easy to see one now."

The use value of stone chicken is very high, and it can be called the top grade in the mountain treasures. Its meat is very tasty and nutritious, making it a superior tonic. Whether it is braised or steamed, it is fragrant and mellow. Many home remedies in Liujiagou are related to stone chicken, such as eating more stone chicken in summer can eliminate prickly heat, and stone chicken stew can treat postpartum weakness, tuberculosis, cough and vomiting blood, etc.

This thing is different from ordinary frogs, it has high environmental requirements, and most of the time it likes to stay in deep mountain streams. Daqingshan is rich in water sources and many mountain streams, so it is very suitable for the survival of stone chickens.

Every year from the end of March to the middle of August of the lunar calendar, on a summer night, flocks of stone pheasants come out to feed, "tribute...... The call of "tribute ......" could be heard several miles away, and it sounded a little infiltrating.

I remember when I was a child, whose children were disobedient, and when adults threatened, they often said that they would throw you into the stone chicken nest to see if you were still disobedient.

Because this thing is afraid of the sun, it hides in the cracks of the rocks most of the day, so people can only catch it at night. In summer and autumn, I look for it along the mountain stream with a flashlight at night. As long as you hear the sound and shine the flashlight, the thing will stand still as soon as it sees the bright light. At this point, you can just grab it and throw it into the snakeskin bag.

Before the seventies and eighties, there were a lot of stone chickens in the mountains, but around the nineties, a lot of game restaurants were opened in the county, and those bosses came here to buy stone chickens for two yuan each.

At that time, people caught stone chickens crazy, almost the whole family went into battle, half of the sky illuminated by the flashlight, and hundreds of them could be caught at most in a day. In a few years, the stone pheasants in Daqingshan have decreased rapidly, and it is difficult for people to see the stone pheasants later.

That's why Liu Junhao was so excited when he saw it. He even had the idea of breeding stone chickens in his mind, like yellow eels, and keeping this thing in the backyard would definitely be a big harvest at that time.

I didn't expect the stone pheasant to come out so early, it seems that spring is really coming.

When the two of them arrived at the source of the sound, they didn't see the stone chicken.

"Isn't it still ahead?" Professor Zhao searched carefully by the stream a few times, but he didn't find it at all, but there were a lot of frogs that were alarmed.

"It should be here, let's not talk, it will definitely be screaming later."

So, both of them stopped talking. Wukong sensed that the atmosphere was abnormal, and obediently squatted on the stone and stared at the stream.

"Tribute...... ......Sure enough, in less than three minutes, the chirp came again.

Both eyes were on the place where the sound came from...... A stone the size of a millstone, and nothing else. It's a bit empty, but I smell the sound of people's voices.

"Tribute...... Tribute ......" suddenly two more times.

"...... below" Liu Junhao understood. The bottom of the stone must have been concave, and the stone pheasants were hiding there, no wonder they couldn't find it.

Professor Zhao leaned over and saw a stone chicken floating under the stone, but as soon as the guy saw the person, his body flashed, and he disappeared into the water.

"What to do...... Why don't we fish with a rope? "The stone chicken was scared away, and now I can only think of other tricks.

"I'll try it" Liu Junhao reached out and pulled a knee-high dogtail grass, pulling off all the leaves on it, leaving only the fluffy dog's tail at the end.

The dogtail grass swayed against the water surface for about ten minutes, and the stone chicken was stunned and didn't react at all, I don't know if it was because I just woke up from hibernation and wasn't hungry, or if people were not interested in this temptation.

Listening to this guy's screams getting louder and louder, Liu Junhao was a little angry, so he simply took off his shoes and socks, and pulled his trouser legs to the height of his knees.

"What are you going to do, go into the water and catch it? Wait, I'll go down and stop it. ”

"No, you watch from the shore, I'll lift this stone." After Liu Junhao finished speaking, he jumped into the water with a thud. The bottom of the stream is full of sand and gravel, so it has not been muddy, which makes it easier to wait for the next stone chicken, and in this environment, it must have nowhere to hide.

"This stone is a little too big, can you lift it?" Professor Zhao asked with some skepticism. Although he knew that Liu Junhao had great strength, the stone looked like it weighed four or five hundred catties, and one person would definitely not be able to move it.

"Don't worry, I'm not that stupid, just lift it to the shore." Liu Junhao gritted his teeth and sank his body.

"Hey......" There was a low roar, the stone loosened, and Professor Zhao hurriedly retreated to the side.

He lifted the stone quickly, and then pushed it hard, and suddenly there was a loud bang, and the stone fell into two pieces on the ground.

Unexpectedly, there were still many fish hiding under the rocks, and they lost their hiding place, so these guys could only flee along the stream. For them, Liu Junhao can't see them yet, and all he wants to catch now is the stone chicken.

"What about the stone chicken, why didn't you see it?" Professor Zhao stared at the shore with wide eyes, but found no trace of the thing.

"I X" took so much effort, but I didn't expect that there would be something else under the big stone. Looking at the stone crack, Liu Junhao couldn't help but shout a national scolding.

I was busy for more than half an hour, and all I did was useless work. Professor Zhao was quite unwilling, rolled up his sleeves and reached into the crack in the stone.

"What's the matter, it's so slippery......" He had just put his hand inside, and suddenly felt something slippery and escaped.

"What can it be, it must be a fish" Liu Junhao has no hope now. He knows this very well, and the stone crevices are generally relatively deep after the long-term erosion of the stream, and the human arm cannot reach the end at all.

"No, it seems to have legs," Professor Zhao called out and put his other hand in, only to hear the sound ......of water running inside.

"Slipped, must have gotten deep into the hole." Finally, he withdrew his hand in disappointment, and all the shiny slime on it was slime.

"You might touch a mustache or a catfish." Fish generally have very little mucus on their bodies, only these two fish are particularly slippery, and they also like to burrow.

"No, I feel like I've grabbed a thin leg." Professor Zhao shook his head, the feeling just now didn't look like a fish.

"It must be a checkered mustache, and the two fins in front of this thing are particularly hard." Liu Junhao knew that he was mostly psychological, thinking that he had caught something.

By the time they got home, the students had just finished school. At noon, Zhang Qian wanted to eat sweet, so she asked Liu Junhao to pick some honey and come back.

The honey on the reed stack in front has already been picked once, and if you want to eat it at this time, you can only go to the backyard.

After wandering around the mountains for a long time, he was so tired that he didn't want to move, and he was ready to replace it with white sugar.

Zhang Qian didn't want to compromise, so she volunteered to go to the backyard to pick.

Liu Junhao was kneading his dough when he suddenly heard the phone ringing in the living room.

At this time, who called, he ran into the living room in confusion. When I looked at the number, I immediately wondered that it was used by my wife.

"Wow...... Liu Junhao, come over quickly, hurry up...... I don't dare to move" As soon as the phone was connected, Zhang Qian's trembling voice came.

"Where are you?" Didn't my wife go to the backyard to pick honey just now?

"I'm on the courtyard wall...... Follow...... Hurry up, there are a few toads here......" In the mobile phone, you can clearly hear her teeth fighting, and her voice is faint, as if she is afraid of alarming something.

"Toad! You wait, I'll go right over. Liu Junhao hung up the phone, then rushed out of the door and slipped into the backyard. There is a saying after the break that "the toad jumps on the instep of the foot, and if it does not bite people, it should kill people", the toad is what people often call the toad, although this thing is the same as the frog, it is a beneficial animal, but people's attitude towards them is completely different. Seeing the toad, many people hide far away, even if this thing crawls into the yard to eat mosquitoes, it will also be shoveled out.

Zhang Qian has been in Liujiagou for almost two years, and she can be regarded as well-informed, but she was so frightened that she turned pale when she encountered a toad a few times. What's more, this time it was a close contact, and for a while, she was so frightened that she couldn't move.

From a distance, I saw Zhang Qian turning her head and closing her eyes, standing in front of the reed stack in a strange posture. And in front of and behind her, there were several bowl-sized toads. One of them was crouching on the reed pole, staring at her with fierce eyes.

These toads are crazy, how can they go against humans? Liu Junhao was quite puzzled in his heart. Didn't Zhang Qian provoke them just now?

But he can't think about things too much, and the most important thing in front of him is to rescue his "wife". A toad is not terrible, seven or eight of them are gathered together, and Liu Junhao also feels a little infiltrating.

He crept over to him, and the toads sensed the movement and jumped to the side to make way.

As soon as Liu Junhao came into contact with Zhang Qian, she immediately opened her eyes with a loud scream. Seeing that it was her husband, she immediately got into his arms.

"Don't be afraid," Liu Junhao hugged her and retreated again and again, until he retreated to a safe distance before breathing a sigh of relief