Chapter 4 Pests
"Oh oh! Whoop! ”
In the early morning, when the sun had just risen, a loud rooster crow came into Loulan's hut.
Loulan, who was sleeping fragrantly, was soon woken up, and he covered his head with a pillow when he was irritable, wanting to continue sleeping for a while.
"Oh oh! Whoop! ”
The rooster crows continued, and there was no intention of stopping.
"This damn cock, it's a nasty thing to die of! I... Wait a minute, rooster, how can there be a rooster here? Loulan was excited, turned over, hurriedly opened the door, walked out, and looked around for the source of the rooster's crow.
"Oh oh! Whoop! ”
A sound came from her head, and Loulan looked up and found that there was really a big rooster, standing on the roof of the thatched hut named "Seed" at this time, pulling his neck and crowing desperately!
This rooster looks extremely mighty, the feathers on the body are colorful, colorful and eye-catching, the high cockscomb is bright red and straight, on the cocked tail, the five-colored feathers are raised high, and the drooping part of the tail is still swinging with the wind, looking at it from a distance, it is really majestic.
"Calling you big! Lao Tzu is out, are you still calling? Loulan picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it at the rooster on the roof.
Speaking of which, Loulan's accuracy in throwing stones is still very high, and the speed of stones is not slow, but the rooster is not a vegetarian, just the moment when Loulan's stone is about to arrive in front of him, the rooster actually flapped his wings lightly and dodged lightly.
Although the stone was lost, Loulan was surprised to find that the stone she threw did not fall directly to the ground, but continued to fly towards the sky at an angle of 45 degrees, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"What's going on, is it that you don't even have more strength after a good night's sleep?" Loulan shook her arm, and instead of continuing to entangle with the rooster, she walked towards the river---- since she woke up, it was time to wash up.
The rooster was "disturbed" by Loulan like this, and seemed to have lost the interest in crowing, jumped off the roof, and soon disappeared into the grass behind the hut.
Loulan came to the river, picked up the water and washed her face, but found that after being washed by herself, even the river water turned black, and she suddenly felt that her face was a little unbearable, so she simply took off her clothes and jumped into the river to take a bath.
The river water is flowing, although Loulan is dirty enough, but it does not affect the cleanliness of the river water, and there are no fish and shrimp in the river, which will not be affected by the river water polluted by Loulan.
Loulan finished taking a bath, and washed her clothes by the way, and then shook it off, and put it on her body again, anyway, it's summer, the clothes are thin, and it's nothing, as long as it's not naked.
Back in the hut, Loulan found that a bamboo basket of roasted corn had been placed on the small table, and a large bowl of steaming corn porridge, and the enticing aroma of corn filled the entire hut.
"This is a good feeling, and I really don't have to worry about eating." Loulan was so happy in her heart that she sat down at the table unceremoniously and ate it in a big gulp.
The roasted corn is charred and sweet, the polenta is thick and hot, and Loulan eats it very sweet.
Two roasted corn belly, Loulan drank half a bowl of polenta, and then couldn't eat it anymore, this is not because the things are not delicious, on the contrary, the roasted corn and porridge are very delicious, because the ingredients are very good, so there is no need for any seasoning, it is very delicious.
The reason why Loulan lost his appetite was because he did eat a little too much last night, and second, he wanted to do an experiment, an experiment on these foods.
Loulan took the rest of the roasted corn out of the basket, took off her jacket and wrapped it carefully, put it in the bucket outside the door, and then took the hoe and carried the bucket in the direction of the cornfield.
As soon as the hoe and bucket were in her hands, Loulan immediately felt a little strange: how could these two things be so light? Doesn't it seem like this yesterday?
Flipping these two things casually, it felt like holding two plastic toys, which made Lou Lan secretly surprised, but now he didn't have time to think about it, his heart only cared about his cornfield, which was his lifeline.
Now it's summer, Loulan only wears a shirt and wraps it in roasted corn, so he naturally becomes bare-chested, but it's also very hot outside, and he doesn't feel cold.
After a night's time, the corn has grown as tall as Loulan, the tall corn seedlings are green and green, and the growth is very gratifying.
Leaning down, Loulan touched the soil in the field and found that it was a little dry, so she took out the corn tortillas from the bucket and put them on the edge of the field, and carried the bucket to the river to fetch water and water the ground.
The summer morning is sunny and warm and comfortable.
Loulan fetched three buckets of water in one breath and watered the corn field thoroughly, but just as he put down the bucket and was about to take a breath, the corner of his eye seemed to see something on the leaves of the corn seedlings, still squirming slightly.
"What is this?" Lou Lan leaned her head closer to the corn seedlings with some doubts, took a closer look, and immediately became angry: "Green worms! ”
Right in front of Loulan's eyes, a thumb-sized green worm was attached to a corn leaf, and with the rhythmic swing of the green worm's head, a small hole appeared in the corn leaf, apparently eaten by the green worm.
"Die, damn vermin!" The angry Loulan grabbed the green worm, then threw it on the ground hard, raised her foot and stepped on it violently, and the fat green worm immediately turned into a mess of meat paste.
"Hmph, if you dare to eat Lao Tzu's corn, you are simply killing yourself... I'll go, how can there be another one here! Before Loulan finished speaking, he found another green worm, and this time he was really anxious, and while reaching out to catch the green worm, he looked at the other corn.
At this glance, Loulan was really taken aback, it turned out that somehow, every corn seedling actually had green worms, and each green worm was as fat as a finger, obviously it should be a foodie-level green worm, if you don't deal with it quickly, I'm afraid your corn will have to be eaten up by these guys.
In a hurry, Loulan couldn't take care of it anymore, and threw it away from a distance after catching the green worm, because there were too many green worms, he couldn't care about stepping on it now, just grabbed it vigorously, and then threw it away, and then he found that he really had a great increase in strength, and he could throw the green worm out more than ten meters away.
Although the green worms are quite big, in fact, there are not many, probably about a dozen or so corn seedlings on each tree, Loulan tossed for more than half an hour, and finally caught the green worms, even so, he still looked at it carefully and looked at it with no worries, until he confirmed that all the green worms were cleaned up, and then he was relieved.
"Goo, goo!"
A burst of chicken crows suddenly came, Loulan turned her head to look, and suddenly her eyes lit up, it turned out that three big hens with reed flowers came out of nowhere, and they were wandering around in the open space next to the cornfield at the moment, enjoying the green worm feast that Loulan threw over!
"Good thing, looks like there's chicken to eat tonight." Loulan looked at the three fat and strong hens, and she had already begun to think about the chicken soup dinner in the evening.
It's a pity that the hens obviously also noticed Loulan, especially when Loulan was thinking about the chicken soup in her heart, the hens seemed to be alert immediately, and they no longer bowed their heads to eat green worms, and looked at Loulan vigilantly.
"These hens seem to be a little weird, how can even hens be so scary in this damn place? This... Don't be some kind of monster, right? Thinking of this, Lou Lan threw away the idea of eating chicken soup just now: "I think it's better to forget about chicken soup, don't eat it." ”
Loulan had just come up with this idea, and the three hens seemed to have sensed it, and after a few "clucking" sounds, they buried their heads in eating the green worms as if nothing had happened, and from time to time they used their claws to dig the ground and chase down those green worms that wanted to burrow deep into the grass.
Loulan turned her head and was about to continue to check her beloved corn, but suddenly found that the corn seedlings had grown again, and each corn tree had three or two small corn cobs on it.
"Oh yes! It's already starting to bear fruit. Loulan shouted excitedly, this was the first time he had grown crops independently, and his heart was naturally full of a sense of accomplishment.
Now the corn cob is only the size of a thumb, it looks like a small flower bone, very cute, the breeze blows, and Loulan even seems to have smelled the slight aroma of corn.
After the little corn came out, Loulan didn't dare to leave a single step, for fear that there would be another wave of green worm attacks, this little corn cob is no better than a leaf, once the worm drilled in, Loulan will be busy in vain.
Guarding the cornfield, before I knew it, it was noon, and the small corn cobs were growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and they were already the size of a palm, and it seemed that it would not be long before they could be picked.
Loulan calculated the time, it was about twelve o'clock now, and there were about three hours before the twenty-four hours of corn ripening.
Thinking of this, Loulan took out the roasted corn wrapped in his jacket, although there should be lunch at home, but he still wanted to eat here, and by the way, he looked at his corn, and didn't make any mistakes.
Who knew that as soon as Loulan took the top, she immediately felt wrong, the top was much lighter than before, and when she opened it, there was any roasted corn inside, which was already empty.
Although the roasted corn is gone, the clothes are wrapped well, obviously not stolen and eaten, but disappeared by itself, in this way, Loulan also just verified one thing: although the food at home is there every day, but if it is not eaten at the time, it will automatically disappear.
"Looks like we're going to have to go back!" Loulan muttered in a low voice, so she had to quickly return to the hut, took two corn tortillas and hurried back, but he had just walked to the cornfield when he suddenly heard someone talking.
"Ahh What an enticing aroma of corn, I forgot how many years I hadn't smelled such a sweet scent. ”
What appeared in front of Loulan was a little man with a lewd appearance, this guy was thin and small, and his appearance did not seem to be human: the ears were long and pointed, the awl face was sallow-skinned, triangular eyes, and two handfuls of mouse whiskers, which was a typical roe deer rat-like appearance, and he also carried a large dirty bag on his back.