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- Liu Junhao, where is our old bald-tailed hen? "In the afternoon, Zhang Qianfang took advantage of the feeding opportunity to count the hens in the yard, and found that one was missing.
"It's that yellow bald tailwill it be pecking at Professor Zhao's side?" Although there are seventy or eighty chickens in the yard, Liu Junhao was quite impressed by that hen. The main reason is that its characteristics are very obvious, its whole body is golden, but there are not many old feathers on its tail.
"Go over and take a look, I'm sure you're not there Gu Gu Gu Gu" Zhang Qian said and started shouting again, and the chickens and ducks all scurried around with the corn kernels in her hand. Zhang Qian likes to feed chickens and ducks. Watching them crowded around her makes her feel a bit accomplished.
Liu Junhao went out to check, but he was really not there.
"Let me tell you, I didn't see it when I was feeding the baby two days ago. Could it be eaten by a weasel?"
"There should be no rats and wolves in this area." Liu Junhao was also puzzled. The number of hens in his yard had only increased, and this was the first time that there had been fewer hens. As for being ruined by weasels, it seems unlikely when you think about it. Xiaopi and Doudou wander around the area all day long, and no weasel dares to make a home here. Besides, weasels usually steal chickens at night? The bald-tailed hen was huge, probably weighing seven or eight pounds even if its feathers were plucked. It was really no match for an ordinary weasel.
I remember that one time in the summer, Liu Junhao went to the forest to dig a cicada shell, and saw it fighting with a red snake with a thick wrist.
"Then let's go out and look for it quickly." Zhang Qian became a little anxious.
"Don't look for me, you'll come back naturally," Liu Junhao said comfortingly. If it was really eaten by an animal, you can't find it now if you look for it.
"How can you be like you? You don't even care if your boss is lost."
The two were talking. The bald-tailed chicken clucked out of the yard.
"Look. I just told you to come back." He felt that he was very prescient. How could the hens in the yard be lost?
The hen pecked on the ground for a while. Then he sneaked out from the eye of the water channel.
"It's almost dark. What does it want to do?" That's about it. The hens all groped and crawled into the nest.
The two men followed secretly. Didn't go far either. I saw the hen getting into the haystack. This haystack is the one outside the primary school gate. The weather turned cold a few days ago and Red Rabbit had no fodder. Liu Junhao pulled the haystack back.
They just walked behind the haystack. The bald-tailed hen clucked and ran out as soon as she saw the men and horses.
This guy used the firewood pile as a delivery room. Liu Junhao stretched his head and looked deep into the haystack. There were a dozen white eggs inside. It seems that it has been hiding eggs in private for more than a day or two.
After confiscating everything, he asked Zhang Qian to carry it in his clothes while he bent down and reached out to take out the eggs.
"Ah, why are these eggs cracked?" Zhang Qian took an egg and exclaimed.
"It's normal, it was cracked by the freeze." When he was a child, Liu Junhao often picked up eggs with holes in his mouth from the pile of firewood, so he was very familiar with this situation.
You can¡¯t put eggs like this in, so you can just make scrambled eggs at night.
Of course, before leaving, the two of them deliberately covered the chicken coop to let Bald Tail lay eggs outside.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they turned around, the hen screamed and ran over again.
¡°You have to kill it to eat meat during the Chinese New Year,¡± Liu Junhao said bitterly.
It¡¯s the Chinese New Year, and the days are flying by so fast. It¡¯s just over a month away from the Little New Year.
This year is the first year that the couple has spent together. They must prepare well and it is best to start taking action early.
Thinking of this, Liu Junhao took another look at the lotus root in the ditch in front of his door. Collect lotus seeds in summer and dig lotus roots in winter. You can usually dig lotus roots in November. It's just that many people dig lotus roots in the twelfth lunar month of winter in order to let them grow for a few more months.
He eats the lotus roots at home, so he doesn¡¯t have to wait a few more months. Pick some time to dig some at noon while the weather is not too cold now.
After discussing it with Professor Zhao, he immediately agreed. He even said that his bones were numb from resting these days and he was looking for a chance to exercise.
The water in the ditch is very deep. If you want to dig lotus roots, you must drain the water. That is a big project and it will take at least a whole day to do it. They finally discussed it and decided to just dig around and wait until they had time to find a water pump before digging.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Naturally, it¡¯s much easier. You don¡¯t need to wear rubber shoes, just bare your big feet and jump into the water with your trouser legs rolled up.
Mr. Wang saw something interesting on the side and wanted to go down to help. Professor Zhao quickly stopped him.
His body has only been recovering for more than half a month. Although it has recovered well recently, it cannot withstand such a torment.
The two of them just got into the water.To test it, you can only explore down the dried lotus leaf stems. However, after being soaked in water for several months, the lotus has long since become withered, and if you are not careful, it will be broken.
So the two of them just followed their instincts. They didn't touch a few lotus roots, but they caught a lot of loaches, eels, crabs, etc.
Liu Junhao didn¡¯t pay attention at first and threw all the fish he caught to the water ducks. However, as more and more loaches were thrown ashore, he quickly changed his mind and asked Lao Wang to pick up a small bucket on the road.
It is said that this ditch is raided by the water duck Qingzhuang at least five or six times a day, but there are still a lot of fish in it, and nourished by the silt, they grow very fat.
" Take the loach caught in Liu Junhao's hand as an example. Its body is much thicker than a one-yuan coin. He weighed it casually and found that it weighed two taels.
They kept throwing fish up below, and Mr. Wang was a little jealous when he picked them up, shouting "I'm here!"
, it¡¯s better to join it.¡± Then regardless of Professor Zhao¡¯s objections, he went directly
"That's not how you dig lotus roots. You should step on them with your feet," Lao Wang quickly found the trick to touch the lotus roots. Step lightly on the lotus root branches in the mud with your feet, and then keep walking forward along the mud. When I found a suitable lotus root joint, I stepped on it hard, and the fresh lotus root joint broke off from the heel. Then use the instep to hook, and the lotus root will be brought out of the water.
There is no need to wash the newly emerged lotus roots, just keep them in mud and they will not go bad for a month or two.
"Look at this lotus root, it's top quality." Mr. Wang suddenly pulled out a long lotus root from the mud in 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 joints were indeed very pleasing to the eye. After being washed in water, they were as smooth as jade, and several of them were as big as big lotus root sticks as thick as an arm.
"Plop" Lao Wang was excited. Suddenly his foot slipped and he staggered in the water.
"Be careful." Liu Junhao's quick eyes and quick hands helped him from behind, and he didn't fall down.
"Why are there big rocks in this water?" The old man said with lingering fear after standing firm.
"There should be no stones in this area?" Liu Junhao was a little confused. He had already checked when planting lotus roots, and there were no big rocks in this area at all.
"There's something under my left foot eh plop" Before he finished speaking, his body staggered again, "What is it? What is it in the water? How can it move"
"I just said that your legs are not tight enough to get ashore." Professor Zhao thought he was trying to show off, so he hurriedly urged him.
"There is really something, if you don't want me to find it for you," Mr. Wang said and reached out to move the "big stone" in the water. However, before he touched it, he felt that the "stone" moved again.
"There is really something!" Liu Junhao got close and saw a dark thing in the muddy water slowly sliding towards the distance.
"Big fish?" Professor Zhao also came over.
This time, the three people forgot to step on the lotus roots and surrounded them one by one.
Liu Junhao had quick eyes and quick hands. When he saw the black shadow swimming towards him, he immediately stretched out his hand, pressed it and threw it hard, and it was already thrown to the shore.
"Old turtle!!" Professor Zhao saw the prototype of the thing at this time, "The one with the word longevity?"
"It should be, why did you get into the ditch?" Liu Junhao nodded, and then went ashore barefoot.
This old turtle suddenly disappeared last month. Zhang Qian searched for it several times in the yard but found nothing. Liu Junhao regretted it very much. He should have put it in the stone lock if he had known it. Why can't he throw it away? Now he can only blame himself for his lack of luck.
Just when they thought they couldn't find it again, they found this thing lying in the sun to warm itself at noon.
In the afternoon, it disappeared again. This time neither of them were worried, knowing that it must have hibernated and should still be in the yard.
It turns out that this thing can actually get into the mud to spend the winter. Think about it, the mud is also used to keep warm in winter, so isn't it an ideal hibernation place?
Liu Junhao just wanted to wipe off the mud on the old turtle shell with his hands, but before he touched the old turtle, the guy suddenly stretched out his head and bit his finger.
Good guy, he was startled and quickly drew back his hands.
"Are you okay?" Professor Zhao caught up.
"It's okay." Liu Junhao was still a little dazed. The old turtle that was awakened from hibernation was really unreasonable and even bit his owner. Fortunately, I reacted quickly, otherwise I would have been bitten. If you are bitten by a turtle, don't struggle. This thing is timid. The more you struggle, the tighter it will bite and won't let go.
If you want to make this thing loosen its mouth, you usually put the turtle into the water, so that it will loosen automatically.
"I'll get some water to wash it and see if the word "longevity" is obvious or not." Lao Wang also knew the story of this old turtle and was very interested in the pattern on its back.
After pouring a large bucket of water on it, the old turtle immediately showed his "true body".
"Hey, there is no wordthis is not the original one," Professor Zhao shouted dumbly. Although the old turtle in front of me is about the same size as the previous one, the shell is very different. The old turtle's shell was covered with dark green algae, mixed with some small field snails, and it suddenly looked like a moving stone.
"This old turtle doesn't look like it came from the river. Could it be that it came down from the pond?" Liu Junhao also said. His inference was well-founded. The bottom of the river was full of sand, and the color of the turtle shell was much smoother. Only old turtles that lived in mud ponds would look like this.
One of the sources of this ditch is Dayan Pond, where there are many wild old turtles. In the summer, Maozi even caught one.
Seeing that there are many questions about pine sugar in the comments, I will explain it again.
I have already deduced the cause of this thing in the last chapter. At present, I think it is a more reasonable explanation.
I checked on Baidu today and didn¡¯t find anyone writing about similar experiences, so I can¡¯t provide any additional information.
In fact, having said that, the world is full of wonders, but many novel things are rarely recorded.
For example, when I first wrote about soil honey in reed tubes, some readers also raised questions. In fact, local honey does exist. I spent a lot of effort to find several similar experiences on the Internet.
There is also cicada. This thing should not be uncommon, but there are very few mentions on the Internet.
The same is true for the pine sugar this time. I think many people should have eaten this thing, but strangely I can¡¯t find it online.
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