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- The two people walked in front, with Xiaopi and Wukong following behind. After only following for a while, Xiaopi disappeared. Liu Junhao knew that this guy would definitely be able to follow the scent, so he didn't care.
Spring has begun to appear in the mountains, and many azaleas have sprouted buds. Although it has not yet opened, you can imagine that in a few days, this place will be a sea of ??flowers.
The grass on the shady side is still dry, but the flowers and trees facing the sun are beginning to sprout, occasionally mixed with a few small flowers, which adds a bit of vitality to the forest.
Wukong was very active all the way, pointing his paws at the branches above his head and screaming. Several times, this guy wanted to sneak up the tree, but Liu Junhao was too scared to let him do anything wrong.
Naturally, what it likes is the bird's nest on the branch. Most of the trees have not yet grown leaves, so the bird's nest on the branch is very conspicuous. Along the way, they saw almost all bird nests. Many of them are among the bushes and are no taller than one person.
"Wild bees have also come out in the mountains." Professor Zhao was far away and did not take a closer look at them.
¡°It¡¯s not a bee, it¡¯s a big-eyed wasp. It doesn¡¯t have a sting.¡± Liu Junhao explained with a smile. Bigeye wasps can also be regarded as the messengers of spring. They become active almost as soon as the spring flowers bloom. This thing looks very similar to a bee, but its belly is very flat and its body is much slimmer. They are very alert and will flap their wings and fly away as soon as something approaches.
As he was walking, Wukong suddenly squeaked.
"There is movement!" Professor Zhao turned around immediately.
Liu Junhao looked at the patch of grass with confusion. There seemed to be nothing unusual. Before the two of them could think about it, the monkey had already rushed up and picked up a frog from the ditch.
This guy always does something unexpected. He thought he found something extraordinary, but he didn't expect it was just a frog that had just woken up.
Both of them were dumbfounded for a moment!
Although it was a shortcut, it was not easy. It took more than an hour of twists and turns. If Liu Junhao hadn't been familiar with the road and let Professor Zhao go up the mountain alone, he would definitely not have been able to reach this area.
Arriving at the foot of the wolfberry tree, Professor Zhao walked around the trunk and was filled with admiration.
After a spring rain, the fungus grew a lot again. Liu Junhao waved his hand, and the monkey rushed to the top of the tree, and then threw fungus down.
The harvest this time was less, about five kilograms, and it should be less than two kilograms after drying.
After finishing the fungus, Professor Zhao proposed to dig dandelion seedlings in the mountain. Time was so tight that Liu Junhao didn't even have a chance to plant dandelions. Helpless, he had no choice but to secretly make up his mind to take the old man for a casual walk around the mountain later, then say he couldn't find the place.
"Let's search separately. There are too many bushes here, so two people can search separately."
"Well, yes," Liu Junhao nodded in agreement. This proposal was exactly what he meant.
Seeing the old man walking away, he also moved quickly, leading Wukong deeper into the bushes, and finally found a place with sparse dandelions growing there.
Pick up a small shovel and dig, dig out the dandelions and plant them in your own stone locks, and then dig out the dandelions inside the stone. There were many dandelions that had just grown on the grass, and he watered them one by one with spring water as compensation for his behavior just now.
After everything was done, he breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the grass to rest.
It¡¯s not worth it to make a fuss over this matter no matter how much you think about it
¡°Xiao Hao, Xiao Hao!¡± Less than ten minutes later, Professor Zhao started shouting there.
"I'm here." He quickly stood up and waved.
"Have you dug enough? It's already past ten o'clock, we have to go back early." Professor Zhao didn't go far.
"We dug it, not much this time." Soon the old man arrived rubbing his hands. He just thought it was troublesome to dig with a shovel, so he just pulled it with his hands, so both hands were covered with wet mud.
Liu Junhao was originally afraid that he would see something unusual. Who knew that the old man had no intention of delving into it at all, and only said that he would go to the mountain to dig more times in the future.
The two people got their hands dirty from digging dandelions, so when they went down the mountain, they found a mountain stream to wash their hands.
This mountain stream can be regarded as a tributary of the big river. It meanders in the mountains and finally flows into the river from behind the village. After being washed by the stream for a long time, the stones on the shore are particularly smooth.
In the shallow water, several fingernail-sized fish kept swimming around. When they sensed someone on the shore, they quickly hid among the rocks.
The stream in early spring has become quite soft. Liu Junhao washed his face with a handful of stream water and suddenly felt refreshed.
"GongGongGong" suddenly heard a cry not far away.
"What is it that screams so loudly, frog?" The old man was frightened.Jump.
"It doesn't seem to be the case. The frog's voice is sharper than this. It should be the pheasant Let's go to the pheasant and it will come out at this time." Thinking of this, Liu Junhao looked excited.
"The stone chicken known as the 'King of Frogs'is there such a thing in the mountains?" Professor Zhao also became interested.
¡°Of course there are, there used to be a lot of them, but now it¡¯s really hard to see one.¡±
The use value of stone chicken is very high, and it can be called the top grade of mountain treasures. Its meat is very delicious and nutritious, making it an excellent tonic. Whether braised or steamed, they are all delicious and fragrant. Many folk remedies in Liujiagou are related to the preparation of stone chicken. For example, eating more stone chicken in summer can eliminate prickly heat, and stewing stone chicken soup can treat postpartum weakness, tuberculosis, cough and vomiting blood, etc.
This thing is different from ordinary frogs. It has higher environmental requirements and likes to stay in deep mountains and streams most of the time. Daqingshan is rich in water resources and has many mountain streams, so it is very suitable for the survival of stone chickens.
Every year from the end of March to mid-August on the lunar calendar, on summer nights, flocks of pheasants come out to look for food. The cry of "GongGong" can be heard for several miles, and it sounds a little permeable. people.
I remember who was disobedient when I was a kid. When the adults threatened, they often said that they were thrown into the stone hen nest and seeing you were not obedient.
Because this thing is afraid of the sun and spends most of its time hiding in rock crevices during the day, people can only catch it at night. In summer and autumn, I search along mountain streams with a flashlight at night. As long as you hear the sound and take a photo, the thing will freeze immediately as soon as it sees the bright light. At this time, you can just go up and catch it and throw it into the snakeskin bag.
Before the 1970s and 1980s, there were many pheasants in the mountains, but around 1990, many game restaurants opened in the county, and the owners came here to buy pheasants for two yuan each.
At that time, people were crazy about catching pheasants. Almost the entire family, old and young, came together to take pictures, and half of the sky was bright. At most, hundreds of them could be caught in a day. Within a few years, the number of pheasants in Daqingshan decreased rapidly, and later it became difficult for people to even see pheasants.
That¡¯s why Liu Junhao was so excited when he saw it. He even came up with the idea of ??raising cadavers, like eels, and raising them in the backyard would definitely yield a lot of harvest.
I didn¡¯t expect the pheasants to come out so early. It seems that spring is really coming.
When the two people arrived at the place where the sound originated, they did not see the pheasant.
"Is it still in front?" Professor Zhao searched carefully by the stream several times, but he didn't find it at all, but a lot of frogs were disturbed.
"It should be right here. Let's not talk. It will definitely bark again later."
So, both of them stopped talking. Wukong felt that the atmosphere was abnormal, and he squatted on the stone and stared at the stream.
"GongGong" Sure enough, less than three minutes later, the cry came again.
Both of them looked towards the place where the sound originateda stone as big as a millstone, and nothing else. It really feels like an empty mountain with no people, but the sound of people's voices.
"GongGong" suddenly came two more times.
"Down there" Liu Junhao understood now. There must be a depression under the stone where the pheasant is hiding. No wonder they can't find it.
Professor Zhao leaned over and took a look, and sure enough he saw a pheasant floating under the stone. However, as soon as the guy saw the person, he ducked into the water and disappeared.
"What should we do How about we fish with a rope?" The pheasant was frightened away, and now it can only think of other tricks.
"I'll give it a try." Liu Junhao stretched out his hand and pulled a knee-high foxtail, pulling off all the leaves on it, leaving only the fluffy dog's tail at the end.
The green foxtail swung against the water for about ten minutes, but the pheasant showed no reaction at all. I don¡¯t know whether it was because he had just woken up from hibernation and was not hungry, or because he was not interested in this kind of temptation.
Listening to this guy¡¯s screams getting louder and louder, Liu Junhao got a little angry, so he simply took off his shoes and socks and rolled up his trouser legs to the level of his knees.
"What are you going to do, go into the water to catch him? Wait, I'll go down and stop him too."
"No, you watch from the shore while I lift the stone." After Liu Junhao finished speaking, he jumped into the water with a splash. The bottom of the stream is full of sand and gravel, so it has not been muddy. This will make it easier to catch the stone chicken later. In this environment, it must have nowhere to hide.
"This rock is too big, can you lift it?" Professor Zhao asked doubtfully. Although I knew Liu Junhao was very strong, the stone seemed to weigh four to five hundred kilograms, and it would definitely not be possible for one person to move it.
"Don't worry, I'm not that stupid, just lift it to the shore." Liu Junhao gritted his teeth and sank down.
"Hey" With a low roar, the stone loosened, and Professor Zhao quickly retreated to the side.
He quickly lifted the stone, and then pushed it hard. There was a loud bang and the stone fell into two pieces on the ground.
Unexpectedly, there were many fish hiding under the rocks. Without their hiding place, these guys could only flee along the stream. Liu Junhao can't see them yet, and all he wants to catch now is pheasants.
"Where's the pheasant? Why haven't you seen it?" Professor Zhao stared at the shore with wide eyes, but found no trace of that thing.
¡°I Looking at the crack in the stone, Liu Junhao couldn't help shouting a national curse.
I have been busy for more than half an hour, but all I have done is useless. Professor Zhao was quite unwilling. He rolled up his sleeves and reached into the cracks in the rocks.
"What is it, so slippery" As soon as he put his hand in, he suddenly felt something slippery inside and escaped.
"Whatever it could be, it must be a fish." Liu Junhao now has no hope. He knew this very well. After long-term erosion by streams, the crevices in the rocks were generally quite deep, and a person's arms could not reach the bottom.
"No, it seems to have legs" Professor Zhao called and put his other hand in, only to hear the sound of water rushing inside.
"It slipped, it must have gone deep into the hole." Finally, he took his hand back in despair, and all the shiny things on it were mucus.
"You may touch the checkered tiger or catfish." Generally, fish have very little mucus, but these two fish are particularly slippery, and they also like to drill holes.
"No, I feel like I caught a thin leg." Professor Zhao shook his head. The feeling just now didn't feel like a fish at all.
"That must be a checkered beard. The two fins on the front of this thing are very hard." Liu Junhao knew that he was probably psychologically affected and thought he had caught something.
By the time they arrived home, the students had just finished school. Making pancakes for lunch, Zhang Qian wanted something sweet and asked Liu Junhao to collect some honey.
The honey on the reed pile in front has been collected once. 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 too tired to move and planned to use sugar instead.
Zhang Qian didn¡¯t want to give in, so she volunteered to go to the backyard to pick.
Liu Junhao was kneading dough when he suddenly heard the phone ringing in the living room.
Who called at this time, he ran into the living room in confusion. When I looked at the number, I was immediately puzzled. It was actually my wife who made the call on her mobile phone.
"Wow Liu Junhao, come here quickly, hurry up I don't dare to move." As soon as the call was connected, Zhang Qian's trembling voice came over.
"Where are you?" Didn't my wife go to the backyard to pick honey just now?
"I'm on the courtyard wall follow me hurry up, there are a few toads here" On the phone, you can clearly hear her teeth chattering, and her voice is inaudible, as if she is afraid of disturbing anything.
"Toad! Just wait, I'll be there right away." Liu Junhao hung up the phone, then rushed out and fled to the backyard. There is a saying that goes, "A toad jumps on the instep and kills people even if it doesn't bite." Toads are what people often call toads. Although they are beneficial animals like frogs, people have completely different attitudes towards them. Many people hide away when they see a toad. Even if this toad crawls into the yard to eat mosquitoes, it will be shoveled out.
Zhang Qian has been in Liujiagou for almost two years and has seen a lot. However, she turned pale with fright when she encountered toads a few times. What's more, this time it was a close encounter. For a moment, she was so frightened that she couldn't even move.
From a distance, I saw Zhang Qian turning her head and closing her eyes tightly, standing in front of the reed stack in a weird posture. In front of and behind her were squatting several toads as big as bowls. There was another squatting on the reed pole, staring at her eagerly.
¡°These toads are crazy, how can they go against humans? Liu Junhao was quite puzzled. Could it be that Zhang Qian just provoked them?
But he couldn't think too much about the matter. The most important thing at the moment was to rescue his "wife". A single toad is not scary, but seven or eight of them together made Liu Junhao feel a little creepy.
He walked forward quietly. The toads felt the movement and jumped aside to make way.
As soon as Liu Junhao came into contact with Zhang Qian, she immediately screamed and opened her eyes. When she saw it was her husband, she immediately got into his arms.
"Don't be afraid," Liu Junhao hugged her and backed away repeatedly, and then he breathed a sigh of relief after retreating to a safe distance.
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