Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 134 "The Melon Thief"

After eating in the morning, Xiao Haoyu and Tongtong came over to play.

Professor Zhao's family has two little guys, so it is naturally much more lively, and the couple are also smiling.

Tongtong became interested in the large area of ​​brightly blooming henna in the flower pond, so she grabbed a handful and asked Teacher Wang to wrap her fingers in henna leaves.

These half-person-height henna plants did not fail to bloom, and the flowers were all as big as copper coins, attracting many colorful butterflies every day.

Xiao Haoyu pouted his buttocks and dug a few earthworms by the edge of the flower pond, then picked up the fishing rod and squatted by the ditch to fish.The water temperature was relatively low in the morning, and the fish didn't like to eat hooks, so his record was far less brilliant than yesterday afternoon. The few fish he caught were as long as a finger.But he was still playing with great interest, regardless of the fishy smell, he tore the crucian carp shell in half and stuffed it for Qing Zhuang to eat.

Liu Junhao and Zhang Qian were not idle at this time, they were cleaning watermelons in the backyard.Now basically a dozen small melons grow up every day, which needs to be wrapped in a net bag one by one.Another thing is to mark the ripe watermelons, so that when customers come to buy them, they can just follow the picture to find out.

It's just that the melon seedlings are too dense, and it's hard to find newborn melons without looking carefully.

"Come and see, what's going on?" Suddenly Zhang Qian shouted from afar.

Hearing the sound, Liu Junhao ran over quickly, but saw that the rope of the net bag on the wooden shelf was bitten to pieces, and the big watermelon wrapped in the net bag had already disappeared.

The melon thief, I didn't expect the melon thief to come to my yard!
Liu Junhao looked around along the melon seedlings, but found no traces.He thought it was the mouse that was doing the trick, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong. The mouse didn't seem to have this ability.The big flower skin weighs about ten catties each, and it cannot be taken away even if it is stolen. At most, it will be disposed of on the spot.

"What stole this, could it be a hedgehog?" Zhang Qian asked suspiciously.In the late autumn of last year, a big hedgehog got into the backyard, and the hedgehog disappeared in the first spring, maybe it ran back now.

"It's definitely not a hedgehog. This thing can't climb trees. How can it get down such a tall watermelon?" Hedgehogs steal watermelons, but this thing can't climb trees.

"Tch, you don't know that, hedgehogs can climb trees." Zhang Qian explained proudly, "Hedgehogs are very smart, and they can even climb trees to steal dates. After they climbed trees, they will use their feet to climb trees." Hold tightly to the jujube branch, and then shake it vigorously for a while. When the date is almost down, let go of your limbs, jump off the tree, and then roll a few times on the ground. The date is all stuck on the back, and then it Slip away with jujubes on your back."

"Is this a hedgehog you're talking about?" Liu Junhao was a little skeptical, "Isn't it a fairy tale I read in a book, anyway, I have never seen a hedgehog climbing a tree."

He has lived in Liujiagou for more than 20 years, and he has never seen a hedgehog climbing a tree, and it is even the first time he has heard of it.

"It's a lie if you haven't seen it. I haven't seen a giant panda yet." Zhang Qian argued with a reddish face. She really saw it from a book.

Some time ago, there was a short article called "Friends with Thorns" on a unit paper, which was about a hedgehog climbing a tree to steal jujubes.

"Okay, let's do it. Our top priority is to find this hedgehog, otherwise it will keep making trouble in the backyard, and the loss will be great." Liu Junhao believed her words with certainty. .

"What do you mean, just say you don't understand if you don't understand it." Zhang Qian couldn't understand his sloppy behavior.

The yard is full of green grass, and the melon seedlings are densely covered with vines. It is very difficult to find a hedgehog if you really want to hide it.The two of them spent half an hour searching carefully along the courtyard wall for two weeks, but they couldn't find where the hedgehog was nesting, not even a piece of watermelon rind.

"Could it be that the hedgehog stole the watermelon and ran away along the waterway?" Zhang Qian asked again.

"No way, the waterway is so small, it's hard to send the watermelon out, the melon must still be somewhere in the yard." Liu Junhao suddenly slapped his head, how could he forget Xiaopi, let him come and look for it, and he will definitely find it.

After Xiaopi came in, he sucked and sniffed around, but ran back and wagged his tail at the two of them. It seemed that the hedgehog was really no longer in the yard.

Although Liu Junhao was very unwilling, he could only lead Xiaopi out again.

Anyway, the watermelon has been stolen, so it's useless to be unwilling now.

They went back to the yard and talked about it as a surprise, but they didn't expect Professor Zhao to slap his head and shout: "The watermelon in my yard was also eaten by hedgehogs two days ago? The watermelon was not stolen, It’s just that a big hole has been dug in the skin of the melon, and the flesh inside has been hollowed out.”

Just after lunch, Zheng Jianxue and his wife came over to buy watermelon.They asked for four at one go, and naturally they took them back to honor the old man.Liu Junhao asked them to wait in the front yard, while Zhang Qian and himself carried bamboo baskets to the backyard to pick melons.

"Damn it, it's not over!" When he saw the net bag marked with a red string, he was suddenly furious.

This is too arrogant, I just marked it this morning.In the blink of an eye, a big hole was torn open in the net bag, and the watermelon was stolen again.

Seeing that the end of the melon seedling was chewed and there was still juice on the imprint, it was obvious that the melon thief had just escaped.Liu Junhao immediately called Xiaopi in and let him suck and sniff in the yard.

In less than 2 minutes, Xiaopi yelled at the waterway.It's just that its body is too big to get in at all.

Really escaped from here, Liu Junhao rushed up to the acacia tree trunk by the courtyard wall with his hands and feet, then leaned his body, and stood on the top of the wall.

Outside the courtyard wall is a large puddle, covering more than ten acres of land.The weeds in this place have been retting for a long time, so the soil is quite fertile.The puddles are full of rushes and sparse reeds half a person deep, and of course there are a few old willows as thick as washbasins.

A few years ago, some people thought about opening up wasteland here, but often the puddles turned into vast oceans in summer, and all the crops that had been planted were completely submerged.

There is no harvest, and after a few times of tossing, no one has the idea of ​​​​making this puddle again.

Standing on the courtyard wall, it is obvious that from the eye of the waterway, the weeds have been driven out of a small path, leading straight to the depths of the rushes.

"Zhang Qian, bring Xiaopi over from the front door. I'll go and see what this melon thief is." Liu Junhao explained, and jumped off the courtyard wall.

Although the courtyard wall is more than two meters high, it is covered with grass under it, so when Liu Junhao landed, the sound was very small, and he seemed calm.

He bent down and tiptoed along the traces on the ground and walked slowly among the bushes. He had just walked less than 100 meters when he heard rustling sounds from the grass in front of him.

Liu Junhao hurriedly squatted on the ground and looked around, and immediately saw two melon thieves - Cao Lizi.

How could it be them, it seems that the grass raccoon can't climb the tree, I really don't know how they stole the watermelon.

At this moment, the two guys kept rolling the big flower skin with their paws and walked forward. They wagged their tails as they walked, and their pace seemed leisurely, giving people a very leisurely feeling.

If he saw it in the wild, Liu Junhao would think that the couple had just had dinner and were strolling along the main road.

They pushed the watermelon nearly 20 meters away, their expressions visibly tense, and their little heads kept looking around, testing the enemy's situation.

Probably feeling safe, one of the foxes immediately let out a deep growl, and saw a few little foxes running out of the grass under the willow tree "wow".

I didn't expect that the home of this grass raccoon is at the root of the willow tree. They are brave enough to build a nest under the eyes of human beings.

Those little guys are jumping and jumping around the big watermelon, looking very happy.

After biting the melon rind a few times, the old fox retreated to the side to be vigilant.A little grass raccoon pounced on it immediately, and gnawed fiercely at the gap with its mouth, while the remaining ones barked anxiously beside it.

After this one finished eating, the other one squeezed in. These little guys all inherited the nature of their parents, raising their heads and looking around while eating.

"Shusha" Liu Junhao heard the voice behind him, and knew that Zhang Qian led Xiaopi to find him.

The grass raccoon was also very alert, and immediately howled in a low voice to issue a warning.A few little foxes waiting nearby disappeared under the willow tree.On the contrary, the little guy who was eating the watermelon couldn't pull out his head out of desperation, and his limbs kept kicking on the ground, driving the watermelon bones to roll around.

"It's foxes, they also eat watermelons!" Zhang Qian looked out curiously.

As soon as Xiaopi was about to rush up, he was stopped by Liu Junhao. He had already seen that these raccoons were the two he had seen last year.

They also obviously recognized Zhang Qian, and approached tentatively, yelling "Aoao", completely ignoring Xiaopi's threat.

The little fox at the back reacted quite clumsily. After struggling on the watermelon for a long time, he still couldn't get his head free. Finally, he had to yell "woo woo" to his parents for help.

Zhang Qian stepped forward and wanted to help, but the two old grass raccoons immediately jumped back and stared at her closely.

This thing is sensitive and suspicious, Zhang Qian can only tentatively walk towards the watermelon in small steps.Finally, she slowly squatted down and opened the mouth of the watermelon vigorously, the little guy was free immediately, and jumped back.

Trust was built with each other, Zhang Qian helped them twice in a row, Cao Lizi probably knew that she was not malicious, so he jumped around her again, this time the distance was a little closer.

Liu Junhao looked a little greedy, and wanted to join in the fun with the past, but as soon as he took a step, the two guys immediately yelled back, and didn't give him any face.

Grandma, if I hadn't let you go, you would have made leather clothes and hung them in stores for sale.

He muttered in his heart for a while, but he didn't approach Zhang Qian again.

The sun was shining brightly in the afternoon, but the picture in front of me gave people a warm feeling.

The little grass raccoons probably didn't wait for their parents to start to get anxious. They poked their heads around the grass for a while, and then ran out in unison.

Man and nature, everything is so harmonious and perfect.

(End of this chapter)