Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 239
After eating in the morning, Liu Junhao went to the backyard to catch a few catties of rice field eels, and sat in the yard to read a book.Now that it is approaching the end of the new year, his eels are sold more, and he needs to prepare in advance every day.

"Zhizhi" just turned two pages of the book, Wukong ran up to him and jumped up and down.

This guy already fed him two candies in the morning, and now he's asking for it again.

Liu Junhao patted it on the head a few times, then continued to read.

Seeing that the owner ignored it, the monkey was very anxious, and stretched out its fluffy paws to cover the book, covering all the words.

Knowing that it would never stop playing with its temper, Liu Junhao had no choice but to take out a fruit candy and put it in its paw.It may be because the monkey is so clever, he and Zhang Qian both regard this guy as an ignorant child, and in most cases, they have no choice but to keep their eyes open and close one eye.

"Squeak..." Who knew that the monkey didn't leave after receiving the candy, instead it yelled more eagerly, pulling at his sleeve with its paws.

"Is there something wrong with this guy?" Liu Junhao had no choice but to stand up.

The monkey yelled and ran towards the backyard, turning back to call the master to follow.At first, I thought it was only a few steps, but I never thought that after the monkey reached the wall in the backyard, it jumped up and climbed directly to the top of the wall.

I'm dizzy, feelings are going over the wall, this guy knows that the straight line between two points is the shortest, but at least it's good to think about whether the master can go over the wall?It's cold now, he's wearing thick clothes, and his body is much clumsy.Gritting his teeth forcefully, he climbed over the courtyard wall, but when he landed, his feet slipped and he sat down on the ground.Fortunately, the base of the wall was covered with bushes of white grass, so he didn't fall into any harm.

The monkey saw that its master had stepped out of the courtyard wall, and hurriedly ran deep into the grass.

There is a large puddle behind this yard, although it is only a wall away from his own home, but Liu Junhao will not easily move here.This is the second time except for the time the fox followed in Xia Tian.He is very curious now, he doesn't know what Wukong has found, it is worth it to yell and pull him over.

Could it be the grass raccoon?Thinking about it, it's very possible. When the students came a few days ago, they saw those two guys stealing fish in their yard.Looking at the momentum, it is estimated that the nest has moved back into the puddle again.The monkey found the grass raccoon's residence?It seems that no matter how cunning the raccoons are, they can't beat the monkeys, or how could their holes be discovered.But even if he found the cave, Liu Junhao didn't plan to do anything, he just wanted to take a look at their nests.

still go?Seeing that he walked out of the puddle, Wukong still didn't stop, but walked step by step to the high dirt bag next to him.This bumpkin used to be quite tall, but it was dug up a lot by people to build houses and borrow soil a few years ago, and now it is only more than half a meter high.When old man Liu was alive, he once opened up a piece of land here to plant, but every year it was nothing but a waste of crops.After his death, Liu Junhao was naturally impatient to continue to cultivate Gao Gang.As a result, nearly half an acre of land was abandoned, covered with miscellaneous shrubs and carnations.

The monkey stopped until it led the owner to the edge of the wormwood bushes, and then pointed to the scattered wormwood seeds and yelled.

What exactly do you want me to see?Liu Junhao turned his head and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't find anything unusual about the wormwood.But before he could continue to be confused, the monkey had already scratched and pulled the Artemisia leaves off the ground.

Hey, bean mouse hole!Liu Junhao saw the dark hole at the root of Artemisia annua, and immediately understood, feeling, the monkey found a bean mouse hole.

If you meet a bean mouse and don't say anything, everyone will punish it. If you dig their hole, you can get dozens of catties of grain.Thinking of this, Liu Junhao turned his head to go back to carry the bucket, but after a closer look, the hole seemed to be very different from the bean mouse hole.

Generally, floating soil can be seen around the bean mouse hole, but the surrounding area of ​​this hole is quite clean, and the hole is also larger than the bean mouse hole, which is particularly smooth.

Could it be the hedgehog hole?Liu Junhao looked around, feeling a little puzzled.

It should be said that there are many animals that dig holes in Liujiagou, and there are also many that like to drill holes.Take this cave for example, it looks like a hedgehog cave from the outside, but there may be hares, water snakes, weasels and so on hidden inside.
What do you think about so much, just dig it out.

He made up his mind, turned back to the yard and took a shovel.Of course, in order to let Professor Zhao and Mr. Wang have fun, he purposely yelled through the courtyard wall.As for Xiaopi, more importantly, if it is a hare, he must chase it.

"What did I do at the time, it was a bean mouse hole?" Professor Zhao thought he had discovered something strange, so he hurried over without even playing chess, and who knew he found a mouse hole.During that time, Qiuli often went to the mountains to dig mice, and now he can be said to be a semi-expert in digging holes.

"You old man, take a closer look. If you are a bean mouse, will I call you?" Liu Junhao explained with a smile.

"Oh?" Professor Zhao stepped forward to take a look, and said, "It really doesn't look like a weasel cave?"

"I don't know, I think it's the hedgehog cave, and the weasel cave is smaller than this." Liu Junhao was really not sure this time.

"Whatever the hole is, we'll find out when we dig it out. It takes a long time to discuss, but you think it's the construction of the Three Gorges Dam?" Mr. Wang saw the two lingering for a long time, and immediately got impatient, picked up the shovel and started digging.

"That's right," said Professor Zhao, swinging his shovel up.

Liu Junhao originally wanted to dig it out and identify it, so naturally he would not object.

"Good fellow, what kind of hole is this? How did it walk sideways?" Professor Zhao dug a few shovels and felt something was wrong.Generally, the burrows of animals are made downwards, so how could this one walk sideways?

"There must be stones below." Liu Junhao has experience in this.Animals have excellent burrowing skills. As long as they feel that there are stones and roots blocking them, they will definitely bypass them.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a "crack" from Mr. Wang. He staggered and almost fell to the ground.

"Are you okay?" Professor Zhao had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and helped him up.

"It's okay, Xiaohao's crow's mouth is really right, such a big stone." Lao Wang picked up the shovel and looked at it, and there was a two-finger-long gash on his face.

Now it's all right, it's not clear what was in the hole, but a shovel broke first.

"Wait, stop." Liu Junhao immediately became excited when he saw the bunches of gray-black feathers in the hole, "I know what's in the hole, we're well developed this time."

"What?" The two turned to look at him.

"Water chicken"

"Really, that's what you said...they hibernate in caves in winter?" Liujiagou has a lot of water rails, but they are very timid. When they see people, they either fly away from a distance or burrow into the reeds. In the wandering, you can't find it if you want to see it.Usually they catch fish and shrimp by the river, and never come to the village.When Liu Junhao first raised rice field eels, for some reason, a group of water cradle chickens came to his door.After they shot down a few with chain guns, this thing never appeared again.

Now that we can find the place where they hibernate, we can definitely catch quite a few of them... The fried chicken meat seems to be very delicious. For a while, Professor Zhao actually had a bit of aftertaste.

"Then I'll go back and get the net bag." Thinking of this, he immediately threw away the shovel.

"What are you doing with the net bag?" Liu Junhao asked puzzled.

"Of course it is to catch birds. What if they are alarmed later and these guys fly away?"

"Hehe, no need," Liu Junhao said with a smile, "Didn't I tell you last time, this thing's eyesight is very poor in winter, and we can just catch it after we dig it out."

"Wait a minute." Seeing that they were discussing very enthusiastically, Mr. Wang quickly interrupted, "Is the water rail you are talking about a kind of bird?"

"Isn't that nonsense, I know the name just by listening to it." Professor Zhao replied.

"No way, birds hibernate too?" Lao Wang couldn't believe it.

"Why can't birds hibernate?" Liu Junhao was even more surprised than him.Animal hibernation is not a very normal phenomenon, is it worth the fuss?

"You have to understand that it is impossible for birds to hibernate. Only cold-blooded animals will hibernate. Mammals in some alpine regions will also hibernate according to environmental changes. But birds are different. If the weather is too cold, they will use migration. way to avoid the cold."

"Is that so... Does not eating or drinking count as hibernation?" Liu Junhao turned to look at Professor Zhao, this was the first time he had heard of this theory.Thinking about it now, cokes seem to be different from the hibernation of frogs, hedgehogs, etc. They will move after being startled.

"It should be counted." Professor Zhao could only play sloppy.There is a specialization in the art industry, and his old man has no research on the phenomenon of bird hibernation.If Lao Wang hadn't mentioned it suddenly, he would have found himself ignoring it.

"Go back and check online. Let's catch the crakes first, and I'll weave a rope to tie them later." Liu Junhao said, pulling two handfuls of white grass from the side.Although this grass is not as strong as fine hair grass, it can definitely be used to tie a few birds.

"Snoring... Goo..." At this time, a strange cry came from the cave, which sounded a bit like a person snoring while sleeping.

"Guano" Mr. Wang has sharp eyes, and immediately noticed the changes in the cave. It seems that he is not far from the water rail.

"I caught it..." Soon, Mr. Zhao pulled out a big warm bird from the hole.I saw the gray-brown feathers on the upper body of the bird, which was the water rail.

The thing left the warm cave, and immediately shivered from the cold, screaming incessantly.

"It's really hibernation!" Seeing is believing, Lao Wang believed it only at this time.

"There's more," Professor Zhao stretched out his hand, and grabbed another water rail from inside.

"Is there any more?" Old Wang is a little greedy now.

"Probably not. The hole is too narrow to hide much." Liu Junhao said.According to usual experience, it is found that the burrows of the water rail flocks are generally very large.

"I don't know, there should be more, this hole hasn't reached the end yet." Mr. Zhao stretched out his hand, feeling that it was still very deep inside.

"Let me take a look." Liu Junhao also leaned forward and stretched his hand into the cave, only to find out a few bird feathers.

"There must be more, let's continue digging." After tying up the two rails, they continued to dig.These two guys were honest enough, they didn't struggle much after being caught, and stayed there obediently.

In fact, at this time, you only need to throw a bamboo pole into it a few times, and you can blast out the water rail, but Liu Junhao doesn't want to go back for a second time now, so he just dug it with a shovel, anyway, the hole is not very deep.

But things were beyond his expectation again. When the fifth water rail was dug out, all three of them were surprised.This hole is simply a bottomless pit, and it hasn't ended yet. I stretched out my hand, but the inside still doesn't seem shallow.

Liu Junhao suddenly thought of an interesting story told by the old head Liu before. He said that before hibernation, the water rail chickens would beat at the entrance of the cave, and whichever lost in the end would be the first to enter the cave.Don't think that it is good to enter the hole first, in fact, it should be unlucky ghosts.

After the first crake that entered the hole was identified, the second bird followed closely behind.After it enters the hole, it will put its beak behind the first bird's buttocks, and then other birds will follow into it, putting their beaks under the previous bird's buttocks in turn, forming a string like wearing candied haws.

During the period of hibernation, the intestines and stomachs of the crocks continue to digest, and the feces they excrete are food, which can be eaten by the birds behind to satisfy their hunger, while the first bird will starve to death because there is no food.

Liu Junhao used to think this statement was absurd, and when he caught water rails, he always threw them with bamboo poles, so he naturally had no chance to witness them.Now he has caught five or six water rail chickens in a row, and it seems that it is really what the old head Liu said.

"Keep digging and see how many birds are hiding inside." The more Mr. Wang dug, the more excited he became. He didn't expect that there was another world in such an inconspicuous cave.

After returning home, he rewarded Wukong with a few more candies. He actually found such a wonderful place. Liu Junhao looked at the monkey teasing the monkey beside him and thought to himself.

One, one... and one more, after a while, four more were dug out from inside.

"How deep is this hole? Have you dug two or three meters?" Mr. Zhao picked up the loose soil beside him and put his hand into the hole.

"Ah, something bit me." Just when the two thought they would take out the coke again, they saw him withdrawing his hand in a hurry.

"Snake?" Old Wang was startled when he saw blood dripping from his fingers.

"Impossible, the snake has already hibernated at this time." Liu Junhao looked over and immediately relaxed.The blood bead was bright red, so it was definitely not poisonous.

"Keep digging and see what it is." Professor Zhao saw that there was nothing serious in his hands, and then he buried his head in hard work.

"Hedgehog!!" When they saw the thing at the end of the hole, they were a little dumbfounded.There was actually a hedgehog living in it, and it was obvious that Mr. Zhao got stabbed after touching it just now.

This guy is now curled into a thorn ball, with a lot of grass dregs wrapped around his body, and a grass nest under his body, with a lot of food beside him.Looking at the layout of this hole, a standard hedgehog hole, it is obvious that those cokes are just staying overnight.

It seems that hedgehogs also eat birds, right?Liu Junhao admired the water rails a little bit, they are so stupid and bold, they dare to drill into any hole they find.When the hedgehogs wake up next spring, they will definitely use them as food.

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When I uploaded it, I found that it was past twelve o'clock, so I simply added a thousand words, ha ha.

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