Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 292
Just after lunch, Mama Zhang's old sisters came over to invite her to go up the mountain.

A group of people went up the mountain. As the hosts, Liu Junhao and Zhang Qian naturally planned to accompany them all the way.But Mama Zhang didn't let her go, she just said that they were just walking around nearby, so there was no need to bother.Even so, the two sent them to the foot of the mountain.

The azaleas on the mountain are still blooming vigorously from the end of March until now, and there is no sign of withering at all.Looking up, you can see many tourists taking pictures in the sea of ​​flowers.Liu Junhao turned a blind eye to this situation, so naturally he didn't have any thoughts, so he just sprinkled the red rabbit on the grass, and leaned against the big bluestone to take a nap.

Zhang Qian was thinking about catching worms for Xiaoyan's young bird, so when she went up the mountain, she didn't pay attention to the surrounding scenery, but focused on the grass.At this time, the "bandit head" locusts have fully grown into adults, and when they startled slightly in the grass, they immediately exploded their wings and flew away.Although this thing is small in size, it has a super jumping ability. It can fly more than ten meters away with a flap of its wings. It is extremely difficult to catch.Zhang Qian tried her best, but she didn't catch up to the last one. It was Wukong who saw his master was embarrassed and ran to the grass to help.This guy has quick eyes and quick hands, and he caught two in less than 5 minutes.

I was exhausted and out of breath, and when I looked back, I saw my husband was lying on a big rock and sleeping late.She suddenly became depressed, ran to him and pushed hard and shouted: "Get up, get up for me."

"Why didn't you catch it?" Liu Junhao took a look at the expression on his wife's face, and knew that the harvest was very small.

"The grasshopper is flying so fast, I can't catch it at all, you can catch it for me later," she said as she stuffed the canning jar into her husband's hand.

"You still don't believe that what you did was useless, so you feed the baby bird? Don't worry, the old swallow will definitely not let his children starve." Liu Junhao responded, and continued to sleep with his eyes squinted.After running on the mountain for a while, my heart felt hot and dry. Now lying on the big bluestone and being blown by the mountain wind, my bones are crisp, and I really don't want to move.

"Then you get up for me too, I don't believe it, you can't even touch an 'old pole'." Zhang Qian made up her mind to let her husband feel depressed along with her.

"Comrade Zhang Qian, your behavior reminded me of a classic saying on the Internet that 'an iron rod can be ground into a needle, but a wooden rod can only be made into a toothpick. If the material is wrong, no matter how hard you try, it will be useless'. matters." Liu Junhao sat up helplessly.

"What do you mean?" She was even more confused, "You mean there is no 'old pole' on this mountain? Impossible, the grass here is very lush."

"I'm dizzy. You have been in Liujiagou for almost two years. Didn't you notice this situation? It's not that there are no old poles on the mountain, but very few. On the contrary, there are many bandit heads." He had no choice but to describe the matter in detail. again.

"It seems to be true. If you don't say that I haven't noticed it, I said that there are so many on the way from school, but why can't I see them when I go to the mountain?"

"The reason is very simple. The food of the old shoulder pole is more focused on stuttering grass and sweet wine grass. Other grasses are not suitable for them to survive. And those two kinds of grass are only suitable for growing on the side of the road... If you want to catch the old pole, the river embankment There are too many on both sides, OK, do you understand?" He said with his arms around his wife's shoulders.

Don't look at it as simple as it sounds, but few people in the countryside really noticed this situation.Liu Junhao raised birds when he was a child, and he is quite familiar with the habitats of various grasshoppers.Take the "bandit head" locust as an example. The locust plague that the old people often mentioned in the past is this guy.They are really worthy of this title, and they often eat whatever crops they catch.After a large swarm of locusts has passed, basically nothing remains underground, so the damage to crops is quite serious.A single kind of old pole is not very harmful. Although they have wings, they can't fly at all.

"Then let's go to the river bank to catch grasshoppers?" After hearing his explanation, Zhang Qian immediately became interested again.

"Don't wait for our mother?" Liu Junhao was really too lazy to move, so he could only find excuses to decline.

"I'll just send a text message and say it. They're just wandering around the nearby mountains. It's fine." Zhang Qian was there with all her strength, and dragged him down the mountain.

When we got to the embankment, things were exactly as Liu Junhao said. After walking a few steps, all the old poles in the stuttering grass were blasted out.Most of them are three to four centimeters long larvae. Their horny horns and wings are not yet fully grown, and they cannot jump at all.At this time, the old shoulder pole is the best for feeding birds. It is very tender and can be stuffed into the beak of the bird and swallowed directly.

They knew that there were many insects on the embankment, especially those birds. Along the way, they could see magpies and gray hemp jumping in the grass from time to time.

Liu Junhao was really not interested in catching grasshoppers, so he simply squatted on the ground and studied sweet wine grass.The leaves of this grass are very similar to the stuttering grass. There are several hair-like filaments growing from the stem, and the stem can be pulled out with a strong hand.Put the delicate part of the bottom in your mouth and chew, and a sweet taste will spread on the tip of your tongue.

This is sweet wine grass, which he often picked and ate when he was a child.

The monkey saw that the master was eating with gusto, so he also squatted on the ground and pulled a few sticks into his mouth. "Zhizhi" this guy kept shaking his head after he tasted it, he seemed to like the taste.

Its expression... It has been with people for too long, it has become more and more anthropomorphic!

"What are you eating behind the scenes? It's so delicious?" Zhang Qian was busy for a while, wanting to talk to her husband.But when he turned his head, he found that they had already gone on strike, and they were squatting by the side to eat at the moment.

"Come and rest for a while" Liu Junhao patted the soft grass and asked his wife to sit down by himself.

"Why are you eating grass like the red rabbit?" After seeing clearly what he was chewing in his mouth, Zhang Qian became strange again.

"Try it, it tastes very good." Liu Junhao reached out and grabbed one and handed it over.

"It's the first time I know that this grass can be eaten." After Zhang Qian tasted it, she also felt that it was very fresh. The taste was indeed a bit like newly brewed liqueur.

"Pay attention to everything is knowledge, there are many things you don't know." Liu Junhao pretended to be emotional, and he found that he was enjoying this mentality of "beating" his wife's self-confidence more and more.Hitting is kissing, scolding is love, this may be an expression of love between the couple.

"You are a crooked person. It's useless to know something." Zhang Qian retorted.

There were many grasshoppers on the embankment, and it didn't take long for the two of them to catch more than half of the cans.It just so happened that the Chitu had almost eaten, and they were going to take it home directly.Unexpectedly, he had just walked two steps, but saw a fiery red figure appearing from the reeds beside him.

Caolizi...the two recognized each other immediately.When the guy saw someone walking not far away, he was stunned for a moment, then recognized them, and ran over with a shout.Immediately afterwards, the other one in the reed marsh heard the call, and rushed out.

The two foxes barked around them for a while, then ran into the ditch beside the reeds with their tails between their legs.This ditch is the one in front of Liu Junhao's gate, from here it crosses the gate of the dam and flows into the big river.The gates are usually open and only closed when there is a flood.

Cao Lizi's movements were quite weird, sitting upside down by the ditch, elegantly like a gentleman.

"What are they doing?" Zhang Qian turned to ask the husband, and found that he also looked curious.

Seeing the two approaching, Cao Lizi was not surprised, but called out to greet them.

"Aren't you fishing?" Liu Junhao was taken aback when he saw the two guys sticking their thick tails into the water and stirring them constantly.He is too familiar with this movement, isn't it the posture of a cat when it is fishing.

I used to think that fishing with the tail is the unique skill of cats, but now it seems that it may not be the case.

"Husband, look!" Zhang Qian suddenly exclaimed and pointed to the tail of the grass lizi sticking out in the water.

"This... water mole cricket shrimp, so many?" Liu Junhao looked at the movement in the water in disbelief.I saw its tail wriggling gently like a big broom.From time to time, water mole cricket shrimps swim over the pebbles, and then attach themselves to the tail of the grass beaver.

Water mole cricket shrimps are more common in big rivers, and they look very similar to crayfish.They usually hide in the crevices of rocks or under cobblestones. As long as you stomp your feet on the rocks, two or three of them will emerge immediately.When this little thing escapes in the water, it runs backwards with its tail swinging the water, which is very individual.The speed is also very slow, and it is easy to be caught.

Of course, this method is too slow. Generally, when people want to catch mole cricket shrimp, they will pour some chicken blood in shallow water.After a while, the nearby water mole cricket shrimps came one after another smelling the smell. At this time, they only need to catch them with a net bag, and sometimes they can catch half a bucket at a time.

This thing is boiled in salt water in a pot and eaten, and the taste is not generally good.

It's just what's going on with this fox tail, it has so much magic power?The two of them watched the number of water mole crickets and shrimps increasing, and their doubts piled up.

Finally... one of them lifted its tail out of the water suddenly, "crash" those little guys were caught off guard, and there was no time to escape, and they were all thrown on the shore.

What a guy... I caught more than a catty at a time, and the grass raccoon is really amazing.

The guy put his tongue in front of the water stains and picked them carefully. Within 2 minutes, all the water mole crickets and shrimps were in his stomach.

"I thought our Doudou family was smart enough, who knew that the grass raccoon would not give in." On the way home, Zhang Qian was left with nothing but emotion.

"Natural selection, survival of the fittest, the grass raccoon can survive until now, it's not normal to not have two special skills of predation." Liu Junhao understands, otherwise why people often talk about Hu Daxian, he has already become a genius.

Entering the courtyard, Zhang Qian couldn't wait to move the ladder to feed the little swallow.Those little guys didn't even open their eyes, and when they heard movement outside, they immediately chirped and screamed with their delicate mouths.Liu Junhao also went up the ladder to see them before. These little swallows have no fluff yet, and they are all bald, like little meat eggs. They have no sense of beauty at all. I don’t know why my wife likes them so much.

At this time, a foraging swallow just flew back, and it was not surprised to see Zhang Qian feeding there. Instead, it stopped by the nest and cheered at her in a low voice.

The monkey became interested again when he saw this situation, and wanted to go up to help, but as soon as he reached the top of the ladder, the old swallow immediately started biting and pecking at it.Helpless, Zhang Qian had no choice but to drive this guy out.

"What is Zhang Qian up to...taking pictures of swallows again?" At this time, Professor Zhao's voice came from the yard.The old man often came and went in the yard, so he naturally knew that she was going to make popular science photos for the students.

"No, I just caught a lot of grasshoppers from the river embankment this afternoon and brought them back to feed the little swallows..." Zhang Qian replied, shaking the can.

"Feed them grasshoppers, who did you hear?" Professor Zhao was taken aback when he heard this.

"What's the matter? They are delicious..." Zhang Qian didn't know what the old man meant by this.In the past, every time I caught grasshoppers and fed them to the little swallows, they all rushed to eat them.

"Swallows eat insects, but their food tends to be insects in the air. For example, mosquitoes and flies, etc. As for this grasshopper...they generally don't eat it. Birds don't know anything, so you force the grasshopper If you stuff ducks into their mouths, they can only swallow it."

"No way, I thought that grasshoppers can be fed to any bird. What should I do? They will be fine after eating them, right? Liu Junhao didn't tell me when I was catching grasshoppers." Zhang Qian thought of her kindness. Doing something bad, she immediately became nervous, she didn't want these little lives to die in her hands.

"Don't worry, it's fine. Swallows don't eat grasshoppers, but they are not good at catching food on the ground." Liu Junhao walked out of the house upon hearing the words, which he just checked online.I have raised all kinds of birds before, but this little swallow was watched closely by the adults and was not allowed to vote for it, so he really didn't know what it ate.I thought they would eat everything like sparrows.Who knows that I just checked on the Internet, only to find out that my previous cognition was wrong.

Although swallows are fast birds, their claws are too weak to control the landing site well, so most of their predation is done in flight.

However, Mr. Zhao's statement is completely wrong, as if someone has never eaten abalone, but it does not mean that he does not like to eat it.

"Where's your Wukong?" After a few chats, Professor Zhao turned his head and asked.

"It was still outside just now, what are you looking for?"

"The little girl flew a kite and hung the kite on a tree branch, and she wanted the monkey to help her pick it off."

"You wait... Wukong, Wukong..." Liu Junhao shouted several times at the top of his voice, but he didn't hear the monkey's cry.

It's really strange, when this guy slipped out again.Usually when I wasn't looking for it, it would always come to me to be annoying, but now I'm looking for it and it's gone.

He couldn't find the monkey, so he had to go out by himself.

Anyway, the kite was not hung high, so Liu Junhao took it off without much effort.

The monkey didn't appear in front of people until dinner at night.After holding the rice bowl, it didn't wander around the table as usual, but ran straight into its wooden house.

"What's wrong with Wukong, he couldn't be angry because he was reprimanded by me in the afternoon, right?" Usually, this guy would make a fuss for a long time after eating, but now it's really abnormal for him to be so honest.

(End of this chapter)