Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 33

"The grass raccoon..." A large group of people looked at the dense poplar grove dumbfounded, and they were a little speechless. This thing is too arrogant, and they have played a trick on them.

After a while, Xiaopi ran back dejectedly, probably not catching up with Caolizi, this piece of wormwood is very deep, as tall as a person, it is easy to chase Caolizi away.It seems that he should not get this windfall, Liu Junhao didn't care about leading Xiaopi and rushed home.Liu Laosan originally dragged him to his house for dinner, but Liu Junhao refused. It is nothing to do such a small favor, it is all from the folks in the village.

Rural people actually remember who you have a lover with. When you are in trouble, you don’t have to ask for it. They will take the initiative to help, especially during weddings and funerals. Basically, every family will contribute. You move two benches, I take a few dishes, three times and five times divide two, and the things for entertaining guests will be settled.

When he got home, Professor Zhao had already prepared the meals. He returned the river prawns that he hadn’t finished eating last night to the pot, and then fried two eggplants, which were the dishes for the morning. There was still half a pot of rice porridge in the pot , was steaming hotly.

Liu Junhao was hungry after working for a long time. After washing his hands, he filled a large bowl of vegetables, took a steamed bun, and squatted in the yard to start eating. The heavy rain last night knocked down a lot of jujubes on the tree. Blockbuster.

Professor Zhao also walked into the yard with the bowl, looked at the jujubes all over the ground and said distressedly, "The jujubes are all red, what a pity they fell."

"It's okay. It's all bugs at this time. Don't look popular, you can't eat it at all." Liu Junhao swallowed the food in his mouth before he said, "This year, there are a lot of jujubes. It's sparse."

The jujube tree is growing well this year, and now the jujube branches are crooked under the weight of half-green dates.But the jujube tree grows relatively strong, and the storm last night did not break the branches, but when he came back just now, he saw many thick poplar branches were broken by the wind.

Seeing the dates falling on the ground, Liu Junhao suddenly remembered the few watermelon seedlings in his backyard. The wind was so strong last night, don't blow off the half-sized watermelons.

Holding the bowl, he anxiously ran to the backyard to check.There is still water everywhere in the backyard, and the peppers and eggplants that Professor Zhao planted are soaking in the water.The few melon seedlings were not blown away by the wind as he imagined, but because of the moisture of the rain, the melon seedlings looked green, and there were many water beads hanging on the watermelon. Scraped a lot.

After eating, Liu Junhao remembered what Er Mazi had agreed with him, so he told Professor Zhao to go to the village to ask when he would leave.

It was originally decided that tomorrow would be tomorrow, but now it has been raining non-stop. I don't know if Er Mazi has changed his mind. If there is no change, he must make some preparations early, so as not to be in a hurry.

Before he got to the door, Xiaopi picked up two little birds whose eyes hadn't opened from somewhere and ran to him. Liu Junhao picked them up and saw that they were little turtledoves.

This turtledove should have just hatched, and it hasn't even opened its eyes yet.It should have been blown off the tree by the strong wind, and it was cold to the touch, and the small body shivered uncontrollably.It was a miracle that they didn't freeze to death in such heavy rain.

This thing is too small to keep alive, besides, Liu Junhao doesn't have the time to raise two turtledoves, so he threw the turtledoves to Xiaopi and said, "I'll give it to you."

Unexpectedly, Xiaopi moved his nose away after sniffing it. It seemed that his mouth had been fed a lot these days, and he didn't eat raw food at all.

On the contrary, Professor Zhao became interested when he saw the two turtledoves that had not opened their eyes and opened their small mouths and chirped. He took it from Liu Junhao and said, "Let me raise it."

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The roads in the village were still full of water, and when we got to Dayantang, we saw a few brats in the village surrounding the ditch, each holding a bamboo pole in their hands, fishing for frogs in the ditch.This group of brats are also skinny, wearing only big pants and not even a raincoat, and they are not afraid of catching a cold.

Frogs are blind and can’t see anything stationary. It’s very easy to catch. You don’t need a hook at all. Just tie a cotton thread to the bamboo pole, tie a grasshopper to the bottom of the cotton thread, and then go directly to the place where there are frogs. Put the cotton thread on the water and dangle it, and the frog will jump up.

The frog is very agile, and can swallow the grasshopper with a single jump. At this time, as long as you quickly lift the bamboo pole and open the net bag with the other hand, you can put the frog in it.This thing is a bit brainy, usually it bites its prey and does not let go, and swallows it all the time, and when it realizes that it has been fooled before letting go, it has already been caught.

The water in this ditch is relatively shallow, which is suitable for the survival of frogs. There are probably hundreds of frogs with their heads exposed in the ditch, all floating on the water, colorful, and many of them are still white. belly.

"How much did you catch?" Liu Junhao walked to Maozi and asked softly.

The bear boy turned around and said excitedly: "I have made more than 20, uncle, do you want to, I will send some to your house later, and fry it at noon, it is delicious."

"No need, there's only a little bit of meat in this thing. It's too much trouble to choose. I think it's troublesome." Liu Junhao often ate frog meat when he was a child, but he didn't think it was very delicious.

"Then do you eat bird eggs... I picked them up in the morning. I picked up forty or fifty in the poplar forest. Many of them fell on the ground and broke, otherwise I picked more. When I was cooking, I asked my mother to take the bird eggs." The eggs are boiled in the pot and they are delicious,” said the hairy boy, grabbing a few gray-brown bird eggs from a plastic bag.

The rain and strong wind should be the happiest thing for this group of fur children, because it means that they can get a lot of delicious things without any effort.

Liu Junhao took it and peeled an egg of an unknown bird and put it in his mouth. It was slightly salty, and it seemed to be boiled with salt water.

When he was looking at it with great interest, suddenly a splash appeared on the surface of the water, and the frog croaked. He saw a half-sized cauliflower snake wrapped around the frog, and the frog couldn't help struggling on the water surface. Hasty cry.

"Shoot the long worms, beat the long worms!" The group of brats suddenly became excited, and one by one picked up the bamboo poles and hit the cauliflower snake. The cauliflower snake was entwined with the frog, but seeing so many bamboo poles attacking, it hastily put down the frog , turned over and got into the water.

But the water in this ditch is very shallow, so the cauliflower snake can't hide at all. The eyes of the group of children are all wide open, and they can see the cauliflower snake in the water clearly.

Although the cauliflower snake swims quickly in the water, it is actually afraid of water.Even water snakes here do not live in the water all the time, only when they are in need of predation or other needs. Normally, snakes lie down in the grass or entwine on the branches.

The cauliflower snake probably didn't look at the almanac when it was preying, and it was unlucky to meet this group of brats. It just emerged from the water when it saw the bamboo pole attacking, so it had to dive again.

As a result, it was chased by this group of half-grown children, and finally had to escape into the grass. Xiao Pi was about to run after him, but was called back by Liu Junhao. This cauliflower snake is too small to eat, so it is better to keep it It's a way out.

He watched frog fishing for a while, and then he remembered that he had to do business, so he turned and left. When he arrived at the farmhouse in Ermazi, he saw Dr. Wang was chopping branches with an axe, which were broken by the wind. Either it has been eaten by moths or it is very brittle. There is no way to use it as wood. People can only dry it in the sun and burn it. It is very good for steaming steamed buns. A big branch can steam a pot of steamed buns.

"Doctor Wang, why haven't you left yet? Isn't today Monday?" Liu Junhao asked a little strangely.

"It's not easy to walk on such a big Yushan Road, and our driving skills are not good enough. I don't think we can do it today. We can wait for the weather to clear up." Dr. Wang picked up a large teacup and took two sips of tea and explained.

"Then the hospital leader didn't say anything?"

"What can I say, I'm not the only doctor in the hospital. At most, I can find someone to take the shift. I've already called my daughter-in-law to ask for leave. It's fine. I used to always want to stay in the village for a few more days, and this time I just got my wish."

While talking, Er Mazi came in from the house and asked Liu Junhao to smoke a pack of cigarettes, but he refused.

"Uncle Guangxi, when should we leave? I guess it won't be sunny tomorrow?"

"Let's go when the weather clears and you can drive on the road. I'll call you then..."

At noon, Er Mazi held Liu Junhao back and refused to let him go, insisting on letting him eat at his own house, saying that last night he cast a fishing net at the opening of Dayan Pond and caught more than a dozen carp weighing a pound.

Liu Junhao insisted on going home, but Er Mazi finally refused, so he asked him to take a carp back to eat.

(End of this chapter)