Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 478 Golden Toad
The wheat in many plots on the river beach has turned yellow, and it is estimated that the wheat will be harvested in more than half a month.

Zhang Qian liked this kind of harvest scene very much, so she stood by the wheat field and asked her husband to take a few photos.

Turning her head, she found that the wheat in a field was half-lodged, and immediately sighed: "Wow, the yield of this wheat must be high, and the ears of wheat have overwhelmed the stalks."

"Khan, it's the wind blowing, okay? The wheat in this field has been destroyed, and the output this year is at most six or seven hundred catties." Liu Junhao hurriedly corrected behind.There was a strong wind a few days ago. This land is probably a problem with the wheat seeds, and more than half of the wheat has fallen.

My wife made a purely empirical mistake. Some time ago, Liu Junhao told her that her own rapeseed fell down, which was a sign of high yield.But I don’t know that experience can’t be copied. As the saying goes, “Two people carry the rice, and two pieces of bran fall on the wheat.” It means that if the rice bends down when it is mature, it means that the tassels are heavy and it is a good year for a good harvest.But if the wheat falls, the roots are not stable, and the ears of wheat are definitely empty, and they can only be ground into chaff to feed pigs. This is a poor harvest year.

Therefore, it is very simple to judge whether there is a good harvest in the countryside. You can know it by standing in the wheat field.

What the daughter-in-law said is purely an outsider.Even though she has been in Liujiagou for several years, she has personally cut wheat in the field, but she still has a lot to learn about farming.

"I see." Zhou Yueer also nodded.She is similar to the previous Zhang Qian, basically a master who doesn't distinguish between five grains.

"I'd like to ask you another common sense question. When you say that the ears of wheat are stuffed upside down and stuffed into the trouser legs, when a person walks forward, do the ears of wheat run up or down?" At this time, Zhao Guangming asked with a playful smile.

"Of course it's whereabouts. I'm still going to test such a simple question." Zhou Yueer gave her husband a blank look.

"The answer is just the opposite. It will keep rushing up. The faster you go, the faster it will go." Zhao Guangming shook his head and explained.

"Why?" Zhang Qian also became interested.

"Feel it yourself." Liu Junhao broke off a wheat ear and pointed to the wheat awn on it to explain to Zhao Guangming, "There is a problem of friction here. The wheat awn has barbs, and when people walk forward, they apply downward force. Friction drives the ears of wheat upward."

What he was talking about was based on his experience. When he was a child in school, a few brats in the village would often go to the fields to pick some ears of wheat and hide them in their pockets. Spike was placed upside down in the opponent's trouser leg.In this way, as soon as the other party moves, the ears of wheat will climb up the trousers like a water snake, and climb up to the waist of the trousers.

Maimang pricked his skin, itching so badly that he couldn't get it off even if he pulled it.Some students know that they have been stuffed with ears of wheat, and they usually stand still and want to take them out along their trouser legs.The students around him would definitely swarm him and never give him the chance to pick up the ears of wheat.Waiting for the class to enter the classroom like a chrysalis, making this guy uncomfortable for a class.

"As soon as you opened your mouth, I knew that there must be trouble next time." After her husband finished speaking, Zhang Qian showed such an expression.

"Hehe, it's always been like this when I was a child." Liu Junhao smiled and found a green wheat ear in the middle of the wheat field, then took the wheat ear out from the wheat leaf, folded it in half into a beautiful prismatic shape, put it in his mouth and blew out a crisp bird sound. cry.

"It's kind of interesting." Zhang Qian did the same thing, but she couldn't make a sound.

"It takes strength to make trouble, not everyone can do it." Liu Junhao said very badly, and then began to teach his wife the skills.

When it comes to straw, he can say at least four or five ways to play it.One is to choose the kind of straw with thick stalks, cut off the joints at both ends, leaving only a hollow section in the middle, and use a knife to cut two and a half centimeter deep openings on the upper end, one is divided into four, and it is pulled down to form a funnel.Then find a sieve seedling in the middle of the ground and put it on it, then raise your face and blow air from the lower end of the straw, and the round sieve seedling will rise slowly.As long as you control the strength of the blowing, the sieve seedlings will rise and fall on the top of the wheat stalks, sinking and falling, which is very magical, like magic.

At that time, they often competed to see who could blow higher and last longer.Liu Junhao has a relatively fast breathing speed and is patient, so he is an ever-victorious general in this regard.

Another way is to blow some soapy water, use wheat straw to blow soap bubbles, and everyone will compete to see who can blow the biggest.

"Ah...toad!" Zhou Yueer squatted by the ditch and wanted to wash her hands, when she suddenly screamed and ran to the road.

"Where, where?" Zhao Guangming rushed to the side of the ditch with a wooden stick in order to be prestige in front of his wife, and then stood there in a daze.

"Run away?" Liu Junhao asked casually.Although toads are one of the five poisons, under normal circumstances they will quickly crawl away when they encounter people, and they will not stay in place and wait for someone to catch them.
"No, Liu Junhao, hurry up and take a look, buddy may find a century-old anecdote." Zhao Guangming said excitedly, pointing at the grass.

Wouldn't there be another "big discovery"?His excited tone was similar to the last time Zhang Qian found the hummingbird hawk moth.I saw the toad laying motionless by the willow root, its hind paws turned from its back to its big mouth in a strange posture, and the tip of its claws pulled the toad skin around its mouth and pulled it back hard.

"This is the anecdote of the century you mentioned. Isn't it just a toad shedding its skin? What's the fuss about?" Liu Junhao looked at this guy and asked back.

"Brother, this is a toad, not a snake!" Zhao Guangming emphasized.

"I know, since snakes can shed their skin, why can't toads."

"Toads also shed their skin?!" Zhang Qian and Zhou Yue'er felt very strange after hearing this.They also heard that this thing can shed its skin, which is very strange.But they didn't dare to go down to see it, so they could only listen to Zhao Guangming's description.

"I suspect that you are not human. From which book have you read that toads can shed their skin? This is definitely a great discovery." Zhao Guangming felt that Liu Junhao's reaction was a little too flat.

"It's so fresh. You've heard of the toad clothes of traditional Chinese medicine. It's about toad skin." Liu Junhao followed up with an explanation.In fact, he was not indifferent when he saw the toad shedding its skin, but he had been excited before.

When I was very young, I heard old people tell stories that only the nobles can see the toad shed its skin.If you put the toad's shed skin in the money box, the money in it will continue to flow, and it will never be spent.

This story is similar to the lucky golden toad that people put on their desks, and you can know how unreliable it is if you think about it.It's just that the adults didn't care what they said, and a group of children listened with interest.

He even ran to the river to catch toads, and finally Liu Junhao really found a toad that was shedding its skin.Under the envious eyes of his friends, he held the toad and ran home, shouting as he ran, "I saw the toad shed its skin!"

That excited look was no less than picking up a few big ingots.

When he got home, Liu Junhao didn't delay at all, and immediately put the toad into the bucket according to what the adults said, and then put a bamboo sieve on it, just waiting for the thing to take off the skin.

(End of this chapter)