Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 486 The mouse eats walnuts

This time the meeting was held for a short period of time and ended in only half an hour.Liu Junhao went out and planned to find Zhang Qian and the three by the Yantang, but found that she and Su Nana were standing behind Liu Guangju's house looking at the mulberry tree, while Zhou Wei was busy picking mulberries on the tree.

These mulberry trees are late-maturing, and now the mulberries are just turning red. Liu Junhao walked over to taste one, and his teeth were a little sore.

Su Nana picked up a lot in her hand and was eating with relish.Zhang Qian wanted to eat it, but Zhang's mother just mentioned it the day before yesterday, saying that pregnant women can't eat mulberries, so they can only be greedy.

Seeing that it was still early, Liu Junhao led them to the river beach to see the scenery.

Now there is a sea of ​​flowers along both sides of the river, and wild flowers of various colors and varieties bloom everywhere.Su Nana kept snapping pictures of the flowers with the camera in her hand, while Zhang Qian cast her eyes on the butterflies among the flowers.

"Zhang Qian, what's the name of this flower?" After taking a few photos, Su Nana found a very strange little red flower, and hurriedly pulled one over to ask.

"I don't know, you ask my husband." Zhang Qian glanced and realized that she didn't know him at all.

"This grass is called lantern barley, also called pitcher plant, and it can eat insects." The flowers of this kind of grass are a bit like small lanterns, with a few petals around them.When the flowers bloom, they can emit a kind of smell that is difficult for people to smell.This smell can lure small insects to fly down. If any insects accidentally fall into the flower center, they will be destroyed.No matter how hard the bug tries, it is difficult to crawl out again.When exhausted, the petals will automatically close and slowly "eat" the unlucky little insects.

Lantern barley generally grows in crop fields, but is rarely seen by ditches.The daughter-in-law has been in Liujiagou for three years, and the number of times she goes to the field is limited, so it is normal not to know each other.

"This is..." Several people looked at the small plant in surprise.To say that the reputation of this grass is big enough, basically everyone knows it.

"I know you have to admit your mistakes, don't get me wrong, this is different from the 'nepenthes' sold in the city." Liu Junhao explained with a smile.He also confused the two plants earlier, but after checking online, he realized that they were not the same plant at all.Later, I wanted to look up the scientific name of Lantern Barley, but when I entered these three words, it turned out to be a common weed in Liujiagou.

"That's it, I don't know how well it catches mosquitoes..." Zhang Qian immediately thought of cultivating this plant to sell, and then gave up the idea.The main reason is that this grass is too ordinary, and even the flowers bloom a little bit, so it is estimated that few people buy it from the appearance alone.

"I don't know about that," Liu Junhao shook his head and replied, he would not purposely get a few plants back for experiments.

"We can get it back and try it out. If it works, wait until next year to grow it, so that there will be no mosquitoes in the yard." Zhang Qian suggested.

"That's right, why didn't I think of that." Liu Junhao's eyes lit up when his wife said it.I have been using this thing as a weed, but I have fallen into inertial thinking, and I have never thought about recycling waste.

It was cool on the river beach in the afternoon, and the few people had no intention of going back, so they turned their heads and sat under the tree to enjoy the shade.

In the puddle under the shade of the willow tree, there were many small white fish, flower loach, gourd fish and other small fish that could not be named. Su Nana got excited and squatted beside her with her bare hands to catch the fish.

Zhou Wei continued to uncover the stones in the water, and caught the mole cricket shrimp from below.This thing is similar to crayfish and is now rare.They usually hide in groups of three or five under the rocks, and gently move the pebbles away, rarely missing.When the water mole cricket shrimp escapes in the water, it paddles backwards with its tail, which is very easy to catch.But be careful of its clip, it hurts even if you clip it.Put this thing in a pot with a little salt and cook it. It tastes good.

Liu Junhao used to catch them often, but now he has no interest.

Zhou Wei's catching method is too slow. When they were young, they would catch mole crickets and shrimps and pour some chicken blood in shallow water.Within 5 minutes, the nearby water mole cricket shrimps rushed over after smelling the smell.At this time, you only need to use a net to catch it, and you can catch half a bucket at a time.

But he was just trying to have fun, and Liu Junhao didn't make any suggestions.

It was after seven o'clock, when the sun was about to set, that Zhang Qian suggested that everyone head home.

At this time, the western sky had already risen a few rays of sunset, and some cattle herders also drove the cattle down from the mountain.The old scalper shook his head as he walked, and the bell jingled.Sheep enter the pen, chickens and ducks enter the nest, and cooking smoke rises in the setting sun.

In the grass, there is a sound of frogs, and lotus flowers send fragrance.

Su Nana sat under the door of the building and stretched her waist and said with emotion, "The more you look at your life, the more enviable you are. It's like a fairy. I don't even want to go to work when I live here." The more times she went to Liujiagou, The more comfortable Zhang Qian feels.It is better to live in the countryside, where life is simple and there are not so many intrigues.Live your own life behind closed doors, whatever you want.

"Hehe, if you think it's better, you can stay for a few more days." Zhang Qian said something, and casually threw a walnut to the mouse not far away.

This litter of clouded leopards has been born for five or six months, but the mother clouded leopard still shows no sign of leaving. Every day, she takes the children to hunt in the forest and learn hunting skills.

At first it was only on the outskirts of the mountain, but soon it went deep into the forest, and some tourists even photographed their traces in the deep mountains more than ten miles away.

Zhang Qian was also afraid that they would not come back, but she gradually got used to it.This guy was hunting for food in the mountains, and the route was getting farther and farther, sometimes even returning only two or three days ago.

The mouse seems to be an exception. It occasionally goes out with its mother clouded leopard to find food, but most of the time it looks for food in the yard.

The mouse likes to eat meat, especially meaty bones. Liu Junhao knew this a long time ago.The little guy likes to look for bones in the kennel to eat when he has nothing to do. He secretly took away the bones hidden by Xiaopi several times.Xiaopi basically ignored this and didn't give this guy general knowledge.

Mouse eats nuts, or Xiao Tongtong accidentally discovered.A few days ago, Tongtong and Haoyu came to Liujiagou for Sunday. After dinner, Liu Junhao made a plate of walnuts for the two children as a snack.

Tongtong accidentally dropped a pecan while picking it up, and it rolled on the ground.Just as she was about to lean over to pick it up, the mouse rushed forward and pressed it.The little thing sniffed, licked a few times with its tongue, and swallowed the pecans straight into its mouth.

They thought that the clouded leopard couldn't bite, but they only heard a click, as if they were gnawing on a bone of meat. They crushed the hickory nuts directly, then spit them on the ground, and licked the walnut meat into their mouths with relish. Chewing up.

After eating a few times, it seemed to be right for my appetite, and the mouse sucked and sniffed on the ground again, swallowed the walnut shell into my mouth, bit it with my teeth, and then spit it out on the ground... I didn't look up at Tongtong until I had eaten all the walnut meat. Growl.

The two little guys hurriedly called Zhang Qian over to see what was new, as if they had discovered a new continent.

The daughter-in-law also found it novel after seeing it, so she deliberately threw a few peanuts to test it.The mouse was not too polite, it directly put it in its mouth and bit it open, and quickly ate up all the peanuts on the ground.

(End of this chapter)