Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 87 Small Farms

"Cuckoo..." Liu Junhao was sitting in the yard reading a book, when suddenly the old turtle dove "flapped" and flew onto his arm, and kept pecking at the snail picture on it with his small beak, as if he was very fond of this kind of thing. interested.

At this time, there were a few cheers suddenly, and three turtledoves flew down from the branches, two of which were young turtledoves who had just learned to fly.When they landed, the landing was obviously unstable. One of them fell headfirst on the stone slab and fluttered its wings several times before standing up again.

The two little turtledoves imitated their parents and kept pecking at the pictures in the book, which Liu Junhao found very interesting.

These two little guys look almost the same every day. Now the fluff on their bodies has almost faded away, and their bodies are a little smaller than before, but they look more energetic.

When Liu Junhao stretched out his hand, the two little turtledoves pecked at his hand curiously, it seemed that he must be hungry.He went back to the house and got some broken rice slags in his hands. The two little guys immediately began to nod their heads and pecked them up. After eating for a while, they raised their heads and groaned a few times. Feather didn't respond either.

Suddenly another black shadow fell from the tree, fell upside down on the stone slab to get a foothold, then stretched out its head and grabbed the rice grains with the little turtledove.

Little magpie? !Liu Junhao took a closer look and couldn't help being amused, this thing must be too bold.

This little magpie is naturally the child of the pair of flower magpies on the tree. Their hatching time is only a few days behind the turtledoves, and it is almost time to leave their nests. In the past two days, two old magpies often drive them in Yangzhou. Fly around the trees.

When those little magpies were just born, they seemed to be quite afraid of flying. Their little claws firmly grasped the branches and dared not move, no matter how much the old magpies flapped with their wings, they would not fly.

In the end, the old magpie seemed to be completely enraged, and he stretched out his mouth and pecked vigorously at them, and then drove these little guys away.

One of them might be too weak, so it just fluttered on the branch a few times before falling into the yard. Xiaopi, who was squatting under the tree, saw it and flew out immediately.

"Chacha..." Suddenly an old magpie stood in front of Xiaopi, its wings stood up completely, and it looked extremely angry.At that time, Liu Junhao and Professor Zhao happened to be playing chess in the yard, and they couldn't help being a little surprised.

Facing this huge monster, the flower magpie didn't flinch, and even kept flapping its wings, as if it would deliver a fatal blow to Xiaopi at any time.

"Xiaopi, come back," Liu Junhao suddenly called out.

Although Xiaopi was a little puzzled, he barked twice at the magpies, and then ran back to the kennel without looking at them.

"No matter how weak a thing is, it will become stronger when it protects its own children, even at the cost of their lives. Being a parent is hard!" Professor Zhao said with a sigh.

Liu Junhao felt like crying in his heart.

The matter was not over yet, at this time another old magpie also flew down and twittered at the little guy. The little magpie fluttered its wings and tried several times with the encouragement of its parents, but it fell after flying less than one meter On the ground, it finally plunged into a foreign iron barrel.

Although there was no water there, it was even more difficult for the little magpie to spread its wings, so it could only chirp incessantly, hoping that its parents would save itself.

The old magpies were also very anxious. They stood on the edge of the bucket and barked for a long time, but there was nothing they could do. Just when Liu Junhao thought they were about to give up, he saw two magpies suddenly fly into the bucket. There was a clanging sound.

But in the end they obviously didn't succeed, so they had to bark at the little magpie again.

Liu Junhao couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he walked over and half covered his eyes with his hands.Regardless of the two old magpies pecking at his body, he reached out and grabbed the little guy scurrying around in the bucket and put it on the fence.

After such a toss, the little magpie seemed to be even more afraid of flying. No matter what the old magpie pecked at, it just bounced back and forth on the fence, without spreading its wings, and kept opening its mouth to ask for food.

The patience of the two old magpies was unexpectedly great, and it took nearly an hour to get the little guy up again, and finally staggered to the poplar branch.

This little magpie is probably the one pecking at the rice grains on the stone slab now, a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

Liu Junhao let it compete with the little turtledove for food and didn't disturb it. Instead, the two old magpies flapped their wings on the branch and screamed hurriedly, wanting to call the little guy to fly back quickly.

Who knew that the magpie turned a deaf ear to it, just raised its head and yelled at the tree a few times, then pecked again with its small beak.

"Hey, Xiaohao, your family even raises magpies?" Er Mazi's startled voice came from the door.Surprised by him, the little magpie spread its wings and flew to the poplar branch again.

"It would be nice if you came a little later, as soon as you came, you would scare the magpie away." In fact, after the magpie protected its cubs two days ago, Liu Junhao also liked this magpie.

"You brat, even your uncle isn't welcome anymore, so I'm leaving if you don't welcome me." Er Mazi cursed and pretended to go out.

"No, Uncle Guangxi, it's okay if I'm wrong, you sit down first, and I'll pour you tea." Liu Junhao said and went back to the room to pick up the water bottle.

"No, I'm not thirsty," Er Mazi hurriedly said.

But Liu Junhao still came out with a teacup, and of course he also took a box of Baisha cigarettes.The cigarette has been unpacked and placed on the windowsill for almost a month, and no one smokes it all the time. It rained heavily a few days ago and I don’t know how it got wet.

A box of Baisha Tobacco costs ten yuan per box. It's a pity that half of the box was thrown away. He deliberately put it outside to dry for a long time yesterday, and was going to smoke it for him when Er Mazi came over. He didn't expect him to come today.

Ermazi is very addicted to cigarettes, and basically needs half a pack of cigarettes a day.I remember that when he was building a house for Professor Zhao, he caught a free cigarette and started smoking it all morning. He smoked one after another, even holding one in his hand when he was eating at noon.

"Uncle Guangxi, I'll give you this cigarette and waste it here." Liu Junhao casually threw it to him.

"Baisha? You don't smoke, why would you buy such a good cigarette? It's a waste." Er Mazi was naturally happy when he saw the cigarette, he took out one and lit it, then took a puff happily and said, "This expensive cigarette is just as good as smoking." fragrant"

"I bought one during the Chinese New Year, and it's useless to put it here. By the way, what are you doing here?" Liu Junhao knew that the weather was so good, he would not go to his home to play if he had nothing to do.

"What did you say, you brat? I can't come to play if I have nothing to do..." Er Mazi stared, then changed his tone and said, "It's really something, can you leave me four or five hundred of your eggs?" Well, I'm going to be useful for a few days."

"Four to five hundred... You think my hen is an egg-laying machine. It takes nearly two months for four to five hundred eggs. What are you using? You are not afraid to let them go bad. It seems that your farmhouse can't use so many eggs. , don’t you want to start a big project again?” Liu Junhao’s heart moved, and he looked at him in surprise.This is too much trouble, it's only been a few days since the wild boar incident.

"Well, I have this idea. Your hens are fat and their eggs are big. I plan to get four or five hundred chicks to hatch, and then they will be raised on our mountain..."

Although the chickens of Liu Junhao's family are just ordinary chickens, they are very big, and each one is [-] to [-] centimeters high.When the chicken was injected that day, people in the village saw it and said that the hen was more than nine catties of yellow, and Er Mazi was only moved after seeing this.

"Wait a minute, my house is full of hens, don't you know that there is no rooster pressing eggs." Liu Junhao hurriedly interrupted his eloquent speech.

"I know, what's the trouble? If you agree, I'll bring two of my old roosters over. This will solve all the problems." Er Mazi said disapprovingly, puffing out a smoke ring.

"That's right, why didn't I think of it. Two days ago, a hen was sitting in the nest, and I drove it out. You will bring the old rooster over later."

It's not that he didn't think of it, but he didn't even bother to borrow a rooster from someone else's house.It's all right now, Er Mazi directly delivered the cock to his door, and all his problems were solved.In a few days, he also plans to raise another twenty or thirty, and kill them for meat during the Chinese New Year.

However, Liu Junhao did not rashly agree to give Er Mazi so many eggs, but asked again: "Uncle Guangxi, have you taken care of this time? Four or five hundred chickens is not a small amount. Would you like to raise them on the mountain?" Afraid of being ruined by weasels? Besides, if there is some kind of disease..."

Liu Junhao didn't finish what he said, but Er Mazi understood that raising this thing made him afraid of the plague, and he was also thinking about it in his heart.My mother-in-law doesn't agree with raising chickens very much, and she is still angry at home.

"How about this, Uncle Guangxi, if you really want to do it, first raise [-] or [-] to see the effect this year, and then expand the breeding when you gain experience next year?"

"Well, let's do this first," Er Mazi actually didn't know much about this matter. He was a hothead, and he was ready to start a project as soon as he heard that he could make money.The thing about raising wild boars last time was that they didn't consider their actual situation at all.

Raising four to five hundred chickens is essentially different from raising dozens of chickens at home. You must find a special person to guard them every day, prepare feed, and do a good job in epidemic prevention.

Even if the eggs are developed, there are still many things to worry about. The first is the market. The hundreds of eggs produced every day in Qingshan Town can't be consumed at all.

Hearing his analysis, Er Mazi felt that he had taken it for granted, and his mind was completely cleared up, and he was going to get [-] or [-] cats to keep.

Er Mazi went home again to discuss with his daughter-in-law, but this time his daughter-in-law did not object.Forty or fifty is not too many, and his family used to raise only seventy or eighty, which is easy to raise.

The couple did what they said, and sprinkled some corn in the main room to catch the roosters. In the afternoon, Er Mazi sent the two roosters to Liu Junhao's house.

(End of this chapter)