Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 26
This time Liu Laosan seemed to be a bastard eating weights, determined to insist on Liu Junhao to give him advice, and even went to the backyard to see his eels, as if he wanted to find out what was different, but Liu Junhao had no choice but to follow and accompany him.

From time to time, eels can be seen rushing out from the shade of the trees, swallowing the caterpillars that fell in mid-air, and then burrowing into the ditch again.

"Your rice field eel is also very clever," said Liu Laosan, who walked back and forth in the ditch, but found no "insider information". Of course he was a little disappointed.

In fact, he also knew that Liu Junhao didn't lie to himself, but he just couldn't figure out why the same rice field eel was fed by different people so that there was such a big difference.

"Huh, is there a watermelon on this tree?" When Liu Laosan cast his eyes on a corner, his eyes suddenly widened, he was a little unbelievable.

"Well, I don't know when a few melon seedlings came out, and I didn't pick them up. They grew so big. Didn't they dig a ditch a few days ago? I thought this watermelon was in the way. I wanted to pull it out. Knowing that Professor Zhao tied the watermelon to the tree, it became like this." Liu Junhao explained.

"Hey, the watermelon is on the tree, I have opened my eyes today." For a while, Liu Laosan forgot to ask about the eel, and looked eagerly at the half-sized watermelon in the net pocket.

I saw a few green watermelon seedlings in the corner climbing up the acacia tree with crooked necks everywhere, covered with tender yellow flowers, and hanging down from the hanging melon seedlings were a few as big as the mouth of a bowl. watermelon.

He wouldn't be surprised if the watermelon grew on the ground, but this watermelon grew on a tree. This was something Liu Laosan had never encountered in most of his life.

When he got home, he told his mother-in-law what he had just seen. At first, his mother-in-law didn't believe it. She went to Liu Junhao's yard to see it in the afternoon, and then she believed it.

Liu Laosan's mother-in-law herself has a big mouth, but the next day when she went to Liu Junhao's house to see the watermelon on the tree, there was an endless stream of people like going to a market, and everyone was amazed.

This completely subverted their cognition. Watermelon planting in rural areas generally requires pressing seedlings, that is, pressing a large soil block on the melon seedlings at intervals, so that the melon seedlings lie completely on the ground and grow floating roots, but these few watermelons of Liu Junhao The melon seedlings were hanging in the air, and they produced round and green watermelons. No matter how reasonable it was, the watermelons were already on the trees.

Of course, the credit for this matter is not fully credited to Liu Junhao. Many people lament that the experts from the provincial capital are different. They can plant watermelons on trees.

This strange thing was naturally heard by people who came to the village to travel, and they all went to Liu Junhao's house to see the strange thing, and even took out their cameras to take pictures. This watermelon quickly became one of Liujiagou's signature three treasures, and even some He also made up a catchphrase: There are three treasures in Liujiagou, the fire head is as big as a millstone, the old turtle runs with the word "Shou", and the watermelon hangs on the top of the locust tree.

This watermelon is the same as the vegetables in Liu Junhao's yard, that is, there are many fruits. How many small green watermelons grow a day, he counted, and six small watermelons have grown on one melon seedling so far. The tree has small light yellow flowers, and it is estimated that there will be many watermelons in the future.

Professor Zhao didn't expect this result. He also specially called his colleagues from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to give him time to come and study what's going on, and see if the project of planting watermelons on trees has been widely promoted. possible.If it succeeds, then there will be a new way of thinking about interplanting watermelons in the forest.

Watermelons are not cold-resistant and are afraid of waterlogging. They need sufficient sunlight throughout the growth period. Therefore, when choosing a site for watermelons, you should choose a plot with sufficient sunlight, high terrain, and convenient drainage.

Although fruit interplanting is so loudly advertised in newspapers, this is not the case in reality, because interplanted watermelons generally produce very few fruits and are also small in size. In addition, the fruit trees block the sunlight, causing watermelons to be exposed to sunlight. The time is reduced, so although the watermelon in contact is particularly watery, it is not sweet.

If the watermelon seedlings climb on the trees, the limiting factor of light will be greatly weakened, and the possibility of interplanting watermelons in the fruit forest will be much greater.

It’s just that what Professor Zhao can’t understand is why the watermelon has so many knots. He doesn’t know the reason, but Liu Junhao can guess that it must be due to the spring water. He originally prepared more than a dozen net bags, which are not enough. For one thing, the biggest one is already as big as a bowl, and the net bag is bulging. It is still not familiar with it, and it will continue to grow up depending on the situation, but the net bag is elastic and should be able to hold it.

In fact, not only are there so many watermelon knots, but even the jujube trees in Liu Junhao’s front yard bloomed a lot of small flowers this year. You can feel the fragrance coming from eight feet away from the yard. When you walk under the jujube trees, the fragrance of flowers is even more Abnormally rich and refreshing, countless bees are busy among the flowers, buzzing continuously, creating a scene of enthusiasm.

However, rural people generally don’t enjoy the shade under jujube trees. The reason is very simple. There are hairy peppers on jujube trees. This kind of hairy peppers are blue in color with some small hairs. It hurts again, very uncomfortable.

In Liu Junhao’s yard, the hairy boy suffered such a time. He was digging a hole under the jujube tree. For some reason, a hairy boy got into his shorts and stung a big bump on his thigh. Xiongzi started to cry on the spot, Liu Junhao hurriedly picked up the toothpaste and squeezed out a large piece of it and applied it on Maozi's thigh. It took a long time for the swelling to subside.

Now the jujube flowers have basically fallen, and many jujubes have grown to the size of pigeon eggs. Although they are still green, the brats in the village come to shoot a few poles whenever they have something to do.

Jujube trees are different from other fruit trees. As the saying goes, "There are three poles for jujubes. There are three sticks for jujubes." When jujube trees grow vigorously, the fruit will be affected. Only when they are often beaten can they produce more dates, so this group of brats use bamboo poles for nothing. He didn't say anything, let them mess around, anyway, the dates are not edible now.

But when the boy handed him a green jujube, Liu Junhao felt weird. The date was already crispy, with a hint of sweetness in the bitterness. No wonder this group of brats came to beat the jujube tree every day.

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Liu Junhao was fighting fiercely with Professor Zhao in the Chuhe-Han world, suddenly Xiaopi at the door barked again, no need to ask, it was a tourist who came to his yard to see something strange, when he looked up, he saw a big fat man He led the two women to the gate of the courtyard.

"Xiao Pi, don't bark." Following his yelling, Xiao Pi immediately wagged his tail, squatting under the big tree and no longer saw the three of them.

All three of them were dressed in casual attire, and the two women next to them seemed to be about the same age as themselves, but the fat man in front and one of the girls looked familiar.

"Are you a mouse?" The fat man was taken aback when he saw Liu Junhao, and then walked over enthusiastically.

"Crab?! Why are you here?" Liu Junhao also immediately recognized this big fat man. This man was his high school classmate and lived in the same dormitory with him.His name is Pang Xu, and the homonym sounds like a crab. At that time, a group of classmates nicknamed him Crab.And Liu Junhao's nickname is "Mouse". He and Pang Xu slept on bunk beds, so they had a good relationship in high school. When Liu Junhao was expelled from school, Pang Xu took him to a restaurant for a meal, saying it was for him. see off.

The old classmates were naturally happy to meet each other. The two forgot to introduce others for a while. It was not until the short-haired girl coughed that Pang Xu realized, "This is Xu Xiaoli, who used to be in the same high school as us," he said, and winked at Liu Junhao. blink.

Liu Junhao also remembered now, isn't this the girl Fatty had been chasing after in high school? At that time, his love letter was still edited by Liu Junhao. Judging from the current situation of the two, I am afraid that they have hooked up.

The long-haired girl is Zhang Qian, a relative of Xu Xiaoli's family. I heard that she is studying in a normal school and has been an intern in the county for half a year.

After listening to Pang Xu's story, Liu Junhao knew that Liujiagou had a very good reputation recently, and he heard people talking about it from time to time in the county. Zhang Qian asked Xu Xiaoli to bring her here because he was afraid that the two girls would go to the mountains alone. It is not safe, so there is Pang Xu, the "bodyguard".

(End of this chapter)