Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 264 Not a Silkworm Farmer

"Ms. Zhang, I've brought you something." When it was getting dark, Mao Zi walked into the yard with a matchbox in his hand.

"What did you send?" Zhang Qian was confused when she saw that he had nothing but a small matchbox in his hand.

"That's it." The hairy boy proudly raised the matchbox in his hand, "My silkworms have warmed up. Didn't you say last year that you want to keep them? I got you a matchbox."

This brat started warming the silkworms just after he was fifteen, and he just warmed the silkworms two days ago.The three big sheets of newspapers were full, and a lot was distributed to the children in the village one by one.

"There are so few, why don't you get me some more?" Zhang Qian looked at the rubber-sized matchbox, feeling slightly disappointed.Only a few can be put in this, which is too little.

"Let me see." Liu Junhao stretched out his hand and pulled the matchbox, only to see densely packed black dots wriggling inside, "There are already quite a few, maybe forty or fifty. Are you a professional silkworm breeder?"

"Can you hold forty or fifty of them here?" Zhang Qian moved her head slightly surprised, "No, this is spring silkworm... It's too small, you won't just find other insects to fool me?" She saw it last year By the time the silkworm arrived, it was already one or two centimeters long, and its whole body was snow white, which was too different from this one.These are not much bigger than the commas in the textbook, and they are covered in black. At first glance, they thought they were refugees from Africa.

"How dare I," the hairy boy quickly shrank his head. He was still quite afraid of Teacher Zhang.

"Silkworms always look like this when they come out, but they turn white after two or three weeks of cultivation." Liu Junhao was familiar with silkworms because he raised silkworms when he was a child.

After Maozi left, Zhang Qian began to worry about the food for these spring silkworms.She knew that silkworms eat mulberry leaves, but the mulberry trees don't seem to have sprouted yet, so what to feed them.

"Don't worry, those who are not hungry can feed dandelions now, or get some Nenzhai leaves to feed them." Liu Junhao smiled and comforted.Silkworms are picky eaters, and they don't eat ordinary things at all. Only a few plant leaves are suitable for their appetite.The village tree is one of them, but the leaves of the village tree are thicker and more suitable for silkworms to eat.

"Dandelion leaves can also be used...Ah..." Zhang Qian felt her nose itchy and suddenly sneezed.

"Careful" before Liu Junhao could react, the flimsy matchbox had already been blown over.

Now it's all right, with a sneeze, all the spring silkworms are blown out.Helpless, the couple had no choice but to search for it on the stone slab with a chicken feather.A silkworm just out of its shell is too small to grasp the strength with your hands. If you are not careful, you can squeeze it flat.So people came up with a way to scratch with soft chicken feathers.

"Don't get so close, you can blow it away with just one breath." Seeing his wife's head almost touching the stone slab, Liu Junhao hurriedly straightened her up.

The two of them didn't dare to breathe, they stared at the stone slabs with wide eyes, and it took five or six minutes to find more than 6 of them.

After putting them completely into the matchbox, Liu Junhao went back to the house and put two tender dandelion leaves into it.This leaf was just dug out of the stone lock in the morning, and it was going to be fried and eaten at night. Now it is just used to feed them.

The silkworms that have just emerged from their egg shells are not very hungry, they just keep wriggling on the dandelion leaves.

"Isn't this silkworm fed every day?" After watching for a while, Zhang Qian only felt her eyes sore.I thought silkworm rearing was very interesting, but looking at it now, it seems that patience is needed more.

"Of course, what do you think, the leaves have to be changed every day, and the silkworm excrement has to be cleaned every day. In addition, we must pay attention to feeding the clean leaves without dew on them, otherwise the silkworms will have diarrhea." Liu Junhao has not raised silkworms for more than ten years. , Now getting in touch with these little guys again seems to be full of interest.

"Then you keep it first, and I'll raise it when I'm older." Zhang Qian felt that she really had no patience, so she had to retreat.Anyway, let her husband take care of it, and she can watch it whenever she wants.

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As the weather gets warmer day by day, Liu Junhao's house is completely bustling.Those chickens, ducks, Qingzhuang, etc. started making noise in the yard every day at dawn, waiting for the owner to feed them.

I downloaded two movies last night, and he and his wife didn't sleep until 12:30.He wanted to sleep late, but he was so loudly quarreled by chickens and ducks that he could only get out of bed with his clothes on.I looked at the watch in the living room, my God, it's already seven forty.At [-]:[-] my wife will have class.I woke up a bit late today, no wonder the chickens and ducks are so noisy.Liu Junhao got two bowls of wheat grains and sprinkled them on the ground to let these guys live in peace.

After a while, Liu Junhao's drowsiness disappeared.I washed my face with well water and started to make breakfast.The time is a bit tight, so the breakfast is relatively simple, fry a few eggs, put them in the steamed buns, and then pour some milk powder to finish.

"My wife gets up to eat..." After cooking, he looked at his watch, it was exactly seven fifty.Two, 10 minutes for meal time, 5 minutes to school is just right.

"I'm not hungry, let me sleep for a while, and call me again at [-]:[-]." She slept late last night, and Zhang Qian is also a little sleepy now.

"It's already [-]:[-], it's time to be late if you don't get up anymore." Liu Junhao said and began to lift the quilt.

"What," she dazedly took out the mobile phone under the pillow, looked at the time, and immediately woke up, muttering incessantly: "It's late, it's late, why didn't you call me earlier." Go to the second to get dressed, wash your face, and comb your hair. The whole process takes less than 3 minutes.

Liu Junhao couldn't believe his eyes. You know, it's the same procedure as usual, and it takes at least 10 minutes for his wife.

Watching his wife leave, Liu Junhao relaxed, moved a chair and sat in front of the stone slab and began to feed the spring silkworms with mulberry leaves.Originally, there were no mulberry trees in Liu Junhao's courtyard, but when he was clearing the weeds in the backyard a few days ago, he found two trees growing along the courtyard wall.Liu Junhao is not surprised about the source of the mulberry tree, it must have been brought by those greedy gray horses.Hui Maza likes to eat mulberry very much. After eating, the excrement pulled out contains mulberry seeds. Liu Junhao’s courtyard is moistened by spring water, the soil is fertile, and the climate is suitable, so they can take root.

This mulberry sapling Liu Junhao moved one sapling to the stone lock, and the remaining sapling was allowed to grow at the base of the wall, and the mulberry buds were broken off every other day.The newly grown mulberry buds are very tender, and the spring silkworms eat them very happily.It's only been a few days, and their skin has turned white. Maybe after a few days, the skin will fade, and they will really grow into the appearance of silkworm babies.

While fiddling with spring silkworms, Professor Zhao came over, and the first thing he said when he entered the door was, "Xiaohao, I'll use some of your horse manure, and I'm going to sprinkle a layer on the vegetable field now."

"Okay, use whatever you want, anyway, I have plenty here." After being mentioned by Mr. Zhao, he remembered that it was time to fertilize his backyard.It happened that they had nothing to do in the morning, and the two of them started to get busy in the courtyard.

The land in Professor Zhao's courtyard is small, so they decided to fertilize the small land first.

Every single flower in the crops depends entirely on the manure. Liu Junhao’s family’s Chitu is a big family that feeds the manure. Most of the dung pile in the corner of the courtyard is due to it, which is enough to cover two acres of land.His family has very little land, even if the vegetable fields of the two families were sprinkled with a thick layer, there was still a lot left in the end.Based on the principle of not wasting, he asked Mr. Zhao to scatter the horse manure under the thorn fence.It has been less than two years since these old thorns were filled, and they have grown to a height of [-] to [-] centimeters, which really played the role of a fence.

Looking at the delicate branches on the main trunk of Chen Ci, another word popped up in Liu Junhao's mind: Chen Ya.This season is a good time to pick Chen Ya, and it will be old in two days.

Don't look at these twigs covered with sharp thorns, but the thorns are very soft now and don't prick your hands at all.Chen Ya's fire-dispelling effect is very good. After picking this thing, steam it in a pot for more than ten minutes, and then put it in a cool place to dry.Whether it is mixed with sesame oil for cooking, or mixed with boiling water to make tea.Someone on the street bought it for nearly a hundred yuan a catty.

"Don't tell me I really forgot about it. Wei Dong's daughter-in-law greeted me during the Chinese New Year, saying that her father wanted to make some Chen Ya to make tea. Let's pick more these two days, anyway, the Chen Ci in the courtyard There are a lot of trees." So the two of them each took a steamed bun sieve and picked them.

Liu Junhao secretly watered this thorn before, so it grew very well. The new sprouts were all seventeen or eighteen centimeters long, and they were densely covered with the trunk.According to Professor Zhao, some of them should be left when they are picked, so that they can continue to grow.

But Liu Junhao shook his head and denied it. This thorn is the same as the toon, you can't stop picking it.It has just been picked before, and when I saw it the next day, there was a dense layer of hair on the top.

It doesn't look very eye-catching, but within 10 minutes, the steamed buns in everyone's hands are piled high.After Professor Zhao made up his mind, he simply went back to the house and picked up a bamboo basket.It took the two of them nearly half an hour to finish picking a circle of old thorns.

After picking, throw the old thorns into the wooden basin and let it go.Seeing that it was still early, he took out the chessboard and set up a chessboard with Mr. Zhao on the side of the road to fight.

As soon as the game was finished, the two of them were posing, when they heard the sound of a motorcycle behind them, and then Zhao Guangming's voice sounded: "Liu Junhao, hurry up, the guests are here."

"It's you kid, welcome!" He and Professor Zhao hurriedly got up to say hello.

"This is my buddy. He has a very good relationship. He is a well-known eel farmer in our city." Zhao Guangming stabilized his motorcycle and introduced it to the people who got on and off the car behind him.

"You kid, I should blush again, and I'm famous in the whole city. Who knows who I am in the town." Liu Junhao punched him with a smile, and then invited them to sit in the yard.

"Don't be too busy, we can just park the car here. There are other things to come here..." Zhao Guangming handed a cigarette and asked, "Xiaohao, are there a lot of wild old turtles on this river beach?" .I heard that a few days ago an old man in your village caught more than 10 with his bare hands in less than 40 minutes. Is this true?"

"No way." Liu Junhao groaned in his heart, sighing to himself how fast things happened, and what was supposed to come really came.But the rumors are too evil, more than 10 were caught in 40 minutes...with bare hands?Some people believe this.

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Two updates today, and one more chapter tonight.

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