Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 267

The two walked along the stream, startling the frogs squatting on the rocks from time to time. After walking for nearly 5 minutes, they didn't even hear the sound of the rock chicken.

They didn't have much hope when they came this time, and it didn't matter if they couldn't find it, so they weren't depressed.

"Quack...quack..." Suddenly there were several eager Qingzhuang calls from behind, and then the voices became noisy, and even Xiaopi began to scream wildly.

"What's wrong?" The two hurriedly turned around and ran back without looking for the stone chicken.

From far away, I saw the group of Qingzhuang hovering in the low sky and screaming. On the bank of the stream, Xiaopi and Doudou kept screaming at a big rock.

Seeing the owner, those Qingzhuang and Huangbanpi screamed more cheerfully.

But the two of them were at a loss as to what was so special about this stone.

"Xiaohao, look over there..." At this time, Professor Zhao suddenly pointed down the stone with his finger.I saw that the water was muddy, with a few off-white bird feathers floating on it.

It's Qingzhuang's feather!Liu Junhao recognized it at a glance, and he hurriedly whistled to the sky.

Usually, as long as the whistle sounded, Qingzhuang would definitely fall down, but this time it was different, they were obviously afraid of the big rock, they wailed, but they didn't fall down.

Helpless, he had no choice but to raise his head to observe. There were not many in Qingzhuang, but one of them moved slowly, and it seemed that it had just been injured.

"This rock is weird, there must be cracks under it." Professor Zhao chopped off two feet while standing on the big rock, and there was a booming sound under his feet, which was obviously empty.

It seems that the thing that bit Qingzhuang was under the stone, but this stone was much heavier than the one that Liu Junhao raised last time. He gritted his teeth and moved it a few times, but it didn't move at all.

"I'll give it a try too," said Professor Zhao, bending down and putting his hand on the stone ridge at the other end.

"Shout one, two, three, let's work hard together!" Liu Junhao yelled when he felt the stone loosen.

"one two Three"

With a "boom", the stone was lifted a big hole.

"Crash!" Suddenly, a sixty to seventy centimeter long object jumped out of the cave, slipped and disappeared into the deep water.

"Wow..." Xiaopi and Doudou hurriedly jumped into the water and chased towards the center of the wave.

"Xiaopi, Doudou is back!" Liu Junhao hurriedly shouted.

The macular skin is fierce on the shore, but it doesn't mean it can be king in the water. The thing just now was... Liu Junhao turned his head and looked at Professor Zhao.

"Giant salamander... Daqingshan and giant salamander..." Professor Zhao asked excitedly.

"Salamander, was that salamander just now?" Liu Junhao didn't look towards the stream when he lifted the stone, so he didn't see it as clearly as Mr. Zhao, only saw a gray-brown thing jumping into the water.

"Well, I felt something was wrong when I caught the rock chicken last time. You said it might be Ge Ya, and that must be a giant salamander." Professor Zhao hurriedly ran towards the place where the salamander disappeared, and then turned his head and asked: " Has anyone seen salamanders in Liujiagou before?"

"Why haven't I seen it before? I've eaten it before." Liu Junhao said with a wry smile.

"Eating salamanders, when did you eat them? That's against the law." Professor Zhao was startled.

"It's been [-] or [-] years, and I was only six or seven years old at that time, and I was not sensible yet." He then explained.At that time, the mountain had just been closed for forestation, and the management on the mountain was not very strict, and the villagers often went to the mountain to hunt.When several people were hunting, they accidentally found a salamander in a cave by the river.At that time, people's awareness of protection was very weak, so they directly caught it back to eat meat.

Liu Junhao still remembers that the salamander weighed more than 60 catties, and his family also shared two catties of meat to eat.This is nothing, I heard that old man Liu said earlier that salamanders can be seen everywhere in the vegetable market, and the fishmongers are all pulling in carts and selling them, and the prices are pitifully low.

Like other animals, salamanders have declined sharply after 90 years, and they can no longer be seen in the stream near Liujiagou.As long as you go all the way to the mountain, there are still many in the inaccessible mountain streams.But most people can't see it, and the old farmers who often go to the mountains to collect herbs will only see it once or twice.

It is said that the streams in those caves are icy cold, and most of the salamanders weigh hundreds of catties.

"I don't know how many giant salamanders there are in this water, plus the one I accidentally touched last time, there are at least two." Professor Zhao still hasn't recovered from the surprise of finding the giant salamander, "Let's follow up and have a look. "

Liu Junhao also has this intention, but after all, he has lived in Liujiagou since he was a child, and he is quicker to accept these existing things. Now he is already thinking about how to deal with this matter.

It is a good thing to find a salamander, but it will become a bad thing if it is not handled properly, just like the wild turtle a few days ago.As soon as the news spread, someone came to catch the turtle immediately.If it wasn't for Nasuko being bitten to pieces by the fire in the river, maybe... wait, the one who bit Xuko last time was also a giant salamander.

He thought about the trace carefully, and it didn't seem like it.Although salamanders are fed with fish, their teeth are not so good and they can't chew at all.When catching food, they usually open their mouths and swallow it whole, and then digest it slowly in the stomach.

Although people's consciousness has been greatly improved through the propaganda of newspapers and television, but there are always some people who take risks for money.It's best to pretend that you don't know about this matter. If you can hide it for a day, it's a day. If you really can't, catch it and put it in a stone lock, and then raise it in a deep stream when you have a chance.

However, his headache was how to convince Professor Zhao, what to do if the old man became interested and told others about it.

"It's here" the old man pointed to the depths of the stream and shouted.

That thing seems to be very shy, completely hiding its body among the aquatic plants, if you don't look carefully, you can't see a giant salamander hidden there.The two stared at it for nearly 10 minutes, but they didn't see it showing its head.

At this time, the mobile phone in Professor Zhao's pocket rang, and when he saw it was Teacher Wang's number, he immediately hung up and said, "It's almost noon, they called us back."

Liu Junhao was thinking about how to talk about it, but Professor Zhao spoke first: "Xiaohao, let's not tell other people about the salamander..."

"Why..." This time it was his turn to be surprised.

"More people know is not necessarily a good thing...sometimes people's excessive 'concern' is the culprit for the survival crisis of animals." The old man said with a sigh, obviously he also thought of the result of publishing this discovery : The number of people who come to play in Liujiagou has increased, and the salamanders have suffered disasters.

"Well, I know." Liu Junhao breathed a sigh of relief this time, his awareness is not low.

Before the two left, they deliberately restored the stone to its original state, wondering if the salamander would continue to live in the original cave.If they don't, they add another crime.

On the way back, the two spoke again.Apart from telling Zhang Qian and Teacher Wang about this matter, no one else should mention it.

When they rushed back to the camp, everyone had already packed up their things, and they were just waiting for the two of them to arrive.

At noon, he was busy making a fire and cooking in the elementary school, but Liu Junqi came to the school and asked Maozi for the key.The brat took the key with him when he went out in the morning, and the couple didn't realize they didn't bring the key when they came back from the market.In the end, he could only sit in other people's houses and wait. When the students came back, Liu Junqi rushed to find them.

The "key" boy hurriedly put his hand into his trouser pocket, and then his face changed.

"What's the matter, can't it be lost?" His father's face immediately turned wrong.

"When I went up the mountain, I still put it in my trouser pocket. I don't know when I lost it..." The child muttered with a sad face.

"What do you want me to say, you brat, you forget about things all day long, how can I get in the house if I lose the key?" Liu Junqi became anxious when he heard it, and stretched out his hand to pull his ear.

"Don't hit the child." Zhang Qian stopped him and comforted him in a low voice: "Let him think about where he lost it, and we will look for it later."

"I don't know either... on the hillside... I remembered that when I did somersault, I must have dropped the key on the ground during the somersault."

This brat, extreme joy begets sorrow, let you show off.

Let Teacher Wang watch the students busy, Liu Junhao and Zhang Qian followed Mao Zi and his son up the mountain to look for them.With Xiaopi's help, they didn't have much trouble finding the key.Fortunately, I found it, otherwise, with Liu Junqi's fiery temper and being so busy, it's no wonder he didn't get beaten!

After tossing back and forth for more than half an hour, the meal has already been prepared.The wild rabbit meat was stewed into broth and poured into bowls, which was very fragrant. The students were sweating profusely after eating it.

According to Zhang Qian's original intention, they would continue to go up the mountain in the afternoon, but seeing that the students' spirits were not very good, they gave up this idea and set the activity location for the afternoon on the beach.

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After dinner in the evening, Zhang Qian had nothing to do to upload the photos of Qingzhuang catching rabbits that she had just taken in the morning on the Internet.Things really went as expected, and everyone's interest was quickly aroused, and many people expressed that they had time to visit Qingzhuang at his home.

Liu Junhao also sat next to his wife after washing the dishes.

"What are you talking about, you found the salamander in the mountain stream, is it real or not...you won't lie to me, do you have any photos?" Liu Junhao had made full preparations before telling Zhang Qian about this, but he Still underestimated my wife's reaction.

A little too enthusiastic, a series of questions made him a little dizzy.In line with the principle of frankness and leniency, he still explained the matter clearly.

"You're right. If people know about it, someone will definitely catch it secretly. But why didn't you take a picture? I haven't seen a salamander in real life since I grew up. Is it cute?" Zhang Qian breathed out Another few questions.

Khan, Liu Junhao had no choice but to explain patiently: "Things were developing too fast at the time, and when we realized that the thing had already got into the water. Through the water, the photo was very blurry, and finally Professor Zhao deleted it. It doesn't matter. , When I have time, I will lead you to take a sneak peek."

"Really?" Zhang Qian burst into joy again.

Isn't it just a salamander? It's worth such a fuss. Your husband and I even ate it when we were young.But seeing Zhang Qian's burst of enthusiasm, Liu Junhao didn't dare to say those words to death.

Nothing happened the next day, and Liu Junhao led Xiaopi to the mountain stream where he found the salamander. This time, there was no restraint from Professor Zhao, so he had more freedom.

He wanted to check how many giant salamanders there were in that mountain stream. If there were too few, he would put them in stone locks and raise them for a while.I checked the information last night, salamanders are easy to breed, fish, frogs, shrimps and crabs are their food, and this is the most indispensable thing in my stone lock.

Moreover, there is spring water in the stone lock, which should be very suitable for their survival.When the salamanders are transplanted inside, he can completely open up another pond, anyway, the space in the stone lock is big enough.

It is said that with the rapid growth of those plants, the space in the stone lock has now increased a lot.Standing in it now, it already gives people a feeling of endlessness.

When he came to the mountain stream, Liu Junhao saw that there was no one around, so he opened the stone lock silently, and suddenly a trickle of spring water flowed out.Soon, the fish and shrimps in the stream felt the magic of the spring water and began to swim over one after another.

The trick of attracting salamanders with spring water was thought of last night, but it is not innovative. He used it to attract a big fish weighing several tens of catties for the little girl during the May Day Fishing Contest.

Since it is useful for fish, it should also work well for salamanders.

Soon, more and more fish surrounded Liu Junhao. At first, there were some small fish and shrimps, crucian carp shells that were as long as a pencil in less than 5 minutes, crabs that were as big as palms, eels and loaches that were as thick as thumbs, and so on.

If someone came to the mountain stream at this time, they would definitely open their mouths silently.

Everything in front of me was too shocking, I saw the fish in the mountain stream jumped towards Liu Junhao as if they had been enchanted.That piece of stream water is densely packed with fish, and there are too many of them to count.

Xiaopi also felt the strangeness of the situation, standing behind his master and whimpering.

Finally, the sound of rushing water came from a distance, and an oval head emerged from the stream.When he saw a person squatting not far away, that guy hurriedly dived into the water again.

However, it couldn't resist the temptation of those fish and shrimps. It raised its head and approached little by little, and finally swooped over, holding a chopstick-long herring and swam fast.

When the herring is swallowed, it will swim back.Several times like this, seeing that the person on the shore did not move, the salamander became bold and simply stayed by the fish pile and ate fiercely.

The eating habits of salamanders are very strange. They belong to the type of overeating. "If you don't eat for three years, you can eat for three years." They can go without food for two or three years without starving to death.But at the same time, you can also eat a lot of food at one time. When you eat the most, you can increase your body weight by one-fifth.

Slowly, one, two, three... There are more and more salamanders in the water.

Liu Junhao was also very surprised at the moment, he never thought that there are so many salamanders hidden in this ordinary stream.He roughly counted, so far, there are already five.

The biggest one is only eighty or ninety centimeters long, and it is estimated to weigh hundreds of catties.

The number of fish in the stream continued to increase, and the water surface was covered with white flowers illuminated by the sun.But the salamanders didn't increase any more...exactly six.

(End of this chapter)