Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 269 Chapter 260 Chapter Eight
He didn't pay much attention before, and after living together for nearly half a year, Liu Junhao realized that his wife's temper was a little frizzy, and everything she did was a 3-minute hotness, and when the novelty wore off, he immediately turned his attention to other things.

Take silkworm rearing as an example. At first she was very interested, but after a sneeze knocked over the matchbox, she didn't do any more service. It was just that when Liu Junhao was feeding, she moved to the side of the layman to instruct the layman.

A few days ago, Zhang Qian became interested in those tadpoles that had just come out, and threw egg yolks into them every day when she had nothing to do. If Liu Junhao was not watching, she would probably throw six or seven eggs in half a day.It is said on the Internet that newborn tadpoles eat mosquito larvae in a natural environment.

But the water quality in my backyard is good, and generally there are no mosquitoes, so where are the larvae.Even if there is, it will be wiped out by ricefield eel seedlings.Therefore, Liu Junhao raised the koi seedlings according to the previous method, and directly fed egg whites.At any rate, those tadpoles were very adaptable and never expressed any objection.In fact, even if they objected, Liu Junhao couldn't understand it.

Under the nourishment of the spring water, these tadpoles grew quite quickly, and within a week, they were already the size of a little thumb.A large black piece swims in the window screen, like a knocked inkstone, it looks quite gratifying.

There are gluttonous eels who want to come to hunt, but there is a screen to block them, so they can only stare and have nothing to do.Some impatient ones even slipped ashore, wanting to attack from the side.Liu Junhao considered this situation early on, so he raised the window screens to a height of nearly [-] to [-] centimeters above the water, and they couldn't get in at all.

After "consoling" the tadpoles, Zhang Qian pointed the camera at the swallow's nest under the eaves.Seeing that the two old swallows hadn't come back after pecking at the mud, she secretly stood on the stool and took pictures of the unfinished villa.

The pair of swallows only made their home here a week ago. At that time, Liu Junhao was very annoyed, and the two guys didn't wink at all.I have no objection to your building a nest, but the location must be chosen well.They happened to choose the nest above the door of the living room, so that every time Liu Junhao came in and out, he was very careful, for fear that if he didn't pay attention, the swallow's feces would fall on the top of his head.

Originally he wanted to instruct Wukong to poke the bird's nest away and let them build their nest in another place.Zhang Qian resolutely expressed her opposition, bluntly saying what to do if they no longer live in their nests after being stabbed.

That's better, less annoying, there are already enough bird nests in the yard, he muttered secretly.

Of course, in order to prevent the monkeys from destroying the bird's nest on their own initiative, Zhang Qian also gave it a profound ideological education.

His wife disagreed, and Liu Junhao could only watch helplessly as Yanzi built the villa day by day.Recently, he has been following his wife's instructions when he enters and exits the door, trying to be as gentle as possible so as not to frighten the swallows.

In fact, it is also a pleasure to watch the living habits of the pair of birds every day. They fly out to press mud to build their nests almost every day at dawn.

The bird's nest is very similar to the thick porcelain bowl. It looks a little rough on the outside, but it is very comfortable inside.

Two days after the nest was built, a swallow sat motionless in the nest all day long, quietly incubating its eggs.The other swallow was not idle either, and brought food such as grasshoppers, caterpillars, butterflies and so on from the outside one after another.The mouth of the female bird is opened, and the food is fed into its mouth.The two couples cooperate quite tacitly. After the female bird finishes eating, the male bird will secretly land on the wooden basin and send some of the Tai Sui water to the female bird to drink.

At the end, this guy combed the female bird's feathers carefully with his beak, and slammed her head to show her kindness.It's a bit of a respectful feeling.

After getting along for a period of time, the pair of swallows fully adapted to the surrounding environment. Usually, he and Zhang Qian went in and out, or the bird didn't have any abnormal reactions when they were active in the yard.

But as soon as Wukong and Doudou get close, the swallow that is hugging the nest will immediately become nervous, its feathers will fully unfold, and it will yell into a ball with its mouth open and chattering, completely looking like it is facing an enemy.

Although they were not welcome, Wukong was very interested in the two swallows. When he was free, he would lie on the window and squeak until the swallows were teased so nervously.

This guy really deserved a beating, and Liu Junhao knocked his brains out a few times before he calmed down.In fact, Wukong didn't really mean to pick out the bird's eggs, he just thought it was fun.

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When Liu Guangju came to find him, Liu Junhao's comfortable life came to an end temporarily.He was asked to dig the foundation. Years ago, I heard that the village planned to build a hotel.There was no movement these days, and he thought the plan had died again.

Starting work suddenly now always makes people feel a little abrupt.

"You think I don't want to break ground early. It's not just the beginning of spring. Others in our village are busy working in the fields. Except for you, there is no idler in the village. Now many people have already figured out the work in the wheat fields. Time to get to work.”

Hearing what he said, Liu Junhao immediately understood.Some time ago, the wheat had just jointed, and every household was busy weeding the wheat field, so there was really no time.But it seems that there is always work in the crop field in spring, so I'm afraid this person can't be called well.

"How about 20 yuan per person per day for working in the village?" After Liu Guangju explained the precautions, he explained the wages clearly.

"Return the wages?" Liu Junhao was a little surprised. He thought that digging the foundation for the village was purely voluntary work, but he didn't expect that the money would be calculated on a daily basis.

"Of course, I can't let you do it for nothing." Chunshang earned a lot from renting land, so Liu Guangju's waist straightened up.Although there is still a gap in the money for renting the land to build the hotel, but he is not afraid. When the hotel is built, the money will come immediately.After nearly a year of work, the gap can definitely be filled.

The day when the construction started happened to be Sunday, and all the brats in the village came to join in the fun.

Before excavation, put a long whip first, and then everyone broke ground.

Liu Junhao's whole body is itchy these days, and he just wants to exercise his muscles and bones.Now that he has the opportunity to work, he is naturally full of energy, picking up the shovel and digging non-stop.

I was digging vigorously, and suddenly heard a "click", thinking that the shovel had broken, so I hurriedly stopped to check.Unexpectedly, there was nothing wrong with the surface of the shovel, but a stream of white pulp emerged from the soil.

"Got it!" Mao Zi's eyes were sharp, and he immediately knew what was in the soil.

Hearing his shout, the children in the village got excited and picked up one by one in the mound.Needless to say, there are quite a few cicadas dug up, and after a while, everyone picked up seven or eight.

"Uncle Xiao Hao, hurry up and dig. There are a lot of tree roots in this place, and there must be a lot of cicadas. Dig some more and fry them for lunch." The hairy boy was thinking about eating, so he hurried beside him.

This brat knows a lot about cicadas, and knows that they live by sucking the juice of tree roots when they are underground.Liu Junhao dug the soil near the root of the tree, and sure enough, he dug out a lot of soil, almost two or three shovels can dig one.

Several children saw the abnormality and ran over to pick it up.

In this way, digging the soil and catching the cicadas are correct.

"Xiaohao, stop quickly." He was digging vigorously, when suddenly Liu Guangju rushed to his side and called for an emergency stop.

"Uncle Guangju, what's the matter?" Liu Junhao raised his head and wiped the sweat from his brow. Now that his body is fully active, he digs harder and harder.

"You kid, why didn't you raise your head to look at the line when you just lowered your head to dig the ditch. Where did it go?" Liu Guangju pointed at the lime line on the ground with his finger, exclaiming angrily and amusingly.

Khan... He turned his head and saw that the originally straight foundation ditch had been dug into an arc by himself, and the lime water line sprinkled on the surface had been dug long ago.It's all the fault of the hairy kid. This guy asked him to dig along the roots of the tree, and he forgot to dig the foundation while digging.

He raised the shovel and was about to re-mat the ground, but he only shoveled it with the shovel, and suddenly felt that the shovel was extremely hard, and he should have dug a big rock.

"Why are there stones here?" He was a little curious and scraped off the soil on the stones.As soon as a corner of the stone appeared, Liu Junhao immediately felt the difference.

The texture of the stone looks unusual and appears to be white marble.The stone surface has been polished quite flat, and there are still some vaguely carved things on it, but it is a pity that it is completely covered by mud, and it is impossible to see what it is.

"Xiaohao, hurry up and dig, why are you so stupid?" Liu Guangju gave him a hard time, but when he turned his head, he found that this man had stopped working.

"Uncle Guangju, come and take a look. I dug up a stone." Liu Junhao squatted down and carefully scraped off the soil on the stone slab, only to see a traditional character Liu appearing on it.

"What's so strange about stones, we have a lot of them underground," Liu Guangju answered and walked over.

"No, all of you, come and take a look. There are words on it. It looks like a stone tablet!" When more and more handwriting appeared, he was a little surprised, so his voice was particularly loud.

"What good stuff?" He called out suddenly, and everyone on the construction site heard the movement, and they all dropped their shovels and surrounded him.

"Get out of the way, kids, don't get in the way here!" Liu Guangju saw that there was a huge circle of people, and he couldn't squeeze in, so he hurriedly shouted.

Hearing his yell, the children managed to make way for a gap.

"My god, this is a dragon..." Liu Guangju rubbed off some soil on the stele, and a vivid dragon head appeared.

"Dragon head!" The onlookers exclaimed again.

The news spread quickly, and within a short while, people from half the village came running over.After hearing about this strange incident, many tourists also came with their cameras.

In order to see the true face of this stele, Liu Guangju decided to dig it out before identifying it.He called a few people to dig carefully, and after more than 20 minutes, the stele was finally dug out from the soil.Probably buried in it for a long time, the pure white white marble stele has been covered with a layer of dust, which looks dilapidated.

Immediately after being placed on the open space, Liu Guangju got two buckets of water on it, rinsed it carefully, and then wiped it clean with a rag.Now, the true colors of the stele are revealed.

"Xiaohao, what is written on it?" At this time, Er Mazi asked in a low voice.Many people in the village are literate, but very few people know traditional Chinese characters.Liu Junhao used to practice calligraphy by copying copybooks, so he has a little bit of traditional characters, and he can barely recognize them.

"The phoenix rises and falls in the treasure land, and the Liu family has a long line of melons..." As soon as he said this sentence, Liu Junhao felt very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.

"Genealogy, these are the first two sentences on our old Liu's family tree." Old Niutou suddenly shouted loudly from the outside.Hearing his voice, people gave way.

After he said this, Liu Junhao also recalled that he seemed to have heard the old people recite this poem before.Why is this poem engraved on the stone tablet in front of me? Could it be that it is a stone tablet recording the life of the ancestor Liu Erwa?
Liu Junhao read carefully, and sure enough, Liu Erwa's life was recorded in detail behind the poem, and many things had been told by the old people before.

His classical Chinese can be regarded as half a bottle, but the inscription is not complicated at all, and the general meaning can be understood.

But why this stele was buried in the village, Liu Junhao wondered again.Just as he was thinking, Liu Qihua suddenly yelled: "There is still a stone tablet here."

Everyone hurriedly turned their heads to look into the foundation, and saw that with his shovel digging, another half stone tablet appeared under the open space where the white marble tablet was placed just now.

"Hurry up and dig it up to see what's written, and be careful not to break the stele." Liu Guangju waved his hand, and immediately seven or eight people walked over with shovels.

One thing after another is really overwhelming.

The texture of the second stele was obviously not as good as the first one. After the soil on it was cleaned up, Liu Junhao finally knew the reason for the movement of the stele.

In the end, it was still because of the flood. It was said that during the Jiajing period, the big river flooded and Liujiagou was completely flooded.After the flood, the entire village disappeared, and even Liu's ancestral grave was filled with sand.At that time, the stone tablet recording the ancestors of the Liu family was rushed to the current buried position. The descendants thought it was the "instruction" of the ancestors, so they moved the whole village here.

The stele was washed away by the flood, Liu Junhao thought it was a bit mysterious no matter how he looked at it, it could not be that the ancestors deliberately fooled the younger generations in order to keep the mystery.

"Can the flood wash away such a big stele?" Liu Qihua was the first to ask the question.

"What's the matter, the mill in the middle of our village was washed away for half a mile by the flood in [-], and then some of us brought it back when the water receded." Fifth Master Liu continued.

Hearing what he said, the juniors lost their voices and could be washed away with a grinder, let alone a small stone tablet.

"Dig with a shovel and see if there is anything down here." Following Liu Guangju's order, all the laborers in the village began to get busy again.
After hundreds of years, when he saw the stone tablet of his ancestors again, Liu Junhao sighed in his heart, it was really destined by God.

Everyone frantically turned the field back and forth several times, but found nothing else.However, these two steles are enough, and the old people over there have already discussed the matter of building the ancestral hall.

(End of this chapter)