Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 37: A Duck Becomes a Goose

"Mom, look at the big white geese, geese, geese, singing to the sky. The white hair floats in the green water, and the anthurium touches the clear waves." The little guy saw a group of "big white geese" outside the yard, quacking and walking from the yard However, I couldn't help cheering and ran towards them.

"It's not a goose, it's a big white duck," Maozi corrected following behind.

"Well, why do ducks look like geese?" Xiao Haoyu tilted his head and looked at his father in confusion, wanting Zhao Weidong to explain to him.

"This..." Zhao Weidong looked at the group of big white ducks chirping outside the courtyard, and couldn't tell why for a moment. His knowledge of poultry was also quite limited, so he rolled his eyes and said, "Ask you, Uncle Liu." ,he knows……"

"It's very simple." Seeing the little guy's eyes turn to him, with a look of curiosity on his face, Liu Junhao said with a smile: "Go up and kick it, it will quack a big white duck, and if it squawks high, it will be a goose." I went up and kicked the ducks, and the ducks I was chasing were quacking and running around on the road, and finally ran down the ditch with a flutter.

The weather is a little cooler, and the children are going to play by the river, so the adults discussed it and went for a walk together.This is the time when the small animals by the river are active. They have surprised many water birds along the way. Every time after walking a few steps, they hear a few big birds fluttering out of the grass by the roadside. , and then landed in the grass farther away, Xiaopi screamed happily and rushed to catch up.

If there are a hundred thousand reasons for this child, every time he sees something strange, he keeps asking, "Uncle Liu, why is the water here so clear? All the water I see is mixed."

"Where did you see the water?"

"He's talking about Jinming Lake in the city. He spends a lot of money on treatment every year, but the money is spent but it doesn't work. The smell in the lake is still bad. The main reason is that people often litter there. A lake was destroyed," Zhao Weidong followed behind and explained.

A group of people sat down casually under the willow tree when they were tired from walking, and started chatting. The rural people are not so particular, and they don't dislike dirty underground at all.

In fact, the grass is not dirty, it is as soft as a cotton pad when sitting on it.

At this time, a few people walked over talking and laughing, and they seemed to be people who came to Liujiagou on Sunday to play by looking at their clothes.These people all knew Liu Junhao, so they quickly got to know each other after his introduction. They were talking about some right and wrong at work, but Liu Junhao couldn't intervene, so he could only listen with his ears.

But Xiao Haoyu is a restless master, insisting on picking up bird eggs in the reeds with Maozi, saying that he wants to get some to cook and eat, but was stopped by Liu Junhao.

Although there are many waterfowl eggs in the reeds, there are also many water snakes. The hairy child is not afraid of seeing them, but this little guy can recognize a duck when he sees a goose. What if he is frightened?

But his efforts were soon destroyed by Xiaopi, it grabbed a bluish-white bird's egg from nowhere, and threw it to show off in front of everyone.The bird egg was about the size of an egg, and Liu Junhao recognized it as a water duck egg at a glance.

Xiao Haoyu didn't say anything now, he insisted on picking up birds' eggs in the reeds, he had no choice but to do whatever he wanted.In fact, several adults also became interested, and followed suit along the way, and one person kept taking pictures with a camera.

The teal nest is very close, it is in the grass not far away, but the location is very ingenious, there happens to be a big tree root covering it, it is very hidden, if it is not for Xiaopi to lead the way, I am afraid that everyone will not be able to find it even if they are killed.

The nest was as big as a small pot lid, and there were more than a dozen green water duck eggs lying in it. When the little guy saw it, he immediately jumped on it, took off his clothes, and wrapped them in quickly.

Seeing that he was going to take them all away, Liu Junhao hurriedly stopped him and said, "Give the water ducks two, otherwise this nest will be useless, and the water ducks will not lay eggs in it anymore. After you have this nest, you can come to collect duck eggs every few days." gone."

Teal ducks have similar habits to domestic ducks. If there is enough food, they can lay eggs all the time, and they can produce more than 100 eggs in a year.It's just that the nests of water ducks are hard to find, and they are usually deep in the dense reeds, where there are few people.

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Zhao Weidong's visit to Liujiagou this time was not purely for fun, but because his father had already made up his mind to retire here and was about to start building a house. He came to see if there was anything he could do to help. I specifically begged my friend who is engaged in design to draw a rendering of a country house to Professor Zhao for a look.

Liu Junhao also moved his head towards it, the picture is very beautiful and the field of vision is quite wide. Looking around, there are green hills in the distance, and there is a shallow stream nearby, on which is a three to four meter long wooden In Banqiao, there are a few crooked-necked willow trees planted beside the bridge, and a few chicks are leisurely soaking food under the trees, and the yard is nearby, with red bricks and green tiles, and the houses are like houses, with an obvious courtyard style.

"Pretty is beautiful, but it doesn't look like living in the countryside, but rather like a villa in the suburbs. I'm not used to living in it, so I'd better find a mason in the village and build one myself." Professor Zhao looked at the next few pictures and shook his head. Said.

Liu Junhao also thinks this picture is a bit awkward. It is estimated that the designer has no life experience in the countryside, and his mind is full of poetic and picturesque, thinking that the countryside is "a family with small bridges and flowing water".

In fact, Zhao Weidong and his wife are still thinking about this matter, and there is still some time before the autumn harvest. Now the fields are full of work, weeding, fertilizing, etc., and the laborers in the village can't rest at all.It is not too late to think about building a house until after the autumn harvest.

Zhao Weidong, his wife and the little guy left on the second day. Before they left, they naturally brought back big bags and small bags. Even Liu Junhao picked a freshly ripe watermelon for them.At the beginning, Zhao Weidong refused, but finally he carried the watermelon into the car under the persuasion of Professor Zhao.

Every time I come here, I even eat and bring food, and even my own old man lives in Liu Junhao's house, but he doesn't accept any money from him, which makes the couple very embarrassed.They are both real people, and they have been discussing on the way what to bring to him when they come next time, so he must not refuse to accept it.

But when they thought about buying gifts, the two of them became worried again, because Liujiagou didn't seem to be short of anything. Although those high-end nutrition products were advertised on TV, the real effect was so good that people sneered at them.

What's more, Liujiagou's environment supports people, and there is no need for nutritional products at all. Just look at Professor Zhao. When he was at home, he never stopped the high-end nutritional products, but he still suffered from a whole body of problems. His complexion became more and more rosy, as if he was ten years younger.

The weather is still hot, but the days are getting more and more leisurely. The watermelons in Liu Junhao's family have also reached maturity, and the acacia tree is even more bent.The big green watermelon hangs heavily from the tree, making city dwellers who come to visit want to pay for one and try it when they are amazed.

If it wasn't for Professor Zhao's persuasion, Liu Junhao would have almost pulled out these melon seedlings. Although there are big watermelons now, he didn't care much about it.These days, although one or two watermelons are cooked every day, he and Professor Zhao consume one every day, so there is no place to sell extra watermelons.What's more, watermelons are so cheap, how much can they sell for?Now that Liu Junhao has the fixed income project of rice field eel, he doesn't pay much attention to these small money.

So the extra watermelon was cut directly, put in the well water to freeze, and anyone who came to the yard would give a big piece. Of course, the watermelon seeds had to be kept, and he was going to fry them.

Liu Junhao watered this melon with his own spring water, and it tasted very sweet. People who have eaten it naturally praised it, and wanted to eat it even after eating it.In the hot summer, it is indeed a great enjoyment to eat a large piece of rustling iced watermelon, which can dispel the heat all over the body.

It's a pity that there aren't many watermelons, and each time it's just one piece per person. It's okay for the adults to say that although they are a little greedy, they are too embarrassed to come to eat watermelon often.The gang of brats in the village didn’t care about it, they came to report about it once a day or two, making Liu Junhao’s place almost a summer kindergarten, but he didn’t eat much watermelon himself, and more than half of the watermelon was eaten by these brats.

But Liu Junhao doesn't care about these things. Watermelons are grown for people to eat, and it's okay to eat them. What else can they do? Anyway, he doesn't plan to sell them for money.

Then again, those melon seedlings of his can really bear fruit. Up to now, at least five or six watermelons have been eaten on one of the melon seedlings, but there are still a lot of half-sized watermelons hanging on the melon seedlings. The small flowers are also blooming gratifyingly, and there is a trend of continuing.

Looking at the signs, a melon seedling can produce at least a dozen large watermelons, which is not a large number. The large flower skin planted by someone in the village once produced up to 22 watermelons.But if you consider the weight, it's different. The watermelons on this tree weigh more than ten catties, and the biggest one is more than twenty catties.

This made people in the village say that watermelons grow big when they climb the trees. Many people are even thinking about planting a few melon seedlings in their yard next year.

(End of this chapter)