Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 398
"Quack!" The cormorant escaped from its clutches and began to scream loudly by pulling its neck.Liu Junhao grabbed him several times before he calmed down.

"The leg was bitten off by an otter. I guess we can't keep it alive. Why don't we stew it at night, just to make up for you." He pinched the fat cormorant leg and suggested.The taste of this stuff is similar to that of wild duck, but it is very difficult to catch. He hasn't eaten it for several years.Now Baoyu sent it to the door, just to kill it and make it up for his wife.

"No, why do you want to eat anything? I'll take it back and raise it. I'll release it when it's done." Zhang Qian glared at him, but Liu Junhao could only nod in agreement.

It was a pity in his heart that he lost another chance to feast on his food.If I had known that I would let Baoyu bite to death before getting it up, then my wife would definitely not say anything.

The couple smiled at a few tourists and prepared to turn their heads into the house with the cormorants in their arms.

"Wait, you are Liu Junhao, right? We are looking for you..." Ge Wenyi woke up from the surprise, and hurriedly shouted.

"What's the matter, let's talk in the yard." Liu Junhao thought they were going to buy watermelons, so he nodded in agreement.

When Fatty Cao and the others entered the yard, they were amazed by the sight before them.This is completely different from the small farmyard they imagined.

The area of ​​the front yard alone is hundreds of square meters, and the yard is kept clean.The courtyard is lined with green trees, and clusters of grapes are crowded together on the grape racks above the head.There are also those egg-sized dates on the two jujube trees in the corner, which are so densely packed that the branches seem to be broken.In addition, sunflowers and morning glory in the flower pond, as well as oily and smooth eggplants, and rhubarb loofahs hanging down from the loofah vines.And bees flying all over the sky...

Just by standing in the courtyard, one can feel that the courtyard is extraordinary.The owner of the yard is definitely not a layman!

Several people looked at each other, and the contempt in their hearts completely dissipated.

"Boss Liu, your yard is huge. If you were in the provincial capital, you wouldn't be able to buy such a big yard if you don't have a few million pieces of land." Fatty Cao admired sincerely, then pointed to grapes, "I can buy Would you like to try two skewers..."

Just after eating and being exposed to the sun, and seeing the crystal clear grapes again, I immediately salivate.

"Hehe, I'm not a boss, just call me Xiaohao. Of course you can eat grapes if you want, Wukong..." With Liu Junhao yelling, the monkey who was playing outside immediately ran back to the yard.He pointed at the grapes, and the guy started screaming, his head shaking uncontrollably.

Finally, Liu Junhao stretched out two fingers, and it reluctantly climbed to the shelf and picked two strings.When he came down, Wukong tore off some of the biggest ones and stuffed them into his mouth, which made Liu Junhao angry and funny.

It is said that domesticated animals follow their owners. The couple are quite generous, but the monkeys they raise are very stingy, which is really depressing.

"These grapes are specially for entertaining guests, and they don't need money." Liu Junhao smiled and asked them to sit down.The couple in the yard had no intention of selling the grapes for money at all. They planned to produce and sell the grapes themselves. The surplus would be dried in the autumn and some raisins would be stored for winter consumption.

"It's delicious" just peeled a grape, and Fatty Cao already praised it.

"Eat whatever you want, not enough for Wukong to pick later"

As soon as Liu Junhao finished speaking, the monkey started screaming, obviously reluctant.

"Your monkey is really funny, can it understand human speech?" Ge Wenyi asked curiously.

"Hehe, it's all from training." Liu Junhao replied casually.

Worried about the safety of the cormorant, the wife went into the house early to bandage the waterfowl, and he had to entertain the guests.

A few people wanted to enter the yard and talked about buying eels, but after seeing the scenery in the yard, they were embarrassed to mention this matter.

After chatting for half an hour, they said they wanted to see the place where rice field eels were raised, but they didn't know if it was convenient or not.

"It's not inconvenient, just look at it casually." Hearing what they said, Liu Junhao knew that he must have taken a fancy to his own eel again, so he didn't care much.I don't know how many people want to do rice field eel business, and one more of them is not too many.

They didn't know the size of the yard until they entered the backyard, and their curiosity became even stronger for a while.

"Liu Junhao, I'm a little envious of you. It's good to stay in the countryside. No one cares how big the yard is." Fatty Cao praised again.

"Hehe, my yard is the only one in Liujiagou. It used to be the grain storage of several natural villages." Liu Junhao explained it again, and everyone suddenly realized.

Now that the heat has not completely subsided, the gutters at the base of the wall are densely packed with eel heads, and many of them have swam into the grass on the bank. This made several people open their mouths again in surprise.

To say that the few of them are people who have seen the world, but since entering this yard, they have been constantly surprised by the things inside.

"I said Boss Liu, what do you feed your eel every day?" Xie Dongqiang asked the confusion in his heart on behalf of everyone.

This method of raising eels is indeed the first time I have seen it.

He made a rough estimate just now that there are at least thousands of eels in this ditch.As a chef, he naturally knows how to raise eels, and knows that so many eels consume a lot of food every day.Take a half-sized eel as an example, the food to be eaten in a day accounts for 6-7% of the eel's body weight.If the amount of feeding cannot be guaranteed, there will be phenomena of rice field eels bullying the small, the strong bullying the weak, and biting and cannibalizing each other.

Field eels are mainly carnivorous, and the best food is of course earthworms, fish and shrimp, and snail meat.But with his scale, at least a hundred catties of bait must be fed every day. It is unrealistic to get so many fish and shrimps, and they will definitely be mixed with rice bran and bean cakes.

If this is the case, there is no way to guarantee the quality of ricefield eels.

He had just seen that the eels in this ditch were quite ferocious and fast, no different from wild ones.

"Hehe, no need to feed, have you seen the two high-pressure lamps above the head? The insects that fly over every night are enough for them to eat half full. In addition, there are fish and shrimps in my ditch, which can be used as eels Bait." Liu Junhao explained with a smile.

After listening to him, everyone noticed the two high-voltage lights above their heads.

To say that after the preparation of high-pressure lamps, Liu Junhao has not paid much attention to the food problem of rice field eels.The field of view in his yard is wide, and countless insects come to follow the light every night. Of course, there are many worms in this season, and all of them fall into the water and become a delicacy for eels.

Since the sale of whole grains in the village began, in order to ensure the quality of the grain, the villagers have seldom applied pesticides to eliminate insects, and at most they applied some herbicides.

Of course, in order to reduce pests and diseases, Liu Guangju specially ordered people to set up high-voltage lamps in the four corners of the village to kill insects, and the effect was very good.

After visiting in the backyard, several people returned to the front yard to sit down.Ge Wenyi tentatively asked, "Liu Junhao, do you want to take out rice eels? I'll buy them all. We can negotiate the price and sign a contract. As long as the quality is guaranteed, it's okay to double the price."

"Boss Ge, I advise you to let go of your intentions." Liu Junhao kept shaking his head, repeating what he said earlier when he rejected others. It was just that the production volume was too small.

Seeing that they really had no intention of cooperating, they had no choice but to leave in disappointment. Before leaving, they bought a few catties of rice field eels and went back.

* * *
With school starting soon, Zhang Qian began to get busy.In order to determine the number of students enrolled in the fourth and fifth grades in the fall, she specially asked the students who came to borrow books to send letters back to the village to see how many students from the other two villages came to school here.

In the past two days, people have come to register one after another, and Liu Junhao is in charge of the registration.He roughly counted, there are more than 40 people in the fourth and fifth grades.Including those boys in my own village, there should be more than 50, enough to open two classes.What he couldn't imagine was that many parents from Gaohe Village came to their door, saying that Qiuli wanted their children to study in Liujiagou.

This made Liu Junhao very puzzled. You must know that Gaohe Village is in the south of Liujiagou, and there is a primary school in the neighboring village. The distance is more than two miles away.

After asking, I found out that people think that Liujiagou Primary School teaches better, and there is also lunch here.

Although these parents were greedy for cheap, Zhang Qian consulted with Teacher Wang and decided to accept them all.After all, the parents' affirmation of Liujiagou Primary School is to seek far away from the near and far, so they can't refuse the school.

It was only when school started the day after tomorrow that Zhang Qian remembered how to arrange for the teachers.

In the past, she and Teacher Wang were the only two in the school, and they went home for dinner after class, so there was not even a serious office.

Now that there are so many teachers coming at once, we need an office for regular meetings to correct homework.

The other is the living arrangement of the teachers. I heard from Liu Guangju that the teaching office has appointed four teachers in total, two of them are married and have a child with them.They must live in Liujiagou, and the house must be arranged in advance.

There are a few vacant houses in the school, but no one has lived in them. They have been abandoned for more than a year and need to be carefully cleaned.

This kind of work can only be done by his husband. Liu Junhao went to the village to say hello, and headed towards the school with his help of child soldiers.

Good guy, I haven't been to the campus much in a summer vacation, and the grass inside is knee-deep.For some reason, two loofahs grew out of the teaching building, and there were several green-skinned loofahs hanging under the eaves.Because there is no one to pick it, the loofah has already shriveled and grown old, and it cannot be eaten at all.Take it off and shake it a few times, there is a rattling sound inside, apparently even the seeds are dried.

This kind of loofah has no other function except as a seed. Liu Junhao's own loofah has left two seeds as seeds, so why would he want this thing.

Seeing the fun, the Mao boys reached out and snatched it, saying they were going to set it on fire later.The dried loofah is full of fibers, and it smells very good when it is lit. Many children like to light the loofah as a torch.Liu Junhao also did this when he was a child. Once, he almost picked all the loofahs grown in the village, and was beaten for it.

"You bastards can do something good, but what if it causes a fire. Give me these loofahs, and I'll be useful when I get back."

"Uncle Xiaohao, what's the use of you, the loofah in your yard is better as a seed." Maozi asked back.

"I'll go down to the river to catch eel seedlings later," Liu Junhao came up with an excuse.

"Using loofah seeds can catch eel seedlings, is it true or not?" The children suddenly became interested.This is the first time they have heard of it.

"Of course, you clean up quickly. After cleaning, I will take you to the river to see and see." Seeing that several rooms have not been cleaned, Liu Junhao urged.

"Okay" I heard that I was going to catch eel seedlings by the river, and this group of brats were very interested.All of them were full of enthusiasm and took brooms to open several empty rooms.

"Hedgehog...!" Xiaowazi shouted excitedly as soon as he rushed into the house.

I saw a shallow hole in the corner of the house, surrounded by a lot of leaves and grass. A female hedgehog led several young hedgehogs to dodge in panic.

Hedgehogs generally like to make their nests on the edge of wilderness or beside streams, but it is easy to encounter natural enemies in the wild.This hedgehog knows how to choose a place, and hides directly in the school.The three little hedgehogs are the size of palms, and they seem to be less than two months old.

At this time, the hedgehog looked very cute, and they all reached out to snatch the fur kid, wanting to take it home and raise it.

On the contrary, the female hedgehog went into a frenzy, barking and biting the furry child's feet, scaring him.

Liu Junhao hurriedly held the hedgehog down with a shovel, and the guy immediately rolled into a ball of thorns.

"Let's not clean this room, let's go to other houses." Anyway, there are many vacant houses in the school, and we just need to clean one more room. The hedgehogs should stay in the house, they have already regarded this place as their home.Having them at school can just help catch mice, otherwise those teachers would have to raise cats when they moved here.

Mao Zi and others were quite unwilling. Liu Junhao threatened to tell Teacher Zhang before they gave up the idea of ​​raising hedgehogs.

After the house was cleaned, several children started clamoring to go to the river to watch him catch eel seedlings with loofah.

Of course Liu Junhao complied with the public opinion and followed closely behind with a loofah.

In fact, this method is very simple to say, without much technical content, but most people don't know it.Liu Junhao grew up with mud since he was a child, and he is definitely an expert in catching fish.He accidentally discovered that eel seedlings like to drill small holes, and the loofah pulp has many holes, which is in line with this condition.

Just throw a few dry old loofahs in shallow water, and after ten minutes, the young eels will drill into the loofahs by themselves, and then take out the loofahs.
If it is placed right next to the eel nest, forty or fifty small eels can be collected in a loofah.

In fact, there is another simple method, which is to get some feed and put it in the straw bag. After a while, the eel seedlings will slowly get into the straw bag.

After watching the catching eels, several children decided to take a bath again.

"Uncle Xiaohao, is it okay to take a bath? Don't tell Teacher Zhang." These guys are afraid of being punished by the teacher, and now they are sneaking into the river to take a bath.

"Okay, I'll come up after washing for a while. I wash in shallow water, and I can't swim towards the middle of the river." With myself watching here, there shouldn't be any problems.It's just that there was a heavy rain a few days ago, and the river surface was much wider and the water was relatively deep, so he only let the children wash in shallow water.

After being busy for a long time just now, he was sweating all over his body, and Liu Junhao also meant to wash up.

There was no one on the left or right side of the river, so he took off his clothes, lay down in the shallow water and washed himself with warm river water.After adapting to the temperature, he sprinted and appeared six or seven meters away. After waving his hands a few times, he was already in the middle of the river.

It’s been a long time since Liu Junhao had such a good time. At the beginning, Liu Junhao was still paying attention to the group of brats fighting in the water. After a while, he lay on the water by himself, his limbs completely stretched and relaxed, his body was like a piece of wood, letting the river water take him away. Rush downstream.

* * *
There will be an update of 11 words in the chapter, about 30:[-], and [-] words will be updated today.

(End of this chapter)