Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 541 A Strange Event at Night

As the saying goes, "Cold dew sows vegetables, frost sows wheat."

After planting the wheat, almost all the flowers in the field have bloomed and failed, and all the leaves that should have fallen have fallen.Those birds in the mountains that are not suitable for the cold climate have already fluttered their wings and left their hometowns.If you don't want to bother, just find a hole and drill it to start cat winter.

There is no farm work in the field now, and the farmers who have been busy for more than half a year have finally calmed down and become more and more lazy.But such a day can be tolerated for a day or two. After a long time, the young people can't bear it anymore, and they meet to go hunting wild boars in the mountains.

Hunting wild boars is a project that has sprung up in Liujiagou in recent years, mainly due to the tendency of wild boars in Daqingshan to overflow.Every autumn and winter, when the weather turns cold and the food in the mountains decreases, most wild boars go to the outskirts of the mountains, and come down from time to time to steal wheat seedlings.

The day before yesterday there was a wild boar who was dizzy and bold. In broad daylight, he ran into the village to steal food, which shocked people a lot.It is true that a few of them should be destroyed to kill their prestige.

Liu Junqi and the others came to explain their intentions, and Liu Junhao also wanted to go.But I can't live without people, so I can only contribute two macular skins.

Then he called Zhao Guangming again and asked if he would come.

The injury on this guy's face happened just a few days ago, and when he heard that he was going to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars, he immediately became interested.I kept yelling on the phone, saying that I would wait 10 minutes and he would come over immediately.

After sending the hunting team away, Liu Junhao took advantage of the time when the two children were asleep, and started to work in the backyard again, cleaning up the fallen leaves in the yard.Otherwise, when it rains in spring and fallen leaves rush into the ditch, it will easily cause congestion and stagnant water, and it will be inconvenient to catch eels in the future.

He was busy in the front, and the two squirrels followed behind, chirping and chattering.

The one with white hair on the eye is the one that Xiaowazi sent over. Liu Junhao took advantage of his wife's time to go to school, and threw it into the stone lock space to recuperate from time to time.In just a few days, the squirrel's injuries have been healed, and now it is not afraid of people.

In order to distinguish the two squirrels, Liu Junhao named this one Baitiao according to its characteristics.The daughter-in-law even said it was vulgar when she heard it, but she didn't refute it, so the name Baitiao was decided.

With the same kind in the family, Diandian feels that her territory has been violated, and keeps driving away Bai Tiao with grinning teeth.This situation only lasted for two days, and soon the two squirrels got used to each other and started chasing and playing in the yard.The sun was good at noon yesterday, and Baitiao even helped Diandian take out the cabbage leaves it had stored to dry. With that posture, he completely regarded himself as half the master.

He was busy here when the phone in his pocket rang, and it was opened by a tourist he knew: "Liu Junhao, do you want a hedgehog?"

"Hedgehog, what do I want this for?" Liu Junhao responded casually.

"It's like this. I was walking in the garden of the community yesterday. I heard noises in the flower pond. When I walked in, I found a hedgehog hiding in it. After getting it home, I fed it apples, but it didn't eat at all. It shrank into a ball and remained motionless. "

"It's right not to move. In this season, hedgehogs hibernate early." Liu Junhao replied on the phone.

"I thought so too. I was afraid that the hedgehog would freeze to death if I went down again. What about your place?" the tourist asked again.

"Khan, don't be so troublesome. You can take it directly to the outskirts of the city and dig a hole. Just put it inside and bury some leaves on it." Liu Junhao replied depressingly.Now people regard their homes as animal shelters. A few days ago, they just received a squirrel, and now someone is giving away a hedgehog.

"Oh, how deep do you have to dig... Hedgehogs need to breathe when they hibernate. If they are covered with thick leaves, will they smother them to death? If they are too thin, what if the hedgehog freezes to death?" A litany of questions.

He couldn't make it clear on the phone, so Liu Junhao had no choice but to reply, "You might as well send it here."

Saving a hedgehog's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, which is a life anyway.He decided to wait for the hedgehog to be sent to Liujiagou and throw it directly into the stone lock.It will be released next spring when the weather is warmer. Anyway, this thing does not eat fish.

Zhao Guangming and the others were lucky. They found wild boars not long after they entered the mountain. Hunted by a few yellow spots, two wild boars were recorded in the morning.

In the afternoon, for the pork, Liu Junqi chopped off the tip of the buttocks and sent it over. It weighed twenty or thirty catties.Liu Junhao and his wife couldn't finish eating, so they cut half of it for Professor Zhao's house.

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The weather is turning cold day by day, especially at night.After coaxing the two little ones to sleep, Zhang Qian got up and sat in front of the computer to watch a TV series while it was still early. As a result, she started stomping her feet after half an hour.

It didn't work at all, the more I stomped the colder it got.I had no choice but to call Liu Junhao up and light a brazier.

When the raging charcoal fire was burning, the coldness around me gradually disappeared.

Then Zhang Qian threw two handfuls of peanuts into the brazier, and watched TV while eating roasted peanuts.She didn't pay attention to the time at all. When she didn't pay attention, it was past eleven o'clock in the evening.

So... urgent, the TV series paused, and then hurried to the toilet.

As soon as she arrived at the bamboo pole forest to the east of the house, she heard a clattering sound from above. She hurriedly stopped, turned her head to look upwards, and froze for a moment.

After solving her personal problems, Zhang Qian rushed straight into the bedroom and called out her husband again.

"What are you doing?" Liu Junhao didn't know what was going on with his wife, and he was sleepy right now.

"Get up quickly, I'll show you something special." Zhang Qian took his hand and dragged him under the bed.

"Daughter-in-law, let's see what time it is. If you have any strange things, just tell me." The bed was very warm, and Liu Junhao didn't want to get out of bed at all.

"I went to the toilet just now and saw a lot of turtledoves in our bamboo forest." Seeing that her husband couldn't come down, Zhang Qian had no choice but to tell the story.

"How normal is it? Professor Zhao's house feeds turtledoves, and some nights they spend the night in the bamboo forest." Liu Junhao really didn't understand what was so strange about this matter.He replied and fell asleep again.

"Get up for me! It's different, let me ask you how many turtle doves are fed at Professor Zhao's house?" Zhang Qian pulled her husband up again.

"There are forty or fifty of them," Liu Junhao estimated.There should have been more, but Professor Zhao couldn't manage it. In the past two years, many people have flown away one after another, and the number has not increased much.

"That's right. Guess how many I saw in the bamboo forest just now? There are two or three hundred of them. And they live in a different place than usual. They are so low that they can be reached with one's hand. Is this a strange thing?"

"It's not... daughter-in-law, you won't call me out just because of this, will you?" Liu Junhao has already understood the whole thing, but he still hasn't found out what's so strange.The phenomenon of turtledoves flocking together is rarely seen by ordinary people, but Liu Junhao has seen it many times.

"Then explain to me why there are so many of them gathered together tonight, and the drop is so low." Seeing her husband's calm expression, Zhang Qian was very disappointed.

"The reason is very simple. Why did you light the brazier tonight." After such a toss, Liu Junhao no longer felt sleepy, and asked patiently.

"Of course it's cold, you said Turtledove too..." Zhang Qian came to her senses.

"Damn, this is my experience in catching turtledoves. Don't tell others. If you let other people know, the turtledoves in Liujiagou will suffer." Liu Junhao said with a little satisfaction: "Most people see turtledoves making nests. , I take it for granted that turtledoves live in their nests all year round. In fact, this view is outrageous. Except during the hatching period, turtledoves seldom spend the night in their nests. Their habitat has a lot to do with the temperature. Affects the habitat of turtle doves.

Especially in autumn and winter, when the weather is very cold, turtledoves usually find shelter from the wind for the night.And they consciously live in groups, and there are turtledove vigils at night.When in danger, the vigilant turtledove will cry out to wake up the other turtledoves. "

"No way, is the turtledove so smart? Why haven't I seen it in the encyclopedia? That's an expert's conclusion." Zhang Qian asked suspiciously.

"Will those experts watch turtledoves in the wild at night?" Liu Junhao asked disdainfully.So what...Practice brings true knowledge, which is the valuable experience he and Liu Qiyong gathered when they teamed up to hunt birds at night.

In fact, many birds are smarter than people think, and so is the turtledove.Many people know that the turtledove will coo for a while before returning to the nest, and then it will fall back into the nest.In a few minutes the other turtledove would come back.

This phenomenon is very common, and most people probably don't think so much when they see it.

Liu Junhao and the others are different. After long-term observation and accumulation, they finally came to the conclusion that the first turtledove to fly back was a sentinel to report the news.If the turtledove finds that it is in danger, it will turn around and fly away, so that the second turtledove will not come back for a short time.

So at that time, they proposed to hit the birds first, that is, they should either kill the turtledove sentries as soon as they came back, or wait patiently and wait for other turtledoves to return to their nests before shooting.

The same is true for turtledoves flocking in winter, the lower the temperature is, the lower their landing point will be.When it was several degrees below zero, the turtledoves were about to fall to the ground.

One winter evening, Liu Junhao and the others found many turtledoves flying to the woods at the head of the village, so they made an appointment to hunt turtledoves at night.

The scene I saw was very similar to what Zhang Qian described just now. Regardless of the height of the trees in the entire forest, there were turtledoves on almost every tree, and they fell very low.

It didn't take them much effort to catch a whole sack. In the eighties and 90s, Daqingshan's information was blocked, and no one came to collect the game.So they didn't sell the turtledoves they caught, and everyone took a lot of them back home to fry and eat.

In the next few days, they continued to hunt, and the woods were harvested every time.But when the temperature rises, not a single turtledove can be found in that place.

"After listening to your analysis, it seems very reliable." Zhang Qian nodded in conviction.

"Of course." Liu Junhao is talking about sex now, and he opened his mouth to tell his wife the precautions for hunting turtledoves at night.The best time is after eleven o'clock, when the turtledoves are in a deep sleep, even the sentinels at night.It is easiest to catch turtledoves at this time, and they will not be disturbed by occasional noises.If the time is too early, it is easy to wake up the turtledove by shining a flashlight on the tree.As soon as a turtledove crowed, the operation was declared a failure.

After listening to him talk so much, Zhang Qian said leisurely: "Your research on turtle doves is all obtained from the capture, right?"

"Cough... At that time, I was young and ignorant, but now I have corrected my evil ways." He defended weakly.

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