Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 64 The plan of the year lies in spring
This is how Chinese New Year is, the excitement comes and goes quickly.

On the seventh and eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Liujiagou Primary School officially started. Although the brats in the village were reluctant, they still obediently went to school with their schoolbags on their backs.The fur kid ran around like a wild horse throughout the winter vacation, and he didn't write a single word for his winter vacation homework.Seeing that school was about to start, he became flustered. On the afternoon of the sixth day, he came over with his homework and asked Liu Junhao to do it for him. He didn't notice that there were still people playing on the computer in the room.

Liu Junhao suppressed a smile and said: "Okay, you put it in my room first, and I will make it for you later"

Of course Maozi was happy when he heard it, and repeatedly told Liu Junhao to write it quickly, and the teacher will check it at school tomorrow.

As soon as he pushed open the door of the main room, he found that Mr. Zhang was staring at him.People who have nothing to say got their hands on the stolen goods, and the boy was honest now, so he had to do his winter vacation homework in the yard for half a day.

The light snowfall a few years ago did not have much impact on people. After only a few days, the weather became warmer, and Liu Junhao also took off a layer of thick clothes early.

As soon as he got up in the morning and opened the door of the house, the group of water ducks surrounded him, quacking and screaming, waiting for Liu Junhao to feed them food, and even brought the more than 20 hens to come forward.Maybe the water ducks grew up in the chicken coop since they were young, so this group of chickens and ducks get along very harmoniously.

People haven't eaten breakfast yet, so they are impatient.Liu Junhao had no choice but to scoop up a large bowl of corn kernels from the house and sprinkle them on the ground. The ducks and hens immediately screamed and robbed, and pecked clean the corn kernels on the ground in a short while.

The fluff on the water duck is gray and white, occasionally mixed with some green, and it looks much more beautiful than the local ducks in the village.

Seeing them stretching their necks and pecking at his feet one by one, Liu Junhao felt a little satisfied. These water ducks should weigh a few kilograms. When will you stew one and try it, this is an authentic wild duck. You can't even buy it.

When he was thinking about the beauty, he suddenly found that a lot of down feathers on the duck's wings began to fall off. After a closer look, almost all the ducks were like this, with a lot of down feathers on their bodies.

Well, it is a good thing to start shedding hair. It seems that the egg production is not far away. It is estimated that duck eggs can be eaten after the beginning of spring.Eggs are enough these days, and it would be nice to change to duck eggs.

Unexpectedly, the group of teal ducks were still quacking around him after eating. Liu Junhao was a little upset when he heard it, so he opened the courtyard door and instructed Xiaopi to throw them all out.

The ducks in other people's homes are raised more and more off-road, and they don't come back after running out. His water ducks are good, but they still need to be driven out.

Chased by Xiaopi, the water ducks were all driven to the ditch outside the courtyard gate, each one stretching their necks and screaming.

After eating, Liu Junhao washed the pots and bowls and went to the next door to find Professor Zhao to play chess. Unexpectedly, he saw Professor Zhao squatting in the backyard with a big teacup, happily looking at the old thorn eggs planted in autumn.

He also walked up to observe carefully, and saw that these old thorn seedlings had faintly broken out of the ground, and they looked very gratifying.

Don't look at the sharp thorns all over the body after the thorn grows into a tree, but the young shoots that just grow in spring can be eaten as vegetables. Rinse it in a boiling water pot, and then pour sesame oil to cool it down. It tastes a bit bitter, but it is absolutely delicious when you chew it with your teeth.

Moreover, after steaming the young shoots of Chen thorn, you can make tea and drink it. Although it tastes a bit bitter, the effect of clearing away heat and fire is better than that of wild grass. The elderly in rural areas especially like to drink this.

The fruit produced by the old thorn is a good medicine. Whose cattle are too hot to eat in summer. Just chop the old thorn egg and add some sesame oil water to the cow's stomach. In less than half a day, the cattle will return to normal immediately.

Seeing him coming, Professor Zhao excitedly pulled Liu Junhao and said, "Let's go, go and see that piece of bamboo pole, it's all sprouting bamboo shoots."

"There are so few, only seven or eight?" Liu Junhao looked at the bundle of long bamboo shoots, and asked with some doubts, "The others didn't come out?"

No one grows bamboo poles in Liujiagou, so Liu Junhao knows very little about it. He was still thinking about when to get a few bamboo shoots to eat as a dish. Only a few came out, and a plate of dishes might not be enough.

"That's not too much, and it's only early spring? It's just a few shoots that came out when we transplanted. When I bought it, they told me that we planted it late, and it would be good if we could live half of it by then. They also said that there would be no bamboo shoots this year. As for the seeds. Judging from this momentum, the survival rate of the bamboo poles is [-]%, and the bamboo shoots must be blooming everywhere, and maybe a large area will be covered in half a year." Professor Zhao said happily.

"Can the survival rate not be high? I poured it with spring water on purpose." He felt a little proud in his heart.

While they were talking, the sound of cooing turtledoves came suddenly, and two silver-gray turtledoves landed in front of them. After all, these turtledoves had been raised in their home for several months, so they were no strangers to Liu Junhao.He knelt down and stretched out his palm, the turtledove fluttered on his clothes, and his small mouth kept pecking at Liu Junhao's collar, making it itchy.

After watching the bamboo shoots, Professor Zhao went back to the house and took a few small packets of seeds. He said that he asked those old friends who love to grow flowers to ask for them when he went back during the Chinese New Year, and planned to scatter them in the yard when the weather was good.

It seems that an old man knows that the plan for a year lies in spring. With such energy, Liu Junhao is too embarrassed to continue leisurely, so he bought some seeds of each of these flowers and plants, and planned to get them back and green the yard. , Just growing those vegetables is a bit monotonous.

As a result, he was digging the ground with a hoe in front, and the hens followed behind to peck the earthworms, writhing with their paws in the ground while pecking, very skillful.

It seems that a fence needs to be erected before sowing the seeds of these flowers and plants, otherwise the chickens and ducks in the yard will kill the seedlings before they emerge.

So Liu Junhao ran to the river beach to cut reeds, and led Xiaopi to walk on the river beach. He found that spring had arrived quietly. The roots of the young and decayed grass have sprouted buds, glowing with a faint greenness.

The reeds are completely dry after being exposed to the sun for a whole winter, and they are very easy to cut with a sickle.

In less than 10 minutes, Liu Junhao cut a large pile, tied it with a rope, and then swayed back, and then dug out a large handful of thin wire from the house to tie up the fence.

He didn't scatter all the seeds of those flowers and plants in the yard, but sprinkled a lot in his own stone locks. Although the land was sandy, he could tell by the appearance of the chicken head buds and lotus roots in the spring water. You can't go wrong inside.

Liu Junhao dug a lot of lotus roots in the spring during the Chinese New Year. All of them are as thick as an arm, and they are all whole lotus roots, which taste crisp and raw.When he went to the street to buy new year's goods that time, he took the opportunity to take out the lotus root and said that he bought it on the street.

Speaking of lotus roots, he thought of the ditch in front of the door again. Years ago, Liu Junhao planned to plant some lotus roots in it, and now is just a chance.It's just that he doesn't have much experience in growing lotus roots. He only knows that the lotus joints are usually buried directly in the soil in rural areas, but he doesn't know exactly how to bury them.

If you don't know, it's easy to handle. There is an agricultural expert living next door, so you can just go over and ask.Although Professor Zhao's research direction is fruit trees, he also has a certain understanding of lotus root.

After hearing about his plan for planting lotus roots, Professor Zhao was also very interested, saying that lotus roots generally need fertile soil.The silt in the ditch in front of the door is relatively thick, so it is suitable for planting lotus root, but the lotus joint must be carefully selected. It is best to choose those lotus seedlings with complete joints, intact terminal buds, and no bruises. That's good.

It is easy to handle lotus roots. Liu Junhao got a big basket of lotus roots after entering the side house for a while, each of which has four or five knots, and it is a lotus root with complete sons and grandchildren.

Professor Zhao kept praising the lotus root seedlings when he saw them, but he had no doubts, because Liu Junhao bought two big bags of lotus roots on the street during Chinese New Year, and they haven't finished eating them yet.

Now the water in the ditch is still a little cold, so Liu Junhao didn't let Professor Zhao go into the water, but asked him to guide the work on the shore.

The two were busy. Zhang Qian and Teacher Wang came back from school, and saw them planting lotus roots in the ditch, and they were very excited. Zhang Qian even wanted to jump into the muddy water with Liu Junhao to plant lotus roots with his trousers on his arms. .

Zhang Qian really has a bit of lotus root plot. When she was in middle school, she especially liked Mr. Zhu Ziqing's "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond". She was deeply attracted by the beautiful scenery described in it, and said that she must plant a lotus herself if she had the opportunity. .

Now that the opportunity has finally come, how can she not be excited.

(End of this chapter)