The two walked in front, Xiaopi and Wukong followed behind. After only a while, Xiaopi disappeared. Liu Junhao knew that this guy would definitely be able to follow the smell, so he didn't care.

Spring begins to appear in the mountains, and many red beetles have emerged buds. Although they have not yet bloomed, we can imagine that in some days, this place will be a sea of ​​flowers.

The grass on the shady side is still dry, but the flowers and trees facing the sun are beginning to sprout, and occasionally there are a few small flowers, which adds some vitality to the mountains and forests.

Wukong was very active all the way, and kept pointing at the branches above his head with his claws. On several occasions, this guy wanted to sneak up on the tree, but Liu Junhao was so shocked that he didn't give it a chance to do anything bad.

What it looks at is naturally the bird's nest on the branches. Now most of the trees have not yet grown leaves, so the bird's nest on the branches is very conspicuous. As they walked along the way, they almost saw bird's nests. Many of them were among the bushes, and not a single person was tall.

"The wild bees in the mountains also came out." Professor Zhao was far away and didn't look closely.

"It's not a bee, it's a big-eyed bee, there's no sting." Liu Junhao explained with a smile. The big-eyed bee is also a messenger to proclaim spring. They become active almost as soon as spring flowers bloom. This thing looks very similar to a bee, but its belly is very shrunk and its body is much thinner. They are very alert. As long as something approaches, they will flap their wings and fly away immediately.

As he was walking, Goku suddenly started to squeak.

"There is movement!" Professor Zhao immediately turned around.

Liu Junhao looked at the grass in confusion. There seemed to be nothing unusual. Before the two of them could recall the truth, the monkey had already rushed up and then took out a frog from the ditch.

This guy always does something unexpected and thinks he discovers something extraordinary, but he didn't expect it to be just a frog that just woke up.

Both of them were a little amused and crying for a moment!

Although he was taking a shortcut, it was not easy. He was twisting and turns. After more than an hour, if Liu Junhao had not been familiar with the road and asked Professor Zhao to go up the mountain alone, he would definitely not be able to get there.

When he arrived at the Maogu tree, Professor Zhao walked around the trunk and was amazed.

A spring rain, the fungus grew a lot. Liu Junhao waved his hand, and the monkey rushed to the top of the tree three times, five times, and then threw the fungus downwards.

This time I picked it less than five kilograms, and it should be less than two kilograms after drying.

After getting the fungus, Professor Zhao proposed to dig dandelion seedlings on the mountain. Time was too tight, and Liu Junhao didn't even have the chance to plant dandelions. Helplessly, he had to make up his mind and lead the old man around the mountain to casually forget about it, and then he said he couldn't find the place.

"Let's look for it separately. There are too many bushes here, so two people can find it separately."

"Yes, okay" Liu Junhao nodded quickly to agree, the proposal was exactly what he wanted.

Seeing the old man's figure far away, he also moved quickly and led Wukong to the depths of the bushes, and finally found a sparse and sparse place with dandelions.

He picked up a small shovel to dig, dug out the dandelions and planted them in his own stone lock, and then dug out the dandelions in the stone. There were still many newly grown dandelions on the grass, and he used spring water to water them all to compensate for his behavior just now.

After all the busy things, he breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the grass to rest.

It's not worth it to make a fuss about this matter...

"Xiaohao, Xiaohao!" In less than ten minutes, Professor Zhao shouted there.

"I'm here," he hurriedly stood up and waved.

"Have you dug it? It's past ten o'clock, we have to go back early." Professor Zhao didn't go much far.

"Dig it, not much this time." Soon the old man arrived with both hands rubbed his hands. He thought it was difficult to dig with a shovel just now, so he pulled it with his hands, so his hands were wet mud.

Liu Junhao was afraid that he would see something abnormal, but who knew that the old man had no intention of exploring it in depth, so he just said that he would go up the mountain to dig a few more times in the future.

The two of them dig dandelions and made their hands dirty, so when they went down the mountain, they specially found a mountain stream to wash their hands.

This mountain stream is a tributary of a large river, winding in the mountains and finally pours into the river from the back of the village. After the stream water has been washed for a long time, the stones on the shore are particularly smooth.

In the shallow water, a few fish the size of fingernails kept swimming around and feeling someone on the shore, so they quickly hid in the middle of the cracks of the rocks.

The stream in early spring has become quite soft. Liu Junhao took a handful of stream water to wash his face, and suddenly felt refreshed.

"Grade...Grade...Grade" suddenly a chirping came from not far away.

"What's so loud, frog?" The old man was startled.

"It seems that no, the frog's voice is sharper than this. It should be a stone chicken... Let's go and the stone chicken will come out at this time." Thinking of this, Liu Junhao looked excited.

"Shi Chicken, known as the 'King of Frogs'... There is this thing in the mountains?" Professor Zhao also became interested.

"Of course there are, there were many in the past, but it is really not easy to see one now."

The stone chicken is of high use value and can be called the best among the delicacies. Its meat is very delicious and nutritious, and it is a top-notch tonic. Whether it is braised or steamed, it is fragrant and mellow. Many folk remedies in Liujiagou are related to making stone chicken. For example, eating more stone chicken in summer can eliminate prickly heat, stewing stone chicken soup can treat postpartum weakness, coughing and vomiting of blood, etc.

This thing is different from ordinary frogs. It has high requirements for the environment and likes to stay in deep mountains and streams most of the time. Daqing Mountain has rich water sources and many mountain streams, so it is very suitable for the survival of stone chickens.

Every year from the end of March to mid-August, when summer nights, groups of stone chickens come out to find food. The cry of "tribute... tribute..." can be heard several miles away, which sounds a bit cunning.

I remember when I was a child, whose child was disobedient. When adults threatened, they often said that they would throw you into a stone chicken coop, and it would be clear that you were disobedient.

Because this thing is afraid of the sun and hides in the cracks of rocks during the day, people can only catch it at night. In summer and autumn, use flashlights to search along the mountain stream at night. As long as you hear the sound and hold the light, the thing will stand still when you see the strong light. At this time, you can go forward and catch it and throw it into a snakeskin bag.

Before the 1970s and 1980s, there were many stone chickens on the mountain, but around 1990s, there were many game restaurants in the county town, and the bosses came here to buy stone chickens for two yuan.

At that time, people were crazy about catching stone chickens. Almost half of the sky was clear when the whole family was old and young. At the most, hundreds of them could be caught in a day. In a few years, the stone chickens in Daqingshan quickly decreased, and later it was difficult for people to see stone chickens.

Therefore, Liu Junhao was so excited when he saw it. He even thought of raising stone chickens in his mind, like eels, raising this thing freely in the backyard, and he would definitely gain a lot of money at that time.

I didn’t expect that the stone chicken came out so early, and it seemed that spring was coming.

When the two of them arrived at the birthplace of the sound, they did not see the stone chicken.

"Are you still in front?" Professor Zhao looked around the stream for a few times, but didn't notice it at all. It was quite a few frogs that were alarmed.

"It should be here, so we don't talk. It will definitely be called later."

So both of them stopped talking. Wukong felt the atmosphere abnormal and squatted on the stone obediently at the stream.

"Gong...Gong..." Sure enough, less than three minutes later, the whistle came again.

Both of them looked at the origin of the sound... a stone as big as a millstone, nothing else. It was a bit empty and there was no one, but the sound of people singing.

"Treasure...Treasure..." Suddenly, two more sounds were heard.

"Below..." Liu Junhao understood now. The stone must have been concave under the stone, and the stone chicken was hiding there. No wonder they couldn't find it.

Professor Zhao leaned over and saw a stone chicken floating under the stone. However, when the guy saw the person, his body flashed and disappeared into the water.

"What should we do...why should we fish with ropes?" The stone chicken was shocked and could only think of other tricks now.

"Let me try it." Liu Junhao reached out and pulled a knee-high dogtail grass, pulled off all the leaves on it, leaving only the furry dogtail on the end.

The dogtail grass swung against the water for about ten minutes, and the stone chicken didn't react at all. I don't know if it was because it was just hibernating and was not hungry, or if it wasn't interested in this temptation.

Listening to the guy's screams getting louder and louder, Liu Junhao became a little angry, so he took off his shoes and socks and rolled his trousers to the height of his knees.

"What are you going to do? Go into the water to catch it? Wait, I will go down and stop it."

"No, you watch on the shore, I lift the stone up." After Liu Junhao said that, he jumped into the water with a thud. The stream was covered with sand and stone, so it was not muddled. This made it easier to catch the stone chicken later. In this environment, it would definitely have nowhere to hide.

"This stone is too big, can you lift it up?" Professor Zhao asked with some doubts. Although he knew that Liu Junhao was strong, the stone looked like it weighed four or five hundred pounds, and he would definitely not be able to move it alone.

"Don't worry, I'm not that stupid. Just lift it up to the shore." Liu Junhao gritted his teeth and sank his body.

"Hey..." With a low growl, the stone loosened, and Professor Zhao hurriedly retreated to the side.

He quickly lifted the stone, then pushed it hard, and there was a loud bang, and the stone fell into two pieces on the ground.

Unexpectedly, there were still many fish hidden under the stones. They lost their hiding place, so these guys could only escape along the stream. Liu Junhao could not see them, and all he wanted to catch was the stone chicken.

"Where is the stone chicken, why didn't you see it?" Professor Zhao stared at the shore with wide eyes, but no trace of that thing was found.

"I x" had so much effort, but I didn't expect that there was another world under the big rock. Looking at the crack of the rock, Liu Junhao couldn't help but shout a national curse.

After being busy for more than half an hour, all he did was useless. Professor Zhao was quite unwilling to accept it, rolled up his sleeves and reached into the cracks of the rock.

"What's that slippery..." As soon as he reached in, he suddenly felt something inside escape slipperyly.

"What can it be? It must be a fish." Liu Junhao no longer has any hope now. He knows very well that the cracks of the rocks have been washed by the stream for a long time and are usually deeper, so that the human arm cannot reach the bottom.

"No, it seems to have legs..." Professor Zhao called and reached into his other hand, only to hear the sound of water clattering inside.

"It slipped away, and it must have penetrated deep into the hole." At the end, he retracted his hand in disappointment, and the shiny ones on it were all mucus.

"You may touch Gyahu or catfish." Generally, fish have very little mucus on their bodies, only these two types of fish are particularly slippery, and they also like to drill holes.

"No, I feel like I've caught a thin leg." Professor Zhao shook his head, and the touch just now didn't feel like a fish.

"That must be Geyahu. The two fins in front of this thing are very hard." Liu Junhao knew that he was mostly psychological, and thought he had caught something.

When they arrived home, the students happened to be out of school. They made pancakes at noon. Zhang Qian wanted to eat sweet things, so she asked Liu Junhao to pick some honey back.

The honey on the reed pile in front has been picked once, and if you want to eat it, you can only go to the backyard.

He wandered around the mountain for a long time, and he was so tired that he didn't want to move, so he planned to use sugar instead.

Zhang Qian didn't want to settle down and volunteered to go to the backyard to pick it.

Liu Junhao was kneading the dough when he suddenly heard the phone ringing in the living room.

At this time, someone called, and he ran into the living room in confusion. When he looked at the number, he suddenly wondered that his wife called on her mobile phone.

"Wow... Liu Junhao, come here quickly, hurry up... I dare not move." As soon as the phone was connected, Zhang Qian's trembling voice came.

"Where are you?" Didn't my wife go to the backyard to pick honey just now?

"I'm on the yard wall... and... hurry up, there are a few toads here..." On the phone, you can clearly hear her teeth fighting, and the sound is inaudible, as if you are afraid of something to startle.

"Toad! Wait, I'll go there right away." Liu Junhao hung up the phone, then ran out of the door, and rushed into the backyard. There is a saying that "A toad jumps on the instep, and it will be despicable if it doesn't bite." Toad is what people often call a toad. Although this thing is like a frog, it is beneficial to them, but people have completely different attitudes towards them. Seeing a toad, many people hide far away. Even if this thing crawls into the yard and eats mosquitoes, it will be shoveled out by people.

Zhang Qian has been in Liujiagou for almost two years and is well-informed. However, she was so scared that her face turned pale when she met a toad several times. What's more, this time it was a close contact. For a moment, she was so scared that she couldn't move.

From a distance, Zhang Qian turned her head and closed her eyes, and stood in front of the reed pile in a strange posture. There were several toads squatting in front of her and behind her. One of them was squatting on the reed pole, staring at her fiercely.

How could these toads go crazy? How could they go against humans? Liu Junhao was quite puzzled. Could it be that Zhang Qian had just messed with them?

However, he couldn't think too much about it. The most important thing in front of him was to rescue his "wife". A toad is not scary, and seven or eight of them are gathered together, and Liu Junhao also felt a little cunning.

He tiptoed to the front, and the toads felt the movement and jumped aside to make way.

When Liu Junhao first came into contact with Zhang Qian, she immediately screamed and opened her eyes. Seeing that it was her husband, she immediately got into his arms.

"Don't be afraid," Liu Junhao hugged her and retreated repeatedly, and only breathed a sigh of relief until he retreated to a safe distance.

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Chapter completed!