They were chatting about ginseng under the tree, and suddenly there was a "chirping" sound above their heads. When they looked up, they saw two flower magpies falling on the big poplar tree in the yard, constantly pecking there.

"It's so strange. When should magpies be woodpeckers in serial?" Because they were separated by branches, Professor Zhao couldn't see it carefully, thinking that the bird was catching insects on the tree.

Poplar trees grow very fast, and in a few years it can grow to the point where a child cannot hold his arms out of his arms. However, although it grows fast, it has a "sharp mouth, thick skin, hollow belly", the wood is particularly weak, and it is easy to attract insects.

Many poplar trees, although they grow several stories high and are lush in summer, have long been hollowed out by insects and will die in a few years. Such trees have no other use in rural areas except for firewood. At most, some tree trunks that have not been drilled by insects can be made into several window frames, but people don’t like to use them as window frames, because such windows are particularly easy to be drilled by bumblebees.

However, the two poplar trees in Liu Junhao's yard are fine, and there is no sign of a heart-wrenching worm arching hole yet, so he heard Professor Zhao say that he hurriedly took a closer look.

"It's not catching insects, but building nests with poplar branches." He saw it clearly, the two magpies were pecking at the small branches.

After hearing what he said, Professor Zhao became interested and stopped playing chess. He just raised his head to look at the flowers and magpies on the tree.

What surprised Liu Junhao was that the two flower magpies did not bring the branches away, but instead built a nest on another big poplar tree, and seemed to be preparing to settle in their yard.

Rural people still care about birds like magpies. No one can move their magpies' nests. Even if the child takes out the magpies and is seen by his own adults, he will scold the child and ask him to put the magpies back.

In the early morning, if there are magpies chirping on the big tree at the door of the house, I think there will be happy events coming to the door on this day. Therefore, Liu Junhao is quite welcome to magpies settle down on their own poplar trees.

The next morning, Liu Junhao was surrounded by the group of chickens and ducks as soon as he got up. It seemed that they had developed a habit. He knew that "crying children have milk to eat", and they all stretched their necks and screamed in a ball.

Even when he was using the toilet, the group of ducks followed him and kept pecking his trouser legs.

Helplessly, Liu Junhao had to go back to the house and make a large bowl of wheat scattered on the ground. The chickens and ducks were considered peaceful and they started eating them one by one.

This won’t work. After a few days, I will ask Xiaopi to drive them out to find food when there are too many insects in the morning. This morning, a large bowl of grain is not a problem. There is no food in his field. These are all made of rat holes dug in autumn. After feeding them for a winter, there is only one bag left.

Seeing that they were eating happily, Liu Junhao got out and went back to the house to get water to cook with a bucket, but as soon as he came out with the bucket, he was stunned. The two gray magpies were also mixed in the group of water ducks and pecking at the wheat. The gray bodies quickly passed by the ground, faster than the water ducks.

A duck next to the magpie probably couldn't grab the food, and he screamed at the magpie in anger. But he knew that the magpie also declared war on the magpie.

They are really not polite. Whether they live in their own yard or not is worthy of their rent. Who knows that they want to have a one-stop meal and accommodation? Even more excessively, they even show their mighty power over the ducks they raise. It is unbearable. Liu Junhao immediately walked into the ducks group, and the iron barrel in his hand was knocking loudly.

Only then did the two arrogant magpies drive away, but as soon as he walked away a few steps, they fell down again.

"Forget it, let them eat it, how much can the two birds eat?" Liu Junhao saw that he could not drive them away, so he had to comfort himself in his heart.

Today's weather is also a good weather. After dinner, Liu Junhao took out a large bag of large flower-skinned watermelon seeds from the box and prepared to take them outside to dry. Don't keep them for a long time and they will not sprout.

The half bag of watermelon seeds were fried before the New Year. These were left as seeds, more than a pound.

Liu Junhao poured all the more than pound of watermelon seeds in the dustpan and spread them. Seeing that there were a lot of watermelon seeds inside, he reached out and picked them out one by one.

Just as he was carrying a large teacup, Professor Zhao came in and asked, "Is there any water in the teapot? I finished the cooking last night and didn't have time to burn it in the morning."

"Well, I just cooked a pot in the morning and put it on the table. You know where to drink the tea and make it yourself." Liu Junhao said without raising his head.

"No tea, I'm the best Maojian here," said Professor Zhao shaking his teacup.

"What the best Maojian is not a bitter taste, it makes it look like a treasure." Liu Junhao said disapprovingly.

"I won't tell you." Professor Zhao shook his head with some annoyance and ignored him.

One or two tea leaves in Professor Zhao's house were given by an old colleague when he returned to the city to pay New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival. He only gave two taels. He said that this was the best Maojian before the rain and was rare in the market. It costs 400 yuan per liang, which is very precious. And if you have money, you may not be able to buy real tea. This tea was brought by a student during the New Year.

Of course, Professor Zhao was so fond of being like a treasure. When he came back, he brought back the two liang of Maojian and gave half of it to Liu Junhao.

When he gave it, he didn't make it clear, and only said that it was the tea brought from the city. Therefore, Liu Junhao used it like ordinary tea, put a handful of tea into a space cup, then made a large pot of boiling water and hugged it and drank it.

Although it smelled quite fragrant, he rinsed his mouth bitterly after taking a sip. He hugged the tea cup and asked Professor Zhao what kind of tea this is, why is it so bitter?

Professor Zhao was so depressed that he almost vomited blood when he saw the space cup in his hand that he almost vomited blood. Every time he drank tea, he counted the tea leaves. This kid was so good that he put a big handful of it all at once. This big space cup could hold half a teapot of water at a time. His big cup was worth at least forty yuan, and this tea was a complete waste for him.

This guy is drinking tea, but drinking cattle!

After he talked about the preciousness of the tea, Liu Junhao hurriedly lifted the lid of the cup and took a big mouthful, and then said in some confusion: "There is no difference, it's still bitter."

This made Professor Zhao laugh and cry. He knew that it would be useless to say it, so he would never talk to him about tea tasting again.

"What's wrong with these watermelon seeds?" Professor Zhao poured boiling water and squatted in front of the dustpan and asked casually.

"Pick out the empty melon seeds and wait for the drying. After a while, plant them in the backyard. Why don't you plant some in the yard?"

"Let's talk about it then." Professor Zhao casually pinched one and kowtowed it in his mouth. The fragrant raw melon seeds had a different taste.

Perhaps it was because the spring water had been irrigated, so the watermelon seeds were not too weak, and they were picked up in less than ten minutes.

Liu Junhao asked Professor Zhao to hold the stool below, and stood by himself and placed the dustpan carefully on the tiles on the roof.

His house faces north and south, and the roof is just outside of shade, so the sun is particularly good, so it will be almost done after a whole morning.

Professor Zhao quickly stood by Liu Junhao's fence with a teacup again. After planting these flower seeds, he observed them every day. The ones in Liu Junhao's yard were obviously faster than those in his family. They didn't see each other overnight, and many new buds emerged from the soil.

Liu Junhao watched with him for a while and was about to go out to the house to take out the chess, but as soon as he walked under the eaves, he found that there were many watermelon seed shells falling from the ground.

What's going on? He hurriedly took a few steps back and looked at the roof, but saw the two flower magpies eating watermelon seeds by the dustpan. It's so hard to guard against!!

The reason why I didn't put the dustpan in the yard was because I was afraid of the hens pecking. I didn't expect that the two magpies would find it on the roof.
Chapter completed!