Chapter 79 Comparison
At this time, many grasshoppers were as long as their thumbs. When people walked on the grass, they immediately became shocked.
Liu Junhao banged in front, and Xiao Haoyu followed behind with a wine box to catch him. He caught him while counting. In a short while, the two of them caught more than fifty, and then happily returned to Professor Zhao's house.
Sure enough, when the little guy took a grasshopper and put it in the palm of his hand, the turtle dove stretched out his head and pecked it over without hesitation, and directly fed his child.
After feeding him several times, when Xiao Haoyu approached the bird's nest, the old turtle dove did not peck him, and let him stuff the grasshopper in his hand into the little turtle dove's mouth.
Xiao Haoyu was afraid that such a big grasshopper would choke in one bite, so he carefully broke it in half.
Finally, the little guy was in high spirits and asked Zhao Weidong to take a few photos of him feeding the turtle doves, and the turtle dove was placed on his shoulder. It was probably because he had a short mouth, so the turtle dove was embarrassed to work hard, so he flapped his wings a few times to pose in order to match the camera.
After dinner, they went to Liu Junhao's yard to play together. At this time, something interesting happened again, that is, Xiaopi got a half-dead mouse from somewhere and threw it in front of the little flower dog for it to play.
The little flower dog was at the age of playfulness. It was naturally very happy to find such a toy, and kept jumping around the mouse.
The mouse tried to escape several times and was held down by the puppy. When it saw that it could not escape, it immediately lay on the ground and pretended to be dead. No matter how the little guy fiddled with his claws, he couldn't move. When the little flower dog was tired of playing, he turned around and left, it suddenly rolled on the ground, trying to get into the pile of wood.
But Xiaopi, who was sleeping on the side, jumped up and pressed the mouse under his claws and captured it again. It was not until the little flower dog was completely tired of playing that Xiaopi bit the mouse to death and threw it outside the yard.
"Xiaopi is getting smarter and smarter. If this continues, the cat will be unemployed." Even Professor Zhao couldn't help but exclaim a few times, and then held the teacup and looked at the flower pond opened by Liu Junhao.
"I said that every time you come, you always have to look at the flower seedlings for a long time. What's the beauty? Isn't it blooming yet?" Liu Junhao was a little depressed when he thought of his flower seedlings. He thought that the flower that Professor Zhao brought from the city must be some precious variety, but when the flower seedlings grew up, he realized that there were several kinds that he was particularly familiar with.
When he saw the tender green and serrated leaves, he immediately recognized it. Isn’t this the henna often planted by rural children? There is another type that he thinks is like pepper seedlings no matter how he looks. Later, Professor Zhao told it that it is pepper seedlings. However, its name is five-color pepper, and the peppers produced are very beautiful.
No matter how good the pepper looks, it is still chili, and it will never turn into ginseng, right? Liu Junhao thought that he had planted a few pepper seedlings after planting the land he had put so much effort into flattening.
"I always see that your kid's flowers are better than those in my yard. Is it because I have applied less manure? I will sprinkle some chicken feces later." Professor Zhao was still a little dissatisfied. He would weed the seedlings, loosen the soil, and fertilize them as long as he was idle. However, he was not as strong as Liu Junhao's yard, and the leaves were not as bright as others' eyes.
"It's still fertilized. It's only a few days later that you're not afraid of burning all the seedlings to death," Liu Junhao also saw this time. Although Professor Zhao is an expert in fruit tree cultivation, his expertise is indeed not very good.
They were talking in the yard, but Ermazi came in and held a large bundle of green sweet potato seedlings in his hand: "Xiaohao, this is the sweet potato seedlings you want. See if it is enough. If it is not enough, go to my sweet potato pond to dig. I have more sweet potatoes this year."
Liu Junhao hurried forward to get the sweet potato seedlings. Last autumn, he said casually when he was digging a sweet potato well for Ermazi's house. When he got the sweet potato seedlings next spring, he would also leave some for himself. He also wanted to plant some of the land in the yard.
I didn't expect that people remembered so clearly that if Ermazi didn't say this, he would have forgotten it.
Sweet potatoes can be planted for two seasons a year. It is time to plant spring sweet potatoes now. Ermazi's family dug a sweet potato pond to raise seedlings more than half a month ago, and was preparing to plant two acres of sweet potatoes in their own fields.
His plan is quite good. He will definitely not be able to finish these two acres of sweet potatoes at home. When the sweet potatoes grow in summer, they will be sold directly in the farmhouse. They will definitely be popular at that time.
Ermazi didn't sit here for a long time. After saying a few words, he hurriedly went home to plant sweet potato seedlings. He was not as leisurely as Liu Junhao.
The vegetables grown in the yard have not been harvested yet. The garlics are still quite energetic and have no sign of yellowing at all. Not to mention the two green onions, they are perennial herbs. They have eaten a few crops of them since last winter, and their leaves are still tender and green.
Liu Junhao thought for a long time and was still preparing to take spinach and Shanghai Qing. They were basically over the season for consumption and were all blooming in full bloom.
So throughout the afternoon, he and Professor Zhao were busy cleaning the vegetable field. Zhao Weidong and his wife were idle and led Xiao Haoyu to help.
Of course, this little guy is not a stable person at all. He asked him to take Shanghai green to feed grass snails, but he climbed into the circle and caught a few grass snails as big as small eggs, saying that he would go back to raise them.
By the way, after raising these grass snails in the circle for more than ten days, they gradually began to grow bigger and they would probably be able to eat them in a while.
Zhao Weidong saw that he had never done farm work before. He had to grit his teeth and go up with both hands after pulling a spinach. After only tugging for more than twenty minutes, he was sweating.
"You'd better watch us do it." Professor Zhao shook his head as he looked at it, tied his trouser legs, pulled two spinach trees with his hands, and then gently lifted it and threw it to the side. He and Liu Junhao were shooting left and right in the vegetable field, throwing spinach Shanghai Green, and soon two piles of them were piled up.
After finishing busy, Professor Zhao just breathed a little, which was in sharp contrast with Zhao Weidong's image.
The couple stayed here until after four o'clock, and Teacher Wang came over to urge them to go back early and to go to work tomorrow.
Although Xiao Haoyu didn't want to leave, he was still dragged into the car by his parents. Of course, there were about a dozen grasshoppers and a few big snails in his wine box.
"It seems that our father decided to retire in the countryside. His health was getting better and better. He was better than you when he was working. I asked our mother yesterday that she had stopped taking medicine in the past two months." Zhao Weidong's wife was sitting in the car and sighed, "When will I also advise Haoyu's grandparents to live in the countryside for a while?"
When I woke up in the morning, the weather was good and the spring was bright. The two flower magpies chirped as before and screamed on the poplar branches.
As soon as Liu Junhao had eaten, Professor Zhao also came with a teacup.
They were planning to plant spring vegetables in the open space they sorted out yesterday in the morning, of course, the first one was to plant sweet potato seedlings.
Professor Zhao couldn't help but shouted in surprise when he saw the sweet potato seedlings: "The sweet potato seedlings were not wilted all night, but they were also much more energetic than yesterday."
"Well, I was afraid that they would wilt before going to bed yesterday, so I specially poured it over water." Liu Junhao didn't say all this. The water he poured was the spring water in the stone lock.
After an hour of busyness, they planted all the sweet potato seedlings in their hands. Of course, Liu Junhao was not going to plant sweet potatoes again, but ran to the house to get a few large paper bags and took out all the vegetable seeds preserved last year to take out this opportunity to plant them.
There are all kinds of gourds, loofahs, tomatoes, eggplant, etc., and a large piece of each type is sprinkled.
There were also many open spaces in Professor Zhao's courtyard. Although Chen Tsui, who was guarding the courtyard, had just grown twenty or thirty centimeters tall, it could not stop the inlet and out of livestock. But it was a pity to put so many open spaces. The two discussed it and sowed the remaining seeds in his courtyard.
Chapter completed!