Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 143 Winter Melon Watermelon
"What shall we eat tonight?" The two wandered around the yard for a while, seeing that it was getting late, they thought about making dinner.

"Why don't you eat stewed chicken with mushrooms tonight?" Liu Junhao was busy for a long time in the afternoon, and he was also a little hungry. Now he saw the little hens in front of the courtyard and suddenly became interested.

The last time I ate chicken was when Zhang's mother came to see her son-in-law, and I haven't eaten it for a month, but now I am quite hungry.

It is said that the survival rate of the local chickens raised by ordinary farmers is quite low when they are just out of their shells. They either fall ill or are eaten by weasels and mice. In the end, less than half of them may actually grow up.

The chickens in Liu Junhao's family gave him quite a face, and none of them have been lost since hatching.And it grows fast, it has become half a pile in less than two months, and it can be eaten.

When Er Mazi came to buy rice field eels, he sighed every time he saw them, saying that these chicks were happy.

The chicken cubs raised in his family are of the same root and ancestor as the ones in Liu Junhao's courtyard, but they are quite different in size, and their coat color is not as bright.

"I don't want it anymore. It's a pity to eat these chickens now. Let's wait for them to lay eggs. Let's make wax gourd mushroom soup tonight, which can clear away heat and promote water."

It was wax gourd again, and Liu Junhao suddenly wept.He doesn't dislike eating winter melon, but he can't eat it all at once.A few days ago, Zhang Qian didn't know who said that eating wax gourd in summer can not only beautify the skin, but also clear away heat and fire, so she changed her way of doing it every day.

Seeing that she was about to pick the [-]-[-] cm long winter melon by the pool, Liu Junhao hurriedly stopped her and said, "This winter melon is reserved for planting, so I can't pick it."

Although there are only a few winter melon seedlings planted in the yard, the winter melons are not short, and the size is also frighteningly large, weighing about forty to fifty catties.

One of these wax gourds can make the two of them eat six or seven meals, and Liu Junhao is enough to eat.In order not to eat winter melons anymore, he deliberately picked two and a half large winter melons for Er Mazi's house. Yesterday Zhang Qian was still asking about the whereabouts of the winter melons.

"Pick this, we can eat it in one meal." Liu Junhao quickly pointed to a winter melon the size of a bowl and suggested.

"This winter melon just grows, let's talk about it later," Zhang Qian said, but she didn't agree with anything.

"Where did it just grow out? It's almost 20 days old now. Look at this mark, it was scratched with a knife when your nephew came last time." Zhang Qian, the second nephew, was very troublesome. Make the chickens and dogs in the yard restless.After being stung by a bee, An survived for a whole afternoon, but before leaving, another moth appeared, using a knife to carve large characters on the surface of several large wax gourds, "Zhang Jianhui is here for a visit"

"No, why is this wax gourd still so big, as if it hasn't grown?" Hearing what he said, Zhang Qian immediately recalled.

"How can they all be so big." Before she objected, Liu Junhao had already picked the wax gourd.

"Go to the backyard and use a net to catch some river prawns, and add some mushrooms to soak them in." Zhang Qian ordered and started to get busy.

He had just taken the small net bag off the wall, but he heard Zhang Qian yelling for him to go and have a look.

"Look, what happened to this wax gourd?"

Good guy, is this a winter melon or a watermelon? Liu Junhao was stunned when he saw this little winter melon.

The inside is covered with white wax gourd flesh, but upon closer inspection, it is found to be slightly reddish. What is even more surprising is that there are many black watermelon seeds embedded in the melon flesh.

It was the first time I saw this thing, so Liu Junhao hurriedly called Professor Zhao to come over to see it.As soon as they heard that it was so special, those brats all swarmed over.

Professor Zhao was also amazed when he saw it. According to him, winter melon is easy to mutate. This should be when the winter melon flower is pollinated, and it happens to be pollinated by the bee that has just pollinated the watermelon. Finally, the winter melon grows into a watermelon.

Maozi even tore a small piece with his hands to taste it, but quickly spit it out and shouted: "It's not delicious at all, it tastes like winter melon."
Well, the mushroom and winter melon soup is not enough to eat.

However, this is considered a rarity. Zhang Qian deliberately took a picture with her mobile phone, and planned to post it on the Internet for everyone to see after eating.

Now the [-]th floor has become Liujiagou's propaganda position, and she and Liu Junhao have to upload some photos to it every now and then.Not to mention, the effect of the publicity is very good. Many people only know about Liujiagou after seeing these photos.

And the photo of the spectacle of butterflies swarming last time was reposted by many websites. Every time after posting the photo, seeing the envious praise from the netizens below, Zhang Qian felt a sense of accomplishment.

After dinner, she occupied the computer and chatted with Su Nana, while Liu Junhao found Pang Xu's number and dialed it.

After asking, I found out that this kid hasn't eaten yet, and he can really bear it if he eats two bags of instant noodles a day.

In fact, Liu Junhao is not very good at persuading people. The two of them talked for nearly half an hour before hanging up the phone. I don't know if Pang Xu really listened to this guy.

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After breakfast in the morning, Liu Junhao asked Teacher Wang for the key to the gate of the primary school, and then took Chitu to the playground and left it alone.

When he came back, he had nothing to do, so he simply took a chair and sat under the poplar tree, flipping through an idle book.

The cry of cicadas on the branches of the neem tree resounded throughout the world, as if announcing the arrival of summer.He used his book to look at the neem tree in the bright sunlight, and saw a dozen or so cicadas crawling on a branch as thick as an arm.

Probably because the bark of this tree is very thin and it is easy to suck the juice. Cicada likes to stay on the neem tree very much.

The leaves of the neem tree are quite sparse, and the small green leaves leave mottled shadows on the ground.The bunches of green neem seeds hang heavily on the treetops, suddenly looking a bit like immature grapes.

Although neem seeds are pretty, they cannot be eaten, and they are very bitter in the mouth.There are not many uses for this thing. Usually, when children make neem guns, they pick a few bunches from the tree.

Liu Junhao often played neem gun when he was a child. It is made of a bamboo pole as thick as a thumb.Remove the nodes at both ends of the bamboo joints to make a bamboo tube, and then find a section of chopsticks to complete.

When shooting the gun, divide the neem in two, plug the two ends of the bamboo tube and seal it well, then aim the chopsticks hard at the bamboo tube and throw it suddenly, and you will hear a crisp sound of "pop", and the other end Neem was beaten out.

Although this thing is simple, it also uses the principle of atmospheric pressure. When this season comes, children will make a few to play with each other.

Two days ago, Liu Junhao made one for Xiaohaoyu and Tongtong respectively when he had nothing to do. Who would have thought that these two little guys picked up the gun and slammed at the water ducks in the yard. Dare to go back to the yard.

He said he was reading a book, and after a while, his thoughts were running wild.

To say that I had a very comfortable life, he and Professor Zhao's family couldn't finish eating the few vegetables grown in the yard, and even gave a lot of them to the villagers.Not to mention those chickens and ducks, selling eggs and duck eggs here and there is a lot of income.

His thoughts drifted further and further away, he simply closed the book, half-lyed on the chair and looked at his stone lock.

I haven't noticed it for a few days, and there seem to be a lot more scoliids inside.

All kinds of flowers in the stone lock are in full bloom, especially the henna, which has grown to the thickness of a small tree. There are probably dozens of flowers blooming on one tree.

"Hey, such a big lotus pod." When Liu Junhao glanced over the spring water, he found a lotus pod the size of a small bowl had grown out of the lotus.

The lotus in his spring water is quite enchanting, not only blooming more than half a month earlier than the ones outside, but also the lotus pod.

If I don't eat this stuff, I'm afraid I'll get old. Liu Junhao casually picked off the heavy lotus pod, and prepared to eat it together when Zhang Qian came.

"Wow...Uncle Liu, this is a lotus pod. When did you pick it?" Who knows that Xiao Zeyu and Tongtong ran in less than 5 minutes after it was placed on the slate.

Well, looking at the longing eyes of the two little guys, Liu Junhao knew that the lotus pod was completely lost, so he shared the food with the two of them.

Several people peeled off all the lotus seeds, and then Tongtong began to distribute them to the three people.The little girl's distribution is quite fair, everyone's number is equal.

Peel off the green lotus seed shell, and the fat and round lotus seeds appear in the palm of your hand.

When this thing is put into the mouth, it is fragrant, crisp, and sweet, and it immediately makes people feel refreshing.

Liu Junhao is enjoying the taste here, but seeing Xiao Haoyu and Tongtong staring at the lotus seeds in his hand, it is obvious that they still have more to say.

"What are you doing? Just now we were evenly divided." He didn't expect the two little guys to eat up all the lotus seeds so quickly.

"Uncle Liu, now go and see if there are still lotus pods in the lotus pond, can you help us fix them?" The children are just greedy, and they are addicted to the lotus seeds just now.

"It's gone. I just found one after searching for a long time. What are you doing here? Why don't you read books?" Liu Junhao asked suspiciously when he saw them holding long reeds.

"Catch old cicadas, if you catch them, feed them to the chickens." Xiao Haoyu then remembered the business, and was about to hit the neem tree with a reed.

"No, you can only blow the cicadas into the air, watch me catch them for you." Liu Junhao said as he took off the small net bag from under the eaves and tied it to the top of the reed pole, and such a tool for catching cicadas was completed.

Don't look at Cicada's two big eyes, but they seem to be blind. Seeing that the net bag has been covered on the head, it still stops there motionless.

When he was [-] centimeters away from the tree trunk, Liu Junhao slammed the net suddenly, and immediately knew that he knew it and ran around in the net bag screaming loudly.

"I caught it, I caught it!" The two little guys also ran over quickly, pinched off the wings of Cicada and threw them into the iron bucket.

Under his leadership, the three of them moved from the yard to the woods and caught more than 20 cicadas in the iron bucket.

(End of this chapter)