Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 525 Isn't the magpie a beneficial bird?

I saw a few magpies foraging in the yard looking around, slowly jumping towards the firewood pile, and approaching the water duck nest step by step.

"Could it be the magpies who stole the duck eggs?" Zhang Qian said so, but she didn't think so in her heart.

Before she could finish speaking, the leading magpie moved.The bird called a few times on the pile of firewood, and after confirming that there was no danger around it, it suddenly lowered its head and pecked at the duck eggs in the grass nest. After a dozen times in a row, the pointed beak made a small hole in the shell of the duck egg.The magpie then poked its head out and started eating the spilled egg white.After eating for a while, it probably didn't feel satisfying, so it inserted its mouth into the eggshell, flapped its wings and flew towards the sky.

Flying about half a foot high, the magpie shook its head and the duck egg fell from the sky.The eggshell was broken, and the egg white and yolk flowed all over the floor.At this time, other magpies flocked to eat the food on the ground.

A few magpies couldn't grab the food and flew to the grass nest to peck duck eggs again.

In less than 5 minutes, the four duck eggs were eaten by them.Without food, more than a dozen magpies flew away with fluttering wings.

It turned out that this thing did it. The couple speculated for such a long time, and never thought that it would be the magpie who committed the crime.During the day, the teal ducks ran outside the courtyard to look for food, which gave them plenty of time to commit crimes.

No wonder Wukong kept pointing at the tree yesterday, this guy really knows about feelings, but it's a pity that the couple's comprehension ability is too poor.

"Isn't the magpie a beneficial bird?" The book clearly states that the magpie is not only a "food expert" among birds, but also a beneficial bird.They are famous for being omnivorous and feed on locusts, mole crickets, pine caterpillars, noctuid moth larvae, etc. A single magpie can protect more than 2 square meters of pine forest from pests.

Primary school students know these things, and they often talk about them in class, but the behavior of the few magpies in front of them completely overturned Zhang Qian's cognition.

"Grandma, who is saying that magpies are beneficial birds?" Liu Junhao was also a little dumbfounded.Don't look at how many times he caught magpies since he was a child, he really didn't notice that magpies have this bad habit.

The couple were talking, when Professor Zhao walked into the gate, "What are the couple doing? It's so lively early in the morning."

"Speaking of magpies..." Liu Junhao Balabala recounted the incident.

"That's it? It's normal." After hearing this, Professor Zhao was not surprised. "Magpies are omnivorous birds. In addition to insects, they also eat grains and plant seeds. Like most other crows, magpies are very Smart birds, but also very aggressive and fierce birds. They sometimes steal eggs and chicks, and sometimes catch snakes, mice, etc.

You are nothing, I have encountered similar things when I was doing research in the countryside.These guys use the orchard as a cafeteria and go to dinner every day.

The magpie is very clever. It ignores the immature fruits and only pecks the ripe ones.For a fruit, most of them only peck two or three times, and after pecking one tree, they fly to the next tree.Most of the time, the entire orchard is densely populated with magpies, at least hundreds of them, and I was shocked at the time.Looking from the orchard, you can see a flock of birds flying by in the dark.

In order to prevent bird damage, the fruit farmers hung cloth strips, tied straw mans, beat gongs, set off firecrackers...every method was exhausted.It's a pity that I can only take care of it for a while, and within two days, the magpie will see it. "

"Then the duck eggs in my family will not be ruined by them in the future?" After listening to Professor Zhao's narration, Zhang Qian became worried.It's true that magpies are beneficial birds, but if the disaster continues like this, my family will definitely not be able to bear it.Although the daily income of duck eggs is not as good as that of rice field eels, it still earns several thousand yuan a year.

"A few magpies have turned upside down," Liu Junhao said with curled lips, "Hurry up and heat up the yogurt, and go to class after eating. In half a day, I cleaned up the magpies so obediently that they didn't even dare to enter our courtyard."

The tiger really treats me as a sick cat if it doesn't show its power. The magpie is so rampant, so naturally it can only be served by a slingshot.

When his daughter-in-law went to class, Liu Junhao closed the courtyard door, then went into the house and hid under the window sill.

In less than ten minutes, the magpie ran to the firewood pile again.

He immediately pulled the slingshot away, only to hear a soft bang, and the bold magpie began to scream on the ground.

Before the owner could do anything, Wukong had already run out of the house and directly arrested the magpie.

Liu Junhao took it over and looked at it, and couldn't help being proud of his slingshot skills: it just hit the magpie's abdomen, and if it was a few minutes wrong, it hit the head.

Seeing that there were no serious injuries, Liu Junhao went back to the house and took a thin rope, and tied the magpie to the pile of firewood.

Just as he had guessed, there was a magpie chirping of the same kind below. Seeing this example, the magpies on the tree didn't dare to go down the tree to steal eggs, and they didn't even dare to fall in the courtyard.

"How about it, isn't my method good?" Liu Junhao introduced triumphantly when his wife came back at noon.

"You are always good at crooked methods," Zhang Qian said after giving him a white look.

"How can it be called a crooked way? This is to rule the birds with the birds." Liu Junhao has already figured out that next year, he will also promote this method to the fruit trees and melons in the village.

Otherwise, as Mr. Zhao said, hundreds of magpies would rush to the orchard, and the village would suffer great losses.

In the afternoon, Zhang Qian had no class, so the couple went to push the elder and younger to go out as usual.In fact, they didn't stay in the yard for long at all, and the two little guys started to make noise as long as they stayed at home for half an hour.As soon as you go out, don't cry immediately.And they are also anthropomorphic. The more people there are, the happier they are. Whether they know each other or not, they always make people laugh.

The master went out, and Wukong followed closely behind.After a while, this guy didn't know what good things he had found, so he ran to the owner excitedly to claim credit.

"Wow!" After seeing the bug in Wukong's hand clearly, Zhang Qian yelled and moved away.

It is said that after living in Liujiagou for several years, she is now basically not surprised when she sees bugs.Of course, the bug in front of me was an exception. It was nearly ten centimeters long, as thick as a thumb, and covered with fluffy green thorns all over its body. It looked very disgusting.

"Wukong, throw it away!" Zhang Qian yelled again and again, but the monkey didn't seem to hear it at all, and kept pinching and shaking the bug with its small paws.

"Don't be afraid, this is a bug on the old raven bag tree." Liu Junhao took a look and explained.Every season, many such insects will crawl out of the old raven bag tree. This kind of insect looks scary, but it is a favorite of boys.

Tear open the stomach of this kind of insect, and there will be groups of milky white sticky threads inside. Take out the sticky threads and soak them in vinegar for a while, and they will become longer and longer like rubber bands. After drying, they are quite strong. They are used for fishing. Good material for the thread.
They used to fish with this method when there was no rope. Now that the conditions are better, few people spend so much effort to make fishing line.

After staying outside for two or three hours, the couple returned to the courtyard when the temperature dropped.

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After dinner, the two little guys started to make noise, and they didn't fall asleep until eight or nine o'clock.The couple were about to take off their clothes and go to bed, but the phone rang.

Seeing that the number was unfamiliar, Zhang Qian handed over the phone.In fact, many tourists have my own number, and they often receive calls from strangers, and Zhang Qian is no stranger to it.

"Liu Junhao, is there Xiang Amakusa in your village?" The caller connected, but the visitor asked hurriedly without introducing himself.

"Wait a minute, what is Xiang Tiancao?" Liu Junhao asked in confusion.

"I don't know either. My daughter-in-law has a gynecological disease, so I found an old Chinese doctor to see it. It used a herbal medicine called Xiangtiancao. The doctor didn't have it, so I asked me to look for it in the countryside..."

Liu Junhao recalled it carefully, but still didn't have the slightest impression: "Xiang Tiancao, I haven't heard of it... Are you sure we have it here?"

"It should be. The doctor said that as long as there are old tile-roofed houses in the countryside." The other end of the phone replied uncertainly.

"Wait, I'll check online. You can call back in 10 minutes, and I'll give you accurate information then." Hearing the urgent tone of the other party, Liu Junhao didn't refuse.

"Who's calling?" Zhang Qian asked in a low voice when she watched her husband turn over and leave.

"I don't know, it should be tourists who often come to our village. What are they looking for to make medicine for Amica?" Liu Junhao replied, turning on the computer quickly.

It's easy to search if you have a name, just enter Xiang Amakusa to search.After reading the introduction, he heaved a sigh of relief. Emotions are common tile palms in rural areas, and Liujiagou must have them.

The tile palm is tender green when it first grows, and will turn dark red after being exposed to sunlight.The plant of this thing is very small, only more than ten centimeters long at the highest. The whole plant has only one stem, surrounded by oval leaves, it suddenly looks a bit like a pocket version of a pine tree.
It is very picky about the growth environment, and only lives on the roof of the old house, and it will not grow on the red machine tile lobby house built in the 90s.

Wa Zong tastes sour. When they were young, Liu Junhao, Liu Qiyong and others would secretly go to other people's old houses to eat wa Zong.Of course, this matter must not be discovered by adults, otherwise it will definitely be punished.Children often fall off the roof, and if they are not careful, the tiles will be crushed. When it rains, the homeowner will be unlucky.

At that time, rural children usually didn't have any snacks, so they were as happy as if they had won a battle when they got a few plants of tile palms, chewing and chewing.

The living conditions of modern children are good, and they don't pay attention to the small tile brown roof at all, let alone know that their parents ate it with relish when they were young.

When the other party called again, Liu Junhao agreed straight away and asked him to come and pick it up tomorrow.

He listened to the promise on his side, but was dumbfounded when he went to the village to look for Wa Zong the next day.

Most people in the village built buildings, and there were no tiles growing on them.Even though there are many tile-roofed houses, they are newly built, and cement tiles are used.

He looked around the whole village, but he didn't find a single plant of Wa Zong.

No wonder the tourist called to look for it. Feelings are such a rare thing.

In response to the voice of the people, he was worried about the matter of loyalty, and Liu Wuye gave an idea, saying that he should go to Daliang Village or Sankeshu to see, there should be some on the old houses in the village.

"That's right." Liu Junhao slapped his head, hurried home and rode his electric scooter towards Daliang Village.

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