In my days as a farmer

In mid-July, the dog days were not easy for the people in Xiaojin Village.

In addition to the heat and heat, the climate change brought to people by the summer season is also changeable, and the rain and sunshine are uncertain.One moment the sun was shining brightly, and the next moment a cumulonimbus cloud arrived and it rained rumblingly.

Maybe some people think this is not a good thing?After a heavy rain, the temperature will drop a lot, wrong!

Anyone who has planted plants has an experience-do not water flowers at noon in summer, because the soil temperature in the flower pots rises under the scorching sun, and the water temperature people take out from home at this time must be low due to specific heat. If it is lower than the soil temperature and air temperature, most of the plants will not be able to bear it due to the complicated reasons such as the drastic change of cold and heat under a wave of water, and the transpiration effect of stomata.

The same is true for this kind of summer rainstorm. For plants, it is also a wave of water on a hot day, and it will clear up soon after the rain. A large amount of water in the soil evaporates under the scorching sun. It's like being in a steamer for plants.

However, it is better than potted plants. The environment of planting in the ground is a little more complicated than that in flowerpots, and the soil temperature is also lower than that in flowerpots under the hot sun.

But even so, after a heavy rain, some plants will always be wilted by such an environment.

The weather factor cannot be changed, the only thing that can be changed is the working method.Experienced old farmers will avoid letting the plants be in the juvenile stage in this season. The adult plants have well-developed root systems, and deep roots mean that they will be less affected.

If there are seedlings that have to be cultivated, set up a small tent for them to avoid the rapid cooling of the nearby soil layer from affecting the plants.

This is why you can still see small greenhouses in the fields in summer.

What about inexperienced farmers?

You can only "collect the corpse"!Just like Xia Dongli, he silently pulled out the suddenly drooping plants and threw them into the compost, then cleaned the empty pots and prepared to receive the next resident.

In the planting world, their situation is called "liquidation activities". Except for a small number of flower farmers who live in the chosen place, there are countless people who need to liquidate every summer, and they are all overturned by the stumbling block in summer.

Xia Dongli threw the two tomato seedlings into the compost bin with great distress.The seeds of these two tomatoes are foreign tomatoes that he bought from the Internet. The seller bought the seeds from abroad and then cultivated them himself. They are naturally pollinated, and a seed costs 5 yuan.

This kind of tomato is a niche variety cultivated by foreign tomato hobby organizations. The yield is not high but the taste is very good, and it is suitable for eating raw.The most important thing is that it looks good. Its peel color is brown with star spots. It doesn't matter when it is an ornamental plant.

This variety blooms and bears fruit late, and the local tomatoes have been harvested for several rounds before it bears a few fruits shyly. Before Xia Dongli tasted the taste, he was wiped out by a heavy rain, not to mention how depressed he was. up.

But compared to his unhappiness, some small animals were very happy.

Xia Dongli was spreading the soil of the potted plants in the sun at the moment, and this drying exposed some insects hidden in the soil pots, which attracted the blackbird couple on the wisteria trellis.

The two birds landed on the ground immediately, and quickly grabbed a few insects that were trying to escape. The movements were even faster than Xia Dongli who wanted to take out his mobile phone to take pictures to identify what kind of insects they were. Before he could react, The mother blackbird flapped its wings and flew back to the nest to feed the chicks.

The male bird, who was a step behind his wife, was stunned for a moment, then simply lowered his head and continued to pick and choose a few fatter bugs, and then chased after them.

That's right!Xia Dongli's family had a few more little lives.

The blackbird couple successfully hatched three chicks a few days ago. Because the cubs were born, the blackbird couple became more domineering than before. It turned out that Xia Dongli could go to the pond to prune the lotus, but now he just needs to get close. He will experience the mixed doubles of the blackbird couple, so so far he can only see the appearance of the young bird through the telescope.

Faced with the domineering bird leader Xia Dongli, he was a little helpless, but he could only plant the lotus root joints received in the big pool.

Of course, the lotus root festivals in this season cannot be naked lotus roots. Buds have already appeared on the delivered lotus festivals, and even one of them has grown leaves during the express delivery. In this case, it cannot withstand delay. Dongli could only hurry up and plant them in pots.

What is surprising is that the lotus seedlings like the water temperature environment of the large pool very much. The leaves spread out the next day after entering the water, and they develop towards the water surface wholeheartedly.

The water source of the large pool is the filtered water from the underground purification tank, and the water temperature is a few degrees lower than that of the small pool.This temperature seems to be just right for the lotus to sprout.The three small lotus plants have only been raised for a few days, and the leaves have emerged from the water to form a small shady area, and this shady area has attracted other animals.

When Xia Dongli was swaying, he saw a familiar water squirrel under the lotus leaf. He gently grabbed the water squirrel with a fishing net and observed it in front of his eyes.

When he was raising tadpoles in the big pond before, he also saw a water cricket in the small pond.

At that time, this water slug had been waiting at the water filling point of the pond, waiting for the tadpoles to be washed down by the current to eat takeaway, so he was particularly impressed by this water slug. If Xia Dongli could work for him, he would ask him to move.

But Xia Dongli didn't let it move, it moved by itself, and I don't know how this little thing crawled over the nearly ten centimeter drop of the big and small pools and appeared in the big pool.

Or is this not the one before?It looks a lot bigger than in the small pool before, and it is already as long as Xia Dongli's index finger. Looking at him, he feels a little uncertain.He handed the fishing net to Xun Yao: "Xiao Yao, come quickly and have a look, is this the one that lived in the small pond before?"

Xun Yao took only two glances and said with certainty: "It is it."

"That's weird, it stayed in the small pool well, why did it go all the way to the big pool? Is there no food?"

Xia Dongli worriedly picked up the water squirrel with its slender legs, observed it carefully, and then his expression immediately changed to ==.

Looking at this chubby belly and this heavy body, it doesn't look like there is no food.But if you think about it, after the tadpoles and frogs left, insects that came to drink water gradually appeared in their small pond. As a super predator under the water, as long as the predation ability is good, there should be no food shortage problem. Bar.

"Look, Xiaoyu, the mouthparts of the water squid can be folded, and they can pop out suddenly like a frog's tongue!" As if thinking of something interesting, Xia Dongli called her boyfriend to come over, and then Under the gaze of the other party, he stretched out two hands to pinch the lower jaw of the water scorpion, and stretched it slightly.

The mouthparts of this water squirrel are almost half the length of its body when fully extended, and it looks quite scary.Xia Dongli let go of his hand and asked the water squirrel to retract its mouthparts. After retracting the mouthparts, the water squirrel seemed to be wearing a mask, not as scary as before.

He tilted his head with a smile and said to Xun Yu: "I watched a horror movie when I was a child, and the monster in it had a similar setting. The first time I saw it attacking suddenly, it scared me to death."

The young man squatting next to him pursed his lips when he heard the words. He stretched out his hand and patted Xia Dongli's head lightly. It was full of comfort. Xia Dongli pressed his palm, "I was young at that time, I didn’t get scared after watching too much, and the setting was mainly disgusting, but horror was okay. If you’re interested, I’ve saved a lot of Japanese horror movies, and they’re scary.”

Xun Ao, who didn't know the power of Japanese horror movies, would naturally not refuse his boyfriend's invitation. He naturally accepted, and then Xia Dongli continued to discuss the origin of this water squirrel with his boyfriend contentedly.

Xun Yao had some guesses about its sudden move. He pointed to the wisteria above the small pond and the looming bird tail: "Perhaps, he is avoiding them."

Xia Dongli suddenly realized that indeed, blackbirds have a very mixed diet, and almost all insects are within their diet.

So the water turtle found a predator above its head, so it ran away?That's pretty pathetic.

Xia Dongli hurriedly put the water squirrel, which was suspected to have experienced unbearable worm life, into the water and let it go. Then, under the eyes of the two of them, he saw a stream of water ejected from the tail of the water squirrel. , just like a jet plane, under the acceleration, the whole worm rushed towards the water at an astonishing speed.

"The gills of the water squid are in the intestines." Seeing that Xia Dongli opened his mouth wide in surprise, Xun Ao said softly: "So the way it breathes is to suck water into the rectum, and then expel the water after it finishes breathing. If it is in danger, it needs to escape. When the time comes, it will quickly empty the water in the rectum, increasing the speed."

"It can change direction if necessary, but this method of escape cannot be used frequently, it can only be used in an emergency." But this time is enough for most predators to dive back into the water and hide.

Xun Yu, who was bathed in Xia Dongli's astonished gaze, pursed his lips, and said shyly, "The teacher gave me an example of this, and the probability of escaping is quite high."

The teacher he was talking about was naturally Dr. Xu, and the books that Dr. Xu gave to the apprentices were of course professional books. Now, Xiao Yan can actually apply what he has learned!

Xia Dongli patted him on the shoulder happily, his expression was as satisfied as that of an old father who saw his son was about to grow into a talent: "Xiao Yu, you know a lot, keep going!"

But the problem is, he is obviously your boyfriend!Is there something wrong with this attitude?

Chen Li, who had been on the sidelines but was ignored from beginning to end, couldn't hold back his complaints. Looking at Xun Yao's happy smile, he didn't seem to have any opinion at all. He could only say that this couple is really strange.

He silently turned off the camera, and retreated to a corner to take notes.

The small yard of Xia Dongli's family can be said to be an ecological micro-environment, because it has running water and shade, and it also has animals and food, so it has all the elements needed for the entire ecological environment.

However, there was an overly responsible guard Wang in the local area before, and the change is not obvious.

Now Rice focuses his attention on the pigsty, ignoring this side, but in the past ten days or so, the number of animals walking in the small yard in the early morning has gradually increased, and even before the owner notices, they have already begun to walk quietly. New tenants in this settlement.

In a clay pot (yes, the one where Xiaokang once hid honey) by the pond, there was a hedgehog curled up and dozing in it. It was startled when the blackbird couple moved, but in It lowered its head again when it heard the sound of the blackbird flapping its wings.

As a hedgehog, the blackbird is not in the range it needs to guard against. On the contrary, during the brooding period, the blackbird can help it drive away its real predators - owls, which is one of the reasons why it lives here.

The hedgehog was initially attracted by the abundance of food scraps and water sources in Xia Dongli's small yard.

However, in the early days, there was a dog that was full of hostility towards it. Although the hedgehog didn’t eat much, its main diet was also pests, and it only occasionally ate some small fruits.

But rice is still not friendly to this uninvited guest.

Even if it is a pest, it is also a pest in the house, and it is not allowed to eat the pests in the house without Wang's permission! —— Rice thinks so.As for how to get permission from rice?Impossible, rice will not allow other small animals to come to its territory without authorization!

However, even if Rice doesn’t welcome him, he can’t do anything about it with the sharp barbs on the hedgehog, but the attitude of the other party’s unwelcome is too obvious, and every time he waits for it to leave, it’s not easy for the hedgehog to stay.

But the situation is different now. Every time the unfriendly dog ​​comes and goes in a hurry, he doesn’t even have much time to act coquettishly with his owner. Naturally, he has no time to take care of him. So the hedgehog has more time to spend in the yard. dangling.

After careful searching, screening and testing, it chose this small nest to live in.

The hedgehog is nocturnal, withdrawn and afraid of people. It has mastered the rhythm of life of its owner and will try to avoid contact with people, so the matter of its settlement is still a secret.

It could have been hidden for longer, but the arrival of another tenant broke its low-key life.

The high temperature environment is not very comfortable for most animals and plants, but it is indeed the breeding peak of cold-blooded animals. In order to provide more energy for the unborn child, a mother-to-be sneaked into Xia Dongli's small house at night. courtyard.

It is a king snake. Of course, everyone generally calls it a cauliflower snake.This is a very common snake in the wild. Although it is non-venomous, it crawls fast, can climb trees and is not picky about food. These characteristics have shaped its popularity everywhere in Huaguo.

Cauliflower snake... let's call it A Cai. A Cai spit out a snake letter and observed it. Relying on its own perception ability, it finally found two targets.

One is a bird's nest in a tree, and the other is a chicken coop.

According to its experience, there will be chicks or eggs in both places, and it depends on which one is easier to catch and ingest.

In fact, it should choose the bird's nest. A Cai is an adult snake that has lived for some years. It clearly knows that it is now in a private house.

There are creatures called human beings living here. This kind of creature is very cruel but the food they raise is very delicious. But once they are found stealing and eating, they will be very cruel when they resist. This is how A Cai’s ex-boyfriend died. As a result, it had to go to other places to go on a blind date.

But the bird's nest is different. Generally speaking, the bird's nest has no owner. If you eat it, you will eat it. If it's not big, it doesn't mind bringing them together as a family.

But it's so hungry now.

The small soil slope and the nearby forests were originally A Cai’s territory. It was very clear about how many rat holes there were, and welcomed the arrival of the owner of the small brick house—the arrival of humans means that there will be more crops in the fields. When there are more crops, there will be more mice, and its food will naturally be easier to catch.

With this wish in mind, Ah Cai left the territory and went to the blind date meeting next door, but when he came back, he found that a colony of weasels had come to his property. This litter of weasels was unreasonable at all. Almost all caught.

Although Ah Cai thinks that her running speed is not slow, she still can't compete with the four-legged opponent, and even if she is not vigilant enough, she will become the food of these miscellaneous hairs.

The eggs in its stomach are still developing, and it has just returned from a long journey and is tired and hungry. As a mother, it must provide more energy for the child in its belly, so it can only take risks to find food in human territory.

It hesitated for a long time between the bird's nest and the chicken's nest, and finally couldn't hold back and crawled towards the chicken's nest.

Chicks and eggs are larger and fatter than bird eggs. For it, it only needs to eat one egg to be full.

It stretched out its tentative head toward the chicken coop, and then it successfully got in between the chicken coops. A Cai carefully walked around the chicken feet and touched the chicken nest made of straw.

The hatching hens are fierce during the day, but at night they are blind, so as long as they are not touched, they will not be alarmed.

Ah Cai is very careful in every move, but luckily, he met a hen who happened not to be in the brooding nest, which meant that he could feast on it.

It leaned over and opened its mouth, and swallowed one egg bit by bit, hesitated for a while, couldn't hold back its greed and opened its mouth to the other egg.

Then, then it found a big problem.

It can't get out!

The cage that allowed it to pass through just now was firmly stuck in its belly. A Cai tried several times, and finally hesitated for a while, then reluctantly spat out an egg and tried again, but it still failed , and what's worse is that the sky has gradually become brighter because of its tossing.

Ah Cai was a little anxious, and she was about to spit out the remaining egg, but just as she was vomiting, a serious face appeared at the door of the chicken coop.

Damiwang, who came to wake up Xiaobaa at dawn and was about to go to work, immediately noticed the change in the chicken coop. It looked deeply at the cauliflower snake in the chicken coop, which was trying to spit eggs, and remained silent for a long time.

The author has something to say: Rice: Presumptuous!

Rice: If the family has no capital, I don’t know how many animals want to be emperors, how many birds want to be kings!

Rice: This family is really inseparable from Ben Wang!Other dogs are unreliable! ! ! !