In my days as a farmer

Seven o'clock in the morning is the time when most working parties are struggling between the bed and the mobile phone alarm clock, but in Xiaojin Village, the office workers here have finished their breakfast and are ready to go out!

The situation in rural areas is special, where commuting methods are relatively limited, except for two-wheelers and only buses.The inter-village bus intervals are long, and the arrival time is not accurate. Once you miss a bus, you have to wait for more than an hour.

Therefore, although the commute time is earlier than that in the city, it is closer to home, and there is no need to face the trouble of road congestion, but the staff working in the countryside still have to go out early and leave enough time to deal with accidents on the road.

Assistant Xiao Li is like this. He used to have a small e-Donkey that could carry him up and down the countryside, but this little e-Donkey was recently borrowed by his senior brother, so Assistant Xiao Li had to join the ranks of bus commuters. middle.

The place where he lives is only one stop away from the office, but despite the fact that it is only one stop away, the distance between the rural bus station and the station is large, and he has been wandering around for more than 20 minutes at this stop.

Li Wei usually uses this time to watch current affairs and news, and then to learn about the powerful country, but today his rhythm was interrupted by a WeChat message.

This is not uncommon. There are no trivial matters in grassroots work, and these small matters are all great events for rural people.Therefore, in order to facilitate work, Xiao Li's WeChat has been left to many villagers.

But it's still rare to send it so early, don't worry about something serious!

Li Wei clicked on the message and was shocked immediately.

The sender’s note is Xiaotupo Xiaoxia, and the other party sent a short video, and there is also a long paragraph. The last time this happened, it was the lynx going down the mountain. Could it be this time again?

Xiao Li quickly clicked on it and saw that the video was very short. It showed a snake locked in a cage and desperately vomiting, and a dog looking at it with its head tilted in front of the snake.

The dog is a familiar dog, and the snake is an unfamiliar snake. This combination is so strange that he can't figure it out.

what's going on?

Li Wei turned off the video and looked at the text message carefully, then he turned on the video again in silence, zoomed in and observed carefully, and replied to the voice message.

"Assistant Xiao Li said that you don't need to worry about the snake, just take it away and throw it away." Xia Dongli glanced at the phone and said to Xun Yu: "It is a protected animal of the Three Kinds, mainly eats mice, and has no direct contact with us. Conflict of interest, as for coming here to steal eggs to eat... I'm probably starving."

"And now the result, I think it probably regrets it."

Xun Yao glanced at the snake in the cage and showed approval.

It's not just regret, it's simply regret!If Ah Cai could shed tears, it would turn into a brook.As a local village bully, he has never felt so undignified!

A Cai was not very nervous when he found out that he was being watched by a dog in the morning. There are many dogs in the countryside, and he naturally has a lot of experience in dealing with dogs. To deal with dogs, he only needs to go up a tree or a house, as long as he goes to a high place The son can only look at the snake and sigh.

So under this dog's staring gaze, Ah Cai raised his head and squeezed the egg in his stomach with his abdominal muscles, but he didn't know what kind of magic was cast on the egg, so he couldn't squeeze it. Without moving, it tried to use its muscles to tighten the egg, trying to break it, as long as the egg was broken, it would be able to recover to the point where it could get out of the gap, but it failed.

After several struggles, Ah Cai was exhausted and out of breath, so she could only find a corner to entangle herself. What's worse, the chicken woke up at dawn.

When the rooster and the hen woke up, they felt that something was wrong. They walked around the coop uneasily, and then, guided by the rice, they found the cauliflower snake with a bulging stomach hiding in the straw.

Snakes appeared in my own nest, which is not bad. This is no longer a problem of other people snoring and sleeping beside the couch, it is the natural enemy sleeping soundly!

Even if there are no cubs in the nest now, the natural enemy is either you or you will die!Come on guys, peck it to death!

Huh?Wait, there seems to be something wrong, what do you mean there are no cubs in the nest?Wouldn't the egg that was swallowed be a child?

This is where Xia Dongli sympathizes with this snake. It has worked so hard, and the egg it swallowed at a terrible price is not an egg at all. What it eats is a mold called "Egg Yin", which is Xia Dongli Fake eggs bought to trick pullets into laying here.

For hens, the feeling of laying eggs is the same as the urge to sneeze in humans, and the feeling is unbearable.

Captive breeding is okay. If it is free-range, it often happens that the hen lays eggs outside. In order to avoid this situation, the farmers have seized a weakness of the hen and forced them to hold back this impulse. To go home and lay eggs.

This weakness is the law of poultry brooding.

Brooding birds are a little different from other oviparous animals. Their egg laying process will be completed in a few days, so in order to maximize efficiency and ensure that all children have little difference in size, birds will hatch after collecting a clutch of eggs.

Of course, this can be done because once the egg finds that the temperature drops after leaving the mother’s body, it will stop developing and enter a dormant state, and will not wake up again until it feels the temperature rise again.

So the hen can walk around with peace of mind after laying eggs, because the eggs are all sleeping at this time.

For the mother hen, once there are eggs in the nest, it must lay the next egg on the side of this one, so as to ensure that every egg will not be missed.

Farmers take advantage of this instinct. Every time they take out eggs from the hen's nest, they will leave one or two eggs there to lure the hens to lay eggs. The left eggs are called "egg guides".

But this operation will also have a little problem. The owner can't always remember which egg he left last time.If there are eggs that are repeatedly picked and missed, it will stink after a long time, which is too wasteful.

Some people also tried to write on the eggs to make marks or something, but found that it didn’t work, not to mention the workload. Once the hen finds out the hands and feet on the eggs, the hen will be angry. The consequences of mistrust are quite serious.

So cunning human beings invented something called an egg model, whose shape is exactly the same as a real egg, and the color and size of the egg shell can be customized according to different hen breeds, so that the real ones will be conquered shortly after the invention. large and small farms.

This kind of eggs was sold at the farmer's market in Xiaojin Village. Xia Dongli naturally joined in the fun and bought them at the beginning, but that thing failed to fool their experienced pullets, because Xia Dongli's pullets might They are Virgos. After laying eggs, they have to use Jio to pull the eggs and put them neatly.

Plastic eggs are so light that the hen only needs to flip them slightly to feel something is wrong.They immediately picked the fake eggs out of the chicken coop and threw them on the ground, very dismissive.

In order to conquer their little hens, Xia Dongli specially opened the almighty Taobao and bought the current batch of ultra-highly simulated egg models. The interior is made of wood, and the weight is exactly the same as ordinary eggs. There is also temperature feedback, and the fidelity is as high as ten stars.

To what extent is it true... Not only the little hens were deceived, but even Xia Dongli had to turn the egg on the spot every time he took out the egg, and the fake egg could be distinguished by the different rotation speeds of the real and fake eggs .

In summer, hatching eggs is prone to heat stroke, so all the little hens in Xia Dongli's family have entered the summer break. They don't need to lay eggs, just eat and drink. Naturally, the fake eggs are useless and he stuffed them in. In the straw of the chicken coop, who knew that the cauliflower snake found the egg, and was tricked into swallowing it.

It's so pathetic.

Xia Dongli, who was awakened by the noise of the chicken coop early in the morning, almost shed tears of sympathy for this unfortunate cauliflower snake after discovering the truth.

He immediately drove away the indignant rooster and hen in the chicken coop, and he saved the snake that had been pecked and bruised all over.However, he was a bit helpless with the snake, and he was not sure how to deal with the snake in the local area, so he cautiously sent a message to ask Assistant Xiao Li.

Since Assistant Xiao Li said that there is no need to worry about it, he is going to take the cage and release the animals outside, but Rice seems to have some opinions on his release plan.

"Wow woof woof!" Wang saw it!This snake lays eggs!Why let it go, it can stay at home and work for us like a hen!

Xia Dongli was shocked after listening to Xun Ao's explanation. At first, he thought that the rice meant to let the cauliflower snake give birth to young snakes. He just wanted to firmly reject it. Later, under the gaze of Gouzi, he realized that there was actually another snake in the cage. Egg, now I understand the meaning of pet dog.

Rice probably thought that the cauliflower snake could lay eggs like a hen, which is probably why it just sat here and watched without attacking.

Ouch my cute silly dog!

Xia Dongli is so cute by his own rice!This cannot be said to be that Mi Mi has no common sense. Da Mi is a city dog. He has never seen a snake before, and of course he does not know the living habits of snakes. It is normal for him to make mistakes!

He reached out and hugged the serious-looking dog, rubbed its fur several times, and then happily said to Rice: "Dami, let's go play Frisbee today!"

"Wang~" Rice's eyes flickered, obviously entering a stage of intense psychological struggle.

"It's already hot today, so let's go play Frisbee and then swim." Xia Dongli buried his face on the side of Rice's neck and rubbed, "I won't go to herd the sheep anymore. You and Xiao Baa have a day off today."

"Woof~" Dami yelled softly, trying to make the last struggle, but whether it was its swaying fur tail or flickering round eyes, all of them showed its mood, and Dami actually wanted it very much. Playing with the owner, but its sense of responsibility tells itself that it should go to work today.

"It's okay, let's go play together today, the sheep can let them graze in the sheep pen, and the piglets can also run now, and it's not so easy to be suppressed, our rice has worked hard, and it's time to take a rest."

Seeing that Rice was still hesitant, Xia Dongli activated his trump card: "Mi, come with us."

Rice:! ! !

"Wang!" Dami Wang yelled very firmly, and then stuffed his head into Xia Dongli's arms.There was a big smile on the dog's face, and after getting a response from the owner, it immediately raised its head and licked and licked on the face of its beloved owner.

Then he ran back to the house immediately, took out his beloved little Frisbee and put it in front of Xia Dongli, flicked his tail, blinked his eyes, the expectant little look was so cute.

"Huh?" Mi Li, who was on the sidelines, was a little puzzled. He looked at the red plastic plate on the ground. What is it?Is it a rice bowl?

It couldn't help stretching out its claws to touch the small plastic plate, but it didn't know that it was slapped as soon as the claws touched the head.

"Wang!" Rice pulled the puppet away, readjusted the position of the frisbee, and sat down in front of Xia Dongli with restraint and elegance, showing with actions that Wang was ready.

Xia Dongli endured it, but he couldn't hold it back, and ruaed the rice again, but when he turned his back, he grabbed Xiaoyu, and assigned the important task of walking the dog to Xiaomao with a serious face. Half of it, no, two-thirds.

Ahem, it's not that he's irresponsible!Rice is a shepherd dog. His physical strength was already very strong before, but now he has the physical strength to drive the flock of sheep and trot up and down the mountain twice a day. He used to be able to handle Rice with a frisbee, but now... probably hand Even cramps may not be able to satisfy it.

Fortunately, I now have a boyfriend.

Xia Dongli planned to put the injured cauliflower snake near a small pond, where small animals often come to drink water, and hunting should be relatively easy.

Right next to the small pond, Xia Dongli stepped on a small hole in the ground before, but he couldn't tell whether it was a mouse hole or a rabbit hole. There was no such hole in the early days, and it suddenly appeared in the past month .

Chen Li speculated that these small animals were attracted by the weeds and flowers that Xia Dongli sprinkled before.

The time when Xia Dongli was encouraged by Village Chief Xiao Song to contract the land was in summer, which is not conducive to almost all agricultural activities, let alone transplanting, which is a difficult act that tests the vitality of plants, so Xia Dongli is very concerned about his extra The [-] mu of land has only been fine-tuned based on the data in the soil test report.

His previous soil sample test showed that the soil had low humus content, lacked nitrogen, potassium and trace elements, so Xia Dongli sprinkled some vigor and a thin layer of molybdenum that can promote the reproduction of soil microorganisms according to Chen Li's suggestion. layer of organic fertilizer.

In addition, in order to ensure that the land retains water and fertilizer during the period of vacancy, he also sprinkled some wildflower and weed seeds.

These seeds were purchased online by himself according to the institute's list. They are mainly some annual plants that are not too self-seeding and not hardy, and they are also common local varieties.

The annual plants are full of vitality, especially the ones that adapt to the local climate. Even though they were planted in early summer, which is not suitable for growth, the small soil slope is now lush and lush, and even some fast-growing Compositae vegetation has begun to grow. Budding, it is estimated that a whole sea of ​​flowers can be harvested on the small soil slope in autumn.

These vegetation can provide food for the bee family in autumn, and they are also excellent green manure. As long as he pays attention to removing the seed pods in time after flowering to stop their self-seeding behavior, there will be almost no sequelae.

The reason why I say almost... is because when these small flowers and grasses are planted in a large area, it will inevitably attract nearby small animals.

Especially rodents, many annual herbs are the favorite food of rodents.As soon as the rodents came, the predators that fed on them would naturally follow, which was why Xia Dongli had discovered many carnivores one after another during this period of time.

The arrival of carnivorous animals has both advantages and disadvantages for him. The disadvantage is that the safety of the small animals in the house is threatened, and the advantage is that they can effectively control the number of rodents, so that the number of these small animals that eat and drink well will not be too large. increment.

You must know that many crops in the future planting plan on the small soil slope are favorites of rodents. If there are too many of them, Xia Dongli will have a headache.

That's why he has such a gentle attitude towards this cauliflower snake!Although Xia Dongli couldn't accept raising snakes at home, he also welcomed a non-poisonous cauliflower snake near his home.

The cauliflower snake is a domineering snake, and the small snakes around it will not easily think about it, and even though it is bullied so badly by the rooster and the hen, it will swallow poisonous snakes smaller than it without discussion.

The most feared thing in rural life is poisonous insects and snakes. Although there are few poisonous snakes in the north, they are not completely absent, so Xia Dongli still hopes that this cauliflower snake can stay as their family's town snake.

In order to show his friendly attitude, Xia Dongli specially put an egg nearby when he released it, ahem, this is a real egg, since this snake will come to steal eggs, it shouldn't hate eggs, right? ?

"Will it eat it?" Xia Dongli said with some uncertainty, this snake just stumbled on the egg, will it get egg PTSD in the future?

Xun Yao was also a little uncertain, the two looked at each other, and he reached out and knocked the egg a little, so that the egg liquid had a foul smell coming out of the eggshell.

Xia Dongli immediately understood, he gave a compliment to his boyfriend, and then the two found that almost at the moment when the eggshell was broken, the cauliflower snake, which had been paralyzed in the cage, turned its head and began to twitch frequently. Swallowing snake letters.

Xia Dongli turned the egg around and placed it on the ground so that the opening was aligned with the cage, and then the two of them walked away slowly with the small animals at home.

etc?Did you forget something?

I haven't forgotten, Xia Dongli and the others don't need to open the cage, this snake can get out of the gap at any time as long as it spits out the fake egg.

But if the cage is opened now, the snake may not eat eggs because there is food in its belly, and it might be stupid to spend a lot of time digesting the fake eggs when it leaves with the fake eggs. When Tong spit out the eggs, it probably didn't have much energy to hunt.

"What if it really refuses to spit eggs?" Xun Yao looked sideways at his lover, with a curious expression on his face, and saw Xia Dongli thinking deeply for a while, then sighed: "Then we Probably have to pay for the medical bills for it."

I don't know if this thing is considered a wild animal. It seems that if a wild animal is treated, it seems that you can apply for a reduction or exemption of medical expenses.

If it doesn't work, let Xiaoyu watch from the sidelines, which can be regarded as gaining some practical experience, which is not a loss.

Xia Dongli thought seriously.

Fortunately, he was able to save the money. When he returned to the cage with his sore limbs in the afternoon, Xia Dongli didn't see the cauliflower snake again, and there was a fake egg in the tightly closed cage. , while the eggs placed outside the cage turned into a mass of shells, evidence that the cauliflower snake swallowed them whole and ground them up before spitting them out.

If it had eaten real eggs in the chicken coop, it might be able to escape in this way, but it is a pity that this mother met an unreliable chicken owner.

Xia Dongli lifted the cage and put it on the car, and then led the three Wang Huanhuan who had had a good time and happily went home towards the sunset. While smoothing the rice, he chatted with Xun Yao who was driving.

One will say that the three dogs have to take a bath when they go home, another will say that they want to eat steamed buns for breakfast tomorrow, or buy a dough maker.

But the relaxed atmosphere didn't last long. When Xiaosanlun was still one kilometer away from the small brick house, Xia Dongli's eyes blurred, and he saw a black shadow jumping out of the pigsty from a distance. Before he could react Coming over, the black shadow flew towards the mountains and forests.

The two dogs, Da Mi and San'er, chased after the owner before they could give the order, but the distance between the two was too far, and the two dogs rushed to the pigsty at full speed, and the other dog had already disappeared.

And at the same time, the sound from the owner stopped the two dogs, and Rice barked twice at the forest before walking towards the pigsty dejectedly.

"It's okay, Rice, the little pig is not injured." Xia Dongli hurriedly hugged his beloved dog to comfort him, "That's probably not the enemy."

Xia Dongli's expression was a little complicated. He exchanged glances with Xun Yao, and Xun Yao nodded at him: "...it's a wild boar."

The author has something to say: A Cai: I am @!$%@&$yu$ a cunning human being!

Hen: Cunning humans!

Rodents: cunning humans!

Hunters: Humans are great!