In my days as a farmer

what?

Xia Dongli was taken aback.But the owner of the bean eyes seemed to be more panicked than him. Before Xia Dongli could react, the little thing ran away in a hurry. Xia Dongli only had time to see it flashing through the gap of the grid gray fur.

He held back, but couldn't help it, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Don't think his reaction is a fuss, what does a mouse settle in the house mean?It means that all the stored grains in your home are no longer safe, and all the crops grown may become other people's meals and stored grains.

Of course, some people may feel disapproving, thinking that as much food as mice can store, they will give some. People who have this idea must not know the once sensational public mouse food storage incident.

At that time, the fact that the owner of the Volkswagen car sent his idle car to the 4S shop and took out dozens of catties of peanuts occupied the hot search for a long time.

Mice have a strong ability to gather food, and house mice are better. During the famine period, many farmers would search for vole holes all over the mountains and fields. Generally, digging three or four can feed the family for a week.

Squirrels only hoard food in winter, but mice hoard food all year round. When they are full, they will give birth to cubs. When they have cubs, the whole family will stockpile them together. kingdom.

What's more troublesome is that they not only store food, but also like to dig holes in the ground and bite wood. Sooner or later, the well-connected passages will attract predators who smell the smell.

There are also poultry among the animals that feed on mice, and Xia Dongli's small animals may also suffer.

These are trivial matters. Rats have strong vitality and live in a humid and dark environment. Most of them will carry a lot of viruses and bacteria on their bodies. It will be bad if they infect their dogs through fleas.

It must be driven away! !

"Maybe there were hunters outside that escaped in." Xia Dongli gritted his teeth, not caring about the variety of the little berry, so he put down the water pipe and went back to the house to find a flashlight, and walked to the courtyard with unrecognizable steps. Li began to search for mouse holes, and even threatened to lift the floor.

Xun Yao, who came here after hearing the news, was also a little surprised, "There is a dog in the house, so how could there be mice."

"I don't know!" Xia Dongli was also a little puzzled.Although there are such sayings, dogs are actually good at catching mice, especially in a spacious environment in the wild.

Although dogs are not as flexible as cats, they have a keen sense of smell, strong running stamina, are also good at digging holes, and obey orders and commands.Therefore, when foreign farms hold the mouse catching competition every year, all the dogs participate in the battle, and the effect is very good.

Of course, dogs are no match for cats indoors or in complex environments.

Although Xia Dongli has never seen Rice catching mice, there is no doubt about Rice's combat effectiveness, and there is a Xiaotian dog in their family now. Xiaotian is a fine dog, and he is good at catching rabbits and mice.

How can there be mice dare to come in under the two dogs?I'm afraid it has the gall of a leopard?

The truth is soon revealed.

Xun Ao took Xia Dongli's flashlight and took a picture along the bamboo-steel floor, then he came to the half near the pool, took out a screwdriver and removed a few strips of the floor, exposing the soil layer underneath.

Xia Dongli came over to take a look, and immediately felt a little creepy.

There are snail shells scattered under this ground, as well as some insect wings, animal bones, and some fruit cores. It looks like a certain animal's dining hall.

Among them, the snails are the most common gray-shell snails and hundred-shell snails in the local area. There are roughly twenty or thirty of them, not including some broken shells.

"What kind of insect's wing is this?" Xia Dongli picked up a piece of wing with tweezers and put it on the floor.The wings are very small and long. Xia Dongli feels like he has seen this shape before. It looks a bit like a mosquito?

Xun Yao came over to take a look, and said with certainty, "It's termites."

"Termites have wings?" Xia Dongli was stunned for a moment, then remembered, "Oh yes, they seem to have wings when they are in estrus, and it is said that their wings will fall off after settling down... Wait, these termites are not Have you settled here with us?"

Xia Dongli felt that the whole person was not well. He looked at the wooden floor of his house with some hesitation, as if he could see the termite kingdom inside from the hard surface of bamboo and steel.

In fact, the hardness of bamboo steel is considerable. Although the raw material is bamboo, it is advertised that the unit weight strength of this new material can reach 2.5 times that of steel.

Although the premise of unit weight needs to be paid attention to, Xia Dongli felt that this thing was really good after using it for a while.And when it was installed, the tools used by the engineering team to saw the bamboo steel were alloy knives, which made Xia Dongli feel that the hardness of this thing was considerable.

But people are like this, even if they know that this thing is hard enough, they still start to think about whether this thing can withstand the erosion of termites because its raw material is bamboo.

Termites are the biggest enemy of construction, not to mention wood, even concrete and rocks can be corroded by formic acid.

Not thinking too much, Xia Dongli quickly took out his mobile phone and started searching for the best way to prevent termites.Later, it was Xun Yao's latest discovery that comforted him—he found what was suspected to be termite remains in the debris pile. He said it was the remains, but it was actually a half-eaten corpse.

But the presence of dead bodies is a good sign that termite-hunting animals were once present.

What animal eats snail termites?And this strange strip... Xia Dongli picked up a long strip of wreckage with a branch, which made it difficult to identify because it had no head.This thing was as long as a loach, but the bones looked a bit like the eels that Xia Dongli had eaten.

"It's a little snake." Xun Yao judged after looking closely for a while, the two looked at each other, and at the same time said a suspect, "Hedgehog!"

"Are hedgehogs living here?" Xia Dongli hurriedly took a flashlight to take a picture under the lifted floor, trying to find the figure of the thing, with a full of surprise on his expression.

The hedgehog looks cute and cute, with small hands and feet and a soft belly. The only aggressiveness is the spikes all over the body.At first glance, it seems that all the survival points are concentrated on defense, but if you look at their hunting methods, you will know that they are actually a kind of animal that prevents attacks.

Although most people think they are vegetarians because they saw comic strips of hedgehogs carrying fruits when they were young, but hedgehogs actually eat more meat.

And they are basically not picky eaters. Young birds, eggs, small snakes, and insects are all their hunting targets.Especially snakes, they have a natural advantage in dealing with small snakes of the same size.

The spikes on hedgehogs can protect them from the attacks of most hunters, and they can also help them hunt.

In the case of a hedgehog family, they can even challenge a large snake together.After all, the strongest attack tactics of snakes - entanglement and biting are ineffective against hedgehogs, and hedgehogs can withstand certain biological toxins. The general snake venom will even add poison BUFF to their spikes to help them resist next enemy.

In Northeast China, there is a saying of "five great immortals". The white immortals in "fox yellow, white willow gray" refer to hedgehogs. Among the five great immortals, only white immortals are the most gentle, which may also be related to their cutest prototype.

Just like Xia Dongli, when he first heard that there were mice in his house, he shouted and shouted to kill him. Now he heard that there were hedgehogs in his house, he wanted to see his new neighbor with the mentality of watching the fun, even if this new neighbor would actually carry a mouse with him. Germs and parasites, but the mood is completely different from before.

This is probably the difference brought about by the appearance.

Cough cough, of course it's not just about appearance, it's mainly about the difference in work force.Hedgehogs are real beneficial animals. Although they will steal some fruits and vegetables, they don't have the habit of storing food, so they can eat a lot.

This loss is far worse than what they eat. A hedgehog can eat hundreds of insects a day, and most of them are pupae. A whole family of hedgehogs can protect several acres of land. Safe, non-toxic and pollution-free.

If nothing else, just because it ate the termite Xia Dongli would give it a big thumbs up.

However, that hedgehog was very agile, and it had already disappeared without a trace during the delay between the two of them.

"I hope I didn't frighten it." Xia Dongli said a little weakly, "Don't move, the bugs in our house depend on it."

This is the golden VIP tenant of their family. He is the first small animal among the many small animals in Xia Dongli's family to pay the rent voluntarily. Such a high-quality tenant must be retained no matter what.

Xia Dongli picked up the small fruit that he had taken by force, looked at it carefully, and handed it to Xun Yu for identification. Then the two turned their eyes to the rice.

"Mi Bao, come here." Xia Dongli waved to the family's pet dog with a pleasant face, and then handed the fruit to Rice, "Dami is good, find out where its owner is?"

Rice Wang sniffed it very seriously, then proudly puffed out his chest, and let out a confident "Wow".Xia Dongli was overjoyed, and after licking the dog's head, he followed the rice.

Walking and walking, the two walked out of the small courtyard, and finally went downstream of the small pool.

Xia Dongli didn't pass this road often, because the nearby slope was relatively steep and there was no development value, but when the small pool was built, Xia Dongli built a waterway here to prevent the pool from overflowing.

Early on, he laid unused geomembrane along the rough trail, but after a high wind, the geomembrane was replaced by gravel.

Don't look at the various gaps between the stones, which look like they are about to leak, but as long as the soil is compacted, and then mud is thrown into the gaps between the stones, it will form a fairly dense and impermeable space.

The diversion canals in the farmland are basically done in this way. As long as such waterways do not dry up to cracks, they will not seep water, and the maintenance cost in the later period is also quite low.

He didn't think too much when digging the water channel. He just wanted to lead the water to a place farther away from the small brick house to prevent groundwater from eroding the foundation, so he stopped halfway through the water channel, but started working on the small pool for half a year. Now, the surrounding area of ​​this waterway has changed a lot.

A small puddle appeared at the place where the waterway stopped, the area was only the size of a washbasin, and there were potholes around it, which looked like it was dug out by animals.

Although there is only a shallow layer of water inside, the obvious animal footprints around and a piece of bird feather floating in the water are enough to prove how popular it is with the surrounding small animals.

Wildflowers, weeds and even small berries grow all the way along the waterway, and there are even small bushes on the side.It may be because the pool in their house does not have a surplus of water every day, and even some herbs grow between the stones in the waterway. Xia Dongli even saw a clump of dogtail grass flashing past. The white figure looked like some kind of bird that was raising a baby.

This is a corner he has never noticed.Xia Dongli still remembered that it was dead and silent when the waterway was laid, but it seemed that it had become alive and alive just inadvertently.

Xia Dongli was a little puzzled while being surprised by the drastically changed scene here, isn't the hedgehog a nocturnal animal?Are you so active in broad daylight?Running so far after being frightened?

Just when he was wondering if the rice had been taken to the wrong place for him, he saw the leading Dami Wang stop in his tracks, and he yelled at Xia Dongli very proudly.

Xia Dongli was speechless when he saw a field of small green lanterns.

Well, Rice seems to understand that he is looking for this fruit.But it's all here, seeing this iconic shape, Xia Dongli immediately remembered what kind of fruit it was!

Because he had suffered this loss before.

At that time, there was a kind of fruit that swept the fruit market with a very high quality and a special name. Its name was Colombian dragon fruit, and it could be sold for 30 yuan per catty, and most of them were on the market in autumn and winter.

Back when greenhouse vegetables and fruits and imported fruits and vegetables were not so popular, this fruit was once a good gift for the Spring Festival due to its bright and attractive appearance and sweet and sour taste. Later, Xia Dongli learned that this is the girl fruit, a specialty of Northeast China. The scientific name is Guniang, and you can buy a big bag for 5 yuan in the Northeast.

But he remembered that this thing was yellow, and it was on the market in winter. Could it be that the red variety is ripe now?

Xia Dongli couldn't hold it back, picked one and peeled off the outer skin, and found that the fruit inside was green with red, which was not ripe at first glance.He thought about it, and carefully bit off the peel. The moment the juice touched his teeth, he felt that his soul was going to be sublimated. It was sour, astringent, and bitter, and it was extremely unpalatable.

But the taste and smell are indeed similar to the little fruit that was snatched by him.

Well, that hedgehog seems to have gone through a lot of careful selection. It picked out a rare ripe fruit among these immature girls, ran for hundreds of meters, and ended up being killed. robbery……

It's really miserable!

Xia Dongli felt a little guilty, but he felt that he really couldn't pick out the ripe one from the clump of dressed fruits, so he was going to use his own method to make up for it.

He opened his own breeding box again, picked a few pupated barley worms, put them in a small plate, and put them under the two wooden boards that were lifted.

Barley worm pupation is different from silkworm baby in that it does not cocoon. Only the upper body of the pupa is relatively hard, but the lower body is soft, so it has no ability to move, and there is no need to worry about the worm escaping when placed in a small dish.

Of course, in order to ensure that the tenant was satisfied with his landlord's apology, Xia Dongli put a little snowman on the floor, and then pointed the camera at the gap. (Hello!)

This is what Xun Yao saw when he came over. Comrade Xiao Xia pouted on the floor while looking at his phone while adjusting the probe, but because the little snowman’s face was round, he had a hard time adjusting it.

He was stunned, and squatted down next to Xia Dongli: "Ah Dong?"

"Xiao Yu!" The young man sat up in a state of embarrassment. He rubbed his face, gritted his teeth, and said, "Is your clay still usable? Lend me to use it!"

So, that night, Asa walked towards his cafeteria with hesitant steps, and he seemed a little nervous. Humans seemed to have discovered this place during the day, and it felt that it was no longer safe enough.

However, its keen sense of smell told it that there was a smell of food here.

Ah Ci has not filled his stomach for the past few days. This is a good place with plenty of food, but first came the blackbird who would grab earthworms with it, and then came the dragonfly with a very large appetite. Recently, even with it The recipes overlap for a large part of what the crows are all about.

The speed of action of Athorn is slow, and its biggest advantage is that it hunts at night and mainly feeds on insect larvae and worms, while the rest of the animals rest at night, and no one competes with it for food.But the adults were all eaten by those competitors!Where did the larva come from?

So A-thorn had to turn his hunting target to snails, which were actually not that good in taste.Hey, it really doesn't like eating snails.

But now, the snail was almost eaten by it, so Ah Ci had to go outside to find some fruit to eat during the day, but he didn't know that it was the fruit that exposed him.

Hey, what should we do now?It smelled of humans in the cafeteria, but it also smelled of worms, and it was still in the pupation stage. The worms at this time are the best to eat, and I really want to eat them.

A'ci turned around a few times, but finally couldn't hold back, and leaned towards the small dining hall.It smelled a strange smell from a distance, and there was something strange on the road that it had already memorized.

A'ci leaned over and touched it. The touch felt a little strange, a little rough, but also slippery in some places.Ah Thorn soon lost interest. It touched the plate carefully, stretched out its small paws and quickly picked up a bug that was lying flat, and then stuffed the bug into its mouth with lightning speed.

Mmm!What kind of bug is this?delicious!Are there any bugs like this here?Why haven't you eaten it before?

The little paws probed and probed, and soon touched the second pupae. Ah Ci hurriedly grabbed it and stuffed it into his stomach, while its claws touched the third pupa.

The family motto of the hedgehog family is that only the bugs in the stomach are good bugs that belong to oneself!Although the hedgehog moves slowly on weekdays, it can't lose to anyone in terms of eating speed.

After groping around in the small dish to make sure there were no more, A-ci returned home in frustration.

Then the next day, when it got up to work at night, it found a few more bugs at the door.

Day Three... Day Four...

Ow!What kind of fairy place is this?

Ah Chi chewed the delicious food, and began to consider whether to bring his relatives here.

So, three days later, the surveillance probe placed under the floor by Xia Dongli clearly captured the scene of the mighty migration of the hedgehog army for him.

The scene where the big thorn group walks over with the little sea cucumber is so cute!

The author has something to say: before coming:

Ah Thorn: There are so many things to eat here!Very delicious and many.

After coming:

Frozen pear: You can’t eat too much for a free lunch, you still have to work hard! !

Assassin: QWQ