In my days as a farmer

"Mi!" Xia Dongli grabbed the dog's son's collar and tried to slip it away, but his stubborn dog used his two front paws to firmly grab the grass roots, showing how firm he is. Iron determination.

Xia Dongli had no choice but to put it down, and as soon as it landed, the rice continued to struggle towards the rabbit hole.

After a winter snow digging training, Rice's digging skills are not what it used to be. Its movements are fast and proficient. Xia Dongli believes that as long as it is given time, Rice will definitely be able to pull out the rabbit from the hole—if the rabbit has only A hole in words.

But it’s a pity that even if you ask the elementary school children, they all know the idiom of the three caves of the cunning rabbit, so they also know that digging the rice like this will definitely not bring down anything. There must be a world of rabbits underground that they can’t see.

Just when Xia Dongli was thinking about whether to let the family dog ​​face the cruel world and beat him up, he saw the young man who was carrying the basket move, and Xun Ao stood up to confront Xia Dongli and Rice. At the position of the corner line, he lowered his eyes slightly, and stepped hard on his feet, unexpectedly crushing the soil layer down.

This movement immediately attracted the attention of a person and a dog.

As he lifted his foot, broken soil and stones fell down, and then the young man took another step forward with a blank expression, doing the same thing.

Following his movements, a small subsidence appeared in the soil layer along the way.

Winter has just passed, and if these frozen soil layers have not experienced the struggle of microorganisms and small animals, it is impossible for people to step on them and collapse in one piece.

However, the insects of this season are just waking up and still in the probation period, and only burrowing animals can beat the soil to this extent.

A rabbit's nest had appeared here before, and the conclusion was obvious—Xun Ao had dug a passage before destroying the rabbit.Judging by the direction he was walking, he wanted to drive the rabbit towards the rice.

Xia Dongli couldn't help squatting down beside Rice and looking at the rabbit hole curiously, "Will it come out in this way?"

"Maybe," the young man said calmly while holding the basket, "They're all here anyway, just wait and see."

Waiting is a very mysterious word, obviously full of uncertainty, but it will give people an inexplicable sense of expectation.

Rice is determined to believe it. The originally gentle almond eyes are rounded by the dog. It stares closely at the position of the hole, and walks around the hole from time to time, doing warm-up exercises, trying to keep itself vigilant.

And its owner is not guarding Kongkou with it at the moment.

Dogs certainly have the right to play at this time, but as a responsible owner at this time, they must work hard for the livelihood of the family.

He was chopping bamboo shoots with a big kitchen knife.

Xia Dongli looked at the secret of picking bamboo shoots on the phone again before putting the phone back in. He looked at the bamboo shoots in front of him with a very serious expression.

Don't think that picking bamboo shoots is very simple. In fact, there is some knowledge in it.

As a grass plant, bamboo has a special root system called "underground stem". It is through this underground stem that they carry out asexual reproduction and nutrient transmission, thus achieving unreasonable and rapid expansion.

Although the roots seem to be distinct, the bamboo forest in front of Xia Dongli probably has only one complete life.They seem to have nothing to do with each other, but they actually share a root under the soil.

Usually, bamboos transfer the energy produced by photosynthesis to the rhizomes, which are then stored by the rhizomes.In autumn, the rhizomes start to grow new shoots. When the spring thunder sounds, these shoots that have been buried under the soil for a winter will climb steadily and grow desperately.

For other plants, one tree supports several small shoots, and for bamboo, a bamboo forest supports several shoot shoots. It seems easy, but in fact, the underground stems can provide very limited power for the shoots.

Only the shoots that can really grow can get more energy, and once the supply of rhizomes disappears, the bamboo shoots that have not grown to open their leaves in time can only fend for themselves.

In the natural state, the number of shoots that grow into bamboo each year is less than half of the number that germinates.

So if you pay a little attention when digging bamboo shoots, and soak them in rain and dew, it can actually play a role in thinning the seedlings, but if you don’t pay attention, it will lead to alopecia areata.

Xia Dongli followed closely the pace of the tutorial, tried his best to cut across the board, and finally did not forget to re-seal the roots of the bamboo shoots with soil.

This movement seemed easy, but after a while, this posture that violated his usual muscle memory made Xia Dongli feel a little sore in his arms.

Just as he was about to stand up and move around, he felt that his hands were empty. It turned out that Xun Ao took the knife and took over his work.

Unlike Xia Dongli, who was still somewhat hesitant to start, Xun Ao, who was following along to learn how to pick bamboo shoots, moved very quickly, and even seemed more proficient than Xia Dongli.

The hand of the young man holding the knife is obviously white and slender, like the hand of a cultured person, but this man is strong. He followed Xiaokang, and followed the hole made by Xiaokang's pig to cut a small bamboo shoot.

Xia Dongli glanced at the incision, and it was flat, it was really very crisp.

As a pig, although he has not received professional training, Xiaokang's talent for finding bamboo shoots is full.

Xia Dongli wanted to help at first, but later he just followed behind with a basket.

The time they came to pick bamboo shoots was just right, the bamboo shoots had already germinated, and it was not yet time for them to emerge from the ground, but the small bamboo basket was half full after walking a small area.

Xia Dongli shook the weight of the basket and felt that these were enough to eat, so he was in a good mood and stopped Xiaokang from continuing to dig the ground. He patted Xiaokang pig's head encouragingly, and said to Xun Yu: "Today When we go back, we will cook the bamboo shoots in oil, if there are more, we will dry the shredded bamboo shoots, and then fry some peanuts, which can be eaten as snacks!"

Xun Yao didn't know what Xia Dongli was talking about, but he would eat whatever Xia Dongli fed him, so he nodded indifferently, and took the basket from Xia Dongli's hand and carried it on his shoulder.

It doesn't matter that the main labor force is well-off, it is very smooth and needs a few times to dig out this bamboo shoot that could have escaped the sky and put it in its mouth, "Huh~"

"Okay, go back and burn it for you to eat." Xia Dongli took Xiaokang pig's leash, and then stuffed the bamboo shoots in its mouth into Xiaokang's pocket. This is Xiaokang's labor remuneration.

Cough cough, the labor remuneration really does not match the labor force!Father Xu knew that he might dance for his pig son, but fortunately Xiaokang is very content.

(Xiao Kang: No, I’m just because I can come to open a small stove at any time~)

The moment the two men stood up and were about to walk back, Xia Dongli could clearly see a ball of white snow jumping out of the black hole where the rice was waiting.

In front of them, the white dumpling was so arrogant that he kicked the little Jio hard on the nose of Daomi, and Dami, who had attracted their attention, was defenseless at the moment, and was hit by a single blow, and the effect was outstanding.

Xia Dongli reflexively covered his nose and gasped, my God!A dog's nose is one of the few organs that is not protected by long hairs. How painful it is to be kicked like this!

He hurriedly pulled the Xiaokang pig, which was nearly a hundred catties, to the side of his pet dog. Seeing the huddled dog, he was a little afraid to touch it: "Mibao! Are you okay?"

Rice let out a whimper, and it lay on the ground, clutching its nose, its round eyes dripping with grievance.

And when it saw the Xiaokang pig who was wearing a traction vest and stumbled after Xia Dongli, he felt even more sad.

"Wow woof woof!!"

Wang was bullied!It was also seen by the pig, Wang lost face! !

Rice's idol burden is really heavy.

↑The above is the process of the enmity between Rice and Mr. White Rabbit.

From that day on, the rice in Xia Dongli's family became enemies with the rabbit who lived in the small bamboo forest, and they started the road of BATTLE with each other.

It stands to reason that it is no trouble for a dog to catch a rabbit. After all, there is an idiom called rabbit dead dog cooking, but the situation of rice is different.

It is a foreign dog, and Mr. White Rabbit is a typical Chinese cave-dwelling white rabbit.

As a descendant of a Collie breed whose main breeding direction is prairie sheep, the main battlefield of the Border Collie is the wide and flat grassland. Their thighs are muscular and powerful, the pasterns are flexible, and the muscles of the whole body enable them to change during running. The pace is not prone to injury, and can turn quickly, which is a must-have skill for herding.

And these physical qualities also allow them to easily drive away their little enemy-the European hare on the grassland.

Don't get me wrong, border collies chase rabbits mostly not for food, they are not full-time hunting dogs.

As a kind of dog who is passionate about work and proud of it, the sense of responsibility of the border collie does not allow them to leave the flock that needs to be guarded to hunt rabbits, and will drive them away entirely for work needs.

The European hare is the bottom of the grassland food chain, and most of the animals that feed on it can harm the flock, especially the lamb.Therefore, during the grazing process, the shepherds will consciously drive away the hares, let them leave this place, and avoid attracting hunters.

But the experience in Rice's blood can't help it deal with white rabbits-it can speed up in an instant, and it can also change direction sharply while running fast, but it really doesn't have the experience to deal with burrowing rabbits that can drill holes.

European hares do not burrow.

In the following period of time, Rice and the rabbit fought repeatedly and failed repeatedly. As long as the weather was fine, they would be beaten to the ground.

Xia Dongli wanted to stop it at first. His dog's teeth are so sharp, if he really bit the rabbit, wouldn't he die?But then he accidentally discovered that the rabbit and the dog had a kind of tacit understanding, they actually controlled each other's attack power.

The White Rabbit even has the posture of training Rice, and instead of hiding and hiding at the beginning, it has gradually become more confrontational.

As the pasture grass planted by Xia Dongli began to compete equally with the weeds in robbing nutrients, when the rice was playing with the rabbit, its explosive power and evasion skills were much enhanced by the naked eye.

Xia Dongli didn't understand this, but he could find that the dog's movements were a lot simpler when it was pounced on the white rabbit, its concentration was also strengthened, its usual temperament became calm and capable, and the way it looked at other small animals in the house showed Gained more self-confidence.

This is an experience that humans cannot teach.

And I don't know how they communicate. One dog and one rabbit even have a truce period. During the truce period, the two can coexist peacefully and bask in the sun together.

Xia Dongli felt that it was time for him to do something as a two-legged beast with the highest brain capacity in nature...

He quietly picked up the little baa's feed, put a handful of rabbit food, two calendula grass cakes, and a few alfalfa grass bricks in a small grass basket made of timothy grass, and washed some cabbage and lettuce for the kitchen Paper towels were used to dry up the moisture and put them inside. They also arranged the dishes and made a beautiful flower basket, which was placed in front of one of the white rabbit's known nests while Rice was taking a nap.

"Mr. Rabbit." Xia Dongli looked around to see if no one else was around, and then he called out the title in a low voice: "This is the tuition fee for rice. My dog ​​will trouble you."

Of course, he didn't get any response. At this moment, Mr. Rabbit didn't know which cave he was sleeping in. Xia Dongli's cheeks were burning. He reconfirmed that there was no one around him, and whispered: "You can eat, what do you like? What to eat, next time I will bring you some other varieties, rice, and rice will continue to trouble you."

After speaking, he pushed the basket towards the entrance of the cave again, stood up with his hands behind his back, and left as if nothing had happened.

What?Talking to the rabbit nest?As long as no one sees it, it doesn't exist.

Xia Dongli was very calm about this.

Just when he was about to step into his yard, there was a rapid vibration from the mobile phone in his pocket.

Assistant Xiao Li, who has always been calm and calm, sent a message for help via WeChat.

[Come to the village committee quickly! ! ! ! ! 】

That's right, he matched a full five exclamation points, sending a very urgent message.