After dinner and washing dishes, Liu Daode was just finished. Before he could sit down and rest, he saw the general running into the kitchen, screaming at him, and digging on the ground with his claws.

What is this? Liu Daode put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand in wonder. He didn't know what new things this guy found, so he asked himself to check it out.

Seeing that the master set off, the general immediately led the way in front and rushed straight to the outside of the yard.

After spending a long time with Liu Daode, this guy seems more spiritual than ordinary dogs. He often finds some strange things nearby and then calls his owner to check it out.

Just like two days ago, it found a nest of wild duck eggs in the reed marsh by the water.

But I didn't know that the general did not run far this time, but stopped in front of a high slope not far from the east of the Tudi Temple, tilted his head and kept shouting at the top.

This land is part of the Shitou Mountain behind him. It was originally twenty or thirty meters high. Last summer, mudslides occurred when it rained and the land collapsed, forming a straight and steep cliff surface, revealing yellow-brown soil.

Liu Daode glanced in confusion a few times. It was bare on it, and there was nothing except a few crooked pine trees.

The general "Wangwang" pressed his limbs on the ground and rushed towards the ground.

As soon as he rushed out four or five meters high, he heard a thunderous sound coming from a hidden place in the earth slope, followed by a chirping bird cry.

More than a dozen gray-brown figures appeared in the air, screaming at the general below.

"It turns out it's a terrier. I think it's a rare thing." Liu Daode hurriedly shouted, asking the general to retreat.

The earthen swallows look very similar to the domestic swallows, the difference is that the feathers under their belly are whiter than those of the domestic swallows. In addition, these guys do not build nests in the house, but choose to build their nests on steep soil cliffs near the water source.

Liu Daode still remembers that when he was a child, there were many earth swallows near the Dongtou Reservoir in the village. When they flew up in the morning and evening, a large group of black was pressing over the reservoir, covering the sky and the sun, which was very spectacular.

Every spring, the earth swallows begin to use their mouths to dig small holes in the surface of the loess cliff.

Liu Daode once dug out the young earth swallows with someone at the age of seven or eight, so he is very familiar with this kind of cave. The eggs in the nest of the earth swallows are about twenty or thirty centimeters deep, which is about the same as a child's arms. It is covered with hay and feathers for laying eggs and hatching.

Tens of thousands of swallows dig holes on the cliff to build nests, row by row, looking very spectacular, just like caves on the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi.

Unfortunately, by the 1990s, the village began to plant cotton on a large scale. In order to prevent insects and control insects, people sprayed pesticides into the fields almost every three or five days.

Earth swallows are mainly fed by insects in the fields. After eating poisonous insects containing pesticides, they naturally cannot live long.

In those years, you could often see dead earth swallows in the fields, and some of them were even flying in the air and then they fell to the ground and died.

However, in just a few years, the scene of Wanyan living in groups in Liu Village, Hedong disappeared without a trace.

Over the years, I occasionally saw three or five, but it didn’t make it a big deal.

Like today, seeing more than a dozen at a time is already a bit unexpected.

However, Liu Daode was a little puzzled. He remembered that the base camp of these guys should be next to the reservoir, so why was it suddenly transferred to the near the Land Temple?

After thinking for a moment, two lines of poetry emerged in his mind, "Three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo, and the spring river is warm and the duck is prophet"

Animals are most sensitive to changes in the external environment. It should be that these earthen swallows also felt the incense nearby, so they built nests here to settle down.

But just a few sand swallows. After seeing them, Liu Daode had already left it behind.

There is nothing to do in the morning, and I am idle even when I am idle. It is better to go up the mountain to pick up some scorpions and sell them for money.

The weather is warm now, neither lukewarm nor hot, and it is a good time to catch scorpions. The tools required to catch scorpions are simple, a pair of chopsticks and a can.

Of course, catching scorpions is also a physical job. One stone must be repeated, and it must be repeated, turning back and forth.

Sometimes I was busy for a long time and was so tired that I was sweating profusely, and I didn’t see a scorpion.

People with good luck may only cross a few stones and may encounter a scorpion nest and gain a lot of harvest.

The mountain behind the house had been crossed several times by the naughty kids in the village. Even if there were not many scorpions, Liu Daode directly took a turn and came to the Arrowhead Mountain, which was farther away.

Halfway through the mountain, remembering the experience of discovering a scorpion outside his yard yesterday, Liu Daode subconsciously closed his eyes and took a deep breath. His originally messy mood gradually calmed down.

The spiritual sense senses that it seems that the invisible thread slowly spreads towards the surrounding mountains.

The fragrance of grass and the moisture of the soil all penetrated into his nostrils. He could even feel that this land also gave birth to this vigorous vitality, and it was not much different from the one near the Land Temple.

However, this land contains very little vitality and is very thin, and does not form a strong white air at all.

Without the scope of the Land Temple, Liu Daode's perception was also very vague, but he could not "see" anything at one or two meters away.

Well... he opened his eyes slightly, walked quickly in the direction he had just perceived, and lifted up a stone as big as a basin.

There was nothing wrong with the perception, and a panicked scorpion appeared under the big stone.

As the chopsticks fell, the scorpion was already clamped and placed in a can.

Next, Liu Daode kept wandering among the mountains. In just over an hour, he caught more than twenty pieces, which was already a great harvest.

There are scorpions harvested at the market, one for 20 cents, and these can be sold for nearly five yuan.

If you earn five yuan in an hour, you can earn forty yuan in eight hours a day, and you can earn at least one thousand yuan in a month. This income is definitely not low in Liu Village, Hedong.

Liu Daode made a good plan, but after another half an hour of trial, he felt a little dizzy.

Obviously, it is the excessive use of magical powers.

It seems that it is difficult to rely on supernatural powers to make a fortune! He was depressed to give up the idea of ​​catching the scorpion and was ready to go home.

I just focused on catching scorpions and didn't come to see the way. Only then did I realize that I had walked to a relatively remote ditch cliff without knowing it.

For some reason, Liu Daode suddenly felt very comfortable standing here, and his brain, which was originally a little dizzy, became clear.

It's really strange!

He walked tentatively into the distance, and just took a few steps, the wonderful feeling disappeared again.

It’s right here, could it be that some treasures were buried here?

Confused, Liu Daode closed his eyes and continued to sense. Then he shouted "ah" and stared blankly four or five meters away.

Just now, a thick green aura suddenly appeared in the spiritual consciousness, the size of a washbasin.

I opened my eyes and saw that there was nothing strange there, only an old tree stump as big as a bowl, with a few green buds on it.

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Chapter completed!