Chapter 7 Smart Frog

When our family entered the village, we found that the house hadn't been built yet, so we couldn't live in it at all.Lao Pan, the contractor of the construction team, was full of apologies, saying that he did not intentionally lie about the military situation, and that there were objective reasons for the delay in the construction period: rain, power outages, broken machines, someone going home to plant rice seedlings, and so on.But I see him playing cards with women all day long, losing countless money, and he is the most popular "poverty alleviation cadre" among women - this is the biggest reason for missing work, right?

When I said this, Master Pan blushed, but he firmly refused to admit it. We had no choice but to live temporarily at Qing's father's house nearby, patiently waiting for the completion of the project, and at the same time starting the initial reclamation of the barren land. There is a lotus pond in front of Qing's father's house, which is actually part of a reservoir. When the water level rises, water fills the depression through culverts, forming a seasonal pond.Every night, the frogs in the pond croaked and croaked. At the beginning, they croaked and croaked, and after a while, they came up one after another, and after a while they formed an array in unison, uttering the rhythmic and deafening frog chants, and ramming them persistently. The sky is full of stars.The stars trembled and twinkled, sliding inch by inch toward the western sky, until the cold stars fell before dawn.

Sometimes, the frogs suddenly fell silent, as if they had all burrowed into the ground. Listen carefully, it is the sound of someone's footsteps on the path beyond the pond.The strange thing is that there were footsteps passing by there not long ago, and groups of cubs even ran past, why didn't the frogs stop calling? Father Qing said, the fifth child is here. I found out later that the fifth child is a toad catcher. I also learned later that although Lao Wu didn't come to catch the toad this time, and he didn't bring a flashlight or a small iron fork, the toad still recognized him.

This is really strange.If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really couldn't believe that frogs have such amazing abilities.They actually identified the location of their old enemy from the sound of footsteps, and they exchanged information quickly and then made an emergency response, each of them lurking without saying a word.Aren't they just a few toads?How can a few toads do things that are difficult for modern people to use radar, computers, mobile phones, lasers, and mass sending devices? After the footsteps of the fifth child passed away, the sound of frogs rose again.No matter how I walked up and down the pond, they ignored my doubts. Even if I stomped my feet heavily, they screamed more happily.I can't see them in the dark, but I can imagine the sneer on their faces for low-intelligence humans.