My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 106 Wild Pigeon

   The dolls raised their small heads and surrounded Wang Susu. Although their faces were dirty and the money stuff was broken, their eyes were so bright and clean...

This scene made Wang Susu's heart feel hot and her nose was sore. She was surprised and moved for a while, but when she saw Du Juan came out of the house at this time, she hurriedly wiped the corners of her eyes: "Auntie is fine, just collect the money soon. Well, how can Auntie spend your money."

   Little dolls, look at me, I look at you, and then shook their heads at Wang Susu, stubbornly refusing to return.

   Wang Susu had no choice but to squat down and explain patiently to them.

But he didn't notice that Du Juan had already taken out the camera from the house at this time, and took a picture of this scene. It took him in too.

  Chen Ling also smiled at her when she saw this. She wanted to take a photo. In fact, let alone Wang Susu's situation just now. Even when he saw it, he was very moved. In fact, little dolls are always the purest. As long as you are good to them, they will naturally take you in their hearts and are willing to share their best things with you.

   So he walked to Liu Ni'er's side, pressed their little heads with both palms, and each pulled a radish.

   "Where do all the leather monkeys get their money from? Others have stolen it from home."

   "That's not it, I sold scorpions last year, and I sold them for shells."

   Liu Nier immediately pouted and retorted.

   "Mine too."

   "Me too."

  Chen Ling opened his mouth with a pretense of exaggeration: "My dear, you can also make a fortune by catching scorpions. Take me with you another day."

   "Okay, I can bring you, but Uncle Fugui, you have to listen to me, I know where there are many scorpions."

   Liu Nier's chest was so high when she heard this: "I caught more than 50 miles one night last year. If I hadn't called me home, I would have caught a hundred."

   "There are so many, good, good, uncle will follow you when the time comes, I will listen to you."

  Chen Ling smiled and nodded.

   Wang Susu watched and couldn't help but smile.

   In fact, in their place, as long as it is summer and after the busy farming season, not only the little children will catch scorpions at night, but adults will also go to catch scorpions.

  Staying at home on a hot day can’t sleep. Going outside to catch scorpions not only cools off with the mountain breeze, but also sells money, killing two birds with one stone. Besides, the price of scorpions at this time is good. When they are expensive, they can be sold for two cents apiece on Daji. When they are cheap, they can be sold regardless of their size. They will be charged by the kilogram. There are almost a dozen or three scorpions, that is, a hundred scorpions can be sold for about eight or nine yuan.

   In this day and age, that is really not too small, at least three catties of pork can be cut.

   So, go to see it in the fifth and sixth month of the lunar calendar. In the village, outside the village, and even on the mountain, there are flashlights and torches at night. From a distance, the guy looks like a little devil entering the village.

However, catching scorpions also depends on the year. In some years, scorpions are crawling everywhere, and you can see the cracks in the walls of the house. You can even be stung when you go to the toilet if you are not careful, but in some years, you can hardly see them. Scorpion, turned the pile of rocks outside the village upside down, or some people ran to the mountain to look for it, but they couldn't find it no matter how much they looked.

  It doesn’t matter if you encounter such a year, it will naturally increase again after two years.

   "Let's go, go for the shrimps. In order to let you take me to catch more scorpions in a few days, my uncle decided to make prawns for you to eat today."

  Chen Ling got up and greeted the little dolls, then put on the basket and carried the net pocket to go to the reservoir to catch crayfish.

   When the little dolls heard this, their eyes widened one by one, and then they all burst into cheers, only to feel that the surprise came too suddenly. Liu Ni'er was so greedy for a long time, she wanted to eat the prawns made by Chen Ling in her dreams, but at this time she couldn't hold it back, she spread her legs and rushed out with full power. Holding the wine box in his hand, he ran towards the reservoir, shouting as he ran, "Touch the shrimp, touch the shrimp, Uncle Fugui wants to make prawns for us to eat."

   "Liu Ni'er, Liu Ni'er, don't run so fast, put the money down and go."

   Wang Susu saw that the baby was just running out, and there was still change in the wine box.

   He shouted and shouted slowly, and finally called the baby back, and then asked the other little children to put the money in the yard, and then went to the reservoir to get a basket of crayfish back.

   "Huh? The cuckoo is gone?"

   "Let's go, I want to keep people for dinner. People say they have inspiration, and I want to go back to painting, so I can't force it."

   "That's fine, I'll make the shrimp in a while, and you can send it to me."

"Ok, I know."

  …

Next, Chen Ling washed the crayfish, and the little dolls took some water that Wang Susu washed clothes with, mixed some soap, and watched Chen Ling cook while blowing bubbles in the yard, but they blew bubbles It's also not stable, because the two guys, Heiwa and Xiaojin, have never seen this thing before, so they are very curious. Often the little doll blows a big bubble, and they will bite it open, even if it floats. If you use it, they will also be chased around the yard by the two of them, jumping and biting into their mouths, but naturally they don't bite anything.

This made the two dogs tilt their heads in depression and look straight, but they couldn't see why they were coming. They only barked and barked anxiously, circling around Liu Nier a few times, making the little dolls giggle and laugh. The bubbles blow more vigorously.

But after playing for a long time, the smell of crayfish began to swirl out. Now the little dolls don't have the heart to play, they just swallow their saliva while they are sitting outside the kitchen, not even Heiwa Xiaojin Going to investigate that strange bubble, squeezing on the side, wagging his tail, humming and chirping.

   "Okay, Uncle Fugui, if I don't leave the pot, I feel that this fragrance has turned into a worm, and it's about to get a hole in my stomach."

   "Wait two more minutes and count to a hundred silently."

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, and wait, the crayfish finally came out of the pot. He sucked in the heat and started chewing, even forgetting how to eat the crayfish that Chen Ling had instructed in advance, the red soup, the fragrant meat, the guy ate it so deliciously, I can't wait to put the shrimp shell with it. Eat all the pliers.

  However, the baby's appetite was still too small. After he devoured three or four of them, he couldn't eat any more. Chen Ling picked some lotus leaves and packed some for them, and asked them to take them back.

   As for the rest, let Wang Susu send it to Dujuan. The two of them are getting tired of eating meat recently, and they will make do with two bowls of noodles later.

  …

In a blink of an eye, it was the 20th day of the fifth lunar month. It had been nearly ten days since the Chen Ling's house was robbery. , Maybe this lady also knew that Chen Erzhu had a bad reputation in the village, so she gave the money to Wang Laishun and let him send it to the villagers and left without saying much.

As a result, no one expected that this woman actually came to Chen Ling's house quietly that night. Knowing that the red eel was not sold at home, she directly charged the price to 5,000 yuan. Unfortunately, Chen Ling did not change her face about the price, and directly put it away. She banged outside the house, but Sun Yanhong couldn't do anything about it. She gritted her teeth and raised her price to 8,000. If she didn't sell the 8,000, she sold it to 10,000.

   However, Chen Ling still refused, forcing Sun Yanhong to use all kinds of soft words to beg him, and even almost knelt down to him, but in the end he didn't even want to let go. In desperation, Sun Yanhong could only take advantage of the dark night to leave.

   Regarding this matter, Chen Ling has never been able to figure out why this woman is so obsessed with her own eel. It wasn't until a few days later when Wang Jusheng came over to play with his big head in his arms, and told him a gossip, saying that Sun Yanhong's brother had fallen, and Erzhu had done a lot of bad things and bad things over the years. After a while, I heard that even the sand quarry in the county has changed groups of people. Chen Ling gradually came back to his senses.

   "This guy, is it possible that this thing is a gift for an official?"

   Surrounded by the red eel's water tank, Chen Ling kept muttering in his heart, although it sounds ridiculous, but the more he thinks about it, the more likely it is. Otherwise, why did Sun Yanhong come all the way after seeing two strange red eels in her family, and even offered a 'sky price' of 2,000 yuan the first time she came, and later he didn't sell Chen Erzhu and returned it twice Come to the door to steal it, it takes so much effort, definitely not want to bring it back to raise and play, this is not the future, it is also a bit of ornamental value to take it back as a rare species to raise.

   "But this woman can come over and help Erzhu's turtle son settle the wages, which is quite conscientious."

Chen Erzhu's reputation is not good. Since the last time Chen Ling made a mess, and the trouble was known to everyone in the village, it became even more stinky, and the pickling thing that his father did back then was also punished. Mentioned it back and forth.

  No, Qin Dongmei was so frightened that Qin Dongmei didn't dare to go out for half a month. She closed the door every day, and even when she came out to pour out the swill, she secretly came out in the dead of night, for fear that outsiders would know what she had with Chen Erzhu. After all, I can make do with the door behind closed doors. If it is really known, let alone Chen Wangzhuang who can't stay here, her parents' family has no face to return.

It's also a shame that she didn't go out much before, relying on Qin Qiumei and Wang Chunyuan's ability all day long, and didn't pay attention to the villagers, otherwise the gossip would have spread long ago, even if she didn't know about her business, she had to It is impossible to dig out the matter of Wang Chunyuan raising a child and say it several times.

  There is no way, the countryside lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of eloquent mothers.

   shook his head, Chen Ling no longer thought about these miscellaneous things, but took advantage of Wang Susu's absence at home, and put two red eels into the cave.

These two red eels were first brought back from the reservoir. They grew to over forty centimeters within a month and produced seedlings, but now they have been released for nearly a month, but they have barely grown, and are still only over forty centimeters. I don't know if the tank is too small to limit their growth, or if they can only grow so big.

In fact, according to Chen Ling's own guess, it should be because the water tank is too small, because the eel fry in Dongtian have grown to about 40 centimeters long. Nearly 100 fish fry grow to the first ten centimeters, and the big reason is because there are too many fish and the tank is too small.

So Chen Ling took the two red eels that were first caught in the cave, dug out several channels more than 20 cm wide behind the thatched hut, and put them in. Anyway, the eel seedlings in the cave are also long. It was done, and they all produced fish roe, so I fished out two about the same length and replaced the two. From the bottom of his heart, he was not going to sell these two strange fish. First, he was a little reluctant. Second, he always felt that there was something wrong with these two fish. The eel is even more special.

After all, the eel fry in Dongtian grow up to produce roe, and a lot of foam is obvious. He really didn't notice any signs of producing roe in these two strange fish. Over and over, there are no traces of fish roe in the tank, as if fry were born overnight. It is really strange after thinking about it, so just keep it.

After solving the problem of the red eel, Chen Ling dug out two cans of earthworms and went into the cave to feed a few 'birds' in the thatched hut. Now these little guys are fat and have grown feathers. It was only then that he discovered that these little guys were not ordinary birds, but pigeons. From the time they hatched to half a month later, Chen Ling also went from doubting to confirming that they were ordinary wild pigeons, because Chenwangzhuang had no family that kept pigeons. , I don't know which feral pigeon den Huangpizi stole from these eggs. Seeing that he didn't lose them after picking them up, he sent six of them to his home one after another.

   This guy can steal wild pigeons and collapse.

Wild pigeons actually look no different from domestic pigeons. They are different from turtle doves. Turtle pigeons race ten litters of sows a year. Wild pigeons only produce two or three litters each year. Each nest can produce a maximum of six eggs, so they start to brood. After hatching, it is also affected by the environment, weather, and natural enemies during this period. In fact, very few pigeons can survive.

   "The house is lively enough now, so let's stay in the cave first, and when the red-bellied brocade eggs hatch, we can be with you."

  Chen Ling stroked the short feathers of the little pigeons for a while, until they narrowed their eyes comfortably and took a nap, and then stopped. Then I cleaned up the pigeon dung and went out of the cave.

As soon as they came out of the cave, they saw Xiao Huang and Xiao Pang carrying three little yellow skins on the tree to harm those birds. Xiao Pang also had a naked chick in his mouth. out of the shell.

   When Xiao Huang saw Chen Ling looking over, he jumped lightly from the branch, landed on his shoulder and squeaked, sniffing his ear, and was slapped away by his disgusting slap. This little thing knows that sniffing people's ears and nose can make people itchy and uncomfortable, so he keeps playing with him like this.

   "You bastard, you really said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived. Just now he said that he didn't know where you got the pigeon eggs. I saw you coming to the house to find food to eat."

  Chen Ling tugged at its small ears and said.

Although there are fewer magpies around the yard, there are more and more other birds. There are three or four bird nests on the toon trees outside the yard alone, and there are still old locust trees outside the backyard. They have really become birds. The base camp, but also indirectly cheaper Xiao Huang and his family.

This season is actually the happiest time for birds. The new little grasshoppers and crickets in the fields are very pink and tender, and there are all kinds of green worms, and even the wheat grains scattered in the field ridges. There is no shortage of food. Therefore, many birds are Choose late spring and early summer to hatch chicks.

But these birds had a wrong idea when they built their nests outside Chen Ling's yard. Xiao Huang's family of five visited every day, either eating eggs or young birds. Life is a nourishment, and it has become a ration that is delivered to the door. Those birds don't know What do you think? Even after all this, he foolishly guarded the yard and refused to leave, but let the three little yellow skins have meat and eat more and more fat.

   At this time, the three little yellow skins saw their father standing on Chen Ling's shoulder, and they followed suit and jumped down, wanting to jump on Chen Ling's shoulder. In the end, these little fools were still too clumsy. They fell to the ground one by one, and fell a big climbing fork. They didn't feel pain after the fall. They blinked their black eyes and called their parents for two dazed and innocent. It turned out that Xiao Huang and Xiao Pang didn't pay attention to them at all, and these little things squeaked and screeched aggrievedly, lying on the ground coquettishly and rolling around.

   "Uncle Fugui, Uncle Fugui, have an early meal tonight. After dinner, let's go catch scorpions."

   Outside the courtyard, Liu Nier left school and ran over like a group of little dolls with schoolbags on their backs. When passing by the front of the house, she did not forget to shout to the courtyard.

"understood."

Chen Ling responded and picked up the little yellow-skinned boys and combed their hair. These three little guys are very skinny. They eat and drink at home every day. It's already broken.

   (end of this chapter)