My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 172 Beaten

   After ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Ling bought pork and made delicious pork dumplings with shredded melon. After dinner, Wang Susu was tidying up in the kitchen, so he went back to the house and took out the juicer and started to squeeze juice. Recently, this machine is very convenient, and the two of them are also used to drinking fruit after dinner.

After    squeezed it, Chen Ling also tried it with the leftover goat milk from the pot in the morning. The taste was a bit strange, but after drinking it, smash it, smash it, and taste it in your mouth.

   "Susu, I have a bowl of juice for you, come and drink it."

   called his daughter-in-law, and Chen Ling cleaned up the leftover fruit after juicing, and gave it to the chickens and ducks to eat.

   Watching chickens and ducks scrambling around the stone trough, Chen Ling suddenly froze, "Just remembering the juice, I haven't brewed my fruit wine yet."

  I went into the mountain to pick wild fruits so many times, and also took out a lot from the cave, but I forgot about it.

   It can be seen that once this person becomes lazy, it is easy to forget things.

  So he cleaned the juicer, Chen Ling took two bags and headed up the mountain. When he got home in the evening, he moved out two large tanks non-stop, cleaning and washing, all the time.

  The wild fruits picked today are mainly wild grapes and kiwi fruit. Chen Ling is relatively familiar with these two wines. Since childhood, his grandparents brewed some of these wines every year.

  The first is wine. After the wild grapes are poured into the big pot and rinsed twice, they are put into the big pot. When the bottom of the pot is covered, they start to sprinkle white sugar, one layer of grapes and one layer of white sugar, until the tank is full.

   At this time, mash the grapes and mix well, so that the fermentation will be more thorough after storage.

   But at the same time, keep in mind that the big vat for making wine should not be too full, leaving about a quarter of the room.

  Otherwise, there will be gas in the fermentation, which will overflow, and sometimes the gas will not come out, and the tank will be blasted.

  Chen Ling smashed the full vat of wild grapes, took out the liquor and mixed it with some as a primer, then packed the vat tightly, wrapped it in a torn quilt, and put it in the warehouse, basically it was done.

   One vat is wild wine, and one vat is kiwi mixed with goat milk fruit, 'sugar pudding' and other miscellaneous fruits. The latter belongs to Chen Ling's experimental product.

In particular, he didn't understand what kind of wild fruit it was, but eating too much can make people drunk, so he couldn't help but be curious. He was going to mix it in and try it to see if it was mixed with ordinary wild kiwi fruit. How does it compare.

   At the same time, in order to distinguish it, he was still in the cave and made a small jar of pure sugar bubbles. He also wanted to try to brew with sugar bubbles, how strong the wine can be.

   "Brother-in-law, after I finish my homework, you will cook crab porridge for me tomorrow."

   "You haven't slept yet, can you get up tomorrow? You will definitely find excuses to fool people by then."

   Listening to his constant tinkering in the courtyard, Wang Zhenzhen pushed open the window and shouted.

   "Okay, okay, let's go to sleep now."

  Chen Ling waved at her, looked at the piles left in the yard, and simply waited until tomorrow morning to clean up.

  …

  The next morning, not only cooked crab porridge, but also steamed a lot of peanuts and soybeans.

  Before the harvest, both steamed and boiled are quite delicious. Adults and children like to eat them. Once they eat, they can’t stop.

  Wang Susu couldn't eat crabs and porridge.

   I drank goat milk and peeled peanuts and soybeans with my younger sister to eat, and soon it was full of shells.

   After eating like this for several days, the peanuts should be planed and the soybeans should be harvested.

   To shave peanuts and cut soybeans, it is best to get up early and go early. When the sky is about to light up, after a night of dew and the moisturizing of the earth, the soybean pods are soft and not sticky.

  The most important thing is that the pods are not easy to split, which can reduce unnecessary losses.

  Otherwise, the soybeans are ripe at this time, and the pods become dry. If the pods are touched a little and explode, the beans inside will fall all over the floor.

  If you are not careful, you can pick up the soy beans all over the ground, it can make people cry.

   Therefore, the soybeans cannot be fully cooked. If they are not harvested in time, they will be cracked and fried in the ground. "Jiao Mai fried beans", the fried beans refers to this.

   Early in the morning, Chen Ling and his wife found the clothes they had been working on, grabbed the sickle and hoe, and drove the ox cart to the ground.

   When it was early and the dew was heavy, the two of them went to harvest soybeans first.

   Soybeans are scattered in rows, horizontal and vertical. The long bean shoots are covered with dense pods. The pale yellow leaves are sparsely hanging on the branches, and they are about to fall.

  The two of them, with sleeves on their arms, waded into the field in the dew, raised their scythes and started harvesting.

   Although Chen Ling is lazy, nothing in the fields is sown randomly.

  The way of soybeans is very neat, and obviously after the heavy rain and strong wind, the seedlings are supported one by one, so the branches and vines more than two feet deep are basically upright, and there is no need to trim the branches when harvesting.

   Grab a clump with your hands, cut the roots with a sickle, and stack them up.

   Knowing Wang Susu's temperament, Chen Ling couldn't persuade her, so he rushed ahead and worked fast.

   After more than two hours passed, the sun came out and stopped.

   Looking back, more than half an acre of soybean shoots have been harvested.

   The two of them put their backs on their backs, hugged each other, piled the soybean tips in the field on the ox cart, and pulled them back home.

   After breakfast, we went to shave peanuts.

  Planing peanuts is more laborious than cutting soybeans. Now Chen Ling refuses to let Wang Susu do it again.

   So he bent over to plan, and Wang Susu followed behind him to collect them. After smashing the soil, he piled them up.

   After working **** the ground, Chen Ling's handlebar style also increased. He was digging peanuts, and the **** dance was flying up and down, bang bang bang, swish, swish, and worked very vigorously.

   But don’t dare to go too fast, because in some places there is a lot of clay, and the peanuts and the soil are sticky together. If you are careless, the peanuts will be broken into the soil along with the roots, and a lot of land will be lost.

  Fortunately, Wang Susu was careful and kept the peanuts behind him, and also paid attention to these.

So when the day was finished, the two of them raked the ground with a rake, and the fallen soybeans and peanuts gathered into piles, regardless of whether they were mixed with soil or mixed with dead branches and rotten leaves, they were all put into bags. Go back and pass it through a sieve twice, so you don't have to pick it up when it falls on the ground, which is laborious and annoying.

  In this way, it took three days to finally receive all the peanuts and soybeans at home.

   Divide it into two places and dry it in the yard.

  Wet peanuts are planed out, fresh, and the moisture is too heavy, so it needs to be dried for several sun days.

Soybeans are different. When the sun comes out and the wind blows, they make a crackling sound. In the local dialect, it is a dry crackle. So whenever you have free time, you can use a wooden fork, a stick, or a flail. , hammer over and over again, beat over and over again.

   Until the pods are all split open and the beans pop out one by one.

   Wait until it is completely dry and hard to dry, then you can squeeze the oil.

  ...The mountain winds are swaying. From the fruit forest of Chen Ling's house to the west, walk three or four hundred meters of mountain roads, and climb up the steep gorges with ravines and rocks in order to see the border of the savage ditch.

Soybeans and peanuts were taken back home, and when they were dried and sold, there was nothing else to do. So Chen Ling brought two dogs to Yerengou to take a look. This place is too close to his own site. Gotta figure out what's going on inside.

   However, the mountain here is too steep, and there are sharp and strange rocks standing everywhere. Although Chen Ling and the two dogs are physically fit, they will not feel tired on this road, but it is extremely difficult to walk up.

  Cliffs, incomplete rocks, disorganized forests, and sometimes disturbed snakes and insects.

   After walking a distance, a loud crane chirping came from the sky.

  Chen Ling raised his head and glanced, and suddenly there was a "slap" sound, and a mass of white things rubbed against his cheeks and fell vertically on his shoulders.

  Chen Ling took a closer look and was suddenly depressed.

   "Good guy, did you get lucky today?"

   is really good enough, things like bird **** falling from the sky can come across.

   Fortunately, it was a little worse.

  Otherwise, this **** will land on his forehead.

   The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, so he picked up a stone and threw it at the bad guys.

  The two dogs also barked into the sky.

   and jumped up to chase.

   "Hey, you two idiots, what are you chasing, be careful you will fall into the ditch."

  Chen Ling shouted and chased after him.

  Because if you go further, after you climb over the cliff, there is a dangerous section of the road, there are big cracks everywhere, and it is connected to the valley where Savage Valley is located, and it is bottomless. The widest one is sixty to seventy centimeters, and people and animals will not come up if they fall in.

   As a result, when they crossed the cliff, one person and two dogs were stunned.

  Chen Ling also held his breath subconsciously.

   was shocked by the sight in front of him.

   Just because they didn't see the big crack as rumored.

   And the terrifying savage ditch that stayed in the memory of many years ago is also gone.

  The original deep and dangerous valley location was miraculously filled with a lake of water and turned into a beautiful water area.

   At this time, the sun is shining, the lake water is rippling, and it is extraordinarily quiet under the reflection of tall trees and towering green mountains.

  Countless migratory birds, basking in the warm sunshine, play in the water for food, and swim everywhere.

   No wonder the two dogs were just chasing up. It turned out that the white cranes from before had landed here and gathered in flocks. There were more birds than in the reservoir a few days ago.

The    scene should also be more beautiful, more spectacular, and more shocking.

   "How did Savage Ditch become a lake? Is it because of the flood this year?"

  Chen Ling recovered from the shock, looked at this peculiar mountain lake and the boundless beauty around, and muttered to himself.

   No one is near here all the year round.

   I don’t know when this scene became.

   Such a wide lake.

   is certainly not formed overnight.

   "It is very likely that after two major earthquakes, the terrain changed too drastically..."

   He looked around, guessing.

  The mountain wind is swaying, bringing bursts of coolness, and the forest sea rustles, sending bursts of waves.

  On the southeastern banks of the lake, there is a bamboo forest that can't be seen at a glance. The mountain wind blows and the bamboo forest sways. This bamboo forest is like a green wave, up and down, bumpy, making waves like waves.

   On the northwest bank of the lake, there is a vast maple forest. Now the forests are infiltrated, and the mountains and plains are all bright red. The breeze blows, as if a flame is burning and beating, which is spectacular.

  Chen Ling stood by the cliff and looked at it with all his might.

   As far as the eyes can see, I finally found that there are several streams flowing into this place on the mountains in the east, west, and north directions.

   This scene suddenly made him realize.

   "Sure enough, it was caused by a big earthquake more than ten years ago. No wonder since then, Laohewan has slowly started to dry up..."

   "It turns out that the earthquake cut off these streams, so they can't flow into the old river bay."

   The current Laohewan is due to the fact that after being connected to the reservoir in recent years, the mountain spring water on Nanshan has slowly revived, and the river has resumed flowing again.

   "Nature is the work of magic, creating such a wonderful place!"

   "These mountains, rivers, and birds are so **** beautiful. I'll buy a camera another day."

   Watching this peculiar mountain lake, Chen Ling couldn't help but admire it.

   "Wow, woof!"

  When he was attracted by the beautiful scenery, he didn't notice that the two dogs had fallen to the ground, went around the bamboo forest, quietly touched the lakeside, and pounced on the beautiful migratory birds in the lake.

   Only heard a squeak, thousands of birds flew on the water surface, feathers and bird droppings splashed everywhere, and the sound was chaotic.

  The eyes of the two dogs were red when they saw this, there were too many birds, and so many fragrant prey watched them fly away, but they didn't have a few more mouths.

   After they killed two of them, they wanted to chase them again.

   Unexpectedly, the flying birds suddenly returned and fell from the sky. White cranes and geese jumped into the water in groups, pecking and biting the two dogs fiercely, and they even took the initiative to fight with the dogs.

   Heiwa and Xiaojin are indeed ferocious, but there are too many birds.

   As the saying goes, two fists are invincible against four hands, and the old master was killed by random fists, not to mention that there are hundreds of geese and cranes at every turn, and there are more than one or two groups living here.

   Annoyed them and swarmed up, and the two dogs were really overwhelmed.

  Chen Ling was just about to walk over, but was also stunned by this scene.

   Take a closer look, especially the geese are the most ferocious.

  The wild geese are also called wild geese. They are actually very similar to the big white geese in the village. They are similar in species, subjects, appearance, temperament, etc. The difference is that the domestic geese can no longer fly in the sky.

   So they launched Diao, no worse than the big white goose, and the offensive is also extremely fierce.

   In addition, Bai Crane, Cormorant and the like are on the side to help the fist, and from time to time they also come up to give two punches.

   The two dogs suffered a lot.

  Xiaojin was beaten, but he didn't dare to fight. He took the time to kill two geese, grabbed the prey, and hurriedly turned around to dodge and escape. It was very fast, and it was easy to escape.

   A group of geese flapped their wings and chased after a while and then stopped chasing.

   Heiwa is too miserable.

Being pecked by a group of birds is so embarrassing that he can't hide even if he wants to. He resists on one side, and on the other side, countless bird beaks fall on his body. , tossing and turning, unable to stand up.

   The lazy dog ​​was forced to roll around, rolling in mud and water, and he couldn't see his previous imposing appearance, but he still couldn't avoid the attack.

  Chen Ling wanted to help it drive the birds away, but when he saw it, he couldn't help laughing.

   "It's time for you idiot to suffer."

This guy   Heiwa is energetic, and he feels uncomfortable if he doesn't make a fuss for a day, so he makes trouble every two days.

   But it has a thick skin, so he is not afraid to provoke Chen Ling. He doesn't know it hurts if he beats him or not.

   Too many times, every time Chen Ling hit it, it not only did not hide, but also enjoyed it. It was purely a beating massage.

   Every time Chen Ling was tired and weak, he looked at him suspiciously.

   made Chen Ling angry and funny.

   After that, I had no choice but to get an iron chain from Yuqiang's house and tied it to the tree for two days, and then I was honest.

   But I still can't fix the problem. I just don't dare to make trouble at home anymore. When I go out, I run around with the dolls in the village.

   "Ow! Ow!"

   Surrounded by flocks of birds, he couldn't get away even if he wanted to run. In particular, Chen Ling was still laughing beside him. He didn't save it while watching the fun. Heiwa looked at him pitifully, and screamed even more miserably.

   In fact, the flock of birds regarded the area of ​​Lake Yamanaka as their territory.

  If Heiwa ran away as fast as Xiao Jin, it would be fine. The flock of birds just felt the danger and wanted to drive them out of the territory.

   But it failed to run away, and the flock of birds kept pecking at it, wave after wave, continuously.

  Chen Ling is also happy to see it suffer.

  Looking at the lively for a long time happily, seeing that it was almost out of breath, he led Xiaojin forward and brought it out.

   But the harvest was still good. When he went home, geese and wild ducks were all covered with a string on Chen Ling.

   Thinking of the deliciousness of roasted and stewed geese, Chen Ling couldn't help drooling.

   In general, Heiwa suffers.

  It took a beating on its own and benefited the whole family.

   worth it.

   (end of this chapter)