My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 36 Chicken Disaster

   After working in the fields for a long time, Chen Ling and Wang Jusheng were already hungry. After Zhang Qiaoling took the child out, the three sat down to eat.

  Chen Ling cooked five dishes, only one meat dish, and the rest were vegetarian dishes, which were not rich.

   But because the dishes he cooked were fragrant enough, Wang Jusheng and his wife enjoyed it very much.

   Even though Zhang Qiaoling was influenced by the villagers, she still had some opinions on Chen Ling and couldn't help but praise her.

   Even when Chen Ling left, he took the initiative to bring him two jars of pickles.

   "Although your sister-in-law Qiaoling's cooking is not as delicious as yours, the pickled vegetables are a must, and no one in our area can compare to her."

   "Look at the big jars in my yard. Several jars are filled with pickles, and some jars are filled with chili sauce and bean paste."

   "Whenever you want to eat, come and get it."

   Wang Jusheng said with a smile.

   "Sister-in-law is really amazing, I said why are there so many big tanks in the yard?"

  Chen Ling held two black jars, lowered his head and smelled it, his eyes lit up.

  The taste is really good.

   He thought that these big jars were empty, but he didn't expect them to be full of pickles and sauces.

   "Don't listen to your nonsense brother Jusheng, a little bit of pickled vegetables. Whoever doesn't pickle two jars of pickles this year will brag about it when he meets everyone, and he's not ashamed."

   Zhang Qiaoling said with a smile, being a little embarrassed by Wang Jusheng.

   Heart said, how can you brag about yourself in front of others?

   is just a little pickled vegetable. It is also a pickled vegetable if you praise it to heaven, and it is not worth much.

   "Hey, I don't brag about it, it's all eaten by others."

   "Like my colleagues at the police station, as long as I brought pickles from home, I didn't rush to ask me for it."

   "Last time I was afraid that I didn't have enough to eat and put a jar in it. As a result, I ate the whole thing in two meals. Later, when I asked about it, the old man at the door took away half of the bowl. It's a motherfucker."

  Wang Jusheng slapped his thigh and stared.

   "Hahaha, I can't wait to eat it after hearing what you said, Brother Jusheng. When I go back and talk to Susu, I'll have her come to learn from my sister-in-law another day."

  Chen Ling said with a smile.

   Zhang Qiaoling also followed with a smile: "Okay, when Susu girl wants to pickle pickles, I will teach her how to do it."

   That's it, while talking and laughing, he sent Chen Ling out the door.

   "Okay, the child is still at home. Brother Jusheng and sister-in-law Qiaoling, don't give it away, go back quickly."

  Chen Ling waved his hand, said goodbye to the two, and rushed home alone.

   After returning home, Wang Susu had already eaten and was burning a large wooden bucket of hot water, making the whole room steaming hot.

When    saw him come back, he closed the door, took a hot bath together, and then went to bed comfortably on the kang.

  …

   The next day was spring rain again.

  Although it didn't go down much, it was pattering all morning, and it didn't mean to stop.

  Seeing this situation, Chen Ling was not in a hurry to get up to make breakfast. He hugged Wang Susu's delicate body and changed his sleeping position. He planned to sleep on it beautifully for half the morning as before.

   As a result, after half an hour, I was awakened by the noise outside.

   "A Ling, A Ling, get up quickly, there seems to be something wrong outside."

  Wang Susu broke free from Chen Ling's arms and gently pushed him.

   "Early in the morning, what is this for?"

  Chen Ling rubbed his eyes and didn't want to pay attention to it, but the little daughter-in-law was very worried when he heard the movement outside, so he had to climb out of the bed naked to find clothes.

   After getting dressed, Chen Ling took an umbrella and walked out.

  I saw a large crowd of people in the alley, Qin Dongmei, the mother-in-law with a sullen face, kept scolding.

   Qin Qiumei whispered to the side to persuade, but obviously it didn't work, her sister didn't listen to her at all.

Pointing at an old lady with white hair and wearing a blue sackcloth jacket, she yelled, "Damn old lady, if you don't pay for my chickens today, your chickens and ducks won't live anymore, let's see if I give you medicine to die. "

  The old lady was angry and anxious: "Don't be unreasonable, Dongmei, what does the death of your chicken have to do with me? It's a no-brainer, why do you push me on the head..."

Qin Dongmei sneered: "Hehe, you said that I would forcefully slap you on the head? You old man has such a big face! Three neighbors are watching here, you ask, who doesn't know that you often lure other people's chickens into You lay eggs!"

"Let's talk about me, I've bumped into it more than two or three times. I didn't pay attention to you because of your age, and I gave you a face. You're good, just because my chicken broke a few vegetable seedlings in your yard yesterday. Give me chicken medicine to die for."

  The old lady was even more anxious: "It's not vegetable seedlings, it's watermelon seedlings. After I'm ready to re-divide the arable land, I will plant it in the ground."

   "As a result, your chickens ruined all my melon seedlings, so that I can't grow melons this year. I haven't asked you to settle the account yet. You should sue the villain first."

   "Ah! You're still going to settle accounts with me, do you have the face to settle accounts with me? If it wasn't for you, an immortal, who lured my chickens into your house to lay eggs on weekdays, would you be able to spoil your melon seedlings?"

   "You deserve it if you can't grow melons! You asked for it yourself! Why should the medicine kill my chickens?"

   "Anyway, you have to pay my chickens for whatever you say. If you don't have chickens, you will lose money. Ten yuan a piece, not even a penny less."

   Qin Dongmei spat fiercely.

  The old lady was speechless and trembling with anger: "You, you, you..."

  Chen Ling listened to the two quarreling, glanced at Qin Dongmei's house, and saw a yard of dead chickens lying on the ground, drenched by the drizzle, their hair wet and dirty with mud.

   "The Fifth Grandpa is here, Aunt Dongmei, Second Grandma Wang, please stop arguing!"

   At this moment, Chen Ling's former neighbor, the son of village doctor Chen Guoping, shouted.

  The crowd saw Wang Laishun holding a shabby green umbrella and walking over from the south.

"Noisy, noisy! It's raining outside, and I don't think the villagers are making jokes! I can't talk about anything, I have to be noisy, and the team is only a few steps away. When something happens, I know how to scold my mother, and I can't remember when. Team go."

  Wang Laishun walked up to him and scolded him.

  Although it has now been changed to a village committee, the elderly still like to call the village committee a brigade.

   Qin Dongmei rolled her eyes after hearing this, "Going to the village committee must be useful? If you can't solve any problems, who will go?"

   It is true that sometimes Wang Laishun is afraid of trouble, so he is good and muddy.

   After all, it is difficult for an honest official to cut off housework. Many times things are not resolved, and they have to cause a show.

   In addition, there are countless **** incidents in the village, Wang Laishun manages as much as he can, and hides away if he can't.

   As a result, many villagers were dissatisfied, secretly saying that he was cunning and wicked, and that there are many people who are not things.

Wang Laishun had listened to it a long time ago, but now Qin Dongmei was angry in front of him and he didn't care, but smiled and said, "Look at what you said, Dongmei, aren't I here to solve the problem, tell me what's going on? Well, why are you making a fuss here in the morning when you haven't eaten anything?"

"Laishun, don't ask her, this is unreasonable. He slammed on my door early in the morning and insisted that I killed her chicken medicine. No matter how I said it, I couldn't make any sense, and I was almost mad. already."

   "You have to judge me today."

   Grandma Wang Er grabbed Wang Laishun's arm and said in a trembling voice.

   She is an elderly woman who can't quarrel with Qin Dongmei, so she is about to cry.

   "Don't worry, old sister-in-law, let's go and see what happened to Dongmei's chicken..."

   Wang Laishun comforted him.

   Qin Dongmei snorted as soon as she heard this, "What's there to see, can a dead chicken be seen alive?"

   "Secretary, don't try to help this old man..."

  Wang Laishun ignored her, turned his face to Qin Qiumei and said, "Director Qin, let's see what's going on with the chickens at home first."

   "Okay, I've caused trouble for Village Chief Wang!"

   Qin Qiumei was so embarrassed that she pulled her sister and asked her to say a few words less.

  Although her status is more glamorous than her younger sister, in fact, she was taken care of by her younger sister because of her poor body and bones.

   The two get along, but Qin Dongmei is more like a sister, she is more like a sister.

  This leads to the fact that the younger sister is always stronger in front of her.

  …

   A group of people entered Qin Dongmei's house and squatted on the ground to examine the dead chickens.

   Soon, someone exclaimed: "This chicken was not killed by medicine, it was bitten to death by something biting its neck."

  Chen Ling stood behind the crowd and glanced at it, and saw that each chicken had a blood hole on its neck, which was not very obvious.

   If it wasn't for some rain, the feathers of the chickens were sticking together, and I really couldn't see it.

   (end of this chapter)