portable space

The chickens that get up early catch the worm. When Zhang Taiping got up, there were already chickens and ducks foraging in the yard. After washing up a little, he picked up the wooden handle and iron fork and walked towards the yard, although he had already put the chickens in the yard.

Wheat is affected by the family, but help is mutual. If others help you, you should also help others.

Just like this, after a few days, everyone in the same field took the wheat into their homes. Finally, they no longer had to go to the field to bask in the sun every day. In the next two days, Zhang Taiping also followed the villagers to plant dried corn on the ground.

Here, we only need to wait for a heavy rain for the seedlings to germinate.

At this point, summer harvest and autumn planting are completed.

"Ah, I can finally rest for a few days." Fan Ming said happily after returning home after planting the last acre of land. In fact, no one forced her to do anything, but she was very curious and had to participate in everything.

"Well, I can relax for two days." Zhang Taiping said as he lay on the recliner and took the watermelon from Ye Ling.

It's already cool in the afternoon, so eating iced watermelon makes it even more refreshing.

"Brother, why do the watermelons in the yard taste better than those in the field outside?" Fan Ming asked while eating watermelon. When she went to the watermelon field yesterday, she found the biggest one and brought it back and put it in the refrigerator.

After a period of time, I ate them at night. Each watermelon was sweet and juicy. It was considered a top-quality watermelon outside. However, Fan Ming, who had eaten the watermelon in the backyard, always felt that there was something missing inside.

, not as delicious as the ones in the backyard.

Of course, it's because Zhang Taiping often watered the watermelons in the yard with space spring water, but he couldn't say it like this: "Maybe it's because the watermelons in the yard are often watered, but the ones outside are not watered often."

If Cai Yazhi or Xing Rushui were here, they might be able to guess the reason. Regarding this answer, Fan Ming just said "oh" indifferently. She just asked casually and had no intention of going into details.

The most beautiful time in the sky is the clouds at dusk. Just before the sun sets, the clouds in the west are dyed red. Some people call them flaming clouds. As the wind blows, they keep changing their shapes in the sky. For a while, they look like chasing the moon.

Tengu, for a while, is like a galloping horse, ever-changing. As long as it is something you can imagine, you can use your own discerning eyes to find something within your reach.

Everyone has two sides. Fan Ming, who is usually as out of touch as a child, is now obsessed with the clouds in the sky. When she is quiet, it makes people think that she is already a big girl. She even has a ladylike demeanor with her hands folded together.

After sunset, it's night. Dinner is millet porridge with two side dishes. One is cucumbers chopped with a knife. Wash the newly picked cucumbers and smash them with a knife. Sprinkle some garlic mustard oil on top, and finally pour hot oil on top.

Once poured, it tastes crisp and refreshing. There is another

Even vinegar-coated zucchini, paired with green peppers, can also arouse people's taste. When we were growing vegetables, dozens of vegetables were grown on almost an acre of land. The biggest advantage was that it was convenient for home consumption. If you couldn't finish it, you could load it into the car and drive it away.

If you sell it in the store, you won't be afraid of spoiling it.

After dinner, Zhang Taiping walked around the garden as usual with a grimace on his face, and then went inside to rest.

Early the next morning, when Zhang Taiping was washing his face, Ye Ling ran over from the backyard and said to Zhang Taiping: "Master, it's bad, something happened in the backyard."

Zhang Taiping was slightly startled, wondering if he had found another thief? Why was there no sound at all last night? He wiped his face and asked, "Did you lose something?"

Ye Ling shook his head and said, "I can't explain what's going on. Grandpa asked you to go over and have a look."

When Zhang Taiping entered the backyard, the chickens and ducks all over the yard were chirping in panic, as if something big had happened. If it weren't for the other animals showing no signs, Zhang Taiping would have thought that an earthquake was coming.

It's just a little strange. At this time in the past, the chickens and ducks would have gone outside to look for food, and they would still be almost all in the yard like today.

The old man was squatting in front of the chicken shed and looking at the ground. Zhang Taiping walked up to the old man and stood up and pointed at the ground for him to see. Zhang Taiping knelt down and looked at it. There was a small pool of blood on the ground, which had dried.

Zhang Taiping thought for a while, and combined with the behavior of the chickens and ducks in the yard, something bad might have happened to the chickens and ducks last night. Anyone who has raised chickens and ducks knows that chickens and ducks cannot see their eyes at night, which is a bit...

It's like night blindness in humans, so chickens and ducks will remain motionless as long as they curl up in one place, and they won't even struggle even if they die.

The chickens raised at home are different from those in other homes. Maybe they sensed something in the morning, so they were so panicked. Apparently, a chicken was in trouble last night.

After standing up, the old man said: "Judging from the blood stains, it should have happened at one or two o'clock last night."

"Then what does grandpa think it might have been?" Zhang Taiping asked.

The old man stroked his beard and pondered for a while and said: "It was not done by humans, and it did not disturb the big dog in the house or the two eagles on the roof, so it must have been a light-hearted way. It was probably a weasel, but

It’s a little strange.”

Zhang Taiping understood what the old man was talking about. Weasels are called "Huang Daxian" in many places, and some people even worship them. However, there is no such custom in Guanzhong, and weasels are regarded as a necessary evil because weasels have

This is a bad habit. When it steals chickens, it doesn't just steal one and run away, but kills many chickens. This makes people hate it deeply.

Zhang Taiping suddenly had a different view on the weasel that the old man mentioned, because he remembered the fiery red figure that chased Xiao Zi that night, and had a sudden glimpse of it in the strange woods in the mountains.

He said to Ye Ling beside him: "Go to the front room and pick up Xiao Zi on the cabinet lid." Maybe this little thing can find something.

Although Ye Ling came with Cai Yazhi and Fan Ming. Cai Yazhi looked at the frightened chickens and ducks in the yard and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Taiping replied: "Maybe something stole the chicken last night."

After hearing this, Cai Yazhi was shocked and asked: "Is it a weasel?" Then she checked in the chicken shed to see if there were any chickens or ducks that had been bitten to death.

Zhang Taiping took Xiaozi from Ye Ling and said, "It might be a weasel, but I'm not sure yet."

Putting Xiao Zi next to the blood stain, the little guy shrugged his nose and sniffed like a puppy, and then waved his paws towards Zhang Taiping with excitement. In this way, he was basically sure that it was the fiery red animal.

All for.

After confirming it, Zhang Taiping told several people about the circumstances of meeting the animal again and again.

"Grandpa Zhang, what kind of animal do you think this is?" Fan Ming asked the old man after hearing this.

The old man thought for a while and said: "Judging from the size Taiping told me, it might be a fox. Only foxes are so fast and nimble."

After being reminded by the old man, Zhang Taiping felt that it looked like a fox.

Fan Ming exclaimed in surprise: "Little fox, that's great!" Then he said to Zhang Taiping, "Brother, catch it."

Zhang Taiping smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "Do you think foxes are so easy to catch? Even ghosts may not be able to catch them in the mountains. Plus, foxes are cunning by nature, making them difficult to catch."

Fan Ming said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, you'll know after you try it."

Zhang Taiping said: "I will definitely give it a try, but I don't know what the result will be."

During the day, I did some chores such as harvesting honey and feeding fish. At night, the chickens and ducks were unwilling to enter the chicken coop and duck coop. Instead, they crowded into a big pile under the eaves, not knowing that it was more dangerous.

.But doing this tonight is beneficial to Zhang Taiping, so he doesn't care about it for the time being. This will better induce the thing to appear in the center of the backyard, with a clear goal.

Of course Fan Ming didn't want to miss such an exciting thing as catching a fox, and insisted on waiting for the fox to appear with Zhang Taiping.

"Why are we sitting here? If the fox comes, wouldn't we miss it?" Fan Ming asked Zhang Taiping doubtfully as they sat under the osmanthus tree in the middle yard.

Zhang Taiping did not defend her belief that it was a fox, and said with a smile: "If someone is present, the smell on people is too strong to hide. If that thing is too scared to come in, wouldn't it be in vain?"

"But if we weren't in the backyard, I wouldn't know even if the fox came." Fan Ming was still confused.

Zhang Taiping pointed to the roof of the back room and said: "Not only are Xiaojin and Xiaofeng there, but there are also lions and ghost faces hidden in the backyard. They must have warned when the fox comes."

Fan Ming was still a little worried: "The lion or the ghost face will definitely scare the fox away. By the time you run to the backyard, there will be no shadow. How are you going to catch it?"

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "Do you really think that a person can catch that thing with bare hands? If I can't catch the ghost face and the lion's special skills, I definitely won't be able to catch it either."

Fan Ming stopped talking and sat in the yard with Zhang Taiping to wait. However, it seemed that the fox was very patient but Fan Ming was impatient.

"Why aren't you here yet?" Fan Ming asked aloud.

Zhang Taiping looked at the time and said: "It's only eleven o'clock, why are you in a hurry? Since you want to catch a fox, you have to wait patiently. Foxes are smart."

"Okay." Fan Ming said after a few strokes on his upper and lower eyelids.

After disappearing for another half, Fan Ming's eyes were almost glued together, and he asked again: "Why aren't you coming? You won't be coming tonight, right?"

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "I came here last night, and I will definitely come again tonight after I taste the benefits. If you feel sleepy, just go back to your room and sleep. There is no need to suffer here."

Hearing this, Fan Ming suddenly opened his eyes: "Who said I was sleepy? I must wait for this cunning fox tonight!"

It seemed that he was beginning to resent this fox. Zhang Taiping smiled and shook his head without saying anything else. At twelve o'clock, Fan Ming had forgotten his heroic words and fell asleep lying on the stone table.