Chapter 198 The God of War who stays up late: Gray Ball
Seeing this old-fashioned desk, many scenes from the past appeared in Zhang An's mind.
On such a desk, some people will draw a 38-point line, and no two people at the same table are allowed to cross the line.
Zhang An met several such classmates from elementary school to high school.
There are also many people who may be often late, so after reading the text.
Engrave the word "morning" on the corner of the table to remind yourself not to be late again.
Or some boys, who have strong hands-on skills but have trouble with their hands, insist on digging a hole in the table.
I believe many friends born in the 1970s, 1970s and 1990s have memories like this.
Also, in winter, sometimes the weather is so cold that my hands will be so frozen that I can’t write.
And there is no money to buy woolen gloves at home, so many students will get a paint bucket.
Make a few holes on the side, tie a long piece of wire on them, then burn a fire in a bucket and take it to school.
When I got to the classroom, I put the fire barrel under the desk. When my hands got cold during class, I would put them under it to bake.
Even more extreme people carry a few potatoes and sweet potatoes in their pockets.
Just put it in and bake it during class. When get out of class is over, it will be cooked and taken out to eat.
I am not afraid of being discovered by the teacher. There are still students who are divided into teachers.
Not to mention the past, Zhang Tie and the others are still doing this even now.
Last winter, Zhang An could still see several children on the way to school, lighting fires as they walked.
Carrying a paint bucket and swinging it in circles, using the inertial wind to light a fire.
Zhang An also did this when he was a child. At that time, Zhang An was too lazy to light a fire.
I took out a ball of fire from my own coal stove, but ended up extinguishing the fire in the coal stove, and was punished by Wang Fang.
Because there were so many people, it didn’t take long to unload the cart of desks.
Zhang An thought they were gone and was about to go home when the old uncle quickly stopped them and said he would go to the town to pull them over.
Because this time, more than 200 desks were purchased for Changqing Middle School.
Judging from the fact that this car can pull forty or fifty tickets at a time, Zhang An probably has to make four or five trips back and forth.
Hearing that it was going to continue later, everyone was not in a hurry to go back and started walking around the school.
Especially those who have children at home who are going to be in the first grade of junior high school this year. They have already gone to the classroom and looked here and there.
"Jianye, will your Tiewazi go to school this year in the village or in the town."
Everyone in the village who was about the same age as Uncle Zhang An gathered together to chat.
"It must be in the village. It's so far to the town, and I can't usually take care of it."
Many people are worried that there will be no teachers in the village, but Zhang Jianye is not worried.
In this regard, he is quite reassured by his superiors. Since he has decided to open this school, it will definitely solve the teacher's problem.
"Your Tiewazi's grades are so good, I thought you would let him go to the town."
Zhang An heard this correctly. Some people are exaggerating that Tie's grades are good.
Nowadays, it is rare to see a red cross in Zhang Tie’s homework book.
The scores of these exams are all over 90 points.
From being at the bottom of the crane, I was suddenly at the top.
At this year’s parent-teacher meeting, Uncle Zhang An was praised again by the teacher.
"Regardless of whether my grades are good or bad, I think there is not much difference between going to the town and staying in the village."
Uncle Zhang has asked Zhang An this question, and now I will tell you When it comes to bragging, it's actually talking eloquently.
“Children at this age are too playful. If they go to town and no one cares about them, they will probably stop playing in a few days. We might as well take care of ourselves in the village.”
"Besides, it is a good thing for us that the higher-ups set up a school here. It is impossible for other places to set up schools in their own villages."
After listening to Zhang Jianye's words, many undecided parents had this in their hearts. The choice was made.
What Zhang Jianye said makes sense. It is impossible to go to school in your own village in other places.
When I got here, I was still picking and choosing. I haven’t even lived a good life yet, and I started to dislike this and that.
"Then our Xiaojun let him go to school in the village. It's really hard to control him when he travels so far away."
"Let me tell you, you guys really don't have to worry about the teacher. The country Now that we have opened this school, why don’t we give it to the teachers? It’s really a waste of time to worry about it.”
Sending the baby to the town will cost more for living expenses and accommodation.
In this day and age, this sum of money is quite a lot.
So after receiving the news that Changqing Middle School was re-opened, everyone thought it was a good thing.
While chatting, the driver has already driven over.
Everyone did not continue to disperse and brag, but finished their work quickly so that they could rest early later.
After working for more than two hours, we finally finished unloading more than two hundred sets of tables and chairs.
Zhang An returned home and found his mother looking for something in the yard with a flashlight.
"Mom, what are you looking for in the yard this late at night?"
Zhang An thought he had dropped something and wanted to come over and help find it.
"I'm not looking for anything. There was a big rat scurrying here just now. I'm looking for where the rat hole is."
Seeing Zhang An back, Wang Fang straightened up and twisted. Talk to Zhang An with brows.
"Xiao An, there have been more and more mice in our yard in the past few months. In the past, they only came out at night, but now they are running outside in broad daylight. We feed them at home. The chicken's trough has been chewed up by them."
"Is this rat so vicious?"
Zhang An usually didn't pay attention, but when his mother talked about it, he Just found out about this.
It turns out that when the house was first built, there were quite a few rats.
After Zhang An eliminated a wave of rats in advance, there was not much movement of rats in this area.
Unexpectedly, not long after this passed, they started to come out again.
"There are a lot of them. After you went out just now, I saw a few big mice outside, dragging a bunch of small mice running in the yard."
The Zhang An family did not sell food this year. They are all piled up at home.
Wang Fang really couldn’t bear to see so many mice wandering around the house.
There is only one Mimi in the house, but I can’t stand such a mouse.
"Mom, don't worry about this, I will take care of it."
Zhang An thought of the owl that Mr. Huang gave him last year.
This guy is still in the space now. It’s time to take it out to shine and exploit it.
Zhang An wants to let him know that he does not raise useless idlers here.
Owls are natural enemies of mice. If they are around, the house will be cleaner.
After all, there is a field next to Zhang An's house, which contains not only voles, but also other bugs and snakes.
Zhang An went to the old house and took the opportunity to take the owl out of the space.
Long time no see, this owl looks very strong.
When Zhang An took it in, it didn’t even have all its fur.
It's night now, and this guy's eyes don't look too good.
When Zhang An took it out, it imitated the appearance of the flower head and interacted closely with Zhang An.
From now on, there will be a flower head during the day and a cat head at night. They will be the day and night door gods of Zhang An's family.
Zhang An thought about giving this owl a name. After all, he is the night god of war in his family.
"From now on, you will be called Gray Ball." After exhausting the few brain cells in Zhang An's mind, Zhang An finally came up with a name.
Zhang An said while stroking the owl's big furry head.
Not to mention, there are so many feathers on the gray ball head.
Originally Zhang An wanted to call it black carbon or briquettes.
It turned out that this owl had gray feathers, so it was somewhat impolite to call people black coal or briquettes.
So Zhang An changed it a little bit. After all, the name Gray Ball has something to do with it.
The names black carbon and briquettes will be saved for next time. After all, I killed a lot of brain cells before I came up with them.
Zhang An put the gray ball in the nest and carried its nest home.
“Where did you get the night owl?”
Zhang Jianguo frowned a little as he watched Zhang An holding the gray ball.
“Er Master Huang picked this up last year and gave it to me. He has been keeping it in the old house.”
Mainly because the owl’s hoot is sometimes too scary. .
Normally, it makes a "coo" sound, but sometimes it laughs, which is very scary depending on the night environment.
And this thing also holds a grudge, so Zhang Jianguo doesn't like to see it.
“Didn’t my mother say today that there were too many mice in our yard at night, so I moved it here? This guy is no worse at catching mice than Mimi.”
Zhang An I explained it to my father, and then put the gray ball under the eaves of the third floor.
In order to avoid being exposed to strong light during the day, Zhang An also specially provided a backlight for it.
"Mom, don't worry now, we have gray balls at home, and these mice will suffer at night."
Wang Fang has no doubt about him, everyone is from the mountains, We all know the ability of owls to catch mice.
"Then why don't we feed it at home?"
During this period, Wang Fang would often feed Huatou some meat as a snack.
Now that this owl is considered a member of his family, Wang Fang wonders if he should feed it too.
“There’s no need to feed it specially. There are so many mice around our house, it’s enough for it to eat every day.”
Zhang An doesn’t want to feed it too much, otherwise it will just know Go to sleep and don't want to work anymore.
“We’ll wait until there are no more mice. Besides, it sleeps during the day and won’t eat even if you feed it.”
Zhang An watched TV with his parents in the main room for a while.
Then the phone at home rang, and it turned out to be Su Ying calling.
It is now the end of June, and Su Ying called to tell Zhang An.
This weekend, I don’t have to go to school again.
Because the county will hold final exams on the two days at the end of the month, teachers like them have to invigilate the exams.
And after finishing the exam, she still had to mark the papers and score them. It was estimated that Su Ying would not have time for more than a week.
Of course Zhang An doesn't have any objections. He just can't go there when Su Ying is busy.
After the two said a few words on the phone, Su Ying hung up the phone.
She is in school now, calling the canteen outside the school.
It was not convenient for the two of them to talk outside, so I finished talking to Zhang An and hung up the phone.
Before nine o'clock, the sound of popping began to come from outside.
Zhang An got up and went out to see. Although it was dark outside, the moonlight was not that bright tonight.
But Zhang An, with his excellent eyesight, could still see that Gray Ball had caught a fat mouse and was now pressing it to the ground.
Wang Fang also came out with Zhang An, but she couldn't see clearly.
I wanted to turn on the flashlight to see what was going on, but Zhang An stopped me before I could do anything.
"Mom, don't turn on the flashlight. It's Gray Ball who caught the mouse, the boss."
After all, Gray Ball is photophobic and can only accept a little bit of weak light.
And Zhang An’s flashlight is a strong flashlight, so Hui Qiu will definitely not be able to bear it when it is turned on.
Don’t wait until it affects Gray Ball. If Jerry escapes, the gain will outweigh the loss.
Although he was pinned to the ground, this mouse did not give up and kept struggling.
But this is of no use. After all, Gray Ball is said to be invincible at his own weight, and of course it is night.
Although this mouse is fat, compared with the gray ball, it is a piece of cake.
Just after taking over the gray ball, Zhang An also turned off the street lights outside in order to let it adapt to the environment in advance.
Unexpectedly, just a short while later, Gray Ball had already started to gain something.
Zhang An couldn't help but pay a moment of silence for the rats at home. They might have a difficult life in the future.
Wang Fang was extremely happy when she heard Zhang An say that the owl at home had caught a big mouse.
Originally, I still had some grudges against Gray Ball, but now they have disappeared.
Grey Ball seems to be quite smart. He knew that this mouse was relatively big, so he didn’t drag it away in a hurry.
Instead, he pressed it to the ground and rubbed it. He waited until the mountain mouse in his paws stopped moving before flying back to the nest with it in his mouth.
Early the next morning, before Zhang An got up, he heard his mother yelling from downstairs.
Zhang An thought something had happened, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and ran downstairs.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
Zhang An and his father came out at the same time. As soon as they went out, they saw several rows of dead mice in the yard.
Zhang An did not count them in detail, but estimated that there were about ten or twenty.
And they are also arranged in order, from largest to smallest.
“It’s nothing, I’m just being tricked by these mice.”
Anyone who wakes up early in the morning and finds so many dead mice at the door will feel cold. trembling.
When Zhang An saw these dead mice, he also guessed the reason.
Just when he raised his head, he found that Hui Qiu was still standing on the Davidia tree at the door.
It is probably this guy who did it, claiming credit from Zhang An in this way.
"Hui Qiu must have caught him. This guy didn't sleep all night. He must have been catching them."
Seeing so many dead mice, Zhang An discovered that there really was a savage rat in his home. Lots of mice.
But this gray ball is too capable, killing so many in one night.
This is enough for my mom at home to work hard for a week.
"Although night owls eat mice, Xiao An is really good at catching them."
Although Wang Fang was shocked, she was more happy.
With so many mice dead in the house, it will probably be quiet for a long time.
After all, as a rural person, there are few people who don’t hate mountain rats.
Because there are so many of these things, you will be hungry when it is full.
Now Wang Fang looked at the gray ball on the tree opposite, and was even more satisfied with this little thing with a big head.
Zhang An waved his hand and let Hui Qiu go back to his nest to sleep.
Recharge your batteries during the day and continue to work hard at night.
(End of this chapter)