Chapter 638 Sheeppen Expansion
In the rice field at the entrance of the village, those who came early had already put their kites in the sky. They looked as small as a sparrow.
The naughty children who have just arrived are running in the fields, hoping to fly their kites into the sky.
There are also some children who don’t have kites and can only play with other things in the fields, looking at the kites hanging in the sky with envy from time to time.
When Li Yaogang found the wind direction and flew his kite into the sky, Zhang Bao next to him shouted several times at him.
"Li Yao, look at whether my Nezha flies high or not."
Zhang Bao shouted, pointing to his kite that was already hanging high in the sky and said, The tone was full of show off.
This kind of thing is very normal. Rural children fly kites together because they like to compete with who can fly high.
Although Zhang Bao called Li Yao, many children around him were attracted. Even some children who bought kites were still envious of Zhang Bao who flew the kite extremely high.
On the one hand, Zhang Bao’s Nezha kite is already the largest kite sold in Changqing Village, and is on the same level as Li Yao’s Monkey King.
You must know that Zhang Bao is different from other children. Others need to spend money to buy it, but Zhang Bao, a big dog, does not because their family runs a store.
On the other hand, I naturally envy Zhang Bao's ability to fly the kite. After all, a kite must have a string to fly high and far. Without a string, it's all in vain.
The thread used by children in the village to fly kites is fishing line, but the price of a roll of fishing line is not cheap. It costs at least one yuan to buy it.
So although many children present have kites, due to financial constraints, they only have two rolls of string boards made of wooden boards in their hands at most.
But Zhang Bao is different. Not only is the string board made big, but four or five rolls of string are placed on it. This is beyond the reach of ordinary children, so his kites are better than those of others. Much higher.
"Huh, you just came earlier than us. In a while, my Monkey King will be able to put it up, and it will definitely be taller than yours."
Zhang Bao glanced at the sky when he heard this, but he was not envious. He just snorted and said to Zhang Bao.
If any of the many children in Changqing Village can compete with Zhang Bao, the shop prince, then it is probably Li Yao, a kid from a rich family.
Perhaps Zhou Lan is more strict with her children in normal times, but during the Chinese New Year, she naturally needs to be more relaxed.
As the economic conditions improve, Li Yao can expand his equipment arsenal.
His wire board was made with the help of Zhang An, his godfather, and five or six reels of wire were put into it.
That’s not all. If he wants, he can continue to add more.
So Li Yao doesn't envy Zhang Bao at all. He is very confident that his kite can fly high and far.
After talking, a breeze blew from the field.
Li Yao immediately seized this opportunity and kept putting the fishing line on the fishing line.
Not long after, the Monkey King, who had just flown into the sky, had already flown far away with the wind.
Seeing that the line was almost laid out, Li Yao stopped putting it out. Instead, he grabbed the string board and tugged the line, and slowly raised his kite.
“See, I said mine will definitely be higher than yours.”
Seeing that his kite looked smaller than Zhang Bao’s, Li Yao immediately threw it A provocative look.
When Zhang Bao heard this, he was a little unconvinced and also placed his own wire board.
As a result, after he did this, Li Yao set the line with him.
But when they reached a certain height, the two little guys stopped.
Because at this moment, their own kites have been flown very high, and the string tension in their hands is getting stronger and stronger.
If they continue to let go, they may not be able to pull it anymore.
And at this time, if there is a sudden strong wind, the two kites are very likely to get tangential.
By then, the kites in the sky will really fly. Even if the two little guys are very pampered at home, such a loss will make them feel distressed for a long time.
Seeing the two children bickering over the kite, Zhang An sat on the ridge of the field and watched with some joy.
Such a scene reminded him of what he used to be like when he was a child.
But time is not forgiving. In the blink of an eye, he, Huang Ming, Zhou Yang and other childhood playmates have become husbands and fathers, the backbone of the family.
“Dad, I want to play too.”
When he was reminiscing about the past, little Siqi, who was sitting in his arms, pointed at the kite flying in the sky and said.
"Hahaha, you are too young to play with those things yet. When you are as old as brother Li Yao, dad will buy them for you."
Zhang Anhaha Yixiao said, it's not that he was reluctant to buy it for his son, it's just that Xiao Siqi is too young now, and he can't hold it even if he is given a small kite.
"Uncle Xiao An, let me give you some food."
At this time, Xiao Tang Yuan ran up to Zhang An carrying clothes.
And what she was carrying in her clothes were all the pieces of food she had just broken off.
“This is good, where did you get it?”
In this kind of weather, it is most suitable to eat a few pickles.
The vegetable itself is a vegetable that can be eaten raw. You only need to peel off the skin. It is as crunchy as a melon.
“Hehe, I broke it in my field.”
After giving Zhang An a few small glutinous rice balls, he also sat next to him and peeled them off to eat.
Zhang An did not refuse, peeled off one and handed it to his son.
The little guy who had been clamoring for a kite just now was completely attracted by the fresh and tender baby cabbage in his hand.
The weather was very good in the next few days. While many naughty children were playing kites, February quickly came to the end of the month, and the registration day for middle schools and primary schools arrived unknowingly.
Early in the morning, Zhang An found a circle of children surrounding his yard.
I walked over and saw that they were lying on their flower beds, trying to catch up on their unfinished winter vacation homework.
Seeing how they wrote vigorously and with great energy, Zhang An couldn't help but sigh, how miserable they must be now despite how much fun they had during the holidays.
"Er Mao, why don't you make up your homework at home and come here?"
Zhang An is not surprised by the naughty children making up their winter vacation homework. After all, this happens every year It happened, and he was used to seeing her every year. What was strange to him was why he came to his house this year.
"Uncle An, uh, uh, because everyone is here."
Ermaohai hesitated when he heard Zhang An asked.
As the saying goes, if a child is quiet, he must be acting like a monster. Seeing how Er Mao was hesitating and his eyes were still wandering, Zhang An was sure there was something going on that he didn't know about.
Sure enough, when he went up to check, he found several naughty children copying the same winter vacation homework together.
It was only then that Zhang An realized why the kid Ermao looked like he had something in his heart.
This year's holiday homework is all given by the school, and the answers behind it have long been torn up by the teacher.
Registration has started now. In such a tight time, it is impossible to finish writing. The only way is to find a book that has been written and copy it.
Taking the winter vacation homework they were copying, Zhang An discovered that it belonged to Li Yao.
It is estimated that this is the reason why they gathered here at their home. Seeing Zhang An take away their reference answers, all the naughty children stared at Zhang An nervously, how pitiful and pitiful they looked.
"Okay, okay, I won't talk to you today. I'll finish it quickly and sign up. But in the future, you are not allowed to copy homework anymore, do you hear me?"
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For Zhang An, copying winter vacation homework is not a big mistake. After all, everyone has had this experience when they were young.
“Okay, Uncle An, we won’t copy anymore.”
After hearing Zhang An’s words, the nervous children breathed a sigh of relief and then buried their heads again. I copied it seriously.
"Okay, don't stay here anymore, go back to the house and bring out the chairs to write on."
Zhang An couldn't help but shake his head, if these children can be so serious usually , then this homework has been finished long ago.
Before noon, before Su Ying came back, all the children, whether finished or unfinished, had already run away early with their winter vacation homework.
After all, everyone knows that Uncle An’s aunt is a teacher and is usually very strict.
If she is caught copying homework, she will definitely be taught a lesson.
Time flies, the two days of registration passed quickly, February slipped away quietly, and March followed.
"Daughter-in-law, get up soon, you have to go to morning study today."
When he woke up early in the morning, Zhang An looked at his wife, who was still sleeping soundly in his arms, and finally chose to wake her up.
Whether it is a student or a teacher, holidays are the most debilitating thing to do.
No, Su Ying used to get up very early every day, but after just over a month of winter vacation, she was already used to sleeping in.
"Ah, what time is it?"
Su Ying was woken up and asked dazedly, rubbing her eyes.
However, his eyelids did not open, and he looked as if he would fall back and sleep again.
"It's already ten past seven. If you don't get up, you won't have time to eat."
Zhang An reminded again, although he knew that his wife usually didn't You still need to put on makeup, but you still need to simply comb your hair when you get up, but you can't get up late like some male teachers do.
"Mom, it's time to get up and eat noodles."
Just when Su Ying wanted to linger on the bed for a few minutes, little Siqi had already ran to the door and knocked on the door.
"Okay, okay, mom, get up right now."
As soon as she heard her son's voice, Su Ying had to force herself to get up even though she was still sleepy.
Zhang An did not expect that his son could also wake him up.
"Okay, mom is gone. You should listen to your grandparents and dad at home."
After breakfast, Su Ying rubbed her son's crew cut before going out with satisfaction. Go to school.
"Son, come here and let dad rub it too."
Because he has been seeing his wife rubbing his son's head for the past two days, Zhang An also wanted to try it.
As expected, he felt very comfortable after just a few rubs.
Because my son has a crew cut, the feeling of his short hair rubbing against his palms is quite addictive.
But it was comfortable. The next moment, Zhang An immediately threw this idea out of his mind, and had to stop his wife.
Because he suddenly remembered that in the NBA, Yaodao was originally a handsome young man with long hair, but in the end he was forcibly touched by Shi Buddha and became bald.
My son is only so old, so he doesn’t want to do this.
After playing with his son for a while, Zhang An came to the vegetable garden carrying a watering can.
Because the vegetables that were planted at home some time ago have grown out of the ground.
I have to say that this spring is good, and these newly grown vegetable seedlings are full of vitality.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer vegetables growing in the vegetable field, Zhang An had no choice but to come over and water them.
He didn’t want the previous crop to have been eaten before the next crop grew.
At noon, Zhang Jianguo, who had gone out to herd, came back with his family's large and small flocks of sheep.
"Xiao An, our family has to build another sheepfold."
While eating, Zhang Jianguo suddenly said.
"Is our sheep pen not enough?"
One thing to say is that in recent years, my father has been managing the sheep at home, and Zhang An really doesn't care too much.
“Our family now has more than 40 sheep. Because the deer pens are free, it is enough for now, but in a few days, many ewes will give birth. This batch of ewes will give birth to calves. There are a lot of ewes, more than a dozen of them. When they all give birth, even if they add deer pens, it won’t be enough.”
Originally, Zhang An’s sheep pen would not be able to be closed last year, but then. Their deer herd was loaned to the village deer park by Zhang Jianwen, so the deer pen was emptied out, which relieved a lot of pressure.
But now there are new lambs to be added to the family, and the territory is becoming more and more tense.
"In that case, let's build it. Build a bigger one this time."
After hearing what his father said, Zhang An realized that the dozen or so sheep he had bought originally , has become such a large scale.
This time more than a dozen sheep will give birth, and at least a dozen more lambs will be added.
But according to past practice, I am afraid that twenty sheep will have to go up, so it is time to expand the sheepfold.
"Then look where Gai is, and then go talk to your second uncle."
Zhang Jianjun has been working for the village in the past few days. It seems that it has been completed these days, and he can be asked to help build the sheepfold.
"Yeah, I know."
Zhang An nodded, even if Zhang Jianguo didn't say it, he still thought so.
Building the sheepfold is not a particularly urgent matter, but there is nothing busy these days, so Zhang An plans to finish it early.
After eating, the father and son spent a long time at home thinking about where to build a sheepfold.
"Xiao An, do you think it would be okay to build it over there at the old house? There happens to be half a piece of land left there."
The first thing Zhang Jianguo thought of was the vegetable patch behind the old house. The village replaced half of it to build a reservoir, but in the end half of the space was left, which was enough to build a sheepfold.
After listening to this, Zhang An thought about the rate carefully, and finally shook his head.
“Forget it, Dad, we have to get people to guard it there every day. Let’s build it behind our big circle. The space there is not small, so we can build a big one.”
The old house is indeed a suitable place, but it is a bit far from home.
Although things have become more peaceful in the past two years, cattle and horse thefts still happen. If the sheepfold is built there, someone in the family will have to live there permanently, so Zhang An still prefers the family side.
(End of this chapter)