Chapter 54 Scarab
Going home and entering the yard.
The chicken feathers on the ground were stained with blood.
Appeared in front of two people.
Something happened to the chicken at home!
Wang Susu hurriedly took inventory and found that the old hen was missing one and the chicks were missing about ten. The rest were all hiding in the corner of the chicken coop and shivering.
When he saw the two people coming over, he screamed in panic and helplessness, obviously very frightened.
The two puppies sniffed the residual smell in the air and kept barking.
“Damn it, it’s definitely a weasel coming to our door.”
Chen Ling’s face was gloomy, “First it harmed Qin Dongmei’s family, then Aunt Wang’s family, and this time it came to our house again. ”
"They must have seen that neither us nor the dog were at home, so they took advantage of this opportunity and came to steal our chickens."
Early this morning, the two of them went up the mountain without breakfast, picking food again. Yao was digging bamboo shoots again. I was very happy that the harvest was good, but this happened when I got home.
It is really difficult for the two of them to be happy again.
"Aling, the big rooster is nowhere to be found."
Wang Susu searched around and found that even the big, burly and strong rooster with bright feathers was missing. Gone.
If nothing else, he must have been poisoned by the weasel.
I was angry and sad for a while: "We haven't messed with these chicken thieves at all, why do they come to steal our chickens?"
The big roosters and old hens at home After raising it for more than a year, my family was reluctant to eat it during the Chinese New Year, but it was harmed by weasels.
It would be unbearable for anyone else.
Chen Ling saw that his wife was so angry that her eyes were red, and she immediately gritted her teeth and said: "This yellow-skinned guy has been causing trouble to several businesses around him recently, and he will inevitably come again in the future. I will go to Cui Laizi's small shop right away. Buy some rat poison and kill these bitches.”
"Is rat poison okay?"
Wang Susu asked uncertainly.
Chen Ling responded affirmatively: "It must be done. You cook the porridge first, and I'll be right back."
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After a while, Chen Ling not only bought back the rat poison, but also a small piece of fresh meat.
The fresh meat was soaked in Dongtian stream water and then cut into several pieces.
They were covered with rat poison, or placed on the wall around the chicken coop, or hung on a nearby tree with a rope.
At this time, the two puppies had already smelled the smell, and ran over barking, circling around a few pieces of meat, drooling with greed.
"Okay, get up and drive, this is not for you to eat."
Chen Ling drove the two puppies aside, then caught the chicken cubs and put them into the bamboo basket. Put it in the house.
Then the chicken coops of the remaining two old hens were covered with wire mesh.
Then we sat down to have breakfast.
"Is this okay? How about we put down two clips?"
Wang Susu felt that Chen Ling's arrangement was too simple. It was just a few pieces of meat laced with rat poison. With something as cunning as a weasel, , will you be fooled?
“Don’t worry, it will definitely work.”
"As long as they dare to come, these few pieces of meat are enough to make them never come back."
Chen Ling took a sip of porridge and said confidently.
Wang Susu asked after hearing this: "Then are you still going to the county today?"
Originally, Chen Ling planned to go to the county today to sell medicinal materials and order a batch of fruit tree saplings. .
Unexpectedly, there was a weasel at home, which immediately put him in a bad mood.
"I won't go. I can't get rid of this anger in my heart until I kill these two yellow skins."
In fact, I am also worried that if the meat soaked in Dongtian Stream attracts something else, Wang Susu will take care of it at home. No.
After all, the Dongtian Stream is very attractive to animals and plants.
Even the water used to cook porridge from the Dongtian Stream was poured into the flower pond of crabapple flowers. This year they are much more prosperous than last year. Not only there is a rich floral fragrance, but the flowers are also thicker and fuller. I opened up a small half of the yard, causing bees and butterflies to fly all over the yard every day.
Chen Ling even suspected that the weasel had discovered something special in his yard.
Otherwise they just bit Qin Dongmei and Mrs. Wang’s chickens to death, why would they start eating them directly when they arrived at his house.
Probably because he realized that his chicken was more delicious.
In order to let his old hens lay eggs well and let the chicks grow up quickly, Chen Ling always chopped the peanut vines from Dongtian mixed with spinach, or mixed them with cornmeal or bran. Feed with bran.
How can such a chicken be compared to ordinary chickens?
It is a normal reaction for a weasel to eat it directly after tasting it.
After breakfast, Chen Ling cleaned up the medicinal materials that needed to be dried and put them in bamboo plaques. He also took out the medicinal materials that were not sold last year and arranged them one by one in the yard to dry.
When preparing to go to the county seat, sell them together.
"Uncle Fugui, are you at home..."
At this time, a few little heads poked their heads in at the door.
Chen Ling looked over and saw that Liu Nier was coming with Xizi and the boy from Chen Yuqiang's family in the front yard.
Chen Yuqiang is Chen Guoping's youngest son. Although he is over thirty, he is of lower generation. When he meets Chen Ling, he has to call him "Uncle Fugui".
But his child is still young, two years younger than Liu Nier, and his seniority is still unclear. He should be called Uncle Chen Ling, but he always calls him Uncle Fugui after Liu Nier.
Chen Ling just followed his call.
"Are you guys here to see the cows again?"
Chen Ling stood up with a smile and waved: "Come in quickly."
After the little buffalo was brought back, it quickly became the new favorite of the little ones because it was all white and cute. .
As for Hei Wa and Xiao Jin, they have been growing in size and have long lost the chubby and cute appearance of little puppies when they were young. The little ones have lost interest in them.
“No, we are here to feed the chickens.”
The three Liu Niers walked into the yard, each holding a wine bottle in his hand.
Chen Ling took a closer look and said, "Oh, where did you catch so many scarabs?"
The wine bottle was filled with golden and black scarabs.
"Hey, we caught it in the field..."
Liu Nier raised the bottle and handed it to Chen Ling: "Uncle Fugui, look, if the chicken eats this, it can Lay more eggs.”
Chen Ling took the bottle and looked at it, and saw scarab beetles crawling around on the smooth bottle wall. They were plump and round. Such insects contain a lot of energy. Rich in protein, old hens will indeed become more diligent in laying eggs after eating it.
"Why don't you take it back and feed it to your chickens?"
"My chickens don't lack this. I catch a lot of them on my way home from school every day."
Liu Nier took a sip. Snot, "The bottle of Xizi's bottle is Hei Laobao, which was caught for her grandfather's chickens. Komori and I fed the beetles to Uncle Fugui's chickens."
Hei Laobao is black. The scientific name of the scarab beetle is the dark scarab beetle. Because of its black body, it was nicknamed "Hei Laobao".
The little girl suddenly blushed and said: "Uncle Fugui, I will definitely come and give you the worms I catch next Sunday."
Chen Ling touched the little girl's head and smiled gently: "No, there was a weasel in our house this morning. There are not many chickens left, so you can take them back and feed them to your grandfather's chickens." "
"Ah? Weasel, isn't that Wong Tai Sin?"
The faces of the three little kids changed. It was obvious that they had been influenced by adults and had heard the legend about Wong Tai Sin.
“Weasels are nothing to be afraid of. In fact, they are considered beneficial animals. They are good at eating rats. They are grudge-minded and vengeful, which is why people dare not provoke them.”
“ In fact, as long as there are dogs at home, weasels generally don’t dare to come to the house.”
Chen Ling gave popular science tips to the children.
“Is this really true?”
“But I heard from my grandfather that someone in Kinmen Village killed a yellow fairy queen, roasted it and ate it, and the result was less than half a month old. , he suffered retribution and died at his doorstep."
Chen Yuqiang's son Xiaosen said with a sullen face.
(End of this chapter)