Chapter 68 Thief
Chen Ling looked into the wine box and saw five or six little quails huddled inside. They had black and yellow stripes, small black eyes, and pointed mouths. They looked like A chicken cub is a bit like it, but it's twice as small.
“Hey, you got a quail nest, where did you get it from?”
“From the wheat straw pile outside the village!”
Liu Nier He replied with a smile, and then said to Xizi: "Xizi, take out yours too."
"Uncle Fugui, I have a nest of rabbits in this one. I caught them from the wheat straw outside the village."
The little girl also handed the wine box to Chen Ling.
It turned out to be a few fleshy little rabbits that had not yet opened their eyes.
"Good guy, it belongs to both quail and rabbit. This wheat straw stack is really a place to hide treasures."
Chen Ling smiled.
The wheat straw stacks in the village are piled up after the wheat harvest every year and are used to feed the livestock or be used as firewood. However, now that winter has passed, the grass is everywhere, and the livestock are not short of this fodder. They are piled outside the village without anyone taking care of them.
Not only domestic chickens and ducks like to visit this kind of place, but also pheasants, hares, quails and hedgehogs like to burrow in there.
We are now entering the fourth month of the lunar calendar, which is the peak breeding season for wild animals. At night, if you poke a long bamboo pole into the wheat straw pile, all kinds of things will really come out.
“Didn’t you say you were going to watch a movie tonight? Why are you running around outside again?”
At this time, Wang Susu finished washing the pots and dishes and walked out, opening the courtyard electric light.
"I arrived late and didn't get a good seat. Now the roof, walls and trees are all full of people. I can't even see Anda standing on the bench carrying Anhui, so I can only hear the sound from the outside... "
Liu Nier sniffed and said gloomily.
Due to its remote location, except for the county seat, there is no TV signal at the township level.
Showing a movie in the village is not a small event.
As soon as the loudspeaker in the village shouts that a movie is playing, the whole village immediately becomes a sensation. Even if you don’t want to eat, you have to go there and get a good seat first.
If you can't get a seat in front, you'll step on the bench. If that doesn't work, you'll climb a house or a tree.
Every time a movie is shown, it feels like a war.
"It turns out there was a movie showing tonight, no wonder it was so bright over there at the school."
When Chen Ling came back from the county seat, he noticed that there was bright light and noise there, but at that time Without thinking much, I thought it was Chen Erzhu who was causing trouble at home.
Chen Erzhu's house is located in the northernmost part of the village. The house is built behind Chenwangzhuang Primary School, which is separated from the primary school by a large weir and pond.
As for Chenwangzhuang Primary School, it has no gates or walls. It is dilapidated, but there is a large open space.
So every time a movie is shown in the village, it is shown in the school.
"Uncle Fugui, grandpa also went to watch a movie tonight. He asked me to tell you that the oxcart will not be ready until tomorrow night."
Xizi said with a blushing face.
“Okay, it’s okay to be a day or two late. I’m not in a hurry to use it recently.”
Chen Ling rubbed the little girl's head and said with a smile.
The last time Chen Sangui promised to get him a bullock cart, he also finished the work from Erzhu. He spent time at night to do it. It could have been done tonight.
As a result, the movie screening in the village today will be a day late.
"Have you two eaten tonight? If not, I will boil two eggs for you."
Wang Susu brought two small matzahs to the two little dolls and asked .
"We have eaten Aunt Su Su, and before we came here we grilled a cauliflower snake by the weir pond."
Liu Nier raised her head and said proudly.
Chen Ling and Wang Susu were both amused when they saw this. This kid couldn't watch movies, but he would find fun for himself.
"Uncle Fugui, please put the quails and rabbits away quickly."
"Ida said that the little rabbits won't be able to survive if they get someone's luck before they even open their eyes. I was a little reluctant to take him home to feed the dog..."
Liu Nier placed the two wine boxes in front of Chen Ling. While talking, she and Xizi squatted beside the wine boxes, looking at the little quails and rabbits inside. "Same for you, kid. Can you feed the rabbits by sending them to me?"
"Yes, why not? Didn't Heiwa and Xiaojin fall into your arms as soon as they could run?" Are you back? You are so strong now, a little rabbit can definitely do it, I believe you..."
Good guy, this is reasonable.
Chen Ling was speechless, so he had to take out the bamboo basket containing the little ducks, put the little quails in, and found the kennel where Hei Wa and Xiao Jin had been when they were young, and settled the little rabbits.
The two little babies were relieved.
After playing happily for a while, he left again holding the kerosene lamp.
......
In the next few days, Chen Ling stayed at home and did not go to the county seat again.
Every day I am either reading a book on the deck chair in the yard, or taking my two puppies to the fields to graze the cows, or going into the mountains with Wang Susu to collect some medicinal materials.
The days passed leisurely and fulfillingly.
But on this day, while Chen Ling was feeding the chickens after breakfast, he discovered something bad.
There are fewer eggs in the henhouse.
And more than one is missing.
He used to collect eggs every two days, and two old hens could lay at least a dozen eggs.
There is no doubt that this is the contribution of the peanut branches and spinach in Dongtian.
But today there are only two or three eggs in the henhouse.
"Even if there is a thief in the house, it's impossible to just steal eggs. This must be something good..."
Chen Ling's face darkened, if it was Huang Pizi who stole it, impossible.
Those two little guys have drank the water from Dongtian Stream, and like Hei Wa and Xiao Jin, they have opened their minds and understand human nature, and they know what is good and what is bad.
Now I basically walk around the chicken coop, and even when I come home, I don’t dare to show my face in front of the chickens.
Because Chen Ling warned them not to scare the old hens at home.
The two old hens were so frightened when they came to steal chickens at night that they laid thin-skinned eggs for several days. Chen Ling fed them some water from Dongtian Creek before they got better.
"The two puppies haven't gone out much in the past two days and run wild. How can something steal eggs silently..."
Chen Ling thought in confusion, he was at home. When he was at home, Hei Wa and Xiao Jin usually followed him closely. Only Wang Susu dared to sneak out when he was at home.
He squatted outside the chicken coop and observed carefully. The two old hens didn't seem to be frightened.
So I got up and walked around the corners of the wall to see if there were any clues.
As a result, after this turn, he really discovered something.
Only not in the yard, but outside the yard wall, I found two empty eggshells.
There is a small hole in the eggshell, as if it was bitten by something.
"What's wrong, Aling?"
At this time, Wang Susu came from the alley holding a thick stack of dark blue fabric. She went to Cui Laizi's canteen to make a pair of pants for Chen Ling.
Seeing him squatting here, looking a little wrong, he hurriedly came over.
"There are a lot of eggs at home. I looked around and found two empty egg shells here. I don’t know what they were made of..."
Chen Ling picked up the egg shells and gave them to Wang Susu looked at it.
Wang Susu's expression changed when she saw the hole in the eggshell, "This, this couldn't be done by magpies, right? I keep seeing magpies landing in our yard these days."
I don’t know how to be a eunuch, and I have no intention of doing so. With so many examples before me, I will definitely not do anything bad. After all, I was once a loyal reader of so and so...
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(End of this chapter)