Chapter 106 Wild Pigeon
The dolls raised their little heads and gathered around Wang Susu. Although their faces were dirty and their money items were broken, their eyes were all the same. It's bright and clean...
This scene made Wang Susu's heart feel hot and her nose sore. She was surprised and moved for a moment, but when she saw Du Juan walking out of the house at this time, she hurriedly wiped it. Out of the corner of the eye: "Auntie is fine, please collect the money quickly. How can Auntie spend your money?"
Little kids, you look at me, I look at you, and then they all shook their heads at Wang Susu, Stubbornly unwilling to recycle.
Wang Susu had no choice but to squat down and patiently explain to them.
But he didn't notice that Du Juan had already taken out the camera from the house and took a picture of the scene. After taking the picture, he saw Chen Ling looking over and smiled at him. He raised the camera and took another picture. This time it was... It took him in too.
Seeing this, Chen Ling also smiled at her and took pictures if he wanted. In fact, let alone Wang Susu, he was quite touched when he saw the situation just now. In the end, he was not in vain. Hello fellow monkeys. In fact, little babies are always the most innocent. As long as you are nice to them, they will naturally take you into their hearts and be willing to share their best things with you.
So he walked up to Liu Nier and others, pressed their little heads with two palms, and each of them pulled out a radish.
"Where did the monkeys get their money from? Others stole it from home."
"No, this is what I sold scorpions and scorpions last year. Cicada shells. ”
Liu Nier immediately retorted with a pout.
"It's the same for me."
"It's the same for me."
Chen Ling opened his mouth in an exaggerated manner: "Good guy, you can make a fortune by catching scorpions. Ah, you can take me with you another day.”
“Okay, I can take you, but you have to listen to me, Uncle Fugui, I know where there are more scorpions.”
When Liu Nier heard this, she immediately puffed up her chest: "I caught more than fifty miles one night last year. If Anda hadn't called me home, I would have caught a hundred."
< br>"So many, okay, okay, I will follow you and listen to you."
Chen Ling smiled and nodded.
Wang Susu looked on and couldn't help but smile.
In fact, in their place, as soon as summer comes and the busy farming period is over, not only the children catch scorpions at night, but adults will also catch them.
It's a hot day and I can't sleep at home. Catching scorpions outside will not only keep cool in the mountain breeze, but I can also sell them for money. It's a two-fold deal. Besides, the price of scorpions at this time is pretty good. When they are expensive, they can be sold for 20 cents each at a large market. When they are cheap, they are sold regardless of their size and are charged by the pound. A pound of scorpions costs about ten yuan, or one or two. There are about twelve or thirteen scorpions, which means that one hundred scorpions can be sold for about eight or nine yuan.
In this day and age, that’s really not a big deal, at least he can cut three pounds of pork.
So in the fifth and sixth lunar months, go and see it. In and outside the village, and even on the mountains, there are all flashlights and torches at night. From a distance, the guy looks like a little devil entering the village.
However, catching scorpions also depends on the year. In some years, scorpions are crawling everywhere and can be seen in the cracks in the walls of the house. You can even get stung if you don't pay attention when you go to the toilet. But in some years, scorpions are crawling everywhere. In recent years, scorpions are almost invisible, turning over piles of rocks in and outside the village, or some people have gone to the mountains to look for them, but they can't find them no matter how hard they look.
Don’t worry about it in this kind of year. After two years, it will naturally increase again.
"Let's go and touch the shrimps. In order to let you take me to catch more scorpions in a few days, I decided to make prawns for you to eat today."
Chen Ling stood up and said hello to the little kids, then carried on his back Put on the basket and pick up the net bag to go to the reservoir to catch crayfish.
When the little kids heard this, their eyes widened one by one, and then they all burst into cheers, feeling that the surprise came too suddenly. Liu Nier was already so greedy that she even dreamed of eating the prawns cooked by Chen Ling. She couldn't hold back at this moment, so she opened her legs and rushed out at full speed. She was so excited when she left the courtyard. I picked up the wine box in my hand and ran towards the reservoir, shouting as I ran: "Touch the shrimps, touch the shrimps, Uncle Fugui is going to make prawns for us."
"Liu Ni'er, Liu Ni'er, Liu Ni'er, don't run so fast, put down the money before you go."
Wang Susu saw that the boy was just running out. There was still some change in the wine box, but he didn't know to put it down, so he swung his arms and rushed out. .
After shouting quickly and slowly, I finally called the kid back, and then asked the other kids to put the money in the yard and then went to the reservoir to fish out a basket of crayfish.
"Huh? Dujuan is gone?"
"I'm leaving. I want to keep him here to eat. He said he was inspired and wants to go back to paint. I can't force him to stay. . ”
“Okay, I’ll make the shrimps later.”
“Yes, I know.”
...
Next, Chen Ling cleaned the crayfish, and the little kids took some of the water used by Wang Susu to wash clothes, mixed some soap, and while watching Chen Ling cook, they blew the crayfish in the yard. Bubbles, but they were not sure when blowing bubbles, because Heiwa and Xiaojin had never seen this thing before, so they were very curious. Often when the little baby finally managed to blow a big bubble, he would be bitten by them. Even if it floats, it will be useless. They will chase it around the yard and bite it into their mouths. Naturally, they will not bite anything.
The two dogs tilted their heads and looked at each other in depression, unable to figure out what was going on. They just barked anxiously and circled around Liu Ni'er, making the little doll amused. They giggled and blew the bubbles more vigorously.
However, not long after the play, the smell of crayfish began to come out. At this time, the little kids had no intention of playing around, they just gathered around the kitchen and swallowed eagerly. Even Heiwa Xiaojin stopped pursuing the strange bubble and huddled beside it, wagging its tail and moaning.
"Okay, uncle Fugui, if I don't get out of the pot, I feel like the smell has turned into insects, trying to make holes in my stomach."
"Wait another two minutes and count to a hundred silently." Waiting and waiting, waiting and waiting, after counting the hundred silently, the crayfish is finally out of the pot, and the little kids have already drooled three thousand feet. , regardless of whether it was hot or not, they rushed to take it in their hands, inhaling the heat, holding it and gnawing it, even forgetting Chen Ling's instructions on how to eat crayfish in advance, the red soup, The guy enjoyed the delicious meat. He wanted to eat both the shrimp shells and the tongs.
However, the little kid's appetite was still too small. After devouring three or four of them, he couldn't eat any more. Chen Ling picked some lotus leaves and wrapped some for each of them. , let them take it back.
As for Wang Susu, just let Wang Susu deliver the rest to Du Juan. The couple has been getting tired of eating meat recently, so they will make do with two bowls of noodles later.
……
In the blink of an eye, it was the twentieth day of the fifth lunar month, and nearly ten days had passed since the thief broke out at Chen Ling's house. Chen Erzhu had not done anything, but Sun Yanhong showed up and paid a visit to Chen Wangzhuang to pay off the half-month wages that Chen Erzhu owed the villagers. , maybe this woman also knew that Chen Erzhu had a bad reputation in the village, so without saying anything else, she gave the money to Wang Laishun and asked him to distribute it to the villagers on his behalf, and then left.
What no one expected was that this woman actually came to Chen Ling's house quietly that night. Knowing that the red eels were not for sale, she directly raised the price to five thousand yuan. Unfortunately, Chen Ling was not convinced about this price. Without changing her expression, she was kicked out of the house. Sun Yanhong had no choice but to grit her teeth and sell her to 8,000 yuan. If she didn't sell the 8,000 yuan, she would sell it to 10,000 yuan, which was almost the same as Shanmao's price.
However, Chen Ling still refused, forcing Sun Yanhong to plead with him with all kinds of soft and kind words, and even almost knelt down before him. In the end, he had no intention of letting go. In desperation, Sun Yanhong could only leave in despair at night.
Regarding this matter, Chen Ling has never figured out why this woman is so obsessed with her eels. Until a few days later, when Wang Jusheng came over to play with his big head in his arms, he told him a piece of gossip, saying that Sun Yanhong's brother had fallen. Erzhu had done a lot of bad things over the years. If he was imprisoned this time, he would probably have to live in a better place. It's been a while, and I heard that even the sand quarry in the county has changed its staff. Only then did Chen Ling gradually come back to his senses.
“This guy, is it possible that this thing is a gift for officials?”
Surrounded by the red eel tank, Chen Ling murmured in his heart. Although it sounded ridiculous, the more he thought about it, the more he thought it was possible. After all, don't officials do many weird things? Otherwise, why would Sun Yanhong come all the way here after seeing two strange red eels in her house? She even offered them a 'sky-high price' of 2,000 yuan on her first visit. Later, she refused to sell to Chen Erzhu and paid them back twice. To come and steal it, to put so much effort into it, is definitely not to take it back and keep it for fun. This is not for future generations. Taking it back and keeping it as a rare species has some ornamental value.
“But this woman can come over to help Erzhu’s son settle his wages, so she has some conscience.”
Chen Erzhu’s reputation is not good to begin with. Since the last time he was beaten by Chen Ling After the misfortune was made known to everyone in the village, it became even more stinking, and the scandalous things that his father had done back then were brought up and talked about.
No, Qin Dongmei was so frightened that she didn't dare to go out for half a month. She kept the door closed every day. Even when she came out to pour swill, she did it secretly in the dead of night, for fear that outsiders would know what she had with Chen Erzhu. After all, I can live a manageable life behind closed doors. If anyone really finds out, let alone Chen Wangzhuang, my parents will not be able to go back.
It’s a good thing that she didn’t go out much before. She relied on Qin Qiumei and Wang Chunyuan’s abilities all day long and didn’t take the villagers seriously. Otherwise, the gossip would have spread long ago, even if she didn’t know about her. In this matter, the story of Wang Chunyuan's upbringing must be recounted several times.
There is no way, there is a shortage of everything in the countryside, but there is no shortage of gossipy women.
Shaking his head, Chen Ling stopped thinking about these miscellaneous things. Instead, he took the two red eels into the cave while Wang Susu was not at home.
These two red eels were first brought back from the reservoir. Within a month, they had grown to more than 40 centimeters, and they had even produced seedlings. However, now that they have been released for nearly a month, they have barely grown at all. They are still only about 40 centimeters tall. I don’t know if the tank is too small, which limits their growth, or if they can only grow so big.
In fact, according to Chen Ling's own guess, it should be because the water tank is too small, because the eel fry in Dongtian have also grown to about 40 centimeters long, and they have produced a lot of fish eggs in the past two days. , but nearly a hundred fry placed outside have grown to just over ten centimeters and stopped growing. The main reason for this is that there are too many fish and the tank is too small.
So Chen Ling took the two first red eels he caught into the cave, dug out several channels more than 20 centimeters wide behind the hut, and put them in. Anyway, the cave The eel seedlings had grown up and produced roe, so I fished out two eels of about the same length and replaced these two. Deep down in his heart, he was not prepared to sell these two strange fishes. Firstly, he was a little reluctant, and secondly, he always felt that there was something wrong with these two fishes. They seemed to be redder than the eel fry that were later born. Eels are even more special.
After all, the eel fry in Dongtian produced fish roe when they grew up, and a lot of foam was obvious. He really didn't notice any signs of these two strange fish laying fish roe. He had searched many of them over and over again. Every time, there was no trace of fish roe in the water tank, as if the fry were born overnight. Thinking about it, it is really strange, so I might as well just keep it.
After solving the problem of red eels, Chen Ling dug out two cans and bottles of earthworms, went into the cave and fed a few 'birds' in the hut. Now these little guys are plump. Having already grown feathers, he discovered that these little guys were not ordinary birds, but pigeons. Less than half a month had passed since they hatched, and Chen Ling also went from suspicion to confirmation that they were ordinary wild pigeons, because King Chen There was no one raising pigeons in the village, and I didn't know which wild pigeon nest Huang Pizi had stolen these eggs from. Seeing that he didn't throw them away after picking them up, he sent six of them home one after another.
This guy can steal wild pigeons and collapse them.
Wild pigeons actually look no different from domestic pigeons. They are different from turtle doves. Turtle doves race sows with ten nests a year, while wild pigeons only lay two or three nests a year. Each nest produces the most eggs. After six, they start to hatch. During this period, they are also affected by the environment, weather, and natural enemies. In fact, very few pigeons can survive.
“The house is lively enough now, so let’s stay in the cave for now. After the red-bellied golden eggs hatch, I can keep you company.”
Chen Ling stroked the short feathers of the little pigeons that had just grown out for a while. He didn't stop until they all closed their eyes and took a nap in comfort. Then he cleaned up the pigeon droppings and left the cave.
As soon as they left the cave, they saw Xiao Huang and Xiao Pang carrying three little yellow skins to harm the birds. Xiao Pang also had a naked baby bird in his mouth, and he didn't know it. Which bird's nest has the shell just hatched from?
Seeing Chen Ling looking over, Xiao Huang jumped down from the branch lightly, landed on his shoulder and squeaked, sniffing his ears, but was slapped away by him with a disgusting slap. This little thing knows that sniffing people's ears and nose makes people itchy and uncomfortable, so it always plays with him like this.
"You guys, you really said that Cao Cao and Cao Cao are here. I just said that I don't know where you got the pigeon eggs from, and now I see you coming to the house to find food."
Chen Ling tugged on its two little ears and said.
Although there are fewer magpies around the yard now, there are more and more other birds. There are three or four bird nests on the toon tree outside the yard alone, and there are also some on the old locust tree outside the backyard. It has really become a bird's nest. The base camp, but it also indirectly benefited Xiao Huang and his family.
This season is actually the happiest time for birds. The new-born grasshoppers and crickets in the fields are extremely pink and tender. There are also various caterpillars and even wheat grains scattered in the field ridges. There is no shortage of food. Therefore, many birds choose to hatch their young in late spring or early summer.
But it was indeed a wrong idea for these birds to build a nest outside Chen Ling's yard. Xiao Huang's family of five came here every day, eating either eggs or young birds. Life was a blessing, it was almost delivered to your door. I don’t know what those birds thought about the food rations. Even though they were like this, they still stupidly guarded the yard and refused to leave. This made the three little yellow skins full of meat and became fatter and fatter.
At this time, the three little yellow skins saw their father standing on Chen Ling's shoulders, and they also followed suit and jumped down, trying to jump onto Chen Ling's shoulders. As a result, these little fools were still too clumsy. They fell to the ground one after another, making a huge fork. They didn’t feel any pain after the fall. They blinked their black beady eyes blankly and innocently, and called out to their parents twice. However, Xiao Huang and Xiao Pang didn't pay attention to them at all. These little things just squeaked and rolled on the ground coquettishly.
"Uncle Fugui, Uncle Fugui, have dinner early tonight, and after dinner we will go catch scorpions."
Outside the courtyard, Liu Nier got off school and ran over like a group of little kids carrying schoolbags. When passing by the door of her house, she did not forget to shout a few words into the courtyard.
"Got it."
Chen Ling responded, picked up the little yellow ones and combed them. These three little guys are very strong and eat and drink at home every day. I had to eat the food mixed with stream water, otherwise I would have broken down after falling so many times throughout the day.
(End of this chapter)