Chapter 108 Trivial
"Mom, haven't you seen how ignorant this prodigal son is? He didn't even say a word to me when he saw me. Why are you talking to him so much?"
< br>After Chen Ling walked away, Wang Juxiang, perhaps seeing that Chen Ling did not take the initiative to talk to him, fanned the smell with a straw hat, covered his face with a towel, and said in a low voice.
Liang Guizhen snorted when he heard this, wiped his sweat and said: "This prodigal son is ignorant, but he is used to spending a lot of money. He is very happy every time he comes to give things to him. You have done a lot to help him, let me How can he get less benefit from visiting the house more often?”
“The green vegetables from the greenhouse that I asked Lan Hua to carry back were given by this prodigal son. That guy sold them for two yuan a pound in the county. Who would give away such an expensive thing? Only this prodigal son can do this."
But after Wang Juxiang heard this, he sneered disdainfully: "Forget it, mother, look at this bastard running to the boss's house all day long, and all the good things are sent to the boss's house, so how can he take Anda seriously? "
"I am obviously trying to curry favor with my boss, the policeman, and I am too lazy to deal with the village party secretary."
When talking about Wang Jusheng, his eldest brother, Wang Juxiang's eyes were full of boredom. Jin'er seemed to be very contemptuous of him, but he looked down upon her. His tone of voice was sour, just like his mother's usual speech.
But when Liang Guizhen heard what he said, his old face immediately darkened: "Bullshit, what's the point of trying to butter up the boss? He doesn't look down on the party secretary anymore, why doesn't he say that the party secretary is the father of the policeman? ? ”
“The boss is really good at making friends. It’s not a big deal to accept a wheat fart. He slaughtered the family’s sheep and invited people to eat and drink. This has been done twice, and I don’t know what they can give him. What’s the benefit? I’ll have to say a few words to him some other time.”
The woman was cursing, but her eyes kept rolling, thinking that people like Chen Ling must have sent good things to the boss's house.
I suddenly had a wrong idea.
Wang Juxiang may have heard the overtone of my mother's words, and his heart became excited. He said hurriedly: "Isn't it true? I heard that the boss will also hang out with Li Xian from the east of the village. During the festival a while ago, I gave the boss half a car of watermelons."
"Half a car? Oh my god, why did you give so much to only a few people in the boss's family? If you can’t finish all the melons, you won’t be afraid of them spoiling in this hot weather?”
Liang Guizhen’s eyes widened immediately, and then she continued. He cursed and began to scold the eldest daughter-in-law. There were so many watermelons at home, but she didn't know how to bring two to the house. Do she still care about her parents-in-law?
"Okay, okay, what are you talking about so much useless stuff? After you pull this truck of manure, you have to pull another truck. Hurry up and get to work. There's a lot of nonsense."
Wang Laishun couldn't listen anymore. , interrupted the old woman's words, and drove the donkey cart out of the village. It was late at night and had to be dragged to the fields by his second son.
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Chen Ling didn't know that the family would still have this episode after he left. In the next two days, he helped Wang Susu tie up the silkworm frame, and took the little boy to it in the evening. The children went to catch scorpions. After searching all over the village, they went outside the village to look for them. They turned over and over very hard, but fortunately the harvest was not bad.
After catching a lot of scorpions, it’s time to sell them. The happiest thing at this time is counting the scorpions. Liu Nier and several monkeys found a soft and flat place outside Chen Ling’s yard, and got a slap on their butts. He sat down, dug a pit in the ground, poured the scorpions into it, and quickly covered it with soil.
Then they took their respective clips and carefully peeled off the soil layer by layer. The upturned tail of the scorpion was gradually exposed. At this time, they used clips to clip the tails and lifted them out of the soil one by one and put them into the bag. One by one, we poured the scorpions we caught into the scorpions. After counting, Xizi took a branch next to him and wrote and drew on the ground to record the number.
"Xizi, please remember clearly who caught how many scorpions, how many big ones and how many small ones. I will go and sell the scorpions and come back to share the money with you."
< br>Chen Ling squatted beside him and opened his pocket, asking Liu Nier to pick up the scorpions one by one and put them inside. At the same time, he smiled and told Xizi.
He asked when he went to the county to deliver film a few days ago. There were slightly fewer scorpions this year than in previous years, so the price was good. They were charged by the head, not by the kilogram. A big scorpion cost two cents, a small scorpion cost two cents. A dime. Last night, he caught enough scorpions, and Liu Nier came to ask him how to sell them, so he came up with this idea.
“Okay, Uncle Fugui.”
The little kids were very excited when they heard that they had to pay for the scorpions sold.
“Good guy, Fugui is giving the children points for their work.”
At this time, Chen Dazhi passed by on his bicycle with two heavy bags, and saw the little children sitting on Counting scorpions on the ground enthusiastically, he stopped the car and said with a smile.
"Haha, just messing around..."
Chen Ling stood up and smiled: "What are you doing, Brother Dazhi?"
"I ground two bags of flour."
Chen Dazhi parked his bicycle and walked over to take a look: "There are a lot of scorpions here. Have you fed them? If you put them in bags without feeding them, they will easily fight. Big scorpions They will eat small scorpions when they are hungry.”
Scorpions are social creatures. A nest of scorpions is a big family and they can live in harmony. However, they will fight if they are put together with scorpions from other nests. Will eat each other.
"We have fed them, including bugs and wheat bran, and fed them until they are full."
The little dolls immediately shouted loudly.
"Just feed it. Scorpions are good things. If a scorpion dies, you have to eat less popsicles."
Chen Dazhi looked at the side with his hands behind his back for a while, then turned to Chen Ling and said: "Fugui, your family has Do you have a hoe? I'm going to plant the old field in the ditch to the west with corn in the past two days. I've finished soaking it and have to plow it again. Who knows that the hoe at home is almost rusty and useless. "
"Digging a hoe? If you don't have a hoe, can you hoe?"
Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He didn't do farm work before, and he only harvested wheat and hoeed the ground. Wang Susu did it, so the family only had a moon hoe, not the heavy digging hoe that men used.
Hoes in rural areas are generally divided into three types, moon hoe, digging hoe and flat hoe.
As the name suggests, the crescent-shaped hoe on the tip is a moon hoe, also called a crescent hoe. It is mainly used for weeding. This kind of hoe is very sharp. Many young men and girls who have just started working in the fields cannot control their strength because they are not familiar with it. It's easy to hurt your legs and feet.
So novices generally use flat hoe.
Used by half-grown children or old people with insufficient physical strength, it does not require much strength. The tip of the hoe is flat and the body of the hoe is short. However, one disadvantage is that it is easy for novices to get blisters when using it.
Digging hoe, this kind of hoe is more than 20 centimeters wide and extremely heavy. The hoe is the main force for turning soil in mountains. The hoe body is relatively long and can penetrate deeply into the soil. It is not only thick but also powerful. It is easy to get started. It is more difficult, and it is a farm tool specially designed for men.
Not all farmland in the village has to be plowed by livestock. In the past, there were few livestock in the village, and there were only a few horses and oxen in the brigade’s livestock shed. The whole village had to line up, and some people There is quite a lot of farmland allocated, and even if you queue up for a day, you still can't plow it all. At this time, the remaining ones need to be done by the villagers themselves, carrying hoes and digging farmland. This is a job that competes with animals, and ordinary women cannot do it.
Although there is no shortage of livestock now, some people's private land is at the foot of a mountain or in a ditch. Like Chen Dazhi, the livestock cannot get in, so they have to do it themselves.
"There is a moon hoe at home, your sister-in-law uses it. It's okay, forget it if you don't have it, I'll go look for it again." Chen Dazhi smiled. He just saw that Chen Ling's family didn't grow any food this year, so he didn't need it. Hoe, I just came here to ask, who knows?
Although the moon hoe can also hoe the ground, it does not hoe deeply and can only hoe the surface of the ground. Moreover, it is too slow and time-consuming to use. Yes, but it certainly won't work as the main force for plowing the ground.
"Uncle Dazhi uses a digging hoe. I have it at home. I will get it for you."
It happened that Chen Yuqiang heard the voices outside, walked out, took a look, and took out a hoe.
Chen Dazhi took the hoe and thanked him without leaving immediately. He chatted at the door of Chen Ling's house. After a while, the children counted all the scorpions and put them all into bags.
"Dada, have you seen that I have caught almost two hundred scorpions in the past few days, and my uncle said that I can get at least twenty yuan."
Xiao Sen ran to Chen Yuqiang's side. He cheered and asked him to look at a few numbers that Xizi had written crookedly on the ground.
Unexpectedly, Chen Yuqiang just glanced at it, turned around and slapped Xiaomori on the head: "What are you yelling about? Twenty yuan is worth it. No matter how much it is, your uncle will take you to catch it." , and you dare to ask your uncle to go to the county town to sell it for you, just look at your ability.”
Xiao Sen never thought that he would be scolded after making money. He was stunned for a moment, and then he pursed his lips in grievance and looked like he was about to cry. After all, this baby was still too young. He was only five years old. Ever since he drowned last time, his family had been treating him very badly. Stern, it was rare for him to be happy today. He ran to Chen Yuqiang to ask for praise, but he was scolded again.
Seeing this, Chen Ling hurriedly picked up the baby and comforted him: "It's okay, it's okay. Xiao Sen is very powerful. Apart from Liu Nier and Xizi, you are the one who has caught the most."
The result is no. It's okay to say this. The baby's tears started falling down as soon as I mentioned it, but I have to say that this baby is really stubborn. Chen Yuqiang looked at it.
Good guy, Chen Yuqiang was made dumbfounded: "Uncle, please don't always protect him, how can you be like this? Just lead them to catch scorpions, and then help them sell them in the county town. You have spoiled them rotten. You see, this ignorant person in our family has not come down from your uncle’s arms.” , he also said that he asked me to catch scorpions and sell them for the money and then give them to you and my mother. He also said that he would buy sweets and delicious food for me from the county seat. He asked me to listen to your words and not run around in the future. You will scold you when you don’t know anything. I, wuwuwu..."
"When I grow up, I am filial to my uncle but no longer filial to you. When you are old and you lie on the bed, I will ignore you and won't let you eat. I will starve you like a cow hungry for his mother."
Komori puffed out his cheeks and gritted his teeth as he began to say harsh words. As he said these harsh words, he cried louder and louder, lying on Chen Ling's shoulder and sobbing continuously.
"Good guy, I, the father, have ignored you."
Chen Yuqiang shook his head and smiled bitterly, then said to Chen Ling: "Uncle, you see, this kid can actually tell the difference between good and evil. Now I am relying on you to support him."
After that, he said to Komori: "Okay, come on down. Your uncle has to go to the county town to do something. If you don't obey me, your uncle will be killed. If you make me angry, your uncle won’t want to see you anymore.”
"Uncle, I don't know how."
Xiao Sen retorted, but still slipped out of Chen Ling's arms, glanced at Chen Yuqiang, squeezed into the pile of dolls, sat down on the stone, and held it in his mouth Tears watching them playing with glass balls on the ground.
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"Fugui, I heard that these two people from opposite sides of your home are getting divorced?"
"Huh? Uncle Dazhi, have you heard about it too?"
"No, it's been spread in the village, and some people say that Dongmei is going to cuckold Chun Yuan. Chun Yuan was scared when she found out."
"Haha, we don't know about this, but her daughter is having sex. Chun was sent back to her parents’ home and she never came back. This is true.”
“Uncle Fugui, you don’t go out very often. Didn’t you hear anything? Wen Li said a while ago that this woman is always here. I was peeking into your house from the room."
In response to these two people's words, Chen Ling just shook his head, "I don't know much about the opposite door. Wen Li told your aunt last time that this woman came to my house. It’s about peeping, but there is a dog at home, so I’m not afraid of her having any bad intentions.”
After all, the matter with Chen Erzhu has long since passed, and Qin Dongmei, a woman alone, must be so capable if she wants to be a monster.
In the afternoon, Chen Ling went to the county town. After selling the scorpions to the drugstore, he went to the photo studio to get the photos. Two sets of these films were developed. One set was stuffed into an envelope for Wang Susu to send to her parents' family, and another set was kept at home. .
After finishing these things, Chen Ling went around the small yard in the south of the city, picked up small pieces of paper on the ground, estimated how many things he would need to prepare when he came back to the city, and then got on his bicycle and headed home. , but as soon as we passed the reservoir dam, we saw little children crowded at the entrance of the village, eagerly awaiting his return.
"The scorpions are sold out, prepare to split the money."
Chen Ling shouted, and the little kids immediately jumped up and cheered around him, and climbed on his bicycle one by one. , and soon there were three people squeezing on the big bar in front, and three more people were squeezing on the back seat. There was also a little kid wearing crotchless pants sitting in the basket in front.
What a good guy, eight people were squeezed into a 28-meter big bar. As he walked, he shouted "It's time to split the money." As he walked in the village, many villagers came outside to laugh and watch the fun.
Some people will ask without knowing why: "What kind of money is Fugui going to give us?"
At this time, the little kids will proudly reply: "Uncle Fugui is going to give us money for selling scorpions. Twenty yuan per person!”
“Oh my god, each doll is worth twenty yuan. Is the Scorpion so expensive this year?”
Everyone was stunned, even the parents of many little ones. They were all startled and followed Chen Ling's bicycle, asking if it was true.
"It's true. A few days ago, each scorpion sold for at most 2 cents by head. Today I went to ask and the price went up by 10 cents."
"The main reason is that there are not many scorpions this year. We have basically searched all over the village and outside the village recently. We have almost caught all the scorpions before selling them for so much money. If we want to catch scorpions again, we have to go to the mountains to look for them."
< br>What Chen Ling said did not have much effect. Instead, it made many people even more jealous: "If you go to the mountains to look for it, go to the mountains to look for it. If you don't dare to go at night, why don't you dare to go during the day? What are you afraid of? They say there are fewer scorpions this year. If you don’t catch them, you won’t be able to sell them for money.”
So in the next two days, many villagers who were cautious went into the mountains to look for scorpions after finishing their work during the day, and some even gave away their own dolls. When I came to Chen Ling, I wanted him to take him into the mountains to find her.
For such people, Chen Ling would not be polite and refused them face to face. It’s true that a bull doesn’t know the ropes and a horse doesn’t know the face. He is not familiar with them. When he sees an advantage, he licks his face and runs away. Come here, you have no self-awareness at all.
But recently, all the scorpions in and outside the village have been caught. Chen Ling doesn’t go out to look for scorpions anymore, and Liu Nier and the others don’t go either. At most, they will run over and call him if they can’t bear it anymore. Catch snakes or go to the old house to block two nests of birds. After catching them, make a fire and roast them on the spot.
(End of this chapter)