Chapter 137 The 136th little piglet?
Chen Ling looked at the few brats and winked, and kept shushing at him.
I just thought they were doing something weird again. After all, these children were very young. The eldest was Xiaosen from the Yuqiang family, who was only four or five years old. Some of the bastards were still wearing crotchless pants.
What secret can they have?
I didn’t take it seriously at all, and said with a smile: "Secret? What secret? It’s not like you little monkeys who harmed other people’s cornfields and ate the sweet stalks secretly. Right? ”
"We don't have it. Uncle and grandpa, you will know when you come over and take a look, but you can't tell others."
Xiaosen still looked sneaky, looked around and found that no one was behind him. After waving to Chen Ling, they quietly got into the corn field.
Now that the corn stalks were almost grown, Chen Ling looked inside twice, but couldn't see clearly what was inside, so he had to follow it.
When we walked into the depths of the corn field, we found that this place was not far from the Earth Temple, and there were more wild trees and shrubs. The terrain here was a bit high, it was a soil slope, and there were no corn plants. There were a few sparse trees in between. This short grave is the graveyard of several people with other surnames besides the Chen and Wang families in Chen Wangzhuang.
At the signal of several little children, Chen Ling walked into the cemetery and watched quietly as they moved a pile of broken bricks and tiles away, lifted up a worn-out straw mat, and revealed a Then he pointed out the things in the pit to him.
At this moment, Chen Ling finally understood what the secret they were talking about was, and immediately felt a little dazed.
“How did you catch these things?”
“You are not afraid of catching the young ones and provoking the old ones. Who will save you then?”
There were nothing else in the pit, but wild boar cubs. There were seven or eight of them, not much bigger than small native dogs. They had dark brown stripes extending from their necks to their buttocks. When they saw people, they crowded into one. Tuan, moaning and groaning.
"Hey, don't be afraid, uncle, this is far away. If you lock Piggy here, the old wild boar will definitely not find it."
Komori smiled, his eyebrows elated for a while, he was quite proud.
"What's so far away? Where did you catch him?"
Chen Ling asked.
Xiao Sen looked at Stinky Egg, then at the other little dolls, and said softly: "Uncle, this is a secret. We told you, but don't tell Uncle Lixian. , we caught this from the trap he set at the foot of the mountain two days ago..."
"Good guys, you are so courageous, you dare to pick it from your uncle Lixian's trap. Prey, aren’t you afraid that Liu Nier will beat you up if she finds out?”
When Chen Ling heard this, he immediately couldn't hold back his joy.
"Why are you afraid? This is the one Liu Nier brought us here with."
Xiao Sen pouted, pointed at the pit and said: "This is the one he brought us with. A secret tunnel?"
"What? A secret tunnel?"
Chen Ling frowned and couldn't react for a moment.
"Yes, we have dug two tunnels in this pit. Now that we are old, we can hide several people. Liu Nier often brings us here to play and has never been discovered. Lock Piggy here. I can't even get up, and I can't run away at all."
Following the direction that Komori pointed, Chen Ling took a look and was immediately surprised.
He discovered that there were really two openings at the bottom of the pit. These two openings were actually not small, but they were covered with branches and reeds. If you didn’t look carefully, you wouldn’t notice them.
However, after being surprised, I felt a little dumbfounded. I stretched out my hand and patted the backs of some little melons: "You guys are really good at it. You can even pick up the piglet that your uncle Lixian got into." Now, we are still digging tunnels in other people’s graves. What if we dig up other people’s graves?”
Everyone of these people has seen too many tunnel battles.
"Don't worry, uncle, there are few graves here, so you won't be able to dig them up."
As he spoke to Chen Ling, Xiao Sen led a group of little devils to hug the bricks and stones, and then The pit is covered.
After they finished flipping, they all clapped their little hands, wiped their noses and laughed silly at Chen Ling.
"Uncle Fugui, let's go."
"Huh? Are you leaving now? Just leave Piggy here?"
"Don't worry, I came here to feed them before lunch. There are food bowls and they are placed in the tunnel. We are just here to take a look at them...Uncle Fugui, you must not do this. Tell others."
"That's right, my uncle wants to keep it a secret for us."
The little kids said with serious faces.
"Okay, okay, I'll keep it a secret for you. I'll just pretend I didn't see those wild boar cubs today. Okay?"
Chen Ling replied, suppressing a smile.
"Hehehe, that's not true. We are willing to let my uncle and grandpa know about it. If other people know about it, they will definitely tell my parents."
A group of little ghosts surrounded Chen Ling. , said with a cheerful smile.
They have always been close to Chen Ling. If there is something they don't want to tell their parents, they will tell him.
Chen Ling naturally knew this, so he asked them: "Did your little aunt go with you to capture your Uncle Lixian's wild boar cub?"
"No. ”
The little kids shook their heads: "After lunch that day, my little aunt didn't come out to play. She said she wanted to wrap book covers at home."
"Oh..."
Now Chen Ling knew The day they caught the little wild boar.
No wonder, when he went to cut reeds that day, he saw Liu Nier and her head searching around the village.
It turned out to be a wild boar cub.
This monkey is really cheating.
Even the things in Wang Lixian's trap dared to take people out to catch them, and even hid them secretly.
I don’t know what’s going on in this kid’s head.
"You caught the little wild boar, why didn't you let your family help sell it for money?"
Chen Ling asked again. "Can't sell it! Liu Nier said that these piglets are too small and cannot be sold for money. He plans to learn from you in the future, like your rabbits, raise them and let them give birth to piglets, and wait for the piglets. When you grow up and regenerate, you can sell it for a lot of money..."
Omori kept shaking his head as he spoke, and other little kids also agreed.
"Yes, Uncle Fugui, if you bring it home, my mother-in-law will definitely sell it for food."
"Liu Nier thinks so too, and Uncle Lixian is sure too. Don’t let him raise it.”
Listening to their innocent words, Chen Ling almost laughed.
Judging from their longing looks, these children must have fantasized about raising hundreds of wild boars in two years.
......
But when it comes to taking wild boar cubs home, it is true that the family will not allow them to be raised.
Although wild boars are particularly fertile, have strong skin and are very easy to survive, villagers generally do not raise them.
Because they are wild and difficult to tame, and when they are in estrus, they are more noisy than bull sheep. The big rams always jump around in the circle when they are in estrus. The wild boar is more harmful when in estrus and can easily hurt people.
Even if it is chopped, it will be of no use.
Wild boars eat a lot, but they grow fat slowly. Calculated this way, it is very uneconomical.
It is far less troublesome to raise than ordinary pigs, and it can be sold for more money.
However, it is definitely not possible for these little babies to raise wild boar cubs in that cemetery.
It’s not about whether they are raised well or whether they can persist.
But this matter must not be hidden from adults.
It's okay to say that Liu Ni'er is very honest and thoughtful, and he won't even blush if he tells lies in front of adults.
Maybe we can fool him for a while.
But Liu Nier and the others now go to school in the county all day long, leaving only Komori and they are too young.
The little kid has no idea in his mind. If there is something interesting, he can’t help but look at it. It’s weird to be able to hide it from others.
After walking out of the corn field, Chen Ling told them to go back to play, but not to come over when it was dark. He just let them run into the village in a bound, and he rode the cow back home.
......
On August 19th, Chen Ling came back from seeing off Wang Zhenzhen. Wang Susu had washed the millstone again with boiling water at home and dried it. The next step was to prepare the grinding process. Work.
This flour grinding does not just start grinding after preparing the wheat. Especially when grinding flour with a stone mill, the wheat must not only be cleaned, but also washed and moistened before grinding.
After the flour is ground, it has to pass through a sieve. Since the stone mill is pulled by animals or pushed by people, the speed is relatively slow and the water cannot be completely drained. Finally, it has to be dried.
Otherwise, why did Wang Laishun think that he was too busy and was just messing around? Such complicated steps were not only laborious, but also inefficient, and it was too troublesome to go back and forth. To people who are accustomed to the convenience of machines, what is this if it’s not just a waste of time?
But Chen Ling doesn't care what others think.
He enjoys it and enjoys himself.
He has long been tired of the fast-paced life of later generations. Now he doesn’t have to worry about food, clothing, or livelihood. He just wants to do what he wants to do, and live a small life with plenty of food and clothing. , enjoy the fireworks in life.
Besides, although the flour ground in this way is not whiter than the flour ground by a machine, it tastes chewier and more fragrant.
"Susu, you don't need to do it yet, just teach me how to do it. I'm not very good at it."
When Chen Ling was a child, he thought grinding noodles was so fun that he would forget to eat just watching it. It's not definitely impossible at all.
But time has passed, and now he only remembers the steps, but the specific methods have long been blurred.
“Don’t worry, Aling, you still have to wash the wheat first.”
Wang Susu filled a bucket of wheat for him, then poured a bucket of wheat for herself, and poured them into the wooden bowl. In the basin, use a sieve to stir it in circles. When the wheat chaff floats up, scoop it out and pour it out. Then use the sieve to pour the wheat into the sieve to remove the remaining water, and then pour it on the mat and spread it out to dry. .
She demonstrated to Chen Ling.
Chen Ling's memories gradually became clearer.
……
The work of washing wheat is not heavy, even a small child can do it, but there is no rush.
After finishing one bucket, you need to thoroughly clean up the sand and soil on the bottom of the basin, and then sweep another bucket until you have finished one set, which is about ten buckets and a hundred or ten kilograms, which is enough to eat for a while. That’s it.
After spending a long time, after scouring the wheat, all the wheat was dried on the mat. The young couple came over, each took a piece, and together they picked out the small pebbles in the wheat on the mat.
One rat droppings spoils a pot of soup. If the pebbles are not picked up cleanly, the teeth will be so worn that people will not benefit from eating them.
So, you must be careful and not impatient.
While talking, the two of them carefully cleaned up the wheat. There was nothing particularly busy at home recently. After tea and dinner, the two of them sat together reading a newspaper, not talking about the topic of the young couple in front of outsiders. We are no longer limited to talking about everyday things, talking about strange anecdotes and new stories, but the past few days have become more and more nourishing.
After finishing the wheat harvest, it was almost noon.
Wang Susu went to the kitchen to steam rice, and Chen Ling moved a bamboo stool and sat next to the mat, reading the newspaper and guarding the wheat to prevent the chickens, ducks and birds from making trouble, especially the chickens, which had serious problems because they were all grain. When you see it, it's like digging for insects in the soil to eat. When you get up, you have to dig it up with your claws, leaving it everywhere. Then you have to clean it up again, which is a waste of effort.
"Susu, come here and keep watch for a while, I'll catch two fish and bring them back."
"Ah? Have you finished eating the fish in our tank?"
"I haven't finished eating yet. It's too small to cook a dish."
"Okay, then you can go."
While talking to his wife, Chen Ling took out his net bag and was walking out when he heard the horn honking outside the door.
At the same time, another female voice came: "Fugui, Susu, come out to move things soon..."
(End of this chapter)