Chapter 140 Wolf and Pig
There was nothing to do in the afternoon, so Chen Ling stayed at home and killed the fish.
The flour that had been dried was also packed away, and we made a straw mat for a while.
At dusk, the young couple brought back Wang Zhenzhen and the children in the village.
Then Wang Susu cooked porridge, Chen Ling cooked vegetables, and cooked a sumptuous dinner for Wang Zhenzhen. After the meal, the two of them accompanied their sister-in-law to do homework for a while, and then Chen Ze and Yu Qiang came to call him.
... He responded and went to pack his things, but Wang Susu hurried out of the house and stopped him.
“It’s cold at night, so put on your coat before going.”
“It’s okay, you won’t be staying outside all the time, so you don’t need to wear it.”
Chen Ling holds the shotgun. , loaded half a bag of bullets, picked up two fish from the kitchen, got up and walked out.
“Put them on, Yu Qiang and Chen Ze are both wearing them, just in case they get cold.”
But Wang Susu chased after him to put the general's coat on him.
Chen Ling had no choice but to glance at the new coat bought this year in his wife's hand, and had to agree: "Okay, then you can find me the old one, this one is too new, for this matter It’s not worth it if it gets dirty.”
We are on night patrol today, and we are not visiting relatives, so it’s fine if we can keep out the wind.
Actually, when I went there, I spent most of the time in the thatched hut at the edge of the village. I didn’t patrol around the village all the time.
He has a strong body, and even if he really has to patrol outside all night, he will be fine.
It’s just that my wife insists on putting it on, but there’s nothing she can do about it.
When Wang Susu found out the old coat from previous years, Chen Ling put it on casually and was sent out by his wife and sister-in-law.
It is just after nine o'clock at night, and August 15th has not passed for a few days yet. The moon is still shining brightly, so it is not dark. The three of them are carrying guns and food, talking all the way. Go to the straw shed in the wheat field.
This thatched shed was also a gathering place built by the villagers after the floods passed before they built their houses.
Get it and use it now, it will save you a lot of trouble.
Moreover, the wheat field is spacious and has no debris. It is located just outside the village. After leaving the hay shed, you can see the movement in the northwest direction without walking a few steps. It is perfect for keeping watch here.
Today, seven teams of them were on night patrol, and a total of five people came.
In addition to the three Chen Lings, there are also Chen Baoshuan from Chen Sangui’s family and Chen Baoliang from Chen Erzhu’s uncle’s family.
Er Zhu's name is Chen Baozhu, and he and Chen Baoshuan belong to the same ancestor.
Chen Ling and Chen Ze belong to another big family. In terms of closeness, Chen Dazhi and Chen Guoping are the farthest. However, as time goes by, they don’t pay attention to these. Regardless of their seniority, each family Live the lives of separate families, don't mix with each other very much, get along with each other, but if you don't get along, who will recognize you as a family?
Especially Chen Baoshuan, who was taught by his wife, spent all day thinking about how to empty out his father Chen Sangui's coffin book. The money Chen Sangui managed to save by doing some carpentry work was almost completely plundered by the two of them.
If others can't persuade you, whoever persuades you will cause trouble.
Now he has a very bad reputation, even worse than Chen Ling used to be.
Chen Ling also has a good daughter-in-law. They are a couple who are tied together and do nothing. They are very unpopular in the village.
Except for their own uncles and brothers, his peers also couldn't get along with him.
Let's just say tonight.
Isn’t this a night vigil with a group of people? Of course, gentlemen won’t just sit around. It’s normal to drink some wine together. As long as you don’t drink too much, it won’t delay things.
So Chen Ling brought the fish, Chen Ze brought the wine, and Chen Yuqiang bought some pig head meat and pig ears.
When they arrived at the thatched shed, Chen Yuqiang was not as thick-hearted as Chen Ze. He felt that the three of them had brought food and was embarrassed to let the two brothers Chen Baoshuan and Chen Baoliang watch, so he called them over. While drinking together, Chen Ling and Chen Ze couldn't say anything, so they went out to collect firewood and planned to grill the fish later.
After picking up the firewood, I had just sat down and had not finished two glasses of wine.
Chen Baoshuan put his arm around Chen Ling's shoulders. The eldest brother and the younger brother complained about Chen Ling's refusal to drink with him several times, and blamed Chen Ling for not asking him for help in building a house. Later, he also talked about the estrangement between the old Chen family. Big piles, the meaning behind the words is the same:
Finally we sat together today, and I was going to let him punish himself with three drinks.
How could Chen Ling pay attention to him? After giving the brothers two cigarettes, he got up and made an excuse to go out.
Unexpectedly, not long after he walked out, Chen Baoshuan began to whisper.
"Hardman? Who smokes this shit."
"If I have good cigarettes, I still hide them and refuse to give them away. I give them away every day with the two grandsons Li Xian and Ju Sheng. Is this what I do to the brothers of the old Chen family? Bah."
This Chen Baoliang was embarrassed when he said this, and Chen Ze and Chen Yuqiang were too lazy to talk to him. They didn't even say a word about the situation. They picked up the food and wine they brought, got up and left the hut, leaving nothing behind.
Chen Baoliang can only be anxious.
"Baoshuan, what are you doing? A rich man lets you drink wine and eat meat, and even gives you cigarettes. Why are you complaining?"
"Besides, they are building a house. I didn’t look for you, but I asked Uncle Sangui to bring wine and food to the house. It’s not bad for him to do this. You said you didn’t make this trouble just to make yourself uncomfortable. Is that..."
Chen Baoliang was also helpless, as his cousin could only do bad things if he could not achieve success.
That’s fine. If we can’t get along, we won’t get along. Why do we have to make them enemies?
It makes even his cousin feel embarrassed.
"Hey, the old man will treat the leftover food and wine as a treasure. Who cares about it?"
Chen Baoshuan's face turned purple, he rolled his eyes and rubbed the cigarette given by Chen Ling. He was thrown aside in a ball: "It's not like you don't know what this kid was like before, but now he has become a leader by flattery, and he will pretend to be a wolf in the village."
"I just don't like him, what's wrong? No?"
Chen Baoliang was choked so much that he got up and went out to smoke, not wanting to talk to him anymore.
You can still faintly hear Chen Baoshuan scolding inside: "If you can stay out all night, you bastards will freeze to death."
......
Chen Ling and the other three After leaving the thatched hut, I went to tinker with grilling fish without mentioning it at all.
This is really not Chen Ling's magnanimity.
The main thing is that Chen Baoshuan has this kind of virtue. Everyone in the village knows it. He doesn't understand the world and still wants to save face.
In the past, several families in the village were embarrassed because of Xizi's incident.
I just didn’t expect that Chen Ling would be picked on today for no reason.
If you insist on making trouble with such a thing, you will appear ignorant and let outsiders laugh.
Simply stay away from him so as not to offend anyone.
So the three of them carried their guns, placed the wine, vegetables, fish and firewood among the woods outside the wheat field, and wandered around in the fields. The moonlight was hazy, pouring down and shining on those corn sticks and soybean pods.
The crickets in the grass are chirping incessantly, and the toads in the puddles are chirping from time to time. On this moonlit night, the scenery is peaceful and extremely quiet, which is very suitable for a picnic.
But before engaging in these eating activities, they are also planning to conduct an inspection first.
The main focus of the inspection is the three directions of south, north and west. Because the mountains are connected, wild animals mostly emerge from these three directions. The east is the reservoir. Wolves will not go there, so don’t worry about it. .
For example, a few nights ago, wolves came from the west and north, and almost entered the village for two or three days in a row, but they frightened the villagers who were on night watch for those two days.
The three of them first went to Chen Ling’s farmland for a walk. When they didn’t find any movement, they turned and walked south. Soon they arrived at Chen Ze’s farm. The boy handed the gun to Yu Qiang, and then he dug into it. Entered the cornfield.
"Shui Wazi, what are you doing?"
"Shit, I've been holding it in all this time."
"You wouldn't have pooped if you had to come here?" ”
"What do you know? This is about keeping the money from others."
"It's just your shit, what's the matter?"
"I'm happy, it's none of your business."
Chen Ling hid far away and watched the two people bickering happily. These two people were also interesting and kept talking.
After a while, Chen Ze came out holding his pants.
Suddenly his face changed: "No, there seems to be movement in the corn field."
"Where is it?"
"I don't know, go back quickly and prepare to light the torch, don't worry. The wolf is coming down the mountain."
The two men immediately looked around nervously with their guns raised.
Chen Ling listened quietly for a while, and there was indeed a clicking sound in the corn field, coming from the south.
And it's very fast.
Before the three of them walked back to the thatched shed, the movement of the corn field was right in front of them. In just the blink of an eye, five or six black figures were seen on the field ridge in the southwest.
“It’s not a wolf, it’s a wild boar.”
While the three of them breathed a sigh of relief, they raised their shotguns one after another and fired two shots into the air, shouting loudly.
The roar of gunshots broke the silent night, and then the group of small wild boars were seen running away quickly and disappeared from sight. Only a frightened grunt could be heard.
The main way to deal with wild boars in the mountains is to scare them away. Especially when encountering a group of wild boars, you will not easily anger them.
Wild boars have rough skin and thick flesh. When they are in groups, they have basically no natural enemies and they are always domineering.
Especially these guys always like to rub itchy things on trees and rocks, such as pine oil seeds and the like. If they rub it on their body, it is like wearing a layer of armor. If they don’t have any strength, just take it. A knife can't cut through its skin at all.
Wild boars are ferocious, mainly top-heavy, thick at the front and thin at the back, with muscle power concentrated in the front half of the body.
It is no exaggeration to say that it accounts for 70% of the entire body. It has rough skin and thick flesh. When it goes crazy, it looks like a small tank. There are larger adult wild boars going crazy, and trees as thick as a bowl mouth. It can also be knocked down, how can anyone resist?
In some places, there is a saying that one pig, two bears, and three tigers. This does not mean that wild boars are more powerful than tigers and bears, but that wild boars are more harmful to people and crops.
Especially in autumn, around the eighth and ninth month of the lunar calendar.
At this time, the corn is basically grown, and the tender corn with high sugar content is the favorite of monkeys and wild boars.
I won’t go into detail about how clever monkeys are. The nose of a wild boar is also very easy to use, and is no different from a dog’s nose. The sweet smell of corn can be smelled from miles away, and it will come down the mountain to cause harm at night.
Wild boars have one male and many females. Once they go out, they are often accompanied by a large family of more than ten. In addition, they are not like monkeys who secretly break off two corns and run away. Instead, it will dig through the ground like a plow, and its long mouth is like a big shovel. It can destroy several acres of land in one night, causing harm and destruction.
Therefore, before the autumn harvest, even if you do not guard against wolves, you must guard against wild boars.
For people in the mountains, this is a common thing.
After the wheat harvest in the summer, we would keep vigil at the wheat field to guard against grain thieves. Before the autumn harvest, we would watch the green fields to prevent wild boars and other wild animals from the mountains from harming the crops. This has been done for many years, everyone. I have long been used to it.
But guarding against wild boars doesn’t have to be as aggressive as guarding against wolves.
Sometimes you don’t even need to bring a shotgun.
Mainly to disturb.
Under normal circumstances, you only need to light a torch, hold a steel fork, and shout a few words loudly to scare them away.
Wild boars are not very courageous and not very aggressive. They will leave voluntarily when disturbed.
Of course...
There are exceptions.
When a wild boar is hurt or has a baby, be alert and pay close attention.
If not, it will probably not get any good results if it is angered.
The irritated wild boar went berserk and attacked whatever it saw. The wild wolf had to take a detour when it saw it, and did not dare to provoke it at all.
Not to mention people.
“It’s okay, let’s go back. The wolf usually doesn’t come in the first half of the night.”
Chen Ling said something, stroked the slightly hot barrel of the gun twice, and led the way to the wheat field.
The wolf is cunning and likes to sneak into the village after people are asleep in the middle of the night.
If they are familiar with the situation, they can sometimes avoid the dogs and capture the animals without knowing it.
Having said that, there are exceptions and we have to guard against them.
So the three of them set up a fire and grilled the fish outside the wheat field, chatting over the pork head and drinking wine. After a while, Chen Baoliang also came over. In addition to being a bit of a talker, Other than that, it's actually pretty good.
Although he has a pair of old cow eyes and thick lips all day long, and looks like a fool just by looking at his face, he is actually quite smart. He knew the temperament of his cousin Chen Baoshuan in his early years, and he is so good at guarding his craftsmanship. I don’t know how to learn my skills well, it’s really a waste.
So he learned to do carpentry work from Chen Sangui. In recent years, he has been able to get jobs, which is quite impressive.
The man came up to him and Chen Ze poured him a cup of wine. He didn't drink it. Instead, he picked it up first and sprinkled it on the dirt road next to him, saying that it was a drink for ghosts passing by.
"Good guy, I really didn't realize it. Baoliang, you are quite superstitious."
Chen Ze clicked his tongue for a while.
The three of them didn't believe this, but they had nothing to do except eat and drink at night, so they encouraged Chen Baoliang to tell two ghost stories.
So the four of them stayed by the fire until about two o'clock in the night, still full of energy and talking happily.
They were listening to Chen Baoliang telling some weird things.
I heard it all from Chen Sangui.
Over the years, Chen Sangui has been doing carpentry work everywhere, traveling over mountains and ridges, and has experienced and heard many bizarre things.
Chen Ling and the others could only listen. Some stories are really scary when told, and then listening to the howling of wolves in the mountains will send chills down the spine. The more you listen, the more energetic you will become, without feeling sleepy at all.
"No more talking, let's take it slow and have a sip of tea."
Chen Baoliang said, turned around and went to the thatched shed to bring out a kettle, and poured a cup for each person. Finally, he opened his coat again and took out a few sweet potatoes from his arms.
Gather the fire with a stick, remove the open flame, and bury the sweet potatoes in the woodpile.
Yu Qiang and Chen Ze's eyes shone brightly: "Okay, Baoliang, we have hidden so many sweet potatoes, why don't you take them out earlier."
Chen Baoliang stared at his big eyes and laughed: "Just wait. Let’s eat after drinking. It’s warm and feels good in the stomach. We happen to be alone.”
Actually, we don’t drink much, we mainly eat vegetables.
The two grilled fish tasted good, and only the fish bones were left. Listening to the howling of wolves in the mountains, I really didn’t dare to drink much wine. The four of them still had half a bottle after drinking.
"Fugui, my third uncle made all the doors and windows of your house?"
"Ang, what's wrong?"
"How much did Uncle San charge you?"
"No money was confiscated."
"Uncle San Gui said he is older He couldn't help me with anything else, so he helped me repair the doors and windows. He also said that I would pay him for free for the little work I did. "
Chen Ling gently pulled the fire and said.
In fact, the money was naturally given, but Chen Sangui's son and daughter-in-law almost paid for Xizi's tuition and miscellaneous fees, so he begged Chen Ling not to tell anyone else, and would give him a new set of furniture for free during the Chinese New Year.
Chen Ling and Wang Susu couldn't bear it.
I helped him hide it.
As for the free furniture, the family is not short of money, so they won’t take advantage of an old man.
"That's right. Third uncle is really fast at work. We all treat it as a big business job, but sometimes he doesn't take it seriously."
Chen Baoliang nodded.
What he said is actually good. Chen Sangui was really like this before.
So I have accumulated a lot of favors in the village.
Otherwise, like Chen Baoshuan and his wife, they would have been punished long ago for no reason. Who would be willing to accept such birdiness?
"What? Do you want to compete with your third uncle for business?"
Chen Ze was quick-tongued and always choked with his words. At this moment, Chen Baoliang turned pale and hurriedly waved his hands to explain: "No, no, I don't dare to talk nonsense. Third uncle is old and can't go far away. I just offered him a lot of work, but my skills are not as good as those of my third uncle. I don’t know how much I should charge, so I wanted to ask Fugui.”
Chen Ling and the others didn’t believe this. .
They also know that Chen Baoliang is too greedy.
I not only want to make more money, but also want to be like Chen Sangui, so that everyone will praise him and give him a thumbs up, so that people from all over the country come to him. Then I will have no shortage of work for the rest of my life.
But they know it, they just don’t point it out.
You don’t want to find work for yourself, so why don’t you want others to daydream?
"The sweet potatoes are ready, come and eat."
While talking, the sweet potatoes were roasted. After Chen Baoliang pulled them out from the pile of firewood and ash, he gave them one to each person.
Hold it in your hand and knock off the ashes gently, revealing a layer of golden sweet potato pulp. Take a bite, it is fragrant and sweet, and it goes into your stomach warmly. Chen Ling still has some The meaning is still not finished.
Only peanuts and soybeans were planted in the fields this year.
If you want to eat sweet potatoes, you have to take the time to use stream water to stimulate the growth of some.
......
At this time, Chen Baoshuan came out to urinate. Seeing them eating roasted sweet potatoes around the fire, he couldn't help but swallowed his saliva and cursed in a low voice, "Eat, eat." Eat it and choke you to death." Then he went back to the thatched shed and fell asleep.
No one paid attention to him.
It was past three o'clock in the morning, and the few of them were still not sleepy. After eating the roasted sweet potatoes, they were ready to light torches and walk along the dirt road beside the village.
At the moment when the torch was lit, a very clear and loud howl came from the wolf, one after another, and you could tell by the sound that it was not far away.
The four of them trembled subconsciously and glanced at each other.
I thought that this wild wolf really came over in the middle of the night.
I put the torch on the edge of the wheat field, filled the shotgun with ammunition, and waited for the wild wolf to appear.
Chen Baoshuan obviously heard the noise and did not dare to sleep again.
He emerged from the hut with a gun in his hand and stood aside with a cold face without saying a word.
The five people were waiting like this.
Just as time passes by.
After waiting for almost half an hour, there was no sign of the wolf.
The wolves seemed to have run away after barking once.
The few people waited for more than ten minutes, holding torches and walking around the dirt road outside the village twice. When there was still no movement, they all breathed a sigh of relief, cursed and walked back.
“Damn, these wolves are really thieves. They come around every day, disturb people, and then run away without even showing their faces.”
“… "
"I guess I don't dare. Two days ago, the night watchman encountered them and shot them. I heard that he even wounded one. The wolves are smart and know that guns are powerful, so they don't show up easily now. ”
“Yes, that’s true.”
Then he put out the torch, raised the fire again, and leaned against the tree and squinted for a while.
When it was almost five o'clock in the morning, the four of them rubbed their eyes, yawned and prepared to go home.
There was a sudden loud clicking sound in the corn field. When they looked over, the corn stalks were also shaking and falling.
"Wolf?"
The four of them were alert, raised their guns again, and quietly walked over under the cover of the woods outside the wheat field.
Before he even got close, a familiar figure emerged from Baomi Di.
"Wild boar! Just one?"
"No, no, this is a sow with cubs, not the same as the previous ones..."
"Be careful, it's coming for us. Move back slowly and don't mess with it."
The four of them were about to fire their guns to drive away the wild boar, when they suddenly found little ones following the wild boar and immediately became cautious. stand up.
Although it was dark and the torches were out, taking advantage of the weak moonlight, we were able to determine that this was a wild boar with a cub on its head.
Furthermore, his body is wide and thick, extremely powerful and strong, and he doesn’t look easy to mess with.
The four of them did not dare to disturb them, and quietly retreated under the cover of the woods outside the wheat field.
I watched quietly as the wild boar and its cubs ran to the fire and slurped the skin of the roasted sweet potato into their mouths. Then, the fish bones and the seasonings in the fish belly were not left behind. Following the smell, he sniffed with his long mouth arched and walked towards the hay shed.
“No, there are sweet potatoes with Baoshuan in the shed.”
Chen Baoliang's expression changed drastically when he saw this.
He and Chen Baoshuan brought the sweet potatoes together, but Chen Baoshuan was stingy and refused to take them out, so he planned to bake them secretly at night. As a result, Chen Ling and the others actually brought wine and food, and when they arrived, they made a fuss and became bored. I slept in it and never had the nerve to come out to bake.
Now something bad happened.
Wild boars not only like to eat tender corn, they also like to eat sweet potatoes. In previous years, sweet potatoes were grown locally, but when the harvest was about to be harvested, wild boar herds caused harm. From ten acres of land, they only harvested about 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes, which was nothing. Good way to treat them.
Now the wild boar must have smelled the sweet potatoes in the hayloft. Because the wolf did not appear before, Chen Baoshuan went back to sleep again.
I hope Baoshuan will not disturb them.
Chen Baoliang was secretly anxious and did not dare to shout loudly.
You can’t mess with a female wild boar with her cubs. You can’t be stimulated.
The old hen in the nest dares to fight with the falcon, let alone the wild boar, in order to protect the chicks.
Unfortunately, what he worried about happened.
Chen Baoshuan didn't know it, so when he saw something breaking in, he fired in a panic.
It’s over now.
I don’t know if I hit it or not. Anyway, the female wild boar was frightened and went crazy. She knocked the straw shed upside down and broke a big hole.
Chen Baoliang suddenly became anxious and kept shouting.
I am afraid something will happen to Chen Baoshuan.
No matter how you say it, they are cousins. If you just watch and don't care, you will be poked in the back by the villagers if you don't raise your head at home in the future.
Chen Ze and Chen Yuqiang huddled together with Chen Ling without any rush or haste, and winked at Chen Ling in a tacit understanding, clearly showing the same meaning: "You deserve it."
Chen Ling naturally saw it, but his mind was not here.
But I suddenly remembered the little wild boar that Komori and the others kept in the cemetery. I wonder if it has anything to do with this wild boar.
While I was thinking, there was another gunshot from the other side of the thatched shed.
Chen Baoshuan was fine and ran out.
But he was so frightened that he lost control after firing the second shot, and ran towards them while yelling.
"Run quickly, this harmful spirit is coming to us."
Chen Ze yelled and ran away.
The wild boar howled sharply, much faster than a human, and caught up with Chen Baoshuan in the blink of an eye.
In the critical situation, Chen Baoshuan unexpectedly climbed up the tree two or three times and narrowly avoided the wild boar's collision.
The wild boar couldn't stop the car, howled miserably and rushed around. It ran to Chen Baoliang and snarled. Fortunately, he hid quickly, otherwise he would have been kicked out.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Ling and the others also climbed up the tree and were about to shoot with their guns.
Unexpectedly, the wild boar suddenly turned around and rushed towards Chen Baoshuan again.
Too bad, Chen Baoshuan didn't catch his breath yet, nor did he climb very high. He just hugged the tree trunk tightly with both hands and feet. The wild boar rushed over like this, with such momentum that it was as if it was about to knock down a mountain in front of it.
Facts have once again proved that wild boars with cubs cannot be messed with.
The combat effectiveness has more than doubled.
The wild boar bumped into it, and the trees shook violently. Chen Baoshuan was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he could no longer hold on to the tree trunk tightly. He suddenly slipped down, and while struggling, he sat on the pig's back.
This is a big deal. The wild boar was instantly more stimulated. It was furious, with red eyes, and was breathing heavily. Just hearing the loud cry was a bit more ferocious than before. Under the continuous high-pitched barking, it wanted to pull out the rear. The person on his back fell off.
Chen Baoshuan was so frightened that he cried like a ghost and howled like a wolf. He was not as unreasonable as before. In panic, he only used his fingers to dig the wild boar's ears tightly and did not dare to let go. He also clamped his legs tightly. With.
On the other side, Chen Baoliang had just been bitten by a wild boar. He was so scared that he ran away. He was gasping for air and still trembling. He did not dare to help even with a gun, for fear that the wild boar would not hit Chen Baoshuan. That's it.
With people crawling on its back and its ears being dug into by nails, the wild boar became even crazier. It howled and rushed into the village, faster than before, rushing forward in an attempt to shake off Chen Baoshuan. .
At this time, around 5:30 in the morning, the nearby villagers had been awakened by the movement here.
When I walked out of the door, I saw a very dramatic scene...
A tall and ferocious wild boar rushed into the village with a man on its back.
Everyone was so frightened that they quickly hid and closed their doors, fearing that they would not be able to escape.
But then, unwilling to miss this rare event, he climbed up to the roof to watch the excitement.
The incident happened suddenly. I only knew it was a wild boar, but I didn’t see clearly who was on the pig’s back.
We stood on the roof of our house and we started chatting with each other.
“My neighbor next door, why are you making such a fuss so early in the morning? Why did you ride a wild boar into the village?”
"I'm just making sarcastic remarks. Can that posture be called riding a pig? You must have provoked the boy on night watch. The wild boar is very ferocious. Don't kill anyone."
"It shouldn't be, but it's not. Who knows who is so unlucky, at least he will be injured."
"..."
When they were chatting enthusiastically, there was a loud noise in the distance.
Followed by an old roar, the movement slowly became smaller.
"Quick, go down and see what's going on."
"Let's go for a walk."
(End of this chapter)