Chapter 180 Departure
There was nothing to do after dinner, so Wang Laishun stayed for a long time.
Drinking tea with Chen Ling and playing a few games of chess before leaving.
The next day, Chen Ling took out two bowls of wild wine and kiwi wine and tasted them.
As expected, the wild wine tastes two levels better than previous years.
The kiwi wine with sugar soaked seeds also did not disappoint him.
Sour, sweet and delicious, with plenty of stamina and quite enjoyable to drink.
As for the two jars of wine brewed in Dongtian using only sugar bubbles, it is a bit beyond accident.
He only poured out half of the tea jar.
There is almost a mistress.
Boy, this wine not only tastes good, but is also surprisingly strong.
With Chen Ling's current physique, ordinary wine won't make any difference.
But I got drunk after drinking this wine.
Drunk to death.
I drank wine in the afternoon and slept until the next morning.
Not only are there no hangover-like side effects, but the eagle spreads its wings and is majestic.
It actually has such a strange effect.
Amazing.
“I don’t know if it’s due to the influence of Dongtian, or the effect of strange wild fruits like Tangpaozi.”
Chen Ling muttered, diluted some more water, and fed it to the rabbit Add a little bit to experiment.
After spending the night, I went to the Rabbit Nest to see it.
Good guys, the wild rabbits that originally stopped breeding after winter began to mate excitedly in twos and threes.
Chen Ling was a little dumbfounded: "Good guy, this wine really has an aphrodisiac effect, and it can be used by both humans and animals. It's so exciting..."
After a second thought.
Isn’t it?
This wine is so effective. If you add some herbs to bring out the herbal flavor, it can be sold as a medicinal wine and aphrodisiac.
Sun Moon Cave Sky is so strong.
I didn’t rush to make money, so I unknowingly came up with another project to count money while lying down.
However, there is no rush in any of this.
We will wait until the farm is built. Brewing, making tobacco, etc. are all things you can do in your spare time besides breeding. They are half for your own enjoyment and half for sale. Anyway, you can live as comfortably as you want.
When it comes to making wine and tobacco, the wild tobacco leaves that Chen Ling picked in the mountains have already been dried.
It is also cultivated in Dongtian.
But compared with wine, this tobacco leaf is a bit blind.
In fact, the growth of wild tobacco leaves is quite good.
After drying, ordinary people cannot smoke cigarettes.
It was so stimulating that Chen Ling would feel dizzy after smoking it, let alone ordinary people.
Based on his guess, it is estimated that the tobacco leaves are growing in the wrong direction, and he will have to explore and cultivate them in the future.
Time passed by, and finally the day came, the first day of October.
It’s time to visit my father’s grave.
Chen Ling prepared incense candles, paper money and the like a few days in advance.
My father loved to eat eggs when he was alive, but in the past eggs were precious and could be used as hard currency.
The old man has been frugal all his life, and he is reluctant to eat at all on weekdays.
Even when delivering letters to the mountains, I only carry two or three with me.
Otherwise, if you just eat steamed buns and pickles and you don’t have enough strength, you’ll be finished if you encounter wolves and wild beasts on the road.
This egg is also used to maintain physical strength.
So before going to the grave this time, he also boiled many eggs and duck eggs.
Chen Juncai’s grave is on the mountain.
Buried in the same place as Chen Ling’s grandparents.
As for the cemetery next to the orchard of Chen Ling’s family, it is an old grave from I don’t know how many years ago.
At that time, the village was small and there were few people. I was greedy for being close, so I buried myself at the foot of the mountain.
Later, the old grave could no longer be buried, and a new grave had to be built.
But the cultivated land in mountainous areas is precious.
By that time no one wanted to put the cemetery on their own farmland.
So the graves of the Chen and Wang families in the village are now on the mountain.
Only a few people with foreign surnames will discuss on their own to free up a place, or simply bury them in their own land.
On the first day of October, Mr. and Mrs. Chen Ling went up the mountain early carrying a basket. They were well prepared with chickens, ducks, eggs and other food, firecrackers, incense candles, paper money, etc. When they arrived at Chen Juncai's grave on the mountain, they placed tributes and lit the candle. They put on incense candles, burned paper money and recited the good news, then added two shovels of soil, and after setting off the firecrackers, they took Wang Susu and knelt down in front of the grave and kowtowed several times.
But this is not the end.
After sending Wang Susu home, Chen Ling grazed the sheep for a while, and in the afternoon dug a half-sized cypress tree and placed it next to his father's grave.
His aunt planted it last year, so it was natural that he should do it this year.
After planting the tree, his two-year mourning period was over.
Otherwise, not only will we not be able to visit relatives, but we will also not be able to hang red Spring Festival couplets and lanterns every year during the Chinese New Year.
"Which wild kid is messing around on the grave?"
Just as Chen Ling was about to pack his things and leave, an old voice came from the forest opposite.
Turning around and looking, Chen Ling knew who it was. Feeling slightly helpless, he faced the old man coming with a whip and said, "Fourth Grandpa, why did you come up the mountain again? Isn't it with you?" Did you say that there are many wolves on the mountain? Don’t go here alone.”
This old man is none other than Fourth Grandpa Chen Gannian.
The dark and skinny face had frightening scars on both sides, intertwined with the wrinkles on the face, coupled with the bald forehead and only the sparse white hair remaining on the temples, making the old man look full of sorrow.
"There is no such thing as a wolf. Whose child are you? You're so careless."
Chen Gannian's eyes widened, maybe he spoke a little too loudly, and he coughed violently.
"Fourth Grandpa, I am rich and noble, from Chen Juncai's family..."
As Chen Ling answered, he quickly stepped forward to support him and pulled him down the mountain.
The fourth grandfather, Chen Qian, was so angry at his second son’s family a few years ago that he suffered from mental problems.
My brain has become confused in the past two years.
A few days ago, when my fourth grandma passed away, she sobered up for a while. She came to sit in front of the grave for a long time. It was already dusk when the family found her. I was afraid that he would run to the mountains again, so I scared him and told him that the mountain There are wolves.
The old man was almost picked up and eaten by a wolf when he was a child, and he has been afraid of this thing for most of his life.
Although I was confused, I was still afraid, and I didn’t dare to go here again.
I didn't expect to come here again today.
I guess my mind has become clear again for a while.
"Juncai? Juncai from Brother Xiaoliu's family..." The old man didn't react when he heard Chen Ling's nickname, but when he heard Chen Ling's name, the old man immediately put down the whip in his hand and looked at it blankly. stared at him for a while.
Then he slapped his thigh with a smile on his face: "It's you, Juncai. I haven't seen you for a few days. Why are you so white? I don't dare to recognize you when I see you."
" Let’s go, there’s a temple fair going on in the county town, let’s go listen to a play.”
Come on, this is confusing again.
But as long as the old man is willing to go down the mountain, otherwise Chen Yongsheng and his wife will have to search all over the village again.
"Juncai, don't quarrel with your wife all the time in the future. The baby has grown up slowly and become sensible. If you two quarrel, it will not be good for the baby to see."
Fourth grandfather patted him. Chen Ling's arm advised him earnestly.
“I understand, we won’t quarrel anymore, we men are not as knowledgeable as our mothers.”
Chen Ling smiled and nodded.
When he was a child, his parents quarreled every now and then because of their ideological concepts, which really affected him very badly.
But fortunately, my father never did anything. Instead, my mother had a very bad temper, which made her angry. She either threw things or scratched his father's face, which made him unable to go out to meet people. Looking back now, I don't think there was much fluctuation in my heart.
Furthermore, I probably only remember these things about my mother.
After all, it happened when I was a child, and now even my mother's appearance is blurred. I can only recall a rough outline based on the photos of her youth.
"That's right. Look at your fourth aunt, whenever she wants to make a quarrel, I ignore her, turn around and go out. No matter what she does, she can't make a quarrel."
said At the end, Fourth Grandpa burst out laughing, looking a little proud.
"Huh? Is this your dog? I've never seen it before."
At this time, Hei Wa and Xiao Jin ran over from the wild field far away. Ling started to play around with him for a while, making Fourth Grandpa look curious.
Chen Ling didn't say anything else, and just followed the words: "When I was delivering the letter, I picked it up on the road."
Grandpa Fourth frowned in surprise: "I picked it up on the way to deliver the letter?"
“That’s right.”
“Can such a big dog be well-raised when brought home? Don’t hurt the children at home.”
After hearing this, Chen Ling was confused again A bunch of nonsense and nonsense.
After passing the Earth Temple and walking near the wheat field, Chen Ling pointed to the village entrance to the north and said, "Fourth Grandpa, where is this place? Do you remember?"
The old man immediately blew his beard and stared. "You are a thief, you are here to make fun of your fourth uncle again..."
"Push out the child's mouth, drive out the child's pole, and quickly drive out the big bad wolf who stole the child."
" To catch up with the new year, my mother gave me this name to chase away the wolves. Even if someone else takes over this place and builds a house, I will never forget it in my life. "
Listen. Chen Ling was not impatient with Fourth Grandpa's nagging. After leading the old man into the village, he sent him to Chen Yongsheng's house.
"Fourth Grandpa, it's getting late, go home early for dinner."
"What the Fourth Grandpa, Juncai, your child is confused, the seniority is all confused, it's Fourth Uncle, not Fourth Grandpa, you are calling me My fourth grandfather..."
The old man stood at the door of his house and was still talking.
Chen Yongsheng and his wife who walked out were a little confused. They asked Chen Ling in a low voice: "What's going on?"
"Go visit my grave today. I met Grandpa Fourth on the mountain..."
Said briefly.
Chen Yongsheng asked Wang Xiuhua to take the fourth grandfather home.
I stood outside the door with Chen Ling and said a few words. Suddenly Chen Yongsheng looked at the sheep pen outside the courtyard and was startled. He hurriedly ran back: "Da, where are the sheep? Where did you drive the sheep? ”
“The sheep have been eaten up. The wolves have eaten them all.” No way to tell.”
Wang Xiuhua stamped her feet anxiously.
Chen Ling heard that Fourth Grandpa was confused again, shook his head, and walked home with the dog.
......
A few days after visiting their father's grave, Chen Ling and Wang Susu put the house in order.
I started preparing the things I would take back to my parents’ home.
On this day, at noon, Liang Hongyu's family picked up Wang Zhenzhen from school.
Stay and have a meal.
After all, two or three days would definitely not be enough for Chen Ling to accompany Wang Susu home this time.
Leave the key to the two elders.
Ask them to take time out every day to add water and feed the poultry and livestock at home.
"The little wild boar in Fugui has been raised well. It hasn't been long. I remember that when I came here a few days ago, it was only as big as a palm. Now it is so big."
After eating, The old couple stood in front of the pig pen, looking at the five little wild boars inside, and exclaimed in admiration.
The former wild boar cubs have now grown into the size of local dogs. Chen Ling and Wang Susu usually do not let them out easily. Fortunately, the food is good, they are all chubby, and their hair is much longer than before. , looks fluffy, and it’s not yet time to molt, but the black and yellow stripes are still beautiful.
Now when I see someone, I hum and scream, walk up to them with my head raised, and wiggle my nose to ask for food.
“When I was young, I grew up very fast, and I looked the same in two or three days.”
Liang Hongyu said, then reached out and patted the little wild boar's nose, then turned around and said, "How many pigs will Fugui bring to your mother-in-law? Susu hasn't been back for two years..."
Chen Ling was at this time He took out the big steelyard from the woodshed and said, "Weigh yourself first."
"Zhenzhen, little Lizi, come quickly, let's weigh you two. Have you grown?"
Two little girls were drinking yogurt. While they were drinking, they were playing with a few mountain civets in the kitchen. They had their mouths full and their faces were full. When they heard this, they ran over laughing.
Wang Zhenzhen was very familiar with this. He took the lead and grabbed the hook and rope at the front of the scale. Then Chen Ling lifted it up and pulled the weight to look at the star.
After taking a look, Chen Ling put down the pole and weighed, and said with a smile: "It's really good. I gained a little weight in our family, and now I'm fifty-eight pounds."
"Hehe, you and sister How can I not get fat if I play with delicious food every day? If I stay here for a while longer, I will really eat like a pig."
Wang Zhenzhen rolled up his sleeves and showed them to Chen Ling and Liang Hongyu with a smile. Look, my arms, which used to be thin and thin, are now starting to gain weight.
"Good girl, go back and stay for a while, but remember to come back again. From now on, you will still go to school in the county. At noon, you will go to your aunt's house for dinner, and your aunt will prepare delicious food."
Liang Hongyu touched the little girl’s head and said she liked it very much.
"I know, I will definitely come back to school."
Wang Zhenzhen nodded, and then pulled the little Lizi who was behind him to him: "Don't hide, you are thinner than me before, hurry up and weigh me "
"I'm not thin. I just ate a lot of meat, and I also drank a lot of the yogurt made by my uncle."
Xiao Lizi blinked and raised his head.
Then he looked at Chen Ling cautiously: "I, uncle, I am afraid of this hook."
"It's okay, hold on tight, uncle won't hurt you."
Chen Ling handed over the front end of the scale: "If you touch it, will it prick your hand?"
Liang Hongyu and the others also Say it's okay.
The little girl then reached out and grabbed it with hesitation, letting Chen Ling mention it.
"Wow, little Lizi, you are only thirty pounds, so light. No wonder I can lift you up with one hand."
Wang Zhenzhen looked at the star on the scale and couldn't help but start laughing.
"Xiao Lizi has gained five kilograms. Alas, this child used to be very picky about food and didn't eat well at all..."
Liang Hongyu said at the side.
When Xiaolizi saw that her grandparents were talking about her, she suddenly pouted sadly and almost shed tears.
"Xiao Lizi is still young. When she is Zhenzhen's age, she will definitely be no worse than her."
Chen Ling smiled when he saw this, and then shouted: "Okay, let's weigh the little wild boar to see how big it is."
"I'll weigh you two." Take a good look and remember it for me.”
Hearing this, the two little girls immediately cheered up and ran to the pig pen.
I picked two relatively large small wild boars and weighed them.
They all weigh more than 40 pounds, less than 50 pounds. It has grown like this in more than two months, which is quite satisfactory.
"Uncle, are you going to sell the little wild boars?"
"No, uncle is taking them to live in your aunt's hometown."
In front of such an innocent and squeamish person Little girl, Chen Ling didn't dare to say that she was killed for food.
"Is it in the mountains? Then uncle, you must build them stone houses instead of grass houses, otherwise they will be eaten by wolves..."
"Good guy, The story uncle told you can be used now, okay, uncle will build them stone houses when the time comes.”
The little girl was satisfied and stretched out her white and tender hands to touch the two little wild boars.
Chen Ling watched on the side and kept thinking in his mind that such a big little wild boar tastes quite good. When he comes back, he will bake it at home and eat it. If he drags it later, the taste will be worse. It's getting worse.
The tenth day of the tenth lunar month.
Early in the morning, Chen Ling and his wife packed their clothes, selected a few chickens and ducks and put them into snakeskin bags, two small wild boars also put them into snakeskin bags and tied them up, and the rest It's just fruit wine and other sundries in jars. It's not too much, it's not too much.
The ox cart was full, and with Wang Zhenzhen in tow, it was just right for the three of them to sit on it.
So after breakfast, the two elders and the younger one happily drove the bullock cart, picked up the two dogs, and set off on the road together.
(End of this chapter)