Chapter 242 Taking his son into the cave
After drinking and playing at Han Chuang’s house for a day, Chen Ling brought back the sunflower seeder, and then spent a few days clearing the ground and drying the sunflower seeds. Just sow the seeds and stop caring about them.
The main thing is that it rains a lot recently, and it rains every now and then, and the amount of rain is not that small, which makes the guards stationed at Chenwangzhuang very nervous. We can often see three or five of them on heavy rainy days. I held an umbrella and patrolled back and forth on the reservoir dam. Sometimes I would drag Wang Laishun up and look everywhere.
The villagers were also nervous. The Dragon Worshiping Lord set up the incense table to burn incense and light candles every day.
However, after last year's flood, the dams of various houses were built high, and the food had been sold long ago, so we were not too worried about the houses being destroyed like last year.
The main concern is that the crops in the fields have just started to grow, so they don’t get flooded again. And they are worried about "leaving their hometown" again to avoid disasters, which makes people panic. It is too uncomfortable when there is no stability.
Later, I felt relieved when I saw that although the rain this year was coming fiercely, it only happened every now and then and was not a regular occurrence.
When the weather is good, the villagers are still in the mood to go to the mountains to collect herbs. Even Wang Cunye often takes advantage of Chen Ling's free time to give him the task of herding sheep, and he carries the bamboo basket on his back to collect the herbs. Hoe, take the little yellow dog into the mountains.
My father-in-law went there again today, and took Wang Zhenzhen up the mountain to collect herbs.
Chen Ling, after the sunflowers emerged, dug trenches in the field for drainage while herding sheep.
There used to be drainage ditches in the fields. When it rained heavily, the water discharged from the farm would flow along the ditches into the river ditches and fields. However, because the sunflowers had just been planted and it rained more recently, Chen Ling blocked the ditches. Now it’s time to dig the trench deeper again.
After the rain, eel holes can be seen everywhere in the ditch. When Chen Ling dug the drainage ditch, he also saw two eels sticking their heads out. Unfortunately, they were too thin and small, so he was too lazy to catch them. .
In the past, he would have dug holes whenever he saw them, regardless of their size. But now, there are too many eels in the farm's ditch, and the small ones are completely uninteresting to him.
“咩~”
“咩~咩~”
There was a sudden commotion among the sheep grazing on both sides of the field. Chen Ling turned around and saw that a wet-haired mountain raccoon jumped out of the orchard with a water bird in his mouth. After he came out, he glanced at Chen Ling. , then fled away in panic, as fast as lightning, and quickly disappeared into the dense grass.
"This guy, Shan Lizi has also come here." Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, then walked into the orchard and walked around. The two dogs Heiwa and Xiaojin were still patrolling everywhere, looking for sneaky intruders. The mountain fox in the orchard didn't react at all.
With the tempers of the two of them, if they didn't react, it was nothing. The mountain raccoon definitely didn't provoke anything in the house, it was just a water bird.
“There are more and more birds in the forest, which is a bit too inviting for wild things to eat.”
In this season, there are actually a lot of wild foods, including crickets, grasshoppers, old You can't eat all the insects like shoulder poles, but for small beasts like mountain civets, the taste of birds is more delicious, and eating one can fill your stomach, which is quite tempting.
"You two, watch carefully. If there is any wild thing coming, drive it away when you need to, and warn when you need to warn." Chen Ling ordered the two dogs.
Mountain geese are very wild. If you leave them alone, they will easily take advantage of them. Moreover, they are too fast and come and go like the wind. There is no good way to catch them. Even if you have a big goose, you can still catch them. There is nothing they can do. Some ferocious mountain civets will go to other people's homes to catch geese and eat them, so they still have to rely on dogs.
Unfortunately, the kite has reached its estrus during this period and went out to look for a man. I went home several times and didn’t see him in the nest.
Otherwise, if you call the kite over, you can calm down many small beasts.
"Well, the kites haven't come back yet, so you can call a few weasels over first. There are no less birds here than there are at the reservoir, and there will definitely be enough for them to eat."
With this thought in his mind, Chen Ling continued to herd the sheep.
But he soon discovered that both big and small sheep like to get close to the same plant. It is a small tree that does not grow very tall. The leaves are very similar to the leaves of cotton, but rougher. When the sheep saw it, they came up and rolled their tongues around the leaves. After biting them off, their mouths kept moving and they ate extremely happily.
Chen Ling walked over curiously, broke off a leaf and looked at it. He found white sap dripping from the cut part of the branch, and he immediately knew what it was.
“There are so many peach tree saplings growing at once. It rains all the time and the water in my house is flooded. Wild animals and wild trees come too.”
Peach tree, also known as paper mulberry.
This tree is a miscellaneous tree in the mountains. It is easy to attract beetles. The trunk is often drilled with big holes and small eyes. It is covered with burrs and worm holes. It cannot be used as a timber at all. It is useless except for firewood.
The reason why it is called the wolfberry peach tree is because this tree will bear a kind of red fruit, which looks like bayberry, but will gradually grow and spread out when mature. The locals call it red wolfberry peach or Dog milk, son.
When cooked, it will fall to the ground and become sticky on the ground. It also attracts flies. It can be said that everyone hates it.
But birds love to eat them and will carry the seeds to all directions.
This tree has extremely strong vitality and is known as the northern banyan tree. It can take root and sprout as long as it comes into contact with water vapor.
In and outside the village, in fields and mountains, in cracks between stones, in latrines, and even on roofs and courtyard walls, wherever there are wolfberry seeds, saplings more than two meters high will grow if you are not careful, making many people hate it. .
Also, it is difficult to remove wolfberry. Even if the trunk is cut and the roots are dug out, as long as there are fibrous roots, they will still sprout and grow back the next year.
However, it is not without some benefits.
The leaves of paper mulberry have a special taste, livestock like to eat them, and they are nutritious.
Whenever the amaranth and sweet potato vines are finished, and pigweed cannot be obtained, the pig farmers will pick the leaves of the tree to feed the pigs. However, the pigs often do not have enough to eat, so they pick a basket full of leaves. Go back and the pig will be finished in one meal.
Not only pigs like to eat this stuff, but cattle, sheep, and even rabbits also like to eat it. It is a good natural feed.
"Oh, let's keep it for now. Although it grows and it is easy to flood, this is what we are least afraid of."
Seeing that there was no one around, Chen Ling even pulled out two small saplings. Throw it into the cave and prepare to cultivate it when you have time.
With his current control over the cave, he can arbitrarily divide the plots in it and isolate areas from each other. He does not have to worry about it growing everywhere in it and causing flooding.
“It is said that paper mulberry cannot be grafted onto any fruit tree, but I would like to try it.”
The tenacious vitality of paper mulberry made Chen Ling jealous. "It would be great if it had such tenacious vitality and the fruits were delicious. And in China, as long as the fruit is delicious enough, such a tree is not afraid of it at all." Flooding. "
Thinking about it in his mind, he didn't even notice that his father-in-law came back with his sister-in-law to collect medicine.
At almost noon, when they drove the sheep back to the sheepfold and went to the back of the farm to cook, Wang Cunye and his daughter had already been chopping a large amount of firewood next to the firewood pile.
"Dad, Zhenzhen, you are back. How was the harvest today?"
"It's not bad. After you contracted this place, you all know that you are raising chickens here. Damn it, not many people come to the mountain, so it’s easy for me to find them.”
Wang Cunye held the ax and smiled.
Wang Zhenzhen squatted on the ground next to the firewood pile and kept picking up bugs in the firewood. When he picked it up, he put it in his hand and moved to the next place to continue picking up.
Chen Ling walked over and took a look, picking up "Mu Huan'er".
Mu Huan'er is a bug that eats firewood, and is also called firewood bug and wood flower. Their local name "Mu Huan'er" here is based on "wood flower".
This kind of bug looks very similar to silkworm babies. It is white to yellow in color and is relatively ugly.
Fresh firewood was cut back from the mountains and piled in the open space. If there were wood Huan'er in the firewood, there would often be a "swishing-cha-cha-" sound of insects eating the wood.
They are beetle larvae, similar to wood sawworms, but they are cleaner than sawworms, do not burrow into the soil, and taste better.
Chen Ling remembered that when he was a child, an old man in the village would often pick up wood Huaner and eat it raw while chopping firewood. It was said that it tasted slightly sweet when chewed and did not cause diaphragm or nausea. He did not taste it. But I don’t know if it’s true or false.
He has never eaten it raw, but he has eaten it cooked. It was considered a rare delicacy when he was a child.
These little bugs are almost entirely made of meat. When fried in oil, they taste fragrant and crispy, with the unique fragrance of trees. The more you chew, the more flavorful they become, making you want to bite off your tongue. .
"Really, don't pick that one, go look for it among the firewood of the paper gourd tree. The wood huan'er is the most abundant in the paper gourd tree."
Chen Ling walked over and reminded, and then brought one from the kitchen. I also looked for Mu Huan'er in the small bucket with my sister-in-law. One big and one small rummaged around in the firewood pile. The small bucket was quickly filled with more than half of the Mu Huan'er, and the white bugs crowded into a ball and crawled back and forth.
Listening to the "rustling" sound in the keg, Chen Ling was filled with satisfaction, "Dad, fry some Mu Huan'er for lunch, and let's drink some."
" Just drink. By the way, if you just talk about drinking, I will brew some medicine for you. Didn’t your party secretary tell you two days ago that the leaders are very satisfied..."
Photographed by Wang Cunye He patted the wood ashes on his palms and said: "I happened to have picked a lot of herbs these days to make some wine for you. I can also make wine for you with platycodon, but I can't make it with a higher alcohol content. What do you think? Like? ”
"Okay, but there's no need to rush. I'll bring back a few more tanks in two days. I'll help you then, and the two of us will make it slowly."
Chen Ling thought for a while, and guessed that fruit wine is something It's just a one-time deal, after all, the price is really not cheap.
So I went into the kitchen to cook and fried Mu Huan'er. At noon, I put out the wine and drank with my father-in-law happily over the crisp and fragrant fried Mu Huan'er.
After eating and drinking, I went upstairs to take a nap.
In the afternoon, Chen Ling stayed with his wife and son, lying on the bed reading a newspaper, reading a few paragraphs from time to time, both for his wife and his son.
He was very excited, saying that he wanted to provide a good environment for his son. But Ruirui was so young, how could he know what he was doing? Listening to him reading next to him, he slept very soundly.
Chen Ling was very helpless, saying that this brat would definitely not be good at studying when he grew up. How could he fall asleep when he heard the sound of reading.
Wang Susu was so amused that she lay on the bed laughing.
She always felt that after having her son, her husband seemed to have become much more childish.
The young couple laughed and laughed for a while. When they were tired, Wang Susu took a nap with her son.
Chen Ling got up from the bed with the newspaper, sat at the table, took out a pen and paper, and wrote a letter.
"Aling, what are you doing?"
Halfway through writing, Wang Susu woke up and saw him leaning over the table, writing rustlingly, and she became curious. came over to take a look.
“Are you writing a letter? Who are you writing to?”
Wang Susu had never seen anyone her husband wrote to, and she was confused for a while.
"A university teacher from an agricultural university published an article in this newspaper. It was very good. I wrote him a letter to talk about it."
Chen Ling looked up. The daughter-in-law glanced at her and made room for her to read the article published in the newspaper.
“Hey, it’s specifically about fruit trees.”
Wang Susu leaned over and took a look, then quietly breathed a sigh of relief and looked carefully.
At this time, Chen Ling stopped writing and looked up and down at his wife. Wang Susu felt uncomfortable and covered his eyes with her hands.
"What's wrong? Why do you always look at me weirdly?"
"Comrade Wang Susu, something has been wrong with you recently." Chen Ling said seriously.
"Ah? Something's wrong with me? What's wrong?" Wang Susu said "Ah" with a confused expression on her face.
“You used to take no care of me, but you have been so strict with me recently. You are also nervous when you see me writing letters.”
Chen Ling's perception is so sharp. His wife just breathed a sigh of relief, but he noticed it immediately.
And there is indeed something wrong with some of my wife’s behaviors these days.
“Bah, who’s nervous?”
Wang Susu sighed softly, and her face immediately turned red.
“You still say you’re not nervous, silly wife, but your face is turning red.” Chen Ling looked amused.
The more he looked at his wife's adorable and charming appearance, the more he wanted to bully her, so he pulled her in front of him, hugged her and sat on his lap.
“Tell me, what’s going on?”
“Stop making trouble, let me go, Ruirui is still asleep.”
Wang Susu’s face turned redder. , ashamed and angry, she pulled her husband’s ears.
"Hurry up and I won't let you go until I tell you." Chen Ling let her hold her and stretched out his hand to squeeze.
He squeezed the little wife so hard that she screamed "Ah" and then hurriedly covered her mouth. Her face, which could be easily broken, was instantly stained with a large red cloud, and her watery almond eyes also dodge, not daring to look at him.
“I, I just feel that after we have Ruirui, isn’t it a little weird that we, we, we don’t live together for a long time?”
“That’s it? What else? "
"Also, another thing is that you are so powerful now and know a lot of people outside. I have seen the photos taken by Sister Dujuan. The women outside are so fashionable and beautiful. "
"...That's it, you are really full of nonsense. Am I that kind of person?"
When Chen Ling heard this, she was speechless. She didn't know what to say to her, so she patted her again.
Wang Susu is undoubtedly extremely beautiful. No matter in appearance or figure, no woman can compare with her. Especially in the past year, Chen Ling has been using various things from Dongtian to make various foods to nourish her. It was really full of spiritual energy.
But no matter how beautiful she is, she is still dressed like an ordinary country woman. On weekdays, the villagers may think she is a beautiful little daughter-in-law, but compared to a woman with a wealthy family who has lived in the city for a long time, the villagers will only think about her after seeing her. I think those women are even more stunning and have an unattainable temperament.
After seeing it, the young boys in the village could not even move their eyes away. They could smell the perfume wafting from those women and could not even sleep at night.
And not only the older ones are like this, but also the little ones.
For example, Liu Ni'er didn't dare to speak when she saw Qin Yueru for the first time last year. She even told Chen Ling in private that Xiao Lizi's mother was so beautiful and smelled so good, and that he wanted to marry a woman like that when he grew up.
This is what most people think at this time.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many people who think that Chen Ling is capable and can get along so well with others. If it were them, they wouldn’t dare to approach. Even if they dare to approach, they can’t speak. They all trembled.
"You should be suffering from postpartum depression and need to be treated well."
"I will have to enlighten you if nothing happens in the future."
Chen Ling viciously took a bite on his daughter-in-law's delicate and rosy face, and whispered something into Wang Susu's ear.
Wang Susu became even more shy. She covered her hot pretty face and struggled in his arms: "No, my parents are here. It can't be done. It really can't be done."
"It's okay. Yes, I will hold Ruirui and take the cow back at night. You can just go find me then. We won’t sleep here tonight and will go back to the village to sleep.”
“You have serious postpartum depression. , treatment should be done as early as possible."
Chen Ling saw that the little daughter-in-law in her arms was pretending to be dead, and knew that she would not agree to it aloud because of her temperament, so she said happily: "Then. That’s it.”
Then he stood up gently, folded the letter, folded it into the pages of the book, and stuffed it into the drawer, waiting to be mailed out when he went to the county town market.
As soon as he put it away, his son woke up crying. Chen Ling opened the mosquito net and touched the diaper. There was no urine, so she gently picked him up.
"Rui Rui, wake up when you wake up. Why are you crying?"
Chen Ling teased him with a smile, but the little guy still kept crying.
So he turned slightly sideways and let the little guy see Wang Susu. Sure enough, the effect was immediate, and the little guy's crying stopped immediately.
"You brat, you cried when I held you, but you stopped crying when I saw your mother? You should be beaten."
Wang Susu was still blushing at this time. After hearing this, she raised her head and glared at her husband, Then he took his son to the bedside to breastfeed.
Chen Ling watched the time and calculated the time. According to his son's schedule, he waited for his son to take a nap and pee, then he hugged the little guy and told Wang Susu that he wanted to I took the cow home and asked her to come over when it gets dark.
Wang Susu naturally knew the meaning of his words, let alone his shyness.
……
In the evening, Chen Ling returned home with her son and the cow in her arms.
Although I still come back twice a day, it is different from living here all the time. Because there are less people coming and going, the flowers, plants and trees in the courtyard are extremely prosperous, and most of the courtyard is under the shade of the trees.
The bamboos in the bamboo garden are lush and verdant. Wild orchids, spirea, and various colorful flowers are vying to bloom around the bamboo garden. Although there are many flowers, they are not messy and layer upon layer. Stacked, exuding a refreshing fragrance in the evening.
Bunches of green grapes have been hanging down from the grape trellis by the wall, and the pigeons are walking back and forth beside the grape trellis with small steps.
At this time, Ruirui hummed softly in Chen Ling's arms, making him look away.
"You stinky boy, you won't be honest without your mother. Let's go, daddy will take you to a good place to play."
Chen Ling poked his chubby little face, and then his figure Flash and enter the cave.
(End of this chapter)