Chapter 253 The attention attracted by the old turtle

Chapter 253 The attention attracted by the old turtle

It rained all day and night.

Chen Ling was surprised to find that his son was very well-behaved on rainy days. He neither cried nor fussed at night and slept soundly. Even thunder could not wake him up.

This is quite surprising.

But no matter how you say it, it is very good that he and Wang Susu can finally have a good sleep.

Listening to the thunderstorm, the family of three slept comfortably all night.

The rain stopped in the early morning, and the sound of frogs continued outside the farm.

Open the window, the morning after the rain, the air is cool and the bamboo trees are like new.

The gentle breeze from the mountain blew up the lotus leaves in the lotus pond. The lotus leaves swayed with the wind, and the water droplets on the leaves jumped into the water one by one, stirring up a crisp and sweet " Ding dong” sound.

Chen Ling had a rare sleep and was in a good mood.

Before her son woke up, she and Wang Susu scrubbed out her son's soaked diaper.

Then I went to several places in the chicken coop and duck pen to clean up the accumulated water.

After doing this, change the dressing on the kite.

Kite's injuries have almost recovered now.

Only the wounds on the wings still need to be replaced with medicine.

This position is critical. If the recovery is not good, it will have a great impact on the kite's future flying ability.

The medicine Chen Ling used for it was the Jinchuang medicine passed down by his father-in-law, but it was formulated with herbs from Dongtian. It was an enhanced version of the Jinchuang medicine.

So the injury healed quickly.

"Er Baldy, wake up and come out to apply medicine."

Going under the eaves, Chen Ling knocked on the bamboo basket placed on the water tank. He knocked and the bamboo basket A bird's head immediately emerged from inside, looking around warily.

After seeing that it was him, he relaxed his guard and allowed Chen Ling to grab it and put it on the eagle pole hanging under the eaves.

The kite now rests on the eagle pole prepared by Chen Ling during the day, and at night it goes into the bamboo basket and huddles up on the cloth strips and old cotton batting.

It is cold at night in the mountains, but it is very warm in the bamboo basket.

In short, with wisdom, you know how to enjoy it better than ordinary gadgets.

It is fed with spiritual water every day. Now that it is injured, it does not have to worry about food.

In the past few days, it has not only grown twice as big, but is also much more beautiful than before.

It has gray-brown feathers and chestnut pits on its belly. Its big, thick and powerful yellow talons stand quietly on the eagle's bars, and its toes are extremely sharp.

The most outstanding thing is a pair of amber eyes, which are lively, smart and very human.

It completely relaxed its guard in front of Chen Ling and enjoyed the caress of his big hands. It was very affectionate and well-behaved.

Nowadays, the size of the kite has greatly increased, and it can be compared with some small eagles and eagles, but the appearance is still that of a kite, more slender and handsome than the eagles and eagles, and it looks very beautiful.

Chen Ling was very satisfied with this: "Okay, Er Baldy, after his hair has grown, he will become very good-looking."

And it is worth mentioning that Er Baldy has been rescued by Chen Ling last year. After that, there were some wonderful changes on its body, such as its night vision ability, which was much stronger than that of ordinary falcons.

The eyesight of ordinary falcons is very strong during the day, and they can see things clearly on the ground even when flying high in the sky. However, at night, their night vision is extremely weak, which is no different from being blind with their eyes open.

Er Baldy has gotten rid of this weakness.

“Come on, spread your wings quickly and let me see how well your injury has healed?”

When Chen Ling said this, the cat really understood it. With a slight chirp, it spread its wings carefully, with soft and well-behaved eyes, allowing Chen Ling to observe the injuries on its wings.

"Okay, it's recovering well, and it will be able to fly after another two or three days."

Chen Ling observed it for a while, then reached out to touch its hook-like beak. , the bald man narrowed his eyes in comfort, enjoying his touch.

"Heiwa, take your little brother outside to hunt two mice and come back."

He turned around and ordered Heiwa, and Heiwa took Xiao Huang with him. The dog ran out of the farm, and soon two guys came back with a mouse in their mouths and brought them to him.

There are many mouse holes inside and outside the orchards. There are mountain mice and ground mice. There is no shortage of these little things everywhere.

Following Hei Wa and Xiao Jin, the little yellow dog didn't learn any other skills, but his ability to catch mice was better than his own.

Although its personality is as naughty and mischievous as Heiwa, its hunting ability is not outstanding, but its hunting instinct is not weak in its bones. It has the desire to actively hunt, and it will kill mice when it sees it. I want to catch them, but I know how to drive them away when I see strange wild things intruding.

This is the hunting instinct that Hutou Huang is born with and buried deep in his bones.

Unfortunately, it has an impetuous temper and loves to play too much, so it is only suitable for catching small prey such as mice and rabbits.

There is no way to take a dog that can't stand its temper into the mountains.

After catching the mouse, Chen Ling grabbed the bald man and put it on the ground so that he could eat.

Er Baldy is used to this kind of feeding.

He stepped on the mouse with his paws and opened his mouth to tear it apart.

Its alertness has always been very high.

The same is true when eating. After catching the prey, it is often held under the paws and held in the mouth. After holding the food twice, it will raise its head and look around to observe the situation.

If there is no abnormality, lower your head and eat again.

Press the prey with its claws and once it eats, it will raise its head once to observe the surrounding situation.

Over time, this has become a habit.

Chen Ling watched the kite eat with great interest. After it finished eating both mice, he cleaned up the leftovers and went to the kitchen behind to make breakfast.

Breakfast was quickly prepared, including millet porridge, fried steamed buns, pickles, and pickled radish. It was simple, but the couple ate it very sweetly.

After the meal, the sun slowly came out. It cleared up after the rain, and the farm and orchard became lively again.

Seeing his son sucking milk quietly in Wang Susu's arms, neither crying nor fussing, Chen Ling teased him twice, then picked up the fishing net and went from the lotus pond, the canal, and then to the ditch at the foot of the mountain. Remove fallen leaves and check the growth of various fish.

He doesn't care much about ordinary fish at the moment.

The main ones are fine salmon, as well as ornamental fish such as mullet and betta fish.

After finishing his busy work, Chen Ling went to see the fine salmon first.

Slender salmon are raised in the canals of the outside world, and also in the canals of Dongtian.

This kind of fish is born with an impatient nature and likes to live in clear and rapid streams in mountain streams. It will bravely move forward when encountering rapids and likes to swim against the current.

All these characteristics create its unique meat texture, which is firm and delicious, and extremely delicious.

In the farm’s water canal, the salmon raised in this small section have changed a lot after several months.

Not only has he grown up a lot, his body shape has become more slender and his body curves have become more perfect.

Chen Ling fished out two of them. After catching them in his hand, they fluttered and struggled endlessly. The strength was really strong.

“It looks quite thin and has no meat, but it is very fat when held in my hand.”

Feeling the fleshy texture of the salmon on his hand, Chen Ling smiled happily, not bad, Not in vain.

So I brought the bucket up, fished out a few more and put them into the bucket, ready to taste them at noon.

Then he released the chickens, ducks and geese, and followed him to the mountain and into the cave to observe the individually cultivated ornamental fish.

When these fish were released to the farm, Chen Ling initially wanted to raise them in the lotus pond. Later, he felt that the lotus flowers were not growing and they were bare and unsightly, so he did not put them in it yet.

He moved them all into the cave and opened a new pond specifically for them.

But after the fish was put in, he only came to see it once or twice in total.

Now when I come over and take a look, the changes in the mullet are not very obvious.

They reproduce very quickly. The fry of the mullet fish are in groups, with black and light red horizontal stripes. The big fish are very beautiful. Except for the light color of the belly, they are all a strong rouge red. When they swim, they look like The flames are floating, extremely beautiful and beautiful. "You can even eat these mullet fish."

Chen Ling smacked his lips, watching the fish he raised getting bigger and fatter, still quite accomplished. Sensational.

The joy of breeding is nothing more than this.

Watching the things you raise grow day by day, the weight of the things increases day by day, and when it is time to harvest, you can sell them at a good price.

There will be an indescribable sense of satisfaction in my heart.

Then he moved the lush lotus leaves in the pond to find other fish.

Compared with the mullet fish, these fish are small and swim away when people approach them. They are blocked by lotus leaves and are very difficult to see if they are hidden by aquatic plants and stones in the water.

As a result, the other fish were fine after this search. The fighting fish really surprised him.

Nothing else, this fish is so lively.

Take a closer look at the bottom of the ditch, and you will see that the good guys are lying on a dense layer, like a large group of tadpoles, but much smaller than tadpoles.

As soon as he opened the lotus leaf, the fry inside began to swim around in a chaotic manner. From top to bottom, it turned into a whirlpool, as spectacular as a school of fish in the sea.

“Good guy, there are so many fry, why don’t you put them outside.”

While muttering, he suddenly looked startled and discovered a phenomenon. These big fish seemed to have become It's beautiful, the colors are brighter, the tail becomes longer, smoother and more stretched, and it swims more beautifully.

There are many such fork-tailed bettas south of Fenglei Town. People there call them "flower handkerchiefs", referring to their bright colors, long and fluffy fins and tails, It looks as beautiful as a flower handkerchief in the water.

Now Chen Ling recognizes this title even more.

"Some have indeed become more beautiful, but how come some have become ugly?"

After observing carefully for a while, Chen Ling suddenly frowned.

It’s not that ugly, it’s just that the tail is no longer scattered and it doesn’t look like a betta fish anymore, but the color on its body is still pretty good-looking.

After thinking about it carefully, Chen Ling picked out the beautiful ones and the ugly ones and put them into the two ditches outside the hut.

"I want to see what special changes you will have next."

"Well, pick out these fish with obvious changes in characteristics and raise them separately. Every time there is a change, just select and breed..." "Eh?" Well.”

Chen Ling thought for a while and fished out some more beautiful betta fish. After returning to the farm, he put them into another ditch, which was closer to where he poured the spiritual water. He kept the betta fish in Here, it’s a good place to make some daily observations.

Now there are two streams and four canals, two surrounding the farm and two flowing into the lotus pond.

The two canals that feed the lotus pond are where the fish are released. They were blocked by Chen Ling with mesh partitions. On one side are squid and on the other side are betta fish.

"Okay, I'm done with my work, let's go back and kill the fish."

Clapping his hands, Chen Ling picked up the bucket of salmon and walked back.

As he walked further back, he found that the back of the farm was very lively.

"Liu Ni'er, Pig Boy, you guys line up with others, let's start counting the money now."

Chen Ling walked through the hall and walked to the back of the farm. I found my sister-in-law sitting on a bamboo chair with her legs crossed, waving a small book in her hand and shouting loudly.

After shouting, he said to Xizi who was standing next to him: "Come on, Xizi, help me remember. Whoever receives the money, you have to tick the name."

Xizi She is an honest girl. When she heard her instructions, she nodded lightly and agreed.

Wang Zhenzhen nodded with satisfaction, took out a handful of money, and clicked a few pictures in a decent manner: "Liu Ni'er, you caught three pounds and seven ounces of scorpions and three ounces of cicada shells. This is fifty-eight yuan. "Take it."

"Snot baby, you are less than three pounds, my sister and brother-in-law said that I will give you three pounds and come and get the money." ”

Whenever a kid is called, that kid will run forward happily, happily take the money in his hand, and keep counting.

Good guy, Chen Ling was so stunned by this scene that he almost dropped the bucket in his hand.

After being stunned for a long time, he walked over and said, "Zhenzhen, what are you doing?"

Wang Zhenzhen raised his head and said calmly: "We are giving out money. The money from selling scorpions, my sister said I would give it to them. When I sent it, I saw that she was still looking at Ruirui, so I sent it for her."

"Why did you come here to send the money?"

"Brother-in-law, are you okay? You are so stupid. How can you distribute money outside and let others see it?"

Wang Zhenzhen gave him a strange look: "Let others know that we caught scorpions and sold them for a lot of money. Everyone is rushing to catch it, and we won’t be able to catch it by then.”

"That's right, uncle, our scorpions last year were sold for 20 yuan. After they found out, they all rushed to catch them. My Dada said that they were still fighting on the mountain to grab the scorpions."

"I've also heard that Uncle Fugui caught this scorpion in your orchard. If others know there are many scorpions here, they will definitely come over to catch them. It will annoy you to death."

Little kids After everyone talked about this, Chen Ling actually felt that it made sense.

"Okay, let's do this. After you get the money, take the money and hurry back and give it to your parents."

"This money is not small money. Your aunt said it would be given to you. I must ask your aunt to deliver it to your home.”

Chen Ling glared at her sister-in-law as she spoke. With Wang Susu's temper, she would definitely not send it directly to the little kids. This little girl must have made her own decision.

Seeing Wang Zhenzhen sticking out his tongue and making faces at him guiltily, he shook his head, "Now that the money is in your hands, take it carefully and don't lose it. Stop playing today. Put the money at home and then go out to play."

Seeing Chen Ling's serious face, they all nodded obediently and said they understood.

When Wang Zhenzhen and the children dispersed, Chen Ling was collecting fish outside the kitchen.

I went to the market the day before yesterday to sell medicinal materials and chicken and duck eggs. Because I didn’t want to sell the dendrobium at the traditional Chinese medicine shop in the county, I ended up making a lot of money selling scorpions.

Although nearly half of the money was from selling the scorpions caught by the children, Chen Ling's own catch was not small, so including chicken eggs, duck eggs, and Uncaria, he sold more than 1,000 and nearly 2,000 yuan this time. .

There are still endless scorpions outside. As long as the water containing spiritual water flows here, they will multiply here endlessly. Maybe over time, they will mutate and the population will grow stronger.

After a rain, it is now more difficult to find. It will take two consecutive days of clear weather to find more of them.

But a rain is not a bad thing.

After the rain, the family's attention to "mosquito repellent" was also diluted. The mosquito infestation in the past two days was as if it had never happened.

...

After killing the fine salmon, the fish meat is pink, the texture of the meat is moist, and the meat is tender and elastic.

Chen Ling did not use any fancy cooking methods. He simply boiled a pot of light fish soup and drank the fish soup and fish, retaining the taste of the fish to the greatest extent.

Not only Wang Susu was full of praise for this pot of delicious fish soup, but even the father-in-law and mother-in-law said that they had lived in vain for most of their lives and had never tasted such delicious fish.

Perhaps what the two elders said is a bit exaggerated, but when I taste it with Chen Lingyang’s cunning mouth, I feel amazing. This is really delicious and cannot be deceived.

They also have time to evaluate.

Wang Zhen didn’t even bother to tell the truth. He finished two large bowls of fish soup in a row.

Tasting the delicious taste of the salmon, the whole family felt very comfortable.

After the meal, Ruirui, who had been quiet for a day and a half, started crying again.

Both Chen Ling and the young couple have already had conditioned reflexes. When they heard the cry, they cheered up and were busy again.

"Little aunt, little aunt, come out quickly. There are several big turtles in the reservoir. Big boss, big boss, come and see with us."

The young couple were busy around their son, and a group of little kids He ran over to find Wang Zhenzhen again.

Just the words they shouted suddenly attracted Chen Ling's attention.

(End of this chapter)