Chapter 324 Hei Wa’s Child
In the sun and moon cave, Chen Ling squatted by the lotus pond, pouring food into the water while carefully observing these changes.
Colorful koi and goldfish crowd around the lotus pond, swimming eagerly to grab food.
When Chen Ling finished feeding the food and rinsed his hands in the water, they thought that this was also feeding, and followed Chen Ling's hands back and forth to find food.
Chen Ling smiled when he saw this, became interested, and stretched out his hand to slowly wave on the water.
I saw his hand slowly moving eastward, and the fish chased his hand, swimming eastward with their heads and tails wagging.
He moved his hand westward, and the fish also chased westward.
After playing for a while, Chen Ling shook his hands dry, fetched a bucket, and caught some fry.
Take it out after two days and keep it in the farm's water tank first, so that you can observe the changes of these fry.
As the fry grow older, their colors and body features will gradually become more prominent, and they will slowly turn into beautiful ornamental fish.
In the cave sky, this change is extremely drastic.
Chen Ling now wants to see if it is possible to cultivate ornamental fish using spiritual water in the outside world, repair their defects, and eliminate blemishes.
If it is feasible, you can raise ornamental fish openly in the future.
For him, this is just like playing, and he can also make money, which is very good when he thinks about it.
After catching the fry, I watched them quietly for a while.
Koi is fine.
Although she is more beautiful than before, if Chen Ling wants to explain in detail where she has become more beautiful, he still can't tell.
In comparison, the changes in goldfish are too obvious.
Because when Chen Ling bought it, he specially selected several pairs of goldfish of different shapes, a pair of lion heads, a pair of white pearls, a pair of dragon eyes, a pair of red phoenixes, and a pair of red crane crowns.
Lion head and dragon eye are very common goldfish species.
The changes taking place in the cave are also extremely noticeable.
The lion head is a sarcoma on the forehead of a goldfish.
This fish has a relatively short and thick body, unlike ordinary goldfish, which are slender.
The pair Chen Ling bought were a pair of red lion heads.
When I first bought it, there was only a little finger-sized tumor on my forehead.
The tumor has now grown into a strawberry, covering the eyes and noses of the two fishes.
Chen Ling bought books on ornamental fish breeding in the city.
He understood that this change in Lion Head was a good sign.
The eyes and mouth are both trapped in sarcoma.
Furthermore, the anal fins are in pairs and should be hidden under the tail fin and not exposed.
These are two basic conditions for cultivating a high-grade goldfish.
As for dragon eyes, they are goldfish with two swollen eyes and eyeballs. The two black dragon eyes selected by Chen Ling have no change in color, but the eyeballs and fins have become more and more beautiful, with the eyeballs appearing like grapes. In shape, the fins tend to develop towards the scattered and long phoenix tail of Danfeng.
“Yes, they are all good signs. Let’s wait and see after I put the fry outside for a while.”
When the fry grow to more than one month and two months, they will slow down. Slowly, some obvious features began to appear on his body.
The book says that it is better to raise goldfish in a pond than in a water tank. The spacious pond allows the goldfish to stretch out as they grow.
Chen Ling didn't care about that. As long as the spiritual water was useful, nothing would be a problem.
After leaving the cave, I carried most of the basket of eggs down the mountain.
Today I picked up eggs for nothing else. The farming was busy the past few days and I didn’t have time to sell them. I have saved a lot, so it’s time to go to the market to sell them.
"Aling, the persimmons are warmed and the persimmon cakes are dried. When you go to sell eggs, bring some for Sister Qiumei and Sister Xiaoyun."
"Okay."
As soon as Chen Ling put away the eggs, Wang Susu came downstairs.
This year’s temple fair, Chen Ling’s family still failed to attend the temple fair.
We can only wait until the first month of the new year.
"Then I'll get it for you."
As she said that, Wang Susu put her son in the stroller and took the basket to the back to pick up the persimmons.
"Ah um..."
Chen Ling loaded the eggs and duck eggs onto the oxcart, and from time to time the little guy's cry of "baby ah ah" came from the stroller next to him.
He knew that this brat was talking to him, but he pretended not to hear and deliberately ignored him.
Sure enough, the more you ignore him, the greater his reaction.
This suckling baby is quite energetic.
He actually stretched out his little hands, grabbed the stroller and rolled it over inside, opened his mouth, made a milky sound, and giggled at him.
At this moment, Chen Lingcai shouted at him with a tigerish face: "Why are you laughing? I think you want to be beaten."
Chen Ling was willing to pay attention to him, but this kid just laughed. Even worse, he squinted his eyes and swayed his little feet, which was called a proud one.
This made Chen Ling lose his composure and started laughing.
He reached out and picked him up, held him above his head and spun him around in circles to play with him.
This brat likes Chen Ling to make trouble with him the most. He is so happy that he dances and screams on top of his head.
Chen Ling fussed with him for a while, then sat next to him and put him on his lap. The little thing was still kicking his legs in his arms. His two short legs were particularly strong. .
"Hey, look at Ruirui dancing so well. Come on, grandma, give me a hug."
At this time, Gao Xiulan came over from the village, and the old lady was going to give her eldest grandson another massage before she left. A set of cotton-padded clothes is a full day's work in addition to taking care of the baby every day.
“Our dolls are very strong. Look at their arms and legs. Compared with Ruirui, the little dolls in the village look like mouse paws, but not as strong as us.”
After the mother-in-law took this little thing into her arms, she still wanted to praise it.
As the old saying goes, turn over three times, sit down, roll around, climb up and walk twelve times.
Chen Ling’s son grows up quickly and learns things quickly. Before Chen Ling went to the city, he couldn’t laugh out loud. When he came back, he would bar his baby teeth and squint his eyes while giggling. .
Chen Ling was very happy.
Now he is five months old. He can turn over easily and it hurts to pinch someone.
Sometimes I can even sit up in the stroller.
But I am afraid that his bones will be soft, so I usually don’t put him in the stroller, otherwise he will be so restless and make noises.
There are actually a lot of dolls like him out there.
There are even faster ones than him.
So it doesn’t seem to stand out.
The biggest difference now from other dolls is that they are strong and strong.
"Mom, you're going back in a few days, so don't be too busy. Take a break when you need to. I can't finish this cotton coat. I'll do it slowly in the future, and I'll wear it next year too."
Chen Ling couldn't help but say when she saw that the bamboo basket her mother-in-law put next to her still contained unfinished cotton-padded clothes.
“What do you know? How fast does a little baby grow? It looks the same in a few days. Don’t look at the size of the cotton-padded clothes I made for Rui Rui. This kid grows up very fast. He won’t be able to go there by this time next year. "
"Besides, I only have one tail left, so I just need to catch up."
Gao Xiulan always talks about wanting her eldest grandson to wear the new cotton-padded coat she made this year, saying that the one she made before was too thin and had too little cotton.
Chen Ling took a look at the new cotton-padded clothes. The cotton was so thick that Ruirui would look like a little bear wearing it, unable to walk at all.
But the old man was so thoughtful that he didn’t bother to say more.
When Wang Susu took out the persimmons, she drove to the county town to sell eggs.
In fact, there is no market today, nor is it a temple fair.
But Chen Ling also has old customers.
Driving a bullock cart, slowly and leisurely shouting around in the streets and alleys, people came out to buy eggs.
On this trip, Chen Ling didn’t bring many duck eggs. He kept the duck eggs for pickling salted eggs at home. Just pull the eggs over.
Perhaps it’s because the weather is cold and eggs are kept longer than usual, so everyone buys a lot.
Some saw the iconic big white buffalo pulling a cart and knew the egg seller was here again.
Friends gathered around to sell eggs, and the little kids took the opportunity to come over and play with the little white cow.
After only a short stop, the eggs on the oxcart were sold out.
After Chen Ling counted the money, he looked at the time. It happened to be around eleven o'clock. It was not lunch time, so he happened to go to Qin Qiumei's family to deliver some persimmons. When he arrived, Wang Susu also gave some Wild yam, let me bring it over.
I just sent it to the two families, and I saw that Chen Ling had sent so many persimmons.
Persimmons and wild yams are okay, but there are too many warm persimmons, so it’s hard to put them away.
"Fugui, the warmed persimmons at your house are so beautiful, but we can't eat so much at home."
Zhong Xiaoyun doesn't live with her father-in-law and mother-in-law either. Seeing these crystal clear fruits Transparent, yellow with red, persimmon is both beautiful and attractive, I love it but it is also embarrassing at the same time.
I feel like it would be a pity to waste such a good persimmon if I can’t finish it.
"It's okay. If you can't finish eating, bring some to the teachers and students at your school. If that doesn't work, you can make fried persimmon dumplings or spread them into persimmon steamed buns."
When Chen Ling saw her in a daze, he knew she couldn't do it, and said disgustedly: "Forget it, you two, I just finished teaching Qin Qiumei, and I still have to teach you when I come here? If you don't know how to do it, just ask her, you two idiots. "
"Bah, you are stupid, how can you know how to eat when others don't, by the way, don't leave yet, help me bring something to Susu."
"..."
It’s no wonder that Chen Ling dislikes them. Persimmon dumplings and persimmon steamed buns are the simplest and easiest to make.
It is both lumpy and steamed. Just by hearing the name, you know that this thing is not uncommon.
It can even be dipped in sugar and eaten as a dessert.
Persimmon steamed buns are nothing more than peeling off the skin of a persimmon, kneading the pulp into the dough, and baking it into a cake.
Or just like pancakes, stir it into a paste and spread it on the pan.
Fried persimmon dumplings are similar to baked persimmon steamed buns. They just need to add more oil and when mixing with the dough, don’t crush the persimmon flesh so much that it turns into a complete paste.
Just like making pimple soup, just put it in the oil pan and fry it over high heat.
It just consumes a lot of fuel.
Take it out of the pan and roll it with sugar. It is both simple and delicious.
The persimmons Chen Ling’s family dried this year had more warm persimmons.
Warm persimmons are often referred to as ripening persimmons.
After picking the nearly ripe persimmons, roll them in white wine, put them in a jar and seal them, and you can eat them in about a week.
Originally, we didn’t use warm persimmons very much in the past. We could just pick and eat the persimmons in the mountains when they were ripe.
But there are many bird thieves in the mountains this year, and there are large flocks of birds in Chenlingguo Forest alone. Every evening, when the tired birds return to their nests, the sky above the fields blocks out the sun, which is very spectacular.
This bird is active in the mountains and forests all day long, causing great harm to the persimmons.
They also specialize in catching ripe persimmons and eating them. Eat whichever is ripe and whichever is delicious. When people go to pick them, where are the ripe persimmons?
They were all half-eaten by birds, or half-eaten things broke in the trees and fell to the ground in piles.
There is no other way, so people can only pick some half-ripe or almost-ripe persimmons and ripen them themselves.
In fact, warm persimmons are also very delicious. They are fragrant and sweet, without any astringency.
After the persimmons are warmed up, when they are taken out of the heating vat, they are crystal clear, the skin is shiny, extremely bright, and the red color is quite beautiful.
Like little red lanterns.
“After a while, when I have eaten enough warm persimmons, I will dry them into persimmon cakes, or turn them into persimmon vinegar.”
Chen Ling smacked his lips, "But the persimmons are still delicious."
Snacks made from wild fruits in the mountains, such as hawthorn cakes, wild jujube cakes, jujube cakes, fried walnut cakes, persimmon steamed buns, persimmon cakes, etc. Of all the things, his favorite is the persimmon cake.
I have loved eating it since I was a child.
On the way home, it was almost time for lunch at twelve o’clock. The more I thought about it, the more drooling I became.
Don’t do a little of everything this time.
"Woof woof woof..."
After the ox cart went around the dirt road outside the village, and just passed the yard of Ermao Donkey's house, he saw Hei Wa and the little yellow dog leading a group of dogs from the village, from Laohe From the direction of the bay, Heiwa and the little yellow dog were running wildly from the wheat field, each holding a rabbit in their mouths.
The two guys tilted their heads and looked at Chen Ling while running. They originally wanted to run over directly, but when they saw Chen Ling waving at them, they reluctantly led the dogs to the cow. Next to the car.
Seeing this, Chen Ling reached out and gave them two slaps: "Good guys, if you don't discipline me for a few days, you are getting more and more courageous. It's like you don't know me when you see me."
You dare to ignore yourself, it’s outrageous.
"The rabbits I usually give you don't taste good. Do you want to eat them? Don't eat them."
These two guys are used to being beaten and trained, and they act like normal people. They put down the rabbits and waggled their heads in front of him, thinking Get fooled.
Chen Ling didn't think much about it. The two guys were used to it and the family was used to it. He threw the two rabbits on the ox cart and continued walking home.
But after a few days, both he and Wang Cunye and his son-in-law realized that something was wrong.
Nothing else, this kid Hei Wa started to go out early and come back late again, making himself dusty and dirty every day.
And he hunted like crazy, catching rabbits, pheasants, squirrels, mice and all kinds of things. He would catch them whenever he saw them, but he wouldn't eat them and would sneak them into the mountains to pick them up.
Looking at this situation, Weng and his son-in-law pinched their fingers and calculated. Come on, Hei Wa must have become a father out of nowhere.
It is now the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, and those female wolves must have given birth to their babies long ago.
Otherwise it wouldn't be like this.
Many ordinary people are too far away from wolves and do not understand the habits of these things.
Wolves have a much larger appetite than dogs, and they are exaggeratedly large.
In a normal wolf pack, only the female wolf among the alpha wolves has the right to reproduce.
When it gives birth to wolf pups, other wolves in the wolf pack will help it hunt. It does not need to go out to participate in hunting operations anymore and can concentrate on raising the pups.
But now the situation is different.
Not just one female wolf was pregnant with Hei Bao, but all the female wolves in the pack were pregnant.
As soon as this guy reaches the childbearing period, everyone is raising cubs, and only the male wolves of the wolf pack are hunting. They eat a lot, and they are in the child-rearing period and are in urgent need of nutrition. How can the male wolves afford it?
In the end, it is up to Hei Wa, his biological father, to take action.
Hei Wa is indeed a man. He raises his own children, saves his own seeds, and takes on his own responsibilities.
It’s a bit too tiring just to sit like this.
Chen Ling looked tired. Heiwa was catching prey everywhere these days, and he had to run into the mountains to deliver it to the wolf den. Damn it, Chen Ling saw how busy it was before and after running. , couldn’t help but feel sad for it.
"It's not easy for a man to support a family."
"Come, Heiwa, let's discuss something."
One evening, Chen Ling blocked Heiwa in the middle of the way as he was hurriedly returning home, and touched him Touching its dirty hair: "Don't be nervous, I don't blame you, and I won't beat you. It's not easy for you to raise a baby. I'll give you two choices, either. Don't go home when it's time to go live in the mountains and guard the wolf's den. When it's time to catch prey, it's time to rest and avoid running back and forth.
Or, take me to see the wolf. Where is the den? I'll catch some wolf cubs for you. I'll help you raise them at home.
Don't worry, it's good for you. In the wolf den, some wolf cubs tend not to drink milk. Starving to death, the mother wolf doesn't care about the weak wolf cubs. I'll catch a few of them for you. I can feed them to you. The mother wolf has fewer wolf cubs left, so she can still feed them well. You choose. .”
Hei Wa could still roughly understand what he said.
When I first heard him say that he had come back after catching a wolf cub, I immediately started to groan and spin anxiously.
After he finished speaking, he immediately lowered his eyebrows, stuck out his tongue, licked his hand, and began to please him.
"Humph, you change your face quickly. You are smart. Take me there tomorrow morning, and I will bring back some of your dolls to raise."
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PS: This chapter is an update that was missed during the National Day holiday.
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