Chapter 406 Pigeons and Cows
Tian Hongli took away a cart of fish in a hurry, and Sun Yanhong was not behind. She went to the city that day to open a restaurant to cook crayfish and prepare to do a big job.
Tian Hongli can use the name of the old turtle in the reservoir to sell fish, and so can she.
And there is no need to go to the provincial capital to fight with him, just stay in the city.
When the time comes, Crayfish will also be able to use this name to attract customers, and she is full of confidence.
In short, the two of them have signed a supply and marketing contract with Chen Wangzhuang Brigade.
Sell whatever you like.
No one cares about this for them.
Prices have risen rapidly this year.
Although prices rose during the floods in the past two years, they will fall back after a period of time.
But this year is different.
From the beginning of the year to now, various prices have been rising steadily...
Of course.
It is not true that everything is going up.
At least grain, agricultural and sideline products, chicken, duck, eggs and the like are still the same.
Even if the price increases, it will be a small increase.
Common people cannot make money from these things, so more and more people go out to work.
Fortunately, the old turtle of the reservoir has attracted a large number of tourists this year, and with the hard work of Sun Yanhong and the two of them, the villagers of Chenwangzhuang can make a lot of money.
Otherwise, after this year’s wheat harvest, the young men and women will have to look for opportunities to go out.
Nowadays, some are working in the fields, some are building ponds, some are fishing and catching birds in the mountains and streams, and some are herding cattle for their families.
These young people who stopped going to school early have imitated the Chen Ling family's model, dreaming that one day they can make as much money as Chen Ling.
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Chen Ling and his family don't care about the commotion outside.
Their life is still as usual, unhurried and very comfortable.
Unlike other people, once the wheat harvest season approaches, they will be busy with one thing after another.
They still have a lot of time in their busy schedules, and most of their days are free.
You don’t have to worry too much about wheat, vegetable gardens, orchards.
If there are too many birds nearby, insects will not be able to survive, and if there are too many small animals, rats will not be able to overrun them.
The water quality is good and nourished by the thin spiritual water, and the crops, vegetables and fruit trees have strong disease resistance.
At first, when the wheat and vegetables were about to grow in spring, there were still aphids and weeds. Later, I sprayed pesticides on the wheat several times and sprinkled plant ash on the vegetable garden several times.
Even if weeds grow fast now, they can no longer compete with crops and vegetables for fertilizer. As for aphids and other pests, they have long since disappeared.
It can be said that even if Chen Ling and his family want to take care of it, they have nothing to do with it.
You are so good-looking that you don’t have to worry about everything, so how can you care about it?
So much so that many sharp-eyed villagers, such as Chen Dazhi and Wang Lishan, have already said early on that they will use Chen Ling’s wheat to grow wheat this autumn.
There is not much difference in the yield of wheat grown now.
It all depends on the ability to resist diseases and pests.
Let’s not talk about the Chen Ling family’s wheat production. We can’t tell for sure even if we haven’t confiscated it.
But the ability to resist pests and diseases is absolutely outstanding.
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Chen Ling is naturally happy to see this happen.
It turned out that he was still thinking of setting up a small seed station in a small yard in the county town. When he had nothing to do, he would take his wife and children to the market to sell seeds.
Later, after exchanging experiences with two pen pals, I asked in a different way and found that this idea was not easy to implement.
So I gave up my original idea.
But if someone comes to ask for grain seeds, he will definitely not refuse.
This is good for Sun Moon Cave Sky.
"Gu Gu, Gu Gu..."
After breakfast, Chen Ling finished feeding the ornamental fish fry in the pond and returned to the farm with a bucket. Two little pigeons with colorful feathers were restless in the bamboo cage. The flapping wings made a loud bang against the cage.
Hearing the noise, the little cat ran over early, stretched out one front paw, tilted its head, and kept meowing as it stretched into the bamboo cage.
It even scared the two little pigeons into panic.
“Go aside, you can’t eat this.”
Chen Ling put down the bucket and walked over, slapped the little cat on the head and drove it aside.
Then he lifted the bamboo cage containing the chickens and ducks to the corridor beside the lotus pond.
Preparing to find a new home for the two little pigeons.
These two little things are two pigeons with special feather colors that he caught from the village yesterday afternoon after Tian Hongli and Little Sheep took away the fish at home.
Ordinary wild pigeons are blue or lavender, with two large and one small black horizontal stripes on their wings.
These two are different. Although most parts are still blue and there are black horizontal stripes on the wings, the head, neck, belly and tail are all white.
This white color is unevenly distributed white patches, like larger broken flowers.
These two little flower pigeons look very beautiful.
After two years of domestication and raising wild pigeons, two pigeons with different colors finally appeared.
Chen Ling was very happy.
Seeing that they had just left the nest and had not learned to fly, I quickly caught them and planned to keep them by my side and train them.
Pigeons have excellent memories and are relatively humane.
For those who take care of and feed it regularly, they will quickly accept this person and remember to be close to this person.
Chen Ling took advantage of them when they were still young, just out of the nest, and not yet full moon and had not learned to fly.
At this time, they are equivalent to a blank piece of paper, and it is best to cultivate them by keeping them around.
Otherwise, if you catch them when they grow up, you will have to clip their wings and keep them in captivity for a while.
Although it can be cooked in this way.
But if the wings are not fully grown for a long time, they will not be able to fly for at least three or four months.
That would be too much trouble.
It would be better to catch them at this time and raise them.
But pigeons are more emotional.
Although when the little pigeons are close to the full moon and full of feathers, the big pigeons will knock the little pigeons out of the nest and let them find a new nest to live in.
But, this does not mean abandoning them.
If people try to catch them, they will still get angry.
So Chen Ling had no choice but to catch two beautiful pigeons first, and left the remaining little pigeons untouched.
To prevent the big pigeons from being emotionally unstable and angry during the incubation period, they will all fly away in anger. "Aling, Ruirui and I went to the village."
"Our saw was broken. Dad took one from Yuqiang's house yesterday and hung it on the wall over the firewood stack. , go get it when you need it.”
At this time, Wang Susu packed up a basket full of Ruirui’s food, drinks and fun things, carrying a bamboo basket behind her, holding a baby in front of her, followed by two children. The big black and yellow dog is ready to go out.
“Okay, I get it.”
Chen Ling smiled at the couple, then waved his hands gently.
Wang Susu also smiled and said to his son: "Ruirui, tell daddy quickly, we are leaving."
The little thing immediately stuck his head back and grinned at Chen Ling Smile: "Dad~ ah, let's go~"
The little guy who just started to learn to talk is much more lovable than before.
Hearing his son's little milky voice, Chen Ling's eyes suddenly narrowed with joy, and he waved happily: "Let's go, let's go, dad will find you soon."
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Watching his wife and son walk out of the farm.
Chen Ling hummed a little tune happily, carrying the bamboo cage and walking towards the back of the farm.
Wang Susu and her father-in-law thought he was going to build a bird box for the little pigeons to live in.
I also borrowed a saw from him.
Chen Ling’s original intention was to build another bird box, but then he turned around and thought, a kite is also a bird box. What if the little pigeon foolishly admitted that it was wrong and entered the wrong nest? Peck to death and that's it.
No more bird boxes.
I went to the woodshed and warehouse to search, and found a larger clay pot.
Put it horizontally, bundle it up with straw rope, and then hang it down the corridor.
It is simple and beautiful, and very practical. It also saves him the time of nailing the bird box.
Moreover, the mouth of the clay pot is very small and the belly is very big, making it a perfect pigeon's nest.
Chen Ling took a closer look and was quite satisfied: "Not bad, not bad. I'll catch a few wild pigeons and train them later. They can also use this as a nest."
He stuffed some hay into the clay pot. The pads are fluffy and soft.
Then he took the two little pigeons out of the bamboo cage and put them in...
Because they haven't learned to fly yet, Chen Ling didn't hang the pots so high now, just put them on On two rocks next to the corridor.
Take out a handful of peanuts and peel them while letting them get familiar with themselves and this new home. At the same time, train them in and out so that they know how to return to the nest.
There are such good peanuts to eat.
It only took half a day for the two little pigeons to be trained by Chen Ling to be able to go up and down and return to their nests, and they were no longer afraid when they saw him.
Suddenly, Erhei barked loudly.
A man walked into the farm, frightened the two little pigeons so much that they flapped their wings, jumped on the rocks and got back into the earthen jar.
"Uncle Fugui, feeding the pigeons."
"Hey, it's Xiaochao. Is your injury healed?"
Chen Ling looked up and saw that it was Wang Wenchao, the youngest son of Ermao Donkey's family.
I followed Li Hongqi and the others into the mountains to serve as guides. I was injured and have not been able to go out for more than half a month.
"I have recovered. At first I thought I had broken my leg. But later I asked Uncle Guoping to take a look and found that no muscles or bones were injured. It was nothing serious. I didn’t even use a crutch. I just raised half of it. After many months, I’m still a little sluggish, and I’m not as energetic as before at work, hehe.”
Wang Wenchao chuckled, that’s how it is in the village, men, women and children, even if they are injured or sick, can’t just lie in bed and do any work. Don't do it unless you are seriously ill.
But the young man in his twenties was very strong and could easily handle any injury.
He himself didn't care, he just took out the things wrapped in blue cloth from his arms: "Uncle Fugui, I brought you a gun."
"Well, that gang Did the outsiders pay you for being a guide?"
Chen Ling took the gun and leaned casually on the small stone pier next to it.
Erhei couldn't see anything alive, so when he saw this, he grabbed the gun and ran upstairs to the hunting gear room and placed the gun in front of the door of the hunting gear room.
Wang Wenchao glanced at Chen Ling with envy, smiled and nodded at Chen Ling: "Forget it, I've already given it to you. How can a bunch of outsiders not give you money? Unless they don't want to leave."
"The injury of the man surnamed Li has not healed yet. Their gang lives in the old courtyard of Erzhu, and the Baoshuan and Baoliang families take care of their meals."
"Oh, that's not bad. , Baoshuan and Baoliang have seen a lot of money this year.”
“Yes, Baoshuan has improved, it’s time for him to see the money. Baoshuan did a good job, and he even told us. , those people have compasses hidden under the bed.”
Chen Baoshuan also told Chen Ling about this, saying that he had informed the people in the village that they should keep an eye on their compasses. What to do.
Although Chen Ling had some suspicions about this matter, he didn't pay much attention to it. His dog was running around in and outside the village all day long. It was better than people at this kind of thing, so there was no need to keep an eye on it.
Unless they go into the mountains again...
The two sat together and chatted for a while, seeing that the sun was getting hotter and it was almost noon.
Wang Wenchao said: "Uncle Fugui, are you busy with something this afternoon? Ida said that if you are not busy, I would like to ask you to do a little favor. If you are busy, forget it."
This is not a pretentious statement. Recently, everyone in the village knows that Chen Ling's apricots are ripe. If they are busy picking apricots or looking for a place to sell, they will definitely not have time to help.
"You can tell me if you have anything to do. I don't have anything to do in the afternoon. I just pick two baskets of apricots. Just pick them as you like without delaying anything."
"That's good. Ida said I wanted to give them to my family. The scalper wears a nose ring. That cow is so disobedient that it cannot be trained without a nose ring."
Wang Wenchao sighed helplessly, "Ida called Brother Yuqiang and Brother Yingqiang, and added. Anda and I may not be able to hold down that bull. Anda knew that I was here to bring you a gun, so he said that if you were not busy, I would ask you to come and help too. Uncle Fugui, you are very strong. If you go there, you will definitely be able to hold down the cow."
In fact, two or three young and strong men can hold down a half-sized ox.
But wearing a cow nose ring is different. The cow is in too much pain during the wearing process and will struggle violently. If it is not worn properly, it will hurt the cow, and many people have to be called in to tighten the cow. Just press and hold.
"Wearing a nose ring? It's been almost a week. I thought you took the cow back that night and put a nose ring on the cow the next day."
Chen Ling didn't expect it. This matter.
"No, Anda said that the cows ran out at night, and half the village came out to chase them away. There were also dogs barking and people yelling. It frightened him a lot. The next day, he still felt at ease. I'm afraid that getting a nose ring so soon will frighten the cow again. If there is any disturbance in the future, it will easily frighten the cow..."
"I just wanted to let the cow take it easy for a few days. After a few days, it felt at ease. Give him a nose ring to make it safer."
Wang Wenchao explained.
"That's right."
Chen Ling nodded and expressed understanding: "Okay, I'll go there early in the afternoon and let's put a nose ring on it."
I want to train the cow well. , it is essential to pierce the nose of cattle.
Actually, if the cattle are not used for plowing, it doesn’t matter whether they wear nose rings or not. But who made Ermao Donkey’s little scalper disobedient and dared to break free from the reins and open the door and run out on his own?
This guy got lost in the middle of the night and where can he find it? Now he is selling a calf for six to seven hundred yuan.
Not everyone can be blind to money.
I went to someone else's house, and they closed the door and secretly killed and sold the cow. There was really no way I could do it.
Now that the weather is getting hotter, it is actually not the best season to wear a nose ring. Winter is generally the best time to wear a nose ring, which can reduce infection.
Of course, if the cow is one year old and is not in winter, it must be worn as needed.
It is best to wear this thing before the cow is one year old. Otherwise, when the cow grows up, has a strong temper and is strong, it will not be easy to hold it down, and it will easily hurt people if it is hard on.
But when it comes to scalpers like Ermao Donkey's, it's useless to say anything. They are so stubborn and disobedient when they are less than one year old. It is impossible to raise them without a nose ring.
(End of this chapter)