Chapter 440 Flying Fish
Although the rain today is not light, it is not a particularly heavy rainstorm.
For little kids, it’s nothing.
Especially since the school’s busy farm vacation is about to end, it would be a shame if I didn’t take the opportunity to play more.
So it didn’t take long for Wang Zhenzhen to call a bunch of little kids from the village. There were seven or eight-year-olds like Liu Nier and Xizi, and there were also four or five-year-olds like Xiao Sen and Stinky. It was in the countryside anyway. , the older ones brought the younger ones, nothing unusual, more than a dozen dolls were called over directly.
However, those who raise silkworms are all older.
With all kinds of bottles and boxes in their arms, they all came over in a lively manner.
But what is strange is that their silkworms spin silk and form cocoons very quickly this year.
Not only the silkworms raised by Wang Zhenzhen alone did not like to eat when they were spinning, but the same was true for Liu Nier, Xizi and Zhuwa.
It is equivalent to no one winning.
Wang Zhenzhen was very depressed.
However, she quickly put the matter behind her and happily asked Chen Ling to teach them how to build silkworm hills.
"Come on, follow me to get the wheat straw."
Chen Ling found a ball of twine, took them to the kitchen, and pulled out a few handfuls of wheat straw from the haystack that lit the fire. , give it to them.
Then use scissors to cut the wheat straw into normal length, about as long as eating chopsticks.
Then he tied the wheat straws together with twine, braiding them while tying them. Soon the wheat straws in Chen Ling's hands were tied together like a feather duster, or like a grass-tied mace, and the wheat straws spread out like tattoos. Open, layer after layer.
This is how Canshan was compiled.
“Is this the Silkworm Mountain? It’s so difficult to make.”
Wang Siyi was very interested in the idea of letting silkworms spin cocoons on the Silkworm Mountain, but she was clumsy and couldn’t learn it. The mess.
The little ones didn’t do well either.
So Chen Ling had to help each of them get a prick.
Wang Siyi was not willing to give up, and persevered in asking Chen Ling to teach her how to make up.
"Forget it if you can't weave it well. I'll teach you how to weave a grass-square silkworm mountain. It's easy to prick your hand."
Chen Ling advised.
There are many kinds of silkworms in Silkworm Hill, just allow silkworms to climb up and spin cocoons.
If you raise a lot of silkworms, you can just weave some rough grass squares to save trouble or make it easier to retrieve the cocoons.
The year before she was pregnant with Ruirui, Wang Susu had raised some. The situation at that time was quite urgent, and the silkworm mountain they made as a couple was made of grass and grids, which was very rough.
The reason why we are making silkworm hills like this now is because there are not enough silkworms, and the silkworm boxes are too small to fit in the grass square ones.
“No, I must learn.”
But Wang Siyi became more and more persuasive and refused to admit defeat.
First, this thing is interesting. No one has raised silkworms on Bay Island for a long time. She has never seen Silkworm Mountain, nor has she seen silkworms climbing mountains and forming cocoons. It is very novel.
Second, I was unknowingly infected and led astray by Wang Zhenzhen. I felt the fun of raising small bugs and small animals. I was a little addicted. I thought about raising them for fun when I went back. Naturally. Want to learn.
Of course, as a careful girl, she naturally wants to do the things she is interested in beautifully.
The serious posture made Zhou Weijun, Ding Haidong and others who came to eat couldn't help but be surprised when they saw it.
Zhou Weijun even joked: "Siyi has started to learn crafts. Such a clever girl will definitely be a clever wife in the future. You stay here and let Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang find a husband for you."< br>
"Bah, I don't understand anything. This is Canshan Mountain, for silkworms to spin silk."
Wang Siyi glanced at him sideways.
"Oh, that's right. We, the eldest ladies of Wandao, are all making silkworms. I'm not familiar with it. I'll give you a bowl of porridge as an apology."
Zhou Weijun chuckled and filled a bowl for everyone.
He then said to the little kids: "Really, do you still drink porridge?"
"No more drinking."
After Wang Zhenzhen responded, he thought for a while and shouted again: "Brother Weijun, you'd better bring us some rice dumplings."
Zongzi are just fine. As a snack, the little baby in the countryside has a big appetite. Although he has eaten, he will soon be hungry again as soon as he leaves the house.
"Okay."
Hearing this, Zhou Weijun gave each of them a rice dumpling from the grate.
The little dolls were squatting there, surrounding their respective silkworm boxes, peeling rice dumplings and watching the silkworm babies climb up the silkworm hill.
Zhou Weijun and Ding Haidong also came over with their rice bowls to take a look: "Good guy, it's quite fun. Now we're starting to climb up."
I saw Wang Zhenzhen in the silkworm box , as soon as it was put on the silkworm mountain, silkworms immediately climbed up.
This is also because there is no suitable place to build cocoons in the silkworm box. Now that there is a silkworm mountain, people will naturally climb up happily.
“Did Haidong raise silkworms for fun when he was a child?”
"I've raised them before, matchboxes. At that time, kids in the city also raised them for fun. We also raised scorpions in the dormitory."
"Wow, we also raised scorpions."
When Wang Zhenzhen heard this, she immediately became energetic, and then said to Wang Siyi who was still struggling to dig silkworms next to her: "Sister Siyi, do you know that if the scorpions are not fed, the big scorpions will eat the little ones? It's so interesting."
"Huh? I don't dare to raise such a poisonous insect."
Wang Siyi was stunned and said: "You are still raising it. ”
Wang Zhenzhen shook his head: "No, we raised scorpions to fight with each other, but then they were accidentally eaten by chickens."
"The chickens were eaten? Aren't chickens afraid of scorpions?"
“Don’t be afraid, my brother-in-law said that chickens are the natural enemies of poisonous insects like scorpions and centipedes. As it was also shown in Journey to the West, Pleiades Star Lord is a big rooster and eats a big centipede in one bite.”
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Everyone laughed when they heard this: "I really know a lot. I can see from watching TV that I am knowledgeable. I am far better than other children."
"This is nothing. My brother-in-law also cooks the food from Dream of Red Mansions, which is delicious.”
Wang Zhenzhen laughed, which immediately surprised everyone who was joking. They stared at Chen Ling and asked him how many good things he had hidden.
Chen Ling said that when the weather clears up, he will cook one or two fun and delicious dishes for them to try.
While talking, the silkworm mountain on Wang Zhenzhen's side was already covered with silkworms, and some looming silkworms were spit out by these silkworm babies and hung into a messy mesh.
Look carefully, there is still a little sparkling feeling.
There are also signs of spinning silk in the silkworm boxes of other little guys.
Seeing this, the little dolls screamed in surprise.
The silkworms I raise myself, watching them grow up day by day, from hatching to now spinning cocoons and spinning silk, the joy and satisfaction I feel are indescribable. "Are you going to form a cocoon?"
Seeing this scene, even Wang Siyi, who was competing with Canshan, stopped and came over to observe curiously.
Chen Ling shook his head: "Not yet. Now these silkworms are fixing their silkworm positions, just like spiders weaving webs. They have to fix the positions of several corners of the web. Wait until the silkworm positions are fixed. After it is fixed, the silkworms will start to form cocoons. Silkworms form cocoons very quickly, and it only takes a day or two.
When the silkworm turns into a silkworm moth, it will break out of the cocoon. At this time, you must prepare a piece of paper to let the silkworm moth produce seeds. Keep the silkworm paper well so that you can continue to raise silkworms in the coming year..."
"It turns out that it is That's it. "
Wang Siyi's eyes suddenly became bright, and she came close to Wang Zhenzhen and said: "Zhenzhen, will you give me some silkworm paper when the time comes? Next time my sister comes to play, I will bring you some delicious local food from Wandao. "
"Okay, sister Siyi, is the pineapple you mentioned before delicious? "
Wang Zhenzhen nodded. She was not polite at all and said with a smile.
Wang Siyi chuckled: "Pineapples are edible, they are the same as pineapples. Besides, those are not easy to bring. My sister will bring you something else to make sure you are satisfied."
She joined the pile of dolls. Talking and laughing.
Zhou Weijun and others were chatting with Chen Ling about this special year.
"If this year goes well, you can go to places like Xiangjiang and Wandao if you want... Then we can go play together."
These words made Chen Ling's heart move.
I thought: "Yes, Xiangjiang is coming back this year. If that doesn't work, let my second brother and the others print some cultural shirts and sell them."
Even the bosses of Wandao flew across the Yellow River in excitement. Everyone was so excited about Xiangjiang. The enthusiasm for returning is evident, and cultural shirts will certainly do the trick.
We can also make all kinds of satchels, schoolbags, badges, etc.
You can definitely make money, but it is just a one-time deal.
The advantage is that the investment is small, the risk is small, but the market is huge.
It doesn't matter whether you have business experience or not, as long as you have the goods, you can make a profit.
"Let's do this first. We have to let the second brother make a fortune first and then talk about future plans..."
Chen Ling thought silently and prepared to write a letter to Wang Qingzhong later. I started wholesale ordering fabrics within a few months.
In fact, there are quite a lot of opportunities to make money, such as crayfish, but he is too lazy to go out and fiddle with it, so it is just right to leave it to his relatives.
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, he was thinking about letting his second brother and his wife make some spicy strips.
Spicy strips only started to emerge in 1997.
Nothing is for sale yet.
When I told Wang Qingzhong, I also used Sun Yanhong’s lobster shop to tell them that they had thought up some new snacks.
During the next two days of harvesting wheat, I took a break from my busy schedule and simply made two bean curds for them to try, which won unanimous praise.
Speaking of the idea of this spicy strip, it was the same idea that came to my mind after I saw the "Jinegar Treasure" from Lao Niwai's family and mixed it with spicy pepper.
"Well, even if the second brother and the others really want to make spicy noodles in the future, they must be clean and hygienic, not only for students to like, but also for parents to accept."
In fact, let alone spicy noodles, it is instant noodles. There is no way to be completely hygienic and clean.
Thinking about these things in my mind.
Rui Rui's clear little voice came from outside, humming rather annoyed, as if she was arguing with someone about something.
Chen Ling came back to his senses and went out to take a look. It turned out to be the little thing taking Yaya to pick up snail shells in the rain.
Behind them, Gao Xiulan held an umbrella for the two of them. At this moment, the little cat picked up a fish that was crackling in the rain and was about to run to the side to enjoy it. Unfortunately, Ruirui grabbed the tail and pulled it to him, riding like a black baby. Just sit on it and don't let it move.
Then he reached into the little cat’s mouth and picked it out.
Gao Xiulan almost frightened her heart out when she saw this, and quickly said: "Oh my God, you are really braver than anyone else. What will you do if a cat scratches you?"
This little tabby cat. It's almost grown into a big cat now and is very strong. I made it anxious and scratched it, especially Ruirui, a little kid who sat it under its butt. This guy hurt a key position. It's really dangerous for a little kid.
Fortunately, this little tabby cat has been hanging out with the puppies since he was a child. He knows that Rui Rui is not to be messed with. He often hides from the puppies when they see him. Now he doesn't dare to resist if he is caught.
It was just meowing in panic, and its tail was wagging nervously and wildly, wagging non-stop.
"What? You even grabbed the fish with the cat. Do you want to eat the fish?"
Chen Ling walked over and kicked the brat lightly. Ruirui saw him coming over, As soon as his eyes lit up, he called daddy, then he smiled and pulled the keg to show him.
Yaya shouted from the side: "Uncle, we caught so many snails, let's eat fried snails for lunch."
"There are too many bugs in the snail shells at this time. It’s not good for people to eat, so it’s better to feed it to chickens.”
Chen Ling smiled slightly: "But you can catch some big snails like this, they are also very delicious."
As he said, he picked up a walnut-sized grass snail from the puddle at his feet, and mixed it with the snail The colors are similar and difficult to distinguish in the rain.
But as Chen Ling said, grass snails are much better than field snails. At this time, the weather is warm, and there are many parasites in field snails and river mussels, which eat the diaphragm.
Not as clean as grass snails.
“Okay, let’s catch snails.”
Yaya responded obediently, grabbed Ruirui's hand, and the two of them carried the small bucket and searched everywhere.
Gao Xiulan followed them holding an umbrella, then turned back to Chen Ling and said: "There are many fish in the water beside the canal, and they swim up one by one following the rain. Let's cook a pot of small fish for lunch."
“Okay, these fish that came up today will definitely be enough to eat.”
Fish like living water, and fish in water are when it rains heavily. Once the water in ditches and ponds overflows, , the fish in the water will rush to swim upstream against the water, and the fish will jump up.
Some years there is too much rain, and it does not stop for days and nights. Although the rain is light and there will be no floods, there are many fish that overflow in the ponds, puddles and small rivers. The village is full of water and people can swim everywhere.
When he saw the water channel in a villager's house, he swam into the courtyard as if his head was crushed by the current.
When Chen Ling went to the front yard, Wang Cunye and Zhao Yubao were together. Three old men were wearing raincoats and were scooping up fish in the rain near the lotus pond.
Seeing this, Chen Ling went to the woodshed where the debris was stored, took out two large beard cages, and placed them at the interface between the two water channels and the lotus pond to block them.
In this way, the fish swimming against the current from the lotus pond to the canal will be blocked, and they will all swim into the cage and will not jump to the shore again.
I didn’t expect that as soon as I put the two cages in place, a palm-sized crucian carp suddenly jumped up from the lotus pond, and jumped over the large cage stuck in the break of the canal. When we got to the shore, we were jumping around in the rain.
"I'm going, you want to go to heaven."
Chen Ling was stunned for a moment. Just as he was about to go over and pick it up, he saw another ditch. Many fish were also jumping out of the lotus pond, and they kept falling. On the shore, rolling back and forth.
Zhao Yubao and Old Man Zhong were stunned for a moment after seeing it, and couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha, your fish is so wild, it can't be stopped, so it jumps up, just like flying. "
Wang Cunye shook his head helplessly: "The cage is still a little too small to stop the fish. Lingzi, go get the chicken cover."
(End of this chapter)
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