Chapter 445 Turtle in the Melon Field
Two days passed quickly.
In the past two days, Chen Ling drove his tractor to transport his family's wheat to the grain station to sell it.
At the same time, news spread that his wheat yield was much higher than others in the past two days.
Many people are waiting for wheat planting in the fall to switch to their own wheat seeds.
This is naturally in line with Chen Ling's wishes.
Then I’m going to take my wife and kids to the provincial capital. I’m going to have a lot of fun on this trip for two days.
……
Evening.
The mountain breeze blows away the heat of the day, making the weather much cooler.
In the dark sky, countless birds flew back to the forest one after another, and there were waves of low chirping and the sound of flapping wings.
“Dad, look~”
Rui Rui ran over quickly with her short legs and two overly big dogs, holding her two small hands tightly. A small gap was exposed for him to see, and there was flashing green fluorescence inside.
“Did you catch fireflies?”
Chen Ling put down the fishing net in his hand, looked into the seam of his hand, and said with a smile: “Okay, I caught so many, really. Awesome, worthy of being my son.”
The little guy can now understand some compliments. When he heard the words, he smiled and showed his little white teeth, proud and a little shy.
"Let's go, I'll put a bottle for you and hang it on the bedside. It will be bright at night, okay?"
Chen Ling touched his little head.
When Ruirui heard this, his eyes suddenly became bright and he nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes."
"You two, father and son, are really..."
Wang Susu was pickling salted eggs next to her, curled her lips, and scolded: "Ruirui, that bug stinks so much. Your hands will also stink after a while, and you won't be able to eat anymore. Let it go now."
The little guy immediately frowned, ran to her, and shouted: "Mom, bottle paper~"
It means putting it in a bottle, it won't stink.
Wang Susu naturally understood what this brat meant.
I don’t know how his head can spin so fast if he is so ignorant.
"Okay, okay, put it in the bottle. Remember, you are not allowed to let it out to play. If you dare to put it on the bed to play, will I beat you?"
Wang Susu pretended to be fierce and said in a stern tone. .
Don’t blame her for this.
In fact, this brat Rui Rui was playing too wildly. He caught any snails, grasshoppers, old poles, and even snails and small fish in the water, and hid them in the small pockets of his clothes.
I even took it to the crib to play with at night.
For example, the old carrying pole is dead and has become dry, but he is still playing with it and tucking it under the pillow.
Wang Susu didn't pay attention to this before. Since he found out about it, he would pick his pocket every day before going to bed.
Thinking of this, Wang Susu got angry and glared at Chen Ling with bulging eyes. It was because his father had taught him well. He had been playing like this since he was a child. He didn't know what it would be like when he grew up.
Seeing her son raising his little head, pouting his little mouth, and looking at her innocently.
Wang Susu felt soft and patted his little head: "Go ahead and ask your dad to put it in a bottle for you. We have cans at home. Tighten them tightly and they won't come out."
The little guy immediately became happy, turned around and ran to Chen Ling, grabbed his trouser legs and walked upstairs.
"Seeing that you are anxious, the can bottle your mother said is too big, I will find you a small glass bottle."
Chen Ling grabbed the little guy and carried it to the Then he walked upstairs and found a small bottle slightly smaller than an ink bottle from the room. He took off the cap and covered the mouth of the bottle with a rubber band and paper.
Then hung it on the corner of his little bed.
Pull out the light.
The few fireflies in the vial gave off faint fluorescence, which was very beautiful.
When Ruirui saw it, she happily lay down beside the bed, her eyes widened, and her face was close to her to look at.
“Hee hee, dad~”
“Well, dad saw it, it’s very beautiful.”
After he heard it, he got up and ran to Outside the door, shouted downstairs: "Mom~, Mom~"
I want Wang Susu to come and take a look.
After a while, Wang Zhenzhen and Wang Siyi came back, and he called them to come and see them again.
Wang Zhenzhen is naturally not curious about fireflies and has long been tired of playing with them.
When Wang Siyi saw this, she also thought about catching a few and putting them in bottles to play with.
"Come down quickly, it's time to eat. Aling, you took Ruirui to wash your hands. You have been playing with the dog catching bugs all day long. It stinks."
Hearing Wang Susu's shout, Wang Zhenzhen whispered secretly: "Hey, sister is talking like my mother now."
Chen Ling laughed: "You'd better not let your sister hear what you said, otherwise I won’t let you follow me when I go to the zoo.”
Wang Zhenzhen immediately shut up and looked away, pretending that he had not spoken just now.
Tomorrow and the next two days happen to be her weekend.
Chen Ling and Wang Susu discussed it. The little girl had not gone out to play much, so it was better to take her out and play.
Wang Zhenzhen knew that she should follow him, and he was too happy to attend class these two days.
Everyone I meet tells me that I want to go to the zoo to see big tigers, and I keep showing off.
Everyone in the village and school knew about it.
The little kid was extremely envious.
As for her, she didn’t know what she promised, but she received a lot of snacks anyway.
Gao Xiulan felt helpless for a while.
The younger daughter and the eldest daughter simply don’t look like biological sisters.
She looks like Chen Ling's younger sister.
Chen Ling felt aggrieved to hear this. He was not so naughty when he was a child.
“Sister Siyi, are you really not going to play with us?”
"I'm not going. I have to go home and have a look. I came out after the Chinese New Year and haven't gone back yet."
Wang Siyi looked at the life of Chen Ling and his family and felt a little homesick.
Although she hasn’t had enough fun here, she still has work in the second half of the year and has to leave.
……
One month after the wheat harvest.
It's lively at night.
Those who enjoy the shade, those who build straw huts in the threshing field and watch the wheat, and those who watch the melons in the melon field.
There were also little kids running around holding torches and flashlights, placing fish cages and digging out bird's nests by the water's edge.
Today, after the Chen Ling family had dinner, they also wandered out.
A family of three, together with Wang Zhenzhen and Wang Siyi, walked towards the reservoir with two small mesh fishing nets.
The moonlight is very good tonight.
After the wheat harvest, only the stubble remains in the field, which is clearly illuminated by the moon, with fireflies flying everywhere.
Wang Zhenzhen is a dishonest girl who doesn’t walk well and goes to the wheat fields to crunch the stubble.
Seeing this, Ruirui also rode Heiwa and rushed inside to join in the fun. He was chasing fireflies, but in the end, the wild birds and small beasts that came out to hunt wild food at night were frightened and flew around.
The night breeze blows, and it is very cool.
Many young men, after finishing their work at Zhao Yubao's place, gathered in the wheat field to chat.
When he saw Chen Ling and his family coming, he laughed and said hello. "It's true, aren't you going to see the big tiger tomorrow? Why don't you go back and have a good sleep. Be careful that you will be too sleepy to get up tomorrow. If you oversleep, your brother-in-law won't wait for you."
"Huh, I'm not afraid. I won't sleep tonight. I'll sleep on the road."
The little girl's words brought another burst of laughter. She didn't recognize anyone she saw, and the villagers liked to tease her. .
"Fugui heard that your wheat will reach one thousand pounds per acre this year, right?"
"Haha, almost, almost."
"Then we will have to replace it after this autumn. Order some wheat seeds.”
“It’s hard to say, there’s plenty of wheat left at home.”
As we walked all the way to the reservoir, after a while, we saw a few small figures lighting torches. He met them mutteringly.
It's Liu Ni'er and a few others.
“Hey, Uncle Fugui and Aunt Susu, you guys are out too.”
“Yes, what are you doing?”
“Let’s go. The reservoir is here to catch little maggots. This year the maggots are much older and there are more eggs.”
“Yes, yes, we thought you were going to go see the big tigers tomorrow, so we didn’t look for them. My little aunt came out to play.”
When Wang Zhenzhen heard this, he quickly stepped forward and said, "Let me see how many Magazi you have caught."
Magazi is a kind of bird.
They like to tie reed leaves together and hang them in the floating mid-air to make nests.
This season they are in the breeding period, and the eggs and young birds they lay are one of the trophies for the little ones to compete with each other. When they go to catch fish or put fish cages in at night, the banks of the reeds are often full of friends. The cheerful and playful sound is like digging out the bird's nest.
Chen Ling used to do it a lot when he was a child.
Later, when I grew up, I learned that Magazi was called Wei Ying.
"Hey, we picked up two bird eggs from each Magazi's nest, and we picked up a basket, maybe a hundred... But the little Magazi only caught a few and went back to raise them. Just for fun.”
“Little aunt, what are you going to do?”
“Let’s go catch two more fish. Have you unloaded the cages?” >"Nothing has happened in the past few days. My mother said that we are not allowed to put the cage in the reservoir. There is Prince Turtle there, so let us go to Laohe Bay to put it in the cage."
"Yes, yes, little aunt, let's go to Laohewan to catch fish in the future."
"Okay, let's go to Laohewan. Then we will also go to Laohewan in a while, and by the way we will go to the melon patch of brother Jusheng's house. Let’s eat watermelon here, haha.”
They were all shouting, and soon the adults’ shouts came from the village, and they dispersed in response, holding torches.
Wang Susu saw this and asked: "Then shall we go to Laohewan or the reservoir?"
"Laohewan is Laohewan. It's just time to go and see Brother Jusheng's melon fields. Move them to eat watermelons.”
Chen Ling smiled.
"Brother Ling, is this the family that delivered the watermelon to the farm before?" Wang Siyi asked.
"Yes, that's their house..."
During the Dragon Boat Festival, after delivering beef to Little Sheep, Wang Jusheng also presented a donkey cart of watermelon.
I am afraid that there will not be enough watermelons to eat in their house because there are so many people coming and going.
Chen Ling was not polite either.
This year the village earns more from growing melons than growing wheat.
The main reason is that more people come to visit during the Dragon Boat Festival. Many people treat the melon fields as picking gardens. They go in groups to pick watermelons and pick them by themselves. After picking the watermelons they are satisfied with, they go to the fields. I paid for it.
Some of them were broken open on the spot, and they could just sit by the river and eat, which was very pleasant.
This saves them from having to sell it themselves and have to transport it out. This way they can make money in the melon field, which is very worry-free.
But even so, each family still has less than half of their watermelons unsold.
Mainly tourists pick and pick the remaining watermelons.
Either they have not grown up, or they are not good-looking and too ugly.
In this case, everyone is reluctant to leave them alone in the fields and let them rot.
So I still go to the melon field every night to look at watermelons.
After a while, the sales started.
Chen Ling and the others left the village and just walked towards the small dirt road leading to Laohe Bend.
The sound of dogs barking could be heard from the melon fields in the distance, and there were people holding torches and swinging around in the melon fields.
I don’t know what I’m doing.
But soon, a black native dog ran over and wagged its tail at them.
He grunted at Hei Wa again, swung his butt vigorously and came forward.
Chen Ling took a look and recognized that this was Wang Laishun's dog. Needless to say, Wang Jusheng must also be in the melon field.
The other dogs were all tied up, but this dog was running back and forth.
We walked a little further.
Wang Jusheng’s voice came over.
Listening carefully, Wang Xuecheng from Wang Jukun's family and Wang Wenchao from Ermao Donkey's family were also there.
"Brother Jusheng, what are you doing? You are yelling, you won't have anything to steal, right?"
"Ah? It's Fugui, come on, come on, let's We are catching turtles, and many turtles came into the melon field at night..."
The excited voice of Wang Jusheng came.
"There is nothing easy about catching turtles. You might as well put a few beard cages to catch old turtles."
Chen Ling responded.
"Uncle Fugui, this is not an ordinary turtle, it is a wheat field turtle. The kind of turtle we caught in the wheat fields when we were young have appeared again this year. There are many of them."
Wang Wenchao Also shouting.
"Let me go, there are wheat field turtles again?"
Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, and then trotted over in surprise.
I still have fresh memories of catching turtles in the wheat fields when I was a child.
Unfortunately, due to the use of pesticides in recent years, we haven’t seen it for a long time.
When he ran up to him, Wang Jusheng and three others also came up to him with smiles. Wang Wenchao even held a torch in one hand and an iron bucket in the other and showed off: "Uncle Fugui, look at it, look at it Look at this, he crawled into Uncle Jusheng’s hut first, and there’s a yellow, crooked mark on his back.”
“What? There’s a mark on it?”
It is rare to see words on the back of a turtle. Chen Ling looked into the bucket by the light of the torch and saw a turtle as big as a bowl. There was a slanting line on the dark brown shell. Yellow mark, somewhat distorted.
"Oh, I thought there was some kind of character. It's just like '7' in Arabic numerals. Other characters are unreliable, let alone Chinese characters. It has nothing to do with it."
Chen Ling I thought there were some complicated graphics and text on it, what a fuss.
Wang Jusheng smiled when he saw this and said: "Hahaha, let me tell you, after I finished my studies, I was asked to exchange money with you, saying that you like this kind of rare things... I said this is definitely not possible. I am two years ahead of you. The red eels caught in the new year are far behind, and you will definitely look down on them.”
Wang Wenchao and Wang Xuecheng laughed.
Chen Ling suddenly felt something in his heart and said in a joking tone: "What do you think you don't like? If you ask me, you better keep this turtle turtle brother, maybe it can be sold in the future. Where’s the money?”
"Keep whatever you want, take it back for Rui Rui to play with."
Wang Jusheng saw Rui Rui riding a dog and running over with Wang Zhenzhen, and said with a smile: "Rui Rui, come on, look at what uncle is doing You caught the turtle, do you want it?”
The children, one big and one small, happily came to Wang Jusheng to watch.
Chen Ling couldn't say anything more to Wang Jusheng now...
He walked aside, turned on the flashlight, talked to Wang Wenchao and stood on the ridge of the field, shining into the melon field. , you can indeed see turtles crawling in the melon fields, but few people say that the number is so exaggerated.
(End of this chapter)