Chapter 459: Flying Doves
In the early morning, the rising sun rises in the east.
After the light rain last night, it was another hot and sunny day.
Open the window and feel the fresh air after the rain.
A few hawks chirped in my ears, mixed with the "bark woof woof" sounds of dogs coming from the fields...
Needless to say, the family dog and kite must have gone out to have fun.
Chen Ling stretched and slowly walked downstairs.
In the past few days, it has rained a little every night.
After dinner in the evening, before I felt anything, raindrops began to fall from the sky.
Sometimes the moon hangs in the night sky and it starts to rain.
Sometimes it rains lightly and stops within an hour.
Sometimes it rains heavily all night.
In short, there is not a day apart these days, and it rains every day and night.
Go to the kitchen to make a simple breakfast, and fork out a piece of bad fish from the water tower as your morning meal.
White rice porridge, steamed buns, salted duck eggs, bad fish, and pickles.
The salted duck egg was cut in half. The yolk was rusty and red.
The bad fish on the plate, red fish jelly, soft and tender fish meat.
Crisp and refreshing pickles.
Paired with hot steamed buns and light and fragrant white rice porridge.
It really whets your appetite.
"This bad fish is just like salted eggs and pickles. You can eat it right out of the box. It's convenient to eat."
Chen Ling finished two bowls of white rice porridge with a grunt and burped happily.
“Yeah, I’ll make more some other time, this thing is delicious.”
Wang Susu fed her son the food and said with a smile: “Are you going to Huangni Town today?”
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"Well, I have to go and have a look. Chuangzi said that there are a lot of defective products there and the prices are cheap, but the quantity is too large. There are so many in the garment factory that he can't make up his mind. ”
Chen Ling responded.
"Are you taking Ruirui? If you are taking him out, don't ride a horse, go on a motorcycle."
"If you don't take him, let him follow our dad at home and play with the sheep. Let's do it."
Chen Ling has to go to the small yard in the south of the city today to try to plant something. He has been tinkering with some new varieties in his free time these days and is going to try them out.
Now that brat Ruirui can remember things, Chen Ling doesn’t dare to use spiritual water to ripen things in front of him anymore.
So after finishing the meal, Chen Ling rode on the little green horse and fought all the way to Huangni Town.
Unexpectedly, just after leaving the village and walking to the dam of the reservoir, there was a cry from the sky.
When the little green horse heard this call, it also screamed.
Chen Ling looked up and saw a splendid yellow-clawed hawk hovering above his head, and whistled: "Two bald men, come down and fly."
"Whoosh——" a whistle After the sound.
The kite suddenly swooped down and flew parallel to the little green horse at low altitude.
"Haha, Erbaldy, your skills are worthy of being a flying expert among birds of prey."
Just finished praising you.
Suddenly I heard the scream of wings flapping the air coming from my left ear.
I turned around and saw that the two little pigeons at home were also flying over.
These two little pigeons have long since learned to fly.
However, because Chen Ling raised them well and raised them as breeding pigeons, they were more clingy than the pigeons raised in the village yard.
Pigeons are inherently gentle and kind.
Even in the face of food from strangers, this kind of domestic pigeon dares to fly to others to grab food.
So it is not an exaggeration to say that pigeons are the most trainable birds.
Even ordinary people who don't have any bird training skills, once they raise them well, the pigeons will be more clingy than imagined.
"Good guys, you are all following me."
Seeing this, Chen Ling suddenly felt heroic and immediately reined in the little green horse to speed up.
The little green horse is now nourished by the spiritual water. It has been raised to be fat and strong, smooth and smooth, with tendons all over its body. Once it is let go, it can run at a lightning speed.
The long mane and tail are blowing in the wind. They are both beautiful and mighty, and appear unusually heroic.
Surrounding the little green horse, there is also a sacred falcon flying around with two doves.
The falcon also displayed dazzling skills from time to time, flying up and down around the green horse.
Sometimes, it will swish and fly under the horse's belly, as fast as lightning.
The two pigeons were a little worse, but they followed closely behind the little green horse and flew at low altitude.
The newly built mortar stone road is spacious and flat.
The little green horse ran very happily, and the intensive sound of "knock-tat-tat" and "knock-tat-tat" hit the mountain road.
Accompanied by the sound of horse hooves and the cries of eagles, we galloped all the way towards Huangni Town.
It attracted passers-by's constant side glances and couldn't help cursing, "Who is such a naughty boy? He came out to ride a horse and fly hawks early in the morning on such a hot day."
"What are you flying eagles? I am obviously flying pigeons."
Chen Ling muttered silently, and then thought about growing the pigeon flock in the future, and then making a few more bamboo whistles Tied to the pigeon's legs.
How beautiful it would be to go out and let the pigeons go out early every morning and watch the pigeons soaring in the blue sky and making a whistle sound as their wings flap.
"Huh? Where is the pigeon?"
I was distracted for a few seconds, and suddenly I found that the pigeon was gone. I turned around and saw that the bald man was also gone.
"Are you tired from flying? Forget it, they all know the way home anyway, don't worry."
As soon as the little green horse lets go and runs, it gets excited Exceptionally, there were fewer people on the road in the morning, so it had a great time.
It didn’t slow down until the county line.
It also knows that you can’t be too presumptuous in crowded places, and you can’t ignore them. But unexpectedly, as soon as the little green horse slowed down, he heard the cry of hawks and the cry of pigeons in front of him.
Chen Ling quickly stopped the little green horse and followed the sound, only to see two pigeons landing on the eaves of a residential house.
The kite is more like an uncle, landing on the telephone pole outside the eaves, combing its feathers leisurely.
This posture almost dumbfounded Chen Ling.
“Let me go. I thought you guys were tired from flying and stopped to rest behind. Unexpectedly, I didn’t see it in the blink of an eye and flew to the front.”
“ "Cuckoo", "Cuckoo"...
The two pigeons were swaying their heads on the eaves with their crops bulging. The guys started fighting and playing with each other.
“Damn it, are you laughing at me?”
Chen Ling blew a loud whistle, "Let's go, clear the way ahead."
Only when the three guys heard the sound, they moved, flapped their wings and flew into the sky.
Chen Ling went to Huangni Town and looked at the quality of some defective clothes and fabrics, and immediately decided to buy them all.
In fact, Wang Qingzhong meant that he was not prepared to ask for too much.
But when Chen Ling came here to take a look, the quality was quite good, even if it was a defective product, it was still good.
In this case, it's all very important.
Although he would not sell the defective products as genuine products, it would be a good idea to let Wang Qingzhong and the others sell them at low prices in Fenglei Town to go to the market.
After all, there is no money for that cultural shirt.
Outside Fenglei Town, there are many people doing manual labor on the docks, so it’s okay to sell defective products at a cheaper price.
“The stuff is pretty good. I’ll drive the tractor over in the afternoon to load it.”
After talking to the Han Chuang brothers, he rode back to the county seat. After arriving at the small courtyard in the south of the city, he let the little green horse, kites and pigeons rest first, and then fed them some water.
Chen Ling took out a hoe, removed a piece of weeds, scattered some seeds in the vegetable garden on the southern half of the yard, and poured undiluted spiritual water on it.
The green seedlings began to grow wildly, bloom and bear fruit, and the fruits soon turned into large black and green watermelons.
Chen Ling squatted down, knocked one by one, and listened to the sound.
This black watermelon is no better than the flower-skin watermelon. The skin is too thick and you can’t tell whether it’s ripe or not.
So I picked one out at random and opened it. I saw that the rind of the watermelon was as thick as two fingers, the flesh was very red, the seeds were small and there was more meat. Judging from the appearance, it was pretty good.
But after Chen Ling cut a piece and tasted it, he frowned slightly.
"Tsk, the taste is still not good. The taste made with spiritual water is a little worse than the ordinary watermelon from the outside world. This grafting is a bit of a failure."
This black The skinned watermelon was grafted from winter melon.
Inheriting the advantages of winter melon, the skin is very thick and can withstand long-distance transportation.
And it's big. A watermelon averages more than ten or twenty pounds, and a larger one can even weigh forty pounds.
But, there are also disadvantages of winter melon, that is, it is not very sweet.
Forget about planting outside.
Even if it is cultivated inside Dongtian, the sweetness is not high.
“Now that the problem of long-distance transportation has been solved, taste has become a new problem...”
"Do we have to cultivate it in the cave for several more generations?"
This was the first time Chen Ling experienced the feeling of not succeeding in planting things in the cave.
“Well, it seems that Sun Moon Cave Sky is not omnipotent, we can’t mess around with it...”
“But it doesn’t matter, go back and change the pattern, and try to cultivate a few more generations. "
Chen Ling shook his head and waved to the little green horse: "Come here, I'll leave the rest to you."
The watermelons were not successfully grown, but the peaches were quite successfully cultivated.
Maybe this has something to do with the growth time in the cave.
The peach tree was planted by Chen Ling as soon as he got the cave.
It has grown for a long time, and now it has become a peach forest. It can be said to be a naturally bred and optimized variety.
“No wonder later generations have so many new varieties of watermelons in my childhood, and they sell them in limited quantities every year. It turns out that this thing is not as simple as I thought.”
"After all, peaches are relatively simple to cultivate."
Chen Ling took out a peach from the cave, washed it, and broke it open. The flesh was dark red, which was very strange.
Take a bite, the juice is overflowing, sweet and juicy.
The appearance of this peculiar peach is no different from ordinary peaches, but the color of the flesh is very different, it is a rare deep red.
This is grafted by Chen Ling from wild cherry trees.
After only two generations of breeding, this strange and delicious new variety emerged.
"This variety is good. I will graft the peach trees in the orchard next year and sell them as new varieties. It will be better than the current ones."
Chen Ling thought secretly.
Then I collected the watermelons on the ground and took them to the cave. I also moved out a big winter melon from the cave. It belonged to grandma. If the winter melon grafted onto the watermelon didn’t work, I went back to stew a big pot of vegetables for lunch.
On the way back, I took a detour to the phone booth and called my uncle Wang Qingwen and asked him and Wang Qingzhong to wait in the town tomorrow and he would send a cart of clothes and fabrics to Fenglei Town.
After the notice arrived, he ignored the kites and pigeons flying and playing, and galloped home all the way.
As soon as I got home, I saw my father-in-law holding his son and yelling something, Gao Xiulan holding a big bamboo pole and cursing, and a group of dogs running around on the hillside, barking non-stop.
Wang Susu raised her head and looked at the sky, blowing an eagle whistle there.
“What’s wrong?”
“Aling, you are back just in time. Several eagles have eaten our chickens. This kite is not at home either. Several eagles are here all the time. The sky is spinning, think of a solution quickly.”
Wang Susu said hurriedly when he saw him coming back.
After the wheat harvest or the autumn harvest, the crops are harvested and the wild animals in the fields have no hiding places. Many eagles in the mountains will take the opportunity to fly over and fly back and forth on the fields in the morning and evening when the weather is cool. Circle, looking for prey.
This is a very common thing.
Er Baldy often joins in to change his taste. Chen Ling often takes his son to watch the eagles.
Unexpectedly, today, these eagles stopped circling in the fields and actually came to catch their chickens and eat them.
(End of this chapter)