It rained a little bit last night.
In the orchard outside the farm, there are fallen leaves.
Chen Ling walked to the easternmost pear orchard and picked some yellow pears, preparing to take them to the county seat to boil some rock sugar snow pears for Wang Susu and the others.
Autumn is getting deeper, so you have to pay attention to moisturizing your lungs.
He returned to the county town yesterday afternoon. It is said that he had been on the road all night. The normal speed was not so slow. The main reason was that he passed through some county towns and small towns on the way. He went around to buy some roast chicken and cooked beef. , it took some time to bring it back home.
The roast chicken and beef served in many counties and small towns are no worse than those in the city.
Some places also have unique delicacies.
For example, in Kuliu County, a small county north of Lingyun, although chicken and beef are not roasted there, every family smokes rabbit meat at the end of the year.
There are wild rabbits and domestic meat rabbits.
It is quite famous locally.
It's just that the land is far away, and it can only be sold when the New Year is approaching.
“咩~”
The sheep were walking around in the orchard, lowering their heads to eat some fallen leaves.
The little green horse was behind the sheep, holding the fallen pears in its mouth, shaking its big head and crunching them.
Seeing that the horses and sheep were outside, the three oxen couldn't bear their loneliness and kept mooing in the pen.
Chen Ling walked over with half a basket of pears, opened the pen door, and let them move around freely.
Then he put the pears back and took out the net.
Wait for the sun to come out later, catch some small fish and shrimps, put them back in the fish tank, and feed the fish and turtles.
Lefting the net against the pavilion, I went to the mountain to collect eggs with my father-in-law.
Early in the morning, there were dogs active on the mountain.
Five plump puppies followed the big dog, scurrying about in the grass and bushes.
Sometimes they hold a stone in their mouths, and sometimes they hold a small piece of dead branch. It's like picking up a treasure. You fight for it, wagging their little tails, running around, avoiding each other's pursuit of their companions.
My father-in-law likes puppies very much and makes me happy just looking at them.
Usually the work is pretty fast. Ever since Chen Ling let the puppies out before he left, they can run around and play. The old man is no longer active in herding cattle.
Now I no longer go to Laohewan to see the cows every day.
He drove the pegs into the small river ditch in the back mountain and let the cattle graze by the river. He took the puppies wandering up and down the mountain.
Zhao Yubao ignored them when they called him to play chess.
The same goes for picking up eggs now. Chen Ling had picked up more than half of the eggs. Before he picked up many, he took out a handful of peanuts from his pocket, peeled them open and fed the puppies. .
Peanuts are a good thing, but most people are reluctant to waste them like this.
In the countryside, this used to be a favorite snack for children at home.
They also have traditional ones here.
Whose little kid lost weight? He ate a handful of raw peanuts before going to bed. Peanuts contain oil and water. After eating them for a month, he gained weight.
Wouldn’t eating a lot of oil before going to bed make you fat?
So is this puppy.
Old people believe that in order to make them grow stronger, in addition to feeding eggs, they should feed peanuts.
Someone's puppies are sick, and some of them are lying on the ground not eating.
Many of them were saved with raw eggs.
My father-in-law thinks that his own eggs are more valuable and he is reluctant to feed them to the dog.
Then feed peanuts.
I don’t know if feeding peanuts to puppies will make them gain weight like babies.
But there is one thing...
Puppies eat peanuts and have good gastrointestinal problems. They will not suffer from enteritis when it is cloudy or rainy.
These puppies have very complex appetites. They have been watched by people since they were young. Chen Ling held them in his hand and fed them goat milk. They like to play with people and stick to people. He is also very curious and will eat whatever he wants.
The old man peeled off the peanut shells and scattered the peanut kernels far away. They were like chubby little lions, turning around and running in the direction where the peanuts fell, and then they looked like chubby little lions. One pig after another, they squatted on the ground and ate the peanuts.
The teeth are good and the crunch is delicious.
The old man watched them fight with a smile, and while peeling the peanuts, he said: "The old boar that came down the mountain earlier was quite powerful. As you said, he really knew how to protect the herd.
That day In the middle of the night, an old wolf that strayed from the pack came to the village. It was estimated that it was seriously injured in the mountains. It was injured when it came down the mountain.
The old wolf was injured. It couldn't eat in the mountains and it was hungry. I was so tired that I went down the mountain to steal the pigs.
People were so sleepy in the middle of the night that the dogs in the wheat field at the west entrance of the village didn't do anything and didn't bark.
The old wolf had already touched the pig pen, and no one paid attention, and almost stole the pig.
Hey, at this moment, the old boar came out of nowhere, howling, and started fighting with the old wolf.
The family members in Tateyama were woken up. They came out and saw, my dear, the old boar had picked the wolf's belly to pieces. There was so much blood in the pig pen that his intestines came out. . "
"Oh, let's put it this way, this old boar has made a great contribution, Tateyama needs to reward him well now. "
Chen Ling smiled in surprise when he heard this.
People in the mountains are sometimes very superstitious and pay attention to this.
"Tateyama does have this kind of heart. No matter how smart and thieves the old boar is, he would never have thought of this. He also can't understand people's words. When he sees people coming out, he will just turn around and run away as before.
After Tateyama realized that the pig was protecting the herd, he chased it and yelled at it to stop running and come to the house for a rest. As a result, the pig ran faster and faster.
It didn’t show up for the past two days.”
Chen Ling laughed: "It's not a bad thing to be timid, you will live longer.
I just didn't expect that at this time of year, there would be wolves coming down the mountain. I thought that this year There are many wild animals, and the wolves have gone to the deep mountains and forests.”
"Hey, old wolf, who knew that the one who drove him out was still a lone wolf before. He has no food to eat when he gets old."
Wang Cunye muttered: "This man will have a hard time when he gets old, wild thing. It's the same, there are times when we are in trouble."
Weng and son-in-law slowly finished picking up the eggs and duck eggs as they talked.
Goose does not lay as many eggs as chickens and ducks.
We didn’t even make a special nest for them at home.
Just let the dog go look for it every two days.
Raising geese is to look after the house and the yard, and to eat meat at the end of the year. Goose eggs don't matter.
The goose eats grass, and the egg firewood has no oil and water, and it is not delicious to eat.
After breakfast, Chen Ling was going back to the village to beat a dozen dates in the yard.
At this time, the dates are not yet fully red, but they are already dyed red by the autumn feeling, and they taste crisp and sweet.
It can also be eaten by steaming or soaking dates in wine. The taste is very good.
But as soon as we reached the village and before we even got the key to open the door, the rural postman delivered several letters.
I said I was going to deliver it to Zhuangzi outside the village, and I happened to see him here, so I just gave it to him.
Then he turned around and sent a letter to Chen Ling's opposite door, Mr. Wang's family.
After Wang Chunyuan and his wife moved back, there were still a lot of letters every month, and many people in the village were secretly guessing.
Chen Ling never pays attention to these things, but he likes to make irresponsible remarks at the table when a group of people are drinking.
At this time, he didn’t even look over there. He opened the door and entered the house with the letter.
After entering the house, I moved a chair to the courtyard and sat down in the slightly dazzling but not hot autumn sun. I opened the envelopes and read each one.
After reading it, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
“What’s going on?!”
"Out of the five letters, three were about wanting to move to the village. Do our friends know each other?"
Chen Ling thought about it, he was looking for people from all over the world at random. .
Many of the magazines, newspapers and novels were published with the address of the publishing house, and were later transferred to pen pals, that is, people from all walks of life. He didn't know the identities of more than half of them.
Whoever replies to his letter will make friends with him.
"Hmm... Maybe we actually know each other. Both of them said they were attracted by reading Uncle Zhao's article. The other one saw the news first and read the article later.
Can follow Article, maybe he is also a writer."
Chen Ling guessed secretly.
Then he scratched his head: "If so many writers move to live in the village, then we will become a writer's village?"
"It's not impossible, anyway, it sounds better than a retirement village."
When Zhao Yubao and his two old men were hanging out together, he thought that the land on the slope behind was going to be turned into a nursing home.
Now his three pen pals are obviously much younger.
"Come on, come on, some new people will come in every once in a while. It has been quiet for a long time, and it is time to be lively."
These people all said they would come after August 15th, saying they were coming. Come in time for the autumn harvest and experience the feeling of harvesting crops in Zhao Yubao's article.
Chen Ling found it funny, then put down the letter and pressed it under the book.
Look at the remaining two letters again.
The remaining two letters are nothing special.
One letter was a reminder for a manuscript. The pen pal who suggested that he submit a manuscript to the National Animal Husbandry Magazine urged him to finish it as soon as possible and not to be lazy.
There is also a letter from Professor Feng Yi with photos taken.
Mainly the fish he keeps at home.
Of course there are some birds and songbugs, and cats.
According to him, turtles and cats are indispensable in any fish farming home.
Some fish eat each other's species, but they don't eat dead fish, or they eat them slowly.
If there are dead fish in the tank, feed them to the turtle or cat.
Clean and hygienic, not an eyesore.
Of course, if you raise a turtle, it must not be too small, otherwise it will not be able to eat all the fish, and it will also smell fishy.
Seeing Feng Yi’s letter, Chen Ling also felt itchy. He stuffed the letter into the book, got up and picked up the bamboo pole: "Hurry up and beat the dates. We will go back to Zhuangzi later to feed the fish and turtles." "
Pick up the bamboo pole, walk to the jujube tree, and bang it.
The red, half-red dates suddenly fell like rain and fell all over the ground.
There were also branches and leaves that were broken by Chen Ling and fell down.
He didn't care whether he hurt the tree or not.
Jujube trees need to be beaten frequently, no matter what, so that they can produce more dates all year round.
Besides, his family has good water and good soil fertility, so he is not worried about this at all.
After the first crop is over, there are still two more crops.
After beating the dates, Chen Ling picked them up and filled most of the bag with urea.
I simply packed up my house and returned to the farm with my bags.
I’m thinking that I’ll enjoy eating green dates in the future, let’s dry them, and this year I’ll steam some jujube cakes with red dates.
Ruirui and Zhenzhen can also use them as snacks.
This is much better than the moon cakes and sugar cakes that every family has.
……
The sun is getting higher.
The sky is clear and under the autumn sunshine, the sunlight is dappled in the forest, insects and birds are chirping, and fish and shrimp are playing in the clear water.
Chen Ling took the fishing net and quietly approached the channel and took a dip against the current.
I fished it out of the water with a splash, and there were a lot of small fish and shrimps jumping around at the bottom of the net.
He knocked into the bucket.
The fish and shrimp all fell into the bucket with a splash.
Chen Ling saw that the net was going down and the harvest was good, so he squatted down with satisfaction, put his hand into the bucket, and picked out some fish with better color: "Hey, the hair color of this peach fish is really beautiful. Ah... How about putting a few in the tank? "
After the summer, the peach fish have less hair color in the wild.
But near the farm, the water is good, the nutrients are sufficient, and many hair colors are particularly beautiful.
Chen Ling couldn't help but want to take it home.
Although this fish is relatively fierce, Chen Ling figured it out after receiving Feng Yi's letter.
There is nothing in fish farming without losses.
Besides, he is surrounded by mountains and rivers. If the fish in the tank are eaten less, he can catch them again.
So I left these two pink and lavender peach fish.
“Hey, what kind of fish is this? Damn it, Huang Lading, such a small seedling.”
Chen Ling fished out two strange little fish and took a look. They were black and yellow, and they were almost unrecognizable.
Because the big yellow pepper looks like a catfish, the bottom of the body is flat and close to the ground, the mouth is also very big, and it has a beard like a catfish.
Easier to recognize.
And the big fish not only squawks, but also has thorny whiskers on its body, which are very thorny.
In comparison, Xiaoyu Fiaozi is hard to recognize.
"I didn't expect this little yellow pepper to be quite beautiful when it's young."
Chen Ling has never caught such a small fish before. It's not that he has never caught it before, but he has never seen such a small fish.
It’s too small.
It is small, but its color is not grass gray or green like most small fry.
Black and yellow, with a small beard and blue eyes.
The little things are really pretty.
"Well, if it's too small and puts it in the tank, will it be eaten? Forget it, I'll see if there are any more. If there are, I'll fish out more and put them in the tank. This way I can survive. "
In fact, he knew that Huang Lading would dig into the cracks of the stone.
There are so many rocks in his waterscape tank. Even if some of them are eaten, some of them will definitely survive.
Then lower the net to fish.
Sure enough, there are still many small yellow peppers hiding under the water under the aquatic plants.
During the day, this thing is hidden deep and I don’t like to come out very much.
“Hey, this is a spiny loach, haha, this one can also go into the tank.”
The spiny loach will crawl everywhere in the water, curling up like a snake and wrapping around the stones and rocks at the bottom of the river. On the water plants, there are spines with thorns on the body.
You can see it moving at a glance in the water tank, which is quite cool.
"One small eel... I won't put the eel in anymore. I will put two red eels in the future. The tank will be too messy."
"Crayfish, such a small amount of crayfish is really good-looking, okay. Put a few of them in.”
“Forget it, little Qiaozui.”
“Forget it, little flames. When the flames grow, it’s better to make pickled fish. Eat, but I really don’t like this one with python patterns. I’ll look at it later when I meet other snakes.”
Chen Ling picked it up happily.
He had also done a lot of homework on the bobcat side and knew that there were still many beautiful fish in the family Snakehead.
Seeing that there were more and more small fish and shrimps in the bucket, and almost half of the bucket was dark, he was ready to go back to feed the fish.
At this time, he had fished into a small creek in the back mountain. As soon as he stood up, he was stunned again: "What a big crab."