"Ah, the little leopard is back, come here, come here!"
Before Chen Ling said anything, Wang Susu shouted happily.
The little clouded leopard I haven’t seen for a while.
The figure has become chubby, and even the face has become a soft and cute little round face, the butt is also plump, and the tail is long and exaggerated.
Paired with its little expression of licking the door hinge and cautiously poking its head, it looks like a chubby little snow leopard.
It doesn't look like a clouded leopard at all.
"Huh? Small packet of paper?"
Rui Rui woke up in a daze, rubbed his eyes, and followed his parents towards the door.
Sure enough, the little clouded leopard is back.
The brat suddenly changed into a fierce look, stood up, stamped his feet, stared, and scared it.
It seems to want to scare away the little clouded leopard.
Little Clouded Leopard and Ruirui have been at odds since childhood.
I won’t be scared by the baby at all.
He ignored Ruirui without even looking at Ruirui.
After I poked my head and saw that the two Hei babies and the two bald guys were not making any movement, they dragged their tails and started to walk inside.
Ruirui suddenly became anxious and stamped his little feet and shouted continuously, but this was of no use to the little clouded leopard.
When Chen Ling saw this, he naturally stood on his son's side. He also stamped his feet and clapped his hands to scare: "Go, go, don't come in."
As soon as he made a move, the little clouded leopard He was so frightened that he immediately turned around and ran away.
The little clouded leopard has a good memory.
It will never forget how many times Chen Ling threw it downstairs when Wang Susu was in confinement.
I am definitely afraid of Chen Ling.
"Oh, Aring, why are you scaring it~" Wang Susu was anxious: "The little leopard finally dared to come back, why are you following Ruirui and causing mischief?"
After blaming, look. The little clouded leopard was still looking at it from a distance and was not completely scared away.
He hurriedly waved his hand and asked Chen Ling to take Ruirui aside.
Chen Ling felt helpless when he saw his wife like this. He picked up his son and said, "You see, your mother drove us away because of the little leopard."
"Small paper, fierce, not well-behaved!"
"Well, no, Ruirui is much better behaved than it, and mother is so bad that she even drove us away."
"Yes. , Mom, you’re not good.”
Wang Susu glared at the father and son.
Then in Ruirui's smiling voice, Chen Ling picked up the brat with one hand, picked up the washed Jerusalem artichokes with the other, and went to the backyard to find a place to dry.
Ruirui is very fond of these Jerusalem artichokes.
Especially after knowing that these things are edible, they are even more precious.
When I came back after finishing it, the little clouded leopard was already lying on Wang Susu's lap and playing coquettishly.
Wang Susu was very concerned about what Chen Ling said just now.
At this time, he said: "You always say that I am good to the little leopard and bad to the little leopard? The little fox you fed so many times has not come back now. Only the little leopard still cares about it. At our house, come and play with me as soon as you come back.”
"That's not what you said. Those foxes came to our house to take shelter from the rain in summer."
Chen Ling retorted: "Besides, Xiao Jin is friends with the fox family, and they often stay in the mountains. Come on, there are three children at home, and Xiao Jin will definitely not bring them home.”
“Whatever you say, I think the little leopard is very good.”
Wang Susu stroked the little clouded leopard back and forth with her hands. The smooth and oily fur of the little clouded leopard made her feel extremely comfortable to touch.
Of course, the little clouded leopard himself felt very comfortable being stroked.
Wang Susu likes the little clouded leopard for nothing else.
When the little clouded leopard was picked up as a cub, it had injuries on its body.
She was the one who saved him.
She also fed the people in the back.
You raise such a little thing with your own hands.
Even when I grow up, I still cling to myself like this.
How can Wang Susu not like it?
In addition to the things raised at home, they revolve around Chen Ling most of the time.
Only the little clouded leopard came to the house and only looked for her.
The feeling is even more different.
"Aling, look at it, it's so fat."
Wang Susu put her hand on the little clouded leopard's round belly and shook it.
"I am indeed fat. I wonder where I have been improving my food these days."
As Chen Ling said this, he suddenly thought of the big pond and said, "I Go get the scale and see how fat this clingy little leopard is.”
Wang Susu’s eyes lit up immediately: “Oh, yes, go get the scale and let’s weigh the little leopard.” Weigh.”
Ruirui didn't know what he was doing when he followed his father, but it was true that he didn't like the little clouded leopard.
Chen Ling turned around and went to the backyard to get the scale, and he quickly trotted to follow.
Holding his little white elephant toy in his arms.
"Oh, there is always something you are afraid of, you brat."
"Dad, hit it!"
"Do you want dad to beat the little leopard? That's not okay. With your mother watching, how dare I?"
Chen Ling teased him with a smile, and then took out a long stick from the warehouse next to the kitchen. Pole scale.
The so-called steelyard is also called a star steelyard.
It is a long, straight wooden pole with a front sight engraved on it.
Equipped with iron scales, iron hooks, lifting ropes and other things.
Compared with other scales, it is more convenient to carry.
The one Chen Ling is holding is a slightly larger steel scale that can weigh one hundred and twenty pounds.
This is a new thing I bought specially when I was selling vegetables in the county town the year before last.
After selling all the vegetables, I didn’t use them much.
After all, in the past two years, whether my family sells fish or other items, they always use a platform scale or a truck scale.
It is much more convenient and faster than this old-fashioned pole scale.
So Ruirui saw this big guy for the first time.
The black, thick and long poles, as well as the big iron hooks and weights, the little thing was a little frightened when they saw this scene.
Chen Ling saw him shrinking his neck and looking scared, so he deliberately teased him: "What are you afraid of? Don't you want dad to vent your anger on you and beat the little leopard?
Let's go. , come here, daddy will hang up the little leopard with a hook."
Ruirui's eyes lit up at first, then she frowned, and whispered hesitantly: "Mom!"
"That's what dad said, can I still be afraid of your mom?"
Chen Ling slapped his chest and held the steel scale in one hand: "Let's go, daddy will vent your anger on you today. You made that little leopard keep scaring my Ruirui. You have to hang it up and beat it."
He went there. The front yard is gone.
When passing through the wooden building, Wang Susu couldn't wait to come over with the little leopard in her arms, squatting next to the gourd stand and looking for a small bamboo basket.
She was going to put the little leopard in a basket and weigh it.
Otherwise, the little leopard can only be tied up with a rope and hung up. In that case, it will definitely struggle and the weight will not be accurate.
After seeing the father and son coming over with a scale, they put the naive little clouded leopard into a bamboo basket.
This little clouded leopard is really defenseless against Wang Susu no matter what.
He was just being held by Wang Susu like a cat, looking very lazy.
Let Wang Susu roll up its thick and long tail and put it in the bamboo basket. It looked like Wang Susu was playing with it.
As soon as Ruirui saw this scene, his eyes lit up. He looked up at Chen Ling and saw Chen Ling looking down at him, with a smile on his round face. He grinned with a smile that meant he was going to do something bad.
Chen Ling also raised an eyebrow at the brat, and then looked at his wife: "Susu, you have to grab the basket later. This little leopard is scary to me. Don't let it jump out of fear. , hurt Rui Rui."
Wang Susu suddenly said angrily: "How could I do that? You really thought that I didn't care about Rui Rui when I saw the little leopard."
"Who knows for sure? I don't know who asked me to take Ruirui aside just now."
Chen Ling said deliberately.
Ruirui, the bad boy, saw that his father was really going to take care of the little leopard against his mother, and he hugged Chen Ling's legs from behind, sticking his little head out and laughing secretly.
"Look, Ruirui was so scared that he hid behind me."
"What, he was hiding behind you and laughing."
"I don't dare to come up to him even if I'm laughing. I'm afraid that the little leopard will scratch him."
The young couple quarreled, and Chen Ling used the iron hook of the steelyard to fish the bamboo basket.
When he mentioned it, Chen Ling was surprised.
“Ouch, this little thing is indeed very heavy.”
It is very heavy.
It means that the little clouded leopard has a weight that is inappropriate for its size.
From the appearance, you can’t tell it at all.
Wang Susu also nodded and said, "Yeah, I really can't tell. It was so heavy on my legs just now."
As soon as he finished speaking, a furry thing came out of the bamboo basket. head.
“Ah woo~”
But the little clouded leopard screamed and wanted to get out.
"Oh, don't move, don't move, be good, just once, very quickly."
Wang Susu comforted her and pushed the little leopard's head in.
Chen Ling also hurriedly pulled the weight and looked for the crosshair on the scale pole.
Rui Rui was watching attentively from the side, feeling that this was different from what his father said about beating a little leopard.
But it’s fun to put it in a basket and prevent it from getting out.
So I boldly stepped forward and peeked inside through the gap in the bamboo basket.
“Good guy, Susu, look, this little thing weighs almost thirty kilograms.”
“Huh? Really, it’s more than twenty-nine kilograms...I don’t understand Well, Aling, do you think this weight is very heavy among native leopards?”
“Well, I shouldn’t say it’s a native leopard, but it should be said that among these female grass leopards, in this age group? A half-sized leopard is very heavy.”
Chen Ling put down the bamboo basket, "Ever since my father and I met a grass leopard on the mountain outside the village, I have asked Uncle Han and the others. The heaviest female leopard of this kind does not exceed forty kilograms. Do you think this little leopard of yours is heavy?”
“Oh, I remember you said something similar, saying that it is the female of the native leopards, that is, the grass leopard, the smallest one. , just like a cat, only weighing about ten pounds.
Sometimes you can’t recognize it when you meet it in the mountains.”
“Yes, I did.”
< br>“Hey, this is great, it means my little leopard is growing well.”
Wang Susu said happily.
Then Ruirui went to pull the basket, making the little leopard inside reluctant.
She was also afraid that this little thing would really hurt Ruirui, so she quickly took the little clouded leopard out of the bamboo basket.
“By the way, Aling, our little muntjac that was just born is almost like a little leopard. It’s been growing very fast recently. Let’s catch him and weigh him too.”
"Hey, I would have forgotten if you didn't tell me, this is OK."
"Let's go, Ruirui, daddy will take you to catch the little muntjac."
Chen Ling waved his hand and took the brat to the livestock pen outside the gate to catch the little muntjac cub.
After releasing the little muntjac and his wife, the weighing was secondary.
Because after getting familiar with people and not being afraid, this was the first time I was released like this.
They happily wandered back and forth in the large yard of the farm, licking and eating the leaves of some flowers and fruit trees, and drinking water from ditches and water tanks.
It seemed like he was tasting the different flavors of the water.
Watching them having fun in the yard.
Ruirui also forgot about other things and kept chasing after the little white elephant toys.
From time to time, he would pull the rope on the buttocks of the little white elephant toy and pull hard, causing the little white elephant to spin its wheels and rush towards the little muntjac mother and her son.
Sure enough, these cubs are the best at playing with children.
They are curious about everything.
Rui Rui originally had mostly mischievous intentions.
The one who wanted to hit these two little muntjacs with the little white elephant was just like he usually used those turtles to form a formation and the little white elephant to rush back and forth.
But unexpectedly, the little muntjac cub gave a completely different reaction.
It saw such a small and delicate thing as the little white elephant, and it actually ran back and forth on the ground.
I thought they were also living creatures and of the same kind.
He opened his big black eyes and looked curiously, then ran after him.
This makes Rui Rui happy.
I felt energetic right away.
Keep letting the little white elephant run around and play with the little muntjac cubs.
Where can I take care of the weighing thing?
……
In late autumn, it is common for people in the mountains to go into the mountains to pick mountain products.
But there has never been such a huge effort this year, and there has never been such a huge team.
In previous years, no one came to the countryside or the mountains specifically to buy these things.
So this year, all the locals in Lingyun burst out with great enthusiasm.
No matter which village it is, whether it is south of the city or north of the city, whether it is as far away as Fenglei Town or far away from the border of Tongshi County... As long as it is close to the mountains and forests, I will run into the mountains almost every day.
It is because I have accumulated enough of these things that I can bring them to Chenwangzhuang to exchange them for money.
Not only wild fruits, but also common mountain mushrooms.
Even wild wolfberries and wild chrysanthemums were dried by some people. After drying, they were made into bags and bags and brought to Chenwangzhuang to ask if they wanted anything.
Don't tell me yet.
The medicinal materials at this time are all sulfur-free, and farmers prepare them themselves.
Little Sheep called a few friends in the city and asked about it. He wanted to collect a batch of them to try. There were quite a few.
Now, people are naturally more motivated.
There are many things in the countryside that cannot be explained clearly.
With good things comes bad things.
Where there is tranquility, there is cruelty and cold-bloodedness.
When you are used to walking long distances and making money, you will inevitably encounter obstacles.
I go into the mountains every day. If I go into the mountains too many times, it is inevitable that I will be stared at by wild beasts in the mountains when I am not paying attention.
Or in other words, I don’t know when I offended these cold-blooded hunters in the mountains.
Just when Chenwangzhuang was bustling with people coming and going.
A tragedy occurred in Kinmen Village.
I don’t know what beast came down from the mountain and entered the village in broad daylight, catching children and livestock, causing panic among the people.