"Lingzi, Jiajia and her mother are going back soon. If you don't have anything to do today, don't wander around in the mountains. Go to the county oil mill to squeeze some walnut oil.
Press more, let's Eat it at home and let Jiajia take some back home.”
After returning home, Chen Ling had eaten breakfast and was about to take Ah Fu and Ah Shou for a walk in the mountains to scare away the restless wild beasts.
The mother-in-law called him to stop.
Chen Ling was stunned: "Ah? Is Jiajia leaving now? You have been here for less than a month this time?"
"Yes, Master, my dad said something happened and asked us to go back as soon as possible. Mom said we have to leave in the next two days."
Shen Jiayi immersed herself in picking up wild goose dung. Some wild goose dung contains grains. The scraps can be saved to feed chickens and ducks in winter, as they will lay eggs more diligently.
The remaining wheat seedlings and grass leaves are for feeding the livestock.
"Guys, you came back too suddenly. I, the master, haven't taught you how to cook yet..."
Chen Ling likes this apprentice very much. Of course, this love is very pure. , is the kind of love that treats the apprentice as a sister. There is no way, the only child is like this sometimes.
What's more, Chen Ling didn't have a mother when she was very young.
So, sometimes, he likes to be lively at home, and sometimes he likes to be quiet.
This kind of feeling is strange, and some people can't understand it, so they misunderstand it.
"Hee hee, I agreed with my mother that we would come here years ago. Master, as long as you don't mind us being annoying!"
"How could it be? We are very welcome, no You said it to me, look at your grandma Xiulan and sister Susu, how much they like you... You must come before the end of the year. It just so happens that I have to serve Kang Kanglele with wine at that time. I will call you over then..."
Chen Ling laughed and said to himself that it seemed like he would have to hunt two wild geese in the next two days to satisfy his family's hunger and to give his apprentice a treat.
"Mom, I will go outside to clean up the nest for Afu and Shou first, and then go to press the oil."
"Go ahead, actually there is no rush, I am afraid that you will come in The mountain was far away, so I went crazy playing with the tiger and lost track of time.”
“Ang, no, Afu and Shou have just come back these two days, and I am afraid that they have just come back and are playing. He's running around like crazy, even if he goes to the mountains, he just wanders around casually."
Don't look at Ah Fu and Ah Shou clinging to him now. The two guys will follow him wherever he goes, but Chen Ling is also worried about them following him. The little green horse was as disobedient as the two bald men. When they went into the mountains and saw blood, their thoughts went wild.
"By the way, the little buffalo you bought and those puppies have just arrived home. Can you feed them?"
"Mom, you don't have to worry about them. I'll just feed them some water first."< br>
Chen Ling left a message and called out to the man who was wandering around in the yard, squinting his eyes and sniffing here and there. He would go to the fish tank for a drink of water, and go to pull two leaves from the grape trellis. Fu Ashou, go clean up the tiger's den outside the wall.
Going outside, the little buffalo was sleeping on the hay in the pen.
After a bumpy night on the boat last night, the little guy didn't get a good rest. He even walked such a long way after getting off the boat.
Walking all the way back from Tenghe Township was exhausting and sleepy.
But this little guy is just like cats and dogs when they were young, very clingy when they recognize their master.
When he saw Chen Ling passing by, he quickly opened his eyes and stood up, walked to the edge of the animal pen, raised his head and stuck out his tongue to lick his hand.
The calf's hair is clean, its whole body looks new, its eyes are watery, black and shiny, and its nose is also black, making it look very cute.
Chen Ling patted its head and walked to the back of his village.
The tiger's den built outside the wall is connected to the inside of the wall.
There is a hole for Ah Fu and Ah Shou to get into.
But it hasn’t been cleaned in almost two months. It’s dirty and has attracted a lot of woodlouse.
It definitely needs to be cleaned up.
Afu and Shou will be comfortable to live in this way.
After some cleaning, I heard a little kid shouting in the wheat field in the distance.
Chen Ling walked out of the orchard and took a look. It was Xiaomori and others who were younger and not yet old enough to go to school.
When I have nothing to do, I go out with the adults to pick up wild goose droppings.
I didn’t know what I found at this time, and they ran into the woods behind the Earth Temple, shouting and yelling.
“Aren’t Egret and Qingzhuang living behind the Earth Temple? Haven’t they caused enough harm?”
"Isn't there another wild thing that ran in?"
Chen Ling knows this group of monkeys very well, and knows that they generally don't dare to harm Qingzhuang and egrets, these two types of birds, during the day. It is quite fierce, and its pecks are very painful. Its long and sharp mouth can tear open the skin of their hands and arms.
More scary than a giant goose.
If you are chased and unable to run, you will be pecked on the butt, and you will not be able to sit down for several days, and it will be painful even when you sleep.
Chen Ling saw how noisy the children were and thought, "I'll go over and have a look later. As long as they're not poisonous insects, it'll be fine."
After tidying up the tiger's den and cleaning up all the fallen leaves around the tiger's den, Chen Ling saw that the two tigers were still in high spirits, crawling in and out of the tiger's den, and kept playing with the little green horse that came over to join in the fun. Chen Ling shouted to stop. Live them.
Took them to the iron cage of the animal pen.
Tell them to stay still and you will be back soon.
I went home, drove out the tractor, and loaded the walnuts piled in the barn at home and the walnuts dried in the village yard into the bucket.
More than half of the truck body is filled.
Some of these walnuts are randomly picked up from the mountains, and some are given by the villagers.
This year Chen Ling found a way to sell wild fruits, and the folks in the village remembered him without saying anything.
These walnut canneries don't accept them. If they come across them, they will send some to Chen Ling's family, as well as wild yams and the like...
The number of times they are given is actually not that many.
I don’t feel very good about the result. I just accumulated a lot of them.
No wonder the mother-in-law urged him to squeeze the oil.
When the walnuts of this era are used to squeeze oil, the oil yield is naturally not as good as that of peanuts and soybeans. In later generations, it is said that the oil yield rate is high, but that is falsely high...
But eat so many walnuts. If it’s not finished, it won’t be easy to sell, so it’s better to squeeze the oil.
It just so happened that Wang Qingzhong used a lot of oil to make spicy strips.
The residue left over from oil extraction can be cooked and fed to livestock to gain fat, which has many uses.
"Hey, you guys, what are you doing? Be careful of the poisonous worms in the grass."
"Uncle Fugui, it's a fox hole. There are too many egrets here, attracting foxes."
" Oh, fox, let’s play.”
There is nothing unusual about foxes in places with many birds. Chen Ling also saw a big one and three small ones biting each other’s tails. On the cliff, I was preparing to dig out the egret's nest at night.
"Uncle, why don't you take the tiger to the mountains to hunt wolves?"
"If we don't fight now, when it gets dark at night, my uncle and grandpa will feed them all together, haha."
Chen Ling smiled and waved to these little kids, then drove the tractor around the road outside the village, Rush towards the county seat.
As for Ruirui, the caller shouted that she missed him, but she hadn’t seen anyone yet.
I heard from Gao Xiulan that she went to Chen Xiaoer's house early in the morning to eat big meat buns, accompanied by Heiwa Xiaojin. Wang Cunye sent him there and ignored him, and went to Laohewan to herd cattle alone. Went.
Chen Ling drove the tractor and glanced at Laohe Bend. He only saw a group of pack horses and a small white cow basking in the sun. He didn't see the old man anywhere.
He was probably fishing and playing chess with Zhao Yubao there.
Drawing half a cart of walnuts, we arrived at the oil mill in the county town. We didn’t go anywhere else but to Liu Xingeng’s place.
As a result, the oil production is naturally not ideal.
In addition, it is pressed with the shell on, not fried after the shell is peeled off.
Wild walnuts have thick skin.
Two percent of oil output is considered too much.
To put it simply, a pound of walnuts cannot produce two ounces of oil. It didn't matter to Chen Ling, they were all picked up in the mountains anyway.
The residue left over from the oil extraction is not thrown away.
If the oil is not extracted thoroughly, it is still used to feed your own livestock, so it is not a waste.
The last half cart of walnuts squeezed out two and a half pots of oil, but contained two sacks of dregs.
When leaving, Chen Ling also bought a large pot of sesame oil.
There are many sesame seeds planted in the village, especially on slopes, or in small and narrow plots such as depressions and ditch edges that are inconvenient for farming.
Many of them either plant sorghum, beans, or some sesame seeds.
“Oh, I’ve never grown sesame seeds before. Why don’t I go back and plant some later to see if the sesame oil is delicious?”
This is simple, just go back to the mountains to ripen it and squeeze the oil.
But you definitely can’t go to Liu Xingeng’s side for this. Just go to the countryside or Huangni Town and find an unfamiliar oil shop.
Think about it, after squeezing out the oil, you have to add some sweet potato flour two days later.
It’s time to do it together.
"Huh? What's going on with these two little devils? Are they sick? Or were they beaten?"
As soon as he started to drive away the tractor, Chen Ling suddenly saw Li Zhongyi and Miyoko Chishima coming out of the old hospital in the distance.
The two men were very sick, with no color on their faces.
One of Li Zhongyi’s arms seems to be in a plaster cast.
"Forget it, it's none of my business. It's normal for little Japan to get beaten anyway."
Chen Ling got on the tractor, put it into gear and left.
The weather during this period was really good, basically sunny every day.
The blue sky in autumn looks high and deep.
Rows of wild geese flew overhead, and their calls floated from the sky.
The two wings are swinging vigorously like fans, the long neck raises its head, and a pair of webbed feet are curled up on the abdomen.
Some of them will stay in the local area, and some will not.
It’s also quite strange that in such an attractive environment, there are so many wild geese that don’t stop there.
Chen Ling looked up and looked up. He estimated that it was flying so high that it would be impossible to shoot it with a gun.
Either wait for the two bald men, or wait until night.
The geese fly low at night, and some geese hide in the reeds near the water at night, or come out to look for food, which are easier to catch.
Many elderly people know that the wild geese usually only set in the morning or when the sun is about to set.
There are few people at this time, so they can look for food as much as they want.
In this season, the best food to look for is naturally wheat seedlings.
And winter wheat, when there is no jointing and pole growth, as long as it is not uprooted like sheep eating grass, eating some leaves will have no effect.
The wild geese fly all the way and travel long distances. After landing, they eat the wheat seedlings very ferociously, and the meal time is quite long. In the process of eating the wheat leaves, the geese excrement is excreted in the wheat field.
The time between getting up early and at dusk is also a good time to catch wild geese.
When we arrived at the village, there were no more people picking up goose droppings in the wheat fields.
But a bunch of people gathered around the Earth Temple, including adults, children, and Erhei with a group of dogs.
Ruirui was also there, riding on Heiwa, following Wang Cunye, grabbing Heiwa's big ears and swinging them around.
Hearing the sound of tractors, many people looked towards the road.
"Daddy! Dad, daddy, daddy!"
Ruirui's eyes lit up when he saw Chen Ling. He slipped out of Hei Wa and hurriedly ran towards the road.
When Chen Ling saw his son like this, his heart was instantly filled with joy. He quickly parked the tractor next to the wheat field, jumped off and strode over.
Picked up the little thing and said, "Bad boy, do you miss daddy?"
As soon as Ruirui was picked up, she smelled the scent of her father and saw her father's familiar face. Smiling face and tears in eyes.
Seeing that the thick-skinned brat was about to cry, Chen Ling quickly reached out and tickled him, making him laugh again and scream in Chen Ling's arms.
"Dad, what are you doing?"
"Look at the foxes, Xiaosen and the others are going to take the dogs to dig out the fox holes and catch the little foxes...Xiaojin ran over and screamed fiercely, and the group The boy was so scared that he didn’t dare to make any more noise.
I came over and saw that the foxes often visit our home.”
As soon as Wang Cunye opened his mouth, other villagers also talked about it. stand up.
Why is Xiao Jin so protective of the fox? He wouldn't be a good match for the fox.
Chen Ling laughed and scolded them for talking nonsense, and be careful of Xiao Jin biting their butts in the future.
Wang Cunye also said that they were not serious, that the fox was fine, and that Xiao Jin was not letting anyone in the woods.
At this moment, they are talking about breeding pigs.
It’s winter soon, and it’s time to breed the sows.
It happened that all the wild fruits in the surrounding mountains had been picked, and there were still many old forests in the deep mountains, but they didn’t want to go there anymore. They just ran one trip a day, getting up early and staying late, and taking great risks, because it was very possible Encountered jackals, tigers, leopards and the like.
Therefore, every family in the village has been idle these two days.
There will be free time to raise livestock.
"Fugui, do you know how to breed pigs? No, I'll let you come this year!"
"You're a grandma, Tateyama, don't look at you as a brother, if you say this again, I won't dare Kick you."
Chen Ling laughed and scolded, pretending to kick you.
"Look, you are still anxious. You are obviously thinking wrongly. I am asking you seriously." Wang Lishan smiled. He is such a virtuous person. He likes to make trouble with his acquaintances, not only with men, but also with other people he meets. A familiar woman will also make trouble.
A group of people laughed along.
"It's true. We really found a big breeding pig. Look at the big lump of egg buns. They are quite big. I wonder if they can work?"
"You raise pigs? How many years have passed and you still need to ask me? "
"You are a veterinarian. Not only are you educated, but you also raise things better than others. Who else are you asking? "
As soon as he said this, everyone agreed, saying that the chicks hatched from his eggs in the early autumn will grow up better than those from other families.
For fellow villagers, if you have any knowledge, please tell me.
“Good guy, have you really provided me with sow conception and postpartum care?”
Chen Ling couldn’t laugh or cry: “If you mate a dog, a cow, or a horse, I will If you know a little bit about it, just breed it to a pig. "
"No, it costs fifty yuan per family to breed a big boar. It's expensive. It only cost twenty yuan before. I don't feel bad about it. Money..."
"Look at what you mean, are you not going to keep the pigs killed during the New Year, but also keep the seeds?"
"No, no, the pigs that have been chopped must still be killed for meat."
"Quick, quick, please give us some ideas. We are short-sighted and we are afraid of being cheated... They say they are foreign pigs, but we don’t know if they are good..."
< br>But Chen Ling doesn't know anything about breeding pigs. He really doesn't understand because he has never thought about raising pigs.
I had to say that I would go to the countryside to find someone to ask for them another day.
Guo Baolai has been raising pigs all year round, so he should know the market. (End of this chapter)