My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 133 Pancake Training Pigeons

   The weather in the past few days is not too hot, the sky is high and cloudy, and there is already a bit of autumn rhyme.

   After breakfast, Chen Ling went out again.

  He went to borrow books for his sister-in-law. In fact, Wang Zhenzhen said that he didn't bring books as an excuse. The new textbooks were only issued when the new semester started. This girl has not started school since the summer vacation. Where did the books come from?

   But they are too remote, sometimes the textbooks are not printed and distributed in time, and they also need to borrow from senior grades. This is often the case.

   It’s just that there are not many children in Chen Wangzhuang who have finished primary school, and he can count them with two slaps. He wanted to find a textbook for the third grade, but it was not easy to find.

   If you can’t borrow it, it’s fine. It’s the same when you go to the city to buy it tomorrow. It won’t cost you a few dollars.

   When he got home, Wang Zhenzhen ran away early, and went to play with Liu Nier's gang of dolls and a group of dogs.

  Chen Ling accompanies Wang Susu to weave straw mats at home. This thing is not difficult, it is easy to learn, and it can be learned after a few teachings.

   Besides, in addition to the poultry and livestock at home, the bed should also be covered with grass mats to prevent moisture, which are used in many places. However, after knitting for half a morning, the two of them only finished the mats for the two dogs and put them in the kennel.

  Around noon, Wang Chunsheng came to Wang Chunyuan to turn around and was about to go back to the county town. He came to say goodbye to him, mainly to ask if he could help Chunyuan build the house.

  Chen Ling of course did not agree, he declined and said that he was busy for a while and had no time.

   This man is also honest.

   He doesn't know what to do with things that his own brothers don't care about?

When he left, Wang Jusheng came over to deliver the moon cakes, and then he talked about Wang Chunyuan, saying that the old lady was killed by Tianxiang Health Center a few days ago, and she was locked up by her family for several days. Who dares to go to see a doctor, Wang Chunyuan can't go on, and wants to go back to the village.

However, who doesn't know what the two of them are like in the village, and I can't count on it anymore. It can only be Wang Chunsheng who came to ask someone for help. After looking for several houses, he also went to Wang Jusheng, but unfortunately no one was willing to help. , and some don't even give a nice polite word.

   Wang Chunsheng had no choice but to find Chen Ling.

   In his impression, Chen Ling is still a lazy guy, and he even came to look for it, so it can be seen that no one cares.

   The three of them stood in the yard talking, their big heads babbled, and the yard ran around to chase the rabbits. Now that the yard is big, the big head chased so hard that he stumbled several somersaults in a row, but he didn't cry, he got up in a hurry, grinned, showing his half-grown deciduous teeth, and smiled extremely happily.

   "Stop making trouble, your uncle hasn't cooked lunch yet, so let your uncle cook, it's half past twelve in a while. Let's play again another day."

  Wang Jusheng walked over and picked up the big head and prepared to go home. The big head hadn't had enough fun yet. He looked at the little rabbits who were reluctant to move away.

   "Big head likes bunnies, I'll go get you two and bring them home to play, okay?"

  Chen Ling shook the small hand holding the big head and said with a smile.

   "Don't catch the rich. You can't get used to his troubles. You can give whatever you want. You should be ignorant in the future."

  Wang Jusheng hurriedly stopped.

He refused to let Chen Ling catch the rabbit, and he didn't cry. After being caught by Chen Ling, he stared at him and giggled. Open your arms for him to hug.

   "Isn't it enough for your uncle? It's time for your uncle to cook."

   In front of Chen Ling, Wang Jusheng always felt that his own father was a failure, so he trotted out of the yard with his big head in his arms.

   I can see that Chen Ling and Wang Susu are so happy.

   This baby is indeed strange. When he comes to the house, he only looks for Chen Ling, never let Wang Susu hold him.

  Chen Ling hugged him for a while and put him down before he filled the yard to chase rabbits.

"A Ling, why are there wild pigeons coming near our house these days? They fall on the roof every day, and they can't be chased away. Judging by their posture, they are going to find a place to build a nest here, or should I use a slingshot to catch them? Hit it down."

  Chen Ling was cutting vegetables in the kitchen, Wang Susu raised her head, looked at the few pigeons walking back and forth with their petioles on the roof, and said a little worried.

Pigeons are not popular in the mountains. There are ten miles and eight villages around, and I have never heard of anyone raising pigeons, mainly because pigeons have a very bad habit, that is, they like to pull the tiles on the roof. Is it easy to pick up? If it's raining and snowing, will it still be worth it?

  Therefore, although the pigeons are here, they will not be yelled at by everyone, but as long as there are wild pigeons that fall near their home, they will be driven away, or they will be lured down with grain and caught, and they will add a meat dish to the dinner table.

   "It's okay, no need to fight, I'll just sprinkle some grain to lure them down after dinner. We have chickens, ducks and quails in our house, so we just need to add a few more pigeons."

  Chen Ling said.

  These wild pigeons are the ones released from the cave.

  Although the outside world is incomparable with the environment of Dongtian, but Naihe Dongtian is too small. After seeing the sky outside, these pigeons refused to go back.

  Chen Ling also followed them. Anyway, he was not enlightened, and it was okay to keep them outside.

   A sheep is kept, and so is a group of sheep. Now there are a few more of them in the house, but it is not too many.

   "Alright, then I'll make a pigeon coop, and after I lure them down, cut their wings and shut them up for a few days."

  Wang Susu has no doubts about Chen Ling's technique of attracting birds.

In fact, in the 1970s and 1980s, most of the country boys would hunt birds, set up sieves, set up ground covers, and have no entertainment activities. skills.

  Chen Ling smiled and didn't say anything when he heard this. He raised these pigeons since he was a child, which is different from other wild pigeons.

   In other words, he didn't want to be taken back to the cave in the past few days, and he couldn't come down no matter what he called. Before, as long as Chen Ling whistled twice, he could immediately fly to him.

   So Wang Susu said that he would not object to the shutdown for a few days, just to sharpen their temper, so as not to be too wild.

After lunch, Chen Ling called out two dogs to drive the rabbits back to the nest, and then cleaned the yard. There were so many rabbits, chickens and ducks that they were pulling and urinating. They had to be cleaned every day. Well, it's mainly the Mid-Autumn Festival today. In the afternoon, we will bake sugar cakes in the courtyard.

   This is their custom here. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, they have to bake sugar cakes, that is, reunion buns, which means reunion.

  Although Wang Susu still hasn't been able to see her parents, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival sister is here, which is a reunion in a sense, so she got up early, Chen Ling was cleaning the yard, and she was in the kitchen and above.

   Baking sugar cakes, eating moon cakes, and steaming big buns, Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important festivals in addition to the New Year. The food on this day will not be too bad, basically every household is like this.

   Big meat buns, Wang Susu, are steamed in the morning, mainly pancakes.

   After Chen Ling cleaned up the yard, he came back with some firewood from the firewood pile across the alley, and set up a fire in the yard.

   After a while, Wang Zhenzhen also ran back, sweating profusely, and went into the house to drink water.

   "Brother-in-law, what are you doing with the fire? Didn't you have lunch?"

   "Baking sugar cookies, are you still going out to play? If you don't go out, wash your hands, wash your face, and help your sister make sugar cookies later."

   "Then I won't go out and stay at home to help my sister."

  This girl is sensible after all, so she immediately said when she heard Chen Ling say this.

   Then he ran to the well to wash his hands and face. After washing, he rushed to the kitchen to help Wang Susu mix sugar fillings.

  The sugar filling includes sugar noodles, jujube puree, sesame seeds, and sometimes chopped walnuts and longan.

   Mix the sugar filling, and Wang Susu brings it out.

  Then set the table, sat at the table with Wang Zhenzhen, the little girl rolled the dough, Wang Susu wrapped the sugar filling inside, rolled up the side of the cake, and sprinkled sesame on the surface of the dough.

   Not only that, Wang Susu also printed a lot of patterns of flowers and rabbits on it, which looked particularly beautiful.

  Chen Ling was setting a fire next to him. For the sugar pancake, you can't use a quick fire, you must use a medium fire.

  It is not cooked until the sugar cake is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, browned on both sides, and the aroma of jujube paste and longan can waft out.

  Chen Ling brushed thin oil on the cake pan, put two in, and turned the sugar cake while watching the heat.

   Not long after, a similar scent wafted from every household in the village, which was all baked with sugar cakes.

   "Don't make a mistake about sugar cakes, really, the ones with flowers and rabbits can't be eaten right now, and they can only be eaten after offering an offering to Mother Moon at night..."

   Wang Susu said, she picked out the patterned sugar cake in the star-shaped dustbin and put it aside.

   "I know, my mother said every year, how could I be wrong."

  Wang Zhenzhen nodded, opened a sugar cake, the plump sugar filling was steaming, and a richer aroma suddenly filled the surroundings.

   The little girl blew twice, took a big bite, and let out a contented hum.

   "Brother-in-law, these sugar cakes are delicious. Where did you learn this craft? It's delicious no matter how you cook it."

   "Every meal was delicious and I didn't want to leave."

   "Haha, just stay here if you don't want to go. I happen to be going to school in the county town, and it's very close, unlike in a stockade, where you have to run a long way to go to school."

  Chen Ling smiled and took out a freshly baked sugar cake, "Come on, eat this after you've finished it, it's just baked."

   "Just live here. You can't finish all the delicious food you cook for your sister every day. If your brother and parents see it, you will definitely be scolded. Just let me help you eat."

  Wang Zhenzhen said, breaking a piece of dough and stuffing it with sugar filling into his mouth.

  Chen Ling heard the words, looked at Wang Susu and laughed.

   This girl doesn't know yet, that is, she is here, and she never cuts her flesh every day.

  If they were a young couple, it would be commonplace.

Pork, chicken, rabbit, and mutton have not been cut off in the past six months. I eat them every day, and I am tired of eating them. So the two of them eat lightly. Eat it for Wang Zhenzhen.

   made her feel weird for a while.

   I can't figure out why my sister and brother-in-law don't eat such a good thing.

  …

   chatted and baked sugar cakes. It took half an afternoon to bake all the sugar cakes.

  At dusk, Da Ni’er brought Liu Ni’er a basket of pomegranates, Yu Qiang’s family in the front yard gave some walnuts, and Chen Ling also gave the two families two buckets of peanuts and beans.

   is not a gift for festivals, these are all things that are provided for use.

When the sky was getting dark, Wang Susu and her sister set up a table in the center of the yard, put sugar cakes, moon cakes, melons and fruits, and painted a pentagon pattern with firewood on the ground around the table. Grain, in order to pray to the mother-in-law Moon to bless the harvest in the coming year.

  Wait for a golden full moon to rise from the east.

  Wang Susu just lit incense candles and worshipped Grandma Moon. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was nothing for men to do, mainly women.

  Chen Ling didn't have much to help, so at the begging of her sister-in-law, she helped her make a small lantern.

   It's just that his hands are too clumsy, and he feels too ugly to do half of it. In the end, Wang Susu made a small lantern in the shape of a rabbit.

  After lighting the candles, the dim light is reflected, and it looks very delicate and beautiful.

  The little girl just couldn't put it down.

   "Uncle Fugui, Uncle Fugui, is the little aunt ready to eat? Let's play with the little aunt."

  Not long after the lanterns were made, little children came to shout, all of them carrying all kinds of small lanterns, standing in the courtyard and looking around.

  Wang Zhenzhen couldn't wait any longer and wanted to run out, but was pulled by Wang Susu and put on a long-sleeved coat: "Don't panic and run out, it's cold at night, put on some clothes and go play."

  Chen Ling also went out and warned the dolls: "You can't run outside the village, there are wolves on the mountain, do you know?"

   "Uncle Fugui you know, we will definitely leave the village."

   The little dolls said in unison.

   What the little dolls in the village like most is to celebrate all kinds of festivals, there are delicious and fun festivals.

   But they are afraid that they will play too much. These skin monkeys come together, and for fun, they will do everything one by one, and dare to do anything.

  Fortunately, it was indeed a bit chilly tonight, and before an hour came, the little boys all went back to their homes.

   Just in time, the incense candles in the courtyard were also burned out, Wang Susu took down the offerings, packed up, and returned to the house to continue making new clothes that were not finished yet.

  Wang was really tired from playing and went to sleep in the East Room early.

  Chen Ling accompanied his daughter-in-law, sat beside her, made tea, and read a newly bought novel to her. When she read a wonderful place, Wang Susu would also insert two sentences, and the two laughed and talked.

   It was not until late at night that the lights were turned off to rest.

   This bland and warm Mid-Autumn Festival just passed.

  …

   The next morning, Chen Ling took a lot of effort to deceive a few pigeons.

As soon as    fell to his side, Chen Ling grabbed them with a basket without saying a word.

   These pigeons are getting more and more disobedient.

I used to be very close to him, and I didn't have any vigilance at all. Every time I was tired from flying, I would take the initiative to fly back to him, flapping its wings and wanting to go back to the cave. The environment is good, they are reluctant to leave.

  This is not the case now. I fly around with wild pigeons outside all day long, my wings are hard, my heart is wild, and I don’t even want to go back to my hometown. How can I do this?

   Must be closed for a few days.

Eighty percent of the wild pigeons on their side belong to rock pigeons, mainly inhabiting rocky mountains. Rock pigeons are also called original pigeons. This wild pigeon is very easy to domesticate. The original domestic pigeon was domesticated from the original pigeon. Not to mention that these few of him have been fed by humans since they were young, so they are even more tame.

   "Brother-in-law, what are you doing?"

  Wang Zhenzhen walked out of the room rubbing his eyes, and saw Chen Ling holding a bamboo basket in the yard, and there were things flying around in the bamboo basket.

  Two dogs stood by their ears, staring at the basket and wagging their tails.

   "A few feral pigeons were buckled."

   The little girl's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Brother-in-law, you are amazing, are we going to eat stewed pigeons today?"

   "Don't eat, this is for raising, go to your sister to get scissors, I will cut the wings."

   "Okay, I'll get it."

  Wang Zhenzhen was not disappointed when he heard that it wasn't for food. He ate meat every day at his sister's house, and it was not bad for a stew of pigeons.

   Then Wang Susu also got up and came out. One person took a pair of scissors and caught the pigeon. Wang Zhenzhen caught it and asked her sister to cut off the feathers on the pigeon's wings.

  Chen Ling grabbed one by himself and pressed it on the ground to cut it.

  Two pairs of scissors, it will be cut soon.

   Pigeon Nest, Wang Susu made it yesterday.

Next to the chicken coop, there is a fence next to the courtyard wall, covered with barbed wire, put in the pigeons with their feathers cut off, put the food basin and water basin, and press it with bricks. In addition to feeding and adding water every day, Don't care anymore.

   Pigeons are mild-tempered birds, and they are not very temperamental. After being closed for a while, they have been groomed with some feathers.

   "Okay, wash your hands, the meal will be ready soon, I'll go to the city to buy you textbooks after dinner."

  Chen Ling clapped his hands and smiled at his sister-in-law: "I have to go to school tomorrow, how are you, are you really happy?"

   The little girl was so happy when she heard this, her mouth was pouted as if she could tie a donkey, and she stomped her little feet to complain to Wang Susu.

   "Sister, look at him..."

   (end of this chapter)