My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 209 Lost Pig

  The winter in the mountains is frighteningly cold, but it is not without its benefits.

   For example, the food you eat at home, you don't have to worry about it being spoiled if you put it casually.

  Like Chen Ling's family, who used to be afraid that the goat milk would not be consumed and wasted, but now there is no such concern. In just a few days, they have saved most of the tank.

   This is all from dairy goats.

  This guy has entered winter, and his milk supply has not decreased.

   In addition to feeding the lambs, three or four catties of milk can be squeezed out every day.

  When he didn't want to cook, or got up late in the morning, he and Wang Susu would cook some goat milk to drink, which was very comfortable.

  The twelfth lunar month, the sky was still gloomy, and there was no sign of clearing.

  Chen Ling stood in the courtyard and practiced bows and arrows for more than half an hour. After he was hooked, he brought some dry wood and started a fire in the courtyard.

   Then he took out a few animal traps and threw them into the fire to roast them. When they were roasted red, they dipped them in snow water twice with dry cow dung.

   This is to cover the smell of rust on the clip and the smell of people left on it.

  Otherwise, wild animals in the mountains can smell the place where the clips are not right from a distance, and they will detour there early, and they will not be fooled at all.

The    clip will be empty and nothing will be gained.

   After the iron clips began to smoke "chichichi" for a while, it was done.

  Wait for the clips to cool down.

  Chen Ling put on his coat and slid to the foot of the mountain.

   In fact, the clips in the past few days have not been completely empty, and a few hares have been caught.

   But such a small prey is really meaningless.

   And the big prey in the mountains is very alert and hard to catch, so Chen Ling took the clip back and covered it up again.

  In order to hide the smell of rust more thoroughly, no, he also baked the dung with fire for a while, and the smell of the cow dung was thoroughly eaten by the clips, and there was no trace of rust.

   "Wang Wang Wang Wang..."

When    walked to the entrance of the village, they saw a group of people surrounded by the threshing field, making a lot of noise. Heiwa and Xiaojin with a group of local dogs were also spinning around and yelling.

   It has snowed the past two days, and the two of them are very playful. They roam around in the snow with the village dog all day long. Today they also ran out early in the morning, and they don’t even bother to eat.

  Chen Ling didn't bother to care about them either.

   But at this time, he saw that something was not right, and the dog's barking was not normal, so he hurried over to him.

   "Brother donkey, what's wrong?"

   "Yo, it's rich and noble, are you going under the clip again?"

When Er Mao saw that it was Chen Ling, he showed a smile, and then pointed to a family next to the wheat field: "Old Troubler's pig was lost, his daughter-in-law scolded her mother all morning, making everyone quarrel. I just showed his family the hoof prints on the outside of the pigsty, and they all said that eight or nine times out of ten, the wolf had to dig out the pigsty."

   "What? Let the wolf dig the pigsty? Can the wolf really come to the village to dig the pigsty?"

  Chen Ling was very surprised.

   "Isn't that true? There are a lot of wolf footprints in the snow. What else could it be if it wasn't for the wolf?"

   Ermao said, pulled a few people next to him, and talked to Chen Ling again.

   In short, he insisted that the wolf took out the pigsty.

  Chen Ling looked at the reactions of his two dogs, and then went to the pigsty to have a look.

   fell into doubt.

  The fence of the pigsty is not short, and the door of the pigsty is not opened. How did the pig get out?

   Could it be that the wolf did it?

  When he was a child, he also heard from the old people that when a wolf digs out a pigsty, he will make two clever tricks.

   One is to please, and the other is to rush.

  The wolf invites the pig, which means that this wild wolf is very cunning and clever. After quietly jumping into the pigsty at night, he looks for a fat pig, only bites its tail, and drags it backwards when it bites.

  The pig has a bad temper. The more you drag it back, the more it will move forward.

   At this time, if the wolf releases its mouth again at the right time, the pig that protects the pain will stand on its front legs, jumping out of the wall of the pigsty and running wildly into the wild.

   doesn't hurt them, just designed to invite the pig out of the pen, and when the pig out of the pen runs to the wild field in the dark night, the other wolves in the wolf pack will come to greet it warmly.

   This is called wolf inviting pig.

   And the wolf chases the pig.

   is because some wolves are reluctant to eat pigs in a hurry and fear in places very close to the village.

  If you are bitten to death and drag your mouth to death, and you think it is too laborious and cumbersome for the pig to gain weight after death.

   They came up with another way to chase the pigs.

   Speaking of the way the wolf drives the pig, it is so easy and ingenious that even people will sigh.

   As long as they open their mouths, bite the pig's ears, and at the same time, the big thick tail is like a broom, slapping the pig's buttocks, and the pig will follow it obediently.

  It goes to the left, the pig follows it to the left, it goes to the right, and the pig follows it to the right.

  The pig's whole body has only two most sensitive places, that is, the ears and the tail.

   But these two pain-protecting places were touched by the wolf, and when they are used, can they be disobedient?

I heard that in the past, a family in Chenwangzhuang lost a pig at night and set a torch to look for the pig. They saw the wolf chase the pig with their own eyes. They came back to describe the situation and said: It is like a man who is afraid of his mother-in-law, and his mother-in-law pinches his ears. Just as obediently dragged away.

   However, when the pig is invited into the wolf's den, the result will be even more miserable than the man who is afraid of his mother-in-law.

  …

   "We haven't seen it with our own eyes. I don't know if it's true or not. Anyway, it sounds like a monster to me."

  Chen Ling shook his head.

   He knew very well how smart wolves were, but he still couldn't believe in stealing pigs.

   When he was a child, he heard these as stories.

   "Haha, your baby is still too young, I didn't believe that wolves were as powerful as others said before, but I didn't know it later, that time I sneaked into my house and wanted to steal my donkey..."

"It's also a coincidence. That night I caught a cold and had a stomachache. I got up and went to the thatched hut. I happened to meet this wolf, and it didn't immediately rush to me when it saw me. When I squatted down, it threw me from behind. You Tell me, how cunning this thing must be."

   "It's just like dying."

   Ermao donkey laughed and said, which attracted the approval of many people around.

  Chen Ling didn't say anything else, just asked: "Have you gone to the pig?"

   "I found it. I have searched for it several times. I followed the footprints to the west. It must be the wolf who drove the pig to the mountain at night."

The two donkeys gestured and said, "Old troublemaker, this is a half-big pig on credit from the village. The two cousins ​​are raising them together and are going to kill them for meat at the end of the year. This is a waste of effort. food."

   "I heard that Fugui wants to raise things under the mountain in the future, so be careful."

   "I know, if you want to raise it, you must be on guard."

   This is officially after winter, and it is very different from the early winter.

   In early winter, food is scarce but not too hungry.

   At this time, it is different. In the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, the snow is covered, and the herds of herbivorous wild animals will move south in large numbers, causing the prey to be scarce.

  Beasts cannot find prey, they are so hungry, they will have no choice but to turn their hunting targets to people in villages, as well as livestock and livestock.

  Sneak attack, ambush and even night attack occur from time to time.

   In the past few years, this kind of thing was relatively rare.

   This is because people in those years were still unable to fill their stomachs, and before the wild animals came down the mountain to harm the village, they went up the mountain one after another to hunt.

   Later, more people went out to work, and the number of hunters decreased, and the wild animals on the mountain increased again. In the past two years, they also began to run down the mountain.

  …

"We beat the wolves away last time, and even dared to come down the mountain. I think they have healed their scars and forgot the pain. They dare to steal this one today, and they will steal that one tomorrow. It's almost Chinese New Year. "

   "All go back and get ready. Let's go get the clips later, and clip it to hell."

  I don't know who saw Chen Lingti slipping the clip, and he came up with an idea.

   The crowd roared, and those who lived on the edge of the village went home to prepare clips.

  Chen Ling saw that the crowd had dispersed, so he didn't stay any longer, and went to his own land to unload his own clip.

  The sticky bird net was withdrawn two days ago, and only a few ground covers were set up nearby.

  He found another place to put the clips, and put grain, sweet potatoes, meat, meat, vegetarian and everything next to the ground cover.

  The ground cover and clip are the same as traps, it is better to hunt directly from the mountain.

   It takes a lot of patience to wait.

   In other words, it will take advantage of the weather after heavy snowfall, and it will be easier to harvest than usual.

However…

  Chen Ling didn't expect that he would get a harvest so quickly.

  On the morning of the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month the next day, he had just climbed up from the bed and drank a bowl of hot goat milk when Chen Dazhi rushed over to call him, saying that he had caught a wild boar near the orchard.

   But the wild boar hurt people, and ran away with a clip in anger.

  This wild boar can't run far with clips on its legs. Now hurry up and chase it, and it can still catch up.

   The amount of information in a few sentences is a bit large, and Chen Ling was stunned after hearing it: "What's going on? I caught a wild boar, why did it hurt someone?"

   "Oh, don't ask this for now, that wild boar is quite big, you go after it, I'll tell you what's going on on the way."

   Chen Dazhi couldn't wait any longer, and dragged Chen Ling out.

   Waiting for Chen Ling to pick up the steel fork and other things, and called the two dogs at home, and hurriedly rushed to the outside of the village.

  The two walked in a hurry, and Chen Dazhi did not forget to explain the situation to him.

   "It's a dirty baby. I was not happy when I lost a pig at home. In the early morning, I called Baoliang and Baoshuan to go out of the village to sneak out, saying that they caught a wolf and must be killed by their own hands."

   "Unexpectedly, these three boys didn't see the wolf caught, and met a wild boar with its legs caught in your orchard."

  The dirty baby is the youngest son of the old troublemaker.

  The old troublemaker is Chen Baoliang's cousin.

   These three people this morning, Chen Baoshuan, Chen Baoliang and Dirty Waer are cousins.

  Chen Baoshuan has a bad character. No one in the village pays any attention to him. He usually walks around with a few cousins.

  It is estimated that these three people saw a wild boar caught in Chen Ling's place this morning and wanted to sneak a bargain.

   It happened that the pig was lost at home. If they could pick up this big wild boar, not only would they not lose, but they would also make a profit.

  Unexpectedly, as soon as he approached, the wild boar threw a person to the ground and bit frantically.

   The other two held up hoes and shovels, and shouted at the wild boar while hitting, but the wild boar was provoked, and regardless of the clips on their hind legs, they turned around and attacked them.

   scared the two of them and ran away.

   desperately ran back and asked the villagers to rescue people.

   The ones who ran back were Dirty Baby and Chen Baoliang.

   Chen Baoshuan, the unlucky bastard, was left there.

   When the villagers arrived, Chen Baoshuan had been kicked far away by the wild boar and fell into the small river ditch.

  The wild boar also jumped into the small river ditch, still biting Chen Baoshuan.

   Seeing a lot of people coming, I reluctantly fled into the forest.

   "Baoshuan deserves it. He was thrown into a cesspool by a wild boar last time, and he still doesn't know how to change it. When he sees a wild boar, he doesn't know how to hide far away, and he wants to go up and pick up a bargain. I really don't know what to say about him."

   "I feel sorry for Uncle Sangui, I didn't save a lot of money, and I want to treat this unfilial son."

   After listening to Chen Dazhi's words, Chen Ling didn't know what to say about these three people.

Although    wild boars do not come into the villages like wolves and harm the animals.

   But there is less food on the mountain, so naturally they will come down the mountain to find something to eat.

   And they are the most difficult to deal with at this time.

  When you see people in the past, you can easily scare them away.

   But after the winter, it is difficult to scare them away by shouting and driving them away.

   instead irritates them most of the time.

   Not to mention an injured lone pig.

   In this case, they can only blame themselves, they deserve to be injured, or even be arched to death.

   It just so happened that the villagers had already carried Chen Baoshuan, who was covered in blood and fell into a coma, from outside the village.

   Chen Dazhi ran back to Chen Ling to report the news, much faster than them.

   The two sides met.

   Chen Sangui lamented again and again.

   Although this son is not filial, he is his own son after all, and I don’t know what happened this year.

  The year of the pig is the fate of a wild boar, and the wild boar is injured twice in a year.

   Dirty Wa'er and Chen Baoliang's eyes were a little dodging, and they didn't dare to look at Chen Ling.

   When something like this happened, the people in the village actually knew what the situation was.

   Isn't it because they are greedy and want to pick up the prey on other people's clips, so this is what happened.

   This kind of behavior is no different from stealing.

   Guatian Li Xia is afraid of making people disgusted, how could he come forward to do such a thing?

   Don't say shame, I almost lost my life, it will be a joke after being pointed at the back of the head.

   In the end, the attack power of the caught wild boar is still too low.

  Think wild boars can be manipulated by their legs? That is to think beautiful.

   is the dirty baby's parents, the old troublemaker and his wife said a few nice words to Chen Ling.

  Chen Ling said nothing about it.

   Anyway, it wasn't him who was injured, the wild boar was not raised by him, and it was none of his business to hurt people.

   Of course, I thought so in my heart, but I was still polite on the surface.

   After that, he stopped talking nonsense with them and rushed to the orchard at the foot of the mountain with Chen Dazhi.

   And Heiwa and Xiaojin couldn't wait for a long time. At this time, they rushed out and ran far ahead of them.

  After crossing the two steep slopes, two dogs barked hurriedly in front of me.

   Chen Dazhi was tired of running at this time, Chen Ling walked over first, and saw the snow beside the orchard in a mess.

  The grass shed was overturned by the wild boar.

   The sweet potato tips and corn dregs left by the stove were all eaten up.

  On the snow not far from the grass hut, there was a patch of bright red blood and a messy hoof print.

   There are also clear and conspicuous shoe prints left by people, leading to the small river ditch.

   Needless to say, it was caused by those three guys just now.

   And the blood of the wild boar has not been interrupted. You can see it after a few steps. It extends into the depths of the mountain forest. It is bright red and dazzling, and it is very obvious on the snow.

   "That's true, I took all the clips with me, but my clips are too strong, I guess the back legs of this wild boar have been broken."

   "I had a fight with someone just now, and it can't go very far."

  Chen Ling waved at the two dogs: "Chase!"

   (end of this chapter)