My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 336 Catching deer, mountain raccoon tactics

   It is a pleasant surprise to have money in the account at the end of the year.

  Chen Ling took Wang Susu to be gentle that night and continued to fight for the great cause of the second child.

   In the past two years, Wang Susu has become more and more introverted.

  Under the nourishment of the spiritual things in the cave, the bones of the body are getting better and better.

   But her healthy body does not affect her slim figure and frost-like skin.

  Although her figure is much fuller, she is still the pitiful little daughter-in-law.

  Chen Ling also felt that her daughter-in-law became more beautiful and more spiritual, especially those watery eyes that seemed to be able to talk between Gu Pan.

   Many wives in the village also said that even if they were tightly wrapped, they knew that they must have come by looking at those beautiful big eyes.

  Chen Ling naturally loves her more and more.

   Bansu greed for pleasure.

  The old saying goes that qi and blood are full of sleep and self-sufficient. The young couple has a much healthier body than ordinary people, and they are fond of joy but not sleepy.

  Woke up early at 5:00 in the morning.

   But Ruirui is still asleep, and he has to play on the bed for a while when he wakes up.

   So Chen Ling got dressed and got up.

   There are many deer tracks outside the farm these two days.

  I don't know what deer left behind.

   I remembered that since the beginning of spring this year, I have never eaten any other venison except the red-haired deer.

  Chen Ling felt itchy and prepared to arrange a few gadgets to catch a few deer.

   Find a two-inch to three-inch thick plank that is more than a foot square.

   Cut out a round hole the size of a deer hoof in the middle.

   Then use three-inch iron nails to drive down diagonally.

   This thing is called "grabbing feet".

   As the name suggests, it is used to catch deer feet.

   is also a deer trap.

  After making the feet, in places where the deer tracks are dense, do not damage the turf, dig up the soil, dig a shallow pit below, and put the feet in.

  The other end of the plank sticks out from under the ground and is tied to the tree trunk with a rope.

After    is fastened, put the shoveled ground back as it is.

  Wait for the deer to come and step on the grabbing foot, and the hoof will sink into the pit.

   tried to pull it up, but was stabbed in the flesh on the top of the hoof shell by the iron nails.

   It's fine even if he drags his feet to the ground.

  The wooden plank is big enough.

   Chained again.

   It can't run.

  This method of catching deer was taught to him by an old hunter in Kinmen Village.

   said that it used to be common, but now few people know it.

   There are also methods for catching chamois and catching foxes.

   Each has its own way and skills. It is not as simple as just putting a clip or a cover.

   It happened that Chen Ling found deer trails around the farm in the past two days. Seeing that he was happy, he chased the things out early and placed them in several places at the foot of the mountain.

   Sprinkle some bait in the vicinity.

  Quietly wait for a deer to step on it.

   Then turn around and go home to make breakfast.

  Since the old man and his wife returned to Fenglei Town, whoever is free, he and Wang Susu will cook.

   This free time depends on who the son spends more time with that day.

   "Today I'll have yam porridge and stewed tofu with cabbage. Pickled cabbage is always bad." When Chen Ling walked to the kitchen, he was still thinking, after eating pickled cabbage for a long time, he almost forgot the taste of cabbage.

  This year's Chinese cabbage, when my father-in-law left, he helped to receive the vegetable cellar.

   Don't look at the large vegetable cellar built in the farm, and two jars of pickled sauerkraut have been pickled, and the remaining cabbage also filled the vegetable cellar to the brim.

   This is the problem with the high yield of cabbage in Chen Ling's family.

   His family's vegetable cellar is on the farm's side, just behind the kitchen, and there are always piles of firewood and sundries beside it.

   Sweet potato well and vegetable cellar are not far away.

   Anyway, these two places have traditional characteristics, and they are very complete.

   But when he walked to the vegetable cellar and was about to pick up the vegetables, Chen Ling was dumbfounded.

   Then he turned around and shouted angrily: "Heiwa, how do you look after the house, the vegetable cellar is a disaster for the thieves."

   Hearing Chen Ling shouting angrily, Heiwa hurriedly ran over.

  I saw a big hole in the grass mat covering the vegetable cellar, and there was half-eaten Chinese cabbage beside the vegetable cellar.

  Looking at Heiwa's shy brows and drooping eyes, wagging his tail and leaning in, Chen Ling got angry, slapped it and said, "Don't be the one who guards and steals."

   After dinner every night, Xiaojin and Xiaobainiu would go back to the village to watch the house together.

  Heiwa keeps the farm alone.

   Originally, Chen Ling thought that there would be no problem, but these two guys could detect a little bit of trouble.

  It was like this when they were young, and the movement from far away can make them pierce their ears.

   Heiwa was slapped by Chen Ling, she was quite aggrieved, she simply sniffed on the ground, and then walked around beside him barking.

   means it found the culprit.

   "Go, take me to see, what is it that got in, and dared to harm the vegetable cellar at home."

   Recently, the second bald boy is not at home often, and he goes out for a while from time to time. Chen Ling has never restricted his freedom, and has always encouraged him to find a partner and give birth to a litter of eagle cubs as soon as possible.

  Otherwise, there will be no fish that slip through the net into the farm.

   At this time, it was still very early, it was less than seven o'clock.

  Chen Ling followed Heiwa to the outside of the farm and tracked down the culprit.

   After following the past and seeing the scene, he was stunned again and stopped at the edge of the fruit forest.

   Even Heiwa stopped.

  I saw dozens of magpies on the wheat field in the early morning, fighting fiercely around a big straw-colored cat.

The magpies chirped, flew up and down, some pecked, some scratched, and beat the big fat cat to the point of shrinking its head, hunching its body, frying its hair, and constantly making sharp howls, but There are too many magpies, it can't resist, and can only be beaten passively.

  Chen Ling could see it clearly, this is the raccoon that slipped away before, and I don't know if it was the magpie who had been caught before or what happened, but now he was besieged by the magpie.

   He has seen magpies beating other birds.

   For example, the Harrier of his own family, and the magpie are old enemies.

   After all, they are all birds, so it is understandable to fight with each other.

   But it is a bit rare for a magpie to beat a cat.

   "I haven't seen this scene before, so let's not teach it a lesson, Heiwa, go home and bring my camera."

  Chen Ling whispered to Heiwa, then crouched on the edge of the fruit forest, quietly watching the battle between land and air.

   It was said to be a land-air battle, but it was actually the raccoon who was beaten.

  Han Ninggui said that the magpie is a bit of a rogue bird. If you offend one of them, it will invite friends and friends and call a group to besiege you.

   Very vengeful.

   There are a lot of magpies on the farm. Chen Ling squatted here and counted them carefully. There were about forty magpies besieging Shantanzi.

   is really brutal.

   In fact, not only magpies, but also birds belonging to the Corvid family are not easy to mess with.

   Soon, Heiwa grabbed the camera and Chen Ling quickly took the opportunity to take a few pictures.

   Then he smiled and said: "This guy, just like this thief cat was beaten, it's no different from when Heiwa was beaten by geese last year."

   Heiwa was lying beside him, but when he heard this, he raised his head and stared at him with wide eyes.

   But when he saw Chen Ling turned his head and looked at it, it quickly stuck out its tongue and looked fiercely at the gang of magpies and raccoons, pretending to be ready to attack at any time.

   At this time, Wang Susu found that Heiwa was holding the camera, and followed him with the child in his arms in confusion.

   I saw a man and a dog squatting on the edge of the fruit forest. I didn’t know what they were looking at, so I came over and asked what happened.

Chen Ling hurriedly asked her to squat down, "Come and watch the show. In the morning, I saw a hole in the reed mat on our vegetable cellar, and I ate half a Chinese cabbage, and the leaves were almost empty. Call Heiwa to come out and chase.

  伱Look, the raccoon has done a good job, and now he is being beaten by a magpie. The thick fur that he just changed in winter will definitely not be able to keep it, and it is worse than last year's Heiwa. "

  Wang Susu was also surprised when she saw it. She had never seen this battle between a magpie and a raccoon, and she was instantly attracted.

   The young couple watched with relish.

I saw that the raccoon was fighting and retreating under the siege of a large group of magpies, but the magpies were chasing after them, constantly flying up and down, and pecking at the raccoon, so there was a lot of cat hair disorder. fly out.

   On the surface, it seems that this raccoon has been beaten all the time and has no power to fight back.

   But Chen Ling soon realized that something was wrong.

   The direction of the raccoon's retreat is exactly its old nest, the direction of the earth ditch under the gentle slope.

   Sure enough, it didn't take a while, just a few meters away from the ditch.

This big fat cat of straw-yellow suddenly burst into flames, revealing its hideous side. It even killed a magpie between the electric light and flint. Those magpies have always had the upper hand. Can't react at all.

   could only watch helplessly. After the raccoon slaughtered his companions, he picked it up and slid into the tall wormwood bushes.

   "Damn it, this raccoon will fight back tactically."

  Chen Ling and Wang Susu looked at each other with deep surprise on their faces.

   Then I saw the group of magpies screaming in a fit of rage, surrounding the Tugou Lianzhan and not going, as if they were yelling in front of the mountain raccoon's house.

  Chen Ling smiled again when he saw this: "It's useless to know tactics. It's useless to provoke a gang of vengeful hooligans like Magpie. Don't think about going out during the day in the future."

  Wang Susu was more concerned about the situation at home after reading the novel, and then asked: "This raccoon entered our farm, did he steal anything other than cabbage?"

  Chen Ling patted his forehead when he heard the words, and shouted repeatedly: "Let's go, go back and have a look, I was busy chasing it out, and I forgot to go to the kitchen."

   finished speaking and headed back first.

   rushed back to the kitchen to see, my dear, that's a mess.

   The eggs, steamed buns left over last night, and the stewed rabbit meat left over at noon yesterday were all ruined.

   Plates and chopsticks also fell to the ground.

  Wang Susu looked at the mess on the ground, and felt even more distressed. She put her son in the stroller, and the young couple hurriedly packed it up.

  After tidying up the kitchen, the two still wondered: "What's wrong with this raccoon? It's okay to eat cabbage, half a cucumber, and even a steamed bun."

   The young couple didn't know.

  There are many birds around the farm, and there are also many raccoons around here. If there are many competitors, it will be very difficult to find prey.

   Besides, Chen Ling and the others used lanterns to catch rabbits all over the night before, and they also took away the prey that was easier to catch, and they were so scared that the rabbits didn't dare to show their heads.

  The raccoons can't find anything to eat, so they naturally freeze and starve.

  In the past, these raccoons were afraid of black babies and didn't dare to approach the farm, but when they were hungry, they couldn't care about them.

   All kinds of things in the farm are good and attractive.

   So when this raccoon was very hungry, he sneaked into the farm to find something to eat.

   Came in in the early morning. After eating the cabbage in a fright, he found that the dog was not moving, so he got into the kitchen to find other food.

   Fortunately, the eggs and meat at home are stored in other rooms and locked.

  Otherwise, the mouse really fell into the rice jar, and it must have suffered heavy losses.

  Heiwa is also a relaxed guard, only guarding the chickens, ducks and sheep outside. In the past, the raccoon was always sneaking in and out of the fruit forest, and generally it didn't matter.

  If Xiao Jin was there, it would be a different scene.

  After the meal, he called Xiaojin back from the village, and Xiaobai Niu also brought him over.

  The sun is shining today, although it is still not too warm, but there is no wind, it is rare to go out for activities.

   When I went to pick up the raccoon on the way, I found that it had changed its position under the eyes of the magpie at some point. There was nothing in the hole, and the two dogs were not found.

   Depressed, Chen Ling went to the cave and ravaged the two half-sized raccoons for a while.

   didn't catch the big one, so he found a place on the small one.

   "Humph, after a few days, I'll settle accounts with you."

   Houtian Wang Lixian's family Sini'er is going to get married, and Chen Ling is going to go tomorrow, so naturally he is not in the mood to fight these wild things.

   But you can carry a little female cat from the village and put it into the cave.

  The two half-sized civet cats in Dongtian are male, let a female cat in and let them develop feelings and give birth to cubs.

  The tanuki and domestic cats are also not reproductively isolated, so there is no problem with giving birth casually.

   After all, pet cats, pet dogs, and cattle are the main development direction of our farm in the future.

   Of course, what he hopes most is cattle. As long as they are bred, any Japanese wagyu will have to stand aside.

   "Cows, horses, donkeys, these big animals will also be engaged in the spring of next year, and two or three of them will be raised at random. By the end of the year, they will kill and eat meat to see how the meat tastes."

   "After all, if you think it's delicious, others will accept it."

Under the lazy sun in winter, Chen Ling was lying on the grassy slope, squinting and thinking, the little white cow was lying not far behind him, and the sheep were grazing everywhere on the grassy slope: "Well, those who haven't been raised Well, don't worry about it, try the sheep that has been raised for more than a year in two days."

  After he made this decision, before the sheep could eat, he was startled by the barking of dogs that night.

   A deer stepped on his feet.

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  PS: This chapter fills in the gaps

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