My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 374 The biggest temptation to chickens is...

   Seeing another bird egg being pulled out, Chen Ling quickly tore off his clothes, his eyes quickly followed the location where the bird egg fell, and under the tree, he spread his clothes with both hands to catch it firmly.

   "Fortunately it didn't break..."

Chen Ling glanced at the bird's egg. It was slightly larger than a pigeon's egg, gray-green, with small light brown spots on it, which looked like a quail egg, but it was bigger than a quail egg, and the spots were lighter in color. Pointier.

   "This thief bird is very courageous. The dog has barked for so long and still hasn't flown away."

"go."

  Chen Ling shook the tree with his hand, and said loudly to drive away the bird, flapping its wings and flying away.

   "What's wrong brother-in-law? What are the two Hei Wa calling?"

  At this time, Wang Zhenzhen ran over to the farm with a group of puppies and a kitten.

   Today is Saturday, and the little girl came very early. Apart from helping Wang Susu look after the children, she was also thinking about the wonderful cartoons and TV dramas that will be available on the weekend.

  Just now she and Wang Susu were picking eggs over there, and ran over when they heard the noise.

  Wang Susu also walked over with Ruirui in her arms.

   "I didn't cry anything, I just saw a cuckoo picking eggs from someone else's nest."

  Chen Ling pointed to the bird's nest on the tree, and then pointed to the two eggs that had fallen by his feet.

  Wang Zhenzhen just saw that the yolks of the two bird eggs were all over the ground, and Erhei's gang of puppies rushed forward and quickly licked the yolks, egg whites and eggshells clean.

Heiwa and Xiaojin couldn't help drooling when they saw it. They also like to eat eggs, and they couldn't hold back when they heard the sound of eggs being beaten, but they were praised by Chen Ling just now, so let them have a good time. Performance, like a primary school student, after listening to a few words of encouragement from the teacher, it was the time when he had just finished his blood.

  So I resisted not looking sideways, and put on a very obedient and steady look.

   "Get up, get up, you ate the bird eggs before I saw clearly."

  Wang Zhenzhen pushed a bunch of puppies away depressed.

   "It's okay, the dog ate it, and I still have it here."

  Chen Ling handed her the bird's egg caught in his clothes, and Wang Zhenzhen let out a wow, rubbed it in his hand twice, then raised his head, staring at the bird's nest on the tree with bright eyes.

   "Brother-in-law, what kind of bird's nest is this, I'll dig it out."

  Rural children have an unusual obsession with digging out bird nests, even many female dolls are like this. After all, the taste of bird eggs is not worse than that of eggs. How can greedy children let them go easily.

   Chen Ling smiled when he heard the words: "You often dig out bird nests, don't you recognize it?"

   "Hee hee, I don't have brother-in-law, you know everything. This nest is messy. I look like the nest of the stupid turtledove, but the nest of the stupid turtledove is not so big, and the eggs it lays don't look like this..."

  Wang Zhenzhen shook the bird eggs in his hand with a smile, and stuffed them back into Chen Ling's hands, "I'll take them out first."

  Turning around, I was about to climb a tree and dig out a bird's nest.

  Wang Susu came to the front at this time, frowned when she saw this scene and shouted: "What do you really want to do, the clothes you just changed yesterday are dirty and torn, let's see how mother will deal with you."

   "Oh, don't worry, sister, I can't touch the clothes."

   "No, come down."

  Wang Zhenzhen had no choice but to let go of the tree trunk reluctantly, and stood aside with his mouth pouted.

  Chen Ling patted her little head, then took Ruirui from Wang Susu's arms, and pointed to the bird's nest on the tree for his wife and son.

  After hearing what Chen Ling said, Wang Susu was very surprised: "Is the cuckoo so bad? It lays eggs in other bird's nests, and even pulls out their eggs?"

  Yes, the bird that pulled the egg just now is a cuckoo, that is, a cuckoo.

   This guy can't incubate eggs, and he can't brood. When it's breeding season, he lays his eggs in other bird's nests and lets other birds hatch them for him.

   And if you find that there are too many eggs in other bird's nests, you will push a few eggs out of the nest.

  It is for their offspring to hatch safely and thrive.

   "Isn't that..."

Seeing his daughter-in-law's cute look, Chen Ling couldn't help but smile: "You don't know, this bird is born to be a thief, afraid of starvation, in order to grab food, its eggs are more open than other birds." Quickly, that little bird has been rotten since childhood. After hatching from the egg, before opening its eyes, it is the same as the big bird. It has to push the eggs out of the nest with all its strength.

  Even if the eggs are not pushed out and hatch successfully later, the cuckoo will peck them to death early and grow fast. "

   After he said this, not only Wang Susu was shocked, but Wang Zhenzhen was also dumbfounded: "Wow, why is this bird acting like this."

  Then looked up: "Brother-in-law, you forgot to tell me, what kind of bird's nest is this, why is it so unlucky, the cuckoo kicked out several eggs."

   "Old Raven's Nest, there are so many old Raven's Nests in the mountains, I don't believe you haven't seen them."

   "Ah? Is this an old raven's nest? It's so small. The old raven's nest I've seen is almost the same as a magpie's nest. There are many dead branches piled up together, much more than this bird's nest. It's hard to dig out."

  Wang Zhenzhen raised his small face, with great doubts in his eyes.

   "Isn't it, sister? The old magpie's nest outside our village is like that, and it can't be distinguished from the magpie's nest."

  Wang Susu hummed and nodded slightly, "Our village is on the mountain, and the old raven's nest in the mountain here is also very big, so I don't know how to tell."

  She spent a lot of time collecting herbs in the mountains in the past two years, but she has seen many old raven nests.

   "There are a lot of birds in our orchard. This old raven's nest should have just been built in the beginning of spring. It looks a bit small."

   The little daughter-in-law said, looking at Chen Ling.

  Chen Ling nodded with a smile: "Yes, this is a new nest. This old bird, like the grass swallow, has to build a new nest every year when it lays eggs..."

  Then teach the two sisters how to distinguish the old raven's nest from the magpie's nest.

  First of all, whether it is in the deep mountains or near the village, most of the old raven nests are much smaller than the magpie nests, and the old raven nests are also shorter than the magpie nests.

  Although there are a lot of messy dead branches, the old bird's nest looks rough on the outside, and the inside is also rough, but the magpie's nest has a different world inside.

  The three of them pointed to the bird's nest and talked, but Rui Rui in Chen Ling's arms was unwilling to be lonely, and stretched out his small hand to pick out the old raven egg that he was holding in his hand, and when he picked it up, he was about to stuff it into his mouth.

  Chen Ling was startled when he saw it, and quickly snatched it away. This baby is so real, he puts everything in his mouth.

  Wang Susu hugged her son into her arms and slapped his little **** a few times.

   "Hahaha, Ruirui is hungry and wants to eat eggs, can my aunt get some for you?" Wang Zhenzhen bouncing around and teasing his little nephew.

  Wang Susu didn't know what her younger sister was thinking about.

   After listening to Chen Ling's story about the cuckoo, it's strange that this monkey can withstand curiosity.

  Glanced at her, and said: "You are not allowed to climb trees. If you want to dig out bird eggs, go home with your brother-in-law and carry the ladder. Move the ladder over and climb the tree."

  Wang Zhenzhen was overjoyed when he heard this, and dragged Chen Ling to run home.

   Let’s dig out the bird, isn’t climbing a tree the same as climbing a ladder?

  The little girl couldn't wait to see if there was really a cuckoo egg in the bird's nest as her brother-in-law said.

  Chen Ling didn't think that the cuckoo could lay eggs in the old raven's nest so quickly.

   As a result, he climbed up the ladder and climbed up the tree to see that there was a very conspicuous strange thing in the old cuckoo's nest, which was the cuckoo's egg.

   Seeing this, Chen Ling muttered, "No wonder he was so anxious to pull the old egg out, it turned out that the egg was really laid in."

   "Brother-in-law, let me take out the cuckoo eggs." Wang Zhenzhen said with bright eyes standing on a thick branch nearby.

   "Okay, take it out, didn't your teacher assign a composition? You can write a composition based on this."

   "Hee hee, okay."

   Wang Zhenzhen might not be happy to write such a fun thing into the composition. Besides, when it comes to school, he can show off to his teachers and classmates, which is very beautiful when he thinks about it.

  Wang Susu listened to the conversation between the two of them under the tree, couldn't help but pursed her lips, and said to herself: Ah Ling is really good at coaxing dolls, knowing that she is really watching TV and doesn't want to do homework, so she uses this method to coax her.

  One big and one small on the tree took out the cuckoo's egg, and took another old raven's egg, leaving three.

  According to Chen Ling, the three eggs are just right, and the hatched birds have a higher survival rate.

   "Sister, help us hold the eggs, let's find a few more bird nests to dig out, these three eggs are not enough for Rui Rui to eat."

  Knowing that Wang Zhen is really addicted to playing, Wang Susu didn't point it out. She helped the two of them hold the bird eggs, and watched them continue to look for the bird's nest.

  There have been a lot of bird nests in the orchard of the farm in the past two years, both on and under the trees.

   But let alone the ones under the trees, dogs and foxes often visit them, and they have also learned to be smart. They come to the farm during the day to find food instead of nesting here.

  So there are more and more bird nests on the tree.

Chen Ling took the little girl to check some trees. It was the peak season for birds to lay eggs. Out of every two bird nests, there was one nest that laid eggs. Take two, take one or none if there are few eggs, soon Wang Susu's hands are full of eggs, so he has to put them in the straw hat, let Ruirui watch the eggs babbling, Keep on streaming halazi.

The air was fine in the morning, and the sun was rising. Several main crew members who stayed at the farm came out talking and laughing, and were going to eat in the village. They saw their family playing here, as if they were digging out birds. Come and see.

   "Fugui, it's rare for you to eat so late today. Why don't you rush to make breakfast after eight o'clock." The fat director Lao Kang walked over and smiled.

  The farm is at the foot of the mountain, very quiet, there are no miscellaneous sounds, so they can hear the noise of cooking very clearly, and they also know that Chen Ling's family always gets up early to cook.

   "Haha, so the baby at home is clamoring to dig out birds. Once playing, he forgets the time." Chen Ling stepped on the ladder and answered with a smile.

  The young actors were attracted by a bird's egg in a straw hat placed in the grass at Wang Susu's feet, and surrounded him with admiration.

  The two actresses squatted down, teased Ruirui, and after talking to Wang Susu, they raised their heads and said to Wang Zhenzhen on the tree: "Little sister, can you give us two bird eggs?"

   "Okay, take it..."

   Wang Zhenzhen was very generous after digging out so many bird eggs: "But don't take the eggs of the cuckoo and the old raven. I want to take them back to the hatching eggs, and let them fight when they hatch."

   "Huh? Why did you let them fight?" The two actresses were a little confused when they heard it.

   "Because the cuckoo is broken, I want to hatch it with the old raven, and then I won't give it food or drink, and let the old raven teach it..." Wang Zhenzhen clenched his small fists with an indignant expression on his face.

   Chen Ling and Wang Susu didn't teach her this, it was her own idea.

  So Chen Ling and the young couple also sounded very surprised, and then they couldn't laugh or cry, and this girl would play around.

  But the two actresses still didn't understand why she did this, so they asked her what happened to the cuckoo. People call it a cuckoo, isn't it a good bird?

   This is teasing Wang Zhenzhen as a brat.

  Wang Zhenzhen told them the story of the cuckoo bird. After the story, not only the two of them, but also the fat director and a few others were a little surprised. They really didn't know how the bird did it.

   "But, how to hatch eggs, you have taken out these birds' eggs." The actress asked.

  "Don't be afraid, my family has an old hen that broods. Once the old hen broods, it will hatch if you put a round stone, let alone this bird's egg."

"Wow, little sister, you can help us hatch two chicks too. We don't want bird eggs anymore." The two actresses were young after all, and when they heard this, they immediately found it very interesting, and hurriedly begged Wang Zhenzhen .

   "Okay, what kind of bird do you want to hatch, I will choose for you."

  Wang Zhenzhen jumped down from the ladder, clapped his little hands, and looked like a little adult.

   The two actresses who surrounded her looked like little attendants, and kept asking Wang Zhenzhen what kind of bird's egg this was, which one hatched faster and looked better.

The two young girls chattered non-stop around a straw hat bird egg. Even the fat director called for dinner, but the two young girls didn't care about going. They just said they didn't want to eat breakfast and wanted to send the bird eggs to the chicken coop. rest assured.

  Actually, two young male actors were also quite moved, but because of the face of the men, they kept silent and turned their heads when they left.

  Here, Chen Ling and the young couple hugged their son and accompanied the old hen who went to the chicken coop to look for nests.

  Chen Ling locked the hens that brooded in spring in the chicken coop.

   "Brother Chen, is it really okay to use old hens to hatch eggs?"

"Okay, don't worry, eggs are the most tempting thing for an old hen in the brooding period, no matter eggs, duck eggs or stone eggs, as long as it sees something that looks like an egg, it will lie down on it, or pull it under its body to hatch. "

   "Will the chicken crush the eggs? The old hen is so fat and heavy."

"Will not."

I was talking here, only to hear an angry "cuck..." rooster crowing in the chicken coop. A big flower chicken had already stuck out its head and pecked at Wang Zhenzhen's hand fiercely. Fortunately, Wang Zhenzhen often picked up eggs. After practicing it, he quickly dodged it.

   "Be careful, really, the brooding old hen is very angry, don't peck your hand."

   "Understood, it's fine."

Wang Zhenzhen turned around and gave a coy smile to his sister and brother-in-law, then slapped the chubby chicken on the head, and threatened fiercely, "If you dare to peck me again, I will let my brother-in-law kill you, and today I will eat spicy fried chicken!" chicken."

   Then he stretched out his hand to pinch the big flower chicken's mouth.

  Just showing off to these two beautiful big sisters, the old hen pecked at her hand, which is really shameful.

  (end of this chapter)