My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 415 Thunder in the Cave

   "Pull it down, it's still drinking dog milk, it's a thankless effort, if you don't keep this kitty out after a full month, you'll die if you don't drink milk."

  Chen Ling shook his head, not wanting to waste that effort.

   Kittens and puppies, if they are taken away before the full moon, they will not be able to drink the breast milk of other cats and dogs, and they will easily die young.

  Sometimes even if you last for two or three months, you will die before you grow up.

  Furthermore, if there is a good-looking kitten that needs to be raised, Chen Ling can find a way to raise it himself, and there is no need to find dog milk to feed it.

   But what Wang Jusheng said is not bad. If cats are not guarded by people, they will indeed become more and more fierce and wild.

   After a long time, it will be no different from a wild cat.

   "Hey, I actually want to hug one from you, I've never seen a kitten bred from a mountain raccoon and a house cat..."

  Wang Jusheng rubbed his hands, and said with a little expectation on his face.

   Compared with many people who like dogs, he likes cats a little more.

   "Haha, okay, it's hard to say, when I grow up, I will block the nest, and I will carry two of them for you."

  My family wants to raise two cats, which is not a piece of cake.

   "Okay, but this big cat is fierce, don't scratch you."

   "It's okay, don't worry, they can't hurt me."

   "Brother Jusheng, you underestimate riches and honor too much. He can beat leopards, but is he afraid of this kitten?"

   It was another joke for everyone to catch Wang Jusheng.

  At this time, the apricots had already been picked and loaded into the cart, so Wang Lixian said, "There are too many birds in the orchard of Fugui's house. Look at how many apricots are pecked. At least a few big baskets are needed."

   "You have to think of a way to drive the birds away, or stretch the net, net birds. If there is too much net, they will not dare to come."

  The number of birds is the largest in this season. Many birds, such as the most common pulsatillas and magpies, especially like to harm sweet and juicy fruits.

   In the past, Chen Ling and the others caught the pulsatilla, that is, the white-headed bulbul, in a bamboo cage, even if they were fed some peaches, grapes, and persimmons, they could grow well. Even if the fruits were broken, they would eat them very happily.

   If left alone in the wild, it will be no less harmful than magpies.

  Wang Lixian felt that since Chen Ling transported these apricots to the city to sell, the large baskets of apricots were not small money.

   Chen Ling smiled when he heard the words: "Well, I have to set up the net. Tomorrow, I was talking about building a small water tower under the mountain wall to the west. While building it slowly, I will net the birds at the same time, without delay."

   Said it was netting birds, but in fact he wanted to net a few more wild pigeons, catch them home and train them, and raise a new batch.

  Otherwise, there are only a few, and they are paired and reproduced with each other. One generation is okay, and if there are more, they are all close relatives.

   Need to send some fresh blood to them.

   "Hey, by the way, Fugui, isn't your domestic kite very powerful? It's so exciting to use that to drive birds away." Wang Jusheng said.

   There was no need for Chen Ling to answer this question, Wang Lixian followed up and said, "No way, although kites can defeat birds, but there are so many birds in Fugui's orchard, no kite, no matter how powerful it is, can't take care of them."

  "...Not to mention there are magpies and old ravens. They are so fierce that they are not afraid of a flock of eagles, and kites will not be able to please them."

   Kites are scientifically called sparrowhawks, and they specialize in eating birds.

  Many birds have a deep-seated fear of the kite, a natural enemy.

As soon as they see a kite flying in the sky, they will immediately panic. Some timid birds will even be so frightened that they forget how to fly, chirping, flying wildly in the woods, sometimes under panic , crookedly bumped his head against a tree and killed him.

   But if there are timid ones, there will naturally be bold ones.

  In addition to common magpies and old birds, there is no shortage of people who dare to go head-to-head with kites.

  Even if the second bald son of Chen Ling's family is much more powerful than the usual kite.

  It can’t support such a large flock of birds.

   In the morning and evening, there are tens of thousands of them every time they fly and land.

"Brother Xian said that my second bald man caught birds every day for a while, and hung them all over the trees, but he frightened the birds. But after a few days, he became the same again, with too many birds , the second bald man can't do anything about it."

Chen Ling nodded, seeing how everyone was sweating profusely after finishing their work, he greeted: "Brother Xian, Brother Jusheng, take everyone to wash and cool off, let's get ready for lunch, I can clean up here myself. "

   "No, let's go to the west spring to wash. You can wash your face and drink water. It's very good."

At this time, the water in the mountains is good, and it is hot in summer. When I get home, I directly pick up the water ladle, scoop a ladle of water from the water tank, and drink it. It is the same outside. Drink, cool and comfortable.

   Seeing this, Chen Ling put away the bamboo basket and the large scale, and called the driver of the transport truck to come over, and we will have lunch at the farm together later.

  Lunch, there are many people, but the farm is very cool, and you won’t feel hot when you eat hot meals in summer.

So these women and men are willing to stay for a while, you say a word, I say a word, keep gagging, it's nothing more than Wu Song fighting a tiger, nothing new, but the conversation is not new, but the atmosphere is very active, making fun of Chen The young couple will go to play with Ruirui later.

  According to their own words, this year they live a particularly hopeful life. They are happy every day, full of energy, and have nothing to worry about.

   Now that the wheat fields have been watered, they are looking forward to the Dragon Boat Festival and the dragon boat race.

  These young people are still at an irrelevant age.

   I don’t worry too much about the busy farming. Some people ask Chen Ling if he needs help in repairing the water tower? Just take care of the food.

  Chen Ling said it was just a small water tower, and it was too easy to make, so he declined.

  After the people left that afternoon, he drove the tractor and pulled back the idle bluestone at the entrance of the village, planning to start construction tomorrow.

   This kind of trivial matter does not need too many people to help, just ask Wang Lixian to give the staff how to build it.

   Pulling the blue stone back, Chen Ling wanted to go to the mountain for a while, but the two alligators were placed in the mountain lake, and there has been no movement so far.

   It seems to have disappeared.

   Let the dog sniff it, and it is difficult to find it across a large lake.

  But just as he walked up the mountain, he suddenly remembered that a jackal had been thrown into the cave and left alone.

  So with a thought, he entered the cave.

  Dongtian now has the sun and the moon, the sun rises and the moon sets, day and night, and there are four distinct seasons.

   It is no longer the original four seasons like spring.

  And the seasons also change synchronously with the outside world.

   Therefore, I entered the cave, which is also summer.

   At this time, it was raining heavily inside the cave, and the sky was dark.

  As soon as Chen Ling came in, he was drenched in water.

   "I'll go, if it wasn't for a sudden thought, I wouldn't have seen this wonderful scene. This thunderstorm is a bit more spectacular than the one outside..." Chen Ling thought, and the rain on his body dried up automatically.

  Looking at the sky of lightning and thunder, the bright lightning spread everywhere in the sky like a spider web, and the sound of crackling thunder rang in my ears.

   I don’t know if the inside of the cave is too small compared to the outside world.

   After Chen Ling, the master of the cave, came in, his senses improved greatly.

   Or maybe both.

   The thunder and lightning that covered most of the sky were all in Chen Ling's eyes.

  Golden, bright silver, white with purple...

  Thunder and lightning all over the sky are like dragons flying and phoenixes dancing, and the pen is flying like a dragon and snake, shuttling and slashing across the rain curtain.

  It is more beautiful and spectacular than a grand firework.

   Chen Ling became obsessed with it for a while.

  I just hate that I don’t have a good camera at hand, so I can’t take pictures of this wonderful scene.

until…

   "Boom—"

   "Kachacha—"

  After the thunder, there was a silver-white lightning in the distance, and it shot down directly.

   Slashed in a tall and dense forest.

   With a bang, a fire ignited in the heavy rain, which shocked the birds and small animals hiding in the forest to tremble.

  As the owner of the cave, Chen Ling also heard the hoarse cry of the broken-tailed leopard on Leopard Mountain, and the grunting and chirping of jackals.

   But now he has no time to look.

   With a movement of his body, he came to the place where the lightning struck.

In front of him was a big tree with the thickness of four or five people's arms. It was split in half by lightning. One half fell obliquely on the ground, revealing a slightly pink trunk. The other half of the trunk caught fire, and the flame fluttered and flickered in the wind and rain. , burning tenaciously, slowly burning the trunk into scorched black...

   Chen Ling was dumbfounded by this scene: "My boy, this is a piece of lightning strike wood. I have seen a lot of lightning strike wood before, and this is the first time I have witnessed the whole process alive at the scene."

   Take another look at what kind of tree is that big tree? Not peach trees, not jujube trees...

   It still fell on the original unknown tree species in the cave.

  Chen Ling stretched out his hand and pressed it, but the wood was very hard and dense, "Good thing, when there is a thunderstorm in a while, I will take it out and make an amulet or something for Susu and the child to wear."

   "This trip is really the right one."

  Chen Ling watched the thunder fire on the big tree gradually go out in the rain, then moved it to the front of the hut with a wave of his hand, and placed it obliquely under the eaves.

  It was rare to see rain in the cave, and he was reluctant to let it stop.

   Then he clapped his hands and walked to the place where Jackal was.

It didn't run too far, but it made a thick grass nest under a lush vine near the big lake formed by the previous ponds. The vines grow here, and a vine grows naturally like a banyan tree. , climbing everywhere, intricate, like a natural grape trellis.

  The leaves of the grapes are closely interacted with each other, and the effect of sheltering from the rain is very good.

  The jackal hid among the intricate vines below the roots of the grapes, and made a nest of grass leaves and bird feathers.

   Although the jackal is similar in habit to the hyena, its ability is not as good as that of the hyena. It does not know how to dig a hole to make a nest by itself.

   will only pick up the caves and earth caves left by people, and use them for simple expansion.

At this time, the jackal realized that Chen Ling was coming, and immediately fell down on the ground, pouted its buttocks a little later to gather strength, and then raised its head and yelled, with a glint in its eyes, it slammed into the gap between the grape roots out.

  Such a small gap, such a short distance, but the jackal was able to jump more than half a meter off the ground at once, and bit Chen Ling's throat fiercely.

  As soon as they met each other, the nature of jackals was fully exposed.

   Vicious, bold, cruel.

  When it comes to one-on-one, don't hesitate to come up and kill directly.

  Unfortunately, this is inside the Sun Moon Cave.

   This is Chen Ling's home court.

   With a light wave of his hand, this red-haired, fox-like dog floated in mid-air, unable to move.

   Only a pair of greenish-yellow eyes remained. Although he was frightened, he still looked fiercely at Chen Ling in front of him, as if he would deliver a fatal blow when he saw the right opportunity.

   "Sure enough, it's fierce enough. Let's stay here honestly in the future. When will I go to the mountains some other day and catch a few jackals for you to keep company with. I'll give you a piece of jackal protection..."

   Jackals were much easier to catch than leopards. Chen Ling wanted to see if jackals and domestic dogs could reproduce if he had time.

  Can jackals and wolves have offspring?

   It is said that Hutouhuang has the genes of jackals. I don't know if it is true or not. He just wants to experiment when he has nothing to do.

   After letting go of the jackal, Chen Ling went to look at the broken-tailed leopard again. Seeing that it was in good condition, he even made a leopard cave for himself on the leopard mountain before leaving satisfied.

  The thunderstorm in the cave has not stopped, but the sky outside is clear, and the afternoon sun has become vicious.

  Chen Ling kept the incident of the lightning hitting the wood in his heart.

  Go down the mountain and return to the farm, find out two bird nets, and prop them up along the outer edge of the orchard.

These two nets were newly bought from the city. The meshes are slightly larger. Each net stretches 20 meters horizontally. They are specially aimed at big birds. Wild pigeons, magpies, etc. fly over in groups, and they can't break free when they hit them. It doesn't open, but the bird can fly away when it hits the net.

   Some skinny sparrows and little swallows have no problem slipping away.

  Actually, the bird net bought before can also be used, because the bird net is resistant to storage, and it is not a problem to be exposed to sunlight, and it will not age quickly.

   But the previous mesh is too small, it is easy to hurt the bird.

  It's okay to hurt a harmful bird, but Chen Ling is still very sorry for hurting a beneficial bird.

  So I changed two new nets to net wild pigeons, and the previous ones are not very useful.

  After setting up the bird net, Chen Ling and the old man Weng and his son-in-law cleaned up the weeds, leaves, wild vegetables and other debris around the spring.

   Prepare for the construction of a small water tower tomorrow.

   Weng and his son-in-law chatted while working.

  Suddenly there was the sound of a car engine and the sound of a whistle, causing the dogs in the farm to bark.

  Hiding in the wheat field, a group of birds, big and small, standing and pecking the wheat with their paws on the ears of wheat were also startled and soared into the air.

  Boom boom boom, more than half of them hit the net.

  Seeing this scene, several cars stopped in a hurry, and men, women and children in twos and threes got out of the cars and came to the bird net, watching the excitement with strange faces.

  Among them, a short and slender young man was the most eye-catching. After jumping out of the car in a hurry with a big red-haired dog, he yelled loudly.

"Okay, Fugui, there are still two bird nets here, come and see the birds hanging on the nets, you have to thank us very much, when our car comes, the birds eating the crops in the wheat field are flying around, all hit the net."

  Chen Ling, Weng and his son-in-law saw that it was Shan Mao and his family who had come.

   hurriedly greeted him.

Before saying hello, Shan Mao's father grabbed Chen Ling's hand: "Xiao Chen, come and see, what kind of bird is this bird? "

  (end of this chapter)