My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 445 The turtle in the melon field

  Two days passed quickly.

  Chen Ling drove a tractor to transport the family's wheat to the grain station for sale in the past two days.

   At the same time, the news that his family's wheat production was much higher than others' in the past two days also spread.

  Many people wait for their wheat seeds to be planted after autumn.

   This naturally suits Chen Ling's wishes.

   Then I was preparing to take my wife and children to the provincial capital. This time I had to have fun for two days.

  …

evening.

  The mountain breeze blows away the heat of the day, and the weather is much cooler.

  In the dim sky, countless birds flew back to the forest one after another, with low chirping and the sound of flapping wings.

   "Dad, look~"

Ruirui walked over with short legs, and brought two oversized dogs with him, and ran over quickly, holding his two small hands tightly, showing him a small gap, in which there was green fluorescent light flashing and twinkling. .

   "Did you catch a firefly?"

  Chen Ling put down the fishing net in his hand, looked between his hands, and said with a smile: "Okay, I caught so many, it's really amazing, as expected of my son."

  The little guy can already understand some compliments, and when he hears this, he smiles and shows his small white teeth, proud and a little shy.

   "Let's go, I'll put it in a bottle for you and hang it on the bedside, it will be bright at night, okay?"

  Chen Ling stroked his little head.

  Rui Rui's eyes suddenly became bright when he heard it, and he nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes."

   "You father and son are really..."

  Wang Susu was pickling salted eggs beside her, curled her lips, and scolded: "Ruirui, that bug stinks very badly. Your hands will also smell bad after a while. You won't be able to eat anymore. Let it go."

   The little guy frowned suddenly, ran up to her, and shouted: "Mom, bottle paper~"

   means put in a bottle, not smelly.

  Wang Susu naturally understood what this brat meant.

   I don’t know how he can turn his head so fast.

   "Okay, okay, put it in a bottle, remember, don't let it out to play, if you dare to put it on the bed to play, see if I won't beat you up?"

  Wang Susu pretended to be fierce, and said in a stern tone.

   Don't blame her for this.

  In fact, this stinky boy Ruirui played too wildly. He caught snails, grasshoppers, old shoulder poles, and even snails and small fish in the water, and hid them in the small pockets of his clothes.

   At night, they are brought to the crib to play.

  For example, the old shoulder pole is dead and dry, but he still plays with it and tucks it under the pillow.

  Wang Susu didn't pay attention to this point before, but since he knew it, he would take out his pocket every day before going to bed.

  Thinking of this, Wang Susu became angry and glared at Chen Ling with bulging eyes. It was because of his father who taught him well. He played like this since he was a child, and he didn't know how to grow up.

  Seeing her son with his head up, his mouth pouted, and his innocent eyes looking at her.

  Wang Susu's heart softened, and he patted his little head: "Go, let your father put it in a bottle for you. We have canning bottles at home. Twist it firmly, so you can't escape."

   The little guy immediately became happy, turned around and ran to Chen Ling, grabbed his trouser legs and walked upstairs.

   "See if you are in a hurry. The canning jar your mother said is too big. I'll find you a small glass jar."

  Chen Ling picked up the little guy, carried it on his shoulder, then went upstairs and found a small bottle from the room that was slightly smaller than the ink bottle, removed the cap, and covered the mouth of the bottle with a rubber band and paper.

   and hung on the corner of his cot.

  Pull out the light.

  The few fireflies in the small bottle glow faintly, which is very beautiful.

   After seeing it, Ruirui happily lay beside the bed, her eyes widened, and she pressed her face close to her to look.

   "Hee hee, Dad~"

   "Well, Dad saw it, it looks very good."

  When he heard it, he got up, ran to the door, and shouted downstairs: "Mom~, Mom~"

  I want Wang Susu to watch it too.

   After a while, Wang Zhenzhen and Wang Siyi came back, and he went to ask them to come and see.

   Wang Zhenzhen is naturally not very curious about fireflies, and he has long been tired of playing with them.

   But Wang Siyi saw this, and thought about catching a few and putting them in bottles to play with.

   "Come down quickly, it's time to eat, Ah Ling, you take Rui Rui to wash your hands, and you take the dog to catch bugs all day long, it stinks."

  Hearing Wang Susu's shout, Wang Zhenzhen whispered furtively, "Hey, my sister speaks like our mother now."

  Chen Ling chuckled: "It's best not to let your sister hear what you said, or you won't be allowed to go to the zoo."

  Wang Zhenzhen immediately shut his mouth and kept his eyes fixed, pretending that he didn't speak just now.

   It happens that she will spend the weekend two days after tomorrow.

   Chen Ling and Wang Susu discussed it. The little girl hasn't gone out to play much, so let's take her out for a while.

  Wang Zhenzhen knew to let her go with her, and she was too happy to go to class these two days.

  everyone said to go to the zoo to see a big tiger, showing off.

   It made everyone in the village and school know about it.

   I am so envious of Xiaowazi.

  As for her, she didn't know what she promised, but she received a lot of snacks anyway.

   Gao Xiulan felt helpless for a while.

  It is said that the youngest daughter and the eldest daughter are not like sisters.

  This temperament is more like Chen Ling's younger sister.

   It made Chen Ling feel aggrieved to hear that. He was not so naughty when he was a child.

   "Sister Siyi, are you really not going to play with us?"

   "No, I have to go home and have a look. I came out after the Chinese New Year, and I haven't gone back yet."

  Wang Siyi looked at the life of Chen Ling and his family, and felt a little homesick.

  Although she hasn't had enough fun here, she still has work in the second half of the year, so she has to leave.

  …

   One month after the wheat harvest.

  It is lively at night.

  Those who enjoy the shade, those who set up hay sheds in the wheat threshing field to watch the wheat, and those who watch the melons in the melon fields.

   There are also children who light torches and run around with flashlights to the water's edge to put fish cages and dig out bird nests.

   Today, after dinner at Chen Ling's family, they also wandered out.

  A family of three, with Wang Zhenzhen and Wang Siyi, walked towards the reservoir with two small mesh fishing nets.

  The moonlight is beautiful tonight.

  After harvesting the wheat, the field with only stubble left is clearly illuminated by the moon, with fireflies flying everywhere.

  Wang Zhenzhen, this dishonest girl, doesn't walk well, and goes to the wheat field specially, crunching the stubble.

  Seeing this, Ruirui also rode Heiwa and rushed inside to join in the fun. He was chasing fireflies, but he shocked the wild birds and animals that came out to hunt wild food at night and jumped around.

  The night wind blows and it is very cool.

  Many young men, after finishing their work at Zhao Yubao's side, gathered in the threshing ground to chat after eating.

  Seeing Chen Ling's family approaching, they laughed and greeted them.

   "Really, isn't it going to see the big tiger tomorrow? Why don't you go back and sleep well, and be careful that you won't wake up tomorrow if you doze off. If you oversleep, your brother-in-law won't wait for you."

   "Hmph, I'm not afraid, I won't sleep tonight, I'll sleep on the way."

  The little girl's words were exchanged for a burst of laughter. She didn't recognize anyone, and the villagers liked to tease her very much.

   "Fugui heard that your wheat will cost one thousand catties per mu this year, right?"

   "Haha, almost, almost."

   "Then after this autumn, we have to change some wheat seeds for us."

   "It's hard to say, there is a lot of wheat left at home."

  Walking all the way to the reservoir, after a while, a few small figures with torches whispered to meet them.

   It's Liu Nier.

   "Hey, Uncle Fugui, Aunt Susu, you have come out too."

   "Yeah, what did you guys do?"

   "We went to the reservoir to catch the little Macks. This year, the Macks are much older and there are more eggs."

   "Yeah, yeah, we thought you were going out to see the big tiger tomorrow, so we didn't go out to play with little aunt."

  Wang Zhenzhen heard this, and hurried forward, "Let me see how many pups you have caught."

  Magazi is a kind of bird.

  Like to tie reed leaves together to make nests in the floating mid-air.

This season they are in the breeding season, and the eggs and young birds they lay are one of the trophies of the little ones. When they go to catch fish or put fish cages at night, the reeds are often filled with the cheerful and frolicking sounds of their partners. It's just digging out a bird's nest.

   Chen Ling often did it when he was a child.

   Later, when I grew up, I realized that Maghazi was called Weiying.

   "Hehe, we picked up two birds' eggs from each Mahazi's nest, and we picked up a basket, maybe a hundred... But the little Mahazi caught a few and went back to raise them for play."

   "Little aunt, what are you going to do?"

   "Let's go catch fish, and put in two more cages, have you got out of the cages yet?"

   "Not in the past few days. My mother said that the cage is not allowed in the reservoir. There is a turtle prince there. Let's go to Laohewan."

   "Yes, yes, little aunt, let's go to Laohewan to catch fish in the future."

   "Okay, go to Laohewan, then we will also go to Laohewan later, and go to the melon patch of Jusheng's brother's house to eat watermelon, haha."

  They yelled at one another, and soon the shouts of adults came from the village, and they waved and scattered with torches.

  Seeing this, Wang Susu asked, "Then shall we go to Laohewan or to the reservoir?"

   "Laohewan is Laohewan. I happened to go to Brother Jusheng's melon field to have a look and bring them watermelons to eat."

   Chen Ling laughed.

   "Brother Ling, is that the family that delivered the watermelon to the farm before?" Wang Siyi asked.

   "Yes, it's their house..."

  During the Dragon Boat Festival, after Little Sheep delivered the beef, Wang Jusheng sent another donkey cart of watermelons.

   I am afraid that there will be too many people coming and going in their house, and those watermelons will not be enough to eat.

  Chen Ling was not too polite.

  This year, the village earns more money growing melons than wheat.

  The main reason is that there are many people who come to visit during the Dragon Boat Festival. Many people regard the melon fields as picking gardens, and go to pick watermelons in groups. They pick watermelons in the melon fields by themselves.

  Some broke open on the spot, and sat directly by the river to eat, which was very pleasant.

  This saves them from having to sell it themselves and have to work hard to transport it out, so that they can make money in the melon fields, which is very worry-free.

   But even so, each family still has less than half of the watermelons that have not been sold.

  It is mainly tourists who pick and choose the remaining watermelons.

   Either he didn't grow up, or his appearance was not good, and he looked too ugly.

   Such things, everyone is reluctant to leave them in the ground and let them rot.

  So I still go to the melon field every night to see watermelons.

   Waited for a while and started selling.

  Chen Ling and the others left the village and just walked towards the small dirt road leading to Laohewan.

  There were dogs barking in the melon fields in the distance, and some people were holding torches and dangling in the melon fields.

   I don't know what I'm doing.

  But soon, a black soil dog ran over and wagged its tail at them.

   Moaned at Hei Wa again, vigorously shaking her buttocks and coming forward.

   Chen Ling took a look and recognized that it was Wang Laishun's dog. Needless to say, Wang Jusheng must be in the melon field.

  Other dogs seem to be chained, but this dog runs back and forth.

   Go a little further.

  Wang Jusheng's voice came over.

   Listen carefully, Wang Xuecheng from Wang Jukun's family, and Wang Wenchao from Ermaolu's family are also there.

   "Brother Jusheng, what are you doing? You are yelling, you won't steal melons, right?"

   "Ah? It's rich, come on, come on, we're catching turtles, there are a lot of turtles running in the melon fields at night..."

   Wang Jusheng's excited voice came.

   "What's so good about catching turtles? You might as well put a few beard cages to catch old turtles."

   Chen Ling responded.

   "Uncle Fugui, it's not an ordinary tortoise, it's a wheat field tortoise. The kind of tortoise we caught in the wheat field when we were young has reappeared this year. There are many of them."

  Wang Wenchao is also shouting.

   "I'm going, there's a crop turtle again?"

  Chen Ling was taken aback for a moment, then ran over in surprise.

   I caught turtles in the wheat field when I was a child, but my memory is still fresh.

  Unfortunately, due to the use of pesticides in recent years, I haven't seen it for a long time.

When he ran to the front, Wang Jusheng and the other three greeted him with smiles, and Wang Wenchao even held a torch in one hand and a foreign iron bucket in the other to show off: "Look at Fugui, look at this, the first thing is to crawl Entering Uncle Jusheng's thatched shed, there is a yellow crooked print on the back shell."

   "What? Is there still a print?"

There are words on the back of the turtle, which is rare. Chen Ling looked into the bucket by the light of the torch, and saw a turtle with a bowl-sized mouth. On the dark brown shell, there was a slanting yellow mark. distortion.

   "Oh, I thought there was a word for it. It's like the Arabic numeral '7' at most. Other characters are unreliable, let alone Chinese characters. It has nothing to do with it."

  Chen Ling thought that there were some complicated graphic characters on it, and made a fuss.

Seeing this, Wang Jusheng smiled and said: "Hahaha, let me tell you, I will ask you to exchange money after I have finished my studies, saying that you like this kind of rare stuff...I said this is definitely not good, it is worse than the red eel you caught two years ago If it’s far away, you’ll definitely miss it.”

  Wang Wenchao and Wang Xuecheng laughed.

  Chen Ling's heart suddenly moved, and he said in a joking tone: "You don't like it, let me tell you, you should keep this brother Guijusheng, maybe you can really sell it for money in the future."

   "Why don't you keep it, you can take it back and let Ruirui play with it."

  Wang Jusheng saw Ruirui riding a dog and ran over with Wang Zhenzhen, and said with a smile: "Ruirui, come quickly, look at Uncle caught a turtle for you, do you want it?"

  The big one and the young one happily came to see Wang Jusheng.

  Chen Ling can't talk to Wang Jusheng now...

I walked to the side, turned on the flashlight, and stood on the ridge of the field talking with Wang Wenchao. I looked into the melon field and saw that there were indeed turtles crawling in the melon field, but few people said that the number was exaggerated. to that extent.

  (end of this chapter)