My 1995 Small Farm

morning.

  The sun hasn't risen too high yet.

  The wide surface of Yamanakako Lake is full of water birds, playing and looking for food. The cool mountain wind blows, the bamboo forest rustles, and the water birds quack. It is a beautiful early autumn scene.

  Chen Ling, father and son, and a group of children from the village rowed a boat with two small barrels of fish, and quietly approached the reeds on the southeast bank of the mountain lake.

  There is a boat behind them, which is from the provincial TV station. After the filming is finished, they also come with them to watch the little red-crowned cranes.

   "Uncle Fugui, I saw it, I saw the little crane, hiding under the nest of the big crane's legs."

  Liu Nier has sharp eyes, and the other dolls are still lying on the side of the boat. When paddling in the lake, he has already seen a small red-crowned crane in its nest.

   "You can keep your voice down, the big red-crowned crane will come to peck you later, I can't take care of you."

  Chen Ling was pulling the collar of his brat's shirt at this time.

  Otherwise Ruirui is dishonest, always crawling around on the boat, looking around.

  He is not that interested in red-crowned cranes, but he also wants to paddle and play with Xiaowazi beside the boat.

   "Hey, keep your voice down, Uncle Fugui, have you seen that, it's in that direction."

  Liu Nier shrank her neck, lowered her voice, and pointed Chen Ling to look into the reeds.

   "I see, there are two baby cranes in this nest."

  Chen Ling's eyes are much better than those of these little monkeys, and he has already seen the situation of the red-crowned crane's nest, which is shaped like a half bowl.

  Soft fine thatch, clean and comfortable, the cracked eggshells have been carried outside the nest by the Great Red-crowned Crane.

  In the nest, there are two young red-crowned cranes that have just hatched. They are fluffy and look a bit like ducklings at first glance, and their whole body is yellowish brown.

   This is the protective color of small things, they hide in the reeds, it is difficult to distinguish clearly.

  If you don't look carefully, you can't see anything inside.

  Because they were too small, they could not stand for a long time. The two little red-crowned cranes snuggled up to the mother crane, looking pitiful. In fact, their small black eyes were sneaking at everyone.

  There is no vigilance in the eyes, no guard, some are just pure curiosity and ignorance.

   "Where is where, where is Xiaohe?"

  I heard that there were two little red-crowned cranes. The children who were playing in the water regained their spirits, got up and moved their little heads, looking for the location of the little cranes.

   "Wow, I saw it too, the little cranes are so pretty, I really want to take them home."

   "Keep your voice down, the red-crowned crane will startle the little crane after a while, and the red-crowned crane will move away. From now on, if you look at the crane again, you won't be able to see it anymore."

  Chen Ling shushed the brats, "Liu Nier, bring the small bucket containing the fish, we are going to start feeding the fish to the cranes."

  Red-crowned cranes eat fish and shrimp, and although the young red-crowned cranes have just hatched their shells, they also eat these things.

   "Uncle Rich."

  Chen Ling held Ruirui in one hand and it was inconvenient to take it, so Liu Nier brought the small bucket of fish from the stern to him.

  In the bucket are small fish such as loach, mountain catfish, and wheat ear fish that he specially caught.

   It is raised from the canals under the mountain.

  For red-crowned cranes, this is delicious food.

   "Okay, don't move around, I'll feed the cranes twice to see what's going on, let's feed them together again."

Although it was delicious, Chen Ling was also afraid that the red-crowned crane would be stimulated when it saw people approaching too much, so he put Rui Rui down carefully, and he squatted down slowly, then grabbed a handful of small fish from the small bucket, and sprinkled them on the reeds. past.

   Hurrah.

   A handful of small fish fell into the water.

  The red-crowned crane that was close to them first squawked and looked at them, then walked up to them with long legs and tried to eat two small fish.

   Once you eat it, you will know it is a good thing.

   Immediately, they quacked loudly and excitedly, and several big red-crowned cranes also stepped forward to fight for it.

   "Very well, they are not afraid, then we can feed them together."

  These red-crowned cranes have spent such a long time with people. People are kind to them and have never hurt them. They are not so vigilant and defensive towards people.

  Plus the bribe and temptation of food.

   Their friendliness to people has risen sharply, and they no longer resist people approaching.

  So Chen Ling's boat, and a boat from the province and Taiwan, the two boats slowly entered the reeds.

   Adults and children all grabbed the small fish to feed the red-crowned cranes.

  The big red-crowned cranes ate happily, and did not forget to take care of the little ones.

  Three families composed of six red-crowned cranes built three large nests, each with one or two smaller cranes.

  These baby cranes are fluffy and very cute.

  The fur color is orange and reddish. At first glance, it looks a bit like a duckling, but it has a long pointed mouth and long legs. It is not small and looks healthy.

  When the big red-crowned cranes came back from eating, they nestled next to the male and female cranes.

  When the mountain wind blows, the reeds shake and the reed flowers flutter. They are blown by the wind and their eyes are still a little bit open. The cute appearance is very interesting.

  At this time, the mother crane will feed the crushed loach, small fish, etc. to the young crane, looking very careful.

   "Wow, the little crane has eaten."

   "Uncle Fu Gui, please feed me some food, the cranes are not enough to eat."

   Generally speaking, there is no child who does not like to feed small animals.

  Seeing the red-crowned cranes feeding the baby cranes, and the cute baby cranes started to eat one by one, they were more excited than anyone else.

  Throw small fish and loach over there, and there will be cranes scrambling to eat them.

   There is really nothing more fun and enjoyable than this.

   "Yeah, the little crane here is the fastest eater. The crane finished eating after two feedings."

   "Catch some more fish, Uncle Fugui."

  The little boys pestered Chen Ling and began to act like a spoiled child, but Ruirui didn't care about it. He opened his dark eyes and looked at Xiaohe without blinking.

  It took a long time to raise his head: "Dad, catch!"

   "If you don't catch this, you will die if you catch this one. When you go back later, Dad will catch the little egret for you..."

  Chen Ling touched the back of his head with a smile, "Those egrets are all bad guys, if they dare to peck us, they should be caught and put in cages, okay?"

  The stinky boy is quite easy to be fooled at the moment, so he nodded vigorously when he heard the words, and said, "Okay."

  In fact, during the brooding period, both red-crowned cranes and egrets have a strong sense of territory.

  Once it feels threatened, it will launch a fierce attack on any uninvited guest who breaks into the territory.

   And a large group came up together, very united.

  Chen Ling and the others were attacked when they came over just now, but they hid quickly, and the people in Provincial Taiwan couldn't hide in time, and there was a lot of bird droppings on their heads and clothes.

   "Hahaha, your little one is really cute."

  The people in Provincial Taiwan laughed.

   "Heh, he's also a mischievous one."

  Chen Ling shook his head, and said to the children: "Okay, it's getting hot, let's come again in the afternoon, don't bother these cranes all the time, and feed them in the afternoon."

  The little dolls still listened to Chen Ling very much. After he said so, they all rowed to the shore with him.

   "Uncle Fugui, there are small gourds growing on your thatched hut."

   "Well, it's too small, it won't grow up. When the gourd was just fruiting, the gourd was still tender, and the mountain donkey was ruined a lot. Let's plant it again next year."

  Walking into the bamboo forest, people from Provincial Taiwan have recently guarded the red-crowned cranes in the thatched hut here.

   Food and drink are placed, mainly for drinking. Two tanks of clean water and a kettle for boiling water must be prepared.

  Although it is autumn, the weather is still very hot, and the afternoon sun makes people anxious.

   You can't survive without drinking water.

  The thatched cottage in the bamboo forest is very beautiful, surrounded by gourds, wild flowers, and wild grapes, all planted by Chen Ling.

  The small fenced yard has a small gate, and there are firewood piles piled up with dry bamboo inside.

   "By the way, there is no firewood down the mountain. I have nothing to do today. I just came to the mountain to collect firewood."

  The lake surface of Yamanakako is not covered, it is relatively hot, and it is still very cool in the mountains and forests.

   "Uncle, we will also help you collect firewood."

   "Okay, okay, there is a hatchet here, let's not go down the mountain, let's cut some bamboo first, and you can help me take Rui Ruiha."

  Chen Ling smiled, took out a black-painted hatchet from the bamboo house, and went to the bamboo forest to look for dead bamboo.

  In the bamboo forest, there are bamboos that die for various reasons every year, which are very common and there are a lot of them.

   "Dad, Huang Huang."

   Just found two withered yellow bamboos next to each other, which were quite big, when I heard my son shouting.

   Turning his head and looking, the brat was pointing at a place with a face full of excitement and silly joy.

  The children whispered: "Uncle Fugui, there is a bamboo mouse over there, carrying young bamboo into the hole."

   "Oh, it's the bamboo rat."

  Chen Ling suddenly realized that Ruirui is smart because he is smart, but he can't tell the difference between a mouse, a bamboo rat, and a weasel.

  You teach him the mouse bamboo mouse in person, but he can read it vaguely.

  If he meets these things himself.

   Unified call 'Huang Huang'.

  No way, since I was a child I played with weasels and hugged them on the bed, so I am naturally familiar with 'Huanghuang'.

  Even when Chen Ling caught the badgers back home, he called 'Huang Huang'.

  I think there is no difference.

   "Good guy, there is another nest here. I haven't seen so many bamboo rats in a few days."

  Chen Ling just turned around and was about to cut bamboo, when there was another bamboo rat in front of him with four small paws hugging a green bamboo and gnawing on it.

   This thing has sharp teeth and sharp mouth, stronger than mice, and it is a good hand at chewing bamboo.

   After a while, bamboo chips flew, and a section of tender bamboo more than half a foot long was gnawed off and dragged into the hole by it.

   "That's right, uncle, look, there are also holes here, why don't we dig bamboo rats, there are shovels in the thatched cottage."

  The little dolls start to make up their minds when they see something interesting.

   "Don't dig, let's finish collecting firewood first."

Chen Ling pointed to the bamboo mouse hole on the ground covered with thick dead bamboo leaves: "It takes more effort to dig this stuff than we dig field mice after autumn. I'll show you a new way to play some other day. I'll make sure you catch them every time." .”

   "Wow, really?"

   "Really, your little aunt is coming back soon. Before your summer vacation is over, I will take you to have fun."

   "Great, Uncle Fugui, you are really a kind person."

   Then the children shouted together: "Uncle Fugui is a good man, Uncle Fugui is a good man..."

   It made Chen Ling feel ashamed and headache.

   But one thing, Chen Ling really took it to heart.

  That is the fact that there are more and more bamboo rats on this mountain, and there is also a tendency to overflow.

   Bamboo rats are not as annoying as mice.

   But these little chubby guys are not all good, at least the damage to bamboo is much greater than other little beasts.

  If you don't care about it and let it develop, this beautiful bamboo forest may be destroyed by them.

   Needless to say, this is a new hidden danger.

   "The season of crayfish is almost out. When the time comes, call Sun Yanhong over and try to get some bamboo rats. I happened to figure out how to eat bamboo rats in a pot last winter."

   Chen Ling thought about it.

  …

  Crack, click.

  Chen Ling was chopping dead bamboo, while Liu Nier and the others took Ruirui, chasing bamboo rats, and pulling bamboos to find bamboo elephants.

  The so-called bamboo elephant is also called bamboo shoot worm.

   Similar to the black, ant-like weevils that grow in flour.

   It's just that bamboo elephants are much bigger than weevils, and about the size of cicada monkeys. They are red and hard, with carapaces like scarabs and longhorns.

  According to Professor Han, apart from the south of the Yangtze River, there are some of them in the western section of the Great Qinling Mountains.

  But no matter how you say it, in the eyes of the dolls, this is a delicious snack no less than a cicada and a grasshopper.

   Grabbed and grilled, the meat is very delicious.

  They took Ruirui to tinker with them, using thin bamboo branches, plus tough and slender grass stems, wearing bamboo elephants, making them buzz and fly, saying that they will eat after they are done playing, and they have a great time playing.

  Rui Rui was also very happy.

  Following these brothers, he didn't need Chen Ling to care about him at all.

  Chen Ling chopped a pile of bamboo and bundled them into bundles. He felt that these were still a little small, so he put them back to the bamboo house and continued to collect firewood on the west mountain.

  The kids also continued to follow.

   This time, instead of cutting bamboo, Chen Ling allowed them to collect firewood. Before, they were afraid that the bamboo would stab them and scratch their hands.

  They collect firewood on the mountain, and some villagers take tourists up the mountain to play and pick some early-maturing wild kiwi fruit, wild grapes, or figs and other wild fruits to eat.

   Also catch birds, catch rabbits and so on.

  There are indeed more things on the mountain this year.

  Not to mention common ones such as hares and hedgehogs, various sika deer and grass deer appear in groups.

  A group of outsiders exclaimed and chased after him.

   Had a great time.

Of course.

  Some have fun, and some have trouble.

  For example, after Wang Lihua and Wang Liguo, the two sons of Chen Ling's neighbor's second aunt Wang, returned to the village, they were envious of the fact that the villagers received tourists from other places to make money, so they joined in the fun.

   But they are too greedy.

   You need money for food, lodging, and play. When you get to the mountain, the two children who come to play pick up two little hedgehogs and they also charge money, and they ask for a lot.

   It **** people off all of a sudden, the husband and wife quarreled with their brothers, and almost got into a fight.

  The scene was very embarrassing.

  When Chen Ling brought firewood on his back and led a group of dolls over, other outsiders were also helping to speak, criticizing Wang Lihua and his brothers.

  As for the other villagers, they just watched the fun and didn't care about the two of them, and they didn't help to say a good word.

   Finally, I had to go down the mountain in despair.

   "Heh, these two **** are the same as Chunyuan and his father, Wang Laochou, they are not things, and they are also cheated when they come back, bah bah bah."

  A woman in the village cursed disdainfully at their retreating figures.

Chen Dazhi looked at Chen Ling: "It's better to be rich and honorable. You have a long-term view. You told the brigade in advance what rules we have to abide by. Otherwise, we will all be like them. They will get into the eyes of money and catch people. Who will dare to do it in the future? Come to us."

  Wang Laishun asked Chen Ling for his opinion at the beginning, and Chen Ling only said to pay attention to hygiene and not to slaughter customers, and didn't care about other things.

  Wang Jusheng and Wang Lixian's family were the first to receive outsiders. At that time, they were Zhou Weijun and his group. They naturally obeyed Chen Ling.

Chen Ling put down the firewood with a smile, and took the kettle to feed his son water: "Who sees the long-term but not the long-term, people, no one is a fool, you catch them to death, slaughter them like animals, this Who would be happy?"

  Some outsiders heard this and asked, "Then why is it so expensive to stay in your house? Isn't this also a rip-off?"

"Haha, my house, my house has the same price no matter what time it is. It hasn't changed since the farm was built. I don't care if people go or not. If there are fewer people, the price will be lowered, and if there are more people, the price will increase. No Ups and downs, arbitrary pricing, do you think this can be considered a rip-off?"

   "Uh, so to speak, it really doesn't seem to be counted." (End of this chapter)