My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 68 Thief

Chen Ling looked into the wine box and saw five or six small quails shrunk inside, with black and yellow stripes, small black and shiny eyes, and a pointed mouth. They looked a bit like chickens, but they were smaller. Then two laps.

   "Hey, boy did you put the quail nest, where did you get it?"

   "From the straw piles outside the village!"

   Liu Ni'er replied with a smile, and then said to Xizi, "Xiko, take out yours too."

   "Uncle Fugui, I have a litter of rabbits inside, which I also caught from the wheat straw piles outside the village."

   The little girl also handed Chen Ling the wine box in her hand.

   was actually a few fleshy little rabbits that hadn't opened their eyes yet.

   "My dear, it's a quail and a rabbit. This wheat straw stack is really a place to hide treasures."

  Chen Ling smiled.

  The wheat straw in the village is piled up every year after the wheat is harvested and used to feed the animals or as firewood, but now that winter is over early, the grass is everywhere, and the animals are not short of this fodder, so they are piled up outside the village and left unattended.

  This kind of place, not only domestic chickens and ducks like to patronize, but also pheasants, hares, quails and hedgehogs, etc., also like to drill into it.

  It is now the fourth month of the lunar calendar, which is the peak season for wild animals to breed. At night, take a long bamboo pole to poke into the wheat straw stack, and it is really all kinds of things scurrying out.

   "Didn't you guys say you want to go to the movies at night? Why are you running around outside again?"

   At this time, Wang Susu washed the pots and pans and came out, turning on the lights in the yard.

   "I went late and didn't get a good seat. Now the roof, the wall and the trees are full of people. I can't see when I am on the bench and I can only listen to the sound outside..."

   Liu Nier sucked her nose and said sullenly.

  Because of the remote location, except for the county seat, there is no TV signal below the township.

   A movie in the village is not a small event.

   As long as the loudspeaker in the village shouts a movie, the whole village will immediately become a sensation, and if you don't eat, you have to go over and get a good seat first.

   If you can't occupy the front seat, you step on the bench, and if you can't, climb the house and the tree.

   Every time I play a movie, it's like fighting a war.

   "It turns out that there is a movie playing tonight, no wonder the school is so bright."

   When Chen Ling came back from the county seat, he found that there was light and noise there, but he didn't think much about it at the time, and thought it was Chen Erzhu tossing at home.

   Chen Erzhu's house is located in the northernmost part of the village. The house is built behind Chenwangzhuang Primary School, which is separated from the primary school by a large weir pond.

   As for Chenwangzhuang Primary School, there are no gates or walls.

   So every time a movie is played in the village, it is played in the school.

   "Uncle Fugui, Grandpa is going to the movies tonight. He asked me to tell you that the ox cart will be ready tomorrow night."

  Xiko said with a blushing little face at this time.

   "Okay, it's okay to be late for a day or two, uncle is not in a hurry recently."

  Chen Ling rubbed the little girl's head and smiled.

  The last time Chen Sangui promised to call him an ox cart, he also finished the work from Erzhu, and made it in the evening. It could have been done tonight.

   As a result, the movie was played in the village today, and it will be a day later.

   "Have you eaten two nights, and if you haven't, I'll cook two eggs for you."

  Wang Susu brought two little ponytails for the two little dolls and asked.

   "We have eaten Aunt Su Su, and before we came, we roasted a cauliflower snake by the pond."

   Liu Nier raised her head and said proudly.

   Chen Ling and Wang Susu were amused when they saw this. This kid can't watch a movie, but he will find fun for himself.

   "Uncle Fugui, please put the quails and rabbits away."

   "I said that the little bunny got lucky before he even opened his eyes, and he couldn't keep it alive. I was a little reluctant to let me take it home to feed the dog..."

   Liu Ni'er put the two wine boxes in front of Chen Ling, and while talking, squatting with Xizi next to the wine boxes, looking at the little quails and little rabbits inside.

   "So is your kid, can you feed the rabbit by sending it to me?"

   "Yes, why can't you? Aren't Heiwa and Xiaojin brought back by you just as soon as they could run? How strong they are now, the little rabbit must be fine, I believe you..."

   Good guy, this is justified.

  Chen Ling was speechless, so he had to take out the bamboo basket containing the ducklings, put the quail in it, and found the kennel where Heiwa and Xiaojin were children, and settled the little rabbit.

   The two little dolls were relieved.

   After playing happily for a while, he left with the kerosene lamp.

  …

   In the next few days, Chen Ling stayed at home honestly and did not run to the county town.

   Every day, he is not reading a book on a reclining chair in the yard, or he takes two dogs to the fields to herd cattle, or goes into the mountains with Wang Susu to pick up some medicinal materials.

  The days are leisurely and fulfilling.

   But this day, when Chen Ling was feeding the chickens after breakfast, he found a bad situation.

   The chicken coop has fewer eggs.

   And more than one missing.

   He used to collect eggs every two days, and two old hens could lay at least a dozen eggs.

  There is no doubt that this is the credit of those peanut branches and spinach in Dongtian.

   But today there are only two or three eggs in the coop.

   "Even if you hire thieves at home, you can't just steal eggs. This must be a good thing..."

  Chen Ling's face sank, it is impossible to say that Huangpizi stole it.

   Those two little creatures had drank the water from the Dongtian Stream. Like Heiwa and Xiaojin, they had opened their minds and understood human nature. They knew what was good and bad.

   Now he basically walks around the chicken coop, and even if he comes to the house, he does not dare to show his face in front of the chickens.

  Because Chen Ling warned them not to scare the old hens at home.

  The previous night when he came to steal chickens, he scared the two old hens so badly that they laid thin-skinned eggs for several days.

   "The two puppies haven't been out and ran wild in the past two days, and something can steal eggs quietly..."

   Chen Ling wondered, when he was at home, Heiwa and Xiaojin usually followed him closely, only Wang Susu dared to sneak out at home.

   He squatted outside the chicken coop and observed it carefully, the two old hens didn't seem to be frightened.

   So I got up and walked around the corner of the wall to see if there was any clues.

  As a result, he really found something after this turn.

   It was just not in the courtyard, but outside the courtyard wall, and found two empty eggshells.

   There is a small hole in the eggshell, as if it was bitten by something.

   "What's wrong, A Ling?"

   At this time, Wang Susu came from the alley with a thick stack of dark cyan cloth. He went to Cui Laizi's canteen to pull it, and wanted to make a pair of pants for Chen Ling.

   Seeing that he was crouching here, his expression was a little wrong, so he hurried over.

   "There are a lot fewer eggs at home. I turned around and found two empty egg shells here, and I don't know what's going on..."

  Chen Ling picked up the eggshell and showed it to Wang Susu.

  Wang Susu looked at the hole in the eggshell and her face changed, "This, this shouldn't be done by magpies, I've seen magpies fall in our yard these days."

   I don't know how to be a eunuch, and I didn't plan to. There are so many examples in front of me, so I definitely won't do anything to ruin my character. After all, I used to be a loyal reader of that so-and-so...

   (end of this chapter)