My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 70 Variants

   In the spring sunshine, Chen Ling brought two puppies to the edge of the reservoir, took off his shoes and stepped into the mud by the water.

   It's around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is mild, and the shallow water has almost become a crayfish paradise.

  Chen Ling caught a bamboo basket after a while.

  The reservoir is rich in nutrients and a lot of plankton, which not only floods the crayfish, but also creates their plump physique.

  This bamboo basket is about 30 jins small, and after Chen Ling pocketed it a few times, it was full.

   "Young generation, what do you do with that thing, it's not good to eat, and it's still sick when you feed it to chickens and ducks, it's useless."

   Not far away, an old man fishing saw him catching crayfish and shouted at him.

  Chen Ling glanced at the old man, looked at Yansheng, and then looked at the car parked under the dam tree, and knew that this was coming from a nearby village to fish.

   smiled and didn't explain much. He walked over and glanced at the cage next to the old man, "Master, how is the fish catch today?"

   "Don't mention it, the little fish is in a nest. It's been an hour, and I've been hit with two red tails, and I haven't seen a big one."

  The old man was sullen, "I want to say, this crayfish is a scourge, which has caused fewer and fewer big fish in the Curry in the past two years."

   Chen Ling laughed when he heard it, crayfish is indeed a scourge now, because people haven't figured out how to eat it, and it won't be certain in a few years.

   In later generations, crayfish is an extremely popular delicacy, and there are many people who make a fortune relying on crayfish.

  Although the harm is still relatively serious, it can only be said to be nothing compared to the famous Australian hare and the Asian carp that became Milliken's nightmare.

   "Uncle Fugui, Uncle Fugui, can you help me pick a few apricots?"

  Chen Ling picked up his shoes and walked up to the dam. He saw Chen Yuqiang's son, Xiao Sen, following a group of little dolls, surrounded by two puppies Heiwa and Xiaojin, running from not far away.

   "What are you doing picking that thing, it's not cooked, you can't eat it after picking it."

  There are quite a lot of miscellaneous trees on both sides of the reservoir dam. Willows, elms, and locust trees grow slantingly and scattered. There are two black dates and apricot trees growing close to the village entrance.

   When he is mature, he is very attractive.

   "I don't eat, I use it to play, zoom in on the car to pull the goods..."

   This kid laughed, holding a small shovel in one hand, a rope in the other, and a wooden cart.

   Just now Heiwa and Xiaojin were attracted by this little thing, and they ran after the little dolls' ass.

  Compared to Liu Nier and the others, the two puppies prefer to play with these four or five-year-old dolls. Perhaps because of their similar psychological ages, they both like to run around in various places in the village.

   "Okay, I'll pick some for you."

   "It was agreed in advance that no one would be allowed to eat it, you know, otherwise my stomach will hurt for a day."

   Chen Ling instructed, and gave the little dolls two handfuls of little green apricots from the branches.

   "Uncle Fugui, you are so kind!"

   "My grandmother said before that you were smitten with evil, and said that you let the little devil get on your body..."

  Chen Ling picked apricots for them, and the little doll complained.

   "Don't listen to your mother's nonsense, how dare a kid get on his uncle's body?"

   "Uncle is obviously a glutton. He only eats little dolls like you, with thin skin and tender meat, one bite at a time, and it tastes crunchy."

  Chen Ling said, rolled his eyes and stretched out his tongue to scare them.

   The little dolls were amused and laughed into a ball, how could they be afraid of him.

   In fact, the former Chen Ling was also liked by little dolls, and was proficient in climbing trees, catching fish, and stealing eggs.

   But, I can't get along well with my parents, elders, and daughter-in-law, because I'm afraid of being scolded. Once I listen to these nagging words, I feel annoyed and can't hold back my strange temper.

   is different from the little doll. If you don’t do business, you don’t have to think so much. It’s just for fun. It’s not annoying to play any number of tricks. The little doll naturally likes to play with him.

   "Uncle Fugui, I want to play pulling carrots!"

   A doll in open-crotch pants shouted with his arms raised and his little head raised.

  In the countryside, the game of pulling radishes is that adults hold the head of a child with both hands and pull it up. It is said that this can grow taller.

   But sometimes it will hurt the child if it is not done properly.

   "Don't pull it out, uncle's hands are full of mud, haven't washed yet."

  Chen Ling is now strong and strong. If a little baby is injured, I am afraid it will not be easy to explain.

   Then he told Komori: "You guys will come to the reservoir less in the future. The two of us are now building greenhouses in the west. If you accidentally fall into the water, no one will save you."

  After Liu Nier went to school, Xiao Mori became the big brother.

   "I know Uncle Fugui, and I won't come again."

   "Then can I go to your house to play, I want to see the little rabbit and the little quail..."

   "Okay, come on."

  So, Chen Ling went home with a bunch of dolls.

   When I got home, I put a large pot of water in a pressurized well, and put the whole bamboo basket into it to rinse.

  The little dolls squatted aside, watching a few bunnies and feeding them with weeds pulled from the road.

   After the bunny is born, what he sees when he opens his eyes is a human being, so he is not afraid to hide, let them watch, and he will not refuse the grass fed over him.

   "A Ling, is this shrimp really edible?"

  Wang Susu helped Chen Ling clean the crayfish, and couldn't help but asked suspiciously.

  The people in the village say that this stuff is very bitter, chickens and ducks are not eaten, and if it is delicious, they cannot be allowed to flood the reservoir.

   "Wait and see, I'll let you know about dinner."

  Chen Ling said with a smile.

   After washing twice, the lobster was fished into a clean tin bucket.

   As a result, just as the crayfish was half poured into the Tietong, Wang Susu exclaimed: "Hey, wait a minute, there are snakes, there are snakes in the basin!"

   said, and stretched out his hand to grab it.

  Chen Ling also looked down. It was two very small red snakes, which were attached to the edge of the water basin and mixed in the crayfish.

   "Huh? This doesn't seem to be a snake, but an eel."

  Wang Susu grabbed it in his hand, looked at it carefully, frowned slightly, and handed it to Chen Ling.

   The little dolls also ran over when they heard the sound, staring and watching curiously.

   "Well, this is the eel, but the color is different, I guess it is a variant."

  Chen Ling glanced at it and didn't care.

   These two eels are slender and slender like two red ropes, the red is new and bright, and their appearance looks like two small snakes that have just hatched, which is why the color is quite special.

   However, Chen Ling had eaten blood eels several times in Guangdong Province in his previous life, and was not surprised by the eels of this color.

   "It's too small, throw it in the water tank and keep it, and eat it when it's grown up."

  Chen Ling said casually.

   Picked up some crayfish, prepared seasonings such as aniseed, wild onion, wild garlic and pepper, and made a spicy crayfish in the yard.

  In the evening, when the rich fragrance wafted out, the little dolls were so greedy that they swallowed their saliva, and they didn't care about the hot soup, so they held a fragrant crayfish in each hand and went back to their respective houses.

   It wasn't until the moon was on the branch that Chen Ling and his wife wiped out most of the crayfish in the pot.

  Wang Susu sucked the soup on her fingers and praised: "A Ling, you are amazing, I didn't expect this shrimp to be so delicious."

   "Haha, didn't you listen to the old lady in the village? If I have a heart that can be divided into eight petals, I have to have seven petals for eating, drinking and having fun..."

   "I am self-taught about eating and playing."

   "Huh, that's their nonsense."

   Wang Susu snorted reluctantly.

Then he said: "I went to wash the pots and pans, and I'll go to the house to try on the newly made tops and trousers to see if they fit my body, and if there are any inappropriate places, I'll change them tomorrow, you're almost out of clothes. already."

  Chen Ling responded, patted his stomach, stood up, and carried the bucket to the backyard to feed the cows.

   By the way, I put two small red eels in the water tank in the backyard. Because they are too small, the fish caught from the cave are too fierce. Putting them together, these two small red eels are probably not enough to fit between their teeth.

  Chen Ling put it in a smaller water tank, and added some stream water and aquatic plants from the cave, so he didn't care anymore.

   When he arrived at the front yard, Wang Susu washed the pots and pans, took out the shirt and trousers he had prepared for him in the past few days, and let him try on them.

  Since the creation of Dongtian, he has grown a little taller and has become stronger and stronger, and the clothes he used to wear appear tight.

In addition, the two puppies always bit his trousers and played with him when they were young, but they didn't know that their teeth were sharp, and their trouser legs were bitten by two. Chen Ling's pants are not enough.

   So Wang Susu has been busy making new clothes for him recently.

   After changing his clothes, he looked in front of the mirror. The light blue top, navy blue trousers, his handsome white face, and his jet-black eyes, even if he looked carefully, he could not tell that he was a peasant at all.

   "It's been a bit white recently."

  Chen Ling secretly said in his heart that he used to have a healthy wheat-colored complexion, but now it has gradually become fairer. Coupled with his outstanding appearance, he looks a little bookish.

   In fact, it's not just him, Wang Susu's body has changed a lot, the skin is more supple and fairer, and the thin body is more plump and moving, if the clothes of this era are still conservative, it must be very obvious.

   "It fits very well. I will sew the edges of the clothes again tomorrow and I will be able to wear them."

   "Okay, take it off, take a shower..."

   "Let me draw a shoe after the bath. Your feet are a little wider, A-Ling."

  Wang Susu looked around him and nodded with satisfaction.

   "Okay, I'm going to boil hot water."

  Chen Ling nodded, then glanced at the mirror again, and secretly said: "No, this is too white, it's better to be darker and more masculine, let's get some sunshine in the future."

  The water was quickly boiled, and the young couple took a hot bath together, then turned off the lights and went to sleep.

   As for the drawing of the shoes…

   was forgotten for some reason.

  …

  The day should have remained calm and peaceful.

   But in the next few days, the peaceful life of Chen Ling and his wife was shattered.

   Unexpectedly, people came to visit the house one after another, mostly the parents of the little dolls. At first, Chen Ling thought it was for the crayfish, but he didn't expect to see the eel.

  The people in the village are actually very interested in the two red eels, which is really beyond his expectations.

   It won't be too early, because there is no draft...

   (end of this chapter)