My 1995 Small Farm

Chapter 713

After Chen Ling came out of Aunt Hongyu's house, she didn't wait for Zhenzhen to finish school, but drove the tractor back to the village.

 When we arrived at Wang Lixian's greenhouse in the east of the village, we unloaded a cart of bamboo poles.

 There are a lot of things piled up here now.

 But after Chen Ling realized that he had to put a lot of things in the greenhouse, he suddenly felt that these building materials were not enough.

 At first he didn’t think about how big the greenhouse would be.

 Now that it’s really about to start, I feel that the greenhouse is too small and the space is not enough.

After careful consideration, he felt that this kind of earthen greenhouse was not suitable for making it too big.

If the space is not enough, it is better to build a few more.

It's just a matter of making a few more trips to Wangba City and pulling two more carts of building materials.

He then talked about how he met his eldest cousin Zhao Wenpin in the county town.

He kept passing by them without even looking at the large piece of mud with hoof marks.

 Chen Ling responded, but secretly curled his lips inwardly.

Heiwa Xiaojin was not there at this time. He followed Ruirui who had finished eating and went to play in the backyard. Erhei ran around to deliver things to them.

He said: "I will cut some reeds before it is too late. In the morning, I saw that the wings of the wild geese have grown out. They are growing very fast. I have to build a shed for them quickly."

"You two don't have much money to save or spend, how can you do it all day long?"

 But what Chen Ling doesn’t know is…

 He listens to everything the adults say.

“Such a big footprint, almost catching up with that old pig spirit, it’s scary to look at.” Wang Cunye said.

Gao Xiulan quickly turned around and said, "Why not? Someone from your second sister-in-law's side met Muke in the past few years."

"This is not to scold you. Let's not talk about the money from salted eggs. There was another batch of fish fry just released yesterday. The money for these fish fry, the money shared by the cannery and the city's restaurants, is a lot of money. You have to remember it. Come down, whether you have money or not, you have to know your own financial situation.”

Ruirui, that brat, was eating the rice fed by Wang Susu while squinting his eyes to see Chen Ling's reaction.

 Chen Ling drove the tractor home, and everyone else at home happened to be there except Wang Qingzhong, who had returned to Fenglei Town.

“Susu, didn’t you keep accounts every day before? Lingzi was careless and didn’t care about anything. Why don’t you even keep accounts?”

 It is inevitable that I have to say a few words to Chen Ling about the use of money.

He had a lazy look on his face, licking his paws from time to time, as if he was not interested in the footprints.

Chen Ling didn't take it seriously: "When it's night, I'll take the dog and tiger out for a walk to see what's causing the trouble... I still don't believe there is a monster?"

After Chen Ling took it home, the family was really surprised.

Gao Xiulan explained.

 Chen Ling was grooming Ah Fu and Shou. When he heard everyone talking about himself, he quickly said: "I'll keep the accounts. I'll keep the accounts. I'll start keeping the accounts tonight."

 Since I had a baby at home, except for reading some medical stories, I have gradually forgotten about accounting.

 The whole family had no objections to Chen Ling secretly stuffing money into his family.

  In any case, the dogs and tigers at home have no reaction to this thing.

Erhei is also running around and working non-stop.

Otherwise, with hoof prints two or three circles larger than the mouth of a bowl, and no claws, it would definitely be a monster-level thing for them.

　　Then he quickly changed the subject: "By the way, I got a footprint back from that evil tofu shop, and I still threw it on the tractor..."

 A shovel for a while, a basket for a while, a gourd for a while...

Wang Susu felt wronged when she heard this: "Mom, I have three children to take care of, and I don't even get enough sleep. How can I take care of accounting!"

“You can keep the hair you combed from the tiger. There will definitely be people who want it and take it back to ward off evil spirits.”

Since the ground was not dry after the rain on the night of the accident, the hoof prints were preserved.

 In the past, every account, how much money was earned and how much money was spent, Wang Susu remembered clearly and carefully in the account book.

　　"The same goes for Ling Zi. Those who save some in the county or the city are not afraid of forgetting."

“Dad, Mom, there’s a saying that goes, you can’t put your eggs in one basket.”

Muke is also a kind of mountain spirit ghost. He will collect firewood in the mountains. If he meets someone walking at night and takes something from someone, he will put down a bundle of firewood in exchange. Mountain people think this is a kind person. Kind of monster.

 This hoof mark is caused by the soil being too soft and has been severely deformed.

"Stop doing this, save some money, and be aware of it. You are going to buy a house and open a shop in Bei'an after the Chinese New Year. Quickly calculate the account clearly, don't open a shop, the family has no money to spend."

 After saying that, while feeding Ruirui, he muttered in a low voice: "You are reluctant to talk about your son-in-law, but you are talking about me."

Chen Ling agreed repeatedly after hearing this.

 I made up my mind.

He went out and took out the two mud seals that he had thrown into the cave.

 On the other hand, Ah Fu and Ah Shou behaved very strangely.

"Let me go with you. Don't we need reeds for the greenhouse?" Wang Cunye stood up.

“No, dad, just rest. It’s cold and your legs can’t go into the water. Besides, I can work quickly.”

 Chen Ling waved his hand, pulled out the bullock cart, called for the little white cow and the little buffalo, then released the little green horse and headed for Laohewan.

Of course, when you go out, you won’t forget to put the two tigers into the mountains. Reeds dry quickly after the weather clears.

There were not many people in the village in the afternoon, and few villagers were outside. The gang from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and even Yu Qian and the others, were not seen wandering around.

 Chen Ling was a little surprised, and then continued to Laohewan.

It has been raining these past few days. There are no wild geese coming to eat the wheat seedlings in the wheat fields, and the wild goose droppings are naturally invisible.

Today, however, after the weather cleared up, Wang Wenchao and several young men began to pull nets at the foot of the mountain again, and began to catch rabbits.

 There are so many rabbits this year that it’s almost impossible to catch them all.

 At the beginning, we caught six to seven hundred rabbits in the west of the village in one afternoon.

 Chen Ling was shocked at the time, thinking that the farmland was full of rabbit holes, or that there were many rabbits living in one hole.

 He has only heard that a badger hole can house dozens of badgers.

I have never heard that wild rabbits, like domestic rabbits, can live in a nest of more than ten or twenty.

 I later found out that it was a special situation.

 Because at that time, the corn stalks were relatively high and there were more rabbits coming down the mountain.

 Now that it is a wheat field, there are obviously a lot less of them.

This is mainly because the dogs at home are too powerful. They patrol everywhere every day in search of food. Rabbits and pheasants have learned how to do it. There are fewer people going down the mountain, or they only dare to go down the mountain at a time when the dogs are not around.

 Rabbits and pheasants are abundant in the mountains this year, but they are not yet widespread.

 Those with signs of overpopulation are field mice and bamboo rats.

 Even if there are mountain civets, foxes, leopards and the like to catch them and eat them, it is difficult to have much effect.

  After all, they don’t catch these two types of small things every day.

As for field mice and bamboo rats, they give birth to many babies very quickly, and they dig their burrows very deep. When their numbers increase, they grow very quickly.

 Chen Ling had previously thought about taking the Weasel family out to do something in the evening.

Later on, when Erbaldy didn’t come back, they also left home and forgot about them.

“If it’s still sunny tomorrow, let’s put the fake geese made by Liu Nier and others in the wheat field and start attracting the geese.”

 Chen Ling thought to himself as he walked all the way to Laohewan. He also looked at the wheat seedlings in the wheat field, which were indeed growing vigorously.

 This must be taken care of.

Arrived at Laohewan, Chen Ling unloaded the ox cart and let the two buffaloes and the young green horse play by themselves. Then he picked up his sickle and walked towards the reed swamp.

He had just walked two steps when he found someone looking at him with a smile under a tree on the other side of the river: "When I just came here, I saw a tractor pulling bamboo poles. What? Now we are going to open a greenhouse tomorrow?"

“Huh? Brother Xian, are you cutting reeds here too?”

“Yeah, cut some reeds to make two nests for the dogs at home... Did you see when we came here that Wenchao and his gang all regard your rabbit net as a treasure?”

“Haha, let them play, I have no use leaving the net at home.”

Chen Ling said with a smile: "I thought about the greenhouse thing again today, and I always feel that two sheds are not enough. I have to build at least three, or two bigger ones."

 “Hahahaha, you, I knew it.”

Wang Lixian couldn't help laughing loudly: "You are going to do something. When you are not doing it, you can't think of it. If you want to do it, but when you think about it at the end, you will not make do with it at all. You have to do it. But that’s all you have to do is please yourself…”

Chen Ling said matter-of-factly: "That will definitely please my heart."

“Let’s do it, let’s do it, you can take up as much space as you want on my land!” Wang Lixian smiled and waved his hand.

Then he stood up and touched the sickle beside him: "Come on, I've rested for a while, and I'll cut the reeds with you."

"Walk."

The two were cutting reeds, and Wang Lixian also told him about the two strange things that had happened in the past two days.

 There is nothing much to say about the donkey-headed wolf.

You say this, I say that, guessing here and there, no one has seen it, and no one can tell what kind of monster it is.

There is not much difference from the legendary Gluttonous Ghost and Muke who have never seen their true appearance.

It is the incident involving Chen Baoshuan's aunt in Taoshugou. Wang Lizian said that he had heard of many similar incidents.

There was a family in the east of the county town. Since their first born was a twin of a boy and a girl, they didn’t want a daughter, so they threw her into the ditch in front of their door.

Later, the son grew up to eighteen years old. At that time, marriages were early in the countryside, and the son, who had always been healthy, died in the small ditch in front of the house on the day before the wedding.

 At that season, the water in the river was very shallow, just like a small stream. There was a shallow layer of water, and an adult could not drown even if he lay down in it.

 But the boy fell in and drowned.

Anyone who looked at the death state would have drowned.

Later, their parents told them that they had a dream the night before, and they dreamed that a child was crying at the door, but they didn't know it at the time.

 Now that I think about it, it must be the child I lost back then.

 There is resentment in my heart.

 Chen Ling smacked his lips after hearing this. Even though he was in the cave, he felt a little chill down his spine.

Of course, there are a lot of strange things like this in the countryside, many of which are very interesting. He once had the idea of ​​collecting them.

 Later, I found that some of them were unethical and unsuitable for dissemination and publication, so I left them alone.

 (End of this chapter)