Chen Ling originally thought that this matter would be over, but the next day on the 16th day of the fifth lunar month, Chen Guoping came to his home with his sister-in-law Xiufen and gave them two plates of fruit offerings, saying that they had been on the table since the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

, until May 15th, gods and Buddhas will be full of blessings after enjoying it, it is a good thing.

Not to mention, I don’t know if it was for psychological reasons, but Chen Ling tasted two of them, and they were indeed sweeter than ordinary fruits.

After delivering the fruits, I chatted with the two elders in the house for a while. Since the village doctor from another village was coming to Chenwangzhuang today, Chen Guoping had to go to the clinic to pick up the doctor, so he didn't stay any longer.

But when Chen Ling and his wife sent them out, by chance, a small gray thing fell from the tree. Sister Xiufen was shocked when she saw what it was: "Yellow"

Great Immortal!"

In fact, it is a yellow-skinned cub. When it is first born, it is covered with black hair, and then the color gradually becomes lighter and lighter. When it is one month old, it is almost the same color as a mouse, gray-brown, and it will become darker when it grows older.

Slowly turns into light yellow and brown.

Sister-in-law Xiufen was obviously familiar with this thing. She recognized it the first time she saw it. Suddenly, a chubby adult yellow-skin ran down from the tree. It was very fast. It picked up the cub that fell on the ground and swished it.

Jumped up to the treetops.

A few people looked up and saw two adult yellow cats standing on the thick trunk of the tree, with three little yellow cats staring down at them quietly with their small black beady eyes.

"Good fellow, there is a whole nest of yellow skinned chickens living there. I don't know where the holes were made. You should be careful, Fugui, and watch the chickens and ducks at home. Don't let this thing harm you."

Chen Guoping raised his head and looked at it in surprise, and couldn't help but remind him.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, she was slapped on the arm by Sister Xiufen, and then she saw the old lady bowing to the yellow men on the tree several times, closing her eyes and muttering a few words silently, probably saying something unintentionally offensive.

Something like that.

Seeing this, Chen Guoping shook his head helplessly, smiled silently at Chen Ling and Wang Susu, and walked away with his hands behind his back.

After Sister-in-law Xiufen finished talking and left, Wang Susu said worriedly: "Why are these yellow-skinned chickens here again? Why don't we go to the village fair tomorrow and sell the chickens, so as to prevent them from entering our house and harming the chickens and ducks.

If it is bitten to death, it will be hard to sell."

"My silly wife, how can a chicken or duck sell its eggs as soon as they are laid?"

Chen Ling shook his head and smiled when he heard this, and said to Wang Susu: "Don't worry, nothing has happened in the past two months, and there will definitely be nothing in the future. Our chickens are running outside during the day, and fly to sleep in the trees at night.

, Our dog is not a decoration, Huangpizi dare not come in."

"If it doesn't work, I'll lay two more wire meshes in the duck pen. The ducks will drive in at night and don't need to worry about it."

Chen Ling built a duck pen a few days ago. After all, his ducks are better than Chen Yingqiang's. Not only are they very fat, but they have started laying eggs in the past two days. If they still keep letting them go to the chicken coop like before

Running is not a problem.

In the past, because the weather was getting warmer, the chickens at home generally didn't go to the chicken coop except for laying eggs or feeding. They would fly directly to the trees when they slept at night. In this case, it was okay for the ducks to live in it at night, but starting

After laying the eggs, you can no longer mix them. It is better to build a new duck pen.

In fact, not only ducks lay eggs, but the spring chicks are also growing up and laying eggs one after another. Even quails don’t know when they will lay eggs. However, unlike chickens and ducks, quails each lay one egg every day.

It's almost two months old now. It's an adult quail. It's normal for quails to lay eggs. Moreover, quails have a short growth period. They will lay eggs after they have six or seven eggs in a nest.

But the chickens and ducks at home have only lasted for more than four months from the beginning of spring to now.

The growth cycle of a native chicken is as fast as about half a year, and can grow to about five or six kilograms, and as slowly as one year. A hen can grow to almost six kilograms, even if it is very fat, and big roosters rarely grow.

When weighing more than ten kilograms, ducks look fatter than chickens. In fact, they weigh only ten kilograms at most when they grow up, which is not much different from native chickens. Villagers raise chickens and ducks in spring and kill some during the New Year and festivals.

Eat them and wait until the New Year to sell them, but only a few egg-laying ones will be left.

Grain is rarely fed during this period, except in winter, when at best some bran is fed, or sweet potato dregs mixed with cornmeal are fed. In other seasons, they are released, where insects, grass seeds, and sediment are eaten all over the mountains and plains...

…

If raised in a free range like this, the growth cycle is still relatively long, which is incomparable with the fast-growing broiler chicken and duck that can be produced in thirty or forty days in later generations.

But in rural areas, Chen Ling's chickens and ducks lay eggs relatively quickly, and double yolks often appear, which surprises Wang Susu every time, so Wang Susu is reluctant to sell them at this time.

Chen Ling still couldn't explain Huang Pizi to her, so he had to use other methods to dispel her doubts.

However, within two days, Wang Susu was no longer worried.

Because the yellow cubs were clumsy and often fell from trees and walls, she initially wondered why these yellow cubs were so courageous. Later, she was surprised to find that her own Hei Wa and Xiao Jin didn't pay much attention to them, usually even if they saw them.

, and they were also unreasonable, which made the three little guys even bolder. They often started to run around in the yard without paying attention, either mixing in the group of little rabbits, or rubbing against the two dogs, or even

She also slept with the little rabbit under the bellies of the two dogs.

The two big yellow cats were a little worried at first, but later after seeing that the children were not in danger, they began to come down often to eat and drink, and were guests at home openly.

Wang Susu was stunned for a moment, wondering what was going on. But fortunately, they did not harm the chickens and ducks. Instead, they made all the mice in the front and back yards of the house disappear. In the past, there were often mice in the vegetable cellar and the rice vat.

The mice came in, causing a pile of feces and urine, and the smell was extremely unpleasant, but recently I couldn't even see any mice.

"We don't have treasures buried in our house, do we? Aling, look at these birds, pigeons, and yellow-skinned pigeons running towards our house."

During breakfast that day, after Wang Susu threw some chicken bones to Xiaopang Huang, she looked at the various birds on the trees outside the courtyard in a trance.

It's only been half a month since I was woken up by the chirping of these birds in the morning. I didn't take it seriously before, but in the past two days, they have gathered more and more together.

The couple was asked to clean up the droppings of chickens, ducks and cows at home, as well as the droppings of birds outside the yard.

"Maybe, there used to be wealthy families in our village."

Chen Ling took a sip of porridge, nodded seriously and said, "We are the only one in Changle Township with the village name Zhuang, Chen Wangzhuang. The village named Zhuang was originally inhabited by wealthy families."

"Huh? Is there such a thing?"

Wang Susu was surprised, and then asked: "What about Kinmen Village and Taoshugou?"

"These two names are based on the topography of Jinshui River and their village. There is nothing to say..."

Chen Ling smiled: "The main ones are Zhuang, Tun, Fort, Ying, Zhai, and Pu. Except for the dialect names in the northeast, Tunhe Ying, such as Goge Ying and Kuishan Tun in the south of our county, were all used in the past.

Passing through the places where the army was stationed, the forts and villages were the places where people used to gather together and set up camps to resist the bandit rebellion. Later, these places developed into villages and were called according to these characteristics."

"As for Pu, we don't have them in the mountainous area. This is the name only found in the Great Plains. The plains are vast and flat. If there is no special sign, the villages will be named after Pu, such as Shilipu, Shifififu, Sansanlipu.

The most you can reach is Eighty Mile Pu, so why isn’t there Ninety Mile Pu? Because once you get out of Ninety Mile, it becomes another realm.”

After hearing this, Wang Susu suddenly realized, and her eyes lit up instantly when she looked at Chen Ling: "Aling, you know so much."

"Haha, I just didn't study hard in school. I only read miscellaneous books. By the way, speaking of miscellaneous books, have you read the two books that Sister Xiufen gave you?"

When Sister-in-law Xiufen and her husband came two days ago, during their chat, Wang Susu couldn't help but ask about folk remedies for treating diseases. Sister-in-law Xiufen didn't take it seriously at first. Later, Wang Susu told her a few folk remedies and she started to pay attention.

The two of them talked about something later, and the old lady gave Wang Susu two tattered thread-bound books the next day.

"After looking at it, there aren't many useful ones. They are all nonsense things, such as talismans, Feng Shui, worshiping gods and the like. My brain hurts after looking at them too much. Even looking at our house feels like looking at a Feng Shui treasure land."

"Grandpa's books are better. Grandpa said they were given to him by his comrades during the war. They include Miao and Tibetan medicine. They are the real thing. Unfortunately, he forgot where he put them. He can't find them no matter how hard he looks for them."

It's been almost twenty years now, and Wang Susu still feels it's a pity when she thinks about this incident.

"Then after I visit my father's grave this year, I will accompany you back home. After we see my parents, we will go to grandpa's house and look carefully."

While Chen Ling was talking, he had already finished his breakfast.

He went to the county town twice before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, and also looked for such unsophisticated medical books. None of them were for sale, and some were large ones.

"Yeah, that's okay."

When Wang Susu heard what he said, her nose couldn't help but feel sore, but her heart felt warm and filled with emotion.

This was the first time that Chen Ling proposed to accompany her back to her parents' home. Although Chen Ling had been very considerate and protective of her in the past few months, making her as happy as if she were soaking in a honeypot, the more she did this, the more frustrated she became.

She missed home and wanted to take Chen Ling back to her parents, her elder brothers, her second brother, and her younger sister to see how Chen Ling had gotten better now.

The prodigal son returned with money, proving that she had not chosen the wrong person in the first place.

Unfortunately not, because Chen Ling's father passed away a few months after they got married. According to their customs, they have to celebrate two memorial days before they can return to their parents' home. The parents' family can take the initiative to come to visit, but the girl cannot take them with her.

Return in mourning, unless divorced.

Therefore, girls from other families can go back to their parents' home before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, and after they have finished fertilizing and planting corn, they can still go back to their parents' homes. The pursuit of festivals means that after the daughter goes to see her mother around the Dragon Boat Festival, the mother-in-law comes back to her daughter's house to visit relatives, but their family

But she couldn't, which made Wang Susu very envious and missed her family very much.

In the two years since my marriage, except for my eldest brother's visit once, I have never been back, nor have I seen my parents or relatives. Fortunately, Chen Ling is a good husband now, otherwise this life would be really difficult.

Chen Ling saw that his wife's eye circles were a little red, and she couldn't bear it. But rules are rules, and some customs are quite outrageous. Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean others don't believe it. If you don't take it seriously, others will think it's taboo, so it's time to

You still have to comply.

Of course, this is because the father-in-law and mother-in-law are too old to go down the mountain, especially when the father-in-law accidentally fell while collecting medicine. Although he was saved by Chen Ling's father, he also suffered from the root cause of the disease and his legs and feet were inflexible. Otherwise, he would have known before

My daughter had been wronged and ran here a long time ago.

…

After breakfast, Wang Susu went to wash the pots and dishes, and Chen Ling went to pick up eggs and duck eggs. Now that the chickens and ducks have begun to lay eggs in spring, they can pick up more than half a basket every day, and just sell the eggs every month at the big market.

, you can also make a lot of money.

The quail eggs were not moved, because the male quail had already started incubating the eggs in the chicken coop.

In quails, it is not the female that lays the eggs, but the male that incubates them. When Chen Guoping and his wife came that day, they said that if there is no male in the quail, the female can lay her own eggs, just like Yunying eggs.

, are eggs that have not been fertilized. At this time, the female quail will hatch them, but they will not be able to hatch any eggs.

"Quails, doves, and pigeons have ten nests a year."
To be continued...