Chapter 141 Carrying the Daughter-in-law(1/4)
Today is the weekend and these little kids can finally let loose and play.
After eating two mouthfuls of rice early in the morning, I wandered around the village, not walking properly. I would either hit the grass on the roadside with a stick, or kick stones as I walked.
From time to time, he also recited a few jingles.
I don’t know if some idle person in the village arranged it and said it was given to these skinny monkeys.
Chen Ling silently recited it twice, and it was quite smooth.
Then he didn't even meet the kids, and went straight home from the wheat field with the two dogs.
When I got home, I put down the cabbage, added grass to the rabbits, and then went to Wang Laishun's house and told him about the traces of wild boars in the corn field.
It was discovered that a herd of wild boars were visiting the corn field. This was no small problem. Wang Laishun immediately became cautious after hearing this.
He was just wandering around the field yesterday and really didn't pay much attention.
Now listening to Chen Ling talk about it, I know that this is not a small matter. It is related to the harvest of the village's autumn harvest and cannot be delayed.
I hurried to the brigade and turned on the loudspeaker and shouted.
So there were a few more people patrolling at night every day. While guarding against wolves, we also had to watch the green ones.
The main thing to watch is to be afraid of wild boars destroying immature crops. This is more important than guarding against wolves.
Chen Ling's family didn't grow any food this year. If they found out, they could come over and notify him in time.
Let Wang Laishun praise him greatly.
She was about to pull him and give him two bottles of sorghum wine sent by her daughter.
When Liang Guizhen saw it, her mouth turned into a pout.
...Finally, Chen Ling took the wine back home. At this time, Liu Nier rushed over with her children, holding a raccoon cat in her arms.
As soon as he entered the door, he shouted to Wang Zhenzhen: "Little aunt, come quickly. We have found the female cat. She has just given birth to a cub less than half a month old. There is milk."
Good guy.
Chen Ling was stunned when he heard this.
Damn, these monkeys were wandering around just now, looking for milk for the little piglets?
result……
Just found a female cat and came back?
This guy, how much milk does a cat have?
It would also be good for you to find a native dog to cuddle with.
Not only Chen Ling was speechless, but Wang Susu was also amused and just said to them, be careful not to let the cat scratch or bite them.
The two of them ignored them and just served themselves porridge and had breakfast.
Not long after the meal, Zhang Qiaoling came to Wang Susu with her big head in her arms.
Wang Susu has a kind temperament and a good mind. After she got married, she was very popular with the young girls and young wives in the village.
We often just interact with each other once or twice, and then everyone thinks about her no matter what.
Today Zhang Qiaoling is here to teach her how to pickle pickles, make chili sauce and bean paste.
The season has changed, and many vegetables have grown in the fields. You can pick some leeks and cucumbers.
The cucumbers were the second crop, and Chen Ling didn't care much about whether they were good or bad.
I don’t eat much at home, so it would be a waste to rot in the ground. It’s better to pickle it into pickles.
After a while, dig out some shepherd's purse pimples, and the shepherd's purse leaves can also be pickled and eaten.
Wang Susu discussed with him and wanted to pickle more so that he could eat it all winter.
Another thing, for the dishes cooked by Chen Ling, bean paste is often indispensable.
I also need to do some more.
The two women were tinkering together. Chen Ling played with the big head for a while, then handed it over to the eldest girl from Wang Jusheng's family. She, Liu Nier and the others gathered around to watch the wild boar cubs, making a lot of noise.
However, these piglets were very afraid of strangers. Not only did they make the tabby cat jump over the wall and escape, but they also bit several babies.
Fortunately, they are small and have deciduous teeth, so the bite does not hurt, and the children don't care if they are bitten.
After having fun with the wild boar cubs for a while, they happily surrounded Heiwa and Xiaojin, tickling them, hoping they would catch a few more wild boar cubs.
Chen Ling is now basically sure that these two young wild boars are from the same litter.
If nothing else, their body shapes are almost the same. Put them together and you can't tell them apart at all.
...Wild boars reproduce very quickly and can give birth to twice a year, with a litter of as few as five or six, as many as ten, or even twenty.
It doesn’t matter if they give birth to a large number of pups, they are highly adaptable and rarely get sick except when the wild boar pups are eaten by natural enemies such as hawks and wolves.
If left alone, the number of wild boars would double every year.
Fortunately, the enthusiasm of villagers for hunting wild boar is very high this year.
The reason is simple: everything will be more expensive in the second half of this year.
After the big wild boar was taken to the slaughterhouse, it was sold for some money.
Many villagers were jealous when they found out...
Perhaps seeing an opportunity to make money, in the next two days, men from door to door rushed to go on night patrol, and those who had been there before also clamored to go.
Wang Laishun said nothing, and everyone cooperated and fired their guns.
As a result, someone shot him in the head the next night.
There were many people there this time, so they were captured easily.
What's strange is that this pig is not too ferocious, not very aggressive, and can even be said to be a little timid.
After being escorted to the wheat field, I held up a torch and took a look, and then I realized that the damn pig was not a wild boar, but actually a black native pig raised by ordinary people.
Why did the black native pig get into the wild boar herd?
Many people can't figure it out.
But someone soon recognized it. It seemed to be the one that Wang Lishan's family had raised before.
So I went to Wang Lishan's house to wake him up and identify him, and it turned out to be true.
The two ears of his pig have notches, which were marks made when the piglets were little.
Such markings are found in every house in the village, especially chickens and ducks, which look exactly the same. Without markings, it would be impossible to tell whose family it is.
Anyone familiar with the Wang Lishan family knows the markings on this pig.
Speaking of Wang Lishan's pigs, they got lost during the flood.
At that time, the villagers were rushing to avoid the disaster and had no time to take care of it.
Livestock such as cows and donkeys can be driven away, but pigs are difficult to handle and are simply left in the pig pen.
Later, when I came back from the disaster, where could I find him again?
Now it seems that he has run up the mountain.
But what the villagers have been puzzled about is how did this pig survive? How did it manage to mix with the wild boars?
They are all a bit incredible.
Later, Wang Lishan thought about it and said that it was probably because his pigs were sows.
Wild boar families have one male and multiple females, and it is generally difficult to accept unfamiliar boars from outside.
The villagers also think this statement makes sense.
Then he helped Wang Lishan drive the pigs home.
This pig has been in the mountains for two months and has lost a lot of weight. It has almost lost all its fat, and it is estimated that it has lost less than half of its weight.
Wang Lishan has been raising pigs at home every year and has rich experience. Not only has he been nicknamed Old Pig, but his own children have also been called Pig Babies since they were young. He can get the general idea at a glance.
The wound of the pig was simply treated.
Then he told everyone that after the pigs were fattened at the end of the year, they would kill each family and share some of the meat.
Although the pig was lost by oneself, the situation was special after all, and the pig was lost for too long. Now if it is hit by someone else, it is the prey of someone else.
They sent him back out of consideration for the kindness of his fellow villagers. He couldn't just say nothing and be so shameless.
Pork is so expensive this year, even a lean pig can be sold for a lot of money.
After he said this, some people said no, while others remained silent...
Everyone has different thoughts.
Wang Lishan discussed it with his wife and said that if the piglets were born, each of them could hold one.
This is a good method, it can save everyone's face, and the work will not be in vain.
So I agreed.
To be continued...