Chen Ling looked into the wine box and saw five or six little quails huddled inside. They had black and yellow stripes, small black eyes and pointed mouths. They looked a bit like chickens, but smaller.

So two turns.

"Hey, you got a quail nest. Where did you get it?"

"From the wheat straw pile outside the village!"

Liu Nier replied with a smile, and then said to Xizi: "Xizi, take out yours too."

"Uncle Fugui, I have a nest of rabbits in this one, which I also caught from the wheat straw outside the village."

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

It turned out to be a few fleshy little rabbits that had not yet opened their eyes.

"Good guy, it belongs to both quail and rabbit. This wheat straw stack is really a place to hide treasures."

Chen Ling smiled.

The wheat straw stacks in the village are piled up after the wheat harvest every year and are used to feed livestock or as firewood. However, now that winter has passed and green grass is everywhere, the livestock are not short of this fodder, so they are piled outside the village without anyone taking care of them.

Not only domestic chickens and ducks like to visit this kind of place, but pheasants, hares, quails and hedgehogs also like to burrow in there.

We are now entering the fourth month of the lunar calendar, which is the peak breeding season for wild animals. If you poke a long bamboo pole into the wheat straw pile at night, all kinds of things will really come out.

"Didn't you say you were going to watch a movie tonight? Why are you running around outside again?"

At this time, Wang Susu finished washing the pots and dishes and walked out, turning on the light in the yard.

"I arrived late and didn't get a good seat. Now the roof, the walls and the trees are all full of people. I can't even see Anda standing on the bench carrying Anhui, so I can only hear the sound from the outside...

"

Liu Nier sniffed her nose and said gloomily.

Due to its remote location, except for the county town, there is no TV signal at the township level.

Showing a movie in the village is not a small event.

As long as the loudspeaker in the village shouts that a movie is playing, the whole village will be in a sensation. Even if they don't eat, they have to go over and grab the good seats first.

If you can't get a seat in front, you'll step on the bench. If that doesn't work, you'll climb a house or a tree.

Every time a movie is shown, it feels like a war.

"It turns out there's a movie being shown tonight, no wonder it's so bright over there at the school."

When Chen Ling came back from the county town, he noticed bright lights and noises there, but he didn't think much about it at the time and thought it was Chen Erzhu who was causing trouble at home.

Chen Erzhu's house is 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.

As for Chenwangzhuang Primary School, it has no gates and no walls. It is dilapidated, but it does have a large open space.

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

"Uncle Fugui, grandpa is also going to see a movie tonight. He asked me to tell you that the bullock cart will not be ready until tomorrow night."

Xizi blushed and said.

"Okay, it doesn't matter if it's a day or two late. I'm not in a hurry to use it recently."

Chen Ling rubbed the little girl's head and said with a smile.

Last time Chen Sangui promised to get him a bullock cart, he also finished the work from Erzhu. He spent time at night to do it. It could have been completed tonight.

As a result, the movie screening in the village today will be a day late.

"Have you two eaten tonight? If not, I will boil two eggs for you."

Wang Susu brought two small mats to the two little children and asked.

"We have eaten vegetarian food, and we grilled a cauliflower snake by the pond before we came here."

Liu Nier raised her head and said proudly.

Chen Ling and Wang Susu were both amused when they saw this. This guy couldn't watch movies, but he was looking for fun for himself.

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

"Ida said that a little rabbit won't survive if it gets lucky before it even opens its eyes. He asked me to take it home and feed it to the dog. I was a little reluctant..."

Liu Nier placed the two wine boxes in front of Chen Ling, and while talking, she and Xizi squatted beside the wine boxes, looking at the little quails and rabbits inside.

"Same for you kid, can you feed the rabbits by sending them to me?"

"Yes, why can't you? Didn't Heiwa and Xiaojin just get picked up by you when they were able to run? They are so strong now that they can definitely do it as a little rabbit. I believe you..."

Good guy, this makes sense.

Chen Ling was speechless, so he had to take out the bamboo basket containing the little ducks and put the little quails in. He also found the kennel where Hei Wa and Xiao Jin had been when they were young, and settled the little rabbits.

The two little babies were relieved.

After playing happily for a while, they left again holding the kerosene lamp.

…

In the next few days, Chen Ling stayed at home and did not go to the county seat again.

Every day I would either read a book on the deck chair in the yard, or go to the fields to graze the cows with my two puppies, or go into the mountains with Wang Susu to collect some medicinal materials.

The days passed leisurely and fulfillingly.

But that day, while Chen Ling was feeding the chickens after breakfast, he discovered something bad.

There are fewer eggs in the henhouse.

And more than one is 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 contribution of those peanut branches and spinach in Dongtian.

But today there were only two or three eggs in the henhouse.

"Even if there is a thief in the house, it's impossible to just steal eggs. This must be something good..."

Chen Ling's face darkened. It was impossible to say that Huang Pizi had stolen it.

Those two little guys had drank the water from Dongtian Stream, and like Hei Wa and Xiao Jin, they had opened their minds and understood human nature, and they knew what was good and what was bad.

Now I basically walk around the chicken coop, and even when I come home, I don’t dare to show my face in front of the chickens.

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

The previous time he came to steal chickens at night, he frightened the two old hens so much that they laid thin-skinned eggs for several days. Chen Ling fed them some water from Dongtian Creek before they got better.

"The two puppies haven't gone out much in the past two days and are running wild. How can something steal eggs silently..."

Chen Ling thought in confusion that when he was at home, Hei Wa and Xiao Jin usually followed him closely. Only Wang Susu dared to sneak out when he was at home.

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

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

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

Only not in the courtyard, but outside the courtyard wall, I found two empty eggshells.

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

"What's wrong, Aling?"

At this time, Wang Susu came from the alley with a thick stack of dark blue fabric. She went to Cui Laizi's canteen to make a pair of trousers for Chen Ling.

Seeing him squatting here, looking a little strange, he hurriedly came over.

"There are a lot of eggs missing at home. I looked around and found two empty egg shells here. I don't know what they were made of..."

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