slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 150

Today, Canghai showed Shen Teng's old movie, "Charlotte Annoyance", which was very popular a few years ago. A group of villagers in the village watched it with great interest while kneading melon seeds, and laughed from time to time.

I was enjoying watching, when suddenly a voice broke the lively atmosphere.

"Look, everyone, what did I find?" Wei Wenkui came up from the slope at some unknown time, and said happily standing behind the crowd.

Everyone turned their heads to look at Wei Wenkui, and saw that he was holding a straw hat in his hand, the brim of the straw hat was tilted towards the crowd. It was obvious that there was something inside the straw hat that Wei Wenkui wanted to show everyone.

Liu Aifen smiled and said, "I'm talking about Wen Kui, you used to be the most active in watching movies, why are you here after half of the movies are done today?"

"Let me see, you have picked up the dog's head gold?" Li Liren was the closest to Wei Wenkui, stood up from the bench and stretched his head to look into Wei Wenkui's hat.

"What am I talking about, isn't it just knowing the monkey? What's so strange about this thing?" Li Liren took a look, then turned around and sat back on the stool.

Wei Wenkui said: "There is nothing strange about cicada monkeys, but let me tell you, I caught them from seven or eight trees, do you think it is strange?"

In Wei Wenkui's hat, there were about thirty or so cicada monkeys caught on a few trees, which is equivalent to several on one tree, which is quite dense.

Hearing what Wei Wenkui said, everyone stood up one after another and surrounded Wei Wenkui. People kept asking, "How many trees are there really? Are there so many?"

"No way, I also went to catch them two days ago, not many," another person said.

Wei Wenkui replied: "I don't know, but I caught quite a lot today. I found so many in the willow forest in the west, and I found so many in a small piece of woods. I'll come back and tell you. I'm going to go back soon." Catch, now a cicada monkey in the county is sold for [-] cents, or the purchase price, as much as you want."

Hearing what Wei Wenkui said, a group of people were moved.

"How about we go and have a look too?" Li Liren asked his wife.

After hearing this, Liu Aifen hummed: "Then let's go home and look for it with a flashlight. Maybe we can get a dozen or 20 yuan in one night."

Qiu Shanghua also nodded and said, "Then let's go together."

"Okay, let's go, let's go home and get our things."

Just like that, a group of cheerful people watching movies moved up the small benches and went home, put on flashlights and small baskets, and went to catch the monkeys in pairs.

In two to three minutes, Cang Hai, Shi Wei, and Ping An were left at the gate of Cang Hai, plus Hutou and Tietou.

"Why don't we take a look too?" Cang Hai missed the taste of fried cicada monkeys, and asked Shi Wei.

As soon as Shi Wei heard that the monkey had been caught, she couldn't sit still for a long time, and said directly: "Then let's go, what are you waiting for?"

When Ping An heard this, he immediately stood up, put on his shoes, and prepared to set off.

This kid didn't move the stool when he was watching the movie in an easy way, he just took off the slippers on his feet and sat under his buttocks, now he can set off as soon as he stands up and puts on his shoes, unlike Cang Hai and Shi Wei, I have to move the big recliner under the buttocks to the grape trellis.

Ready to go, Cang Hai reached out and turned off the projector. Tietou was watching happily, but when he saw the figure of the wall man disappeared, he immediately yelled at Cang Hai twice to express his dissatisfaction.

If it was something else, Canghai might have thrown the iron head home, but if he caught a monkey, he had to take this guy with him, because he could climb trees, and if he climbed higher, the monkey could climb it. Let the iron head catch it, and there is no need for people to climb trees.

A few people held bright flashlights and went down to the village together. When they reached the small river in the village, the woods below were already very lively. One, there are many words on this tree.

Standing outside the woods, Cang Hai saw the shadowy figures in the small woods by the moonlight, and said to Shi Wei: "Forget it, let's go a little farther away, there are people who snatched monkeys inside." ".

Seeing so many people, Shi Wei also felt that it was not a good idea to go into this forest to catch them, so she nodded and said, "Shall we go upstream or downstream?"

"Upstream, there are probably a lot of people downstream." Cang Hai pointed at the lights that flashed from time to time in the east and said.

"Row!"

So the three of them walked downstream, passed a small forest and found Wei Wenkui squatting in it, then walked down about 50 meters, and came to the side of a small forest.

"Here are two!"

Before entering the grove, Shi Wei took the lead, she took a flashlight on the tree trunk, and immediately found two brown cicada monkeys lying on the tree trunk, because it was getting late, so these cicada monkeys climbed quite well The tall one has already climbed to the middle of the trunk, about 1.6 meters seven.

As Shi Wei said, she reached out her hand happily and caught the two cicada monkeys from the tree trunk, and put them into the basket on her waist.

Cang Hai took a light to another tree and found two cicada monkeys also lying on the trunk, so he reached out to catch them and put them into the small waist basket on Shi Wei's waist.

After a while, Ping An also caught one.

Indeed, as Wei Wenkui said, there are so many cicada monkeys in the grove by the river that it is a bit shocking. In the grove with more than a dozen trees, no less than twenty cicada monkeys were caught.

"Come on, let's go over there and have a look."

The rise of Cang Haizhuo directly pointed to the forest 100 meters upstream. This forest is not small, about four acres of land. These trees were planted by Cang Hai, to be exact, half of them were planted by Cang Hai. Half of them were planted by the birds under the instruction of the tree of life.

Arriving at the edge of the forest with great interest, everyone took a bright flashlight and lit up.

"How is this forest?"

Shi Wei took photos of a dozen or so trees, and only caught one cicada monkey. She walked about five or six meters inside, but none of the cicada monkeys were seen, so she yelled at everyone in Canghai.

Before the words were finished, Shi Wei felt that she had stepped on something, and when she was about to step on something before she came, she suddenly heard a light click sound from her foot, and she took a flashlight to shine on it immediately. Put your feet back.

"Cang Hai, Cang Hai, I stepped on a nest of eggs!"

Shi Wei found that there was a small grass nest under her feet, the nest was irregular and messy, she just pulled the weeds next to it to form a nest, and there were three eggs in it, and now the three eggs have all been broken. The egg white and egg yolk flowed into a nest.

After hearing this, Cang Hai ran to Shi Wei's side, glanced at the little egg she mentioned, and immediately laughed: "You really don't work hard and don't distinguish between grains and grains. This is an egg. How can there be such a small egg?" Eggs, you don’t even know about these things, quail eggs, the eggs are so big and covered with spots, you can see them as eggs, you can really do it.”

What Shi Wei trampled was a nest of quail eggs, and all three eggs are now useless.

Ping An also came over at this time, and stretched his head to look at the nest: "There are wild quails in the forest, second brother, why don't we look around to see if there are any, and find some quail eggs to cook." eat".

"Let's look for it, they've all come in anyway, looking for it together with the quail eggs and the cicada monkey, but everyone be careful, the grass here is deep, maybe there's a snake hidden in it," Cang Hai said.

As soon as Shi Wei heard about the snake, Shi Wei immediately took a flashlight and shone around in panic, and leaned against Cang Hai while doing the light: "Don't scare me!"

Cang Hai patted his head when he heard it, and thought: How could I forget that she is afraid of snakes!
Thinking of this, Cang Hai stretched out his hand and broke off a branch, grabbed all the leaves and handed them to Shi Wei: "It's okay, you can use this to beat the grass, as the old saying goes, you can scare the snake by killing the grass."

"No, I'd better stay by your side, I'm afraid of snakes!"

Speaking of which, Shi Wei not only took over the branch, but also stretched out her hand to grab the corner of Cang Hai's clothes, and looked around nervously.

Cang Hai smiled after hearing this, and said to Pingan: "Then let's have two teams, you go over there, I'll look for it here."

Naturally, Ping An is not afraid of snakes, not only is he not afraid of snakes, but also a little happy to see snakes. For Ping An and Cang Hai, this snake is a delicacy, not a reptile to be feared.

The three of them searched for about a quarter of an hour, and Ping An yelled, "Second brother, I have a nest of quail eggs here, seventeen or eight eggs!"

Cang Hai heard this, smiled and yelled in the direction of Ping An's voice: "If you see it, pick it up, you boy, wait for me to give you a certificate!"

Shi Wei's hand hadn't let go of Cang Hai's clothes. Hearing what Cang Hai said, she remembered how Cang Hai's family picked up eggs, so she said smartly, "Don't pick them all up, leave three or four eggs." To attract quail to continue laying eggs in the nest, then we can come and pick them up every few days."

Most of the chickens raised by Canghai’s family lay wild eggs outside. You can find a hen’s coop by looking around on the slope of the fruit forest in Canghai’s family. Every time you go to pick it up, you have to leave an egg in the hen’s coop. , In this way, the hen will continue to lay eggs in this nest and will not choose another place. In this way, as long as you remember the location of the nest, you can collect a basket of eggs from time to time.

"Doctor, quails are not chickens. They don't lay eggs in a fixed place. These things are wild." Ping An said, picking up all the eggs in his pocket, and pretending to be a chicken with the cicada monkeys he picked up. together.

"Continue, continue!" Seeing that Ping An had picked up a nest of quail eggs, Cang Hai happily continued to look for it.

The forest is not big, but the road is not easy to walk. The main reason is that the grass in the forest is deep, there are many shrubs, and many shrubs have thorns, so everyone's time was wasted.

When they got out of the forest, Canghai harvested five or six cicadas, and Ping'an's harvest was quite large, with two nests of thirty quail eggs and four or five cicadas.

"Second brother, there are not many monkeys in the forest on the slope, let's go to the forest by the river to look for it." Ping'an came out of the forest and immediately discovered the key issue of the number of monkeys.

This matter is easy to explain, the soil by the river must be looser, knowing that monkeys can easily get out, and the soil in the forest far away is relatively firm, trying to crawl out from the ground, knowing that monkeys are better than those by the river Take more effort.This is also the reason why after a rain, cicada monkeys came out of the hole more.

(End of this chapter)