slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 199 Badger
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the watermelon was still shaking slightly, and everyone present felt a little overwhelmed for a while.

Just when everyone didn't know what to do, the shaking watermelon suddenly made a whirring sound.

"It's really a watermelon baby!" Shi Jie said loudly.

Hearing this, Cang Hai couldn't help but glance at this nonsense kid, then picked up the shovel on the cart, and walked towards the moving watermelon carefully.

When Hu Shijie and the others saw it, they also copied the thing in their hands, and together with Cang Hai, surrounded the watermelon.

Nearly one meter away from the watermelon, the watermelon suddenly stopped moving, as if it was alert to the actions of Cang Hai's people.

Waiting for Cang Hai and the others to stand next to the watermelon, and when Cang Hai took the shovel to the watermelon, suddenly the watermelon began to shake more violently from side to side.

"There's something in there!"

Hu Shijie roared.

Not only Hu Shijie, but everyone around the watermelon heard it. There was a noise in the watermelon, a bit like a pig's snoring, but it was obviously not a pig. There was something hidden in the belly of the big watermelon!
Knowing that there was something hidden in the watermelon, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone saw a watermelon dangling, and Yan Li and Shi Jie were talking nonsense about watermelon babies, and they felt a little uneasy. The villagers are superstitious, and Cang Hai thinks about space because of the relationship between space. All these things exist, what if there is such a nonsense thing as Watermelon Baby.

Although Cang Hai didn't show it on his face, he still felt a little uneasy in his heart.

After all, Hu Shijie is not as old as Baihuo. Hearing the movement in the watermelon, he immediately said: "What is stealing the watermelon? It seems to be trapped in this watermelon. You guys carefully flip through the watermelon. You can't tell." The hole that goes into the watermelon is just under the body of the melon."

Everyone listened to the truth, so they gathered together and carefully pestered the thing in their hands on the melon.

"Wen Kui, take the shovel, and you will see something run out and hit it on the head!" Hu Shijie said to Wei Wenkui.

Wei Wenkui put away the shovel, held it in both hands and raised the top of the shovel high, waiting for everyone to turn over the watermelon and hit the thing running out on the forehead.

"Wait!" Wei Wenkui opened his mouth to see the watermelon move.

Li Licheng said with a smile: "You are afraid, aren't you? Why are you so timid like a mother-in-law?"

"What if, I said, what if a Huang Daxian comes out of it?" Wei Wenkui asked cautiously with his mouth open.

Hu Shijie was immediately happy when he heard this: "You are stupid, your Huang Daxian eats watermelon, and Huang Daxian eats meat. What kind of watermelon is this?" Piwan? Cut the crap and let you hit you, if I am 20 years younger, it will be your turn to do this job?"

"Huang Daxian's small body can shake such a big watermelon? Of course not!" Li Lida said.

Wei Wenkui thought to himself: That's right, Huang Daxian is a meat eater, I've never heard of Huang Daxian being a vegetarian.Besides, how old is Huang Daxian, it is really impossible to shake such a big watermelon.

"Attention everyone!"

Hu Shijie said a word, and then raised his hands to greet everyone.

As soon as the four men exerted their strength, the watermelon began to turn over steadily and slowly.

"stop!"

Following Hu Shijie's order, about a third of the watermelons turned over stopped.

Although it has only turned over a third of the way, a hole along the edge suddenly appeared in front of everyone.As soon as the opening of the hole was revealed, the humming sound from the contents of the watermelon's belly was immediately and clearly heard by everyone.

"Wen Kui, pay attention!"

Hu Shijie said, beckoning to everyone, and at the same time, with a sudden force, the whole watermelon was completely turned over, and a hole about the size of a bowl of the sea immediately appeared on the waist of the watermelon.

The moment the watermelon turned upside down, a hairy head poked out from the hole. When Wei Wenkui saw it, he immediately slapped the shovel in his hand on the head of the thing.

This thing is also considered clever. Hearing the sound of the shovel, he immediately shrank his head into the watermelon and hid in the watermelon.

"What is this?" Wei Wenkui, who took a short shot, asked the people next to him while staring at the watermelon hole.

Although the face bag in the watermelon almost flashes, everyone around can see it clearly. It has a pig nose on its head and three white marks on its face. It is long and looks like Big mouse.

"Wild boar?" Li Lida did not dare to express his judgment with certainty.

Wei Wenkui shook his head and said, "No, the wild boar's hair is yellow, and even if it is a Taoist, it is not this color!"

"You haven't seen this thing?" Cang Hai asked Li Licheng and others.

"Who has seen this thing? There was no food in the village before, and no one grew watermelons. Where have you seen this thing?" Li Licheng said.

Hu Shijie frowned and thought for a while: "This is a pig badger!"

"Badger?"

Wei Wenkui, Li Licheng, and Li Lida were a little dazed. They had heard of badgers, but no one had actually seen them.

It’s still because of poverty. Sijiaping Village is so poor that it can’t even afford to eat, and the land is barren to death, and the vegetation is not good. There is no environment for badgers to live. It used to be the most common wild animal in the wild sea nearby. It is voles, even rabbits are rare, let alone badgers.

Hu Shijie nodded and said: "It's a pig badger, not a wild boar. I saw this thing when I was very young, not in our village, but at my uncle's house in Hedong Province. But how did this thing get to our place?" Come on, there is probably no such thing in a radius of hundreds of miles around here."

"Brother Jie, why are you talking so much? Should I be caught or killed now? Give me a letter of approval. Don't delay. The sun will be setting soon. Today we are planning to transport watermelons three times." Li Lida said a little Said impatiently.

Hu Shijie laughed and said, "Catch as many alive as possible. The oil in this stuff can cure burns, and the meat can also be eaten!"

Everyone hummed immediately after hearing this, and prepared to start capturing the badger hidden in the belly of the watermelon alive.

Li Lida grabbed a pocket from the scooter, opened the pocket and wanted to put it on the hole, just when Li Lida's pocket was trying to put it on the watermelon hole, the badger in the watermelon's stomach suddenly jumped out, suddenly The son startled the onlookers.

In the spare time of this jump, when everyone was stunned, the badger in the watermelon jumped out and fled.

Waiting for everyone to react, the thing has escaped from the crowd's encirclement.

At this time, the following dog immediately barked happily, and chased after the fleeing pig badger.

But it's a pity that these two dogs are not hunting dogs, and Hutou was left at home by Cang Hai at this time. It's just a dream to catch a fleeing pig badger with just two dogs.

In less than one minute, the soil badger disappeared, and the two soil dogs returned to the side of the cart with their ears shrugged.

"Ouch, let this thing get away!"

After the thing ran away, Shi Jie, a cowardly boy, ran over with him, looked at the big hole in the watermelon that had been gnawed out, and looked left and right curiously, but no one paid any attention to him.

Hu Shijie said to Cang Hai: "Come and see the melon fields tonight."

Seeing Cang Hai's puzzled look, Hu Shijie said: "The badger just now was just a little badger, adult badgers are much bigger than this, there must be big ones if there are little badgers, and there must be males and females, The watermelon planting is a bit uneven."

Cang Hai listened and nodded, now that there is such a thing, Cang Hai must be more careful, otherwise it will bring disaster to his watermelon field in this harvest season, and he will not be able to cry in a good tone.

Hu Shijie opened his mouth and said again: "Everyone, move! Be careful, if you are bitten by a badger, don't pick it first."

"Be careful, see if there are any badgers hidden in the watermelon!" Li Licheng said.

After hearing this, Hu Shijie said again: "This thing is usually active at night, and it won't come out in broad daylight. This little badger seems to be trapped in the watermelon, or it will run away at dawn."

Although Hu Shijie's words are the basis, most people here have never seen a badger, so they are naturally a little worried, especially the women who always step on the watermelon with their feet when picking watermelon, shaking it from side to side like this After a while, you will pick the melon when you feel that the watermelon is heavy enough on your feet.

It is said that picking melons is actually chopping. The vines of melons are very strong. If it is difficult to pick watermelons from the vines with only hands, it is much more convenient to use a knife. At this time, there is almost no need to distinguish the watermelons in the melon field. Cang Hai and Hu Shijie The two took pictures of almost an acre of land, only one half-sized small watermelon was not ripe, and all the others were ripe.

A few women are in charge of chopping melons, while the men lift the watermelons onto the cart. After being carried onto the cart, they stack them on the cart one end forward and one end backward. Put another one between the two melons, and a cart is seven or eight watermelons, and then use a rope to wrap the watermelons in bundles and fix them on the cart.

There are not many watermelons in a cart, because each watermelon is heavy enough, and six or seven melons weigh three to four hundred catties. It doesn’t matter if two catties are pulled by an ugly donkey on the cart, but any amount of other animals will be difficult. After overturning slopes and hurdles, the animals are exhausted, so can they still do tomorrow's work?
In just twenty minutes or so, several carts were filled with watermelons. Hu Shijie led a group of gentlemen to drive the carts back, while a group of women stayed where they were and rested, waiting for the gentlemen to come back before picking them. melon.

Back in the village, the sun in the west had already set on the mountain ridge, and there was only a little bit of setting sun, dyeing the sky in the west red. At this time, Li Liren, his wife and Shi Wei had prepared dinner for everyone, one meat dish and two vegetarian dishes , filled with several pots.After the watermelon on the cart was unloaded, the big guys put the pots of vegetables on the cart, loaded a bucket of white rice, and took the dishes and chopsticks before returning to Fenghuanggou. Liu Aifen and a dog watched.

As soon as Li Liren heard that badgers were found in Canghai's watermelon field and ran away, he immediately patted his thigh and said it's a pity. As a cook, he knows badgers much better than Hu Shijie. When I was in the ditch, I was eating with a bowl in my hand. At the same time, I looked back and forth at the big watermelon that was gnawed through by the badger, sometimes shaking my head and sometimes nodding, not knowing what to mutter.

Ping An was holding the bowl, with his big mouth stuck on the side of the bowl, he glanced at Li Liren foolishly, then turned to Shi Wei and asked, "Sister Shi Wei, is Grandpa Li Ren suffering from an illness?"

Ping An really didn't understand why the old man Li Liren shook his head and nodded again.

Shi Wei smiled and replied in a low voice: "No, he might be thinking about how to burn badger meat."

Hearing badger meat, Ping An couldn't help swallowing. Although he didn't know whether badger meat was delicious, as long as it was meat that he hadn't eaten before, Ping An was interested in trying it, and this interest was very strong. For Ping An, living in the sea is very simple, and eating and working are the main theme.

Li Liren turned his head at this time, and said to everyone dissatisfied: "So many of you can't catch a badger, shame on you!"

Hu Shijie said: "Many people don't know what this thing is, and they miss it when they don't know what to do. They will not let this thing go away next time!"

Li Liren curled his lips after hearing this: "Look for someone to watch the melon fields with me tonight. If this thing comes again tonight, it will definitely let it go and never return!"

"Will you come tonight?" Cang Hai asked a little uncertainly.

Li Lixu nodded: "As long as there is food, this thing will definitely come. Keep a few more dogs, and the tiger head will play a role tonight."

(End of this chapter)