My village can't be like this

Chapter 310 Crane comes again
"Hey, hubby, come and see those two black-necked cranes come to our house again."

After Su Ying got up, she was combing her hair in front of the dressing table. When she looked out the window, she suddenly said in surprise.

Hearing this, Zhang An also walked to the window and spotted two cranes in the fish pond.

"Oh, it's really the two of them. They must have been frozen in the mountains, so they came to our house to look for food."

I haven't seen a crane in this corner of the mountain for many years, and there were two of them. It was just the two of them.

It's just that because of the heavy wind and snow these days, the water surface of the fish pond has been frozen with a thick layer of ice.

You can see two black-necked cranes standing on the ice amidst the heavy snow and the howling wind.

Sometimes it looks left and right, sometimes it pecks the ground with its pointed crane's beak.

There is no way, although their beaks are very sharp, but unfortunately they are of little use.

It is estimated that the ice surface is too thick and hard, so they did not peck through it. It is probably a bit difficult to eat fish here.

If it could be easily pecked away, it would not fly out of the mountain.

"Then what should we do? Will they starve to death if they keep doing this? And if they stay in the wind and snow for a long time, they may freeze to death if they don't starve to death."

Su Ying looked at the two lonely cranes in the wind and snow, and was a little worried about them.

On the one hand, I couldn't bear to watch these two elegant things starve.

On the other hand, they are afraid that they will starve to death in their own home, which will increase the trouble out of thin air.

"Why don't you give them some food, otherwise they will look too pitiful."

"Yeah, well, there are all guests coming to the door, so we must entertain them well, and our kind-hearted Teacher Su is open to talking, so we have to make sure everyone is well fed today."

The two got dressed and came downstairs. Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo didn't know yet about the two black-necked cranes coming to their door.

Because it was snowing outside, they didn't open the backyard door after they got up.

In order to avoid the cold wind howling outside blowing into the house, the stove in the house has just been lit.

If you open the door and blow for a while, the hot air that has just risen will be blown away immediately.

"Hey, these two big birds are here again, but with such heavy snow and ice on the water, they can't catch fish now."

Zhang An opened the door and was about to go to the kitchen, when Wang Fang saw two black-necked cranes standing on the ice.

Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo were deeply impressed by these two big guys.

Because last time they came here, they ate two fine-scaled fish, and they were quite big.

That's all money. Old parents who have been accustomed to saving all their lives, how could they not be deeply impressed by it.

"It's probably because the mountains are frozen, so there's nowhere to find food, so that's why they came here."

When I came here last time, the weather was not too bad and food could be found everywhere in the mountains.

Zhang An estimated that they had just arrived. Zhang An estimated that they were passing by, so they came to his home.

Otherwise, I haven't seen them come once for so long.

"Then give them some food. It's pitiful to be hungry in this cold and snowy environment."

Wang Fang is also soft-hearted, and like Su Ying, she can't bear to let these two good-looking guys starve.

Moreover, she has a Huatou family and owls at home, and she often feeds them meat.

In the past few days, I have to prepare a large piece of meat for them every day. Wang Fang, who has become accustomed to feeding them, is not as distressed as before.

So she didn't think there was anything wrong with getting some meat for the two cranes to eat.

Zhang An entered the kitchen. There were several pieces of thawed pork and some fish on the sink.

In the past two days, not only the family eats, but also the Huatou family and the owl, so Wang Fang defrosts a lot of meat every day.

Zhang An picked up two smaller frozen fish, which had been frozen in the refrigerator.

Now that it has thawed and softened after taking it out, you can feed it to them.

The two of them should still remember Zhang An, because they didn't fly away when they saw Zhang An approaching.

Against the heavy snow, Zhang An picked up the two fish in the basin and handed them to them.

The two black-necked cranes were probably starving. They were not polite to Zhang An and took the fish in their mouths without hesitation.

When the crane's mouth touched Zhang An's hand holding the fish, Zhang An felt nothing.

The two black-necked cranes probably didn't want to peck Zhang An, so they moved very lightly.

Zhang An, who had rarely seen cranes eating, felt that such elegant cranes should eat very elegantly.

But he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that these two guys looked like they were gobbling up food.

Compared with their image, they are completely different, and their lively elegance is outdated.

It didn't take long for the two big guys to eat the fish.

But they still stared at Zhang An. It was probably because of the heavy snowstorm these days that the two children were starving.

Eating such a fish now will not fill your stomach at all.

Maybe they feel that after finally catching a victim, they can't let it go easily, otherwise it will be too difficult to find food sources.

But this thing, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer.

Seeing this, Zhang An walked to the corner of the fish pond, made a fist with one hand, and smashed the ice into pieces.

I wanted to catch some smaller fish from the fish pond, because the two guys couldn't eat the fish that were too big and easily indigestible.

But after catching them for a long time, I found that all of them were big fish. These two things were not cormorants and could not swallow such big fish.

So in the end Zhang An could only get a half-sized pot of grass carp from the space.

After they both ate a fish that Zhang An caught from the space.

Zhang An could clearly feel that they were getting closer to him.

But it's normal. What kind of behavior is Zhang An doing? It's just a fish in the snow. How can he not let the crane get close to him?

Su Ying, who was at the door, was still standing there blowing the cold wind, watching Zhang An feed the two black-necked cranes.

He knew that his wife had always wanted to get up close and personal with these two black-necked cranes.

While they were still hungry, they probably wouldn't want to leave, so Zhang An wanted to try and see if he could lure them into the yard.

If possible, he would like to try to have Su Ying feed them both.

Just as he said, Zhang An added some space spring water into the basin, and then stroked their slender necks.

After getting familiar with them for a long time, Zhang An slowly led the two black-necked cranes into the yard.

Sure enough, after the two black-necked cranes became familiar with him, they followed his gestures and followed him obediently to the yard.

However, after walking halfway, the two black-necked cranes stopped, probably because they spotted the stranger Su Ying.

But Zhang An raised the basin toward them and waved, probably because of the temptation of the space spring water.

The two guys hesitated for a moment, and finally followed Zhang An into the yard.

While they were drinking water, Zhang An waved and called Su Ying to his side.

The two black-necked cranes that discovered Su Ying were a little frightened, but they did not fly away immediately, and they just did not continue to drink water.

As soon as Zhang An saw that there was something going on, he comforted them for a while.

After they calmed down, Zhang An motioned for Su Ying to catch a small fish and feed it to them.

Sure enough, being able to overcome the fear of the unknown depends on whether the temptation from the front is big enough.

The fish produced in space are so delicious, it is an unprecedented temptation for the two black-necked cranes.

Seeing Su Ying grab the fish and hand it to them, they just hesitated and started eating.

Su Ying couldn't be happier when she saw that the two black-necked cranes, instead of being afraid of her, actually ate the fish she fed with her own hands.But because I was afraid of scaring away the two black-necked cranes, I didn't dare to show it and suppressed my inner excitement.

Finally, Zhang An asked his parents to try it again, and it turned out to be similar to before.

After a lot of hard work, these two black-necked cranes became familiar with Zhang An and his family.

Now that they see Zhang An's family, they are no longer afraid. Unlike before, they were scared away before Su Ying even got close.

It seems that the temptation of the fish in the space helped them overcome their fear of strangers.

In the end, the two guys ate half of the fish in total, and there was still half of the fish left, which was still a little fresh.

Zhang An continued to keep it in the basin, planning to feed them both if they came again.

If they don’t come, feed them to the flowers, or eat them yourself at home.

However, after eating, the two black-necked cranes did not fly away immediately, but stayed quietly in the backyard of Zhang An's house.

Zhang An's family thought it was because of the heavy wind and snow, so they ignored them.

After closing the back door, the family went home to warm themselves by the fire.

"Xiao An, it's time for this meat to be served on the kang."

Zhang Jianguo remembered the pork that had been marinated a few days ago and had not yet been put on the kang.

"Oh, I forgot."

Originally, on the day he came back from the city, Zhang An planned to hang them up and smoke them.

But after returning that day, it started to snow. After working around for a while, Zhang An forgot about it.

Fortunately, we don’t need to eat these meats in a hurry, so it doesn’t matter whether we eat them two days earlier or two days later.

Because there is still a lot of bacon left after Zhang An’s smoked it last year.

Anyway, it will definitely be enough to eat until the early New Year.

"It's okay now, just hang it up first."

Zhang An nodded, walked to the next room, opened the big basin of marinated meat and took a look.

These porks are well marinated and look delicious.

Fortunately, it was winter. If the weather was hotter, the meat would have gone bad.

Zhang An opened the back door and carried all the meat into the bacon room.

At this time, Zhang An discovered that these two black-necked cranes did not seem to be planning to leave.

Lived in a small cubicle under the eaves at the back of their house.

The eaves of bungalows are generally wider, and the outer eaves of ordinary homes are 1.2 meters.

The width of Zhang An's house was increased and a 1.5-meter outer eaves were built.

Since the second floor is not built outside, there is no need to worry about load-bearing issues.

The part that sticks out is just used as a corridor.

Moreover, when it was built, Zhang An specially reinforced all the beams.

As for the small cubicle, Zhang Jianguo built a single wall along the outer wall.

It was divided into a two-square-meter compartment, which was used to store sundries.

But later Zhang An built a utility room in the backyard, and this small compartment became empty.

Unexpectedly, these two black-necked cranes fell in love with this place today and planned to live there.

Although Zhang An had no intention of keeping the two of them in captivity, after all, these things were protected by the state, and Zhang An was not so courageous.

But if the weather is so bad, they can stay here if they want. When the weather gets better, they can leave whenever they want.

But Zhang An couldn't bear to see the two of them squatting on the cold cement floor.

These two black-necked cranes are obviously a couple.

The male one was fine, but the female one just squatted on the ground. After a long time, she didn't worry about Gong Han.

So Zhang An carried two bundles of dry straw from the utility room and made a straw nest for them.

I have to say that Zhang An has done a lot of making nests for Huatou's family, and this grass nest is really impressive.

"Remember, you can live here and eat here, but you are not allowed to poop here."

Zhang An didn't care whether they understood or not, he would give them a lesson when caught.

This may be because he is used to it. After all, no matter what he raises at home, he will catch and educate him.

This should be the third chapter of the agreement between humans and animals, the move-in statement.

"If you want to poop, go to the field next to it."

Zhang An didn't feel like he was talking to himself at all. The vegetable patch next to him was like a sermon.

After helping the two black-necked cranes complete the check-in formalities, Zhang An returned to the bacon room and hung bacon with Zhang Jianguo.

I have to say, there is too much meat, not only the marinating process is a lot of work.

Even the task of hanging them up is not easy.

The more Zhang An thought about it, the more unbalanced he became. Why were there so many people asking for bacon, but only his family was smoked?

This won't work. After the bacon is smoked, some compensation measures must be taken, otherwise they will definitely not be able to take it away easily.

It took about an hour for the father and son to finally hang all the large pots of marinated meat on the shelves.

Zhang Jianguo moved the wooden boards covering the fire pit on the ground and prepared to start a fire.

If there is less meat, just use a brazier to smoke it.

But if there is a lot of meat, the brazier will not be used at all, and the ground fire will have to be burned.

Soon, the dry camphor tree firewood started to burn.

After the fire stabilized, Zhang An added arborvitae strips, otherwise the fire would have been easily extinguished (it was to extinguish the fire, not to extinguish the butterflies).

Fortunately, on the day Zhou Yang's family slaughtered the pigs, Zhang An went to cut down many arborvitae strips and came back.

Otherwise, with the heavy snow blocking the mountains, there would be no place to cut it, and it would be difficult to get it back.

When smoking bacon, the fire should not be too strong, otherwise the smoked bacon will be dry and woody.

But don’t put too many arborvitae strips, because then the smoke will be very strong.

Originally, Zhang An used Platycladus arborvitae to smoke the bacon so that the smoked bacon would not be very dark.

But if you put too much and the smoke is too strong, the smoke will also be very dark.

Zhang Jianguo takes great care in smoking bacon every year.

He didn't even want Zhang An to work with him, so he was solely responsible for smoking the bacon.

It is best to make the fire a little bigger during the day and control the fire a little less at night to ensure continuous fire.

In the afternoon, the snow became much lighter, and Zhang An was going to go to Zhang Yixing's place.

"Mom, how much more vegetables do we have to chop?"

"Here, there are a lot more."

Wang Fang walked to the place where fresh cabbage was kept at home, pointed at it and said.

In winter, a lot of cabbage is chopped at one time, so you need to find a special place to pile it up, so it won't spoil easily anyway.

"I want to go to Zhulintou and bring some food with me."

(End of this chapter)