My village can't be like this

Chapter 596 Goshawk vs. Sparrow
Zhang An came back from the town just in time. The dew in the fields had been exposed to the sun for so long that it had evaporated into the sky.

It is very convenient to spread the newly bought mosquito net in the field without worrying about it getting wet by dew.

Then they would carry the millet from home to the field, pour it into the mosquito net, and spread it into a thin layer, waiting for the sun's favor.

However, the eight mosquito nets that had just been laid out had not yet been filled with grain to dry. When they were only halfway done, chirping sounds began to be heard all around.

Zhang An looked up and found that the annoying group of thieves from the village had already smelled the scent and were coming over.

But this time he did not land directly on the ground. Instead, he stood high on a telephone pole on the side of the road, watching from afar the millet that Zhang An's family was drying in the fields.

"See, these old thieves have sharper noses than dogs. They knew it as soon as we put the grain out to dry."

Wang Fang was using a wooden rake to roll out the grain on the mosquito net. When she saw a flock of sparrows flying over, she gritted her teeth and said:

As farmers, there are few who don't hate these things. When planting seeds, they will dig up the soil and eat the freshly planted seeds.

When it comes to harvest time, they snatch the crops right under the farmers' noses. It would be a lie to say that they are not hated.

"It's okay, mom. Don't worry about them for now. If they don't fly down, that's fine. But if they really dare to fly down, I'll let Huatou come out and talk to them."

Seeing that they did not fly directly over, Zhang An did not bother to care about them, because he was busy moving the millet from home to the fields to dry it early to avoid wasting such good sunshine today.

Moreover, they were all standing on the electric wires at the moment, and Zhang An didn't want Hua Tou to pounce over because the goshawk was too big.

But Zhang An ignored them and they became more and more outrageous.

When Zhang Jianguo and Zhang An led the horses home to load the millet, the sparrows on the electric wires saw that there were fewer people in the fields, so they immediately spread their wings and swooped down towards the dried millet.

"Xiao An, the thief from my hometown has flown into the mosquito net."

Wang Fang, who was rolling millet outside, called Zhang An home while picking up a wooden rake to drive away the sparrows that were eating the millet.

But she alone couldn't drive away these hateful things. If there were only one or two mosquito nets drying in the sun, Wang Fang would definitely be able to handle it all by herself.

But now, six of the eight mosquito nets spread out in the fields were already filled with grain drying in the sun. When she rushed over, the sparrows had already flown to the other side.

Little Siqi in the field saw the sparrows flying around and laughed happily, and ran straight towards the sparrows.

He was too young and didn't understand anything. He didn't know that these sparrows were bad guys. He just found it fun to see them flying around.

But the little tiger who was following him had already pounced on the sparrow as soon as he saw it land.

How does the saying go? When enemies meet, they become jealous of each other.

The thieves in my hometown are used to running rampant in the village. The dogs in the village have long been at odds with them, and Xiaohu and the other dogs in Zhang An's family are no exception.

But they don’t have wings, and when infantry faces air force, the dogs really have no way out and can only rage helplessly.

Even the tabby cats, which are good at catching birds, are helpless unless the thieves are in the trees.

Zhang An had just come out of the house leading Dahei with a load of grain. When he heard what his mother said, he started whistling.

Not long after the whistle sounded, Huatou flew down from the roof with his family amid the sharp eagle cry.

The goshawk is definitely the tyrant in the sky. The little sparrows must have felt they were facing a great enemy when they saw them. When they heard Huatou's eagle's cry, they were so scared that they didn't care about anything else and had no time to eat the grain. They immediately flew into the sky.

They were so arrogant just now, but now they started to flee in panic.

In the village, humans and sparrows have long been incompatible, and Zhang Anke has no intention of letting them go.

He just raised his hand and pointed at the flock of sparrows fleeing in panic, and Huatou rushed towards the sparrows in the sky like a sharp arrow.

Huatou's wife and children followed closely behind, chasing after the chattering thieves from their hometown in the air.

There are quite a lot of sparrows in this group, at least thirty or forty of them. If there was only Huatou, probably only a small number of them would be affected.

After all, no matter how powerful Huatou is, it still takes a little time to kill a sparrow, which will allow most sparrows to escape.

But there were three more sparrows like Huatou in Zhang An's family. When the four of them all chased after them, the sparrows didn't stand a chance at all.

After flying for a while, it was caught up by the giant behind it. It basically grabbed one by one with its claws and then threw it down from the sky.

Zhang An was very satisfied with this, but he did not call back the goshawks at home.

The thieves in his hometown have been very arrogant recently. They chirp on the electric pole at the door every day, which is very annoying. So this time he made up his mind to let Huatou's family teach them a lesson.

Many passers-by had already stopped on the road in front of Zhang An's house, looking up at the scene of the goshawk fighting a flock of sparrows in the sky.

Among them were villagers and tourists who came here early and lived in the village. Many of them were attracted by the sound that Huatou just made.

"Hiss, these sparrows are so pitiful. They are thrown down like this. I'm afraid they won't survive."

Seeing the sparrows in the sky being killed one by one by the Huatous and thrown down from the sky, a girl on the road said to her companion with some reluctance.

"Hey, my girl, you are wrong. This is a thief from the old house. He destroys the crops in the fields every day. He is not worthy of sympathy."

The villagers were originally staring at the sky with great joy, but then they heard someone expressing pity for the old thief.

However, when he saw that the people who were talking were a few young girls in gorgeous clothes, he knew that they must have come from the city to play, so he just opened his mouth and denounced the bad behavior of the thieves from his hometown.

"Yes, yes, we can finally deal with these hateful creatures. You don't know, a few days ago when my family was harvesting rice in the fields, they flew around and ate a lot of my rice."

"It's the same in my house. Some of the rice has been eaten bare by them. It's really hateful. I forgot that Zhang An has an eagle here, otherwise I would have asked Zhang An to bring his eagle to help deal with these guys a few days ago."

The other villagers also echoed the man who spoke at the beginning, not giving these old thieves any chance to offend.

"Oh, so that's how it is. Sorry uncles, I haven't seen so many sparrows before. I didn't know they would harm crops."

It was obvious that the little girls were unaware of the harm caused by sparrows, but their values ​​were very correct. When they heard everyone talking about the crimes of sparrows, they immediately realized that sparrows were not good things.

"Don't worry, my girl. Birds are everywhere. There are good ones and bad ones. For example, we won't say a word about swallows."

When the villagers saw the little girls like this, they hurriedly explained with a smile, fearing that they would scare them.

While everyone was laughing, Huatou and the others completed the battle swiftly. Most of the thirty or forty sparrows were shot down, and only a few escaped.

At this moment, the Huatou family was catching two sparrows and coming back to report to Zhang An.

Zhang An was very satisfied with their performance, so he let them go back to their nest to enjoy their prey.

"Hello, are those eagles yours?" Someone saw the goshawks that had just displayed their might, but were now interacting with Zhang An very gently, and immediately ran over to ask.

This was a young man in his twenties, about the same age as Zhang An, but his tone was very excited when he spoke.

"Yes, they are all my own."

Seeing someone asking, Zhang An also answered with a smile.

"Really? That's great. I really like the eagles you saw just now. You have a few of them at home anyway. Can you sell one to me?"

Unexpectedly, the young man took a fancy to a few eagles and wanted to buy one from Zhang An.

Few men can resist the temptation of raising eagles. What a picture it would be to hold a yellow eagle on the left and a cang on the right.

If it was a wild goshawk, the young man might not have thought so, but knowing that it was raised by Zhang An and was so gentle, he could not help himself.

"Well, you may have misunderstood. We don't sell these eagles."

Zhang An was stunned for a moment and immediately refused the other party.

"Brother, just sell one to me. No matter how much you ask, I will agree to it."

After being rejected by Zhang An, the young man became anxious and immediately resorted to the tactic of spending money.

"Brother, I'm so sorry, I really have no intention of selling these eagles at home. Besides, they have grown so big and I have raised them well. You really can't keep them if you buy them back."

Seeing that he refused to give up, Zhang An explained to him with a helpless look.

"Ah? Is there any other way to say this?"

The young man was a little stunned when he heard what Zhang An said.

He knew nothing about raising eagles, he just liked them so he wanted to buy one.

"Of course, eagles are different from other animals. They only have one owner in their lifetime. Others cannot tame them if they buy them."

Zhang An patiently explained to the man that he didn't know whether other eagles were like this, but this was the case with Huatou and the others.

"So that's it, okay then."

The young man is not unreasonable. He is the kind of person who wants to get what he wants once he opens his mouth, and he will no longer insist after he understands what he has learned.

Afterwards, after Zhang An sent him away, he continued to lead Dahei to carry the last few bags of millet to the fields.

Of course, these were not the last few bags of millet in the house. From morning till now, he had only moved about one-third of it out of the house.

Because eight mosquito nets looked like a lot, but Zhang An's family had more new millet, and among all the mosquito nets, plus the roof, only one-third of the millet was dried.

"Zhang An, do you want to keep the sparrows that your hawks caught? If not, I will pick them up and put them away."

After Huatou and his family returned to their nest, a villager saw that Zhang An had no intention of picking up the sparrows on the ground, so he came over and asked.

"Uncle, go pick it up. It's troublesome to clean up that thing. I'm too lazy to do it."

Although the sparrows were fat these days, Zhang An didn't have the heart to clean them up, so he let them pick them up themselves.

"Then I won't be polite."

When the man heard that Zhang An didn't want it, he immediately went around happily picking up sparrows.

Of course, he wasn’t the only one there, there were two or three other people who went too.

"It's really convenient here, Zhang An. You can dry the millet directly in the field. Why don't you lend me some after you've dried it?"

Some people also saw Zhang Anjia drying millet in the fields and ran up to chat.

Nowadays, there is no space on the threshing ground, and everyone is looking for a place to dry the grain. Anyone who sees that Zhang An's family can dry the grain directly in the fields will be extremely envious.

"Why do you have to wait until my house is finished drying? There is nothing everywhere during the day. You can just move it here and dry it now."

Zhang An just thought that they wanted to dry the millet in their fields, so he said nonchalantly.

Their family has a total of six acres of land, the largest of which is more than two acres and is next to the road, which is very convenient. Now they have eight mosquito nets, which only take up a small part of the land, and the rest of the space is still very spacious.

"I said you guys can lend me this mosquito net. I only have a rotten mosquito net at home, and I can't dry much."

After hearing what Zhang An said, they spoke embarrassedly.

Every household in the village has a mosquito net, but it is specially used for harvesting rapeseed and there is only one net at most.

After all, before this, no matter what they dried, they dried it on the threshing ground, which was a cement floor and there was no need to lay anything as a cushion.

"Oh, this one, wait until it's finished drying at my house, then you can come and get it."

Only then did Zhang An realize that the other party wanted to borrow a mosquito net, but he agreed readily.

After all, in the village, no one family uses all the tools, so it is normal for everyone to borrow tools from each other.

Even Zhang An's own family would usually borrow some things from other people's homes.

After drying the millet and rolling it thin in the morning, Zhang An stayed in the field. Apart from turning the millet over and drying it occasionally, he was also afraid that the thieves from his hometown who were not dead would come back. After all, it is the nature of birds to die for food.

After waiting for a whole morning, I found that there was not even a shadow of a sparrow. The whole sky was extremely quiet.

Even some other birds that usually like to perch on the telephone poles were not seen today.

I think that after the big fight between the flower heads and the others here just now, the other birds nearby were frightened and they dared not come over.

But this is also a good thing. It is quiet here, and I don't have to be exposed to the sun and guard it here.

With Zhang An's family taking the lead, the villagers began to move the millet to the fields to dry, but they only moved the millet to the fields closest to the village entrance. It would not be cost-effective to move the millet farther away.

Zhang An's family had the most fields at the entrance of the village. Many family members came over to say hello and then pushed the grain over.

Zhang An's family certainly had no objection to this. Having someone come here to dry the millet was equivalent to helping them dig up some of the remaining millet stumps, and it also saved them a lot of trouble.

(End of this chapter)