Rebirth 96: Begin the life of a monster from kindergarten

Chapter 12 The First Snow
  At that time, few people raised dogs in the countryside because raising dogs wastes food.

Moreover, there are few truly wealthy households in the village who do not need to look after their homes or homes, and the doors do not even need to be locked at night.

The only family that keeps dogs is Zhang Xiaoyu's family.

But almost every household keeps cats. Cats rarely need to be fed because they can catch mice.

Xiaobai's arrival added a lot of vitality to the family.

Zhang Xiuxiu even watched less TV and would play with the cat in the yard when she had nothing to do.

"Brother, why haven't you caught the sparrow yet? Xiaobai is already hungry!"

Zhang Xiuxiu hugged Xiaobai and complained while pulling the cat's ears.

Zhang Yixing curled his lips, "Don't open the door and don't make any noise. If you make any noise, the sparrows will be scared away!"

After resting the bamboo basket and scattering some wheat grains, Zhang and his party took Zhang Xiuxiu back into the house.

Close the door, leaving only a crack to check the situation in the yard.

Zhang Yixing held a rope in his hand and slowly straightened the rope.

A short wooden stick is tied to the other end of the rope, which just holds up the bamboo basket.

"Stop making any noise, don't touch the door, stay away from the door!"

Turning around and giving instructions to Zhang Xiuxiu, Zhang Yixing leaned his eyes against the crack of the door and stared at the bamboo basket with all his attention.

When it's cold in winter, sparrows can't find food in the wild, so they often fly to the yard to look for food.

Almost every household raises chickens and pigs, and groups of sparrows can always find something to eat.

Just a few minutes later, a sparrow landed on the chicken coop in the yard without being disturbed, and then sparrows kept coming.

A few sparrows discovered the wheat grains in the yard, and looked around while jumping and pecking, very alert.

When Zhang and his party saw the sparrows approaching the basket, they immediately held their breath and signaled their sister to be quiet.

Zhang Xiuxiu nodded and pursed her lips nervously.

A sparrow jumped into the area covered by the bamboo basket, pecked it and jumped out. After repeating this several times, it felt at ease. Five sparrows soon gathered under the bamboo basket.

Seeing that it was almost done, Zhang and his party suddenly pulled the rope in their hands.

The stick was pulled out.

Just listen to the bamboo basket slamming onto the ground, and the sound of flapping wings can be heard from under the bamboo basket.

When the sparrows in the yard heard the noise, they all flew away in an instant.

Zhang and his party opened the door and ran to the bamboo basket. Through the holes in the bamboo basket, they saw two sparrows inside, and they bumped into each other in panic.

"Caught it! Got it!"

Zhang Xiuxiu also followed Xiaobai out and smiled happily when she saw the sparrows under the bamboo basket.

Zhang and his team lay on the ground, carefully opened the bamboo basket, only exposing a small gap, put their hands in, and grabbed two sparrows one after another.

Nowadays, sparrows are regarded as "pests" in rural areas because they eat grain and wheat seeds sown in the fields.

Moreover, no matter how small a sparrow is, it is still meat, and the roasted sparrow tastes good.

Zhang Yixing, as someone who had come before, had killed chickens and fish before, so he killed a sparrow without any psychological burden and placed it in front of Xiao Bai.

Although Xiaobai was only over a month old, he was much more wild than the pet cats that would only eat cat food in the future. After sniffing the sparrow, he bit it in his mouth, purring in his throat to protect the food.

Zhang and his party found another sparrow, tied its legs with a rope, and tied it to a chun tree, leaving Xiaobai to catch and play with it for a while.

Zhang Xiuxiu urged while watching Xiaobai eat, "Brother, let's catch a few more!"

Zhang Yixing shook his head and said, "I'll catch them another day. The sparrows are very angry. It's useless if there are too many. They can't be fed."

"Oh!"

Zhang Xiuxiu nodded and swallowed.

Zhang Yi Xing smiled helplessly and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the roof of the neighbor's house outside the wall.

The best way to catch sparrows is, of course, to dig out their nests at night.

The roofs in the village are all paved with tiles, and the outermost ring of tiles runs along the length of the wall, so the tile holes become good bird's nests, which are not afraid of wind and rain.

On winter nights, as long as you step on the ladder and dig casually, you can pull out sparrows from the bird's nest. You can pull out more than ten or twenty sparrows in one night. It's a pity that Zhang Guangzong already paid for it half a month ago, so no sparrows will come to build their nests here in a short time.

Xiaobai, who had already eaten and drank enough, was catching another sparrow.

Catch, release, catch again, release again, never tire of it.

Looking at the gloomy sky, Zhang and his party returned to the main room, where he planned to write two more articles.

Yesterday's weather forecast said there would be snow today, so it looked like it should be pretty accurate.

Sure enough, when Zhang Yixing finished writing the manuscript and sealed the envelope, he heard Zhang Xiuxiu's exclamation from the yard:

"It's snowing, it's snowing!"

Zhang and his party got down from their chairs and walked slowly to the yard.

The snowflakes were very big, falling like feathers.

Zhang Xiuxiu raised her head stupidly, stretched out her tongue to catch the snowflakes, and smacked her mouth after catching one.

The snowflakes fell on the ground and melted after a while, but as more and more fell, the ground was soon covered with a layer of white.

The red and blue tile roofs within the field of vision have also begun to be wrapped in new decorations.

This is the first snow in 1996.

"Brother, what are you singing?"

Zhang Xiuxiu suddenly turned around and asked.

The hum in Zhang Yixing's mouth disappeared immediately, and he chuckled: "I didn't sing anything."

It snows a lot now compared to many years ago.

After more than an hour, the snow quilt on the ground was enough to sink into cotton shoes.

Zhang and his party helped his sister build a half-meter-high snowman, and found coal blocks to make eyes for it. If there were no carrots, they inserted a corn cob into it as a nose.

Zhang Xiuxiu put her hands that were red from the cold to her mouth and breathed, "Let's give the snowman a name!"

Zhang Yixing said casually, "Then let's call him Snow King!"

Zhang Xiuxiu shook her head, with a look of disgust on her face, "No, if you don't call me little bastard, let's call you Dabai!"

She turned to Xiaobai and said, "Xiaobai, this is your brother Dabai."

Then he said to the snowman: "Dabai, that is your sister Xiaobai."

By evening, the snow finally stopped.

Li Hongyu came back from a visit and started preparing dinner.

Zhang Yixing and Zhang Xiuxiu were assigned to clear snow.

Except for the snowman, all the snow in the yard was piled under the poplar trees.

After sweeping the yard, I ran outside the gate to clean again until the road was cleared.

There are children shouting and screaming all over the village. Standing at the door, you can often see children chasing each other and having snowball fights at the intersection.

Zhang Xiuxiu looked at the group of children with envy, turned to Zhang Yixing and said pleadingly: "Brother, I want to have a snowball fight too!"

Zhang Yixing nodded, "Let's go, I'll take you there!"

Zhang Xiuxiu laughed, and suddenly felt courage all over her body.

Stepping on the creaking snow quilt, the two quickly rushed to the group of children.

There is no need to say hello to anyone, just grab the snow balls, form them into balls and fire everywhere.

The fighting continued like this for more than half an hour. Then some older children came out to organize into camps, and the fighting turned into a positional battle.

Everyone had a great time until they were called home for dinner by their family members.

Except Zhang Xiaoyu.

She was so squeamish that she cried when she was hit.

　Suddenly there were several new investments in one day. I don’t know where you found this book. Since I haven’t received a contract yet, there is no exposure. I’m confused. Who can tell me?

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)