Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 58

After Zhang Yun left Yuantang, he didn't take this matter to heart. He went to the Qingling River to gather pigweed, and then hurried home. After cooking dinner, everyone quickly ate it. After packing up, it was already dark, so they brought a stack of bow clips, hoes, flints, torches, and some corn dough fried in oil. Rush to the field.

Zhang Youqing didn't let Zhang Liangen come with him. He had to wait in the field for a long time to catch the field mice, and he would not come back until midnight.

When rushing all the way to the field, Zhang Xing was the happiest. Yesterday he thought he couldn't follow, but today when Zhang Zhang shouted, he immediately cheered up and followed.

Zhang Youqing took his son and daughter on the field ridge road, and met many villagers. This season, the wheat seedlings in the field are about to be raised, and it is the time when voles love to come and go, so all the villagers are thinking of ways to come to the field. Catch the voles, lest the food in the field suffer.

The members of the Zhang family soon arrived at their own land. Zhang Youqing put all the bow holders on the ridge of the field, and then gave an order, everyone grabbed a few bows and held them in their hands, and then dispersed one after another. In the grass beside the ridge, look for holes and soil holes. As long as there are rat droppings near the holes or soil holes, or there are many broken branches and leaves, it is basically a rat hole.

A few people searched with their heads down, and as soon as they found a mouse hole, they pulled out the weeds at the hole, or if there were old grass roots that couldn't be pulled up, they carefully shoveled them off with hoes, trying not to make too much noise, lest the voles run away upon hearing the wind , Don't dare to come out again.

After removing the weeds and grass roots, insert the bow clip into the mud in front of the hole, break off a small piece of fried corn dough, put it in the center of the bow clip, check whether the bow clip is inserted firmly, and then People can retreat.

Several members of Zhang's family searched all the ridges of their several acres of land. Before they could search all the fields, it was already dark, and they couldn't see the rat hole clearly. Followed behind his buttocks, looking for it little by little.

There was only one torch, and Zhang Yun, Zhang Zhang, and Zhang Xing divided the labor and cooperated. As soon as Zhang Youqing saw a mouse hole, Zhang Zhang went up to pull the weeds and hoe the roots, while Zhang Yun held the bow holder and waited for him to clean it up. Insert it in the mud, and Zhang Xing is responsible for setting the bait. This way, it arrives very quickly, and it doesn't take much time before it is all in place.

After setting up all the traps, everyone can go back to the ridge and wait for the voles to come out to eat the bait. In order to prevent the voles from breaking out of the bow clip or knocking down the bow clip, they usually have to wait by the ground and check from time to time. For a moment, if the bait in front of any bow clip is missing, the bow clip must be replaced and the mechanism must be reset.

In fact, to be honest, after setting up the mechanism, as long as one person stays down to watch, the rest will go back, but how can a few small ones miss such a rare opportunity to go out at night, one by one insists on staying on the ground, unwilling go back.

After the members of Zhang’s family got on the field ridge, they walked towards the big locust tree a few steps away. It was still very cold at night in early spring, so they didn’t dare to just stay on the field ridge like this. Instead, they found a big tree to lean against. Avoid the wind.

When he got under the locust tree, Zhang Zhang said, "Father, we will be busy in the fields tomorrow, so you should go back earlier, we can just stay here."

Zhang Youqing turned his head to look at his son and daughter, and couldn't help but smile on his face, "You guys, it's not for hunting voles, it's just for fun, but after playing for fun, you have to be careful, it will be so cold at night that your teeth will chatter , but don’t let it freeze, you know.”

As soon as I heard that my father said yes, the three brothers and sisters had no reason not to agree, so they obediently agreed, and Zhang Xing went up to flatter me and said: "Father, we all know, you can go back at ease, lie down in the warm bed and rest. Let's go."

Zhang Youqing grinned, stretched out his hand to scratch Zhang Xing's head, and said with a smile, "You have to listen to elder brother and don't run around." Zhang Xing nodded repeatedly, and Zhang Youqing then handed the torch to Zhang Zhang, and walked quickly with the hoe on his back went.

As soon as father left, the Zhang family brothers and sisters happily squatted under the old locust tree. They all had the feeling that there were no tigers in the mountains and monkeys were called kings. The adults were not around, so they could do whatever they wanted, but in fact, they didn’t do anything else. What's the matter, just enjoying the feeling of freedom when no one is in charge of coming out at night, this alone is enough for them to be happy.

The three brothers and sisters squatted under the tree, all huddled together, but they still felt a little cold. After a while, Zhang Zhang stood up and said, "You guys stay here. I'll go and gather some firewood. Let's make a fire." , can also be roasted, so you don’t have to dry it and freeze it.”

When Zhang Yun and Zhang Xing heard this, they all said it was a good idea, and they agreed with a smile. Zhang Zhang ran forward holding the torch. Once the torch was gone, there were shadows all around, the wind blew the branches and leaves swaying, and the ground swayed. The wheat seedlings in the garden were blown by the wind and made a rattling sound, as if something was crawling all over their bodies. The siblings felt a little hairy in their hearts, and shrank their bodies into a ball.

Today is the third day of junior high school, the crescent moon in the sky is like a thread, it will almost disappear, and the remaining ray of light will fall, so that the surroundings will not fall into the darkness where you can't see your fingers. The moonlight can shine on the body, so it is not so scary.

At this time, Zhang Zhang also came back, holding a whole bunch of branches and leaves in his arms, and threw them all on the ground when he ran up. After that, he inserted the torch in his hand heavily into the mud, picked up the branches and leaves, and interlaced the branches and leaves. Finally, with a flint, start lighting from the leaves.

The dry leaves were burning at once, the whistling cold wind passed by, and the tiny flames shook violently. They were afraid that the flames would be blown out, so they hurried up to block some wind, so that the flames could rise smoothly and slowly become more and more prosperous. The branches were also ablaze.

After the fire was burning well, they were not afraid of the wind blowing it out, so the brothers and sisters retreated a little to the side, squatted down, warmed up the fire, and chatted with each other.

After squatting for a while, my legs felt numb. The brothers and sisters got up one after another, stomping their feet, jumping their feet, and their feet were all numb.

"Your feet will go numb after squatting like this. Wait for me." Zhang Zhang ran forward again after speaking, and his back disappeared into the darkness after a while.

Zhang Yun and Zhang Xing didn't know what he was doing. Although their feet were not so numb, they were still jumping around there. There was really nothing to play, so they could have fun for a while.

Zhang Zhang quickly turned his head this time, and when he ran to the fire, Zhang Yun and Zhang Xing turned their heads and saw that he came back with a bosom full of dry straw.

"Brother, where did you find this?" Zhang Yun couldn't help asking curiously.

Zhang Zhang ran over and threw the straw on the ground beside the fire. He was squatting down and laying it out. Hearing Zhang Yun's question, he said, "Aren't there scarecrows planted in the land of Uncle Dacheng's house? I started from there." I brought it from the side."

"Brother, did you dismantle that scarecrow?" Zhang Yun blurted out, Zhang Zhang hurriedly turned around, booed her, and then pointed around, signaling her to be careful not to be heard.

Seeing his eldest brother like this, Zhang Yun couldn't help laughing with a "poof", and Zhang Xing also laughed hahaha. Several people were enjoying themselves, when suddenly a voice came from behind: "Oh, you dismantled the scarecrow of Dacheng's family. But I heard it, be careful and I told him to go."

The Zhang family brothers and sisters were taken aback by this sudden coldness, they all turned their heads to look at the place where the sound came from. There was a pair of shining eyes in the darkness, and soon the owner of the eyes ran to the light. Chang Juan, she purposely spoke with a thick throat, so no one recognized her voice.

"Hahaha, I must have scared you." Chang Juan burst out laughing as soon as she ran over, delighted at her own prank.

"Okay, you eavesdropper, I won't hit you." Seeing Chang Juan laughing wildly, Zhang Yun couldn't help stretching out his hand to grab her arm, as if he wanted to hit her for revenge.

Chang Juan jumped away in a few steps, still laughing and said: "I am an eavesdropper, aren't you also rice thieves?

Naturally, Zhang Yun wasn't really angry, but was just making trouble with her. Hearing her description like this, his face couldn't hold back, and a series of laughter burst out, and Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xing also laughed.

"Okay, okay, stop laughing, if you keep on laughing, the voles will be scared away by you." After laughing for a while, Zhang Zhang raised his hand and waved at them, telling them to stop laughing so that they would not be surprised. If the field mouse is killed, then the night will be in vain.

After hearing this, Zhang Yun and Chang Juan slowly stopped laughing. Their stomachs hurt a little now, and they all sat down on the paved straw in discouragement, and rubbed their stomachs.

After the two of them took a breather, Zhang Yun asked, "It's already this hour, why are you here?"

"Ah, look at me, I forgot why I came here." Hearing Zhang Yun's question, Chang Juan's body, which was a little crooked, immediately stood up, turned her face to Zhang Yun, Zhang Zhang and the others, and said, "I I also came out to catch voles. I was just on the other side of the field, and when I saw the fire here, I ran over to see if I knew someone. As soon as I ran over, I heard your voices, but I forgot when I got into a commotion. I came here to call you over to watch us hunt voles."

As Chang Juan spoke, she jumped up, reached out and grabbed Zhang Yun's hand, pulled her up vigorously, and urged her repeatedly: "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, let's go over and see, they are very good at catching voles." Shouting in his mouth, seeing that Zhang Yun hadn't gotten up yet, he simply squatted down, reached out and hugged her waist, trying to drag her up.

When Chang Juan hugged her hand like this, Zhang Yun felt itchy, and twisted her whole body. She pushed her hand with a smile, and hurriedly said, "Don't, don't, it's so itchy. I'll get up by myself, don't pull it!" " After Zhang Yun twisted for a while, Chang Juan let go of her hand and stood up by herself, Zhang Yun immediately supported her hand and stood up too.

"Don't worry, wait, let me look at the bait first to see if any of them have been eaten." Seeing Chang Juan waving her hand to tell them to follow quickly, Zhang Zhang said a few words, and immediately stretched out her hand to pull out the bait. He took out the torch stuck in the mud, took some bow clips, and ran to his own field.

Seeing that the elder brother ran to check, Zhang Yun hurriedly grabbed Chang Juan, and said, "Let's wait until my elder brother goes over together, and there is no rush." ​​Although Chang Juan was impatient, she did not know how to measure Yes, after hearing what Zhang Yun said, he stopped in his tracks, waited for Zhang Zhang to come over, and walked over together.

(End of this chapter)