Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 59

Zhang Zhang turned back after a while, and when he ran over, he picked up some mud and extinguished the fire, and then ran towards Zhang Yun and the others with a torch.

Seeing Zhang Zhang approaching, Chang Juan quickly pulled Zhang Yun forward, Zhang Xing followed behind them, and Zhang Zhang walked at the end, holding a torch to illuminate them, and still did not forget to order: "You go Slow down, watch your step, don't step into the ditch."

Chang Juan responded, but she didn't slow down under her feet. Zhang Yun was pulled by her, so naturally she couldn't slow down, so she could only look at her feet as much as she could, and followed Chang Juan all the way.

The land of Chang Juan’s family is connected with Chang Tiemu and Chang Tieli’s. When the three brothers separated, their father and mother divided it and gave it to them respectively. More than ten mu of land is not far from Zhang Yun's family, so it's time to walk about two sticks of incense.

"Brother Mingzi, Brother Liangzi, Brother Manzi, look, who did I bring here?" Chang Juan yelled loudly before reaching the Chang's land, and the Chang family's cousins ​​all turned their heads, Shine your torches on them.

"Cheng Zi, do you also catch voles?" Chang Ming was standing on the ridge of the field, and when he saw Zhang Zhang and the others, he asked with a smile.

"Well, we set up a bow clip, but we haven't caught it yet." Zhang Zhang replied, and the bottom speeded up, and a group of people walked towards Chang Ming and the others.

Zhang Yun just heard about Chang Man, and her feet were stagnant, but being pulled by Chang Juan, she couldn't back up, so she could only follow. Thinking that there are so many people around, it shouldn't be a problem.

Chang Man and Chang Liang standing in the ground stopped their hands at this time and looked towards them. Chang Ming held up the torch in his hand and illuminated Chang Man and Chang Liang. When Chang Man raised his head, the flames would be on fire. Reflected into his eyes, in the sparkling pupils, flames were jumping, as if they were burning.

This pair of pupils shining with flames was facing Zhang Yun's eyes, and suddenly felt that the flames seemed to spread towards her, a hot air rushed straight up from her neck, and her ears seemed to be buzzing, Zhang Yun I was startled, and hurriedly lowered my eyes, avoiding his sight.

As soon as his eyes were lowered, Zhang Yun took a few deep breaths to adjust his breath so that he could calm down.The two only exchanged glances, after which Chang Man lowered his head and continued to hunt voles.

Watching them catching voles, Zhang Cheng took a few steps forward with interest, shone the torch into the ground, and looked carefully. Naturally, Zhang Xing would not lag behind, and went straight to his elder brother. Chang Juan saw Zhang Yun standing Without moving, he pulled her and pulled her to the front.

Zhang Yun didn't want his mind to be disturbed, so he simply put his mind on catching voles, and half stretched his body together to see how they caught voles.

Just now, Chang Mingzhao saw a hole in the earth, pointed at the hole, and shouted, "Quick, here, there's one over here."

Chang Ming yelled, and Chang Liang, who was carrying a bucket and a hoe in his hand, quickly stepped over, put down the bucket, and used the hoe to hoe off the weeds and old grass roots around the hole two or three times, then quickly put down the hoe and picked up the bucket , lifted the bottom of the bucket with one hand, poured the water in the bucket straight into the soil hole, and Chang Man, who was beside him, had already come over, and the shrimp net in his hand covered the soil hole all at once. up.

Both of them moved very quickly, and they cooperated just right. As soon as Chang Man's shrimp net was covered, there was a sharp squeaking sound from the hole, which was the scream of a field mouse being rushed out of the water.

At this time, Chang turned his hands around, picked up the shrimp net, and put all the voles into the shrimp net. Most of the water poured into the hole was poured into the shrimp net. It is like a dustpan, in the shape of a bucket, and the voles in it can't get out at once, they can only struggle in the water with creaking noises.

Chang Man didn't give them a chance to crawl out at all. As soon as he picked up the net, he quickly stretched out the shrimp net and moved towards another wooden barrel beside Chang Ming. This wooden barrel was covered with a wooden board. As soon as the shrimp net approached, Chang Ming He lifted the wooden board suddenly, and the shrimp net in Changman's hand was turned upside down. The voles in it were poured into the bucket together with the sewage, and the wooden board was covered back immediately. The voles were stuck in the bucket and could not climb out. Before long, it will drown in the water.

This series of actions were done in one go, the cousins ​​of the Chang family had a tacit understanding, Zhang Yun and the others came over for a while, and destroyed three soil holes in a row, which made the three brothers and sisters of the Zhang family amazed. Head to head talking in whispers, they all said their method was better, it was much more stable, accurate and ruthless than their bow clips, with this method, the voles couldn't escape if they wanted to, and couldn't hide if they wanted to, so they had to suffer to death.

"How about it, isn't it amazing?" Chang Juan was amazed when she saw the three brothers and sisters of Zhang's family chatting, and couldn't help laughing smugly.

"How did you come up with this idea? With this good idea, we don't have to worry about not being able to catch voles in the future." Zhang Zhang really felt that it was amazing, so he hurriedly asked Chang Juan for advice, not afraid of losing face at all.

"Brother Manzi thought of this. It just so happens that he has a shrimp net, so he wanted to try it tonight. I didn't expect it to work." Chang Juan replied with a smile. When Zhang Zhang, Zhang Yun, and Zhang Xing heard it, they couldn't help All set their sights on Chang Man.

Before the three brothers and sisters of the Zhang family came, the cousins ​​of the Chang family had already caught a lot of voles, and they had searched all the fields for a while, but they couldn't find any new holes in the soil, so they simply stopped and put the hoes and wooden barrels After collecting it, I took it and prepared to step onto the field ridge.

At this time, Chang Ming lifted the board covering the wooden barrel, took a torch to shine a light inside, and saw that a dozen or twenty voles floating on the water were all stiff and motionless, and seemed to be dead, so he picked up the bucket and He turned around and walked into the field, preparing to pour the voles and sewage into the wheat seedling field, and then let them rot naturally and turn them into fertilizer.

Zhang Yun glanced over and saw that Chang Ming was about to turn the bucket upside down and dumped the vole, so he hurriedly shouted, "Don't dump the vole."

When Zhang Yun yelled, Chang Ming stopped the movements of his hands, turned to look at her, and she hurriedly said: "It would be a pity if the field mouse was dumped, we can dig out the belly, burn it up and eat it, it tastes good Yes." I think that when she traveled to Fujian, she ate the vole feast cooked in the restaurant there. Chicken', there is Ninghua County over there, and the local specialty is dried voles, which is famous in southern Fujian.

Zhang Yun felt it was a pity in his heart, so he blurted it out like this, and people would react as soon as the words came out. If these words were said in modern times, it would be nothing. Modern people have never heard of any weird things. In ancient times, voles were in their minds, but they were harmful rats, pickles that had been hidden in filthy holes all day long, how could they enter them, everyone was stunned by these words.

It's a pity that by the time Zhang Yun realized it, it was already too late. What she said was like splashed water, and she couldn't take it back. She felt her scalp go numb, and she glanced at everyone present, and everyone looked at him strangely. Looking at her, it's all right now, how should she explain her sudden whimsy.

Zhang Yun felt a dull pain in his head, and when he didn't know how to speak, someone suddenly spoke first, "It's true, voles are really delicious."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes turned, and they all turned to Chang Man who said these words. Under everyone's gaze, Chang Man stepped over, took the wooden bucket in Chang Ming's hand, and shook it towards everyone. , Said: "If you don't believe me, try it."

Now, everyone looked at Chang Man dubiously, and then turned to look at Zhang Yun, not knowing whether they should believe this or not.

"Brother Manzi, since when have you eaten voles? Otherwise, how would you know it's delicious?" Chang Juan was the most active among the group of people, and she immediately got to the point. When she asked this question, several other people agreed. Nodding his head, he felt that it was impossible for Chang Man to have eaten voles, so how could he know whether it was delicious or not.

"No one in our village eats it. It doesn't mean that no one in other villages eats it. When I went to my grandma's house when I was a child, my aunt mentioned that voles are delicious." Chang Man said seriously.

"Auntie? Is it the aunt who lives in the village behind Qingtunling? Didn't she die a few years ago?" After all, Chang Ming is a little older, and he knows more relatives in his family. Chang Manniang's natal family Relatives also know a few. The aunt he mentioned came to Tuntian Village when he was a child, and he met several times, but he hasn't been here in recent years. It is said that he has been away for several years.

"Well, it's gone now. These words were all mentioned when she was here. Since my aunt said that I ate it, the voles are naturally edible. Don't worry, I will be the first to taste it after it burns. That's it." Chang Man saw that they were still worried, so he simply tried his best and let them see it with their own eyes, so they can feel relieved.

After saying this, several people in the room believed it a little bit, and Chang Ming said: "You have already said that, then let's take it back and burn it to try."

"You don't need to take it back and burn it. It happens that we are all here now. We just dug out the belly, lit a fire and roasted it to eat. It tastes better." Zhang Yun thought about it, the field mice in his house have not been dealt with, and there is nothing to do at night It happened to be roasted voles, and she was also afraid that they would still dare not try it after they took it back, and they would throw it away in the end and waste it in vain. It would be safer to sacrifice it to the temple of the five internal organs and eat it in their stomachs.

When Zhang Yun made such a proposal, several people present reluctantly nodded in agreement. Zhang Yun hurriedly ran over to pick up the wooden barrel in Chang Man's hand, and said in his mouth: "Then let me dig out the stomach, brother, Gather more sticks to light the fire."

After Zhang Yun finished giving instructions, Zhang Zhang, Chang Ming, and Chang Liang started to move, turning around to look for Chai Zhi. Zhang Yun ran to Chang Man, stretched out his hand, and Chang Man handed her the barrel.

Zhang Yun took the wooden barrel, and when he turned around, he just turned his head to one side, and let out a sigh of relief, as if he was relaxed. This inadvertent movement made her understand instantly, Chang Man didn't know whether the field mouse was delicious or not. He lied and covered up the unreasonable gaffe for her.

"He trusts me so much, he dares to say that he is the first to taste it, and he is not afraid of what will happen if he eats the voles?" Zhang Yun thought silently, looked at Chang Man's side face, and only paused for a moment. He looked away, turned around and stepped on the ridge.

(End of this chapter)