My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 521 I want to see young people this year

Chen Ling smiled when he heard the words, "You, I have underestimated the fighting power of the raccoons. House cats catch mice and are passive and sabotage. When they feel scared, raccoons catch mice differently. They will only catch more and more fiercely, and there will be more mice. They grab harder.

  Come on, come and have a look. "

   As he spoke, Chen Ling picked up Ruirui and walked to the window of the east room.

At this time, groups of mice, big and small, were running along the walls, on the window sills, or on the big vat, jumping up and down everywhere, squeaking and screaming. Those little mountain raccoons were still in a hurry just now, but now they are one by one. He was calm and composed, and he didn't deliberately chase those mice. Every time he pounced close, one mouse was killed.

   After a while, the mice in the corner died.

  The little raccoons are becoming more and more proficient and calm, but their eyes and movements are becoming more and more fierce. Sometimes they attack alone, and sometimes they block a mouse.

   Crawling from east to west in the house, and then from west to east, the mouse can only escape, so how can it have the courage to fight back.

   This is just a three-month-old little raccoon.

  The little cat who grew up with dogs in the farm is even more powerful.

  It is not a little raccoon crossed with a domestic cat.

   It's from the most authentic mountain raccoon cub.

   Now that it has grown in size, it can really catch mice. Even mice jumping on the window sill cannot escape its pursuit.

   It made Yu Qi'an and Bai Huining exclaim in surprise.

   "Oh, this mountain raccoon is really powerful, don't tell me you can train cats even if you are rich?"

   "How about cat training, you have never seen a real mountain raccoon running in the wild. It is much better than this...Compared with this, the wild ones can't make up so many."

  Chen Ling remembered one summer evening when he was a child, just after dark, the family was eating dinner in the courtyard, when a mountain fox came to the house, squatting in the shadow on the wall, motionless.

  At that time, there was no electric light, and I couldn’t see anything, only the family dog ​​stretched the chain and barked non-stop.

  Chen Ling's grandma went to look outside the door several times, thinking that there was someone outside, but she didn't see anything.

  At that time, the dogs at home were used to keeping them on a leash, and they were prone to biting people, so they generally didn’t let them go.

   It wasn't until after dinner that Grandma Chen Ling took the leftovers bucket to feed the chickens, ducks and geese in the duck shed outside the courtyard, only to find out that many chickens, ducks and geese in the duck shed had been killed by foxes.

  The head of the big goose was bitten off, and the mountain raccoon is eating well.

   When Grandma Chen Ling saw it, she was so angry that she picked up the stick outside the duck shed and beat her.

  Seeing this, the thief cat shrank its neck and dodged it. Then it picked up the big headless goose and ran up the wall.

"No way, that's a big goose... To put it bluntly, the mountain raccoon is nothing more than a wild cat. It's okay to steal chickens and ducks, but he can do better than a big goose? And jumping on the wall with a big goose in his mouth? Why don't I believe it? ?”

  Yu Qi'an screamed suspiciously, as though I'm from the city, but don't lie to me.

   Bai Huining also opened her eyes and looked at Chen Ling. She simply liked listening to stories and found them interesting.

"There is nothing you can do if you don't believe it. Cui Zizi from the small shop in our village used to raise a lot of ducks. In order to take care of the ducks, he raised five or six big geese... These ducks and geese go to the reservoir or weir pond every day for watering. Go, when passing through the village, it is domineering. The big goose will rush up and pinch anyone who doesn't like it.

   It turned out that these big geese were all killed by mountain foxes in the same night.

   Not one was left for Cui Zizi.

  Cui Zizi said that the lack of food for the mountain raccoon to give birth to a cub was the worst time. "

   "Good guy, five or six big geese were killed, how did you all find out?"

   "It's simple. After knowing that there are ready-made prey here, this kind of little beast has tasted the sweetness once, and will come again in the future. Some are bold and even rush over the next day, several times a night.

  Our family was like this at that time. When we heard the dog barking the next day, we immediately lit a torch and shone it. The mountain raccoon was really squatting on the wall.

  After driving away, he came back in the middle of the night. The family was so angry that my father used the internal organs of chickens and ducks that died the day before as bait, and poisoned the thief cat to death. "

   "Hey~~ Uncle is really amazing."

  Chen Ling said that these are examples, and even before, more than ten or twenty big geese in the village were killed by mountain foxes.

   No exaggeration.

  In the final analysis, there is still a big gap between mountain foxes and domestic cats, because domestic cats are not the same as them, just like domestic rabbits and hares.

   Both domestic rabbits and domestic cats are actually from foreign breeds.

   Mountain raccoons are born and bred. They should actually be called leopard cats.

   Talking, Ruirui became fussy in Chen Ling's arms, twisted her small body and looked into the room.

   It turned out that the brat was having a good time watching it, but the fighting stopped inside.

   "Okay, okay, come down and have a look."

  Chen Ling put him down and opened the door of the east room. Inside was a field of dead mice. These litters were wiped out, and only the little raccoons were left to enjoy them leisurely.

   Seeing this pointing finger, Ruirui raised his head and smiled at Chen Ling: "Heihei, Jinjin."

   "Okay, if the kitten can't finish eating, give it to them both."

  Chen Ling straightened his clothes, but the brat didn't forget Heiwa Xiaojin.

   "Tsk tsk, this guy, it's really enjoyable to kill two or three hundred mice at once... These little mice seem to have just come out of the nest, and they were hooked out by the rat poison...

  When we go back, you also give me some points, and I will sprinkle it when I get home to see if there are any mice in the house, and it will kill all the mice.

   This rat poison is simply a rat killer, it can wipe them all out. "

   After watching the process of attracting mice, Yu Qi'an found it extremely enjoyable, and his heart was tickled.

  I want to bring back the rats that are hidden deep in my home.

  This kind of mentality is like watching a video of mite removal, feeling that his face is also covered with mites, and he wants to squeeze it too.

   You have to have fun to be satisfied.

   "I said rich, you can make a fortune selling rat poison in the future."

   "However, since Uncle Cunye has snake-attracting medicine, why didn't this mouse-attractor come out? I think it's about the same."

  The old boy was excited, and when he couldn't finish talking, he said one sentence after another.

  Chen Ling was speechless.

  What do you think is similar.

   Far from it.

   Really think this thing is just a difference in name?

   This is something he came up with after hundreds of thousands of experiments in the cave.

   That is, the effect can be quickly tested in the cave.

   If they were in the outside world, without that environment, many people would have to fumble for most of their lives.

   While chatting, I cleaned up the scattered mice in the east room, put them in snakeskin bags, and took them home to feed the dogs.

  As for the second bald man, he doesn't like to eat this stuff.

   At this time, they are still flying around with the pigeons.

  After the rats in the east room are dealt with, we will deal with the mice in the west room.

   It’s just that the raccoons are a little tired.

  Chen Ling arranged an 'electric cat', with thin wire nailed to the outside of the mouse hole, forming a long circle around it tightly.

  Chen Ling also sprinkled water around the wires, making them wet.

  Then sprinkled rat poison, and when the electricity was turned on, all the rats that came out were shocked to death.

  One counts as another, and all of them were shocked or convulsed, or their bodies tensed up, or suddenly stood up.

  On the wire, the mice are all close together like a bunch of candied haws.

   There were also those beside the wire, who were kicked in all directions by the electric shock in the water sprinkled by Chen Ling, and kept kicking their legs.

   This is more enjoyable than a cat catching a mouse.

  Yu Qi'an applauded and applauded, and Bai Huining didn't feel disgusted by the rats anymore, instead, they were refreshing and enjoyable.

   After Chen Ling turned off the switch and the rats were cleaned up and bagged, they went upstairs to lure the rats.

   "Well, you see, when there are more mice, the snakes come before the cats."

  As soon as he went up to the second floor, Chen Ling saw a dead snake outside the room, lying on its stomach beside the mouse hole, its belly bulging, and a bunch of ants had already attracted around it.

   "Ouch, this belly is so bloated, it's scary."

   "Well, it doesn't look good when it's dead, it was killed by a mouse."

  Chen Ling hummed, and kicked it into the yard.

   This snake probably came up because Gao Xiulan felt unsafe after weeding the grass, because many of the mouse holes in the grass are "snake and mouse nests", where snakes and mice live together.

   That is, a hungry snake, looking for food in the mouse hole.

   Often live in the fake hole of the mouse, eat when hungry, and sleep when full.

   "Now you know why my father-in-law has snake-attracting poison but not rat-attracting poison. They raise snakes, and they don't attract mice at home."

  Snakes are one of the few things that can get into a mouse hole to catch a mouse.

   "Ah, that's right, I suddenly understood what you said."

   "So, besides raising cats, raising snakes can also prevent mice."

   "It must be, let's go, copy these mouse nests quickly, and check the circuit later."

   "..."

  Because of the rat poison, Chen Ling and a group of foxes took all the rat holes in the yard in one go in half the morning.

  The dead rats filled most of the snakeskin bags.

   All were taken back by Chen Ling to feed the dogs.

   As for why not feed the cat?

  One is because they have small stomachs and cannot eat too much.

  The second reason is that in Chen Ling's house, cats are not as smart as dogs.

   It’s okay to feed dead rats to dogs, they know how to tell the difference between good and bad.

   Feed the cats dead mice. If they feed too much, they will eat dead mice when they see them outside.

  It is easy to eat poisonous rats that are killed by medicine.

   So I still don’t feed them.

  …

   I spent two consecutive days cleaning up in the county seat, tidying everything up, and even replaced the new door and window screens.

  Because many window screens were bitten by mice and there were holes everywhere.

  Of course, the main thing is to tidy up the bedrooms where you live and the kitchen where you eat.

   Only living and eating like this can be assured.

  Other things can be cleaned up slowly.

   After that, Wang Susu was taken over.

  Gao Xiulan just stays here for now, and Chen Ling rides a little green horse with Ruirui back and forth every day.

   There are two elder uncles and elder brothers watching at home.

  They have recently made a lot of money picking mushrooms, and they are not in a hurry to go back after school is about to start.

  Being able to help Chen Ling with chores and make money, kills two birds with one stone.

   In the past two years, the tuition fee for dolls to go to school has become more expensive every year.

  If they can save money, they are willing to save more.

  However, since the group of mushroom pickers have been walking frequently into the mountains recently, they discovered a terrible thing, that is, there are too many wild animals in the mountains this year.

   Wild boars are missing.

  But deer, muntjacs, and wild sheep all live in groups.

   Even wild monkeys are more than in previous years.

   This is certainly good for hunting in autumn and winter.

  But for the crops in the farmland, it is not very friendly.

  Especially the local autumn crops are mainly corn, which will emit a sweet smell when it is about to mature.

  People can't smell it, but the wild animals in the mountains can smell it ten miles away. If that guy doesn't take precautions in advance, the wild monkeys this year will be enough to cause everyone to drink a pot.

   Not to mention other wild animals.

  After telling Wang Laishun about this, he immediately called the villagers for a meeting, moved benches and seats in the open space of the primary school and Dayantang, and discussed the matter of "looking green" after autumn.

  The so-called "Kanqing" is also called "Huqing".

  It is to guard the fruiting and immature crops to prevent people from stealing or wild animals from harming them.

  Wang Laishun has been making fun of him in the village because of the incident at home these days, and there are no people who even sit and chat seriously.

  He was worried that he would not have a chance to find someone to sit with and ease this weird atmosphere.

   It's a good time to 'discuss' about seeing Qing.

  Look for Chen Ling, look for Wang Lixian, call the eldest son Wang Jusheng, and talk nicely with everyone, and negotiate well.

   also deliberately made a few small jokes in a funny tone.

  The villagers all knew what the old man was thinking, and they also hummed, responding without a word.

  No matter how Wang Laishun is, anyway, the matter of "Looking at Qing" will definitely be decided this year.

  So when the meeting ended, apart from discussing about "Looking at Qing" and asking what Wang Jusheng and the others were doing to make money recently, they just talked around Chen Ling.

   "Fugui, you are amazing. I have listened to you and sold the pigs early. Now, within a few days, the price of pigs has started to drop sharply. If you sell them later, you will definitely lose money."

  Wang Lishan giggled, his nose flushed with excitement.

  He is a big pig farmer in the village. Because of the flood, the purchase price of pigs changes every day. He really made a profit a few days ago.

   "It's what you said about not raising pigs in the second half of the year. I don't think it's a big deal. Anyway, I have to raise them every year, or I can raise some piglets."

   "Yup, if you lose money, don't blame me for not reminding you."

  Wang Lishan and Wang Lixian are brothers, so Chen Ling's tone was not polite, and he said whatever he wanted.

  After all, it is normal for the price of pigs to fluctuate. Country people keep pigs for a year or so, and they don’t feel the benefits after a long time.

   I don’t know how pessimistic the situation next year will be. Pork can’t be sold for ten yuan or three catties. It’s strange that raising pigs can make money.

  Wang Lishan just laughed when he heard this.

Chen Baoshuan listened to Chen Ling's words very much. Chen Ling told them not to raise more, so he really stopped thinking, and just asked in a low voice: "Fugui, do I still raise this fish? I see that Boss Sun has started to collect pigs. Is it because the fish are no longer good?" ah?"

  When Sun Yanhong's crayfish shop closed down, the village's aquatic products were also affected.

  Although the villagers do not raise many in their own ponds, the price is high and it is also a considerable income.

  It is much easier to earn than raising pigs.

   Chen Ling was taken aback when he heard the words, and then smiled: "Raise it, don't worry about raising it, this closure is not because of bad business, or because of a disaster, and it will be normal in the future."

   "Hey, that's fine. In fact, this matter is just asking you casually. It's okay if you can't raise it. The main thing is that we still want to drink with you. We dare not go when Susu is at home."

   "Yes, yes, yes, Wen Chao brought a lot of beer from the Huangni Town Brewery. Put your water tower on ice and drink it at night. It's very refreshing."

   "Well, when Baoshuan and Uncle Sangui were watering the fields, they picked up two old yellow quails and stewed them tonight. They are delicious with cold beer."

   "Old yellow quail?"

  Chen Ling just responded with a smile at first, but when he heard about the old yellow quail, he immediately regained his energy. Thinking about the taste of the old yellow quail he ate last time, he almost drools.

   "Okay, come to my house tonight, where is Xiaochao, I'll put the beer on ice first."

  (end of this chapter)