My 1995 Small Farm

   "Huh? Sheep, sheep, eat little egrets?"

   Chen Ling looked like I heard right.

   It's surprising that my uncle can say such a thing.

   "Brother, don't make trouble, no matter how wild my sheep are, they won't eat those chicks that have just hatched, right? Maybe they ran up to lick the salt and eat them."

   "I'm not talking nonsense, look, they have stuck their heads into the nests made by egrets, how could they be licking salt..."

  Wang Qingwen said with a serious face that he had seen a lot of strange things at Chen Ling's house, and when he saw such a scene, he couldn't help but think things in an unreasonable direction.

   In fact, I didn't see clearly what they were eating.

   While talking, Wang Qingwen still raised his head, shining a flashlight on the cliff, and let Chen Ling look.

"Some sheep in our mountains eat eggs and chickens. We have seen it before, and my father also said that there were pregnant ewes in the stockade who hid in the mountains and gave birth to lambs. After giving birth, their temperaments changed drastically. Eating is scary."

  He said this did happen.

  Chen Ling also knew something.

  Some people who don't give birth to lambs also have this situation.

   It may be due to extreme hunger, stress, or some kind of disease.

   In short, there are still occasional cases.

  In addition to sheep, cattle, horses and donkeys will also have this situation.

   Such as some severe cold places.

  Like Iceland near the North Pole, where people raise horses, in order to survive the severe winter, they also feed the horses some meat, such as salvaged fish, to supplement their nutrition.

  The horse will also feast on it.

   Such things are not many, and they are not very common.

   But there are still.

   It just sounds a little weird.

   "Well, these sheep put their heads in the egret's nest, but I didn't see them eating the little egret."

  Chen Ling looked up and saw that the mountains to the west of the farm had almost no **** at all. They were all 90-degree steep cliffs, standing up and down like knives and axes.

  People can't stand up at all.

   But these flocks, big and small, can go up, scattered on the cliffs on the protruding rocks, bleating, and poking their heads to eat something in the egret's nest.

   From time to time, they fight each other a few times, eating very happily.

   But Chen Ling could clearly see that these sheep were not eating the little egret.

   It's something inside the egret's nest, messy, like a clump of weeds, and some crop seedlings mixed in.

   Being scrambled and eaten by the sheep.

   "咩咩~"

  It was getting dark, and listening to the cheers of the sheep on the cliff, Chen Ling and his uncle took a look, and then Su Ligai and the two people from Shengtai also came out.

  Chen Ling asked them to guard here.

  He took Erhei and a few other male dogs around the back hill to drive the sheep.

   By the way, explore the situation on the cliff.

  The dogs that grew up in Chen Ling's family were naturally much smarter than other dogs.

  The female dog at home is about to give birth, and these little male dogs have been busy recently, catching mice, hares, mountain birds, hedgehogs and so on, they will bring them back to eat.

   This is also a bit wolfish.

  When the female wolf is pregnant, other members of the wolf pack will bring food back for her.

   Naturally, if you have other people in your heart, you will be distracted when looking after the flock.

  In addition, Zhao Yubao and the others often hang around here recently. The two old men like to let their own lamb follow Chen Ling's flock, saying that this is conducive to the growth of the lamb.

  So Erhei felt that they had fewer tasks, and they all started looking for prey to show courteousness to the little bitches.

  …

   "Wow woof!"

  As soon as he went around the back mountain, Erhei led the dogs and rushed to the sheep on the cliff and yelled.

  The flock of sheep got used to the management of the dogs in the farm, and immediately raised their heads in unison. In the dark night, they shook their green eyes and barked 'baaaa'.

  Wang Qingwen followed closely, and with a flash of the flashlight, the pair of green eyes became even brighter.

   "Good guy, these sheep can really climb, what kind of places are they picked?"

   "No way, goats are much wilder than sheep, and they run around after being kept for a long time."

  Goats are playful.

  Being more active than sheep since childhood, he likes climbing up and down.

  If they have been raised since childhood, let alone.

  It doesn't.

  Without the guard of the dog, I climbed the cliff without seeing it for a while.

  It gets dark early and quickly in the mountains. It is impossible for people and dogs to pass such a steep mountain wall.

   Fortunately, these sheep knew they were going home when they saw the dogs coming.

   One by one, they stuck to the cliff, jumping down and down in a posture that made people's heart tremble.

   This is true of the big sheep, and so is the lamb.

  Everyone is a master rock climber.

  The two shone with flashlights, watched the flock of sheep bleating, and jumped down step by step.

  Chen Ling asked his uncle to go back and drive the sheep back to the pen, and then he took Erhei to the side of the mountain lake and went up the cliff to see the situation.

   After entering the forest, the egrets were very alert.

With a flashlight, almost every nest has just hatched little egrets, some with only one, some with two, and some with all hatched, four or five together, all naked, without a few hairs on their bodies, It's also ugly.

   Before he could take a second look, the great egret spread its wings and quacked, its eyes were fierce, and it looked like it would attack Chen Ling at any time.

  Chen Ling didn't bother to look at them any more, beat the grass with a bamboo stick, and limped around to the side of the cliff. As soon as he got here, Er Hei twitched his nose vigorously.

   Sometimes I raise my neck and twitch to the sky twice, sometimes I bury my head in the grass like a pig, sniffing hard against the ground.

  Suddenly.

  It yelled 'Wow'.

   Trotted around some huge rocks, yelling at the nearest egret nest.

  Chen Ling came over with a flashlight to take a look.

   I saw a deep stone cave just under the rock next to Bailu Cave, on this half of the road.

  The hole is about the size of a basketball.

   Some paw prints remain on the outer edge of the hole.

  The surrounding here is not bare, there are some small trees, vines and weeds, sandwiching several common crop seedlings, and there is air-dried manure between the seedlings.

   Surrounded by grotesque rocks, they are covered by vines and weeds.

   That is to say, the entrance of the cave is on the side of Lake Yamanaka, in a depression, which is a shelter from the wind.

   Walking four or five meters east from the entrance of the cave, you will find a large number of egret nests scattered on the outside of the cliff.

   After looking at the entrance of the cave and the paw prints outside the cave a few times, Chen Ling went to see what was the mystery of those egret nests, which attracted the flock of sheep to eat inside.

  He went over with a flashlight and took a closer look.

   Then he was surprised to find that these egrets' nests were still abandoned. After the previous egrets were killed by eagles, no new egrets moved in, but the family had seen egrets living here before.

   Around the egret's nest, some green wheat seedlings and sorghum seedlings are lush. In some nests, due to the accumulation of soil, some wheat seedlings, peanut seedlings, and some melon seedlings have grown, and many vines have grown.

   "I'll go, it's okay to grow watermelons on vines here, why are there so many crops growing up, and egrets don't eat these things."

   These waterfowl rarely eat things like crop seeds.

   So neither in the nest nor in the dung.

   "Huh? No, the cave and the paw prints, and the wheat and sorghum here..."

  Chen Ling suddenly had a flash of light in his mind: "I understand, this is probably the thing that digs holes in the cornfield."

  At noon, Zhao Yubao went back and brought back a note, on which he wrote down several possibilities that Han Ninggui said.

   Among them, the badger is the most suspected.

  At first, Chen Ling believed too much.

  Badgers can hibernate, but unlike voles, they are not good at storing winter food.

   Later, I read what Han Ninggui and Zhao Yubao said.

   Said yes if it was a badger.

  The hole in the cornfield is its temporary hole, the hole used to find food.

  Compared with the caves where people live and spend the winter all year round, it is deeper and more complicated.

  This kind of temporary hole is like a temporary stronghold, straight and very short.

  So after filling with water, it can overflow.

   Those grains are just what they eat within two or three days.

   It is not grain storage.

   "His grandma's paw print is not much different from a badger. It must be a badger. No wonder I didn't go back after waiting for a few days. I thought I was afraid of dogs.

   It turned out to be a temporary hole. "

  Chen Ling cursed, feeling that he had wasted a lot of affection.

  Looking at the surrounding egret nests, "This group of birds is really miserable. Eagles eat them, foxes eat them, foxes eat them, and earth leopards eat them. Now the badgers are coming too."

and…

   There should be quite a few badgers.

   Definitely not one or two, otherwise there wouldn't be so much food left here to take root and sprout.

  Chen Ling thought, Erhei was still barking at the entrance of the cave.

  In addition to his meddling in other people's business, this little idiot is just a bit stubborn, following the nature of a black boy with a yellow head and a yellow head.

   It is usefully called that though.

  Chen Ling stepped on a few stones from the cliff, walked down carefully, walked between the shallow depressions of several huge rocks, and stared at the cave under the rocks.

Under Erhei's persistent barking, a pair of round eyes in the dark cave shone brightly, like little raccoons, you squeezed me, I squeezed you, screaming in panic and anger , Chen Ling can see it with a flashlight.

   There are probably five or six of them, large and small.

   "Good guy, there are still a few brats, they didn't run away now, the culprit is you."

  Chen Ling had sharp eyes, and seeing the obvious difference in appearance between these little things and the Badgers, he knew that the Badgers hadn't escaped.

   Badgers are actually much weaker than badgers.

  It is also not as irritable and irritable as the badger.

   And the digestion ability is not as good as the badger.

  The little badger is even more incomparable.

  The digestive capacity of the stomach is weaker.

  So the seeds of the feces belt germinate and grow everywhere.

   "Tsk tsk, I really didn't expect that those who came up to chase the sheep found a litter of badgers."

  Chen Ling's stunned heart had now turned into joy.

   "Brother Fugui, are you there? I heard the dog barking."

   "It's me, are you changing shifts?"

   "That's right, it's been a few days since the little cranes came out of their shells when they changed shifts for dinner. We feed fish to the red-crowned cranes all day these days. It knows we don't have any malicious intentions, so it's no longer so vigilant against us."

   "Good thing, good thing."

   "Hahaha, yes, we are quite proud... What are you doing here at night, looking for scorpions?"

   "No, it's not scorpions, it's a nest of badgers, I'm stuck here."

   "Huh? Badger?"

  When a group of people heard that this was a novelty, they hurried over.

   Chen Ling told them what it was, and a group of people started yelling.

   "Wow, is this the one written by Mr. Lu Xun who steals melons? It looks so strange."

   "Yeah, when I learned from Runtu, I thought this thing had the same fur all over its body. It looked like an otter. I didn't expect it to look like this."

   "How do you get this thing? Do you want to grab it and eat it?"

   "Don't eat it, catch it back and give it to the baby to play with for a few days, and let it go after playing... The main thing is not to let them make holes near my Zhuangzi."

  There is a saying that the embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed by ant nests.

  Chen Ling was very wary of badgers and badgers digging holes in his own territory.

  The farm is a good place, attracting many wild animals.

  If these tunnel-digging experts are allowed to do harm here, the foundation will be easily destroyed.

and.

   Once they dug, they can reach a depth of ten meters or twenty meters, and they usually don't notice it.

   Once there is heavy rain, or an earthquake or something, it is not a trivial matter.

   Those who don’t understand may not take it seriously.

  He and Wang Lixian had seen the power of this thing last year.

  The sheds of Wang Lixian's family were all destroyed by this thing.

  The cave dug below is larger than a house, and there are dozens of badgers living there. The destructive power is simply terrifying.

  Badgers are not as fierce as Badgers, but their ability to dig holes is not weak.

  Chen Ling wouldn't dare to let them dig holes everywhere.

   "Then how to catch it? Do you want to smoke?"

   "No, this hole is also a temporary hole for them to catch egrets. It is very short and can be hooked out with an iron hook."

  Chen Ling smiled, and waved at Erhei, "Go back and bring the iron hook and wire rope."

  Erhei was more excited than ever when he heard that there was a mission. He ran down the mountain with his tail up and barking.

   After a while, a thick and long iron hook and wire rope were brought up.

  Of course Ermao and their little male dogs were following behind, also holding a few sections of steel wire rope.

   The provincial and Taiwan people were dumbfounded.

   "Good guy, are all your dogs so smart? I thought only Heiwa Xiaojin was the best."

  Everyone knows that Hei Wa is the king of dogs.

  In addition, dogs with intelligence and human nature have different eyes.

  Heiwa Xiaojin has that extraordinary temperament.

   "Hey, dogs lead dogs, excellent students lead poor students, poor students have to learn two tricks, don't you think so?"

  Chen Ling smiled and didn't care.

  Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then laughed too, thinking that Chen Ling's statement was novel.

   Then he helped Chen Ling hold the flashlight and shine it.

  Their bright flashlights are used by the public, and they are much stronger than Chen Ling's flashlights.

  It shone into the badger's hole, and the inside was illuminated like daytime.

   "Look, they're digging in, trying to dig a hole and get away."

  Someone exclaimed, but the badgers in the cave sensed the danger and didn't dare to run out, so they turned around together and used their sharp claws to dig in desperately.

   "Haha, don't be afraid of it running away. The place they chose is full of rocks, and they can't dig through it in ten and a half months."

  Chen Ling smiled, grabbed the long iron hook and hooked it in, and immediately hooked a badger's hind leg. At this time, he had to use skill.

  It was like picking an eel. When the badger instinctively retracted his legs, he pulled it out quickly, and a badger pouted its **** with a white tail and was hooked to the entrance of the hole.

  Chen Ling stepped on its hind legs, and also on its front shoulders and head, making it immobile.

   Then take the wire rope and wrap it around its legs to avoid being scratched by the sharp claws.

  Wait until this badger is **** and rolls and struggles in the grass.

   Someone yelled in a hurry: "A badger came out, it is so fierce, it wants to bite people."

  Chen Ling saw that when everyone was yelling to escape, the group of dogs had already rushed up and held the badger there, only barking, unable to move at all.

   "Hahaha, after all, it is not as fierce as a pig badger. This is still a big badger...Don't be afraid, everyone, there is a dog here, it can't turn the sky."

  Chen Ling smiled and stretched out his hand to wipe the badger's belly, and the milk bag had disappeared as expected, and now he couldn't stop the mother badger from milking her.

  Then I can only catch the shivering little guys in the cave and give them to Rui Rui to play with.

  Well, Zhenzhen will be back soon, and I must be very happy to have these few gadgets.