My 1995 Small Farm

“Lingzi, Jiajia and her mother are going back soon. If you have nothing to do today, don’t wander around in the mountains. Go to the county oil shop to squeeze some walnut oil.

 Squeeze a little more, we can eat it at home, and let Jiajia take some back home. "

 Back home, Chen Ling had breakfast and was about to take Ah Fu and Ah Shou for a walk in the mountains to scare the restless wild beasts in the mountains.

 The mother-in-law called him to stop.

 Chen Ling was stunned: "Ah? Is Jiajia leaving now? You have been here for less than a month this time?"

“Yes, Master, my dad said something happened and asked us to go back as soon as possible. Mom said we have to leave in the next two days.”

Shen Jiayi immersed himself in picking up wild goose dung. Some wild goose dung contains grain residue. This can be saved to feed chickens and ducks in winter. They should lay eggs more diligently.

The remaining wheat seedlings and grass leaves with many leaves are for feeding the livestock.

“Guys, you came back too suddenly. I, the master, haven’t taught you how to cook yet…”

 Chen Ling likes this apprentice very much. Of course, this love is very pure. It is the kind of love that treats the apprentice as a sister. There is no way, the only child is like this sometimes.

What’s more, Chen Ling didn’t have a mother when she was very young.

 So, sometimes, he likes to be lively at home, and sometimes he likes to be quiet.

This kind of feeling is strange, and some people can't understand it, so they misunderstand it.

“Hehe, I told my mother that she would come here years ago, Master, as long as you don’t mind us being annoying!”

"How come, you are very welcome. Don't talk about me anymore. Look at your grandma Xiulan and sister Susu. They like you so much... You must come before the year. It happens to be that time to serve Kang Kanglele with wine. I will be there. I’ll call you over when the time comes…”

 Chen Ling laughed and said to himself that it seemed like he had to hunt two wild geese in the next two days to satisfy his family and his apprentice.

“Mom, I’ll go outside to tidy up Afu and Shou’s nest first, and then I’ll go squeeze the oil.”

"Go ahead. Actually, there's no rush. I'm afraid you'll wander too far as soon as you enter the mountain, and you'll go crazy with the tiger and lose track of time."

“Ang, no, Afu and Shou have just come back in the past two days, and I’m afraid that they will just come back and run around like crazy. Even if they go to the mountains, they will just wander around.”

Even though Ah Fu and Ah Shou are clinging to him now, the two guys will follow him wherever he goes, but Chen Ling is also worried that they are as disobedient as the two bald little green horses. They go into the mountains and see blood, and their thoughts will follow them wildly.

“By the way, the little buffalo you bought and those puppies have just arrived home. Can they feed them?”

"Mom, don't worry about them. I'll just give them some water first."

Chen Ling left a message and called out to Ah Fu and Ah Shou who was wandering around in the yard, sniffing with squinted eyes, going to the fish tank for a drink of water, and then going to pull two leaves under the grape trellis. Go clean up the tiger's den outside the wall.

Going outside, the little buffalo was sleeping on the hay pile in the livestock pen.

 Last night, the little guy was bumpy in the boat. He didn't get a good rest. He even walked such a long distance after getting off the boat.

Walking all the way back from Tenghe Township was exhausting and sleepy.

But this little guy is just like cats and dogs when they were young. They are very clingy when they recognize their master.

Seeing Chen Ling passing by, he quickly opened his eyes and stood up, walked to the edge of the animal pen, raised his head and stuck out his tongue to lick his hand.

This calf has clean hair and looks new all over. Its eyes are watery, black and shiny, and its nose is also black. It looks very cute and adorable.

Chen Ling patted its head and walked to the back of his village.

 The tiger's den built outside the wall is connected to the inside of the wall.

 There is a hole for Ah Fu and Ah Shou to get into.

 But it hasn’t been cleaned in almost two months. It’s dirty and has attracted a lot of woodlouse.

 Definitely needs to be cleaned up.

This way Afu and Shou can live comfortably.

 After some cleaning, I heard a little child shouting in the wheat field in the distance.

Chen Ling walked out of the orchard and looked around. It was Xiaomori and others who were younger and not yet old enough to go to school.

 Having nothing to do, I go out with the adults to pick up wild goose droppings.

At this time, I didn’t know what I found, so they ran into the woods behind the Earth Temple in a swarm of shouts.

“Aren’t Egret and Qingzhuang living behind the Tutu Temple? Haven’t they caused enough harm?”

“Isn’t it because some other wild thing ran in?”

Chen Ling knew this group of monkeys very well, and knew that they generally did not dare to harm Qingzhuang and egrets during the day. These two types of birds were relatively fierce, and their pecks were very painful. Their long and pointed beaks could bite their hands and arms. The pecks opened the skin and flesh.

 More scary than a goose.

  If you are chased and unable to run, you will be pecked on the butt, unable to sit down for several days, and even sleeping will be painful.

 Chen Ling saw how noisy the children were and thought, "I'll go over and have a look later. As long as it's not a poisonous worm, it'll be fine."

After tidying up the tiger's den and cleaning up all the fallen leaves around the tiger's den, Chen Ling saw that the two tigers were still in high spirits, crawling in and out of the tiger's den, and kept playing with the little green horse that came over to join in the fun. Chen Ling shouted to stop. Live them.

 Bring them to the iron cage of the livestock pen.

 Tell them to stay still and he will be back soon.

I went home, drove out the tractor, and loaded the walnuts piled in the barn at home and the walnuts dried in the village yard into the bucket.

It fills most of the truck body.

Some of these walnuts are randomly picked up from the mountains, and some are given by the villagers.

This year Chen Ling found a way to sell wild fruits, and the folks in the village remembered him without saying anything.

These walnut canneries don’t accept them. If they come across them, they will send some to Chen Ling’s family, as well as wild yams and the like...

 The number of times given is actually not that many.

 In the end, I don’t feel too good about it. I just accumulated a lot of it.

 No wonder the mother-in-law urged him to squeeze the oil.

The walnuts of this year are squeezed with oil. Naturally, the oil out of oil is not as good as peanut soybeans. In later generations, it is said that the oil output rate is high.

But there are so many walnuts that I can’t eat them all and it’s hard to sell them, so I’d better squeeze them for oil.

It just so happens that Wang Qingzhong uses a lot of oil to make spicy strips.

 The residue left over from oil extraction can be cooked and fed to livestock to gain fat, which has many uses.

“Hey, you guys, what are you doing? Be careful that there are poisonous worms in the grass.”

“Uncle Fugui, this is a fox cave. There are too many egrets here, which attracts foxes.”

“Oh, fox, let’s play.”

There is nothing unusual about foxes in places with many birds. At that time, Chen Ling saw a big one and three small ones biting each other's tails on the cliff, preparing to dig out the egret's nest at night.

“Uncle, why don’t you take the tiger to the mountains to hunt wolves?”

“If I don’t fight now, when it gets dark at night, my uncle and grandpa will feed them a nest, haha.”

Chen Ling smiled and waved to these little kids, then drove the tractor around the road outside the village and headed towards the county town.

As for Ruirui, the caller shouted that I miss him, but I haven’t seen anyone yet.

I heard from Gao Xiulan that she went to Chen Xiaoer's house early in the morning to eat big meat buns. She was accompanied by Heiwa Xiaojin. Wang Cunye sent him there and ignored him, and went to Laohewan to herd cattle alone.

 Chen Ling drove the tractor and glanced at Laohewan. He only saw a group of pack horses and a small white cow basking in the sun. He didn't see the old man anywhere.

I guess I am fishing and playing chess with Zhao Yubao over there.

 I pulled half a cart of walnuts and arrived at the oil mill in the county town. I didn’t go anywhere else but to Liu Xingeng’s place.

 As a result, the oil production is naturally not ideal.

 Plus it’s pressed with the shell on, not fried after the shell is peeled off.

Wild walnuts have thick skin.

 Two percent of the oil output is considered too much.

Simply put, a pound of walnuts can’t produce more than two ounces of oil. It doesn’t matter to Chen Ling, they were all picked up in the mountains anyway.

 The dregs left over from pressing the oil are not thrown away.

If the oil is not pressed thoroughly, it is just used to feed your own livestock, so it is not considered a waste.

The last half cart of walnuts squeezed out two and a half pots of oil, but contained two sacks of dregs.

 When he left, Chen Ling also bought a large pot of sesame oil.

There are many sesame seeds planted in the village, especially on slopes, or in small and narrow plots such as depressions and ditch edges that are inconvenient for farming.

 Many of them plant either sorghum, beans, or some sesame seeds.

“Well, I’ve never grown sesame seeds before. Why don’t I go back and plant some later to see if the sesame oil is delicious?”

This is simple, just go back to the mountains to ripen it a little and press the oil.

But you definitely can’t go to Liu Xingeng’s place for this. Just go to the countryside or Huangni Town and find an unfamiliar oil shop.

 Think about it, after squeezing out the oil, you have to add some sweet potato flour two days later.

 It’s time to do it together.

"Eh? What's wrong with these two little devils? Are they sick? Or were they beaten?"

Just as he started to turn on the tractor and prepare to leave, Chen Ling suddenly saw Li Zhongyi and Miyoko Chishima coming out of the old hospital in the distance.

 The two men were very sick, with no color on their faces.

 One of Li Zhongyi’s arms seems to be in a plaster cast.

“Forget it, it’s none of my business. It’s normal for little Japan to get beaten anyway.”

 Chen Ling got on the tractor, put it into gear and left.

 The weather during this period was really good, it was basically sunny every day.

 The blue sky in autumn looks high and deep.

 Rows of wild geese flew overhead, and their calls floated from the sky.

The two wings kept swinging like fans, the long neck raised its head, and a pair of webbed feet curled up on its abdomen.

 Some of them will stay locally, and some will not.

It’s also quite strange that there are so many wild geese that don’t stop in such an attractive environment.

 Chen Ling looked up. He estimated that it was flying so high that it would be impossible to shoot it with a gun.

 Either wait for the two bald men, or wait until night.

geese fly low at night, and some geese hide in the reeds near the water at night, or come out to look for food, which are easier to catch.

Many elderly people know that the wild geese usually only set in the morning or when the sun is about to set.

 There are few people at this time, so they can look for food as much as they want.

 In this season, the best food to look for is naturally wheat seedlings.

Furthermore, when winter wheat is not jointed and raised, as long as it is not uprooted like sheep eating grass, eating some leaves will have no effect.

Since the wild geese have been flying and traveling a long distance, they eat the wheat leaves very ferociously when they land, and the meal time is quite long. In the process of eating the wheat leaves, the geese excrete their feces into the wheat field.

 The time between getting up early and at dusk is also a good time to catch wild geese.

 When we arrived at the village, there were no people picking up wild goose dung in the wheat fields.

But a group of people gathered around the Earth Temple, including adults, children, and Erhei with a group of dogs.

Ruirui was also there, riding on Heiwa, following Wang Cunye, grabbing Heiwa's big ears and swinging them around.

 Hearing the sound of tractors, many people looked towards the road.

 “Dad! Dad, Dad, Dad!”

Ruirui saw Chen Ling, that guy's eyes brightened a bit, slipped out of Hei Wa, and hurriedly ran towards the road.

When Chen Ling saw his son like this, his heart was instantly filled with joy. He quickly parked the tractor next to the wheat field, jumped off and strode over.

He picked up the little thing and said, "You brat, do you miss daddy?"

As soon as Rui Rui was picked up, she smelled her father's scent and saw her father's familiar smiling face, tears welled up in her eyes.

Seeing that the thick-skinned brat was about to cry, Chen Ling quickly reached out and tickled him, making him laugh and scream in Chen Ling's arms.

“Dad, what are you doing?”

“Look at the foxes coming, Xiaosen and the others are going to dig out the fox holes with their dogs and catch the little foxes... Xiaojin came running over and barked so fiercely that the kids were so scared that they didn’t dare to make any more noise.

 I came over to take a look and found that the fox often visited our home's den. "

As soon as Wang Cunye opened his mouth, other villagers also started talking about it.

 Say things like why Xiao Jin is so protective of the fox, and why he might be matched with the fox.

 Chen Ling laughed and scolded them for talking nonsense, be careful of Xiao Jin biting their butts in the future.

Wang Cunye also said that they were not serious, that the fox was fine, and that Xiao Jin was not letting anyone in the forest.

 At this moment, these people are talking about breeding pigs.

 It’s winter soon, and it’s time to breed the sows.

It happened that all the wild fruits in the surrounding mountains had been picked, and there were still many old forests in the deep mountains, but they didn't want to go there anymore. They had to run one trip a day, get up early and stay late, and take great risks, because they were likely to encounter jackals, tigers, leopards, etc. of.

 Hence, every family in the village has been idle these two days.

 There will be free time to raise livestock.

“Fugui, do you know how to breed pigs? If not, I’ll let you come this year!”

"You're his grandma, Tateyama, don't look at your elder brother. If you say this again, I won't dare to kick you."

Chen Ling laughed and scolded him, pretending to kick him.

"Look, you are still anxious. You are obviously thinking wrongly. I am asking you seriously." Wang Lishan smiled. He is such a virtuous person. He likes to make trouble with his acquaintances, not only with men, but also with other people he meets. A familiar woman will also make trouble.

 A group of people laughed along.

“It’s true, we really found a big breeding pig. Look at the big lump of egg buns, they are quite big. I wonder if it will work?”

"How many years have you been raising pigs? Do you still need to ask me?"

“You are a veterinarian. Not only are you educated, but your food is better than others. Who else should I ask?”

As soon as he said this, everyone agreed, saying that the chicks hatched from his eggs in the early autumn will all grow up better than those from other families.

 For fellow villagers, if you have any knowledge, please let me know.

“Good guy, have you really provided me with sow conception and postpartum care?”

 Chen Ling couldn't laugh or cry: "If you are paired with a dog, a cow, or a horse, I know a little bit about it. Just forget it with a pig."

“No, it costs fifty yuan per family to breed a big boar. It’s expensive. It only cost twenty yuan before. I don’t feel sorry for the money..."

“What do you think means that you are not going to keep the pigs that will be killed during the New Year, but you are going to keep the seeds?”

 “No, no, the pigs that have been chopped must still be killed for eating the meat.”

“Quick, quick, please give me some ideas. We are short-sighted and we are afraid of being tricked... People say they are foreign pigs, but we don’t know if the foreign pigs will work..."

But Chen Ling doesn't know anything about breeding pigs. He really doesn't understand because he has never thought about raising pigs.

I had to say that I would go to the countryside to find someone to ask for them another day.

 Guo Baolai has been raising pigs all year round, so he should know the market. (End of chapter)