Chapter 365 Birdcage and Thieves

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“Oh, it’s Baoshuan.”

“I thought someone caught a kite, but it turned out to be a paper kite.”

Two days ago, Wang Lishan said that if Baoshuan knew that Chen Ling wanted paper kites, he would definitely deliver them to his door.

I didn’t expect it to be delivered.

A paper kite is a kite, which is made by tying a frame with bamboo pieces and pasting it with floral paper.

It’s easy to say, but it takes some skill to do it.

Chen Baoshuan has such a handicraft. Seeing that people have been setting up a stall in the reservoir for the past two days, he also set up a stall to sell paper kites. The little dolls in and out of the village watched and sold some money.

Although the money is not much, it is definitely far better than doing nothing at home.

“It’s not a paper kite, I’m not as good as you, Fugui, to catch a real kite…”

Chen Baoshuan smiled, and followed Chen Ling to the eaves of the bamboo building, and took out two beautifully crafted kites, “It’s windy in spring in the mountains, and when the weather is fine, take your baby and play with them.”

Put down the kite, pour out the contents of the bamboo basket and the snakeskin bag, and assemble them into a simple wooden box.

“What is this for, Baoshuan?”

“The beehive I built, you can see if it can be used. I heard from Uncle Cunye that you want to raise two beehives at home this year. It just so happens that I still have some wood left in my house, so I made one when I have nothing to do.”

“If you see that this can be used, the rest is done, and I’ll bring it up for you.”

Chen Ling, Weng and his son-in-law, as well as Zhou Weijun and Yu Qi’an, heard this and came up to them, and looked around this simple small beehive. Not to mention, it was the craftsmanship of an old carpenter, and there was nothing wrong with it.

“Not bad, not bad, this beehive is pretty nice.”

“Hey, as long as you are satisfied, I will bring you over tomorrow if you are satisfied. This beehive is quick to fight.”

Chen Baoshuan squatted on the ground, smiling with his purple face up.

Wang Lishan was right about one thing.

Chen Baoshuan caught Chen Ling’s fry, and this time he knew the price of this thing. While feeling grateful for Chen Ling’s generosity, he was also quite embarrassed.

Later, after discussing with Chen Sangui, they learned that Chen Ling was thinking of raising two hives of bees this year, so they decided to build some beehives for him first, and if they had any carpentry work to do in the future, they would not charge any money if they could. .

Chen Ling didn’t expect this, but said: “Hey, what else do you give me, call me when the time comes, and I’ll go and get it.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s not raining now, and I don’t want to go to the reservoir to set up a stall. I’m idle at home, so I might as well come to you for a game of cards.”

Chen Baoshuan smiled.

At this time, Yu Qi’an asked: “Is there no one in the reservoir right now? When we came out of Jusheng’s house, we saw people go there to kowtow and burn incense.”

“Yes, there are still people who kowtow in the past, but only people from our village go. It rained heavily last night, and there are not many people from other villages.”

Now the sky is still drizzling, but this can’t stop people’s enthusiasm for worshiping the Turtle Lord, and this worship will take seven days, and the villagers are rain or shine, as it was last year.

Of course, it’s not acceptable to burn incense in the weather like today. At most, it’s just a few pieces of fire paper.

Speaking of this, Chen Baoshuan looked at Yu Qi’an: “By the way, boss, didn’t you let someone help you catch birds two days ago? Do you want a bird cage? My neighbor and I both know how to make bird cages.”

“Yes, I must have a birdcage. The lovesickness birds I caught are still kept in the small iron cages used by Fugui to hold quails.”

Yu Qi’an’s eyes lit up, and he quickly asked, “Do you have a ready-made bird cage at home?”

“I don’t have any ready-made ones, but my neighbors may have them. How about I take you to have a look?”

The neighbor Chen Baoshuan mentioned was naturally Chen Dazhi.

His family is relatively close. Chen Baoshuan used to stand on the roof and throw bricks into the well of Chen Dazhi’s house.

Over the past year or so, Chen Baoshuan has been quite honest and peaceful, and Chen Dazhi and his wife are known for their benevolence and kindness. Seeing Chen Sangui’s face, their neighbors have gradually started to communicate.

Otherwise, in the past, Chen Baoshuan would not dare to say that he brought someone to visit Chen Dazhi’s house.

“Okay, take me over there to have a look. It’s okay if you don’t have ready-made ones. Just make two and use them as you go.”

There is nothing complicated about the bird cage. Just choose a few suitable wood or bamboo sticks, bamboo slices, drill holes, and then grind out round and smooth bamboo sticks one by one, and assemble them together.

But raising ornamental birds is a question of whether the cage is beautiful or not.

As long as you know how to do bamboo weaving, a birdcage is generally not too ugly.

Chen Dazhi knew how to weave bamboo.

Chen Baoshuan used to learn carpentry with his father. He didn’t study hard and played around on his own. He couldn’t make any serious bamboo tools. He just tied a kite and a bird cage, touched a bamboo whistle, and so on. Not bad.

Yu Qi’an didn’t care about good or bad, he just pretended to be a bird, and waved his hand after speaking: “Come on, Fugui, if it’s raining, you’ll be free even if you’re idle, come and get two birdcages with us.”

“Forget it, I won’t go, you go.”

Chen Ling pointed to the outside of the farm, “It rained all night, and the poultry and livestock in the fruit forest have not been taken care of.”

“That’s it, that’s fine, then you should be busy first, we will go back when we go, and help you when we come back.”

“Hey, it’s okay, I just have a few things here, let’s play with you.”

As they spoke, Chen Ling, Weng and his son-in-law sent them out of the farm.

At this time, the rain became smaller and smaller, hitting the face in a fluttering way, like a vast mist of water vapor.

Being in the fruit forest, it is almost impossible to feel that it is raining.

The two went to see the chickens and ducks. They were both in good spirits, and they didn’t seem to be affected by the thunderstorm last night.

Opened the door and let the chickens and ducks out, and sure enough, they were all alive and kicking, and came to the Weng and his son-in-law to beg for food.

Some old hens may be hungry, and they are flapping their wings to peck at the feet of the two.

After being kicked away by Chen Ling, he still approached the two of them with a shameless face, and could not be driven away.

Seeing this, Chen Ling had no choice but to call out the dogs, drive them away, and let them go to the fruit forest to look for food.

As for the ducks, they jumped into the ditch with a few big white geese before they could get any food. Facing the breeze and drizzle, they had a complete joy.

After a while, they squawked, jumped out of the ditch with flapping wings, and pecked some small crabs and small snail shells that crawled from the ditch to the grass.

Needless to say, there is no need to say more about the small snail shell. In and out of the village, as long as there is water, there will always be a large area of ​​this thing.

Mainly crabs.

These small crabs are the size of fingernails, crawling back and forth among the wet grass. If you don’t look carefully, it is very easy to take them as a bunch of big spiders.

Chen Ling hadn’t really noticed much before.

So after seeing it, I was quite puzzled: “When did so many small crabs emerge from this canal? Are the mountain crabs from the mountain coming down with the rain?”

Grabbed a few and put them in his hands, the old man also came over to look at them, saying that they were the young crabs that had just grown. Either they just came down from the mountain, or they were born last year from old crabs in the canals and creeks at the foot of the mountain.

The canals of the farm are connected to the streams on the mountain and the ditches at the foot of the mountain. There is never a shortage of crabs, shrimps, mussels, and snail shells.

It’s just that there have never been so many small crabs this big.

It seems to be crawling all over the ground like those scorpions that clustered in the fruit forest last year.

Crabs are not the same as fish. Whenever it rains, they will climb up to the shore like crazy. Especially when it rains heavily in summer, crabs will even climb up trees, and they will climb up the trees as soon as they climb When it is full, although the little crab has not yet grown up, it still has this virtue, crawling around in rainy days.

This time the duck was lucky. It swayed its fat body, and its mouth searched back and forth on the ground. In one bite, two or three small crabs entered the mouth. It was delicious.

After a while, the chickens were also attracted. These chickens run around in the mountains all day long, and they are very wild.

After finding the food, they clucked one by one, flew to the side of the ditch with flapping wings, and pecked at the small crabs and snail shells.

The chicken and duck are delicious.

But the little crabs were in trouble, and fled in panic one by one. Like headless flies, some crawled back into the water, and many hid in the grass. Sometimes Chen Ling didn’t pay attention, and could trample three to death with one foot. four.

It was such a pity that this happened, so Chen Ling and the father-in-law brought a small bucket, picked some up, and prepared to fry some small crabs for lunch.

There is nothing to do on a rainy day. It is also very pleasant to tinker with appetizers and drink some wine.

Fortunately, the dogs at home have never been interested in these crabs and the like. They think the fishy smell is too strong, and they usually walk away after sniffing twice. Crabs probably have no way out.

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It was drizzling and drizzling all day long.

It wasn’t until the evening when the smoke rose from every household in the village that it stopped completely.

It’s still comfortable to stay at home on a rainy day like this.

At noon, I fried some crabs and drank two glasses of wine. After I picked up Wang Zhenzhen in the evening, I had another meal of pure beef stewed in a pot, pasted with pancakes, and had a hot meal.

Going to bed after eating is really comfortable.

The night after the rain was very quiet, and the mountains shrouded in mist seemed to be silent.

Chen Ling’s family of three slept soundly. The next morning, I slept soundly, but was woken up by the noisy birds chirping outside.

Opening the window and looking, sure enough, a group of miscellaneous birds landed on the nearby roof.

“Hey, the second bald man is unreliable. He won’t go home for a few days. When he comes back, he will have to give these thieves who are noisy and dreamy a lesson. These thieves are really getting more and more presumptuous.”

The kite at home was still there on the first day Zhou Weijun and Yu Qian came, but it disappeared at night, and I don’t know when it left.

Otherwise, these birds would not dare to approach the farm.

Chen Ling went downstairs, blew a few bamboo whistles in all directions of the mountain in the backyard, and called Er Baldy.

The flowers, plants and trees inside and outside the farm are still dripping water.

The sound of patter, accompanied by a long whistle, at the foot of this misty mountain, there is a special artistic conception in it.

“The birds outside are jumping up and down, it must be a good day today.”

Chen Ling put down the bamboo whistle and looked around. There was already a faint red light in the east. The red sun was about to rise, and the mist covered the red morning glow.

The dog at home has been running around happily with the little tabby cat.

This little cat is a cub left by the mountain raccoon. Unlike ordinary domestic cats, it is getting longer and more beautiful now. Its hair is golden red, which is very beautiful.

It means staying with a dog since childhood, growing up together, and acquiring the habits of a dog.

When running in the yard, stretching, or even throwing food to it, it behaves like a puppy in cat skin.

Especially when feeding, it volleys, just like a dog.

After making breakfast, Wang Susu came out with Ruirui in her arms. Chen Ling swept the yard and went out to walk the horse and walk the dog.

But after leaving the fruit forest, Chen Ling suddenly realized that something was wrong with his vegetable garden before he walked a few steps away.

Immediately let go of the horse’s reins, allowing the dog and horse to move freely.

Go to the vegetable garden to check the situation by yourself.

In fact, when planting vegetables, it is generally not for transplanting seedlings. The seeds sown directly cannot be watered too much, which means squatting seedlings.

However, there was a heavy rain just after planting, so there was nothing I could do about it. Anyway, half of them were transplanted vegetable seedlings, which was fine.

Besides, with Lingshui as a killer, Chen Ling was not worried that the vegetables in the vegetable garden would not grow well.

So I haven’t come to check for two days.

But looking at it now, it’s incredible.

Vegetable seedlings and sweet potato seedlings were damaged by something, and they couldn’t see any green leaves, only bare stalks remained.

Even the vegetable seeds that had been planted were turned out, leaving only small pits, but the seeds were gone.

“This is his grandma’s, it must have been done by those thieves.”

Chen Ling looked at the footprints left on the wet land, and knew that it must not be pheasant, quail or something like that, it was definitely done by other birds, but he didn’t know what bird came here to do it badly.

They spent a lot of time planting these two acres of vegetable gardens.

This has been messed up, and many places have to be replanted, which is troublesome if you think about it.

“This footprint doesn’t look like a magpie, and I don’t know what kind of bird it is.”

“No matter what it is, if you dare to come to my vegetable garden to act wild, you are finished.”

Looking at the messy vegetable garden, Chen Ling was really annoyed.

Without further ado, I went back to the farm and took out a few sets, and put them next to the planted vegetable seeds. No matter what kind of birds, dare to come and eat them, one set is accurate, so that they will come and go.