My 1995 Small Farm.

Rui Rui's biological clock is exceptionally punctual.

Regardless of whether I go to bed early or late, I get up at 6:30 every morning to urinate.

Now he finds Kang Kang and Lele noisy and won't sleep with Chen Ling and his wife anymore.

Chen Ling was asked to move the small bed into the room of Wang Cunye and his wife.

He sleeps with his maternal grandparents.

No one would disturb him while he slept like this, and his grandparents took good care of him, making it both peaceful and comfortable.

However, after going to the city with Chen Ling, he missed his mother and became a bit clingy to Wang Susu after returning.

Before she was even fully dressed, she ran upstairs to Chen Ling's bedroom and knocked on the door, repeatedly calling out, "Dad, open the door!" "Mom, open the door!"...

He knocked on the door, and Wang Cunye chased after him with his jacket, calling out to him to put on his clothes.

Autumn mornings are colder than before.

After waking up, the brat rushed to Chen Ling's room without even getting dressed properly; he ran off halfway through putting on his clothes.

Like a cheerful little puppy, it trotted upstairs on its short legs.

The old man's legs aren't good; he can't climb stairs as fast as this little thing.

Just then, he saw his grandfather chasing after him, let out a little scream, and excitedly ran into his parents' room.

He thought his grandfather was just joking with him.

Fortunately, Chen Ling knew her son's character and was careful when opening the door. When she saw him trying to squeeze inside, she blocked him with her body.

Little did he know that the brat was very slippery. After a slight pause, he bypassed his legs and ran straight to the bed with his short legs.

She ran to the bed, pounced on it, kicked her shoes off each other with her little legs dangling in the air, and started to crawl into her parents' bed.

That movement was executed in one smooth motion.

After crawling into bed, it was like a mischievous little cat-like insect, making little noises as it burrowed and crawled around inside the blankets, like a pupa.

Wang Susu was awake too. Seeing that her son was dressed in thin clothes, she frowned and pulled him out to scold him.

“Running around outside without clothes first thing in the morning, you’re supposed to be with your grandparents, but you’re not listening at all.”

The little rascal pretended not to hear, but stubbornly crawled to Wang Susu's side, hugged her, and hid in her warm arms. His eyes crinkled with laughter, and he rubbed against her, swaying his head and calling out repeatedly, "Mommy, Mommy..."

The baby's affectionate expression left Wang Susu feeling helpless.

"Hey, where did this little thief come from?"

At this moment, Chen Ling took his son's coat from his father-in-law and walked over, reaching out to tickle him.

The little rascal screamed in fright, buried his head, and tried to burrow back under the covers to hide.

Seeing this, Wang Susu stopped the father and son: "Stop making a fuss, let him play here for a while, otherwise Kang Kang and Le Le will be woken up too."

Chen Ling had no choice but to put down her son's clothes and go out to prepare breakfast.

It sounds strange.

Babies as small as Kang Kang and Le Le are usually not woken up by adults talking.

If a child like Rui Rui becomes fussy, they can easily be woken up and start crying.

For breakfast, I made some egg pancakes and cooked some sweet potato porridge.

He cooks quickly, and he can make pancakes in no time.

Thinking about going deer hunting in the mountains these next couple of days, I need to make a lot more egg pancakes.

Also, before going into the mountains, you should check if the rabbit-catching net has been repaired.

If it hasn't been done yet, I should remind Baoshuan and the others.

Since the rabbit-catching net was set up at the foot of the mountain, it has really done a great job.

It brought the villagers a lot of free prey.

Although it was supposed to be divided between Chen Ling and Shanmao.

But the gains were also considerable.

But the good times didn't last long; the wild animals that used to roam up and down the mountain got smarter.

Knowing that the place was dangerous, they all avoided it.

In addition, those little kids were unpredictable, going to check on things ten or more times a day, and in the end they couldn't even catch the spotted doves.

It had been more than half a month since it was retrieved, and the net was quite badly damaged in various places.

When we were cutting the straw, we took these nets back.

Chen Baoshuan volunteered to mend the nets for everyone.

He asked me to take him along when I go into the mountains this winter.

Everyone knew he had nothing to do, and everyone else was busy with farm work, so they left him to his own devices.

Now let's do the math. It's been a week since the net was taken back, so it should have been almost completely replaced by now.

“Lingzi, I actually found a place for the wasps you mentioned.”

While making pancakes and thinking about hunting, his father-in-law came over and called him.

"Huh? Where is it? Has it built a nest yet?"

Chen Ling stood up and quickly asked.

"It's right here in the backyard, on the utility pole behind our wooden house, not far from the vat where you put the wine lees. It really was the wine lees that brought it here."

The old man led him there.

"Look right here, this tiny hole in the bamboo pole. I came here to clean up dog poop and saw wasps crawling in through it."

Wang Cunye pointed to a small, round hole on the large bamboo pole used for connecting power lines. It looked like a hole made by an insect, and he wondered if it was made by a wasp. It was even smaller than the square hole in a copper coin.

The two looked around carefully and found that there were indeed wasps flying around.

Every now and then, a wasp would land on the bamboo pole, fold its wings, and crawl into the small round hole.

The sun had already risen, and the wasps were moving about in the golden-red sunlight.

And it becomes more active as the temperature rises.

Under the bright morning sun, Chen Ling searched carefully and indeed found that the wasps were hovering around several wine lees vats.

The tank that's visible in the open might be frequented by people, so there aren't many wasps there at this time of year.

Chen Ling placed several wine lees jars entangled in vines by the wall of the vegetable garden, where there were a lot of wasps.

The father-in-law and son-in-law used something to lift up the vines, and the gap between the mouth of the jar and the lid was crawling with wasps, as if they were savoring the taste of the wine lees inside. In fact, they could really squeeze into that gap.

"Damn it, they actually let the wasps move in without us even noticing."

Chen Ling cursed under his breath, "Don't mess with them yet. I have children at home. After I finish eating, I'll move these lees to the village yard... If these wasps still don't leave, I'll replace this pole when it gets dark and take it with me. That should solve the problem."

The father-in-law even wanted to just block the hole with his own hands and brutally kill the bees.
Hearing Chen Ling say this, and knowing that the root cause was still the wine lees, he nodded: "Hmm, that works too."

……

After meal.

Chen Ling moved the several vats of lees and transported them back to the village in an oxcart.

When they arrived at the village, Zhao Yubao and his classmates were at school with a group of children, waiting for the national flag to be raised.

Today is National Day, and with the return of Hong Kong, celebrations are being held in various places.

With Zhao Yubao and his group in the village this year, things are naturally not bad either.

In addition to raising the national flag, people will watch live television broadcasts during the day and movies will be shown at night.

Chen Ling put down the wine lees jar and went over to take a look.

The snotty-nosed kids were dressed very neatly today, and Li Zhongyi and Meidaizi, those two little Japanese devils, even handed out red scarves to each of them.

This left Chen Ling momentarily stunned.

However, he didn't look at it for long. He found Chen Baoshuan in the crowd of villagers who had come to watch the excitement and asked him about the rabbit net.

After learning that the repairs were almost complete, I told him that I was going to go to the mountains in the next couple of days.

When they get back, we'll take them to other places to catch rabbits with nets, saying that rabbits are valuable now and restaurants in the city need a lot of them.

Chen Baoshuan and the others were very excited when they heard this.

As they were talking, Lynx came over and told him that he would be going back to the city soon.

Dujuan is fine here, the village is a good place to rest during pregnancy, so she doesn't move around easily.

Since Lynx was still part of Professor Han's team, and he was worried about the dogs at the kennel, he naturally went back every few days.

"You really should go back."

Chen Ling laughed and said, "The puppies of Shan Niu Hong are just the right age to be raised. If you don't go back soon, they will definitely fall short of expectations."

This is not nonsense.

Anyone who owns a dog knows that puppies that stay with their mother will be older and take longer to recognize their owner.

If the owner doesn't spend much time with it, it will be even worse.

"Well, you can tell. If I'm not busy with the teacher this time, I'll bring the dog over."

"The lynx said."

Then, he suddenly remembered something and said to Chen Ling, "By the way, the teacher asked me to tell you that the National Animal Husbandry Journal is urging you to send over those experimental poultry."

Of course, they thought your manuscript was very well written, and their attitude was quite polite; they didn't push you too hard.

"We can't get in touch with you, and you haven't gone to collect your royalties; you've left them with Uncle Han."

"Oh, so much has happened! I haven't even read the reply yet, I know nothing."

Chen Ling gave an awkward laugh.

He received the reply just as Wang Susu was giving birth to her second and third children. At that time, he was restless and agitated, so he glanced at the letter and then tossed it aside.

That's why, even though it's been sitting in the drawer for so long, he hasn't remembered to look at it.

They don't value it and aren't very interested in it.

So I forgot about it as soon as I turned my head.

"You're really thick-skinned. This is such an honorable thing. You probably wouldn't even remember to read it even if they published it." Lynx was particularly speechless.

Chen Ling chuckled and asked him if he wanted to stay a couple more days and accompany him into the mountains.

The lynx actually wanted to go too.

But he still had to check on Han Ninggui. As a member of the team, he couldn't just wander around aimlessly without doing anything.

That way, people will just think of him as someone with connections, and no one will be willing to help him when he needs something.

Lynx is similar to Yu Qi'an in that he has friends all over the world.

However, the difference is that you need to have the same hobbies or profession to be friends with a lynx.

So after saying a few more words, I had no choice but to agree with Chen Ling to meet up again next time.

The school became lively.

It is said that two Japanese soldiers volunteered to be the children's English teachers.

Although they are not fluent in English, they will definitely have no problem teaching elementary school students.

Chen Ling didn't know what they were thinking. In his opinion, they probably really wanted to settle down here, so they took the initiative to contribute to the village and asked the villagers to accept them.
He didn't know either.

I decided to stop thinking about it.

He simply greeted his pen pal, Li Zhongyi, and then drove off in his oxcart.

Back at the farm, I went upstairs and carefully read the reply from the National Animal Husbandry Magazine twice. The letter was quite long, two and a half pages.

He only glanced at the first page a few times and didn't finish reading it.

Now, looking further in, there are indeed words like "manuscript fee" and "wanting those poultry for experiments."

The poultry used in the experiment were, of course, the chickens that Chen Ling used to prove the effectiveness when he wrote about 'raising chickens with maggots'.

In fact, regarding specific issues, he can be considered fictional.

But it's true that this kind of chicken is effective.

"Do we really have to bring two of our chickens with us?"

Chen Ling felt a little reluctant. These chickens were all kept for their own consumption. It didn't matter whether they could finish them all; the important thing was that they were raised with so much good food.

It hurts to give it away so easily.

"Well, there's no rush for this. Let's wait a year or two. Anyway, they're not forcing us. We can just use the village's chicks to fool them then."

Chen Ling thought for a moment. Communication was inconvenient at this time, unlike in the future. Once contact was made, there would be a response and results to be seen quickly.

Everything is slow right now.

Let's just ignore it for now.

The magazine really does pay a fair amount for articles.

It is said that his idea could also be used in the medical field.

Given this generous attitude, Chen Ling felt that if there were any further requests, he should at least try to accommodate them.

He then put aside his thoughts, went to the hunting room to pack his things, and went up the mountain.

The scenery in the autumn mountains and forests is, to say the least, quite beautiful.

The autumn leaves of various colors, viewed from the mountaintop, are a riot of colors, layer upon layer, soothing even the eyes under the glaring autumn sun.

The sounds of birdsong, insect chirps, and flowing water echoed in my ears.

Chen Ling set off from the back mountain, passing through the egret forest, ignoring the grumpy and unhygienic flock of egrets, and also ignoring the red-crowned cranes strolling leisurely with their young in the mountain lake, even though those little cranes had gradually grown into quite a sight...

He simply followed the shallow ditch, searching for nearby animal trails.

In the autumn mountains, the streams are much smaller than usual, and animal tracks along the banks are more noticeable.

It can be easily seen wherever there is moist soil.

Chen Ling didn't bring any dogs with him this time when he went into the mountains; he just carried a few well-trained little guys in his pocket.

Their stamina couldn't compare to that of hunting dogs capable of chasing mountains, so Chen Ling didn't often let them out to run around with him.

They only release the smaller creatures to sniff out tracks when they can no longer discern the direction of their prey.

The rest of the time I had to find it myself.

Although it was a bit slow, the experience of personally hunting for prey was much more exciting and interesting than patrolling the mountains with a dog.

He went into the mountains specifically to hunt deer this time.

Besides catching sika deer for the children, we should also try it at the restaurants in the city.

"Look at these hoof prints, they're not from a deer, they're from a carnivore."

After following the hoofprints along the stream for a while, and as the hoofprints became more and more obvious, Chen Ling identified the first prey he had discovered.

Fragrant seed, also known as musk deer.

Male musk deer have musk sacs on their abdomens; the musk inside is a valuable Chinese medicinal herb and spice.

"Look at the shit he pooped, it must be a head of fragrant teeth."

Chen Ling squatted down, brushed aside the fallen leaves, and picked up the deer droppings stuck to the leaves.

If the roe deer's droppings are long, thin, and smooth, then they are called "tooth fragrance".

If the grains are round and coarse, then it has a grassy smell.

Ya Xiang refers to the male roe deer.

The scent of grass indicates it's a female deer roe deer.

There's also the saying, "A male's urine leaves a line, a female's urine leaves a large patch," which refers to distinguishing males from females by urine stains.

The female is naturally much less valuable than the male.

"I'm not very lucky. I found a hot spot for a head of ya xiang as soon as I came into the mountains."

Chen Ling was delighted and released the weasels from his backpack: "Little Yellow and Little Fatty, it's up to you. I've trained you for so long and you've eaten plenty of good food. Don't let me down."

The most intelligent of the three, Little Yellow and Little Fatty, led their three children and chattered and fawned over Chen Ling for a while. They sniffed around the musk deer's droppings and footprints before dashing down the hillside into the depths of the forest.

After scattering the weasels, Chen Ling found a quiet spot nearby and waited.

Finding this heat trail was already the limit of his abilities.

The presence of this musk deer proves it's on this mountain.

But the forest was too large, and the musk deer were wary, so even if he found traces of them, he couldn't just wander into the forest and search aimlessly.

If he encounters a herd of deer, he can simply charge at them and he will definitely not return empty-handed.

Musk deer are solitary creatures; often, there's only one on the entire mountain, and if you scare it away, there's nothing left. (End of Chapter)